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All right, So before we get to the big NFL story,
let me just say yeah, so, ty Shirt a few
minutes ago says, oh, Jase, you coming in here. You're
just and you're just angry. I'm like, no, I'm not anger.
I'm not angry. I when when all the action of
the night is over, we like to put movies on.
It's fun thing just to keep on while we're here
on it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
You have over two screens, we'll still have some highlights
and some recash.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Everything else becomes and finally, you know, guys have been
working all night. You Kevin Whart's been working hard all night.
And Bow and ty Shirt, Hey, you know, put a
movie on. Destress a little bit. I get we put
movies on, but when you put bad movies on all
the screens, I'm gonna say, hey, what the hell is up?
And and and and the first movie that they put
on was Cabin Fever, and I'm like, you got it.
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Guy's gotta be kidding me with Cabin Fever. It's one
of the worst horror movies ever? Are you? The acting
was terrible? The movie was a guy from boy Mead's
world in a horror movie.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I don't know how Eli Roth got a career after
this movie, but yet somehow he did. And now he
gave us border Lands. Oh I know, dude, they may
pull that thing from theaters by tomorrow. I feel I'm
going wow. I was what made no?
Speaker 5 (01:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I want to thirty for thirty on? How does Jessica
Chesting do this movie.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
Paid?
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, thirty I'm gonna guess she was promised some other
movie gets made right, that old Hollywood trick of I.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Got this thought, you do this, I want it for
me and you can be storm when we launched the
X Men franchise, got it right? Or Sandy Bullock, Hey,
you gotta do speed too, speed on a boat? You
get hope floats. I didn't sign for that. I didn't
design for that. Uh So again, there's a lot of
bad movies that are being put on here in Kevin
Fever is bad. And then they had a whole big
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thing on then the Joker was on it like that
was a horrible movie. Joker too looks even worse and
more depressing. I'm like, wow, So of course I'm gonna
commit here in question some of the movies I was
gonna buy him the toy set that was gonna be
Joker and Murray Joel Roberts de Nero character. Kevin Fever
is not that bad. It is bad. It's a fun movie. No,
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it's not. Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Is it fun that it is fun? Is it fun?
I don't know that it's fun. What I think it? It?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
It?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay? You watch them go deranged because the water's poisoned
spoiler alerts, Well, yeah, he just spoiled. It's an old movie. Yeah.
But the thing is the acting context of the Olympics.
We just want The acting is terrible. It's absolutely horror movie.
And and and there's got you gotta give me some
teenagers to root for. You gotta give it. No, I
can't root for any of the guy with the hap
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that you don't I can't root for Brady. I can't
root for Brady wearing the blank you hat. I can't
root for Brad and I can't what's the other guy's name?
Archie Blake and made it I Blanke and made it. No,
I couldn't. There's you gotta give me people a root for?
You're so negative about gotta give me people a root for?
In a horror molee, Jason, you know, like this is
like one of those cult clack classic movies. It's a
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really good time. If it was a cult classic movie,
people who are in this movie would actually have careers.
They do know, they don't who who Who's got after that?
Brad does not have a career because it does no
he does the guy from Boy Me worldlike Mike. So
he's got a podcast that before this and he doesn't
podcast e him more. He did Boy This is boy
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meets really bad movie. That's what this is right here.
Jason was terrible. I think that take is a little overplace.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
I don't understand how Eli Roth got his career. I mean,
this is Eli I don't I understand. And I'm a
big horror movie fan.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Made a good job that that series. He would celebrating
the history of horror was pretty good. Eli Roth presents
blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yes, and here's an anthology series about horror movies. Yeah, okay,
that's good. All right, fine, that's great. It's like watching
the a VNS. I'm watching the Okay, here's the a
v NS. And it's what was wrong with that? The awards,
I don't know. Frostburg puts them on all the time.
When he's here, it's like, oh, here are the awards,
not the movies themselves. Here's you want to hear the speeches.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I want behind the scenes to hear the speech. I
want to see how the sausage gets made.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Let's see what you did there? The uh so. Look,
I'm a realist and I never like my sports takes.
