August 14, 2024 • 38 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about Sam Darnold’s role as QB1 of the Vikings being solidified with news of JJ McCarthy needing surgery, why one QB you don’t expect will be regarded as the best in the NFC by the end of the season, the latest on the Brandon Aiyuk saga, and more!
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Speaker 4 (00:53):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Sometimes how come you say what a glorious night it is?
And sometimes you say welcome inside, happy night, And I go, well,
look at what the score of the Mets game is.
If the Mets have won or winning, it is a
glorious night. If the Mets are losing, it's happy night.
Welcome inside. Yeah, glorious night includes either you had a
sandwich or a sandwiches on the way.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I just did have a sandwich the medic. Was it
a good sandwich?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah? You know why because I was like, what am
I gonna do When I get to work, I'll figure
it out. And I get in and I and I
see that it's instead of three three nothing, it's seven nothing,
and I go, it's sandwich time. Sand Met's. The Mets
have driven me to sandwich because Bo's in for for
just Frostburg. And you know, we were debating whether you
were coming in or not. I'm like, my understanding is
that you were, and then we just found out it
was a sandwich delay. Yeah. No, the metrimens to get
(01:38):
yourself back into your proper fields. No, and that's the tonight,
Like I'm not you know, oh, they drive me to
drink it?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Right? No, they know my team drive me to sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay, a little black stretch, Well, but that that could
be the phrase though, my team drives me to sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's what it is. Well, what's fine is I really
want let's get that deal link come on?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
They were down by three yeah, and I'm like, really,
how do we come out this flatway.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well you keep it within it, am, Come on, we can.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Put these teams stink and we can't beat the teams
at stink. And when you can't beat the teams at stink,
you're not gonna make the playoffs. I'm like, okay, I'm
remembering in my head, the Mets got to get me
to the Jets, right, Mets, the Jets, Mets, the Jets, right,
and they've done that at least, And I'm like, okay,
I'm my god, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
When I get in?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I maybe we'll figure out food. And then I see
then I see oh seven nothing because I'm in the
car and I go for I'm going for a sandwich.
I'm going to have a sandwich. Conversely, my team is
reverting to stinking again, even though the Yankees were supposed
to be relegated.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, Soto's got three home runs today. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah yeah yeah. Do you drill him the next time?
It's one more.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Shot at it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I don't know. I think I think if you're the
White Socks, you kind of stroke for history. Yeah to him,
here's the ephis Yeah, see how hard you can hit it?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
You just throw it up and go here you go,
here you go, catch it, there you go, see what
he does.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, that'd be kind of fun. I think, just throw
You know. I always last guy to hit have a
four home run game. It was Soto. I look at
this pitch and I gave him the fourth.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
My face, you know, I always think about this when
I think of let the guy hit a home run.
Do you remember the show we were growing up, Sigmun
in the Sea Monsters? Sure? Okay, so it was this
crazy as show, right, one of those Seals and Croft shows,
like from the early seventies, which is kind of like Pixar, Right,
Seals and Croft was Pixar of the late seventies. So
Sigmund was a Sea Monster.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, sid Marty Crofts. Seals and Cross was the.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Marty Croft. Yes, yes, yes, heals? What was Seals and Cross?
Big song was there? Big wow was Seals and Cross? Right,
brain's malfunction. We may never pass this way again in
the room and then come on people now and then
they'd tell you the yeah, which was not their song, but.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That was just the is from Seals and Cross. For
ninety nine cents, you can get this sent to you
now and Al Stewart. It's the Year of the Cat.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So there was an episode of Segment and the Sea
Monsters where and it was Sigmud's a sea monster, and
of course he's friends with a bunch of teenagers and
they like solve mysteries and it was kind of like
a rip off of Scooby Doo with instead of a dog,
they went for a sea monster. Okay, So there was
an and assumed you'd taken someogetics before he sat, whereas
with Scooby Doo it was just weed. Yeah, right right, yeah,
(04:05):
this is my seamons, dude, man. So there was an
episode where there was some kind of mystery at Dodger
Stadium and Don Sutton was the guest star, three hundred
game winner Don Sutton, and the whole episode, one of
the one of the kids was trying to get Don
Sutton's autograph, but he couldn't because something would happen, Hey
don can I get and then the bad guy would
come in with a gun or something like that, whatever
(04:26):
it was I think involving the Dodgers, and he could
never get his autograph, and you know the end of
that that they solve the mystery whatever it was, and
Don Sutton gives them tickets to go see a Dodger game,
including the sea monster. Right monster he's sitting and everything. Yeah,
it was a precursor to take your dog to the ball.
Look it's a sea monster. Next, that's awesome looking at
see precursor to bark at the park. Hey, bark at
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the park. So they go to the game and they're
sitting in the left field bleachers and they're really excited
to court. You know, this is the final scene in
the show. And they sitting there going, oh man, what
a great day. The Dodgers are winning eight nothing. What's awesome?
And he goes, I just I wish I could have
gotten an autograph from Don Sutton.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So they then the.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Last see Don Sutton is on the mound with the
ball and he looks to the he looks to the
bleachers and he sees the kids and he waves them
with Hey, Don Sutton waved twys.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
He goes, all right, I think his name was Alex.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Here you go, Alex, and he just winds up and
he just just throws up just just a light one
over the plate, and this guy clocks it for a
home run and of course it lands right in front
of them, and the guy the teenager catches bugs. Hey,
I caught the ball. Oh my god, he autographed it, Hey, Alex,
thanks best to luck Don Sutton. So Don Sutton autographed
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the ball that they used in a baseball game. And
he threw a pitch so easy for the guy to
hit a home run, knowing that'll hit it right too,
and he would get it and then see that Hey,
I got the autograph on. That's the greatest delivery system ever.
Anytime I think about, hey, just let him hit a
home run, I think about that scene. He looks like
he goes, hey, here you go, and he just like
he throws it like ten miles an hour. It's like
he so like he's having a catch with.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Somebody and the guy it's you want to have a catch?
You know what I wanted?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Now, I think I wanted that Zach Hampell guy to
be there and catch that ball and go. No, I said,
but it's it's addressed to me. Nope, nope, you want
to buy it from You could buy it from me,
but it says would kick his ass though, yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Zach Campbell was not a well lived man. No, no,
he's not. But that would have been fun. No, it's
gonna keep thinking about that when I see that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I don't know what you're watching that you've seen that
in recent memory. I haven't seen that, but I always
think about that, the fact that you remember that scene,
because this is back like in the in the you know,
in the late seventies early eighties, when when a when
a star guest started a television show was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I'll think about the Brady Bunch. The guys are on the.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Braid, Joe Namath on the Braidyd Jones. I mean, come on,
I just see guys all the time. You know, you
mean the storry Davy Jones's locker, or you mean Davy
Jones when he was on the what Well?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know, because I can give you a secret options.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
In bro The secret option, see was Davy Jones was
David Bowie's name before he changed his name to Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes,
So we could go all the way three card MONI
deliver Colonel Sanders down to Davy Jones locker. Okay, so
you know, there's a lot to get to in the
NFL today. Coming up, we got a big story about
a quarterback. But we have a big one right now.
JJ McCarthy could be out a few weeks. He could
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be out for the season, diagnosed with a knee injury
coming off of great debut.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Look, I give him credit. I didn't know how he
was going to play early turnover, but came back with
a couple of big.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I am not stuck up on JJ McCarthy, but he
has a big first game. And now his status in
question after test revealed he has a tear in the
meniscus of his right knee. The final determination is going
to be made once he undergoes surgery this week, So
he could be out a few weeks or he could
be out nine months. They won't know until they doctors
won't know until they actually get in there.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Now, first of I'm thinking, doctors really don't have that
technology now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Until you start cutting, I.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Mean, whatever, is it just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Sometimes I've seen I've seen lots of house they have
all kinds of magnetic resonance imaging and stuff they put
people in, but it's like a truce machine. They would
put people on the MRI machine and they would be
able to tell if they're lying or not because they
would look at scans of their brain.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I think you can look in and see, Hey.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
This guy's gonna need a full repair, or no, he's.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Not really Okay, gotta cut it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I really think House was a disciple of Striker from
the X Men movies, where it's like, we're just gonna
do some I think this might work, let's try it.
All right, that didn't work. All right, let me go
think and walk around a little bit more. They go
on my motorcycle. I'm gonna take some hallucin gigen sure,
and then we're gonna get back at it. I'm gonna
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love cutting. I'm gonna not love cutting. I'm gonna fire
my team. I'm gonna not fire my team, gonna hire
them back. Say no, that's how it goes. Uh but
uh yeah, no, I feel like we should know that
by now. You don't really have to wait to cut it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Really don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Like this is such a weird story now, like I
get in the in the eighties and ninety you're not
gonna know. Well, of course you're not gonna know what
you get in doctors. Got it now, It's like we
can see everything. But it's like yesterday we talked a
little bit about Jimmy or Gibz. Check out the podcast.
