July 27, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike debate if Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Love deserve to be two of the highest paid QB’s in the NFL. Packers-Cowboys playoffs last year is the sole reason Jordan Love got paid. Plus, the guys favorite parts of the Olympic opening ceremony.
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couple of big quarterback stories, one following another. Guys getting paid.
Jordan Love and thepac yea man now together for a while,
to a tucko by Love and the Dolphins. They are
together for a while. Congratulations, good for them setting the
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bar at the top of the NFL. The fact that
Jordan Love and to h and Joe Burrow or actually
a Jordan Love and Trevor Lawrence, and Joe Burrow are
now the three highest paid players in league history. It
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just sounds insane because to what was up until Jordan
Love signed the deal, he got a little bit more
money than Tua did. So now it's Jordan Love, Trevor Lawrence,
and Joe Burrow all tied fifty five million dollars a
year per average, highest in league history. I mean, you
look at this and you go, Okay, Jordan Love is
really good. Is he a top ten overall quarterback? Trevor
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Lawrence is is barely a top fifteen overall quarterback. Joe
Burrow's got problems staying healthy. These guys are making fifty
five million dollars a year. I tell you, man, being
a quarterback that you know you have a kid growing up, Hey,
what position I play? Play quarterback? But but what if I
play Nope, don't play anywhere else. Play quarterback. All play
with That's all it is quarterback. Your kid's good. Hey,
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one hundred and fifty million dollars a year. By the
time your kid being born right now bakes it to
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Quarterback and teach them to throw at the left hand,
maybe they could, you know, learn a couple of pitches
and and make a career in baseball. Yeah, lots of
money out there for you kids, and now it is
you only have to pitch five innings.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's true. That's true. Hey, Hey, that's why the Dodgers
got rid of James Packs and he couldn't been making
He won eight games this year, but couldn't make it
past the fifth inning. Hey, you gotta move on from me. Man,
you can't even make it five innesh Yeah, you gotta go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Even with all those guys still in flux and coming
back off injuries.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'll tell you, if I had one of these guys, right,
we'll get to the deals with love and two in
a second, But if I had to have one of
these guys, the three guys I know the highest paid
players history of the NFL, Love, Trevor Or, Joe Burrow,
if I had to have one of those guys, I
could have one, even though he's got problems staying healthy.
I'm still taking Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You, oh sure, sure, But go back and throw Trevor
Lawrence in instead of him. How you feeling there?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
No, no, no, no, that's the guy I don't want. No, no,
that's the guy I'm not.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
No, no, but but like right now, he's at the
bottom of this metal stand no, at the head of
the class. We're talking Trevor Lawrence to a tongue of
Iloa and Jordan Love. I mean, Joe Burrow is out
there and now he's got the Cody Rhodes. Look we're
eminem depending on which way you want to go. I mean,
he's dangerous now. And remember the Bengals fans told me
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when they left after giving away the Super Bowl to
the Rams that it was the Joe Burrow Ara and
they were gonna be back really fast. They weren't gonna
be wrong, were they. Well, because that's usually the way
football works, right, you get right back there after losing
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Could have avoided that Aaron Donald sack for another half
a second, they probably win the game.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, but look, if I'm not signing, I'm not saying
these three are my picks for Hey, who I bet.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But if I have to have one of the three
highest bad guys, I'm still going with Joe Burrow. Tell
me and if you gotta have me, If you tell me,
I gotta take Trevor Lawrence. I'm not taking him because
he's just okay, it's stuck. You know, when when I
look at the money that people sign, and I get
when quarterbacks were not quite at the top, but they
set the market because the young quarterbacks. Again I understand,
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but you see a guy like Trevor Lawrence that is
getting paid because he was a studded Clemson I mean, really,
that's why he's getting paid. He has been nothing short
of average his NFL career so far. He had a
he had a pretty good year a year ago, and
then he was he was he was last year. You
take a look and go, man, Trevor Lawrence, is he
really gonna ever stop throwing interceptions? Is it ever gonna
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happen for him? Is he ever really gonna become a
guy that's really dynamic and and and lift the level
of his team. I don't know that that's ever gonna
happen for him. And this is the guy that's getting
fifty five million dollars a year, Like that's insane, you know.
I mean I get that he was great coming out
of school and he looked like he was gonna be
once in a lifetime and and what what what a
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great quarterback he was gonna be. But his rookie year
he was bad. His second year he was good. He
wasn't great, but he was good. Last year he was
really average and and and it took him, basically, it
took him a really good last month to just make
it look like it was a really good year. He
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was hurt for a bunch of Yeah, but still, I mean,
I mean twenty one touchdowns and fourteen picks. I mean
that's a and and and you're and you're gonna set
them up. I know that they jacksonvill Jaguars didn't want
to go out and get another quarterback, and he had
him over a barrel. But the rest of the league
is going come on, man him, pay him with the player.
He is not the player he was three years ago.
It's like if he didn't throw a pass, he would
still get fifty five million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's what the market will bear. I mean, this is
where where we're at. You look at what the salary
CAP's done, you look at what the business of the
NFL is, and all that goes back to you got
to have a quarterback, and you're evaluating him as to
what you think he still can be for you going forward,
but also the opportunity costs and replacement costs that you
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have to look into. Are you going to be bad
enough to where you're drafting near the top of the
twenty twenty five draft. If you decide that you're done
with him or twenty six or however the years work out,
you let it play out to the contract and then
just say, hey, it's been a good run. Leave the
playbook at the door. That kind of thing that you're
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looking at what's going to be in the marketplace as
a replacement, And you say, well, even if he's top fifteen,
that's still another sixteen seventeen teams defending on whether we
just divide it in half or not, that you have
to then look at and say, well, he's better than them,
We're not terrible with him, and it's gonna be hard
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to replace him because the open market, Man, how many
guys actually get to the open market that are really
good and difference makers. It's pretty rare.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, and and and look, and I'm not saying you
don't want to pay him well, right, because I look,
life without a quarterback in the NFL is miserable. And
and Trevor, I know dude, I've had miserable quarterbacks for
thirty years.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Still, hey, hey, hey, I'm raising my hand. I'm the
king of this conversation over here.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, yeah, but you have a you have a super
Bowl that that that we can all remember that. I
was alive for that. It happened, and you were last.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Let's slap that.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But look, but Lawrence, you know, if you wanted to say, Okay,
Trevor Lawrence, we're gonna extend him thirty five million a year.
Is that worth it? No? But at least I get
that that. Okay, thirty five million a year for a
guy who's who's a periphery top fifteen quarterback, which means
he's league average. It's crazy, but that's how it goes.
If you want to have a quarterback, that's okay, but
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top of the I mean, this guy's setting the pace.
H man. Uh ah, he has been just a guy.
I mean, I don't know what else you need to
look at to say, hey, maybe paying Trevor Lawrence that
kind of money, because it was I look back and go,
paying Trevor Lawrence that money, paying to Shawn Watson that money.
These are contracts that hey, when teams run into trouble
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and say we need a separate salary cap for quarterbacks.
It's because of these contracts. And I'm not saying we
need to control the market and say quarterbacks only make
a certain amount of money. But I'm not going to
cry for a guy say well, I'm only gonna get
thirty five million this year. I can't get fifty five millions.
I fere okay with.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think the team's got to say it right. The
team's got to decide. And to this point we've we've
not had anybody flinch and stand up and say, you
know what, I'm not paying the freight one after another,
no matter who it is, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, keep
going on down the line. The quarterback gets paid.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, but he's a lead. He's a guy that you
could really look at and say, so, can we do
better like the other guys, I would say, Jordan Love
and twa tongue of II Lowe who will get to
is like, hey, are we gonna do better? Boy? It's
really tough to do better than them. Right in the draft,
trying to trying to bring guys along and hit it.
Not only not only find the right guy, but bring
him along well enough and have him trans Like, no,
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I get that, but a guy like what when you're
saying a guy is league average, you're saying, we don't
know that we can pick a league average quarterback. We
don't know that we can move on to a league
average quarterback. So we're gonna pay Trevor Lawrence fifty five
million dollars a year. You know what that means. If
we're paying them fifty five million dollars a year, we
can't load him up with all kinds of talent around him,
like we have the last couple of years to help
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him succeed. And guess what they'd loaded up with all
kinds of talent last year and he was still twenty
one and fourteen. His quarterback rating was eighty eight, which
is the bottom quarter of the league. Like this is
this is not somebody that has given you confidence that, hey, yeah,
he's worth a fifty five million because it's not just
about the money. It's about, Hey, here's the bar that
Trevor Lawrence is that how many guys are gonna come
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to agency and go, I'm better than him, I got
better numbers than him, and you're gonna pay me and
if you don't, somebody else is going to because well,
this guy's actually pretty good. So you have Lawrence who's
throwing everything out of skew because of this. To a
fifty five million, Yeah I get it. Borrow fifty five million, Yeah,
I get it. Love fifty five million, Yeah, I get it.
