August 20, 2024 • 38 mins
On tonight's edition of the Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys start the hour by reacting to Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa’s controversial comments about his former head coach, Brian Flores! Next, Jason and Mike look into Caitlin Clarks latest historical feat after the rookie guard broke the WNBA Rookie assist record! Finally, the guys evaluate the New England Patriots and the Raiders, debating which team is experiencing the bigger dumpster fire and who will be crowned as the worst team in the NFL!
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
He just looked like he was floating around the bases
after he made a bunch of you know, big gestures
and really hammed up the moment. But man, you want
to talk about a no doubt or home run. You know,
the guys from Major League might have said hey, it's
going to be too high.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
No, no, no, that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Was just a prodigious blast. I saw, I saw the
ball leave his bad. I'm like, whoa did you Let's
see where they let's chart where that one ended up.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Did you see they have to tell him to go
back and make sure he touched the plate? Yes, like
after the big celebrate, like did he not touch it?
And look at it looks like he barely caught it
with like the heel.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Of his foot.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But like Jeff McNeil, gos, dude, go back and touch.
This is when everybody's off the field already, like the.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Orioles have walked off. Okay, it's over and done. Go back.
I went back to touch home plate. All good.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Just go clean that up so they don't suddenly have
a h well, a review kind of like getting an
Olympic medal where you know, twenty four hours from now,
you know what we're gonna appeel that play that kind
of ended the game.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Can you.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I would love to see a team now, I would
said love because it almost what happened to us tonight.
I'd love to see a team with a walk off homer, right,
and it's a uh well but they appeal way after
that he never touched home plate and they have to
go back and continue to play the game because I
was just a walk off.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
He wins would have to be would tie the game.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But if he doesn't touch home play, yeah, we got
to go back and play the game from that point.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Sorry about that. It's like the Pine Tar game.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well it'd be kind of crazy, But you know what,
we've seen a lot of random stuff. I just referenced
to our Olympic fun of the last couple of weeks,
So so why not let's have another first before we
get to robot umpires and everything else. Snap it to
a great did his foot touch home plate? Now, it's
just the neighborhood of home plate. You don't really need oh.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You just need to just just hit the batter's box
anywhere anywhere inside the box.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And you're all good. It's absolutely fine.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And if it's a game winning home run like that,
I don't think you should have to do a damn
thing except you know, raise your arms like your Cody
Rhodes coming to.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
THEO and that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Game over.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So yes, big night, major League Baseball. Of more coming
up on the way Dodgers getting set to get going
here in a few minutes. But boy, I'll tell you
right smack dab in the middle of training camp. You know,
we're looking back at week two, looking aheat at the
final week of preseason games. We get a story out
of Miami and Tua tongue of Vloa.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's just absolute wildfire.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now look, now, the thing is is that this story
comes out today and it's a big deal what happened
with Tua, which which I'm gonna explain in the second.
But there's certain quarterbacks and Tua is one of them,
regardless to is to you know, what you think about
him as a player, is that too as one of
those guys, He's like Dak He's one of those guys
at hey is a really good quarterback.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
But he's not Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He's still really good, but he's still so polarizing with
what people think about him in his career and how
good he is. And there's just an an an optic
and an aura about him that polarizes people. So anything
that comes up with Tua is a big deal, and
it seems insane, like okay, like two is pretty good,
Like you got paid it's one of the top ten
quarterbacks in the game.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But when when things happen certain quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, hey Tua, Tua becomes a conversation Kirk Cousins not
so much, right, you know, Dak becomes a conversation. Yeah,
ipp you wirth at Kirk Cousins, I have your birthday,
John Stamoso. By the way, Alex tishert off for John
Stamus's birthday.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That's mad.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know, something happens with Josh Allen. Nobody really cares
but to it to it. And this gets us to
what happened today. Tua goes on the Dan Lebutard podcast
and he is asked about Brian Flores.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Former head coach at Miami.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
This is the guy who lost his job that was
suing the NFL because because he said that they the Dolphins,
made him tank and he didn't want to do that.
And there was a whole big investigation on this. And
Brian Flores is hoping to become another head coach. Well
now he's defensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings. And to
say that Brian Flores and two a tongue of Ailoa
didn't get along well. In twenty twenty one that would
(04:39):
be under selling it. Now things are great with Mike McDaniel. Now,
who's come in the last couple of years with his
short pants and his big feet and suddenly, hey we're rolling.
Now I'm an offensive genius. But two of the first.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's a good callback for those that listen to the
interview with Rahem Mostert from the other Day, which is
available wherever podcasts are downloaded.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Ellen, Now people look at does he I bet, Hey,
he's got short pants, it's big feet, that's Mike McDaniel.
Uh Flores was his head coach for the first couple
of years of his career, and to his career at
that point was kind of a are they gonna keep me?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Are they not?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Are they gonna develop me? Are they not like you?
I remember back then twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, it
was boy they drafted to it, but they still seem
to be a push pull within the organization as to
who whether you're not he's the future, whether or not
he's gonna play and they're gonna turn the keys to
the offense over to him and today to a kind.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Of let slip. Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
The reason is because Brian Flores hated me take a listen.
This is tour from today for the Dan Lebotard Podcast.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
To put it in simplest terms, if you woke up
every morning and I told you you suck at what
you did, that you don't belong doing what you do,
that you shouldn't be here, that this guy should be here,
that you haven't earned this right, and then you have
(05:57):
somebody else come in and tell you, dude, you were
the best fit for this, like you are accurate, you
are the best whatever you are this you are that,
Like how would it make you feel listening to one
or the other?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
You see what I'm saying, and then you hear it.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You hear it regardless of what it is, the good
or the bad, and you hear it more and more.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
You start to actually believe.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
That, I don't care who you are, you can be
the president of the United States. You have a terrible
person that's telling you things that you don't want to
hear or that you probably shouldn't be hearing.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You're gonna start to believe that about yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, Now, first of all, he could be talking about
his time as a quarterback or logging onto social media,
because that's every day some people tell you you suck.
I'm like, yeah, this is every day for you. I
got on social media, I get people telling me I suck.
I get people telling me they love the show. Okay,
that's every day, right, people tell But the difference is,
you know, people telling you you suck on social media
(06:54):
are people.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's not your head coach.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And this is what Tua is saying that Brian flu
Frus did to him every day and he called him
a terrible person. Now, Kevin O'Connell, Viking's head coach, had
to put out a statement today saying, hey, look, Brian Flores,
our DC has great relationships with everybody on the teams. Hey,
don't worry, we love Brian. Brian Flores is great. But
here's to calling his former head coach a terrible person.
(07:20):
Like you, hear a lot of things, but Mike, I'll
tell you here, and that is one of those. You
stop and go, what did he just say about his
former head cash?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, but that's the thing, right, there's different styles of coaching.
We've talked a lot about the changing ways of players, right,
We've was a background discussion a lot and Caleb Williams
and how much people loved him or didn't, and how
much you blew up or didn't when he went into
the stands, or that he's got nail polish or they
(07:49):
had that whatever. They're calling it, the large male large
bag he's carrying because it always has some pejorative names,
so call it what you will. All of those things
get people, you know, excitable with Tua here. You know,
he might just be encapsulating Flores's coaching style into the
(08:10):
you suck versus you know, harsh critiques, criticisms, et cetera.
It's no secret they didn't get along.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You know. The timing of it is suspect. I know, levatards.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You don't get to a post, you know, push and
prod and and we knew that there was an issue there,
but you know, to lean into it. Yeah, it's under
the surface. And this is one of those I wish
you would have just taken the iPad and done the
Michael Jordan, you know, after his career and said I
took that personally after he's gone on to a great career.
But he decided to do it now, so that's fine.
(08:41):
So so here it is. But yeah, the stuff about
who Flores is that that's the bigger deal. Right, you
can disagree with coaching style, but he took it a
step or two beyond that line.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Well, first of all, you could tell how upset he was.
I don't like this guy at all.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I hate this guy looking right away asked.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Hey to the do the Dolphins play the Vikings this year?
But look, no matter whose side you are on this,
because you hear something from Tua, and anytime you hear
a story like this, you go, Okay, what's the other
side going to be? I'm sure Brian Flores is gonna
have his side to things, and he's gonna he's gonna
say some things. But this is one thing that really
to give you something little bit different that you haven't
heard all day about this story, is that no matter
(09:23):
what side you come down on, hey, I believe to
a You know, obviously we see McDaniel's success with him.
