November 2, 2023 • 37 mins
Mike Harmon and Kerry Rhodes update Game 5 of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. The guys have all the latest on the Raiders cleaning house. And we remember Legendary Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight who passed away earlier today at the age of 83.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey, locked and loaded. It's a beautiful Wednesday here Fox
Sports or Radio. Thanks heating up in the World Series.
I was all excited as we were sitting here pre
show going. We got our pictures Duel, We got our
pictures Duel. It's scarless. And then we have a no
hitter and bam, Sam punched in the face. Welcome in
Mike Harmon alongside Carry Rhoads. No Jason Smith tonight out
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gallivanting about maybe he found his way to the Hollywood
Bowl for those and roses. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
It was Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Maybe he's still searching for the bowl of candy since
someone came and stole their candy bowl and everything in
it off of their porch. If you can believe.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
That, you can't be so frivolous with your candy Halloween
evidently left it unguarded. Yep, we don't know if it
was for a minute or ten. It doesn't either way.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
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Night of NBA action, tons of NFL to get into
as Jason and I got the gift last night of
the Raiders cleaning house, which continued today when Lombardy went
out the door as well Mike Carbon alongside Carry Rhoads
(01:58):
when we're all pro all rookie team, musician actor producer
yep man about town and now he's in with us tonight.
Good to see you. It's been a minute.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Always always good to see you, Mike. Always have a
great show with you, great time and yeah, I mean
that long list of accomplishments throughout there was a great
way to start this start this night.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, I mean I.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Could really flower it up if we want to add
a bunch. Oh you can't, you can, but you know
we do have to do. So we got content along
the way. I mean, you know, look, he can always
tease and promote, you know, as you flow through. That's
what we do at Swollen Dome and over at Carrie
twenty five Roads, where we find you in the world
of Twitter slash x. But we are watching the World
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Series here as the Rangers try to finish at the job,
go for their eleventh straight road win in these playoffs.
And Zach Gallon had been unhittable through his first seventy
five pitches or thereabouts, a clean six innings, and then
that was it. Ye started to roll through in matched
(03:02):
well not quite pitch for pitch, because Evaldi five walks
four hits. But when we talk about runners left in
scoring position, you look at the Diamondbacks, Oh for nine
in the game, including a bases loaded jam in the
fifth induced to a little number to shortstop inning over
and now we get into the seventh inning. Starts easily,
(03:26):
you know, Seeger starts with a hit. Carter doubles unsung
hero twenty one years old. That's the thing you watch, right,
because we do. We do it in the NFL, We
certainly do it in the NBA with young guys coming
into the league. Major League Baseball, we don't normally get
a bevy of guys quite that young coming in in
pressure points. But Evan Carter has more than lived up
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to the moment as a twenty one year old for
these Rangers.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yea Evin Carter's they call him. They say he has
nerves of steel, They say that the kid never really breaks.
He's always he kind of fits the mold of what
that team is trying to build. And to see guy
like that come in and play well and again picking
two of his moments to half his spots, it's always
a beautiful thing to see and see who's next up
in that line of great players.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, because one of the things we've been talking about
a lot, I was just telling you before we went
on airs, Jason and I had kind of dubbed this
the NBA Jam of World Series. Like people can talk
about ratings, you're either in or you're out, and that's
with all sports, right. I Mean, how many people lament
the fact that we're playing NBA basketball on November first,
(04:30):
that the season is already a week and a half old. Yeah, right,
As opposed to the way the schedule kind of this
usually was about the start. You take the kids trick
or treating and you'd be looking in somebody's window for
the first games of an NBA season, right.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Slenderman, Victor Wembanyama and everything. But the idea that you know,
you roll through and people come in when they do.
The NFL college football, those are the only two sports
that people really just get used right away. Otherwise you're
talking about a lot of games. Yes, I had a
lot of games. And then certainly when we get to
the postseason, we have two teams with superstars and young
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stars at the top. We've talked about Marte and Carrol
on one side, and then Corey Seeger who looks like
he's gonna win an MVP Award, and Adolas Garcia, who
unfortunately got hurt so we don't get to see what
other destruction he may have caused in this series, but
it was basically two men, and then you try to
figure out who's gonna pop in. You saw Guriel have
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a game. We celebrated Merrill Kelly with his huge performance
in Game two, but otherwise it's really been the stars
up top. So for if you're not a fan of
the Diamondbacks of the Rangers, other than seeing who's throwing
out the first pitch or how many times the reference creed,
this may not be your world series. And that's okay.
(05:48):
I can't as a Fox employee obviously, I mean encouraging
you to watch the games and celebrate greatness, but I
understand if you don't have the visceral component. Right, while
people celebrated the Astros going home, yeah, there was also
the well we don't have the hate watching. You don't
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add that root against kind of mentality that we have
in our sports.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, it's not really like a super underdog in this
in this fight, right, I mean both teams haven't been
here for a while. The Rangers have never won it.
You know, Arizona had their chance of glory a few
years but I think it was eleven maybe two thousand
and one, isn't one exactly what Randy Johnson those guys,
so you know they've had their day. I think it's
one of those things. Yet, like you said, if you're
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not a fan of either one of these teams. You're
not going to be super invested. But you know it's good.
You got new blood. You got a chance to see
somebody come on top that hasn't done it for a
few years. And I think that's fun. And like you said,
some people won't get it, and that's fine as well.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, So as we go through, we're going into the
bottom of the seventh, they're able to escape. Are the
Diamondbacks only allowing one run? So a one nothing lead.
We know that if all he's done, he got all
the heroes welcome to the dugout after the six So
we'll see how the bullpen management rolls from here, but
Texas trying to close the door. Later on, we will
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celebrate the end of the game whichever side wins, as
we always do with our guy, John Paul Morosi MLB Network.
Our friend of the show could be Champagne Pop and
he may be Champagne Soap by time we talked to him.
You never can tell. Always some craziness, no question about it. Hey,
time running out. It's this weekend right down the road.
(07:29):
We'll be there Friday. We're in the final stretch to
get your tickets to Horse racing's biggest moment of the year,
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Get tickets today at breeders Cup dot Com. Got my
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I've got a nice pair of pants that have little horses,
(07:52):
all horse loud, horse loud. I mean, They're a nice deal.
I gotta figure out top top to go with it.
So maybe we'll we'll see if we can get a
little bit of help with the wardrobe as it goes.
