July 27, 2024 • 46 mins
Jason and Mike explain what Jerry Jones really means when he says that reiterated that the Cowboys are “all-in”. NBA Insider Ric Bucher joins the show to preview Team USA’s Olympic run in Paris. Jason tells you why the Yankees are the most desperate team in baseball. We play The Jim Harbaugh Game. And Cowboys star Ceedee Lamb not reporting to camp as he seeks a new deal.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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to all the NFL coaches, owners, players who decided, hey,
spend a long time without tons of NFL content, We're
gonna give it to you right now. As NFL training
(00:53):
camps open throughout the league, of course, there's gonna be
all kinds of attention on the Dallas Cowboys. And you
know Jerry Jones, he does not want to disappoint anybody.
He wants everybody to be talking about the Dallas Cowboys. Okay,
today he did something that even I'm stunned that he did.
(01:13):
He's continuing to try to make all in happen. All Right,
the big statement from a few months ago when he
says I'm all in on this season, and everybody thought
he meant always gonna go crazy to try to go
get players, He's gonna spend all kinds of money going
all in on the Super Bowl. No, no, we told
you when he said it, all in meant I'm not
spending any money, and I'm gonna allow Dak to become
(01:34):
a free agent. I'm not gonna send anybody to long
term deals because if we fail again, I am looking
towards big changes next offseason. He said, I'm gonna be
around a long time. I don't need to go crazy.
I'm all in on this season, right, So now we
know that all in meant, Oh, I'm just gonna punt
on this season and hope that the guys play well,
(01:55):
and if they don't, I'll have a new head coach,
new quarterback, new wide receivers, new linebacker. Knew everything, So
you knew this was going to be a topic of
conversation and Jerry Jones meeting the media today, and Oxnard
decided he was going to continue to explain what he
really meant when he said that he was all in
on this season.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'm all in. I'm all in. Sometimes being all in
means you narrow you remove the months out here that
are in the future, and you narrow it down to
where all we're talking about is right now in the
next playoff season, and that's it for everybody. We're all in,
(02:36):
We're all in. It's all right there. We all got
some things out here in the future, another two or
three years on contracts, all that stuff. Let's all get
in here zero right now in this Dak Scott his
year contract. Let's focus right here. We all got a
lot on the line for that playoff game, a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of it already. He's thinking about that playoff game. So
all in means you forget about the months ahead, which
basically the months ahead is this season. So it's a
bit of a word salad by Jerry Jones. Look, he's
still trying to make all in. All in, dude, just say, hey,
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I'm mad at my team, because he is. Because we
keep underachieving in the playoffs. We can't win a game
that matters in the playoffs. Our quarterback has stunk the
last two playoffs, and that's why we haven't advanced, and
I'm mad, and that's why I'm not spending any money
and I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna make big change in
the off season. But instead he tries to hide behind
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I'm all in, like he's actually doing something. Being all
in it makes me he's not doing anything. He should
be saying, I'm just taking a nap. Every day. I
show up about nine nine thirty, read the interwebs, and
then ten thirty eleven o'clock, take a nap, wake up
route two thirty three o'clock, do an interview on one
oh four to three the fan, and then go home
like that's my day. He has never been all into
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the extent that it means anything other than I'm not
paying anybody this year. I'm waiting for next year. And
you know how mad he is because he's already talking
about the playoff game, like I'm not making any decisions
on anybody until the playoff game. You heard him say,
Dak has a year to go, and we have that
playoff game. So he's already saying, hey, if we play
well in the playoffs, okay, then we can look at things.
(04:23):
Then we can say, all right, Dak you'll get more
money because you were great in the playoffs, or Ceedee
Lamb will get more money, or Michael Parsons gets this
big deal. But he's already saying, you got well in
the playoff game before I'm gonna pay anybody any money.
So it's insane how he's presenting this. But I'm telling you,
this is what's going through his head. This is how
he's thinking about this season going forward.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Dak Prescott, I'm gonna say it. I want to be here.
But when you look it up, all the great quarterbacks
I watch played for other teams. That's not something to fear.
It may be a reality for me one day. It
may not be my decision now. I also looked at
the the Jerry Jones quote and it reminded me of
a great exchange from Saturday Night Fever. Okay, John Travolta's
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character yells blank the future, and the guy responds by saying, no, no, no, no, no,
you cannot blank the future. The future blanks you. Jerry
Jones trying to say, hey, we can put that off.
We don't have to think about the future. It's all
about this time, this space, which is a good philosophy
to have right be immersed in your surroundings at work,
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with the people you love and your family and everything.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That's all good.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Your friends be there in the moment, but there's still
planning that has to go on. You still need to
go to work tomorrow, you still need to.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do all that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
So he's got three guys. He's got to figure out
how to pay eventually. And I do like that he's
already put himself in the over under ten and a
half wins where the Cowboys are, which puts them in
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
See, I think you're gonna go with the h I
spend a lot of time on my hair, and he
hits it and he's.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's a good line, too full of I thought this
one was.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
More appropriate for the idea of Hey, all we got
is this year. It's we've got tonight. Who needs tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Babe?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yes, I said, suddenly, now you're Kirsty Ally and Sam
in that episode why don't we stay? I mean he
thinks he's protecting his image and making it like I'm
focused on this year. Basically you've done nothing, Like that's
what you didn't sign anybody? Let players go. You've done nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, they've got twelve million in cap space right now.
According to over the cap, you.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Could be using it, you could be no. Instead, he
has decided that he's going to use this year to
be his excuse to make all the changes he wants to.
I'm telling you big, huge changes are coming in Dallas
next year. It's gonna be a new quarterback, it could
be Bill Belichick, they're coaching. I mean, there's gonna be
all kinds of stuff happening. Jerry Jones is telling us
this is my plan. He's not doing it in a
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great way, but he's doing it way. Have to kind
of parse it out a little bit and see, and
it would be all different if you wouldn't just keep
saying all in. But he keeps being reten saying all in.
I'm all I don't think you know what all in means.
And by saying your definition of all in is different
means it's not all in what you're talking about. But
that's the thing. Of course, in his mind, this is
all in. He's probably gonna begin a nationwide speaking tour.
(07:22):
It's all in the Jerry Jones story. Be all in,
like me, I don't know is that a motivational or
is that like how to deal with like. I don't
think that's a motivational.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh it is.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It's dealing with problems, stressors and outside noise. It's by
creating more inside your own hand.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I think it's more. Hey, sometimes you got to fool
everybody who works for you and making them think you're
working hard when you're really not. So here's my all
in speech for you about how to do that, especially
if you've got a lot of people on television paying
attention to you. This is how you do it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Welcome back NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Then you give a big word salad and they love it.
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Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, the Olympics has begun. We have the opening ceremonies tomorrow.
TV USA hoops a few days away from Game one.
Nobody better to talk to than a man who is
working on a new novel, The Jalen Brunson story. It
is Fox Sports one insider Extraordinary Rick Bucker, who has
also just gotten Bengals fan that Rick Buker is has
(09:38):
just gotten a Joe Burrow blonde haircut. He looks like
he could be Joe Burrow's older brother Rick. Welcome inside man,
how you doing?
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Thank you so much. I'll have you know that when
it comes to haircuts, and particularly buzz cuts, I once
upon a time I did that because my son was
doing it and he was probably six or seven, and
he looked pretty damn good and I and I did not.
(10:08):
And the worst part of it is is as bad
as you might look with a buzz cut, there's then
a like a two to three week period when you're
going from buzz cut to like hair long enough to
actually comb again, where I don't know, cross between a
cupie doll and a chia pet. I was. It's not
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a good look.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
And mustaches. I tried to grow a mustache once again.
My wife, my wife will never allow me to do
that again. And the problem was is that everybody would
tell me when are you going to shave that off?
And I to myself, because I'm a stubborn idiot, I
was like, I have to go three weeks without hearing
anybody say when are you going to shave that off?
(10:53):
And then I will shave it off because I didn't
want anybody to think that they shamed me into shaving
it off. And as a result, it probably was three
more months that I was.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I was.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
I almost had to go into hibernation to avoid somebody going,
when are you going to shave that off? So there's
there's all my hair stories. And so I am not
about to crack on on Joe Burrow. He's a good
looking he's a good looking young man. I'm sure that
he can pull it off. So I am in no
position to critique his buzz.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Bet.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So what you're telling me is the whole Hey, and
if the Knicks win the title, you grow a mustache?
Bet is not going to happen that.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
No, there are other things that I would bet, but
that that is no. My wife would disown me. So
i'm I'm I can't go. My wife and my daughter,
my daughter. We were getting on a plane one time
and there was a a a an advertisement for I
think like New Zealand Air or something and uh, and
(11:49):
there was one of those Kiwi fruits and my daughter
looked at it and went, dad, that's your mustad.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
So he ties it all together. He gets New Zealand in.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
When we're talking about the big New Zealand Canada's soccer story,
it's all good.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, there you go. That's all
I got. So yeah, I am in no position to
question anybody's hair style whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All right, So here we are. We're getting set for
the Olympics. Obviously, Team USA is going to take center
stage when they start playing. First game is in a
few days. Steve Kerr had a bad film session with
the team yesterday and said, hey, guys, it's time to
raise our intensity. Yeah, is that it for Team USA?
Is it something else? What have you seen out of
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Team USA so far? Because it seems like Steve Kerr
is a little concerned.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Well, at the very least, they need to raise their intensity.
And that's the shortcut for teams that haven't had enough
time to develop a sort of chemistry and fluidity to
their game. And then the other part is simply there.
