July 9, 2024 • 36 mins
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier dish out some of the greatest heel turns in sports history. And the guys rank their top 10 NFL running backs.
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in and hopefully that what we're gonna talk about here
in the next couple of minutes we'll get to the Dublin.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
How long is that flight?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, we we went through Calgary, so we we did
a layover there, so it was long. I mean the
first part was I want to say, the first flight
was maybe two and a half three hours and all
that stuff fine, and then the flight from Calgary to
Dublin was like eight and a half.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Oh, by, did you get like, do you have one
of those places where you have your own little section
in your sleeping or you're not sitting like the middle seed.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Like in the middle seat between my daughters. Yeah, but no,
we didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Have med or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Oh I see, I can't. I can't fight like that.
I gotta have a bed. I can't a little section
closed off so nobody could see me. I thought, you
have your little section.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I can't cut of money span your life? Was it
for the rich people? Up front?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I thought, that's the way the whole plane.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now, I'm a man of the people here on Fox
Sports Radio in the evenings.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What do you know?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I can't fly like that. I'm sorry, No, I can't sitate. Now, Hey,
what do you do eight and a half hours?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What do you do? You sleep? You watch a movie?
We sat and watched Batman.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, wow, that's a lot of pace.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Watched a little Robert Pattinson. Then we serve alcohol if
you really wanted some had it wasn't drinking on the flight. No,
I mean some water and a couple of cups of coffee,
and away you went. And then we got off the
plane and immediately got to the hotel and started sprinting
around Dublin.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Wow, eight and a half hours, that's a long No.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, I mean look, you napped about half of it,
and then you you watch a couple of movies and
you're there.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I thought you had your own little like being.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I mean, look, look, if I really wanted to go
on the expensive route, like I went as cheap as
I could. Man. You know I work in radio, not
on the television simulcast. Man, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I thought you took the Fox Sports radio jet.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well you know what, I've never had that mad made
available to me. So if you can pull that off,
you let me know, my friend. But yeah, no pods
for me, no extra stuff. We we tried to be
as economical as we could. One thing I did get
to see in Ireland, though, because it is sports related,
let's tie it in here. I got to see some
Gaelic football. Oh geez, we got to see Galway take
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down Dublin seventeen sixteen in the playoffs. But here's something
I thought you would appreciate as well as our audience,
because this is really crazy, right. You know, you watch
soccer and guys go down and then we get extra
time at it at the end, and you decide, well,
how much extra time per injury or flop are you
gonna add? You know, a minute here, minute there. They
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actually had a guy who was the best player for
Galway and we met up with a couple of my
brother's friends. He had worked in Ireland before they came
out to meet us up for the game, and they
were telling us about the squads a little bit before
we go in. They're like, yeah, this guy's really good
on Galway. You gotta watch him. He's fantastic and he's
having a great game. But he pulls up lame and
we're getting towards the final part of the game. He
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doesn't come off the field. The trainers come out to
him and play continues.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, well they're working on him, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So you got trainers stretching this guy out massaging his
leg and trying to get him right while the play
continues at the other end of the pitch. It was
the damnedest thing we've ever seen. My daughters are looking
at me going, you know, the younger one playing competitive soccer,
She goes, what the hell is this?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I don't know in the NFL. You're working on the
quarterback and they still continuing the play.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, but basically they decided, you know, they weren't gonna
take him off the pitch in terms of subbing him out,
so they were gonna do everything they could. And then
he finally, as the ball starts moving back down the
other end, he has to make a move and he
clearly can't cut anymore, so he just waves the coach
and they sub him out and he gets a big
ovation whatever. But there was like two and a half
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minutes that got played with this guy being stretched out
like full on on the pitch, like all right, let's
see how high we can get to, you know, get
those toes straight, come on, straight up, straight up. I
was like, whoa, this is insane, and people in front
of us going, oh, yeah, this happens every once in
a while.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
He's really important do they like that as much as
we love NFL football is?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It was insane. They had fifty thousand people, whoa it
was like an eighty two thousand seat stadium, just Insund's
like thirty more thousand than a Dolphin game, especially in
September when it's one hundred and ten degrees, so you
had to get your dolphins cracking in on you there, Arnie,
what No, I was insane because the other thing is
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I had a Bear's pull over, right, a nice light pullover.
Weather was nice, I mean not too warm, and when
it got a little little bit of a chill in
the evening, and I had a number of people stop
me to talk NFL is really heap.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
For double or is it just a mixture of everybody
was a mix?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But you know what, I got stopped by a bunch
of Lions fans in different sports really yeah, like the Bears,
you know suck And I'm like, all right, who's your squad?
Like I'm a Lions fan?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
O yeah, Johnny, come lately, I figured they're all cowboy fans.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, but if you go well, I mean certainly, you know,
winning and global branding. I'm not going to deny that,
but it was just you know who you ran into.
I ran into some people from the States, out from
Minnesota who decided to pop by.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Go.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, good luck with your quarterback, by the way, good
luck getting to a super Bowl and winning One's.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Like you can't wait to see what happens with them
this year.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So a lot of anger there. But Gaelic football, I
mean one of the best times when we had we
had a blast uh and the crowd was fantastic. But
I thought the the idea of the you attended the
guy in medical terms on the on the pitch and
keep play going was one of the greatest things I've
ever seen.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
How was the food too, They served like what we
serve here in the United States.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We didn't really look it was. It was a bottle. Yeah,
it was a bottleneck down there. So it's two thirty
five minute halves and I want to say halftime was
maybe twelve to fifteen minutes, okay, but yeah, like as
we got into the stadium, like even trying to get
to our seats, everybody, uh, there was a match prior.
They were getting their libations and so we fought past
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that and was like, I'm not standing in line. It's like,
we'll find a pub after the fact, and then we
found one that the Euros were on, and interestingly, my
older daughter got enamored with the fact that there was
a darts competition going on. But it was one of
those where basically it's like the guys fired their darts
and then there was team so they pulled them immediately
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from the board and the next guy was firing as
soon as that guy got on Like no, like bam,
bam bam. I like, this is fantastic. You want to
talk about fast moving action and I was like, that
was the sports equivalent of watching someone on a craps
table the way money moves and the next dice coming out,
come on, let's go. So we had fun with that.
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But you know, today's a huge anniversary in the sporting universe,
aren't he spam okay fourteenth anniversary, So not any that
you're getting any giant gifts from like you would do
with a wedding anniversary or full you know, documentaries laid out,
but important for our purposes because we love talking heroes
and villains no matter what the sport is, no matter
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where we're at in the calendar. Right now, we've had
weeks upon weeks of Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. And
depending on who you're standing for, the villain is the
other right, You've got your your Angel Reese fans who've
decided that anything Caitlin Clark is bad, You've got the
other side. And yesterday, yeah and double oh, Hulk Hogan
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in the greatest heel turn for sports entertainment history. And
there's the entrance music. As you were. But in the
basketball terms, today is the anniversary where Lebron James changed
the face of the NBA forever. The answer to the
question everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
In this fall? Man?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's very tough, And this fall I'm will take my
talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Miami Heat.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That was the conclusion he woke up with this morning.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That was the conclusion I woke up with this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So he went all nWo with the big leg drop
on the end BA the Cleveland Cavaliers standing in for
Randy the macho man Savage in this case, if we
tie them together, and so Arnie Spanier stunned silence after
Jim Gray asked that question, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You can tell that Jim didn't wasn't prepared to go ahead,
and Jim just said, did you wake up with that decision?
Did you change your mind at the last minute. It
was like Jim was a little stunned about the whole thing.