You may disagree, but I will make you think. I
will entertain you. I never steer you wrong on TV,
movies and food. Those three things I never steer you wrong,
TV movies and food. Stick to the takes. I'm not
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saying the food is healthy. I'm saying food it tastes good. Yeah,
and the things that are best tasting are bad for you.
BA can taste good. Pork chops taste good. You gonna
keep running some pulp fiction line. Let's le let's get
to quarterbacks. Uh. So, today Packers head coach Matt Lafleur
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got really upset because apparently at Packers camp people keep
asking him who's your number one receiver? And he's not
happy with that line of questioning. Now, I'm going to
make a big, bold statement for you coming off of this,
but first we have to get into this.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
He is not happy whenever anybody ask him who the
number one receiver. He's got a lot of good receivers
on that team. Allegedly, he's got Jayden Reid, Christian Watson,
Dontavian Wicks, Romeo Dubbs, right Bo Melton guy one hundred
yard game last year. Got a lot of guys Who's
the number one receiver? But apparently that's the one question
Matt Lafleur does not want to be asked.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I want to vomit every time I hear number one receiver.
To be honest with you, it drives 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 him is they're all capable of doing many things,
which gives us a lot of versatility from an offensive
perspective of in terms of how we use these guys
and deploy their talents.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, okay, the translation is we have a lot of
Jags and Jordan Love makes them all better.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Well, it's either that or is a very humble brag
of I'm a wizard and I can make any one
of them a one number one.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Receiver by the end of this year. By the end
of this year, we'll be able to say we'll be
saying who's the best quarterback in the NFC. It will
be widely accepted to be Jordan Love. Granted, now, wait
a minute, wait, there's a lot of great quarterbacks AFC
has loaded. But we will say that, oh, the best
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quarterback is Jordan Love. Why And it's got to do
with the receivers that he's talking about. Right. You have
Jaden Reid, who was a rookie last year probably had
the best all around year. Right, But he caught sixty
five passes, right for nine hundred yards. He had a
nice little season.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
He had eight touchdowns. Romeo Dubbs also had eight touchdowns.
Christian Watson average fifteen yards a catch, Dontavian Wicks, who
came on late in the year, also average fifteen yards
a catch, scored four touchdowns. He was a guy people
were picking up in fantasy the last couple of weeks
like crazygo, maybe this is the guy. And then you
have Bow Melton, who was the player to record the
first hundred yard game by a Packers receiver, really obsessed with.
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In the next to last game of the year.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You're like thinking about Belton, Bill Melton, the Melton, Bill Melton,
socks announcer.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Bow Melton, Bill Melton, Milton Bradley, trying to come up
with more Meltons. I can't, I know, really, Janice Melton,
you did. I still lives in la I worked with
her a long time ago. But I'm out. No, no, no, no, no, no,
she was married. Oh she's married. Okay, Jannis was great,
Janie Melton, Bill Melton, Melton Melton did you yell? Damn it? Janis? Uh?
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So understand for a second that why does all of
this happen? Are Reed and Watson and Dubbs and Wicks
and Melton all great? No? Jordan Love is that rare
quarterback that evates what is around him. All the other
great quarterbacks have great players to throw to. The very
rare quarterbacks. The rarest of quarterbacks elevate the players who
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are just jags. None of these guys are stars. None
of these guys had dominant stretches. Some of these guys
were in and out of the lineup. It didn't matter.
It didn't matter if Christian Watson was hurt or healthy,
which he was over the course of the year. Jordan
Love still had big games, still had four thousand yards
over thirty touchdowns. It doesn't matter that that Bo Melton
was elevated from the practice squad on the morning of
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the of the game. He caught one hundred yards passes
on It doesn't matter. Jordan Love is someone who elevates.
He finds the right receivers. You watch him play. He
is someone who will find the mismatch. He will find
where the right place to go is with the ball,
and he's right about it all the time. There's a
reason why nobody has five great receivers. Suddenly all these
guys are great. Look, Matt Lafleur is being nice because
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what he's really want to say is, hey, Jordan Love
is fantastic, and oh my goodness, boy, have we gotten
it right with quarterback? The last few years we had
MVP seasons from Aaron Rodgers, we had NFC championship games.
