November 8, 2023 • 35 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about Aaron Rodgers and what they can expect by the end of the season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight at the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Bell. Happy twentieth
birthday to Elf. Twenty years ago today Elf debuted in theaters.
People wanted to know why the hell is that kid
wearing a Wayne Crebet jersey the whole time? Who the
hell wears eighty for the Jets? Oh no, no, twenty
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years ago today Elf debuted.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Did they have the same deal back then, because right
now they get about two thirds of every jersey sold
Like that was one of the big sticking points with
everybody going out for their Halloween costume and buying Travis
Kelsey jerseys, not to mention his brother Jason. They made
a lot of money off jersey sales here especially, I
mean for Jason, it's an extra win. I mean because
he's an offensive lineman and who's a bunch of burly
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guys in Philadelphia, no doubt, Uh, diving on board that.
But also now that he's on the list of the
Sexiest Man Alive, Patrick Dempsey your winner spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Uh wow, way to go. Now you're going to tell
me no one's buying the Ma Auto jersey that that
Travis Kelsey's wearing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, yeah, I mean you got that going for you too.
I mean, try to find every revenue stream you can. Uh,
but it it's just that that kind of flow. I mean,
you gotta be excited about it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Man, would you what what jersey would you rather have
if you had to wear it? The the Travis Kelce
Ma Auto one or the Jalen Hulu has Live Sports
Hurts jersey. Which would you rather wear?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Does it expand like his? Or is it modi it
so it's just crunched again.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's the jersey that you see in the in each
of the commercials. Is the jersey that you see?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Okay, No, I'll go on the Live Sports.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
One, okay, all right? Being able to pull it open
is good and then close it and yeah, actial expand.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know, if you're standing in line for something, people
will have fun with it until you punch them in
the face. Kind of like that uh sequined heart jacket
that I have that I that I worded the Taylor
Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, I wouldn't have worn that jacket, but okay, sure my.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Kids went and started writing like kick me and yeah
like this guy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
On there and whatever else I told you about that jacket,
But sure, go ahead me up.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I might pull it out again on Saturday. I mean,
I gotta match Adam Lambert if I'm gonna go see queen.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, okay, okay, hey, no good. You know what I
told you not to wear it last time you wore it, Okay,
gohead wear it again.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I enjoyed it wearing a conversation starter. I made a
lot of friends. We kept in touch.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of course, it's a conversation starts. Look what that lunatic
is wearing. Is that your conversation starter you want to have? Yeah?
My people, Oh man, hey, hey that's the guy. That's
the same jacket he's got on his tender page. Look
at that head whoa, whoa whoa. Uh but you know,
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look of all the different things with elf. Uh, we
talked about it earlier. I don't know that there's a
movie that's been seen in my house more in the
last ten years than Elf. Ever, every Christmas, watching it
so often as we do.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It in rotation now.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But one of the things that I really can't believe,
and it's it's it should be, it should go without saying,
but instead it's something that stands out is that in
an era where after someone has ten or fifteen years,
twenty years, and you know that they have seen their
heyday and you know their their career is not what
it was when it was at its apex. Right, everybody
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has that in Hollywood. Your career gets to a high
point and then it kind of it sort of blisters
out from.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
There and you can then get down right.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Exactly how many people have you seen?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know what, like Kelsey Grammer, I have been doing
anything in a long time. Let's do Fraser again, and
we're rebooting Fraser.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We're doing a lot of voiceover. But yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
He's nobody had you know, Fraser won all at Fraser
won every comedy award at the Emmys in the nineties.
It was insane, but now you see people who after
a long time, Hey, I miss being a star. I
want to be treated like a star again. I want
to be someone that people talk about, and I want
to have movies that people talk about. Maybe I use
this as a as a jumping into the next part
of my career, or maybe I get my second act.
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And this is what it is. And for years, Will
Ferrell has refused all kinds of offers to do Elf two,
like more than twenty thirty whatever it is, million dollars
to do do Elf too, here's it, here's fifty million,
whatever it was. He keeps turning down offers. No, we're
not gonna make Elf two. And I think that's pretty
cool because he could easily do that, right, Hey, everybody
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would be anticipatory of it. And I can't wait to
see what he's gonna do in Elf two because Elf
was so funny at all this and invariably we're gonna
be disappointed. It's not gonna be as good a movie,
and we're gonna walk away and go look at that, yeah,
money grab. But Will Ferrell would have six or eight
months of people talking about the movie coming out, he'd
be very interested. When we see him making the talk
show circuit again, and we'd be talking about him more
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and he would have a great six eight months. But
really he wants this movie to stand on. Hey, look,
this is gonna be his dark side of the Moon, right.
I mean when you talk about Will Ferrell, ELF's that's
the role that defines him. And the longer it goes on,
people still get open to Will Ferrell, and they still
see him for the first time, and they see Elf
for the first time and they understand that's this guy,
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how talented he is. I think that's cool that he
has not done Elf too. Now watch tomorrow, we're gonna
find out, Hey, the twentieth adversary of Elf. We're doing
Elf two and three, shooting him back to back in
an Old West setting, just like Back to the Future.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, I think it'll be interesting to watch. Right, he
did kind of recreate again another spoiler alert, but it
made a billion dollars President Business showing up in Barbie
kind of the same guy.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it's so it's it's that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Flow that that you can do. And and you know,
so many things have been put on the table of hey,
would you do another this that the other? I think
the the money is just too good, right, I mean
even they went back and did another Zoolander, so he did.
He did show up there again. Uh so you got that.
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But I look, if the price is right, as much
as you want to push it away, and he's leaned in, right,
he shows up and welcome to Wrexham and all of
that stuff. So his love of soccer certainly well known.
He shows up DJing his kids, frat parties at USC
so I mean there there's all of those things that
still exists. But yeah, sometimes it's just it's just too hard.
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You can go back and inhabit that character a little
while longer, and even if it's bad. I mean, look
at what look at Anchorman two, right, they waited a
few years for that. Yeah, and when it came out,
was it was it well received? Now not really, but
then it becomes the cold cloak of you know, stupid
one liners the battle and Harrison Ford's in the middle
of it. Here's ESPN and all of that other stuff
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that you have that there's scenes that work, and there's
Dobe and the song about Me. So as bad as
it might have been when you first watched it, by
the way, that's the movie I saw and my phone
was turned off when our former boss Bruce Gilbert called
me with an idea to meet up and start doing
a show with you. So it turned out better and
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maybe I remember it a little more fun. You go.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Sure, Hey, this movie it words didn't get me a
gig at Fox Sports Radio full time. Note to self,
that's why I hate Anchorman two. The SMIT showing it
has vexed you for a decade now thanks to Anchorman too,
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live the Tiraq
dot Com Studio. So happy anniversary to ELF turning twenty
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the World's Best Cup of Coffee and twenty it was
Panic City Today for the Dallas Cowboys, they signed Martavis Bryant,
last scene in the NFL in twenty eighteen. The guy
had issues. He had been banned from the league. He
applied for reinstatement. He was a very good, young, talented
wide receiver with the Steelers, but found his way out
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of the league, and after five years out, the Cowboys
are signing. I'm gonna be on the practice squad for
a bit and then likely a promotion to the fifty
three man roster. This is the most predictable Cowboys move
because they are so fragile mentally. They can't stand being
five and three and not being one of the best
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teams in the NFL. Jerry Jones can't stand that. The
team can't stand it because they are too fragile mentally.
