November 8, 2023 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk shop on the Dallas Cowboys and how they may be panicking knowing they are not as good as other teams in the NFC.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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he has in all four movies.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I think you're right. The word count is certainly higher.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He doesn't speak that much. I don't speak that much.
I'm winded. Need to take a break, need to kill
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us did, Like who is That was a tight shirt
saying that John Wick impression or Jason doing the John
Wick Jason. How much we had to pay Sean to
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do all those lines A lot of money, more than enough.
We panted to.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Listen to dog Star for more than five minutes.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We had to pay him in bullets. Aaron Rodgers is
not returning needed them. I gave Aaron Rodgers my Achilles
hopefully he can kill people with it. I told him
I'll kill achilles. I once killed three people with my
achilles tendon. It's impressive. I took it out, stabbed all
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three of them, put the tendon back in, and walked away.
I've never had hot Cheetos. It's gonna be one of
those nights, Harman, isn't it. I think it's one of
the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, I mean look, Alex said, hey, there's something special
in the open Yeah, and I really had no idea
what to expect. I know, you're in the studio, I'm
working abroad from the mobile tyrec dot Com studio.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You're still in the United States. You're not working abroad.
You're not in Austria. You're in the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, look abroad can mean more than one thing.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No abroad generally means okay, you have everybody to a
staring eye right. A broad means you're working overseas abroad.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It might be you don't know that.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I know you're not. I know you're not working overseas.
Are you working overseas?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm ready for the Germany game.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
No, no, no, are you working overseas?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes, don't lie, don't lie?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Manchester, England, England, just.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The way you said. Yeah, okay, I'm lying, but yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
For the purpose of this bit, I will change the
background behind me to look like the clips of More Boy.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Uh So, Hey, a big Tuesday. We have big NFL news.
The word fortnite is going to be used a lot
in the show tonight. And also it's the twentieth anniversary
of the release of Elf. Yeah, twenty years ago today
we saw Elf for the first time. And I'll tell you,
in my house, I don't know that there's a movie
I've seen more of out well, outside of Top Gun Maverick.
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I don't know the last ten or twelve years, there
has been a movie in my house I've seen more
that we've watched more than Elf.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I don't think that is it really the case?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, okay for me, personally, it would be Moneyball, John
Wick four and Elf. But I would say but in
that order. For the family, I would say, it's Elf.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh okay, yeah, I mean for Auch, it's Midsummer.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Stop next time. Stop With that, I really could call
child Services on.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You, Truly, it would end up being Mean Girls, Ten
Things I Hate About You, and then probably Pitch Perfect
or The Dark Knight one of the other.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But none of those movies are having an anniversary today.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
No, No, the Empire State Building even lit up. You're
doing so to celebrate the world series of the Texas
Ranger's a week ago to night. It's all about Elf.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Commemorating the the first time Buddy walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.
You know what, one time when we were we visited
New York. We'll get to college football play for in
a second. Just tell you this quick story. Zoe. You
know she's such a huge fan of Elf. She wanted
to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel because you know it's Buddy,
the Lincoln Tunney comes out of wa You're in a
car and I said, what do you mean? Was I
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in a car? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Uh, we were driving. We're going to the airport to
fly back to LA and we we get in and
we tell the cab driver, Okay, can you please go
through the Lincoln Tunnel to the airports. It's the other way.
It's you know, it's not there. I go, I know,
I know, we got to go through the Lincoln Tunnel.
It's elf. My daughter wants to go through Lincoln Tunny goes.
It's it's gonna be a lot more money for you
guys to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You do take the train and you were already in
a cab, means you were already burning money.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Any please go through the Lincoln Tunnel.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, my shirt burning cash.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
We go through Leggo tuttle. Let's go through. Uh So
we went all the way around through the Lincoln tunn Hey,
we got to go through the skill.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look, you gotta make it nice for the people, and
the kid will remember it forever, unless you won't.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. Well, and I remember the kid wearing the Wayne
Cubet jersey the whole time, So that's good. Yeah, in
a day when I needed positive Jets news, I remember,
Oh yeah, his brother wore the Wayne Crebet jersey like
the entire movie.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
That was kind of cool and then he had that
giant book.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah at people tomorrow morning today,
m Santah's coming. Oh my god, six inches, No one
could bet six it's okay, uh the time? What the
co that's about the ribbon curling And she says, I
can't No one can do that. It's impossible. Six inches
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ribbon curling. No, no one can do that. Six inches,
six inches. Take Yeah, thing is decorated. Probably too good.
I bet your corporate sends Someboddy in to do that. Okay,
So the new college football I will continue to remember
Elf and I'm sure John Wick through the entire movie
Night Tonight. But the latest college football playoff rankings are
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out and they are unchanged through the top eight from
a week ago. Ohio State is number one, Georgia's number two,
Michigan is number three, and on and down the road.
Right now you have from Michigan. It's a big in
Florida State number four for Michigan. Obviously they have the
sign stealing scandal hanging over them, but still they're the
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number three team. You have five undefeated teams, Washington sitting
there undefeated at nine to zero already. Greg McElroy on
ESPN former Alabama quarterback making some news and hey, you
gotta take Alabama. If it's a one lost team between
them and Oregon, you gotta take Alabama. And there's a
big time discrepancy when you look at the top eight
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teams because they're all big market power teams. There's no
Cincinnati in here. There's no well Boise State could sneak
in the top eight. After Florida State are an undefeated,
Washington one loss, Oregon, Texas, Alabama, then you have Ole Miss.
But then you also have Penn State, who can find
their way back in it and if they beat Michigan
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in a week. So now you are looking at what
we could finally get in the final year of the
fourteen playoff is the chaos that would have gotten us
a fuller playoff years ago? Because you can't sit here
and tell me now you still think the four team
playoff is a good idea because we could be arguing
over Texas, Alabama, Oregon, Washington getting into the playoff. That's
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a lot different from well, it could be Cincinnati or
it could be Texas, A and M. I mean, you're
talking about college football blue bloods now Heisman Trophy candidates,
Heisman Trophy favorites. This is the chaos that we all expected,
and the only reason we haven't had is because it's
worked out at the end of the season where a
team all they've got to do is win. Nope, they
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lose and well there's a bit of a discrepancy between
four and five, but really it's not that big a deal.
Cincinnati getting in, we kind of had to let them in.
They were undefeated. Everybody else had a loss. If you're
looking at these one loss teams now in Texas, Oregon, Washington, Michigan,
Ohio State, one of those teams is going to be
one loss and Penn State potentially Penn State, how do
you differentiate that? That's impossible. That's the chaos we needed
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years ago. That was going to get us to a
twelve team playoff the year after this happened. Because if
you're sitting here going, hey, Alabama, Texas, Oregon, boy, there's
only one spot, who is it? Well, really, you don't
think we wouldn't have had a bigger playoff than next year.
Of course you would have. This is the chaos we needed,
but we just haven't gotten it. Now we're finally getting
it in the last year of the fourteen playoff before
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we go to the twelve team playoff. But the biggest
thing is now thinking about that. Can you really still
tell me the four team playoffs is a good idea,
that's the best way when you're talking about all these
deserving one loss teams, big time Power five teams being
left out, or is getting into the top twelve a better,
more consistent, and better representation of college football, then hey,
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we have the top four teams. Twelve teams is better. Yes,
it will a little bit of the specialness will go
away for certain games like Ohio State Michigan if they're
one and two, Well, the loser is still gonna get it. Yeah,
I get it. But there's so much more drama and
so many more storylines when you're talking about more teams
trying to qualify for more spots. This is not gonna
ruin a conversation or ruin a narrative or ruin the
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specialists of the regular season of college football. If anything,
it's gonna make it more chaotic and more teams are
gonna have chances to get in. And when you can
widen that out and make college football more national, that's
nothing but a good thing for.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
This No, and so many levels, like we just talked
about it with Major League Baseball and some lamentation about
the wild card teams and heres Arizona and there goes
Texas and handwringing over how that all came to pass,
and all the one hundred win teams. It's too bad.
