June 22, 2024 • 40 mins
Are we still in the Grimace Era? Haason Reddick is currently in Japan cosplaying. Jason explains why he’s buying the Bryce Young hype. And the Ravens plan to give Lamar Jackson more freedom to audible!
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Speaker 2 (00:54):
Listening has never seen in their lives.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We could see a team come from three games to
none down to win a championship.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I mean it's insane, say times, man, I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
We've seen teams coming back from down three to zero
to win series or at least extend to Game seven.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We've seen that a few times.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Right the Heat just did it last year against the
Celtics and the extended went back.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But did Celtics are able to win?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We've seen teams come from back down three zip to
win series. The Kings did it against the Sharks when
they won the Cup in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We all know the Red Sox did it against the
Yankees back in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But not since nineteen forty two the Stanley Cup Final
has a team in the championship come back from down
three zip to win the title?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Right, not since then in hockey.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Never seen it in the NBA, Never seen it in
a World Series in Major League Baseball, Never seen in
the finals NBA. This could be like this is like
real history, not made up history. Like player X is
the first player with to average twenty four points, seven
and a half rebounds, and three and a half steals
through the first four games of a season.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Since this is not a made up thing. This is
not one of those made up stats.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Hey, this is the first time someone's gotten a double
double over the first ten games of a season where
the second part of the double is not always pointed.
It's not always rebounds. I mean stuff we make up
to show how impressive people are. So this is like
a real mark, I guarantee in I don't know anybody.
I don't think I can tell find anybody, because you
have to have been alive in nineteen forty two, been
(02:30):
a hockey fan and been following the Stanley Cup Final
and understand, ay, oh boy, hey the Leaps came back
from down three zip, but they won the Stanley Cup Final.
You don't think you're gonna see anybody tell you that story.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, not a lot of folks going through. I mean,
as we discussed a little earlier as the game was
going on live, it's you know, also leading national show
in the evening with some hockey, So we get to
do that. That's not something that's done with great regularity.
You know, normally kind of mention a story something crazy. Right,
we had the kitchen play that really mattered for about
(03:02):
four seconds. I mean, it was amazing, and then the
empty ntitter got scored the other night, so you know
it's like, oh that was good that it didn't matter. Say,
you know all those nature shows the analogy I used
the other day, all those nature shows, Oh, look at
all the work you did to get away from the
there's another damn gator waiting for him as he rounds
the bend, So that kind of thing. But yeah, it's
(03:24):
really incredible, right You think with the number of games,
the number of series, the expansion of all these playoff
runs in all these leagues that you know, when you
start adding in injury, fatigue, whatever, that you'd have a
championship series where this would have been the case. But no,
we're going back to, you know, pre dating my parents
(03:46):
in terms of this process. We're going back to the
World War two years to find our data point forward.
So amazing stuff. And on Monday, and I can't wait
to chronicle at all with you and Steve.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I mean, my dad is going to be the hell
is going to be this year. He's going to be
hang on, he's going to be seventy eight this year. Okay,
my dad's gonna be seventy eight. He was born four
years after the last time this happened. He was born
four years after this happened. You like how I actually
counted whispering.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That was good. Well, let's tut me. You were also
counting on your fat I was.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Not founding on my fingers. No, no, I'll tell you
when I'm counting on my fingers. I was not counting
on my fingers.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Because I know right now Mary and Shay are laughing
when I said you're fat, hot dog finger.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I do have fat fingers, man, I you know that's
really stopped I think that what really stopped me in sports.
There's a couple of things, but I think my fat
finger definitely stopped me in football because I was always
the quarterback man whenever we played when I was a kid,
because I had a great arm. And not only that,
I could I could throw the ball accurately. I knew
how to lead a receiver. I knew when I saw
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a guy when a dB was gonna have his arms
or the guy covering somebody had his head turned.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh great.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I started with a nerve football and I could throw.
And then we would play with the bigger footballs and
the duke junior we would play man.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I could sling it right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So I get to high school and I'm like, I
would be the quarterback man because I was, I'm the
quarterback and whenever we play, right, because that's me, I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The quarterback right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So I got I remember going to practice and the
first time i'd been the football I said, I can't
throw this. There's no way, man, I cannot throw this ball.
And really because my hands. I got really fat fingers.
And if I had those like thin tapery fingers, you know,
fingers that could like pull cotton out of out of
little bottles, like really easy, like if I had if
(05:36):
I had those, man, I don't know what it would
have been. But I got really fat, stubby fingers, and
I got cigar fingers and would put my hand on
the football and I said.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Like, I can't throw this. You have fat fingers. I cannot.
Oh yeah, no, I got fat. Now you have really delicate,
dainty lady fingers. Well, I don't know the lady fingers.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No, my hands look good, like you look at my
hand and say, oh, that's a hand of a thirty
year old god.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Guy that's never done a work a bit of work
in his life. Hey, hey, hey, you know what screw you, Harmon?
I was actually out.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
What was I What did my wife say is that
I was dead heading today, man. And that wasn't like
hanging out listening songs of the dead. No, we have
this purple but this big, huge purple bush in the
front of our house.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
She goes, hey, can give me a favorite? You go
on dead Head for me? And I'm like, whether i
mean make jewelry and sell it to people walking by?
You mean? And she says, no, there's all of my
some friendship bracelets. It's this purple bush. It's really big bush.
It goes like, you know, ten fifteen feet.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She was, and there's a lot of dead shoots that
come up because I haven't pruned it. Can you just
go and Deadhead and start cutting the ones off? And
I said, yeah, sure, I said I'm gonna do that.
So she was, I said how.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Long do you mean to do? How long do you mean
you for?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
She said, well, I'd love a half hour, but I'll
take fifteen minutes. I said, okay, that's fine. Twenty three minutes.
I said, I'm done. I'm done. But I did my
work and I feel good about it. I did my
but again, I feel like okay. And then when I
got up out of the chair, I almost pulled a
little bit of muscle in the button in my leg,
a little bit so get you know, because I actually
had to sit down. I couldn't stand up, and no, sure,
so I sat down to do it. So I put it.
(07:04):
I put a look, it's good. It's worth the gardening today, jerk.
Well you want to sit here napping and reading about
the White Sox, not knowing how many outs there were.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I was actually doing stuff, man, Yeah, no, I was
watching soccer, thinking we would talk a lot of soccer
today between euro and COPA. I've got the excuse to
just sit in front of a television forever. It's work.
It's work. And I was making friendship bracelets. But that's
a whole other thing. Oh that's nice. You're getting ready.
How many friendship braces you bring in when you go
see Taylor Swift. We're gonna try to bring at least
(07:35):
fifty each. Okay, wow to go wow. We've got a
little bit of a production thing going on, but we'll
get to that. We got plenty of time. I wanted
to bring it up because of the the hot dog fingers.
I don't know if you saw this clip making the
round seth Myers Gokats had Ritchie from The Bear Hun
and he was talking. He goes, you look a lot
different like here than when you do on the show,
(07:57):
and he goes, well, you know, I I intentionally play
a bit bloated and whatever, and they went into a
deep dive on Chicago food. You don't need three hours
in makeup, you just go have a regular Chicago lunch.
And then today there was promotion and I'll have to
buy you all pizza next week because they went to Geno's,
(08:19):
So you know our Geno's right by us, right, so
we'll have to go and take care of that. But
it was kind of cool just him talking about, you know,
being sweaty and puffy and Chicago in and I'm like, yeah,
so you just had a Chicago lunch and they just
started laughing pretty good about it, so pretty good. Yeah. Well,
(08:40):
the Bear starts again next week, buddy, you know, and
I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I told my wife this and she said, you know,
I'm scared that you're right is I said, you know,
I'm nervous about the Bear And she said why And
I said, because it's back really fast after last season,
and it's back with not a lot of fanfare leading
up to it, and they're dropping all the episodes at once, like.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I think the last things.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It makes me nervous, right, But because the show has
become a big deal, but a lot of those people
have become big stars in the last couple of years.
And now Jeremy Allen White's doing movies all the time
and eat muffs backrackers doing so I wonder, like, how
much more time does this show really have because it's
made stars out of the out of the two or
three big stars on the show. But boy, the fact
that they're dropping them all at once, and it said, yeah,
(09:25):
that makes me a little nervous, you know, because The
Bear is such a good show, and the two seasons
were so good.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And I just wanted more and more and more of it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And now the Christmas episode is going to go down
to one of the greatest episodes in television history, no question.
And I just but I just sit in here going wow,
I just got bad vibes for The Bear.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I just I don't know. I hope I'm wrong, I
really do you hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
I just need the Richie spin off and I'll be okay,
give me that. With a little bit of appearances from
Oliver PLATTINU, I'm good to go.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well, do you want season one Richie or do you
want Season two Richie that wears suits? I like hybrid Richie.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Okay, all right where he's kind of transforming a little bit,
like I think that you'll get here, you'll get hybrid Richie.
