The Best Of The Jason Smith Show

Mike Harmon and Bernie Fratto talk shop on Deion Sanders comments on Colorado not being an ATM. Plus, the guys talk with Pete Fiutak on college football and preview the NFL Thanksgiving games.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Greetings, Welcome in. It is a Wednesday night.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
It is traffic night, It is stand in line at
a grocery store night.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
It is whatever you want to make it. As we're just.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Ahead of a big holiday holiday holiday extravaganza Thanksgiving Eve.
Plenty of NBA, plenty of college football stories, head of course,
replete with NFL details, news notes, and predictions.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:47):
It is Bernie Prattle. Bernie, what's going on?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Man?

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Welcome in on a Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Billy Ray Valentine Capricorn. Billy Ray Valentine, Capricorn. I see
Mike consolely appropriate that I invoked at a reference today,
because after all, I am trading places with Jason.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
There you go, say he's done it already. He's taken
us back into the mid eighties. That is actually gonna
be part of a bit later on as to favorite
non Christmas Christmas movies. But you've always already ruined the bit.
It took you two minutes, Bernie's it. I just should
pack up and go home as we get rolling here
on a Fox Sports Radio Wednesday night.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
That was good though.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Anytime you can reference trading places, I think people should
go back.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Because it is the sixty fifth birthday.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Of Jamie Lee Curtis tonight, So there you go, adding
a little bit of extra value as we go. We've
got plenty of NBA, we've got popped getting after his audience,
Bernie like there are a bunch of toddlers at the
back of a kindergarten class who can't sit still.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
So we'll talk about his road.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Because everybody thought it was going to be easy with
Victor Webbin Yama showing up, as we're seeing not so fast.
Lakers play a little bit more tonight. I bet second
night of a back to back, everybody's ready. Everybody's ready
to go. With Lebron James now surpassing thirty nine thousand
career points and they're four and zero in the all
important inn season tournament, buddy, You know the one that

(02:13):
if you ask every player, the only thing they know
is that if they win it, they get five hundred k.
How it works, what the structure is when those games
actually happen. Other than looking at those god awful courts,
they have no clue.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, it's all over December ninth, Mike, and then we
can all go back to our normal lives. But I
have a question for you. Should the Lakers win the
coveted NBA Cup, Because I mean, there's the Stanley Cup,
there's the World Series, there's the Nobel Peace Prize, and
then there's the NBA Cup. Which would you rather have?
My question to you is do they hang a banner

(02:48):
at Staples Crypto Center.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't think you get a banner, but everybody's gonna
go to celebrate with that five hundred thousand dollars check,
and then Lebron and ad can take a month off.
Say we did your stupid tournament. Now we're on load
management for sorenees.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Stupid tournament. Have you checked in without Adam Silver on
that one? Does he know how you feel?

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I've been pretty clear about it, you know, and I think.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
That's not my question is, does Adam Silver know how
you feel?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Like? I really don't care if Adam Silver knows how
oh I feel, Bernie, I don't have a direct find
to them. If he does, then that's great. I just
come back to the point of if you have a
number of players who when they get to the podium
and they ask about the process, they go it's a
game on a Friday night, I lace him up and
I go play. And then once they're eliminated, someone points

(03:37):
it out. It's like, oh, wait, we lost out on
some potential money. But otherwise it's a way to try
to bruce up a regular season game. And I guess
to some degree there's some percentage of people outside and
casuals that are that are a little bit excitable about
the regular season because maybe you get a bigger effort
because there is the incentive of the extra check on

(04:00):
the whole. I think it's gone over like a lead
balloon in terms of trying to hype it, trying to
get people excited about it, and then you still have
to keep explaining all right, group play and everything else,
because translating it from the soccer world hasn't been quite
as easy as perhaps they wanted it to go right

(04:20):
in terms of group, and because you're still playing regular
season games in between all this, and they count except
for when you actually get to the title game. Suddenly
my stats and everything don't count when I probably ball
out to win that check and the coveted Cup.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, I get it. I read the memo, and far
be it for me to defend this tournament. It's going
over about as big as you know, the trash compactor
that terms twenty pounds of trash into twenty pounds of trash.
But here's the thing you're talking about it, Mike. The
NBA is usually not talked about a whole hell of
a lot in November. As a matter of fact, a

(04:59):
lot of folks feel that the de facto beginning of
the NBA season is really around Christmas, and now the
NFL is starting to poach that. So Adam Silver's theory
and I couldn't care less, was that, how can we
create some possible buzz in November when we're heading toward
the college football playoff the NBA check that the NFL

(05:21):
is very much heading toward. You know there, I guess
March toward the playoffs, and who's going to be in
and who's not going to be in the games are
that much more significant. And then you've got the NHL
in full swing, and of course college basketball now starting
and the hot stoven baseball. You just had the Winter

(05:42):
Meetings in a big announcement with the A's. I think
Adam Silver's intention was to create some bus for the NBA.
So irrespective of whether or not people like it or
don't like it or don't understand it, you're talking about it.
And the opposite of hate is not love, it's indifferent.
So it aroused some kind of emotion in you and
thousands of other people that we're leading our show with

(06:02):
the NBA tournament.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, I was more leading the show with the NBA
because we have the Warriors and the Lakers getting ready
to tip off, and the show is now and in
the present, and we talk about the everything that goes on.
We don't shy away from the NBA until December twenty fifth,
as many might do, or college football. But there's some

(06:26):
good stories, and most of it coming out of coaches
complaining about nil and begging people for money more than
anything else, which we'll get to as the show goes on. Well,
because the stuff actually on the field, man, You know,
there's a lot of shrug in. We'll see some teams
rise or fall this weekend and we move on, right.