But I've been watching all the footage from the from
the workouts and the interviews and the paddocks. I'm just
just excited.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, have you ever been? Have you ever done Derby?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I have not. My brothers have gone almost every year
for the last twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh I've been. I mean, obviously, I'm a Louisville guy,
so I've.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Just traveled down. Probably get a little bit of a
VIP VIP love there first, VIP love for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
In May, Carrie and all my friends will be heading
to all the friends and we'll have you know, and
we'll be in the suite.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
It'll be me you, Michael Jordan's Tom Brady be a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'll be mocking the Jets finish by that point. But wait,
I should only do that, You should not do that. Yeah, yeah,
I'm reach right now, Mike. Well, I got short arms,
so but you do not. You got to you got
a bigger eat. But it's it's just the pageantry of
all of it. Like it's it was a hobby for
my dad, working as much as he did, Uh, betting
horses was still like that was his hobby. Got it
(09:03):
and it also provided a nice supplemental income that he
was good at. They got good at it. My brothers
still do it and they're pretty good at it, and
they go to a lot of the big events. Got
it for a while, I know they had you know,
you could buy shares of horses, yes, through these trading
outlets as if you're buying shares of stock. That so
it was able to get that. They were able to
(09:24):
get the data and the reports to kind of understand
or the terminology and behind the scenes. So it's all
about the method to the men. It's just like you know,
just like stealing signs in college football or the pros
or whatever else. I mean, you got to have a
science to it.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
It's part of it. And people say it isn't They're
lying anyway. So yeah, it's It's called gainsmanship. It's called
doing everything you can within your power to not cheat,
but break the rules. It's a little bit called it's
called bend the rules, not break the rules.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It's being that gray Aye upon a time, I worked
in financial aid administration when I graduated out of Northwestern,
and I got really good at knowing where that line
was for federal and you know, institutional money as to
how to help kids out without getting any of us
thrown in jail. Very proud of it. At Swollen Dome
and Carrie twenty five Roads on Twitter as we're in
(10:15):
the seventh inning, Arizona down one nothing here, World Series
Game five, lots going on. Let's just jump in to
the to part one. As you hear of the Raiders
clearing house. We were on air right as it broke,
starting our final hour last night, and it was the
all right, it makes sense, but you're also still surprised,
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given what you know of the organization and the fact
that just a couple of weeks ago, Mark Davis was
screaming at fans while sitting in his seats, saying, ah,
smart enough.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
They were pretty smart.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, they were ahead of the curve on this one.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
It would appear. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
No, it's change has to happen for the organization. I
mean the fact that you bring in a guy McDaniels
who hasn't really athic success.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Obviously it comes from lineage, but that tree hasn't really
performed to their standards or what people would think their
standards would be. And I think a lot of that
boils down to once you start to take an identity,
when it becomes a way, like the Patriot Way, when
you step out on your own and become a head
coach or a GM or whatever you are outside of
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the organization, it still has to be your way.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
You're not Belichick, You're not it has as much as
you want to implement that. And we talk about it
all the times, like all right, they need a fiery guy,
or they need this, or you can't be something you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Guys, it has to be organic. It has to be authentic.
You cannot be somebody. You can't because that stage play
only lasts so long before the curtain closes, and it's
it's and it's usually pretty swift as.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We see it. This was swift when you're still reportedly
paying out Gruden whatever portion of that one hundred million dollars,
whether they settled on a dime or or they're still negotiating,
it's you know, we were not one hundred percent sure
he is over a he had been in New Orleans
and helping out and whatever. But when we look at
this now you're talking six year deal, less than two
(12:12):
out the door in another pile of cash. So a
couple of things. Number One, even though they're quote cash
poor at TV, revenue solves a lot of hills and
makes even the cash poor owners among them rolling, as
we saw from the San Diego Padres. Yeah, a little
bit earlier with the report that they had to borrow
fifty million dollars to meet obligations. Hey, when's our check
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come in after the red share.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I was just about to say, think about that.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Right, you own a team, you have and most of
these things, all these teams are pretty much worth billions
of dollars, right, and you have to borrow money.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, but but you're only worth billions if you sell
it right, like, the cash flow can still be a problem, right,
especially if you go say like the Padres did, and
you go all in and you pay a lot of
money right for these questure so and then you start
going into the processes there that maybe you're you're in
the black but not got it large, so you're trying
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to make sure you can cover your obligations and whatever
else we could do with the whole Ocean's eleven and
analysis of what needs to be on a floor of
a fight night weekend. But see what I did there.
But it's just that idea that you've got the rev
share from TV and everything else coming in that will
flood you with money to over overcome that because we've
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got a bunch of teams like that, right you Padres.
Obviously the Raiders have always been that team. Maybe in
Las Vegas there's a little bit more ease of flow.
But that's why the Bears don't want to be in
Chicago with the what Soldier Field anymore. They don't own
the stadium, so all the money is in the team,
and obviously the red shares they do fine, but they
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don't get when Taylor Swift sells out three concerts. They
don't get it when there's all of the parking and
everything that ain't theirs. That's the park is true, So
you know that's that's part of the equation. But we
got plenty to go with the Raiders because you know,
Carrie being a member of the Jets for years. Sorry,
I gotta do it from a positive standpoint. Obviously, great
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successes there, but obviously it's an an organization with a
long history of some issues in terms of their management
of coaches, gms and locker room yep, personalities. We'll talk
a little bit about the Palisero report from the weekend
of an airing of the grievances meeting and then seventy
two hours later, well, evidently no quick fixes there are
(14:36):
in inside the Las Vegas locker room.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
He's got some some moves and he's going to drop
some lyrics here, I think any second.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, it's like this. We come every day. It's all.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The team was ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Alex Tye shirt justin Frost, but we got our guy,
Isaac Lowencron on updates tonight. Hey, we're in the final
stretch to get tickets to horse racing's biggest moment of
the year, the world's best headed to Santa I need
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your tickets today at Breeders Cup dot Com. Eighth inning
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runner on, first, one out for the Rangers. Marcus Simeon
at the playto for three to two night, Texas with
the one to ozer lead, looking to close things out.
Ivaldi was gutty and gritty and all those words we
used to describe guys who aren't very good, but somehow
nothing terrible happens to them. Like he made the pitch
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when he needed to. That's really what it comes down to.
And Gallon had the no hitter through six and then
well he got chased and that was the end of that.
Won nothing. As the Rangers look to close it out,
we'll keep an eye on that as we roll. But
we started talking about the Raiders. Carrie your a NFL
career and look rolling through locker rooms there's a different
(16:04):
vibe each year you get into training camp. You see
the changes that are made coming and going right, guys
that are coming in through free agency, maybe a trade,
and certainly the draft. How early in training camp can
you tell you've got something or that it's going to
be a grind.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
That's a great question, and I think that changes because
a lot of times it depends on if you have
a real young group, a group that's eager to learn,
eager to get out on the practice field and get better.
So that's one way to tell. And sometimes you have
those teams where things are going to take a little time.
You're gonna be a little slower, a little bit more
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deliberate with what you're doing as a team. So it's
not like a tale sign of where you can tell
that right away. A lot of times it just depends
on the tenor of the room. But I think there
are situations when you come in when you know you've
got a lot of really good, good talented guys that
are going to buy in and be ready to play.
And there are sometimes when you know also that these
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guys got a long way to go to become a
team and really understand what it takes to win football
yet game.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
So I think there's.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
It's a very tall it's a very tall ask to
pinpoint what that looks like. Sure, but I will say
you know right away when the team is going to
be bad because guys aren't really buying into what the
team is putting out. You have guys that are trying
to get contracts, you have guys that are trying to
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get different teams. You have all these things that are
happening in the midst of something that's supposed to be
a unit, and you can tell that stuff right away.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And that's one of the things that kind of flowed
through in the post mortem of the Josh McDaniels era.
Here reference the meeting that was last Thursday. Ye evidently
you had a lot of veterans get up and speak
from the disgruntled and seriously disgruntled DeVante who had a
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bunch of beef with the team before the season began
because his guy was now down in New Orleans. So
there was already misgivings of hey, I was sold a
bill of goods or whatever. The divide was there. You
have Josh Jacobs fighting for a contract, as so many
running backs did. There you go got his ten million dollars. Honestly,
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I'm surprised. In the end neither of them were dealt.
But we saw reports today that they weren't returning calls
because they were dealing with this. And then there were
some great you know, fishtails being told and put out
as quasi news. Again, you always got to check your source, folks.
Sarcasm does not there's no font. It's not gonna blink
at you in the world of Twitter and X as
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it should. We're here in the tire Act dot dot
com studios watching all this go down. We know that well,
we read sarcasm well within these walls. But you know,
the the idea of your you're having a team meeting
and basically the festivut airing of the grievances mid Seas
after getting punched around by the Bears and Division two quarterback.
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Take nothing away from Tyson Beagen. You made your spot
to the NFL, whatever your road is, you got there.