It's up wherever you get Trodio. Still, as we come
to to work here twenty four hours later, I still
don't know anything any further. No, could be could be
(09:06):
a you know, handstring injury that keeps him out. Two
weeks we saw some unconfirmed reports of the worst that
you could think of. JJ McCarthy, same thing. It's a
wide variance at this point. But as far as the
McCarthy part, we're not gonna know until he undergoes sert. Okay, fine,
but this is my favorite part of the day. This
is why I love Twitter. Right this time, they have
to look Twitter's like the wild West. Sometimes I love Twitter,
(09:27):
Sometimes I can't stand it. I love today that I
love it because only on social media can Sam Darnald
go from Okay, he's a guy obviously keeping the seat
warm for JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
This is what this is.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I mean, this is what whatever truth you believe, Sam
Donald was brought in. He's going to keep the seat warm.
If McCarthy is healthy, probably by mid season, he's going
to play. He's a first round pick. They invested a
lot in him. Once he gets used to the NFL game,
he's gonna play. Now, this injury puts everything out. You know,
who knows what's gonna happen. But the deal with him,
Sam Donald knows he's a placeholder. Sam Donald's a placeholder
(10:05):
until McCarthy is ready. But then news breaks that McCarthy
is out, could be out a while. And I see
so many people people with blue check marks, Mike Carmen
and experts are better than me, who now are suddenly
showing all of Sam Donald's best throws. And there's a
Sam Donald's now a top fifteen option in fantasy football
at quarterback. And I'm going, wait a minute, Sam Donald
(10:28):
was a guy keeping a seat warm. But now that
JJ McCarthy's out, Sam Donald's a top fifteen option in
what world.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
First of all, if the Vikings thought if he would,
if Sam Donald's really a top fifteen option in football,
the Vikings aren't signing, aren't drafting JJ McCarthy, right, if
he's that good. But he was brought in as a
seat filler. But suddenly he goes, hey, I don't know
how long he's gonna have the job. Now he's a
top fifteen fantasy option. Why wouldn't he be a top
fifteen fantasy option before, because if he's really good in
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the top half of the league, he'll keep the job, right,
I mean, if he's that good order back, he'll keep
the job. But now that JJ McCarthy's not coming in,
now he's the top fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Here's theme on man.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The former would have taken guts to say, would have
taken some guts to say, Hey, Sam Darnold will hold
off the job.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He's good enough.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
He's got Jefferson, he's got Addison, he's got Hockinson, he
you know, he's got all these guys that he's gonna
be able to throw to. You bring in Aaron Jones.
The offense is set, he's gonna be able to make
some magic. That would have been the guts he way
to go. The other would have been to go logically.
He's only got the job for six weeks so and
sometimes being logical is being okay, No, but all of
(11:35):
a sudden, just because a guy now he's a top
This is not a wide receiver where a number one
guy gets hurt and suddenly there's one hundred and thirty
targets up and everybody moves up. This is a guy
who was brought in to be replaced, and nothing is.
That's what I mean, though, like to set to Joe
and put him in the top fifteen, I may have
would have taken some guts to say it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
He's gonna study.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You think suddenly he's gonna be He wasn't gonna be
good before, but now because the guy behind him got hurt,
now he's great.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Well, he's not gonna get displaced.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So Jefferson and Addison and Hacketson and you like, you
got all the weapons, right, so go through their stats.
If JJ McCarthy's not there to come and take his job,
all of a sudden, all of those go to Sam.
I'm not saying it's good logic. I'm just explaining where
they're getting this in. Let me, let me, let me,
let me, let me just flip this and I'll tell
(12:25):
you where I went in this. Okay, there's only one
problem with Sam Darnald. Oh, okay, there's only one problem.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I think I know what it is. Okay, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
There's only one problem with Sam Donald, really, only one
problem with this philosophy. He's going to be a top
There's only one that Plunger wouldn't take us off the air.
I'd say I'd hit the plunger like it's a game show,
because I know, like Antonio Mandarison, dealer, no deal, no deal. No,
you don't hit the button when you do that. No,
it's so exciting. I don't know what I'm doing. There's
only one problem with Sam Donald. And then then, really,
you just explain it to me, only one problem. Explain
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it to me like I'm a five case, so next
year I'll be six. Yes, and your parents will tell
you there's only one problem with Sam Darnald. Yeah, and
that's it. And you want me to tell you a
penny piece paper? Yeah, take it down these nuts I've done. Okay,
one problemise Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
He stinks?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How many exclamation points for on capitol? Yes, okay, he stinks.
I've watched him play. Yes, there is always the chance
of he could Gino Smith his way. Look, but I've
seen him play in numerous offense. How long does it
take to get the stench of the Jets seen him beget? Well, say,
clearly it's three teams in counting. Now, Okay, Sam Darnald
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is not any good. The guy's been in the league
since twenty eighteen. I get that you think you put
great weapons around a guy, think suddenly he's gonna be great.
But come on, man, I've watched him for his career,
not nowhere to go with the football now. I don't
know that he knows what he sees when he looks downfield.
He misses open guys, he doesn't hit his progressions. Yes,
he had a couple of nice passes in the first
(13:53):
preseason game. I've seen him throw some nice pass I'm
not saying the guy is an EPT. I've seen him
throw a couple of nice passes. But he throws a
couple of passes. And I saw one post today. No
one ever throws a dig route like Sam Donald did
on this play. I'm like, okay, so one play when
he throws a dig route really well, that covers up
the last six years where he was given the keys
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to the Jets, couldn't keep them, was given the keys
of the Panthers, couldn't keep them, and now he's on
another team where now he's lucky that he's actually starting.
He may have backed his way into his starting job
for a little bit longer. Sam Donald stinks. Okay, I've
seen it from him. Yes, sometimes it happens and Gino
Smith can find his way into a magical year. But
I've seen this. I've seen this too much. There's a
lot of tape on Sam Donald just from the last
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couple of years. Gino Smith at least went a decade
between tape. What kind of quarterback is he?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Guy hasn't played in ten years. All right, Sam Donald
stinks And just the elevation because somebody gets hurt is ridiculous,
because if he wasn't good enough before, he doesn't suddenly
get good enough because the guy behind him got hurt.
I don't understand, you know, I mean, this is Sam Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam,
Your head's gonna aches. I'm just saying when I'm when
(15:01):
I'm seeing you like this is physically And look if
maybe if he wasn't an ex jet, it wouldn't be
as big of.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
A thing to me. But I know that does seem
How is this flipping all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
JJ McCarthy is great, He's the second company. He might
be out a while. Sam Donald is one of the
best watch to watch what happens to Sam now? Because
look at this one throw he made notice. Nobody ever
puts up the Hey, here's the fifteen. But again, the
guy that goes to the point is easy to throw
the one good throw, not the fifteen bad ones. But
you you can't do the content saying just flat out, hey,
(15:34):
Sam Donald stinks.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
This is a nothing burger.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Everybody expected you to put five hundred words to a
thousand words, and all you needed to say was he stinks. Now,
everybody put up the big, long, nice past. Michael Pennix
Junior had no one put up the ten passes he
missed over guys, and he thinks they're eleven feet off
of course, like they're the skeleton from home depot that
you bought for your You know, there's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
One on a one that's been there a year round
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
If I was that tall, I think if you're driving
down driving downwards towards my house, it's like all of
a sudden, like wait, that thing's been there, and they
keep dressing it up. He's got jerseys on and different outfits.
It's not, it's just not happening.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay. Sam Donald's not suddenly great. Okay, he's not. He's
not just because.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Let's see, they start at the Giants boy, his old team,
the forty nine ers, then Houston, then Green Bay. Because
that's the other problem.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
If Caleb Williams is great and Jordan Love is great,
and they both are, and the Lions even with no Gibbs,
you still say they're pretty good. Did you say with
Joe Gibbs?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I said with no Gibbs.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I think he said with Joe Gibbs that would be
pretty cool for Joe Gibbs came back when he comes
driving up in like with his glass. Hey hey hey, hey,
hey Dan, Hey Dan, all of sudden'm b begin a sideline. Now, yeah,
he takes over.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
If all those teams supposed to be good, that means
the Vikings will not be. It's math. So just just
understand that about Sam Donald uh coming up next, there
is one quarterback that is not being talked about enough,
and we're gonna get to it because today heedge coach
talked about wanting to vomit. That's straight ahead right here,
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that's what we call it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Teas, Marie.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now you're gonna go back into another quarterback you hate
because of a past association with the Jets.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
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constructive I don't want to say positive. I want to
say realistic conversation about Sam Darnold in the wake of
(18:55):
the JJ McCarthy injury. Yeah, anybody that wants to chime
in you have at an AD. How about Apresca at
sw I don't know how deep. I want to go
into political comparisons, okay with Minnesota because we got a
couple of those on Twitter so far. Sam Darnold is
Wes Walls, okay, sure, and JJ McCarthy can be Wesley
(19:15):
Walls former tight end, tight end of the Panthers Jets
more Panthers though, Yeah, but look look it up. Wesley
Walls more time, more Panthers. I think if you had
him in fantasy, he was by thinking of Wesley Walker,
you think, oh, dude, that's two completely different people. Wesley
Walker was late seventies, mid eighties one of the best
receivers in the NFL. He was blind in one eye
(19:36):
and he was still great.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Think about that. What eye I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Wesley Walls, Panthers tight end. Yeah, he wa San Francisco,
New Orleans and Carolina. And then a cup of coffee
with Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
John Wesley Clark, former General of the United States.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
As actually done. John Wesley Harding, singer most famous for
When the Beatles in America. Okay, Prince Wesley from Princess Bride.