(06:47):
You know, college football still very much, at least to
my thinking, more regionalized than anything with When we look
at the NBA, we got superstar playing, and I think
that's the one thing you celebrate from this early part
of the season. Whatever memo went across the desk, and no,

(07:08):
I don't think it's the tournament, but everybody's at least
out and playing and oftentimes actually showing up on the
second nights of back to backs. So whatever has gone down,
whatever's transpired behind the scenes, Adam Silver's at least got
his stars out, which is a good thing for the
league as a whole. As we certainly have chronicled ad

(07:29):
nauseum everything going on with the National Football League and
the number of quarterbacks and star players that have fallen
to the wayside, the NBA runs the risk of the same.
As much as you want to create new stars, it
takes some time for those to just date and for
people to embrace them. Right the old repetition of things
and seeing them and getting them into those nationally trafficked

(07:52):
rotations or making all the highlight halftime shows all about them.
Until you get to that point, you know those got
will still wallowing relative anonymity based on the fact that
we don't get the run up in college like we
once did of multiple years of a guy before he's
in the NBA, and likewise, you know, we know it.

(08:14):
You play the hits. When it comes down to television programming, right,
bidding for games and deciding what goes on your national schedule.
It's a function more of all right, we've got the Warriors,
who do they happen to be playing on a Wednesday night?
More so than we want to go and find the
next guy.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah, they're in Phoenix if you're scoring at home, So
Dowley noted, I'm just happy to be here. I mean,
it's not like there's the greatest rivalry in college football.
Saturday that started out as a Land war over Toledo,
tripleheader Thursday in the NFL, fairly significant game games, all
of them. And then we've even got a Black Friday
game that was intended for Aaron Rodgers. And this is America.

(08:54):
This is America. You can be one and third, you
can throw one touchdown on thirteen interceptions in Connecticut and
you're still starting for the New York Jets. This is
America and on Thanksgiving you got to be thankful for that.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well, it is the beautiful part of where the NFL is,
I guess, you know, the selling hope. You know, we
chronicled the player for Davidson, who put his announcement out
for the NFL Draft, even though he's been a backup
only playing spot duty due to injuries and illnesses and whatever.
But you know, the same idea. You know, you've got
to live the dream. And for many folks, you know,

(09:26):
this is one of those times of year where you
get to pause, take stock of the good, the bad,
the ugly in your life. Maybe you're rallying around family.
Maybe it's a fully gluttonous kind of holiday, and I.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Hope it is.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
I hope your plate is full and the tables full
of friends, family, et cetera, wherever you are on the
highways and byways the journeys of the lifetime. But yeah,
certainly we've got a full slate of NFL action, and
with a four hour show, plenty of time to go
down those those highways with everybody else that's sitting in

(09:57):
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(10:17):
about Thanksgiving Day games. I heard Robin Chris as I
was sitting in the bullpen watching a little bit of
the college buckets and NBA action, a little bit of lamentation,
you know, the handwringing. Maybe not as problematic this year
when the Detroit Lions are on the schedule and heading
off are Thanksgiving Day game. But I'll be the first

(10:39):
to say this, I think in the national media, I
think I've gone with the Detroit Lions like so many
did with the Warriors. They're changing the game, They're changing
the game. I hate how they changed the game. I've
had about enough of the Lions love fest through the
first twelve weeks of the season that started going back
to last year.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Weather's sixteen and four in their last twenty games, and
they've earned what they've done. Now, they have accomplished it
a yet they won one playoff game since nineteen fifty seven.
We all know that, so this will be the year
that they'll get to the playoffs. They should have at
least one home game, and ultimately their season will be
judged based on how they do in the postseason. We

(11:17):
all know that, and people are waiting for him to fall.
I mean, it's like the guy who predicts it's going
to rain every day and then finally, after seven hundred
and twelve days, it rains, and he says, see, I
told you it's going to rain. But I will tell
you this. I love the Lion's Thanksgiving tradition. It's been
there since nineteen thirty four with their owner George Richards,
who was a first year owner who was a marketing genius,

(11:37):
had bad attendants and a bad team and decided to
play a game on Thanksgiving. He cut a deal with
ninety four NBC radio stations across the country. They had
to turn people away. The game was sold out and
a tradition was born. And all the way up to
the years I covered the team, and I covered fourteen
of these games, and I loved every minute of it.
People were clamoring, why can't we have someone else besides
the Lions? When on else wanted to it or not

(12:00):
it's a Thursday game. I thought Thursday games weren't anethema.
This just then Thanksgiving's a Thursday game. Other teams didn't
want to except for Lamar Hunt and then of course
the Cowboys started doing it in the sixties. But the
reality of it is to your point, now it's a
little bit more interesting because the Lions are eight and
two and they have designs and not only winning the division,
possibly get in the overall number one seed. It's not

(12:21):
too far ahead of ourselves. But now they're legitimate, so
I don't know who's having a love fest. I hear
more comments like from what you're saying versus people rallying
around this team unless you live inside of Detroit.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
He's Bernie Prato in for Jason Smith Mike Harmon Here
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to get to in the NFL with the three games
on the slate, we'll go back to your Detroit days
and Scott Mitchell unhappy about the Barry Sanders doc. You
know you get benched in the middle of a possession,

(12:56):
and you know you harbor ill will for many, many years.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
That'll do it.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Pete Fujek will join us next hour so much as
we just get started. But I mentioned the nil saltiness. Well,
Deon Sanders.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Is part of it. Kind of funny, isn't it. We'll
talk about that coming up next.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
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Speaker 1 (14:06):
Welcome back in, It's Fox Sports. It's a radio.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Jason Smith Show would be Mike Harmon, No Jason Smith Tonight.
Bernie Pratto in his stead at Bernie Pratto on Twitter
is where you find him. We're live Fromthetirack dot com
studios and you know what, Bernie, We're gonna take a
turn out to the hotline setting up at what is
a huge week in the college football universe. And there's
only one man that we use and talk to and

(14:30):
rely on to get us to that point. It's our guy,
Pete Feutech at Pete feu Tech where you find him
on Twitter, College Footballnews dot Com. Pete, Happy holiday too,
you hopefully you know you've got the elbow bended in,
you know, your brining whatever kind of meat needs to
go into a roaster tomorrow.