But we can't. We would be remiss if he didn't say,
all right, here's where he came from. And then you
went and against a team that hasn't been running the
ball effectively, that has been struggling. You got punched in
the mouth time and time again. And I always like
Deontay Foreman when he was in Houston. I was thought's
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pretty good tough runner. He couldn't stay healthy and they
kept doing these workload splits because he couldn't stay healthy.
So now he's with Chicago short term. Roshawn Johnson comes
back and immediately they're back to the workload split against
the Chargers. But for one day they came out and
were throwing haymakers in the run game and in the
downfield blocking. Comet didn't go out in pass routes. He
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was there as another blocker to keep that front and
Crosby at Bay, which they did a good job, right.
Baigent got rid of the ball fast. They lose that game.
And then you go and you have the meeting like
once you hit the point of we're gonna have a
team meeting of the airing of the grievances. And we
saw the Bulls do it after their first game of
the year.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
It's like when a team gets to that point, man,
we've hit desperation point, yes, right, And and you're looking
around and you're probably looking at the guys with you
and we chronicled some of the Adams and Jacob's preseason
before any of this even got got going, and the
ineffectiveness of the ground game, Jimmy g missing health always
(20:31):
an issue, but then missing wide open receivers and then
Devonte Adams throwing his helmet. That thing probably cracked in
half the way he slammed it down the other That
was pretty good. Yeah, but you get to that point
and all the time I'm sitting there going all right,
shouldn't this still be a McDaniels led, Hey, let's let's
do something about where we're at. It seemed like he
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had a vote of no confidence long ago, and then
it finally hit the point there.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Yeah, they've they've been in trouble for a while, and
it's there. They're one of those teams that are so
perplexing because they got all the pieces.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
They have, big.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Offensive line, the guys we've already mentioned Max Crosby, who's
top three four in his position. Hey, you think you're
gonna be at least serviceable, and look, they were flirting
with fun.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
And they are and then they're not. And it's like
one of those things where it's where is it going wrong?
And you can obviously tell it's it has to be
in the locker room, right, like because.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Number one, Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I remember coming into the season, I was talking, I
was really high on him, and you know, I was
really saying he should get paid and he should be
one of those guys that they invest in and you know,
the whole deal.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And then he gets.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
There, he has no burst, looks like he really doesn't
want to be there, not running hard, and it's all
going to be predicated off of that run game and
play action for them. We already know Garoppolo is not
going to drop back thirty five times and win you games.
It has to be complimentary football, right, So if they
were running the ball, well, then the play action game
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will be open. Those throws that he's missing in that game,
he was getting killed though.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, I mean so the two that everybody kept showing,
the one from the end zone, dude is getting He's
got a guy in his ribs before he gets rid of.
Now the other.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
One, well, he's mad. It's an accumulation.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But that's just it se pressure, Yes, I mean that,
and life is good. Yes, So that's the that's the issue.
It's not just him missing passes. That thing has to
be flowing and together on the chain for them to
be successful, even with the players they have, so I
could see that, I can see why he missed some
of those as the game went on. But yeah, you
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it's so much more to that team, and obviously you
gotta make big, drastic choices when you're starting to losing.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Changes are coming in, but it's not Coaropolo's fault. It's
not just Jacob's fault. All that stuff has to work
in tendem.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
No and so they clear it out. So you haven't
scored twenty one points in a game. Your defense has
kept you in games, given you opportunities, and then you
lose a game to the Bears. You come back on
the Monday night against the Lions and look, you got
run up and down that field, but you kept forcing
field goals. For all the love of the Lions that
(23:26):
I fight with Smith about this because by Lions by
line and it's fun, don't get me wrong, and they're
sitting pretty We'll talk about metal stands and everything where
we're at through the midpoint of the season. But you
did your job right. Move the ball just threes instead
of sevens and you give me a chance. So they
still had a chance. Is the thing right? It was
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one or two drives to go and steal this game,
even though you give up five hundred yards of offense
and we're sitting on the sideline, you know, like you're
the the cage lion waiting to get out. I circling
back and forth.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Its like, come on the Greatest Showman or something.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
No, but exactly right, Wait, you're salivating.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
But no, it's it's very it's weird, man. The Raiders,
I just they're such an enigma because they have so
much talent and they you know, the one year I
think it was a couple of years ago when they
made the playoffs, and you know, you you thought they
would come back the next year and do the same thing.
And then obviously something goes wrong. Right a lot of times,
it seems like in this in this millennium, things just
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find itself.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Going wrong with those guys, where.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I almost feel bad for I mean, it's almost like
they're it's almost like they flip flop with the Lions.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Like in the past, the Lions would.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Be the team that will be in all the games,
and you knew they were going to lose the game
the Raider, the Raiders will becoming the new Lions.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
That would be my take on what's going on right now.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Now you've had twenty plus years of it right all
the way, Like Rich Gannon, I saw a lot of
quotes coming out of him, didny. I mean that's all
the way. I mean, that's two thousand three at this point, right,
I mean we're going back when Jerry Rice was still
an active receiver and not a guy part of a
commercial saying hey, let's retire and get out there.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
That one and also the Popeyes chicken which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Come on that hell is one of the things. I
gotta find a nice eight by ten of that. I
want to sign it and put him on my wall.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
That chicken from.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
If I can get him to deliver, I'd have him
show up with some spicy chicken. Garman like spicy chicken. Hey,
we're here, live in the entire rac dot Com studio,
Smith Off tonight. So much more to get into with
the Raiders. Bo Heart Agree is now your new offensive coordinator.
He comes from the Adam Gaates tree. Oh no, no,
(25:44):
exactly as a guy. That's right. He's looking looking at tacos.
They float in the air. Right, one of the great
images and gifts of all time, right that staring into space. No,
that's it. Now, you're actually getting that pretty good thing
right there. So make sure it's easier. But it's the
idea that you're coming out of that tree. We watch
(26:06):
what happened in Chicago, which I guess right now looks
pretty good. When you had a couple of playoff appearances
with Trubisky, at least you were serviceable in week to week.
You weren't were wondering what's going on? Because we'll get
to the Bears next hour, because they did something that
again you're raising your hand, going, how's everybody still employed?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Sometimes he was a problem Bob night, same thing. We'll
get to him in just a couple of minutes. But
continue with the Raiders. All right, So now you go
to Aidan O'Connell. Something we talked about even going back
to pre before preseason, just based on Jimmy garoppolo health concerns,
right that you weren't going to make the jump and
suddenly Brian Hoyer was going to be the guy leading
you to any level of prominence. But you get a
(26:55):
new oc Antonio Pierce takes over. You've got a history
with Antonio. Yeah, he did his press conference today and
folks saying a run through the wall for that guy.
Our friend Will Blackman said, let him run first. I'll
follow through the little bit. So what's the walls broken apart? Sure,
(27:15):
but go ahead. I'm I'm not willingly running through the
wall for anybody. Prove that you can do this job.
And I guess that's the big question here, man interim
coach opportunity. Certainly they're on the hook for a one
hundred million dollars and coaching and GMS that they've let go,
So maybe a legit opportunity to win it and win
(27:36):
this job long term, or is this an interim and
then it's Jim Harbaugh or someone who's nice and shiny
for next year.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
He has no chance of keeping that job. And I
love Ap. I've known Ap since our days in New
York together. He's on the Giants, I was with them Jets.
Really good leader. He is a really good leader. Now
he's he's a guy that definitely can motivate the guy
to come out and play. But what you just said,
I mean, they have so much money on the books
for coaches right now, they weren't gonna be able to
(28:06):
bring anybody in. It's gonna have to be somebody on
staff already in the house. No, sure it through and
you know that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And as the owner, you're just saying, hey, we drafted
this rookie. There's other guys no good trying to make
trying to make Myers and and Adams happy.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Exactly. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I mean, And look for Josh Jacobs, folks saying like
and Jason and I thought about this too, is like oh,
less carries and spreader, like to who this guy's done
at the end of the year. You're using him as
many carries as those.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yeah, So all this this is all an audition, and
I think it actually puts these players in a really
good place. I mean, to be honest, you know, it's
an audition. Now the guys that you were fighting for
or were in your corner at the time, they're gone.