Win you got there. The regular season was great, got
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your seting based on the regular season, and then you
went out and lost. Same thing with the playoffs all
these years, it's been you lose one game and your
season is potentially over. Now, back in the day, even
with the BCS and later what the bowl system became,
you still had some that were better than others. Right,
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you would still say New Year's Bowls are better than this,
and on and on, and the purses reflected that. The
booster interest and travel and everything from the schools reflected
that as well. But adding more teams to the playoffs, yeah,
those November games have so much more meaning you might
actually lose a second game. And now we're parsing between
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what's a great win. What is a September me win
mean versus November, which we've always done a little bit.
But to your point, about the last few years. We
quibble a bit over four versus five, and then everybody
shrugs and moves on. You're talking about three possible, four
possible big time programs with history and loud mounts in
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the media getting ready to rev up for it. I mean,
think about McElroy already starting a campaign for Alabamas to Texas.
You can't jump them.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Right exactly. I mean, wait a minute, but they have
better resume. No, but you lost the lost. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Actually play that game still. Even though it
was in September, that game still counts.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Can I can I just give you a quote from
the rankings release? Uh, and this was part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Make sure make sure it's clean.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think, yeah, no, I'm reading it.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It is.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You gotta go by the script. Bo Nicks was on
the special with ESPN quote. Well, we responded, well, we
showed back up and practiced the next week, and we
took it personal, referring to the loss to Washington, of course,
and then kept going on to that. And you know,
it puts him in a good spot. But I just
like the took it personally.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's a new thing now everybody takes things personal. Now
I'm taking personally.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
We always did.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We just didn't declare it well we needed We just
kind of complained and you gritted your you know, grit
your teeth and you got back to work.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
We needed, we needed Jordan to do that. I took
that personally with the iPad in his hand on the
thirty for thirty on the last dance, and now suddenly, oh,
now we were gonna take it personally.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But think about could.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
He could have cashed in on that for like thirty
five years, forty years?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Right, took the shot at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
What was that eighty three, eighty three, eighty four?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, yeah, eighty three, eighty four. So I mean, think
about that. He could have been cashing in on that
for forty years. Sure, with the T shirts and everything else.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I think it person took that personally. But but here
here's the best part about the difference between right, the
difference between four and five trying to choose and then
twelve to fifteen. When you're trying to choose between four
and five, you are leaving out a team that could
potentially win the championship. Right, if you're talking right now,
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could Washington win the of course they could now likely
they're going to move up because Michigan, Ohio State, one
of them will lose. Now, will Ohio State move far
past Washington if it's Ohio State who loses. But you're
looking at an Oregon or Texas or Alabama. Could any
of them win the national title? Yes? So that's why
this is really difficult and why a twelve team playoff
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was needed. Now when you want to argue when you
get to eleven and twelve, hey, Oregon State is a
twelfth team right now? Maybe Missouri, Maybe it's Oklahoma State,
maybe it's Kansas. Well, now you're talking about just getting
snubbed like the NCAA tournament, I don't know any team
that's gonna finish twelve. That's a really rough road to
go all the way through to win the national championship.
You're going from we're leaving out a team that can
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win it all to now, who's getting snubbed and who
deserved to get that twelfth spot? Was it Oklahoma? Was
it Utah? Was it Lsu? Is it Notre Dame? So
it's a much easier conrece It's still a fun conversation,
but it's also much better and gives you a better
representation of who the best teams are when you're talking
about the top twelve versus hey, the top four, and
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here's the teams that could be left out here.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
No, and the beauty of it is on the back end,
like we're talking about wild cards, and again the lamentation
of what the NHL does, what the NBA does. They've
got their play in or however we're going to turn
it going forward. I'm sure it'll be sponsored by by
some some firm sooner or later and the giant patch
will show up on their heads or something. But the
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idea is that more teams in potential for chaos. Look
at what the Lakers did last year, run into the
Western Conference finals. Should they have been there if they'd
been healthy through the regular season. Sure, we can have
those debates all we want, but the fact of the
matter is they entered how they did, and they went
on a tremendous run before getting swept out of the playoffs.
And when we look at you know, baseball this year,
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we you know, as we talked about the Diamondbacks and
Rangers and people wring their hands and that's fine because
we keep talking about the sport. With college football Okay, Well,
we usually have the release of the final rankings, like
all right, there's the matchups, all right, cool, and then
we go back, what's the NFL playoff picture? Looks like,
let's go, and we're right out of it until the
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games are actually played. And even then we're talking about
the NFL playoffs. Maybe you get more teams involved, and
you've got teams in those eight spots and such like
Alabama perennial powerhouses that it gets everybody getting a little
bit chesty because you're arguing about belonging at the back
end of the eleven twelve. If you got a log
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jam there, think about the debates, I mean, we could
do them like the presidential debates. And now, representing Kansas.
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So this latest poll what's happened? That should forever do
it with? You know, I like four teams over twelve,
Yeah I should, and that conversation.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, you're all traditionous because you know what it allowed
people to do, and you're all just money grubbing. Meanwhile,
they're the guys with two commas on their paychecks, suited
and booted and just saying stuff to hear themselves talk.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Coming up next, it's Panic Tuesday in the NFL. Some
big time, high profile teams pushing that panic button. Who
pushed it the biggest? It's coming up next our ear
from the Tirec dot Com Studios, Jason and Mike Happy
twentieth to ELF. This is Fox.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
I said it was gonna be that kind of night.
Apparently it's gonna be that kind of night.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Smith, How late do you think they were up cooking
this thing up?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And what were they cooking up?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There's the only dark side is this Alex ty shirt.
You're gonna have to explain to our voice guy. Why
he didn't work this week and not didn't get paid.
You're gonna have to explain that to him. Yeah, so
I let you know that's okay.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I want to let you know.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It means time off. Are you sure about that? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I don't get paid.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
If I don't speak when I'm not fighting. I'm vibing
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smith Show with my best friend.
His name is Mike Harmon. And it's panic Tuesday in
the NFL. Here some teams making some moves to make
some decisions. It's panic, panic, panic, panic. Don't worry, we'll
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get to Anders and the fortnights before he returns as
quarterback of the Jets. But a complete panic move today.
And this goes along with the mentally fragile existence that
is the Dallas Cowboys. Every time we've talked about the
Cowboys all season long, right, the Cowboys so mentally fragile.
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They come into the season, They're all fired up. They
couldn't wait till go play the Giants open the week.
They crushed them forty to nothing. They come back home,
they beat the crap out of the Jets. They look
like the best team in the NFL. They go on
the road and they lose to Arizona and it's Jerry
Jones on the radio sing everything is fine, We're didn't
he we had a little bit of a flat thing. Okay, okay,
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And they go and they beat the crap out of
New England. Everything is great. Then they get smacked by
the forty nine ers forty two to ten. Mits. Well,
them make some moves here the deadline and news to that,
don't worry, don't worry nowhere. There's nothing the Cowboys can
do to hide the fact that they're just not as
good as the other big teams in the NFC. But
they're gonna keep trying. And today was the latest example.
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They lose this weekend and they lose to the Eagles,
a game where they wanted this game. Jerry Jones even
quiet for the week we want this game, we want
this game, and they lose. So what happens as a result, Hey,
I want you guys to think that you're all still
a great team. So what do the Cowboys do today?
They go and they signed Mark Davis. Bryant. Guy hasn't
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been in the league in five years. Is that difficulty
has been out of the league and now coming back
in when he played, he was good, but again five
years out of the league. This is the Dallas Cowboys
and Jerry Jones saying, hey, I don't want our guys
to go into Turtle and think that they stink and
they're not any good. So let's do something that makes
them think that, hey, we're.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Really not that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
But we just need a little bit more. We need
a guy that hasn't played in the league in five years.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's what we need.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Now. That's gonna get us past the forty nine ers
and get us by Philadelphia. And if we have to
play Josh Dobbs again, we're gonna wind up having to
do we need this. This is the Cowboys because they're
so fragile mentally. This is that move where hey, we
got to pick you guys up off the mat again
and prop you up and tell you how great you are.
Like we always have to tell Dak how great he is,
Like we always have to have guys out doing podcasts
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saying hey, we're good, we just didn't do this. We
All of this continues on with the Cowboys because they're
so fragile mentally. But after every loss, you can't just
come back and say, well, here's how I'm gonna fix
it with some kind of move. It's something we didn't have.
