August 13, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason and Mike update you on Blake Snell’s no-hitter. The Jets SAY HELL NAH to Hassan Reddick’s trade request. Caleb Williams made it look EASY in his promising Bears debut. Plus, an Olympic take on Noah Lyles!
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It was just not even two weeks ago, Blake Snell
no hit the Reds three to nothing, first no hitter
of his career. Really big story. Next outing five days later,
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not bad A good outing yet beat the Nationals.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But human, but compared to what he'd been doing for
the prior month, I mean, he looked like a slouch.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Still, don't sell him short. He's a tremendous slouch. Wins
his second game of the year right now, as the
Giants bat in the bottom of the fifth inning. There
have been two hits in this game, both of them
by the Giants. It is a nothing, nothing game. Blake
Snell has given up no hits through five innings to
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the Braves. Snell's line five innings, eighty one pitches, nine strikeouts.
This is Blake Snell's line through five innings. Now, the
one thing I am gonna say is that he is
already at eighty one pitches. This is a lot of
pitches through five. You want to be if you want
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to pitch a complete game, you need to be somewhere
in the sixties through five innings. That that's kind of
where you want to be. And then at you know,
seventy seventy five pitches. After said so, he is at
a lot of pitches. So he's gonna need if he's
gonna continue to go here with this no hitter and
stay in there for another four innings. He's gonna need
a couple of quick innings because if he gets up.
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He threw one fourteen for his no hitter, so you
got to think, Okay, they'll leave him in for that
at least up to there again. But that's still you're
talking about only another forty pitches over the next four innings.
He really needs a couple of economical innings, a couple
of less than ten pitch innings if he's gonna be
able to do.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But he's getting a lot of help because you have
the fastest working pitcher in baseball on the other side,
also throwing a gem and Chris Hale.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, Chris Sale just caught a line, saved his own life,
got a line drive hit right back up the middle.
He spears, it looks like he's gonna take his head off,
and he gets out of the fifth inning, the sixth
one of my favorite dude, if you had Chris Sale,
you might have him and Dylan c you might you
might have like thirty wins if you had Sorry, sorry,
what are you doing to me? Why can't I have
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nice things? Yes? This is great, I will I'll get
to my uh yeah, you beating the Yankees by ten.
I'll get a few minutes, I'll tell you, I'll tell
you what my dad's and Fabiano's text about the Yankee game.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But anyway, back to the point is that Sales working
so efficiently and only giving up two hits as we
go scoreless into these six is that he's not sitting
and languishing on the on the bench you're hanging out
in the dead out. He's back to work pretty fast.
So uh speedy game, two aces, getting after it. And
you look at what Snell's done since coming back from injury.
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Just a ridiculous run and another great outing here. Uh yeah,
he's gonna need to get bailed out by the braves
hitters if he's going to finish this thing. But you
know what, it's fun to watch and have these kind
of storylines out a Monday right.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now, now, now, because I do have a piece of
advice for you, piece of advice for you that that
stopped caring.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No no, no, no, no no, because with a lot
of things, I mean just told me about stuff like
that said just stop, I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Gonna I'm gonna help you with this. Because when we
talk about the White Sox right and here they are again,
they're beating the Yankees twelve the two. It was cool
that in the last two weeks ago we've gotten to
talk about the White Sox winning a couple of times.
Aaron Boone might get fired in the next ten minutes.
I will say this is every time you sit here
and and there seems to be guys all over Major
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League Baseball that are really good that used to play
for the White Sox, you lose a lot of sympathy
because people think, well, the White Sox just a bad team.
But every time you go, boy, look at all these guys,
how good they are playing in different cities, Like when
you had that All Star team that was all former experts,
you lose the sympathy of people. I feel bad for
Harmony because his team is so bad. Oh no, wait,
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his team had really good players.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But that's why you feel bad for me, is that
they don't retain them.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No. Now, they hold you just as responsible as the
front office. You're just as responsible. I wish I had
the clout of gets it is.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You're just I'd love to have to sit down with
Steve Stone right now, who's pondering his baseball mortality and
deciding after these next whatever it is, forty four, forty
five games, whether he wants to do this anymore. He
got Ryan'sdorf, who's eighty eight years old. Yeah, we talked
about him a JARRYT Jones Ya. No, No, like Jerry
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at least cut a check rise doorf ain't doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, And he tried it a couple times.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
He tried to emulate the Braves and guess what, Snake Hayes,
he ain't doing it again.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So we'll keep you updated on baseball again. The White
Sox putting the finishing touches on what's gonna be a
twelve to two win over the As and Blake Snell
no hit her through five against the Braves. However, the
Braves I believe just did he just walk Jorge Sohileira again.
I think that's the third time he's walked tonight. Or
did he hit him? He either walked him or he
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hit him. And the Braves have the leadoff battery of
the inning on it first for this one. So we'll
keep you updated again. But look, let's we have to
talk about this. Yeah, he walked to Merrifield and okay,
all right, look on the Jets. So then he got
thrown out trying to steal a big a big NFL
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story today Hassan Reddick, who for the last year has
been one of the best defensive linemen in the NFL,
one of the best again into the quarterback. Oh, that
was one of the greatest acquisitions in the offseason. You
shut up. So the Jets make a trade for him,
and they remake their defensive line because hey, they had
a lot of guys coming up. They couldn't pay them all.
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So this is what they did. They let a couple
of guys go, They let Bryce Huff go, They let
John Franklin Myers go, Hey, we're replacing you with Hassan Reddick,
who is twenty nine, one of the best pass rushers
in the game. Awesome, what a great defensive line. The
Jets trade for him, and there's talk at the time
when the Jets make the trade for him that, well,
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I really want a new contract if I'm gonna play.
If you talk to the Jets, the Jets say they knew,
and Hassan Reddicks people knew we traded for him. We
expect them to be with the team and we can
talk about it. Hassan Reddicks team will say the Jets
knew I wanted a new contract, and they traded for
me anyway. So either the Jets screwed it up by
trading for a player they didn't know they could sign,
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or the Jets screwed it up by trading for a
player who then subsequently told them I'm not going to sign.
In any event, the Jets screwed it up, and now
today Hassan Reddick has asked for a trade from the Jets.
The Jets responded very quickly saying we're not going to
trade him. Statement out, yeah, well and I'll tell you why.
And the Jets said, we're not going to trade him.
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We look forward him coming in playing for us. We
didn't obtain him to trade him. Blah blah, blah, blah
blah blah. Let me just say this. First thing I
want to say is my doctor told me count the
tenth and stuff. Uh. This is the Jets being the Jets,
and this is why they're hoping that eight is the
guy that covers up all the ills they have Aaron Rodgers,
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regardless of whatever's coming out of biography of him, whether
he was immunized or not, doesn't matter. They are hoping, Hey,
Aaron Rodgers, cover up the fact that we're the Jets.
Be great, and no one will care that we're the Jets, because,
quite honestly, Joe Douglas Robert Sala are gonna get fired
at the end of the year if they are no good.
Joe Douglas might get fired anyway, because how do you
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decide we're gonna go get this guy and you don't
know that you can sign, you don't know that he's
gonna come in and play for you.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
How do you do it unless you've got the absolute
framework of the deal in place, where you've got the
tacit agreement, and maybe you're quibbling over one or two
last minor details, how do you make the deal?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
There's no way. And here's the thing. While it's a
he said, he said, there's no way that the Jets
did all their due diligence because if they did, that
would have gotten out. It would have got and they
wouldn't have said it. They want a sign ready to play,
but it would have been Sources say, hey, Zon Reddick
lied to the Jets. He told them he would he
would play there without a new contract, and here he
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is pulling this thing at the last minute. If that
was the case, the Jets would have leaked that out.
So this tells me they thought, yeah, no, we can
sign them, and now they're screwed. And now there's and
you know why when I see this story and I go,
I look at it and I want to look at
it from a perspective of of how can I minimalize
this because it just sucks? Is that at this point
does it really matter? Does it really matter? The guy's
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been in the building on one day, April Fool's Day
to take his physical. He has not been around. I'm serious.
He was in that. He was in one Jets drive
one day, took his physical. That's it. He's not been
around the team for the all off season. Didn't go
through a ta's, didn't go through workouts, he's missed the
first two weeks in the first game of training camp.
What kind of year is he really gonna have? Life?
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What kind of I mean, what kind of year? You
guys can work out all they want, but they're not
in football. Shit, we know you know you can work
Oh on work that worked? I'm ready. No, it's not
the case. So what kind of year is he really
gonna have? He's and this is where here's nobody wins,
except if you want to laugh at the Jets, because
he's either gonna have a year where he's not as
good because he didn't have a normal offseason, or he's
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gonna get hurt because he's gonna try to at some point,
he's gonna try to rush back and he's gonna get
hurt and have some kind of soft tissue injury like
a hamstring or a groin or something, and he's gonna
be in and out of the line up the entire season.