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Trevor Lawrence fifty five million. It's wow. Now you have
lots of guys saying, well, if he can get that
kind of money, I should be able to get that
kind of money. Zach Wilson might ask for that kind
of money from the Broncos next years a number two quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, but that's the thing though, right, Look, as a team,
you decide where that boundary is set, cause you don't
have to. Your job isn't to worry about what other
teams are gonna do, right all the decisions, because I'm
guaranteeing there are a lot of general managers long before
this offseason Hard Knocks, where Shane and company really showed
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their ass in a big way as to how they
go through these processes. But when they signed Jones and whatever,
you think, you know what they should have done with
Saquon Barkley. Put that aside. A second. But what they
did with Daniel Jones, how many front office people got
on a text message as soon as that hit, going, boy,
I'm glad we don't have that. Do you believe what
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they did?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And I think Jones is an okay guy, but you know,
injuries and effectiveness, is he anywhere near the money he got?
If we want to say, what you're truly worth, value
is in the eye of the beholder. Though the giants
decided they were mistake. Sure, opportunity costs plenty of them,
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including the guy going to Green or to Philadelphia in
Seguon Barkley quite obviously, but you make those decisions. And
like everybody said flat out right when Deshaun Watson's deal
got done, like we're not going down that road. That
was dumb. How often do you actually have owners lament
that out outwardly because it was all guaranteed and recognizing
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that maybe that genie started slipping out of the bottle
a little bit there in terms of more and more
guaranteed money coming off to tail. And you see these
deals today, seventy five million dollars signing bonus, sign me up.
I got a great quote. When we get deeper into
Jordan Love. But you know, in a vacuum, you know, teams,
teams are going to operate, you know, at their own discretion,
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but recognizing where the marketplace is and their ability to
negotiate and what it means. Because if you then piss
off said quarterback demands, trade, et cetera, how many seasons
are you tanking and torpedoing if that's the case.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, but the thing is, the money is so ridiculous
now that are you really insulting a quarterback? Are you
insulting guy by saying we want to give you thirty
five million a year while these guys making fit. Yeah,
it's not like, hey, we want to give you four
million a year and the top guys are getting twenty
million a year. It gets gotten to that point where it's, hey,
all right, well this is you know, thirty five million
is still something I get. I want the status and
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you want that part of it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But but if you're getting sixty percent of what the
top guy is and the top guy is the guy
that signed that long term deal, that looks sillier by
the day in terms of its numbers. But I don't
think he was crying when he was announced as having
a half a billion dollar contract.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, but you're looking at you're looking at at at
Trevor Lawrence, who is maybe sixty percent of the quarterback
the guys that got fifty five million are right, he is,
he is, He probably sixty percent of Joe Burrow and
sixty percent of Jordan Love. Yeah, but he's gotten paid
that way. He's got in this. I mean, this is
what really throws things crazy, because, yeah, quarterbacks get paid,
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that money goes up at town. But now we're at
the point where it's separate quarterback salary cap. They can't
be more of a than a certain specific amount or
percentage of the salary cap. Now because we've got we've
gotten so silly with it that it's it's just some
of these numbers don't even have meaning unless until you
get to the outlier that continues to push and makes
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and makes things grow at a rate that is unsustainable
because there's not many. Look you look at the Jaguars. Now,
we'll paid this money for Trevor Lawrence. Can they really
afford to go crazy now and spend money? And are
they gonna get free agents to come to Jacksonville? No,
it's gonna be we paid Trevor Lawrence and now, boy,
we don't have a lot around him. Why because he's
taking up way too much money of the salary cap.
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Even though it goes up every year, You're talking about
something's a quarter or more of the salary cap. And
that's untenable. And it's untenable for a lot of teams
because if even the Jag quarterbacks are making fifty five
million dollars, yeah, how many teams can afford to give
a guy that money? I mean, really look around the league.
How many teams can say, oh, we'll give you fifty
five million dollars a year somehow We're in the next
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two or three years, two thirds of the teams are
gonna say, we can't do.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That, man, we just choice how you want to build
your team. We just can't do it. Because you're operating
under a salary cap. You have to decide how you
what portion of that you want to spend on your quarterback,
and it can be at your own peril. You know,
not not just column inches and loudmouths on local radio
and podcasts or whatever, but you know what happens within
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that room if you don't have that guy, because you
won't pony up the cash. You're gonna have to be
that much better in the margins and try to make
that up. And not to say that you can't find
someone that'll do it and it'll be able to do
it right. You could argue, to a lesser degree, look
at what they did in they've been doing in San
Francisco with lesser quarterbacks. But Jimmy Garoppolos still got pretty
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decent money when he was there.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The brocolypse happens, and gonna get three hundred million, but.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At least for now like which is why the old
model of on the rookie deal is the ideal that
everybody has strived for, particularly going back to the legion
of Boom and Marshawn Lynch and everything that that helped
carry Russell Wilson to where he was right that that
was the model everybody started to chase and then proved
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to be outliers one after another. Hell, all the guys
in Trevor Lawrence's class, he's the only guy still on
his own team on his original.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Team, exit out about a Fresca exit. Swellendome. You take
Trevor Lawrence and good luck you take him. That you
take him and see how you do.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I just want somebody that's functional for a while. If
Caleb Williams becomes that guy, don't build a statue out
of whatever product you want, whatever type of metal or
food product by week seven.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Okay, So if we don't want or I don't want,
how much Mike wants Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh no, he's not third, But what about Tua?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What about Jordan Love? Two guys who got paid, and
they both seem like they're in the same boat, young
quarterbacks ascending, But they both got paid for different reasons.
And Jordan Love got paid because of one game? What
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And So if Trevor Lawrens does a float your boat
at fifty five million dollars a year, how about to
a tug of Iiloa and Jordan Love to signing that
deal earlier today, the richest deal in Dolphin's history, a
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four year, two hundred and twelve million dollar extension that
briefly put him right up there highest paid players. It no, no, no.
Just a few hours later, Jordan Love and the Packers
reached a four year, two hundred and twenty million dollar deal.
So both these teams keep their quarterbacks. Now, let's let's
talk to a first because you know, this whole time,
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I just can't get this out of my head. I
know that it's a lot of money, it's it's a lot.
It's a big check to write over to a quarterback
and Tua deserves it right. Two with someone who has
ascended ever since he came into the league. He's gotten
better and better. Yes, he's got a couple of issues
that he needs to clean up.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Those turnovers, Well, turn up when when a play bumble
thirteen times five lossus fourteen interceptions. So yea not exactly
a clean sheet.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
No, no, No, he's got like I said, he's got
some stuff to clean up. Plus when a play breaks down,
he doesn't have the arm to get the ball to
places where other quarterbacks can, so we all of a sudden,
the field gets a lot smaller.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And mobile and all of that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And how often to plays breakdown? In the NFL, every
other play breaks down, So you have that. But still
two is a guy who since he came into the
league in twenty twenty, every year his touchdowns have gone up,
his pass his passing numbers have gone up, his quarterback
rating has gone to He led the league in passing
yards last year. Yeah, he's going to get paid. It's
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it's his turn. He's twenty six years old. He is
very dynamic. The Miami offense. This works with him. Yeah,
this is his turn. He gets paid. But boy, I
just I just can't shake the feeling that Miami, Miami
did this and they're still hasn't about giving him the money.
Not that not in the in the standpoint of, hey,
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we're always nervous paying a quarterback, and now now we
really have to pay a guy more than we've ever
paid somebody before. But just do they really think he's it?
Like there's still there's still a big faction throughout the NFL.
You see it from some expert, you see it in
the media, you see it that maybe, hey, maybe two
is really not that great, and they're just waiting for
the bubble to burst on it so they could say, ah,
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I told you. And I get the sense the Dolphins
feel that way too, just a couple of years ago,
not what eighteen months ago was like, Hey we tried,
you're gonna try to trade for Jalen Hurts, right, and
we might move on from Tua. What it's like all
two is he's playing well, give him a chance, let
him throw the football. He's he's improving as time goes on.