They need to believe that they're great for everybody to
think they're great, so they can go on and try
to do something that they can't do, which has beat
the best teams in the NFL. They lose to the
Eagles on Sunday and it was closed and they might
have been able to win, and it was it was
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a it was a toss up game, but they still lost.
And this is two long the two good teams they've
played so far, it's only really played two good teams
and they've lost to both of them. At least this
one was close. The forty nine ers they got blown out.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And that lost to the Cardinals looks well, yes, it
looks even looks even worse right the day.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Right, So this is the Cowboys who now every week,
every time they lose, you see the same thing. You
see some kind of damage control done by the Cowboys
because the players can't for a second believe that they
they aren't great, and Jerry Jones is either on the
radio saying we're still a super Bowl team like he
had to do after the Niners game instead of just
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shutting up and going to work, and after the Eagles lose. No, no, no,
we have problems on offense. We need another wide receiver. Dude,
you need a guy that's been out of the game
for five years. If you wanted a Bryant that's been
out of the game, get des Bryant. But maybe that's
the December surprise. Hey, if we have a losing streak
in December, I'm gonna bring Dez Bryant back to make
people think, hey, we just needed another piece. The Cowboys
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just need to shut up and go play, and they
can't do it. That's a team that needs to shut
up and shut everybody out and go play. Need to
stop doing podcasts, stop doing interviews. But they can't. And
if they did, they would find that mental toughness that
they need. And I'd believe in them and say, you
know what, watch out for the Cowboys, man, because the
first two weeks of the season, when they came out
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like gangbusters, it was Man, this Cowboys team is different.
They have an edge, and they are mad and they
are focused. And this is the best half of football
I've seen Dak Prescott play ever. The first half against
the Jets, they blow out the Giants forty to nothing.
And that's the team I thought we're gonna get. But
what happened. Oh, they fall asleep. Against the Cardinals, they
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get blown out by the forty nine ers and suddenly, oh,
there's where our belief that we're great is being shaken.
Instead of trying to prop them up every week and think, no, no,
it's not your fault. We just have to add a
piece here. We gotta make it, make a change here.
Just shut up and go play and get in the
next month and a half. Find that mental tough that
you don't have, because if you find that mental toughness,
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that's way better than after every loss. Jerry Jones holding
you and going shoockoo, coo coo, cuckoo, cuckockoo.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Little baby, don't cry, Dohry, I'm gonna I'm gonna get
you at bottle. I'm gonna get you something else. Cuogoo,
don't crying to bring in Martamus pride. I'm gonna make
sure everybody knows we're still a Super Bowl team. Instead
of doing that, just be mentally tough. Then I could
believe in the Cowboys. But a move like this, this
panic move. Hey, we lost, so let me do something
as a as a as a knee jerk response, I'm
not gonna believe in the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I'm just not no, no, I mean against the Eagles,
as close as it was, some of the usual pieces
to the why don't the Cowboys win consistently and get
back to any level of prominence they reared their heads again.
McCarthy and clock management, the lack of urgency, the execution
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in and around the goal line, the decision of who
you're throwing the ball to for Dak Prescott and he
had a really good game overall, a couple of obvious misses.
Right when you're looking at your you're tight end who's
taken over for the departed Dalton Schultz who had himself
a game for CJ. Stroud by the way, uh, but
you're looking at a guy flash wide open. Never saw him.
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Instead tried to force the ball to a little used
wide receiver. Hence the need to go into the marketplace.
I have believe that Jerry and Stephen Jones thought at
the trade deadline, all the teams that didn't make a
move were suddenly gonna slough off guys that weren't performing.
So like the Las Vegas Raiders, all right, trade deadline's
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gonna go. They're gonna keep going, and Hunter Renfros made
enough noise, they're just gonna cut him. Oh wait, they
fired their coach and they're oc like, damn it, that
guy didn't come available. The Cardinals, they're gonna trade off
Hollywood Brown. Right, we're gonna be able to get him.
They're gonna call and initiate that, and we're basically gonna
send them some Jerry Bucks and some some some cowboy bees. Uh,
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and we're gonna be good. Right. No, no, no, no, The
card didn't do that either. In fact, they're actually going
to activate Kyler Murray who's been on the show and
presume to be in bubble wrap.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
That makes your head explode, doesn't it, And keep going
on down. Oh, they're not trading DeVonta Adams either, and
just keep going on down the line. All of these
teams that I think the Cowboys were just waiting for
bargain basement prices or guys to get cut out. Right,
it didn't happen, So all of a sudden, here you
are looking. Because we talked about it for weeks before
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the trade deadline. Go find another wide receiver. Because Brandon
Cooks McCarthy addressed it today, I don't play fantasy football
when when asked about Cook's not really having a role
and heading towards his lowest career numbers, he went all
glib and smart ass and angry, you know, saying hey,
I don't play fantasy football. Is like no, no, no,
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He's supposed to be your number two receiver. That's the
guy you brought in. Gallup's coming off an injury. You
got a young tight end that was supposed to be
the guy that was gonna be there as a burner
to protect CD Lamb, and he's been invisible for the
most part. He caught a couple of balls towards the
end of the game, and folks were happy that they
just didn't draw zero in their fantasy lineup. And for
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Cowboys fans, they just said, well, you know, it's proof
he can find a second receiver. Tony Pollard's a shell
of himself, right. That was the other position we talked
about whether it was go get Derrick Henry. They didn't
end up selling anything, and now they might have their
next guy. And Will Levicey at least looks the part
and loves to throw the ball downfield, stretch, stretch the
field and all that. That's all finding good. But okay,
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you didn't get Dereck Henry. Where were you going to
go find someone else to compliment? What doing? Why didn't
you contact the sinking Patriots and bring back Zeke Elliot
at a discount rate to be the power guy. I
don't know all of those organizational fails. It's what we've
seen year after year after year, and the Eagles game
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just embodied all of it. Here's the penalty, here's Dax
step out of bounds, uh field presence and awareness on
a critical play, all of those things that we've watched
and chronicled for years. And McCarthy, all of the negatives
that are in the why can't he win a big game?
Now where they're and evident and in full display against
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the best teams. They melt they do every every damn time,
and it's only appropriate that when you start criticizing and
critiquing the effort, you can add that Kevin James, mean
and meme. And it's not so much of a stretch
that it's Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
If they could shut up and play and gain mental toughness,
while a whole world will open up for them.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, I appreciate your your idea of them just shutting
up is gonna work.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I can do it. Can't do it. They can't do it.
I'm telling I'm telling you how they're gonna win? How?
How did how do you salvage this season and be
a great team and it and and they're not gonna
be able to do it. They can't help themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Zero Dark eleven from Micah Parsons.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's just as it's a It's just as good for
us if people think we're a contender, then if we
really are a contender, if people talk about us as
a contender, it's just as good as us being a contender.
That's the Dallas Cowboys look.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Just because you are a character doesn't mean you.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. So I'm a little bit better today
than I was last night about the Jets, just a
little bit, a little bit because as mad as I
was last night, as upset, because yeah I was.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Look, the two biggest things that I can hang my
hat on right now is that one. Okay, maybe last
night was the final straw. The Jets understand we need
something different offensively, and it was the last gas chance
they need to make a move, whether it is allowing
Zach Wilson to throw deep or replacing Zack Wilson's quarterback.