And that or that's gonna happen. And how this works
out is that not only is it bad for the Jets,
but it's bad for him because he wants more money
next year. Guess what, he ain't gonna get it. If
he doesn't play with a big year this year, he's
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not gonna get any money next year normally. And this
is how the Jets find a way to take being
ridiculously dumb to new heights is that usually in a holdout,
somebody wins. Either the player wins because the team caves
and they give him the money, or the team wins
because the player caves and he comes in, or they
both win because the player comes in, the team signs,
and everybody's happy. No, no, this is a case where
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nobody wins because the Jets don't win because they don't
have him, and Reddick doesn't win because at this point,
what kind of year is he gonna have. It's gonna
be bad or he's gonna get hurt and he's not
gonna get paid next year, and he's gonna say, boy,
why did I just play for fourteen and a half
million dollars this year? The Jets talked about guaranteeing his
contract for next year, but no, no, I want more
money because the top pass rushers are getting thirty million
a year. Nobody wins here, nobody wins, and the Jets
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look ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Now, I'd say he can pull a Levey on Bell,
but he got his next contract after not taking the
fifteen million he got it from the Jets, So this
would actually be the Jets at the origin story of this.
Here's where I'm gonna bring back. You talked about Aaron Rodgers,
and this is where I don't really give a damn
about his biography, what words he used, that's all that's
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all done. You like him or you don't it's one
of the greatest regular season quarterbacks we've ever seen. But
here here's where he could become a hero to New
York and New Jersey. This is the you go to
Joe Douglas and you've got a lot of sway right.
Look at all those guys he got contracts for. Look
at the fact that Hackett is still drawing a paycheck
from your team. Go on down the line, go into
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that office and figure out what the dollars are to
make it make sense, and you adjust your deal. You
add another year. You move some monies around, and you
become the hero.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You said monies. Some monies.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Move those monies so you can get Reddick in and
even if it takes four weeks to get them up
to speed, you get them up to speed. This is
where your quarterback needs to be a leader and get
You don't want to get involved necessarily in guys wallets,
but this is one where it's clearly public that there's
that bit of a disagreement, and you've got the cash
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and the cash reserves to go and help this thing,
and you can become a hero. And a lot of
the angst and ill will felt by Jets fans and
NFL fans nationwide. You can get the Jets out from
some of their problem by being a problem solvy yourself.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
He's gonna say, yeah, yeah, that's great. I took less
money last year. Yeah okay. Now my real worry with
him is that he's gonna go wow. Now I really
see why nobody ever wanted to play here. Now I
see why this team is a laughing stock. We traded
for a guy who's supposed to be our best defensive
lineman and we can't even get him in campus. I'm
just trying to give you an out and didn't know right.
That's my worry. Aaron Rodgers not gonna give money back
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to help this clown show. I mean, come on, man,
how many stories do I say end with? And the
Jets look ridiculous. It's like you can tack that on
to the end of anything. I was trying to help
him restore his image. Nobody looks good. The Jets look awful,
and at this point, what does it matter. He's not
gonna play, he's not gonna have a big seat, it
doesn't matter. It's an awful thing. And again I keep
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going back to boy. Hopefully Aaron Rodgers is great because
if he's great, that'll come. He's got to cover it up.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
It's all Wilson, it's all Grease Hall, and it's all
Aaron Rodgers. I was trying to find just one thing
in an alternate universe that may have helped, clearly, was
the sarcasm bucket was filling up.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, yeah, now I'm too repped up about this story.
I'm too red. You can't just calm me down from
that with this any day. I see that, but this
has also been brewing. This is not new, dude.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But that's the thing though, the only thing that's new
about this is they had to issue a statement.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Because when has a guy ever played for a team,
not played and requested a trade. I mean, come on,
that doesn't happen. He's maybe Jets look ridiculous. He's had
he's had.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
A spy at every practice who's told him how badly
this is gonna end, and he doesn't want his name
attached to it, and they wouldn't cut him off a
big enough check.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Jet's gonna jet, Yo, Jet's gonna jet the Jason Spencer
with Mike Carmon Love you dot Com Studios. No, you can't,
because the Jets just and the Jets look ridiculous taken
end every sentence.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And the Jets look can we do that? In the
Star Wars font on a T shirt dot dot dot.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Quick Update, Blake Snell gets through six no hits for
the Braves, looking for his second no hitter in three starts.
It is still a nothing, nothing game with the Giants
batting in the bottom of the sixth inning. Snell is though,
up to ninety eight pitches through six innings. Hard to
believe he's gonna be out there to see the end
of this one, but you never know.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
Did you go see Sugar Ray at the Cayuga County
fair Grounds this weekend? I'm into a concert since i
was like twenty two, what are you? Twenty four three,
twenty three? Okay? Good Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Well, the Blake
Snell no hitter is no more. Not only that Braves
are threatening with two on, nobody out. In the top
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of the seventh of a scoreless game, Blake Snell came
into the seventh inning no hits for the second time
in his last three starts. Remember we had the no
hitter against the Reds. Was it ninety eight pitches? So
I can't believe Snell's going to be in the game
much longer. But did give up a leadoff double down
the line, and it looks like maybe his pitches are
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hanging up there a little bit more. Maybe he's getting
to the end. But again nothing nothing top of the
seventh inning, Braves and the Giants, Blake Snell nearly going
two no hitters in his last three starts.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
We actually had an attempted bunt, get him on, get
him over, get him in this scoreless game, because let's
face it, h and I'm really shocked in all this
talk of Snell and the no hitter and the nothing,
nothing score that we have here that you haven't mocked
the Braves and their futility of late.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, I would like the Braves to lose tonight first,
and then I'd like to I'd like to get because
I would think at this point you'd also be hoping
for a hook based on the way the ball has
been hanging up there.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I Blake Smell, I like, he just got it. He
just got away with one. Yeah, right there, I could
mock the Braves.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
But then it was that Jason, didn't your team score
one run in the last three games again, swept in Seattle?
Yeah that was they didn't play tonight. Yeah that was us. Yeah,
that was what would be your line. And the Yankees
lost twelve to two.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, because that's how you that's how you redirect all
of that energy like you're an X men.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's a good night. Yankees didn't just lose tonight, They
lost by fifty. He lost twelve to two. I mean
that's insane.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And Jashism left the game with an elbow injury in
the seventh, So you got that kind of floating in
the background.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So you so you want the texts from well, let
you go. We'll get to Caleb Williams in a second ago,
So I write, uh, I write to Fabiano. You know
Sports Illustrated Fantasy U grew Michael Fabiano and my dad
the two biggest Yankee fans. I know, Hey, my internet
is down. How are the Yankees doing against the White Sox?
My dad writes back, Felix hunger, which is his way
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of that's good. Blank you between the lines. Fabiano writes back,
what a joke. My dad writes back, like our pitching
fire Cashman and Boone. I've been saying it for two years.
And then I get an emoji that I can't really
talk about on the air. He can. Then I get
I get an insult from my dad. He tells me
to go do something. And then at the end, Fabiano says,
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trade me Lad McConkie, because I just drafted Lad mcconie,
just drafted Lad McConkie and apparently wants him so blank
you blank you blank you go do this? Go blake, Hey,
trade me Lad mcconki.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, I mean we had our mini conference and back
and forth. Hey, what do you think of these rookie
wide receivers? Because it's the rookie part of the draft
and a dynasty ly and it's like, all right, let's
rank them and let's have some fun with it. I'm
happy and immediately, hey, you picked the guy I wanted.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Trade him? Hey blank? You Smith, Hey trade me Lad McCaughey.
Oh yeah, sure, after you say that to me. But
although I got to realize I did instigate it, I
mean I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean, this is where you get your Caspariitis award
for the night and being a quality agitator, instigator, whatever
term you want to use.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So you know, like, what do you would Becker? Yeah? Uh,
you know, look before we get to kid, but let
me just say this because something that I've realized about
myself in the last couple of years. And I actually
was talking about this with my wife this weekend and
I said, you know, we were whatever, we were just
talking about stories about different people. I said, Oh that
guy was a blank. Oh that guy was a blank.
Oh that guy was a blank. My ears are Harmon
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frostbry No and just people that I knew over the
course of my life. And we're going back like twenty
years now to people. We're going back like in the
late nineties and all this of yes, exactly, I gave
I gave the end up eating the calteen bars too.