So now you put your best you put your best
tape on on on, you put your best film on tape,
and and and let it ride out from there. And
(28:57):
I think also it's gonna split and divide the tai.
But when you have a guy that's in house that
already knows those guys, which ap is, hopefully he can
you know, unite them to leaf, play hard, and play
for each other in the mix of all that as well.
And I think that's the beauty of keeping guy like
that in.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, I mean in the end of you know, from
the reports, McDaniel's long hours, very critical, another guy that
you know, kind of ducked any responsibility for anything that
was going on.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I can see that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Which people saw. You saw right through that sure pretty fast.
Which is funny because as soon as folks start mentioning
Lincoln Riley and bring him in, yeah, because that's the
guy you want leading a franchise, a guy who it's
everybody else's faults, the boogeyman in the corner, we're cursed,
bringing in holy men and shaman and exorcists. Coming off
(29:44):
of Halloween night, of course, we had to get an
exorcist reference in a man. Look watch the kid at Purdue.
He can wing it around. So your wide receivers at
least should be happy and look the schedule, making the
move right. Now you got the Giants and Jets next.
They're still favorites against the Giants.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Yes, but even with all of this stuff, good Giants
on the third string quarterback of course. Well, no, Daniel
Donalds is back. That's right, Daniel Doones is back. But
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I don't know that he has a neck. Yeah, I'm
not high on deck. And then Darren Waller's done.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
He's done. He had the hamstring injury.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, and he's out multiple weeks. And yeah, it's it's ugly.
It's uh exactly as our guy Frost says, shocker.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah. We had the over under who was going to
be uh deposed? First? Was Waller gonna be hurt or
Jimmy g hurt? Oh well Jimmy G had a short injury.
And now he's bench because you can't play him again
because there's eleven point four on the books for next
year guaranteed if he's hurt. Oh, welcome to the AID
and O'Connell era nice his administration. We're live here in
(30:49):
the tire Raq dot Com studios. He's carry Roads. I'm
Mike Harmon as we watch things heat up here in
the bottom of the eighth World Series Game five will
keep you a prize of that. But coming up next,
remembering the legacy of Bobby Knight, coach, outdoorsman, paint in
the ass, all of those things can be true. It
will make it make sense. Next here on Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
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Speaker 3 (31:25):
Appo Great Coogly Moogli. Welcome back in The Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Harmon. A lot from the tirerac
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in his stead Tonight. We're in the final stretch to
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get tickets to horse racing's biggest moment of the year.
World's best are headed to Santa Anita for the Breeders'
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Now go and get your tickets today at Breeders' Cup. Well,
we're that much closer to crowning a champion and Major
League Baseball. The Texas Rangers extend the lead here in
(32:07):
the ninth inning, and you and I watching it as
it unfolded the old I don't believe what I just
saw as you have back to back singles and then
him comes up hits a single. Thomas goes and one
run is gonna score. Thomas goes to field the ball
(32:27):
and it rolls under his glove and through his legs,
allowing another to score. It is three to nothing. The
rally continues for these Texas Rangers, the road Warriors of
twenty twenty three, eleven and well ten and right now,
but ten and plus trying to finish it off right
now to make it a clean eleven and zero on
the road.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
That's that's prettiest.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
You know what's funny. I saw the stat that they've
never won ten in a row on the road in
the regular season as a franchise.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah. I don't think many have, right, but any mean,
that's that's a pretty good funny.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Crazy. I'm sure you know, if we do the due
diligence and our good folks at Stats Inc. Or something,
we'll run that out as we go, but just pondering
that level of success, just calmness. I mean, you know,
the locker room, flight, travels, dealing with family on the road,
dealing with teammates who might be a little less than
(33:21):
on the road, all of that. To keep that level
of continuity and performance. I mean that that's next levels.
It all stems from from Bruce Bochi. I mean, he's
set the tone, he's set the tenor for that team.
He's done it in multiple places. Obviously he's a winner.
So you have guys like that coming to your program
that you know is a proven winner. As he pops
(33:41):
up on the screen as we're talking about him, it
starts there, but then you start. Once you have that foundation,
you go out and get guys that fits that mold, right,
And so all these guys Seeger is pretty even, Keel,
Simeon's pretty even, Keel can play, and you can just
really start to pinpoint those moments of obviously we're really good,
really good baseball players and really good players in general,
(34:04):
but you also get to see how they handle themselves
as a professional every day.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And as I say that, Simmy hits another home run
talking about Simeon. So like those guys start to set
the tone for your team and then there you go.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
That's what happens.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Seawalld gives up the two run home runs, Simeon making
his case at least a little bit of consideration, you know,
and Frostburg Smith's not here to absorb it unfortunately. But yes,
the ex met contributes with another two run home run
(34:37):
allowed four hundred six feet and the estimated distance on
that when they got out.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
In a hurry as well, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Now five nothing, three outs away from finishing off the
World Series again. Jompalmrosi will join us at the conclusion.
But go back to the money ball. Obviously, we we
have the the Oakland A's in that squad. We know
what happened in the postseason. You didn't finish the job,
but it's it's the idea for this Rangers. And you
(35:08):
mentioned Bruce Bochi talked about him a lot, a couple
of years away from managing. He's won fourteen of his
last fifteen postseason series, which is insane. That was one
of the graphics side that they just put up on
the Fox telecast. So I mean, you're just talking about
willing it. But the professionalism here's the routine and baseball
(35:29):
everything's a game of routine. Right. You find your your customs,
your some call them superstitions, whatever the case is. Right,
you had processes before a game, they went through, whatever
the playlist was, whatever the timing was for each sequence,
when you hit the field, when you did your sprints,
whatever else. Baseball the same thing. And even with all
(35:50):
the changes showing old school still has its place.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Yeah, I mean it's the steady hand. Steady hand wins
a lot of the times.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
You have all these teams that acquire talent, and it
looks like on paper, these these guys are going to
be the guys that they're going to win it, right
because they're the most talented. That just doesn't happen in sports.
It's one of those things where you know, you you
you want to acquire as much talent as you can,
but character and morale and just being good humans and
(36:20):
having those people on your team goes a long way.
And the Rangers have a lot of those guys on
that team that does that. And even like I said,
we talked about Carter earlier, even being the young guy,
he's one of the most calm and most steady guys.
On that team, and so to have a guy like
that on your team, that's the young the young one.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
You're doing you're doing pretty well. You talk about payrolls
top ten. And then they acquired a couple of players,
Sureser gave him a couple of innings and then obviously
back to the injury list for them. But you know,
the Evaldi start tonight, while it was uneven, he did
the job. You get the job, right, six innings of
scoreless baseball, battling Zach Gallant who was fantastic, and then
(36:58):
gives up one run. It's one of those days, one
of those the worst scenarios when you've got your ace,
knowing sometimes your offense is not going to pick you up.
All right, how many times can we go through Major
League Baseball? What's the run support for that guy?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Not good? Exactly, not good?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Why because they know they only need to score one,
So that's it, all right? He's carry Rhodes in for
Jason Smith. I'm buy car. But we'll get back and
celebrate Bob Knight a little bit later on, we're talking
all things Major League Baseball and the NFL and the
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey, locked and loaded. It's a beautiful Wednesday here Fox
Sports or Radio. Thanks heating up in the World Series.