It's funny that people are still holding Lebron that they
hate him over that whole thing. The other reason I
can't hate him because of it. He gave the money
to the Boys and Girls Club, but it just the
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whole thing was just so fake. The whole thing always
left the bad taste of my mouth. And here we are,
how many years later did you say it?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We'd still fourteen?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, we're still talking about it. We haven't seen nothing
like it since. It was really uncalled for. But he
was just feeding his.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
What was uncalled for about it and had an opportunity
to make some money and he was able to grab
a television partner to make a huge announcement, different than
these guys that are high school going to commit to
colleges and doing the three card Monty hat game and
the nonsense that they do every year.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I'm still not sure how we turned a fifteen second
answer to a like four hour show.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Still still sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
How you talk about fits, you talk about team team, Absolutely,
you could do anything like that. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
For what?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Do what? Nine hours of super Bowl coverage before a game?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, you could do that, but I mean it was
just he was picking his TV.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's okay. You had options, You had a lot of
theorizing what it meant for the NA. I mean, you
could program a block C blocks.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
So I do think so many people hate them because
of it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Still, why well, I think a lot of it comes
down to you. You have a power dynamic. And this
goes even with as we opened the show two hours ago.
You get the podcast wherever you find your audio, thank you,
download it, give it five stars, rate it, send it
to your friends and family and have them tell me
how much they hate me for the take. But when
people have an opportunity to flex and get what they want,
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and maybe we don't in our respective jobs, relationships with friends, family, kids,
your kids hate you, you're in your spouse don't like
each other, you're fighting about this that the other, all
of those things, and then you get a guy that
just says, you know what, I think I'm gonna go
over there now and I'm gonna change the dynamics of
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this of the NBA and maybe how players look at
their own agency going forward. I mean, yeah, it's kind
of a big deal because while we haven't had the
same type of announcement, no, we certainly haven't. Well way
we could have just in the end, right, you have
the derision. The only thing I hated about it, to
be honest with the Arnie is that nobody in any
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of the meetings that they obviously had leading up to this,
and I'm not talking about Jim Gray, He's a whole
other thing to talk about is the fact that they
didn't recognize as a trio that there'd be a faction
of people that didn't like this, right right, Dryane Wade
cried about it. Lebron never really like, if you're gonna
become the villain, you embrace the villain, right That's the thing.
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Hulk Hogan and the nWo goes from the red, white
and blue train, say your prayers, eat your vitamins to
screw the fans flank you. I'm wearing the black and
white of the nWo. We're gonna spray paint people and
have a good old time.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
So you like when the high schoolers put the three
or four hats in front of them and decide and
play around on which school they're gonna go.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Oh no, it's a bunch of jackassery they can have.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh that's not okay.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But no, no, no, no, no, I'm not saying that. Go
do what you're gonna do. If that, If that's what's
gonna get you, uh, you know through your day, and
you know you you find some excitement in that, and
maybe you go viral on video a little bit and
you get embraced by the school that comes in. I
get it. It's all theatrics, like I don't go ahead
and do it. I'm not tuning in.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
To watch it.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
No, no, no, I'm not right.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'll take the super right, I'll take the super cut
of all of it. And occasionally you have the mom
who's because the kid didn't pick the school they wanted
or yeah, other than that, no, I don't care. So, yeah,
like the larger take off of this is you know,
it just changed free agency a little bit. Guys felt
a little freer, I think to move after the lebron
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got for this and yeah, the TV show and the
partnership and that always rubbed people the wrong way. Again.
It's the same people that cry about nepotism but are
trying to get their friends, family, jobs, tickets or whatever
else wherever they can, Right, It's that kind of thing. Yeah,
that But for for Lebron, like I got no problem. Like,
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as we said at the top, if you've got the
opportunity to say, you know what, this would make me
happy for as long as I'm here. Who doesn't want
to do that in any of their jobs? Right, whether
it's a pay raise, you know, something in your benefits
that are a little bit better. Hey I'm getting a
little bit older, my knees are a little creaky, or
what's our coverage here there? Whatever, whatever the case may be.
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Maybe I need vision insurance here, I don't know, whatever
the case. As you go through those pages and whatever
is going to make you feel whole that you try
to find it. And for Lebron, you know, it's fourteen
years of derision coming off of this clip with Jim Gray.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
What I always wondered and interesting that you said this
that and felt other players now felt that they could
move around more freely because Lebron decided that he was
gonna go ahead and go to Miami. I always felt
that Shack was the one that kind of led the way.
When he left Orlando to go to Los Angeles, people went, wow,
if Shaq can do it and get all that money,
then really anybody can do it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, But you left Orlando to go to Los Angeles, right,
Lebron left home?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yes he did, right, he left.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Home to go do that? Is there a player changing
squads that maybe still urt you all these years, Maybe
they went, you know, from being your guy to your rival.
I'll give you one Chris chellio'sago Blackhawks. That's right, Yeah,
should the Detroit Red Wings Wings? Or to go the
other way? Dennis Rodman becoming a Bull and winning three
titles after being a member of the Pistons. So many
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of those that you can do. Bring him in at
stinking Genius one. Find me over at Swollenome at Fox
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Fox Sports Orts Radio Studios thought that was a little
bit of an interesting turn to take as we go through.
But as we continue here on Fox Sports Radio, there's
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a top ten running back list that made the rounds.
We're gonna take some issue with it because I got
a couple of guys that I'm wondering exactly what they
are already, Spaniard, We'll do that. Jason Smith Show with
Me and Mike Carmon.
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You don't interrupting our promo. Yeah, it wasn't talking about you.
You took those clips totally out of context.
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Speaker 2 (17:13):
Welcome back in Fox Sports or Radio. The Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Harmon no Jason Smith this week.
He's off on vacation. So it instead we've got We're blessed.
We've got our guy just thinking genius in instead, we've
got our executive producer, Justin Prosberg, our guy Alex Tyshert,
technical producer, and of course we've got Steve Disager over
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at the news desk. You brought this to my attention
a little bit earlier today because it vexed you on
an ESPN poll.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I'm not sure you should have done that because I
look at this poet. I I don't buy this for
a second. This is just horrible.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well, it's whenever we get into anonymous sources, we always
take it with a grain of salt and saying that
forever there's a lot of stuff that kind of gets
made up. I'm not saying this is made up, but
you know, if you don't have to put your name
on it, are you going to one hundred percent tell
the truth on all that? Even if you're ranking guys,
are you necessarily telling the truth?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'm scratching about. By the way, would you write the
top ten running backs? What is your criteria? We talk
it like for points like fantasy football, were talking yards.
Are we just talking the sniff test here?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, I think this is more just an overall thing
and this comes off of ESPN and kind of going
all in. You know, do you buy in as a blocker,
you know, effectiveness between the tackles, speed, burst, availability, all
of those things. And that was the thing that kind
of got to me in looking at it, Arnie, as
we go through this top ten list that you sent
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along here, is that you have a number of players like,
all right, that guy's coming off an injury. Am I
sure that I buy this right?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You know, bresee Halls at number two, so you know,
Jets represented for Smith yay somewhere.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
That's ridiculous by the way, He's a potential beast.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But the thing is, you know, even working behind the
suspect offensive line, he still put up numbers, even with
a quarterback that couldn't complete a down downfield pass. So
you got to imagine that, you know, they're still upside
for him. He recovered nicely from the injury, and that
he's going to be ready to go here with Aaron
Rodgers under center.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
You know, I just was before you go through the list,
I just as I look at the list, and then
I look at the honorable mentions. I have to just
tell you, boy, we have a lot of garbage at
running back, because it just it just does not look
very good at all. It's like, really, this guy is
in the top ten, this guy is in the top five.