Now you have a quarterback for the next decade. And
he went in to beat the Cowboys had a perfect
passer rating. Jordan Love is that guy. There's no other
team out there that you can say these wide receivers
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would go and and and they could start in a
lot of places like would people go crazy to go
get Romeo Dubbs, No they wouldn't. Or Christian Watson, No,
they wouldn't. Natavian Wicks, No, they wouldn't. Bo Melton, No
they wouldn't. Jayden reed Are he's a rookie, maybe you
want to go get him, But these guys are not
guys that really stand out. These are guys who Jordan
Love is able to make weapons and make focal points
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because of the game plan going in. He knows where
to go with the football and it doesn't matter. It's
gonna be hard over the course of his career in
fantasy to find a good Packers wide receiver or trust
because every week it doesn't match like Patrick Mahomes, Well,
he doesn't have Tyreek Hill. What kind who's gonna score it?
Is it Juju Smith, Schuster?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Canarius Tony? Who is it? Now? They're bring in bigger players,
but that's where it is for Jordan Love. He is
that good. He elevates everybody around him. Great quarterbacks are
great when they have great players around. We'll find out
how good Josh Allen is this year without Stefan Diggs
for the first time. We'll find out how good other player.
We'll find out how good Dak Prescott is if he
doesn't have CD Lamb to throw to right. But here's
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Jordan Love. I know he's done it with just a
bunch of guys around him. So look at what he
did last year. He gets the big contract. I'm telling you,
by the end of this year, it's going to be
oh Man, Jordan Love's the best quarterback in the NFC.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Six receivers that finish the twenty twenty three season on
the Packers roster, they don't make a whole lot of money.
It's combined eight million dollars.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Why would you so that they're all interchangeable.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
But that's the larger point also for Lafleura of saying, hey,
we distribute the ball well, and it is a pat
on the back to the offense that they run and
the scheme that they run that you can work through
and as long as your quarterback is efficient with the football,
that everybody can step up game to game and you
don't have to. You're not doubling someone you getting played. Honestly,
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you can pick the pick apart the secondary as it were.
But for Jordan Love, Yeah, the elevation for these guys
also as they come up on contracts, they don't have
monster numbers, so they'll get offers and maybe they get
the outlier huge offer. But the potential is there to
keep these guys together as well, because there's and it's
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not that you're trying to suppress their marketplace. It's just
this is the way your offense runs, and you deploy
it thusly. So when we look at this going forward, yeah, Jordan.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Love, who else? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Stafford for whatever games he's available. Jalen Hurts on the
comeback trail. We've been reading all of the ever since
those reports got out of the tiff between he and Sirianni,
and Jalen.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Hurts has a couple of really good guys to throw to.
That's pretty nice. Nice thing. But Stafford's got the guys,
yeah right, I mean, and Dak has the guys that
Brock Purdy hack guys. Well, Dak has a guy well
and well, he may not have him year right, he
has he has a rock party has the guys, I
mean they all do.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
He may not have one of those. Again, we talked
about that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well right now he does. We've seen so far. We'll
see he has the guys exactly. And and Jordan Love
does not.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
And Caleb Williams has a lot of guys in theory
he does, and we may be having that conversation. Could
be I may be walking around with a smiling Caleb
Williams before.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Caleb Love, who was actually a guy. Uh, it's gonna
be Look, Caleb told you he's ready to take over
the league. We'll talk about him being at the top
at the end of this year, telling you man, But Jordan,
I mean, people have to understand that the guy is
that special when you're playing with just a bunch of
guys around you and you can still put up those lines.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
They flipped the script in November right The game against
Pittsburgh was the jumping off point of what became a
fantastic end of the season, including that perfect rating against
what was supposed to be a good Dallas Cowboys defense.
So always hang a star on that one. But you
look at it going forward, a roster that is you
and we'll play together. A defense that played pretty well.
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The one thing they didn't do was generate a lot
of turnovers. Well, maybe the ball bounces their way a
little bit more this year. But what we've we were
talking about with Minnesota a little bit earlier, Jason, is
you got a division that really should be a big battle,
and that Jamior Gibbs injury looming large in terms of
the offensive structure for Ben Johnson and the Lions. So
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for Jordan Love, everybody's looking to Core, you know, for
that coronation, another guy that everybody dismissed on draft day.