We didn't have this now we have it. Really but
that's exactly what the Cowboys do. And you can't live,
you can't exist when you are trying to prop yourself
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up and you don't really believe that you're a super
Bowl team. Because the Cowboys wouldn't continually do this if
they really thought they were great. They know they're not.
They know that all the big tests they've had so
far in the last month, they have failed. The two
best teams they have played, they have lost too. Right,
That's what goes on. That's what's happened with the Cowboys.
Yet this is the latest of Jerry Jones trying to
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I want to hide that I want to coddle the players.
I want to hold them like their babies and I
want to just cuckoo them and get them to go
back to sleep and stop crying and think everything is okay.
Because here's my move to try to deflect from that fact.
I'm gonna go sign a guy who hasn't played in
the league in five years.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, there's a couple of parts to this. I mean, obviously,
you know there are no moral victories, but they seem
to want to take one. In that loss to the Eagles.
You failed in so many respects when you talk about
time management. Oh wait, that's a Mike McCarthy Hallmark right.
His picture is there in the coaching dictionary. Who's the
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best at showing us how poorly you can manage a clock?
That guy who's the worst at finishing red zone offensive
sequences in crunch time? That guy sense of urgency, possession
after possession. I mean, he's there and now they're taking him.
And it's really Mike McCarthy as Kevin James doing that
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picture that has showed up everywhere in the last couple
of weeks. So you have that with Dak had a
great game up when it mattered, Tony Pollard can't run
the football. We talked about the trade deadline and the
moves that they should have been making, the players they
should have been looking at didn't do any of it.
Now you got McCarthy getting testy, and I love the
fact that this is the year in college and pros
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that everybody has just decided I don't give a blank
and I'm gonna either curse at you, staring you down,
go Dabbo Sweeney on you all of those things and
yell at guys on the phone. Calling into a calling show,
Mike McCarthy asked about Brandon Cooks, who, let's face it,
folks are like, all right, fantasy football, fire him up
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number two to ceedee lamb. He's on a pace for
a career worse season.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Don't play fantasy football. We have game plans, and I
think it's important and this is a challenge for our
guys because our system is built on making the quarterback successful. Okay,
quarterback also needs to find his tight end who's become
pretty reliable when he's wide open streaking across the field,
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instead of trying to force it to a guy who
had no catches coming into the game, which he did
going to the end zone. So all of that to say,
bringing in Martavis Bryant another great example of the Josh
Gordon school of you know, you have a pretty good
opportunity here, lay off the weed. I mean, we had
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Alex's famous award winning parody song that we sang for
years on the program that you know, just stay away
and you can get back on the field and do
great things. And might he be the greatest reclamation project ever. Sure,
but what are the odds of that. I'm sure we
could find someone in Vegas to lay them for us
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in the interim. You failed your tests. It's like the
Miami Dolphins on the other side, where we would propping
them up. Every time they face somebody good, they fail.
And for the Cowboys, this is now what thirty years
thirty years of this type of uh ebb and flow
and Jerry Jones and McCarthy's doing everything he can to
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tap dance around any problems that they've had, which is
laughable because guess what, you're on National bleeping TV to
ninety nine percent of the world every week. There's no
running in hiding if you've got a cowboy star on
your helmet.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Here's what I want the Cowboys to do. This is
this is this would serve the Cowboys so well. I
want the Cowboys to just shut up. Everybody shuts up,
the players, there's no podcast, Jerry Jones is not on
the radio. Everybody shuts up. You call it zero dark
landry that way.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Wait, what will they do without our bet contact?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, they'll they'll they'll pay Aaron Rodd, They'll pay some
of Aaron Rodgers Pat McAfee money to get Aaron Rodgers
on in Dallas. People will love to listen to that.
Go zero Dark. We'll call it zero Dark Landry. Just
everybody shut up. Don't tell me how great you are.
Don't tell me how great you think the team is.
Don't tell me the excuses that you have coming up.
Don't don't tell me that, hey, we just need a
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little bit. Don't keep telling me you're a super Bowl
team when you're losing. When you don't, the last thing
you need is to be told how great you are
after you lose games. Everybody in Dallas needs to be
quiet and go play football. And you got to do
this over the course of the back half of the season.
Now can they do it? Of course not, because they're
the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They can't help it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
We always have always got to do.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It, right, Yeah, always right. They just love to do it.
They love But Jerry Jones can do an interview and
not talk about, hey, I want to make sure I
prop the team up and podcasting go out and not
say well, we just need to do this and then
this and this was made personal. No, you guys are
an okay, football team. All right, you guys are five
and three. There's lots of five and three teams in
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the NFL. Right, The Jets were a couple of offensive
touchdowns away from being five and three, and their offense
thinks out loud, Uh, you're five and three. You're just okay.
The biggest tests you have had this year you've lost.
You've lost. You haven't beaten anybody who's really good. I
mean anybody who's really good. The two best teams you
have played, ell to San Francisco, ell to Philadelphia. You're okay,
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be quiet, don't sit here and tell me how. Hey,
we think we're a super Bowl team. Because they love
to talk and they love to have that attitude of
just shut up and go play football. I'd love to
see it. I'd love because it would serve them so well,
and it would be they'd be so much better off
because they would have that mental toughness that they just lack,
because they don't have the mental toughness because when things
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get really tough, you see what happens. They fall apart
and they find a way to say, well, there's a
reason why we lost this game. Up, there's no responsibility.
When the day after a loss. Jerry Jones' ally, I'm
gonna go get another wide receiver for us, really, Mark
Tavis the.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Guy, I'm not a guy who's been on a road.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna get a guy five
years right, because that's what Jerry Jones does. I'm gonna
throw a dart at people, you know, drafting guys in
the second round who are character issues und talents. It's all,
it's all he tries to do. And the Cowboys don't
understand that they lack that mental toughness that they had
it sometimes in games in the first two weeks of
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the season. Boy, they had it and then they lost it.
And you can't just turn it on and off. You
have to find it as a mentality, as a way
you go about your business. And the Cowboys just can't
do it.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Now they can shut up.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
If they could be quiet, we would not hear about
the Cowboys, and they would get fined every week, and
no one's talking. And Jerry Jones is paying the fines
out of his own pocket, saying, I'd big got one
hundred grand a week that I'm paying for guys, It's
okay that I would love I would love to see
the cow because then I would take the Cowboys seriously.
But it's hard when this is this is the reaction
is just no, no, no, no. Nobody think we're a
bad team. With anybody to think we're a bad team,
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We're still good. We just have to do these couple
of things to make us better. And maybe it's bringing
Roger stau back back to when he was younger, and
we can clone him and put him out there, and
we put Ai Michael Irvin out there and Ai emittt
Smith out there. Maybe that's what we need. But we
could do that at some point. That's the just stop away,
I know. And it doesn't lot that's gonna happen either
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for a while, so we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
But it's funny as you were laying that out and
just saying shut up, I started thinking about the meaning
of life, the Grim Reaper, the Great Monty Python sketch.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Shut up, you American. You Americans.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
All you do is talk and talk and say let
me tell you something. Or I just want to say, well,
shut up, you're dead. And that's kind of where we're
at talking about the Cowboys. But they do have a
chance over the next three weeks. You have a game
against the Giants sixteen and a half point favorites, I think,
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and then you play the Panthers the following week, probably
the same kind of line, although that one's on the road.
And then you've got the Washington Commanders, the plucky Washington
Commanders and Sam Howell before well, the Seahawks and your
guy Gino Smith has regressed terribly. But then we get
to December and this is a fantasy owners beware game
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against the Eagles home game, game on the road at
the Bills, no idea what they are at this point,
on the road at the Dolphins, and then the Lions
show up. That's a tough ass gauntlet Dallas. That's a
four straight games. And then you end the season with
the Commanders on the road.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Tag tough ass gauntlet for the Cowboys that be mentally strong,
shut up for the next month, be mentally strong for it.
But they can't do it. They can't do it. I
just I would take them seriously if I if I
knew that every week we were gonna get the Cowboys
that they can be. The first two weeks of the season,
they looked like the most dangerous team in the world.
And I'm watching them play the Jets, and I go,
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they're just playing downhill and every play can go for
a touchdown. They they they've played that way. When you've
played that way, you know you can do it. You
just can't sustain it because mentally you're not as strong
as you need to be.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Who's the running back equivalent to Martavis Bryant that they
can go get. There's your million dollar question right there.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Who's been out of the league a year or two?