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Whatever it is. Maybe it was a final straw, But
bigger was that Aaron Rodgers telling Derwin James after the
game last night, Hey, I was coming back. How long
until you're coming back? Hey a couple of weeks? Whoa,
whoa a couple of weeks? Aaron Rodgers coming back really
really soon? I was really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, you were jacked up about it, you know, because
you were. You couldn't wait for Robert Salad to say, well,
it wasn't the worst game he's ever played.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'm waiting for Robert solid I go, yeah, we might
stick with Zach even if Aaron's ready. I think Zach
is eventually he's going to turn the corner. And Okay,
you know, I want to be positive.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Our offense is almost there.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Positive. But Rogers then had to answer questions today million
dollar Aaron on his uh pat McAfee appearance on ESPN
earlier today about what he said to Derwin James last
night and about how long until he actually does come back.
Now you're talking about today being November seventh, how long
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till we see Aaron Rodgers on the field again. Here
was his answer on Derwin James from the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
He came over to dap me up during during the game,
and good to see him after the game. I didn't
realize that was gonna get caught there. I mean, obviously
that was said with a little tongue in cheek there.
It'd be nice to be able to be back in
a couple of weeks. That's probably not anywhere near a
realistic timeline, but a couple of you know, could be.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It could be a few, could be a lot of it.
It's more of a.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Phrase that didn't have a specific timetable. But yeah, I said,
it's smiling joking, you know, he was talking about how
you know, he's excited for me to get back on
the field. At some point I joked it would be
a few weeks, but obviously it's gonna be more than
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So couples to a few three Yep, a rush bar
is four.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I'm aware of this, right, Yeah, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
It's gonna be a few, it's gonna be a few,
a few fortnits, It'll be a few fortnights.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So if if a few is three and a fortnite
is two, weeks, which he says Fortnite, Ivy foss Man
fus night Wall, you well shot for the pheasant and
kill it for the celebration. If he's talking about a
few fortnites knowing fully well that a few is three,
and it's a few and Fortnite is too, So that's
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six weeks. So is he saying that one, two, three, four,
five six? Magically it's going to be Christmas Eve against
the Washington Commanders. Is that good because that's six games?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah, I mean you either look at the road game
against the Dolphins or Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I can't say I can't see him coming back on
the roads, but it's the veteran against the crafty rookie
in a game that gets fletched in when it's announced
he's ready to play.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
As they play the Texans on December tenth.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
See, I would if he said a couple of fortnits,
but he knew very well what McAfee, because Pat McAfee says, well,
a couple is two, a few is three, rushmore is
for and he said, I'm well aware of this, and
he said a few fortnights, So I would guarantee you
he has circled Christmas Eve against the Commanders as being
the game to come back on, I guarantee you that's it.
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Which then, hey, that was great. What do we got
next week? We're at Cleveland. That's the best defense.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And then the page it's to finish it off. But
even if they're terrible, unless Bill Belichick has been fired,
then all bets are off or he agrees to step
aside mutually. Yeah, that's that's not the greatest way to
end the season.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
But if that's when he's coming back, that's when he's
coming back. So if the Jets can stay three and
three and they get to the point where three games
left and they're five hundred, they're in the thick of
the playoffense. That's kind of where they.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Get to if it all goes to hell for the
rest of these squads. I mean, the potential is you're
you're facing an interim coach with Washington. Yeah, Stefanski may
have been fired quick Cleve maybe not. They're currently in
the playoff picture, but uh, there's a lot of football
that we've played between now and then, and then obviously
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we've been talking about Belichick for a long time here.
I mean, that could be a very weird final couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yes, I worry more about getting to that point because
suddenly these games are much more difficult than expected. Now
you have the Raiders, you're on the road. After that,
the Raiders are feeling good. You're at Buffalo. You're at Buffalo,
they're looking for revenge. Your first game against the Dolphins Atlanta,
that should be a win, but Atlanta's better than expected.
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Houston's much better than expected. Then you're at Miami. So
going three and three the next the next six weeks
is that's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Man. No, No, it's not easy. It's not a bunch
of gimmes. Once upon you're once upon a time fourteen
and three. Wwwww, it's out the window.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, well we haven't had Rogers, we haven't at him.
But I guaran that that's what he's circling. That's what
everybody is thinking. Christmas Eve. That's his return against command
and at this point he sort of has to come
back with all of this. I could be back, could
be back. It'd be really it would have to be
the Jets just losing six in a row, which could
happen because you know Jets. It would have to be
like the Jets losing six in a row for Rogers
to say, yeah, no, I'm not doing it. I'm there's
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no reason for you not gonna play.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Big work like he's a WWE superstar. Nah. It keeps
people interested, keeps the narrative going.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now the guy, the guy is very purposefully out throwing
before Jets game so cameras can watch him.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Bill. He just wants people to talk about him. He's
got a very needy But you.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Gotta count down to something. You can't count down to nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, you count down the year. Well, that's what Jets
fans do every year. This is something a little bit different.
You January seventh, you finished the season. January eighth, you
wake up and you celebrate Elvis's birth.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Oh boy, exit out about a Fresca exit swallowed up.
But I guarantee you Christmas, Eve, Washington, Commanders, that's the game.
Everybody's like, that's when I look to see him. If
I see him before that, great, But that's when I
expect to see Aaron Rodgers. I expect right now for
Isaac Lohencron to tell us what's trending in the wide
world of sports. I like what he got for US tonight,
my friend Jason and Mike.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
A lot of juicy tidbits going around. We will start
in Major League Baseball, where The Athletic reports the Los
Angeles Angels were interviewing Ron Washington on Tuesday night for
their managing job. Washington won two American League pennants with
the Texas Rangers when he managed them from two thousand
and seven through twenty fourteen. He's presently the third bay
coach for the Atlanta Braves in the NFL. Multiple outlets
(24:03):
report the Los Angeles Rams are signing free agent quarterback
Carson Wentz to back up Matthew Stafford, who's dealing with
the sprain right thumb. Earlier, we informed you that Philadelphia
Eagles center Jason Kelsey, along with the likes of Lenny
Kravitz and Usher, were nominees for People Magazine's Sexiest Man
Alive for twenty twenty three. Well, although Kelsey will be
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featured in the issue, it turned out he was not
named the Sexiest Man Alive. Neither was Usher. For that matter,
neither was Lenny Kravitz. People's Sexiest Man Alive for twenty
twenty three named on Tuesday night was Patrick Dempsey. Your
fast Rasony.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Hasn't he been sexiest man like fifteen years ago?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
He was? He was also in that Handsome Man's Club
on Kimmel that time.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But like once you the once you the the hottest
guy in the world, like the fourteen year ago, how
are you the hottest guy in the world fifteen years later?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Breaching the question little underwhelming?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Is this the second one? Do you have that stat?
Isac long crind? Do you have the stat?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Well, typically I'm looking at Pro Football Reference dot com,
but I will look up sexiest Man Alive Reference.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh just look at the list and see what it
just looks. You really think there's not a list of.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Wikipedia has lists of everything. Okay, let's see all thirty
four guys, all thirty seven Nick Nolty, okay, all right,
let me see it there.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Why are you disrespecting Nick Nolty?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You know what?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Unfortunately, it just kind of it just kind of emerged there. Okay,
So twenty twenty three, Patrick Dempsey fifty seven years old. No,
I believe this is the first time. John Legend, Blake Shelton,
Dwayne the Rock, Johnson, David Beckham in twenty fifteen. I mean,
come on, Chris Hemsworth. Sorry, did I come across as
bitter there? No, I think this is the I believe
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this is the first time when we is he on
with that McDreamy show.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
There?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think he's still on? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
That was okay.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Really, I was just gonna start watching. I got about McSteamy.
