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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
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we have not one, but two huge quarterback stories coming
your way in the next few minutes. It's awesome these stuff.
I mean, you talk about guys getting paid. But but first,
because our boss is here told me we had to
do this. Mike Carmen. Uh, we need to update the

(01:13):
National League wild card race, and uh, it's very important. Uh,
they said, hey, start with this. Make sure everybody knows
that the Mets are now the number one wild guard
in the the league and have the fourth bets record.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
And he had out, why are you people right off
the gate.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
Spout and and spewing lies and misinformation and hate.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
The Boss did not tell you to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It's not a lie unless do this. It's not a
lie unless you can prove it. That's my new that's
my new saying. I'll tell aunless you prove it.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Did you order? Did you order the code red.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Number one wild guard? The Mets beat the Braves again?
Oh my goodness, and I'll tell you look as much
to watch them spectacularly. Oh yeah, no, dude, yeah yeah,
you'll be at eighty losses by Monday. It's gonna be fantastic.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Uh, it's it's more fun to watch braves. Twitter just
absolutely meltdown. Now, just absolute meltdown. They go from every
day is look how smart we are signing our players
to contracts before they come up, and we save so
much money with his smartest organization. Let me pat you
on the back. No, let me, pat you on the back.
Oh look, another great player has come up. This is

(02:28):
so great. We'll give him sixty million dollars for eight years,
and he doesn't because he's don't have to pay him
for another five years. Look how smart we are. And
now it's trade this guy. Get rid of this guy.
All our guys are make all these big moves in
the deadline. All the meltdown is glad.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Do you want me to go back and read Mets
twitter from about a month and a half ago. That
was a little moment. Would you like me to do that.
It's a different world than it's the same damn thing.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
That's a different world. Just flipped.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
It's one hundred and eighty degrees.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
That's like Deadpool's worlds and Marvel six one six, two
completely different worlds, which you need to know that going in. Oh,
by the way, two completely.

Speaker 5 (03:02):
Different worlds, fake worlds. You know, Marvel's not real, Jason, right.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
But the Mets areel and that's all that matters. The
Mets are reel. The Mets areel, and they are spectacular.
Look at this, Look at this, Look at this. This
is I want to buy so many Mets things tonight.
I want to buy so many things, so so many.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
I'll saw you a Phillies Mets jacket.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
You know you wouldn't You would think there would be
a lot of Mets Phillies stuff that would be really
cheap that I could find. No, No, London Series, not
not as much.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
I don't think they printed very much and then they
burned whatever was left. We will have no remnants of
this game. There's no proof that ever existed.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
It doesn't matter. So yeah, look we'll have more baseball
on the way up. Big trades already going down today.
It's like when Randy Rose Raina got traded last night.
It was suddenly, hey, we better get on it because
the trade deadline is too I don't want to wait around.
So lots of teams are making smaller deals, bullpen deals,
starting pitcher deals, outfielder deals, former All stars from just
a year ago. We're getting traded. So there's a lot

(04:02):
of great baseball to get to. But we saw today
two quarterbacks who were up quote absolutely get paid earlier
in the day to a tongue of Iiloa, an extension
worth two hundred and twelve million dollars. We thought it
was coming for him. We heard that Hey two was

(04:22):
going to get paid. It's just going to take a
matter of time. It's okay, four year, two hundred and
twelve million dollar extension, largest in franchise history. At the time,
he was among the league's highest paid quarterbacks. He was
third behind Trevor Lawrence and Joe Burrow. However, I hope
you enjoyed the limelight to him just not too long ago.

(04:43):
Jordan Love and the Packers, which you knew was gonna
happen once two assigned. He knew Jordan Love was going
to get his deal. Jordan Love four years, two hundred
and twenty million dollar extension with the Green Bay Packers.
This money, fifty five million a year, now matches Lawrence
and Joe Burrow for the highest in league history. And

(05:04):
the first thing I'm gonna say is, boy, you think
of all the great players in the game and all
the great quarterbacks, and you go, if I had to
tell you who the three highest paid guys in the
history of the game are, and it's Jordan Love, Joe Burrow,
and Trevor Lawrence, you would go, wait a minute, Wait
a minute, wait a minute. So something's wrong here, because
you know a couple of These guys are good. One
guy's a jag and I mean really, he's just a guy.
These are the guys now setting the bar for what

(05:25):
comes next in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Oh, it always comes back to next man up and
all eyes immediately turn over to Jerry Jones all in
and Dak prescotted, right. We talked about him yesterday and
his presser. But you know, you want to get this
done before we get to any substantive football. Yes, we're
in in pads and doing the initial parts of training camp,

(05:46):
but you know it all starts getting real quote unquote
next Thursday when you have the Hall of Fame game kickoff,
because now you have that that fuse lit for that
final run of days before we get to week one
of the seasons. So uh yeah, you want all those
distractions and issues because the Beat reporters are gonna ask

(06:08):
every day, right, and as much as you could say
you filter out the noise, you don't filter out the noise.
It's still there, it's still swirling, and now it's asked
and answered. You know, it's it's just interesting. Right with Tua,
you needed another year of all right, stay healthy, let
whatever your taekwondo moves were about getting hit and rolling
on the on the ground and all that worked.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Proof of concept.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
Jordan love as much as you may have loved him
in the building, and you'd already kind of gone down
the road of we're gonna get there, you kind of
needed to see it in action for a year before
you signed the big deal.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
And and now we're at that point where it's just
the price doing doing business. And as much as people can,
they can bemoan it and they do all the comparisons
they want. I immediately saw the graphics of Tua against
the career earnings of Dan Marino. We live in a
different world, people. I mean, you know, we can do
this till we're blue in the face. These guys played

(07:01):
plumbers and Dan Marino was on the street corner just
singing do wop, begging for change. That's kind of where.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
We're at in here.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
But you know, he was beginning a rocky with Frank
Take you back.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
DoD Dude. He's a guy that lit the fire in
the trash can.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
But look, I'll tell you this because there's two big
takes off of this, and the first one is Tua
gets paid, right, He gets two hundred and twelve million dollars,
he gets the extension, and look, Tua is good, he's young,
he's ascending every year, he's getting better. Led the NFL
in passing yards last year. But still don't you get

