August 20, 2024 • 40 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the hosts start the hour by reacting to Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa’s controversial comments about his former head coach, Brian Flores. Next, NFL Insider Jason La Canfora joins the show to discuss all things NFL. 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! Tune in to Hour 1 for all this and more!
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Francisco Aalvarez, He just looked like he was floating around
the bases after he made a bunch of you know,
big gestures and 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 gonna be too high.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, no, that.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Was just a prodigious blast. I saw, I saw the
ball leave his bad I'm like, whoa, let's see where
they let's chart where that one ended up.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
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 3 (01:46):
Of his foot.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
But like Jeff m'neige's, dude, go back in touch. This
is when everybody's off the field already, like the.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Orioles have walked off. Okay, it's over and done. Go back.
I went back a touch on plate. All good.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Just go clean that up so they don't suddenly have
a uh 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 1 (02:09):
I would love to see a team, which I'd love
that because it almost what happened us tonight. I want
to see a team with a walk off homer, right,
and it's.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
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 obvious just a
walk off you wins would have to be would tie
the game.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But if he doesn't touch home play, yeah, we got
to go back and play the game from that point.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Sorry about that. It's like the Pine Tar game.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
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 humpires 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.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you just need to just
just hit the batter's box anywhere anywhere inside the box, and.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You're all good. It's absolutely fine.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
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.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
To THEO and that's it. Game over.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
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 two a tongue of Iloa that's.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Just absolute wildfire.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
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 a second.
But there are certain quarterbacks and two is one of them.
Regardless to is to you know what you think about
him as a player, is that too?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
As one of.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Those guys, he's like Dak He's one of those guys
at hey is a really good quarterback, but.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He's not Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He's still really good, but he's still so polarized 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.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
He got paid.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's one of the top ten quarterbacks in the game.
But when when things happen certain quarterbacks, Okay, hey, Tua,
Tua becomes a conversation Kirk Cousins, not so much, right,
you know, dakbirth becomes a conversation. Yeah, happy birthday, Kirk Cousins,
Happy birthday, John Stamoso. By the way, Alex tischert off
for John Stamus's birthday. You know, something happens with Josh Allen.
Nobody really cares, but oh to Toua. And this gets
(04:39):
us to what happened today. Tua goes on the Dan
Lebutard podcast and he is asked about Brian Flores, former
head coach at Miami. This is the guy who lost
his job that was suing the NFL because he because
he said that they 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 a
(05:00):
defensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings. And to say that
Brian Flores of two a tongue of Ailoa didn't get
along well in twenty twenty one, that would be under
selling it. Now things are great with Mike McDaniel now
has 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
That's a.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Good callback for those that listen to the interview with
Raheem Mostert from the other day, which is available for
wherever podcasts are downloaded.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, now people look it does he I bet yay.
He's got short pants and 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?
Are they not? Are they gonna develop me? Are they
not like you? I remember back then twenty twenty twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It was boy.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
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 of let slip.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The reason is because Brian fl Or has hated me.
Take a listen. This is to or from today for
the Dan Levatard Podcast.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
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
(06:25):
somebody else come in and tell you, dude, you are
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? You see what I'm saying, and then you
hear it. You hear it regardless of what it is,
the good or the bad, and you hear it more
(06:46):
and more. You start to actually believe 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 here, You're gonna start to believe
that about you.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So okay.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now, first of all, he could be talking about his
time as a quarterback or logging on to social media,
because that's every day some people tell you you suck.
I'm like, yeah, this is every day for me. I
got on social media, I got people telling me I suck.
I get people telling me they love the show. Okay,
that's every day, right, people. But the difference is, you know,
people telling you you suck on social media are people.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's not your head coach.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And this is what Tua is saying that Brian Flores
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 do't worry, we love Brian. Brian Flores is great.
But here's to calling his former head coach a terrible person.
(07:49):
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 coach?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
No, but that's thing right, there's 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
of 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 polished or they
(08:18):
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. But 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
(08:39):
you suck versus you know, harsh critiques, criticisms, et cetera.
It's no secret they didn't get along. You know, the
timing of it is suspect. I know Levatar's you know,
get 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 he would have
(09:00):
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. So so here
it is. But yeah, the stuff about who Flores is
that that's the bigger deal.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You can disagree with coaching style, but he took it
a step or two beyond that line.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, first of all, you could tell how upset he was.
