July 9, 2024 • 41 mins
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier recap Zach Edey’s NBA Summer League debut. And all the latest on the ongoing extension talks between the Dolphins and Tua Tagovailoa.
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome in hour two of the program Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Harmon Live from the tire at
dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. No Jason Smith tonight
in instead our guy, the stinking genius himself, Arnie Spaniard.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I want to know how many people in the Taylor
Swift concert fifty one hundred thousand. I have no idea
how many people they cram in the concert out there.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
That's a really good question. I didn't. I didn't think
they did one of those.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hey, let me show you the you know, guess, guess
guess the attendance here.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
It'll do that in cons No. So was at a Viva.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Stadium, which is what they use for all the college
football games that go overseas. My brother's been there. A
couple of times with Northwestern when Pat Fitzgerald was the coach,
having played there, So the seating capacity is fifty.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
One seven, not that bad. And then you add on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So probably what sixty two sixty three that room whatever
else you got going on there, so not too huge,
nice facility. The folks there were great, great hospitality. So
that was that was a lot of fun, three hour show.
Paramore opened up. They did a great job. A couple
of covers to get get things going. Anytime you can
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get a crowd that's not quite fully inebriated, full on
in full throated, with burning down the house, is it
talking heads you've won?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Is it different scene of concert overseas compared to because
you've been to both the overseas and the US for
Taylor Swift, is it big difference or what? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I mean I still wore the same glitter glitterally heart
jacket right and my legend unicorn hat, my Goren hat
that gets so many great compliments wherever I go, the
heart pants the whole nine yards. I mean, cause if
you're gonna go, you gotta go all in. Absolutely, there's
no question about it. I would say the big difference.
There's just that level of anticipation like here in like
(02:17):
being in la I mean we're spoiled, right, there's big
events all the time right in the United States as
a whole.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I mean there's tours.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Going all over the place, of course, so you know,
criss crossing that kind of thing there. They get it
for a brief period of time, right in terms of
summer travel and these outdoor stadiums. One weather being a factor,
two availability of stadium three. I mean the big touring artists,
(02:44):
you necessarily want to go where the weather is gonna
crush you time and time again. You can even look
at you know, tour dates when they move towards the
indoor arenas and such and say, well, we'll play to
twenty thousand instead of you know, fifty, or we'll go
see find the dorm the dome stadiums instead. But for this,
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you know, they had Pink the week before. You know,
you had Glastonbury going on, so a bunch of headliners there,
food fighters had been through town, so they were enjoying
the month of It seemed like everybody was passing through
and recognizing just as fast as it comes, you're back
into all right, everybody's gone and now we settle back
into our lives. So you know, there was a level
(03:26):
of anticipation and excitement, you know for those events coming through.
We'd made all the friendship bracelets, so we were just
chatting people up outside the stadium and as we're walking
in and walking through, getting on the escalators and all.
So hospitality was great.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
People sell the tickets out in front of.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Well no, no, no, Ireland's got really restrictive.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh yeah, well no. So this is one where I
get my younger brother and people he works with the
NOD because we ran into a bunch of dead end
arnie before we were getting on that plane. It was
twenty four to forty eight hours when we were still
like we think we're solid, but we're not a hundred wow.
(04:06):
And in the end people saw the pictures so we
got it. But uh yeah, no, it's very restrictive. They
put in some laws so basically it becomes, yeah, you
can transfer tickets, but there's no scalping, there's no profiting.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Not like the US.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, but it's really funny, right, so I know folks
that made a cottage industry of it, and back in
the day, you know, when you're in between jobs, like
people got laid off whatever. You know, we played that
game for a little bit, right, Ricky Martin when he
was at his peak, he was selling out Madison Square
Garden in a matter of seconds, right, And you were
able to triple your money buying tickets and putting them
(04:44):
right back up with Taylor. You know the tickets we had.
You know, we were lucky to get a code here
in Los Angeles. I could have made twenty times face
you're not kidding you, sorry.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Kids, you're not going to tys.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Well, I debated that. I mean, it would have paid
for most of this day trip. We just took it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I would have said, you're not going vague, but it was, yeah,
well you know what.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
That's that we're watch it on TV. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, I mean at the time they had announced the
Disney Plus thing, they just they were filming. But no,
it's it's like live music and folks that know me
and and know my my history. I mean that that's
everything to me. Arnie Events sixty.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Two thousand, that's small. I would throw.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I saw George thorough Good, George Thorow Good in a
gymnasium there.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Was like three there you go there that was absolutely.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Start taking moving on over. You know what you sound like,
George thorough good a little us.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
We're going way back now.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
He's still out there touring.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Get out.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Scott Live. Yeah, he's still getting after it.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
A little bit, no flashing about, but no, it was
a great trip, good for and you know, good for
the soul, and and the kids will remembering. It was
my daughter's sixteenth birthday, so wow, that was the genesis
of all of this. My older one had just turned
eighteen in Timber. Younger one turned sixteen this past Sunday,
a week Aldgo Sunday, so uh yeah, just a fantastic time.
(06:09):
But good to be back with my crew and the
villains here at Fox Sports Radio. As we're watching this
beginning of summer leagues. We got Utah and Memphis three
point eight.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Watch that game.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Let me tell you that Zach Edie last checkout. Because
I'm doing the show, it's hard for me to watch
the game. I have to keep turning my head. He
had twelve or fourteen points. Scottie Pippen Junior must have
close though. He is a good player. Though that he
is balling out.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Here yeah, twenty one person.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Last check I saw Philipowski was oh for four or
oh for five. I'm not even sure all the shots
came from three point range. He is playing a horrible
I'm curious to see what's going to happen to him.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And you know, with that.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Whole story that came out, I don't know if you
had a chance to talk about him as you were gone,
But uh, you know, getting drafted by Utah with the
girl for that's eight years older, he's not looking very
good at.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I had a lot of light. So I don't know
how much you talk about that stuff though, right, I
mean that's the salacious TMZ kind of details to stuff.
I mean, certainly will evaluate his play on the court.
Uh look someone being eight years someone senior. I mean,
I it is what it is, right, I have to
say that. I mean, you were also getting mad mad
(07:26):
at Bill Belichick for his current romantic relationships, and I think.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
That's a little sick.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Come on, now, well, how do we know when people
find love?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Oh? Stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Stalin Taylor and Sarah Paulson, there's a big age gap.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You want to know, how seem to be doing just fine?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
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common sense tells me get out of here.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
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Speaker 6 (08:14):
No, especially in the wallet, it hits you pretty hard well.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean that, look that happens at any age there, Arne.
It doesn't matter if you're seventy or seventeen. There's a
bunch of potential disastrous things from a financial perspective, no
question about it. In the ways of love. But I'm
sure Arnie has some more quips that he wants to
get out. And if you want to put your wife on,
I think I got some questions for her while we're
(08:38):
at it as well, for sure, Yeah, no question about it.
I see how you live in your beachside manner. So
you got all that, all right. So we're going to
overtime in this game.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Zach Edy. They threw it off the rail.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
That was brilliantly executed, and.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Zach Edy tipped it in because he's ten feet tall,
so they tied again.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
They're gonna go to overtime. What a great tip you.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well, that was one of the guys draft height that
I was very excited, you know, me being the big
ten apologist that I to see him get drafted as
early as he was, because remember there were so many
people he might not get drafted at all. He might
be an eight second round guy. Yeah, it's like, if
that's what we're at in the NBA, then the league
is in for, you know, in trouble if that guy
can't find a job and become a contributor along the way.
(09:21):
But one guy that who decided not to join the league, though,
Danny Hurley signs a six year, fifty million dollar deal.
A year ago he'd signed a six year, thirty two
million dollar deal. So you can do the math in
terms of what he's getting as a raise, plus a
bunch of unspecified bonuses mixed therein. And that's the important
part to all of it, Arnie, when it goes back
(09:43):
to it to fight over and him basically saying, you know,
as emphatically as he can, I have plenty of leverages.
We've won two titles like No, No, No, You went back guy,
and you kind of led to there were some things
you weren't happy about in terms of compensation for your staff, facilities,
some of the other administrative parts. That's all part of
(10:06):
leverage and negotiating. It doesn't necessarily mean the dollars hit
your pocketbook, right right, But so he goes six point
fifty six for fifty here the Lakers reportedly was six
for seventy. Get another one of those examples of grasses
and always greener. Maybe you decided you've got the really
good thing, and I know, family and all of that,
(10:27):
and people are like, he was never gonna go because
of this. You have no idea, you know, I've been
watching my old Ted Dbiossi clips. Everybody's got a price
for the million dollar man, and.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It's a lot. We know how much more expensive. I mean,
you guys know better than anybody. You're you guys are
out in Los Angeles. So anything he would have made
extra would have gone to taxes.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
And the price well, I.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Mean, Connecticut's not exactly a low tax stay.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
No, No, you're right, You're one hundred percent right about that.