(07:39):
the sense that the Dolphins paid him kind of reluctantly.
Don't you get this because I wouldn't be surprised if
you find out that they were on the phone trust
still trying to get Jalen Hurts five minutes before they
tried to sign two. Alight, we'll signe to it, to
this deal, Jason.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
I think with most of these quarterbacks not named Mahomes, Yeah, there's.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
A reluctance like no, no, no, this guy's got to.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Be the next guy up at sixty million here what
we're doing.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I don't mean a reluctance in boy, we got to
pay this guy because no, I mean a reluctance. And
do we still believe this guy is great? Are we
paying him to be great? There's reluctance in paying a
guy because you just don't want to. Look, we got
to pay fifty five million dollars a year to our quarterback,
and now we're screwed because we are not going to
have we're not gonna be able to keep a lot
of players, and we can't do that anymore. We don't
have a quarterback on a rookie contract, X, Y and Z.

(08:24):
That goes along with it. There's that kind of reluctance.
Then there's the reluctance of are we sure that he's
the guy? Like I think you would still have people
walking around the building in Miami going, are we sure
he's the guy? You never get the sense of unadulterated
love for a quarterback. You get, look, his teammates say
great things about him, but look as good as he was.
Even even a year and a half ago, they were

(08:44):
talking about trying to move on.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
Heay, should we move on?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
To we do this? And and still I feel like
there's a big part of it where, well, we had
to pay him. He's doing everything we ask and he's
getting better and our team is kind of built around him.
He led the league in yards per a teenth last year,
even though he doesn't have a strong arm. But still
I just get the sense that, yeah, we paid him,
but we're still kind of nervous that we're paying a

(09:06):
guy that we think he's really this good and all
he's done is perform. But for whatever reason, whether Richie
doesn't have a strong arm or is he the big
leader everybody says he is, for whatever reason, it just
I just feel like, yeah, they still have their their hesitancy,
they still have their doubts, and we really sure because
you all the love you get for a guy getting

(09:27):
paid like this, it should be how the Bengals talk
about Burrow and how the Chiefs talk about my homes
and how the Jets talk about Rogers and all that.
But instead you got a hey, yeah he's he's our guy.
You don't get a lot of front office love, a
lot of front office Hey, we really like this guy
and we think he's great. It's like, oh yeah, yeah,
he'll get paid. It was tough, it worked out, and
now you know, we hope he's this good.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Well some of it.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
The Jets they're pot committed, and Rogers will pout and
flame them on every podcast an interview he does if
he if they don't kiss his ass appropriately, as evidenced
by all the guys. He was able to strong arm
them into signing a year ago.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Yeah, but I love about the podcast. I don't think
he cares about talking about too much. Football on his podcast. No, no, no,
but that's the avenue for him.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
No, No, He's gonna give you everything else, but he's
gonna throw his jabs in if you actually ask him
a football question.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
That's the thing.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
I don't think anybody actually wants to ask him about
football anymore. It's far more interesting and gets more coverage
outside of the sports bubble that we live in, right,
much larger world to all of it. Right, we've got
a large, large bubble, and then there's the larger community,
especially if you start bringing in conspiracy theories and politics.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Right, we know that's gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
But with with Tuam No, I think it's the same thing,
the Trevor Lawrence thing. That guy is gonna be great,
and I know he got hurt, and I know there
were a lot of other circumstances, but you're still at
the point of doing a little bit of handwringing of
you know, is it the guy that you expected him
to be? At this point, I think everybody would say, no,
he's not right and and hasn't been that guy consistently

(11:03):
keep going down. The other guy's getting Jordan Love gave
you a half a season where he was great, and
he beat the snot out of the Cowboys last year.
That's enough for a go fund yourself account of many
millions of dollars from Green Bay Packer fans or shareholders
as they call themselves. So all of that to say, yeah,

(11:24):
there's gonna be some reticence with a lot of these guys,
but it's all right, what's our alternative we go back
into the draft. Are we gonna be bad enough to
where we're drafting early or were gonna have to give
up all of our draft capital for the next several years,
like you're an NBA team, Or do we have to
hope and pray that someone hits the open market, which

(11:44):
generally only happens if a team has hit on you know,
the lottery with a second quarterback or they suck.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
So you know, to that end, that's that's where you're at.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
You're but you publicly, you've got to say as glowing
as you can. I think with McDaniel, he's just kind
of squirrely at the mic. So you're never gonna get,
you know, a full praise run from him because he's gonna,
you know, have that dug moment and that's gonna be
the end of any kind of long monologue saluting his quarterback.

Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now when it comes to Love, though, it's a little
bit different, right because because I look at I look
at to it and go to it. Got paid. He
was up. It was his turn. He was young, as
contract was coming, He's ascending all of this. Whether they
how reluctantly they paid him, they did. Jordan Love got
paid because he was one fifty eight point three in
Dallas in the playoffs. That's right, I mean he was

(12:38):
really good. Both these quarterbacks are really good, right, But
Jordan Love started out last year, first couple of games
are really good. Then he sort of plateaued a bit,
and midway through the season it was is he really
our guy? Boy? Did we really do all this with
Aaron Rodgers kicking in the curb and maybe Jordan Love's
not the guy? And then the last half of the season,
he's one of the top five quarterbacks in the NFL. Right, Like,

(13:00):
he won touchdowns his last eight weeks. Okay, hey, we
got a good one. But he goes into Dallas one
fifty eight point three quarterback rating, three touchdowns. He is amazing.
When you do that on the road in Dallas. This
is why he got paid any other reasons, af has Hey,
the dude went into Dallas and did that to the Cowboys,