And uh, and so I said, I said, but you
know what, but here's the thing, And I said to
my wife, you know, I get that when I was
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younger and still now a little bit, but I get
the when I was younger, I wasn't everybody's cup of tea.
My personality is very outgoing, probably borderline annoying at times. Uh,
probably spoke my mind a little bit too much, maybe
said the wrong thing at times. And so I say,
you know, anybody that's ever treated me that, I say,
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this guy was a real blank. There's certain there's certain people.
I go, you know, yeah, but I'm willing to throw
out there that I probably wasn't their favorite person because
I think maybe I'm sure in my interactions with them,
I I pissed them off somehow made them up. Said No,
there'sertain people, but no, that guy's just a blank, or
that lady's just a blank. You know, no, that person. No,
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but there there's a good number people. I was like, no, no,
that that couple of people. Yeah, I can see why
I still think that guy as a blank. Yeah, maybe
a little bit less because I get that I might
have been not their cup of tea, and and that's
why they were the way they were, So like, I
totally I gotta give that kind to be well.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Jimmy Buffett Pirate looks at fifty right, because he did
forty and then he did fifty.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But the idea that you go through those process.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So as much as I don't want to see Jimmy
Fallon on my TV in the middle of the Olympics,
I do like the thank you notes, in my case,
the apology notes. So when I pack it in, there's
just gonna be a stack for anybody that it's like
find addresses for these people. Here's the postage and sending
these notes. Dudey sorry, I was a jerk.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Every time I see Fallon on TV during the Olympics,
I get the impression of, here's Jimmy Fallon. He's gonna
come and tell us everything that happened when he went
out last night, like when you do with your friends
in college. Oh man, remember when this happened. Like every
time he was on TV, he's gonna tell a story
about what happened when he went out last night, sending
one out here and I met this person, this person's
in it. How cool.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Is that that?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
This person, this person is that? But it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I went through the full and then very with Mick Jagger,
like then you get to hang out with Jagger. But
went through the whole two plus weeks. I watched a
lot of Olympics right early morning, all the way through
the coverage, you and I in the studio here watching
replays whatever. I hadn't seen him at all, and then
all of a sudden, Lebron had that when he when
he hung back on D or he didn't get back
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on D I should say, cherry picked and he had
that dunk and they panned to the celebrity Row. I'm like,
there he was in the sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Avoided him. You almost made it, Buddy, came so close.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the
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couple of years ago, I said, hey, look, the Cincinnati Bengals.
You are about to enter the era of good feeling
because Joe Burrow is it. You are going to be
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competitive for the next decade. He is that good. Just
keep mouthy, but he is that good. Every year you'll
be a Super Bowl threat because you have one of
the top five to seven quarterbacks in the game, younger
who's only gonna get better. The era of good after
years of embarrassment, the era of good feeling is here.
You guys are gonna be Super Bowl threats for a decade.
That's that, you know, Cause Joe burrokeim he's a little
bit older when he came in. So at twenty four
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thirty four, I'm about to tell the same thing to
Bears fans. What are you doing Caleb Williams. Look not
just because hey, I saw him play in one game
and look how good he is, But you watch Caleb
Williams play the last couple of years, and there's a
reason why with all the other quarterbacks that we talked about,
he went number one overall. As much as people want
to drool over Jayden Daniels or JJ McCarthy or Bo Nix,
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there's a reason why none of them ever threatened Caleb
Williams going number one. Because the guy's skill set is
incredible and I knew he would come in and be
really good right away. But after seeing some of the
nuances with him early in camp, like the era of
good feeling is here of now, for the Bears for
the next decade, like he's gonna take over the league.
Like just watching some of the things, and I don't
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mean like off the field, like like clearly the Bear
like him and they believe in him, which is great,
Like that, that's a great thing. I don't mean it's
just hey, let's clean up around the you know, let's
clean up here.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I mean you could tell what the way the Bears
talk about him when when they talk after practice. This
is what Caleb did in practice today. This is really impressive.
This showed me this, This showed me this. They just
did just not the same things that they say for
Justin Fields or for Rex Grossman, whoever else you want
to throw in there. For the last twenty five years,
you can tell they really believe in this kid. And
you watch them play and some of the things in
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the first game, like his decision making is really good.
This is his first ever NFL action, and yeah, his
decision making is great. And when he throws on the run,
he is so unbelievably accurate. And there's players this makes
me feel bad for guys that came in with really
good throwing on the run skill sets like Mark Sanchez
threw great on the run, and I don't know why
the Jets are that you never put more plays in
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where we're gonna get you out throwing on the run,
because you do that really great. Like Caleb Williams on
the run is so unbelievably accurate. When he gets outside
the pocket, he's gonna find guys, you're gonna say, how
did he make that throw? It's gonna be mahomes like
with oh, it was fourth and eighteen, how does he
find Roma dunze for twenty two yards? How is that?
And how does he make that throw? He was one
(26:11):
foot out of bounds, his helmet was off, his eyes
were closed, he lost half of the fingers on his
right hand, and still he finds Roma Dunes between three defenders. Like,
that's the skill set that Caleb Williams has. And he
came in his first game and he's like, yeah, I'll
show you everything I got. This is and it was easy.
There was nothing that made me feel like, boy, he's
(26:31):
struggling at all When the rush came and was getting
close to get to him. Yeah, I'm good. My safety
valve is right here, so I'm going with the football.
There's no panic, there's no rush. He's just different. And then,
like I said, there's a reason why he went number
one and nobody else was talking about it. The era
of good feeling is here for the Bears. Dude, you
were gonna your team is gonna be great for a decade.
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And not only that, Yes, you brought in the right
players around him, because it's not like it's Caleb Williams
and nobody else like, hey, we're loading up with guys
right now. You got Jamior Gibbs and Khalil Herbert. Now
is gonna see some time right maybe roma doone say
you look at what that is getting like in practice?
And still Dj Moore is one of the top five
receivers in the NFL. This is a really good team
and you have a quarterback that is coming in that's
gonna say, yeah, I'm ready from the jump. The era
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of good feeling is here for you. Man, your team
is gonna be great for a decade at least. I mean,
you're gonna pay Caleb Williams one hundred million dollars a
year in a few years, but he's gonna You're gonna
be a super Bowl threat.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
For Attica and Bears will ever do that a decade,
like the guy that wants to keep everybody off the wagon,
because we had been in Chicago such a laughing stock
all these years. But it took a couple of snaps,
a couple of excitations to use that word again. Where
folks all of a sudden are all over this this
wagon and you're looking at the the plays from Saturday,
(27:51):
the forty two yard improv to DeAndre Swift. Not kids,
We got the other Lions guy that they wanted, didn't
want anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So did I say Gibbs, I meant to say Swift.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Well, it's on the brain because maybe he's on one
of those fantasy roster.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Gives us one my fantasy roster. We'll get to Gibbs
like you thinking about him?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, for updates and Swift and Roshawn Johnson, Roshawan Johnson,
who would be a starter on at least half of
the teams in the National Football League. Go all through
that receiving corps. You had a couple of drops that
maybe the stat line would have looked better. And this
is where you know you start digging a little deeper
than a box score. In one or two highlights, as
(28:28):
it were, the throw to comet that everybody's salivated on.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
What's the key to it?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
The eyes stayed downfield as he's moving out of the pocket,
as he's rolling out, gets the ball out. He's he's decisive,
Uh in every step that he took. Uh, deliberate all
the way through. And yeah, it's it's exciting to see.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
You saw shades of it every now and again with fields.
We talked with Jason locke Ford last hour. You go
back to Jay Cutler and there were moments where he
was dialed in and with the arm strength and everything,
it worked well. Now you have the full compliment of players.
You got a defense that's ranked top ten and was
one of the best defenses last year. Now all of
a sudden, you got the swirling wins something we talked
about two weeks ago. What if the Bears go and
(29:09):
decide to push all in and go get Jude On
from the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Why not, right, Why.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
All of those things are are you know, the wheels
in motion? Because these guys were all at their last
legs too, in terms of if this doesn't work, we're
gonna get fired, right eber Flus in particular to where
even with now the haircut and the beard and whatever
else that it's all there. You made a bunch of moves,
and you've got an offense replete with skill position players
(29:37):
that can get it done, and an offensive line that
graded out pretty well last year. Yeah, there was still
some sluggish times, but on paper, you've got an opportunity
to go be great, and you've got a quarterback and
I like the thing of hey, pick up after yourselves.
You know, I know Amani Tumor and some other folks
got out of way. It's like, like someone's.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Got to be the grown up in the room. If
it's a twenty three year old dude, that guy's great.