Is he still on?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't want to work at that hospital.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Finally, I well, I mean, look when you get written now,
and I mean sometimes it's got to be final.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
I'm a hot doctor and then I died. I don't
want that. That's the business in Hollywood day. It's tough
to be a hot doctor. Got an even juicier tid
but from college football on a second latest college football
playoff rankings released Tuesday night. Ohio state number one, followed
by Georgia, Michigan and Florida State, Washington fifth, Oregon sixth.
So guess what, guys, we have yet another new tidbit
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in the Michigan Connor Stallions side sty On Tuesday evening mission,
Michigan running back Blake Korum had to deny that he
has a business affiliation with Connor Stallions after an intern
at Sleuth found that Stallions Korum and another person jointly
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registered in LLC together called b C two Housing with
the state of Wyoming in March of twenty twenty two,
Korum telling reporters Tuesday Night, my first time hearing about
it was when I went out to practice. My attorneys
are on it. Definitely get that figured out right away.
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Get my name taken off of whatever it is that's
in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It's in Wyoming.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
The address is listed in ann Arbor, Michigan, but it
was filed in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So I have to call it. See if Fennis Denbo
is involved at some point.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Hey, faas Demo Denbo, the heart and soul of the
Bad Boy Pistons.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Thank you very much. I love yeah, But evidently this
was a dude. Dude, I just got Fennis Dembo in
the show, and you're not saying great job. What's wrong
with Come on? That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Bring you a Fedis Denbo card from the nineteen ninety
hoops been Denbo win man.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And by the way, it is official Patrick Dempsey a
first time winner of Sexist Man Alive.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What about Dembo?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Did he ever win?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I think he was runner up several times?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay with see Wyoming Sexiest Man.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Okay, brother, You know what though, if he went to
a carnival, he might have been able to get his
picture put on one of those Sexiest Man Alive magazines
from one of those photo things. Evidently there was something
about vacuum cleaners in this story and he said, oh,
vacuums aren't my thing. I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
That was actually, believe it or not, I believe a
separate controversy that this day. There you go, there's the
real estate, the BC two housing thing with Korum and
the vacuum thing on the porch with the h away
that conn They're gonna have to make a movie.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yet I'm good about this guy.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Either that or it's like Bishop Sycamore and we get
death and.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
This is only the stuff we know about.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Maybe TJ, we're gonna get a story about Birmingham Stallions
in business there. Yes, thank you guys. Drop the mic
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, direc dot Com Studios,
faz Zebo in the Birmingham Stallions.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think you should just drop the microphone literally, just
pull pull the kitten from it, unscrew it, just drop it.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Uh. The biggest mystery in baseball the last twenty four hours.
Craig Council. Why the Cubs. He's a Midwest guy, he
liked the Brewers. We thought it was the Mets, but
the Cubs come out of nowhere. The answer to this
lies in moneyball, right. The answer lie because in moneyball
what happens right, the same thing with Billy Bean is
Craig Council. I can tell you why it ends differently
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in moneyball. Billy what he maxes out in Oakland? Right,
you know, in in being able to try to put
a championship team on the field. He needs more money.
He knows he's not getting it from from the owner.
Hey Steve, what do you got now? Billy? What else
can I help you with? He's not getting it right
everything he could. The Red Sox call and suddenly the
starry lights of a team that's gonna spend money and
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adopt his philosophy. It's gonna be the greatest thing ever, right,
oh the Rabbit and go to the Red Sox. Then
what happens? His daughter calls and says, hey, Dad, if
you take that job, you were a great in Boston.
You were a great. Dad. Whoa what do you mean
that was a great dad. Well, so he stays in
California to be closer to his daughter.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It was the combination of being able to do it
does professionally and personally. Now, and you throw Craig Counsel
in the mix, that's exactly what he wanted. Craig Counsel
is maxed out in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's a really good small
market team, but they're not gonna win a World Series.
They're good enough to win the NL Central every couple
of years, or maybe every two out of every three years,
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but they fall short in the playoffs. They're not going
to attract free agents. They're not gonna spend a lot
of money. Look, Marcottanasio wouldn't spend money to keep his
president of baseball operations nor his manager. So that tells
you they're not gonna spend money.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yes, and the Pope we went to New York, So his.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Counsel knows, I need to go somewhere else where I
have a better chance to where I'm gonna have resources
and everything else. So here comes the perfect opportunity. The
Cubs call, we're gonna give you a lot of money,
and you know, the Cubs are gonna spend to try
to win. The best part of it is it's Chicago.
It's really close to where his family is. He can
go see them all the time. He can come see them.
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It's perfect. It's not in New York, which he really
didn't want to go to, or somewhere really far away.
It's that combination of I can achieve what I want professionally.
I can get to that next that big market and
maybe win something because we're gonna spend money and put
resources in beginning with the money they're giving me, which
is more money than any manager's gotten in Major League Baseball,
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and I can still be close to my family. If
the Dodgers offered Billy Bean that job after two thousand,
he probably would have taken it, but all the way
in Boston different not seeing his kid, he decided to
stay and wound up staying in Oakland. This is the
same thing. Now you're seeing Craig Council be able to
do both things and achieve both them. So yeah, that's
why he's got the Cubs.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You're ninety miles down the road, and if you needed
a sign that they're committed to spending money to win,
they just gave you a giant, novelty sized check like
they were the state lottery. Okay, so that's part one. Hey,
look at all the money we're gonna give you, and
we might have Otani. We're gonna talk to Bellinger about
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him coming back. All of these things that make it
a much more attractive opportunity for you, not to mention
just the national brand that the Cubs are, right, because
you've been a great baseball man right from your playing career.
People remember, but as a manager, great success who the
hell outside of like baseball baseball? People know that you
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go win with the Cubs, you're a legend. Even though
they already have that World Series from a few years back,
that's a long time ago. In a place like Chicago,
it's like, what have you done for me lately? Look Out?
Quickly they moved on from David Ross, even with a
pretty good run they you can argue they overachieved until
September this year and then there was a great collapse
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allowing Arizona to come in. So what's their first move? Sorry,
David Ross, we love you, we loved your contributions to
the World Series team, et cetera. You can become the
I don't know what the equivalent is of a ambassador
like our guy Eric Dickerson, but you can do that
for the cups and show up at the convention and
shake hands, kiss babies, maybe go work in the front office,
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whatever the case may be. But the opportunity here is
we wanted you to be our guy for this next
evolution of this squad, some young talent, a couple of
guys in the minor league that we know of and
that are expecting great things. Yeah, come come here. You'll
get the love you deserve outside the baseball world if
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you win.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Exit out bouta Fresca exit swollen down The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon. You're such a loser, Dad,
Just enjoy the show. You're such as Coming up next,
I say a special play the night you go. You
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was said at a fast food drive through. Oh boy,
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waity here that's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio. But first, of course you're gonna hear Nicholas Cage.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Let's give this you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight at the Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Bell. Happy twentieth
birthday to Elf. Twenty years ago today Elf debuted in theaters.