Sorry spoiler alert, and I'm out of West Glenn Wes
Wesley Snipes, sure, sure, Gallo Walker only Blade Glenn Wesley
(20:14):
former defenseman for the Bruins and Hartford Whalers. Wesley Wesley.
Now I'm out of Wesley's. I don't want to cut
it to West because it's not technically Wesley. Oh no.
So this was a great quote today, and this just
illustrates who the best quarterback in the NFC is going
to be this year. By the end by the end
(20:34):
of the year, we're going to say best quarterback in
the NFC, and it's going to be widely accepted that
that answer to that question is Jordan Love.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The AFC is a much different conference just loaded up
with incredible quarterbacks. The NFC is more like, well, we're
propping up Dak in the top three. But think about
what head coach Mike Lafleura said earlier today to the
media about who the number one receiver of the Packers is, Okay,
(21:05):
and what Matt Lafleur says is going to get into
just how good Jordan Love is, and it's something that
people don't understand at Packers camp. Apparently Matt Lafleur is
getting a lot of questions who's the number one receiver
because they have a lot of guys there right whether
it's Jade Reed or Romeo Dubbs or Dantavian Wix was
really good last year, Christian Watson, who is it? And
Mike Matt Lafleur see Mike Lafleur bad, Lafleur brother, the
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guy that coached the Jets beat Matt Lafleur. Good, I
gotta go, Matt good. Mike Peter, Oh, that's easy to go,
Matt good. Mike bed for me. I can't remember that.
Mike bad.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I got that bad, Mike Bad.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Okay, good. The camera's on.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Otherwise, I'll give you a proper risk. Mike, Mike Bad,
Mike bed Here's Matt. Here's Matt Lafleur talking about what
he wants to do when he's asked who the number
one receiver and the packers is.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I want to vomit every time I hear number one receiver.
To be honest with you, me crazy. That's something that
you guys talk about. I feel like we got a
bunch of them, so I think the beauty of them
is they're all capable of doing many things, which gives
us a lot of versatility from an offensive perspective in
terms of how we use these guys and deploy their talents.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Okay, first of them, it's a good, good lot of
coach speak.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, no, no, First of all, I want to say, really
that that makes you want when you're asked about who
the number one receiver?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You get questions like that. The real people ask that
queste every day.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I got to know who the number Really, I don't
think people ask that all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Who's the number?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We got to know who the number one receivers? And no,
it's not like it's a quarterback competition. It's like who's
the number one receiver. Okay, I could figure that out
for myself, but I also don't really need to know
that because if I think the guy's a number one,
he's a number two. Guess what, he's still on the field.
They're not going to run. Not running an offense where
I want the one loan end is at the end.
This is not Army in the nineteen forties, where if
we throw one pass every six weeks it's a lot.
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This is also a very good tactical move from La
Floor for the Packers in terms of managing expectation as
well as well, let's face it, the financials of it,
because the ball is gonna get spread around. You've got
three or four guys that could and we've had this
discussion again owing to the offline fantasy football talk throw order.
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We'll get some fantasy content in here over the next
couple of weeks to get you ready for your drafts
heading into all of that big happy season. But part
of it is if the ball's spread around, and say
you got four guys, I don't know, for giggles, they've
got eighty targets each.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Guess what, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
To pay any of them like a number one so
Matt Lafleur is being smart and diplomatic about it too.
It's like, look, we got guys that can make plays
and Watson coming back off injury. Whatever you get out
of him, red zone specialist at times, whatever, It's all
fine and good, but you tamp it down because right
now you've got a team that's young and they're together.
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The last thing you want to do is, well, here's
how i'd order them.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Let's do it. Let's do it for like I got
a whiteboard.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Now, let's go one survivor Packers wide receivers and just
crossing guys Wicks number one. This is this is not
about these guys. This is what I mean when I say,
understand the end of the year, we're gonna talk about
Jordan Love being the best quarterback in the NFC because
you go through the guys and their compliments. Right, Jayden
Reid was the leading receiver for the Packers. I thought
you were going to go through all the guys in
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the NFC and just pick them off one by one. Now, look,
Jayden Reid, you're left with Jordan Love versus Caleb Williams,
modoy model. Let's go, Hey, kiddy, they wind up Be,
although we were were closer to the Brocolipse with Brock
Perdy getting paid. But you have Jayden Reid, right, who
had a pretty decent year last year. Was it not
an unbelievable year? Be caught sixty four passes for like
eight hundred yards? Right, he had eight touchdowns, same as
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Romeo Dubs. Right, Romeo Dubs a guy coming the last
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Christian Watson led the team in yards per catch fifteen.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Dontavian Wicks, who was a rookie, came on at the
end of the year. He was a big guy to get,
especially in fantasy. A lot of people picked up the
end of the year average just under fifteen yards of
Carrie scored four touchdowns. Oh, by the way, none of them.
Was the first Pas to have a hundred yard game.
That was Bo Melton in the next to last game
of the season. He gets elevated off the practice squad
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and has a hundred yard game. Did you just want
to get bow in because bo'son?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, Bo, Bo Benson. It's different Bo though, Bo is
b e a U. Bo Melton is.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
B oh yeah, but he's he's tall and can get
after it. He's got reach on you. Well, he's got
well Bo Benson. That that name kind of rolls off
the tongue. It like someone who won, like Bo Bice,
who won American Idol, like Bo Benson, Like Bo Benson,
Bo Benson, Look Benson, people of history less bust Bo Bison,
Bo Benson, Bo Benson, Bo Bice. But if you said
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that really fast, now you've got people thinking about Bisons Bovice,
Bo Bye b Bye b Bye Benson, Bo Bo Bye
Benson Benson. I'm gonna stab you with this pag bo Wow,
you got Bo. You really can't go anywhere more than that.
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Think about this for a second. All right, watching Jordan
Love play last year, it didn't matter who he played with, right,
and the Melton thing is is the one that should
stand out. Here's a guy elevated on game day from
the practice squad one hundred yard game. Nobody has four
or five wide receivers that are this talented. They just don't.
Nobody has four or five. Did you get a couple
(26:16):
of guys talented? Yeah, you have a talented wide receiver room. Yeah,
Sam Tarnold in the Minnesota. But but he's got two guys, right,
he's got He's got two guys, right, he's got that
wide receivers. Yes, the tight end is good as well,
but these are four five wide receivers. Now just five receivers.
They're not all this great. I guarantee you if you
took some of them off this team put them on
another team, they would struggle to catch forty passes. Jordan
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Love is able to use all five of these players
and have the season he had, throwing for four thousand yards,
leading them into the playoffs with a perfect passer rating
in the in the first game against the Cowboys. Jordan
Love is someone who elevates the players around him. That's
how good he is. Great quarterbacks, hey, put up numbers
and win games. They have great players around you, but
(27:01):
the great quarterbacks to it when you have guys that
I don't even know who this is unless I am
a pretty die hard fantasy player and I'm trying to
trade for Jayden Reed in a couple of leagues. People
don't know Dontavian Wicks. Who are these guys? But this
is this is who Jordan Love got it done with,
and it's time to understand and give credit that. Wow,
that's really something. If Aaron Rodgers does it this year,
(27:21):
it's gonna be a look at Garrett Wilson right side,
Mike Williams and now Bresee Hall is so good, Josh Allen,
oh Man, Dalton k and Kate has taken a step
up key on Colemins Gret, but look at the guys
that he has. None of these players are are are
players that if they were suddenly available, teams in the
NFL would say, we got to go give this guy
thirty million dollars a year. None of them are. None
of them are so understand that when these guys, when
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they can win and you can spread the ball around.
This is Jordan Love who is able to make his
progressions and find the right guy to throw the football to.
Because sometimes it's Bou Melton, sometimes it's Christian Watson. Sometimes
Christian Watson's not in the lineup, doesn't matter. Christian Watson plays,
he doesn't play. He missed a lot of games last year.
When he plays, he catches. When he does it, it
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doesn't matter. Don Tavian Wicks not in the beginning of
the year. End of the season, yes, he catches passes.
Probably read was the most consistent, but it didn't matter
who was in the lineup. It didn't matter where you were.
It didn't matter if you were a guy that hadn't
played all season. So the next last game of the year,
I got a one hundred yards. I'm the first receiver
with one hundred yards. So this tells you all through
the year, it wasn't like, hey, this guy's killing this defense.
(28:24):
It's some time we got to keep going to Jade
and Reid. He's not going to catch nine passes for
one hundred and fifty five yards. This is Jordan Love
elevating too. Is nothing that can put it on display
more than just look at these wide receivers and may
make Mike La Matt lafour wan to vomit, but in
the end he's got to understand, boy, we got the
right quarterback, and boy, look at what he does with
a bunch of guys that have some talent. It also
(28:45):
showing on you know, you have to deal with the
fact that you had the lesser laflor even more so.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, because a lot of this is based on scheme.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Because I'm big, I'm big on I don't care about nepotism.