Speaker 6 (14:51):
I'm trying to figure out like the big ten for
this weekend, Like this is I work for a liven
here Son. I don't just get to sit around, and
you know, I have to like entertained America. I have
to entertained a nation here and give them football picks
and stuff. So no, this is my one giant week
and then next week and then it all goes away.
For you know, college football season only lasts three months

(15:13):
in the regular season, so this is this is a
showtime right.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Now, that three month sprint and you've got your tuxedo on,
no question about it. Last night we get the new
playoff rankings and Washington finds its way in. But it's
not about Florida State having an injury. And I know
they've still got a lot of games to play and
it'll sort itself out on the field. But it made
for a pretty good TV show and gave us some
talking points.

Speaker 6 (15:37):
Yeah, you know, you have to remember that the whole
this whole thing, this whole exercise, it should be a
better TV show because they should just put a camera
in there while they're doing the entire process, because why
can't there be transparency? I mean, seriously, we've got like
a general, an actual military general, to run this singer

(16:01):
an ad Burler. I forgive me for not getting that right,
but they can't handle angry Ohiose State fans or angry
fans of a team. I mean, like they should be
able to like do this and like the problem is
the rankings just don't quite make any sense. They're all
over the map. And then everyone thinks, oh, well, look
Florida State drops. Well we all know how this works.

(16:21):
But Florida State goes thirteen and oh and windy a
SEC championship. It is in the college football playoffs, no
matter what. Go twelve and one and win your Power
five conference championship and you're probably in most years. This
year is gonna be a little bit tougher though. But
the crazy part about all of this is no one's losing.
None of these top teams are losing. We have all
these eleven oh teams remaining. We have Oregon with one

(16:43):
lass Texas, Alabama they're still there. So they're all right there,
which means that all these Wolverine and Buckeye fans' is like, oh, well,
if we lose, you know, wouldn't be like Ohio State
last year and get in. No, if you're the loser
of Michigan, ohiuse, it's probably almost certainly out. The loser
of Alabama, Georgia is probably out. I mean, there's it's

(17:06):
gonna be hard to lose a game. The rest of
the way and get in this thing.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
So Pete, if you're Florida State and lose and you drop,
I've never thought it was fair when you are undefeated
and you lose and you drop. But this is what
we have. That's why I call it the Made for
TV Invitational Tournament. And frankly, talking about it makes my
teeth itch. So I want to switch gears. I want
to talk about Texas A and M. Jeff Trailer is
a guy who I believe is right for that job.
He's a fit and I actually think there's real interest.

(17:33):
Trailer's denying it. Would it surprise you if, at the
end of the day, Texas A and M does hire
Jeff Trailer a little bit?

Speaker 6 (17:41):
I mean, here's this thing when company's coaching hired. I
don't know. I mean, all these you can name in
the right coat. You can say Jill Belichick and you'd think, okay, wow,
Bill Belichick. You know it's these things. Hes a kind
of work Jimbo Fisher should have worked and it actually
sort of. Did you know They're they're gonna Texas AM
might win nine games this year. That's not bad and

(18:03):
yet not good enough. So you know again, Riley at USC.
It is working, but it's not because people want him
fired out there now. It's the idea of a coaching hier.
You never quite know until you get the guy in
the building, and even then it's crazy because the stats
and that guy lasting five years with their program are

(18:25):
really really small. So I think out of the one hundred
and thirty three college football head coaches, there's something like
only thirty three that are still around. Actually think it's
less than that. Ontino Papers has gone. Thirty two is
ish they're still around for five years and out of
those thirty two ish would be fifteen of them or
on a hot scene or close to it. So this

(18:45):
is this is the rental of a gig. So yeah,
maybe trailer works, but ken you recruits or is Delavama
gonna quit playing football now that you get Jeff Taylor, Like,
I don't know, it's you never know when it comes
to what coaching hires are going to hit and.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
What they'll always I gotta have a follow up with
Pete please, because they're finding out now that Jimbo Fisher
was not a fit. He had no Texas ties, he
never fit the culture. Trailer is a legend in Texas.
He'll be able to recruit there. He's got a sexy
offense at Texas San Antonio. If you put that offense
on the field with A and M's athletes, and my god,

(19:19):
if they're paying you seventy six million dollars over the
next eight years to go away because you can't even
win the SEC West. It didn't kind of work there.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
I will. The only part about that that's wrong is
who cares? If he didn't have Texas tie ins? He
had epic recruiting classes, like I think it was like
two years ago. They had technically the greatest recruiting class
of all times.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
I mean, like they paid PRENI.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
Yeah, well, see how have they got? Who cares?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
You know?

Speaker 6 (19:47):
How do you make the case? They got the guys there?
It just they couldn't win. And in twenty twenty they
should have been been in the College Football Playoffs. They
should have been in over Notre Dame. They're one sin
with the loss of that Alabama team with Devat and
Mac Jones and all that went on to win the
national championship. So they were cool, But like you're right,

(20:07):
it's it's it's the hard part about being an SEC
coach is that you can be pretty good and not
win Jack Squat because that FAMA thing is just still
going to be in the way. So so you're right.
I'm not saying that they're wrong, but that's you know,
Fisher todaything great there, but it's it's just a kind
of a hard thing to do to win in the sec.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Well, you know, it's the what you are versus the expectations.
And I would argue, at seventy six million dollars to
go away, he won pretty big.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Another guy who can't be in the building.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
On Saturday doing all the pressers, doing all the practices.
We've got Michigan, Ohio State. It's finally here, Pete, with
all the talk and all the jabbering, we're just a
couple hours away that countdown clock. I know you've got
to go in to where these teams finally get to battle.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Can we fast forward to the narratives afterwards?