I was all excited as we were sitting here pre
show going. We got our pictures Duel, We got our
pictures Duel. It's scarless. And then we have a no
hitter and bam, Sam punched in the face. Welcome in
Mike Harmon alongside Carry Rhoads. No Jason Smith tonight out
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gallivanting about maybe he found his way to the Hollywood
Bowl for those and roses. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
It was Halloween.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Maybe he's still searching for the bowl of candy since
someone came and stole their candy bowl and everything in
it off of their porch. If you can believe.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
That, you can't be so frivolous with your candy Halloween
evidently left it unguarded. Yep, we don't know if it
was for a minute or ten. It doesn't either way.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
That's all it takes right the car rides up. I mean,
we saw that video going viral today, reinforcing the you
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Night of NBA action, tons of NFL to get into
as Jason and I got the gift last night of
the Raiders cleaning house, which continued today when Lombardy went
out the door as well Mike Carbon alongside Carry Rhoads
(01:58):
when we're all pro all rookie team, musician actor producer
yep man about town and now he's in with us tonight.
Good to see you. It's been a minute.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Always always good to see you, Mike. Always have a
great show with you, great time and yeah, I mean
that long list of accomplishments throughout there was a great
way to start this start this night.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Well, I mean I.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Could really flower it up if we want to add
a bunch. Oh you can't, you can, but you know
we do have to do. So we got content along
the way. I mean, you know, look, he can always
tease and promote, you know, as you flow through. That's
what we do at Swollen Dome and over at Carrie
twenty five Roads, where we find you in the world
of Twitter slash x. But we are watching the World
(02:41):
Series here as the Rangers try to finish at the job,
go for their eleventh straight road win in these playoffs.
And Zach Gallon had been unhittable through his first seventy
five pitches or thereabouts, a clean six innings, and then
that was it. Ye started to roll through in matched
(03:02):
well not quite pitch for pitch, because Evaldi five walks
four hits. But when we talk about runners left in
scoring position, you look at the Diamondbacks, Oh for nine
in the game, including a bases loaded jam in the
fifth induced to a little number to shortstop inning over
and now we get into the seventh inning. Starts easily,
(03:26):
you know, Seeger starts with a hit. Carter doubles unsung
hero twenty one years old. That's the thing you watch, right,
because we do. We do it in the NFL, We
certainly do it in the NBA with young guys coming
into the league. Major League Baseball, we don't normally get
a bevy of guys quite that young coming in in
pressure points. But Evan Carter has more than lived up
(03:47):
to the moment as a twenty one year old for
these Rangers.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yea Evin Carter's they call him. They say he has
nerves of steel, They say that the kid never really breaks.
He's always he kind of fits the mold of what
that team is trying to build. And to see guy
like that come in and play well and again picking
two of his moments to half his spots, it's always
a beautiful thing to see and see who's next up
in that line of great players.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, because one of the things we've been talking about
a lot, I was just telling you before we went
on airs, Jason and I had kind of dubbed this
the NBA Jam of World Series. Like people can talk
about ratings, you're either in or you're out, and that's
with all sports, right. I Mean, how many people lament
the fact that we're playing NBA basketball on November first,
(04:30):
that the season is already a week and a half old. Yeah, right,
As opposed to the way the schedule kind of this
usually was about the start. You take the kids trick
or treating and you'd be looking in somebody's window for
the first games of an NBA season, right.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Slenderman, Victor Wembanyama and everything. But the idea that you know,
you roll through and people come in when they do.
The NFL college football, those are the only two sports
that people really just get used right away. Otherwise you're
talking about a lot of games. Yes, I had a
lot of games. And then certainly when we get to
the postseason, we have two teams with superstars and young
(05:06):
stars at the top. We've talked about Marte and Carrol
on one side, and then Corey Seeger who looks like
he's gonna win an MVP Award, and Adolas Garcia, who
unfortunately got hurt so we don't get to see what
other destruction he may have caused in this series, but
it was basically two men, and then you try to
figure out who's gonna pop in. You saw Guriel have
(05:26):
a game. We celebrated Merrill Kelly with his huge performance
in Game two, but otherwise it's really been the stars
up top. So for if you're not a fan of
the Diamondbacks of the Rangers, other than seeing who's throwing
out the first pitch or how many times the reference creed,
this may not be your world series. And that's okay.
(05:48):
I can't as a Fox employee obviously, I mean encouraging
you to watch the games and celebrate greatness, but I
understand if you don't have the visceral component. Right, while
people celebrated the Astros going home, yeah, there was also
the well we don't have the hate watching. You don't
(06:08):
add that root against kind of mentality that we have
in our sports.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Yeah, it's not really like a super underdog in this
in this fight, right, I mean both teams haven't been
here for a while. The Rangers have never won it.
You know, Arizona had their chance of glory a few
years but I think it was eleven maybe two thousand
and one, isn't one exactly what Randy Johnson those guys,
so you know they've had their day. I think it's
one of those things. Yet, like you said, if you're
(06:32):
not a fan of either one of these teams. You're
not going to be super invested. But you know it's good.
You got new blood. You got a chance to see
somebody come on top that hasn't done it for a
few years. And I think that's fun. And like you said,
some people won't get it, and that's fine as well.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, So as we go through, we're going into the
bottom of the seventh, they're able to escape. Are the
Diamondbacks only allowing one run? So a one nothing lead.
We know that if all he's done, he got all
the heroes welcome to the dugout after the six So
we'll see how the bullpen management rolls from here, but
Texas trying to close the door. Later on, we will
(07:07):
celebrate the end of the game whichever side wins, as
we always do with our guy, John Paul Morosi MLB Network.
Our friend of the show could be Champagne Pop and
he may be Champagne Soap by time we talked to him.
You never can tell. Always some craziness, no question about it. Hey,
time running out. It's this weekend right down the road.
(07:29):
We'll be there Friday. We're in the final stretch to
get your tickets to Horse racing's biggest moment of the year,
world's best. They're at Santa Anita for the Breeders' Cup
World Championships i November, third and fourth countdown begins now.
Get tickets today at breeders Cup dot Com. Got my
outfit ready carry for Friday. We're gonna get out for it. Well,
I've got a nice pair of pants that have little horses,
(07:52):
all horse loud, horse loud. I mean, They're a nice deal.
I gotta figure out top top to go with it.
So maybe we'll we'll see if we can get a
little bit of help with the wardrobe as it goes.