They are an older team, and older teams generally don't
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play that way. And the stars that we see on
this team generally don't play that way. And I've been
thinking about this a lot lately because I said it
from the beginning. I'm sure I said it to you
guys when we discussed the composition of the roster and
and what their chances were. And one of my issues was,
you know, it's a it's an the stars on this team,
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the main pieces are are older, and the international game
plays with a greater pace. Even in the half court set.
The ball movement and the body movement is tremendous, and
I think one of where where it's showing up the
most is that other teams are able to shoot a
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lot more threes and make a lot more threes because
our guys are slow in their rotations. You know, Lebron
James is not used to having to rotate out and
and and defend the three. Joelmb same thing, and so
Devin Booker is often a step late. And so I've
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really been wondering, like, is there a point where Steve
Kurr says, you know what, I got to play Jason
Tatum and Drew Holliday and Derek White and Bam Auto
Bio and maybe Anthony Davis, like those are the guys
that I need to go to because what I've seen
through these exhibitions is that those are the guys who
have given the most consistent energy at both ends of
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the floor, and we're just not. You know, this is
the harsh reality. I think there's plenty of NBA fans
and Baton and US basketball fans who see the names
and just think that it's there for the taking for us,
like we're just going to dominate. Those days are over.
We haven't. The two thousand and eight Redeemed team won,
but it didn't dominate, and they were built because we weren't.
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We weren't well. Not only we weren't dominating, but we weren't.
We weren't winning consistently anymore. And so we're in a
new day and age where the talent disparity is not
great enough if we don't play with energy. And so
I completely understand where Steve Kerr is coming from. These
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games were close, These exhibition games were close because because
we lost the battle of the fifty to fifty balls
and rebounding and getting out and defending the three. And
that is going to have to change if we're going
to win gold.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
The mountain of turnovers, the sloppiness to it all, Rick
is concerning on a whole other level. Take me back
to Saturday, South Sudan and what they're building and they're playing.
As you're watching that game, how a gape was your
jaw when you had to pick it up off the floor?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Which time?
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Well, you know, yeah, you know what's funny is I
think the thing that surprised me the most is because,
let's face it, there were a number of guys. Royal
Ivy is the is the head coach of that team,
assistant coach with the Houston Rockets, now he was with
the CLNN Nets, played in the league. Like That's the
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one element that I think that we we miss on
is that, yeah, these are not Isaac Bongo and and
with with Germany and and the the guys on South Sudan,
Like they may not be household names, but if you
look at their resumes, they've played NBA competition. A number
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of them have played against NBA competition, and so they
understand the NBA game and they understand the NBA talent
and then they also understand the international game better than
we do. I think what's what shocked me the most
was that South Sudan was beating us and they were
playing an NBA style game. But if there was ever
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anything that would underscore Steve Kerr's point that they need
that the team needs to play with more intensity, it
would be it would be that game, because Thou su
Dan was just they were out They were out working
us from the beginning, and I and I got the
sense that while there may be US basketball fans who
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are just kind of full of themselves when it comes
to Team USA and dominating, I got the sense from
the team itself that they felt like, hey, you know,
we don't know who these guys are, Like they know
who we are with this game. You know, we don't
have to work that hard to win this game. And
they they nearly got upset because of it. So I
(17:35):
I was not expecting it to be that close. Obviously,
the point the the odds and the point deferential by
the by the bookmakers was was plus forty or something. Yeah,
So so obviously they you know, there was an expect
there was never an expectation that this was going to
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be a competitive game. But I just I don't know
that there's anybody in the world now that we can
just roll the balls out there and think that we
are going to that that we're going to dominate them.
Because there's the biggest, maybe at least one of the
big things, is there's no longer an intimidation factor by
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by by the names like Royal Ivy coaching that team
and some of the guys who've had NBA experience and
and know the international game, they're no longer looking at
Team USA and shaking in their boots because it's Lebron
James and Steph Curry and I mean they played against them,
some of them played with them when and Gabriel played
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played with Lebron James, so that that familiarity breeds a
comfort level that you know, when we talk about the
Dream Team and some of the early Team USA is
built out of NBA players, you know, they still had
the shock and awe value teams. You know, the team's
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opponents were looking to looking for autographs and you know
when somebody had been Team USA would get on a
roll like they were, oh here it comes right. That
does not exist anymore. We don't we don't have that
type of intimidation factor, and that was a big reason
why we were able to roll up the score on
some of the teams that we did back in the day.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You know, I hear you, Rick, and you know you
see exactly how tight things get in a gold medal game.
I still remember when Kobe Bryant said, screw all of
you that don't want to shoot the ball, give me
the ball. I'll win the gold medal. And you know,
I hear your point about saying, hey, I got to
play Tatum and Bam and Derek White and a D
And I think, yeah, that's how it goes. And then
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you're Steve Kerr. You look back at the guys on
the bench and it's Lebron sitting next to Steph, who's
sitting next to Embiid, who's sitting next to KB. I
mean that's really had to do Rick.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I mean that that to me
is the difficulty here, which is like, can you get
away with playing the best team the team not not
not necessarily the best team, but the best team for
the circumstances and for the opponent. And and that's where
he has his his hands full. You know, he's I
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think the guys have the right attitude and they want
to win, but man, the pressure too to play Lebron
and Steph, you know, over a Derek White or even
a Drew Holliday or or you know, playing Jason Tatum
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over Lebron like this is. This is also if you
look at how the team was composed and and Lebron
and Steph committing to it early, there's also a sense
of obligation to them for that that I totally understand. So,
like I said, from the beginning, you know, and then
the thing that bothers me maybe the most is what
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I've heard because of these games have been close. I'm
seeing on social media and I'm I'm seeing fans that
are ripping Steve Kerr like like it's his fault, Like right,
I mean, he's not the one who's not rotating out
to contest three. And that's the other part too that
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I would say is the reason you know that the
X factor here in these close contests is and we've
seen it with the NBA, like the three point shot
has become such a big element that if you're making them,
you know you you and and one team's making them
and the other one is is is not, but they're
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both taking them at the same sort of pace. Those
long misses turn out to you know, fast break layups
and more open three pointers and you can get you know,
landslides and avalanches going in one direction. And I think
Team USA has suffered from that a bit too, because,
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let's face it, you know, you got Steph Curry who
hasn't shot hasn't always shot it particularly well, and then
you have Devin Booker who has not shot it particularly well.
And then you look at the rest of this team,
and Lebron has shot it particularly well. But Jason Tatum's
not a guy I count on to knockdown threes through
holiday can but I don't count on him. And so
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I think there's there's an aspect of the game in
three point shooting that you know, other teams, if they
get hot and they see an opportunity we can knock
off Team USA, that's only going to embolden them more.
There's just so many intangible factors that are working against
us here that I don't think that the average fan
appreciates or recognizes, because if they did, they wouldn't be
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walking around thinking, oh, hey, we got kde we got Lebron,
we got we got Jason Tatum, we got Joelle m
b We're gonna walk all over these other teams that
those days those days are over and they are not
coming back.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Also not coming back. A mustache, a goatee, any sort
of facial hit. There you go, Yes, one insider, extraordinary.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Rick Buker, bull patch I could do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, if the Knicks win the title, you you go
with a soul patch.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
That's the deal.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Is it because it's patchy or is it too light
or what? What's the problem?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Rick?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
No, for whatever reason, that's the one. That's the one
thing that I can work. Yeah, it's it's it's it's I.
Although I will say I had one and then I
out of the blue, I got called by T and
T to do sideline and I don't think they were
they were ready for a sideline reporter with.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
A soul patch.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
I'm pretty I'm pretty sure they thought I should be
covering like the uh the Hawaii Surf open with the
soul patch And hey, are.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
We gonna call Buker next week? We have an No,
you'll be the X Games guy. Forget it?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Hey, lame duck season. Now all bets are off. Rick.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Check out the On the Ball podcast as well. Rick
on Twitter at Rick Buker. Rick is always buddy appreciated.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
We'll talk to you after the play of the first
game My pleasure, guys, be sure to catch live editions
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at
ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
This is about the Yankees, because yet you can sit
here and say, all right, well, yeah, it's a couple
of bad games. There's still sixteen games over five hundred. No, no, no,
not all losses are created equal. Getting swept by the
junior varsity team in your city is a bad optic,
especially when you get beat as bad as you did
by the Mets. And tonight wasn't close last time. I mean,
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the Mets have put up so many runs. Look, they
lead the league in players with with one hundred plus ops,
so you know they're hitting the ball. But this is
still so embarrassing for the Yankees. I don't recognize this
team as from one of the best teams in Bay.
You know, this is how bad and this is how
bad it is for the Yankees. And wait till I
tell you the changes they need by the deadline fire
of ball. This is a Yankee team that two weeks
(25:11):
ago lost both games to the Mets at City Field.
So you know, okay, they're gonna be motivated coming into this.
Luis Severino, former Yankee pitcher who didn't pitch in the
Subway Series, was upset over the weekend at how you
know people were talking about him, and he said, well,
I don't care about the Yankees. They only have two
good hitters over there.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
He's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
If any no, he's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
But if he sent you, he said the quiet part
out loud.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
He is not wrong. But if anything is going to
pull the Yankees out of this malaise, it is that statement.
And when he said that, I said, dude, what are
you stupid? I know you're not pitching, but what do
you think this is going to do for the Yankees?