Though you're right about that, his wife really wanted to stay.
It wasn't something that she was excited about. She didn't
want to go out to the West Coast. She didn't
want to go to Los Angeles. That wasn't her thing.
She wanted to stay from the very beginning. That's why
I knew that he wasn't gonna end up going.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
You knew, you knew. You were the guy that knew.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
No, it was ninety percent sure. Though I'm like ninety
to ten, I'm not a heart.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, I think I think we all were in the
ninety to ten. Why would you give up dynastic opportunities?
The NBA is always going to be there right right
as we cycled through, and so I think we're all
in that opinion. But when you talk about six for
seventy and even oh like a if they you know,
put up one hundred. So now we're just talking about negotiating, right,
(11:38):
it's too early in the evening for some of the
classic jokes about what do you think I am? And
then oh, now we're just haggling about price, right, that
kind of thing. And for Danny Hurley makes the decision
go back to Yukon. I really want to know about
the bonus structure, Like that's the most intriguing part of that.
We're talking final four's, we're talking more titles, like how
(11:59):
many millions are still on the table above the six
for fifty?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I think that if you the Laker job was came
in low because they probably didn't really want him unless
they got him on their term.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Sure that's why it was so low.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Well, and I think that's what you do right first
time head coach.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Not really not if it's somebody you really want, you
got to go ahead and pay on up. You can't
go ahead and fakers can't be choosers.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
But hey, six for seventy for a guy who hasn't
coached in the NBA, how desperate do you want to get?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
What did Reddick get? He it seems like it's a
beginner job. They gave the job to a podcast there
to a podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Still a guy who played in the league. What'd they
make the playoffs all but one of the years he played.
This guy's been around. Everybody is saying he was going
to be a coach at some point.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
So see we'll see if he can handle the pressure
when they go through their first losing streak and everybody's
yelling at him and oh no.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No, your guys out, and yeah, he'll he'll drop some
F bombs and make Rob Polinka uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
That's got to.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Stop, by the way, you know, he's dropping the F bombs.
Lebron is dropping the F bombs when he was talking
about his son today that Broddy doesn't.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Give a play And you know, I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
They think that they're sending a message to us, or
to the media, or to the fans, or to haveever.
But you got to stop with these F bombs. They're
not impressing anybody.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I think in the end, it's just you're speaking like
you would normally.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Speak, right, the idea of decorum and business versus Well.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We can't do that.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Well, we can't.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
There's only a certain words you can't say, right, you can,
but there are ramifications for them.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
What's the ramification?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Rob Polinka looks a little uncomfortable because his coach used
an F bomb in a press conference.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Well, no, I mean you can't. You can't be doing
that during the game. I mean, there's that's all.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
You do during the game.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Have you ever set courtside during an NBA game? All
they do is curse at each other. I mean, can
you imagine the referees if they wouldn't by the letter
of the law, they would kick those guys out.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
In the first minute of the game.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Game No, I meant like when they do those sidelight
interviews and say, what are you gonna do after the
first they can't be dropping f bombs when they're doing
the interview to that effect.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, I mean, everything's on delay, you can't. He's already Spanner.
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(14:26):
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
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Speaker 7 (15:13):
As everybody knows, we're the hosts of the award winning
Polly and Tony Foodsco Show. Yeah, but instead of us
telling you how great we are, here's how Dan Fackrick
described us when he came on our show.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Quick, knowledgeable and funny, opinionated.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
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You took those clips totally of context.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
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Speaker 5 (15:37):
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Speaker 3 (15:48):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon Jason Smith off this week, taking the
pause before we get into the throes of training camp
and the beginning of the National Football League campaign coming
up in about twenty minutes from now, we'll try to
parse out whether a coach can actually achieve a feat
(16:09):
that he put into the off season Hard Knocks.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Machine.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And let's face it, my brain froze because I'm like, yes,
there is actually a Hard Knocks off season program. Because
until this story, if you'd put a bunch of money
in front of me and said, hey, there's a team
being featured on the off season Hard Knocks, who is it?
I would have had to cry as that money was
taken away because I would have not earned it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
When does football we talked a little bit about this.
Let's say when this football season start for you? Does
it start now? Practice? The first preseason game, the first
regular season game that first Thursday?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You know, I mean I got a month till Hard
Knocks with the Bears begins right right tomorrow. They'll give
away tickets to their nine public practices. Oh yeah, Dialed
I am dialdy and I am back to home, and
you know there's anticipation in Chicago for the first time
in a long time.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
That starts for me.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
That's when it starts. The Hall of Fame game with
the Bears play on the Hall of Fame game. That
starts everything off. Once you get to that first game,
it's football season.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I know we got we get to celebrate Hester and
celebrate Steve McMichael, one of the greatest Bears and a member,
you know, form a member of you know, the four
Horsemen in the wrestling world.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Look at you pull it out to.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Now we got more wrestling that will show up here
in the show a little bit better coming at the
top of the hour. We will talk about great heel
turns in sports and sports and entertainment history. But your
guy to a tongue of I looa yeah, still put
on all these lists as one of the quote most
underpaid players in the National Football League, yet to earn
(17:50):
his new contract from your Miami Dolphins. And now I'll
ask that in a therapist kind of way, how does
that make you feel?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You know, I want him to be the starting quarterback.
I think he deserves the money. I know they were
concerned about the injuries last year. He stayed healthy the
year before that. When he did get hurt, he was
leading in just about every offensive category before he went down.
Last year he was ahead and just about every offensive category.
I believe he had the most yardage in the NFL
in twenty twenty three. All that aside, though he's earned it,
(18:23):
he deserves it. He's lost some weight, he's made some changes,
He's getting better every year. They have some weapons around him.
What are you gonna do? Start freshco somewhere else? I mean,
is there another quarterback? I'm not even sure that your
Caleb Williams is gonna be that, you know, everything in
a bag of chips like everybody's making them out to be.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I don't want to it going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I can't understand why they just don't give him the
extension and get that thing signed sealed, no leverage.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
He did lead the league in yardage by what it
was it forty nine yards over Jared Goff. And then
he got Dak Prescott fresh out of his walking boot,
who's still looking for his big deal as one of
those big three, and now.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Not giving him the big deal now that's a whole another
story well, but those are tied and inextricably linked.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
We talk about the revenue flowing in the report that
the NFL had a thirteen billion dollars, we'll be extra
billion will be distributed to all the member teams, about
four hundred million per off of the national rights.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
And then eventually we'll wait.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
For the reports from the packers as to what they
file in terms of revenue, as they do have to
publicly disclose, so we get a little bit of a
look behind the curtain as to the economics of things.
TUA last year sixty nine percent completion rate, a career
best forty six hundred passing yards, two touchdowns per pick
twenty nine to fourteen. And you know, anybody wants to
(19:53):
do all their key quarterback rating and what have you
have at it.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
It's all about health and what's replacement cost?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, do you decide as much McDaniel and company
that you can go find someone and it becomes the
Johnny Bravo Brady Bunch thing because I got to appeal
to everybody of all ages here. We got the swifties
and then we'll go back to the sixties and seventies
with some television and music references when you say, hey,
is it just someone who fits the suit? And then
(20:20):
you've got enough weaponry at the running back position, which
they're they've got great depth this year, and you start
talking about the wide receivers that are in toe that
it's just a plug and play kind of situation as
you see with quarterbacks. You know, part of it is
the organization, I think is the going to be the
biggest part of all of it, no matter how talented
a guy is. I mean, just go back to the
(20:41):
draft class a couple of years ago, Trevor Lawrence got
his money. He's the only guy still on the original
team drafted him out of those five, right, everybody else
has moved on and is either begging to stay in
the league or battling for a backup role or in
a case like justin fields. Not only is it a
look how hard I am and how you know yoked
I am in the gym as I stare at the camera,
(21:03):
but trying to fight down Russell Wilson to win that
starting job. And you know, we'll we'll let that parse
out as it goes forward. But finding a quarterback that
fits right the Bears, Waldron eber Flu's stay of execution right,
the defense Rallied Montes, Sweat comes over. They're a great unit.
You made a lot of changes offensively, bring in Swift,
(21:25):
bring it see it goes back to Swift. You bring
in Gerald Everett, you bring in Keenan Allen, Roma Dunza
alongside DJ Moore and on paper with cold Comet and
everything else that's there, you say, all right, this is
you know, you're really ready to go.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Packers are good, Lions are good, and Minnesota, assuming that
they get any kind of quarterback play from Darnold or McCarthy,
they're a pretty good roster. So it's not like you're
gonna suddenly run up. But you were a seven win
team a year ago. So now it's just trying to
win one or two of those close games, maybe find
yourself in to the playoffs. So yes, National radio host
(22:02):
me Uh says, yeah, they they should be a wildcard team.