But I've been watching all the footage from the from
the workouts and the interviews and the paddocks. I'm just
just excited.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, have you ever been? Have you ever done Derby?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I have not. My brothers have gone almost every year
for the last twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Oh I've been. I mean, obviously, I'm a Louisville guy,
so I've.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Just traveled down. Probably get a little bit of a
VIP VIP love there first, VIP love for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
All right.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
In May, Carrie and all my friends will be heading
to all the friends and we'll have you know, and
we'll be in the suite.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
It'll be me you, Michael Jordan's Tom Brady be a
big deal.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I'll be mocking the Jets finish by that point. But wait,
I should only do that, You should not do that. Yeah, yeah,
I'm reach right now, Mike. Well, I got short arms,
so but you do not. You got to you got
a bigger eat. But it's it's just the pageantry of
all of it. Like it's it was a hobby for
my dad, working as much as he did, Uh, betting
horses was still like that was his hobby. Got it
(09:03):
and it also provided a nice supplemental income that he
was good at. They got good at it. My brothers
still do it and they're pretty good at it, and
they go to a lot of the big events. Got
it for a while, I know they had you know,
you could buy shares of horses, yes, through these trading
outlets as if you're buying shares of stock. That so
it was able to get that. They were able to
(09:24):
get the data and the reports to kind of understand
or the terminology and behind the scenes. So it's all
about the method to the men. It's just like you know,
just like stealing signs in college football or the pros
or whatever else. I mean, you got to have a
science to it.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
It's part of it. And people say it isn't They're
lying anyway. So yeah, it's It's called gainsmanship. It's called
doing everything you can within your power to not cheat,
but break the rules. It's a little bit called it's
called bend the rules, not break the rules.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
It's being that gray Aye upon a time, I worked
in financial aid administration when I graduated out of Northwestern,
and I got really good at knowing where that line
was for federal and you know, institutional money as to
how to help kids out without getting any of us
thrown in jail. Very proud of it. At Swollen Dome
and Carrie twenty five Roads on Twitter as we're in
(10:15):
the seventh inning, Arizona down one nothing here, World Series
Game five, lots going on. Let's just jump in to
the to part one. As you hear of the Raiders
clearing house. We were on air right as it broke,
starting our final hour last night, and it was the
all right, it makes sense, but you're also still surprised,
(10:38):
given what you know of the organization and the fact
that just a couple of weeks ago, Mark Davis was
screaming at fans while sitting in his seats, saying, ah,
smart enough.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
They were pretty smart.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, they were ahead of the curve on this one.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
It would appear. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
No, it's change has to happen for the organization. I
mean the fact that you bring in a guy McDaniels
who hasn't really athic success.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Obviously it comes from lineage, but that tree hasn't really
performed to their standards or what people would think their
standards would be. And I think a lot of that
boils down to once you start to take an identity,
when it becomes a way, like the Patriot Way, when
you step out on your own and become a head
coach or a GM or whatever you are outside of
(11:23):
the organization, it still has to be your way.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
You're not Belichick, You're not it has as much as
you want to implement that. And we talk about it
all the times, like all right, they need a fiery guy,
or they need this, or you can't be something you're not.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Guys, it has to be organic. It has to be authentic.
You cannot be somebody. You can't because that stage play
only lasts so long before the curtain closes, and it's
it's and it's usually pretty swift as.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We see it. This was swift when you're still reportedly
paying out Gruden whatever portion of that one hundred million dollars,
whether they settled on a dime or or they're still negotiating,
it's you know, we were not one hundred percent sure
he is over a he had been in New Orleans
and helping out and whatever. But when we look at
this now you're talking six year deal, less than two
(12:12):
out the door in another pile of cash. So a
couple of things. Number One, even though they're quote cash
poor at TV, revenue solves a lot of hills and
makes even the cash poor owners among them rolling, as
we saw from the San Diego Padres. Yeah, a little
bit earlier with the report that they had to borrow
fifty million dollars to meet obligations. Hey, when's our check
(12:34):
come in after the red share.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I was just about to say, think about that.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Right, you own a team, you have and most of
these things, all these teams are pretty much worth billions
of dollars, right, and you have to borrow money.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Well, but but you're only worth billions if you sell
it right, like, the cash flow can still be a problem, right,
especially if you go say like the Padres did, and
you go all in and you pay a lot of
money right for these questure so and then you start
going into the processes there that maybe you're you're in
the black but not got it large, so you're trying
(13:09):
to make sure you can cover your obligations and whatever
else we could do with the whole Ocean's eleven and
analysis of what needs to be on a floor of
a fight night weekend. But see what I did there.
But it's just that idea that you've got the rev
share from TV and everything else coming in that will
flood you with money to over overcome that because we've
(13:30):
got a bunch of teams like that, right you Padres.
Obviously the Raiders have always been that team. Maybe in
Las Vegas there's a little bit more ease of flow.
But that's why the Bears don't want to be in
Chicago with the what Soldier Field anymore. They don't own
the stadium, so all the money is in the team,
and obviously the red shares they do fine, but they
(13:51):
don't get when Taylor Swift sells out three concerts. They
don't get it when there's all of the parking and
everything that ain't theirs. That's the park is true, So
you know that's that's part of the equation. But we
got plenty to go with the Raiders because you know,
Carrie being a member of the Jets for years. Sorry,
I gotta do it from a positive standpoint. Obviously, great
(14:13):
successes there, but obviously it's an an organization with a
long history of some issues in terms of their management
of coaches, gms and locker room yep, personalities. We'll talk
a little bit about the Palisero report from the weekend
of an airing of the grievances meeting and then seventy
two hours later, well, evidently no quick fixes there are
(14:36):
in inside the Las Vegas locker room.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
He's got some some moves and he's going to drop
some lyrics here, I think any second.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, it's like this. We come every day. It's all.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
The team was ready to roll.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Alex Tye shirt justin Frost, but we got our guy,
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runner on, first, one out for the Rangers. Marcus Simeon
at the playto for three to two night, Texas with
the one to ozer lead, looking to close things out.
Ivaldi was gutty and gritty and all those words we
used to describe guys who aren't very good, but somehow
nothing terrible happens to them. Like he made the pitch
(15:43):
when he needed to. That's really what it comes down to.
And Gallon had the no hitter through six and then
well he got chased and that was the end of that.
Won nothing. As the Rangers look to close it out,
we'll keep an eye on that as we roll. But
we started talking about the Raiders. Carrie your a NFL
career and look rolling through locker rooms there's a different
(16:04):
vibe each year you get into training camp. You see
the changes that are made coming and going right, guys
that are coming in through free agency, maybe a trade,
and certainly the draft. How early in training camp can
you tell you've got something or that it's going to
be a grind.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
That's a great question, and I think that changes because
a lot of times it depends on if you have
a real young group, a group that's eager to learn,
eager to get out on the practice field and get better.
So that's one way to tell. And sometimes you have
those teams where things are going to take a little time.
You're gonna be a little slower, a little bit more
(16:44):
deliberate with what you're doing as a team. So it's
not like a tale sign of where you can tell
that right away. A lot of times it just depends
on the tenor of the room. But I think there
are situations when you come in when you know you've
got a lot of really good, good talented guys that
are going to buy in and be ready to play.
And there are sometimes when you know also that these
(17:06):
guys got a long way to go to become a
team and really understand what it takes to win football
yet game.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
So I think there's.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
It's a very tall it's a very tall ask to
pinpoint what that looks like. Sure, but I will say
you know right away when the team is going to
be bad because guys aren't really buying into what the
team is putting out. You have guys that are trying
to get contracts, you have guys that are trying to
(17:34):
get different teams. You have all these things that are
happening in the midst of something that's supposed to be
a unit, and you can tell that stuff right away.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
And that's one of the things that kind of flowed
through in the post mortem of the Josh McDaniels era.
Here reference the meeting that was last Thursday. Ye evidently
you had a lot of veterans get up and speak
from the disgruntled and seriously disgruntled DeVante who had a
(18:00):
bunch of beef with the team before the season began
because his guy was now down in New Orleans. So
there was already misgivings of hey, I was sold a
bill of goods or whatever. The divide was there. You
have Josh Jacobs fighting for a contract, as so many
running backs did. There you go got his ten million dollars. Honestly,
(18:21):
I'm surprised. In the end neither of them were dealt.
But we saw reports today that they weren't returning calls
because they were dealing with this. And then there were
some great you know, fishtails being told and put out
as quasi news. Again, you always got to check your source, folks.
Sarcasm does not there's no font. It's not gonna blink
at you in the world of Twitter and X as
(18:42):
it should. We're here in the tire Act dot dot
com studios watching all this go down. We know that well,
we read sarcasm well within these walls. But you know,
the the idea of your you're having a team meeting
and basically the festivut airing of the grievances mid Seas
after getting punched around by the Bears and Division two quarterback.
(19:06):
Take nothing away from Tyson Beagen. You made your spot
to the NFL, whatever your road is, you got there.