Now they're going to be extra focused because over the
course of one hundred and sixty two games, Yeah, sometimes
things happen that push you out of malaise and get
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you more focused. And this is one of those moments.
I believe in and board material for baseball more than
I believe in any other sport, because sometimes you need
a little bit to get you out of that every
single day rut you get into. So you had that,
and then you had the Yankees who played a day
game on Monday. Right, they're home, they have Monday night off.
They play their first game against the Mets on Tuesday.
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The Mets fly back in and they have so much
trouble with their plane. Their plane doesn't land until six
in the morning on Tuesday, and they played a game,
you know, twelve hours later. Right, their plane doesn't land.
They're on the plane on the airport until six in
the morning. Everything was going the Yankees' way. This was
everything for the Yankees to win this series. And not
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only did they not win it, they weren't even competitive.
They couldn't get a split. They looked awful. This is
a team that needs wholesale changes by the trade deadline,
absolute wholesale changes. And look, it kind of goes into
you know, what's been the biggest story in the world
the last few days, which has been President's Obiden announcing
he's not going to run for reelection, Kamala Harris stepping in,
(27:04):
and you see a lot of back and forth of ay,
is this going to be better? Will this help Democrats win?
The polling is better for Harris and it was under Biden.
And it's the same thing. It's a big baseball analogy
because when a team is going bad that has talent,
Big changes need to happen, and it's just like this. Look,
the Democrats will look at it and say, well, we
don't think we're gonna win with Biden, right. The polling
(27:26):
is bad, everything's going down. So they find a way
to try to push him out, which which they did.
And now Kamala Harris is in and she's raising money
and okay, they feel better about their chances. Now. It's
the same thing in baseball. If you have a talented
team and it's underachieving, what happens either the manager gets
fired or new players come in and old players go out.
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That's what happens when you're underachieving. And here you are.
Now if you fire Aaron Boone, does that really send
a message or is the better message being we really
don't have anybody else that can hit behind Soto and
Judge right, Jad Davis hitting clean up last night, We
talked about that. How embarrassing is that guy hasn't played
since the fourth of July hitting clean up for the
Yankees last night. The Yankees need four new players, right,
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just like the Braves did a couple of years ago,
the year A Cooky got hurt. They're floating around five
hundred the deadline. They decide, hey, let's go for it,
and they bring in four new starters. And what happens,
Hey four new everyday players, and they wind up catching
fire and they win the World Series. This is what
the Yankees need. Their roster is not very good. You
can't Anthony Rizzo coming back. Is not Anthony Rizzo of
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twenty fifteen gen Carlos Stanton will come back, But how's
he gonna do and how long is he gonna be
healthy for. You need to go and change the vibe
of this team because it's just now just circling the drain.
You need to go out and get three or four
new You need a lot like no team is more
desperate It should be more desperate at the deadline than
the Yankees. You need so much. You need to change
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a culture. You need to say, hey, we're talented. There's
a reason why we were twenty games over five hundred
for a long time. We need to go change out.
We got to catch the Orioles. We gotta win the
al We got to get to the World Series because
we were that good. You need to go get a
ton of new players and bring them in and change
the culture and change a belief around this team. There
is no team that should be more desperate or more
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active at the deadline than the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Well, they got off to that big lead where you
you had some production from the bottom of the lineup,
and your starters and your rotation were healthy and pitching well,
I mean, just look at the season totals you've got
for Rodn and for heal. But Rodin's had his stretches
where the arm looks a little bit dead, and he's
barely getting through the fourth inning, and you know you're
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you're trying to ride the lightning there. You missed Cole
for this whole time, and now he comes back today,
he gets racked around, and now the Yankees have to
apologize for him cursing a lot in the dugout, either
that or ESPN does, because they really, uh shone a
light on that.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Look at it.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Look at how frustrated he is with the Mets. This
was some of the only content they gave you in
between pitch counts of the starters to tell you after everyone,
all right, you know what comes after ninety five ninety six?
He's up to ninety six pitches. But the Yankees the
other stat that they gave you, they have the worst
ops from the number four slot in Major League Baseball.
(30:18):
And again with the Marlins and the White Sox and
some of the cesspool of bottom dwelling squads. That's kind
of a big deal. Right, you're the Yankees. You spent
a lot of money. And oh, by the way, if
you don't make a change, that's substantive and that can
be felt all the way through. Guess who you gotta
worry about walking away and going to the other clubhouse.
(30:41):
It's Juan Soto, right, who's all world and monster and
there's nothing going would love more to say. Steinbrander's not
spending money like you used to. So let's have some
fun with this. Shall we get the bidding process up?
So potential for chaos? Yeah, you need a couple of arms.
You need to figure out what the hell happened to
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dj and lemayhew. I remember when we had fun with
him when he was with the Cubs and he was
just a guy, and then all of a sudden he
became one of the best hitters in baseball. Somehow he
forgot to hit because he's under two hundred, right, now
as we sit here on July twenty fourth, all of
these things, you know to say, for Aaron Boone, he's
(31:23):
screwed like he's in no man's land, and Cashman keeps
getting these votes of confidence. Sorry, I don't call for
a lot of gigs, but that's a guy. At some point,
the expectations not hey, we can ride into the playoffs
in the first or second wildcard. No, the expectation is
that you're winning it all. You're the bleeping Yankees.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Biggest changes coming to the Yankees most desperate team, especially
after getting swept.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
By the Man.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (32:02):
Today, the Chargers open training camp and head coach Jim Harbaugh,
very excited, in very Jim Harbaugh fashion, compared what the
first day of training camp felt like to him.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Overall, just the way it feels, I mean, feels like
Beyer's day. You know, it feels like being born, feels
like coming out of the womb. You know, it's like
you're in there and it's comfortable and it's safe. And
now you're out, you're born. The lights are on the
you know, it's bright chaos. People look people looking at you,
(32:36):
people people talking at you, and just feels good to
you know, have it happen.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
It's like being born. The afterbirth is out. We're gonna
cut the cord all the time. So because we're gonna
get stuff like this all the time from Jim Harbaugh,
because he's gonna have a big press conference least once
a week, we're gonna play a game called did Jim
Harbaugh say that today?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Oh that's pretty good? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Did Jim Harbaugh say this today?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So, Frostburg's got him. Did Jim Harbaugh say this today?
Go ahead, Frostburg? All right, guys ready, let's go go ahead.
What will happen? Will happen? What won't happen? Won't happen? Wow?
What happened? Will happen? What won't happen? Won't happen?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Well, he kind of channeling the old Baron von Rashko. Okay,
promo for an Awa Battle Royal.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
All right, friend will turn on friend?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Okay, what do you think did he say that today?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
What will happen? Will happen? What won't happen, won't happen?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I mean, he's a great philosophizer.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Is Frostburg really going to start us off with something
Harbaugh didn't say? I'm gonna say he did say that today.
I'm gonna say he did say that today. That is
a Jim Harbaugh statement.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Well, you both are wrong. He did not say.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh, he didn't say Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I really thought that was a good philosopher kind of
moment there.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
This game is very difficult. This is very very difficult. Okay,
all right, all right, next.
Speaker 12 (34:08):
What do we got The highest compliment I can give
a player is he's a football player?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What about Justin Herbert football player? What about Dick Budkis
football player?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Farty football player?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No, No, I'm gonna no, no, that is definitely a
Jim Harball Wheelhouse comment. Right there, I'm gonna say, Jim
Harble did say that today.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Mike, Yeah, yeah, oh, absolutely, you both are correct. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
All right. You know, Frostburg may not really have to
make anyone up over the course of the season.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Well, I mean he did one.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, no, he did. Well, he's got to throw us
off a little bit, a little bit. But Okay, all right,
let's go to the next one. I'm feeling good. I'm
feeling hot now.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
It's like the.
Speaker 12 (34:56):
First day of school, a homecoming, Christmas all wrapped in one.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Wait wait, wait wait, it's like the first day of school,
Christmas Day, and homecoming all wrapped in one. Wow. Okay, well,
so you have Christmas.
Speaker 12 (35:13):
Day is a great like the first day of school,
first day of school, a homecoming, then homecoming, Christmas Morning
all wrapped in Christmas Morning, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And being born and New Year.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Someone really likes Christmas, likes homecoming. I don't remember being
that big a fan of homecoming, but okay, maybe he was.
I'm sure he had great homecomings. It was the quarterback,
of course, is true. Yes, he was probably the King
of the court. And yeah, I'm sure it was. Okay, cheerleader.
I mean, so first day of school, the excitement, homecoming,
(35:45):
the pageantry, Christmas Day. Okay, yes, Jim Harborough did say
that today.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
It's like when the electronic refund hits you off the
state tax return.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
I mean, like, is that what he's gonna do every
first of the year.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
It's like.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Your account want to hit you know, It's like payday
on Friday.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It's like five o'clock whistle on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Yeah it's Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Okay, okay, oh yeah he said that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Rah he left unturned.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oh I'm feeling good. I'm getting Christmas Day in on
this one.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
One more.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
The grass is as good a grass as anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
So the graps boy, really someone that's about the grass
of the playing field. The grass is as good a
grass as it is anywhere as anywhere. Okay, oh boy,
it's Jim Harbaugh that much.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I can see him being being that big a fan,
like I love this grass so much. Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't mean the grass on the field. Yes, Jim
Harbaugh said.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
That celebration of the field and the rebirth of a
football season. Yeah, that's that sounds like a good analogy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
All right.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
Sure he did.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Say to you, let's go love this game.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I can't believe I got one wrong. I'm so upset.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
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Speaker 1 (37:17):
And the big news out of Cowboys camp that Cede
Lamb is not going to report Yeah, he wants a
new contract. We've known this for a while. He has
decided I'm not going to report to Cowboys camp. The
Cowboys remind me of the first season of The Bear
that this is where they're at right now, because we'll
get into the whole all in stuff, crazy ass stuff,
(37:39):
but we've seen now this offseason reports that Mike McCarthy
is frustrated because he wants to he's trying to put
his culture on the team, and he tells me to
do things. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones comes over the top and
tells coaches and personnel other things. They don't know who
to listen to. They don't know where things are going.