What a mistake. This is awful. Oh, this is terrible.
What a waste to pick.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And now they're bending over to you know, puck her
up as much as they can, telling you, man, we're
gonna look back. Jordan Love is the best quarterback of
the NFC. That's how good he is. A look with
a bunch of different with just a bunch of guys
That's how it goes on. All these guys that you
would say, do I start These are weekly guys where
you go, well, on a bye week, I'll start him
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in he's a low two or three. Maybe yeah, do
I start him? Maybe I do? Maybe I do so again.
Understand that's your deal with Jordan Love.
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could be America's next great train wreck, the New York Jets.
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Have we already seen that before? Oh many times, many times,
many many times, many times. But it was just And
I have a couple of big points to make about this,
And the first part is this shows you. What I'm
going to talk about is why the Jets are like
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the TV show The Crown. Okay, The Crown about the
royal family and since Elizabeth exceeded ascended to the throne
in the nineteen fifties when she was twenty five and
kept it until she died a year and a half ago.
And the Crown the first two years is awesome, right,
next two years not so great. Last two years you're
waiting for it to be over. I'm like, come on, McNulty,
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you're not Prince Charles. But the Crown is about the
monarchy and how in the end they all need to
stay together to keep the monarchy going, to make sure
that the respect and the desire and the popularity of
the Queen or the king, and the royal family continues
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to prosper from year to year. And there was lots
of times during the course of the show where people
didn't believe in the monarchy. Maybe we shouldn't be giving
money to the monarchy like we do, we don't need
the monarchy as much. But the monarchy always endured because
in the end everybody understood that, Okay, hey, our whole
family is the monarchy. It's not just the Queen, it's
Prince Philip, it's it's Princess Diana, it's everything else. This
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is the monarchy. But behind closed doors you see the
power struggles and you see the way people push their
advantage and push their position. And if the Queen needed
to see Prince Charles, she sent a message through an
intermediary to get Prince Charles get your asked to Buckingham Palace.
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If they needed to see Princess Diana. There was a
message that would go to Princess Diana's people, which would
get to somebody which you get to Princess Diana, which
would then get back to Prince Charles, where Prince Charles
would say, hey, I know we're not talking and I'm
having an affair, and you're having an affair, but we
need this appearance on Friday to make it look like
everything is fine. So we're gonna go out, we're gonna wave,
we're gonna take questions, and yes, everything is fine. And
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I know this not because they spoke to each other,
but because they sent messages through intermediaries, through press secretaries
to people like this is the crown and this is
where the Jets are, especially after today. It was just
twenty four hours ago. So I'm young enough to remember
when we talked about how ridiculously embarrassing the Jets are,
and they've been for a long time. They have a
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great roster now they're expecting to do a lot of
great things. But in the end, it's Aaron Rodgers who
was going to cover up all the ills of the Jets.
And twenty four hours ago the story was how do
you trade for Hassan Redick who now asks for a
trade from the team because you biffed signing him to
a new contract. You didn't know if you were going
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to be able to keep him when you traded for him,
but still you made the trade, and now he's saying,
I don't want to play there and I want to
be dealt. And the Jets put out a statement saying
we want you here and we expect to see you
at some point soon. The fines keep piling up, right,
So here are Joe Douglas Robert sala putting out this
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message from the Jets right now today what happens? Here
comes Aaron Rodgers in the situation, smiling and happy, talking
to the media, talking about Hassan Reddick, and he said, hey,
I want a son Reddick to be a Jet. This
is going to be a fun ride ahead. He said,
how greatest season it's going to be. And he understands
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what he's doing for his family, but yeah, I want
a son Reddick to be a Jet. Reporters asked him, hey,
will you make a phone call? He kind of smiled
and said, I think I could make a phone call.
So here is Aaron Rodgers saying, oh, I could save you.
This is how often do you think Rogers and Salah
and Douglas actually speak. I don't know that they act.
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I mean because why because the team is Aaron Rodgers team.