I don't understand, but I just get the sense that,
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you know, Miami pays Tua, and they still are unsure
if he's going to be great, and they're nervous that
the money they gave him. Is this really gonna come
out for us? So it's a four year deal, not
a seven year deal or eight year deal. Keep me
retro realized. No, here's a four year deal for him.
Because I've never heard from other than some players who
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want to defend him about how good he is. I've
not heard big from the front office or ownership. Tua
is so great, He's so he's unbelievably. He's our guy.
We believe in him so much. He is under rat
he should get his due as one of the top quarterbacks.
I don't get that. I don't get any of that
out of Miami. So I just wonder how much of
this was Well, we have no choice. The guy's been
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good enough, maybe he'll be good. We'll pay him. But boy,
still don't know if he's really that good. Four years.
Lead the league in passing doesn't matter, Leading the league
in yards per ten doesn't matter. I still don't know
if two is good enough. I can't shake that feeling
from Miami.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, some of it goes back to how much. Look, McDaniel,
if you get him in front of a podium, half
the time you're having to play it back three times
to figure out what the hell he was just saying. Right,
So we got that going on for you. But the
other is, you know, the chicken egg syndrome, the thing
we do with Brock Purdy and other people. How much
of it is the assets that are deployed around him. Right,
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you got Hill, you got Waddle, you got a multi
pronged approach out of the backfield that was very successful
last year, which means, you know, is he just the
guy in the suit versus a guy who's truly a star? Yes,
I went seventies Brady Bunch and Johnny Bravo fitting the suit.
There you go, there's your classic TV reference of the night.
(23:07):
But it's just that idea, I think Jason of you know,
here's a guy that seemingly has passed what was once
a giant question about his ability to stay healthy, to
take a hit. Right, the concussions, especially that brutal thing
that was on when we were on air, right and
in the moment was one of the more violent plays
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we've seen in recent memory. People calling for all sorts
of rule changes and everything in the moment that TUIs
should never play another down of football and should have
announced his retirement that night. I mean, how the rhetoric got,
you know, pretty pretty hot and heated really fast. And
then he comes back and has a great season. So
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in theory, you've put that past you. But that's always
still lurking in the shadows, right that number of big
hits concussions diagnosed, let alone, perhaps maybe one or two
that aren't right. We all know the games we play
in that regard that maybe there was some reticence there
and that it was really all about McDaniel being a
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super genius more than the quarterback being the trigger man.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So if Tua gets paid, and maybe there's some crazy
reticence to have him getting paid, what about Jordan Love? Right,
Love gets a little bit bigger deal and the Packers
pay him four years, two hundred and twenty million. You
knew it was gonna happen at some point on the
once the quarterback numbers started to come in, once Tua
came in, you knew Jordan Love was gonna come in.
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And if Tua got paid, because it was up it
was his turn. Young ascending number zero. Jordan Love is
getting paid for one game. I mean as good as
he was, as good a year as he had last year. Right,
he started out, his first couple of games were great.
His next seven or eight were just kind of average.
On our middle of the season, the Packers, you're sitting
here saying, boy, the Packers got it wrong. They really
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got it wrong. They pushed Aaron Rodgers out and they
fought Jordan Love and they got it wrong. And then
the last nine games it clicked for him and he
was one of the top five quarterbacks in the game,
and he was terrific. But hey, was he fifty five
million dollars terrific? He is getting paid. He is getting
this money for one game, because not all games are
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created equal. When you go into Dallas in your first
playoff game, when you are a heavy underdog and you
have a perfect quarterback rating, throw three touchdowns, and you
blow the doors off the Cowboys to move on in
the playoffs, that's what he's getting paid for. That's the Hey,
we know he's great because he did something that not
(25:37):
many people do. He went into Dallas, that hostile environment,
their defense is really good, and he put up a
perfect quarterback rating three touchdowns. We were a big at halftime.
We never look back now we know he is our guy.
He got fifty five million dollars because he was one
fifty eight point three in that game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well it's funny because you've got on the other side
the guy that hasn't gotten paid in Dak Prescott, right,
And we talked about his comments and hey, I may
have to be in another uniform that seems to be
in vogue right now, because Steph Curry did that the
other day too, and people got all bent out of shape, like, yeah,
if the organization is going into a spiral and you're
(26:16):
a guy who has been accustomed to and really still
likes the idea that you can win, yeah you might
end up in another uniform. And for Dak Prescott, just
recognizing from the business standpoint, if they can't get to
the numbers they agree on, yeah, I might be in
another UNI. But part of what Jerry Jones had to
say was for a lot of those guys, the contracts
weren't flowing because of that game against Green Bay. For
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Jordan Love, quite the opposite. And you know someone he
needs to send a giant gift basket to his Aaron Jones,
because he really came on down the stretch once that
run game suddenly got jumped started, defense played it's a
better football because they were a gross disappointment early on
in terms of stops, more so in the turnover battles
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where you expected them to take a step forward. And
certainly you know, you saw the playoff game and you
roll through. But yeah, for Jordan Love, chip off a
little bit to your former teammate for the one hundred
yard games and the heroics to balance out that offense.
But you know, they had him in the building, they
saw what they liked and if nothing else, you know,
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they're one of those few organizations, Jason, they like continuity.
They don't like shuffle up and deal there in Green Bay. Hell,
they've had three quarterbacks in the last what is it
forty years, thirty eight years whatever, That go back to Mkowsky,
So Mcowsky, far Rodgers and out Love.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, that's what look they look and they knew look
and they knew they had it and Jordan Love knew
he was going to get it and he played it
all right right, Like I'm a huge fan of what
this kid was able to do because during the whole
controversy with with Aaron Rodgers, he stayed quiet, just go
play anything he wasn't playing, didn't say handle it great.
But he also after this year, I kind of got
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him over a barrel because while they they played fast
and loose with Rogers, and they and and and it
turned out right because hey, they turn it over to
Jordan Love. They can't be seen as pushing Jordan Love
out and being bad with him because a wait a bit,
wait a minute, you pushed out right Rogers for this guy.
Now you're now, now you're you're you're haggling over him,
and now you're upsetting a guy going into this year
(28:22):
and now maybe he wants to be a free agent,
he's gonna like he knew they couldn't screw it up.
He knew they could not afford to lose him, so
he knew at some point he was going to get paid.
He played the game extremely well, right from the beginning
to the end. From the the day he was drafted
to signing this contract, Jordan Love played the game fantastic well.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
The beautiful thing about it for him is he'd already
seen the blueprint and the guy he was getting ready
to replace, right, Brett Farv, what was it all about?
I'm anxious I might retire. I'm not really you know,
football is there, but I got all these other things
that I'm getting into, maybe a little bit of trouble
that I'm getting into, whatever else. And it became a
(29:00):
all right, this is tiring. That Rogers kid is ready, right, yeah, okay,
Brett siya, you don't get to go straight to Minnesota though,
go to the Jackson where he was an MVP candidate
until he got hurt, by the way, just you know,
bring that back up and throw that into the equation.
And then Rogers, well he didn't even get a chance
to show us anything before he got hurt. But the
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point just being that Jordan Love watched the same thing
play out. Rogers started getting into, you know, his more
talking out of school, threatening and talking about retirement and
belly aching, and the Packers are like, we've done this,
We've seen this kid's looking okay, yeah, let's give him
the reins. It'll work out. And now he got the bag.
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Good on him. And here's a stat, Andrew Brandhead, I
thought you'd like this. The seventeen wide receivers and tight
ends on the Packers roster. I have a total of
eighteen million dollars in contract. Jordan Love got a seventy
five million dollars signing bonus today.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon. Nice to
be at your best when you absolutely have to be
at your best and at your reward. Right now, your
reward is Steve de Sager, who has what's trending in
the wide world of sports, including recapping every Mets and
Braves game from two months ago as the Mets climb
(30:24):
from ten games back of the Braves to now being
the wild card leader in the National League.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
By the way, the way you intro this really not
much of a reward. Shouldn't feel excited for something? Then
he's Steve, Oh okay, thanks great. By the way, the
Arizona Diamondbacks won tonight and they've won fifteen of twenty two.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (30:46):
And they and the Mets have the most wins in
about the past month since late June, fifteen victories over
that slate. Arizona st Beks got three runs in the
sixth and be Pittsburgh four to three. The Mets won
five in a row. They got a grand slam from J. D.