So maybe it was Brian Floris's fault, just like we
see how good the Philadelphia Phillies are. Maybe it was
all Joe Girardi's fault. No matter whose side you're on.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
With this, this is.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One hundred percent on Flores because not developing your quarterback
or putting him in the best position to succeed. That's
on you, and clearly you did not put your quarterback
in the best position to succeed. I know this because
I see too of succeeding with Mike McDaniel, right this,
this is not like boy he still thinks and you're
kind of wondering, well, well, is he really good?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He hasn't showing.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The guy throwing for only five thousand yards got a
two hundred and forty million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
The players love him.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He can throw deep to Tyreek Keilly just has to
put every emphasis he's got on the.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ball to get it deep to Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Your job as head coach get your players to be
the best versions of themselves.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They can be.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And if you're not doing that, guess what, you shouldn't
be a head coach because it doesn't matter if you
like the guy or not. Hey to a tug of
l was taken in the first round of the draft
to be your quarterback of the future. Well, guess what,
you gotta develop them, And that's your fault. If your
quarterback's walking around going I think I stink.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I think this.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Not everybody you can motivate the same way and that's
a big thing.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Hey, tough love for all the players. And if you
can't take how I'm gonna tell you suck, you suck. Hey,
that's on you, right because if you want to just
say maybe this was this was Brian Flores saying, hey,
this is kind of how I do it. Obviously it
didn't work. You gotta know players as individuals. You gotta
do your job as a coach and know that, Okay,
the message to one guy is not gonna put him
(11:01):
in a position to succeed like a message to the
other guy. Some guys can take the message of hey,
you're fighting for your job. Some guys like Kirk Cousin're
still gonna say I don't like the fact you took
Michael Bennox junior.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Hey you can.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Maybe two as a guy you could put pressure on top.
Obviously that wasn't the case. You have to fill him
with positivity and you could kind of see that, hey,
two is a guy that feeds back and feeds off
of positivity. That's you as a head coach. So no
matter what side you're on on this, this was a
fail by Flores and not bringing this out of your
franchise quarterback, and it's why he's not the head coach.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You have to learn who your individual players are, particularly
the stars. Man, This ain't the second to last guy
that's winning a job on special teams in the preseason.
This is the guy that they picked to lead the franchise.
And I get it. Defensive head coach, maybe you don't
know what makes him tick, but you are the guy
(11:52):
in charge, so that it's up to you to come
upon you to figure it out. And it's no surprise
O'Connell employs him right now. So what's he gonna say.
It's been nothing but battles on the other side, But
I think it's gonna make it really good week one
because they're all gonna be pissed off and they're gonna
go and play a whale of a game.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, he's not gonna say that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Likewise, I'd like to think that that flores with everything
that's gone on, lawsuits and everything else, and that time
in Miami, that maybe he learned and he and he
grew a little bit to recognize that, or maybe the
fact that he's not a head coach and doesn't have to,
you know, make sure everybody's all good, all across. You know,
(12:31):
every position, especially when you're looking at the temperament of
a quarterback, is that he can just get back with
the defensive guys and maybe that's a place of more comfort.
Don't pretend to know the man. Don't know how he
interacts with guys individually. But this is is pretty damning
when two years, you know, a year and a half,
(12:53):
two years after the fact, you're still at the Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Guy, he was a trick.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I mean we all do it in our other jobs.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I mean we've done it on air with people we
like that were managers or people we worked with or
four in the past. And all of you out there
right now in your cars, at your kitchen tables, matt
walking the dog, go ahead, say it out loud, say
the name as you need to let it out. Let
it out, because otherwise he consumes you. And this was
(13:19):
two his opportunity. Well, I'm glad you asked that one.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Finally, I'm gonna I feel comfortab because sometimes it takes
a little while. Sure you could have said that about
Floris on the way out, but you know what, let
me wait, and now he's made it right. Two more
years he's a Pro Bowl quarterback. He just signed a
huge contract. The offense is his, the team is his.
He's there for the next four or five years, probably more.
Gonna wind up being their best quarterback since Marino, most likely.
(13:44):
And so now, okay, I feel comfortable enough now and
saying this is a bad guy. You could also tell
that he's been living with this for a long time,
that this is something that lives rent free in his head.
And we all have things that live rent free in
our for stupid reasons, right, but this is one of
those things and now it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
But like how he was.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Treated by Brian Flores, how he says, this is something
that has been on his mind for a while, and
finally now it's blanket. I could tell the story because
I've made it. I feel comfortable in letting people know
that this is what happened to me when I was
playing with Miami, and look at the results. The best
revenge is living well, and I've been living pretty well
the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, I gotta say.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The one thing I like from the weekend though, is McDaniel,
you know, throwing a little shade to him, say, yeah,
we ran that play first thing last year.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
At least he completed it this time. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So when this story comes over the top of that one,
I'm like, all right, let's go game.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
On, no matter what this is on the coach because
that's how you have to get the best performance out
of your play.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's easy. It's an easy thing and Brian Flores epic
fail at it.
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We got more football coming up in a company. You've
got a great story out of college football from today.
But you know me, Mike, I never want to say
I told you so right that this is not me.
It's not who I am, right, you know I told
you so Okay, Yeah, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It's in the deep dark recesses of the brain. I
mean it's never at the forefront. It's never never. You know,
you never wear a shirt in blazon with it. I
don't know you've furnished a tattoo yet.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, as far as you know, not yet. Yeah, and
I wouldn't show you if I did.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
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Speaker 4 (16:52):
But what did I tell you last week?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And we talked about Hey, here comes the second half
of the WNBA schedule, and here comes Caitlin Clark on
the middle Finger Tour. Okay, you didn't pick me for
the Olympic team. I had to see all of this
going on. I had to deal with all of this
physical play and all of this hatred and jealousy when
all I'm doing is coming in and playing ball. Okay,
(17:15):
here comes the middle Finger Tour the second half of
the season.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I'm rested.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I've been lifting weights, I've been going to country fairs,
I've been on stage. I met Aaron Judge. Let's see,
and then two games over the weekend we watched Friday night,
she goes for twenty nine, ten and five as they
beat Phoenix. Diana Tarassi check, I got you, hey, Seattle
ninety two seventy five, twenty three, nine and five. Another
(17:41):
check for Caitlin Clark. The middle Finger Tour is underway
and it is glorious. It is time for the WNBA
to stop being jealous and just embrace her stardom in talent.
And you're still seeing stuff like like Skyler digg and
Smith who didn't like the fact that Caitlin Clark was
pumping up the home crowd, wanted to make sure she
walked and bumped into her as she's walking off the
(18:03):
court like.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
She's pumping up the home crowd.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I mean the hate that she gets is just so insane.
Like at any at any point there is for players
whatever to say, hey, you know what, Kaitlyn Clark, Kaylen Clark,
you still see it right, You still see officials ridiculously
calling a technical foul on Kaitlyn Clark because she punched
the stanchion after she missed the three, and it was, oh,
you're disrespecting the game.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Officials got to get on board too, man.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They've not They've not officiated her fairly out of the
gate and now you got you're getting it. Really, you're
getting a technical foul because you punched the stick.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Come on, now, I wouldn't we say we do it?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Is this is professional basketball, man, This isn't a Saturday
game in the gym where hey, it's at the y MCNA.
We want to show good sports hip. This is the
you miss a shot, you can punch the stanchion. If
the stanchion wants to sue, let the stanchion sue. But
I think the stanchion's just fine.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I would say this, Should she have gotten a technical
in that instance?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Could she have gotten a technical?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Fit the other times during the game, absolutely yelling to
the crowd, yeah these are the worst. Talking about the officials, Yeah,
they're not very good. So we got all the micd
up because she was miked up for the game. So
anybody that watched it, you know exactly what I'm talking
about it. And if you didn't, well let me clue you in.