This seaon yeah, rough edge Richie is really what it's
all all about. Though, Like that's season one where he's
going outside and fired and got up in the air.
I mean, you really can't beat that. When he keeps
telling stories. He keeps telling stop, I'm telling a story. Now,
just stop, and he got can I get you to
do something?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, no, hey, shut up. That's a story. That's a guy.
When I saw that, I said, he is.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He should win the Emmy right there, because that's so
many guys that I knew growing up in Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That is so many guys, right, that's my neighborhood in Chicago.
Like if there was ever a character in a movie
or television show that embodied my upbringing and my family
talking to one another, it's Richie. It really is.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, your brothers are both Season one Richie, I've met
I've met him there both Season one Riches very excited.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, Well I get to go run around Dublin for
a couple of days with the younger Richie.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Uh, but you know, but look, but finishing up with this,
I mean, look, we could see absolute history on Monday
night with Game seven of the Stanley Cup Final. And
you know what I keep thinking about is this maybe
because I think about more about coaching now. I haven't,
you know, coaching the last years and always thinking about
what the right thing is to say to a player.
And that's really what I spend a lot of time
on away from the field. What's the right thing to say?
(11:13):
Because I want to coach the players up here, right.
Anybody can coach the players down in the field level, right,
but I want to I want to coach you. I
want to coach you up on and I just sit
here and go. Paul Maurice, head coach of the of
the Panthers, I mean, what do you say you are
You are one tiny sip away from winning the Stanley Cup,
and you know you can taste it, and you know
your players can taste it. You're up three nothing, you
(11:35):
know you're going to win.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And now what the hell do you say to that team? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I gets you're going back home. I understand, but I
really don't know what your message is? Is your message?
No message? There's nothing I can say that it feels
like I'm not, but are you? Does it help to
get mad? Does it help to to do something to
get back to basics with with with some kind of
skate around on fire, Like I don't know, do you
just start helling jokes? I mean, I really I don't
(12:01):
know what you say at this point, because things have
gotten so bad so fast, and they seem to be
getting worse with every game. It's not like, hey, here's
a game, you know, you lose Game four, okay, Game
five goes you know, quadruple over time and somebody slips
and falls, and game six you get a couple of
bad No, it's the Oilers have now scored five goals
in like the last four games, like they're unstoppable right now.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I don't know what you say. I really, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And that's the toughest thing because he's got to be saying,
I gotta have some kind of me this is what
I get paid for. I gotta have some kind of message,
some kind of way to get these guys back out
and full of confidence on Monday night for game seven.
I don't know how you do that. I mean, I've
been thinking about for the last hour and a half
going is it?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
This is it? This is it? This?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I've nothing has hit me of This is what
I would say, This is the right message to give
to this team.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But also you know, in the back of your mind
as you're trying to deliver this message, how convincing are you? How?
How how are you gonna do the sell job? Go
watch some shoot interviews with some WWE stars, or go
read a Phil Jackson book really fast. I mean, because
you you had this game where Connor McDavid as Steve
laid out before, no shots, no points. It's the only
(13:12):
time that they've won in a game of that circumstance,
and where you got kind of housed. So how do
you rally from that? Knowing he'll be better and he'll
he'll see the and smell the blood in the water? Right?
I mean, it's it's the worst, right because the you
know what to do. Physically, that's fine unless you're a
(13:34):
White Sox base runner, but mentally, mentally you check out,
man like in trying to figure that out. Boy, good luck.
I don't I don't know what the playing there ade is.
I mean, when you got twenty five hundred miles right, Yeah,
that's about as long as you could fly. You got
(13:54):
this long ass trip you now have to make after
losing the three to zero lead. Yeah, you're heading back
home and and you'll fall into the arms of a
loved one and then you're gonna start thinking about Monday night.
What a what a rough run? Man? What I'm really
a very difficult thing. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And it's really it's really I'm gonna spent all weekend
think of what could you possibly say? What can you
say that's going to be a difference it's gonna get through,
that's gonna put them in a positive frame of mind.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And I don't know what that is. I really it's
it's really funny, and you could you could pull some
Joe Mizzoula stuff and start bringing out all sorts of
nature videos and then the stuff from the Dark Night
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna watch Dark Knight rises.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What like leg It's the end of school and your
finals over for one class and you're like, hey, we're
gonna watch movies every day? Really, yeah, just go you
can study for another final if you want, but we're
gonna watch movies every day. Man, He took an A
B class.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
My my younger for those unawares, Uh, she takes an
AP class and but that was three weeks before school.
They watched a lot of historical films, so a lot
of war movies and stuff. But to your yeah, she
got a lot of studying done for her other finals.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Would you today? Well, we watched Troy with Brad Pitt.
Tomorrow we're gonna watch History of the World Part one. Oh,
let's get learning a lock clastic. There you go, exit out,
bout of Fresca, exit swallowing down The Jason Smith Show with.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
My best friend Mike Carmon. I think I have all
the answers. I have no answer for that. It's it's shocking.
Coming up next here we have two NFL stories.
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was absolutely terrible last year, And what happens when a
big off season trade goes horribly horribly wrong. That's next
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Speaker 1 (16:51):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire Rack dot Com studios. Well, and
I'll tell you, Mike, I'm a man of my word?
What did you ask me last hour? I said, hey,
it's still the Grimace era, all right. After after a
day off they lose a game, they're back. They win today, big,
I said, I got to go back to McDonald's every
(17:11):
day until they use all right, what do we get?
My wife was out tonight dropping Zoe off of the movies.
I said, hey, you swing by McDonald's on the way back.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
She said sure.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I said great, I'll take a quarter pound of with
cheese meal, extra cheese, no pickles, and die coke. She said, okay,
boom back done, finished, Still have some of the diet coke,
but done. I'm feeling good about the Mets again going
into this weekend. Okay, I'm feeling.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Good, all right, good, you know, as long as you
got your your fuel because I was actually thinking of
going there.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
After yeah Grimace, Yeah, buddy, after losing the game tonight,
because you know how many outs there were, I think
you need to do you need to more fully embrace
the Grimace era.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
No, honestly, I'm really kind of salty right now about
that whole lot loss. It's showing up in my timeline
a bunch. I've had friends and fan check in with
what the hell are we watching here? Are you quitting
the team? No, I'm wearing a south Side shirt as
we're standing here. Right as I'm sitting here doing the
(18:10):
show with you, I'm thinking about, you know, how much
Chicago representation there is in my international travels. All of
those things. I may just have to ignore it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's been one hundred and five years. We're throwing the
season again, just like we did back in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That's all. Well, No, I'd have to explain all of that. Generally,
my experience overseas, and this is more in Scandinavia was
you say you're from Chicago. Everybody still thinks it's nothing
but mobsters. Oh it is, it is, but they they
want to hear tales of where you've been. I'm like, oh,
here's this restaurant. You go up and pull a picture.
It's like there's still the bullets are still in the wall.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Like yeah, and the guy that serves your steak, he's
ninety eight. If he's a day awesome, Here have a beer,
you know, it's that kind of thing you can drink
for free as long as you got some sales down.
By the way, I live in Los Angeles. Now you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Know and up said that guy, he's from Chicago. One
phone call and he can he can somebody come down
and put you in cement shoes, all.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Right, damn right? And then you say you're from Los Angeles,
Well you must either be famous or know some famous people.
So that gets you a beer too. So all those
tips and tricks of the trade. You're on the road.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, as you and I both prepare to travel abroad
in the next couple of weeks, maybe maybe you and
I will run into Hassan Reddick. I mean we might might,
we might. Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What a horrible Jets story. This is so.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Hassan Reddick one of the best pass rushers in the NFL.
The Jets make a big move to get him in
the offseason. They let other pass rushers go, and they decide,
Hassan Reddick is a guy a twenty nine coming off
a big.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Double digit sack season. We're going to just reload with
him and maybe get a little bit better getting after
the quarterback. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
According to all reports, when the Jets were gonna make
a trade for him, Reddick said he wanted more money.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
They said, well, well we're not.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We're not you'll close the door, that idea, but we'd
like to see you play and figure something out. And
as far as the Jets say, hey, everything was fine,
and what happened since that trade went down? The son
Reddick has not been to the Jets facility at all.
Robert Salah hasn't talked to him. It's such a bad
deal and it's such a bad, embarrassing story, but it's
(20:21):
been covered up by Hey, Aaron Rodgers isn't around either,
So we'll get to a son Reddick. But then today
when I get online and I get a bunch of
people sending me this picture, I go, what the hell
is this? What is this? It's a picture of a
son Reddick and he's cosplaying. Yeah, and he's he's traveling
abroad and he is costplaying. And I'm like, no way,
(20:41):
this is not a this is not this is not
a real pictures No that I'm looking through it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm looking through it. I'm saying, this is not happening.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
No, it's him vacationing in Tokyo, wasn't it Mini camp
wasn't everywhere? And he's on a vacation and he's cosplaying,
and he wrote, he writes the lost Samurai over a
video clip of him walking down the street in Tokyo
dressed like a samurai and he's got some kind of
I think he's got a.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Katana blade like that. I don't know if it's a.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Real blade or not, but I'm like, this is the
dude is costplaying in Tokyo on vacation and he still
hasn't been to the Jets. This is so embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And again I say the same thing. Right, the Jets
have a really good roster, but boy do they have issues.