But I don't care if Aaron Rodgers is throwing stuff on,
is pouring soda on the floor, if he's going for
five thousand yards.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
The attention to details and in a Chicago locker room
in particular, that hasn't always been there, and so I
think that's where you start making the extra jump. And
it's not to disparage guys that came before him, but
it's more just a you've got a quarterback that's coming
in and he's not oh shucks, other than what he
threw out, what his signing Bonus was in that first
(30:29):
episode of Hard Knocks, not quite sure what the game
was there because he's making everybody else look bad, or
just saying, all right, he's the mark because he's picking
up every check now, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
But yeah, a lot of excitement. It's game one. You
have no problems. So for me, it's.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Remember what I told all those Bengal Fens after they
lost to the Rams in the Super Bowl. Don't go
assuming you're getting back here the good times, sure, good
times don't roll forever.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You're being a You're a super Bowl threat for a decade.
The celebrate, relax, rejoice, you got your guy.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
And we already have talking heads that decided to plant
their flag first just because they wanted hot takes.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Exit out bout a Frisco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen. Time now
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Kevin Waerts got everything adup.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, we're no longer on No Hit or Watch in
San Francisco, as Blake Snell has had his No Hitter
broken up, So there's now four hits combined too, each
by the Braves and the Giants, but they are still
scoreless in the bottom of the seventh inning as Chris
Sale for his part six and two thirds innings has
not allowed a run, giving up three heads twelve strikeouts.
(31:41):
So this really is a great pictures duel going on
over there in San Francisco. And now the Giants have
a runner on first with two outs to trying to
break the scoreless tie, and the Padres have breaking the
scoreless time they've had with the Pirates as Xander Bogart's
knocking in jerksen of profile to give the Padres a
(32:02):
one nothing leads. They're in the top of the eighth
inning and the Pirates now with a runner on second
with one out, so they're trying to tie it up.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So another Picture's goal.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
In the Golden State as the Padres trying to hold
onto that one run lead, staying in the NL West,
Rockies lead the Dinerbacks four to three. Blue Jays are
on top of the Angels for one. They're in the
eighth inning. Everything else as gone final man the White
Sox pounding the Yankees twelve to two, probably the best
game they've played all year. Dodgers get rookie Betts back
in the lineup and he gets a.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Two run home.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Run as the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers five to two.
Selliotani also going deep for Los Angeles. The Al Central
was a crazy back and forth game between the Guardians
and the Chicago Cubs, as Cleveland getting a couple of
big home runs from John Kenzie.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Noel the Bitch Swatonson drives this one, Dave Blackfield, It's
got a change.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
H go on, Big band.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hands of multi homer games and the Guardians hals and
eight to three Late.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Guardians Radio Network with the call. The Comes would actually
come back and tie it at eight, but Cleveland would
win it in the eighth inning and getting the XT
the go ahead run to win it. Ninety eight rds
over the Cardinals six to one. Astros beat the Ray
six to one, Red Sox and extra innings over the
Rangers five four Twins beat the Royals eight to three.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Next to you, guys, thanks a bunch k dub Coming
up next, we'll get back to the NFL. But there
is a crazy story out about everybody's favorite polarizing Olympian.
It's coming up next right here, Jason Mike you are
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (34:27):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Two big stories out of the NFL
come on your way in less than twelve minutes. But
the two big stories out of the Olympics that are
going to continue to have legs over the next couple
of days. The Jordan Child situation. Now she's not getting
(34:47):
the bronze medal. While more on that next hour and
Noah Lyles as video is surfaced of him partying after
hours club with a lot of other Olympic athletes two
days after his bronze medal slash positive COVID test. You
put out on social media. Uh, two days after his
(35:09):
positive COVID test when he ran his race and when
the bronze Hey, happy to be uh, you know, happy
to be negative. You know I'm negative. And then of
course he's out that night at a party with everybody. Yeah,
it's fuzzy math with a lot of it. See here's
here's this is this is the right thing to say
about this, because there's gonna be the oh, he's faking it.
(35:30):
He didn't have COVID all like, okay, even for Noah Lyles,
who has who has a really inflated opinion of himself.
He loves himself some Noah Liles. Boy, that's a lot
of conspiracy to get other people track and field coaches
to go along with, Hey, this is my fever. This
is my positive COVID test. NBC reporting he had COVID
(35:50):
because this is not just oh hey, I had COVID. Oh,
we'll take it on your word. No, there's They also
told me that Long Beach was Venice. Yeah, well yeah,
they stretched some truths. Okay, all right, we'll circle back
to that. Uh but COVID, that's still So this is
like people losing medical licenses and on all kinds of things.
So I don't think that Noah Lyles didn't have COVID,
(36:13):
But wow, like what was what was really stretched? What
was made out to be bigger than it was? Because
this goes from he comes out for the for the
race in which he wins the bron He's jumping around
like crazy. Everything is fine, he runs the race, he
comes in third, suddenly he needs help. He's on a wheelchair,
(36:34):
still giving a post race interview, still wapping up guys.
And then it's so bad. Oh, it's so bad. But
then two days later, Hey, I'm good and I'm at
a party. But I want to make sure you all
see that I got my negative COVID test because I'm
gonna go out and party. There's gonna be pictures taken
to me, people gonna know I'm there. Like how serious
was this?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Like?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
As soon as he won the bronze, it was, oh,
we had COVID, okay, and now but I'm good enough
two days later after this bout of COVID that I
can run in the race and I can go out
and party. Like, yes, there's different levels of COVID that
you have. Some people get COVID. I didn't know I
had it. I feel positive. Some people, boy, I got
COVID to kick my ass, Like I'm wondering how much
(37:17):
of this was. Hey, this is why he won the
bronze medal like that. We want to explain why he
won the bronze medal. And then he got better pretty
quickly like that, like I don't think for a second
his fake. But the severity of it is, oh all right,
all right, let's see because boy, it really it really
it really Just look at his result. The here's a
disappointing one. And oh, by the way, yeah that one
(37:39):
I had COVID for. Oh okay, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Well, but that's the thing, right, you start looking reasons
versus excuses and go through those processes. Tyreek Hill made
no bones about it. He's like, uh huh, I'm calling nonsense. Right,
challenged him to a race, and this is if I
lose I'll wear a mask.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
This is like the the equivalent when you were a
kid and you didn't want to go to school and
you tell you I don't feel good. I got a
sore throat, I'm achey, I'm sneezy, everything else, And you
stay home and for lunch you have chicken soup and
you watch TV. And then three thirty when your friends
are getting home and they bring your doorball. Hey mom,
I'm feeling better. I think I could go out and play.
I go out and play. The guys are gonna play football.
(38:17):
They do not feel like you go to school. I'm all good.
I go to school tomorrow. That's kind of what this is,
kind of what.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I've plenty of folks in both school and work. As
soon as the bell rings for what's supposed to be
the start of their day, suddenly they feel better and
they're ready to go. So it's look in the end, uh,
as long as they followed whatever protocols and procedures are
in place. I know the optics are terrible, but if
he's clear and he's cleared, if folks are good, Because
(38:44):
that was the thing, right, We talked about it after
the race, and you know, the word getting around to
the participants and to a person and maybe they were
just doing it because spirit of the Olympics whatever else,
But none of them said, well, damnit, he shouldn't have
been out here with us. Yeah, this is written out
to a man, it's like, whatever, I keep myself in
good shape.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
And point is they knew and they let him run.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
But a couple of those guys also alluded to the
fact that there was an illness of cold or whatever
going through the villagers, which didn't really get talked about
on a larger scale.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But how bad a case of COVID could have been.
Everybody knows. And you got the okay to go race.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But yes, but like in his case, right, it's it's
also well documented he's asthmatic or whatever else, So it
made just take that percentage to take you over. They
said he had one hundred and two degree fever. I'll
take them at their word. But yeah, the optics and
the fact that he loves him some him, he means
there's gonna be a bunch of folks that take it negatively. Right,
(39:42):
there was a manufactured thing where he was gonna be
in a verbal slap fight with Anthony Edwards, even though
Anthony Edwards had it, but it was hated to go
to a shoe release because he was bad. He didn't
get a shoe release and whatever else. But like they
were just story after story about him. And it's because
as well, some folks have that liking problem in that they.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Don't yeah and look, and he didn't do himself, and
he favors with this story because again, I feel like
it was an accordion when we wanted to be a
big Sure, it's a big deal, but then when the
races are over, oh, now it's not a big deal.