Aaron Rodgers is the queen or the king, whatever you
want to say. He's the one calling the shots. He's
the one that calls for the Prime Minister to come
talk to me. I need to know what's going on
with this war, So come meet with me Winston Churchill
at one o'clock in the Palace on a Tuesday like
this is Aaron Rodgers. And there's no example that shines
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on this more than just here's yesterday the embarrassment. But
here's today, Aaron Rodgers. I could bail us out. I'll
make a phone call to with Son Reddick and see
if I can get him in here. I'm gonna with
a wink in his smile, I can do this here.
I mean, I don't know the last time that that
Sala and Rogers speak, because you see there's a disconnect
between them. Sala says, I don't know if Aaron's gonna
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play this preseason Aaron Rodgers. Well, that's news to me.
I don't think Aaron's gonna play in the joint practice
last week because the field is wet. Oh I wanted
to play. I didn't like that decision. How often are
you guys talking? How often do you guys really communicate
or is it just sorry Nathaniel Hackett your go between,
and you want to talk to Aaron Rodgers. You send
a message through Nathaniel Hackett, through the offensive coaches and
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the offensive teammates that will get to Aaron Rodgers, and
Aaron Rodgers will answer, yeah, I mean you. Someone had
to give the messages to Paul Sardino like that. He
didn't want to be on the phone after this money
gotta turn my back on you. So this is this
is where the Jets are a lot like the Crown
in that Hey, they Rogers has all the power and
whatever dysfunction is going on behind the scenes, you can see.
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This is how it's playing out. That that look sala
is not a great head coach. I'm not a big
fan of it. I told you he's not up for
the job. Joe Douglas is a decent GM, but how
do you trade for a guy that now, without even
setting foot in the building, he wants to be traded.
Whenever they show the assan Reddit story, they can't even
show him in Jets gear because he doesn't he had
one day where he took a physical. It doesn't that
they're showing practice video from last year with the Eagles
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because there is no video informs though.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Right, as long as you block out an unlicensed trading
guard or.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I'm gonna squint. Oh was he a Jets practice all?
That's an Eagles green So this is exactly how the
Jets are operating, right, they're operating and Rogers today no
coincidence of the day after things look really bad. He's
alsobot Hey, I'll call his son Reddit. I can see
a WEE can do. I can make a phone call,
see if I can get his san and we'll see.
We'll see what happens here. I could save us, I
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could do this. This is the Jets, but this is
a Jets he wanted. This is what he wanted in
Green Bay until he didn't. And when he allowed the
field goal kicker to suddenly show up on the field
against Tom Brady instead of saying blank you I got this.
That was the one time he kind of dived to
the background with the Jets.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Right.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
He got his friend's jobs, He got them nice contracts.
He got his buddy Hackett the gig and a stay
of execution.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Buddy Hackett got the gig really eating tusken pop spars. Buddy,
he got Buddy Hackett got the job. Although I don't know,
the Jets might be better off with Buddy Hackett calling
at times.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Yeah, certainly with anybody but Rogers it has been well
suspect it's the butt, but it's but it's his opportunity
right to be the savior of this squad, to be
the leader, and to have everybody beg him to bail
them out. And that's really to me. Aaron Rodgers is
relishing this in a whole other way. It's like, because
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all he took was incoming for the better part of
the last what twenty four to thirty six months, just
from every angle sports, non sports, whatever else, this unauthorized
biography that comes out. I did a bunch of interviews,
but he talked to a bunch of other guys, all
of that stuff that goes through. But in this case,
it becomes a all right, you want your season to roll,
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it's gonna begin and end with me. And we were watching,
you know, after the White Sox lost to Wan Soto
and the Yankees. In the post you start getting into
local programming in New York. And there was a graphic
cup and obviously we're in the studio, so I couldn't
hear what the man had to say, but the graphic
the lower third on your television screen. It said Reddick
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is a luxury, not a necessity, or something to that effect.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
They meant JJ Reddick. Sorry that they meant JJ red
We'll talk about him soon enough.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
But the idea here is like, no, no, your defense
is good, but clearly you decided to go over and
him not showing up does it.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
It's not a that's too bad.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
No, that's a phase at your front office, and it
totally submarines all the other work that you've done.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Doesn't mean you won't still be a good unit.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
But there's gonna be a lot of salt he is
in that building of all Right, that guy was going
to make me look better. I got a contract coming up,
and Reddick being here was going to help us and
all of that stuff. And now Aaron Rodgers has to
ride to the rescue.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Look, look, here's a bit of him today talking about
how you make a phone call fee ne me too.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
What.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
There's always new things in the league that you know.