It's just horrible names are running back. Not that these
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guys are horrible players, but it would just seem like
we had so many more running back Hall of Fame
type running backs, you know, back in the eighties and
that type.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Well, but it's a difference, and we've got to get
you to change your perspective a little bit. Here, aren't
he that it's no longer three yards and a cloud
of dust yesterday.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I grew up watching Walter Payton run into somebody and
then they would do a split screen with him and
showing rams fighting on the you know, out in the
open planes and bucking each other and whatever. Right, I mean,
that's the style of running back I grew up with.
It's like, no, I'm not running out of bounds. I'm
gonna run through you. I get that. And we don't
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have guys generally. We've got a couple, but you're not
piling up three hundred carries. You're just not doing that anymore.
So when when we look at it, it's now the
are you an effective runner and receiver? Can you get
to twenty touches the game? All of those kind of
things that kind of pile up. So here's the here's
the list. So first is McCaffrey. Okay, fine, sure, no argument.
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Breese Hall at number two. I'll leave your excitation there.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Right if there's a guy that's not even in the
top ten in yards rushing last year, so I don't
know how you could say he's number two. I mean,
I guess you're basing it on him having a great
year this year and with you know.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, but you are projecting forward, right, and you're certainly
doing that. It's kind of like when you're getting paid
when we signed new contracts, it's not about what you did.
Maybe there's a little bit of loyalty that's built in there,
but otherwise it's say, all right, what are you gonna
do for me as we move forward?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Well, maybe they feel like he'll be better because now
Aaron Rodgers, and obviously that's gonna be a big part
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Right, last year in terms of all purpose yards. Breeze
Hall was fourth in the National Football Okay, I didn't
know that, behind McCaffrey, Cede Lamb and Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I was gonna say, though, in your fantasy football you
know that he's not going to go second for running backs.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
You know that, and I know that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh he he could really Yeah, I think I would
argue him second. One of the other guys on this
list is another guy who's a big point of contention. Here.
You got Nick Chubb sitting at number three, coming off
a massive injury. Sakuon Barkley there you go that number
four in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah, I think he's in for a monster year this year.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Again, tread on the tires, health, all those things, but
certainly a good offensive line, but they did lose some
component parts to retirement. Don't forget Jason Kelsey's now on
the you know Taylor Swift tour as well as you
go through number five. Jonathan Taylor there in Indianapolis waiting
for Richardson to come back a team that is his
top notch and he certainly has big fantasm.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
He's a good running back.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I mean, but you know, with the injuries and obviously
he was out for the first foot four games. I
believe it was so he just never really got it
all together, just never really happened.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Number number six Viijon Robinson.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Disappointed with him last Yary, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
They put him in a box. Yeah, I mean he
wasn't hurt. He was just not used. That's why the
coach isn't there anymore? What are you doing? Like my
mom used to have a thing when we were growing up,
Arnie right, we'd buy her a nice say, we'd buy
a nice top for her birthday, and then it would
go into a closet. It's like, oh, we're going out. No, no,
I gotta save that for good. It's like, well, what
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the hell's better than what we're doing here? Or you'd
buy something that would be a nice kitchen gadget or something,
you know, to help make the process of cooking for
us brutes a little easier. Ah, saving it for good.
I'm like, all right, now it's collecting dust in that cabinet,
Like what are we doing here? And then eventually with
all the clothes and gadget to become the I got
a declutter. So all of a sudden they're getting donated
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and they've never been worn or anything because you're saving
it for good. That's what Bijon Robinson felt like last
year for the Falcons. It's like, I get it, You've
got other running backs and you know you gotta help
Des been ridden around a little bit more. I'm not
saying he was any good, but you could have made
it a little bit better, and you had a good defense,
and you had a team that could have competed at
you know, at a higher level and maybe you know,
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some play action or whatever and made this guy's life easier. Disaster.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I just I they didn't use it nearly enough.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I was shocked, and I said, you saw glimpses of
what he could join it, they just didn't keep going
back to I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, Fantasy owners last year drafting him fifth or sixth
overall on that was the biggest bust of two twenty three,
no question about it, other than you know guys that
were injured and obviously unavailable to play. Number seven is
Josh Jacobs now with the Packers. Number eight Jamier Gibbs
of your Detroit Lions, which I think is interesting because
(24:14):
David Montgomery's still there, still there to vulture your goal
line work.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Number nine, Derrick Henry takes his talent.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Baltimore all in with Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Huh well, but I think part of that becomes the
what are your expectations of health, durability and you know,
historical running back walls in terms of carries and bulldozing through.
Now Baltimore maybe more balanced this year, but I got
to imagine Derek Henry is still going to get a
big workload, especially with all their former running backs now
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on the Chargers, right.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And plus yeah, as a quarterback that the people are
going to be afraid of, at least allegedly.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
So we'll see how that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
About on the ground, and we'll see what they can
do in the passing game. I know Mark Schlaret and
a lot of folks have been doing a bunch of
fighting online about it. It's like, yeah, what's going on
in the playoffs with the Ravens is cannot be denied. Okay,
that's they've lost. They've had bad game plans last year,
they went away from the run game. I do spots
in Baltimore all the time. They're still salty about it.
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So you got that number ten, Travis etn I like him.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I know He's had a few injuries, but I like him.
He's I'm waiting for him to explode.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So potential there. Jaguars a horrible collapse. They were saved
only by the fact that the Eagles had such a
horrible second half collapse. Otherwise they would have been the
talk of the town, even though they are the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Honorable mentions, as you alluded to, Aaron Jones who stays
in Division but heads over to Minnesota, Kenneth Walker, the
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third of Seattle, Pacheco in Kansas City, James Cook, who
I would have had in my top ten, no question
about it. In Buffalo, He's a guy that's gonna take
on the reason. Alvin Kamara, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Up in the head, talk about full from grace.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I don't know what he is at this point health wise,
or what that offense is going to do. I mean,
I'm not a Derek Carr gay and that is very
well established right exactly as it goes. But you know
Kamara at this point in his career, can he pile
up touches? Is he going to be in a workload split?
You got Joe Mixon who comes in next. He's in
(26:23):
the planet Houston. Now again some durability questions at this
point and how much of a workload split and then
DeAndre swipp with the Bears. They've got I think at
last count four guys that will play the running back
position for them this year.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Yeah, but I like Kim, I thought that was a
good pickup. And obviously the hupscale of Williams just another
piece for the puzzle. He's certainly got weapons around him.
Is there gonna be no excuses for him?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And then that's certainly it right. I mean, make the
prediction and just say, hey, they're making the playoffs and
move on from that. But a lot of question marks
says to how it all flows. The offensive line rates
fair well, much beligned. It's all gonna be what can
Waldron do with Caleb Williams and can the Bears finally
break through and have a quarterback pass for four thousand yards?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
But back to what I said with when you look
at this list, do you get all like, wow, what
a boy, We're gonna see a lot of Hall of
famers in the NFL from that list.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I don't see that at all.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
No. No, And the running back position, I don't know
that it's been devalued. It's just changed right to where
we've gone committee, and we did this years ago, many
years ago, where I mean even go back to the
time where Jerome Bettis went from being at every down
back to being basically the short yardage and goal line guy, right,
(27:41):
I mean, it's just changed, and we've seen a lot
of teams employ this. Add the number of teams that
have quarterbacks that either vulture touchdown attempts or rack up
regularly eight to ten carries as planned runs net alone.
You know, coverage breaking down and the scrambles that come right,
Lamark Jackson one, right, I mean Jackson and Allen and
(28:04):
Jalen Hurts, and I'm sure Caleb Williams will take off
and run a bunch. Anthony Richardson before he got hurt,
we were expecting more of that from him. Just keep
going on down the line. I mean, there's a lot
of quarterbacks that'll that'll take to the ground and make
plays with their legs, There's no question about it. So
that being said, you know, when you have the runner,
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the pass catcher, the goal line guy not always the same.