But this just is the latest thing to fall into
the category of don't worry. Eight is gonna cover it
up for all of us. Aaron Rodgers is gonna cover
up all our ills like you expect your quarterback to,
like you hope your great quarterback will do whatever problems
(21:39):
we have, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Eight is gonna take care of him. Rogers will wind up.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Don't worry about guys gonna be that we might only
play ten guys on defense. Nin No, No, We'll have
Aaron Rodgers. He's gonna take care of all the problems. Which,
in theory, yeah, it sounds like a pretty good idea,
not as great of an idea after he missed the
entire season last year with the torn achilles and forty
years old. I get it if you're thinking, okay, when
you're thirty thirty one, Roger, sure, but now it's like, boy,
(22:05):
you're really putting a lot in that. Don't worry Aaron
Rodgers will will make everything great camp. And I don't
know about that because I look at this and I go,
what are the Jets doing?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Man? Like, how did you not really know this was
gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
How did you not know the guy really wanted money
and he's playing hardball?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Because now I go, what kind of season is he
really gonna have? Right?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
If he has not been working out, he has not
been with the team, what's gonna happen is eventually when
he gets into camp to play, he'll come in late,
he'll get hurt, he'll have an injury plagued year, and
at the end of the year's gonna go, wow, I'm
not getting paid anymore and the Jets are gonna let
me go after a year and my career is basically over.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Whereas Ad you figured something out with a bed.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But now, look, the guy's even been around, and you
know we're talking about the time when when NFL teams
go away on vacation now and they come back and
you know, in a little bit less than a month
to get ready for the season, and the Jets are
still not gonna have him round, and who knows what
he's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
This is just so embarrassing. Really, it's so embarrassing. Well,
you know, it seems like you like to have layers
to your chaos in the off season, which is worth
a guy forgetting how many outs there are in an anora,
you know, the long standing ramification like, look, I know
I suck, right, my team sucks, and there's nothing, there's
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nothing that's gonna change that. So this just even as
the look the new guy is starting to get it,
this is just White Sox baseball. Okay, that's what he said.
This is just another example dot dot dot as poor
Gordon Beckham, former White Sox infielder, is losing his mind.
What am I watching? So it's it's it's just that
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for you for the Jets, all that hope, all that
optimism with the guy who could be a dominant playmaker
for you, and he's a no show. And then Aaron
Rodgers and as much as we talked about it. You know,
everybody you know comes to it like if the team's
fine and the coach is fine overall all, sure, but
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I'm sure there's some some folks a bit salty and
malcontented about it. Damn it, I'm sitting here sweating my
ass off. Why why does this guy get to go
do whatever he wants? And even if you say it's unexcused,
what are the ramifications? You know?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And and that's the worst part of it is that
a week ago when Robert Sala said this is this
is an inexcuse apps, he said, quote, he's in a
really good place mentally, working his tail off, like we
already know. No, the dudes in Tokyo dressed up like
a samurai walking around downtown.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So we're both gone odd man, right, So you have
you know, on one hand, Rogers, we need to get
all the bs out of the room and blah blah
blah blah blah. And here I'm gonna bring some more
of it back in my own self. I got your
baggage out of here, but mine gets to stay. And
it's special. And now reddick, I mean I saw this
picture earlier. I didn't even have the heart to tweet
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it to you. OJE harassed you about it, figuring you
were gonna get you. We're gonna have to wear it
here nationally at night, and I'm certain many of your friends,
even with the Mets winning today and beating the hell
out of the Cubs, that you were wearing it from
all your friends that love to take potshots and your
squads whenever they can. So I will get you your
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own katana sword oho.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You will thank you very much. So I can sit
there and quote Lucy Lou and Uma Thurman. You didn't
think it was going to be that easy, did you?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah? Yeah, go for a second there, I kind of did.
All of a sudden, You're propping up any Jets member
and blia you have and slicing it in half like
you're playing fruit Ninja back in the day at.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Dano Doosters, just like Hasan Reddick is Lucy Lou and
the Jets are Uma Thurman, and she shows up and
then all the crazy eighty eight and they come at
her one at a time. Yeah, exactly, Well, and that's
the line. You didn't think it was going to be
that easy? Digit Yeah, for a second, I kind of did. Okay,
now we gotta go to the crazy eighty eighth to
get it back.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now. Meanwhile, hey, training camp, but just another six weeks,
bab Come on now, not even Adam Thielen wide receiver
with the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And put the exclamation point on what has probably been
the best week that number one picked from last year
Bryce Young has had in the NFL. Struggled all last year,
really making you wonder, boy, is he really as good
as everybody says he was? Because he struggled all season long?
But according to all reports this week, it's been a
different thing on Bryce Young. Every day, how good he looks,
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how much more in command to the offense he is?
And yes, I understand this is now quarterback number five
hundred and seventy five that we say, hey, this guy's
light years ahead of where he was as a rookie. Right, Okay,
when is a guy not light years ahead of where
you are as a rookie. Where's a guy coming in
for his second year and somebody says he's behind where
he was a year ago, He really is. He's not
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quite where he was when he first walked in here.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
No, everybody, every quarterback has always light years ahead of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Where they were a year ago. Their command of the
offense is better. Everything's back, Yeah, of course it is,
but you're in you're in mini camp, you're in OTAs,
you're practicing against air. The footballs aren't flying for real.
All that being said, I'm buying on Bryce Young this year.
Uh it's he's he's too good of a talent to
not succeed in the NFL. And maybe his learning curve
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was just a little bit too steep and the weapons
he had a year ago not quite what he needed.
Now they went out and they got a running back
in Jonathan Brooks who that the big deal is when's
he gonna come back? Right coming off the torn ACL
It could be a little bit, but they could probably.
They have the they have the running game to get
by without him. But he's a chubba, a huge, huge deal. Yeah,
he's a huge deal. You went out traded for Deontay Johnson.
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All right, Now you're hoping for another good year from
Jonathan Mingo or for another year john where he jumps
back up from last year because he was awfull first
round pick. So the offense is a little bit better,
and they I mean, yeah, look there he made a
big Doug draft pick in the first round.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Two.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Your offense is better than it was a year ago.
And look, and I thought going in last year it
wasn't bad. I didn't think it was great, but I
think it was bad. But boys, as time went on,
you realize that, yeah, you need you need a couple
of guys and a team is afraid of and then
the game breakers just aren't here. And maybe you asked
them to a little bit too much last year. They've
they've definitely gone the other way and said, okay, we
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have to create around him.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Now, this is definitely a sink or swim year for
Bryce Young because if he's terrible the Panthers, no, okay, man,
we got to move on, right. We can't go into
next year thinking, oh, Bryce Young's finally going to get
it in year three.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
But I'm buying the bounce back and the turnaround for him.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Maybe a little bit too much last year, not in
the greatest of situations coming in when it comes to personnel.
So I'll believe in the bounce back for him, just
because watching him at Alabama, the way you would see
the field, the way you be able to get the
ball in the right place all the time. That doesn't
go away. Maybe maybe it takes you a little bit
of time to get used to things, and maybe his
learning curts a little bit steeper. But I'm buying the
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bounce back this year for Bryce Young.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Well, you go and you bring in Canalis, right, you know,
so he's he's a guy that could be give them
a boost as well. Great track record with quarterbacks, right,
great track record. So what he was able to do
with Baker and and now you get to be a
head man. Obviously there's always concern about Bryce Young's build,
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like that was the one knock coming into the draft
last year was that, And in theory, you fortified all
that peripheral the the skill position guys. Hopefully the five
guys up front can do the job. Right. Trembles a
decent maybe above average tight end, and the guy who's
grown into the game, maybe he takes on a bigger
(29:45):
role for Matt Adam Thieln. Some of it is hyping
the young guy, but also saying, hey, there's a bunch
of new guys here, but I'm still old reliable. I'm
old and reliable, so keep looking my way. Target counts
for this guy over here. But you're all s a
division where nobody's running in hiding. I mean, Tampa Bay
is the class, right, but how big are they?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Is Baker gonna have another monster year? You look at
changes and losing canals and what does that mean for
their offense? So yeah, I mean opportunity. He's certainly there.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike carbon I'm buying
the bounce back for Bryce Young and now I'm also
buying the guy you're going to hear from to tell
you what's trending in the wide world of sports. Also
went on vacation in Tokyo dressed as a samurai.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I'm stand back. Last week it's Steve Desager.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
And all I got with his dumb T shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Well, the trip's kind of expensive, so if you got
a T shirt, then I mean you get back with'
he while we.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Are talking football. By the way, the Jacksonville Jaguars in
twenty twenty seven could be playing three home games in
London during their stadium reconstruction in Jacksonville, with the other
home games elsewhere in Florida. That year, the Atlanta Falcon
signed first round quarterback Michael Pennix. Kirk Cousins also has
a four year contract with Atlanta. Oklahoma Sooners coach Brent
(31:09):
Venables agreed to a new six year deal. Oklahoma and
Texas will be in the SEC starting this year. Former
Texas A and m All American running back Darren Lewis
died of cancer at the age of fifty five, and
Pro Football Talk found this from Canadian Press. The CFL
has fined four of its kickers for complaining publicly about
the micro chips inserted into the footballs in games there
(31:32):
after opening Day. The Winnipeg kicker says, I'm out there
literally praying the rosary. I don't know where to aim.