There's like, come.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
On, okay, Ladanian, Tomlinson, that's where you go, Wow, go
get lt Well.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I always lacked him when he was in college.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You wait, the next thing is that gonna bring back
des Bryant? Just watch That's it, Jerry. I got that
in my back pocket for December. We will get Daz
and bring him back.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I'll tell you what, I'll let him run some red
zone routes.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I mean, if you're bringing back Martamas Bryant, why not
bring back Dez Bryant. I mean, really, why there's no wear.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
A terror on now? Martaves Bryant's here, man? I mean, actually,
how much older is Dez? It ain't that much, is it?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Oh? Ax? It out about a Fresca swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best run my carbon Cowboys
could do that. I could take him, seriously, can't until then?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Wait? Wait, shutting up or bringing in Dez Bryan.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh no, no, they bring in Dez Bryan. I'll give
him a mulligan on that one.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's only a.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Three year difference between Dez and Marktavis Bryant.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What kind of difference is there between me and Isaac
lohencron Well, we'll find out right now. Is he's got
what's trending in the wide world of sports?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I could be so rude right now?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Should I do it?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Mike? No, I mean I like it.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Number one, it's twenty four hours later. Okay, you like
being on the show. You like to talk?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, I like to breathe.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
He's in studio steering you down.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Sound like I threatened people, although I'll tell what he
to do. Last night, I walked into the screening where
the editors are, yeah, and you know, they're all new
and they're you know, trying to break and cut their
teeth in the business and everything. So I walk in
with the Jets losing by fourteen. I go, hey, you guys,
get this blankety blank game under control right now. I'll
find two editors who will and they look at me like,
(31:42):
uh like if they like, if the Jets keep losing,
I will have them fired. You get this game under
control right now? It's fourteen nothing. I don't want to
see that anymore. See see America.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's the kind of motivation and mentality their offense needs.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
By the way, he does. Brant just had a birthday
three days ago.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So birthday.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Happy thirty fifth birthday to Dez Bryant. The latest college
football playoff rankings released this evening. Ohio State number one,
followed by Georgia, Michigan, and Florida State. The Washington Huskies
are fifth. Oregon is number six. Multiple outlets report that
Michigan has claimed with a Big Ten Conference that staff
members at Ohio State, Rutgers, and Purdue shared information about
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Michigan's signals before Michigan played Perdue in the twenty twenty
two Big Ten Championship game. Baseball, The Athletic reports the
Los Angeles Angels are interviewing Ron Washington tonight for their
managing job atfl Multiple outlets report the Los Angeles Rams
signing free agent quarterback Carson Wentz to back up Matthew Stafford.
The Arizona Cardinals activated Kyler Murray to their fifty three
(32:50):
man roster. He's expected to start Sunday against Atlanta. Finally,
Jason and Mike. As if the name Kelsey has not
gotten enough publicity recently, Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue will
be published soon, and one of the men featured this year,
along with the likes of Lenny Kravitz and Usher, is
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none other than Jason Kelsey, not Travis, the magazine says,
and I quote, despite soaring fame from his New Heights
podcast with brother Travis and his prime video documentary the
Philadelphia Eagles Star Center, keeps it real as a husband
(33:32):
and father of three unquote. So there you go, one
of the sexiest men alive, Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You want to wait for really the downfall of American society?
I thought that was it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Sorry, Jason, just eight eight or.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So months from now, when all the baby's being born,
then they're all named Kelsey boys, girls. Wait, do you
see how popular Kelsey is a name? This time? Next summer? Oh,
we had a baby girl. We named her Kelsey. O
got we had a boy. We named him Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Oh great, yeah, telling young kids that are running around
the neighborhood. Just yeah, it'll multiply.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, just wait, wait'll baby Kelsey's Thank you very much,
Isaac Low and Cron appreciate it, buddy. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Now, hey, if
the Cowboys are panicking with Martavis Bryant is what is
what the Rams did today? Have that coming up next
the return to the NFL from a long departed quarterback.
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Uh Panic Tuesday in the NFL, we talked about the
Cowboys a few minutes ago. Oh that ain't nothing, because
now the fun is going to start because Carson Wentz
is back and that National Football League the Rams have
gotten him off of the hunting trail. I guess you
(35:59):
could say got him out of the woods. Do you
think they sent a coach and like it's like in
a movie where he's, you know, trying to get through
the brambles and the and the and he goes is
Carson out here, We're hunting, sorry.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Trying, You're trying to find him, right, you get the
guy with the oversized nineteen ninety four cell phones.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oh sure, and the one guy who finds him has
the big fake buck antlers like he's trying to draw
him out, going yeah, I saw Carson. He's going that way,
thank you. And he's wearing a rams jacket.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
He's got liked white of callers as he can. He's like, ah, Carzson, hey, hey,
and he's wearing like he's a guy that's normally you know,
full on, three piece high price suit, but here he's
got he's got to go full in because they don't
send a coach, no, no, no, they send an accountant.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
No really, not a low level coach like like like
if it was a movie like Jonah Hill would be
the low level coach that they send to go trying.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
To see he would be the scout because when you
point to him, he's just gonna point.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Then.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
So Carson Wentz is back, and this is where the
fun really begins. Matthew Stafford may or may not play
the fact that they went out to sign Carson Wentz.
Tells me, Carson Wentz is gonna start and he's gonna
play a lot, right, I mean that that's just the
way it goes. If Matthew Stafford was really coming back,
they were confident he could play for the rest of
the season, then they wouldn't do anything but going back
to get Carson Wentz. Yeah, this tells me maybe Matthew
(37:24):
Stafford we may have seen the last of him. But
this is where things really are gonna get. I say
fun because it's gonna be fun for us, but not
so much for Matthew Stafford. Because the Stafford contract is
so terrible for the for the Rams, and it's in
its second year and it's really really bad. Now it
won't look so bad after new guys get contracts and
(37:45):
more quarterbacks are making fifty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
But Stafford, if they can actually still play and they're
in the prime of their career, Yeah, and then it's
gonna look that much worse.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
H No, But then you look at where Stafford is
on the list. Doesn't look that bad. Oh, it's forty
million dollars, not making fifty million dollars year. But watch
what's going to happen, because I'll tell you how the
last few months or next few months are gonna go.
Now for the Rams, the Rams aren't gonna tank, but
they're not gonna finish with a great record. And they're
going to do two things in the offseason. They're gonna
identify a quarterback that or two that they like that
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they will draft, maybe not in the first round, but
in the second, third round, maybe a guy or two
that they like. And they are going to feverishly try
to divorce themselves from Matthew Stafford. Whether it's they're gonna
try to push them into accepting a trade, going someplace else, retiring,
whatever it's gonna be, it's gonna be all kinds of pressure.
Kelly Stafford's gonna do a podcast and say, I can't
(38:39):
believe this is going on right now. I shouldn't say anything,
but this is what's happening in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
She'll be okay as long as nobody's twerking in a
luxury box.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Because this contract is killing the Rams. And we've talked
about this. There's it's hard. He wouldn't he wouldn't renegotiate
his deal this year. I wouldn't need to help to
get to get other players in. So what does this
tell you about what's gonna go on. It's gonna be
ugly between Stafford and the Rams over the next few months.
Trust me, this Carson Wentz signing kicks off that time.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Well, your body's defeated.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You came in, you got your super Bowl title, and
look you're you're untradeable. I mean with all the the
rookies getting time. Now, your guy DeVito's gonna be the
tenth this year. And what are we talking? Six guys
gonna be drafted in the first round. Yeah no, no,
there's no market for this guy. So it's dollar cost averaging.
You eat the dead cap and you move on and
(39:29):
bring in someone really cheap. And obviously the Stetson Bennett situation,
he's away from the team dealing with we don't even
know what, so he's been unavailable. Brett Rippon was a disaster.
And now you bring in Carson Wentz from the from
the hunting Lodge.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
So here you go. Good luck, good luck. You like
the way I got it back?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You got it back to King George?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Right not you bring it back to King George Carson Wentz,
good luck exit?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
How about a Fresca exit? Swollen down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We got more
NFL coming up next as how close are we to
a big time return for Aaron Rodgers and why are
we gonna use the word Fortnite so much and not
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I think you're right. The word count is certainly higher.