That might be three different players. So the running back
position still has its value you're still trying to get
some of those magic numbers in terms of touches and targets,
but it's not going to be one guy. And durability
is the other part of it is trying to make
sure that you're getting through the long journey of a
(28:47):
season with as many of your component parts as you can,
particularly when you're looking at the number one running backs. Right.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Look, look the odds the Dolphins don't have a running
back in that top ten or honorable mention, yet they'll
be one of the favorites in the AFCX well.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But that's the point, though, Arnie, I mean, you got
three guys right moster, Okay, a regression from the touchdown
and health has been an issue in the past, so
folks are a bit down on him. I still think
there's value. You got eight chan and then and then
you went to the draft, right right, and you add
another guy in the draft, So you got three guys
right there, which means you don't need one right cracking
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cracking the top ten ain't gonna do it right to
do that. And if you look at the fantasy side,
off of the current fantasy pros so expert consensus rankings
goes McCaffrey v Jon Robinson, Breisee Hall one, two three,
then Taylor Gibbs, Barkley, Kyron Williams at number seven. That
one's kind of an interesting one with Blake Korum coming in,
(29:44):
and then you got Derrick Henry and Travis Etn with
Pacheco coming in as your number ten before your guy
eight Chan shows up.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I think that Derek Henry is gonna get a lot
of goal line scores, take away some of them from
Lamar Jackson's I like him a lot points this year.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, and if Mark Andrews is healthy right now, you
get a little more play action, You get a little
more in the passing game from Jackson in red zone opportunities,
and at this point in his career, I would think
you'd like to start saving his body a little bit.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, I don't like this list. I'm hot. I didn't
like this list.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You seem pretty salty about it. Yeah, and it really
just tells me as a Dolphin fan you hate Jason
Smith and the Jets.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Is he gonna go to any games? Does he go
to the Jet games or no?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
If the Jets come to town, sure.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
But he won't come out to New York.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
The last game we went to, Arnie was a thirty
one loss. Yeah, he sat with Frostburg on that one.
That was brilliant day. I love that. That comes up?
How many times during the football season?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh, at least once a week?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, No, at least once a week, There's no question
about it. And we'll certainly get to that again. I've
not checked the Jets schedule. I think they might have
crossed midfield somewhere in the fourth quarter. You know, I
went to a Bears game once that that never happened.
That sucks for you. Kate McNown under center Jerry Rice's
final home game as a forty nine er and Terall
(31:09):
Owens caught twenty twenty balls that day. There you go where?
Yeah exactly. Mike Carmon, Arnie Spanier with here, The Jason
Smith Show with Me, Mike Carmon here, Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up next, an NBA player declared, I am number
one at the US men's national team press availability. Is
(31:31):
he right? Is he right?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
We'll be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
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Speaker 2 (31:40):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith Show with
Me by Carmon Jason Off, Arnie Spanier in his stead
coming up about ten minutes, we'll talk about when contract
negotiations go wrong, oh the disrespect. But first, a young
superstar compared at oftentimes during the playoffs to Michael Jordan, said,
(32:03):
I am the number one option on this US men's
national team.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Up.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That is, of course, Anthony Edwards of your Minnesota Timberwolves.
Trial by fire into the playoffs, a couple of rough
performances to end things, Arnie Spanier, but he's saying, I'm
the top guy on this US men's national team. You've
got Steph Curry, right, You've got Lebron James, you got
Anthony Davis, you got Kawhi Leonard, you got Kevin Durant.
(32:30):
You got all these guys lined up. Lebrash twenty two
year old said, Hey, I'm him, and I dig it
right now.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
You know, I was hoping that there was gonna be
some misunderstanding or that maybe he didn't it came out
a different way. I know he was still upset about
that because he had to come off the bench last time.
And look, I don't know why you have to have
this ego, this type of attitude. When you're playing for
the USA Olympic team, you.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Call yourself a genius in your Twitter tag. But what
I don't know why you have to have this ego.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Yeah, when you're playing for your team is one thing.
When you're playing for your country that's another. Everybody's got
to put their ego behind them otherwise it's never gonna work.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Look at all the people we've.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Had on the Dream Team and and all those teams afterwards.
You can only have five guys that starts. There were
a Hall of famers that were coming.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Off the bench.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
So yeah, you you gotta put your ego in check.
But you disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
No, it's there's an ego in check in gameplay, and
then there's a hey, look at me. When it comes
to media coverage.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
It's it's always look at me with these guys, and
it's getting very old, getting very Yeah, why you like it?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You seeds are business, so yes, crazy they could be
the better.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
He wouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
I would rather probably come up with about four or
five guys. I'd rather to take the game winning shot
than him.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But in terms of best player right now, how many
do you rank ahead of him. Well, Lebron, you think
Lebron is still a better player than him?
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Two way, I'd rather him taking the final shot.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, that's how you're making the definition of this.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Okay, Well, what do you want me to say? I
know if we're gonna play an eighty two game season.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
No, I'll just say, the best player in the game
on this team right now.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
The best player on this team Lebron, Anthony Davis, Steph Curry.
Maybe Cooper flagged the way he look did you see
what he was doing in the in the game, or.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Wow, he is the most interesting part of it because
tanking began today. Yes, if you don't think you're making
the playoffs, you're saying, the hell with it, We're not
spending another dime and we're making no improvements to anything.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Oh this guy.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
As a matter of fact, we have shut off the
hot water in the home locker room to make you
as uncomfortable and miserable as a game.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I'm forfeiting every game if I could do that, you know,
I just I would have forfeit every game until we
have the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Because he went in and certainly acquitted himself quite nicely,
and then he had the Anthony Davis blocked and that
in that squad scrimmage earlier today. But no, it's it's
certainly encouraging. There. You got got a guy that getting
a bit of run.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
As it were seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I didn't consider him as the next Lebron, but he
could be the next big thing. I mean, he's I
hate to say that just to a seventeen year old,
but the way he was playing against Hall of famers
was tremendous.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I mean, but see this is a nice strategic thing too,
because if he doesn't play very well, it's right, he
gets some good, valuable experience against these guys. You know,
there was a game play as well. Now we can
start getting him over.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
He was that They played a game today, a scrimmage,
and it was the team against Cooper Fagg's team, which
was a bunch of other guys.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Cooper flexed. He lost by a point.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That point. Yeah, it was blocked by Anthony Davis. Yes,
to finish.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
It out, insane.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yeah, Stealing the show is the headline no matter where
you look across the interwebs here. So yeah, I'm getting
some run, and you know, for for college buckets. It
gives you a little bit of a run that isn't
Danny Hurley, So that's good.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Give you.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I've already betted him the one rookie of the year
whenever he comes out, I don't need to wait.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I'm scheduled to be the number one pick next year,
so you'll be ready.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Is he's definitely gonna be one and done? Is that
for sure?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Unless he has a miserable year after this showing. He
probably could announce right now, Oh, sitting out the rest
of the year, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
You know we laugh at that, don't you know.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I don't think that's a bad strategy.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Might not. He's not gonna do it, but you could
be right about that.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Now you go make your millions in nil Arnie. That's
true because you still got some payday that can be had.
Talking about pay day, a guy who signed a free
agent deal set I was disrespected, I was hoodwinked, and
I had to leave. And I'll tell you why. We'll
do that next t
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in and hopefully that what we're gonna talk about here
in the next couple of minutes we'll get to the Dublin.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
How long is that flight?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Well, we we went through Calgary, so we we did
a layover there, so it was long. I mean the
first part was I want to say, the first flight
was maybe two and a half three hours and all
that stuff fine, and then the flight from Calgary to
Dublin was like eight and a half.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Oh, by, did you get like, do you have one
of those places where you have your own little section
in your sleeping or you're not sitting like the middle seed.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Like in the middle seat between my daughters. Yeah, but no,
we didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Have med or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Oh I see, I can't. I can't fight like that.