People wanted to know why the hell is that kid
wearing a Wayne Crebet jersey the whole time? Who the
hell wears eighty for the Jets? Oh no, no, twenty
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years ago today Elf debuted.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Did they have the same deal back then, because right
now they get about two thirds of every jersey sold
Like that was one of the big sticking points with
everybody going out for their Halloween costume and buying Travis
Kelsey jerseys, not to mention his brother Jason. They made
a lot of money off jersey sales here especially, I
mean for Jason, it's an extra win. I mean because
he's an offensive lineman and who's a bunch of burly
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guys in Philadelphia, no doubt, Uh, diving on board that.
But also now that he's on the list of the
Sexiest Man Alive, Patrick Dempsey your winner spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Uh wow, way to go. Now you're going to tell
me no one's buying the Ma Auto jersey that that
Travis Kelsey's wearing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Well, yeah, I mean you got that going for you too.
I mean, try to find every revenue stream you can. Uh,
but it it's just that that kind of flow. I mean,
you gotta be excited about it.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Man, would you what what jersey would you rather have
if you had to wear it? The the Travis Kelce
Ma Auto one or the Jalen Hulu has Live Sports
Hurts jersey. Which would you rather wear?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Does it expand like his? Or is it modi it
so it's just crunched again.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
It's the jersey that you see in the in each
of the commercials. Is the jersey that you see?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Okay, No, I'll go on the Live Sports.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
One, okay, all right? Being able to pull it open
is good and then close it and yeah, actial expand.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You know, if you're standing in line for something, people
will have fun with it until you punch them in
the face. Kind of like that uh sequined heart jacket
that I have that I that I worded the Taylor
Swift concert.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, I wouldn't have worn that jacket, but okay, sure my.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Kids went and started writing like kick me and yeah
like this guy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
On there and whatever else I told you about that jacket,
But sure, go ahead me up.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I might pull it out again on Saturday. I mean,
I gotta match Adam Lambert if I'm gonna go see queen.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Okay, okay, okay, hey, no good. You know what I
told you not to wear it last time you wore it, Okay,
gohead wear it again.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I enjoyed it wearing a conversation starter. I made a
lot of friends. We kept in touch.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Of course, it's a conversation starts. Look what that lunatic
is wearing. Is that your conversation starter you want to have? Yeah?
My people, Oh man, hey, hey that's the guy. That's
the same jacket he's got on his tender page. Look
at that head whoa, whoa whoa. Uh but you know,
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look of all the different things with elf. Uh, we
talked about it earlier. I don't know that there's a
movie that's been seen in my house more in the
last ten years than Elf. Ever, every Christmas, watching it
so often as we do.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It in rotation now.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
But one of the things that I really can't believe,
and it's it's it should be, it should go without saying,
but instead it's something that stands out is that in
an era where after someone has ten or fifteen years,
twenty years, and you know that they have seen their
heyday and you know their their career is not what
it was when it was at its apex. Right, everybody
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has that in Hollywood. Your career gets to a high
point and then it kind of it sort of blisters
out from.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
There and you can then get down right.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Exactly how many people have you seen?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know what, like Kelsey Grammer, I have been doing
anything in a long time. Let's do Fraser again, and
we're rebooting Fraser.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
We're doing a lot of voiceover. But yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
He's nobody had you know, Fraser won all at Fraser
won every comedy award at the Emmys in the nineties.
It was insane, but now you see people who after
a long time, Hey, I miss being a star. I
want to be treated like a star again. I want
to be someone that people talk about, and I want
to have movies that people talk about. Maybe I use
this as a as a jumping into the next part
of my career, or maybe I get my second act.
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And this is what it is. And for years, Will
Ferrell has refused all kinds of offers to do Elf two,
like more than twenty thirty whatever it is, million dollars
to do do Elf too, here's it, here's fifty million,
whatever it was. He keeps turning down offers. No, we're
not gonna make Elf two. And I think that's pretty
cool because he could easily do that, right, Hey, everybody
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would be anticipatory of it. And I can't wait to
see what he's gonna do in Elf two because Elf
was so funny at all this and invariably we're gonna
be disappointed. It's not gonna be as good a movie,
and we're gonna walk away and go look at that, yeah,
money grab. But Will Ferrell would have six or eight
months of people talking about the movie coming out, he'd
be very interested. When we see him making the talk
show circuit again, and we'd be talking about him more
(05:14):
and he would have a great six eight months. But
really he wants this movie to stand on. Hey, look,
this is gonna be his dark side of the Moon, right.
I mean when you talk about Will Ferrell, ELF's that's
the role that defines him. And the longer it goes on,
people still get open to Will Ferrell, and they still
see him for the first time, and they see Elf
for the first time and they understand that's this guy,
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how talented he is. I think that's cool that he
has not done Elf too. Now watch tomorrow, we're gonna
find out, Hey, the twentieth adversary of Elf. We're doing
Elf two and three, shooting him back to back in
an Old West setting, just like Back to the Future.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yeah, I think it'll be interesting to watch. Right, he
did kind of recreate again another spoiler alert, but it
made a billion dollars President Business showing up in Barbie
kind of the same guy.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it's so it's it's that.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Flow that that you can do. And and you know,
so many things have been put on the table of hey,
would you do another this that the other? I think
the the money is just too good, right, I mean
even they went back and did another Zoolander, so he did.
He did show up there again. Uh so you got that.
(06:23):
But I look, if the price is right, as much
as you want to push it away, and he's leaned in, right,
he shows up and welcome to Wrexham and all of
that stuff. So his love of soccer certainly well known.
He shows up DJing his kids, frat parties at USC
so I mean there there's all of those things that
still exists. But yeah, sometimes it's just it's just too hard.
(06:46):
You can go back and inhabit that character a little
while longer, and even if it's bad. I mean, look
at what look at Anchorman two, right, they waited a
few years for that. Yeah, and when it came out,
was it was it well received? Now not really, but
then it becomes the cold cloak of you know, stupid
one liners the battle and Harrison Ford's in the middle
of it. Here's ESPN and all of that other stuff
(07:10):
that you have that there's scenes that work, and there's
Dobe and the song about Me. So as bad as
it might have been when you first watched it, by
the way, that's the movie I saw and my phone
was turned off when our former boss Bruce Gilbert called
me with an idea to meet up and start doing
a show with you. So it turned out better and
(07:34):
maybe I remember it a little more fun. You go.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Sure, Hey, this movie it words didn't get me a
gig at Fox Sports Radio full time. Note to self,
that's why I hate Anchorman two. The SMIT showing it
has vexed you for a decade now thanks to Anchorman too,
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live the Tiraq
dot Com Studio. So happy anniversary to ELF turning twenty
(07:58):
the World's Best Cup of Coffee and twenty it was
Panic City Today for the Dallas Cowboys, they signed Martavis Bryant,
last scene in the NFL in twenty eighteen. The guy
had issues. He had been banned from the league. He
applied for reinstatement. He was a very good, young, talented
wide receiver with the Steelers, but found his way out
(08:20):
of the league, and after five years out, the Cowboys
are signing. I'm gonna be on the practice squad for
a bit and then likely a promotion to the fifty
three man roster. This is the most predictable Cowboys move
because they are so fragile mentally. They can't stand being
five and three and not being one of the best
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teams in the NFL. Jerry Jones can't stand that. The
team can't stand it because they are too fragile mentally.
They need to believe that they're great for everybody to
think they're great, so they can go on and try
to do something that they can't do, which has beat
the best teams in the NFL. They lose to the
Eagles on Sunday and it was closed and they might
have been able to win, and it was it was
(09:02):
a it was a toss up game, but they still lost.