If not, they should they shouldn't be, No, exactly, but
if they're not a wildcard team, it's a fail based
the overhaul of that roster and what they brought in.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Mike, they have to beat the Detroit team.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
All of a sudden, Detroit is such juggernuts that they
can't be beaten.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
They've won twelve games. They may be just a one
hit wonder.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Let's see if they're really gonna go ahead and keep
like this for another year. The Packers with Jordan Love,
I mean, are we sure that Jordan Love is the
next best thing?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Well, because for the last four years I might have
been the only national guy standing there with the Jordan
Love flag saying this was the right move to do.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
You have a good year?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Don't even going back to draft I defended him then.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
No, you And that's fine. He had a good year
last year.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
But I mean, the way people are talking about it,
they're like, oh, this he's a done, He's great now,
he's he's gonna be leading them deep into the point.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Look at yeah, but look at the state of quarterbacking.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You brought we brought up.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
The case why I want to say that, but that's.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But but that's that was my circuitest way of getting
back to that. That was my way of bringing us
back all the way around. You know, as I say,
hold on a second call to sac let me bring
you back over here. To the other other end of
the circle is that when you've got a guy that
has shown you the ability that Tua has, and yes,
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injury histories are there, but guess what, that's the quarterback position.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
That's the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
One play can alter everything, And coming off of last year,
I think you've got to feel pretty good about where
you're at. And the longer you wait to pay a
guy you want to go down the franchise tag thing.
That's fine for Tua. I mean, and I know guys
get mad about it. You're still getting in the average
at the top five salaries, so you can only cry
so much.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Injuries. Injuries kept up from winning a Super Bowl last year.
That's what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
If it wasn't for the injuries and having to go
to Kansas City, they would have won it.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
As my ear drums just got blown out. The injuries
are part of the game. That is what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
And you got bad about that, the suffering injuries through
your headset.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But that's really the last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's a long protracted road, man, it is. It is
not an easy path. I mean, we're talked about it
with the NBA you're playing eighty two regular season games
and then you get into at least sixteen playoff games.
That's if you run the table in each round. Same
thing with the NFL. Yeah, it's seventeen games eventually eighteen.
Inevitably eighteen, particularly with the loss of that lawsuit related
(24:36):
to direct TV and all that stuff going on. But
you're gonna get to eighteen games and trying to keep
your team healthy is one hundred percent the name.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Of the game. Especially the AFC or at the NFC.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
We still have I think some division between a couple
of top teams and then maybe kind of sort of wishing, wanting,
hoping if this goes right.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's not just it's not just the quarterback saying he
see though Tyreek Hill went down, they had injuries in
the backfield, had injuries on the defense.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
At the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Unfortunately, they stacked the wrong way for you, right, go
back a few years. You know our buddy Plank, he
may be listening. Either way, I know you'll text him
immediately said to hear Harmon soon. Remember the year that
they were having with Derek Carr MVP candidate. How healthy
was that squad? They missed no time, and I hyperbole
(25:30):
a bit, but virtually no time of any key player
due to injury. And then we've been playing on this
show for years and I may be destined to go
to hell for that and many it's broke, bit right,
I should play it and everybody gets a bit uncomfortable.
And that was the year, right, Hey.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
No, but that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Right, It looked like it was all gonna happen, and
just like that, a Fano snap happened.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
In the world was never the.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Same and you look at the Eagles, they look like
they were gonna have the same thing.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Instead it was Nick Foles.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Big Nick came through and got it done in the
biggest of stages out dueling you know, Tom Brady and
just having the game of his life. He eventually became
a bear, and I watched him have the worst games
of his life. But the idea just being that one
injury takes it away for your Dolphins, Yeah, to a
state healthy, But everything else happened, right, You never know
(26:28):
when the football gods are gonna tap you on the shoulder.
How many years have we watched the Baltimore Ravens or
the Los Angeles Chargers, great team on paper, great team
playing well, and then whatever was going on in the
bad juju in the training rooms, one guy after another
went down with injury.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You're talking about a last place team with the Chargers.
The Dolphins were winning the division. They had dropped their
last two to end the year, and Buffalo won six
a row to ketch up and finished tide.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That made all the difference in the world. I'm talking
to history, yeah right, I mean we can go this in.
History is littered with teams that looked great and then
one or two injuries at the absolute worst time, and
you're able to get chased down. And so for your Dolphins. Now,
the decision of paying Tua, right, tie it back to
Dak Prescott. It's like, yeah, Dak's had his long run.
(27:17):
Dak's been in there since twenty sixteen, right, right, You've
decided not to pay him. At this point, they might
as well move on from You could move on from Dak.
I don't think you could move on from Tua, who's
a lot younger. I'm ready to move on from Dak.
But again, it's what's the cost of replacement, is Trey
Lance that guy or how easy it is is it
to replace him, because you're gonna be just good enough
(27:38):
this year that you're not gonna get a top draft pick.
So if you think you're gonna suddenly draft the next
guy probably out there. Most guys don't get to free
agency where they're still a truly top end viable guy. Right,
Most teams are gonna again franchise or work ahead and
get them signed and wrapped up for your doll Dolthans,
(28:01):
I mean to it looks like he's the fit. Yet
your your team is slow and dragging their feet. Did
you start your letter writing campaign yet? I And are
you picking them to win the Super Bowl this year?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh? Of course I'll pick them to win the Super Bowl.
That's not gonna change things. I'm I'm sorrying, I'm all
in on the Dolphins this year.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
This is the year that everything should come together.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
As long as they stay away from playing Kansas City
in the playoffs on the road, they should be just fine.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You look at the division, right, Patriots, I mean they're
already in in tank mode. Uh they are one hundred
to one. The only team with worse odds than them
are the Panthers. As I'm looking at a board right now,
there you go, the Panthers. Well, but on paper in
that division with the receivers they brought in, if Bryce
(28:48):
Young can be anything with Canals coming in, I'm not
gonna say they're gonna be world beating, but uh, they
could be just enough, just good enough to mess things up,
but not like you're gonna down any money for them
to win anything substantive. You might as well just go
buy another piece of cake, like already put at Stink
and Genius one in his pregame meal.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Revving up for tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Cowboys still one of the heavily bet squads along the way.
Expectations in division that they can still make some things
happen either eighteen or twenty to one to in the
Walking Boot. You know you always raise an eyebrow whenever
you see some of those things. I'm sorry, Dak was
in there.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Careful there, yeah, be careful there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Well, I'm just predicting pain for you. How about that?
I was transferring his pain to your quarterback. Sorry, reading
odds and mixing quarterbacks as it were. Yes, Dak was
in the Walking Boot. Got folks a bit excitable as
it goes there, But you know you're Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
You've kicked the.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Can down the road enough that at some point you've
got to make a decision. He's got to make a
decision between three guys at that point, right when you're
looking at CD Lamb, Micah Parson, and of course Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I gotta feel they're not going to bring back Micah
Parsons either. I just get that weird feeling on that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, that'll be a curious spot, certainly, a difference maker
playmaker for them. It's just what's the price of poker
and and how are you paying him as a linebacker
as an edge guy as like you know, that's when
we start getting into the fun and semantics of the
the franchise tag as well as to where he fits
(30:29):
in those and making the arguments much like you know,
some of the tight ends have said, well, I'll basically
use as a wide receiver and then you fight about it.
You know, Hey, I'm lined up here and here's the
percentage I.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Promise that either way.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah, it becomes a a little bit of Jerry Bucks,
as we joke about on the show, No question about it.
At Stake a genius one where you find him on
Twitter find me over at Swollen Dome. As we continue
here Fox Sports Radio. Now we'll turn it over to
a guy who's well, he's the guru, he knows it all.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
It's Steve at the news desk.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Hello, gentlemen.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
While we're talking NFL here, Hurricane Barrel has gone through
Texas and the eyewitness news outlet in Houston is showing
what appears to be a hole in the roof of
the Houston Texans Stadium. Wow, in the groove portion up
at the retractable roof area, and the stadium officials in
Houston would only say they are waiting for a full
(31:23):
assessment to disclose a damage report.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I remember being on air when the stadium roof collapsed
in Minnesota. Oh that was quite a good Yeah, we wait,
what what's happening here?
Speaker 6 (31:37):
You know?
Speaker 8 (31:37):
There was a good special of many good specials recently
on NFL Network. One of them was Top ten Bad
Weather Games, and of course honorable mentioned they had to
show the Fox video of the snow just pouring you.
Yeah through that what it was an air supported roof, right,
and you get a hole in it, and so all
the snow that was on top at the time came
(31:58):
down onto the field for it's nobody was there. It
was not game time. The Houston Texans re signed defensive
end Jerry Hughes today. By the way, it's Texans versus
Bears for the Hall of Fame exhibition. August the first.