The players don't know if they're getting contracts or not,
(38:01):
if they're bringing free agents or not. And I feel
like it's the first season of The Bear where Karmi
and Richie you're kind of fighting over control of the restaurant,
and like in the pilot episode where Karmi keeps saying,
no spaghetti, We're not gonna have any spaghetti. Spagetti hasn't
make money, and Richie's like, no, make spaghetti. Everybody wants
a spaghetti.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
We'll sell it.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
We'll sell it. And everybody's in the kitchen not knowing,
and Karmi comes in and says, no spaghetti, and Richie says,
get in the kitchen and make the blanket spaghetti. And
that's like, I feel like the cowboys are make this spaghetti.
Don't make a spaghetti, reservings spaghetti. No spaghetti. That's the Cowboys.
And now you have Ceedee Lamb on top of it,
which takes this situation and really makes it more interesting because.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Because it goes from beef and spaghetti to an upscale restaurant.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Hey, look the money's in the tomato can. Sorry spoiler,
but we've told you about Jerry Jones from the beginning
that he is going to blow things up after this
year with the Cowboys, all this all and stuff. Right
away it was his all in just means I'm not
spending money. I'm gonna let this year go and then
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next year we are going to make changes. That's Jerry
Jones's message. That's what it's been since the beginning of
the year. Because he didn't get any free agents. He's
not bring giving anybody any money. He has allowed Dak
Prescott to be a free agent at the end of
this year, doesn't mean he's not gonna keep him. But
you have to be okay with losing your quarterback if
(39:29):
you're gonna say, hey, we're okay letting you be a
free agent. So I don't know what people think are
gonna happen, but Jerry Jones is telling us big changes
are coming, all right if we don't win this year,
and they're not going to because they didn't get better.
And when you don't get better, you're not gonna suddenly
pass everybody. You don't have a great team to begin with.
You went to the playoffs last year, you laid an egg,
(39:49):
and you're clearly not as good as the top four
or five teams in the NFC. So what's gonna happen?
Huge change? Jerry Jones even said, beginny of the offs,
he's telling us, and I know people just don't see
the clues. He said, Hey, I'm anyy, but I'm gonna
be around a long time and we don't need this
to be at all in here. He's not going to
pay anybody. He's gonna pay Dak. He's not gonna pay
(40:12):
CD Lamb. The best CD Lamb can hope for is
some kind of band aid. We'll give you a few
extra million this year because he's not gonna go against
his plan, which is, if we don't win this year,
there's gonna be a new head coach, there's gonna be
a new quarterback, There'll be new skill position players, there'll
be new linebackers. Paying Michael Parsons might not happen. Paying
(40:32):
CD Lamb might not happen. He is going to blow
it up and start over. And that could be Bill Belichick.
It could be Kirk Cousins, it could be Kyler Murray,
it could be anything, but he's That's the thing about
this is that Ceedee Lamb decided to challenge Jerry Jones
and where Jerry Jones has always capitulated in the past,
because well, these are the guys I drafted, So I
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want to pay him. I want to pay Ezekielli. I'm
holding out because you're gonna pay me. Ceedee Lamb thinks
Jerry Jones is gonna pay him and give him a big,
long contract. That's not happened. Jerry Jones. This is a
different Jerry Jones this year for what he is going
to go. He could be back to the old Jerry
Jones next year, but he has drawn a line in
the sand. He's not paying Deck. He's not gonna pay
CD Lamb. So the best you're hoping for us here,
we found a way to give you an extra three
(41:13):
million dollar seed come into camp this year. Okay, that's
the best you're going to get. It's gonna get blown
up in Dallas after this year and it's gonna get
crazy and ignore that at your own peril. But that's
everything we have seen from Jerry Jones. That's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Well, that's where we are on July twenty third, and
as we know, like the weather in the Midwest, things
could change tomorrow and Jerry Jones could go back to
standard operating Procedure and USURP whatever has been taken by
Stephen Jones. Because I think that's where the pragmatism has
kind of come in here. Like, I don't think it's
(41:50):
full on a Jerry thing except for the cool sound bites.
But what I do hope is that he learned from
watching the off season hard knocks of the Giant, so
he doesn't do what Joe Shane did. Uh So, Saquon,
promise me, promise me, you're gonna give me one of
those calls, go into the marketplace. Promise me like with
Dak or CD or Micah, all three of them. Hey, guys,
(42:12):
you understand the marching orders here. Yeah, go into free agency,
but promise you're gonna give us a chance to match her.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
You really think Jerry Jones is watching hard Nuts with
the Giants and doesn't think it's current. So, uh, they
let Barkley go. We can go get him, right, So hey,
I'll watch next week and they can let the Barkley
kid go. And boy, he's had some big games against us.
I'd love to go get him. Jerry just wanted to
let you know this has already happened. Can't be just
watching it now?
Speaker 5 (42:40):
He stayed in division.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
I'm just watching it as and let me it's an eagle.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Let me. I'm getting ready to I'm getting ready to
run up at Google.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Right here.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Let me just see what Yeah, I see? Yeah, here
it is right here. Hey, Joe Shane very upset potentially
losing uh Saquon Barkley. If they lose him, Hey, let's
give him a call. Let's see if we can go
get him. Jerry knowing all that would be.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Kind of funny to see if he come out that
was actually a conversation with Jerry.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
No one's gonna do a television show about something that
happened months ago. Come on, man, this is twenty twenty four.
That's not gonna happen. Although I do, I do like
that Bear show that the Smith kid keeps comparing us to.
I could be Carmeie Stephen and Mike McCarthy. You could
be Richie, but your season one Richie not the wearing suits.
Richie like to wearing suits. Richie's a new guy, same
guy now, a new guy's still there to get a new.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Guy under the suit, under the facade, same Richie. He's
family to me, you know, he's family to me.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Smith. You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
But it'll be curious to see how it plays out
if at some point that they don't have it about face,
say they can start off the season four and oh hey, Dak,
let's get back to talk to and Dak's gonna say no,
as he should.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Dak's gonna say no. They're not gonna say but it's
not They're not gonna sign in Middlesein. Jerry Jones is
gonna wait end he he has shown he is more
than happy paying people that he loves and he wants
that headline end of the year arm around Dak going.
I just had to challenge Dak and you know, he
really came through. And that's why I'm gonna give him
sixty five million dollars a year to play quarterback the
(44:08):
next five years for the Cowboys. Like it's still out
there that he could do that, but it's just not
gonna happen. The playoff losses that they've had the last
two years, I really think of taking a lot out
of them, because you're talking about two games in which,
if your quarterback puts any kind of offense on the
board against the Niners, you win that game. Your quarterback
throws up on himself and you allow another brand new quarterback.
(44:31):
You've invested in Dak all for this, and you're watching
a guy in his first year's quarterback put up a
perfect quarterback grading against your defense on your.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Field, serrated them. So he's a he shouldn't have been
able to walk out of that building. So Jerry Jones
is like, no, wait, Manute, I'm not paying back. I'm
not doing this. This is we have to do something new.
If this iteration of the Cowboys doesn't work. Everything is
new next year, May even had the star in helmet.
May put my picture on one side, Steven on the other. Now,
I mean there's gonna be incredibly large, Like this is
(45:00):
a different year for Jerry Jones. And people are ignoring
because they think, Oh, he's gonna be No, he's not.
He's not gonna suddenly say here's money, here's this. I
was just kidding. He would have signed guys in the
off season. He would have asked a lot of players
to redo their contracts so they could free money.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Up didn't.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
But even with all of that, they only have twelve
million in available gap space as it stands.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
That's how overspent.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
They were at a lot of these positions, right and
Gallup left that was the one I guess saving you
got and then he.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Retires, gonna save some money for the Barkley kid. In
case the Giants let us go, We're gonna watch it.
When's that new episode? I want to watch back that episode.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
I do think in the end they do make good
with ced Lamb and try to get him a little
closer to the f But you got to keep somebody available.
Injuries and other issues that get to it. But you're
at a point where you've got to pay all three
of your guys. Now, we've seen situations. Yeah, we've got
a lot of pending free agency. I don't know how
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often we've gotten to the point where it's like, here's
our three best players that we have to that we
have to choose between it and take a game of three
card money.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Just keep them circling.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Exit out by the Fresca exit swollen down. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman, live from
the tirec dot Com studios. So this is gonna be fascinating,
and Lamb's not getting paid. And after this year, everything
is new in Dallas. Could be Bellichicken Kirk Cousins next year.
Speaker 6 (46:25):
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camps open throughout the league, of course, there's gonna be
all kinds of attention on the Dallas Cowboys. And you
know Jerry Jones, he does not want to disappoint anybody.
He wants everybody to be talking about the Dallas Cowboys. Okay,
today he did something that even I'm stunned that he did.