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not returning needed them. I gave Aaron Rodgers my Achilles
hopefully he can kill people with it. I told him
I'll kill achilles. I once killed three people with my
achilles tendon. It's impressive. I took it out, stabbed all
(01:50):
three of them, put the tendon back in, and walked away.
I've never had hot Cheetos. It's gonna be one of
those nights, Harman, isn't it. I think it's one of
the Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, I mean look, Alex said, hey, there's something special
in the open Yeah, and I really had no idea
what to expect. I know, you're in the studio, I'm
working abroad from the mobile tyrec dot Com studio.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
You're still in the United States. You're not working abroad.
You're not in Austria. You're in the United States.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
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No abroad generally means okay, you have everybody to a
staring eye right. A broad means you're working overseas abroad.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
It might be you don't know that.
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I know you're not. I know you're not working overseas.
Are you working overseas?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'm ready for the Germany game.
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No, no, no, are you working overseas?
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Manchester, England, England, just.
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Speaker 3 (02:55):
For the purpose of this bit, I will change the
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Speaker 1 (03:02):
Uh So, Hey, a big Tuesday. We have big NFL news.
The word fortnite is going to be used a lot
in the show tonight. And also it's the twentieth anniversary
of the release of Elf. Yeah, twenty years ago today
we saw Elf for the first time. And I'll tell you,
in my house, I don't know that there's a movie
I've seen more of out well, outside of Top Gun Maverick.
(03:23):
I don't know the last ten or twelve years, there
has been a movie in my house I've seen more
that we've watched more than Elf.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
I don't think that is it really the case?
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, okay for me, personally, it would be Moneyball, John
Wick four and Elf. But I would say but in
that order. For the family, I would say, it's Elf.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Oh okay, yeah, I mean for Auch, it's Midsummer.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Stop next time. Stop With that, I really could call
child Services on.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
You, Truly, it would end up being Mean Girls, Ten
Things I Hate About You, and then probably Pitch Perfect
or The Dark Knight one of the other.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
But none of those movies are having an anniversary today.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
No, No, the Empire State Building even lit up. You're
doing so to celebrate the world series of the Texas
Ranger's a week ago to night. It's all about Elf.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Commemorating the the first time Buddy walked through the Lincoln Tunnel.
You know what, one time when we were we visited
New York. We'll get to college football play for in
a second. Just tell you this quick story. Zoe. You
know she's such a huge fan of Elf. She wanted
to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel because you know it's Buddy,
the Lincoln Tunney comes out of wa You're in a
car and I said, what do you mean? Was I
(04:35):
in a car? What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Uh, we were driving. We're going to the airport to
fly back to LA and we we get in and
we tell the cab driver, Okay, can you please go
through the Lincoln Tunnel to the airports. It's the other way.
It's you know, it's not there. I go, I know,
I know, we got to go through the Lincoln Tunnel.
It's elf. My daughter wants to go through Lincoln Tunny goes.
It's it's gonna be a lot more money for you
guys to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
You do take the train and you were already in
a cab, means you were already burning money.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Any please go through the Lincoln Tunnel.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, my shirt burning cash.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
We go through Leggo tuttle. Let's go through. Uh So
we went all the way around through the Lincoln tunn Hey,
we got to go through the skill.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Look, you gotta make it nice for the people, and
the kid will remember it forever, unless you won't.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah. Well, and I remember the kid wearing the Wayne
Cubet jersey the whole time, So that's good. Yeah, in
a day when I needed positive Jets news, I remember,
Oh yeah, his brother wore the Wayne Crebet jersey like
the entire movie.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
That was kind of cool and then he had that
giant book.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah at people tomorrow morning today,
m Santah's coming. Oh my god, six inches, No one
could bet six it's okay, uh the time? What the
co that's about the ribbon curling And she says, I
can't No one can do that. It's impossible. Six inches
(05:53):
ribbon curling. No, no one can do that. Six inches,
six inches. Take Yeah, thing is decorated. Probably too good.
I bet your corporate sends Someboddy in to do that. Okay,
So the new college football I will continue to remember
Elf and I'm sure John Wick through the entire movie
Night Tonight. But the latest college football playoff rankings are
(06:13):
out and they are unchanged through the top eight from
a week ago. Ohio State is number one, Georgia's number two,
Michigan is number three, and on and down the road.
Right now you have from Michigan. It's a big in
Florida State number four for Michigan. Obviously they have the
sign stealing scandal hanging over them, but still they're the
(06:34):
number three team. You have five undefeated teams, Washington sitting
there undefeated at nine to zero already. Greg McElroy on
ESPN former Alabama quarterback making some news and hey, you
gotta take Alabama. If it's a one lost team between
them and Oregon, you gotta take Alabama. And there's a
big time discrepancy when you look at the top eight
(06:56):
teams because they're all big market power teams. There's no
Cincinnati in here. There's no well Boise State could sneak
in the top eight. After Florida State are an undefeated,
Washington one loss, Oregon, Texas, Alabama, then you have Ole Miss.
But then you also have Penn State, who can find
their way back in it and if they beat Michigan
(07:17):
in a week. So now you are looking at what
we could finally get in the final year of the
fourteen playoff is the chaos that would have gotten us
a fuller playoff years ago? Because you can't sit here
and tell me now you still think the four team
playoff is a good idea because we could be arguing
over Texas, Alabama, Oregon, Washington getting into the playoff. That's
(07:39):
a lot different from well, it could be Cincinnati or
it could be Texas, A and M. I mean, you're
talking about college football blue bloods now Heisman Trophy candidates,
Heisman Trophy favorites. This is the chaos that we all expected,
and the only reason we haven't had is because it's
worked out at the end of the season where a
team all they've got to do is win. Nope, they
(07:59):
lose and well there's a bit of a discrepancy between
four and five, but really it's not that big a deal.
Cincinnati getting in, we kind of had to let them in.
They were undefeated. Everybody else had a loss. If you're
looking at these one loss teams now in Texas, Oregon, Washington, Michigan,
Ohio State, one of those teams is going to be
one loss and Penn State potentially Penn State, how do
you differentiate that? That's impossible. That's the chaos we needed
(08:22):
years ago. That was going to get us to a
twelve team playoff the year after this happened. Because if
you're sitting here going, hey, Alabama, Texas, Oregon, boy, there's
only one spot, who is it? Well, really, you don't
think we wouldn't have had a bigger playoff than next year.
Of course you would have. This is the chaos we needed,
but we just haven't gotten it. Now we're finally getting
it in the last year of the fourteen playoff before
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we go to the twelve team playoff. But the biggest
thing is now thinking about that. Can you really still
tell me the four team playoffs is a good idea,
that's the best way when you're talking about all these
deserving one loss teams, big time Power five teams being
left out, or is getting into the top twelve a better,
more consistent, and better representation of college football, then hey,
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we have the top four teams. Twelve teams is better. Yes,
it will a little bit of the specialness will go
away for certain games like Ohio State Michigan if they're
one and two, Well, the loser is still gonna get it. Yeah,
I get it. But there's so much more drama and
so many more storylines when you're talking about more teams
trying to qualify for more spots. This is not gonna
ruin a conversation or ruin a narrative or ruin the
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specialists of the regular season of college football. If anything,
it's gonna make it more chaotic and more teams are
gonna have chances to get in. And when you can
widen that out and make college football more national, that's
nothing but a good thing for.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
This No, and so many levels, like we just talked
about it with Major League Baseball and some lamentation about
the wild card teams and heres Arizona and there goes
Texas and handwringing over how that all came to pass,
and all the one hundred win teams. It's too bad.
Win you got there. The regular season was great, got
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your seting based on the regular season, and then you
went out and lost. Same thing with the playoffs all
these years, it's been you lose one game and your
season is potentially over. Now, back in the day, even
with the BCS and later what the bowl system became,
you still had some that were better than others. Right,
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you would still say New Year's Bowls are better than this,
and on and on, and the purses reflected that. The
booster interest and travel and everything from the schools reflected
that as well. But adding more teams to the playoffs, yeah,
those November games have so much more meaning you might
actually lose a second game. And now we're parsing between
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what's a great win. What is a September me win
mean versus November, which we've always done a little bit.