Every other team starts the preseason schedule at least a
week after that. NFL rookies report to training camp for
Baltimore this Saturday.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I know they have the early game.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
In September, but honestly, people report dates for some of
the other teams are the next week. Defensive back Camera
and Sutton, back with the Steelers, was suspended eight games
after a domestic violence case. The Lions cut him in March.
Former San Francisco safety Tayshaun Gibson formally accepted his six
game suspension for peds. He is a free agent. The
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WNBA is off in the NBA Summer League. Utah has
won in overtime against Memphis ninety seven ninety five thirty
points for Keyante George, a first round or a year
ago center Walker Kessler with five blocks. You mentioned Kyle Philipowski,
the rookie Ozero of four shooting scoreless. All of his
attempts were from three point range. Rookie first round center
(33:02):
Zach Edy of the Memphis Grizzlies had four blocks. He
finished with fourteen points, fifteen rebounds. He had to tip
in and the final second of regulation tonight to at
least send it to Ot and his teammates. Scottie Pippen
Junior had twenty one points and seven fouls in the
lowest heay. It is summer league. You can just stay
on the court forever. I love that Connecticut game.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Packing away Arnie sounds like you're yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I wouldn't want Arnie in a league with no found.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Connecticut gave basketball coach Dan Hurley a new six year
contract worth fifty million dollars plus incentives. In his six
seasons at Yukon, Hurley's record is one forty one and
fifty eight, including the last two national championships. Keegan Bradley
will be the US Ryder Cup captain next year after
Tiger Woods turned down the job. At Wimbledon, today, American
(33:52):
Taylor Fritz upset number four Alexander Zverev in five sets
after losing the first two. A reminder of the eurosccer
semis are tomorrow at least start tomorrow on Fox TV
Spain versus France, and then Wednesday on Fox England versus
Netherlands to Major League Baseball two late games. In Anaheim,
the Rangers lead the Angels nine to three in the
(34:13):
bottom of the seventh inning, and at Arizona it's top
of the ninth inning. Diamondback's ahead of the Braves three
to one. Atlanta's Marcelo Sona will be in next week's
home run Derby along with Kansas City's Bobby Witt Junior,
who's from Texas. The Rangers will be hosting the All
Star Game a week from Tuesday on Fox TV. Minnesota
has beaten the White Sox in eleven innings No. Eight six.
(34:35):
The final White Sox record now twenty six and sixty seven.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Wow, that's pretty good or not.
Speaker 8 (34:41):
Cincinnati beat six nothing Reds the final over the Rockies
Detroit one. It's fourth straight one nothing against Cleveland with
a run bottom of the eighth. Daytime victories for Pittsburgh
and Saint Louis. Back to you, Steve, one quick question
before we go to break. Will France actually score a
goal tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 8 (34:59):
France? In what's the now?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Five games games they played?
Speaker 8 (35:02):
They have two own goals and a penalty kick.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
That's the extent of the offense. You think England's doing
poorly in this tournament, Frantz says, hold my wine.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Sometimes better to be lucky than good.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Hey, survive in advance.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Succeed in proceed exactly the old calipery. He's Steve Desager
out by Carmen. That is Arnie Span. You're in for
Jason Smith tonight coming up next, we'll stay in the
NFL and at quarterback, saying, let's give him something to
talk about.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
What's it all about.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason Smith tonight or this
week all Star casts led by Arnie Span. Your at
stinking Genius one. You want to get you anything we've
talked about, Yes, sir, It's good to have you in.
As always, on the part of My Take podcast, Joe
(35:58):
Burrow discussed a bunch of things. He's on the comeback trail,
one of the most heavily bet teams and expectations high
that the Bengals can ride right back in and become
an AFC contender in vex the likes of Patrick Mahomes
and you're to a tongue of I looa win the AFC.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
North, et cetera. But started talking about.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
The eighteen game season, implementing a bye week, an extra
bye week, so everybody gets two, which I think we've
we've talked about for a while. Seems like a fairly
obvious thing. Maybe a little bit of an adjustment to
the rosters, all those kind of things. But he also
proposed that you would play the Pro Bowl in week thirteen.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Who's gonna want to play in the Pro Bowl again? Nobody?
I mean, though, you might as well get rid of
the game if we're going to start doing that. I
do like that all the teams get a break in
week thirteen that I don't know what we're gonna do
without football for one week, maybe the college I.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Think you'll be okakeover right.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
But I think that's a good idea that that really
the two bye weeks, in the second one coming in
week thirteen, I think is a very good idea.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
What I think would be great to see is how
adding a week like that? And I'll leave this to
this people that are much smarter than me, Arnie as
it relates to schedule making, because one thing that just
annoys the hell out of me every year is when
you start trying to figure out the scheduling algorithm and
(37:22):
why teams play the schedules that they do. I you know,
early in the season, hey, you've got no divisional games
till right right, and like looking at what Baltimore's got
to do, the Bears have to do in some of
these other squads where you pretty much have all of
your division games at the end of the year, it's like,
(37:42):
so what you're saying is I may already have lost
the War of attrition and now I go into all
my division games.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
I like that though.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
That makes it the end of the year that much
more important. And that's what the NFL tries to do
is have the visional games over the last couple of weeks.
For sure, that's the way they that's the way they
try to work it out.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
No, it's it's one thing to have one or two
down the stretch and you say, hey, in week eighteen,
we're all playing division games exactly. I could get on
board that to a degree. But when you're playing five
of your six division games in your last say six
or seven games of the regular season, I think the
schedule makers need to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
One.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
I hate when your Miami played like New England in
Week sixteen or week fifteen, and then played the beginning
week seventeen like two times in three weeks, and it.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Was at the end of the season.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
No, we've seen that a bunch.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
And that's my call to this is if we're going
to add another week of games and add in an
extra bye week, that perhaps it'll alleviate some of that nonsense.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Maybe I like it, though I'm glad we're gonna add
the eighteen.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
The seventeen was throwing me off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
It was just just like, you don't you don't like
the idea of the Dolphins going you know.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
It just feels uneven.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
It feels uneven that we don't have the you know,
that extra eighteenth game there.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
It was just a matter of time before we were
gonna get it. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
You know what that's gonna lead to is that there's
not gonna be too many quarterbacks that could start eighteen
regular season game very rare.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
We get to seventeen now, right, you know, doing the
fantasy analysis and yes, the podcast we'll return here in
short order. Berschinger and Dan Byer and myself. You can
find the archives wherever you download audio, as well as
the podcast of this show.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Our earninge in for Jason and everything that we do here.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
We appreciate you doing that being part of the family,
but in doing it for years, Man, there are a
number of seasons where it became the Mannings Brady Breeze,
and then it was all right, maybe three or four
other guys would get through these sixteen games. And now
you keep adding more. I mean, with all the protections
that have been put in for quarterbacks, we've seen it
(39:49):
get to double digit a couple of years, right, but
most of the time it's still a revolving door. We
got sixty five to seventy quarterbacks starting games each and
every year.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
At this point, you'll have to definitely have to put
more money invested into your backup quarterback, and then there
might be some load management, like you'll tell the Patrick Mahomes. Okay,
we got a Thursday game after a Sunday. It's a
week opponent. Why don't we sit you down for a
game and go with the backup this time?
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Oh, look at that.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
It could happen. I'm not saying it probably will happen.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
Well, I mean we always had it down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I mean that used to be the little Queen's Wave
thing that Peyton Manning would do, because they'd run away
with the division and their seating was set, and then
they'd all sit down after a series or maybe not
play at all, and we'd see Jim Sorgie come out
there and get his little bit of a run, and
then Tony Dungee in company.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Would lose in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Right.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
I didn't just side swipe a hall of favor, did I?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And all those all the famers just all in a
big row right there. Drew brees with him. While you're
at it, Ah, he's Ardie Spanner. I'm Mike Harmon here
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with me Mike
harm at Stinking Genius One where you find Arnie on Twitter,
find me over at Swollen Dolmen.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Of course, always follow us at Fox Sports Radio. Watch
you all to chime in. On this one.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
What's the greatest heel turn in sports and sports entertainment history.
We're gonna give you a couple of examples and thoughts.