Speaker 2 (21:01):
So let's say Ryan Day loses. I'm sorry if Ryan
Day loses dot dot.

Speaker 6 (21:07):
Dot Yeah, I mean the crazy one. You want to
talk about the coach, how crazy the coaching world is.
Who else has Ryan Day lost to in the Big
Ten besides Michigan in the last two years, nobody. He
has never lost to another Big Ten teams except those
two losses. He doesn't lose to Purdue, he doesn't lose
to Maryland, he doesn't lose to Penn State. Look at it.

(21:30):
It's insane. If you go down the list of Ryan
Day losses at Ohio State, they're like Alabama in the
National Championship. They're like you know, Clemson in that epic
Fiesta Bowl. In the College Football playoffs. There's just there's
one loss to an Oregon team that ended up being Okay,
he should have won the Pack Call title, and that's
about it. That's like the worst loss that they've had.

(21:51):
He has been phenomenal. And yet if he loses dot
dot dot, there's gonna be a big portion of a
how says that they're gonna be like, he's got to
get out of here. He's awful. He can't do anything right.
There's your name for Texas A and M. By the way,
if you want to talk about money's not an object,
because it just isn't. Yet he might be like, so armstucker,

(22:15):
he'll want me here. I'll just go get paid to
college station. But that if they lose this You're right.
The narrative's gonna be completely whack job for Ohio State
fans saying, oh, well, he can't win here at Ohio
State when obviously he can. And if it's the flip side,
and if what I think he's gonna happen is gonna happen,
let's say Ohio State wins, the narrative's gonna be, Oh,

(22:37):
look see Ryan Day Kelly beat him when our guys suspended.
If Harbaugh was there, we would have won that. Oh wow,
Harvi Ryan Dave Harbaugh's on the sidelines. They never would
have won that. So it isn't gonna be a bad
quirky Twitter day. However, it's gonna happen on Saturday.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
I covered fourteen of those while I was in Detroit,
and I will say this. You can say it's life
and death, but it's actually more important than that to
switch to the Mount West Peat because I live in Vegas.
And the reason I invoked the Mountain West is I'm
hearing that Oregon State and Washington State were pitched by
Gloria and Navarrez. She's the Mount West Commissioner YEP to

(23:13):
join the conference, and I hear it's actually very close
to happening.

Speaker 6 (23:16):
Your thoughts, Yeah, great, you know it should have happen.
The problem is the medium money is not going to
be there. And look, if you're Washington State and Oregon State,
I mean it's you wn't want to have and have
not all this you know talk about oh wow, the
power for conferences are going to break away from everyone else.
But what do you think we got now? I mean,
the Big Ten is going to be making each team,

(23:36):
each school is going to be making like fifty to
eighty million dollars over the next several years a year,
and the Mountain West this year is going to make
four million dollars per team. And as I've said this before,
it Jalen Hurts is going to make more money this
year than all the Mountain West schools combined when it
comes to media. Right, So if you're Washington State and

(23:57):
Oregon State, you don't exactly have a ton of options.
But that's a big chunk of change hit that you're
about to take here. But yeah, I mean I love
them outwith. I have the Mountain Wet fanel er On.
I think it's a shame that no one watches them,
Otherwise they'd realize nlb's probably the best group of five
team going right now and should actually be in that
New year six spot. But yeah, if you're those other

(24:19):
two teams, all right, look you doing this for now
with the Mountain West and hope that some day, you know,
the door comes knocking from the Big twelve or someone
else who has to take in so Pete.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
As we look at the slate, get only a couple
of top twenty five matchups who still have Oregon State,
and they're coach getting questions about his whereabouts going forward
as he gets ready to take on number six Oregon.
And now I'm starting to get bodacious ads popping up
at the top of my screens. I don't know what
I did.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
We're out of a certain nat Sure remember that Joey
Harrington billboards this is true Times Square Another Look, here's
the crazy part. This Heisman race has gone wacky because
the machine. I've never been the person who thinks, oh,
there's an East Coast bias and h But I think
it's more that I've always Sid's kind of more of
a West Coast ignorant, like he's no one's staying up,

(25:11):
no one as personal, no one has the pac twelve network. Secondly,
no one stays up and watches these games, so they
kind of know bo Nicks from the one game they
might have watched against Washington. And Michael Pennock Junior has
been Greenyow's stats have fallen off. He's gonna be right there,
but he's gonna finally got TV. And everyone's pushing Jade
Daniels for the Heisman now, which is fine, except he's

(25:34):
not really the signature guy to the season. As a voter,
my thing is always like, who is the guy who
is the Yeah, that's it, that's the guy who made
this season the college football season. Daniels' stats are incredible.
His biggest problem now though, is he's playing at noon
Eastern time on Saturday, when only friends and family are

(25:54):
going to watch him against You're Jimbollas Texasanna Maggie's while
that other you know, game between that team up north
and Ohio State's happening. So so it's going to be
Bow and Michael. I think when it comes down to it,
if those two get through this weekend unscathed and it's
Washington Oregon for the Pac twelve title, I think that's
for the Heisman. I just think it's there's just too

(26:16):
much weight being put on being the guy on the
team who led their team to the college football playoffs.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Pete just a quickie for me, and I'll classify this
under the hashtag asking for a friend. Does JJ McCarthy
get an invite to New York?