I gotta have a bed. I can't a little section
closed off so nobody could see me. I thought, you
have your little section.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I can't cut of money span your life? Was it
for the rich people? Up front?
Speaker 4 (02:04):
I thought, that's the way the whole plane.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Now, I'm a man of the people here on Fox
Sports Radio in the evenings.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
What do you know?
Speaker 5 (02:10):
I can't fly like that. I'm sorry, No, I can't sitate. Now, Hey,
what do you do eight and a half hours?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
What do you do? You sleep? You watch a movie?
We sat and watched Batman.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
No, wow, that's a lot of pace.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Watched a little Robert Pattinson. Then we serve alcohol if
you really wanted some had it wasn't drinking on the flight. No,
I mean some water and a couple of cups of coffee,
and away you went. And then we got off the
plane and immediately got to the hotel and started sprinting
around Dublin.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Wow, eight and a half hours, that's a long No.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
No, I mean look, you napped about half of it,
and then you you watch a couple of movies and
you're there.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I thought you had your own little like being.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I mean, look, look, if I really wanted to go
on the expensive route, like I went as cheap as
I could. Man. You know I work in radio, not
on the television simulcast. Man, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
I thought you took the Fox Sports radio jet.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Well you know what, I've never had that mad made
available to me. So if you can pull that off,
you let me know, my friend. But yeah, no pods
for me, no extra stuff. We we tried to be
as economical as we could. One thing I did get
to see in Ireland, though, because it is sports related,
let's tie it in here. I got to see some
Gaelic football. Oh geez, we got to see Galway take
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down Dublin seventeen sixteen in the playoffs. But here's something
I thought you would appreciate as well as our audience,
because this is really crazy, right. You know, you watch
soccer and guys go down and then we get extra
time at it at the end, and you decide, well,
how much extra time per injury or flop are you
gonna add? You know, a minute here, minute there. They
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actually had a guy who was the best player for
Galway and we met up with a couple of my
brother's friends. He had worked in Ireland before they came
out to meet us up for the game, and they
were telling us about the squads a little bit before
we go in. They're like, yeah, this guy's really good
on Galway. You gotta watch him. He's fantastic and he's
having a great game. But he pulls up lame and
we're getting towards the final part of the game. He
(04:15):
doesn't come off the field. The trainers come out to
him and play continues.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Well, well they're working on him, yes.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
So you got trainers stretching this guy out massaging his
leg and trying to get him right while the play
continues at the other end of the pitch. It was
the damnedest thing we've ever seen. My daughters are looking
at me going, you know, the younger one playing competitive soccer,
She goes, what the hell is this?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
I don't know in the NFL. You're working on the
quarterback and they still continuing the play.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, but basically they decided, you know, they weren't gonna
take him off the pitch in terms of subbing him out,
so they were gonna do everything they could. And then
he finally, as the ball starts moving back down the
other end, he has to make a move and he
clearly can't cut anymore, so he just waves the coach
and they sub him out and he gets a big
ovation whatever. But there was like two and a half
(05:06):
minutes that got played with this guy being stretched out
like full on on the pitch, like all right, let's
see how high we can get to, you know, get
those toes straight, come on, straight up, straight up. I
was like, whoa, this is insane, and people in front
of us going, oh, yeah, this happens every once in
a while.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
He's really important do they like that as much as
we love NFL football is?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It was insane. They had fifty thousand people, whoa it
was like an eighty two thousand seat stadium, just Insund's
like thirty more thousand than a Dolphin game, especially in
September when it's one hundred and ten degrees, so you
had to get your dolphins cracking in on you there, Arnie,
what No, I was insane because the other thing is
(05:48):
I had a Bear's pull over, right, a nice light pullover.
Weather was nice, I mean not too warm, and when
it got a little little bit of a chill in
the evening, and I had a number of people stop
me to talk NFL is really heap.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
For double or is it just a mixture of everybody
was a mix?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
But you know what, I got stopped by a bunch
of Lions fans in different sports really yeah, like the Bears,
you know suck And I'm like, all right, who's your squad?
Like I'm a Lions fan?
Speaker 5 (06:14):
O yeah, Johnny, come lately, I figured they're all cowboy fans.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Well, but if you go well, I mean certainly, you know,
winning and global branding. I'm not going to deny that,
but it was just you know who you ran into.
I ran into some people from the States, out from
Minnesota who decided to pop by.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Go.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Yeah, good luck with your quarterback, by the way, good
luck getting to a super Bowl and winning One's.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Like you can't wait to see what happens with them
this year.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So a lot of anger there. But Gaelic football, I
mean one of the best times when we had we
had a blast uh and the crowd was fantastic. But
I thought the the idea of the you attended the
guy in medical terms on the on the pitch and
keep play going was one of the greatest things I've
ever seen.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
How was the food too, They served like what we
serve here in the United States.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
We didn't really look it was. It was a bottle. Yeah,
it was a bottleneck down there. So it's two thirty
five minute halves and I want to say halftime was
maybe twelve to fifteen minutes, okay, but yeah, like as
we got into the stadium, like even trying to get
to our seats, everybody, uh, there was a match prior.
They were getting their libations and so we fought past
(07:21):
that and was like, I'm not standing in line. It's like,
we'll find a pub after the fact, and then we
found one that the Euros were on, and interestingly, my
older daughter got enamored with the fact that there was
a darts competition going on. But it was one of
those where basically it's like the guys fired their darts
and then there was team so they pulled them immediately
(07:42):
from the board and the next guy was firing as
soon as that guy got on Like no, like bam,
bam bam. I like, this is fantastic. You want to
talk about fast moving action and I was like, that
was the sports equivalent of watching someone on a craps
table the way money moves and the next dice coming out,
come on, let's go. So we had fun with that.
(08:03):
But you know, today's a huge anniversary in the sporting universe,
aren't he spam okay fourteenth anniversary, So not any that
you're getting any giant gifts from like you would do
with a wedding anniversary or full you know, documentaries laid out,
but important for our purposes because we love talking heroes
and villains no matter what the sport is, no matter
(08:24):
where we're at in the calendar. Right now, we've had
weeks upon weeks of Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark. And
depending on who you're standing for, the villain is the
other right, You've got your your Angel Reese fans who've
decided that anything Caitlin Clark is bad, You've got the
other side. And yesterday, yeah and double oh, Hulk Hogan
(08:52):
in the greatest heel turn for sports entertainment history. And
there's the entrance music. As you were. But in the
basketball terms, today is the anniversary where Lebron James changed
the face of the NBA forever. The answer to the
question everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
In this fall? Man?
Speaker 4 (09:15):
It's very tough, And this fall I'm will take my
talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Miami Heat.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
That was the conclusion he woke up with this morning.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
That was the conclusion I woke up with this morning.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
So he went all nWo with the big leg drop
on the end BA the Cleveland Cavaliers standing in for
Randy the macho man Savage in this case, if we
tie them together, and so Arnie Spanier stunned silence after
Jim Gray asked that question, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You can tell that Jim didn't wasn't prepared to go ahead,
and Jim just said, did you wake up with that decision?
Did you change your mind at the last minute. It
was like Jim was a little stunned about the whole thing.