But we can't. We would be remiss if he didn't say,
all right, here's where he came from. And then you
went and against a team that hasn't been running the
ball effectively, that has been struggling. You got punched in
the mouth time and time again. And I always like
Deontay Foreman when he was in Houston. I was thought's
(19:27):
pretty good tough runner. He couldn't stay healthy and they
kept doing these workload splits because he couldn't stay healthy.
So now he's with Chicago short term. Roshawn Johnson comes
back and immediately they're back to the workload split against
the Chargers. But for one day they came out and
were throwing haymakers in the run game and in the
downfield blocking. Comet didn't go out in pass routes. He
(19:50):
was there as another blocker to keep that front and
Crosby at Bay, which they did a good job, right.
Baigent got rid of the ball fast. They lose that game.
And then you go and you have the meeting like
once you hit the point of we're gonna have a
team meeting of the airing of the grievances. And we
saw the Bulls do it after their first game of
the year.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Right.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
It's like when a team gets to that point, man,
we've hit desperation point, yes, right, And and you're looking
around and you're probably looking at the guys with you
and we chronicled some of the Adams and Jacob's preseason
before any of this even got got going, and the
ineffectiveness of the ground game, Jimmy g missing health always
(20:31):
an issue, but then missing wide open receivers and then
Devonte Adams throwing his helmet. That thing probably cracked in
half the way he slammed it down the other That
was pretty good. Yeah, but you get to that point
and all the time I'm sitting there going all right,
shouldn't this still be a McDaniels led, Hey, let's let's
do something about where we're at. It seemed like he
(20:54):
had a vote of no confidence long ago, and then
it finally hit the point there.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Yeah, they've they've been in trouble for a while, and
it's there. They're one of those teams that are so
perplexing because they got all the pieces.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
They have, big.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Offensive line, the guys we've already mentioned Max Crosby, who's
top three four in his position. Hey, you think you're
gonna be at least serviceable, and look, they were flirting
with fun.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
And they are and then they're not. And it's like
one of those things where it's where is it going wrong?
And you can obviously tell it's it has to be
in the locker room, right, like because.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Number one, Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
I remember coming into the season, I was talking, I
was really high on him, and you know, I was
really saying he should get paid and he should be
one of those guys that they invest in and you know,
the whole deal.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
And then he gets.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
There, he has no burst, looks like he really doesn't
want to be there, not running hard, and it's all
going to be predicated off of that run game and
play action for them. We already know Garoppolo is not
going to drop back thirty five times and win you games.
It has to be complimentary football, right, So if they
were running the ball, well, then the play action game
(22:11):
will be open. Those throws that he's missing in that game,
he was getting killed though.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, I mean so the two that everybody kept showing,
the one from the end zone, dude is getting He's
got a guy in his ribs before he gets rid of.
Now the other.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
One, well, he's mad. It's an accumulation.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
But that's just it se pressure, Yes, I mean that,
and life is good. Yes, So that's the that's the issue.
It's not just him missing passes. That thing has to
be flowing and together on the chain for them to
be successful, even with the players they have, so I
could see that, I can see why he missed some
of those as the game went on. But yeah, you
(22:52):
it's so much more to that team, and obviously you
gotta make big, drastic choices when you're starting to losing.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Changes are coming in, but it's not Coaropolo's fault. It's
not just Jacob's fault. All that stuff has to work
in tendem.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
No and so they clear it out. So you haven't
scored twenty one points in a game. Your defense has
kept you in games, given you opportunities, and then you
lose a game to the Bears. You come back on
the Monday night against the Lions and look, you got
run up and down that field, but you kept forcing
field goals. For all the love of the Lions that
(23:26):
I fight with Smith about this because by Lions by
line and it's fun, don't get me wrong, and they're
sitting pretty We'll talk about metal stands and everything where
we're at through the midpoint of the season. But you
did your job right. Move the ball just threes instead
of sevens and you give me a chance. So they
still had a chance. Is the thing right? It was
(23:47):
one or two drives to go and steal this game,
even though you give up five hundred yards of offense
and we're sitting on the sideline, you know, like you're
the the cage lion waiting to get out. I circling
back and forth.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Its like, come on the Greatest Showman or something.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
No, but exactly right, Wait, you're salivating.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
But no, it's it's very it's weird, man. The Raiders,
I just they're such an enigma because they have so
much talent and they you know, the one year I
think it was a couple of years ago when they
made the playoffs, and you know, you you thought they
would come back the next year and do the same thing.
And then obviously something goes wrong. Right a lot of times,
it seems like in this in this millennium, things just
(24:33):
find itself.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Going wrong with those guys, where.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
I almost feel bad for I mean, it's almost like
they're it's almost like they flip flop with the Lions.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Like in the past, the Lions would.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Be the team that will be in all the games,
and you knew they were going to lose the game
the Raider, the Raiders will becoming the new Lions.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
That would be my take on what's going on right now.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Now you've had twenty plus years of it right all
the way, Like Rich Gannon, I saw a lot of
quotes coming out of him, didny. I mean that's all
the way. I mean, that's two thousand three at this point, right,
I mean we're going back when Jerry Rice was still
an active receiver and not a guy part of a
commercial saying hey, let's retire and get out there.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
That one and also the Popeyes chicken which is terrible.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Come on that hell is one of the things. I
gotta find a nice eight by ten of that. I
want to sign it and put him on my wall.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
That chicken from.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
If I can get him to deliver, I'd have him
show up with some spicy chicken. Garman like spicy chicken. Hey,
we're here, live in the entire rac dot Com studio,
Smith Off tonight. So much more to get into with
the Raiders. Bo Heart Agree is now your new offensive coordinator.
He comes from the Adam Gaates tree. Oh no, no,
(25:44):
exactly as a guy. That's right. He's looking looking at tacos.
They float in the air. Right, one of the great
images and gifts of all time, right that staring into space. No,
that's it. Now, you're actually getting that pretty good thing
right there. So make sure it's easier. But it's the
idea that you're coming out of that tree. We watch
(26:06):
what happened in Chicago, which I guess right now looks
pretty good. When you had a couple of playoff appearances
with Trubisky, at least you were serviceable in week to week.
You weren't were wondering what's going on? Because we'll get
to the Bears next hour, because they did something that
again you're raising your hand, going, how's everybody still employed?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Sometimes he was a problem Bob night, same thing. We'll
get to him in just a couple of minutes. But
continue with the Raiders. All right, So now you go
to Aidan O'Connell. Something we talked about even going back
to pre before preseason, just based on Jimmy garoppolo health concerns,
right that you weren't going to make the jump and
suddenly Brian Hoyer was going to be the guy leading
you to any level of prominence. But you get a
(26:55):
new oc Antonio Pierce takes over. You've got a history
with Antonio. Yeah, he did his press conference today and
folks saying a run through the wall for that guy.
Our friend Will Blackman said, let him run first. I'll
follow through the little bit. So what's the walls broken apart? Sure,
(27:15):
but go ahead. I'm I'm not willingly running through the
wall for anybody. Prove that you can do this job.
And I guess that's the big question here, man interim
coach opportunity. Certainly they're on the hook for a one
hundred million dollars and coaching and GMS that they've let go,
So maybe a legit opportunity to win it and win
(27:36):
this job long term, or is this an interim and
then it's Jim Harbaugh or someone who's nice and shiny
for next year.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
He has no chance of keeping that job. And I
love Ap. I've known Ap since our days in New
York together. He's on the Giants, I was with them Jets.