But to your point, about the last few years. We
quibble a bit over four versus five, and then everybody
shrugs and moves on. You're talking about three possible, four
possible big time programs with history and loud mounts in
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the media getting ready to rev up for it. I mean,
think about McElroy already starting a campaign for Alabamas to Texas.
You can't jump them.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Right exactly. I mean, wait a minute, but they have
better resume. No, but you lost the lost. I'm sorry,
I'm sorry. Actually play that game still. Even though it
was in September, that game still counts.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Can I can I just give you a quote from
the rankings release? Uh, and this was part of it.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Make sure make sure it's clean.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I think, yeah, no, I'm reading it.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
It is.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You gotta go by the script. Bo Nicks was on
the special with ESPN quote. Well, we responded, well, we
showed back up and practiced the next week, and we
took it personal, referring to the loss to Washington, of course,
and then kept going on to that. And you know,
it puts him in a good spot. But I just
like the took it personally.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's a new thing now everybody takes things personal. Now
I'm taking personally.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
We always did.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
We just didn't declare it well we needed We just
kind of complained and you gritted your you know, grit
your teeth and you got back to work.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
We needed, we needed Jordan to do that. I took
that personally with the iPad in his hand on the
thirty for thirty on the last dance, and now suddenly, oh,
now we were gonna take it personally.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But think about could.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
He could have cashed in on that for like thirty
five years, forty years?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Right, took the shot at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
What was that eighty three, eighty three, eighty four?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, yeah, eighty three, eighty four. So I mean, think
about that. He could have been cashing in on that
for forty years. Sure, with the T shirts and everything else.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I think it person took that personally. But but here
here's the best part about the difference between right, the
difference between four and five trying to choose and then
twelve to fifteen. When you're trying to choose between four
and five, you are leaving out a team that could
potentially win the championship. Right, if you're talking right now,
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could Washington win the of course they could now likely
they're going to move up because Michigan, Ohio State, one
of them will lose. Now, will Ohio State move far
past Washington if it's Ohio State who loses. But you're
looking at an Oregon or Texas or Alabama. Could any
of them win the national title? Yes? So that's why
this is really difficult and why a twelve team playoff
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was needed. Now when you want to argue when you
get to eleven and twelve, hey, Oregon State is a
twelfth team right now? Maybe Missouri, Maybe it's Oklahoma State,
maybe it's Kansas. Well, now you're talking about just getting
snubbed like the NCAA tournament, I don't know any team
that's gonna finish twelve. That's a really rough road to
go all the way through to win the national championship.
You're going from we're leaving out a team that can
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win it all to now, who's getting snubbed and who
deserved to get that twelfth spot? Was it Oklahoma? Was
it Utah? Was it Lsu? Is it Notre Dame? So
it's a much easier conrece It's still a fun conversation,
but it's also much better and gives you a better
representation of who the best teams are when you're talking
about the top twelve versus hey, the top four, and
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here's the teams that could be left out here.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
No, and the beauty of it is on the back end,
like we're talking about wild cards, and again the lamentation
of what the NHL does, what the NBA does. They've
got their play in or however we're going to turn
it going forward. I'm sure it'll be sponsored by by
some some firm sooner or later and the giant patch
will show up on their heads or something. But the
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idea is that more teams in potential for chaos. Look
at what the Lakers did last year, run into the
Western Conference finals. Should they have been there if they'd
been healthy through the regular season. Sure, we can have
those debates all we want, but the fact of the
matter is they entered how they did, and they went
on a tremendous run before getting swept out of the playoffs.
And when we look at you know, baseball this year,
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we you know, as we talked about the Diamondbacks and
Rangers and people wring their hands and that's fine because
we keep talking about the sport. With college football Okay, Well,
we usually have the release of the final rankings, like
all right, there's the matchups, all right, cool, and then
we go back, what's the NFL playoff picture? Looks like,
let's go, and we're right out of it until the
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games are actually played. And even then we're talking about
the NFL playoffs. Maybe you get more teams involved, and
you've got teams in those eight spots and such like
Alabama perennial powerhouses that it gets everybody getting a little
bit chesty because you're arguing about belonging at the back
end of the eleven twelve. If you got a log
(15:32):
jam there, think about the debates, I mean, we could
do them like the presidential debates. And now, representing Kansas.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
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(16:01):
So this latest poll what's happened? That should forever do
it with? You know, I like four teams over twelve,
Yeah I should, and that conversation.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Yeah, you're all traditionous because you know what it allowed
people to do, and you're all just money grubbing. Meanwhile,
they're the guys with two commas on their paychecks, suited
and booted and just saying stuff to hear themselves talk.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Coming up next, it's Panic Tuesday in the NFL. Some
big time, high profile teams pushing that panic button. Who
pushed it the biggest? It's coming up next our ear
from the Tirec dot Com Studios, Jason and Mike Happy
twentieth to ELF. This is Fox.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
I said it was gonna be that kind of night.
Apparently it's gonna be that kind of night.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Smith, How late do you think they were up cooking
this thing up?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
And what were they cooking up?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
There's the only dark side is this Alex ty shirt.
You're gonna have to explain to our voice guy. Why
he didn't work this week and not didn't get paid.
You're gonna have to explain that to him. Yeah, so
I let you know that's okay.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I want to let you know.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
It means time off. Are you sure about that? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
I don't get paid.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
If I don't speak when I'm not fighting. I'm vibing
Fox Sports Radio the Jason Smith Show with my best friend.
His name is Mike Harmon. And it's panic Tuesday in
the NFL. Here some teams making some moves to make
some decisions. It's panic, panic, panic, panic. Don't worry, we'll
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get to Anders and the fortnights before he returns as
quarterback of the Jets. But a complete panic move today.
And this goes along with the mentally fragile existence that
is the Dallas Cowboys. Every time we've talked about the
Cowboys all season long, right, the Cowboys so mentally fragile.
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They come into the season, They're all fired up. They
couldn't wait till go play the Giants open the week.
They crushed them forty to nothing. They come back home,
they beat the crap out of the Jets. They look
like the best team in the NFL. They go on
the road and they lose to Arizona and it's Jerry
Jones on the radio sing everything is fine, We're didn't
he we had a little bit of a flat thing. Okay, okay,
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And they go and they beat the crap out of
New England. Everything is great. Then they get smacked by
the forty nine ers forty two to ten. Mits. Well,
them make some moves here the deadline and news to that,
don't worry, don't worry nowhere. There's nothing the Cowboys can
do to hide the fact that they're just not as
good as the other big teams in the NFC. But
they're gonna keep trying. And today was the latest example.
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They lose this weekend and they lose to the Eagles,
a game where they wanted this game. Jerry Jones even
quiet for the week we want this game, we want
this game, and they lose. So what happens as a result, Hey,
I want you guys to think that you're all still
a great team. So what do the Cowboys do today?
They go and they signed Mark Davis. Bryant. Guy hasn't
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been in the league in five years. Is that difficulty
has been out of the league and now coming back
in when he played, he was good, but again five
years out of the league. This is the Dallas Cowboys
and Jerry Jones saying, hey, I don't want our guys
to go into Turtle and think that they stink and
they're not any good. So let's do something that makes
them think that, hey, we're.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Really not that.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
But we just need a little bit more. We need
a guy that hasn't played in the league in five years.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That's what we need.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Now. That's gonna get us past the forty nine ers
and get us by Philadelphia. And if we have to
play Josh Dobbs again, we're gonna wind up having to
do we need this. This is the Cowboys because they're
so fragile mentally. This is that move where hey, we
got to pick you guys up off the mat again
and prop you up and tell you how great you are.
Like we always have to tell Dak how great he is,
Like we always have to have guys out doing podcasts
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saying hey, we're good, we just didn't do this. We
All of this continues on with the Cowboys because they're
so fragile mentally. But after every loss, you can't just
come back and say, well, here's how I'm gonna fix
it with some kind of move. It's something we didn't have.
We didn't have this now we have it. Really but
that's exactly what the Cowboys do. And you can't live,
you can't exist when you are trying to prop yourself
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up and you don't really believe that you're a super
Bowl team. Because the Cowboys wouldn't continually do this if
they really thought they were great. They know they're not.
They know that all the big tests they've had so
far in the last month, they have failed. The two
best teams they have played, they have lost too. Right,
That's what goes on. That's what's happened with the Cowboys.