It's funny that people are still holding Lebron that they
hate him over that whole thing. The other reason I
can't hate him because of it. He gave the money
to the Boys and Girls Club, but it just the
(10:09):
whole thing was just so fake. The whole thing always
left the bad taste of my mouth. And here we are,
how many years later did you say it?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
We'd still fourteen?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
Yeah, we're still talking about it. We haven't seen nothing
like it since. It was really uncalled for. But he
was just feeding his.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
What was uncalled for about it and had an opportunity
to make some money and he was able to grab
a television partner to make a huge announcement, different than
these guys that are high school going to commit to
colleges and doing the three card Monty hat game and
the nonsense that they do every year.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
I'm still not sure how we turned a fifteen second
answer to a like four hour show.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Still still sure.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
How you talk about fits, you talk about team team, Absolutely,
you could do anything like that. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 4 (11:02):
For what?
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Do what? Nine hours of super Bowl coverage before a game?
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, you could do that, but I mean it was
just he was picking his TV.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
That was it.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That's okay. You had options, You had a lot of
theorizing what it meant for the NA. I mean, you
could program a block C blocks.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
So I do think so many people hate them because
of it.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Still, why well, I think a lot of it comes
down to you. You have a power dynamic. And this
goes even with as we opened the show two hours ago.
You get the podcast wherever you find your audio, thank you,
download it, give it five stars, rate it, send it
to your friends and family and have them tell me
how much they hate me for the take. But when
people have an opportunity to flex and get what they want,
(11:47):
and maybe we don't in our respective jobs, relationships with friends, family, kids,
your kids hate you, you're in your spouse don't like
each other, you're fighting about this that the other, all
of those things, and then you get a guy that
just says, you know what, I think I'm gonna go
over there now and I'm gonna change the dynamics of
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this of the NBA and maybe how players look at
their own agency going forward. I mean, yeah, it's kind
of a big deal because while we haven't had the
same type of announcement, no, we certainly haven't. Well way
we could have just in the end, right, you have
the derision. The only thing I hated about it, to
be honest with the Arnie is that nobody in any
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of the meetings that they obviously had leading up to this,
and I'm not talking about Jim Gray, He's a whole
other thing to talk about is the fact that they
didn't recognize as a trio that there'd be a faction
of people that didn't like this, right right, Dryane Wade
cried about it. Lebron never really like, if you're gonna
become the villain, you embrace the villain, right That's the thing.
(12:52):
Hulk Hogan and the nWo goes from the red, white
and blue train, say your prayers, eat your vitamins to
screw the fans flank you. I'm wearing the black and
white of the nWo. We're gonna spray paint people and
have a good old time.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
So you like when the high schoolers put the three
or four hats in front of them and decide and
play around on which school they're gonna go.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Oh no, it's a bunch of jackassery they can have.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Oh that's not okay.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But no, no, no, no, no, I'm not saying that. Go
do what you're gonna do. If that, If that's what's
gonna get you, uh, you know through your day, and
you know you you find some excitement in that, and
maybe you go viral on video a little bit and
you get embraced by the school that comes in. I
get it. It's all theatrics, like I don't go ahead
and do it. I'm not tuning in.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
To watch it.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
No, no, no, I'm not right.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I'll take the super right, I'll take the super cut
of all of it. And occasionally you have the mom
who's because the kid didn't pick the school they wanted
or yeah, other than that, no, I don't care. So, yeah,
like the larger take off of this is you know,
it just changed free agency a little bit. Guys felt
a little freer, I think to move after the lebron
(14:00):
got for this and yeah, the TV show and the
partnership and that always rubbed people the wrong way. Again.
It's the same people that cry about nepotism but are
trying to get their friends, family, jobs, tickets or whatever
else wherever they can, Right, It's that kind of thing. Yeah,
that But for for Lebron, like I got no problem. Like,
(14:21):
as we said at the top, if you've got the
opportunity to say, you know what, this would make me
happy for as long as I'm here. Who doesn't want
to do that in any of their jobs? Right, whether
it's a pay raise, you know, something in your benefits
that are a little bit better. Hey I'm getting a
little bit older, my knees are a little creaky, or
what's our coverage here there? Whatever, whatever the case may be.
(14:43):
Maybe I need vision insurance here, I don't know, whatever
the case. As you go through those pages and whatever
is going to make you feel whole that you try
to find it. And for Lebron, you know, it's fourteen
years of derision coming off of this clip with Jim Gray.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
What I always wondered and interesting that you said this
that and felt other players now felt that they could
move around more freely because Lebron decided that he was
gonna go ahead and go to Miami. I always felt
that Shack was the one that kind of led the way.
When he left Orlando to go to Los Angeles, people went, wow,
if Shaq can do it and get all that money,
then really anybody can do it.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Well, But you left Orlando to go to Los Angeles, right,
Lebron left home?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Yes he did, right, he left.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Home to go do that? Is there a player changing
squads that maybe still urt you all these years, Maybe
they went, you know, from being your guy to your rival.
I'll give you one Chris chellio'sago Blackhawks. That's right, Yeah,
should the Detroit Red Wings Wings? Or to go the
other way? Dennis Rodman becoming a Bull and winning three
titles after being a member of the Pistons. So many
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of those that you can do. Bring him in at
stinking Genius one. Find me over at Swollenome at Fox
Sports Radio. As we continue here from the Tirak dot Com.
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a top ten running back list that made the rounds.
We're gonna take some issue with it because I got
a couple of guys that I'm wondering exactly what they
are already, Spaniard, We'll do that. Jason Smith Show with
Me and Mike Carmon.
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Speaker 6 (16:37):
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Speaker 3 (16:41):
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Speaker 2 (16:46):
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Speaker 3 (16:50):
You don't interrupting our promo. Yeah, it wasn't talking about you.
You took those clips totally out of context.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
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Speaker 4 (17:01):
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Speaker 2 (17:13):
Welcome back in Fox Sports or Radio. The Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Harmon no Jason Smith this week.
He's off on vacation. So it instead we've got We're blessed.
We've got our guy just thinking genius in instead, we've
got our executive producer, Justin Prosberg, our guy Alex Tyshert,
technical producer, and of course we've got Steve Disager over
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at the news desk. You brought this to my attention
a little bit earlier today because it vexed you on
an ESPN poll.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
I'm not sure you should have done that because I
look at this poet. I I don't buy this for
a second. This is just horrible.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Well, it's whenever we get into anonymous sources, we always
take it with a grain of salt and saying that
forever there's a lot of stuff that kind of gets
made up. I'm not saying this is made up, but
you know, if you don't have to put your name
on it, are you going to one hundred percent tell
the truth on all that? Even if you're ranking guys,
are you necessarily telling the truth?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I'm scratching about. By the way, would you write the
top ten running backs? What is your criteria? We talk
it like for points like fantasy football, were talking yards.
Are we just talking the sniff test here?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Well, I think this is more just an overall thing
and this comes off of ESPN and kind of going
all in. You know, do you buy in as a blocker,
you know, effectiveness between the tackles, speed, burst, availability, all
of those things. And that was the thing that kind
of got to me in looking at it, Arnie, as
we go through this top ten list that you sent
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along here, is that you have a number of players like,
all right, that guy's coming off an injury. Am I
sure that I buy this right?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Right?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
You know, bresee Halls at number two, so you know,
Jets represented for Smith yay somewhere.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
That's ridiculous by the way, He's a potential beast.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But the thing is, you know, even working behind the
suspect offensive line, he still put up numbers, even with
a quarterback that couldn't complete a down downfield pass. So
you got to imagine that, you know, they're still upside
for him. He recovered nicely from the injury, and that
he's going to be ready to go here with Aaron
Rodgers under center.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
You know, I just was before you go through the list,
I just as I look at the list, and then
I look at the honorable mentions. I have to just
tell you, boy, we have a lot of garbage at
running back, because it just it just does not look
very good at all. It's like, really, this guy is
in the top ten, this guy is in the top five.