I don't like this guy at all. This guy I
started looking right away asked, hey, 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
(09:46):
thing that that really to give you something little bit
different that you haven't heard all day about this story,
is that no matter 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 Flora versus 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 with this, this is one hundred percent
(10:10):
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,
was succeeding with Mike McDaniel. Right, this is not like
boy he still thinks and you're kind of wondering, well,
is he really good? He hasn't showing now the guys
(10:31):
throwing for only five thousand yards, got a two hundred
and forty million dollar contract extension. The players love him.
He can throw deep to Tyreek. Keilly just has to
put every emphasis he's got on the ball to get
a deep to Tyreek Kill. Your job as head coach
get your players to be the best versions of themselves
they can be. And if you're not doing that, guess what,
you shouldn't be a head coach because it doesn't matter
(10:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Around going I think I stink. I think this.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Not everybody you can motivate the same way, and that's
a big thing. It used to be, Hey, tough love
for all the players. And if you can't take how
I'm gonna tell you you suck, you suck. Hey, that's
on you, right because if you want to just say
maybe this was this was Brian Flora 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
(11:26):
job as a coach and know that, Okay, the message
to one guy is not going to put him 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 Cousins just still
gonna say I don't like the fact you took Michael
Bennox junior, Hey you can maybe two as a guy
you could put pressure on top.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Obviously that wasn't the case.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
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 to learn who your individual
players are, particularly the stars.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Man.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
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 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
(12:26):
him right now. So what's he gonna say. No, 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 way up of a game.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
No, he's not gonna say that.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Likewise, I'd like to think that that flores with everything
that's going 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,
(13:00):
every position, especially when you're looking at the temperament of
a quarterback, is that he could 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,
(13:22):
two years after the fact, you're still at the Oh yeah,
that guy give.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Us a jerk.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I mean we all do it in our other jobs.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I mean we've done it on air with people we
like that were managers or people we worked with or
for 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 it consumes you, and this was
(13:48):
two of his opportunity.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, I'm glad you asked that one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Finally, I'm gonna feel comforta because sometimes it takes a
little while. Sure he 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.
(14:13):
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 maybe now it doesn't. But like how
he was treated by Brian Flores, how he says, this
(14:33):
is something that has been on his mind for a while,
and finally now it's blanket.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I could tell the story.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Because I've made it, I feel comfortable in letting people
know that this is what happened to me when.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I was playing with Miami and look at the results.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The best revenge is living well, and I've been living
pretty well the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeah. I gotta say.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
The one one thing I like from the weekend though,
is McDaniel, you know, throwing a little shade to him
and say, yeah, we ran that play first thing last year.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
At least he completed it this time.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Here we go, right, So when this story comes over
the top of that one, I'm like, all right, let's
go now, game.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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 3 (15:11):
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Speaker 1 (15:11):
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Well. Coming up next, we got more from the NFL.
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The Raiders make a quarterback decision.
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Mets Radio Network on the call, Jason, So, I just
didn't know if you had a chance to see the
end of the game tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I want to let you know how the Mets Oils
game ended.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Yeah, I was. I saw it in real time or
at most on whatever fifteen second to thirty second delay
that my streaming service has me on. Hey, you've got
the Seaston Michael ISAS's trade deadline. Good for you. Well,
the ass pitcher the sixth most interesting left handed arm
on the Miami Marlin. And you couldn't go through ive innings.
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We should be in triple A. Uh. And the Phillies
failed sixth inning guy who's now our closer. So and
those were one of those. Was one of the good
trades he made.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
D you can't hit the.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Ball to the infield who has like an eighty five
percent ground ball rate since he got here. Eloy, that's
the d H who it's nothing but ground balls. And
my grandmother, uh, neither of whom have been alive for
a long time to get down the first base before
him on those ground balls. Like yeah, oh, and Gregory Soto,
you'll get him tomorrow night because all of our good
relievers I'm using air quotes, or at least most of
(18:35):
them are spent, so you'll you'll get there. I wonder
which one of your writings will homer off of Gregory
Soto tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Is that the right answer?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I'm song as he doesn't stand there and take another
called third.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right, So I just wanted to make.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Sure about it. It was. I don't know what he
was thinking.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I didn't want it to.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
I just wanted to make we got that going for us.