I understand that I'm good, But it just did work
for the Jets. Yeah, no, I mean like you took
a shot, but with this squad, spread the ball around
and look, I want to keep playing back the Jordan
love takes I had when they took him, uh, and
everybody was mad and feeling bad for Aaron Rodgers. Then
six months later they all hated him, miss public Enemy
(29:14):
number one.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Fast that turn and then he won two MVPs.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, so I think the whole the whole quarterback thing
has worked out. Okay, you had a guy that was
in the house that whether he learned from Aaron directly
or not, the line keeps moving, much to my chagrin.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
As Chicago kid.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But you look at being able to spread the ball
around get to the second half of the season was
fantastic and obviously the master class against that you know,
vaunted Dallas defense where Micah Parsons was rendered invisible. You
might as well have had Harry Potter's cloak on because
we didn't call his name or see him at all
during that game as they went up and down the field.
(29:51):
So now you're in the big time, right, the expectations
are huge that you take another massive step forward and
at your offense runs rough shot and I think Laflora,
like I said, did a really good job with this
of we got a bunch of guys. They're good and
that's where we're gonna leave it, because if we start
elevating anybody, the unsaid part, if we start elevating anybody,
(30:13):
then it maybe creates dissent. You start having guys that
feel like they need to get fed more, and certainly
they need to get paid more. And that's one of
the best things they've got. Every last one of these
guys is working dirt cheap NFL wise, as well as
their quarterback exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
(30:34):
tirec dot Com Studios by the end of this year, Hey,
who's the best quarterback in the NFC?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Jordan Loves Gonna get that love.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, and he's already got his contract, right, so, I
mean he's gotten paid and that'll kick in as we
go forward. But the rest of these guys cycle them
out man make stars of the.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Rest of them.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
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Speaker 1 (30:57):
Anytime I at least even joker around with ty Shirt
off the air about anything, like if I'm kidding around
with him and I pretend to get mad at him,
did you really pretend his Oh yeah, his blank you
as always, I'm just gonna play Tears for Fears whenever.
But it's nice to have that. But it's an unspoken response, right.
(31:20):
He just hits a button and he just smiles at you.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You look at me. He's just wailing, waving at you
and smile.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm just gonna anytime you say something, Jason's gonna play
the song you ate.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
He's got like.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Four or five songs that he could do that with.
He get us through the rest of the night with
songs that you've declared your hatred for. No, that is true, artists,
that is true.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That is, he could play clips from actresses.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You've dismissed throughout the years, or actors that you've described
as wouldn't no, come on, come on, Mark Wahlberg, No,
come on, no way, no can't.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
He's got a new movie out with Halle Berry.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
He's gotta I say, yeah, you know how I always
say Mark Wahlberg like his great actress supposedly is. He's
been in la for now thirty five year, has been
holly with thirty five years, still does everything with the Boston.
I actually saw a trailer for a move went to
see trap. Like I told you, don't go see trap.
I know it's a trap getting you in the theater
to see the movie. He plays a movie he plays,
but he has like a Southern accent or something. Really,
and I'm like, WHOA was watching Derek Carr brand Prossers.
(32:15):
Now he's some sort of pilot and he's bald, and
he and and there's some sort of crazy thing happening,
like either either there's espionage that that he's involved in,
or he's the hero or he's the bad guy. I
can't really tell, but he's got to, don't That's what
it is. Meanwhile, what I am hoping for is the
(32:36):
ending to a story that we first began telling you
three weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, we we previewed it a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I told you after the draft the Niners were trading
Brandon Ayuk, Right, it was happening, right, and then three
weeks it was all, look at this, we had the
trade in place with the Browns or the Patriots, and
now that's not happening. According to NFL Networks Ian rappaport,
just like they were the ink was dry on the
deal to the Browns or the Patriots, they were waiting
for Ayuk to decide what trade you wanted. Ian Rapp
(33:08):
were reporting it. Oh no, no, no dealers in place
with the Steelers. That is just waiting for the final
sign off. So Brandon Ayuk to the steel which is
where it's been bandied about for so long, and where
I give you a lot of credit because when this
came out two weeks ago, we're three weeks ago when
it was hey, the Browns or the Patriots who said,
don't count the Steelers out, don't count the Steelers out,
(33:29):
And now apparently the Steelers are the team we're just
waiting to side. Why is no one signing off if
these things are all that? Why what's happening?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
People?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
People getting cold Feeed's like buying a house. Oh no,
I think there there's a mold problem. And no I'm
not signing.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I can't sign. I can't sign.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I'm on the hook for this like we're now' rating.
But at least we're close to the end in theory
with a team that we thought he was going to
for the last six months. Either they'll have him or
they won't. I know it's affecting one of the slow
drafts you're currently involved in, and maybe some of you
out there in Fantasyland listening to us Glow on the
iHeartRadio app you're having the same issues.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I would be remiss.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
We didn't circle back to the Amari Cooper part of
the would be trade to the Browns.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Lol. I wouldn't mind that at all.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So either he's responding to something else, or he was
responding to that rumor of Hey, I go play with
Shanahan out in San Francisco if that's where he would
wind up. Oh no, I'm sorry. You don't wind up
in San Francisco. You wind up with the Jets. Yeah,
you end up sliding back in Wait, wait a minute,
what I already you gotta go out there and shake
hands and kiss babies. But we've already got a deal
(34:32):
in place to send you. I'm going the Arizona Cardinals.
Oh no way, team me up with Harrison Junior.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Look.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah, this is this is insane that it keeps circling
back and we talked about it right that it could
be just say, hey, we've got other offers, omar Con,
you gotta come stronger. And then meanwhile, for the forty
nine ers, it's what's that that gap in terms of
salary and how much will you push North to keep
him as part of your squad instead of going and
getting Option C or D or whatever the receiver would
(35:03):
be in return.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Because there's been a lot of talk that a third
team has to be involved. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely to
try to make it work.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
But what we're here, we would Ian Rapport would have said, hey,
there's a trade and involving a thirteen. He may not
have said the team. He would have said in a
mystery to you, Yeah that was that was the last
White the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
They're getting it. They're fun.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Come on there, just let them die already. There's forty
four games left. Hey, Louis Roberts. Louise Roberts getting trade.
He got his twenty seventh RBI at the year.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Come on, No, he.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Doesn't lead the team, doesn't twenty sevens if it doesn't
because played in sixty five games and Juan Soto had
the first three home run game of his career.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
To Yeah, hey, all of those things, but yeah, let
him die. Leave them out of this.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Look, this is a trade we thought would happen, and
we think it's going to It makes too much sense
to not happen. And quite honestly, the Niners have to
make it at this point if you're if you go
through the last couple of say, hey, we've been talking
to Brandon and talking about a deal, and maybe he
can stay. And now you're at the point where you
have a you have a deal with with the Steelers,
just let him go. The Niners are at the point
(36:09):
where they had the trade out there, all right, Brandon,
do you really want to go? And then obviously there
was some sort of trepidation because the Browns and the
Patriots deal slowly fell apart. A you probably said, I'm
not going to the Patriots. They think this is not
the Tom Brady Patriots. So okay, that fell apart. Didn't
want to go to Cleveland. Then there were negotiations, supposedly
because it was okay, do you really not want to go,
(36:30):
Let's make one more run at this. And now you're
hearing we have a deal set with the Steelers. Like
it's done now I would say done, and Ayuka is
gonna be on a different team, and Pierce All's gonna start,
and he's gonna be everybody's fantasy darling. This is I mean,
he's going to be He's gonna be health right, Ayuk
is going he's in campus. In theory, he will be ready.
He will be ready. Now you know my theory. And
(36:50):
I've got to be consistent. I've been this guy for
a decade. He's got a year of a contract left
that's gonna pay him. What about fifteen million dollars?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You want? You want your fifteen million hours?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
People want to get, People want to We're comeing in
week ten if you want.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Sure, sure, Hassan, Sure, Yeah. So you do the forty
nine ers thing and play hard ball if you want.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But you're but if you want a big contract, if
you're gonna come in and not have a big season,
who's gonna give you a big contract coming off a
bad season?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
That doesn't happen? Doesn't That's the franchise tag. Doesn't happen?
Does it happen?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I've been That's what people like ayuk and and Reddick
don't get that. If you don't come in till late
and you don't play, well, you're not getting paid that
next season. It's not gonna be something. Oh we're still
gonna be thirty million dollars here, No, it's how about
two years eight million?
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Well how about that. You doesn't flip the odobit, you.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Know though, I mean it doesn't. That's just how it goes.
You got to understand that if you don't play, you
are only hurting yourself at the end of it. Yeah,
it's a curious space again for the forty nine ers
playing hardball. I figure out where there's that that gap
and see if we can't find the difference. But yeah,
the trade evidently in place and just waiting again, this
(38:00):
trade's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. It will happen soon.
Ayukas played his last game as a forty nine er.
Coming up next, Boy, do we got something fun with
America's team coming your way.
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Thing.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Sometimes how come you say what a glorious night it is?
And sometimes you say welcome inside, happy night, And I go, well,
look at what the score of the Mets game is.