It's just horrible names are running back. Not that these
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guys are horrible players, but it would just seem like
we had so many more running back Hall of Fame
type running backs, you know, back in the eighties and
that type.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Well, but it's a difference, and we've got to get
you to change your perspective a little bit. Here, aren't
he that it's no longer three yards and a cloud
of dust yesterday.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I grew up.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I grew up watching Walter Payton run into somebody and
then they would do a split screen with him and
showing rams fighting on the you know, out in the
open planes and bucking each other and whatever. Right, I mean,
that's the style of running back I grew up with.
It's like, no, I'm not running out of bounds. I'm
gonna run through you. I get that. And we don't
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have guys generally. We've got a couple, but you're not
piling up three hundred carries. You're just not doing that anymore.
So when when we look at it, it's now the
are you an effective runner and receiver? Can you get
to twenty touches the game? All of those kind of
things that kind of pile up. So here's the here's
the list. So first is McCaffrey. Okay, fine, sure, no argument.
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Breese Hall at number two. I'll leave your excitation there.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Right if there's a guy that's not even in the
top ten in yards rushing last year, so I don't
know how you could say he's number two. I mean,
I guess you're basing it on him having a great
year this year and with you know.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Well, but you are projecting forward, right, and you're certainly
doing that. It's kind of like when you're getting paid
when we signed new contracts, it's not about what you did.
Maybe there's a little bit of loyalty that's built in there,
but otherwise it's say, all right, what are you gonna
do for me as we move forward?
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Well, maybe they feel like he'll be better because now
Aaron Rodgers, and obviously that's gonna be a big part
of it.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Right, last year in terms of all purpose yards. Breeze
Hall was fourth in the National Football Okay, I didn't
know that, behind McCaffrey, Cede Lamb and Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
I was gonna say, though, in your fantasy football you
know that he's not going to go second for running backs.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
You know that, and I know that.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Oh he he could really Yeah, I think I would
argue him second. One of the other guys on this
list is another guy who's a big point of contention. Here.
You got Nick Chubb sitting at number three, coming off
a massive injury. Sakuon Barkley there you go that number
four in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah, I think he's in for a monster year this year.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Again, tread on the tires, health, all those things, but
certainly a good offensive line, but they did lose some
component parts to retirement. Don't forget Jason Kelsey's now on
the you know Taylor Swift tour as well as you
go through number five. Jonathan Taylor there in Indianapolis waiting
for Richardson to come back a team that is his
top notch and he certainly has big fantasm.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
He's a good running back.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
I mean, but you know, with the injuries and obviously
he was out for the first foot four games. I
believe it was so he just never really got it
all together, just never really happened.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Number number six Viijon Robinson.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Disappointed with him last Yary, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
They put him in a box. Yeah, I mean he
wasn't hurt. He was just not used. That's why the
coach isn't there anymore? What are you doing? Like my
mom used to have a thing when we were growing up,
Arnie right, we'd buy her a nice say, we'd buy
a nice top for her birthday, and then it would
go into a closet. It's like, oh, we're going out. No, no,
I gotta save that for good. It's like, well, what
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the hell's better than what we're doing here? Or you'd
buy something that would be a nice kitchen gadget or something,
you know, to help make the process of cooking for
us brutes a little easier. Ah, saving it for good.
I'm like, all right, now it's collecting dust in that cabinet,
Like what are we doing here? And then eventually with
all the clothes and gadget to become the I got
a declutter. So all of a sudden they're getting donated
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and they've never been worn or anything because you're saving
it for good. That's what Bijon Robinson felt like last
year for the Falcons. It's like, I get it, You've
got other running backs and you know you gotta help
Des been ridden around a little bit more. I'm not
saying he was any good, but you could have made
it a little bit better, and you had a good defense,
and you had a team that could have competed at
you know, at a higher level and maybe you know,
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some play action or whatever and made this guy's life easier. Disaster.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
I just I they didn't use it nearly enough.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
I was shocked, and I said, you saw glimpses of
what he could join it, they just didn't keep going
back to I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, Fantasy owners last year drafting him fifth or sixth
overall on that was the biggest bust of two twenty three,
no question about it, other than you know guys that
were injured and obviously unavailable to play. Number seven is
Josh Jacobs now with the Packers. Number eight Jamier Gibbs
of your Detroit Lions, which I think is interesting because
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David Montgomery's still there, still there to vulture your goal
line work.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Folks.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Number nine, Derrick Henry takes his talent.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Baltimore all in with Derrick Henry.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Huh well, but I think part of that becomes the
what are your expectations of health, durability and you know,
historical running back walls in terms of carries and bulldozing through.
Now Baltimore maybe more balanced this year, but I got
to imagine Derek Henry is still going to get a
big workload, especially with all their former running backs now
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on the Chargers, right.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And plus yeah, as a quarterback that the people are
going to be afraid of, at least allegedly.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
So we'll see how that.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
About on the ground, and we'll see what they can
do in the passing game. I know Mark Schlaret and
a lot of folks have been doing a bunch of
fighting online about it. It's like, yeah, what's going on
in the playoffs with the Ravens is cannot be denied. Okay,
that's they've lost. They've had bad game plans last year,
they went away from the run game. I do spots
in Baltimore all the time. They're still salty about it.
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So you got that number ten, Travis etn I like him.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
I know He's had a few injuries, but I like him.
He's I'm waiting for him to explode.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
So potential there. Jaguars a horrible collapse. They were saved
only by the fact that the Eagles had such a
horrible second half collapse. Otherwise they would have been the
talk of the town, even though they are the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Honorable mentions, as you alluded to, Aaron Jones who stays
in Division but heads over to Minnesota, Kenneth Walker, the
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third of Seattle, Pacheco in Kansas City, James Cook, who
I would have had in my top ten, no question
about it. In Buffalo, He's a guy that's gonna take
on the reason. Alvin Kamara, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Up in the head, talk about full from grace.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
I don't know what he is at this point health wise,
or what that offense is going to do. I mean,
I'm not a Derek Carr gay and that is very
well established right exactly as it goes. But you know
Kamara at this point in his career, can he pile
up touches? Is he going to be in a workload split?
You got Joe Mixon who comes in next. He's in
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the planet Houston. Now again some durability questions at this
point and how much of a workload split and then
DeAndre swipp with the Bears. They've got I think at
last count four guys that will play the running back
position for them this year.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Yeah, but I like Kim, I thought that was a
good pickup. And obviously the hupscale of Williams just another
piece for the puzzle. He's certainly got weapons around him.
Is there gonna be no excuses for him?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
And then that's certainly it right. I mean, make the
prediction and just say, hey, they're making the playoffs and
move on from that. But a lot of question marks
says to how it all flows. The offensive line rates
fair well, much beligned. It's all gonna be what can
Waldron do with Caleb Williams and can the Bears finally
break through and have a quarterback pass for four thousand yards?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
But back to what I said with when you look
at this list, do you get all like, wow, what
a boy, We're gonna see a lot of Hall of
famers in the NFL from that list.
Speaker 4 (27:19):
I don't see that at all.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
No. No, And the running back position, I don't know
that it's been devalued. It's just changed right to where
we've gone committee, and we did this years ago, many
years ago, where I mean even go back to the
time where Jerome Bettis went from being at every down
back to being basically the short yardage and goal line guy, right,
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I mean, it's just changed, and we've seen a lot
of teams employ this. Add the number of teams that
have quarterbacks that either vulture touchdown attempts or rack up
regularly eight to ten carries as planned runs net alone.
You know, coverage breaking down and the scrambles that come right,
Lamark Jackson one, right, I mean Jackson and Allen and
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Jalen Hurts, and I'm sure Caleb Williams will take off
and run a bunch. Anthony Richardson before he got hurt,
we were expecting more of that from him. Just keep
going on down the line. I mean, there's a lot
of quarterbacks that'll that'll take to the ground and make
plays with their legs, There's no question about it. So
that being said, you know, when you have the runner,
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the pass catcher, the goal line guy not always the same.