You got a lot of cutaways of all the positive
(19:20):
notes of Caitlin Clark. And I'm not look denying and
pushing it down.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I'm just saying she earned a technical.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You just not in that moment like that was not
the time, she said, plenty of things, had plenty of
moments of historyonics where you could have called one after
a call, you know, the giant arms thrown up, yelling
ah and all those things to where if you're an official,
you may have been able to do it. They did
have that scary moment though, with that inbound play where
(19:51):
the free safety came and took her almost took her
head off and she was down holding her arm for
a minute. So you had one of those moments too,
And for Skyler Diggins, I was gonna I started to
ask if she was actually a referee, because it seemed
like there were a couple of the refs didn't know
what to do and she was able to influence them into.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
A call by going over and talking to them.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So I was getting ready to add that, and then
the incident you know, happened about pumping up and everything else,
which meant the internets were unleashed and that was the
end of that. I'm like, yeah, I don't need to
pile on now. That's that's a minor thing compared to
what we have going on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Now, I'm telling you, you watch that, and you see
her just hey, pumping up the crowd, and she just
decides to walk briskly, so she makes sure to bumper
what you.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Get to the hunnel really fast, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And that's the thing, is that like if Caitlyn Clark
came into the league and look, is Kaitlyn Clark a
look at me player? Absolutely, but she's an on the
court look at me player. If she was someone who
came into the league and she was talking about her
greatness and was at odds with her teammates at all,
with the coaches, at odds with the opponents, said stuff
(21:03):
in the press, uh you know, God in trouble.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Like I completely get.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I completely get the Hey, this rookie is a little
too big for her breeches, and we gotta we gotta,
we gotta, we gotta, we gotta make sure that she
understands what life is a professional's about. If she was
doing all that, I get it. I completely get. Okay,
you don't come in here and start acting like this.
But all she's done is coming in ball and all
of the stuff that that players quote don't like, it's
all on the court, which I'm sorry, suck it up.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
This is professional basketball and the stuff that she that
she has to go through, it's like, you're real.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I mean, just think about taking a wide angle view
of the lenses that here's a sport that is getting
its best player, it's biggest player that they've ever had,
that's already brought them untold things like like charter travel
and more money and bigger television contracts.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
And it's like, Nope, we still don't like it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And I don't know what business, what business can can
stay afloat when that's your attitude of a yeah, here
comes some but he was great for it.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Nothing, We don't like her. Nah, we're well upset that
she's coming in getting credit because we have people who
are jealous and not big fans of the fact that, oh,
it's taken twenty years to figure this out. I mean,
I don't know any business where something has come in
that makes it all better and there's a big push
from the people involved in the business that says, yeah, no,
we don't want it. I'd rather go back to the
old ways. I'd rather go here's a machine that can
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make your job easier. You're gonna get paid more money.
You're gonna have more time off. You're gonna have a
town car's gonna pick you up from home and take
you to work every day. How great is that? No,
I want the old way. I don't like it. I
don't like it. I don't I know, I don't like
the ways. Maybe coming for your job, so be careful.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I said they're not. So what happened in Iron Man two?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I said they're not. I said, I said they are not.
I said nothing. Your job doesn't affect it. You get
paid more money, you get all these you had luxury rides. No, no, no,
I want where it was before. I want it back
to was now.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You're giving theoretical speeches like you're a political candidate. But no,
the idea that you've got a CBA that ends in
twenty seven, and she's getting her well planted things about
salary and such in as she goes through because you've
got players. I mean, look, she's got commercial endorsement, she
got paid plenty of n I l you know, talking
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about I'm gonna become the fans of Lexi Hall, Lexi Hull.
That's gonna be all my accounts. After she came off
the bench with her eight for ten h six for
seven from three point performance and everything else. But you know,
says all the right things as all. I mean, I
guess the she's been a fan of mine talking about
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the former record holder for assists. I don't know, maybe
an acquaintance of mine, a friend of mine. We've conversed
since I was in college. Probably the better way to
say it that she'd been a fan of mine for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh God, so that say she's perfect, but she doesn't
cause controversy.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Oh look at what this. I mean, she's not that
kind of player.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But certainly again you know, for the technical file bad
in the moment, probably earned one over the course of
the game.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
So something that you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Know, she's got to be a little less emotional when
she disagrees with the call, kind of like you know,
parents and those looking on at youth the sports games,
same thing. Just let it go, let it go. They're
doing their best. But it's the watching her play, right.
It was like happy Gilmour when she starts hitting those
(24:25):
little floaters in the lane. Oh happy learned how to
put and you know, get into the drive with the
right hand. And and I think they're creating new stat
categories to follow for her in terms of the look
ahead passes and everything else. And you see how much
better the coordination with his her teammates are to expect
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said bounce passes, said look ahead passes, all of that
is getting more and more fluid. So those assist totals
should be going up as well.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, you embrace it. Three years the CBA is up.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Everybody will get to play in the States and not
have to take the summer job or the fall job
in Europe.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
No, I don't want to see No, I want to go
to Russia. Well, well, why look at what Caitlyn Clay.
I don't I don't like it. I don't want to
do it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
If I know, I want to go back to the
old way, I want to make it more difficult, just
because just because I don't like the fact that a
good player has come.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Into the league.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Like can you imagine the NFL if they get a
guy coming in who is going to transform the league
like it was that was a combination of Mahomes and
Brady and all of this and everything going on, And
all the players did was hate him. They didn't pick
him for the Pro Bowl, didn't pick him for the
all pro teams, he's getting everybody's getting more money, the
TV contracts are going up, and still you have players saying, yeah,
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I don't like it now, I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I'd rather go back to the way it was before.
I don't like this new guy that's coming into the league.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Look, there's there's always going to be growing pains, and
everybody wants their shine and I get it right, you know,
depending no matter what kind of job you do, you know,
if all of a sudden, your your department gets a
little bit of run, no matter how good a job
you're doing, who's getting the most attention.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
If there's a new manager or there's some.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
New employee or something changed, you know, the materially that
suddenly they could just say, well, it's obviously got to
be that. So Caitlin Clark gets her run. And in
all our jobs, everybody around, no matter what you do,
it's the well I've been busting my ass here forever.
Thanks for paying attention now, all right, Lloyd after the
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game just kind of like, let's talk about our rookies.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, we didn't really want to know, we to talk
about the star of the league.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's like, oh, don't ask me about Lebron.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You're gonna really ask me about Lebron in the game
he played fine, Yes, thirty nine and seventeen and twelve. Yes,
great game for Lebron. How about one of our rookies
was scoring eleven points off the bench. Ask me about
that instead. I mean, this is just insane. We're continuing
to fight against the fact that this is the best
thing for our league.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Nope, nope, don't like it. Don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And they got a sold out crowd ratings bonanza once
again on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
All of these things. But you know, hey, exit.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Out a bout of Fresco, exit swollen Dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon. Now to find out what's trending, we go
to the commissioner of our WNBA Fantasy league, Steve to
say he's got all the answers right.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Steve, Hello, there, We've got baseball to get to in
a minute. WNBA is off tonight. There three games Tomorrow.
It'll be Dallas six and twenty playing at New York,
LA Sparks six and twenty one at Connecticut, And also
tomorrow Washington six and twenty one will be hosting Seattle.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I don't think those are going to be close.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'll guess not.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I think they are.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You have three games tomorrow where the records of the
teams are nineteen and seven against six and twenty one,
twenty three and four against six and twenty.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
They've already clinched a playoff birth New York with a
months to go. This is like the reverse White Sox.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
No, it's like the White Sox are playing three games tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Night and Seattle's decent and they're the only single digit favorite.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
This thing, yeah in Washington six twenty one.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Meanwhile, the PGA playoffs moved to Colorado this week, then
the Tour Championships at the end of this month in Atlanta,
and NASCAR is gonna have the four hundred at Daytona
this Saturday night. They finally finished the Cup race at
Michigan today after the rain yesterday. Tyler Reddick the winner.
William Byron was second to Major League Baseball, We've got
four late games Mariners at Dodgers, a pitcher's duel and
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scoreless in the bottom of the sixth inning. In fact,
they're just ending the six with Brian wu as the
starter for the Mariners, having a good season and six
scoreless innings with five strikeouts. Gavin Stone, the Dodgers starting pitcher,
nine strikeouts in his six scoreless innings. Giants lead the
White Sox five to one top of the eighth. White
Sox enter with a record of thirty and ninety five
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this year, already mathematically eliminated. Vas are shutting out the
Rays three to nothing in the bottom of the seventh.
Rais closer Pete Fairbanks goes on the injured list with
a lat strain. The Padres are winning again, five to
two over the Twin in the top of the eighth.