(13:21):
which have a pretty good defense. Right, maybe not as
good as it was earlier in the year, but that's
a pretty good thing to go in on the road
and do that. It's time to pay this guy paid.
He was gonna get paid, but he got paid today
and this kind of money and he's a top paid
quarterback in the NFL because he was one fifty eight
point three in Dallas.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yeah, I think the last thing is talking about the roster.
He also was leading right, very young roster. Watson was hurt.
Aaron Jones not quite sure what happened in the month
that he missed, remember, because he went out in mid
November and he'd been pedestrian at best. Dylan was an afterthought.
And then all of a sudden, Aaron Jones was back
down the stretch and running like hulcomania. Uh and whoever

(14:02):
a mania it is on a Friday night.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
And and suddenly you had balance back to that offense.
This year they bring in Josh Jacobs, expecting more of
the same. Uh and perhaps you know the leaner, meaner
aj Dillon, they get a much better combination and with
those young receivers ascending. So yeah, you pay your quarterback
and move forward. But yeah, being able to put up

(14:26):
one fifty eight to three against Dallas, I mean that
leads all all the sizzle reels that led the negotiations.
Right here here, what's what's the where were we starting?
Here's the box score. You can see the important parts highlighted.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
We're just gonna show you video of him playing in
Dallas and then at the end you're gonna you're gonna
write a blank check and we're gonna catch it. We
watched that highlight video you put in up against Dallas,
and we didn't see Micah Parsons in once exactly. Oh
that's when he got hurt and he left the game. Yeah,
that's right, that's right. Exit out about a Fresca exit
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(15:01):
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We got more NFL on the way. But coming up next.
This has been some kind of days so far. When
you talk about the opening ceremonies for the Olympics, there's
some good stuff, and there's some stuff to go. Oh
my goodness, what did I just see? That's coming up next?

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Speaker 1 (17:15):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 5 (17:20):
Jason, this song better not be what I think it is.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
It's Madonna. It's from nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 5 (17:27):
You know what I meant? Well, what you know?

Speaker 1 (17:31):
You know this song is in dead pulling Wolverine because
it's in the trailer.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
It was in the trailer.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's in the trailers. We're not ruining anything this song.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
I don't watch the trailers from movies. I'm gonna see
it was Italy.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
I don't watch the trailer. Turn this trailer off. I
don't want to know anything. It was in the not
ruining anything. It was in the tysher stopping the song, like,
oh my god, I'm ruining something with the movie.

Speaker 5 (17:53):
I don't know what you're ruining people's experience, not ruining
any how I sound.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
No, that's the way. That's the way your voice in
my head sounds.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
When he was working from memory, Alex, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, that's what I was.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
That's all.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Look hey. Spoiler free review of Deadpool and Wolverine. Spoiler
free review, absolutely spoiler free. You saw it at ten o'clock.
I saw it at two thirty.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
I had twelve people in my theater.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Wow, that was very weirdful.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, it was full right next door. Spoiler alert. I
was able to laugh out loud and not disturb too
many people. Match Katie like at times the.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Deadpool and Wolverine, I'll say this, and here's the thing.
It was really funny. It was really funny. Some of
the stuff I'm surprised they did. And this is for Deadpool.
I'm surprised at some of some of the humor, some
of the stuff they did. Hugh Jackman and Ryan Redlds
were both really really good. It was exactly it's a
Deadpool movie, which is fantastic, But boy was it messy?

(18:58):
All right? Oh oh boy was it messy. I'm like, oh, okay.
As soon as as soon as it started and I
knew what the what the big what the plot was,
I'm like, oh, really, yeah, there's no way.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
To do that in without a lot of mess to it.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Come on, how do we get this back over here?
All right?

Speaker 4 (19:15):
In shirt this you can almost see it as they're filming.
It's like, what do we need to bridge this?

Speaker 1 (19:20):
All right? Let's go Yeah, And the the other thing is, look,
like I said, don't go expecting, hey, this is some
clean it's the third one, right, Whenever it's the third
one of something, you know it's going to be messy. But,
like I said, really funny. They were really good. It's
a Deadpool movie. And the cameos were unbelievable. There's one
can I gasped out loud when I couldn't believe who

(19:41):
it was when I went, Oh, my god.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
I couldn't and my daughter I already my daughter knew
that one.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh she did.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
I think I know which one you're referring to.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, yeah, I could.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I was one of the funniest moments too.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh yeah. And then right after was it was one
of the big demo show. But yeah, John Stamoss was
in in everybody. He was probably yes, he was in
all the Beach Boys.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
You got Greg Evigan in the short b J and
the Bear.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
My name's b Jamee McKay.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Well, he was on my two dads bear.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Uh, Greg Evigan was my I thought it was Bob
Saggett and Dave Coolier.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
No, no, no, that's full house.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
That's full Oh, that's full house. My two dads was
John Stamos and Greg Evigan.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
No, no, no, it was Paul Riser.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
No, it was my two dads. I didn't watch it, obviously,
Paul was my two dads.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
I want Stacy Keenan and Greg Evigan. Full House was Saggott,
Stamos and Coolier.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
Oh so stay was okay. Yeah, again, two shows I
didn't watch, but that's okay. And then he was at
the Rocky Parrish On General Hospital. And now evidently he's
in some new movie, new show with Kerry Washington. I
don't I don't want Tysher to know that I didn't
that I didn't see Stamos in Full House. To be
very upset.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
I'm upset.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
That job by you that was Friday Night staple between
that Reginald Bell Johnson when he was finished saving Nakotomi Plaza.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
He was a Chicago cop by day.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
See another spoiler.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
See that was in the nineties when I was going
out having fun. So that's when you were watching television.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
I was prepping to do card shows to help pay
for my education.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Hey, Harmon, we're all going out tonight.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Man.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
We're going to the We're going to the Lipstick Pig
and then we're going to the Jump and Knucklehead Billies
and then we're gonna do a pub crawl. No, I
have to stay in. I have to order my nineteen
seventy four set of tops for a big convention tomorrow
that I bought a table act for three hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
Jason, are you always end the night in the ballpit
at McDonald's.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
I did not. I did you know? I was never
a big let's go to McDonald's at the end of
the night for a bar. I was never that guy.
I would go to white Castle, but McDonald's was like,
I don't know why.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
I just never was. I.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Oh wait, I'm McDonald's rest of the time. You know,
it's like, hey, okay, but like that, I just wasn't
a big. Hey, let's go to McDonald's end of the night.
I just never never have been. I don't know why.
I'm weird. I'm unpredictable.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Well, I mean that's the thing, right, you gotta keep
some unpredictability. But now you we can find you at
the same Mcdonaldnald's booth, your sad, little little space in
the corner every day.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
And if you're looking for Jason Smith, go find him
at McDonald's. Just sitting there with the big hot mocha sipping,
watching the world go by as he sits in that
booth by himself shows up around ten thirty, so we
can get the end of breakfast and beginning of lunch.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
Swinking and raising his eyebrows as Grimace walks back.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Hey, dude, the Mets winning percentage is now seven eighteen
in the Grimace era. I mean, really, you could talk
about Otani all you want. Mets didn't pay a dime.
At some point you got to pay your TOI.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
Exchange. There isn't there no doubt? Come on, he came
out to McDonald's paying them again for sponsorship and stuff. No,
because they had one for a long time and then
it stopped. I think they brought it back in twenty
twenty four. No, Mets could just buy Grimace if they
wanted to. He just kind of check and say, what
do you mean we need Grimace?