I've been around twenty years. I've seen a lot of stuff.
I think as players, we always first try and side
with the player, because you know what it's like to
be a player. I actually have played against the sign before.
I don't know him well. I've had a couple messages
with him. I believe when he got traded, obviously we'd
love for him to be here. You know, we don't
judge him for trying to do what's best for him.
(24:40):
I think what's best for him is to be a
Jet because this is going to be a fun ride.
You know, He's got to make the best decision for
him and his family.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
No, I'll make a phone call. I dig that though
a couple of messages. I believe. Yeah, no, but he's
I can pay a phone call. Yeah, I could do it.
I could do it, but I was waiting for him
to ask all the media ceble Hey, guys, would you
like me to make that call? I call him right now.
I'm like, oh, we call him on the air. Hey,
a son, you're on the air with Aaron Rodgers. You're
a juts practice. But now all that set, all that
(25:08):
set about the Jets and the dysfunction and Rogers calling
the shots and all of this which you didn't need
to see anything more than this today, I'm not worried.
And this is why you see companion animals how they're
they're you know, their companion and I help her monkeys. Yeah, yeah,
And and basically what I'm thinking of is is that
(25:29):
is that companion animals for other animals, not processes. But
you know, I went to go see a cheetah run
in uh the San Diego Zoo a few years ago,
and they bring out a cheatah, and of course, you
know a cheatahs natural habitat is not in a zoo
with a bunch of people standing around and taking pictures.
It's boy, I'm the SENGETI where's the will to be
some I'm going to run down in like eight point
(25:51):
two seconds? Where is that thing? So they bring the
cheat out because you're gonna get to see the cheetah
run go after a mechanical rabbit. And when they bring
the cheata out, this is Boris, the cheetah cheetah, and
the cheetah looks a mate like something like that. Well,
they brought out a spider and his name was being
Uh it's okay, And you're gonna notice that Boris's best friend,
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Gus is here, and it's just this Labrador Retriever that's
out walking around next to the cheetah. And the person
that you know tells us, hey, you know companion animals
here like maybe this is where it's actually started with
with uh, you know, with with with with us with
humans having companion animals. He said, listen, this is the cheetah.
This is a very unfamiliar situation for him. But the
(26:34):
cheetah and Gus, we're both bred from very young and
they've been best friends their whole lives. They're both weren't
even a year old. But when the dog is calm,
the cheetah is calm. If the dog is jacked up,
the cheta is gonna get jacked up because something's wrong.
And I don't know what this is. But as long
as the cheetah sees the dog is calm, the cheetah
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is calm, and things everything, which means you're throwing into
the right No, not happening. So when I see Aaron Rodgers,
if Aaron Rodgers is calm, I'm calm. It's like he's
my companion animal. If he's calm about what's going on
in the face of you know, here's a book about
my family, and here's all these different podcasts I'm doing,
and here's I can't get on the field because it's
(27:15):
wet nor But if he's calm about it, and there
then I'm calm because he's the guy that's running everything.
The Jets will win or lose because of Aaron Rodgers,
and if he's calm about it, I'll feel good. You
know why, because he knows his entire career is at
stake stepping on that field for the Jets, because he
picked the Jets. He knows if this is a failure,
(27:36):
this is the end of my NFL career. And the
fact that he is so calm so far about everything,
I'm calm. I'm fine because Aaron Rodgers is fine. Now,
if he starts getting crazy, starts yelling at the media,
and starts talking about it, then I'm gonna say, oh boy,
this is gonna get sideways fast. This is awful. When's
that book get published?
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Aaron?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Aaron Rodgers is fine, he seems fine, So I'm fine.
My companion animal from three thousand miles away.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Wait to that opener, Yeah, Bosa off the edge?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Stop stop stop stop? Why would you say that? Why
would you say that? You don't even know. I'm just
starting my Dan Campbell comes off the line and just
levels Caleb Williams as he's scrambling out of bag.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
You got Dan Campbell's taking him out, dude. I'm just
trying to, uh to get through week to week here
as we we rolled through and they've got the Titans.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
That was right.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
I wanted to say Will Levis because I remember that
matchup going all right, there you go, Will Levis. Uh
So again, if he's fine, I'm fine. And who else
is fine?