(01:13):
He's continuing to try to make all in happen. All Right,
the big statement from a few months ago when he
says I'm all in on this season, and everybody thought
he meant always gonna go crazy to try to go
get players, He's gonna spend all kinds of money going
all in on the Super Bowl. No, no, we told
you when he said it, all in meant I'm not
spending any money, and I'm gonna allow Dak to become
(01:34):
a free agent. I'm not gonna send anybody to long
term deals because if we fail again, I am looking
towards big changes next offseason. He said, I'm gonna be
around a long time. I don't need to go crazy.
I'm all in on this season, right, So now we
know that all in meant, Oh, I'm just gonna punt
on this season and hope that the guys play well,
(01:55):
and if they don't, I'll have a new head coach,
new quarterback, new wide receivers, new linebacker. Knew everything, So
you knew this was going to be a topic of
conversation and Jerry Jones meeting the media today, and Oxnard
decided he was going to continue to explain what he
really meant when he said that he was all in
on this season.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I'm all in. I'm all in. Sometimes being all in
means you narrow you remove the months out here that
are in the future, and you narrow it down to
where all we're talking about is right now in the
next playoff season, and that's it for everybody. We're all in,
(02:36):
We're all in. It's all right there. We all got
some things out here in the future, another two or
three years on contracts, all that stuff. Let's all get
in here zero right now in this Dak Scott his
year contract. Let's focus right here. We all got a
lot on the line for that playoff game, a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Of it already. He's thinking about that playoff game. So
all in means you forget about the months ahead, which
basically the months ahead is this season. So it's a
bit of a word salad by Jerry Jones. Look, he's
still trying to make all in. All in, dude, just say, hey,
(03:17):
I'm mad at my team, because he is. Because we
keep underachieving in the playoffs. We can't win a game
that matters in the playoffs. Our quarterback has stunk the
last two playoffs, and that's why we haven't advanced, and
I'm mad, and that's why I'm not spending any money
and I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna make big change in
the off season. But instead he tries to hide behind
(03:37):
I'm all in, like he's actually doing something. Being all
in it makes me he's not doing anything. He should
be saying, I'm just taking a nap. Every day. I
show up about nine nine thirty, read the interwebs, and
then ten thirty eleven o'clock, take a nap, wake up
route two thirty three o'clock, do an interview on one
oh four to three the fan, and then go home
like that's my day. He has never been all into
(04:00):
the extent that it means anything other than I'm not
paying anybody this year. I'm waiting for next year. And
you know how mad he is because he's already talking
about the playoff game, like I'm not making any decisions
on anybody until the playoff game. You heard him say,
Dak has a year to go, and we have that
playoff game. So he's already saying, hey, if we play
well in the playoffs, okay, then we can look at things.
(04:23):
Then we can say, all right, Dak you'll get more
money because you were great in the playoffs, or Ceedee
Lamb will get more money, or Michael Parsons gets this
big deal. But he's already saying, you got well in
the playoff game before I'm gonna pay anybody any money.
So it's insane how he's presenting this. But I'm telling you,
this is what's going through his head. This is how
he's thinking about this season going forward.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Dak Prescott, I'm gonna say it. I want to be here.
But when you look it up, all the great quarterbacks
I watch played for other teams. That's not something to fear.
It may be a reality for me one day. It
may not be my decision now. I also looked at
the the Jerry Jones quote and it reminded me of
a great exchange from Saturday Night Fever. Okay, John Travolta's
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character yells blank the future, and the guy responds by saying, no, no, no, no, no,
you cannot blank the future. The future blanks you. Jerry
Jones trying to say, hey, we can put that off.
We don't have to think about the future. It's all
about this time, this space, which is a good philosophy
to have right be immersed in your surroundings at work,
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with the people you love and your family and everything.
Speaker 5 (05:35):
That's all good.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Your friends be there in the moment, but there's still
planning that has to go on. You still need to
go to work tomorrow, you still need to.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Do all that.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
So he's got three guys. He's got to figure out
how to pay eventually. And I do like that he's
already put himself in the over under ten and a
half wins where the Cowboys are, which puts them in
the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
See, I think you're gonna go with the h I
spend a lot of time on my hair, and he
hits it and he's.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's a good line, too full of I thought this
one was.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
More appropriate for the idea of Hey, all we got
is this year. It's we've got tonight. Who needs tomorrow?
Speaker 6 (06:15):
Babe?
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yes, I said, suddenly, now you're Kirsty Ally and Sam
in that episode why don't we stay? I mean he
thinks he's protecting his image and making it like I'm
focused on this year. Basically you've done nothing, Like that's
what you didn't sign anybody? Let players go. You've done nothing.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, they've got twelve million in cap space right now.
According to over the cap, you.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Could be using it, you could be no. Instead, he
has decided that he's going to use this year to
be his excuse to make all the changes he wants to.
I'm telling you big, huge changes are coming in Dallas
next year. It's gonna be a new quarterback, it could
be Bill Belichick, they're coaching. I mean, there's gonna be
all kinds of stuff happening. Jerry Jones is telling us
this is my plan. He's not doing it in a
(06:58):
great way, but he's doing it way. Have to kind
of parse it out a little bit and see, and
it would be all different if you wouldn't just keep
saying all in. But he keeps being reten saying all in.
I'm all I don't think you know what all in means.
And by saying your definition of all in is different
means it's not all in what you're talking about. But
that's the thing. Of course, in his mind, this is
all in. He's probably gonna begin a nationwide speaking tour.
(07:22):
It's all in the Jerry Jones story. Be all in,
like me, I don't know is that a motivational or
is that like how to deal with like. I don't
think that's a motivational.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Oh it is.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
It's dealing with problems, stressors and outside noise. It's by
creating more inside your own hand.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I think it's more. Hey, sometimes you got to fool
everybody who works for you and making them think you're
working hard when you're really not. So here's my all
in speech for you about how to do that, especially
if you've got a lot of people on television paying
attention to you. This is how you do it.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
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Then you give a big word salad and they love it.
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Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well, the Olympics has begun. We have the opening ceremonies tomorrow.
TV USA hoops a few days away from Game one.
Nobody better to talk to than a man who is
working on a new novel, The Jalen Brunson story. It
is Fox Sports one insider Extraordinary Rick Bucker, who has
also just gotten Bengals fan that Rick Buker is has
(09:38):
just gotten a Joe Burrow blonde haircut. He looks like
he could be Joe Burrow's older brother Rick. Welcome inside man,
how you doing?
Speaker 9 (09:47):
Thank you so much. I'll have you know that when
it comes to haircuts, and particularly buzz cuts, I once
upon a time I did that because my son was
doing it and he was probably six or seven, and
he looked pretty damn good and I and I did not.
(10:08):
And the worst part of it is is as bad
as you might look with a buzz cut, there's then
a like a two to three week period when you're
going from buzz cut to like hair long enough to
actually comb again, where I don't know, cross between a
cupie doll and a chia pet. I was. It's not
(10:29):
a good look.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
That.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
And mustaches. I tried to grow a mustache once again.
My wife, my wife will never allow me to do
that again. And the problem was is that everybody would
tell me when are you going to shave that off?
And I to myself, because I'm a stubborn idiot, I
was like, I have to go three weeks without hearing
anybody say when are you going to shave that off?
(10:53):
And then I will shave it off because I didn't
want anybody to think that they shamed me into shaving
it off. And as a result, it probably was three
more months that I was.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
I was.
Speaker 9 (11:00):
I almost had to go into hibernation to avoid somebody going,
when are you going to shave that off? So there's
there's all my hair stories. And so I am not
about to crack on on Joe Burrow. He's a good
looking he's a good looking young man. I'm sure that
he can pull it off. So I am in no
position to critique his buzz.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Bet.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So what you're telling me is the whole Hey, and
if the Knicks win the title, you grow a mustache?
Bet is not going to happen that.
Speaker 9 (11:28):
No, there are other things that I would bet, but
that that is no. My wife would disown me. So
i'm I'm I can't go. My wife and my daughter,
my daughter. We were getting on a plane one time
and there was a a a an advertisement for I
think like New Zealand Air or something and uh, and
(11:49):
there was one of those Kiwi fruits and my daughter
looked at it and went, dad, that's your mustad.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
So he ties it all together. He gets New Zealand in.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
When we're talking about the big New Zealand Canada's soccer story,
it's all good.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
Yeah, yeah, there you go, there you go. That's all
I got. So yeah, I am in no position to
question anybody's hair style whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
All right, So here we are. We're getting set for
the Olympics. Obviously, Team USA is going to take center
stage when they start playing. First game is in a
few days. Steve Kerr had a bad film session with
the team yesterday and said, hey, guys, it's time to
raise our intensity. Yeah, is that it for Team USA?
Is it something else? What have you seen out of
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Team USA so far? Because it seems like Steve Kerr
is a little concerned.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Well, at the very least, they need to raise their intensity.
And that's the shortcut for teams that haven't had enough
time to develop a sort of chemistry and fluidity to
their game. And then the other part is simply there.
They are an older team, and older teams generally don't
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play that way. And the stars that we see on
this team generally don't play that way. And I've been
thinking about this a lot lately because I said it
from the beginning. I'm sure I said it to you
guys when we discussed the composition of the roster and
and what their chances were. And one of my issues was,
you know, it's a it's an the stars on this team,
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the main pieces are are older, and the international game
plays with a greater pace. Even in the half court set.