Martinez and defeated Atlanta eight to four. Braves have lost
six in a row. Nets pitcher Codei Senga, in his
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season debut after the shoulder injury, left in the sixth
inning tonight with a capstrain. Nine strikeouts, one walk for
him the late games in San Francisco. The Giants are
now up eleven to three over the Colorado Rockies in
the bottom of the eighth inning. So far, four home
runs for the San Francisco offense, two more tonight for
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Tyler Fitzgerald. Oakland a five to four winner at the Angels.
Brent Rooker of the A's is twenty fifth home run
in ten innings. Washington won ten to eight at Saint
Louis in ten innings. Cincinnati won at Tampa Bay three
to two. The MLB trade deadline is Tuesday. The Rays
traded pitcher Zac Efflin to the Orioles. The Phillies acquired
outfielder Austin Hayes from Baltimore. Cleveland was a winner at
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Philadelphia three to one. San Diego won at Baltimore six '
four on a two run homer top of the ninth
by Jerkson Profar, his second in the night. The Law
lost to Craig Kimbrel. The Padres have won six in
a row. Toronto with a run bottom of the ninth
edge Texas sixty five that ends the Rangers five game
winning streak. Boston scored three in the bottom of the
eighth to beat the Yankees nine to seven. Aaron Judge
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of New York did hit his thirty sixth home run.
It went four hundred seventy feet to center field at
Fenway Park. Judge has ninety two RBIs already were still
in July. Seattle sent the White Sox to a twelfth
straight loss ten nothing. The Mariners scored eight times in
the top of the first, including three straight homers. White
Sox record now twenty seven and seventy nine victories for Miami,
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Kansas City, and Houston, which shut out the Dodgers five
to nothing. LA first baseman Freddie Freeman out all weekend,
likely due to a family matter. The Dodgers traded pitcher
James Paxton to Boston today, and yes, the Dolphins gave
quarterback to a Tongue of Iloa a four year contract
extension worth about one hundred and sixty seven million dollars
guaranteed over two ten mil total. Packers quarterback Jordan love
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tonight agreed to a new four year contract worth a
reported two hundred and twenty million dollars that includes a
seventy five million dollar signing bonus. Lions kicker Michael Badgeley
is out for the season with a torn hamstring. The
Patriots gave safety Juberrol Peppers a three year extension. Saints
defensive back Marshawn Lattimore left practice with a hip flexer injury,
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and the Olympics opening ceremony was today in Paris in
the rain.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
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Speaker 1 (34:29):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
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day of the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Probably watch the ceremonies
earlier in the day today or watch him on the
on replay.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Now condemn this one's probably better?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Uh well, why because other stuff has been edited out
and so.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I stuff that didn't didn't play so well maybe gets
truncated some of the awkward. Now they're kind of meandering
through the street and Tariko and company seemed confused as
to what the objective was at different points. Where's the handoff? Guy?
Don't know, don't know?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
How much did you want Snoop to light a blunt
with with the torch when he was running with it? Today?
You know how much you wanted to say, I gotta
explain to millennials what a blunt is. Everybody vapes now.
But how much did you want to see Snoop stop
and go? Wants me light this blankety blank? He this
huge blood in his alfony, lights it with the torch.
He keeps going.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
But there's another guy, right, I mean, look, interviewed him
and met him a few times. Used to run into
him and the Bishop Magic Don Juan in Vegas way
too often back in the day. But the a guy
with a shall we say, a colorful history, And there
he is front center in the Olympic coverage, on trial
(35:49):
for that right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a long time ago.
People can change and become you know, cultural icons again.
But yeah, you kind of half expected it.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
And and and they can't and they they kept passing it.
I'm going at some point this torch is gonna be done.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's like it's like when you see a move when
you see a trailer for a movie and you know
a certain scene, and well, I know the movie's not
gonna until this scene from the trailer in it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Right, they just decided to scrap it all together.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, like, I know, they're not gonna end this until
Tony Parker gets it. You know, he gets the torch
and he goes with it.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I just ran about as fast as I do.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, hey, well Tony Parking, he doesn't play anymore. He's okay,
But I'm like, I'm like, at some point, we're gonna
be done with this, right, so many people and dead.
Yet you had the the faceless people look like they
were from squid Game, carrying the torch for a while
and they're passing it off and here it is here
and my wife Core guy, though, is still the winner.
A parkour guy was good, but again you were nervous
for him because of the rain. Right, don't slip, don't slip.
(36:49):
Where were you when parkour guy or girl?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I mean I remember, but.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You know here the most controversial story of the week
is getting a bit of an up grade because now
there are some news organizations that are doing stories on
these quote anti sex beds that they have put up
in France for the athletes. Obviously, as you know by now, hey,
the Olympics, there's lots of sex. You have young people
(37:16):
who all are incredibly attractive and built, and they're they're
loose for the Olympics and their dream. Yeah, so they
gave out all kinds of condoms. Uh toel three hundred
thousand coaches, a lot of condoms. That's a lot of condoms.
But they gave away a lot. But uh, they put
out in some of the athlete's dorms, the the anti
sex beds to in theory to say, hey, it makes
(37:37):
it harder because the beds are uncomfortable and so there.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Are people be sturdy enough for uh yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
And there's and there's there's floor, right yeah, and there's
people trying to jump up and down on them and
everything else. And I'm watching, Hey, look this is what
the bed looks like. Is really and I want I
want to stop and say, unless the bed is made
of knives, there is no such thing as an anti
sex man. There's a there's no way you're gonna come
(38:04):
back with somebody and you're ready or you go, oh,
you know, here's the thing I would I would love.
But the bed is just not comfortable. I mean, like
you said, it's kind of hard. Let's just watch a
movie instead. I mean, really, it's that I don't know
that it's gonna fine. There's no such thing. There's a
or it's a venus fly trap bed where you sit
on and it closes up and it eat you like
it's uh like it's a little shop of horror. Sorry spoiler,
(38:25):
unless that's the bed. There's no such thing, no such thing.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yeah, I mean there's some I mean, look, we're not
that that point. We got ten minutes. Uh, there's there's
lots of ways around the uncomfortable bed.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I don't know what to do. That's really not that.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I don't know. They haven't invented anything. I haven't learned it.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It's digging into my back a little bit here. I
don't know. I can't even sleep on it yet, you know,
And it's I think if if both of us sat
on this, the bed would collect.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Now, let's just you know what. Listen, it was great
meeting you. I'll text you, you know, maybe we'll get
a drink. It's some pointe Greg. Great seeing you, Greg?
Good night, nice meaning, Well shall.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
We stand up and watch a movie.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Why are you standing? We're watching a movie. We can't
both sit on the bed. The bed's gonna collapse. Oh okay,
so you want some privacy, Now, come and stand next
to us, watch a movie with us. We're standing right here.
That's all we're doing. What kind of what kind of
Oh yeah, it's an anti sex bed anti Yeah. People
aren't gonna want to yeah, oh yeah. Do you know
if the chairs are starty? Uh, you know what some
(39:31):
people are gonna find out. I'm sure I think that
might be the next thing. Hey, let's look at the chairs. Yeah,
the chairs are let's let let's make sure they're okay
to sit in. It makes you feel like everything in
the Olympic village stuff that goes up is just so temperate,
Like everything's made of cardboard and it's just gonna fall apart,
and it's all biodegradable, and like three weeks after the
(39:51):
Olympics it's gonna be in a half life. Yeah, these
things are almost all gone. They're almost all gone.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
It's like flash paper that magicians user used for special
effects just goes up. Are we done with it? Okay?
There you go away. But you know, many many of
the athletes there, and I know you, you know you
have the Paralympics as well, but many of the athletes
can stand to guys. Lots of ways around the uncomfortable bede.
(40:21):
There's ways of pesky around everything. I mean, look, if
you want to say it was all about cutting costs
and these will be functional and in theory, you're doing
a ton of you know, team activities and sporting the
other Olympians or whatever. So it's like a Vegas hotel.
Hotel room. You know, why spend a lot of money
(40:42):
because you're not spending a lot of time there. I
think maybe you could go down that road. But saying hey,
we're gonna keep these people from fraternizing, Yeah, no fail.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
People people walking why because your door is gonna made
a cardboard, and the handles made a cardboard. The floor
has made a cardboard, the ceilings made a cardboard. The
glass it's candy. If you wanted to break it, you
could eat it. That's what We're gonna make sure that
this is giving you no desire to stay in this
room whatsoever. Everything is collapsible. Saw me on the sofa,
(41:17):
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couple of big quarterback stories, one following another. Guys getting paid.