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Kevin White because he's got what's trending right now right
in the wide world of sports, Kate up, Yeah, we're
always fine.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
And although the Mets are they fine tonight after losing
to the Athletics, are now two full games out of
the wild card race.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Where's Grimace when you need the Mets have to get
me to the Jets. The Mets, get me to the Jets.
The Mets have gone. They just longest though, that's question
the Mets the Jets. If the Mets make it to
September in contention, it's a successful season. There we go.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Well, right now they are still in contention, but it
is now a two game deficit. The Braves, for the
second night in a row, go to extra innings against
the Giants. Last night they broke up Blake Snail's no
hitter on the seventh tonight they force extras against the
Giants and they win it for to three, and the
Braves now again up two games on the Mets in
the wildcard, the final wildcard spot in the National League.
(29:27):
Elsewhere out West, the Padres and Pirates for the second
night in a row. How they pitchers duel. Last night
it was the Padres winning it to to one. Tonight
they blank Pittsburgh three to nothing. And for the second
night in a row, the Diamondbacks when they come from
behind victory against the Rockies for to three. The final
and with the Dodgers beating the Brewers tonight seven to two,
it's still a three and a half game lead for
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Los Angeles in that wild card, or excuse me, in
the NL West standings. In the American League East, they
have traded spots the Orioles and the Yankees. The Yankees
do beat the White Sox tonight four to one. The
Orioles fall to the Nationals nine to three, so New
York half game up on Baltimore. In the AL East.
In the American League Central, Guardians hold off the Cubs
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two to one. They're still three and a half up
on the Twins who pound the Royals thirteen to three.
And in the American League West, the Astros hold off
the race three to two, Mariners pounded by the Tigers
fifteen to one, so Houston up one and a half
on Seattle in the AL West, NFL JJ McCarthy suffering
a tor meniscus in his right knee and the timetable
(30:30):
for his return will be determined once he undergoes surgery,
and NFL Nework saying the forty nine Ers and Steelers
have a deal in place for a potential trade involving
Brandon Nyuk. It is pending San Francisco's final sign off.
Back to you guys, Thank you, k dub we got
more football. We are gonna finish with authority. If you
need any more evidence that Jerry Jones ain't gonna pay
(30:52):
Dak Pretzcott and Ceedee Lamb, we'll give you the final
bits of what you could need straight ahead, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 2 (31:09):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. No,
It's only Tuesday. Only Tuesday could be Friday. It may
be Friday. For it might be Alex Tyster's Friday. You
work the rest of the week. It's only Tuesday. Oh okay,
all right? Just making sure or is it so? Listen,
it's like out of a horror movie or something. We
shouldn't have to keep saying this, but there's still a
(31:33):
large number of sports fans that think, Okay, Jerry Jones
is going to eventually turn back into Jerry Jones and
is going to give Dak Prescott sixty five million dollars
a year, give CD Lamb his big contract extension. Earlier today,
Micah Parsons says, you know, he's been texting talking with
CD Lamb says, no, no, I expect CD Lamb, who's
holdout now is at twenty one days, to be there
(31:55):
week one now. The fact that he's talking to him here, okay,
and I fully expect Cedlamb to be their week one
because what's going to happen is the Cowboys have a
lot of money under the cap. They're going to find
some kind of one year. Okay, CD, come in, here's
another five million dollars for this year. Come in and play.
Have to make a Yeah, that's what it's going to be.
(32:15):
But Jerry Jones is not going to give cdeelamb a
big contract. He's not paying Dak Prescott, he's not paying anybody.
He had the whole back and forth this past weekend
where he said, oh, we miss you CD, but we
don't really miss you because you wouldn't be playing in
this game. But you missed, but you're kind of not missed.