Really good leader. He is a really good leader. Now
he's he's a guy that definitely can motivate the guy
to come out and play. But what you just said,
I mean, they have so much money on the books
for coaches right now, they weren't gonna be able to
(28:06):
bring anybody in. It's gonna have to be somebody on
staff already in the house. No, sure it through and
you know that.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
And as the owner, you're just saying, hey, we drafted
this rookie. There's other guys no good trying to make
trying to make Myers and and Adams happy.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
Exactly. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I mean, And look for Josh Jacobs, folks saying like
and Jason and I thought about this too, is like oh,
less carries and spreader, like to who this guy's done
at the end of the year. You're using him as
many carries as those.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yeah, So all this this is all an audition, and
I think it actually puts these players in a really
good place. I mean, to be honest, you know, it's
an audition. Now the guys that you were fighting for
or were in your corner at the time, they're gone.
So now you put your best you put your best
tape on on on, you put your best film on tape,
and and and let it ride out from there. And
(28:57):
I think also it's gonna split and divide the tai.
But when you have a guy that's in house that
already knows those guys, which ap is, hopefully he can
you know, unite them to leaf, play hard, and play
for each other in the mix of all that as well.
And I think that's the beauty of keeping guy like
that in.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Yeah, I mean in the end of you know, from
the reports, McDaniel's long hours, very critical, another guy that
you know, kind of ducked any responsibility for anything that
was going on.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
I can see that.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
Which people saw. You saw right through that sure pretty fast.
Which is funny because as soon as folks start mentioning
Lincoln Riley and bring him in, yeah, because that's the
guy you want leading a franchise, a guy who it's
everybody else's faults, the boogeyman in the corner, we're cursed,
bringing in holy men and shaman and exorcists. Coming off
(29:44):
of Halloween night, of course, we had to get an
exorcist reference in a man. Look watch the kid at Purdue.
He can wing it around. So your wide receivers at
least should be happy and look the schedule, making the
move right. Now you got the Giants and Jets next.
They're still favorites against the Giants.
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Yes, but even with all of this stuff, good Giants
on the third string quarterback of course. Well, no, Daniel
Donalds is back. That's right, Daniel Doones is back. But
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
I don't know that he has a neck. Yeah, I'm
not high on deck. And then Darren Waller's done.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
He's done. He had the hamstring injury.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah, and he's out multiple weeks. And yeah, it's it's ugly.
It's uh exactly as our guy Frost says, shocker.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah. We had the over under who was going to
be uh deposed? First? Was Waller gonna be hurt or
Jimmy g hurt? Oh well Jimmy G had a short injury.
And now he's bench because you can't play him again
because there's eleven point four on the books for next
year guaranteed if he's hurt. Oh, welcome to the AID
and O'Connell era nice his administration. We're live here in
(30:49):
the tire Raq dot Com studios. He's carry Roads. I'm
Mike Harmon as we watch things heat up here in
the bottom of the eighth World Series Game five will
keep you a prize of that. But coming up next,
remembering the legacy of Bobby Knight, coach, outdoorsman, paint in
the ass, all of those things can be true. It
will make it make sense. Next here on Fox.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I've said all that's going to be said about it.
It's none of your business. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
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Radio and the iHeartRadio.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Appo Great Coogly Moogli. Welcome back in The Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Harmon. A lot from the tirerac
dot Com, Fox Sports Radio Studios. No Smith Tonight, Carrie Rhodes,
former pro bowler, All Rookie Team, musician, actor, producer, analyst
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(31:47):
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we're that much closer to crowning a champion and Major
League Baseball. The Texas Rangers extend the lead here in
(32:07):
the ninth inning, and you and I watching it as
it unfolded the old I don't believe what I just
saw as you have back to back singles and then
him comes up hits a single. Thomas goes and one
run is gonna score. Thomas goes to field the ball
(32:27):
and it rolls under his glove and through his legs,
allowing another to score. It is three to nothing. The
rally continues for these Texas Rangers, the road Warriors of
twenty twenty three, eleven and well ten and right now,
but ten and plus trying to finish it off right
now to make it a clean eleven and zero on
the road.
Speaker 4 (32:47):
That's that's prettiest.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
You know what's funny. I saw the stat that they've
never won ten in a row on the road in
the regular season as a franchise.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Yeah. I don't think many have, right, but any mean,
that's that's a pretty good funny.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Crazy. I'm sure you know, if we do the due
diligence and our good folks at Stats Inc. Or something,
we'll run that out as we go, but just pondering
that level of success, just calmness. I mean, you know,
the locker room, flight, travels, dealing with family on the road,
dealing with teammates who might be a little less than
(33:21):
on the road, all of that. To keep that level
of continuity and performance. I mean that that's next levels.
It all stems from from Bruce Bochi. I mean, he's
set the tone, he's set the tenor for that team.
He's done it in multiple places. Obviously he's a winner.
So you have guys like that coming to your program
that you know is a proven winner. As he pops
(33:41):
up on the screen as we're talking about him, it
starts there, but then you start. Once you have that foundation,
you go out and get guys that fits that mold, right,
And so all these guys Seeger is pretty even, Keel,
Simeon's pretty even, Keel can play, and you can just
really start to pinpoint those moments of obviously we're really good,
really good baseball players and really good players in general,
(34:04):
but you also get to see how they handle themselves
as a professional every day.
Speaker 5 (34:09):
And as I say that, Simmy hits another home run
talking about Simeon. So like those guys start to set
the tone for your team and then there you go.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
That's what happens.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Seawalld gives up the two run home runs, Simeon making
his case at least a little bit of consideration, you know,
and Frostburg Smith's not here to absorb it unfortunately. But yes,
the ex met contributes with another two run home run
(34:37):
allowed four hundred six feet and the estimated distance on
that when they got out.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
In a hurry as well, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Now five nothing, three outs away from finishing off the
World Series again. Jompalmrosi will join us at the conclusion.
But go back to the money ball. Obviously, we we
have the the Oakland A's in that squad. We know
what happened in the postseason. You didn't finish the job,
but it's it's the idea for this Rangers. And you
(35:08):
mentioned Bruce Bochi talked about him a lot, a couple
of years away from managing. He's won fourteen of his
last fifteen postseason series, which is insane. That was one
of the graphics side that they just put up on
the Fox telecast. So I mean, you're just talking about
willing it. But the professionalism here's the routine and baseball
(35:29):
everything's a game of routine. Right. You find your your customs,
your some call them superstitions, whatever the case is. Right,
you had processes before a game, they went through, whatever
the playlist was, whatever the timing was for each sequence,
when you hit the field, when you did your sprints,
whatever else. Baseball the same thing. And even with all
(35:50):
the changes showing old school still has its place.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Yeah, I mean it's the steady hand. Steady hand wins
a lot of the times.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
You have all these teams that acquire talent, and it
looks like on paper, these these guys are going to
be the guys that they're going to win it, right
because they're the most talented. That just doesn't happen in sports.
It's one of those things where you know, you you
you want to acquire as much talent as you can,
but character and morale and just being good humans and
(36:20):
having those people on your team goes a long way.
And the Rangers have a lot of those guys on
that team that does that. And even like I said,
we talked about Carter earlier, even being the young guy,
he's one of the most calm and most steady guys.
On that team, and so to have a guy like
that on your team, that's the young the young one.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
You're doing you're doing pretty well. You talk about payrolls
top ten. And then they acquired a couple of players,
Sureser gave him a couple of innings and then obviously
back to the injury list for them. But you know,
the Evaldi start tonight, while it was uneven, he did
the job. You get the job, right, six innings of
scoreless baseball, battling Zach Gallant who was fantastic, and then
(36:58):
gives up one run. It's one of those days, one
of those the worst scenarios when you've got your ace,
knowing sometimes your offense is not going to pick you up.
All right, how many times can we go through Major
League Baseball? What's the run support for that guy?
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Not good? Exactly, not good?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Why because they know they only need to score one,
So that's it, all right? He's carry Rhodes in for
Jason Smith. I'm buy car. But we'll get back and
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