Jordan Love and thepac yea man now together for a while,
to a tucko by Love and the Dolphins. They are
together for a while. Congratulations, good for them setting the
(01:11):
bar at the top of the NFL. The fact that
Jordan Love and to h and Joe Burrow or actually
a Jordan Love and Trevor Lawrence, and Joe Burrow are
now the three highest paid players in league history. It
(01:32):
just sounds insane because to what was up until Jordan
Love signed the deal, he got a little bit more
money than Tua did. So now it's Jordan Love, Trevor Lawrence,
and Joe Burrow all tied fifty five million dollars a
year per average, highest in league history. I mean, you
look at this and you go, Okay, Jordan Love is
really good. Is he a top ten overall quarterback? Trevor
(01:54):
Lawrence is is barely a top fifteen overall quarterback. Joe
Burrow's got problems staying healthy. These guys are making fifty
five million dollars a year. I tell you, man, being
a quarterback that you know you have a kid growing up, Hey,
what position I play? Play quarterback? But but what if I
play Nope, don't play anywhere else. Play quarterback. All play
with That's all it is quarterback. Your kid's good. Hey,
(02:16):
one hundred and fifty million dollars a year. By the
time your kid being born right now bakes it to
the NFL.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Quarterback and teach them to throw at the left hand,
maybe they could, you know, learn a couple of pitches
and and make a career in baseball. Yeah, lots of
money out there for you kids, and now it is
you only have to pitch five innings.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
That's true. That's true. Hey, Hey, that's why the Dodgers
got rid of James Packs and he couldn't been making
He won eight games this year, but couldn't make it
past the fifth inning. Hey, you gotta move on from me. Man,
you can't even make it five innesh Yeah, you gotta go.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Even with all those guys still in flux and coming
back off injuries.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I'll tell you, if I had one of these guys, right,
we'll get to the deals with love and two in
a second, But if I had to have one of
these guys, the three guys I know the highest paid
players history of the NFL, Love, Trevor Or, Joe Burrow,
if I had to have one of those guys, I
could have one, even though he's got problems staying healthy.
I'm still taking Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You, oh sure, sure, But go back and throw Trevor
Lawrence in instead of him. How you feeling there?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:20):
No, no, no, no, that's the guy I don't want. No, no,
that's the guy I'm not.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
No, no, but but like right now, he's at the
bottom of this metal stand no, at the head of
the class. We're talking Trevor Lawrence to a tongue of
Iloa and Jordan Love. I mean, Joe Burrow is out
there and now he's got the Cody Rhodes. Look we're
eminem depending on which way you want to go. I mean,
he's dangerous now. And remember the Bengals fans told me
(03:44):
when they left after giving away the Super Bowl to
the Rams that it was the Joe Burrow Ara and
they were gonna be back really fast. They weren't gonna
be wrong, were they. Well, because that's usually the way
football works, right, you get right back there after losing
a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Could have avoided that Aaron Donald sack for another half
a second, they probably win the game.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, but look, if I'm not signing, I'm not saying
these three are my picks for Hey, who I bet.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But if I have to have one of the three
highest bad guys, I'm still going with Joe Burrow. Tell
me and if you gotta have me, If you tell me,
I gotta take Trevor Lawrence. I'm not taking him because
he's just okay, it's stuck. You know, when when I
look at the money that people sign, and I get
when quarterbacks were not quite at the top, but they
set the market because the young quarterbacks. Again I understand,
(04:33):
but you see a guy like Trevor Lawrence that is
getting paid because he was a studded Clemson I mean, really,
that's why he's getting paid. He has been nothing short
of average his NFL career so far. He had a
he had a pretty good year a year ago, and
then he was he was he was last year. You
take a look and go, man, Trevor Lawrence, is he
really gonna ever stop throwing interceptions? Is it ever gonna
(04:55):
happen for him? Is he ever really gonna become a
guy that's really dynamic and and and lift the level
of his team. I don't know that that's ever gonna
happen for him. And this is the guy that's getting
fifty five million dollars a year, Like that's insane, you know.
I mean I get that he was great coming out
of school and he looked like he was gonna be
once in a lifetime and and what what what a
(05:15):
great quarterback he was gonna be. But his rookie year
he was bad. His second year he was good. He
wasn't great, but he was good. Last year he was
really average and and and it took him, basically, it
took him a really good last month to just make
it look like it was a really good year. He
(05:35):
was hurt for a bunch of Yeah, but still, I mean,
I mean twenty one touchdowns and fourteen picks. I mean
that's a and and and you're and you're gonna set
them up. I know that they jacksonvill Jaguars didn't want
to go out and get another quarterback, and he had
him over a barrel. But the rest of the league
is going come on, man him, pay him with the player.
He is not the player he was three years ago.
It's like if he didn't throw a pass, he would
still get fifty five million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
It's what the market will bear. I mean, this is
where where we're at. You look at what the salary
CAP's done, you look at what the business of the
NFL is, and all that goes back to you got
to have a quarterback, and you're evaluating him as to
what you think he still can be for you going forward,
but also the opportunity costs and replacement costs that you
(06:19):
have to look into. Are you going to be bad
enough to where you're drafting near the top of the
twenty twenty five draft. If you decide that you're done
with him or twenty six or however the years work out,
you let it play out to the contract and then
just say, hey, it's been a good run. Leave the
playbook at the door. That kind of thing that you're
(06:41):
looking at what's going to be in the marketplace as
a replacement, And you say, well, even if he's top fifteen,
that's still another sixteen seventeen teams defending on whether we
just divide it in half or not, that you have
to then look at and say, well, he's better than them,
We're not terrible with him, and it's gonna be hard
(07:04):
to replace him because the open market, Man, how many
guys actually get to the open market that are really
good and difference makers. It's pretty rare.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
No, and and and look, and I'm not saying you
don't want to pay him well, right, because I look,
life without a quarterback in the NFL is miserable. And
and Trevor, I know dude, I've had miserable quarterbacks for
thirty years.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Still, hey, hey, hey, I'm raising my hand. I'm the
king of this conversation over here.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Okay, yeah, but you have a you have a super
Bowl that that that we can all remember that. I
was alive for that. It happened, and you were last.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Let's slap that.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
But look, but Lawrence, you know, if you wanted to say, Okay,
Trevor Lawrence, we're gonna extend him thirty five million a year.
Is that worth it? No? But at least I get
that that. Okay, thirty five million a year for a
guy who's who's a periphery top fifteen quarterback, which means
he's league average. It's crazy, but that's how it goes.
If you want to have a quarterback, that's okay, but
(08:01):
top of the I mean, this guy's setting the pace.
H man. Uh ah, he has been just a guy.
I mean, I don't know what else you need to
look at to say, hey, maybe paying Trevor Lawrence that
kind of money, because it was I look back and go,
paying Trevor Lawrence that money, paying to Shawn Watson that money.
These are contracts that hey, when teams run into trouble
(08:22):
and say we need a separate salary cap for quarterbacks.
It's because of these contracts. And I'm not saying we
need to control the market and say quarterbacks only make
a certain amount of money. But I'm not going to
cry for a guy say well, I'm only gonna get
thirty five million this year. I can't get fifty five millions.
I fere okay with.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I think the team's got to say it right. The
team's got to decide. And to this point we've we've
not had anybody flinch and stand up and say, you
know what, I'm not paying the freight one after another,
no matter who it is, Daniel Jones, Trevor Lawrence, keep
going on down the line. The quarterback gets paid.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, but he's a lead. He's a guy that you
could really look at and say, so, can we do
better like the other guys, I would say, Jordan Love
and twa tongue of II Lowe who will get to
is like, hey, are we gonna do better? Boy? It's
really tough to do better than them. Right in the draft,
trying to trying to bring guys along and hit it.
Not only not only find the right guy, but bring
him along well enough and have him trans Like, no,
(09:17):
I get that, but a guy like what when you're
saying a guy is league average, you're saying, we don't
know that we can pick a league average quarterback. We
don't know that we can move on to a league
average quarterback. So we're gonna pay Trevor Lawrence fifty five
million dollars a year. You know what that means. If
we're paying them fifty five million dollars a year, we
can't load him up with all kinds of talent around him,
like we have the last couple of years to help
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him succeed. And guess what they'd loaded up with all
kinds of talent last year and he was still twenty
one and fourteen. His quarterback rating was eighty eight, which
is the bottom quarter of the league. Like this is
this is not somebody that has given you confidence that, hey, yeah,
he's worth a fifty five million because it's not just
about the money. It's about, Hey, here's the bar that
Trevor Lawrence is that how many guys are gonna come
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to agency and go, I'm better than him, I got
better numbers than him, and you're gonna pay me and
if you don't, somebody else is going to because well,
this guy's actually pretty good. So you have Lawrence who's
throwing everything out of skew because of this. To a
fifty five million, Yeah I get it. Borrow fifty five million, Yeah,
I get it. Love fifty five million, Yeah, I get it.