The Padres are just three games behind the first place
Dodgers in the NL West. Arizona was four back. The
Dbacks have already won. Tonight, Arizona wins nine to six
(29:10):
at Miami. Adrian del Castillo, a Miami native, hit a
grand Slam and a two run single, but Diamondbacks all
star second baseman Katel Marte goes on the injured list
with a sprained ankle. The Mets won on a solo
homer bottom of the ninth by Francisco Alvarez four to
three over Baltimore. Houston wins on a solo homer bottom
of the ninth by Jarner diez Off Boston closer Kenley
(29:33):
Jansen five to for Houston the final, winning the game.
Despite four ers victories for the Reds, the Rangers, and
the Kansas City Royals, who've won five straight, beat the
Angels five to three. Braves third basement Austin Riley will
miss six to eight weeks with a broken hand he
was hit by a pitch Yesterday. The Washington Commanders officially
named rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as their starter. The franchise
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will have a new starting quarterback to open the season
for a seventh straight year. LA Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert
resumed practicing today for the first time this month. He
had been in a walking boot with a foot injury.
The team's backup quarterbacks have been unable to lead the
offense to a single touchdown this preseason. Jacksonville wide receiver
Christian Kirk is out this week with a calf injury.
(30:17):
Ravens tied end Mark Andrews miss practice again today after
his car accident last week, but his coach says don't worry.
Quarterback Colt McCoy retired after twelve seasons. Buffalo wide receiver
Mark wez Valdez Scantling will miss multiple weeks with a
spray neck, and so will backup quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with
a knee injury. So Buffalo is reportedly due to sign
quarterback Anthony Brown. Steelers running back Jalen Warren could miss
(30:40):
multiple weeks with hamstring injury. The Raiders yesterday named Gardner
Minshew their starting QB. Wide receiver DeVante Adams did not
play Saturday due to swordis. He'll be back at practice
tomorrow and Rams.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
But that was so at the team that his body
he was just sore that this is the team he's
got to play.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
He was a little sore at the offense last year.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
As you're he you recall and with good reason.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Ram's quarterback Matthew Stafford will be ready for Week one,
although he might miss more practices this week with hamstring tightness.
Just did individual work today.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
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is just a little bit sillier than the other, but
still both really big. That's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
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Speaker 1 (32:08):
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Speaker 4 (32:17):
You know, and look, there's so thanks to Jason.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Locking forest hopping bys he always does with us every Monday,
breaking down all the big stories from the NFL.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Hurst out the Orioles celebrated backhandedly the Alvarez home run.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yes, a little bit, yeah, a little bit so, But
that's okay because you know what. I know how it
happened and what accounts it does. I don't care what
you say about it because I know what happened in accounts.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So it's like it makes it a glorious Monday for you.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Sure it does.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That's why I always say people, why are Sundays a
glorious Monday? Why you just say welcome and they go, well,
when the Mets win, it's a glorious Monday.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
If they don't win, it's a Monday. What do you
want for me?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think comes a glorious day again for you, as
master of your world.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
It is a doubly glorious day here.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Well, speaking of glorious days, not gonna be many about
the team we're gonna talk about here in the next
couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
To be fair, right, I always want to be fair.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Last week we watched Patriots play preseason against the Eagles.
They should easily be the in pole position to pick
first in the NFL draft. They are going to have
a terrible season. There's not a lot of talent. You
don't even know what's gonna happen. A quarterback that is.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
A bad team, that is a bad completely start it over.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
No, it's good, it's good. But you don't know what
is he gonna start right away? Is he not gonna start?
What's gonna happen? Is he any good? We don't even
know that they're limiting as reps.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
You don't. We have no idea about Drake Bay, right,
So they're gonna be bad.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And I i'm i'm, i'm, I feel very confident about that. Look,
I've watched the Patriots beat up on the Jets for
the last twenty five years. I feel pretty confident about that.
But the team that's gonna be right on their heels, like, hey,
don't relax for a second, New England or trying to
get up there to get Carson Beck or Shoulder Sanders
from you.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
You want to get up there to have that choice.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I mean, watch out, because the Raiders are going to
be right on the Patriots heels. Look, they made their
quarterback decision for the beginning of the season, and it's
Gardner Minshew instead of Aid O'Connell. Now, neither of these
guys are great, right, Neither these guys are great, but
they've been playing a lot in the preseason and they've
been getting a lot of chances against second team defenses,
(34:19):
and neither of.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Them ever any good. You put almost anybody.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Out there against a second team defense, and if they
have any sort of talent, they're going to stand out
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
O'Connell.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I kind of get because you know, I thought going
into last year he was gonna be.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Good, but clearly he struggled at Minshew. We know what
he's about.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I got to think at this point, Minsch has been
a veteran here nearly a decade, and he's gonna be
able to put some points on the board.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
He can't do it.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
The Raiders have looked abysmal the last couple of games,
and I don't know where where are they gonna make
their plays? From Devonte Adams, you know he's got one
foot out the door. You know they're trying to figure
things out. Antonio Pears, I want to sleep on who
I pick a quarterback? Guess what you have to sleep on.
It doesn't matter when neither of these guys in the
preseason against second team defenses can flash at all. What
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kind of season are you gonna have when everybody's playing
their best players. Right, here's what kind of year can
you have when suddenly, oh, yeah, oh, this is not
a Jets team that rested every single one of their
starters for the first three preseason games.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Well, this is a Jets team with a pretty good defense. Man,
I don't know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
This is not a This is not a team that
we watched that said the Cowboys sitting just about every
single person who's gonna play for them this year, and
we still lost twenty seven to twelve.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Like, what are you gonna do? The Raiders are gonna
be absolutely terrible and they will be on the Patriots
eels for that number one pick.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Yeah see, I'm actually a little more bullish.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
The quarterback position is a giant crapshoot, there's no doubt
about it. But they got pretty good defense, offensive lines,
middle of the pack.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
And then you do.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Have some weapons at your disposal because you brought in
Jacoby Myers. You got the dual tight end set, running back,
Alexander Madison, que the song, and Zamir White. I mean,
White looked okay last year, so I mean you at
least have hope I'd really thought.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
It was gonna be the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
And defensively it comes and goes as TJ. Watts health does.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And offensively, what are they putting up seventeen points a game?
So I really thought they were gonna be the candidate
here here at least there's enough talent that they might
put up some points on occasion by accident. I'm not
gonna say they're world beaters, but that over under six
and a half wins, I could see him get into that.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I don't know, dude.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I mean, look, I want to think Zamir White's gonna
be good as well. Uh, clearly he's gonna get the
chance to be the every down back and I like that.
And Devont Adams, but you know Devont Adams doesn't want
to be there at all, right that this is not
this is a team that's completely rebuilding. He wants out.
Of course, they'll trade him by the deadline. And here's
Antonio Pierce, who looked former. You know, he came in
(36:57):
last year galvanized the team, but it's hard not to
when you hate the head coach before him so much.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Anybody would be better.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
But I really you look at some of the teams
offensively in their talent wise, and you go, man, the
Raiders are going to struggle and they're going to struggle defend.
I mean, this is this is not a team that's
built to win. This is a team that, hey, are
we starting over?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Are we not? Like?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I don't even know what their identity is that question.
They have enough players to win now, you know, but
also players they are starting like, I don't even know
what kind of team they want to be.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Well, let me ask you this defensive consultant, Tom Coughlin,
will he still get his red in the face as
a consultant as he did as head coach.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I will say this, if you give up a walk
off punt return, he will be right in the punter's
face throwing his stuff down on the field. That will
absolutely that, there's that will absolutely happen. You know, look
even the Broncos and you look in that division where okay,
who's the worst team. Even the Broncos have more going on.
A quarterback like bo Nix is playing well and there's
excitement and a couple of weapons.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I mean, the Raiders don't have anything. Man, it got
nothing going on. Though they had the script right, get ready,
Patriots let up at all. Raiders are going to be
right there, let's go.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Coming up next, we'll tell you not only when, but why.
The biggest quarterback derby is going to be decided, and
it's going to be decided in favor of
Speaker 4 (38:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
He just looked like he was floating around the bases
after he made a bunch of you know, big gestures
and really hammed up the moment. But man, you want
to talk about a no doubt or home run. You know,
the guys from Major League might have said hey, it's
going to be too high.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
No, no, no, that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Was just a prodigious blast. I saw, I saw the
ball leave his bad. I'm like, whoa did you Let's
see where they let's chart where that one ended up.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Did you see they have to tell him to go
back and make sure he touched the plate? Yes, like
after the big celebrate, like did he not touch it?