If the Mets have won or winning, it is a
glorious night. If the Mets are losing, it's happy night.
Welcome inside. Yeah, glorious night includes either you had a
sandwich or a sandwiches on the way.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I just did have a sandwich the medic. Was it
a good sandwich?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Yeah? You know why because I was like, what am
I gonna do When I get to work, I'll figure
it out. And I get in and I and I
see that it's instead of three three nothing, it's seven nothing,
and I go, it's sandwich time. Sand Met's. The Mets
have driven me to sandwich because Bo's in for for
just Frostburg. And you know, we were debating whether you
were coming in or not. I'm like, my understanding is
that you were, and then we just found out it
was a sandwich delay. Yeah. No, the metrimens to get
(01:38):
yourself back into your proper fields. No, and that's the tonight,
Like I'm not you know, oh, they drive me to
drink it?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Right? No, they know my team drive me to sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Okay, a little black stretch, Well, but that that could
be the phrase though, my team drives me to sandwiches.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's what it is. Well, what's fine is I really
want let's get that deal link come on?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
They were down by three yeah, and I'm like, really,
how do we come out this flatway.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Well you keep it within it, am, Come on, we can.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Put these teams stink and we can't beat the teams
at stink. And when you can't beat the teams at stink,
you're not gonna make the playoffs. I'm like, okay, I'm
remembering in my head, the Mets got to get me
to the Jets, right, Mets, the Jets, Mets, the Jets, right,
and they've done that at least, And I'm like, okay,
I'm my god, what am I gonna do?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
When I get in?
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I maybe we'll figure out food. And then I see
then I see oh seven nothing because I'm in the
car and I go for I'm going for a sandwich.
I'm going to have a sandwich. Conversely, my team is
reverting to stinking again, even though the Yankees were supposed
to be relegated.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, Soto's got three home runs today. Yeah yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah yeah yeah. Do you drill him the next time?
It's one more.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Shot at it.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
I don't know. I think I think if you're the
White Socks, you kind of stroke for history. Yeah to him,
here's the ephis Yeah, see how hard you can hit it?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
You just throw it up and go here you go,
here you go, catch it, there you go, see what
he does.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, that'd be kind of fun. I think, just throw
You know. I always last guy to hit have a
four home run game. It was Soto. I look at
this pitch and I gave him the fourth.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
My face, you know, I always think about this when
I think of let the guy hit a home run.
Do you remember the show we were growing up, Sigmun
in the Sea Monsters? Sure? Okay, so it was this
crazy as show, right, one of those Seals and Croft shows,
like from the early seventies, which is kind of like Pixar, Right,
Seals and Croft was Pixar of the late seventies. So
Sigmund was a Sea Monster.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Well, sid Marty Crofts. Seals and Cross was the.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Marty Croft. Yes, yes, yes, heals? What was Seals and Cross?
Big song was there? Big wow was Seals and Cross? Right,
brain's malfunction. We may never pass this way again in
the room and then come on people now and then
they'd tell you the yeah, which was not their song, but.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
That was just the is from Seals and Cross. For
ninety nine cents, you can get this sent to you
now and Al Stewart. It's the Year of the Cat.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
So there was an episode of Segment and the Sea
Monsters where and it was Sigmud's a sea monster, and
of course he's friends with a bunch of teenagers and
they like solve mysteries and it was kind of like
a rip off of Scooby Doo with instead of a dog,
they went for a sea monster. Okay, So there was
an and assumed you'd taken someogetics before he sat, whereas
with Scooby Doo it was just weed. Yeah, right right, yeah,
(04:05):
this is my seamons, dude, man. So there was an
episode where there was some kind of mystery at Dodger
Stadium and Don Sutton was the guest star, three hundred
game winner Don Sutton, and the whole episode, one of
the one of the kids was trying to get Don
Sutton's autograph, but he couldn't because something would happen, Hey
don can I get and then the bad guy would
come in with a gun or something like that, whatever
(04:26):
it was I think involving the Dodgers, and he could
never get his autograph, and you know the end of
that that they solve the mystery whatever it was, and
Don Sutton gives them tickets to go see a Dodger game,
including the sea monster. Right monster he's sitting and everything. Yeah,
it was a precursor to take your dog to the ball.
Look it's a sea monster. Next, that's awesome looking at
see precursor to bark at the park. Hey, bark at
(04:49):
the park. So they go to the game and they're
sitting in the left field bleachers and they're really excited
to court. You know, this is the final scene in
the show. And they sitting there going, oh man, what
a great day. The Dodgers are winning eight nothing. What's awesome?
And he goes, I just I wish I could have
gotten an autograph from Don Sutton.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So they then the.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Last see Don Sutton is on the mound with the
ball and he looks to the he looks to the
bleachers and he sees the kids and he waves them
with Hey, Don Sutton waved twys.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
He goes, all right, I think his name was Alex.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Here you go, Alex, and he just winds up and
he just just throws up just just a light one
over the plate, and this guy clocks it for a
home run and of course it lands right in front
of them, and the guy the teenager catches bugs. Hey,
I caught the ball. Oh my god, he autographed it, Hey, Alex,
thanks best to luck Don Sutton. So Don Sutton autographed
(05:36):
the ball that they used in a baseball game. And
he threw a pitch so easy for the guy to
hit a home run, knowing that'll hit it right too,
and he would get it and then see that Hey,
I got the autograph on. That's the greatest delivery system ever.
Anytime I think about, hey, just let him hit a
home run, I think about that scene. He looks like
he goes, hey, here you go, and he just like
he throws it like ten miles an hour. It's like
he so like he's having a catch with.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Somebody and the guy it's you want to have a catch?
You know what I wanted?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Now, I think I wanted that Zach Hampell guy to
be there and catch that ball and go. No, I said,
but it's it's addressed to me. Nope, nope, you want
to buy it from You could buy it from me,
but it says would kick his ass though, yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Zach Campbell was not a well lived man. No, no,
he's not. But that would have been fun. No, it's
gonna keep thinking about that when I see that.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
I don't know what you're watching that you've seen that
in recent memory. I haven't seen that, but I always
think about that, the fact that you remember that scene,
because this is back like in the in the you know,
in the late seventies early eighties, when when a when
a star guest started a television show was a big deal.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I'll think about the Brady Bunch. The guys are on the.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Braid, Joe Namath on the Braidyd Jones. I mean, come on,
I just see guys all the time. You know, you
mean the storry Davy Jones's locker, or you mean Davy
Jones when he was on the what Well?
Speaker 3 (06:46):
You know, because I can give you a secret options.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
In bro The secret option, see was Davy Jones was
David Bowie's name before he changed his name to Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes,
So we could go all the way three card MONI
deliver Colonel Sanders down to Davy Jones locker. Okay, so
you know, there's a lot to get to in the
NFL today. Coming up, we got a big story about
a quarterback. But we have a big one right now.
JJ McCarthy could be out a few weeks. He could
(07:13):
be out for the season, diagnosed with a knee injury
coming off of great debut.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Look, I give him credit. I didn't know how he
was going to play early turnover, but came back with
a couple of big.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I am not stuck up on JJ McCarthy, but he
has a big first game. And now his status in
question after test revealed he has a tear in the
meniscus of his right knee. The final determination is going
to be made once he undergoes surgery this week, So
he could be out a few weeks or he could
be out nine months. They won't know until they doctors
won't know until they actually get in there.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Now, first of I'm thinking, doctors really don't have that
technology now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Until you start cutting, I.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Mean, whatever, is it just a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Sometimes I've seen I've seen lots of house they have
all kinds of magnetic resonance imaging and stuff they put
people in, but it's like a truce machine. They would
put people on the MRI machine and they would be
able to tell if they're lying or not because they
would look at scans of their brain.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I think you can look in and see, Hey.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
This guy's gonna need a full repair, or no, he's.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Not really Okay, gotta cut it.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I really think House was a disciple of Striker from
the X Men movies, where it's like, we're just gonna
do some I think this might work, let's try it.
All right, that didn't work. All right, let me go
think and walk around a little bit more. They go
on my motorcycle. I'm gonna take some hallucin gigen sure,
and then we're gonna get back at it. I'm gonna
(08:33):
love cutting. I'm gonna not love cutting. I'm gonna fire
my team. I'm gonna not fire my team, gonna hire
them back. Say no, that's how it goes. Uh but
uh yeah, no, I feel like we should know that
by now. You don't really have to wait to cut it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Really don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Like this is such a weird story now, like I
get in the in the eighties and ninety you're not
gonna know. Well, of course you're not gonna know what
you get in doctors. Got it now, It's like we
can see everything. But it's like yesterday we talked a
little bit about Jimmy or Gibz. Check out the podcast.
It's up wherever you get Trodio. Still, as we come
to to work here twenty four hours later, I still
don't know anything any further. No, could be could be
(09:06):
a you know, handstring injury that keeps him out. Two
weeks we saw some unconfirmed reports of the worst that
you could think of. JJ McCarthy, same thing. It's a
wide variance at this point. But as far as the
McCarthy part, we're not gonna know until he undergoes sert. Okay, fine,
but this is my favorite part of the day. This
is why I love Twitter. Right this time, they have
to look Twitter's like the wild West. Sometimes I love Twitter,
(09:27):
Sometimes I can't stand it. I love today that I
love it because only on social media can Sam Darnald
go from Okay, he's a guy obviously keeping the seat
warm for JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
This is what this is.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I mean, this is what whatever truth you believe, Sam
Donald was brought in. He's going to keep the seat warm.