(10:20):
Trevor Lawrence fifty five million. It's wow. Now you have
lots of guys saying, well, if he can get that
kind of money, I should be able to get that
kind of money. Zach Wilson might ask for that kind
of money from the Broncos next years a number two quarterback.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Well, but that's the thing though, right, Look, as a team,
you decide where that boundary is set, cause you don't
have to. Your job isn't to worry about what other
teams are gonna do, right all the decisions, because I'm
guaranteeing there are a lot of general managers long before
this offseason Hard Knocks, where Shane and company really showed
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their ass in a big way as to how they
go through these processes. But when they signed Jones and whatever,
you think, you know what they should have done with
Saquon Barkley. Put that aside. A second. But what they
did with Daniel Jones, how many front office people got
on a text message as soon as that hit, going, boy,
I'm glad we don't have that. Do you believe what
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they did?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And I think Jones is an okay guy, but you know,
injuries and effectiveness, is he anywhere near the money he got?
If we want to say, what you're truly worth, value
is in the eye of the beholder. Though the giants
decided they were mistake. Sure, opportunity costs plenty of them,
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including the guy going to Green or to Philadelphia in
Seguon Barkley quite obviously, but you make those decisions. And
like everybody said flat out right when Deshaun Watson's deal
got done, like we're not going down that road. That
was dumb. How often do you actually have owners lament
that out outwardly because it was all guaranteed and recognizing
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that maybe that genie started slipping out of the bottle
a little bit there in terms of more and more
guaranteed money coming off to tail. And you see these
deals today, seventy five million dollars signing bonus, sign me up.
I got a great quote. When we get deeper into
Jordan Love. But you know, in a vacuum, you know, teams,
teams are going to operate, you know, at their own discretion,
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but recognizing where the marketplace is and their ability to
negotiate and what it means. Because if you then piss
off said quarterback demands, trade, et cetera, how many seasons
are you tanking and torpedoing if that's the case.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, but the thing is, the money is so ridiculous
now that are you really insulting a quarterback? Are you
insulting guy by saying we want to give you thirty
five million a year while these guys making fit. Yeah,
it's not like, hey, we want to give you four
million a year and the top guys are getting twenty
million a year. It gets gotten to that point where it's, hey,
all right, well this is you know, thirty five million
is still something I get. I want the status and
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you want that part of it.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
But but if you're getting sixty percent of what the
top guy is and the top guy is the guy
that signed that long term deal, that looks sillier by
the day in terms of its numbers. But I don't
think he was crying when he was announced as having
a half a billion dollar contract.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, but you're looking at you're looking at at at
Trevor Lawrence, who is maybe sixty percent of the quarterback
the guys that got fifty five million are right, he is,
he is, He probably sixty percent of Joe Burrow and
sixty percent of Jordan Love. Yeah, but he's gotten paid
that way. He's got in this. I mean, this is
what really throws things crazy, because, yeah, quarterbacks get paid,
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that money goes up at town. But now we're at
the point where it's separate quarterback salary cap. They can't
be more of a than a certain specific amount or
percentage of the salary cap. Now because we've got we've
gotten so silly with it that it's it's just some
of these numbers don't even have meaning unless until you
get to the outlier that continues to push and makes
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and makes things grow at a rate that is unsustainable
because there's not many. Look you look at the Jaguars. Now,
we'll paid this money for Trevor Lawrence. Can they really
afford to go crazy now and spend money? And are
they gonna get free agents to come to Jacksonville? No,
it's gonna be we paid Trevor Lawrence and now, boy,
we don't have a lot around him. Why because he's
taking up way too much money of the salary cap.
(14:22):
Even though it goes up every year, You're talking about
something's a quarter or more of the salary cap. And
that's untenable. And it's untenable for a lot of teams
because if even the Jag quarterbacks are making fifty five
million dollars, yeah, how many teams can afford to give
a guy that money? I mean, really look around the league.
How many teams can say, oh, we'll give you fifty
five million dollars a year somehow We're in the next
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two or three years, two thirds of the teams are
gonna say, we can't do.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
That, man, we just choice how you want to build
your team. We just can't do it. Because you're operating
under a salary cap. You have to decide how you
what portion of that you want to spend on your quarterback,
and it can be at your own peril. You know,
not not just column inches and loudmouths on local radio
and podcasts or whatever, but you know what happens within
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that room if you don't have that guy, because you
won't pony up the cash. You're gonna have to be
that much better in the margins and try to make
that up. And not to say that you can't find
someone that'll do it and it'll be able to do
it right. You could argue, to a lesser degree, look
at what they did in they've been doing in San
Francisco with lesser quarterbacks. But Jimmy Garoppolos still got pretty
(15:32):
decent money when he was there.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The brocolypse happens, and gonna get three hundred million, but.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
At least for now like which is why the old
model of on the rookie deal is the ideal that
everybody has strived for, particularly going back to the legion
of Boom and Marshawn Lynch and everything that that helped
carry Russell Wilson to where he was right that that
was the model everybody started to chase and then proved
(16:01):
to be outliers one after another. Hell, all the guys
in Trevor Lawrence's class, he's the only guy still on
his own team on his original.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Team, exit out about a Fresca exit. Swellendome. You take
Trevor Lawrence and good luck you take him. That you
take him and see how you do.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I just want somebody that's functional for a while. If
Caleb Williams becomes that guy, don't build a statue out
of whatever product you want, whatever type of metal or
food product by week seven.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Okay, So if we don't want or I don't want,
how much Mike wants Trevor Lawrence?
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Oh no, he's not third, But what about Tua?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
What about Jordan Love? Two guys who got paid, and
they both seem like they're in the same boat, young
quarterbacks ascending, But they both got paid for different reasons.
And Jordan Love got paid because of one game? What
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the tairaq dot com studios.
And So if Trevor Lawrens does a float your boat
at fifty five million dollars a year, how about to
a tug of Iiloa and Jordan Love to signing that
deal earlier today, the richest deal in Dolphin's history, a
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four year, two hundred and twelve million dollar extension that
briefly put him right up there highest paid players. It no, no, no.
Just a few hours later, Jordan Love and the Packers
reached a four year, two hundred and twenty million dollar deal.
So both these teams keep their quarterbacks. Now, let's let's
talk to a first because you know, this whole time,
(19:21):
I just can't get this out of my head. I
know that it's a lot of money, it's it's a lot.
It's a big check to write over to a quarterback
and Tua deserves it right. Two with someone who has
ascended ever since he came into the league. He's gotten
better and better. Yes, he's got a couple of issues
that he needs to clean up.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Those turnovers, Well, turn up when when a play bumble
thirteen times five lossus fourteen interceptions. So yea not exactly
a clean sheet.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
No, no, No, he's got like I said, he's got
some stuff to clean up. Plus when a play breaks down,
he doesn't have the arm to get the ball to
places where other quarterbacks can, so we all of a sudden,
the field gets a lot smaller.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
And mobile and all of that other stuff.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And how often to plays breakdown? In the NFL, every
other play breaks down, So you have that. But still
two is a guy who since he came into the
league in twenty twenty, every year his touchdowns have gone up,
his pass his passing numbers have gone up, his quarterback
rating has gone to He led the league in passing
yards last year. Yeah, he's going to get paid. It's
(20:23):
it's his turn. He's twenty six years old. He is
very dynamic. The Miami offense. This works with him. Yeah,
this is his turn. He gets paid. But boy, I
just I just can't shake the feeling that Miami, Miami
did this and they're still hasn't about giving him the money.
Not that not in the in the standpoint of, hey,
(20:46):
we're always nervous paying a quarterback, and now now we
really have to pay a guy more than we've ever
paid somebody before. But just do they really think he's it?
Like there's still there's still a big faction throughout the NFL.