He is blaming the trajectory of his kicks on the
chips inside the footballs and.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
On social media.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Three other kickers supported him, and they've all been fined
by the league. The CFL has since amended the rules
to allow kickers to opt out of using those footballs
with the chips in them you reference earlier. The way
their schedule works most weekends, it's one game Thursday, one Friday,
one Saturday, and then one Sunday. So tonight we had
a game with BC in a late field goal winning
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at Winnipeg. I'm guessing most of Canada was not paying attention, because, gentlemen,
we have our first Game seven in any final the
major sports in five years. Edmonton a five to one
winner over Florida tonight, including two empty net goals in
the final minutes. So what was a three games to
none Florida lead is now three games apiece with Game
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seven at Florida on Monday. Last time we had a
Game seven in the major sports it was the twenty
nineteen World Series. So added up, that's thirteen straight championship
rounds in the major sports without a game seven, the
longest stretch of our lifetimes, in fact, the longest stretch
since the NBA was founded. According to ap Oiler's penalty
(32:54):
kill has just been sensational. In the Final, they've killed
eighteen of the nineteen. In fact, going back aways through
the postseason, they've killed forty six of the last forty
seven penalties against him. In fact, let's put it this way,
in that stretch, they've allowed one power play goal and
the Oilers have scored three shorthanded, So the Edmontons Edmonton
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Oilers have outscored their opponents these last three games by
thirteen goals to force a Game seven, which ties the
best goal differential by any NHL club in the final
all time for a three game span. It ties Gretzky's
Oilers from the nineteen eighty four series WOW five to
one Tonight's final in game six. There were two WNBA games.
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Las Vegas beat Connecticut Asia Wilson twenty six points, sixteen rebounds.
Indiana won its game at Atlanta in front of a
sellout crowd at the NBA Arena. There Caitlin Clark sixteen points,
seven assists, seven turnovers. We have two late games in
Major League Baseball. The Padres have retaken the lead. It
is now nine to five over Milwaukee in the box
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him of the eighth, and the Angels and Dodgers are
tied two to two in the top of the tenth.
As you referenced last hour, the Dodgers had a too
nothing lead, but reliever Ryan Yarborough allowed the tying runs
as he hit three batters in one inning. Houston over
Baltimore fourteen to eleven. Houston got nine runs in the sixth.
It was fourteen to four in the eighth.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Back to you thanks a bunch, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Lave from the ti iraq dot Com Studios. The Angels
have just taken the lead over the Dodgers three to
two in the top of the tenth single through the
left side with two outs and gives the angel a
three to two lead. They are still batting in the
top of the tenth inning. But coming up next, you
want to know why one star quarterback has failed in
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the playoffs his entire career. Something came out today that
maybe gives you the reason why. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Oh listen to.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Jaki Lego five second Guitar Party Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. One
of the most underrated guitar solos in all of rock history,
because there's two of them. Like he hits a big
guitar solo and then then it slows down, and then
he hits a big guitar solo to go out bark
at the moon. What an unbelievable Still, that's still my
(35:26):
favorite Ozzie song. I Love Crazy, Training to Love all
This is my favorite Ozzie song without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
It is really a uh. As soon as that opening
chord hits, right, it's like, all right, let's go fired in.
There's so many of them, right when when you talk
about Ozzie and Black Sabbath, like the intro into Black
Sabbath is different, but Ozzie, Yeah, okay in terms of
both all right, there's a lot of songs that need
to slow build. Yeah, Ozzie and Sabbath didn't. They didn't
(35:55):
do it that way. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Well, especially when you have a song called Bark at
the Moon, you can't just kind of, you know, slowly
slide in there.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Well, bark at the Moon. Oh look at this one.
What a wonderful song. It could be a nice philosophical thing,
your light refreshing favorites and fifty minutes of music an
hour here on why ninety four FM. Now, if I
got to host one of those like evening music shows
where it's like, oh, love letters, whatever, occasionally I would
have to bust out the bark at the Moon or something.
(36:22):
Got to keep people honest. We don't discriminate from you know,
between styles and genres of music. You want a little
slow R and B, we got you. You want a
little bit of venal air supply and great songs and
love ballads of the eighties, we got you there too.
But if you need a bad, eating, crazy son of
(36:43):
a gun, we could supply that while we're at it.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Toe all right, Well, hopefully we'll hear some air supply
next hour on the show. Out of nothing at all,
this is the most shocking NFL story of the week,
and I can't believe this has gone on.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's gaining a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Of traction today that the Baltimore Ravens really want something
different from Lamar Jackson next season. Well, what is it? Well,
and hear it here at Minnie Camp and everything that's
been going on. They want him to have free rein
to audible, Like okay, wait a minute, really, yes, free
rein to audible because one of the big things they
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saw is that when they played the Chiefs in the
playoffs last year, there was a lot of situations where
the Chiefs brought pressure and Lamar couldn't get out of it,
and it was really difficult and there was nothing they
could do. And now that they want him to be
able to feel and have the freedom to audible out
into other plays, that's gonna help them. And when I
saw that, I said, wait, Lamar Jackson didn't have the
(37:45):
capability or the green light to audible to plays if
he saw something he didn't like.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wait, this is not a.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Guy taking over for his first time. This is not
Zach Wilson. Hey, we gotta give Zach Wilson full rain.
Let him call all the plays. You're talking about a
two time I'm NFL MVP, one of the best quarterbacks
in the game, and he didn't have the ability to
audible out if he saw something.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Are you kidding me? Like, I'm like no, No.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Wonder the Ravens can't win games in the playoffs was
when when teams figure out this is how we're gonna
attack you, and hey, sorry, you can't do this.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Well, I can't be the play that was called, we
gotta run it.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
How do you I mean, I understand some quarterbacks not
getting to that point. How is Lamar Jackson not a
quarterback that's allowed to audible out that. No, we're fine,
We're giving him free rain. Now he's been able to
audible before. It's happened before. There was a big deal
two years ago about how he's feeling comfortable audibling into
other plays. Look again, another MVP for the guy. But
but now he gets full rain to audible. No wonder
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the Ravens falls short in the playoffs. T Martin quote,
It's like that smart kid in the classroom. You can't
allow him to get bored, right, He's like that. You
have to constantly add things, tweaks and things and that
nature and responsibilities. Okay, Earlier this week, Tom Brady did
a did an interview with Colin Cowherd on the Network
and got deep into, you know, how he played the
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position and what made what made for success, talking about continuity,
really praising the offensive one things you've heard before, but
he really got deep into the idea of instead of
worrying about the throw being potentially an error, it was
snapping the ball with a play call that would be
an error and had little possibility, right, you know, kind
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of twisting the general rule of all right, I get
up there and we always talk about him and Manning
and you know, Breeze or whatever of you know, their
ability to go and check into a different play, and
and and see what the defense is given and play
that game of chess.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
But he laid it out in such a perfect way.
He goes, if it's got five percent of error, that's
five percent too much. Like it's my job to figure
out how we get that as close to zero as
we can. And if I can totally see, it's gonna
be blown up by what they've called. Right if I'm
gonna run straight into a blitzer on the right side
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off the edge, like I'm kind of giving away a play, aren't.