Maybe there's just a player that changed teams that still
chaps you all these years later. You get to chime
in on that as we continue here from the tirerac
dot Com Fox Sports Radio Studio Studios. It's Span here,
(41:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome in hour two of the program Jason Smith
Show with Me Mike Harmon Live from the tire at
dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. No Jason Smith tonight
in instead our guy, the stinking genius himself, Arnie Spaniard.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I want to know how many people in the Taylor
Swift concert fifty one hundred thousand. I have no idea
how many people they cram in the concert out there.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
That's a really good question. I didn't. I didn't think
they did one of those.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hey, let me show you the you know, guess, guess
guess the attendance here.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
It'll do that in cons No. So was at a Viva.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Stadium, which is what they use for all the college
football games that go overseas. My brother's been there. A
couple of times with Northwestern when Pat Fitzgerald was the coach,
having played there, So the seating capacity is fifty.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
One seven, not that bad. And then you add on
the floor.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So probably what sixty two sixty three that room whatever
else you got going on there, so not too huge,
nice facility. The folks there were great, great hospitality. So
that was that was a lot of fun, three hour show.
Paramore opened up. They did a great job. A couple
of covers to get get things going. Anytime you can
(01:39):
get a crowd that's not quite fully inebriated, full on
in full throated, with burning down the house, is it
talking heads you've won?
Speaker 6 (01:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Is it different scene of concert overseas compared to because
you've been to both the overseas and the US for
Taylor Swift, is it big difference or what? Well?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I mean I still wore the same glitter glitterally heart
jacket right and my legend unicorn hat, my Goren hat
that gets so many great compliments wherever I go, the
heart pants the whole nine yards. I mean, cause if
you're gonna go, you gotta go all in. Absolutely, there's
no question about it. I would say the big difference.
There's just that level of anticipation like here in like
(02:17):
being in la I mean we're spoiled, right, there's big
events all the time right in the United States as
a whole.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
I mean there's tours.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Going all over the place, of course, so you know,
criss crossing that kind of thing there. They get it
for a brief period of time, right in terms of
summer travel and these outdoor stadiums. One weather being a factor,
two availability of stadium three. I mean the big touring artists,
(02:44):
you necessarily want to go where the weather is gonna
crush you time and time again. You can even look
at you know, tour dates when they move towards the
indoor arenas and such and say, well, we'll play to
twenty thousand instead of you know, fifty, or we'll go
see find the dorm the dome stadiums instead. But for this,
(03:05):
you know, they had Pink the week before. You know,
you had Glastonbury going on, so a bunch of headliners there,
food fighters had been through town, so they were enjoying
the month of It seemed like everybody was passing through
and recognizing just as fast as it comes, you're back
into all right, everybody's gone and now we settle back
into our lives. So you know, there was a level
(03:26):
of anticipation and excitement, you know for those events coming through.
We'd made all the friendship bracelets, so we were just
chatting people up outside the stadium and as we're walking
in and walking through, getting on the escalators and all.
So hospitality was great.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
People sell the tickets out in front of.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Well no, no, no, Ireland's got really restrictive.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Oh yeah, well no. So this is one where I
get my younger brother and people he works with the
NOD because we ran into a bunch of dead end
arnie before we were getting on that plane. It was
twenty four to forty eight hours when we were still
like we think we're solid, but we're not a hundred wow.
(04:06):
And in the end people saw the pictures so we
got it. But uh yeah, no, it's very restrictive. They
put in some laws so basically it becomes, yeah, you
can transfer tickets, but there's no scalping, there's no profiting.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Not like the US.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, but it's really funny, right, so I know folks
that made a cottage industry of it, and back in
the day, you know, when you're in between jobs, like
people got laid off whatever. You know, we played that
game for a little bit, right, Ricky Martin when he
was at his peak, he was selling out Madison Square
Garden in a matter of seconds, right, And you were
able to triple your money buying tickets and putting them
(04:44):
right back up with Taylor. You know the tickets we had.
You know, we were lucky to get a code here
in Los Angeles. I could have made twenty times face
you're not kidding you, sorry.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
Kids, you're not going to tys.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Well, I debated that. I mean, it would have paid
for most of this day trip. We just took it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
I would have said, you're not going vague, but it was, yeah,
well you know what.
Speaker 6 (05:05):
That's that we're watch it on TV. It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Well, I mean at the time they had announced the
Disney Plus thing, they just they were filming. But no,
it's it's like live music and folks that know me
and and know my my history. I mean that that's
everything to me. Arnie Events sixty.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Two thousand, that's small. I would throw.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
I saw George thorough Good, George Thorow Good in a
gymnasium there.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Was like three there you go there that was absolutely.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Start taking moving on over. You know what you sound like,
George thorough good a little us.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
We're going way back now.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
He's still out there touring.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Get out.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
Scott Live. Yeah, he's still getting after it.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
A little bit, no flashing about, but no, it was
a great trip, good for and you know, good for
the soul, and and the kids will remembering. It was
my daughter's sixteenth birthday, so wow, that was the genesis
of all of this. My older one had just turned
eighteen in Timber. Younger one turned sixteen this past Sunday,
a week Aldgo Sunday, so uh yeah, just a fantastic time.
(06:09):
But good to be back with my crew and the
villains here at Fox Sports Radio. As we're watching this
beginning of summer leagues. We got Utah and Memphis three
point eight.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Watch that game.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Let me tell you that Zach Edie last checkout. Because
I'm doing the show, it's hard for me to watch
the game. I have to keep turning my head. He
had twelve or fourteen points. Scottie Pippen Junior must have
close though. He is a good player. Though that he
is balling out.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Here yeah, twenty one person.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Last check I saw Philipowski was oh for four or
oh for five. I'm not even sure all the shots
came from three point range. He is playing a horrible
I'm curious to see what's going to happen to him.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
And you know, with that.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Whole story that came out, I don't know if you
had a chance to talk about him as you were gone,
But uh, you know, getting drafted by Utah with the
girl for that's eight years older, he's not looking very
good at.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I had a lot of light. So I don't know
how much you talk about that stuff though, right, I
mean that's the salacious TMZ kind of details to stuff.
I mean, certainly will evaluate his play on the court.
Uh look someone being eight years someone senior. I mean,
I it is what it is, right, I have to
say that. I mean, you were also getting mad mad
(07:26):
at Bill Belichick for his current romantic relationships, and I think.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
That's a little sick.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Come on, now, well, how do we know when people
find love?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Oh? Stop it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Stalin Taylor and Sarah Paulson, there's a big age gap.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
You want to know, how seem to be doing just fine?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
I got inside scoop. His name is common Sense, and
common sense tells me get out of here.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
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always has the good scoops.
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Speaker 6 (08:14):
No, especially in the wallet, it hits you pretty hard well.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean that, look that happens at any age there, Arne.
It doesn't matter if you're seventy or seventeen. There's a
bunch of potential disastrous things from a financial perspective, no
question about it. In the ways of love. But I'm
sure Arnie has some more quips that he wants to
get out. And if you want to put your wife on,
I think I got some questions for her while we're
(08:38):
at it as well, for sure, Yeah, no question about it.
I see how you live in your beachside manner. So
you got all that, all right. So we're going to
overtime in this game.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Zach Edy. They threw it off the rail.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
That was brilliantly executed, and.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Zach Edy tipped it in because he's ten feet tall,
so they tied again.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
They're gonna go to overtime. What a great tip you.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Well, that was one of the guys draft height that
I was very excited, you know, me being the big
ten apologist that I to see him get drafted as
early as he was, because remember there were so many
people he might not get drafted at all. He might
be an eight second round guy. Yeah, it's like, if
that's what we're at in the NBA, then the league
is in for, you know, in trouble if that guy
can't find a job and become a contributor along the way.
(09:21):
But one guy that who decided not to join the league, though,
Danny Hurley signs a six year, fifty million dollar deal.
A year ago he'd signed a six year, thirty two
million dollar deal. So you can do the math in
terms of what he's getting as a raise, plus a
bunch of unspecified bonuses mixed therein. And that's the important
part to all of it, Arnie, when it goes back
(09:43):
to it to fight over and him basically saying, you know,
as emphatically as he can, I have plenty of leverages.
We've won two titles like No, No, No, You went back guy,
and you kind of led to there were some things
you weren't happy about in terms of compensation for your staff, facilities,
some of the other administrative parts. That's all part of
(10:06):
leverage and negotiating. It doesn't necessarily mean the dollars hit
your pocketbook, right right, But so he goes six point
fifty six for fifty here the Lakers reportedly was six
for seventy. Get another one of those examples of grasses
and always greener. Maybe you decided you've got the really
good thing, and I know, family and all of that,
(10:27):
and people are like, he was never gonna go because
of this. You have no idea, you know, I've been
watching my old Ted Dbiossi clips. Everybody's got a price
for the million dollar man, and.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
It's a lot. We know how much more expensive. I mean,
you guys know better than anybody. You're you guys are
out in Los Angeles. So anything he would have made
extra would have gone to taxes.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
And the price well, I.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Mean, Connecticut's not exactly a low tax stay.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
No, No, you're right, You're one hundred percent right about that.
Though you're right about that, his wife really wanted to stay.
It wasn't something that she was excited about. She didn't
want to go out to the West Coast. She didn't
want to go to Los Angeles. That wasn't her thing.