Right like that.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
But if he ended up winning the gold, would it
have been the same thing.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
We'd have gotten full James Brown treatment where the robe
gets put on immediately as you get off.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Right, here's the towel as you walk towards Ladies and
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It was just not even two weeks ago, Blake Snell
no hit the Reds three to nothing, first no hitter
of his career. Really big story. Next outing five days later,
(01:16):
not bad A good outing yet beat the Nationals.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But human, but compared to what he'd been doing for
the prior month, I mean, he looked like a slouch.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Still, don't sell him short. He's a tremendous slouch. Wins
his second game of the year right now, as the
Giants bat in the bottom of the fifth inning. There
have been two hits in this game, both of them
by the Giants. It is a nothing, nothing game. Blake
Snell has given up no hits through five innings to
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the Braves. Snell's line five innings, eighty one pitches, nine strikeouts.
This is Blake Snell's line through five innings. Now, the
one thing I am gonna say is that he is
already at eighty one pitches. This is a lot of
pitches through five. You want to be if you want
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to pitch a complete game, you need to be somewhere
in the sixties through five innings. That that's kind of
where you want to be. And then at you know,
seventy seventy five pitches. After said so, he is at
a lot of pitches. So he's gonna need if he's
gonna continue to go here with this no hitter and
stay in there for another four innings. He's gonna need
a couple of quick innings because if he gets up.
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He threw one fourteen for his no hitter, so you
got to think, Okay, they'll leave him in for that
at least up to there again. But that's still you're
talking about only another forty pitches over the next four innings.
He really needs a couple of economical innings, a couple
of less than ten pitch innings if he's gonna be
able to do.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
But he's getting a lot of help because you have
the fastest working pitcher in baseball on the other side,
also throwing a gem and Chris Hale.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, Chris Sale just caught a line, saved his own life,
got a line drive hit right back up the middle.
He spears, it looks like he's gonna take his head off,
and he gets out of the fifth inning, the sixth
one of my favorite dude, if you had Chris Sale,
you might have him and Dylan c you might you
might have like thirty wins if you had Sorry, sorry,
what are you doing to me? Why can't I have
(03:15):
nice things? Yes? This is great, I will I'll get
to my uh yeah, you beating the Yankees by ten.
I'll get a few minutes, I'll tell you, I'll tell
you what my dad's and Fabiano's text about the Yankee game.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
But anyway, back to the point is that Sales working
so efficiently and only giving up two hits as we
go scoreless into these six is that he's not sitting
and languishing on the on the bench you're hanging out
in the dead out. He's back to work pretty fast.
So uh speedy game, two aces, getting after it. And
you look at what Snell's done since coming back from injury.
(03:48):
Just a ridiculous run and another great outing here. Uh yeah,
he's gonna need to get bailed out by the braves
hitters if he's going to finish this thing. But you
know what, it's fun to watch and have these kind
of storylines out a Monday right.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Now, now, now, because I do have a piece of
advice for you, piece of advice for you that that
stopped caring.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No no, no, no, no no, because with a lot
of things, I mean just told me about stuff like
that said just stop, I'm.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Gonna I'm gonna help you with this. Because when we
talk about the White Sox right and here they are again,
they're beating the Yankees twelve the two. It was cool
that in the last two weeks ago we've gotten to
talk about the White Sox winning a couple of times.
Aaron Boone might get fired in the next ten minutes.
I will say this is every time you sit here
and and there seems to be guys all over Major
(04:33):
League Baseball that are really good that used to play
for the White Sox, you lose a lot of sympathy
because people think, well, the White Sox just a bad team.
But every time you go, boy, look at all these guys,
how good they are playing in different cities, Like when
you had that All Star team that was all former experts,
you lose the sympathy of people. I feel bad for
Harmony because his team is so bad. Oh no, wait,
(04:55):
his team had really good players.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
But that's why you feel bad for me, is that
they don't retain them.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No. Now, they hold you just as responsible as the
front office. You're just as responsible. I wish I had
the clout of gets it is.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You're just I'd love to have to sit down with
Steve Stone right now, who's pondering his baseball mortality and
deciding after these next whatever it is, forty four, forty
five games, whether he wants to do this anymore. He
got Ryan'sdorf, who's eighty eight years old. Yeah, we talked
about him a JARRYT Jones Ya. No, No, like Jerry
(05:29):
at least cut a check rise doorf ain't doing that.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
No, And he tried it a couple times.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
He tried to emulate the Braves and guess what, Snake Hayes,
he ain't doing it again.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So we'll keep you updated on baseball again. The White
Sox putting the finishing touches on what's gonna be a
twelve to two win over the As and Blake Snell
no hit her through five against the Braves. However, the
Braves I believe just did he just walk Jorge Sohileira again.
I think that's the third time he's walked tonight. Or
did he hit him? He either walked him or he
(06:01):
hit him. And the Braves have the leadoff battery of
the inning on it first for this one. So we'll
keep you updated again. But look, let's we have to
talk about this. Yeah, he walked to Merrifield and okay,
all right, look on the Jets. So then he got
thrown out trying to steal a big a big NFL
(06:22):
story today Hassan Reddick, who for the last year has
been one of the best defensive linemen in the NFL,
one of the best again into the quarterback. Oh, that
was one of the greatest acquisitions in the offseason. You
shut up. So the Jets make a trade for him,
and they remake their defensive line because hey, they had
a lot of guys coming up. They couldn't pay them all.
(06:42):
So this is what they did. They let a couple
of guys go, They let Bryce Huff go, They let
John Franklin Myers go, Hey, we're replacing you with Hassan Reddick,
who is twenty nine, one of the best pass rushers
in the game. Awesome, what a great defensive line. The
Jets trade for him, and there's talk at the time
when the Jets make the trade for him that, well,
(07:03):
I really want a new contract if I'm gonna play.
If you talk to the Jets, the Jets say they knew,
and Hassan Reddicks people knew we traded for him. We
expect them to be with the team and we can
talk about it. Hassan Reddicks team will say the Jets
knew I wanted a new contract, and they traded for
me anyway. So either the Jets screwed it up by
trading for a player they didn't know they could sign,
(07:25):
or the Jets screwed it up by trading for a
player who then subsequently told them I'm not going to sign.
In any event, the Jets screwed it up, and now
today Hassan Reddick has asked for a trade from the Jets.
The Jets responded very quickly saying we're not going to
trade him. Statement out, yeah, well and I'll tell you why.
And the Jets said, we're not going to trade him.
(07:46):
We look forward him coming in playing for us. We
didn't obtain him to trade him. Blah blah, blah, blah
blah blah. Let me just say this. First thing I
want to say is my doctor told me count the
tenth and stuff. Uh. This is the Jets being the Jets,
and this is why they're hoping that eight is the
guy that covers up all the ills they have Aaron Rodgers,
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regardless of whatever's coming out of biography of him, whether
he was immunized or not, doesn't matter. They are hoping, Hey,
Aaron Rodgers, cover up the fact that we're the Jets.
Be great, and no one will care that we're the Jets, because,
quite honestly, Joe Douglas Robert Sala are gonna get fired
at the end of the year if they are no good.
Joe Douglas might get fired anyway, because how do you
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decide we're gonna go get this guy and you don't
know that you can sign, you don't know that he's
gonna come in and play for you.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
How do you do it unless you've got the absolute
framework of the deal in place, where you've got the
tacit agreement, and maybe you're quibbling over one or two
last minor details, how do you make the deal?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
There's no way. And here's the thing. While it's a
he said, he said, there's no way that the Jets
did all their due diligence because if they did, that
would have gotten out. It would have got and they
wouldn't have said it. They want a sign ready to play,
but it would have been Sources say, hey, Zon Reddick
lied to the Jets. He told them he would he
would play there without a new contract, and here he
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is pulling this thing at the last minute. If that
was the case, the Jets would have leaked that out.
So this tells me they thought, yeah, no, we can
sign them, and now they're screwed. And now there's and
you know why when I see this story and I go,
I look at it and I want to look at
it from a perspective of of how can I minimalize
this because it just sucks? Is that at this point
does it really matter? Does it really matter? The guy's
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been in the building on one day, April Fool's Day
to take his physical. He has not been around. I'm serious.
He was in that. He was in one Jets drive
one day, took his physical. That's it. He's not been
around the team for the all off season. Didn't go
through a ta's, didn't go through workouts, he's missed the
first two weeks in the first game of training camp.
What kind of year is he really gonna have? Life?
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What kind of I mean, what kind of year? You
guys can work out all they want, but they're not
in football. Shit, we know you know you can work
Oh on work that worked? I'm ready. No, it's not
the case. So what kind of year is he really
gonna have? He's and this is where here's nobody wins,
except if you want to laugh at the Jets, because
he's either gonna have a year where he's not as
good because he didn't have a normal offseason, or he's
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gonna get hurt because he's gonna try to at some point,
he's gonna try to rush back and he's gonna get
hurt and have some kind of soft tissue injury like
a hamstring or a groin or something, and he's gonna
be in and out of the line up the entire season.