So what are we doing? That sounds exactly what they
had Lamar Jackson doing. He's like, I just use your athleticism,
you'll figure it out. Now, all of a sudden, I
look at those red zone offensive sets in an entirely
different way, Like was John Harbor.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
On the Sunlight going, Oh, this play's gonna suck. Nothing
we could do. Let's see what let's see what he
can do with that. Oh boy, they really knew to
overload the left side. But this is not gonna go. Well, man,
if only there was something we could do about it. Oh.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I really really enjoyed the watching Lamar trying to make
the best. Hey what, I'm an MVP. No wonder the
vents don't wait. That solves everything. Now I get why
they stink in the playoffs when they had played the
best of teams. Who knew coming up next? Way? Do
we tell you what?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
NBA owner was really not happy with the way the
head coaching search just finished.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
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Listening has never seen in their lives.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
We could see a team come from three games to
none down to win a championship.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I mean it's insane, say times, man, I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
We've seen teams coming back from down three to zero
to win series or at least extend to Game seven.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
We've seen that a few times.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Right the Heat just did it last year against the
Celtics and the extended went back.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
But did Celtics are able to win?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
We've seen teams come from back down three zip to
win series. The Kings did it against the Sharks when
they won the Cup in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We all know the Red Sox did it against the
Yankees back in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
But not since nineteen forty two the Stanley Cup Final
has a team in the championship come back from down
three zip to win the title?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Right, not since then in hockey.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Never seen it in the NBA, Never seen it in
a World Series in Major League Baseball, Never seen in
the finals NBA. This could be like this is like
real history, not made up history. Like player X is
the first player with to average twenty four points, seven
and a half rebounds, and three and a half steals
through the first four games of a season.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Since this is not a made up thing. This is
not one of those made up stats.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Hey, this is the first time someone's gotten a double
double over the first ten games of a season where
the second part of the double is not always pointed.
It's not always rebounds. I mean stuff we make up
to show how impressive people are. So this is like
a real mark, I guarantee in I don't know anybody.
I don't think I can tell find anybody, because you
have to have been alive in nineteen forty two, been
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a hockey fan and been following the Stanley Cup Final
and understand, ay, oh boy, hey the Leaps came back
from down three zip, but they won the Stanley Cup Final.
You don't think you're gonna see anybody tell you that story.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
No, not a lot of folks going through. I mean,
as we discussed a little earlier as the game was
going on live, it's you know, also leading national show
in the evening with some hockey, So we get to
do that. That's not something that's done with great regularity.
You know, normally kind of mention a story something crazy. Right,
we had the kitchen play that really mattered for about
(03:02):
four seconds. I mean, it was amazing, and then the
empty ntitter got scored the other night, so you know
it's like, oh that was good that it didn't matter. Say,
you know all those nature shows the analogy I used
the other day, all those nature shows, Oh, look at
all the work you did to get away from the
there's another damn gator waiting for him as he rounds
the bend, So that kind of thing. But yeah, it's
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really incredible, right You think with the number of games,
the number of series, the expansion of all these playoff
runs in all these leagues that you know, when you
start adding in injury, fatigue, whatever, that you'd have a
championship series where this would have been the case. But no,
we're going back to, you know, pre dating my parents
(03:46):
in terms of this process. We're going back to the
World War two years to find our data point forward.
So amazing stuff. And on Monday, and I can't wait
to chronicle at all with you and Steve.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I mean, my dad is going to be the hell
is going to be this year. He's going to be
hang on, he's going to be seventy eight this year. Okay,
my dad's gonna be seventy eight. He was born four
years after the last time this happened. He was born
four years after this happened. You like how I actually
counted whispering.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
That was good. Well, let's tut me. You were also
counting on your fat I was.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Not founding on my fingers. No, no, I'll tell you
when I'm counting on my fingers. I was not counting
on my fingers.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Because I know right now Mary and Shay are laughing
when I said you're fat, hot dog finger.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I do have fat fingers, man, I you know that's
really stopped I think that what really stopped me in sports.
There's a couple of things, but I think my fat
finger definitely stopped me in football because I was always
the quarterback man whenever we played when I was a kid,
because I had a great arm. And not only that,
I could I could throw the ball accurately. I knew
how to lead a receiver. I knew when I saw
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a guy when a dB was gonna have his arms
or the guy covering somebody had his head turned.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Oh great.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And I started with a nerve football and I could throw.
And then we would play with the bigger footballs and
the duke junior we would play man.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I could sling it right.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So I get to high school and I'm like, I
would be the quarterback man because I was, I'm the
quarterback and whenever we play, right, because that's me, I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
The quarterback right.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So I got I remember going to practice and the
first time i'd been the football I said, I can't
throw this. There's no way, man, I cannot throw this ball.
And really because my hands. I got really fat fingers.
And if I had those like thin tapery fingers, you know,
fingers that could like pull cotton out of out of
little bottles, like really easy, like if I had if
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I had those, man, I don't know what it would
have been. But I got really fat, stubby fingers, and
I got cigar fingers and would put my hand on
the football and I said.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Like, I can't throw this. You have fat fingers. I cannot.
Oh yeah, no, I got fat. Now you have really delicate,
dainty lady fingers. Well, I don't know the lady fingers.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
No, my hands look good, like you look at my
hand and say, oh, that's a hand of a thirty
year old god.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Guy that's never done a work a bit of work
in his life. Hey, hey, hey, you know what screw you, Harmon?
I was actually out.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
What was I What did my wife say is that
I was dead heading today, man. And that wasn't like
hanging out listening songs of the dead. No, we have
this purple but this big, huge purple bush in the
front of our house.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
She goes, hey, can give me a favorite? You go
on dead Head for me? And I'm like, whether i
mean make jewelry and sell it to people walking by?
You mean? And she says, no, there's all of my
some friendship bracelets. It's this purple bush. It's really big bush.
It goes like, you know, ten fifteen feet.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
She was, and there's a lot of dead shoots that
come up because I haven't pruned it. Can you just
go and Deadhead and start cutting the ones off? And
I said, yeah, sure, I said I'm gonna do that.
So she was, I said how.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Long do you mean to do? How long do you mean
you for?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
She said, well, I'd love a half hour, but I'll
take fifteen minutes. I said, okay, that's fine. Twenty three minutes.
I said, I'm done. I'm done. But I did my
work and I feel good about it. I did my
but again, I feel like okay. And then when I
got up out of the chair, I almost pulled a
little bit of muscle in the button in my leg,
a little bit so get you know, because I actually
had to sit down. I couldn't stand up, and no, sure,
so I sat down to do it. So I put it.
(07:04):
I put a look, it's good. It's worth the gardening today, jerk.
Well you want to sit here napping and reading about
the White Sox, not knowing how many outs there were.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I was actually doing stuff, man, Yeah, no, I was
watching soccer, thinking we would talk a lot of soccer
today between euro and COPA. I've got the excuse to
just sit in front of a television forever. It's work.
It's work. And I was making friendship bracelets. But that's
a whole other thing. Oh that's nice. You're getting ready.
How many friendship braces you bring in when you go
see Taylor Swift. We're gonna try to bring at least
(07:35):
fifty each. Okay, wow to go wow. We've got a
little bit of a production thing going on, but we'll
get to that. We got plenty of time. I wanted
to bring it up because of the the hot dog fingers.
I don't know if you saw this clip making the
round seth Myers Gokats had Ritchie from The Bear Hun
and he was talking. He goes, you look a lot
different like here than when you do on the show,
(07:57):
and he goes, well, you know, I I intentionally play
a bit bloated and whatever, and they went into a
deep dive on Chicago food. You don't need three hours
in makeup, you just go have a regular Chicago lunch.
And then today there was promotion and I'll have to
buy you all pizza next week because they went to Geno's,
(08:19):
So you know our Geno's right by us, right, so
we'll have to go and take care of that. But
it was kind of cool just him talking about, you know,
being sweaty and puffy and Chicago in and I'm like, yeah,
so you just had a Chicago lunch and they just
started laughing pretty good about it, so pretty good. Yeah. Well,
(08:40):
the Bear starts again next week, buddy, you know, and
I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And I told my wife this and she said, you know,
I'm scared that you're right is I said, you know,
I'm nervous about the Bear And she said why And
I said, because it's back really fast after last season,
and it's back with not a lot of fanfare leading
up to it, and they're dropping all the episodes at once, like.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
I think the last things.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
It makes me nervous, right, But because the show has
become a big deal, but a lot of those people
have become big stars in the last couple of years.
And now Jeremy Allen White's doing movies all the time
and eat muffs backrackers doing so I wonder, like, how
much more time does this show really have because it's
made stars out of the out of the two or
three big stars on the show. But boy, the fact
that they're dropping them all at once, and it said, yeah,
(09:25):
that makes me a little nervous, you know, because The
Bear is such a good show, and the two seasons
were so good.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And I just wanted more and more and more of it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And now the Christmas episode is going to go down
to one of the greatest episodes in television history, no question.
And I just but I just sit in here going wow,
I just got bad vibes for The Bear.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I just I don't know. I hope I'm wrong, I
really do you hope I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong.
I just need the Richie spin off and I'll be okay,
give me that. With a little bit of appearances from
Oliver PLATTINU, I'm good to go.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Well, do you want season one Richie or do you
want Season two Richie that wears suits? I like hybrid Richie.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Okay, all right where he's kind of transforming a little bit,
like I think that you'll get here, you'll get hybrid Richie.
This seaon yeah, rough edge Richie is really what it's
all all about. Though, Like that's season one where he's
going outside and fired and got up in the air.
I mean, you really can't beat that. When he keeps
telling stories. He keeps telling stop, I'm telling a story. Now,
just stop, and he got can I get you to
do something?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
No, no, hey, shut up. That's a story. That's a guy.