And this is two long the two good teams they've
played so far, it's only really played two good teams
and they've lost to both of them. At least this
one was close. The forty nine ers they got blown out.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
And that lost to the Cardinals looks well, yes, it
looks even looks even worse right the day.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Right, So this is the Cowboys who now every week,
every time they lose, you see the same thing. You
see some kind of damage control done by the Cowboys
because the players can't for a second believe that they
they aren't great, and Jerry Jones is either on the
radio saying we're still a super Bowl team like he
had to do after the Niners game instead of just
(09:39):
shutting up and going to work, and after the Eagles lose. No, no, no,
we have problems on offense. We need another wide receiver. Dude,
you need a guy that's been out of the game
for five years. If you wanted a Bryant that's been
out of the game, get des Bryant. But maybe that's
the December surprise. Hey, if we have a losing streak
in December, I'm gonna bring Dez Bryant back to make
people think, hey, we just needed another piece. The Cowboys
(10:00):
just need to shut up and go play, and they
can't do it. That's a team that needs to shut
up and shut everybody out and go play. Need to
stop doing podcasts, stop doing interviews. But they can't. And
if they did, they would find that mental toughness that
they need. And I'd believe in them and say, you
know what, watch out for the Cowboys, man, because the
first two weeks of the season, when they came out
(10:21):
like gangbusters, it was Man, this Cowboys team is different.
They have an edge, and they are mad and they
are focused. And this is the best half of football
I've seen Dak Prescott play ever. The first half against
the Jets, they blow out the Giants forty to nothing.
And that's the team I thought we're gonna get. But
what happened. Oh, they fall asleep. Against the Cardinals, they
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get blown out by the forty nine ers and suddenly, oh,
there's where our belief that we're great is being shaken.
Instead of trying to prop them up every week and think, no, no,
it's not your fault. We just have to add a
piece here. We gotta make it, make a change here.
Just shut up and go play and get in the
next month and a half. Find that mental tough that
you don't have, because if you find that mental toughness,
(11:03):
that's way better than after every loss. Jerry Jones holding
you and going shoockoo, coo coo, cuckoo, cuckockoo.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Little baby, don't cry, Dohry, I'm gonna I'm gonna get
you at bottle. I'm gonna get you something else. Cuogoo,
don't crying to bring in Martamus pride. I'm gonna make
sure everybody knows we're still a Super Bowl team. Instead
of doing that, just be mentally tough. Then I could
believe in the Cowboys. But a move like this, this
panic move. Hey, we lost, so let me do something
as a as a as a knee jerk response, I'm
not gonna believe in the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I'm just not no, no, I mean against the Eagles,
as close as it was, some of the usual pieces
to the why don't the Cowboys win consistently and get
back to any level of prominence they reared their heads again.
McCarthy and clock management, the lack of urgency, the execution
(11:49):
in and around the goal line, the decision of who
you're throwing the ball to for Dak Prescott and he
had a really good game overall, a couple of obvious misses.
Right when you're looking at your you're tight end who's
taken over for the departed Dalton Schultz who had himself
a game for CJ. Stroud by the way, uh, but
you're looking at a guy flash wide open. Never saw him.
(12:13):
Instead tried to force the ball to a little used
wide receiver. Hence the need to go into the marketplace.
I have believe that Jerry and Stephen Jones thought at
the trade deadline, all the teams that didn't make a
move were suddenly gonna slough off guys that weren't performing.
So like the Las Vegas Raiders, all right, trade deadline's
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gonna go. They're gonna keep going, and Hunter Renfros made
enough noise, they're just gonna cut him. Oh wait, they
fired their coach and they're oc like, damn it, that
guy didn't come available. The Cardinals, they're gonna trade off
Hollywood Brown. Right, we're gonna be able to get him.
They're gonna call and initiate that, and we're basically gonna
send them some Jerry Bucks and some some some cowboy bees. Uh,
(12:56):
and we're gonna be good. Right. No, no, no, no, The
card didn't do that either. In fact, they're actually going
to activate Kyler Murray who's been on the show and
presume to be in bubble wrap.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
That makes your head explode, doesn't it, And keep going
on down. Oh, they're not trading DeVonta Adams either, and
just keep going on down the line. All of these
teams that I think the Cowboys were just waiting for
bargain basement prices or guys to get cut out. Right,
it didn't happen, So all of a sudden, here you
are looking. Because we talked about it for weeks before
(13:28):
the trade deadline. Go find another wide receiver. Because Brandon
Cooks McCarthy addressed it today, I don't play fantasy football
when when asked about Cook's not really having a role
and heading towards his lowest career numbers, he went all
glib and smart ass and angry, you know, saying hey,
I don't play fantasy football. Is like no, no, no,
(13:48):
He's supposed to be your number two receiver. That's the
guy you brought in. Gallup's coming off an injury. You
got a young tight end that was supposed to be
the guy that was gonna be there as a burner
to protect CD Lamb, and he's been invisible for the
most part. He caught a couple of balls towards the
end of the game, and folks were happy that they
just didn't draw zero in their fantasy lineup. And for
(14:11):
Cowboys fans, they just said, well, you know, it's proof
he can find a second receiver. Tony Pollard's a shell
of himself, right. That was the other position we talked
about whether it was go get Derrick Henry. They didn't
end up selling anything, and now they might have their
next guy. And Will Levicey at least looks the part
and loves to throw the ball downfield, stretch, stretch the
field and all that. That's all finding good. But okay,
(14:34):
you didn't get Dereck Henry. Where were you going to
go find someone else to compliment? What doing? Why didn't
you contact the sinking Patriots and bring back Zeke Elliot
at a discount rate to be the power guy. I
don't know all of those organizational fails. It's what we've
seen year after year after year, and the Eagles game
(14:56):
just embodied all of it. Here's the penalty, here's Dax
step out of bounds, uh field presence and awareness on
a critical play, all of those things that we've watched
and chronicled for years. And McCarthy, all of the negatives
that are in the why can't he win a big game?
Now where they're and evident and in full display against
(15:19):
the best teams. They melt they do every every damn time,
and it's only appropriate that when you start criticizing and
critiquing the effort, you can add that Kevin James, mean
and meme. And it's not so much of a stretch
that it's Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
If they could shut up and play and gain mental toughness,
while a whole world will open up for them.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, I appreciate your your idea of them just shutting
up is gonna work.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
I can do it. Can't do it. They can't do it.
I'm telling I'm telling you how they're gonna win? How?
How did how do you salvage this season and be
a great team and it and and they're not gonna
be able to do it. They can't help themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Zero Dark eleven from Micah Parsons.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's just as it's a It's just as good for
us if people think we're a contender, then if we
really are a contender, if people talk about us as
a contender, it's just as good as us being a contender.
That's the Dallas Cowboys look.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Just because you are a character doesn't mean you.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Have character exit out about a Fresca swalling down. The
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. So I'm a little bit better today
than I was last night about the Jets, just a
little bit, a little bit because as mad as I
was last night, as upset, because yeah I was.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Look, the two biggest things that I can hang my
hat on right now is that one. Okay, maybe last
night was the final straw. The Jets understand we need
something different offensively, and it was the last gas chance
they need to make a move, whether it is allowing
Zach Wilson to throw deep or replacing Zack Wilson's quarterback.