And look at it looks like he barely caught it
with like the heel.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Of his foot.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But like Jeff McNeil, gos, dude, go back and touch.
This is when everybody's off the field already, like the.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Orioles have walked off. Okay, it's over and done. Go back.
I went back to touch home plate. All good.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Just go clean that up so they don't suddenly have
a h well, a review kind of like getting an
Olympic medal where you know, twenty four hours from now,
you know what we're gonna appeel that play that kind
of ended the game.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Can you.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I would love to see a team now, I would
said love because it almost what happened to us tonight.
I'd love to see a team with a walk off homer, right,
and it's a uh well but they appeal way after
that he never touched home plate and they have to
go back and continue to play the game because I
was just a walk off.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
He wins would have to be would tie the game.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
But if he doesn't touch home play, yeah, we got
to go back and play the game from that point.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Sorry about that. It's like the Pine Tar game.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Well it'd be kind of crazy, But you know what,
we've seen a lot of random stuff. I just referenced
to our Olympic fun of the last couple of weeks,
So so why not let's have another first before we
get to robot umpires and everything else. Snap it to
a great did his foot touch home plate? Now, it's
just the neighborhood of home plate. You don't really need oh.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You just need to just just hit the batter's box
anywhere anywhere inside the box.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And you're all good. It's absolutely fine.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And if it's a game winning home run like that,
I don't think you should have to do a damn
thing except you know, raise your arms like your Cody
Rhodes coming to.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
THEO and that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Game over.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
So yes, big night, major League Baseball. Of more coming
up on the way Dodgers getting set to get going
here in a few minutes. But boy, I'll tell you
right smack dab in the middle of training camp. You know,
we're looking back at week two, looking aheat at the
final week of preseason games. We get a story out
of Miami and Tua tongue of Vloa.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
That's just absolute wildfire.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now look, now, the thing is is that this story
comes out today and it's a big deal what happened
with Tua, which which I'm gonna explain in the second.
But there's certain quarterbacks and Tua is one of them,
regardless to is to you know, what you think about
him as a player, is that too as one of
those guys, He's like Dak He's one of those guys
at hey is a really good quarterback.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
But he's not Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
He's still really good, but he's still so polarizing with
what people think about him in his career and how
good he is. And there's just an an an optic
and an aura about him that polarizes people. So anything
that comes up with Tua is a big deal, and
it seems insane, like okay, like two is pretty good,
Like you got paid it's one of the top ten
quarterbacks in the game.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
But when when things happen certain quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Okay, hey Tua, Tua becomes a conversation Kirk Cousins not
so much, right, you know, Dak becomes a conversation. Yeah,
ipp you wirth at Kirk Cousins, I have your birthday,
John Stamoso. By the way, Alex tishert off for John
Stamus's birthday.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That's mad.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You know, something happens with Josh Allen. Nobody really cares
but to it to it. And this gets us to
what happened today. Tua goes on the Dan Lebutard podcast
and he is asked about Brian Flores.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Former head coach at Miami.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
This is the guy who lost his job that was
suing the NFL because because he said that they the Dolphins,
made him tank and he didn't want to do that.
And there was a whole big investigation on this. And
Brian Flores is hoping to become another head coach. Well
now he's defensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings. And to
say that Brian Flores and two a tongue of Ailoa
didn't get along well. In twenty twenty one that would
(04:39):
be under selling it. Now things are great with Mike McDaniel. Now,
who's come in the last couple of years with his
short pants and his big feet and suddenly, hey we're rolling.
Now I'm an offensive genius. But two of the first.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's a good callback for those that listen to the
interview with Rahem Mostert from the other Day, which is
available wherever podcasts are downloaded.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Ellen, Now people look at does he I bet, Hey,
he's got short pants, it's big feet, that's Mike McDaniel.
Uh Flores was his head coach for the first couple
of years of his career, and to his career at
that point was kind of a are they gonna keep me?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Are they not?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Are they gonna develop me? Are they not like you?
I remember back then twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, it
was boy they drafted to it, but they still seem
to be a push pull within the organization as to
who whether you're not he's the future, whether or not
he's gonna play and they're gonna turn the keys to
the offense over to him and today to a kind.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Of let slip. Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
The reason is because Brian Flores hated me take a listen.
This is tour from today for the Dan Lebotard Podcast.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
To put it in simplest terms, if you woke up
every morning and I told you you suck at what
you did, that you don't belong doing what you do,
that you shouldn't be here, that this guy should be here,
that you haven't earned this right, and then you have
(05:57):
somebody else come in and tell you, dude, you were
the best fit for this, like you are accurate, you
are the best whatever you are this you are that,
Like how would it make you feel listening to one
or the other?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
You see what I'm saying, and then you hear it.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
You hear it regardless of what it is, the good
or the bad, and you hear it more and more.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
You start to actually believe.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
That, I don't care who you are, you can be
the president of the United States. You have a terrible
person that's telling you things that you don't want to
hear or that you probably shouldn't be hearing.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You're gonna start to believe that about yourself.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, Now, first of all, he could be talking about
his time as a quarterback or logging onto social media,
because that's every day some people tell you you suck.
I'm like, yeah, this is every day for you. I
got on social media, I get people telling me I suck.
I get people telling me they love the show. Okay,
that's every day, right, people tell But the difference is,
you know, people telling you you suck on social media
(06:54):
are people.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's not your head coach.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
And this is what Tua is saying that Brian flu
Frus did to him every day and he called him
a terrible person. Now, Kevin O'Connell, Viking's head coach, had
to put out a statement today saying, hey, look, Brian Flores,
our DC has great relationships with everybody on the teams. Hey,
don't worry, we love Brian. Brian Flores is great. But
here's to calling his former head coach a terrible person.
(07:20):
Like you, hear a lot of things, but Mike, I'll
tell you here, and that is one of those. You
stop and go, what did he just say about his
former head cash?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, but that's the thing, right, there's different styles of coaching.
We've talked a lot about the changing ways of players, right,
We've was a background discussion a lot and Caleb Williams
and how much people loved him or didn't, and how
much you blew up or didn't when he went into
the stands, or that he's got nail polish or they
(07:49):
had that whatever. They're calling it, the large male large
bag he's carrying because it always has some pejorative names,
so call it what you will. All of those things
get people, you know, excitable with Tua here. You know,
he might just be encapsulating Flores's coaching style into the
(08:10):
you suck versus you know, harsh critiques, criticisms, et cetera.
It's no secret they didn't get along.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
You know. The timing of it is suspect. I know, levatards.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
You don't get to a post, you know, push and
prod and and we knew that there was an issue there,
but you know, to lean into it. Yeah, it's under
the surface. And this is one of those I wish
you would have just taken the iPad and done the
Michael Jordan, you know, after his career and said I
took that personally after he's gone on to a great career.
But he decided to do it now, so that's fine.
(08:41):
So so here it is. But yeah, the stuff about
who Flores is that that's the bigger deal. Right, you
can disagree with coaching style, but he took it a
step or two beyond that line.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
Well, first of all, you could tell how upset he was.
I don't like this guy at all.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
I hate this guy looking right away asked.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Hey to the do the Dolphins play the Vikings this year?
But look, no matter whose side you are on this,
because you hear something from Tua, and anytime you hear
a story like this, you go, Okay, what's the other
side going to be? I'm sure Brian Flores is gonna
have his side to things, and he's gonna he's gonna
say some things. But this is one thing that really
to give you something little bit different that you haven't
heard all day about this story, is that no matter
(09:23):
what side you come down on, hey, I believe to
a You know, obviously we see McDaniel's success with him.
So maybe it was Brian Floris's fault, just like we
see how good the Philadelphia Phillies are. Maybe it was
all Joe Girardi's fault. No matter whose side you're on.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
With this, this is.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
One hundred percent on Flores because not developing your quarterback
or putting him in the best position to succeed. That's
on you, and clearly you did not put your quarterback
in the best position to succeed. I know this because
I see too of succeeding with Mike McDaniel, right this,
this is not like boy he still thinks and you're
kind of wondering, well, well, is he really good?