When I saw that, I said, he is.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
He should win the Emmy right there, because that's so
many guys that I knew growing up in Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
That is so many guys, right, that's my neighborhood in Chicago.
Like if there was ever a character in a movie
or television show that embodied my upbringing and my family
talking to one another, it's Richie. It really is.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Well, your brothers are both Season one Richie, I've met
I've met him there both Season one Riches very excited.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, Well I get to go run around Dublin for
a couple of days with the younger Richie.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Uh, but you know, but look, but finishing up with this,
I mean, look, we could see absolute history on Monday
night with Game seven of the Stanley Cup Final. And
you know what I keep thinking about is this maybe
because I think about more about coaching now. I haven't,
you know, coaching the last years and always thinking about
what the right thing is to say to a player.
And that's really what I spend a lot of time
on away from the field. What's the right thing to say?
(11:13):
Because I want to coach the players up here, right.
Anybody can coach the players down in the field level, right,
but I want to I want to coach you. I
want to coach you up on and I just sit
here and go. Paul Maurice, head coach of the of
the Panthers, I mean, what do you say you are
You are one tiny sip away from winning the Stanley Cup,
and you know you can taste it, and you know
your players can taste it. You're up three nothing, you
(11:35):
know you're going to win.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And now what the hell do you say to that team? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I gets you're going back home. I understand, but I
really don't know what your message is? Is your message?
No message? There's nothing I can say that it feels
like I'm not, but are you? Does it help to
get mad? Does it help to to do something to
get back to basics with with with some kind of
skate around on fire, Like I don't know, do you
just start helling jokes? I mean, I really I don't
(12:01):
know what you say at this point, because things have
gotten so bad so fast, and they seem to be
getting worse with every game. It's not like, hey, here's
a game, you know, you lose Game four, okay, Game
five goes you know, quadruple over time and somebody slips
and falls, and game six you get a couple of
bad No, it's the Oilers have now scored five goals
in like the last four games, like they're unstoppable right now.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
I don't know what you say. I really, I really don't.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
And that's the toughest thing because he's got to be saying,
I gotta have some kind of me this is what
I get paid for. I gotta have some kind of message,
some kind of way to get these guys back out
and full of confidence on Monday night for game seven.
I don't know how you do that. I mean, I've
been thinking about for the last hour and a half
going is it?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
This is it? This is it? This?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And I've nothing has hit me of This is what
I would say, This is the right message to give
to this team.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
But also you know, in the back of your mind
as you're trying to deliver this message, how convincing are you? How?
How how are you gonna do the sell job? Go
watch some shoot interviews with some WWE stars, or go
read a Phil Jackson book really fast. I mean, because
you you had this game where Connor McDavid as Steve
laid out before, no shots, no points. It's the only
(13:12):
time that they've won in a game of that circumstance,
and where you got kind of housed. So how do
you rally from that? Knowing he'll be better and he'll
he'll see the and smell the blood in the water? Right?
I mean, it's it's the worst, right because the you
know what to do. Physically, that's fine unless you're a
(13:34):
White Sox base runner, but mentally, mentally you check out,
man like in trying to figure that out. Boy, good luck.
I don't I don't know what the playing there ade is.
I mean, when you got twenty five hundred miles right, Yeah,
that's about as long as you could fly. You got
(13:54):
this long ass trip you now have to make after
losing the three to zero lead. Yeah, you're heading back
home and and you'll fall into the arms of a
loved one and then you're gonna start thinking about Monday night.
What a what a rough run? Man? What I'm really
a very difficult thing. I don't know what to say.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
And it's really it's really I'm gonna spent all weekend
think of what could you possibly say? What can you
say that's going to be a difference it's gonna get through,
that's gonna put them in a positive frame of mind.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
And I don't know what that is. I really it's
it's really funny, and you could you could pull some
Joe Mizzoula stuff and start bringing out all sorts of
nature videos and then the stuff from the Dark Night
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, we're gonna watch Dark Knight rises.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
What like leg It's the end of school and your
finals over for one class and you're like, hey, we're
gonna watch movies every day? Really, yeah, just go you
can study for another final if you want, but we're
gonna watch movies every day. Man, He took an A
B class.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
My my younger for those unawares, Uh, she takes an
AP class and but that was three weeks before school.
They watched a lot of historical films, so a lot
of war movies and stuff. But to your yeah, she
got a lot of studying done for her other finals.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Would you today? Well, we watched Troy with Brad Pitt.
Tomorrow we're gonna watch History of the World Part one. Oh,
let's get learning a lock clastic. There you go, exit out,
bout of Fresca, exit swallowing down The Jason Smith Show with.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
My best friend Mike Carmon. I think I have all
the answers. I have no answer for that. It's it's shocking.
Coming up next here we have two NFL stories.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
One quarterback I'm buying for this season, even though he
was absolutely terrible last year, And what happens when a
big off season trade goes horribly horribly wrong. That's next
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Speaker 1 (16:51):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tire Rack dot Com studios. Well, and
I'll tell you, Mike, I'm a man of my word?
What did you ask me last hour? I said, hey,
it's still the Grimace era, all right. After after a
day off they lose a game, they're back. They win today, big,
I said, I got to go back to McDonald's every
(17:11):
day until they use all right, what do we get?
My wife was out tonight dropping Zoe off of the movies.
I said, hey, you swing by McDonald's on the way back.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
She said sure.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I said great, I'll take a quarter pound of with
cheese meal, extra cheese, no pickles, and die coke. She said, okay,
boom back done, finished, Still have some of the diet coke,
but done. I'm feeling good about the Mets again going
into this weekend. Okay, I'm feeling.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Good, all right, good, you know, as long as you
got your your fuel because I was actually thinking of
going there.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
After yeah Grimace, Yeah, buddy, after losing the game tonight,
because you know how many outs there were, I think
you need to do you need to more fully embrace
the Grimace era.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
No, honestly, I'm really kind of salty right now about
that whole lot loss. It's showing up in my timeline
a bunch. I've had friends and fan check in with
what the hell are we watching here? Are you quitting
the team? No, I'm wearing a south Side shirt as
we're standing here. Right as I'm sitting here doing the
(18:10):
show with you, I'm thinking about, you know, how much
Chicago representation there is in my international travels. All of
those things. I may just have to ignore it.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's been one hundred and five years. We're throwing the
season again, just like we did back in nineteen.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That's all. Well, No, I'd have to explain all of that. Generally,
my experience overseas, and this is more in Scandinavia was
you say you're from Chicago. Everybody still thinks it's nothing
but mobsters. Oh it is, it is, but they they
want to hear tales of where you've been. I'm like, oh,
here's this restaurant. You go up and pull a picture.
It's like there's still the bullets are still in the wall.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
No.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Like yeah, and the guy that serves your steak, he's
ninety eight. If he's a day awesome, Here have a beer,
you know, it's that kind of thing you can drink
for free as long as you got some sales down.
By the way, I live in Los Angeles. Now you.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Know and up said that guy, he's from Chicago. One
phone call and he can he can somebody come down
and put you in cement shoes, all.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Right, damn right? And then you say you're from Los Angeles,
Well you must either be famous or know some famous people.
So that gets you a beer too. So all those
tips and tricks of the trade. You're on the road.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Well, as you and I both prepare to travel abroad
in the next couple of weeks, maybe maybe you and
I will run into Hassan Reddick. I mean we might might,
we might. Yes.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What a horrible Jets story. This is so.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Hassan Reddick one of the best pass rushers in the NFL.
The Jets make a big move to get him in
the offseason. They let other pass rushers go, and they decide,
Hassan Reddick is a guy a twenty nine coming off
a big.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Double digit sack season. We're going to just reload with
him and maybe get a little bit better getting after
the quarterback. Awesome.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
According to all reports, when the Jets were gonna make
a trade for him, Reddick said he wanted more money.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
They said, well, well we're not.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
We're not you'll close the door, that idea, but we'd
like to see you play and figure something out. And
as far as the Jets say, hey, everything was fine,
and what happened since that trade went down? The son
Reddick has not been to the Jets facility at all.
Robert Salah hasn't talked to him. It's such a bad
deal and it's such a bad, embarrassing story, but it's
(20:21):
been covered up by Hey, Aaron Rodgers isn't around either,
So we'll get to a son Reddick. But then today
when I get online and I get a bunch of
people sending me this picture, I go, what the hell
is this? What is this? It's a picture of a
son Reddick and he's cosplaying. Yeah, and he's he's traveling
abroad and he is costplaying. And I'm like, no way,
(20:41):
this is not a this is not this is not
a real pictures No that I'm looking through it.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I'm looking through it. I'm saying, this is not happening.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
No, it's him vacationing in Tokyo, wasn't it Mini camp
wasn't everywhere? And he's on a vacation and he's cosplaying,
and he wrote, he writes the lost Samurai over a
video clip of him walking down the street in Tokyo
dressed like a samurai and he's got some kind of
I think he's got a.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Katana blade like that. I don't know if it's a.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Real blade or not, but I'm like, this is the
dude is costplaying in Tokyo on vacation and he still
hasn't been to the Jets. This is so embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Man.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
And again I say the same thing. Right, the Jets
have a really good roster, but boy do they have issues.