I'm aware, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Well listen, I don't want us to have a Brian
Flores too, a sung of my Lowe type relationship here.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So let's get to NFL here a little bit. Look
what do you make of that today?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
To It goes on to podcast and says his former
head coach is a terrible person, told him he sucked
every day and and I mean, this is this is
a stand up and go whoa what did he just
say kind of moment?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What did you make from this?
Speaker 9 (19:24):
I knew it was bad, and in real time, my
reporting at the time was was centered on how fractured
not just like it wasn't really do you think a
quarterback controversy or the coach doesn't really support the quarterback?
How does it fracture the locker room? This was a
fractured coaching staff, This was a fractured front office. And
(19:44):
the deterioration of the relationship between Chris Greer, the GM,
and and Flores was was very much tied to this
quarterback who you know. I think the GM, in his
own way, tried to kind of love up and pop
up around the edges. But the reality is the coach
was the alpha there. The coach pulled his best Belichick act,
(20:07):
and the coach tried to pull stuff with Tua that
Belichick pulled with Tom Brady. I mean, the difference is
tom Brady. He wasn't doing that to Tom Brady. When
tom Brady was on the way up. You know, tom
Brady got all the tough love and tom Brady was
made the example of. And the whole thing was, I
can beat Brady down like this, and you know, all
you other moves better fall in line, like you can't
(20:28):
do that to Tua when he's just trying to find
his way. But that's what it was. And you could
tell that the coach, you know, you talk to anybody
in that building, anybody was watching practice, you know, trainers, whatever,
everybody got the sense of that this ain't his guy,
and he was involved in the selection of him. But boy,
you saw you know, you heard narratives in the media
(20:50):
pretty quickly about you know, the sort of revisionist history
about it wasn't my guy. And you know, there obviously
was a pursuit of Tom Brady in there that everybody
in trouble like it was never good. I just I'm surprised,
like surprised that Tua kind of went all the way there,
only because just sort of the way he usually would
(21:14):
handle a situation like this. I don't begrudge him anything
at all. He should he should say his truth, he
should live his truth. Like he's clearly better because of
some of that in the long run. But it was
it was. I mean, that building was crazy toxic for
a long time, like until very recently, Like the whole
(21:37):
Stephen Ross's run was a whole lot more like Woody
Johnson than Robert Kraft obviously, if you just want to
talk about owners in that division. Yeah, it was. It
was pretty nasty in real time, and I you know,
I think it had to be a little bit cathartic
(21:57):
for Tua to kind of, you know, go all the
way there. And look, I don't know if blank Floyd
is another side of the head coach or not, but
he very much was emblematic on the legion of Belichick
disciples who were way too full of themselves and just
way too full of his stick without having earned anything
(22:18):
at that level as a head coach. He is one
hell of a defensive coordinator, and I think I'll have
that Vikings team more competitive than maybe some others might think,
and on that side of the ball that they're pretty
damn good. And I just don't know. All these guys
say they learn from it and they'll be better than
next time, but you just never know.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
In the interim, he gets to run the defense that
will support Sam Darnold. But you talked about long time
toxic cultures. Hey, let's go to Washington where a new
quarterback and they've turned.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
A new leap as well.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
What are you expecting from Daniels in your one look.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
I don't think he's going to like this isn't going
to be a CJ. Stroud, you know, or Lamar Jackson situation,
Like he's not flipping the script overnight and turning them
into these out of nowhere contenders and saving the season
and all that. But I think he's going to I
think he's going to have a damn good rookie season
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and he's not getting all the creature comforts that some
of these other day one starters have benefited from. And
you know, I'm not a big Cliff Kingsbury guy, So
we'll just see how that part of the equation works.