Yet this is the latest of Jerry Jones trying to
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I want to hide that I want to coddle the players.
I want to hold them like their babies and I
want to just cuckoo them and get them to go
back to sleep and stop crying and think everything is okay.
Because here's my move to try to deflect from that fact.
I'm gonna go sign a guy who hasn't played in
the league in five years.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Yeah, there's a couple of parts to this. I mean, obviously,
you know there are no moral victories, but they seem
to want to take one. In that loss to the Eagles.
You failed in so many respects when you talk about
time management. Oh wait, that's a Mike McCarthy Hallmark right.
His picture is there in the coaching dictionary. Who's the
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best at showing us how poorly you can manage a clock?
That guy who's the worst at finishing red zone offensive
sequences in crunch time? That guy sense of urgency, possession
after possession. I mean, he's there and now they're taking him.
And it's really Mike McCarthy as Kevin James doing that
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picture that has showed up everywhere in the last couple
of weeks. So you have that with Dak had a
great game up when it mattered, Tony Pollard can't run
the football. We talked about the trade deadline and the
moves that they should have been making, the players they
should have been looking at didn't do any of it.
Now you got McCarthy getting testy, and I love the
fact that this is the year in college and pros
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that everybody has just decided I don't give a blank
and I'm gonna either curse at you, staring you down,
go Dabbo Sweeney on you all of those things and
yell at guys on the phone. Calling into a calling show,
Mike McCarthy asked about Brandon Cooks, who, let's face it,
folks are like, all right, fantasy football, fire him up
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number two to ceedee lamb. He's on a pace for
a career worse season.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Don't play fantasy football. We have game plans, and I
think it's important and this is a challenge for our
guys because our system is built on making the quarterback successful. Okay,
quarterback also needs to find his tight end who's become
pretty reliable when he's wide open streaking across the field,
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instead of trying to force it to a guy who
had no catches coming into the game, which he did
going to the end zone. So all of that to say,
bringing in Martavis Bryant another great example of the Josh
Gordon school of you know, you have a pretty good
opportunity here, lay off the weed. I mean, we had
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Alex's famous award winning parody song that we sang for
years on the program that you know, just stay away
and you can get back on the field and do
great things. And might he be the greatest reclamation project ever. Sure,
but what are the odds of that. I'm sure we
could find someone in Vegas to lay them for us
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in the interim. You failed your tests. It's like the
Miami Dolphins on the other side, where we would propping
them up. Every time they face somebody good, they fail.
And for the Cowboys, this is now what thirty years
thirty years of this type of uh ebb and flow
and Jerry Jones and McCarthy's doing everything he can to
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tap dance around any problems that they've had, which is
laughable because guess what, you're on National bleeping TV to
ninety nine percent of the world every week. There's no
running in hiding if you've got a cowboy star on
your helmet.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Here's what I want the Cowboys to do. This is
this is this would serve the Cowboys so well. I
want the Cowboys to just shut up. Everybody shuts up,
the players, there's no podcast, Jerry Jones is not on
the radio. Everybody shuts up. You call it zero dark
landry that way.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Wait, what will they do without our bet contact?
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Yeah, they'll they'll they'll pay Aaron Rodd, They'll pay some
of Aaron Rodgers Pat McAfee money to get Aaron Rodgers
on in Dallas. People will love to listen to that.
Go zero Dark. We'll call it zero Dark Landry. Just
everybody shut up. Don't tell me how great you are.
Don't tell me how great you think the team is.
Don't tell me the excuses that you have coming up.
Don't don't tell me that, hey, we just need a
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little bit. Don't keep telling me you're a super Bowl
team when you're losing. When you don't, the last thing
you need is to be told how great you are
after you lose games. Everybody in Dallas needs to be
quiet and go play football. And you got to do
this over the course of the back half of the season.
Now can they do it? Of course not, because they're
the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
They can't.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
They can't help it.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
We always have always got to do.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
It, right, Yeah, always right. They just love to do it.
They love But Jerry Jones can do an interview and
not talk about, hey, I want to make sure I
prop the team up and podcasting go out and not
say well, we just need to do this and then
this and this was made personal. No, you guys are
an okay, football team. All right, you guys are five
and three. There's lots of five and three teams in
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the NFL. Right, The Jets were a couple of offensive
touchdowns away from being five and three, and their offense
thinks out loud, Uh, you're five and three. You're just okay.
The biggest tests you have had this year you've lost.
You've lost. You haven't beaten anybody who's really good. I
mean anybody who's really good. The two best teams you
have played, ell to San Francisco, ell to Philadelphia. You're okay,
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be quiet, don't sit here and tell me how. Hey,
we think we're a super Bowl team. Because they love
to talk and they love to have that attitude of
just shut up and go play football. I'd love to
see it. I'd love because it would serve them so well,
and it would be they'd be so much better off
because they would have that mental toughness that they just lack,
because they don't have the mental toughness because when things
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get really tough, you see what happens. They fall apart
and they find a way to say, well, there's a
reason why we lost this game. Up, there's no responsibility.
When the day after a loss. Jerry Jones' ally, I'm
gonna go get another wide receiver for us, really, Mark
Tavis the.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Guy, I'm not a guy who's been on a road.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
No, no, no, no, no. I'm gonna get a guy five
years right, because that's what Jerry Jones does. I'm gonna
throw a dart at people, you know, drafting guys in
the second round who are character issues und talents. It's all,
it's all he tries to do. And the Cowboys don't
understand that they lack that mental toughness that they had
it sometimes in games in the first two weeks of
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the season. Boy, they had it and then they lost it.
And you can't just turn it on and off. You
have to find it as a mentality, as a way
you go about your business. And the Cowboys just can't
do it.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Now they can shut up.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
If they could be quiet, we would not hear about
the Cowboys, and they would get fined every week, and
no one's talking. And Jerry Jones is paying the fines
out of his own pocket, saying, I'd big got one
hundred grand a week that I'm paying for guys, It's
okay that I would love I would love to see
the cow because then I would take the Cowboys seriously.
But it's hard when this is this is the reaction
is just no, no, no, no. Nobody think we're a
bad team. With anybody to think we're a bad team,
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We're still good. We just have to do these couple
of things to make us better. And maybe it's bringing
Roger stau back back to when he was younger, and
we can clone him and put him out there, and
we put Ai Michael Irvin out there and Ai emittt
Smith out there. Maybe that's what we need. But we
could do that at some point. That's the just stop away,
I know. And it doesn't lot that's gonna happen either
(27:59):
for a while, so we're gonna.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
But it's funny as you were laying that out and
just saying shut up, I started thinking about the meaning
of life, the Grim Reaper, the Great Monty Python sketch.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Shut up, you American. You Americans.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
All you do is talk and talk and say let
me tell you something. Or I just want to say, well,
shut up, you're dead. And that's kind of where we're
at talking about the Cowboys. But they do have a
chance over the next three weeks. You have a game
against the Giants sixteen and a half point favorites, I think,
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and then you play the Panthers the following week, probably
the same kind of line, although that one's on the road.
And then you've got the Washington Commanders, the plucky Washington
Commanders and Sam Howell before well, the Seahawks and your
guy Gino Smith has regressed terribly. But then we get
to December and this is a fantasy owners beware game
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against the Eagles home game, game on the road at
the Bills, no idea what they are at this point,
on the road at the Dolphins, and then the Lions
show up. That's a tough ass gauntlet Dallas. That's a
four straight games. And then you end the season with
the Commanders on the road.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Tag tough ass gauntlet for the Cowboys that be mentally strong,
shut up for the next month, be mentally strong for it.
But they can't do it. They can't do it. I
just I would take them seriously if I if I
knew that every week we were gonna get the Cowboys
that they can be. The first two weeks of the season,
they looked like the most dangerous team in the world.
And I'm watching them play the Jets, and I go,
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they're just playing downhill and every play can go for
a touchdown. They they they've played that way. When you've
played that way, you know you can do it. You
just can't sustain it because mentally you're not as strong
as you need to be.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Who's the running back equivalent to Martavis Bryant that they
can go get. There's your million dollar question right there.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Who's been out of the league a year or two?