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (22:55):
Okay, well I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
A couple of million, Sure, here go, he's got a
lot more value now he's got. It's like Jordan Love
to a tongue of Biloa and me. It's a proof
of concept that you you know, you now have to
pay the Piper.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
But if you don't sign to a if you don't
sign Jordan Love, somebody else is gonna want them. If
the Mets don't buy Grimace, like do other teams Like,
is Grimma's gonna do the same thing for me? Eas
he did foreverybody. I know he's gonna do what he
did for the Mets. Chris may be a one trick
great pony person.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Think why would you say that? Right? Not all quarterbacks
fit in another spot, right, I mean?

Speaker 4 (23:31):
I mean Tua could go to the Jets and suck
because the Jets suck, right, or Jordan Love get away
from forty years of continuity and stability and all those
things of owning Chicago.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
But they're doing good things though, But you know he's
done good things and.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Concept they gotta lock him up to a long term deal.
When this goes to hell, there's gonna be other teams competing.
Otherwise mccheese and company might be on the road for
competitors all this.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Sudden, Philly, it ain't Rob mcelhanny.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
I mean, he got you know, he's part of this
Deadpool universe or whatever. But you know he's Philly's favorite
son right now, so he gets kicked out, and Grimace
could come and replace him, just as easily a rival
goes over. It's kind of like Sakuon Barkley leaving the
Giants and going over to the Eagles. That's just killing
the front office and ownership. Remember that's what hard Knock said.

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But Grimas could be that guy now that you got
a seven eighteen winning percentage.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
See you're saying all that stuff, and I'm just thinking,
is Mayor mccheese his agent is the Hamburglar his agent? Like,
I don't know who if you were, if you Grimace
had to avin eighty, who would it be.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
Well, the Hamburglar would be running stuff for boxers, Ok,
and MMA guys because he's absconding with the cash.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
Wow, Mike Harmon, MMA pretty shady. That's Mike Harvion.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Well, I mean Dana White doesn't want to pay anybody, right,
and then boxing, I mean history's littered with the guys
that got fleeced.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
I mean, Don King's still they're waiting at you all
these years later.

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(25:24):
one wildcard of the National League.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
The opening ceremonies of the Olympics was today, and there's
there's a lot. There's a lot of stuff. There's a
lot of cool stuff. There's stuff that makes you go,
what the hell? Uh, let me lead off with this.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
There's a lot of third rail stuff too. My man. There.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
As impressive as it was, it was just way too
bleeping long. I mean, come on, man, I mean you
got to bring home the opening ceremonies in three hours.
You can't give me some four hour bloated thing where
it's like really, because here's what it was. I started
today ten o'clock today was the beginning of the opening ceremonies, right,

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so I'm watching it here at home. I filled in
on AM five seventy from twelve to two today because
Fred Rogan and Rodney Pete Worol thanks for the invite,
so I they called me. I'm sorry but I don't get.

Speaker 5 (26:13):
You to do you see the tweet that Jason put
out thanking the whole show.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
Okay, that's good.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
I thank them. I thank them for today, and you
guys for tonight. I'll thank you guys at the end
of the show tonight. Like I whenever I fill in there,
I always thank you guys here at the end of
the show too. Don't make it seem like I don't
note to self. Make sure to thank everybody at the
end of the show. Uh So, ten o'clock, you know,
I'm up and I'm doing stuff and I'm prepping getting round,
and the opening ceremony started. We finished the show at two,

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and I waited another fifteen minutes because we had fifteen
minutes before we had to go to see Deadpool. And
I'm going they still haven't lit the flame. Oh come on, man,
this is this is some kind of odyssey where it's
you got you. You can't just give me this whole
bloated all this. I'm like, come on, you gotta give
me something, man, you gotta say at least okay, there's

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an endgame coming. When they had the thing with the horse,
I'm like, oh, this is gonna be really cool. Nope,
it was that horse for about thirty five minutes. And
then now we're onto something else and oh, here's someone
with the with the torch and it's in the louver
and they're running around and I'm going they haven't even
gotten to actual people without masks on carrying the torch yet.
How close can we really beat to the end? It
was as impressive as parts it was. I'm like, come on, man,

(27:25):
you can't give me like a five hour opening ceremonies
for the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
We man.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
It got to the point where you had Tariko basically say,
I don't even know where the torch is going anymore.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
No said at one point they said it was lit
like two hours before it was lit. When the person
came up and lit, it was like, I forget where
it was. And then the spark the fireworks went off,
and it was all and whoever was on the air
set and the torch is lit, and they didn't say
anything else about I'm like, the torch is lit. Then
they go through other stuff and they show the torch
going through other places, still being brought through France. I'm like,

(27:57):
oh no, no, they really jumped the gun there by
saying that the torch was lit, because the torch clearly
is not lit, and we're gonna sit here for a
while longer before we see the torch actually get lit. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Many what the hell am I watching?