Itself out. But I believe he's incredibly talented. Man. I
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believe that they well, they could still bleep it up,
but I think they have the opportunity to truly find
someone who's going to be working multiple contracts at the
quarterback position. That's not to say that Cousins couldn't have been,
but he clearly got the one contract and then they
did the franchise dance. Like, I think this will be
the first quarterback in modern NFL, modern Redskins slash come
(24:00):
Manders slash wtfs or whatever wft's history to actually get
a mega contract there. I mean, even when Joe Gibbs
was winning Super Bowls, right, it was a different quarterback
every time, and they were kind of more vagabond or
late bloomers than they were. Build your franchise for the
next fifteen years around them. Like, I think they truly
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have a unique opportunity here if they incubate him the
right way, if they can protect him a little bit.
But I believe he's a transcendent talent.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Jason Locking for our guest NFL Inside of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon, live from the tirec dot
Com Studios, All right, let's get to everybody's favorite preseason
quarterback controversy. We saw another underwhelming kind of game for
the Steelers on offense. Russelly correct survey says.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
That dude in five notes.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
All year long and all preseason long, it's been it's
Russell Wilson's job.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Justin Fields is back.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You have Russell Wills, John, and I think you and
I are on the same page that Justin Fields has
to play and play at some point soon. Are you
still on that? Is it still as soon as timeline?
How do you see it going after what you've seen
so far?
Speaker 9 (25:11):
I thought Justin Fields would play the most snaps of
anybody at quarterback for the Steelers this year before they
signed him. So that's where I've been this one, Like
before they signed him or Russ, I'm like, Justin Fields
is going to play like a lot of He's going
to be their starting quarterback like a lot and people
are like, you're crazy. And then they signed Russell Wilson
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and I said, yeah, Fields is still going to be
their quarterbolek Fields isn't even on their team, Jared, Well,
wait a couple of weeks and neither distinguished themselves against
the Bills and the offensive line right now for the Steelers,
which I didn't think would be problematic, looks very problematic
Roderick Jones among others. So they did RUSS no favors there,
(25:54):
but it just it looks like a guy who's done
and he knows he's done, and it's ducking cover. It's
checkdowns galore. I don't even know if the eyes are
scanning downfield, like at least Fields tries to push the
ball downfield, especially now with with Jalen Warrent being out
and I think he's going to be out a little
bit into the regular season, and let's face it, they
(26:15):
want to run the ball. They want to you know,
be smart offensively and let what they think will be
a transcendent defense shine. Like I just don't know how
you don't try to further unlock the run game with
justin fields and win time of possession and then hit
you deep shots off boots and waggles and rollouts and
play act like you know, I have a hard time
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not thinking that wins the day. Does it win the
day the first snap of the season, I don't know,
probably wins the day by the first third down, or
you know what, I mean the first goal line situation,
and there's way more upside with Fields and with the
money being basically you know, and with Russ becoming increasingly
(27:02):
accustomed to losing his job and just being along for
the ride. And again, I just don't think I'm like
a huge Russ guy for a long time. But he
looks like a guy who's aged rapidly the last few years.
And I don't know that he believes it anymore either.
So I think it's field been a.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Tough watch with no Justin Herbert in the walking Booth,
eat Easton Stick and Company. For the Chargers, he's out
of the boot over under his at eight and a
half wins.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
What are we saying?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Look, I was I've avoided the annual lore of the
Chargers to suck you in for i'd say two or
three years. I was lord in prior to camps opening
and was like, you know, I even placed a few wagers.
You know, you're getting pretty good plus money on them
to make the playoffs, and then this thing happened, and
(27:56):
I'm just kind of like, I don't know, man, are
they just cursed? You know? Like who gets hurt next?
Like I do think Harball brings immediate respectability. Harball and
Greg Roman. They're going to run the ball. The defense
has warts, but I think it'll be covered up by
the offense's ability to play bully ball. But I don't know, man,
(28:21):
You tell me when he what week does he play
and look like Justin Herbert and you know it's your
push off foot like it's leverage, its torque. I don't know, man.
It's got me a little concerned.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Fall question how many games are they getting combined from
those former Ravens running backs.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
You know, JK Dobbins at some point, he's got to
have like positive regression, right like, at some point the
football got don't just punch him in the mouth, right Like.
I think JK Dobbins is going to be pretty productive there.
I I really do. And look, they know what Gus said,
(29:03):
Edwards is at this stage and he finishes drives and
when they have leads in the second half, but use
him as a battering ram and I bet you he
still gets tell them he's get thirteen touchdowns like last year,
but I bet he gets at least half that seven eight.