She wanted to stay from the very beginning. That's why
I knew that he wasn't gonna end up going.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
You knew, you knew. You were the guy that knew.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
No, it was ninety percent sure. Though I'm like ninety
to ten, I'm not a heart.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well, I think I think we all were in the
ninety to ten. Why would you give up dynastic opportunities?
The NBA is always going to be there right right
as we cycled through, and so I think we're all
in that opinion. But when you talk about six for
seventy and even oh like a if they you know,
put up one hundred. So now we're just talking about negotiating, right,
(11:38):
it's too early in the evening for some of the
classic jokes about what do you think I am? And
then oh, now we're just haggling about price, right, that
kind of thing. And for Danny Hurley makes the decision
go back to Yukon. I really want to know about
the bonus structure, Like that's the most intriguing part of that.
We're talking final four's, we're talking more titles, like how
(11:59):
many millions are still on the table above the six
for fifty?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
I think that if you the Laker job was came
in low because they probably didn't really want him unless
they got him on their term.
Speaker 6 (12:12):
Sure that's why it was so low.
Speaker 5 (12:15):
Well, and I think that's what you do right first
time head coach.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Not really not if it's somebody you really want, you
got to go ahead and pay on up. You can't
go ahead and fakers can't be choosers.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
But hey, six for seventy for a guy who hasn't
coached in the NBA, how desperate do you want to get?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
What did Reddick get? He it seems like it's a
beginner job. They gave the job to a podcast there
to a podcast.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Still a guy who played in the league. What'd they
make the playoffs all but one of the years he played.
This guy's been around. Everybody is saying he was going
to be a coach at some point.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
So see we'll see if he can handle the pressure
when they go through their first losing streak and everybody's
yelling at him and oh no.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
No, your guys out, and yeah, he'll he'll drop some
F bombs and make Rob Polinka uncomfortable.
Speaker 6 (12:59):
That's got to.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Stop, by the way, you know, he's dropping the F bombs.
Lebron is dropping the F bombs when he was talking
about his son today that Broddy doesn't.
Speaker 6 (13:07):
Give a play And you know, I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
They think that they're sending a message to us, or
to the media, or to the fans, or to haveever.
But you got to stop with these F bombs. They're
not impressing anybody.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I think in the end, it's just you're speaking like
you would normally.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Speak, right, the idea of decorum and business versus Well.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
You can't do that.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We can't do that.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Well, we can't.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
There's only a certain words you can't say, right, you can,
but there are ramifications for them.
Speaker 5 (13:37):
What's the ramification?
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Rob Polinka looks a little uncomfortable because his coach used
an F bomb in a press conference.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Well, no, I mean you can't. You can't be doing
that during the game. I mean, there's that's all.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
You do during the game.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Have you ever set courtside during an NBA game? All
they do is curse at each other. I mean, can
you imagine the referees if they wouldn't by the letter
of the law, they would kick those guys out.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
In the first minute of the game.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Game No, I meant like when they do those sidelight
interviews and say, what are you gonna do after the
first they can't be dropping f bombs when they're doing
the interview to that effect.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Well, I mean, everything's on delay, you can't. He's already Spanner.
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Speaker 7 (15:13):
As everybody knows, we're the hosts of the award winning
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Speaker 3 (15:22):
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You took those clips totally of context.
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Speaker 3 (15:48):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon Jason Smith off this week, taking the
pause before we get into the throes of training camp
and the beginning of the National Football League campaign coming
up in about twenty minutes from now, we'll try to
parse out whether a coach can actually achieve a feat
(16:09):
that he put into the off season Hard Knocks.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Machine.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And let's face it, my brain froze because I'm like, yes,
there is actually a Hard Knocks off season program. Because
until this story, if you'd put a bunch of money
in front of me and said, hey, there's a team
being featured on the off season Hard Knocks, who is it?
I would have had to cry as that money was
taken away because I would have not earned it.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
When does football we talked a little bit about this.
Let's say when this football season start for you? Does
it start now? Practice? The first preseason game, the first
regular season game that first Thursday?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
You know, I mean I got a month till Hard
Knocks with the Bears begins right right tomorrow. They'll give
away tickets to their nine public practices. Oh yeah, Dialed
I am dialdy and I am back to home, and
you know there's anticipation in Chicago for the first time
in a long time.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
That starts for me.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
That's when it starts. The Hall of Fame game with
the Bears play on the Hall of Fame game. That
starts everything off. Once you get to that first game,
it's football season.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I know we got we get to celebrate Hester and
celebrate Steve McMichael, one of the greatest Bears and a member,
you know, form a member of you know, the four
Horsemen in the wrestling world.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Look at you pull it out to.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Now we got more wrestling that will show up here
in the show a little bit better coming at the
top of the hour. We will talk about great heel
turns in sports and sports and entertainment history. But your
guy to a tongue of I looa yeah, still put
on all these lists as one of the quote most
underpaid players in the National Football League, yet to earn
(17:50):
his new contract from your Miami Dolphins. And now I'll
ask that in a therapist kind of way, how does
that make you feel?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:00):
You know, I want him to be the starting quarterback.
I think he deserves the money. I know they were
concerned about the injuries last year. He stayed healthy the
year before that. When he did get hurt, he was
leading in just about every offensive category before he went down.
Last year he was ahead and just about every offensive category.
I believe he had the most yardage in the NFL
in twenty twenty three. All that aside, though he's earned it,
(18:23):
he deserves it. He's lost some weight, he's made some changes,
He's getting better every year. They have some weapons around him.
What are you gonna do? Start freshco somewhere else? I mean,
is there another quarterback? I'm not even sure that your
Caleb Williams is gonna be that, you know, everything in
a bag of chips like everybody's making them out to be.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I don't want to it going anywhere.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I can't understand why they just don't give him the
extension and get that thing signed sealed, no leverage.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
He did lead the league in yardage by what it
was it forty nine yards over Jared Goff. And then
he got Dak Prescott fresh out of his walking boot,
who's still looking for his big deal as one of
those big three, and now.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
Not giving him the big deal now that's a whole another
story well, but those are tied and inextricably linked.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
We talk about the revenue flowing in the report that
the NFL had a thirteen billion dollars, we'll be extra
billion will be distributed to all the member teams, about
four hundred million per off of the national rights.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
And then eventually we'll wait.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
For the reports from the packers as to what they
file in terms of revenue, as they do have to
publicly disclose, so we get a little bit of a
look behind the curtain as to the economics of things.
TUA last year sixty nine percent completion rate, a career
best forty six hundred passing yards, two touchdowns per pick
twenty nine to fourteen. And you know, anybody wants to
(19:53):
do all their key quarterback rating and what have you
have at it.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
It's all about health and what's replacement cost?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You know, do you decide as much McDaniel and company
that you can go find someone and it becomes the
Johnny Bravo Brady Bunch thing because I got to appeal
to everybody of all ages here. We got the swifties
and then we'll go back to the sixties and seventies
with some television and music references when you say, hey,
is it just someone who fits the suit? And then
(20:20):
you've got enough weaponry at the running back position, which
they're they've got great depth this year, and you start
talking about the wide receivers that are in toe that
it's just a plug and play kind of situation as
you see with quarterbacks. You know, part of it is
the organization, I think is the going to be the
biggest part of all of it, no matter how talented
a guy is. I mean, just go back to the
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draft class a couple of years ago, Trevor Lawrence got
his money. He's the only guy still on the original
team drafted him out of those five, right, everybody else
has moved on and is either begging to stay in
the league or battling for a backup role or in
a case like justin fields. Not only is it a
look how hard I am and how you know yoked
I am in the gym as I stare at the camera,
(21:03):
but trying to fight down Russell Wilson to win that
starting job. And you know, we'll we'll let that parse
out as it goes forward. But finding a quarterback that
fits right the Bears, Waldron eber Flu's stay of execution right,
the defense Rallied Montes, Sweat comes over. They're a great unit.
You made a lot of changes offensively, bring in Swift,
(21:25):
bring it see it goes back to Swift. You bring
in Gerald Everett, you bring in Keenan Allen, Roma Dunza
alongside DJ Moore and on paper with cold Comet and
everything else that's there, you say, all right, this is
you know, you're really ready to go.
Speaker 5 (21:39):
Well, here's the problem.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Packers are good, Lions are good, and Minnesota, assuming that
they get any kind of quarterback play from Darnold or McCarthy,
they're a pretty good roster. So it's not like you're
gonna suddenly run up. But you were a seven win
team a year ago. So now it's just trying to
win one or two of those close games, maybe find
yourself in to the playoffs. So yes, National radio host
(22:02):
me Uh says, yeah, they they should be a wildcard team.