Speaker 6 (26:33):
No, because the problem with that on two fronts. One,
the stats have fought off the map, not necessarily his fault,
but they just haven't had to say they needed it.
I mean, they just the style has been so good
from Michigan all year lost they haven't had to take
any chances. The second part about that is there is
a big part again as a Heisman voter, No, I

(26:55):
would not hold it what the allegations are against him
when it comes to high mean, that would not be
a part of the my factor. But I know there
are a lot of Heisman voters we're openly saying Nope,
not gonna vote for that guy because I think they
saw all the signs and all that stuff, which all right,
so legit thought, but that's gonna be just enough to

(27:15):
keep him off the ballot. I do think it's gonna
be Bo Michael Daniels and if Marvin Harrison Junior catches
fifteen for one this on Saturday, it's gonna be Marvin
Harrison Junior.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
There By the way, McCarthy did flawlessly execute the two
step thirty two straight times in that second half against
benn State, So you got to give him credit for that.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
That was the biggest badass half of football. That's Michigan
just saying, you know what, we don't need to throw.
We're not gonna do anything. We're just gonna keep running
and wait the clock, wait for the clock to run
out here. That was just that was pretty cool stuff.
But we know he's good. He is a first round
draft PIC talents. He's got the ability. We saw it
last year, he saw it and against CCU we know

(27:56):
he's capable of. Let's see if he can unleash this
week against the Ohio State together.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Pete feutech with US College Footballnews dot Com is the website.
Joins us each and every week here on the show. Pete,
Happy Thanksgiving. You're just a few hours, few short hours
away from that well deserved.

Speaker 6 (28:17):
Exactly from sweet. That is exactly what I was, silly.
I'm a simple mail with simple needs at this point,
and yes, a couple of days from that.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
All right, Happy thanks Giving exactly, brother, be good the whisky.
You'll be in the mail at Pete Futech where you
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(28:46):
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Slash credit card limitations do apply. Yeah, that the point
going back to expectations and being rational. You know, we're
talking a lot about miss there. We've got a Michigan
man on the updates here in a moment. But you know, Bernie,
when we look at the the Jim Harbaugh right when

(29:07):
everybody was looking to kill him off a couple of
years ago, you gotta recognize what you are and how
long ago that national title.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Was winning nine games a year, ten games a year.
That's a pretty good place compared to where you'd been.
So sometimes, you know, you got to you gotta recognize
where you are, even though you're striving for more.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Well, and I'd be honest, I thought you're a juxtapositioned
with respect to Jimbo Fisher and Texas A and M
and their expectations micro spot on. This has been an
abject failure by any measure, and this is what's coming
out of Texas. This isn't me. I couldn't. I couldn't
give a flying horses Johnny Mansil putuit about Texas A
and M. I just report what I know from the

(29:46):
people I talked to. They're very unhappy. They're very unhappy
with Jimbo Fisher's performance. And they get to give him
seventy six man over it next eight years to prove it.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
Yeah, they just go give him all a hug.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
He did win. If you get my drinks, well, that's
just it.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
And at some point you gotta recognize what you are.
Let's start it over to Martin Weiss. There's some fireworks
going on in the NBA this evening.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
What's going on, Martin, man?

Speaker 3 (30:12):
You know what?

Speaker 7 (30:12):
Everybody was playing this even in the NBA. We got
two games and had halftime three total going on. First,
let's start with the Warriors and the sun Son sixty
three Warriors forty seven. Klay Thompson had fourteen in the
first half. Kevin Durant eighteen. Remember those two play on
separate teams now they used to be teammates, and the
Mavericks and the Lakers that games that half as well.

(30:33):
Sixty two for Dallas, forty six for La Luca Doneys
with thirteen and seven, Anthony Davis with ten and seven
rebounds with two minutes left in the third quarter of
the Jazz and the Trailblazers, facing off a total seven
wins between these two teams, not very good. The Trailblazers
eighty eight, Jazz sixty eight Kelley Olennock with eleven points

(30:55):
of six rebounds, again two minutes left in the third
quarter of Malcolm Brockman seventeen and seven earlier tonight, despite
Nicole the Jokis with a thirty point, thirteen rebound and
twelve assists triple double the Magic beat the Nuggets won
twenty four to one nineteen. Franz Wagner, speaking of Michigan,
met twenty seven points in the win. The Bucks scored
thirty seven points in the fourth quarter to make it close,

(31:16):
but they lost to Boston one nineteen to one sixteen.
Jalen Brown twenty six points and eight assists on the
in the win timberwolfs seven and zero at home, who
would have had that.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
On their Bengo card.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
They beat the seventy six ers one twelve to one
I'm sorry, one twelve to ninety nine, Anthony Edwards thirty one,
six and six, and the Clippers beat the Spurs one
oh nine to one oh two despite twenty two points
and fourteen rebounds from Victor winbin Yama. Kawhi Leonard had
twenty six points in a return to San Antonio and
a return to San Antonio in which had some had

(31:50):
some you want to about fireworks. I don't know if
I've ever seen this before. You add an Greg Popovich,
coach of San Antonio Spurs, formerly coach of Kawhi Leonard,
obviously left s headed too in an interesting fashion with
the knee injury and so on. Popovitch grabs the mic
as Kawhi is shooting free throws, announce us to the crowd,
please stop bowing.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
This is San Antonio. We're supposed to be better than that.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
And uh, you know the gobbies you The game went
on without incident after that, but asked postgame, this is
what pop had to say about that moment I spoke English.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I just told you. Anybody that knows anything about sports
knows you don't poke the bearer. That's my answer.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, so you know what, Mike, I hope I didn't
poke you.