The ball movement and the body movement is tremendous, and
I think one of where where it's showing up the
most is that other teams are able to shoot a
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lot more threes and make a lot more threes because
our guys are slow in their rotations. You know, Lebron
James is not used to having to rotate out and
and and defend the three. Joelmb same thing, and so
Devin Booker is often a step late. And so I've
(14:08):
really been wondering, like, is there a point where Steve
Kurr says, you know what, I got to play Jason
Tatum and Drew Holliday and Derek White and Bam Auto
Bio and maybe Anthony Davis, like those are the guys
that I need to go to because what I've seen
through these exhibitions is that those are the guys who
have given the most consistent energy at both ends of
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the floor, and we're just not. You know, this is
the harsh reality. I think there's plenty of NBA fans
and Baton and US basketball fans who see the names
and just think that it's there for the taking for us,
like we're just going to dominate. Those days are over.
We haven't. The two thousand and eight Redeemed team won,
but it didn't dominate, and they were built because we weren't.
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We weren't well. Not only we weren't dominating, but we weren't.
We weren't winning consistently anymore. And so we're in a
new day and age where the talent disparity is not
great enough if we don't play with energy. And so
I completely understand where Steve Kerr is coming from. These
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games were close, These exhibition games were close because because
we lost the battle of the fifty to fifty balls
and rebounding and getting out and defending the three. And
that is going to have to change if we're going
to win gold.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
The mountain of turnovers, the sloppiness to it all, Rick
is concerning on a whole other level. Take me back
to Saturday, South Sudan and what they're building and they're playing.
As you're watching that game, how a gape was your
jaw when you had to pick it up off the floor?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Which time?
Speaker 9 (15:43):
Well, you know, yeah, you know what's funny is I
think the thing that surprised me the most is because,
let's face it, there were a number of guys. Royal
Ivy is the is the head coach of that team,
assistant coach with the Houston Rockets, now he was with
the CLNN Nets, played in the league. Like That's the
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one element that I think that we we miss on
is that, yeah, these are not Isaac Bongo and and
with with Germany and and the the guys on South Sudan,
Like they may not be household names, but if you
look at their resumes, they've played NBA competition. A number
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of them have played against NBA competition, and so they
understand the NBA game and they understand the NBA talent
and then they also understand the international game better than
we do. I think what's what shocked me the most
was that South Sudan was beating us and they were
playing an NBA style game. But if there was ever
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anything that would underscore Steve Kerr's point that they need
that the team needs to play with more intensity, it
would be it would be that game, because Thou su
Dan was just they were out They were out working
us from the beginning, and I and I got the
sense that while there may be US basketball fans who
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are just kind of full of themselves when it comes
to Team USA and dominating, I got the sense from
the team itself that they felt like, hey, you know,
we don't know who these guys are, Like they know
who we are with this game. You know, we don't
have to work that hard to win this game. And
they they nearly got upset because of it. So I
(17:35):
I was not expecting it to be that close. Obviously,
the point the the odds and the point deferential by
the by the bookmakers was was plus forty or something. Yeah,
So so obviously they you know, there was an expect
there was never an expectation that this was going to
(17:56):
be a competitive game. But I just I don't know
that there's anybody in the world now that we can
just roll the balls out there and think that we
are going to that that we're going to dominate them.
Because there's the biggest, maybe at least one of the
big things, is there's no longer an intimidation factor by
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by by the names like Royal Ivy coaching that team
and some of the guys who've had NBA experience and
and know the international game, they're no longer looking at
Team USA and shaking in their boots because it's Lebron
James and Steph Curry and I mean they played against them,
some of them played with them when and Gabriel played
(18:41):
played with Lebron James, so that that familiarity breeds a
comfort level that you know, when we talk about the
Dream Team and some of the early Team USA is
built out of NBA players, you know, they still had
the shock and awe value teams. You know, the team's
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opponents were looking to looking for autographs and you know
when somebody had been Team USA would get on a
roll like they were, oh here it comes right. That
does not exist anymore. We don't we don't have that
type of intimidation factor, and that was a big reason
why we were able to roll up the score on
some of the teams that we did back in the day.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
You know, I hear you, Rick, and you know you
see exactly how tight things get in a gold medal game.
I still remember when Kobe Bryant said, screw all of
you that don't want to shoot the ball, give me
the ball. I'll win the gold medal. And you know,
I hear your point about saying, hey, I got to
play Tatum and Bam and Derek White and a D
And I think, yeah, that's how it goes. And then
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you're Steve Kerr. You look back at the guys on
the bench and it's Lebron sitting next to Steph, who's
sitting next to Embiid, who's sitting next to KB. I
mean that's really had to do Rick.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I mean that that to me
is the difficulty here, which is like, can you get
away with playing the best team the team not not
not necessarily the best team, but the best team for
the circumstances and for the opponent. And and that's where
he has his his hands full. You know, he's I
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think the guys have the right attitude and they want
to win, but man, the pressure too to play Lebron
and Steph, you know, over a Derek White or even
a Drew Holliday or or you know, playing Jason Tatum
(20:41):
over Lebron like this is. This is also if you
look at how the team was composed and and Lebron
and Steph committing to it early, there's also a sense
of obligation to them for that that I totally understand. So,
like I said, from the beginning, you know, and then
the thing that bothers me maybe the most is what
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I've heard because of these games have been close. I'm
seeing on social media and I'm I'm seeing fans that
are ripping Steve Kerr like like it's his fault, Like right,
I mean, he's not the one who's not rotating out
to contest three. And that's the other part too that
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I would say is the reason you know that the
X factor here in these close contests is and we've
seen it with the NBA, like the three point shot
has become such a big element that if you're making them,
you know you you and and one team's making them
and the other one is is is not, but they're
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both taking them at the same sort of pace. Those
long misses turn out to you know, fast break layups
and more open three pointers and you can get you know,
landslides and avalanches going in one direction. And I think
Team USA has suffered from that a bit too, because,
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let's face it, you know, you got Steph Curry who
hasn't shot hasn't always shot it particularly well, and then
you have Devin Booker who has not shot it particularly well.
And then you look at the rest of this team,
and Lebron has shot it particularly well. But Jason Tatum's
not a guy I count on to knockdown threes through
holiday can but I don't count on him. And so
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I think there's there's an aspect of the game in
three point shooting that you know, other teams, if they
get hot and they see an opportunity we can knock
off Team USA, that's only going to embolden them more.
There's just so many intangible factors that are working against
us here that I don't think that the average fan
appreciates or recognizes, because if they did, they wouldn't be
(22:53):
walking around thinking, oh, hey, we got kde we got Lebron,
we got we got Jason Tatum, we got Joelle m
b We're gonna walk all over these other teams that
those days those days are over and they are not
coming back.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Also not coming back. A mustache, a goatee, any sort
of facial hit. There you go, Yes, one insider, extraordinary.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Rick Buker, bull patch I could do.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Okay, if the Knicks win the title, you you go
with a soul patch.
Speaker 9 (23:25):
That's the deal.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Is it because it's patchy or is it too light
or what? What's the problem?
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Rick?
Speaker 9 (23:30):
No, for whatever reason, that's the one. That's the one
thing that I can work. Yeah, it's it's it's it's I.
Although I will say I had one and then I
out of the blue, I got called by T and
T to do sideline and I don't think they were
they were ready for a sideline reporter with.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
A soul patch.
Speaker 9 (23:50):
I'm pretty I'm pretty sure they thought I should be
covering like the uh the Hawaii Surf open with the
soul patch And hey, are.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
We gonna call Buker next week? We have an No,
you'll be the X Games guy. Forget it?
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Hey, lame duck season. Now all bets are off. Rick.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Check out the On the Ball podcast as well. Rick
on Twitter at Rick Buker. Rick is always buddy appreciated.
Speaker 10 (24:13):
We'll talk to you after the play of the first
game My pleasure, guys, be sure to catch live editions
of The Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at
ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
This is about the Yankees, because yet you can sit
here and say, all right, well, yeah, it's a couple
of bad games. There's still sixteen games over five hundred. No, no, no,
not all losses are created equal. Getting swept by the
junior varsity team in your city is a bad optic,
especially when you get beat as bad as you did
by the Mets. And tonight wasn't close last time. I mean,
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the Mets have put up so many runs. Look, they
lead the league in players with with one hundred plus ops,
so you know they're hitting the ball. But this is
still so embarrassing for the Yankees. I don't recognize this
team as from one of the best teams in Bay.
You know, this is how bad and this is how
bad it is for the Yankees. And wait till I
tell you the changes they need by the deadline fire
of ball. This is a Yankee team that two weeks
(25:11):
ago lost both games to the Mets at City Field.
So you know, okay, they're gonna be motivated coming into this.
Luis Severino, former Yankee pitcher who didn't pitch in the
Subway Series, was upset over the weekend at how you
know people were talking about him, and he said, well,
I don't care about the Yankees. They only have two
good hitters over there.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
He's not wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
If any no, he's not wrong.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
But if he sent you, he said the quiet part
out loud.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
He is not wrong. But if anything is going to
pull the Yankees out of this malaise, it is that statement.
And when he said that, I said, dude, what are
you stupid? I know you're not pitching, but what do
you think this is going to do for the Yankees?
Now they're going to be extra focused because over the
course of one hundred and sixty two games, Yeah, sometimes
things happen that push you out of malaise and get
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you more focused. And this is one of those moments.
I believe in and board material for baseball more than
I believe in any other sport, because sometimes you need
a little bit to get you out of that every
single day rut you get into. So you had that,
and then you had the Yankees who played a day
game on Monday. Right, they're home, they have Monday night off.
They play their first game against the Mets on Tuesday.