That might be three different players. So the running back
position still has its value you're still trying to get
some of those magic numbers in terms of touches and targets,
but it's not going to be one guy. And durability
is the other part of it is trying to make
sure that you're getting through the long journey of a
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season with as many of your component parts as you can,
particularly when you're looking at the number one running backs. Right.
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Look, look the odds the Dolphins don't have a running
back in that top ten or honorable mention, yet they'll
be one of the favorites in the AFCX well.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But that's the point, though, Arnie, I mean, you got
three guys right moster, Okay, a regression from the touchdown
and health has been an issue in the past, so
folks are a bit down on him. I still think
there's value. You got eight chan and then and then
you went to the draft, right right, and you add
another guy in the draft, So you got three guys
right there, which means you don't need one right cracking
(29:22):
cracking the top ten ain't gonna do it right to
do that. And if you look at the fantasy side,
off of the current fantasy pros so expert consensus rankings
goes McCaffrey v Jon Robinson, Breisee Hall one, two three,
then Taylor Gibbs, Barkley, Kyron Williams at number seven. That
one's kind of an interesting one with Blake Korum coming in,
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and then you got Derrick Henry and Travis Etn with
Pacheco coming in as your number ten before your guy
eight Chan shows up.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I think that Derek Henry is gonna get a lot
of goal line scores, take away some of them from
Lamar Jackson's I like him a lot points this year.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Well, and if Mark Andrews is healthy right now, you
get a little more play action, You get a little
more in the passing game from Jackson in red zone opportunities,
and at this point in his career, I would think
you'd like to start saving his body a little bit.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, I don't like this list. I'm hot. I didn't
like this list.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You seem pretty salty about it. Yeah, and it really
just tells me as a Dolphin fan you hate Jason
Smith and the Jets.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Is he gonna go to any games? Does he go
to the Jet games or no?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
If the Jets come to town, sure.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
But he won't come out to New York.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
The last game we went to, Arnie was a thirty
one loss. Yeah, he sat with Frostburg on that one.
That was brilliant day. I love that. That comes up?
How many times during the football season?
Speaker 4 (30:47):
Oh, at least once a week?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah, No, at least once a week, There's no question
about it. And we'll certainly get to that again. I've
not checked the Jets schedule. I think they might have
crossed midfield somewhere in the fourth quarter. You know, I
went to a Bears game once that that never happened.
That sucks for you. Kate McNown under center Jerry Rice's
final home game as a forty nine er and Terall
(31:09):
Owens caught twenty twenty balls that day. There you go where?
Yeah exactly. Mike Carmon, Arnie Spanier with here, The Jason
Smith Show with Me, Mike Carmon here, Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up next, an NBA player declared, I am number
one at the US men's national team press availability. Is
(31:31):
he right? Is he right?
Speaker 3 (31:32):
We'll be sure to catch live editions of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith Show with
Me by Carmon Jason Off, Arnie Spanier in his stead
coming up about ten minutes, we'll talk about when contract
negotiations go wrong, oh the disrespect. But first, a young
superstar compared at oftentimes during the playoffs to Michael Jordan, said,
(32:03):
I am the number one option on this US men's
national team.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Up.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
That is, of course, Anthony Edwards of your Minnesota Timberwolves.
Trial by fire into the playoffs, a couple of rough
performances to end things, Arnie Spanier, but he's saying, I'm
the top guy on this US men's national team. You've
got Steph Curry, right, You've got Lebron James, you got
Anthony Davis, you got Kawhi Leonard, you got Kevin Durant.
(32:30):
You got all these guys lined up. Lebrash twenty two
year old said, Hey, I'm him, and I dig it
right now.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
You know, I was hoping that there was gonna be
some misunderstanding or that maybe he didn't it came out
a different way. I know he was still upset about
that because he had to come off the bench last time.
And look, I don't know why you have to have
this ego, this type of attitude. When you're playing for
the USA Olympic team, you.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Call yourself a genius in your Twitter tag. But what
I don't know why you have to have this ego.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Yeah, when you're playing for your team is one thing.
When you're playing for your country that's another. Everybody's got
to put their ego behind them otherwise it's never gonna work.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Look at all the people we've.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
Had on the Dream Team and and all those teams afterwards.
You can only have five guys that starts. There were
a Hall of famers that were coming.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Off the bench.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
So yeah, you you gotta put your ego in check.
But you disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
No, it's there's an ego in check in gameplay, and
then there's a hey, look at me. When it comes
to media coverage.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
It's it's always look at me with these guys, and
it's getting very old, getting very Yeah, why you like it?
Speaker 2 (33:47):
You seeds are business, so yes, crazy they could be
the better.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
He wouldn't be.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
I would rather probably come up with about four or
five guys. I'd rather to take the game winning shot
than him.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
But in terms of best player right now, how many
do you rank ahead of him. Well, Lebron, you think
Lebron is still a better player than him?
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Two way, I'd rather him taking the final shot.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, that's how you're making the definition of this.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Okay, Well, what do you want me to say? I
know if we're gonna play an eighty two game season.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
No, I'll just say, the best player in the game
on this team right now.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
The best player on this team Lebron, Anthony Davis, Steph Curry.
Maybe Cooper flagged the way he look did you see
what he was doing in the in the game, or.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Wow, he is the most interesting part of it because
tanking began today. Yes, if you don't think you're making
the playoffs, you're saying, the hell with it, We're not
spending another dime and we're making no improvements to anything.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
Oh this guy.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
As a matter of fact, we have shut off the
hot water in the home locker room to make you
as uncomfortable and miserable as a game.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I'm forfeiting every game if I could do that, you know,
I just I would have forfeit every game until we
have the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
Because he went in and certainly acquitted himself quite nicely,
and then he had the Anthony Davis blocked and that
in that squad scrimmage earlier today. But no, it's it's
certainly encouraging. There. You got got a guy that getting
a bit of run.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
As it were seventeen seventeen.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
That's it.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
I didn't consider him as the next Lebron, but he
could be the next big thing. I mean, he's I
hate to say that just to a seventeen year old,
but the way he was playing against Hall of famers
was tremendous.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
I mean, but see this is a nice strategic thing too,
because if he doesn't play very well, it's right, he
gets some good, valuable experience against these guys. You know,
there was a game play as well. Now we can
start getting him over.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
He was that They played a game today, a scrimmage,
and it was the team against Cooper Fagg's team, which
was a bunch of other guys.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Cooper flexed. He lost by a point.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
That point. Yeah, it was blocked by Anthony Davis. Yes,
to finish.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
It out, insane.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Yeah, Stealing the show is the headline no matter where
you look across the interwebs here. So yeah, I'm getting
some run, and you know, for for college buckets. It
gives you a little bit of a run that isn't
Danny Hurley, So that's good.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Give you.
Speaker 5 (36:18):
I've already betted him the one rookie of the year
whenever he comes out, I don't need to wait.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
I'm scheduled to be the number one pick next year,
so you'll be ready.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
Is he's definitely gonna be one and done? Is that
for sure?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Unless he has a miserable year after this showing. He
probably could announce right now, Oh, sitting out the rest
of the year, I'm done.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
You know we laugh at that, don't you know.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
I don't think that's a bad strategy.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Might not. He's not gonna do it, but you could
be right about that.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Now you go make your millions in nil Arnie. That's
true because you still got some payday that can be had.
Talking about pay day, a guy who signed a free
agent deal set I was disrespected, I was hoodwinked, and
I had to leave. And I'll tell you why. We'll
do that next t
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