(17:42):
Whatever it is. Maybe it was a final straw, But
bigger was that Aaron Rodgers telling Derwin James after the
game last night, Hey, I was coming back. How long
until you're coming back? Hey a couple of weeks? Whoa,
whoa a couple of weeks? Aaron Rodgers coming back really
really soon? I was really excited about that.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, you were jacked up about it, you know, because
you were. You couldn't wait for Robert Salad to say, well,
it wasn't the worst game he's ever played.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I'm waiting for Robert solid I go, yeah, we might
stick with Zach even if Aaron's ready. I think Zach
is eventually he's going to turn the corner. And Okay,
you know, I want to be positive.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Our offense is almost there.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Positive. But Rogers then had to answer questions today million
dollar Aaron on his uh pat McAfee appearance on ESPN
earlier today about what he said to Derwin James last
night and about how long until he actually does come back.
Now you're talking about today being November seventh, how long
(18:36):
till we see Aaron Rodgers on the field again. Here
was his answer on Derwin James from the Pat McAfee show.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
He came over to dap me up during during the game,
and good to see him after the game. I didn't
realize that was gonna get caught there. I mean, obviously
that was said with a little tongue in cheek there.
It'd be nice to be able to be back in
a couple of weeks. That's probably not anywhere near a
realistic timeline, but a couple of you know, could be.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
It could be a few, could be a lot of it.
It's more of a.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Phrase that didn't have a specific timetable. But yeah, I said,
it's smiling joking, you know, he was talking about how
you know, he's excited for me to get back on
the field. At some point I joked it would be
a few weeks, but obviously it's gonna be more than
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
So couples to a few three Yep, a rush bar
is four.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
I'm aware of this, right, Yeah, I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It's gonna be.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
It's gonna be a few, it's gonna be a few,
a few fortnits, It'll be a few fortnights.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
So if if a few is three and a fortnite
is two, weeks, which he says Fortnite, Ivy foss Man
fus night Wall, you well shot for the pheasant and
kill it for the celebration. If he's talking about a
few fortnites knowing fully well that a few is three,
and it's a few and Fortnite is too, So that's
(19:56):
six weeks. So is he saying that one, two, three, four,
five six? Magically it's going to be Christmas Eve against
the Washington Commanders. Is that good because that's six games?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah, I mean you either look at the road game
against the Dolphins or Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
I can't say I can't see him coming back on
the roads, but it's the veteran against the crafty rookie
in a game that gets fletched in when it's announced
he's ready to play.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
As they play the Texans on December tenth.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
See, I would if he said a couple of fortnits,
but he knew very well what McAfee, because Pat McAfee says, well,
a couple is two, a few is three, rushmore is
for and he said, I'm well aware of this, and
he said a few fortnights, So I would guarantee you
he has circled Christmas Eve against the Commanders as being
the game to come back on, I guarantee you that's it.
(20:53):
Which then, hey, that was great. What do we got
next week? We're at Cleveland. That's the best defense.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
And then the page it's to finish it off. But
even if they're terrible, unless Bill Belichick has been fired,
then all bets are off or he agrees to step
aside mutually. Yeah, that's that's not the greatest way to
end the season.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
But if that's when he's coming back, that's when he's
coming back. So if the Jets can stay three and
three and they get to the point where three games
left and they're five hundred, they're in the thick of
the playoffense. That's kind of where they.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Get to if it all goes to hell for the
rest of these squads. I mean, the potential is you're
you're facing an interim coach with Washington. Yeah, Stefanski may
have been fired quick Cleve maybe not. They're currently in
the playoff picture, but uh, there's a lot of football
that we've played between now and then, and then obviously
(21:44):
we've been talking about Belichick for a long time here.
I mean, that could be a very weird final couple
of weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yes, I worry more about getting to that point because
suddenly these games are much more difficult than expected. Now
you have the Raiders, you're on the road. After that,
the Raiders are feeling good. You're at Buffalo. You're at Buffalo,
they're looking for revenge. Your first game against the Dolphins Atlanta,
that should be a win, but Atlanta's better than expected.
(22:10):
Houston's much better than expected. Then you're at Miami. So
going three and three the next the next six weeks
is that's not gonna be easy.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Man. No, No, it's not easy. It's not a bunch
of gimmes. Once upon you're once upon a time fourteen
and three. Wwwww, it's out the window.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, well we haven't had Rogers, we haven't at him.
But I guaran that that's what he's circling. That's what
everybody is thinking. Christmas Eve. That's his return against command
and at this point he sort of has to come
back with all of this. I could be back, could
be back. It'd be really it would have to be
the Jets just losing six in a row, which could
happen because you know Jets. It would have to be
like the Jets losing six in a row for Rogers
to say, yeah, no, I'm not doing it. I'm there's
(22:48):
no reason for you not gonna play.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Big work like he's a WWE superstar. Nah. It keeps
people interested, keeps the narrative going.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Now the guy, the guy is very purposefully out throwing
before Jets game so cameras can watch him.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Bill. He just wants people to talk about him. He's
got a very needy But you.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Gotta count down to something. You can't count down to nothing.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Yeah, you count down the year. Well, that's what Jets
fans do every year. This is something a little bit different.
You January seventh, you finished the season. January eighth, you
wake up and you celebrate Elvis's birth.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Oh boy, exit out about a Fresca exit swallowed up.
But I guarantee you Christmas, Eve, Washington, Commanders, that's the game.
Everybody's like, that's when I look to see him. If
I see him before that, great, But that's when I
expect to see Aaron Rodgers. I expect right now for
Isaac Lohencron to tell us what's trending in the wide
world of sports. I like what he got for US tonight,
my friend Jason and Mike.
Speaker 6 (23:41):
A lot of juicy tidbits going around. We will start
in Major League Baseball, where The Athletic reports the Los
Angeles Angels were interviewing Ron Washington on Tuesday night for
their managing job. Washington won two American League pennants with
the Texas Rangers when he managed them from two thousand
and seven through twenty fourteen. He's presently the third bay
coach for the Atlanta Braves in the NFL. Multiple outlets
(24:03):
report the Los Angeles Rams are signing free agent quarterback
Carson Wentz to back up Matthew Stafford, who's dealing with
the sprain right thumb. Earlier, we informed you that Philadelphia
Eagles center Jason Kelsey, along with the likes of Lenny
Kravitz and Usher, were nominees for People Magazine's Sexiest Man
Alive for twenty twenty three. Well, although Kelsey will be
(24:26):
featured in the issue, it turned out he was not
named the Sexiest Man Alive. Neither was Usher. For that matter,
neither was Lenny Kravitz. People's Sexiest Man Alive for twenty
twenty three named on Tuesday night was Patrick Dempsey. Your
fast Rasony.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Hasn't he been sexiest man like fifteen years ago?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
He was? He was also in that Handsome Man's Club
on Kimmel that time.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
But like once you the once you the the hottest
guy in the world, like the fourteen year ago, how
are you the hottest guy in the world fifteen years later?
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Breaching the question little underwhelming?
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Is this the second one? Do you have that stat?