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The Mets fly back in and they have so much
trouble with their plane. Their plane doesn't land until six
in the morning on Tuesday, and they played a game,
you know, twelve hours later. Right, their plane doesn't land.
They're on the plane on the airport until six in
the morning. Everything was going the Yankees' way. This was
everything for the Yankees to win this series. And not
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only did they not win it, they weren't even competitive.
They couldn't get a split. They looked awful. This is
a team that needs wholesale changes by the trade deadline,
absolute wholesale changes. And look, it kind of goes into
you know, what's been the biggest story in the world
the last few days, which has been President's Obiden announcing
he's not going to run for reelection, Kamala Harris stepping in,
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and you see a lot of back and forth of ay,
is this going to be better? Will this help Democrats win?
The polling is better for Harris and it was under Biden.
And it's the same thing. It's a big baseball analogy
because when a team is going bad that has talent,
Big changes need to happen, and it's just like this. Look,
the Democrats will look at it and say, well, we
don't think we're gonna win with Biden, right. The polling
(27:26):
is bad, everything's going down. So they find a way
to try to push him out, which which they did.
And now Kamala Harris is in and she's raising money
and okay, they feel better about their chances. Now. It's
the same thing in baseball. If you have a talented
team and it's underachieving, what happens either the manager gets
fired or new players come in and old players go out.
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That's what happens when you're underachieving. And here you are.
Now if you fire Aaron Boone, does that really send
a message or is the better message being we really
don't have anybody else that can hit behind Soto and
Judge right, Jad Davis hitting clean up last night, We
talked about that. How embarrassing is that guy hasn't played
since the fourth of July hitting clean up for the
Yankees last night. The Yankees need four new players, right,
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just like the Braves did a couple of years ago,
the year A Cooky got hurt. They're floating around five
hundred the deadline. They decide, hey, let's go for it,
and they bring in four new starters. And what happens,
Hey four new everyday players, and they wind up catching
fire and they win the World Series. This is what
the Yankees need. Their roster is not very good. You
can't Anthony Rizzo coming back. Is not Anthony Rizzo of
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twenty fifteen gen Carlos Stanton will come back, But how's
he gonna do and how long is he gonna be
healthy for. You need to go and change the vibe
of this team because it's just now just circling the drain.
You need to go out and get three or four
new You need a lot like no team is more
desperate It should be more desperate at the deadline than
the Yankees. You need so much. You need to change
(28:53):
a culture. You need to say, hey, we're talented. There's
a reason why we were twenty games over five hundred
for a long time. We need to go change out.
We got to catch the Orioles. We gotta win the
al We got to get to the World Series because
we were that good. You need to go get a
ton of new players and bring them in and change
the culture and change a belief around this team. There
is no team that should be more desperate or more
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active at the deadline than the Yankees.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Well, they got off to that big lead where you
you had some production from the bottom of the lineup,
and your starters and your rotation were healthy and pitching well,
I mean, just look at the season totals you've got
for Rodn and for heal. But Rodin's had his stretches
where the arm looks a little bit dead, and he's
barely getting through the fourth inning, and you know you're
(29:37):
you're trying to ride the lightning there. You missed Cole
for this whole time, and now he comes back today,
he gets racked around, and now the Yankees have to
apologize for him cursing a lot in the dugout, either
that or ESPN does, because they really, uh shone a
light on that.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Look at it.
Speaker 4 (29:55):
Look at how frustrated he is with the Mets. This
was some of the only content they gave you in
between pitch counts of the starters to tell you after everyone,
all right, you know what comes after ninety five ninety six?
He's up to ninety six pitches. But the Yankees the
other stat that they gave you, they have the worst
ops from the number four slot in Major League Baseball.
(30:18):
And again with the Marlins and the White Sox and
some of the cesspool of bottom dwelling squads. That's kind
of a big deal. Right, you're the Yankees. You spent
a lot of money. And oh, by the way, if
you don't make a change, that's substantive and that can
be felt all the way through. Guess who you gotta
worry about walking away and going to the other clubhouse.
(30:41):
It's Juan Soto, right, who's all world and monster and
there's nothing going would love more to say. Steinbrander's not
spending money like you used to. So let's have some
fun with this. Shall we get the bidding process up?
So potential for chaos? Yeah, you need a couple of arms.
You need to figure out what the hell happened to
(31:03):
dj and lemayhew. I remember when we had fun with
him when he was with the Cubs and he was
just a guy, and then all of a sudden he
became one of the best hitters in baseball. Somehow he
forgot to hit because he's under two hundred, right, now
as we sit here on July twenty fourth, all of
these things, you know to say, for Aaron Boone, he's
(31:23):
screwed like he's in no man's land, and Cashman keeps
getting these votes of confidence. Sorry, I don't call for
a lot of gigs, but that's a guy. At some point,
the expectations not hey, we can ride into the playoffs
in the first or second wildcard. No, the expectation is
that you're winning it all. You're the bleeping Yankees.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Biggest changes coming to the Yankees most desperate team, especially
after getting swept.
Speaker 5 (31:49):
By the Man.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
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 (32:02):
Today, the Chargers open training camp and head coach Jim Harbaugh,
very excited, in very Jim Harbaugh fashion, compared what the
first day of training camp felt like to him.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Overall, just the way it feels, I mean, feels like
Beyer's day. You know, it feels like being born, feels
like coming out of the womb. You know, it's like
you're in there and it's comfortable and it's safe. And
now you're out, you're born. The lights are on the
you know, it's bright chaos. People look people looking at you,
(32:36):
people people talking at you, and just feels good to
you know, have it happen.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
It's like being born. The afterbirth is out. We're gonna
cut the cord all the time. So because we're gonna
get stuff like this all the time from Jim Harbaugh,
because he's gonna have a big press conference least once
a week, we're gonna play a game called did Jim
Harbaugh say that today?
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Oh that's pretty good? All right?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Did Jim Harbaugh say this today?
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
So, Frostburg's got him. Did Jim Harbaugh say this today?
Go ahead, Frostburg? All right, guys ready, let's go go ahead.
What will happen? Will happen? What won't happen? Won't happen? Wow?
What happened? Will happen? What won't happen? Won't happen?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Well, he kind of channeling the old Baron von Rashko. Okay,
promo for an Awa Battle Royal.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
All right, friend will turn on friend?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Okay, what do you think did he say that today?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Yeah? Oh?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
What will happen? Will happen? What won't happen, won't happen?
Speaker 5 (33:44):
I mean, he's a great philosophizer.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Is Frostburg really going to start us off with something
Harbaugh didn't say? I'm gonna say he did say that today.
I'm gonna say he did say that today. That is
a Jim Harbaugh statement.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Well, you both are wrong. He did not say.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh, he didn't say Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
I really thought that was a good philosopher kind of
moment there.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
This game is very difficult. This is very very difficult. Okay,
all right, all right, next.
Speaker 12 (34:08):
What do we got The highest compliment I can give
a player is he's a football player?
Speaker 5 (34:15):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
What about Justin Herbert football player? What about Dick Budkis
football player?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
Farty football player?
Speaker 1 (34:25):
No, No, I'm gonna no, no, that is definitely a
Jim Harball Wheelhouse comment. Right there, I'm gonna say, Jim
Harble did say that today.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
Mike, Yeah, yeah, oh, absolutely, you both are correct. There
we go.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
All right. You know, Frostburg may not really have to
make anyone up over the course of the season.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Well, I mean he did one.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Yeah, no, he did. Well, he's got to throw us
off a little bit, a little bit. But Okay, all right,
let's go to the next one. I'm feeling good. I'm
feeling hot now.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
It's like the.
Speaker 12 (34:56):
First day of school, a homecoming, Christmas all wrapped in one.
Speaker 5 (35:01):
Wait.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Wait wait, wait wait, it's like the first day of school,
Christmas Day, and homecoming all wrapped in one. Wow. Okay, well,
so you have Christmas.
Speaker 12 (35:13):
Day is a great like the first day of school,
first day of school, a homecoming, then homecoming, Christmas Morning
all wrapped in Christmas Morning, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And being born and New Year.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Someone really likes Christmas, likes homecoming. I don't remember being
that big a fan of homecoming, but okay, maybe he was.
I'm sure he had great homecomings. It was the quarterback,
of course, is true. Yes, he was probably the King
of the court. And yeah, I'm sure it was. Okay, cheerleader.
I mean, so first day of school, the excitement, homecoming,
(35:45):
the pageantry, Christmas Day. Okay, yes, Jim Harborough did say
that today.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
It's like when the electronic refund hits you off the
state tax return.
Speaker 5 (35:55):
I mean, like, is that what he's gonna do every
first of the year.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
It's like.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
Your account want to hit you know, It's like payday
on Friday.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
It's like five o'clock whistle on a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Yeah it's Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Okay, okay, oh yeah he said that.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Rah he left unturned.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oh I'm feeling good. I'm getting Christmas Day in on
this one.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
All right.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
One more.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
The grass is as good a grass as anywhere.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
So the graps boy, really someone that's about the grass
of the playing field. The grass is as good a
grass as it is anywhere as anywhere. Okay, oh boy,
it's Jim Harbaugh that much.
Speaker 5 (36:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I can see him being being that big a fan,
like I love this grass so much. Yeah, yea, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I don't mean the grass on the field. Yes, Jim
Harbaugh said.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
That celebration of the field and the rebirth of a
football season. Yeah, that's that sounds like a good analogy.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
All right.
Speaker 6 (36:58):
Sure he did.