But I do think I think JAK Dobbins could could
be pretty effective for them.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four that is
at Jason lock and For check him out Odyssey one
of five seven the fan in Baltimore, Washington Post Jay
as always, Buddy, appreciate it, my friend. Thanks for stopping by,
and good luck in game two of the series tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Yeah, well we got it. We got a legit starter
going to Mars. You might be in a little trouble.
We don't. We don't hit the ball, but we got
legit stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You know, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say,
Jason lock and For was not happy with what the
Orioles did at the deadline. I don't know I did
that might get Are you getting the same things I'm getting?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I'm just reading between the lions.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
I think you're inferring a line in putting a lot
of thought behind me.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, it's the strength of his words.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I might be projecting right there. You might be read
about that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
But hey, speaking of the biggest highlight in sports tonight,
the Francisco Alvarez walk off home run right now.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
For more on this, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Steve Desager, who will only talk about this game and
give you no other scores for tonight in sports with
what's trending.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
At last, a Mets game that deserves to be the lead.
Let's start there by the way. I think Jason might
be actually recommending some sort of torture the GM's desk
at this point. I don't know, maybe bailing matches. It's
something along those lines. You're right, I'm just reading between
the lines of what we're getting. But the Orioles going
into tonight, we're tied with the Idols Yankees for first
(30:46):
in the Al East. Baltimore was tied three to three
at the Mets bottom of the ninth inning on s n.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Y Alva swings swings three Penny wins the game for.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
New York with a look of home run had the
bottom of.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
The night solo shot by Alvarez and four to three
the final. Baltimore's record falls to seventy three and fifty three.
Had a great item from the great MLB researcher Sarah
Langs on the Mets tonight that it's a youngster, not
yet twenty three, who is the hero tonight for the Mets.
Only two Mets have been younger with a walk off
(31:26):
home run in their long history, and that was Ron
Swaboda nineteen sixty six and Lee Mazzilli nineteen seventy six.
Alvarez as soon as ball hit bat celebrating this one
and taking the tool he.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Was, he was already looking in the dugout and making
it like the camera didn't even Normally when someone hits
a ball right the camera goes and follows a ball
right away. Oh no, he was celebrating so quick the
camera just stayed on him like, Oh, I'm pretty sure
it's a home run.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
And they were simone back of the summer celebration up
the first baseline. Forget about not touching home He barely
touched first. There was a lot going on before that.
Arizona was a nine to six winner at Miamis. Miami
native Adrian del Castillo hit a grand slam and a
two run single, but Diamondbacks All star second baseman Coutel
Marte is on the il with a sprained ankle. Houston
(32:14):
is tied with the Red Sox now four to four.
Astros have just tied it in the bottom of the
eighth inning. Seattle has the late game scoreless at Dodger Stadium.
In the bottom of the second, nice ovation for Justin
Turner returning to LA. The Seattle Mariners are four games
behind Houston for first in the Al West. In the
Dodger lineup, third baseman Max Munsey is starting he's off
(32:34):
the injured list, and first baseman Freddie Freeman is starting
despite a broken finger. Ray's closer, Pete Fairbanks, goes on
the IL with a lat strain. Houston pitcher Justin Verlander
will come off the IL to start Wednesday. Atlanta All
Star pitcher Rinaldo Lopez will return from a rehab assignment
to start tomorrow. Braves third basement Austin Riley will miss
(32:56):
six to eight weeks with a broken hand. Kansas City
went it's fifth grow five to three over the Angels,
the win to Seth Lugo now fourteen and seven. Padreser
tied two to two with the Twins right now in
the bottom of the third inning. Washington in the NFL
officially named rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as starter. The Chargers.
QB Justin Herbert resumed practicing for the first time this month.