And that or that's gonna happen. And how this works
out is that not only is it bad for the Jets,
but it's bad for him because he wants more money
next year. Guess what, he ain't gonna get it. If
he doesn't play with a big year this year, he's
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not gonna get any money next year normally. And this
is how the Jets find a way to take being
ridiculously dumb to new heights is that usually in a holdout,
somebody wins. Either the player wins because the team caves
and they give him the money, or the team wins
because the player caves and he comes in, or they
both win because the player comes in, the team signs,
and everybody's happy. No, no, this is a case where
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nobody wins because the Jets don't win because they don't
have him, and Reddick doesn't win because at this point,
what kind of year is he gonna have. It's gonna
be bad or he's gonna get hurt and he's not
gonna get paid next year, and he's gonna say, boy,
why did I just play for fourteen and a half
million dollars this year? The Jets talked about guaranteeing his
contract for next year, but no, no, I want more
money because the top pass rushers are getting thirty million
a year. Nobody wins here, nobody wins, and the Jets
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look ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
Now, I'd say he can pull a Levey on Bell,
but he got his next contract after not taking the
fifteen million he got it from the Jets, So this
would actually be the Jets at the origin story of this.
Here's where I'm gonna bring back. You talked about Aaron Rodgers,
and this is where I don't really give a damn
about his biography, what words he used, that's all that's
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all done. You like him or you don't it's one
of the greatest regular season quarterbacks we've ever seen. But
here here's where he could become a hero to New
York and New Jersey. This is the you go to
Joe Douglas and you've got a lot of sway right.
Look at all those guys he got contracts for. Look
at the fact that Hackett is still drawing a paycheck
from your team. Go on down the line, go into
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that office and figure out what the dollars are to
make it make sense, and you adjust your deal. You
add another year. You move some monies around, and you
become the hero.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
You said monies. Some monies.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Move those monies so you can get Reddick in and
even if it takes four weeks to get them up
to speed, you get them up to speed. This is
where your quarterback needs to be a leader and get
You don't want to get involved necessarily in guys wallets,
but this is one where it's clearly public that there's
that bit of a disagreement, and you've got the cash
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and the cash reserves to go and help this thing,
and you can become a hero. And a lot of
the angst and ill will felt by Jets fans and
NFL fans nationwide. You can get the Jets out from
some of their problem by being a problem solvy yourself.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
He's gonna say, yeah, yeah, that's great. I took less
money last year. Yeah okay. Now my real worry with
him is that he's gonna go wow. Now I really
see why nobody ever wanted to play here. Now I
see why this team is a laughing stock. We traded
for a guy who's supposed to be our best defensive
lineman and we can't even get him in campus. I'm
just trying to give you an out and didn't know right.
That's my worry. Aaron Rodgers not gonna give money back
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to help this clown show. I mean, come on, man,
how many stories do I say end with? And the
Jets look ridiculous. It's like you can tack that on
to the end of anything. I was trying to help
him restore his image. Nobody looks good. The Jets look awful,
and at this point, what does it matter. He's not
gonna play, he's not gonna have a big seat, it
doesn't matter. It's an awful thing. And again I keep
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going back to boy. Hopefully Aaron Rodgers is great because
if he's great, that'll come. He's got to cover it up.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
It's all Wilson, it's all Grease Hall, and it's all
Aaron Rodgers. I was trying to find just one thing
in an alternate universe that may have helped, clearly, was
the sarcasm bucket was filling up.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
No, yeah, now I'm too repped up about this story.
I'm too red. You can't just calm me down from
that with this any day. I see that, but this
has also been brewing. This is not new, dude.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
But that's the thing though, the only thing that's new
about this is they had to issue a statement.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Because when has a guy ever played for a team,
not played and requested a trade. I mean, come on,
that doesn't happen. He's maybe Jets look ridiculous. He's had
he's had.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
A spy at every practice who's told him how badly
this is gonna end, and he doesn't want his name
attached to it, and they wouldn't cut him off a
big enough check.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Jet's gonna jet, Yo, Jet's gonna jet the Jason Spencer
with Mike Carmon Love you dot Com Studios. No, you can't,
because the Jets just and the Jets look ridiculous taken
end every sentence.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
And the Jets look can we do that? In the
Star Wars font on a T shirt dot dot dot.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Quick Update, Blake Snell gets through six no hits for
the Braves, looking for his second no hitter in three starts.
It is still a nothing, nothing game with the Giants
batting in the bottom of the sixth inning. Snell is though,
up to ninety eight pitches through six innings. Hard to
believe he's gonna be out there to see the end
of this one, but you never know.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
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Speaker 1 (17:01):
Did you go see Sugar Ray at the Cayuga County
fair Grounds this weekend? I'm into a concert since i
was like twenty two, what are you? Twenty four three,
twenty three? Okay? Good Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Well, the Blake
Snell no hitter is no more. Not only that Braves
are threatening with two on, nobody out. In the top
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of the seventh of a scoreless game, Blake Snell came
into the seventh inning no hits for the second time
in his last three starts. Remember we had the no
hitter against the Reds. Was it ninety eight pitches? So
I can't believe Snell's going to be in the game
much longer. But did give up a leadoff double down
the line, and it looks like maybe his pitches are
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hanging up there a little bit more. Maybe he's getting
to the end. But again nothing nothing top of the
seventh inning, Braves and the Giants, Blake Snell nearly going
two no hitters in his last three starts.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
We actually had an attempted bunt, get him on, get
him over, get him in this scoreless game, because let's
face it, h and I'm really shocked in all this
talk of Snell and the no hitter and the nothing,
nothing score that we have here that you haven't mocked
the Braves and their futility of late.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, I would like the Braves to lose tonight first,
and then I'd like to I'd like to get because
I would think at this point you'd also be hoping
for a hook based on the way the ball has
been hanging up there.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
I Blake Smell, I like, he just got it. He
just got away with one. Yeah, right there, I could
mock the Braves.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
But then it was that Jason, didn't your team score
one run in the last three games again, swept in Seattle?
Yeah that was they didn't play tonight. Yeah that was us. Yeah,
that was what would be your line. And the Yankees
lost twelve to two.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, because that's how you that's how you redirect all
of that energy like you're an X men.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's a good night. Yankees didn't just lose tonight, They
lost by fifty. He lost twelve to two. I mean
that's insane.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
And Jashism left the game with an elbow injury in
the seventh, So you got that kind of floating in
the background.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
So you so you want the texts from well, let
you go. We'll get to Caleb Williams in a second ago,
So I write, uh, I write to Fabiano. You know
Sports Illustrated Fantasy U grew Michael Fabiano and my dad
the two biggest Yankee fans. I know, Hey, my internet
is down. How are the Yankees doing against the White Sox?
My dad writes back, Felix hunger, which is his way
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of that's good. Blank you between the lines. Fabiano writes back,
what a joke. My dad writes back, like our pitching
fire Cashman and Boone. I've been saying it for two years.
And then I get an emoji that I can't really
talk about on the air. He can. Then I get
I get an insult from my dad. He tells me
to go do something. And then at the end, Fabiano says,
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trade me Lad McConkie, because I just drafted Lad mcconie,
just drafted Lad McConkie and apparently wants him so blank
you blank you blank you go do this? Go blake, Hey,
trade me Lad mcconki.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, I mean we had our mini conference and back
and forth. Hey, what do you think of these rookie
wide receivers? Because it's the rookie part of the draft
and a dynasty ly and it's like, all right, let's
rank them and let's have some fun with it. I'm
happy and immediately, hey, you picked the guy I wanted.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Trade him? Hey blank? You Smith, Hey trade me Lad McCaughey.
Oh yeah, sure, after you say that to me. But
although I got to realize I did instigate it, I
mean I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
I mean, this is where you get your Caspariitis award
for the night and being a quality agitator, instigator, whatever
term you want to use.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
So you know, like, what do you would Becker? Yeah? Uh,
you know, look before we get to kid, but let
me just say this because something that I've realized about
myself in the last couple of years. And I actually
was talking about this with my wife this weekend and
I said, you know, we were whatever, we were just
talking about stories about different people. I said, Oh that
guy was a blank. Oh that guy was a blank.
Oh that guy was a blank. My ears are Harmon
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frostbry No and just people that I knew over the
course of my life. And we're going back like twenty
years now to people. We're going back like in the
late nineties and all this of yes, exactly, I gave
I gave the end up eating the calteen bars too.