Speaker 4 (10:01):
He hasn't showing.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
The guy throwing for only five thousand yards got a
two hundred and forty million dollar contract extension.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
The players love him.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
He can throw deep to Tyreek Keilly just has to
put every emphasis he's got on the.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Ball to get it deep to Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Your job as head coach get your players to be
the best versions of themselves.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They can be.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And if you're not doing that, guess what, you shouldn't
be a head coach because it doesn't matter if you
like the guy or not. Hey to a tug of
l was taken in the first round of the draft
to be your quarterback of the future. Well, guess what,
you gotta develop them, And that's your fault. If your
quarterback's walking around going I think I stink.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
I think this.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Not everybody you can motivate the same way and that's
a big thing.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
It used to be.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Hey, tough love for all the players. And if you
can't take how I'm gonna tell you suck, you suck. Hey,
that's on you, right because if you want to just
say maybe this was this was Brian Flores saying, hey,
this is kind of how I do it. Obviously it
didn't work. You gotta know players as individuals. You gotta
do your job as a coach and know that, Okay,
the message to one guy is not gonna put him
(11:01):
in a position to succeed like a message to the
other guy. Some guys can take the message of hey,
you're fighting for your job. Some guys like Kirk Cousin're
still gonna say I don't like the fact you took
Michael Bennox junior.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Hey you can.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Maybe two as a guy you could put pressure on top.
Obviously that wasn't the case. You have to fill him
with positivity and you could kind of see that, hey,
two is a guy that feeds back and feeds off
of positivity. That's you as a head coach. So no
matter what side you're on on this, this was a
fail by Flores and not bringing this out of your
franchise quarterback, and it's why he's not the head coach.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Right.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
You have to learn who your individual players are, particularly
the stars. Man, This ain't the second to last guy
that's winning a job on special teams in the preseason.
This is the guy that they picked to lead the franchise.
And I get it. Defensive head coach, maybe you don't
know what makes him tick, but you are the guy
(11:52):
in charge, so that it's up to you to come
upon you to figure it out. And it's no surprise
O'Connell employs him right now. So what's he gonna say.
It's been nothing but battles on the other side, But
I think it's gonna make it really good week one
because they're all gonna be pissed off and they're gonna
go and play a whale of a game.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
No, he's not gonna say that.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Likewise, I'd like to think that that flores with everything
that's gone on, lawsuits and everything else, and that time
in Miami, that maybe he learned and he and he
grew a little bit to recognize that, or maybe the
fact that he's not a head coach and doesn't have to,
you know, make sure everybody's all good, all across. You know,
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every position, especially when you're looking at the temperament of
a quarterback, is that he can just get back with
the defensive guys and maybe that's a place of more comfort.
Don't pretend to know the man. Don't know how he
interacts with guys individually. But this is is pretty damning
when two years, you know, a year and a half,
(12:53):
two years after the fact, you're still at the Oh yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Guy, he was a trick.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I mean we all do it in our other jobs.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I mean we've done it on air with people we
like that were managers or people we worked with or
four in the past. And all of you out there
right now in your cars, at your kitchen tables, matt
walking the dog, go ahead, say it out loud, say
the name as you need to let it out. Let
it out, because otherwise he consumes you. And this was
(13:19):
two his opportunity. Well, I'm glad you asked that one.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Finally, I'm gonna I feel comfortab because sometimes it takes
a little while. Sure you could have said that about
Floris on the way out, but you know what, let
me wait, and now he's made it right. Two more
years he's a Pro Bowl quarterback. He just signed a
huge contract. The offense is his, the team is his.
He's there for the next four or five years, probably more.
Gonna wind up being their best quarterback since Marino, most likely.
(13:44):
And so now, okay, I feel comfortable enough now and
saying this is a bad guy. You could also tell
that he's been living with this for a long time,
that this is something that lives rent free in his head.
And we all have things that live rent free in
our for stupid reasons, right, but this is one of
those things and now it doesn't.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
But like how he was.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Treated by Brian Flores, how he says, this is something
that has been on his mind for a while, and
finally now it's blanket. I could tell the story because
I've made it. I feel comfortable in letting people know
that this is what happened to me when I was
playing with Miami, and look at the results. The best
revenge is living well, and I've been living pretty well
the last couple of years.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, I gotta say.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
The one thing I like from the weekend though, is McDaniel,
you know, throwing a little shade to him, say, yeah,
we ran that play first thing last year.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
At least he completed it this time. Yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So when this story comes over the top of that one,
I'm like, all right, let's go game.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
On, no matter what this is on the coach because
that's how you have to get the best performance out
of your play.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's easy. It's an easy thing and Brian Flores epic
fail at it.
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We got more football coming up in a company. You've
got a great story out of college football from today.
But you know me, Mike, I never want to say
I told you so right that this is not me.
It's not who I am, right, you know I told
you so Okay, Yeah, I'm not that guy.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
It's in the deep dark recesses of the brain. I
mean it's never at the forefront. It's never never. You know,
you never wear a shirt in blazon with it. I
don't know you've furnished a tattoo yet.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
No, as far as you know, not yet. Yeah, and
I wouldn't show you if I did.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Okay, all right, And America just was either intrigued or repulsed.
You could vote at how about a Fresco had swollen
dome at Fox Sports Radio?
Speaker 4 (16:52):
But what did I tell you last week?
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And we talked about Hey, here comes the second half
of the WNBA schedule, and here comes Caitlin Clark on
the middle Finger Tour. Okay, you didn't pick me for
the Olympic team. I had to see all of this
going on. I had to deal with all of this
physical play and all of this hatred and jealousy when
all I'm doing is coming in and playing ball. Okay,
(17:15):
here comes the middle Finger Tour the second half of
the season.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I'm rested.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I've been lifting weights, I've been going to country fairs,
I've been on stage. I met Aaron Judge. Let's see,
and then two games over the weekend we watched Friday night,
she goes for twenty nine, ten and five as they
beat Phoenix. Diana Tarassi check, I got you, hey, Seattle
ninety two seventy five, twenty three, nine and five. Another
(17:41):
check for Caitlin Clark. The middle Finger Tour is underway
and it is glorious. It is time for the WNBA
to stop being jealous and just embrace her stardom in talent.
And you're still seeing stuff like like Skyler digg and
Smith who didn't like the fact that Caitlin Clark was
pumping up the home crowd, wanted to make sure she
walked and bumped into her as she's walking off the
(18:03):
court like.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
She's pumping up the home crowd.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Man.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
I mean the hate that she gets is just so insane.
Like at any at any point there is for players
whatever to say, hey, you know what, Kaitlyn Clark, Kaylen Clark,
you still see it right, You still see officials ridiculously
calling a technical foul on Kaitlyn Clark because she punched
the stanchion after she missed the three, and it was, oh,
you're disrespecting the game.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Officials got to get on board too, man.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
They've not They've not officiated her fairly out of the
gate and now you got you're getting it. Really, you're
getting a technical foul because you punched the stick.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Come on, now, I wouldn't we say we do it?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
What do we do?
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Is this is professional basketball, man, This isn't a Saturday
game in the gym where hey, it's at the y MCNA.
We want to show good sports hip. This is the
you miss a shot, you can punch the stanchion. If
the stanchion wants to sue, let the stanchion sue. But
I think the stanchion's just fine.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
I would say this, Should she have gotten a technical
in that instance?
Speaker 6 (18:57):
No?
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Could she have gotten a technical?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Fit the other times during the game, absolutely yelling to
the crowd, yeah these are the worst. Talking about the officials, Yeah,
they're not very good. So we got all the micd
up because she was miked up for the game. So
anybody that watched it, you know exactly what I'm talking
about it. And if you didn't, well let me clue you in.