(33:17):
He had been in a walking boot with the foot injury.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
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After what we saw in the last twenty four hours,
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Speaker 5 (34:47):
Out to the Orioles celebration backhandedly the Alvarez home run.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yes a little bit, yeah, a little bit so, but
that's okay because you know what. I know how it
happened and what counts it does. I don't care what
you say about it because I know what happened in accounts.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
So it's like it makes it a glorious Monday for you.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Sure it does.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's why I always say people, why why are some
days a glorious Monday? Why you just say welcome and
they go, well, when the Mets win, it's a glorious Monday.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
If they don't win, it's a monday. What do you
want for me?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I think comes a glorious day again for you, as
master of your world.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
It is a doubly glorious day here.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
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 3 (35:28):
To be fair, right, I always want to be fair.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
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
a bad team, that is a bad start. No, it's good,
it's good, but you don't know what is he gonna
(35:51):
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. You don't even have no idea about
Drake Bay, right, So they're gonna be bad, and 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,
(36:12):
don't relax for a second, New England or trying to
get up there to get Carson Becker, Shadort Sanders from you.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
You want to get up there to have that choice.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I mean, watch out, because the Raiders are going to
be right on the Patriots heels.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Look, they made their quarterback.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
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, and
neither of.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Them and ever any good.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You put almost anybody out there against a second team defense,
and if they have any sort of talent, they're going
to stand out a little bit. O'Connell I kind of
get because you know, I thought going into last year
he was gonna.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Be good, but clearly he struggled at Minshew. We know
what he's about.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I got to think at this point, Minch has been
a veteran here nearly a decade, and he's gonna be
able to put some points on the board.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
He can't do it. The Raiders have looked abysmal.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
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 kind of season are
you gonna have when everybody's playing their best players? Right,
(37:30):
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 3 (37:41):
Well, this is a Jets team with a pretty good defense.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Man, I don't know what we're gonna do a This
is not a team that we watch 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 3 (37:54):
Like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
The Raiders are gonna be absolutely terrible and they will
be on the Patriots heels for that number one pick.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah see, I'm actually a little more bullish. 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. And then you do have some weapons at
your disposal because you brought in Jacoby Myers. You got
the dual tight end set, running back, Alexander Madison cue
the song, and Zamir White. I mean, White looked okay
(38:24):
last year, so I mean you at least have hope.
I really thought it was gonna be the Steelers. And
defensively it comes and goes as TJ. Watts health does.
And offensively, what are they putting up seventeen points a game?
So I really thought they were gonna be the candidate
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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 getting too that.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I mean, look, I won 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
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last year galvanized the team. But it's hard not to
when you hate the head coach before him so much.
Anybody would be better. But I really you look at
some of the teams offensively in their talent wise, and
you go, man, the Raiders are gonna struggle and they're
gonna 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 3 (39:39):
Are we not? Like I don't even know what their
identity is. Question.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
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 5 (39:47):
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 (39:55):
I will say this, if you give up a walk
off punt return, he will be right in the punters
face throwing his stuff down on the field.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
That will absolute. There's that will absolutely happen.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Look, even 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
that I mean, the Raiders don't have anything.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Man, it got nothing going on.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
They had the script right, get ready, Patriots, let up
at all.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Raiders are gonna be right there.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
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
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You know who doesn't even need tires, The only one
in the world, Francisco Alvarez, because he just churns around
the bases after a walk off home run.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
The only one doesn't even need cleats. He can just
do it in.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
His bare feet.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Francisco Aalvarez, He just looked like he was floating around
the bases after he made a bunch of you know,
big gestures and 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 gonna be too high.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
No, no, that.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Was just a prodigious blast. I saw, I saw the
ball leave his bad I'm like, whoa, let's see where
they let's chart where that one ended up.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Did you see that?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
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 3 (01:46):
Of his foot.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
But like Jeff m'neige's, dude, go back in touch. This
is when everybody's off the field already, like the.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Orioles have walked off. Okay, it's over and done. Go back.
I went back a touch on plate. All good.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Just go clean that up so they don't suddenly have
a uh 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 1 (02:09):
I would love to see a team, which I'd love
that because it almost what happened us tonight. I want
to see a team with a walk off homer, right,
and it's.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
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 obvious just a
walk off you wins would have to be would tie
the game.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But if he doesn't touch home play, yeah, we got
to go back and play the game from that point.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Sorry about that. It's like the Pine Tar game.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
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 humpires 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.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you just need to just
just hit the batter's box anywhere anywhere inside the box, and.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You're all good. It's absolutely fine.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
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.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
To THEO and that's it. Game over.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
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 two a tongue of Iloa that's.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Just absolute wildfire.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
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 a second.