If McCarthy is healthy, probably by mid season, he's going
to play. He's a first round pick. They invested a
lot in him. Once he gets used to the NFL game,
he's gonna play. Now, this injury puts everything out. You know,
who knows what's gonna happen. But the deal with him,
Sam Donald knows he's a placeholder. Sam Donald's a placeholder
(10:05):
until McCarthy is ready. But then news breaks that McCarthy
is out, could be out a while. And I see
so many people people with blue check marks, Mike Carmen
and experts are better than me, who now are suddenly
showing all of Sam Donald's best throws. And there's a
Sam Donald's now a top fifteen option in fantasy football
at quarterback. And I'm going, wait a minute, Sam Donald
(10:28):
was a guy keeping a seat warm. But now that
JJ McCarthy's out, Sam Donald's a top fifteen option in
what world.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
First of all, if the Vikings thought if he would,
if Sam Donald's really a top fifteen option in football,
the Vikings aren't signing, aren't drafting JJ McCarthy, right, if
he's that good. But he was brought in as a
seat filler. But suddenly he goes, hey, I don't know
how long he's gonna have the job. Now he's a
top fifteen fantasy option. Why wouldn't he be a top
fifteen fantasy option before, because if he's really good in
(10:56):
the top half of the league, he'll keep the job, right,
I mean, if he's that good order back, he'll keep
the job. But now that JJ McCarthy's not coming in,
now he's the top fifteen.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Here's theme on man.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
The former would have taken guts to say, would have
taken some guts to say, Hey, Sam Darnold will hold
off the job.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
He's good enough.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
He's got Jefferson, he's got Addison, he's got Hockinson, he
you know, he's got all these guys that he's gonna
be able to throw to. You bring in Aaron Jones.
The offense is set, he's gonna be able to make
some magic. That would have been the guts he way
to go. The other would have been to go logically.
He's only got the job for six weeks so and
sometimes being logical is being okay, No, but all of
(11:35):
a sudden, just because a guy now he's a top
This is not a wide receiver where a number one
guy gets hurt and suddenly there's one hundred and thirty
targets up and everybody moves up. This is a guy
who was brought in to be replaced, and nothing is.
That's what I mean, though, like to set to Joe
and put him in the top fifteen, I may have
would have taken some guts to say it.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
He's gonna study.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
You think suddenly he's gonna be He wasn't gonna be
good before, but now because the guy behind him got hurt,
now he's great.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Well, he's not gonna get displaced.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
So Jefferson and Addison and Hacketson and you like, you
got all the weapons, right, so go through their stats.
If JJ McCarthy's not there to come and take his job,
all of a sudden, all of those go to Sam.
I'm not saying it's good logic. I'm just explaining where
they're getting this in. Let me, let me, let me,
let me, let me just flip this and I'll tell
(12:25):
you where I went in this. Okay, there's only one
problem with Sam Darnald. Oh, okay, there's only one problem.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
I think I know what it is. Okay, and that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
There's only one problem with Sam Donald, really, only one
problem with this philosophy. He's going to be a top
There's only one that Plunger wouldn't take us off the air.
I'd say I'd hit the plunger like it's a game show,
because I know, like Antonio Mandarison, dealer, no deal, no deal. No,
you don't hit the button when you do that. No,
it's so exciting. I don't know what I'm doing. There's
only one problem with Sam Donald. And then then, really,
you just explain it to me, only one problem. Explain
(12:55):
it to me like I'm a five case, so next
year I'll be six. Yes, and your parents will tell
you there's only one problem with Sam Darnald. Yeah, and
that's it. And you want me to tell you a
penny piece paper? Yeah, take it down these nuts I've done. Okay,
one problemise Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
He stinks?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
How many exclamation points for on capitol? Yes, okay, he stinks.
I've watched him play. Yes, there is always the chance
of he could Gino Smith his way. Look, but I've
seen him play in numerous offense. How long does it
take to get the stench of the Jets seen him beget? Well, say,
clearly it's three teams in counting. Now, Okay, Sam Darnald
(13:33):
is not any good. The guy's been in the league
since twenty eighteen. I get that you think you put
great weapons around a guy, think suddenly he's gonna be great.
But come on, man, I've watched him for his career,
not nowhere to go with the football now. I don't
know that he knows what he sees when he looks downfield.
He misses open guys, he doesn't hit his progressions. Yes,
he had a couple of nice passes in the first
(13:53):
preseason game. I've seen him throw some nice pass I'm
not saying the guy is an EPT. I've seen him
throw a couple of nice passes. But he throws a
couple of passes. And I saw one post today. No
one ever throws a dig route like Sam Donald did
on this play. I'm like, okay, so one play when
he throws a dig route really well, that covers up
the last six years where he was given the keys
(14:14):
to the Jets, couldn't keep them, was given the keys
of the Panthers, couldn't keep them, and now he's on
another team where now he's lucky that he's actually starting.
He may have backed his way into his starting job
for a little bit longer. Sam Donald stinks. Okay, I've
seen it from him. Yes, sometimes it happens and Gino
Smith can find his way into a magical year. But
I've seen this. I've seen this too much. There's a
lot of tape on Sam Donald just from the last
(14:36):
couple of years. Gino Smith at least went a decade
between tape. What kind of quarterback is he?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Guy hasn't played in ten years. All right, Sam Donald
stinks And just the elevation because somebody gets hurt is ridiculous,
because if he wasn't good enough before, he doesn't suddenly
get good enough because the guy behind him got hurt.
I don't understand, you know, I mean, this is Sam Sam, Sam, Sam, Sam,
Your head's gonna aches. I'm just saying when I'm when
(15:01):
I'm seeing you like this is physically And look if
maybe if he wasn't an ex jet, it wouldn't be
as big of.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
A thing to me. But I know that does seem
How is this flipping all of a sudden.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
JJ McCarthy is great, He's the second company. He might
be out a while. Sam Donald is one of the
best watch to watch what happens to Sam now? Because
look at this one throw he made notice. Nobody ever
puts up the Hey, here's the fifteen. But again, the
guy that goes to the point is easy to throw
the one good throw, not the fifteen bad ones. But
you you can't do the content saying just flat out, hey,
(15:34):
Sam Donald stinks.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
This is a nothing burger.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Everybody expected you to put five hundred words to a
thousand words, and all you needed to say was he stinks. Now,
everybody put up the big, long, nice past. Michael Pennix
Junior had no one put up the ten passes he
missed over guys, and he thinks they're eleven feet off
of course, like they're the skeleton from home depot that
you bought for your You know, there's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
One on a one that's been there a year round
in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
If I was that tall, I think if you're driving
down driving downwards towards my house, it's like all of
a sudden, like wait, that thing's been there, and they
keep dressing it up. He's got jerseys on and different outfits.
It's not, it's just not happening.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay. Sam Donald's not suddenly great. Okay, he's not. He's
not just because.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Let's see, they start at the Giants boy, his old team,
the forty nine ers, then Houston, then Green Bay. Because
that's the other problem.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
If Caleb Williams is great and Jordan Love is great,
and they both are, and the Lions even with no Gibbs,
you still say they're pretty good. Did you say with
Joe Gibbs?
Speaker 1 (16:34):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:34):
I said with no Gibbs.
Speaker 5 (16:35):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
I think he said with Joe Gibbs that would be
pretty cool for Joe Gibbs came back when he comes
driving up in like with his glass. Hey hey hey, hey,
hey Dan, Hey Dan, all of sudden'm b begin a sideline. Now, yeah,
he takes over.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
If all those teams supposed to be good, that means
the Vikings will not be. It's math. So just just
understand that about Sam Donald uh coming up next, there
is one quarterback that is not being talked about enough,
and we're gonna get to it because today heedge coach
talked about wanting to vomit. That's straight ahead right here,
(17:09):
that's what we call it.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Teas, Marie.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Now you're gonna go back into another quarterback you hate
because of a past association with the Jets.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
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constructive I don't want to say positive. I want to
say realistic conversation about Sam Darnold in the wake of
(18:55):
the JJ McCarthy injury. Yeah, anybody that wants to chime
in you have at an AD. How about Apresca at
sw I don't know how deep. I want to go
into political comparisons, okay with Minnesota because we got a
couple of those on Twitter so far. Sam Darnold is
Wes Walls, okay, sure, and JJ McCarthy can be Wesley
(19:15):
Walls former tight end, tight end of the Panthers Jets
more Panthers though, Yeah, but look look it up. Wesley
Walls more time, more Panthers. I think if you had
him in fantasy, he was by thinking of Wesley Walker,
you think, oh, dude, that's two completely different people. Wesley
Walker was late seventies, mid eighties one of the best
receivers in the NFL. He was blind in one eye
(19:36):
and he was still great.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Think about that. What eye I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Wesley Walls, Panthers tight end. Yeah, he wa San Francisco,
New Orleans and Carolina. And then a cup of coffee
with Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
John Wesley Clark, former General of the United States.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
As actually done. John Wesley Harding, singer most famous for
When the Beatles in America. Okay, Prince Wesley from Princess Bride.