You got a lot of cutaways of all the positive
(19:20):
notes of Caitlin Clark. And I'm not look denying and
pushing it down.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I'm just saying she earned a technical.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
You just not in that moment like that was not
the time, she said, plenty of things, had plenty of
moments of historyonics where you could have called one after
a call, you know, the giant arms thrown up, yelling
ah and all those things to where if you're an official,
you may have been able to do it. They did
have that scary moment though, with that inbound play where
(19:51):
the free safety came and took her almost took her
head off and she was down holding her arm for
a minute. So you had one of those moments too,
And for Skyler Diggins, I was gonna I started to
ask if she was actually a referee, because it seemed
like there were a couple of the refs didn't know
what to do and she was able to influence them into.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
A call by going over and talking to them.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
So I was getting ready to add that, and then
the incident you know, happened about pumping up and everything else,
which meant the internets were unleashed and that was the
end of that. I'm like, yeah, I don't need to
pile on now. That's that's a minor thing compared to
what we have going on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Now, I'm telling you, you watch that, and you see
her just hey, pumping up the crowd, and she just
decides to walk briskly, so she makes sure to bumper
what you.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Get to the hunnel really fast, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And that's the thing, is that like if Caitlyn Clark
came into the league and look, is Kaitlyn Clark a
look at me player? Absolutely, but she's an on the
court look at me player. If she was someone who
came into the league and she was talking about her
greatness and was at odds with her teammates at all,
with the coaches, at odds with the opponents, said stuff
(21:03):
in the press, uh you know, God in trouble.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
Like I completely get.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I completely get the Hey, this rookie is a little
too big for her breeches, and we gotta we gotta,
we gotta, we gotta, we gotta make sure that she
understands what life is a professional's about. If she was
doing all that, I get it. I completely get. Okay,
you don't come in here and start acting like this.
But all she's done is coming in ball and all
of the stuff that that players quote don't like, it's
all on the court, which I'm sorry, suck it up.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
This is professional basketball and the stuff that she that
she has to go through, it's like, you're real.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
I mean, just think about taking a wide angle view
of the lenses that here's a sport that is getting
its best player, it's biggest player that they've ever had,
that's already brought them untold things like like charter travel
and more money and bigger television contracts.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
And it's like, Nope, we still don't like it.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
And I don't know what business, what business can can
stay afloat when that's your attitude of a yeah, here
comes some but he was great for it.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Nothing, We don't like her. Nah, we're well upset that
she's coming in getting credit because we have people who
are jealous and not big fans of the fact that, oh,
it's taken twenty years to figure this out. I mean,
I don't know any business where something has come in
that makes it all better and there's a big push
from the people involved in the business that says, yeah, no,
we don't want it. I'd rather go back to the
old ways. I'd rather go here's a machine that can
(22:22):
make your job easier. You're gonna get paid more money.
You're gonna have more time off. You're gonna have a
town car's gonna pick you up from home and take
you to work every day. How great is that? No,
I want the old way. I don't like it. I
don't like it. I don't I know, I don't like
the ways. Maybe coming for your job, so be careful.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
I said they're not. So what happened in Iron Man two?
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I said they're not. I said, I said they are not.
I said nothing. Your job doesn't affect it. You get
paid more money, you get all these you had luxury rides. No, no, no,
I want where it was before. I want it back
to was now.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You're giving theoretical speeches like you're a political candidate. But no,
the idea that you've got a CBA that ends in
twenty seven, and she's getting her well planted things about
salary and such in as she goes through because you've
got players. I mean, look, she's got commercial endorsement, she
got paid plenty of n I l you know, talking
(23:14):
about I'm gonna become the fans of Lexi Hall, Lexi Hull.
That's gonna be all my accounts. After she came off
the bench with her eight for ten h six for
seven from three point performance and everything else. But you know,
says all the right things as all. I mean, I
guess the she's been a fan of mine talking about
(23:34):
the former record holder for assists. I don't know, maybe
an acquaintance of mine, a friend of mine. We've conversed
since I was in college. Probably the better way to
say it that she'd been a fan of mine for
a long time.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Now.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh God, so that say she's perfect, but she doesn't
cause controversy.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Oh look at what this. I mean, she's not that
kind of player.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
But certainly again you know, for the technical file bad
in the moment, probably earned one over the course of
the game.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
So something that you.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Know, she's got to be a little less emotional when
she disagrees with the call, kind of like you know,
parents and those looking on at youth the sports games,
same thing. Just let it go, let it go. They're
doing their best. But it's the watching her play, right.
It was like happy Gilmour when she starts hitting those
(24:25):
little floaters in the lane. Oh happy learned how to
put and you know, get into the drive with the
right hand. And and I think they're creating new stat
categories to follow for her in terms of the look
ahead passes and everything else. And you see how much
better the coordination with his her teammates are to expect
(24:48):
said bounce passes, said look ahead passes, all of that
is getting more and more fluid. So those assist totals
should be going up as well.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, you embrace it. Three years the CBA is up.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Everybody will get to play in the States and not
have to take the summer job or the fall job
in Europe.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
No, I don't want to see No, I want to go
to Russia. Well, well, why look at what Caitlyn Clay.
I don't I don't like it. I don't want to
do it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
If I know, I want to go back to the
old way, I want to make it more difficult, just
because just because I don't like the fact that a
good player has come.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Into the league.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Like can you imagine the NFL if they get a
guy coming in who is going to transform the league
like it was that was a combination of Mahomes and
Brady and all of this and everything going on, And
all the players did was hate him. They didn't pick
him for the Pro Bowl, didn't pick him for the
all pro teams, he's getting everybody's getting more money, the
TV contracts are going up, and still you have players saying, yeah,
(25:40):
I don't like it now, I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I'd rather go back to the way it was before.
I don't like this new guy that's coming into the league.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Look, there's there's always going to be growing pains, and
everybody wants their shine and I get it right, you know,
depending no matter what kind of job you do, you know,
if all of a sudden, your your department gets a
little bit of run, no matter how good a job
you're doing, who's getting the most attention.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
If there's a new manager or there's some.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
New employee or something changed, you know, the materially that
suddenly they could just say, well, it's obviously got to
be that. So Caitlin Clark gets her run. And in
all our jobs, everybody around, no matter what you do,
it's the well I've been busting my ass here forever.
Thanks for paying attention now, all right, Lloyd after the
(26:28):
game just kind of like, let's talk about our rookies.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, we didn't really want to know, we to talk
about the star of the league.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
It's like, oh, don't ask me about Lebron.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
You're gonna really ask me about Lebron in the game
he played fine, Yes, thirty nine and seventeen and twelve. Yes,
great game for Lebron. How about one of our rookies
was scoring eleven points off the bench. Ask me about
that instead. I mean, this is just insane. We're continuing
to fight against the fact that this is the best
thing for our league.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Nope, nope, don't like it. Don't like it.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And they got a sold out crowd ratings bonanza once
again on a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
All of these things. But you know, hey, exit.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Out a bout of Fresco, exit swollen Dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon. Now to find out what's trending, we go
to the commissioner of our WNBA Fantasy league, Steve to
say he's got all the answers right.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Steve, Hello, there, We've got baseball to get to in
a minute. WNBA is off tonight. There three games Tomorrow.
It'll be Dallas six and twenty playing at New York,
LA Sparks six and twenty one at Connecticut, And also
tomorrow Washington six and twenty one will be hosting Seattle.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
I don't think those are going to be close.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I'll guess not.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I think they are.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
You have three games tomorrow where the records of the
teams are nineteen and seven against six and twenty one,
twenty three and four against six and twenty.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
They've already clinched a playoff birth New York with a
months to go. This is like the reverse White Sox.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
No, it's like the White Sox are playing three games tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (27:53):
Night and Seattle's decent and they're the only single digit favorite.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
This thing, yeah in Washington six twenty one.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
Meanwhile, the PGA playoffs moved to Colorado this week, then
the Tour Championships at the end of this month in Atlanta,
and NASCAR is gonna have the four hundred at Daytona
this Saturday night. They finally finished the Cup race at
Michigan today after the rain yesterday. Tyler Reddick the winner.
William Byron was second to Major League Baseball, We've got
four late games Mariners at Dodgers, a pitcher's duel and
(28:25):
scoreless in the bottom of the sixth inning. In fact,
they're just ending the six with Brian wu as the
starter for the Mariners, having a good season and six
scoreless innings with five strikeouts. Gavin Stone, the Dodgers starting pitcher,
nine strikeouts in his six scoreless innings. Giants lead the
White Sox five to one top of the eighth. White
Sox enter with a record of thirty and ninety five
(28:47):
this year, already mathematically eliminated. Vas are shutting out the
Rays three to nothing in the bottom of the seventh.
Rais closer Pete Fairbanks goes on the injured list with
a lat strain. The Padres are winning again, five to
two over the Twin in the top of the eighth.