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Moments as I tried to catch up after my early
Deadpool viewing, I hadn't missed very much.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
I hadn't gotten very far. So, you know, so a
couple of boats, and then depending.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
On the size of the the group coming in, you
had to you know, you're gonna need a bigger boat.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
You know, it was full jaws.

Speaker 4 (28:29):
We need we need several hundred you know, room for
several hundred here. Okay, you guys get the larger pontoon
like boat rolling through here.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
Yeah. So, and then all sorts of weird stuff. I'm like,
what is this?

Speaker 1 (28:40):
What am I watching? Like? I get it.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
There's some pomp and circumstance and pageantry. I liked the
little lay miss thing and Gohira and I don't know
what the Marie Antoinette thing was, the last supper thing. Like,
there's all sorts of stuff. I'm like, can we talk
with the creative people? And wonder what the hell were
you doing? But you know, all the ceremony is done,
and we're on new athletic competitions, many of which you've

(29:05):
never seen or heard of before.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
I mean, this is like watching the Snyder cut of
the opening ceremonies, Like, oh no, no, we have the opening ceremonies,
but I can't tell the whole story. You need five
and a half hours if I really want to know.
I know the Eiffel Tower, Okay, great to said, yes,
I get it. The arct Triumph Y's like okay, okay, okay, it's.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
A good tourist thing. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
I mean, come on, man, I mean I don't need
the Snyder cut. I could just get here.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
We are live at the Catacombs. I mean, just keep
on going.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
You should. You should be able to tell me the
story of France in three hours, what I need to
know for the Olympics. You should tell me what I
need to know about France in three hours. I mean
that should not be impossible.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
Without the extra US guys carrying the torch.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Listen, helping France out in this in this chicken McNuggets
world where hey, just give me something to get by.
This is the Olympics, right, give me what I need
to know for the next couple of weeks, I have
to go all the way back in time. And then
in fifteen fourteen, when Napoleon was able to come on,
give me the McNuggets version here, give me, give me
three hours of it. I'll be good.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
And Tony Parker couldn't pick up the pace.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
A little bit. I really thought Wenby was gonna get
it at the end, like he was gonna be She's
just gonna reach up. Yeah, I got it. Now to
a guy who always orders chicken McNuggets whenever he goes
to McDonald's and even sometimes Burger King, they don't know
what he's talking about. It's special delivery. Steve to Seger
with what's going on in the wide world of sports

(30:26):
as we just talked about here the last few minutes,
All eyes on the Mets, who are now the number
one wild card in the National League. Steve O.

Speaker 8 (30:34):
So what happened to the Mets starting pitcher today? Did
he finish the game or.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
He didn't finish the game? He went, he went five
and two thirds innings in his first night back, and
the Mets won, and and he got hurt again, Yes, yes,
and got.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
I was expecting Segment one tonight. You know the Mets
can't have nice things.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
No, what's the determination comes out by Monday, Steve, we'll
be able to lead with it.

Speaker 8 (30:59):
Then we've got a lot of good baseball to get to.
First off, the two quarterback items. Today, the Miami 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. He's entering the
final year of his rookie deal. Packers quarterback Jordan Love

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was not practicing until he got a new contract. His
rookie deal ends after this season. He got a new
four year contract tonight. I'll say two hundred and twenty
two million dollars, including a seventy five million dollar signing bonus.
By the way, Lions kicker Michael Badgeley is out for
the season with a torn hamstring. The Mets won their
fifth game in a row, eight to four over Atlanta.

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The Braves have lost six in a row. J D
Martinez in a Grand Slam. He had three hits. Code
Is Sega in his season debut after the shoulder injury
left in the six with a Cafstra, and he had
nine strikeouts one walk. Boston comes back with three runs
bottom of the eighth to beat the Yankees nine to seven.
Aaron Judge of New York did hit his thirty sixth
home run of the season. It was a blast to

(32:02):
center field at Fenway Pack four hundred and seventy feet
Toronto with a run bottom of the ninth beat Texas
six ' five, ending the Rangers five game winning streak.
The White Sox have lost eleven in a row coming
into tonight. Well, it's now a final ten nothing the
Mariners have won at the White Sox, so make it
twelve straight as the White Sox in this one, well,

(32:25):
let's just say they.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Weren't in it.

Speaker 8 (32:27):
Early eight runs in the top of the first for
the Mariners, including three straight homers. Remember when we said
they had the Carlton Fisk record of twenty seven and
seventy two, it's twenty seven and seventy nine. Now I
don't know who warn number eighty in White Sox history,
but we're getting there.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
Oh, they're gonna be Carlton Fisk and Jerry Rice.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
They're gonna get into Jerry Reinsdorf's age, which is eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
You're pretty fast.

Speaker 8 (32:53):
The Marlins lead at Milwaukee in the top of the
ninth six ' two Nationals tied at Saint Louis six
in the eighth. The Astros are shutting out the Dodgers
five nothing. In the bottom of the eighth, LA first
baseman Freddie Freeman out due to a family matter. Wins
already for Kansas City and Minnesota. Cincinnati one in ten innings,
Cleveland a winner at Philadelphia three to one. The Padres

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won their sixth straight, beating Baltimore on a two run
homer in the top of the ninth innings six to four.
Jerrikson profar the hero. It was his second home run
of the ninth. The MLB trade deadline is Tuesday. The
Rays traded pitcher Zach Eflin to the Orioles. The Phillies
acquired outfielder Austin Hayes from Baltimore. The Dodgers traded picture

(33:38):
James Paxton to Boston. And Yes, the Olympics opening ceremony
was today in Paris, in the rain, on the river Send,
not in a stadium. You know, I mentioned on the
show before you guys they really tried a lot in
this I mean You're right, it was four hours.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
There's no escaping that.

Speaker 8 (33:56):
I'm I'm surprised they pulled it off, and I'm all
so not surprised, as you kind of referenced in there. Wait,
you're saying something that the French made artistically is just
flat weird.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
Yes, the answer was, yes.

Speaker 3 (34:10):
Weird and to some patently offensive.