Speaker 5 (37:02):
Say to you, let's go love this game.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
I can't believe I got one wrong. I'm so upset.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
And the big news out of Cowboys camp that Cede
Lamb is not going to report Yeah, he wants a
new contract. We've known this for a while. He has
decided I'm not going to report to Cowboys camp. The
Cowboys remind me of the first season of The Bear
that this is where they're at right now, because we'll
get into the whole all in stuff, crazy ass stuff,
(37:39):
but we've seen now this offseason reports that Mike McCarthy
is frustrated because he wants to he's trying to put
his culture on the team, and he tells me to
do things. Meanwhile, Jerry Jones comes over the top and
tells coaches and personnel other things. They don't know who
to listen to. They don't know where things are going.
The players don't know if they're getting contracts or not,
(38:01):
if they're bringing free agents or not. And I feel
like it's the first season of The Bear where Karmi
and Richie you're kind of fighting over control of the restaurant,
and like in the pilot episode where Karmi keeps saying,
no spaghetti, We're not gonna have any spaghetti. Spagetti hasn't
make money, and Richie's like, no, make spaghetti. Everybody wants
a spaghetti.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
We'll sell it.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
We'll sell it. And everybody's in the kitchen not knowing,
and Karmi comes in and says, no spaghetti, and Richie says,
get in the kitchen and make the blanket spaghetti. And
that's like, I feel like the cowboys are make this spaghetti.
Don't make a spaghetti, reservings spaghetti. No spaghetti. That's the Cowboys.
And now you have Ceedee Lamb on top of it,
which takes this situation and really makes it more interesting because.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Because it goes from beef and spaghetti to an upscale restaurant.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Hey, look the money's in the tomato can. Sorry spoiler,
but we've told you about Jerry Jones from the beginning
that he is going to blow things up after this
year with the Cowboys, all this all and stuff. Right
away it was his all in just means I'm not
spending money. I'm gonna let this year go and then
(39:08):
next year we are going to make changes. That's Jerry
Jones's message. That's what it's been since the beginning of
the year. Because he didn't get any free agents. He's
not bring giving anybody any money. He has allowed Dak
Prescott to be a free agent at the end of
this year, doesn't mean he's not gonna keep him. But
you have to be okay with losing your quarterback if
(39:29):
you're gonna say, hey, we're okay letting you be a
free agent. So I don't know what people think are
gonna happen, but Jerry Jones is telling us big changes
are coming, all right if we don't win this year,
and they're not going to because they didn't get better.
And when you don't get better, you're not gonna suddenly
pass everybody. You don't have a great team to begin with.
You went to the playoffs last year, you laid an egg,
(39:49):
and you're clearly not as good as the top four
or five teams in the NFC. So what's gonna happen?
Huge change? Jerry Jones even said, beginny of the offs,
he's telling us, and I know people just don't see
the clues. He said, Hey, I'm anyy, but I'm gonna
be around a long time and we don't need this
to be at all in here. He's not going to
pay anybody. He's gonna pay Dak. He's not gonna pay
(40:12):
CD Lamb. The best CD Lamb can hope for is
some kind of band aid. We'll give you a few
extra million this year because he's not gonna go against
his plan, which is, if we don't win this year,
there's gonna be a new head coach, there's gonna be
a new quarterback, There'll be new skill position players, there'll
be new linebackers. Paying Michael Parsons might not happen. Paying
(40:32):
CD Lamb might not happen. He is going to blow
it up and start over. And that could be Bill Belichick.
It could be Kirk Cousins, it could be Kyler Murray,
it could be anything, but he's That's the thing about
this is that Ceedee Lamb decided to challenge Jerry Jones
and where Jerry Jones has always capitulated in the past,
because well, these are the guys I drafted, So I
(40:52):
want to pay him. I want to pay Ezekielli. I'm
holding out because you're gonna pay me. Ceedee Lamb thinks
Jerry Jones is gonna pay him and give him a big,
long contract. That's not happened. Jerry Jones. This is a
different Jerry Jones this year for what he is going
to go. He could be back to the old Jerry
Jones next year, but he has drawn a line in
the sand. He's not paying Deck. He's not gonna pay
CD Lamb. So the best you're hoping for us here,
we found a way to give you an extra three
(41:13):
million dollar seed come into camp this year. Okay, that's
the best you're going to get. It's gonna get blown
up in Dallas after this year and it's gonna get
crazy and ignore that at your own peril. But that's
everything we have seen from Jerry Jones. That's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Well, that's where we are on July twenty third, and
as we know, like the weather in the Midwest, things
could change tomorrow and Jerry Jones could go back to
standard operating Procedure and USURP whatever has been taken by
Stephen Jones. Because I think that's where the pragmatism has
kind of come in here. Like, I don't think it's
(41:50):
full on a Jerry thing except for the cool sound bites.
But what I do hope is that he learned from
watching the off season hard knocks of the Giant, so
he doesn't do what Joe Shane did. Uh So, Saquon,
promise me, promise me, you're gonna give me one of
those calls, go into the marketplace. Promise me like with
Dak or CD or Micah, all three of them. Hey, guys,
(42:12):
you understand the marching orders here. Yeah, go into free agency,
but promise you're gonna give us a chance to match her.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
You really think Jerry Jones is watching hard Nuts with
the Giants and doesn't think it's current. So, uh, they
let Barkley go. We can go get him, right, So hey,
I'll watch next week and they can let the Barkley
kid go. And boy, he's had some big games against us.
I'd love to go get him. Jerry just wanted to
let you know this has already happened. Can't be just
watching it now?
Speaker 5 (42:40):
He stayed in division.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
I'm just watching it as and let me it's an eagle.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Let me. I'm getting ready to I'm getting ready to
run up at Google.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Right here.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Let me just see what Yeah, I see? Yeah, here
it is right here. Hey, Joe Shane very upset potentially
losing uh Saquon Barkley. If they lose him, Hey, let's
give him a call. Let's see if we can go
get him. Jerry knowing all that would be.
Speaker 4 (43:00):
Kind of funny to see if he come out that
was actually a conversation with Jerry.
Speaker 1 (43:03):
No one's gonna do a television show about something that
happened months ago. Come on, man, this is twenty twenty four.
That's not gonna happen. Although I do, I do like
that Bear show that the Smith kid keeps comparing us to.
I could be Carmeie Stephen and Mike McCarthy. You could
be Richie, but your season one Richie not the wearing suits.
Richie like to wearing suits. Richie's a new guy, same
guy now, a new guy's still there to get a new.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Guy under the suit, under the facade, same Richie. He's
family to me, you know, he's family to me.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Smith. You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (43:35):
But it'll be curious to see how it plays out
if at some point that they don't have it about face,
say they can start off the season four and oh hey, Dak,
let's get back to talk to and Dak's gonna say no,
as he should.
Speaker 1 (43:48):
Dak's gonna say no. They're not gonna say but it's
not They're not gonna sign in Middlesein. Jerry Jones is
gonna wait end he he has shown he is more
than happy paying people that he loves and he wants
that headline end of the year arm around Dak going.
I just had to challenge Dak and you know, he
really came through. And that's why I'm gonna give him
sixty five million dollars a year to play quarterback the
(44:08):
next five years for the Cowboys. Like it's still out
there that he could do that, but it's just not
gonna happen. The playoff losses that they've had the last
two years, I really think of taking a lot out
of them, because you're talking about two games in which,
if your quarterback puts any kind of offense on the
board against the Niners, you win that game. Your quarterback
throws up on himself and you allow another brand new quarterback.
(44:31):
You've invested in Dak all for this, and you're watching
a guy in his first year's quarterback put up a
perfect quarterback grading against your defense on your.
Speaker 4 (44:39):
Field, serrated them. So he's a he shouldn't have been
able to walk out of that building. So Jerry Jones
is like, no, wait, Manute, I'm not paying back. I'm
not doing this. This is we have to do something new.
If this iteration of the Cowboys doesn't work. Everything is
new next year, May even had the star in helmet.
May put my picture on one side, Steven on the other. Now,
I mean there's gonna be incredibly large, Like this is
(45:00):
a different year for Jerry Jones. And people are ignoring
because they think, Oh, he's gonna be No, he's not.
He's not gonna suddenly say here's money, here's this. I
was just kidding. He would have signed guys in the
off season. He would have asked a lot of players
to redo their contracts so they could free money.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
Up didn't.
Speaker 4 (45:15):
But even with all of that, they only have twelve
million in available gap space as it stands.
Speaker 5 (45:20):
That's how overspent.
Speaker 4 (45:21):
They were at a lot of these positions, right and
Gallup left that was the one I guess saving you
got and then he.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Retires, gonna save some money for the Barkley kid. In
case the Giants let us go, We're gonna watch it.
When's that new episode? I want to watch back that episode.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
I do think in the end they do make good
with ced Lamb and try to get him a little
closer to the f But you got to keep somebody available.
Injuries and other issues that get to it. But you're
at a point where you've got to pay all three
of your guys. Now, we've seen situations. Yeah, we've got
a lot of pending free agency. I don't know how
(45:56):
often we've gotten to the point where it's like, here's
our three best players that we have to that we
have to choose between it and take a game of three
card money.
Speaker 5 (46:06):
Just keep them circling.
Speaker 1 (46:08):
Exit out by the Fresca exit swollen down. The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carman, live from
the tirec dot Com studios. So this is gonna be fascinating,
and Lamb's not getting paid. And after this year, everything
is new in Dallas. Could be Bellichicken Kirk Cousins next year.
Speaker 6 (46:25):
Just watch look at you
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