But this just is the latest thing to fall into
the category of don't worry. Eight is gonna cover it
up for all of us. Aaron Rodgers is gonna cover
up all our ills like you expect your quarterback to,
like you hope your great quarterback will do whatever problems
(21:39):
we have, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Eight is gonna take care of him. Rogers will wind up.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Don't worry about guys gonna be that we might only
play ten guys on defense. Nin No, No, We'll have
Aaron Rodgers. He's gonna take care of all the problems. Which,
in theory, yeah, it sounds like a pretty good idea,
not as great of an idea after he missed the
entire season last year with the torn achilles and forty
years old. I get it if you're thinking, okay, when
you're thirty thirty one, Roger, sure, but now it's like, boy,
(22:05):
you're really putting a lot in that. Don't worry Aaron
Rodgers will will make everything great camp. And I don't
know about that because I look at this and I go,
what are the Jets doing?
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Man? Like, how did you not really know this was
gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
How did you not know the guy really wanted money
and he's playing hardball?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Because now I go, what kind of season is he
really gonna have? Right?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
If he has not been working out, he has not
been with the team, what's gonna happen is eventually when
he gets into camp to play, he'll come in late,
he'll get hurt, he'll have an injury plagued year, and
at the end of the year's gonna go, wow, I'm
not getting paid anymore and the Jets are gonna let
me go after a year and my career is basically over.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Whereas Ad you figured something out with a bed.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But now, look, the guy's even been around, and you
know we're talking about the time when when NFL teams
go away on vacation now and they come back and
you know, in a little bit less than a month
to get ready for the season, and the Jets are
still not gonna have him round, and who knows what
he's gonna be.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
This is just so embarrassing. Really, it's so embarrassing. Well,
you know, it seems like you like to have layers
to your chaos in the off season, which is worth
a guy forgetting how many outs there are in an anora,
you know, the long standing ramification like, look, I know
I suck, right, my team sucks, and there's nothing, there's
(23:17):
nothing that's gonna change that. So this just even as
the look the new guy is starting to get it,
this is just White Sox baseball. Okay, that's what he said.
This is just another example dot dot dot as poor
Gordon Beckham, former White Sox infielder, is losing his mind.
What am I watching? So it's it's it's just that
(23:39):
for you for the Jets, all that hope, all that
optimism with the guy who could be a dominant playmaker
for you, and he's a no show. And then Aaron
Rodgers and as much as we talked about it. You know,
everybody you know comes to it like if the team's
fine and the coach is fine overall all, sure, but
(24:01):
I'm sure there's some some folks a bit salty and
malcontented about it. Damn it, I'm sitting here sweating my
ass off. Why why does this guy get to go
do whatever he wants? And even if you say it's unexcused,
what are the ramifications? You know?
Speaker 1 (24:16):
And and that's the worst part of it is that
a week ago when Robert Sala said this is this
is an inexcuse apps, he said, quote, he's in a
really good place mentally, working his tail off, like we
already know. No, the dudes in Tokyo dressed up like
a samurai walking around downtown.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
So we're both gone odd man, right, So you have
you know, on one hand, Rogers, we need to get
all the bs out of the room and blah blah
blah blah blah. And here I'm gonna bring some more
of it back in my own self. I got your
baggage out of here, but mine gets to stay. And
it's special. And now reddick, I mean I saw this
picture earlier. I didn't even have the heart to tweet
(24:54):
it to you. OJE harassed you about it, figuring you
were gonna get you. We're gonna have to wear it
here nationally at night, and I'm certain many of your friends,
even with the Mets winning today and beating the hell
out of the Cubs, that you were wearing it from
all your friends that love to take potshots and your
squads whenever they can. So I will get you your
(25:17):
own katana sword oho.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
You will thank you very much. So I can sit
there and quote Lucy Lou and Uma Thurman. You didn't
think it was going to be that easy, did you?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah? Yeah, go for a second there, I kind of did.
All of a sudden, You're propping up any Jets member
and blia you have and slicing it in half like
you're playing fruit Ninja back in the day at.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Dano Doosters, just like Hasan Reddick is Lucy Lou and
the Jets are Uma Thurman, and she shows up and
then all the crazy eighty eight and they come at
her one at a time. Yeah, exactly, Well, and that's
the line. You didn't think it was going to be
that easy? Digit Yeah, for a second, I kind of did. Okay,
now we gotta go to the crazy eighty eighth to
get it back.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Now. Meanwhile, hey, training camp, but just another six weeks,
bab Come on now, not even Adam Thielen wide receiver
with the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
And put the exclamation point on what has probably been
the best week that number one picked from last year
Bryce Young has had in the NFL. Struggled all last year,
really making you wonder, boy, is he really as good
as everybody says he was? Because he struggled all season long?
But according to all reports this week, it's been a
different thing on Bryce Young. Every day, how good he looks,
(26:32):
how much more in command to the offense he is?
And yes, I understand this is now quarterback number five
hundred and seventy five that we say, hey, this guy's
light years ahead of where he was as a rookie. Right, Okay,
when is a guy not light years ahead of where
you are as a rookie. Where's a guy coming in
for his second year and somebody says he's behind where
he was a year ago, He really is. He's not
(26:54):
quite where he was when he first walked in here.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
No, everybody, every quarterback has always light years ahead of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Where they were a year ago. Their command of the
offense is better. Everything's back, Yeah, of course it is,
but you're in you're in mini camp, you're in OTAs,
you're practicing against air. The footballs aren't flying for real.
All that being said, I'm buying on Bryce Young this year.
Uh it's he's he's too good of a talent to
not succeed in the NFL. And maybe his learning curve
(27:23):
was just a little bit too steep and the weapons
he had a year ago not quite what he needed.
Now they went out and they got a running back
in Jonathan Brooks who that the big deal is when's
he gonna come back? Right coming off the torn ACL
It could be a little bit, but they could probably.
They have the they have the running game to get
by without him. But he's a chubba, a huge, huge deal. Yeah,
he's a huge deal. You went out traded for Deontay Johnson.
(27:45):
All right, Now you're hoping for another good year from
Jonathan Mingo or for another year john where he jumps
back up from last year because he was awfull first
round pick. So the offense is a little bit better,
and they I mean, yeah, look there he made a
big Doug draft pick in the first round.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Two.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
Your offense is better than it was a year ago.
And look, and I thought going in last year it
wasn't bad. I didn't think it was great, but I
think it was bad. But boys, as time went on,
you realize that, yeah, you need you need a couple
of guys and a team is afraid of and then
the game breakers just aren't here. And maybe you asked
them to a little bit too much last year. They've
they've definitely gone the other way and said, okay, we
(28:22):
have to create around him.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Now, this is definitely a sink or swim year for
Bryce Young because if he's terrible the Panthers, no, okay, man,
we got to move on, right. We can't go into
next year thinking, oh, Bryce Young's finally going to get
it in year three.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
But I'm buying the bounce back and the turnaround for him.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Maybe a little bit too much last year, not in
the greatest of situations coming in when it comes to personnel.
So I'll believe in the bounce back for him, just
because watching him at Alabama, the way you would see
the field, the way you be able to get the
ball in the right place all the time. That doesn't
go away. Maybe maybe it takes you a little bit
of time to get used to things, and maybe his
learning curts a little bit steeper. But I'm buying the
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bounce back this year for Bryce Young.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Well, you go and you bring in Canalis, right, you know,
so he's he's a guy that could be give them
a boost as well. Great track record with quarterbacks, right,
great track record. So what he was able to do
with Baker and and now you get to be a
head man. Obviously there's always concern about Bryce Young's build,
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like that was the one knock coming into the draft
last year was that, And in theory, you fortified all
that peripheral the the skill position guys. Hopefully the five
guys up front can do the job. Right. Trembles a
decent maybe above average tight end, and the guy who's
grown into the game, maybe he takes on a bigger
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role for Matt Adam Thieln. Some of it is hyping
the young guy, but also saying, hey, there's a bunch
of new guys here, but I'm still old reliable. I'm
old and reliable, so keep looking my way. Target counts
for this guy over here. But you're all s a
division where nobody's running in hiding. I mean, Tampa Bay
is the class, right, but how big are they?