If not, they should they shouldn't be, No, exactly, but
if they're not a wildcard team, it's a fail based
the overhaul of that roster and what they brought in.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Mike, they have to beat the Detroit team.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
All of a sudden, Detroit is such juggernuts that they
can't be beaten.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
They've won twelve games. They may be just a one
hit wonder.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Let's see if they're really gonna go ahead and keep
like this for another year. The Packers with Jordan Love,
I mean, are we sure that Jordan Love is the
next best thing?
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Well, because for the last four years I might have
been the only national guy standing there with the Jordan
Love flag saying this was the right move to do.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
You have a good year?
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Don't even going back to draft I defended him then.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
No, you And that's fine. He had a good year
last year.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
But I mean, the way people are talking about it,
they're like, oh, this he's a done, He's great now,
he's he's gonna be leading them deep into the point.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Look at yeah, but look at the state of quarterbacking.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
You brought we brought up.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
The case why I want to say that, but that's.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But but that's that was my circuitest way of getting
back to that. That was my way of bringing us
back all the way around. You know, as I say,
hold on a second call to sac let me bring
you back over here. To the other other end of
the circle is that when you've got a guy that
has shown you the ability that Tua has, and yes,
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injury histories are there, but guess what, that's the quarterback position.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
That's the National Football League.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
One play can alter everything, And coming off of last year,
I think you've got to feel pretty good about where
you're at. And the longer you wait to pay a
guy you want to go down the franchise tag thing.
That's fine for Tua. I mean, and I know guys
get mad about it. You're still getting in the average
at the top five salaries, so you can only cry
so much.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Injuries. Injuries kept up from winning a Super Bowl last year.
That's what happened.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
If it wasn't for the injuries and having to go
to Kansas City, they would have won it.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
As my ear drums just got blown out. The injuries
are part of the game. That is what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
And you got bad about that, the suffering injuries through
your headset.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
But that's really the last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
It's a long protracted road, man, it is. It is
not an easy path. I mean, we're talked about it
with the NBA you're playing eighty two regular season games
and then you get into at least sixteen playoff games.
That's if you run the table in each round. Same
thing with the NFL. Yeah, it's seventeen games eventually eighteen.
Inevitably eighteen, particularly with the loss of that lawsuit related
(24:36):
to direct TV and all that stuff going on. But
you're gonna get to eighteen games and trying to keep
your team healthy is one hundred percent the name.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Of the game. Especially the AFC or at the NFC.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
We still have I think some division between a couple
of top teams and then maybe kind of sort of wishing, wanting,
hoping if this goes right.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
It's not just it's not just the quarterback saying he
see though Tyreek Hill went down, they had injuries in
the backfield, had injuries on the defense.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
At the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Unfortunately, they stacked the wrong way for you, right, go
back a few years. You know our buddy Plank, he
may be listening. Either way, I know you'll text him
immediately said to hear Harmon soon. Remember the year that
they were having with Derek Carr MVP candidate. How healthy
was that squad? They missed no time, and I hyperbole
(25:30):
a bit, but virtually no time of any key player
due to injury. And then we've been playing on this
show for years and I may be destined to go
to hell for that and many it's broke, bit right,
I should play it and everybody gets a bit uncomfortable.
And that was the year, right, Hey.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
No, but that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Right, It looked like it was all gonna happen, and
just like that, a Fano snap happened.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
In the world was never the.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Same and you look at the Eagles, they look like
they were gonna have the same thing.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Instead it was Nick Foles.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
Big Nick came through and got it done in the
biggest of stages out dueling you know, Tom Brady and
just having the game of his life. He eventually became
a bear, and I watched him have the worst games
of his life. But the idea just being that one
injury takes it away for your Dolphins, Yeah, to a
state healthy, But everything else happened, right, You never know
(26:28):
when the football gods are gonna tap you on the shoulder.
How many years have we watched the Baltimore Ravens or
the Los Angeles Chargers, great team on paper, great team
playing well, and then whatever was going on in the
bad juju in the training rooms, one guy after another
went down with injury.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
You're talking about a last place team with the Chargers.
The Dolphins were winning the division. They had dropped their
last two to end the year, and Buffalo won six
a row to ketch up and finished tide.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
That made all the difference in the world. I'm talking
to history, yeah right, I mean we can go this in.
History is littered with teams that looked great and then
one or two injuries at the absolute worst time, and
you're able to get chased down. And so for your Dolphins. Now,
the decision of paying Tua, right, tie it back to
Dak Prescott. It's like, yeah, Dak's had his long run.
(27:17):
Dak's been in there since twenty sixteen, right, right, You've
decided not to pay him. At this point, they might
as well move on from You could move on from Dak.
I don't think you could move on from Tua, who's
a lot younger. I'm ready to move on from Dak.
But again, it's what's the cost of replacement, is Trey
Lance that guy or how easy it is is it
to replace him, because you're gonna be just good enough
(27:38):
this year that you're not gonna get a top draft pick.
So if you think you're gonna suddenly draft the next
guy probably out there. Most guys don't get to free
agency where they're still a truly top end viable guy. Right,
Most teams are gonna again franchise or work ahead and
get them signed and wrapped up for your doll Dolthans,
(28:01):
I mean to it looks like he's the fit. Yet
your your team is slow and dragging their feet. Did
you start your letter writing campaign yet? I And are
you picking them to win the Super Bowl this year?
Speaker 4 (28:13):
Oh? Of course I'll pick them to win the Super Bowl.
That's not gonna change things. I'm I'm sorrying, I'm all
in on the Dolphins this year.
Speaker 6 (28:19):
This is the year that everything should come together.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
As long as they stay away from playing Kansas City
in the playoffs on the road, they should be just fine.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You look at the division, right, Patriots, I mean they're
already in in tank mode. Uh they are one hundred
to one. The only team with worse odds than them
are the Panthers. As I'm looking at a board right now,
there you go, the Panthers. Well, but on paper in
that division with the receivers they brought in, if Bryce
(28:48):
Young can be anything with Canals coming in, I'm not
gonna say they're gonna be world beating, but uh, they
could be just enough, just good enough to mess things up,
but not like you're gonna down any money for them
to win anything substantive. You might as well just go
buy another piece of cake, like already put at Stink
and Genius one in his pregame meal.
Speaker 5 (29:10):
Revving up for tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Cowboys still one of the heavily bet squads along the way.
Expectations in division that they can still make some things
happen either eighteen or twenty to one to in the
Walking Boot. You know you always raise an eyebrow whenever
you see some of those things. I'm sorry, Dak was
in there.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
Careful there, yeah, be careful there.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Well, I'm just predicting pain for you. How about that?
I was transferring his pain to your quarterback. Sorry, reading
odds and mixing quarterbacks as it were. Yes, Dak was
in the Walking Boot. Got folks a bit excitable as
it goes there, But you know you're Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
You've kicked the.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Can down the road enough that at some point you've
got to make a decision. He's got to make a
decision between three guys at that point, right when you're
looking at CD Lamb, Micah Parson, and of course Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
I gotta feel they're not going to bring back Micah
Parsons either. I just get that weird feeling on that.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Yeah, that'll be a curious spot, certainly, a difference maker
playmaker for them. It's just what's the price of poker
and and how are you paying him as a linebacker
as an edge guy as like you know, that's when
we start getting into the fun and semantics of the
the franchise tag as well as to where he fits
(30:29):
in those and making the arguments much like you know,
some of the tight ends have said, well, I'll basically
use as a wide receiver and then you fight about it.
You know, Hey, I'm lined up here and here's the
percentage I.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Promise that either way.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah, it becomes a a little bit of Jerry Bucks,
as we joke about on the show, No question about it.
At Stake a genius one where you find him on
Twitter find me over at Swollen Dome. As we continue
here Fox Sports Radio. Now we'll turn it over to
a guy who's well, he's the guru, he knows it all.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
It's Steve at the news desk.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Hello, gentlemen.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
While we're talking NFL here, Hurricane Barrel has gone through
Texas and the eyewitness news outlet in Houston is showing
what appears to be a hole in the roof of
the Houston Texans Stadium. Wow, in the groove portion up
at the retractable roof area, and the stadium officials in
Houston would only say they are waiting for a full
(31:23):
assessment to disclose a damage report.
Speaker 5 (31:26):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I remember being on air when the stadium roof collapsed
in Minnesota. Oh that was quite a good Yeah, we wait,
what what's happening here?
Speaker 6 (31:37):
You know?
Speaker 8 (31:37):
There was a good special of many good specials recently
on NFL Network. One of them was Top ten Bad
Weather Games, and of course honorable mentioned they had to
show the Fox video of the snow just pouring you.
Yeah through that what it was an air supported roof, right,
and you get a hole in it, and so all
the snow that was on top at the time came
(31:58):
down onto the field for it's nobody was there. It
was not game time. The Houston Texans re signed defensive
end Jerry Hughes today. By the way, it's Texans versus
Bears for the Hall of Fame exhibition. August the first.