Sorry spoiler alert, and I'm out of West Glenn Wes
Wesley Snipes, sure, sure, Gallo Walker only Blade Glenn Wesley
(20:14):
former defenseman for the Bruins and Hartford Whalers. Wesley Wesley.
Now I'm out of Wesley's. I don't want to cut
it to West because it's not technically Wesley. Oh no.
So this was a great quote today, and this just
illustrates who the best quarterback in the NFC is going
to be this year. By the end by the end
(20:34):
of the year, we're going to say best quarterback in
the NFC, and it's going to be widely accepted that
that answer to that question is Jordan Love.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
The AFC is a much different conference just loaded up
with incredible quarterbacks. The NFC is more like, well, we're
propping up Dak in the top three. But think about
what head coach Mike Lafleura said earlier today to the
media about who the number one receiver of the Packers is, Okay,
(21:05):
and what Matt Lafleur says is going to get into
just how good Jordan Love is, and it's something that
people don't understand at Packers camp. Apparently Matt Lafleur is
getting a lot of questions who's the number one receiver
because they have a lot of guys there right whether
it's Jade Reed or Romeo Dubbs or Dantavian Wix was
really good last year, Christian Watson, who is it? And
Mike Matt Lafleur see Mike Lafleur bad, Lafleur brother, the
(21:29):
guy that coached the Jets beat Matt Lafleur. Good, I
gotta go, Matt good. Mike Peter, Oh, that's easy to go,
Matt good. Mike bed for me. I can't remember that.
Mike bad.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
I got that bad, Mike Bad.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Okay, good. The camera's on.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Otherwise, I'll give you a proper risk. Mike, Mike Bad,
Mike bed Here's Matt. Here's Matt Lafleur talking about what
he wants to do when he's asked who the number
one receiver and the packers is.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
I want to vomit every time I hear number one receiver.
To be honest with you, me crazy. That's something that
you guys talk about. I feel like we got a
bunch of them, so I think the beauty of them
is they're all capable of doing many things, which gives
us a lot of versatility from an offensive perspective in
terms of how we use these guys and deploy their talents.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Okay, first of them, it's a good, good lot of
coach speak.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, no, no, First of all, I want to say, really
that that makes you want when you're asked about who
the number one receiver?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
You get questions like that. The real people ask that
queste every day.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I got to know who the number Really, I don't
think people ask that all the time.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Who's the number?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We got to know who the number one receivers? And no,
it's not like it's a quarterback competition. It's like who's
the number one receiver. Okay, I could figure that out
for myself, but I also don't really need to know
that because if I think the guy's a number one,
he's a number two. Guess what, he's still on the field.
They're not going to run. Not running an offense where
I want the one loan end is at the end.
This is not Army in the nineteen forties, where if
we throw one pass every six weeks it's a lot.
(22:52):
This is also a very good tactical move from La
Floor for the Packers in terms of managing expectation as
well as well, let's face it, the financials of it,
because the ball is gonna get spread around. You've got
three or four guys that could and we've had this
discussion again owing to the offline fantasy football talk throw order.
(23:12):
We'll get some fantasy content in here over the next
couple of weeks to get you ready for your drafts
heading into all of that big happy season. But part
of it is if the ball's spread around, and say
you got four guys, I don't know, for giggles, they've
got eighty targets each.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Guess what, you don't have.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
To pay any of them like a number one so
Matt Lafleur is being smart and diplomatic about it too.
It's like, look, we got guys that can make plays
and Watson coming back off injury. Whatever you get out
of him, red zone specialist at times, whatever, It's all
fine and good, but you tamp it down because right
now you've got a team that's young and they're together.
(23:50):
The last thing you want to do is, well, here's
how i'd order them.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Let's do it. Let's do it for like I got
a whiteboard.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Now, let's go one survivor Packers wide receivers and just
crossing guys Wicks number one. This is this is not
about these guys. This is what I mean when I say,
understand the end of the year, we're gonna talk about
Jordan Love being the best quarterback in the NFC because
you go through the guys and their compliments. Right, Jayden
Reid was the leading receiver for the Packers. I thought
you were going to go through all the guys in
(24:17):
the NFC and just pick them off one by one. Now, look,
Jayden Reid, you're left with Jordan Love versus Caleb Williams,
modoy model. Let's go, Hey, kiddy, they wind up Be,
although we were were closer to the Brocolipse with Brock
Perdy getting paid. But you have Jayden Reid, right, who
had a pretty decent year last year. Was it not
an unbelievable year? Be caught sixty four passes for like
eight hundred yards? Right, he had eight touchdowns, same as
(24:39):
Romeo Dubs. Right, Romeo Dubs a guy coming the last
couple of years.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Christian Watson led the team in yards per catch fifteen.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Dontavian Wicks, who was a rookie, came on at the
end of the year. He was a big guy to get,
especially in fantasy. A lot of people picked up the
end of the year average just under fifteen yards of
Carrie scored four touchdowns. Oh, by the way, none of them.
Was the first Pas to have a hundred yard game.
That was Bo Melton in the next to last game
of the season. He gets elevated off the practice squad
(25:06):
and has a hundred yard game. Did you just want
to get bow in because bo'son?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yeah, Bo, Bo Benson. It's different Bo though, Bo is
b e a U. Bo Melton is.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
B oh yeah, but he's he's tall and can get
after it. He's got reach on you. Well, he's got
well Bo Benson. That that name kind of rolls off
the tongue. It like someone who won, like Bo Bice,
who won American Idol, like Bo Benson, Like Bo Benson,
Bo Benson, Look Benson, people of history less bust Bo Bison,
Bo Benson, Bo Benson, Bo Bice. But if you said
(25:35):
that really fast, now you've got people thinking about Bisons Bovice,
Bo Bye b Bye b Bye Benson, Bo Bo Bye
Benson Benson. I'm gonna stab you with this pag bo Wow,
you got Bo. You really can't go anywhere more than that.
(25:55):
Think about this for a second. All right, watching Jordan
Love play last year, it didn't matter who he played with, right,
and the Melton thing is is the one that should
stand out. Here's a guy elevated on game day from
the practice squad one hundred yard game. Nobody has four
or five wide receivers that are this talented. They just don't.
Nobody has four or five. Did you get a couple
(26:16):
of guys talented? Yeah, you have a talented wide receiver room. Yeah,
Sam Tarnold in the Minnesota. But but he's got two guys, right,
he's got He's got two guys, right, he's got that
wide receivers. Yes, the tight end is good as well,
but these are four five wide receivers. Now just five receivers.
They're not all this great. I guarantee you if you
took some of them off this team put them on
another team, they would struggle to catch forty passes. Jordan
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Love is able to use all five of these players
and have the season he had, throwing for four thousand yards,
leading them into the playoffs with a perfect passer rating
in the in the first game against the Cowboys. Jordan
Love is someone who elevates the players around him. That's
how good he is. Great quarterbacks, hey, put up numbers
and win games. They have great players around you, but
(27:01):
the great quarterbacks to it when you have guys that
I don't even know who this is unless I am
a pretty die hard fantasy player and I'm trying to
trade for Jayden Reed in a couple of leagues. People
don't know Dontavian Wicks. Who are these guys? But this
is this is who Jordan Love got it done with,
and it's time to understand and give credit that. Wow,
that's really something. If Aaron Rodgers does it this year,
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it's gonna be a look at Garrett Wilson right side,
Mike Williams and now Bresee Hall is so good, Josh Allen,
oh Man, Dalton k and Kate has taken a step
up key on Colemins Gret, but look at the guys
that he has. None of these players are are are
players that if they were suddenly available, teams in the
NFL would say, we got to go give this guy
thirty million dollars a year. None of them are. None
of them are so understand that when these guys, when
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they can win and you can spread the ball around.
This is Jordan Love who is able to make his
progressions and find the right guy to throw the football to.
Because sometimes it's Bou Melton, sometimes it's Christian Watson. Sometimes
Christian Watson's not in the lineup, doesn't matter. Christian Watson plays,
he doesn't play. He missed a lot of games last year.
When he plays, he catches. When he does it, it
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doesn't matter. Don Tavian Wicks not in the beginning of
the year. End of the season, yes, he catches passes.
Probably read was the most consistent, but it didn't matter
who was in the lineup. It didn't matter where you were.
It didn't matter if you were a guy that hadn't
played all season. So the next last game of the year,
I got a one hundred yards. I'm the first receiver
with one hundred yards. So this tells you all through
the year, it wasn't like, hey, this guy's killing this defense.
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It's some time we got to keep going to Jade
and Reid. He's not going to catch nine passes for
one hundred and fifty five yards. This is Jordan Love
elevating too. Is nothing that can put it on display
more than just look at these wide receivers and may
make Mike La Matt lafour wan to vomit, but in
the end he's got to understand, boy, we got the
right quarterback, and boy, look at what he does with
a bunch of guys that have some talent. It also
(28:45):
showing on you know, you have to deal with the
fact that you had the lesser laflor even more so.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, because a lot of this is based on scheme.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Because I'm big, I'm big on I don't care about nepotism.