Speaker 8 (34:14):
Oh absolutely, I in no way endorse everything I saw today. However,
by the end and when you get Celine Dion of
all people singing and Edith Poff's song at the Eiffel Tower, Wow,
that was a sensational finish.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon Live from the ti Raq dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, We've got more NFL on the way again.
We got baseball Trades of breakdown. But boy, an anonymous
player has just tried to light the Lakers on fire
and Na Tumbo. It's that's coming up next right here,

(35:00):
Jason Ike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike harmon
Live from Thetirack dot Com studios, where I'll tell you
anonymous players. Anonymous players. One has decided to try to
light the Lakers on fire. This was first reported by

(35:35):
The US Sun earlier today and you saw it probably
earlier today on Undisputed and an anonymous unnamed Lakers player
talked about how upset he was with how things went
in Summer League earlier this month because of the way

(35:55):
Bronnie James was treated by the team. This quote from Brenner,
Damien Bircherd or the US Sun from the player quote,
the attention he attracted was very frustrating for the players
to see, and his alleged star treatment caused friction among
the team, which went zero to five to start the tournament.
That kind of tension didn't help the group of players
build chemistry. Noting they had nothing against Bronnie. Quote, you

(36:18):
could feel there was no unity between this group of guys,
as Bronnie was the main guy. The others didn't feel
that it was right and that he deserved that. Dealing
with Brownie's attention and treatment, plenty of the other guys
trying to make the roster for next season couldn't show
their best side and show their a game. So basically
everything he thought was gonna happen with the Lakers when

(36:40):
Bronnie started playing this anonymous players said, this is what
it was like. He got all the attention in Summer League.
He had all the oxygen, he had all the chances
to play. Not a lot of the other guys got
chances to play and show they belonged, and Bronnie got
preferential treatment. You know, I know this story comes out
from an anonymous player and here it's reported the way through.
But I see this in like, oh, is really do

(37:02):
you think this is not how it went? Like, like
you there's anything in this? It sounds so outlandish and
I there's no way that happened. No, this sounds about
how I expected things to go and how it probably
went earlier this month for Summer League.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, as well as he may handle it personally. We've
said it all along that you know, this is message
been has been terrible all the way through, and how
it got handled and you know, downplayed, down play, no, no,
just just own this is where it was headed and
run with it.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
And for Summer.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
League, Uh yeah, that the coverage of it all. You know,
from the larger communities, like you didn't get a lot
other than you know, connect a bit, right when he
had a couple of big games. You got some highlights
and you got some run. He got lucky, you know
early on that he was overshadowed by Bronnie James because
he didn't start out summer league quite so well. So

(37:52):
got a little bit of a free pass there. But
for anybody else, Yeah, there it was Bronnie and and
the rest of the squad, right, and here's everybody, you
know when they do introductions, here's the six guys we
announce and the rest of your twenty twenty four whiles.
I mean, that's how I think probably felt to the
rest of these guys who are all trying to find

(38:14):
a contract either in the NBA or you know, looking
at the putting stuff on tape for the global basketball community.
So yeah, I can understand the frustration. I'd love someone
to put their name on it. Yeah, I'm not with
them anymore, so blank them.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
The whole thing about this is this is actually something
that the Lake. It's good for the Lakers because this
is their final warning about how things could go if
they don't control the Browny situation, right, Because if Bronni
winds up playing a lot for the Lakers and is
in the rotational bit or plays in games when minutes

(38:50):
should go to other guys, and doesn't play in the
G League, that's going to cause problems because as you saw,
he's not ready for the NBA. He needs to spend
his time in the G League. Now, could he be
up on the roster a little bit? Sure? Yeah, they
did all favors for him and lebron and keeping him
on there. It's not a two way deal. I get it.
But if you treat Bronni like hey, he's earned it
and he's there, guess what half the team is gonna revolt.

(39:12):
They are going to revolt. Now, it's not a bad
thing to take Bronny. Of course, hey they did lebron
a favor. Teams do favors for players all the time.
They do. But this is their warning to say, you
better handle this the right way, and that is time
in the G League and no time he doesn't earn
on the court, because if you do that, it's not
just gonna be the bottom four or five guys and
the roster who are like, hey, we need some time too,

(39:34):
it's gonna be half the team going are we trying
to win? Like? Why wasn't Austin Reeves out there? Why
was it ruey Hachimoor out there? Why why was this
going on? And Bronni is out there and suddenly half
the team is fighting a battle and it's this is
where things can go sideways for the Lakers, really really fast.
I would take this as, hey, here's your final warning
you handle Bronnie Wright or boy, this season's gonna get

(39:56):
really long and really sideways, really fast.

Speaker 4 (39:58):
Well, it becomes what are we doing here? Is this
a cool touching made for a TV documentary? A nice
heartwarming father son tail? Remember because I'll be able to
tell him what he does things wrong, and he'll be
able to tell me dot dot dot not right or
however he phrased it. You know that those kinds of

(40:19):
things wouldn't say the word wrong for himself. But or
are you actually trying to win? Because in theory, if
you've got Anthony Davis and Lebron James that we say
or too, you're still top fifteen player. I don't know
where if people put Lebron anymore, but ad with what
he'd put on last year and what he's doing with
the Olympic squad that he's you're supposed to be competing

(40:40):
and not just stripesing through an eighty two game season
as a feel good love story.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Things can get sideways really really quick.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
I want names, Jason, he too called Dan Waken.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Maybe Dan Waken get his names. They'll get that for us.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
He could do the rhyming game you always like to,
does it right with Smanthony Schmavis. Whoa wait a minute,
wait no.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
No, we're kidding. We're what you just did there, We're kidding.
We have a big NBA story coming up next five.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
Suck to No questions about Kaitlyn Clark, Okay, no Kitton
Clark questions or I'm pulling her from the interview. I'm
pulling her. Okay, okay, go go ahead.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
You ask you standing there like it's a college football
game with the giant picture of Caitlyn Clark, as if
it's a play call.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
See, well, that's when you pivot and you go, well,
I know, I can't ask Asian Wilson Asia, tell me
about the Bik's great h. Hey, Steph Curry, you're here
again for the Olympics. Why don't you think Caitlyn Clark
is on the Olympic team? I'm you to say, I
couldn't ask you. You know you're Steph Curry. What do
you think? Why is it Kaitlyn Clark on the team
and he's just staring at agent? Weall uh, I don't, Uh, boy,

(41:57):
where's a pr guy to cut this thing short?