Speaker 7 (32:32):
Just now, Mike Burdie back to you guys.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
At Martin Weiss on Twitter and in they as we
get ready for the second half here of Warriors and Sons,
Scott Foster and Chris Paul are at it again.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
With Chris Paul.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Now if you do the lip reading, said you're a blank,
as he got two technical falls and got sent to
the locker room. Their playoff histories long intertwined, while here
it is the Return to Phoenix and he gets sent
to the showers early. And then Foster turned to Steve kurtzay,
you know what, you get one too. So there you
have it, sixty three forty seven, just underway third quarter.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
I believe Chris Paul is like, he's like one in
thirteen in games? Is Scott?

Speaker 1 (33:18):
He's two and seventeen in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah, you know my quick Twitter fingers as I try
to pull it up because I'm like it's bad. Yeah,
I was remembering where you were I'm like, no, he
got that elusive second win. At some point, We've got
Brianna in the back. You know, she follows her Phoenix son.
She came running down the hallway, arms flailing, screaming, what's
going on? I mean, my door is sealed. I'm hermetically sealed.

(33:42):
I'm like Michael Jackson back in his chamber, right, his
hyperbaric chamber, back in the day. And I can still
hear her yelling down the hallway. That's how incent. She
was a Scott Foster injecting himself into the action like
we love referees and officials to do. He's Bernie croud
in for Jason Smith. I'm Mike Harm. But we continue

(34:03):
here Fox Sports Radio. And doesn't anybody believe in love
at first sight anymore?

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Another college coach who put his foot in his mouth
and looks like an idiot, And we're gonna tell you why.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Next on Fox.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Greetings, Welcome in. Second half of the show begins.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Disco ball still down in spinning marching band refusing to
yield we'll get to that in the pageantry of Thanksgiving
Day games in about twenty minutes from now, But we
do have a story from one of the host cities
that's a bit scintillating and takes me back to simpler
times when the Lions were supposed to be good. They

(34:51):
had a great player and then well nothing ever transpired
and he walked away from the game. Yeah, we'll get
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(35:15):
non tournament game, which means the Lakers are are getting
beaten at home seven and one on the year coming
into tonight and Dallas has come in Luca don Hitch
with a really bad mustache.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
But it's enough.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
To take a lead here as we roll on, Bernie,
because you know, I've got NBA and random space movies
on my monitors here in the Fox Sports Radio studios,
as we celebrate Thanksgiving Eve Eve Eve. It's Bernie Fratto
in for Jason Smith tonight Live from Las Vegas.

Speaker 3 (35:48):
And maybe even an old modge to Don McLean in
the rejoint.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Well, you know, I try to hit the all the
decades as I can leave no h but you leave
no pop culture reference stone unturned. I know our friends
Petrus and Money, they always put up the playlist of
what Ronnie, their musical director, puts up. I wouldn't know
most of the names of what Alex has been doing tonight,

(36:13):
except that I know I've nodded my head a bunch,
so I will need an ice bag at the end
of the night from my neck's going to be a
bit sore, but I'm certainly feeling it. But you know,
one of the things I think for Smith and I
and certainly when you joined the show with me, the
pop culture references probably need to make the list of
them because it's TV shows, movies and musical entries to

(36:36):
help give everybody a little bit of an idea of
the rich tapestry we weave here four hours every.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Night and never gets so old. Mike, I enjoyed the
hell out of it, you know that. And to that end,
speaking of bumper music, as you know, I use exclusively
motom music on my Friday and Saturday Shoes shows. And
there's a method of my manage which I think might
even be a segue to here next to matter.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Tonight, because even though you've left Detroit, you've never really
left Detroit. That's correct, that's correct, psychologically you are still.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
On eight mile, which is actually the borderline county between
Wayne and Macomb County for those scorgan o.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Yeah, any eminem rap battles for you back in the day,
or are you in fact Papa Doc?

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Well, actually the thing is my rap battle is is
pretty good, but it only involves you know, the sugar
Hill game.

Speaker 1 (37:28):
Nicely done?

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Yeah, absolutely, over a friend's house to eat and the
food just ain't no good. Well, we'll do that in
the eleven o'clock hour. How's that?

Speaker 1 (37:35):
How about that? The bonus fifth hour?

Speaker 2 (37:38):
But we're talking about Detroit right A lot a lot, man,
We opened the show with it a little bit, you know,
just to me. I don't listen to a lot of
sports talk radio. I'm being honest, right, I listened to
a little bit of our guys here, Pettersen and money.
If I'm driving home as you follow us on a Friday,
I'll catch a few minutes as you get started. And

(37:58):
it's not that I don't like people, it's the I
want to contain my thoughts. I want to you know,
I want to read news articles and then make my
you know, opinions mine not to say that in social
media spheres, I don't get a lot of stuff that
finds its way. And so talking about the Lions a
little bit earlier was more the LoveFest particularly, and maybe

(38:18):
I was a little bit jaded the way they came
back on the Bears, even though I argued, you know,
there are such things as good losses depending on your
point of view. Right, if you're still trying to get
top draft picks while getting an evaluation point on the quarterback,
that's the incumbent.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
That's the story for another time.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
But it was a lot about the Lions and the
resolve of the Lions, and and every once in a
while it's like, all right, I want another story to
find its way into my timeline. I'm like, come on,
there's got to be something else. And like most things,
you wait a couple of minutes, there'll be another scandal
or something else comes on the radar. Well, the story
that popped up and I first saw it a little
bit last night off this new Berry Sanders documentary, Bye

(38:58):
Bye Barry. It's on Amazon. I haven't had a chance
to peruse it. It's part of my sojourn here. As
I take a couple of days away, I'll still do
the I watch a flex segment. I'll be on with
Dan and Aaron tomorrow afternoon to go through some of
the plays for this weekend's fantasy games, talk about what's
going on in the Thanksgiving Day games. But Bye Bye
Berry is certainly on my list of things I want