I understand that I'm good, But it just did work
for the Jets. Yeah, no, I mean like you took
a shot, but with this squad, spread the ball around
and look, I want to keep playing back the Jordan
love takes I had when they took him, uh, and
everybody was mad and feeling bad for Aaron Rodgers. Then
six months later they all hated him, miss public Enemy
(29:14):
number one.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Fast that turn and then he won two MVPs.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
Yeah, so I think the whole the whole quarterback thing
has worked out. Okay, you had a guy that was
in the house that whether he learned from Aaron directly
or not, the line keeps moving, much to my chagrin.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
As Chicago kid.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
But you look at being able to spread the ball
around get to the second half of the season was
fantastic and obviously the master class against that you know,
vaunted Dallas defense where Micah Parsons was rendered invisible. You
might as well have had Harry Potter's cloak on because
we didn't call his name or see him at all
during that game as they went up and down the field.
(29:51):
So now you're in the big time, right, the expectations
are huge that you take another massive step forward and
at your offense runs rough shot and I think Laflora,
like I said, did a really good job with this
of we got a bunch of guys. They're good and
that's where we're gonna leave it, because if we start
elevating anybody, the unsaid part, if we start elevating anybody,
(30:13):
then it maybe creates dissent. You start having guys that
feel like they need to get fed more, and certainly
they need to get paid more. And that's one of
the best things they've got. Every last one of these
guys is working dirt cheap NFL wise, as well as
their quarterback exit out about a Fresco exit swalling down
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
(30:34):
tirec dot Com Studios by the end of this year, Hey,
who's the best quarterback in the NFC?
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Jordan Loves Gonna get that love.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, and he's already got his contract, right, so, I
mean he's gotten paid and that'll kick in as we
go forward. But the rest of these guys cycle them
out man make stars of the.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Rest of them.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
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Speaker 1 (30:57):
Anytime I at least even joker around with ty Shirt
off the air about anything, like if I'm kidding around
with him and I pretend to get mad at him,
did you really pretend his Oh yeah, his blank you
as always, I'm just gonna play Tears for Fears whenever.
But it's nice to have that. But it's an unspoken response, right.
(31:20):
He just hits a button and he just smiles at you.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
You look at me. He's just wailing, waving at you
and smile.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I'm just gonna anytime you say something, Jason's gonna play
the song you ate.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
He's got like.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Four or five songs that he could do that with.
He get us through the rest of the night with
songs that you've declared your hatred for. No, that is true, artists,
that is true.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
That is, he could play clips from actresses.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
You've dismissed throughout the years, or actors that you've described
as wouldn't no, come on, come on, Mark Wahlberg, No,
come on, no way, no can't.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
He's got a new movie out with Halle Berry.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
He's gotta I say, yeah, you know how I always
say Mark Wahlberg like his great actress supposedly is. He's
been in la for now thirty five year, has been
holly with thirty five years, still does everything with the Boston.
I actually saw a trailer for a move went to
see trap. Like I told you, don't go see trap.
I know it's a trap getting you in the theater
to see the movie. He plays a movie he plays,
but he has like a Southern accent or something. Really,
and I'm like, WHOA was watching Derek Carr brand Prossers.
(32:15):
Now he's some sort of pilot and he's bald, and
he and and there's some sort of crazy thing happening,
like either either there's espionage that that he's involved in,
or he's the hero or he's the bad guy. I
can't really tell, but he's got to, don't That's what
it is. Meanwhile, what I am hoping for is the
(32:36):
ending to a story that we first began telling you
three weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
Well, we we previewed it a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I told you after the draft the Niners were trading
Brandon Ayuk, Right, it was happening, right, and then three
weeks it was all, look at this, we had the
trade in place with the Browns or the Patriots, and
now that's not happening. According to NFL Networks Ian rappaport,
just like they were the ink was dry on the
deal to the Browns or the Patriots, they were waiting
for Ayuk to decide what trade you wanted. Ian Rapp
(33:08):
were reporting it. Oh no, no, no dealers in place
with the Steelers. That is just waiting for the final
sign off. So Brandon Ayuk to the steel which is
where it's been bandied about for so long, and where
I give you a lot of credit because when this
came out two weeks ago, we're three weeks ago when
it was hey, the Browns or the Patriots who said,
don't count the Steelers out, don't count the Steelers out,
(33:29):
And now apparently the Steelers are the team we're just
waiting to side. Why is no one signing off if
these things are all that? Why what's happening?
Speaker 3 (33:36):
People?
Speaker 1 (33:37):
People getting cold Feeed's like buying a house. Oh no,
I think there there's a mold problem. And no I'm
not signing.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
I can't sign. I can't sign.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
I'm on the hook for this like we're now' rating.
But at least we're close to the end in theory
with a team that we thought he was going to
for the last six months. Either they'll have him or
they won't. I know it's affecting one of the slow
drafts you're currently involved in, and maybe some of you
out there in Fantasyland listening to us Glow on the
iHeartRadio app you're having the same issues.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
I would be remiss.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
We didn't circle back to the Amari Cooper part of
the would be trade to the Browns.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Lol. I wouldn't mind that at all.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
So either he's responding to something else, or he was
responding to that rumor of Hey, I go play with
Shanahan out in San Francisco if that's where he would
wind up. Oh no, I'm sorry. You don't wind up
in San Francisco. You wind up with the Jets. Yeah,
you end up sliding back in Wait, wait a minute,
what I already you gotta go out there and shake
hands and kiss babies. But we've already got a deal
(34:32):
in place to send you. I'm going the Arizona Cardinals.
Oh no way, team me up with Harrison Junior.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Look.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Yeah, this is this is insane that it keeps circling
back and we talked about it right that it could
be just say, hey, we've got other offers, omar Con,
you gotta come stronger. And then meanwhile, for the forty
nine ers, it's what's that that gap in terms of
salary and how much will you push North to keep
him as part of your squad instead of going and
getting Option C or D or whatever the receiver would
(35:03):
be in return.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Because there's been a lot of talk that a third
team has to be involved. Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely to
try to make it work.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
But what we're here, we would Ian Rapport would have said, hey,
there's a trade and involving a thirteen. He may not
have said the team. He would have said in a
mystery to you, Yeah that was that was the last
White the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
They're getting it. They're fun.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Come on there, just let them die already. There's forty
four games left. Hey, Louis Roberts. Louise Roberts getting trade.
He got his twenty seventh RBI at the year.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Come on, No, he.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Doesn't lead the team, doesn't twenty sevens if it doesn't
because played in sixty five games and Juan Soto had
the first three home run game of his career.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
To Yeah, hey, all of those things, but yeah, let
him die. Leave them out of this.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Look, this is a trade we thought would happen, and
we think it's going to It makes too much sense
to not happen. And quite honestly, the Niners have to
make it at this point if you're if you go
through the last couple of say, hey, we've been talking
to Brandon and talking about a deal, and maybe he
can stay. And now you're at the point where you
have a you have a deal with with the Steelers,
just let him go. The Niners are at the point
(36:09):
where they had the trade out there, all right, Brandon,
do you really want to go? And then obviously there
was some sort of trepidation because the Browns and the
Patriots deal slowly fell apart. A you probably said, I'm
not going to the Patriots. They think this is not
the Tom Brady Patriots. So okay, that fell apart. Didn't
want to go to Cleveland. Then there were negotiations, supposedly
because it was okay, do you really not want to go,
(36:30):
Let's make one more run at this. And now you're
hearing we have a deal set with the Steelers. Like
it's done now I would say done, and Ayuka is
gonna be on a different team, and Pierce All's gonna start,
and he's gonna be everybody's fantasy darling. This is I mean,
he's going to be He's gonna be health right, Ayuk
is going he's in campus. In theory, he will be ready.
He will be ready. Now you know my theory. And
(36:50):
I've got to be consistent. I've been this guy for
a decade. He's got a year of a contract left
that's gonna pay him. What about fifteen million dollars?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
You want? You want your fifteen million hours?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
People want to get, People want to We're comeing in
week ten if you want.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Sure, sure, Hassan, Sure, Yeah. So you do the forty
nine ers thing and play hard ball if you want.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But you're but if you want a big contract, if
you're gonna come in and not have a big season,
who's gonna give you a big contract coming off a
bad season?
Speaker 3 (37:19):
That doesn't happen? Doesn't That's the franchise tag. Doesn't happen?
Does it happen?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I've been That's what people like ayuk and and Reddick
don't get that. If you don't come in till late
and you don't play, well, you're not getting paid that
next season. It's not gonna be something. Oh we're still
gonna be thirty million dollars here, No, it's how about
two years eight million?
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Well how about that. You doesn't flip the odobit, you.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Know though, I mean it doesn't. That's just how it goes.
You got to understand that if you don't play, you
are only hurting yourself at the end of it. Yeah,
it's a curious space again for the forty nine ers
playing hardball. I figure out where there's that that gap
and see if we can't find the difference. But yeah,
the trade evidently in place and just waiting again, this
(38:00):
trade's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. It will happen soon.
Ayukas played his last game as a forty nine er.
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