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Step your career as one of the greatest three point
marksmen in basketball history. But let me ask you, this
is Caitlyn Clark a better point guard than you?

Speaker 1 (42:11):
It seems like you guys have similar games. But wow,
she's a better passer. I really, I mean she leads
a league in assists. You've never let the league in assists,
not even close, Steph. I mean, is she a better
all around player than you are? Let's say, you know, boy,
you know what I like? Kaylyn Clark makes a lot
of game winning shots in the final minute. How come
you can't make shots in the final minute? How come?
How comes Steph? Steph? What this is a fun this

(42:33):
is this is a fun interview. Where are you going?
Come on? But that's the thing. They're on a boat.

Speaker 4 (42:38):
They can't go very far well, and you're in his
triumph the insult comic dog there because he kind of
speaks with a French accent.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
They're on boats. It couldn't go anywhere.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
It is appropriate as it is the sixteenth anniversary of
step brothers.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
This is not the Catalina wine mixer.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
No, but dude, hey, if it's speaking of Catalina on boats,
like you know this whole thing. Watch the teams go
by on boats. I felt like I was watching like
the we have a big uh here in La a
Marina del Rey holiday boat crews right sure where all
the boats get And I'm sure they do this in

(43:14):
a bunch of other in others write them up. Yeah,
you know ship boats of personal boats. A people dress
up and go on them. They put Christmas lights on
holiday lights and they parade around the harbor and people
go down and watch. And that's kind of what I
felt like I was watching with this, like, oh, here's
some people on the boat, like and they're waving to you.
They're on the boat waving them Yeah, little uniforms on.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Right, the coordinated outfit like it's a cosplay thing.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Yeah, no, it's great, or like, who are you? We're
the office?

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Great and we're on a booze cruise. We're going up
the sand and back. Then how you do? And you
always have to wave to people on boats like it's
a thing. So I'm waving to you.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
What do you watch the line for me?

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Go ahead?

Speaker 5 (43:52):
Boats and.

Speaker 1 (43:55):
U boats and boats and birds.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
Incorrect?

Speaker 3 (44:02):
Oh, I know what you're well enough time has now elapsed.
You could just say it.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
No I can't. It's not past ten o'clock.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
Well, harmon trying to get you fired.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
I can't say it past ten o'clock. I can't say
past ten o'clock. But I know what you're saying. Enough
from step brothers.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
I know it's past eleven o'clock East Coast.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, America, we love
you wherever you are.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
We can do that again. After ten o'clock. We are
in what's when TJ when talking about boats, we are
in what's called safe harbor on the radio. We can
do that.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Yeah, But he was just trying to get you to
talk about your favorite implement for.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Guard guard kill.

Speaker 1 (44:44):
Yeah, sure, Yeah, a lot of tilling going on. Look,
the big thing that we're going to see this weekend,
the first big marquee event of the Olympics. United States
Olympics men's team. They play on Sunday, their first game,
and to say that they our preparation has been uneven
would be very kind. You've needed Lebron James to rescue

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them twice, including against South Sudan, which is probably gonna
be a movie at some point, except they're going to
change the ending. Hey, Lebron, is it okay? If you
miss at the end in Sudan wins it? Okay? If
we do that, is it okay? Is it?

Speaker 3 (45:17):
But I cooked that guy?

Speaker 1 (45:18):
Did you see me?

Speaker 3 (45:20):
He said, you want to play me one on one?
And I said, yes, Sir, I do.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
So their first game is Sunday, and look likely they're
going to win the gold medal. But you have a
lot of good teams. Look, they play Serbia Sunday, and
Serbia is not bad. You have a lot of good teams.
And the big question is always, well, I don't understand
why do we struggle? Why do we struggle? Why do
we struggle? Why are we not winning? Bigger than this,
and you hear the same thing from everybody. Well, the

(45:45):
other countries have all caught up, which that was a
great reason like fifteen years ago. But we still have
the best players in the world. Why why do we
still struggle against other competition even if hey, what if
they have if great that Jokic is playing, but we
still want to win. Why do we struggle? Right, we
have twelve of the best players on the planet. Why

(46:07):
do we still struggle. It's kind of a it's kind
of a lazy answer to say the other teams are
well because, of course the other countries have gotten better.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Of course they have. I mean, that's just how it
goes over there. It's been a thirty two year run up.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Yes, no one's taking pictures next to Charles Barkley anymore.
Like that's like, that's like ellen gon.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
I do like some of those old photos though, Yeah
they are good. They got to chuckle everywhere.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
A lot of the guys are playing against look like
Grandville waiters looking out people.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Remember when we won those first two gold medals, when
every game by fifty points, We beat Angola, we beat
all these countries all But you want to know why
and it and it's and it's pretty easy. Right you
watch this, I'll tell you why they struggle. It takes
too long for Team USA to figure out their roster
and who plays where. That's all it is, okay because

(46:54):
the bit what what people don't understand are the rules
in FOBA basketball, how much different they are from the NBA,
and how not every star player in the NBA his
game is made for the Olympics, right, like Joel Embiid's
game of getting the ball on the paint and drawing
contact and trying to get to the free throw line
on one leg. That doesn't work right, It doesn't work,

(47:16):
And you could see why Joel Embiid has struggled so
much over the course of the past couple of weeks.
With the United States playing all these games, it takes
too long to figure out who's going to play because
they don't have enough time together. A lot of these
other teams they all have more time to figure out
and they know the international game better. Because the biggest
things are the games are shorter, right, and that's a