The Padres are just three games behind the first place
Dodgers in the NL West. Arizona was four back. The
Dbacks have already won. Tonight, Arizona wins nine to six
(29:10):
at Miami. Adrian del Castillo, a Miami native, hit a
grand Slam and a two run single, but Diamondbacks all
star second baseman Katel Marte goes on the injured list
with a sprained ankle. The Mets won on a solo
homer bottom of the ninth by Francisco Alvarez four to
three over Baltimore. Houston wins on a solo homer bottom
of the ninth by Jarner diez Off Boston closer Kenley
(29:33):
Jansen five to for Houston the final, winning the game.
Despite four ers victories for the Reds, the Rangers, and
the Kansas City Royals, who've won five straight, beat the
Angels five to three. Braves third basement Austin Riley will
miss six to eight weeks with a broken hand he
was hit by a pitch Yesterday. The Washington Commanders officially
named rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as their starter. The franchise
(29:55):
will have a new starting quarterback to open the season
for a seventh straight year. LA Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert
resumed practicing today for the first time this month. He
had been in a walking boot with a foot injury.
The team's backup quarterbacks have been unable to lead the
offense to a single touchdown this preseason. Jacksonville wide receiver
Christian Kirk is out this week with a calf injury.
(30:17):
Ravens tied end Mark Andrews miss practice again today after
his car accident last week, but his coach says don't worry.
Quarterback Colt McCoy retired after twelve seasons. Buffalo wide receiver
Mark wez Valdez Scantling will miss multiple weeks with a
spray neck, and so will backup quarterback Mitchell Trubisky with
a knee injury. So Buffalo is reportedly due to sign
quarterback Anthony Brown. Steelers running back Jalen Warren could miss
(30:40):
multiple weeks with hamstring injury. The Raiders yesterday named Gardner
Minshew their starting QB. Wide receiver DeVante Adams did not
play Saturday due to swordis. He'll be back at practice
tomorrow and Rams.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
But that was so at the team that his body
he was just sore that this is the team he's
got to play.
Speaker 9 (30:57):
He was a little sore at the offense last year.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
As you're he you recall and with good reason.
Speaker 9 (31:02):
Ram's quarterback Matthew Stafford will be ready for Week one,
although he might miss more practices this week with hamstring tightness.
Just did individual work today.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Back to you, thanks a bunch, Steve.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
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(31:32):
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we do out for you every single night like we
do here on the show. Well, coming up next, not
one but two big stories out of college football. One
(31:53):
is just a little bit sillier than the other, but
still both really big. That's next right here, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon live from the Francisco Alparez Studios Here at
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
You know, and look, there's so thanks to Jason.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Locking forest hopping bys he always does with us every Monday,
breaking down all the big stories from the NFL.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Hurst out the Orioles celebrated backhandedly the Alvarez home run.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Yes, a little bit, yeah, a little bit so, But
that's okay because you know what. I know how it
happened and what accounts it does. I don't care what
you say about it because I know what happened in accounts.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
So it's like it makes it a glorious Monday for you.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Sure it does.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
That's why I always say people, why are Sundays a
glorious Monday? Why you just say welcome and they go, well,
when the Mets win, it's a glorious Monday.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
If they don't win, it's a Monday. What do you
want for me?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think comes a glorious day again for you, as
master of your world.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
It is a doubly glorious day here.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Well, speaking of glorious days, not gonna be many about
the team we're gonna talk about here in the next
couple of minutes.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
To be fair, right, I always want to be fair.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Last week we watched Patriots play preseason against the Eagles.
They should easily be the in pole position to pick
first in the NFL draft. They are going to have
a terrible season. There's not a lot of talent. You
don't even know what's gonna happen. A quarterback that is.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
A bad team, that is a bad completely start it over.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
No, it's good, it's good. But you don't know what
is he gonna start right away? Is he not gonna start?
What's gonna happen? Is he any good? We don't even
know that they're limiting as reps.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
You don't. We have no idea about Drake Bay, right,
So they're gonna be bad.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
And I i'm i'm, i'm, I feel very confident about that. Look,
I've watched the Patriots beat up on the Jets for
the last twenty five years. I feel pretty confident about that.
But the team that's gonna be right on their heels, like, hey,
don't relax for a second, New England or trying to
get up there to get Carson Beck or Shoulder Sanders
from you.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
You want to get up there to have that choice.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I mean, watch out, because the Raiders are going to
be right on the Patriots heels. Look, they made their
quarterback decision for the beginning of the season, and it's
Gardner Minshew instead of Aid O'Connell. Now, neither of these
guys are great, right, Neither these guys are great, but
they've been playing a lot in the preseason and they've
been getting a lot of chances against second team defenses,
(34:19):
and neither of.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Them ever any good. You put almost anybody.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Out there against a second team defense, and if they
have any sort of talent, they're going to stand out
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
O'Connell.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I kind of get because you know, I thought going
into last year he was gonna be.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Good, but clearly he struggled at Minshew. We know what
he's about.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
I got to think at this point, Minsch has been
a veteran here nearly a decade, and he's gonna be
able to put some points on the board.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
He can't do it.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
The Raiders have looked abysmal the last couple of games,
and I don't know where where are they gonna make
their plays? From Devonte Adams, you know he's got one
foot out the door. You know they're trying to figure
things out. Antonio Pears, I want to sleep on who
I pick a quarterback? Guess what you have to sleep on.
It doesn't matter when neither of these guys in the
preseason against second team defenses can flash at all. What
(35:05):
kind of season are you gonna have when everybody's playing
their best players. Right, here's what kind of year can
you have when suddenly, oh, yeah, oh, this is not
a Jets team that rested every single one of their
starters for the first three preseason games.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Well, this is a Jets team with a pretty good defense. Man,
I don't know what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
This is not a This is not a team that
we watched that said the Cowboys sitting just about every
single person who's gonna play for them this year, and
we still lost twenty seven to twelve.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Like, what are you gonna do? The Raiders are gonna
be absolutely terrible and they will be on the Patriots
eels for that number one pick.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Yeah see, I'm actually a little more bullish.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
The quarterback position is a giant crapshoot, there's no doubt
about it. But they got pretty good defense, offensive lines,
middle of the pack.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
And then you do.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Have some weapons at your disposal because you brought in
Jacoby Myers. You got the dual tight end set, running back,
Alexander Madison, que the song, and Zamir White. I mean,
White looked okay last year, so I mean you at
least have hope I'd really thought.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
It was gonna be the Steelers.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
And defensively it comes and goes as TJ. Watts health does.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
And offensively, what are they putting up seventeen points a game?
So I really thought they were gonna be the candidate
here here at least there's enough talent that they might
put up some points on occasion by accident. I'm not
gonna say they're world beaters, but that over under six
and a half wins, I could see him get into that.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
I don't know, dude.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I mean, look, I want to think Zamir White's gonna
be good as well. Uh, clearly he's gonna get the
chance to be the every down back and I like that.
And Devont Adams, but you know Devont Adams doesn't want
to be there at all, right that this is not
this is a team that's completely rebuilding. He wants out.
Of course, they'll trade him by the deadline. And here's
Antonio Pierce, who looked former. You know, he came in
(36:57):
last year galvanized the team, but it's hard not to
when you hate the head coach before him so much.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
Anybody would be better.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
But I really you look at some of the teams
offensively in their talent wise, and you go, man, the
Raiders are going to struggle and they're going to struggle defend.
I mean, this is this is not a team that's
built to win. This is a team that, hey, are
we starting over?
Speaker 4 (37:16):
Are we not? Like?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I don't even know what their identity is that question.
They have enough players to win now, you know, but
also players they are starting like, I don't even know
what kind of team they want to be.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Well, let me ask you this defensive consultant, Tom Coughlin,
will he still get his red in the face as
a consultant as he did as head coach.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
I will say this, if you give up a walk
off punt return, he will be right in the punter's
face throwing his stuff down on the field. That will
absolutely that, there's that will absolutely happen. You know, look
even the Broncos and you look in that division where okay,
who's the worst team. Even the Broncos have more going on.
A quarterback like bo Nix is playing well and there's
excitement and a couple of weapons.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I mean, the Raiders don't have anything. Man, it got
nothing going on. Though they had the script right, get ready,
Patriots let up at all. Raiders are going to be
right there, let's go.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Coming up next, we'll tell you not only when, but why.
The biggest quarterback derby is going to be decided, and
it's going to be decided in favor of
Speaker 4 (38:17):
That's next, Fox,
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