And uh, and so I said, I said, but you
know what, but here's the thing, And I said to
my wife, you know, I get that when I was
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younger and still now a little bit, but I get
the when I was younger, I wasn't everybody's cup of tea.
My personality is very outgoing, probably borderline annoying at times. Uh,
probably spoke my mind a little bit too much, maybe
said the wrong thing at times. And so I say,
you know, anybody that's ever treated me that, I say,
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this guy was a real blank. There's certain there's certain people.
I go, you know, yeah, but I'm willing to throw
out there that I probably wasn't their favorite person because
I think maybe I'm sure in my interactions with them,
I I pissed them off somehow made them up. Said No,
there'sertain people, but no, that guy's just a blank, or
that lady's just a blank. You know, no, that person. No,
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but there there's a good number people. I was like, no, no,
that that couple of people. Yeah, I can see why
I still think that guy as a blank. Yeah, maybe
a little bit less because I get that I might
have been not their cup of tea, and and that's
why they were the way they were, So like, I
totally I gotta give that kind to be well.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Jimmy Buffett Pirate looks at fifty right, because he did
forty and then he did fifty.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
But the idea that you go through those process.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So as much as I don't want to see Jimmy
Fallon on my TV in the middle of the Olympics,
I do like the thank you notes, in my case,
the apology notes. So when I pack it in, there's
just gonna be a stack for anybody that it's like
find addresses for these people. Here's the postage and sending
these notes. Dudey sorry, I was a jerk.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Every time I see Fallon on TV during the Olympics,
I get the impression of, here's Jimmy Fallon. He's gonna
come and tell us everything that happened when he went
out last night, like when you do with your friends
in college. Oh man, remember when this happened. Like every
time he was on TV, he's gonna tell a story
about what happened when he went out last night, sending
one out here and I met this person, this person's
in it. How cool.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Is that that?
Speaker 1 (22:55):
This person, this person is that? But it was crazy.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I went through the full and then very with Mick Jagger,
like then you get to hang out with Jagger. But
went through the whole two plus weeks. I watched a
lot of Olympics right early morning, all the way through
the coverage, you and I in the studio here watching
replays whatever. I hadn't seen him at all, and then
all of a sudden, Lebron had that when he when
he hung back on D or he didn't get back
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on D I should say, cherry picked and he had
that dunk and they panned to the celebrity Row. I'm like,
there he was in the sunglasses.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Avoided him. You almost made it, Buddy, came so close.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the
tirec dot Com Studios. Okay, so if you remember a
couple of years ago, I said, hey, look, the Cincinnati Bengals.
You are about to enter the era of good feeling
because Joe Burrow is it. You are going to be
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competitive for the next decade. He is that good. Just
keep mouthy, but he is that good. Every year you'll
be a Super Bowl threat because you have one of
the top five to seven quarterbacks in the game, younger
who's only gonna get better. The era of good after
years of embarrassment, the era of good feeling is here.
You guys are gonna be Super Bowl threats for a decade.
That's that, you know, Cause Joe burrokeim he's a little
bit older when he came in. So at twenty four
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thirty four, I'm about to tell the same thing to
Bears fans. What are you doing Caleb Williams. Look not
just because hey, I saw him play in one game
and look how good he is, But you watch Caleb
Williams play the last couple of years, and there's a
reason why with all the other quarterbacks that we talked about,
he went number one overall. As much as people want
to drool over Jayden Daniels or JJ McCarthy or Bo Nix,
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there's a reason why none of them ever threatened Caleb
Williams going number one. Because the guy's skill set is
incredible and I knew he would come in and be
really good right away. But after seeing some of the
nuances with him early in camp, like the era of
good feeling is here of now, for the Bears for
the next decade, like he's gonna take over the league.
Like just watching some of the things, and I don't
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mean like off the field, like like clearly the Bear
like him and they believe in him, which is great,
Like that, that's a great thing. I don't mean it's
just hey, let's clean up around the you know, let's
clean up here.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
No.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
I mean you could tell what the way the Bears
talk about him when when they talk after practice. This
is what Caleb did in practice today. This is really impressive.
This showed me this, This showed me this. They just
did just not the same things that they say for
Justin Fields or for Rex Grossman, whoever else you want
to throw in there. For the last twenty five years,
you can tell they really believe in this kid. And
you watch them play and some of the things in
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the first game, like his decision making is really good.
This is his first ever NFL action, and yeah, his
decision making is great. And when he throws on the run,
he is so unbelievably accurate. And there's players this makes
me feel bad for guys that came in with really
good throwing on the run skill sets like Mark Sanchez
threw great on the run, and I don't know why
the Jets are that you never put more plays in
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where we're gonna get you out throwing on the run,
because you do that really great. Like Caleb Williams on
the run is so unbelievably accurate. When he gets outside
the pocket, he's gonna find guys, you're gonna say, how
did he make that throw? It's gonna be mahomes like
with oh, it was fourth and eighteen, how does he
find Roma dunze for twenty two yards? How is that?
And how does he make that throw? He was one
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foot out of bounds, his helmet was off, his eyes
were closed, he lost half of the fingers on his
right hand, and still he finds Roma Dunes between three defenders. Like,
that's the skill set that Caleb Williams has. And he
came in his first game and he's like, yeah, I'll
show you everything I got. This is and it was easy.
There was nothing that made me feel like, boy, he's
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struggling at all When the rush came and was getting
close to get to him. Yeah, I'm good. My safety
valve is right here, so I'm going with the football.
There's no panic, there's no rush. He's just different. And then,
like I said, there's a reason why he went number
one and nobody else was talking about it. The era
of good feeling is here for the Bears. Dude, you
were gonna your team is gonna be great for a decade.
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And not only that, Yes, you brought in the right
players around him, because it's not like it's Caleb Williams
and nobody else like, hey, we're loading up with guys
right now. You got Jamior Gibbs and Khalil Herbert. Now
is gonna see some time right maybe roma doone say
you look at what that is getting like in practice?
And still Dj Moore is one of the top five
receivers in the NFL. This is a really good team
and you have a quarterback that is coming in that's
gonna say, yeah, I'm ready from the jump. The era
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of good feeling is here for you. Man, your team
is gonna be great for a decade at least. I mean,
you're gonna pay Caleb Williams one hundred million dollars a
year in a few years, but he's gonna You're gonna
be a super Bowl threat.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
For Attica and Bears will ever do that a decade,
like the guy that wants to keep everybody off the wagon,
because we had been in Chicago such a laughing stock
all these years. But it took a couple of snaps,
a couple of excitations to use that word again. Where
folks all of a sudden are all over this this
wagon and you're looking at the the plays from Saturday,
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the forty two yard improv to DeAndre Swift. Not kids,
We got the other Lions guy that they wanted, didn't
want anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So did I say Gibbs, I meant to say Swift.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Well, it's on the brain because maybe he's on one
of those fantasy roster.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Gives us one my fantasy roster. We'll get to Gibbs
like you thinking about him?
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, for updates and Swift and Roshawn Johnson, Roshawan Johnson,
who would be a starter on at least half of
the teams in the National Football League. Go all through
that receiving corps. You had a couple of drops that
maybe the stat line would have looked better. And this
is where you know you start digging a little deeper
than a box score. In one or two highlights, as
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it were, the throw to comet that everybody's salivated on.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
What's the key to it?
Speaker 3 (28:33):
The eyes stayed downfield as he's moving out of the pocket,
as he's rolling out, gets the ball out. He's he's decisive,
Uh in every step that he took. Uh, deliberate all
the way through. And yeah, it's it's exciting to see.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
You saw shades of it every now and again with fields.
We talked with Jason locke Ford last hour. You go
back to Jay Cutler and there were moments where he
was dialed in and with the arm strength and everything,
it worked well. Now you have the full compliment of players.
You got a defense that's ranked top ten and was
one of the best defenses last year. Now all of
a sudden, you got the swirling wins something we talked
about two weeks ago. What if the Bears go and
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decide to push all in and go get Jude On
from the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Why not, right, Why.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
All of those things are are you know, the wheels
in motion? Because these guys were all at their last
legs too, in terms of if this doesn't work, we're
gonna get fired, right eber Flus in particular to where
even with now the haircut and the beard and whatever
else that it's all there. You made a bunch of moves,
and you've got an offense replete with skill position players
(29:37):
that can get it done, and an offensive line that
graded out pretty well last year. Yeah, there was still
some sluggish times, but on paper, you've got an opportunity
to go be great, and you've got a quarterback and
I like the thing of hey, pick up after yourselves.