There's like, come.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
On, okay, Ladanian, Tomlinson, that's where you go, Wow, go
get lt Well.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
I always lacked him when he was in college.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You wait, the next thing is that gonna bring back
des Bryant? Just watch That's it, Jerry. I got that
in my back pocket for December. We will get Daz
and bring him back.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
I'll tell you what, I'll let him run some red
zone routes.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I mean, if you're bringing back Martamas Bryant, why not
bring back Dez Bryant. I mean, really, why there's no wear.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
A terror on now? Martaves Bryant's here, man? I mean, actually,
how much older is Dez? It ain't that much, is it?
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Oh? Ax? It out about a Fresca swollen down the
Jason Smith Show with my best run my carbon Cowboys
could do that. I could take him, seriously, can't until then?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Wait? Wait, shutting up or bringing in Dez Bryan.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Oh no, no, they bring in Dez Bryan. I'll give
him a mulligan on that one.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
That's only a.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Three year difference between Dez and Marktavis Bryant.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
What kind of difference is there between me and Isaac
lohencron Well, we'll find out right now. Is he's got
what's trending in the wide world of sports?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (31:04):
I could be so rude right now?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Should I do it?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Mike? No, I mean I like it.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Number one, it's twenty four hours later. Okay, you like
being on the show. You like to talk?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Yeah, I like to breathe.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
He's in studio steering you down.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Sound like I threatened people, although I'll tell what he
to do. Last night, I walked into the screening where
the editors are, yeah, and you know, they're all new
and they're you know, trying to break and cut their
teeth in the business and everything. So I walk in
with the Jets losing by fourteen. I go, hey, you guys,
get this blankety blank game under control right now. I'll
find two editors who will and they look at me like,
(31:42):
uh like if they like, if the Jets keep losing,
I will have them fired. You get this game under
control right now? It's fourteen nothing. I don't want to
see that anymore. See see America.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
That's the kind of motivation and mentality their offense needs.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
By the way, he does. Brant just had a birthday
three days ago.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
So birthday.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
Happy thirty fifth birthday to Dez Bryant. The latest college
football playoff rankings released this evening. Ohio State number one,
followed by Georgia, Michigan, and Florida State. The Washington Huskies
are fifth. Oregon is number six. Multiple outlets report that
Michigan has claimed with a Big Ten Conference that staff
members at Ohio State, Rutgers, and Purdue shared information about
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Michigan's signals before Michigan played Perdue in the twenty twenty
two Big Ten Championship game. Baseball, The Athletic reports the
Los Angeles Angels are interviewing Ron Washington tonight for their
managing job atfl Multiple outlets report the Los Angeles Rams
signing free agent quarterback Carson Wentz to back up Matthew Stafford.
The Arizona Cardinals activated Kyler Murray to their fifty three
(32:50):
man roster. He's expected to start Sunday against Atlanta. Finally,
Jason and Mike. As if the name Kelsey has not
gotten enough publicity recently, Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive issue will
be published soon, and one of the men featured this year,
along with the likes of Lenny Kravitz and Usher, is
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none other than Jason Kelsey, not Travis, the magazine says,
and I quote, despite soaring fame from his New Heights
podcast with brother Travis and his prime video documentary the
Philadelphia Eagles Star Center, keeps it real as a husband
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and father of three unquote. So there you go, one
of the sexiest men alive, Jason Kelsey.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
You want to wait for really the downfall of American society?
I thought that was it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Sorry, Jason, just eight eight or.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So months from now, when all the baby's being born,
then they're all named Kelsey boys, girls. Wait, do you
see how popular Kelsey is a name? This time? Next summer? Oh,
we had a baby girl. We named her Kelsey. O
got we had a boy. We named him Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Oh great, yeah, telling young kids that are running around
the neighborhood. Just yeah, it'll multiply.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, just wait, wait'll baby Kelsey's Thank you very much,
Isaac Low and Cron appreciate it, buddy. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Now, hey, if
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what the Rams did today? Have that coming up next
the return to the NFL from a long departed quarterback.
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Wicking to start singing. Too much time on my hands.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
At some point, I need you to give me money.
Uh Panic Tuesday in the NFL, we talked about the
Cowboys a few minutes ago. Oh that ain't nothing, because
now the fun is going to start because Carson Wentz
is back and that National Football League the Rams have
gotten him off of the hunting trail. I guess you
(35:59):
could say got him out of the woods. Do you
think they sent a coach and like it's like in
a movie where he's, you know, trying to get through
the brambles and the and the and he goes is
Carson out here, We're hunting, sorry.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Trying, You're trying to find him, right, you get the
guy with the oversized nineteen ninety four cell phones.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oh sure, and the one guy who finds him has
the big fake buck antlers like he's trying to draw
him out, going yeah, I saw Carson. He's going that way,
thank you. And he's wearing a rams jacket.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
He's got liked white of callers as he can. He's like, ah, Carzson, hey, hey,
and he's wearing like he's a guy that's normally you know,
full on, three piece high price suit, but here he's
got he's got to go full in because they don't
send a coach, no, no, no, they send an accountant.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
No really, not a low level coach like like like
if it was a movie like Jonah Hill would be
the low level coach that they send to go trying.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
To see he would be the scout because when you
point to him, he's just gonna point.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Then.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
So Carson Wentz is back, and this is where the
fun really begins. Matthew Stafford may or may not play
the fact that they went out to sign Carson Wentz.
Tells me, Carson Wentz is gonna start and he's gonna
play a lot, right, I mean that that's just the
way it goes. If Matthew Stafford was really coming back,
they were confident he could play for the rest of
the season, then they wouldn't do anything but going back
to get Carson Wentz. Yeah, this tells me maybe Matthew
(37:24):
Stafford we may have seen the last of him. But
this is where things really are gonna get. I say
fun because it's gonna be fun for us, but not
so much for Matthew Stafford. Because the Stafford contract is
so terrible for the for the Rams, and it's in
its second year and it's really really bad. Now it
won't look so bad after new guys get contracts and
(37:45):
more quarterbacks are making fifty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
But Stafford, if they can actually still play and they're
in the prime of their career, Yeah, and then it's
gonna look that much worse.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
H No, But then you look at where Stafford is
on the list. Doesn't look that bad. Oh, it's forty
million dollars, not making fifty million dollars year. But watch
what's going to happen, because I'll tell you how the
last few months or next few months are gonna go.
Now for the Rams, the Rams aren't gonna tank, but
they're not gonna finish with a great record. And they're
going to do two things in the offseason. They're gonna
identify a quarterback that or two that they like that
(38:18):
they will draft, maybe not in the first round, but
in the second, third round, maybe a guy or two
that they like. And they are going to feverishly try
to divorce themselves from Matthew Stafford. Whether it's they're gonna
try to push them into accepting a trade, going someplace else, retiring,
whatever it's gonna be, it's gonna be all kinds of pressure.
Kelly Stafford's gonna do a podcast and say, I can't
(38:39):
believe this is going on right now. I shouldn't say anything,
but this is what's happening in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
She'll be okay as long as nobody's twerking in a
luxury box.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Because this contract is killing the Rams. And we've talked
about this. There's it's hard. He wouldn't he wouldn't renegotiate
his deal this year. I wouldn't need to help to
get to get other players in. So what does this
tell you about what's gonna go on. It's gonna be
ugly between Stafford and the Rams over the next few months.
Trust me, this Carson Wentz signing kicks off that time.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Well, your body's defeated.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
You came in, you got your super Bowl title, and
look you're you're untradeable. I mean with all the the
rookies getting time. Now, your guy DeVito's gonna be the
tenth this year. And what are we talking? Six guys
gonna be drafted in the first round. Yeah no, no,
there's no market for this guy. So it's dollar cost averaging.
You eat the dead cap and you move on and
(39:29):
bring in someone really cheap. And obviously the Stetson Bennett situation,
he's away from the team dealing with we don't even
know what, so he's been unavailable. Brett Rippon was a disaster.
And now you bring in Carson Wentz from the from
the hunting Lodge.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
So here you go. Good luck, good luck. You like
the way I got it back?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You got it back to King George?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Right not you bring it back to King George Carson Wentz,
good luck exit?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
How about a Fresca exit? Swollen down the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We got more
NFL coming up next as how close are we to
a big time return for Aaron Rodgers and why are
we gonna use the word Fortnite so much and not
have to do with a video game? That's next right here,
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