(39:20):
to sit and watch in between my daughters forcing me
to watch Glee or Pitch Perfect two or The Nun
two or whatever the hell else they've got planned for
my viewing experience. But there's a story that's circulating about
Scott Mitchell, former quarterback, about how unhappy he was with
well his portrayal and some of the quotes that came

(39:41):
through talking about Eminem, the aforementioned Eminem Jeff Daniels, we know,
I've talked about it. And then Wayne Fonce, who had
they had their issues once pulled them out of a game,
not after a possession, but after an incompletion. In theory
they made up and kissed and made up off that,
but that they really Bernie, you were there on the

(40:03):
scene for many a year. And look, Barry Sanders is
one of the guys I've appreciated. I've had a chance
to interview him a few times. One of the blessings
of this job. You know they always say, don't meet
your heroes. Well, Barry Sanders is one of those guys
that every time I've encountered him, he's been gracious, great storyteller,
and he's got a really good wit and snark about

(40:27):
him when it comes to certain subjects. And maybe I
didn't poke the bear enough on certain others. But coming
from Mitchell quote, I can't even begin to tell you
what a disappointment is to hear my own coach, Wayne
Fontz went out in free agency and actively pursued me
to the point of begging me to come to Detroit
say that he wanted Joe Montana or Warren Moon. Well,

(40:49):
I mean that's saying the quiet part out loud. And
then the only thing missing from the team winning the
Super Bowl was a quarterback. A little support from the
coach might have gone a long way. Wayne never had
my back.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Let me address that one of my proudest things in life,
and I do mean this is that I did cover
the Lions from ninety four to two thousand and eight
and was part of pre and posts for ten years
ninety eight to eight. That quote that was buried in
halfway through, I did watch Bye Bye Berry, and I
really enjoyed it because it was all home week for me.
All the people that were quoted in there or that

(41:25):
were reporting, leland Stein, Jamie Samuelson got arrested, Soul, Mike Stone,
Jennifer Hamm and Jeff Daniels, Jalen Rose, Jocko Hughes, the
security guy. I've met him, all talked to him, all
know them all and I name drop. Okay, and you're
right everything you said about Barry as one hundred percent correct.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
Mike.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
He's funny, smart, nice, down to earth all that. Let's
get to Scott Mitchell. And by the way, that's a
fagazy I called all my Detroit moles. None of us
ever remember back then Wayne Faun saying he wanted Joe Montana.
It was nixed. That's just boloney. But he did say
to Barry Sanders on the sideline earlier this season that
was caught on camp. All we were missing was a quarterback.

(42:02):
And it's sort of ironic, Mike, because your research is good.
Wayne really did want them after that great performance in
Miami when Marino went down. But let's fast forward to
what led to this. It's ironic because in nineteen ninety
five the Lions had a good season. They were actually
ten and six. Scott Mitchell threw four over four thousand
yards thirty two touchdowns. They got to the playoffs and

(42:23):
they got tramped by Philadelphia fifty eight to thirty seven.
And Scott Mitchell threw five interceptions that day. And you
can probably find it on YouTube. Scott Mitchell and Wayne
fonce had a die tribe on the sidelines. Both had
meltdowns in front of God and everybody. No one ever
forgot that. That brought to light the fact that Wayne

(42:44):
Fons and Scott Mitchell really didn't get along. Ironically, during
one of the best seasons the Lions ever had. They
put up fourhundred and thirty six points that year, which
was the most in team history until twenty eleven. Scott Mitchell,
I think, had the record for most pass passing yards
on Thanksgiving. So anyway, that broiled over that boiled over
into the offseason, and then the nineteen ninety six sieson

(43:06):
turned out to be a disaster. They were five and eleven.
Scott Mitchell and Wayne Fonce did not get along and
it really came to a head that Halloween when Scott
Mitchell dressed up as Wayne Fonce, put on a Wayne
Fonx shirt, put a pillow in his gut, put a
cigar in his mouth, and made fun of him and
talked about him, and it was all on film. I

(43:26):
was incredulous. I don't recall ever a player disrespecting his
coach that way. Well, Scott Mitchell won the battle. Wayne
Fonce was fired in the following year, Bobby Ross came
in and Scott Mitchell hung around a couple more years.
He put up pretty good numbers. I think Wayne Fonce
didn't care for him as a field general and as
a guy who could command the locker room and be

(43:48):
the field general where the team would take on the personality.
The numbers weren't bad. They were there. Never won a
playoff game, but the Lions actually went to the playoff
five times in the nineties. Wayne Fonx is still bitter.
I think he believes Wayne that Scott Mitchell cost him
his job and there really was no love lost. They
did not only not get along, they were contentious with
each other. And that's about its short of a cliff

(44:11):
nos versions that can give you. Mike.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Yeah, as we look at you know where we are
now when it comes to coaches. We talked about a
little bit earlier the past, the blame around and try
to insulate yourself. Hey, my part of the operations holding
up well, that guy and that guy you know again
invoking Brandon Staley. It's low hanging fruit, but it's there.

(44:32):
You know, his meltdown the other day talking about his defense,
and you're right, they didn't have a better game overall.
They gave up the big drive when they couldn't. And yes,
drops are part of the game. You still lost. It's
still another slot in the wrong column as you're fighting
for a playoff spot. But we've seen it, and you know,

(44:55):
you even turn back the clock here that you've got
just this famous back in Worth and Anger. You know,
we always celebrated Wayne fonce. You know, on Thanksgiving Day,
there he is and you roll in. He was always
very nice in signing the trading cards. We sent his
youngsters to him, Bernie, so I gotta be good there.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
He's a nice guy and Mike. As you know, when
they were the New York Titans, Wayne Fonce still has
the record of this day of ninety nine yard interception
return as a player.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
See you keep hanging hanging your hat on that one
all these years later, right, But you know they had
a couple of good runs.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
And for Mitchell.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
What's funny is you go back in the annals of history, Bernie,
he signed that three year deal as a free agent worth.