Isac long crind? Do you have the stat?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (25:09):
Well, typically I'm looking at Pro Football Reference dot com,
but I will look up sexiest Man Alive Reference.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Oh just look at the list and see what it
just looks. You really think there's not a list of.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
Wikipedia has lists of everything. Okay, let's see all thirty
four guys, all thirty seven Nick Nolty, okay, all right,
let me see it there.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Why are you disrespecting Nick Nolty?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You know what?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Unfortunately, it just kind of it just kind of emerged there. Okay,
So twenty twenty three, Patrick Dempsey fifty seven years old. No,
I believe this is the first time. John Legend, Blake Shelton,
Dwayne the Rock, Johnson, David Beckham in twenty fifteen. I mean,
come on, Chris Hemsworth. Sorry, did I come across as
bitter there? No, I think this is the I believe
(25:58):
this is the first time when we is he on
with that McDreamy show.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
There?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I think he's still on? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:06):
That was okay.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Really, I was just gonna start watching. I got about McSteamy.
Is he still on?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
I don't want to work at that hospital.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Finally, I well, I mean, look when you get written now,
and I mean sometimes it's got to be final.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
I'm a hot doctor and then I died. I don't
want that. That's the business in Hollywood day. It's tough
to be a hot doctor. Got an even juicier tid
but from college football on a second latest college football
playoff rankings released Tuesday night. Ohio state number one, followed
by Georgia, Michigan and Florida State, Washington fifth, Oregon sixth.
So guess what, guys, we have yet another new tidbit
(26:44):
in the Michigan Connor Stallions side sty On Tuesday evening mission,
Michigan running back Blake Korum had to deny that he
has a business affiliation with Connor Stallions after an intern
at Sleuth found that Stallions Korum and another person jointly
(27:05):
registered in LLC together called b C two Housing with
the state of Wyoming in March of twenty twenty two,
Korum telling reporters Tuesday Night, my first time hearing about
it was when I went out to practice. My attorneys
are on it. Definitely get that figured out right away.
(27:26):
Get my name taken off of whatever it is that's
in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
It's in Wyoming.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
The address is listed in ann Arbor, Michigan, but it
was filed in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So I have to call it. See if Fennis Denbo
is involved at some point.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Hey, faas Demo Denbo, the heart and soul of the
Bad Boy Pistons.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Thank you very much. I love yeah, But evidently this
was a dude. Dude, I just got Fennis Dembo in
the show, and you're not saying great job. What's wrong
with Come on? That's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Bring you a Fedis Denbo card from the nineteen ninety
hoops been Denbo win man.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And by the way, it is official Patrick Dempsey a
first time winner of Sexist Man Alive.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
What about Dembo?
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Did he ever win?
Speaker 6 (28:08):
I think he was runner up several times?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Okay with see Wyoming Sexiest Man.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Okay, brother, You know what though, if he went to
a carnival, he might have been able to get his
picture put on one of those Sexiest Man Alive magazines
from one of those photo things. Evidently there was something
about vacuum cleaners in this story and he said, oh,
vacuums aren't my thing. I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
That was actually, believe it or not, I believe a
separate controversy that this day. There you go, there's the
real estate, the BC two housing thing with Korum and
the vacuum thing on the porch with the h away
that conn They're gonna have to make a movie.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yet I'm good about this guy.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Either that or it's like Bishop Sycamore and we get
death and.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
This is only the stuff we know about.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Maybe TJ, we're gonna get a story about Birmingham Stallions
in business there. Yes, thank you guys. Drop the mic
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, direc dot Com Studios,
faz Zebo in the Birmingham Stallions.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
I think you should just drop the microphone literally, just
pull pull the kitten from it, unscrew it, just drop it.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Uh. The biggest mystery in baseball the last twenty four hours.
Craig Council. Why the Cubs. He's a Midwest guy, he
liked the Brewers. We thought it was the Mets, but
the Cubs come out of nowhere. The answer to this
lies in moneyball, right. The answer lie because in moneyball
what happens right, the same thing with Billy Bean is
Craig Council. I can tell you why it ends differently
(29:45):
in moneyball. Billy what he maxes out in Oakland? Right,
you know, in in being able to try to put
a championship team on the field. He needs more money.
He knows he's not getting it from from the owner.
Hey Steve, what do you got now? Billy? What else
can I help you with? He's not getting it right
everything he could. The Red Sox call and suddenly the
starry lights of a team that's gonna spend money and
(30:06):
adopt his philosophy. It's gonna be the greatest thing ever, right,
oh the Rabbit and go to the Red Sox. Then
what happens? His daughter calls and says, hey, Dad, if
you take that job, you were a great in Boston.
You were a great. Dad. Whoa what do you mean
that was a great dad. Well, so he stays in
California to be closer to his daughter.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Right.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
It was the combination of being able to do it
does professionally and personally. Now, and you throw Craig Counsel
in the mix, that's exactly what he wanted. Craig Counsel
is maxed out in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's a really good small
market team, but they're not gonna win a World Series.
They're good enough to win the NL Central every couple
of years, or maybe every two out of every three years,
(30:43):
but they fall short in the playoffs. They're not going
to attract free agents. They're not gonna spend a lot
of money. Look, Marcottanasio wouldn't spend money to keep his
president of baseball operations nor his manager. So that tells
you they're not gonna spend money.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Yes, and the Pope we went to New York, So his.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Counsel knows, I need to go somewhere else where I
have a better chance to where I'm gonna have resources
and everything else. So here comes the perfect opportunity. The
Cubs call, we're gonna give you a lot of money,
and you know, the Cubs are gonna spend to try
to win. The best part of it is it's Chicago.
It's really close to where his family is. He can
go see them all the time. He can come see them.
(31:20):
It's perfect. It's not in New York, which he really
didn't want to go to, or somewhere really far away.
It's that combination of I can achieve what I want professionally.
I can get to that next that big market and
maybe win something because we're gonna spend money and put
resources in beginning with the money they're giving me, which
is more money than any manager's gotten in Major League Baseball,
(31:40):
and I can still be close to my family. If
the Dodgers offered Billy Bean that job after two thousand,
he probably would have taken it, but all the way
in Boston different not seeing his kid, he decided to
stay and wound up staying in Oakland. This is the
same thing. Now you're seeing Craig Council be able to
do both things and achieve both them. So yeah, that's
why he's got the Cubs.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
You're ninety miles down the road, and if you needed
a sign that they're committed to spending money to win,
they just gave you a giant, novelty sized check like
they were the state lottery. Okay, so that's part one. Hey,
look at all the money we're gonna give you, and
we might have Otani. We're gonna talk to Bellinger about
(32:21):
him coming back. All of these things that make it
a much more attractive opportunity for you, not to mention
just the national brand that the Cubs are, right, because
you've been a great baseball man right from your playing career.
People remember, but as a manager, great success who the
hell outside of like baseball baseball? People know that you
(32:45):
go win with the Cubs, you're a legend. Even though
they already have that World Series from a few years back,
that's a long time ago. In a place like Chicago,
it's like, what have you done for me lately? Look Out?
Quickly they moved on from David Ross, even with a
pretty good run they you can argue they overachieved until
September this year and then there was a great collapse
(33:07):
allowing Arizona to come in. So what's their first move? Sorry,
David Ross, we love you, we loved your contributions to
the World Series team, et cetera. You can become the
I don't know what the equivalent is of a ambassador
like our guy Eric Dickerson, but you can do that
for the cups and show up at the convention and
shake hands, kiss babies, maybe go work in the front office,
(33:28):
whatever the case may be. But the opportunity here is
we wanted you to be our guy for this next
evolution of this squad, some young talent, a couple of
guys in the minor league that we know of and
that are expecting great things. Yeah, come come here. You'll
get the love you deserve outside the baseball world if
(33:50):
you win.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
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(34:12):
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