And then Jerry Jones had to go on this whole
dietribe defending when he talked about what does what I
(32:36):
meant to say when I said I missed CD lamb,
but we didn't miss him over the course of the
weekend with that first game we played.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
I think I got in trouble a little the other
day when I said, look, we're not urgent about CD. Well,
no one appreciates CD. Be I don't deal anymore than
I did. But let me say this, he wouldn't be
taking a snap out here today if he'd been here. Pearl,
You've got to use your head when you expose key players.
(33:05):
That gives the other younger players a chance to do it.
We know exactly what CD can do, and he worked
out with dad, and so we wouldn't have him out here.
It has really not anything to do with his contract.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Jerry Jones word salad. Oh, that's some avocados and sprouts.
Give me a big, big, big, big word salad.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
That was pretty well done though in the end, he
wouldn't be playing anyways. So what are we talking about?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
So we're talking about practice. I'm not a game, not
a game, but we're talking about practice. Look, if you
really think Jerry Jones is gonna cave and he's going
to give this money out, it's a new Jerry Jones.
He's waiting for this season to go. He's put this
season out there and if they don't win, there's going
to be big changes. It'll be a new head coach,
(33:49):
It'll be a new quarterback, might be a new set
of wide receivers. It's big changes. Now I've said this
for a while, but let me let me just say
this will should cement the argument. In the past, when
Jerry Jones has had contract situations with players, whether it's
Zeke or Dak or somebody else, what has he always said, Well,
we got time, things are going okay, we'll get it done.
(34:10):
We understand the importance of keeping players and keeping them happy,
and he's always paid guys, and he's always paid them.
Is anything he has said in the past few months
since his all in comment, has he said anything to
make you think that, oh, new contracts are coming for
Dak and Ceedy Lamb. Not once, not once, has he said,
(34:31):
don't worry, we'll get it done. The closest he's come
is that there's no urgency. Okay, that's a lot different.
He's okay with letting Dak hit free agency. He's gonna
be okay the same thing with Ceede Lamb. He's told
us this. Not one time in the last four months
has he said, we know to keep this cord again.
Not anything he has said would would lead you down
(34:53):
the road of oh, in the end, he's gonna give
these guys money and we're gonna keep them. Not one thing.
That should be all the evidence you need that this
is just going to be a different time and a
different year for the Cowboys, and they're gonna look markedly
different in a year.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
It's just funny that we've got thirty years of history,
all right, We're going all the way back to nineteen
ninety ninety one, ninety two, and building that first first generation,
you know, the triplets, not to be confused with triple Espresso,
the triplets that or we try have watched Jerry.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Try to try it too. I would give money pay
Sophia Smith, the Rodman fellow and his daughter. I'd get
both of them, that would work, and Mallory Swanson. I'd
also get her husband too, so he could play shortstop
for the Rangers. Although we got a guy already, so
that be big package. Yeah that's five, Actually that's not three.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Well, so they had just had the National Sports Collectors
Convention in Cleveland and Dennis Rodman was there. I wonder
how many times he was asked about Trinity Rodman before
he was like, beat it. I'm not answering any more
questions about this. But with Jerry Jones, it's just hard
to believe that after all these years, even with the
brokenness following a one fifty eight to three from Jordan
(36:04):
Love and suddenly he's a different guy.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
And then in his eighties he wakes up. Those last
two playoff losses broke him. They broke him. They get
him some adam Antia, it'll get him ready. It broke
him in San Francisco, because Dak was terrible and it
broke him against the Packers because Dak was awful in
the first half. When the game was over and Jordan
Love had a one fifty eight point three quarterback, Parsons
was invisible. Like so all three, all the guys you
(36:29):
had to pay had no that broke Jerry after thirty years,
those two games, it broke Jerry Jones. Wasn't Jason Garrett Nope, Nope.
That wasn't Dave Campbo Nope, wasn't Barry Switzer? Was anybody else?
Wasn't Tony Tony getting hurt?
Speaker 5 (36:43):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
No, of all those two losses the last two years
broke Jerry Jones. Yeah. I still think they get something
done with CD, Lamb Dak. That's so sure. Yeah, CD's good.
We'll give him CD some extra money for this year
this year only in a five year CD. Oh oh
good rate of interest. Oh yeah, that's a certificated deposit.
People don't know that. That's what CD stands for. Certificated deposit, Lamb,
(37:08):
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