Speaker 1 (45:35):
Eleven million dollars. Think about that now.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Yeah, that's what it was. That's what they pay paid
back then.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
But he also only completed fifty seven fifty eight percent
of his passes each year. Just a much different way
of constructing offenses and another great example of how much
the game has changed with the flat passes, swing passes
and little shovel passes that all count just the same
and help you pad those completion percentages well.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
And the Lions were very much a run first team.
But I remember when William clay Ford fired Wayne Fonce.
It was right after Christmas in nineteen ninety six, and
he honored the rest of his contract, and Wayne Fonce
walked out of there with a couple million bucks and
he was very happy. But William clay Ford mentioned specifically,
you shouldn't go five and eleven when you have such
potent offensive players as Barry Sanders, Herman Moore, Brett Parriman

(46:27):
and Scott Mitchell. So actually, I think it was personal.
Wayne was bitter, and there's a little bit of revisionist
history there, Mike.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Quite honestly, I Julie enjoy some of the Herman Moore
quotes that you read from back in the day. Again,
the stuff that would be front page news debated out
all the sports to hot take artistries and certainly trending
across social media these days with his honest evaluation of
what happened with some of those squads. So yeah, there's

(46:56):
a little bit in the wayback machine. Scott Mitchell, Wayne Fonce,
and you. Somewhere my brothers are smiling thinking of the
old divisions and all of those battles against Barry Sanders
and Wayne Fontce. All right, they're in Chicago somewhere, probably drunk,
but they.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
I'll tell you what will make you smile. In two
thousand and two and the Bears Alliance went overtime and
Marty morning Wegg instead of taking the ball kicked off
the Bears took it right down the field and scored.
I know, you remember that the game was actually played,
I believe in Champagne. For some reason.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Well, they were doing the re refurbishment of Soldier Field.
What is always the Battle of Soldier Field, which is
owned by the park District, which is why they want
to move to the suburbs, something that you know, only
a dork like me would really be following at a
grand scale. I mean, obviously you're watching what happens with

(47:47):
the A's. It's been part of your weekend broadcast. Folks
can find the podcasts on that wherever you download your audio.
Certainly the Bernie Frido Show Friday nights after Jason and
I finish, and then Saturday nights, starting at eleven o'clock,
I go until three a m. Sunday, getting you ready for
everything in the NFL slate and wrapping up huge college

(48:08):
football weeks, No question about it, Bernie. For me, you know,
I love the business of all of this, so follow
it of course, but certainly with the Bears. You know,
when folks say, well, why aren't they firing Eberflus, Why
aren't they doing this? They forget there's rich and then
there's rich, and then there's family businesses like the McCaskey
Hollis operation. And when you're not getting any bit of

(48:31):
juice from when Taylor Swift sells out three shows at
Soldier Field, eventually you want a little piece of that pie.
And they don't get it right now. And sometimes they're
gonna have a Sunday game that was preceded by high
school football, a concert, and a tractor pull, And that's
why nobody wants to play at Soldier Field. So you know,

(48:53):
we look at it that that and when they put
what looks like a toilet bowl over the old beautiful
columns and all actually cried. I had to pull my
car over on the side of the road. I'd seen
all the renderings, I'd seen all the photos, but you
see that live driving down Lakeshore Drive for the first time.
Growing up on the South side of Chicago. You want
to talk about something that just punches you in the

(49:15):
face or kicks you to the nether regions, That's exactly
what they did there. The posts and the pillars are
still there. But you've got a shiny UFO looking thing,
or maybe the metal commode of your local park district
over the top.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
Mike is spot on your waxing poetic Woody Allen said
it best. Nostalgia is a trap. And I've only been
to Soldier Field a couple times, but the first time
I was there was in the late eighties when it
was Soldier Field, and it's not anymore, and you're not wrong,
and it was a spectacular venue. And you know, people say,

(49:50):
what's it like going to Fenway Park? What was it like?
Going to the old Yankee Stadium? What's it like going
to Wrigley Field? Because you can stand there and say,
I'll be a son of a gun, babe, Bruce stood
in that box. You can go to the old soul
your field. What's still there? Actually, it's just different.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
It's different to figure differently and buried a little bit
on different.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
All that stuff. They modernized it. But you can still
go there and say Sid Luckman played there and google it,
you knuckleheads. A few youngsters out there don't know who
sim that's on you. That's on you education.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
So no, no, no, see here's the problem.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Though.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
He shows up in all the graphics because they say
that's the last Good Bears quarterback all these years, A.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
Part of the Jim McMahon. I got a great Jim
McMahon story. I met him and I was recruiting to
play baseball. But you are you another story, great Jim
McMahon story, and I'll tell you I love the punky QB.
That was a team for the age.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Oh, celebrate him every chance I get. Hopefully he's doing
well as well his health like all those guys, their
health issues along the way. Steve McMichael, who go into
the Hall of Fame this year, one of my favorites
of all time, might have worn his number a couple
of years playing youth football back in the day. He's
Bertie Pratto in for Jason Smith's Jason Smith Show with

(50:57):
Me Mike Harmon live from the tirerac dot Com studio.
Coming up next, we will turn our attention to the
actual games for tomorrow because that Detroit Green Bay battle
could be interesting. Jordan love what is he is? We'll
try to figure it out. Coming off a big win
against all it's Brandon Staley again. Look who I keep
getting the skewer. We'll talk about that next year on Fox.

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