Every other team starts the preseason schedule at least a
week after that. NFL rookies report to training camp for
Baltimore this Saturday.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
I know they have the early game.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
In September, but honestly, people report dates for some of
the other teams are the next week. Defensive back Camera
and Sutton, back with the Steelers, was suspended eight games
after a domestic violence case. The Lions cut him in March.
Former San Francisco safety Tayshaun Gibson formally accepted his six
game suspension for peds. He is a free agent. The
(32:41):
WNBA is off in the NBA Summer League. Utah has
won in overtime against Memphis ninety seven ninety five thirty
points for Keyante George, a first round or a year
ago center Walker Kessler with five blocks. You mentioned Kyle Philipowski,
the rookie Ozero of four shooting scoreless. All of his
attempts were from three point range. Rookie first round center
(33:02):
Zach Edy of the Memphis Grizzlies had four blocks. He
finished with fourteen points, fifteen rebounds. He had to tip
in and the final second of regulation tonight to at
least send it to Ot and his teammates. Scottie Pippen
Junior had twenty one points and seven fouls in the
lowest heay. It is summer league. You can just stay
on the court forever. I love that Connecticut game.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Packing away Arnie sounds like you're yeah.
Speaker 8 (33:27):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I wouldn't want Arnie in a league with no found.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Connecticut gave basketball coach Dan Hurley a new six year
contract worth fifty million dollars plus incentives. In his six
seasons at Yukon, Hurley's record is one forty one and
fifty eight, including the last two national championships. Keegan Bradley
will be the US Ryder Cup captain next year after
Tiger Woods turned down the job. At Wimbledon, today, American
(33:52):
Taylor Fritz upset number four Alexander Zverev in five sets
after losing the first two. A reminder of the eurosccer
semis are tomorrow at least start tomorrow on Fox TV
Spain versus France, and then Wednesday on Fox England versus
Netherlands to Major League Baseball two late games. In Anaheim,
the Rangers lead the Angels nine to three in the
(34:13):
bottom of the seventh inning, and at Arizona it's top
of the ninth inning. Diamondback's ahead of the Braves three
to one. Atlanta's Marcelo Sona will be in next week's
home run Derby along with Kansas City's Bobby Witt Junior,
who's from Texas. The Rangers will be hosting the All
Star Game a week from Tuesday on Fox TV. Minnesota
has beaten the White Sox in eleven innings No. Eight six.
(34:35):
The final White Sox record now twenty six and sixty seven.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Wow, that's pretty good or not.
Speaker 8 (34:41):
Cincinnati beat six nothing Reds the final over the Rockies
Detroit one. It's fourth straight one nothing against Cleveland with
a run bottom of the eighth. Daytime victories for Pittsburgh
and Saint Louis. Back to you, Steve, one quick question
before we go to break. Will France actually score a
goal tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 8 (34:59):
France? In what's the now?
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Five games games they played?
Speaker 8 (35:02):
They have two own goals and a penalty kick.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
That's it.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
That's the extent of the offense. You think England's doing
poorly in this tournament, Frantz says, hold my wine.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Sometimes better to be lucky than good.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
Hey, survive in advance.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Succeed in proceed exactly the old calipery. He's Steve Desager
out by Carmen. That is Arnie Span. You're in for
Jason Smith tonight coming up next, we'll stay in the
NFL and at quarterback, saying, let's give him something to
talk about.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
What's it all about.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with Me Mike Carmon. No Jason Smith tonight or this
week all Star casts led by Arnie Span. Your at
stinking Genius one. You want to get you anything we've
talked about, Yes, sir, It's good to have you in.
As always, on the part of My Take podcast, Joe
(35:58):
Burrow discussed a bunch of things. He's on the comeback trail,
one of the most heavily bet teams and expectations high
that the Bengals can ride right back in and become
an AFC contender in vex the likes of Patrick Mahomes
and you're to a tongue of I looa win the AFC.
Speaker 5 (36:15):
North, et cetera. But started talking about.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
The eighteen game season, implementing a bye week, an extra
bye week, so everybody gets two, which I think we've
we've talked about for a while. Seems like a fairly
obvious thing. Maybe a little bit of an adjustment to
the rosters, all those kind of things. But he also
proposed that you would play the Pro Bowl in week thirteen.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
I don't like that.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Who's gonna want to play in the Pro Bowl again? Nobody?
I mean, though, you might as well get rid of
the game if we're going to start doing that. I
do like that all the teams get a break in
week thirteen that I don't know what we're gonna do
without football for one week, maybe the college I.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
Think you'll be okakeover right.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
But I think that's a good idea that that really
the two bye weeks, in the second one coming in
week thirteen, I think is a very good idea.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
What I think would be great to see is how
adding a week like that? And I'll leave this to
this people that are much smarter than me, Arnie as
it relates to schedule making, because one thing that just
annoys the hell out of me every year is when
you start trying to figure out the scheduling algorithm and
(37:22):
why teams play the schedules that they do. I you know,
early in the season, hey, you've got no divisional games
till right right, and like looking at what Baltimore's got
to do, the Bears have to do in some of
these other squads where you pretty much have all of
your division games at the end of the year, it's like,
(37:42):
so what you're saying is I may already have lost
the War of attrition and now I go into all
my division games.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
That's great.
Speaker 6 (37:50):
I like that though.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
That makes it the end of the year that much
more important. And that's what the NFL tries to do
is have the visional games over the last couple of weeks.
For sure, that's the way they that's the way they
try to work it out.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
No, it's it's one thing to have one or two
down the stretch and you say, hey, in week eighteen,
we're all playing division games exactly. I could get on
board that to a degree. But when you're playing five
of your six division games in your last say six
or seven games of the regular season, I think the
schedule makers need to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
One.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
I hate when your Miami played like New England in
Week sixteen or week fifteen, and then played the beginning
week seventeen like two times in three weeks, and it.
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Was at the end of the season.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
No, we've seen that a bunch.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
And that's my call to this is if we're going
to add another week of games and add in an
extra bye week, that perhaps it'll alleviate some of that nonsense.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Maybe I like it, though I'm glad we're gonna add
the eighteen.
Speaker 6 (38:47):
The seventeen was throwing me off a little bit.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
It was just just like, you don't you don't like
the idea of the Dolphins going you know.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
It just feels uneven.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
It feels uneven that we don't have the you know,
that extra eighteenth game there.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
It was just a matter of time before we were
gonna get it. Anyway.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
You know what that's gonna lead to is that there's
not gonna be too many quarterbacks that could start eighteen
regular season game very rare.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
We get to seventeen now, right, you know, doing the
fantasy analysis and yes, the podcast we'll return here in
short order. Berschinger and Dan Byer and myself. You can
find the archives wherever you download audio, as well as
the podcast of this show.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
Our earninge in for Jason and everything that we do here.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
We appreciate you doing that being part of the family,
but in doing it for years, Man, there are a
number of seasons where it became the Mannings Brady Breeze,
and then it was all right, maybe three or four
other guys would get through these sixteen games. And now
you keep adding more. I mean, with all the protections
that have been put in for quarterbacks, we've seen it
(39:49):
get to double digit a couple of years, right, but
most of the time it's still a revolving door. We
got sixty five to seventy quarterbacks starting games each and
every year.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
At this point, you'll have to definitely have to put
more money invested into your backup quarterback, and then there
might be some load management, like you'll tell the Patrick Mahomes. Okay,
we got a Thursday game after a Sunday. It's a
week opponent. Why don't we sit you down for a
game and go with the backup this time?
Speaker 5 (40:13):
Oh, look at that.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
It could happen. I'm not saying it probably will happen.
Speaker 5 (40:18):
Well, I mean we always had it down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I mean that used to be the little Queen's Wave
thing that Peyton Manning would do, because they'd run away
with the division and their seating was set, and then
they'd all sit down after a series or maybe not
play at all, and we'd see Jim Sorgie come out
there and get his little bit of a run, and
then Tony Dungee in company.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
Would lose in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (40:39):
Right.
Speaker 5 (40:42):
I didn't just side swipe a hall of favor, did I?
Speaker 3 (40:45):
And all those all the famers just all in a
big row right there. Drew brees with him. While you're
at it, Ah, he's Ardie Spanner. I'm Mike Harmon here
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with me Mike
harm at Stinking Genius One where you find Arnie on Twitter,
find me over at Swollen Dolmen.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
Of course, always follow us at Fox Sports Radio. Watch
you all to chime in. On this one.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
What's the greatest heel turn in sports and sports entertainment history.
We're gonna give you a couple of examples and thoughts.
Maybe there's just a player that changed teams that still
chaps you all these years later. You get to chime
in on that as we continue here from the tirerac
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(41:29):
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