You know, I know Amani Tumor and some other folks
got out of way. It's like, like someone's.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Got to be the grown up in the room. If
it's a twenty three year old dude, that guy's great.
But I don't care if Aaron Rodgers is throwing stuff on,
is pouring soda on the floor, if he's going for
five thousand yards.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
The attention to details and in a Chicago locker room
in particular, that hasn't always been there, and so I
think that's where you start making the extra jump. And
it's not to disparage guys that came before him, but
it's more just a you've got a quarterback that's coming
in and he's not oh shucks, other than what he
threw out, what his signing Bonus was in that first
(30:29):
episode of Hard Knocks, not quite sure what the game
was there because he's making everybody else look bad, or
just saying, all right, he's the mark because he's picking
up every check now, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
But yeah, a lot of excitement. It's game one. You
have no problems. So for me, it's.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Remember what I told all those Bengal Fens after they
lost to the Rams in the Super Bowl. Don't go
assuming you're getting back here the good times, sure, good
times don't roll forever.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
You're being a You're a super Bowl threat for a decade.
The celebrate, relax, rejoice, you got your guy.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
And we already have talking heads that decided to plant
their flag first just because they wanted hot takes.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Exit out bout a Frisco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen. Time now
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Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, we're no longer on No Hit or Watch in
San Francisco, as Blake Snell has had his No Hitter
broken up, So there's now four hits combined too, each
by the Braves and the Giants, but they are still
scoreless in the bottom of the seventh inning as Chris
Sale for his part six and two thirds innings has
not allowed a run, giving up three heads twelve strikeouts.
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So this really is a great pictures duel going on
over there in San Francisco. And now the Giants have
a runner on first with two outs to trying to
break the scoreless tie, and the Padres have breaking the
scoreless time they've had with the Pirates as Xander Bogart's
knocking in jerksen of profile to give the Padres a
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one nothing leads. They're in the top of the eighth
inning and the Pirates now with a runner on second
with one out, so they're trying to tie it up.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
So another Picture's goal.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
In the Golden State as the Padres trying to hold
onto that one run lead, staying in the NL West,
Rockies lead the Dinerbacks four to three. Blue Jays are
on top of the Angels for one. They're in the
eighth inning. Everything else as gone final man the White
Sox pounding the Yankees twelve to two, probably the best
game they've played all year. Dodgers get rookie Betts back
in the lineup and he gets a.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Two run home.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Run as the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers five to two.
Selliotani also going deep for Los Angeles. The Al Central
was a crazy back and forth game between the Guardians
and the Chicago Cubs, as Cleveland getting a couple of
big home runs from John Kenzie.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Noel the Bitch Swatonson drives this one, Dave Blackfield, It's
got a change.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
H go on, Big band.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hands of multi homer games and the Guardians hals and
eight to three Late.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Guardians Radio Network with the call. The Comes would actually
come back and tie it at eight, but Cleveland would
win it in the eighth inning and getting the XT
the go ahead run to win it. Ninety eight rds
over the Cardinals six to one. Astros beat the Ray
six to one, Red Sox and extra innings over the
Rangers five four Twins beat the Royals eight to three.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Next to you, guys, thanks a bunch k dub Coming
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is a crazy story out about everybody's favorite polarizing Olympian.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Two big stories out of the NFL
come on your way in less than twelve minutes. But
the two big stories out of the Olympics that are
going to continue to have legs over the next couple
of days. The Jordan Child situation. Now she's not getting
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the bronze medal. While more on that next hour and
Noah Lyles as video is surfaced of him partying after
hours club with a lot of other Olympic athletes two
days after his bronze medal slash positive COVID test. You
put out on social media. Uh, two days after his
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positive COVID test when he ran his race and when
the bronze Hey, happy to be uh, you know, happy
to be negative. You know I'm negative. And then of
course he's out that night at a party with everybody. Yeah,
it's fuzzy math with a lot of it. See here's
here's this is this is the right thing to say
about this, because there's gonna be the oh, he's faking it.
(35:30):
He didn't have COVID all like, okay, even for Noah Lyles,
who has who has a really inflated opinion of himself.
He loves himself some Noah Liles. Boy, that's a lot
of conspiracy to get other people track and field coaches
to go along with, Hey, this is my fever. This
is my positive COVID test. NBC reporting he had COVID
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because this is not just oh hey, I had COVID. Oh,
we'll take it on your word. No, there's They also
told me that Long Beach was Venice. Yeah, well yeah,
they stretched some truths. Okay, all right, we'll circle back
to that. Uh but COVID, that's still So this is
like people losing medical licenses and on all kinds of things.
So I don't think that Noah Lyles didn't have COVID,
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But wow, like what was what was really stretched? What
was made out to be bigger than it was? Because
this goes from he comes out for the for the
race in which he wins the bron He's jumping around
like crazy. Everything is fine, he runs the race, he
comes in third, suddenly he needs help. He's on a wheelchair,
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still giving a post race interview, still wapping up guys.
And then it's so bad. Oh, it's so bad. But
then two days later, Hey, I'm good and I'm at
a party. But I want to make sure you all
see that I got my negative COVID test because I'm
gonna go out and party. There's gonna be pictures taken
to me, people gonna know I'm there. Like how serious
was this?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Like?
Speaker 1 (36:54):
As soon as he won the bronze, it was, oh,
we had COVID, okay, and now but I'm good enough
two days later after this bout of COVID that I
can run in the race and I can go out
and party. Like, yes, there's different levels of COVID that
you have. Some people get COVID. I didn't know I
had it. I feel positive. Some people, boy, I got
COVID to kick my ass, Like I'm wondering how much
(37:17):
of this was. Hey, this is why he won the
bronze medal like that. We want to explain why he
won the bronze medal. And then he got better pretty
quickly like that, like I don't think for a second
his fake. But the severity of it is, oh all right,
all right, let's see because boy, it really it really
it really Just look at his result. The here's a
disappointing one. And oh, by the way, yeah that one
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I had COVID for. Oh okay, it's weird.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Well, but that's the thing, right, you start looking reasons
versus excuses and go through those processes. Tyreek Hill made
no bones about it. He's like, uh huh, I'm calling nonsense. Right,
challenged him to a race, and this is if I
lose I'll wear a mask.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
This is like the the equivalent when you were a
kid and you didn't want to go to school and
you tell you I don't feel good. I got a
sore throat, I'm achey, I'm sneezy, everything else, And you
stay home and for lunch you have chicken soup and
you watch TV. And then three thirty when your friends
are getting home and they bring your doorball. Hey mom,
I'm feeling better. I think I could go out and play.
I go out and play. The guys are gonna play football.
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They do not feel like you go to school. I'm all good.
I go to school tomorrow. That's kind of what this is,
kind of what.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
I've plenty of folks in both school and work. As
soon as the bell rings for what's supposed to be
the start of their day, suddenly they feel better and
they're ready to go. So it's look in the end, uh,
as long as they followed whatever protocols and procedures are
in place. I know the optics are terrible, but if
he's clear and he's cleared, if folks are good, Because
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that was the thing, right, We talked about it after
the race, and you know, the word getting around to
the participants and to a person and maybe they were
just doing it because spirit of the Olympics whatever else,
But none of them said, well, damnit, he shouldn't have
been out here with us. Yeah, this is written out
to a man, it's like, whatever, I keep myself in
good shape.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
And point is they knew and they let him run.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
But a couple of those guys also alluded to the
fact that there was an illness of cold or whatever
going through the villagers, which didn't really get talked about
on a larger scale.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
But how bad a case of COVID could have been.
Everybody knows. And you got the okay to go race.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But yes, but like in his case, right, it's it's
also well documented he's asthmatic or whatever else, So it
made just take that percentage to take you over. They
said he had one hundred and two degree fever. I'll
take them at their word. But yeah, the optics and
the fact that he loves him some him, he means
there's gonna be a bunch of folks that take it negatively. Right,
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there was a manufactured thing where he was gonna be
in a verbal slap fight with Anthony Edwards, even though
Anthony Edwards had it, but it was hated to go
to a shoe release because he was bad. He didn't
get a shoe release and whatever else. But like they
were just story after story about him. And it's because
as well, some folks have that liking problem in that they.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Don't yeah and look, and he didn't do himself, and
he favors with this story because again, I feel like
it was an accordion when we wanted to be a
big Sure, it's a big deal, but then when the
races are over, oh, now it's not a big deal.
Right like that.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
But if he ended up winning the gold, would it
have been the same thing.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
We'd have gotten full James Brown treatment where the robe
gets put on immediately as you get off.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
Right, here's the towel as you walk towards Ladies and
gentlemen exit out bout of Fresca exit swelling down the
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