You see it from some expert, you see it in
the media, you see it that maybe, hey, maybe two
is really not that great, and they're just waiting for
the bubble to burst on it so they could say, ah,
(21:07):
I told you. And I get the sense the Dolphins
feel that way too, just a couple of years ago,
not what eighteen months ago was like, Hey we tried,
you're gonna try to trade for Jalen Hurts, right, and
we might move on from Tua. What it's like all
two is he's playing well, give him a chance, let
him throw the football. He's he's improving as time goes on.
I don't understand, but I just get the sense that,
(21:28):
you know, Miami pays Tua, and they still are unsure
if he's going to be great, and they're nervous that
the money they gave him. Is this really gonna come
out for us? So it's a four year deal, not
a seven year deal or eight year deal. Keep me
retro realized. No, here's a four year deal for him.
Because I've never heard from other than some players who
(21:49):
want to defend him about how good he is. I've
not heard big from the front office or ownership. Tua
is so great, He's so he's unbelievably. He's our guy.
We believe in him so much. He is under rat
he should get his due as one of the top quarterbacks.
I don't get that. I don't get any of that
out of Miami. So I just wonder how much of
this was Well, we have no choice. The guy's been
(22:10):
good enough, maybe he'll be good. We'll pay him. But boy,
still don't know if he's really that good. Four years.
Lead the league in passing doesn't matter, Leading the league
in yards per ten doesn't matter. I still don't know
if two is good enough. I can't shake that feeling
from Miami.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Well, some of it goes back to how much. Look, McDaniel,
if you get him in front of a podium, half
the time you're having to play it back three times
to figure out what the hell he was just saying. Right,
So we got that going on for you. But the
other is, you know, the chicken egg syndrome, the thing
we do with Brock Purdy and other people. How much
of it is the assets that are deployed around him. Right,
(22:46):
you got Hill, you got Waddle, you got a multi
pronged approach out of the backfield that was very successful
last year, which means, you know, is he just the
guy in the suit versus a guy who's truly a star? Yes,
I went seventies Brady Bunch and Johnny Bravo fitting the suit.
There you go, there's your classic TV reference of the night.
(23:07):
But it's just that idea, I think Jason of you know,
here's a guy that seemingly has passed what was once
a giant question about his ability to stay healthy, to
take a hit. Right, the concussions, especially that brutal thing
that was on when we were on air, right and
in the moment was one of the more violent plays
(23:27):
we've seen in recent memory. People calling for all sorts
of rule changes and everything in the moment that TUIs
should never play another down of football and should have
announced his retirement that night. I mean, how the rhetoric got,
you know, pretty pretty hot and heated really fast. And
then he comes back and has a great season. So
(23:48):
in theory, you've put that past you. But that's always
still lurking in the shadows, right that number of big
hits concussions diagnosed, let alone, perhaps maybe one or two
that aren't right. We all know the games we play
in that regard that maybe there was some reticence there
and that it was really all about McDaniel being a
(24:08):
super genius more than the quarterback being the trigger man.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
So if Tua gets paid, and maybe there's some crazy
reticence to have him getting paid, what about Jordan Love? Right,
Love gets a little bit bigger deal and the Packers
pay him four years, two hundred and twenty million. You
knew it was gonna happen at some point on the
once the quarterback numbers started to come in, once Tua
came in, you knew Jordan Love was gonna come in.
(24:34):
And if Tua got paid, because it was up it
was his turn. Young ascending number zero. Jordan Love is
getting paid for one game. I mean as good as
he was, as good a year as he had last year. Right,
he started out, his first couple of games were great.
His next seven or eight were just kind of average.
On our middle of the season, the Packers, you're sitting
here saying, boy, the Packers got it wrong. They really
(24:56):
got it wrong. They pushed Aaron Rodgers out and they
fought Jordan Love and they got it wrong. And then
the last nine games it clicked for him and he
was one of the top five quarterbacks in the game,
and he was terrific. But hey, was he fifty five
million dollars terrific? He is getting paid. He is getting
this money for one game, because not all games are
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created equal. When you go into Dallas in your first
playoff game, when you are a heavy underdog and you
have a perfect quarterback rating, throw three touchdowns, and you
blow the doors off the Cowboys to move on in
the playoffs, that's what he's getting paid for. That's the Hey,
we know he's great because he did something that not
(25:37):
many people do. He went into Dallas, that hostile environment,
their defense is really good, and he put up a
perfect quarterback rating three touchdowns. We were a big at halftime.
We never look back now we know he is our guy.
He got fifty five million dollars because he was one
fifty eight point three in that game against the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Well it's funny because you've got on the other side
the guy that hasn't gotten paid in Dak Prescott, right,
And we talked about his comments and hey, I may
have to be in another uniform that seems to be
in vogue right now, because Steph Curry did that the
other day too, and people got all bent out of shape, like, yeah,
if the organization is going into a spiral and you're
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a guy who has been accustomed to and really still
likes the idea that you can win, yeah you might
end up in another uniform. And for Dak Prescott, just
recognizing from the business standpoint, if they can't get to
the numbers they agree on, yeah, I might be in
another UNI. But part of what Jerry Jones had to
say was for a lot of those guys, the contracts
weren't flowing because of that game against Green Bay. For
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Jordan Love, quite the opposite. And you know someone he
needs to send a giant gift basket to his Aaron Jones,
because he really came on down the stretch once that
run game suddenly got jumped started, defense played it's a
better football because they were a gross disappointment early on
in terms of stops, more so in the turnover battles
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where you expected them to take a step forward. And
certainly you know, you saw the playoff game and you
roll through. But yeah, for Jordan Love, chip off a
little bit to your former teammate for the one hundred
yard games and the heroics to balance out that offense.
But you know, they had him in the building, they
saw what they liked and if nothing else, you know,
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they're one of those few organizations, Jason, they like continuity.
They don't like shuffle up and deal there in Green Bay. Hell,
they've had three quarterbacks in the last what is it
forty years, thirty eight years whatever, That go back to Mkowsky,
So Mcowsky, far Rodgers and out Love.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yeah, that's what look they look and they knew look
and they knew they had it and Jordan Love knew
he was going to get it and he played it
all right right, Like I'm a huge fan of what
this kid was able to do because during the whole
controversy with with Aaron Rodgers, he stayed quiet, just go
play anything he wasn't playing, didn't say handle it great.
But he also after this year, I kind of got
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him over a barrel because while they they played fast
and loose with Rogers, and they and and and it
turned out right because hey, they turn it over to
Jordan Love. They can't be seen as pushing Jordan Love
out and being bad with him because a wait a bit,
wait a minute, you pushed out right Rogers for this guy.
Now you're now, now you're you're you're haggling over him,
and now you're upsetting a guy going into this year
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and now maybe he wants to be a free agent,
he's gonna like he knew they couldn't screw it up.
He knew they could not afford to lose him, so
he knew at some point he was going to get paid.
He played the game extremely well, right from the beginning
to the end. From the the day he was drafted
to signing this contract, Jordan Love played the game fantastic well.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
The beautiful thing about it for him is he'd already
seen the blueprint and the guy he was getting ready
to replace, right, Brett Farv, what was it all about?
I'm anxious I might retire. I'm not really you know,
football is there, but I got all these other things
that I'm getting into, maybe a little bit of trouble
that I'm getting into, whatever else. And it became a
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all right, this is tiring. That Rogers kid is ready, right, yeah, okay,
Brett siya, you don't get to go straight to Minnesota though,
go to the Jackson where he was an MVP candidate
until he got hurt, by the way, just you know,
bring that back up and throw that into the equation.
And then Rogers, well he didn't even get a chance
to show us anything before he got hurt. But the
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point just being that Jordan Love watched the same thing
play out. Rogers started getting into, you know, his more
talking out of school, threatening and talking about retirement and
belly aching, and the Packers are like, we've done this,
We've seen this kid's looking okay, yeah, let's give him
the reins. It'll work out. And now he got the bag.
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Good on him. And here's a stat, Andrew Brandhead, I
thought you'd like this. The seventeen wide receivers and tight
ends on the Packers roster. I have a total of
eighteen million dollars in contract. Jordan Love got a seventy
five million dollars signing bonus today.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon. Nice to
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Speaker 6 (30:29):
By the way, the way you intro this really not
much of a reward. Shouldn't feel excited for something? Then
he's Steve, Oh okay, thanks great. By the way, the
Arizona Diamondbacks won tonight and they've won fifteen of twenty two.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (30:46):
And they and the Mets have the most wins in
about the past month since late June, fifteen victories over
that slate. Arizona st Beks got three runs in the
sixth and be Pittsburgh four to three. The Mets won
five in a row. They got a grand slam from J. D.