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Right?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Is Baker gonna have another monster year? You look at
changes and losing canals and what does that mean for
their offense? So yeah, I mean opportunity. He's certainly there.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike carbon I'm buying
the bounce back for Bryce Young and now I'm also
buying the guy you're going to hear from to tell
you what's trending in the wide world of sports. Also
went on vacation in Tokyo dressed as a samurai.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I'm stand back. Last week it's Steve Desager.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
And all I got with his dumb T shirt.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Well, the trip's kind of expensive, so if you got
a T shirt, then I mean you get back with'
he while we.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Are talking football. By the way, the Jacksonville Jaguars in
twenty twenty seven could be playing three home games in
London during their stadium reconstruction in Jacksonville, with the other
home games elsewhere in Florida. That year, the Atlanta Falcon
signed first round quarterback Michael Pennix. Kirk Cousins also has
a four year contract with Atlanta. Oklahoma Sooners coach Brent
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Venables agreed to a new six year deal. Oklahoma and
Texas will be in the SEC starting this year. Former
Texas A and m All American running back Darren Lewis
died of cancer at the age of fifty five, and
Pro Football Talk found this from Canadian Press. The CFL
has fined four of its kickers for complaining publicly about
the micro chips inserted into the footballs in games there
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after opening Day. The Winnipeg kicker says, I'm out there
literally praying the rosary. I don't know where to aim.
He is blaming the trajectory of his kicks on the
chips inside the footballs and.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
On social media.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
Three other kickers supported him, and they've all been fined
by the league. The CFL has since amended the rules
to allow kickers to opt out of using those footballs
with the chips in them you reference earlier. The way
their schedule works most weekends, it's one game Thursday, one Friday,
one Saturday, and then one Sunday. So tonight we had
a game with BC in a late field goal winning
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at Winnipeg. I'm guessing most of Canada was not paying attention, because, gentlemen,
we have our first Game seven in any final the
major sports in five years. Edmonton a five to one
winner over Florida tonight, including two empty net goals in
the final minutes. So what was a three games to
none Florida lead is now three games apiece with Game
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seven at Florida on Monday. Last time we had a
Game seven in the major sports it was the twenty
nineteen World Series. So added up, that's thirteen straight championship
rounds in the major sports without a game seven, the
longest stretch of our lifetimes, in fact, the longest stretch
since the NBA was founded. According to ap Oiler's penalty
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kill has just been sensational. In the Final, they've killed
eighteen of the nineteen. In fact, going back aways through
the postseason, they've killed forty six of the last forty
seven penalties against him. In fact, let's put it this way,
in that stretch, they've allowed one power play goal and
the Oilers have scored three shorthanded, So the Edmontons Edmonton
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Oilers have outscored their opponents these last three games by
thirteen goals to force a Game seven, which ties the
best goal differential by any NHL club in the final
all time for a three game span. It ties Gretzky's
Oilers from the nineteen eighty four series WOW five to
one Tonight's final in game six. There were two WNBA games.
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Las Vegas beat Connecticut Asia Wilson twenty six points, sixteen rebounds.
Indiana won its game at Atlanta in front of a
sellout crowd at the NBA Arena. There Caitlin Clark sixteen points,
seven assists, seven turnovers. We have two late games in
Major League Baseball. The Padres have retaken the lead. It
is now nine to five over Milwaukee in the box
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him of the eighth, and the Angels and Dodgers are
tied two to two in the top of the tenth.
As you referenced last hour, the Dodgers had a too
nothing lead, but reliever Ryan Yarborough allowed the tying runs
as he hit three batters in one inning. Houston over
Baltimore fourteen to eleven. Houston got nine runs in the sixth.
It was fourteen to four in the eighth.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Back to you thanks a bunch, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Lave from the ti iraq dot Com Studios. The Angels
have just taken the lead over the Dodgers three to
two in the top of the tenth single through the
left side with two outs and gives the angel a
three to two lead. They are still batting in the
top of the tenth inning. But coming up next, you
want to know why one star quarterback has failed in
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the playoffs his entire career. Something came out today that
maybe gives you the reason why. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.
Oh listen to.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Jaki Lego five second Guitar Party Fox Sports Radio The
Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. One
of the most underrated guitar solos in all of rock history,
because there's two of them. Like he hits a big
guitar solo and then then it slows down, and then
he hits a big guitar solo to go out bark
at the moon. What an unbelievable Still, that's still my
(35:26):
favorite Ozzie song. I Love Crazy, Training to Love all
This is my favorite Ozzie song without a doubt.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
It is really a uh. As soon as that opening
chord hits, right, it's like, all right, let's go fired in.
There's so many of them, right when when you talk
about Ozzie and Black Sabbath, like the intro into Black
Sabbath is different, but Ozzie, Yeah, okay in terms of
both all right, there's a lot of songs that need
to slow build. Yeah, Ozzie and Sabbath didn't. They didn't
(35:55):
do it that way. No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Well, especially when you have a song called Bark at
the Moon, you can't just kind of, you know, slowly
slide in there.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Well, bark at the Moon. Oh look at this one.
What a wonderful song. It could be a nice philosophical thing,
your light refreshing favorites and fifty minutes of music an
hour here on why ninety four FM. Now, if I
got to host one of those like evening music shows
where it's like, oh, love letters, whatever, occasionally I would
have to bust out the bark at the Moon or something.
(36:22):
Got to keep people honest. We don't discriminate from you know,
between styles and genres of music. You want a little
slow R and B, we got you. You want a
little bit of venal air supply and great songs and
love ballads of the eighties, we got you there too.
But if you need a bad, eating, crazy son of
(36:43):
a gun, we could supply that while we're at it.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
Toe all right, Well, hopefully we'll hear some air supply
next hour on the show. Out of nothing at all,
this is the most shocking NFL story of the week,
and I can't believe this has gone on.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
It's gaining a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Of traction today that the Baltimore Ravens really want something
different from Lamar Jackson next season. Well, what is it? Well,
and hear it here at Minnie Camp and everything that's
been going on. They want him to have free rein
to audible, Like okay, wait a minute, really, yes, free
rein to audible because one of the big things they
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saw is that when they played the Chiefs in the
playoffs last year, there was a lot of situations where
the Chiefs brought pressure and Lamar couldn't get out of it,
and it was really difficult and there was nothing they
could do. And now that they want him to be
able to feel and have the freedom to audible out
into other plays, that's gonna help them. And when I
saw that, I said, wait, Lamar Jackson didn't have the
(37:45):
capability or the green light to audible to plays if
he saw something he didn't like.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wait, this is not a.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Guy taking over for his first time. This is not
Zach Wilson. Hey, we gotta give Zach Wilson full rain.
Let him call all the plays. You're talking about a
two time I'm NFL MVP, one of the best quarterbacks
in the game, and he didn't have the ability to
audible out if he saw something.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
Are you kidding me? Like, I'm like no, No.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
Wonder the Ravens can't win games in the playoffs was
when when teams figure out this is how we're gonna
attack you, and hey, sorry, you can't do this.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Well, I can't be the play that was called, we
gotta run it.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
How do you I mean, I understand some quarterbacks not
getting to that point. How is Lamar Jackson not a
quarterback that's allowed to audible out that. No, we're fine,
We're giving him free rain. Now he's been able to
audible before. It's happened before. There was a big deal
two years ago about how he's feeling comfortable audibling into
other plays. Look again, another MVP for the guy. But
but now he gets full rain to audible. No wonder
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the Ravens falls short in the playoffs. T Martin quote,
It's like that smart kid in the classroom. You can't
allow him to get bored, right, He's like that. You
have to constantly add things, tweaks and things and that
nature and responsibilities. Okay, Earlier this week, Tom Brady did
a did an interview with Colin Cowherd on the Network
and got deep into, you know, how he played the
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position and what made what made for success, talking about continuity,
really praising the offensive one things you've heard before, but
he really got deep into the idea of instead of
worrying about the throw being potentially an error, it was
snapping the ball with a play call that would be
an error and had little possibility, right, you know, kind
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of twisting the general rule of all right, I get
up there and we always talk about him and Manning
and you know, Breeze or whatever of you know, their
ability to go and check into a different play, and
and and see what the defense is given and play
that game of chess.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
But he laid it out in such a perfect way.
He goes, if it's got five percent of error, that's
five percent too much. Like it's my job to figure
out how we get that as close to zero as
we can. And if I can totally see, it's gonna
be blown up by what they've called. Right if I'm
gonna run straight into a blitzer on the right side
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off the edge, like I'm kind of giving away a play, aren't.
So what are we doing? That sounds exactly what they
had Lamar Jackson doing. He's like, I just use your athleticism,
you'll figure it out. Now, all of a sudden, I
look at those red zone offensive sets in an entirely
different way, Like was John Harbor.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
On the Sunlight going, Oh, this play's gonna suck. Nothing
we could do. Let's see what let's see what he
can do with that. Oh boy, they really knew to
overload the left side. But this is not gonna go. Well, man,
if only there was something we could do about it. Oh.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I really really enjoyed the watching Lamar trying to make
the best. Hey what, I'm an MVP. No wonder the
vents don't wait. That solves everything. Now I get why
they stink in the playoffs when they had played the
best of teams. Who knew coming up next? Way? Do
we tell you what?
Speaker 1 (40:51):
NBA owner was really not happy with the way the
head coaching search just finished.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
That's next. Fox
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