(47:38):
big thing to get used to. Your sense of urgency
has to be there from the jump. The pace of
the game is a lot faster, and teams shoot threes
way more than you think. That's the biggest thing. The
games are shorter, the pace is faster, and teams put
up threes and all of a sudden couple of three
because it's such a big part of the game. It's

(47:58):
a different way. If you don't get back defensively, if
you're still trying to move around and try to figure
something out, they're gonna hit threes on you and suddenly, boy,
we're just up by seven. Now it's a four point game.
Our guys are sucking win. There's new guys coming in now.
Guys are only playing sixteen, eighteen minutes. You can see
why we struggle, just because the game is so different. Now,
if we had a longer time and this is on

(48:21):
Steve CURTI try to do it faster because you know,
the players, if they had more time to figure out, Okay,
this is who needs to play, right, this is our guy,
and these are the guys we're gonna ride all the
way through. These guys are gonna play thirty minutes. The
other guys are gonna play eight or nine minutes. It's
hard to juggle the egos, right, Like Rick Buker told
us the other day, sasa, hey, what if Steve Kerr

(48:42):
looks at things and says, hey, my best guys are
Tatum and White and Bam and Ad and suddenly at
the end of games Lebron and Steph and KD and
Beater on the bench like that's a tough thing something
to walk back to the bench and see those guys
sitting on the bench going, yeah, I'm going Derek White
to close this game out. Lebron feel about that, But
this is the way the game is. It's a different game,

(49:04):
and you'll see it on our players' faces when they're
sucking win even though they're only playing sixteen or eighteen minutes.
If the United States could figure out their team faster
and figure out who plays faster and be stronger with
that and not worry about egos or anything else, they
would be much better off and we would continue to
motor towards gold medals. But because we don't have that

(49:25):
chemistry right away and it takes time to figure it out, right,
like Steve Kerr may not figure out what is rotations
until we get into the metal round. Boh, I'm not
gonna let Joel Embiid only play fifteen. I got to
give Joel embid more time instead of saying, hey, let
me make a tough decision, and Joel embiid, you're not
playing right. I mean, it's a good way to get
everybody's attention by saying, hey, if you don't play well

(49:46):
right away, you're gonna sit on the bench. But Steve
Kerr also knows I'm going back to the NBA after this,
and I gotta deal with all these guys for the
next who knows how many years. So it's a difficult situation,
but that's the biggest thing. If you could find your
team early. You know, the these are our starters, They're
gonna play the lion's share of the minutes. These are
our bench guys coming in. We know we need bet
we need good defenders on the wing. And that's why

(50:08):
Jason Tatum is probably gonna wind up playing a lot.
It's why White's gonna play, why Drew Holliday is gonna
play a lot. Once they figure that out, hey we'd
be much better off. But it just takes too long
and there's too much stuff going on to try to
just out talent anybody. We're not gonna go on out
talent people. We really have to get into into playing
by the rules of FOEBA and constructing the team accordingly

(50:30):
and getting your rotation down way before. Hey, we'll figure
this out during the tournament. So it's so to see
why they struggle. That's why they struggle. It's not as
simple as all the rest of the league, rest of
the world is caught up. Yeah, they're better, we should
still be winning. But this is not NBA games, right,
We're not playing NBA rules, We're not playing an NBA arenas.
It's a different game, and some players adjust to it better,

(50:52):
and you just have to find those guys faster. And
when you do that, then we'll go back to winning
every game by twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Points pace to play, owing a nod to Rob Manford,
size of the court style, the fact that you only
have so much of a run up in terms of practicing,
because I mean, how many sloppy turnovers have you seen
in each of these games where it looks like we're
playing an NBA All Star game or you're watching when
the Globetrotters come to town and they try something great,

(51:21):
it's like, no, no, give me a second take. I
can make that pass I promise, so you get some
of that. You got to talk about embiid and lumbering
around and you know, I hate to say it, right,
you're wearing the US colors and you're part of the
pomp and circumstance of this opening ceremony and getting ready
for all that. You're also talking about very large brands.

(51:43):
You mentioned the word ego. How many guys had to
be you know, coerced to come in with promises of
playing time, rotationally, starting positions whatever. Steve Kurr's got to
just realize in three weeks he can tell these guys
all to go to hell. The only guy's got to
deal with Steph Curry, Right, that's it. He's got to

(52:04):
play against the rest of them, but he doesn't have
to deal with them for the rest of you know,
his coaching reality until the next cycle of things. So
so from where I sit, you know, he says, blank you,
I'm doing what it takes to win. So if that means,
you know, the hockey line change of the next five
become course, Remember they weren't calling them starting lineup. It

(52:24):
was first five and next five. All of that in
the first of these warm ups, that is soon as
sooner he gets to that, the better. But you know,
a little bit of cohesion and being willing to slow
down the pace. Right, if you can't go at the
breakneck pace, guess what, get into your offensive set and
stop throwing the ball into the fifth row.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
It's a it's it's going to be imperfect, and it's
just gonna be does the units? Are we still going
to be able to just throw the best players out
there and they will their way to victory? And and
because Jason Tatum gets high or somebody else gets hot,
or Lebron gets hot and somebody misses a three or
they can we can get rescued by them. Like that's

(53:06):
what it's gonna be until we figure out a better
way to plan for the Olympics. That's just how it's
how it is because I because I hear your point
on Steve Kurse, I just got to worry about Steph.
But this is everybody, and you don't know, it's a lot,
it's a lot of other things that go into it.
With other players, they're gonna want to come play, I'll
call them out here. There's gonna be problems. I mean,
there's a life after the Olympics, and I get that

(53:27):
it's tough. And maybe this is why you know coach
K was good for so I could coach the pros, right,
I don't have to worry about them at all. I'm
at Duke. I don't give a crap. Steve Kerr got
to worry about politics a little bit. So, I mean,
there's definitely some things that you can do to make
it a little bit better and a little bit more
conducive for the United States to win.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
I would say that is for coach K and now
for Kerr, one of one of their best assets. Get
ties back to Phil Jackson. They've managed egos pretty well, right,
might be some dust ups, flare ups, whatever, but the
winning kept coming.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Alright. He's got three weeks to figure it out.