Martinez and defeated Atlanta eight to four. Braves have lost
six in a row. Nets pitcher Codei Senga, in his
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season debut after the shoulder injury, left in the sixth
inning tonight with a capstrain. Nine strikeouts, one walk for
him the late games in San Francisco. The Giants are
now up eleven to three over the Colorado Rockies in
the bottom of the eighth inning. So far, four home
runs for the San Francisco offense, two more tonight for
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Tyler Fitzgerald. Oakland a five to four winner at the Angels.
Brent Rooker of the A's is twenty fifth home run
in ten innings. Washington won ten to eight at Saint
Louis in ten innings. Cincinnati won at Tampa Bay three
to two. The MLB trade deadline is Tuesday. The Rays
traded pitcher Zac Efflin to the Orioles. The Phillies acquired
outfielder Austin Hayes from Baltimore. Cleveland was a winner at
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Philadelphia three to one. San Diego won at Baltimore six '
four on a two run homer top of the ninth
by Jerkson Profar, his second in the night. The Law
lost to Craig Kimbrel. The Padres have won six in
a row. Toronto with a run bottom of the ninth
edge Texas sixty five that ends the Rangers five game
winning streak. Boston scored three in the bottom of the
eighth to beat the Yankees nine to seven. Aaron Judge
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of New York did hit his thirty sixth home run.
It went four hundred seventy feet to center field at
Fenway Park. Judge has ninety two RBIs already were still
in July. Seattle sent the White Sox to a twelfth
straight loss ten nothing. The Mariners scored eight times in
the top of the first, including three straight homers. White
Sox record now twenty seven and seventy nine victories for Miami,
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Kansas City, and Houston, which shut out the Dodgers five
to nothing. LA first baseman Freddie Freeman out all weekend,
likely due to a family matter. The Dodgers traded pitcher
James Paxton to Boston today, and yes, the Dolphins gave
quarterback to a Tongue of Iloa a four year contract
extension worth about one hundred and sixty seven million dollars
guaranteed over two ten mil total. Packers quarterback Jordan love
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tonight agreed to a new four year contract worth a
reported two hundred and twenty million dollars that includes a
seventy five million dollar signing bonus. Lions kicker Michael Badgeley
is out for the season with a torn hamstring. The
Patriots gave safety Juberrol Peppers a three year extension. Saints
defensive back Marshawn Lattimore left practice with a hip flexer injury,
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the rain.
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Now condemn this one's probably better?
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Uh well, why because other stuff has been edited out
and so.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I stuff that didn't didn't play so well maybe gets
truncated some of the awkward. Now they're kind of meandering
through the street and Tariko and company seemed confused as
to what the objective was at different points. Where's the handoff? Guy?
Don't know, don't know?
Speaker 1 (35:08):
How much did you want Snoop to light a blunt
with with the torch when he was running with it? Today?
You know how much you wanted to say, I gotta
explain to millennials what a blunt is. Everybody vapes now.
But how much did you want to see Snoop stop
and go? Wants me light this blankety blank? He this
huge blood in his alfony, lights it with the torch.
He keeps going.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
But there's another guy, right, I mean, look, interviewed him
and met him a few times. Used to run into
him and the Bishop Magic Don Juan in Vegas way
too often back in the day. But the a guy
with a shall we say, a colorful history, And there
he is front center in the Olympic coverage, on trial
(35:49):
for that right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a long time ago.
People can change and become you know, cultural icons again.
But yeah, you kind of half expected it.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
And and and they can't and they they kept passing it.
I'm going at some point this torch is gonna be done.
Speaker 4 (36:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's like it's like when you see a move when
you see a trailer for a movie and you know
a certain scene, and well, I know the movie's not
gonna until this scene from the trailer in it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Right, they just decided to scrap it all together.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Yeah, like, I know, they're not gonna end this until
Tony Parker gets it. You know, he gets the torch
and he goes with it.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I just ran about as fast as I do.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Yeah, hey, well Tony Parking, he doesn't play anymore. He's okay,
But I'm like, I'm like, at some point, we're gonna
be done with this, right, so many people and dead.
Yet you had the the faceless people look like they
were from squid Game, carrying the torch for a while
and they're passing it off and here it is here
and my wife Core guy, though, is still the winner.
A parkour guy was good, but again you were nervous
for him because of the rain. Right, don't slip, don't slip.
(36:49):
Where were you when parkour guy or girl?
Speaker 3 (36:52):
I mean I remember, but.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
You know here the most controversial story of the week
is getting a bit of an up grade because now
there are some news organizations that are doing stories on
these quote anti sex beds that they have put up
in France for the athletes. Obviously, as you know by now, hey,
the Olympics, there's lots of sex. You have young people
(37:16):
who all are incredibly attractive and built, and they're they're
loose for the Olympics and their dream. Yeah, so they
gave out all kinds of condoms. Uh toel three hundred
thousand coaches, a lot of condoms. That's a lot of condoms.
But they gave away a lot. But uh, they put
out in some of the athlete's dorms, the the anti
sex beds to in theory to say, hey, it makes
(37:37):
it harder because the beds are uncomfortable and so there.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Are people be sturdy enough for uh yeah, you know, and.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
And there's and there's there's floor, right yeah, and there's
people trying to jump up and down on them and
everything else. And I'm watching, Hey, look this is what
the bed looks like. Is really and I want I
want to stop and say, unless the bed is made
of knives, there is no such thing as an anti
sex man. There's a there's no way you're gonna come
(38:04):
back with somebody and you're ready or you go, oh,
you know, here's the thing I would I would love.
But the bed is just not comfortable. I mean, like
you said, it's kind of hard. Let's just watch a
movie instead. I mean, really, it's that I don't know
that it's gonna fine. There's no such thing. There's a
or it's a venus fly trap bed where you sit
on and it closes up and it eat you like
it's uh like it's a little shop of horror. Sorry spoiler,
(38:25):
unless that's the bed. There's no such thing, no such thing.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Yeah, I mean there's some I mean, look, we're not
that that point. We got ten minutes. Uh, there's there's
lots of ways around the uncomfortable bed.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
I don't know what to do. That's really not that.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I don't know. They haven't invented anything. I haven't learned it.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
It's digging into my back a little bit here. I
don't know. I can't even sleep on it yet, you know,
And it's I think if if both of us sat
on this, the bed would collect.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Now, let's just you know what. Listen, it was great
meeting you. I'll text you, you know, maybe we'll get
a drink. It's some pointe Greg. Great seeing you, Greg?
Good night, nice meaning, Well shall.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
We stand up and watch a movie.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Why are you standing? We're watching a movie. We can't
both sit on the bed. The bed's gonna collapse. Oh okay,
so you want some privacy, Now, come and stand next
to us, watch a movie with us. We're standing right here.
That's all we're doing. What kind of what kind of
Oh yeah, it's an anti sex bed anti Yeah. People
aren't gonna want to yeah, oh yeah. Do you know
if the chairs are starty? Uh, you know what some
(39:31):
people are gonna find out. I'm sure I think that
might be the next thing. Hey, let's look at the chairs. Yeah,
the chairs are let's let let's make sure they're okay
to sit in. It makes you feel like everything in
the Olympic village stuff that goes up is just so temperate,
Like everything's made of cardboard and it's just gonna fall apart,
and it's all biodegradable, and like three weeks after the
(39:51):
Olympics it's gonna be in a half life. Yeah, these
things are almost all gone. They're almost all gone.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
It's like flash paper that magicians user used for special
effects just goes up. Are we done with it? Okay?
There you go away. But you know, many many of
the athletes there, and I know you, you know you
have the Paralympics as well, but many of the athletes
can stand to guys. Lots of ways around the uncomfortable bede.
(40:21):
There's ways of pesky around everything. I mean, look, if
you want to say it was all about cutting costs
and these will be functional and in theory, you're doing
a ton of you know, team activities and sporting the
other Olympians or whatever. So it's like a Vegas hotel.
Hotel room. You know, why spend a lot of money
(40:42):
because you're not spending a lot of time there. I
think maybe you could go down that road. But saying hey,
we're gonna keep these people from fraternizing, Yeah, no fail.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
People people walking why because your door is gonna made
a cardboard, and the handles made a cardboard. The floor
has made a cardboard, the ceilings made a cardboard. The
glass it's candy. If you wanted to break it, you
could eat it. That's what We're gonna make sure that
this is giving you no desire to stay in this
room whatsoever. Everything is collapsible. Saw me on the sofa,
(41:17):
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