But there are certain quarterbacks and two is one of them.
Regardless to is to you know what you think about
him as a player, is that too?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
As one of.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Those guys, he's like Dak He's one of those guys
at hey is a really good quarterback, but.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He's not Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
He's still really good, but he's still so polarized 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.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
He got paid.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
It's one of the top ten quarterbacks in the game.
But when when things happen certain quarterbacks, Okay, hey, Tua,
Tua becomes a conversation Kirk Cousins, not so much, right,
you know, dakbirth becomes a conversation. Yeah, happy birthday, Kirk Cousins,
Happy birthday, John Stamoso. By the way, Alex tischert off
for John Stamus's birthday. You know, something happens with Josh Allen.
Nobody really cares, but oh to Toua. And this gets
(04:39):
us to what happened today. Tua goes on the Dan
Lebutard podcast and he is asked about Brian Flores, former
head coach at Miami. This is the guy who lost
his job that was suing the NFL because he because
he said that they 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 a
(05:00):
defensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings. And to say that
Brian Flores of two a tongue of Ailoa didn't get
along well in twenty twenty one, that would be under
selling it. Now things are great with Mike McDaniel now
has 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
That's a.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Good callback for those that listen to the interview with
Raheem Mostert from the other day, which is available for
wherever podcasts are downloaded.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Well, now people look it does he I bet yay.
He's got short pants and 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?
Are they not? Are they gonna develop me? Are they
not like you? I remember back then twenty twenty twenty
twenty one.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It was boy.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
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 of let slip.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The reason is because Brian fl Or has hated me.
Take a listen. This is to or from today for
the Dan Levatard Podcast.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
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
(06:25):
somebody else come in and tell you, dude, you are
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? You see what I'm saying, and then you
hear it. You hear it regardless of what it is,
the good or the bad, and you hear it more
(06:46):
and more. You start to actually believe 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 here, You're gonna start to believe
that about you.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
So okay.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Now, first of all, he could be talking about his
time as a quarterback or logging on to social media,
because that's every day some people tell you you suck.
I'm like, yeah, this is every day for me. I
got on social media, I got people telling me I suck.
I get people telling me they love the show. Okay,
that's every day, right, people. But the difference is, you know,
people telling you you suck on social media are people.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's not your head coach.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And this is what Tua is saying that Brian Flores
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 do't worry, we love Brian. Brian Flores is great.
But here's to calling his former head coach a terrible person.
(07:49):
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 coach?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
No, but that's thing right, there's 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
of 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 polished or they
(08:18):
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. But 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
(08:39):
you suck versus you know, harsh critiques, criticisms, et cetera.
It's no secret they didn't get along. You know, the
timing of it is suspect. I know Levatar's you know,
get 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 he would have
(09:00):
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. So so here
it is. But yeah, the stuff about who Flores is
that that's the bigger deal.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Right.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
You can disagree with coaching style, but he took it
a step or two beyond that line.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, first of all, you could tell how upset he was.
I don't like this guy at all. This guy I
started looking right away asked, hey, 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
(09:46):
thing that that really to give you something little bit
different that you haven't heard all day about this story,
is that no matter 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 Flora versus 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 with this, this is one hundred percent
(10:10):
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,
was succeeding with Mike McDaniel. Right, this is not like
boy he still thinks and you're kind of wondering, well,
is he really good? He hasn't showing now the guys
(10:31):
throwing for only five thousand yards, got a two hundred
and forty million dollar contract extension. The players love him.
He can throw deep to Tyreek. Keilly just has to
put every emphasis he's got on the ball to get
a deep to Tyreek Kill. Your job as head coach
get your players to be the best versions of themselves
they can be. And if you're not doing that, guess what,
you shouldn't be a head coach because it doesn't matter
(10:53):
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.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Around going I think I stink. I think this.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Not everybody you can motivate the same way, and that's
a big thing. It used to be, Hey, tough love
for all the players. And if you can't take how
I'm gonna tell you you suck, you suck. Hey, that's
on you, right because if you want to just say
maybe this was this was Brian Flora 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
(11:26):
job as a coach and know that, Okay, the message
to one guy is not going to put him 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 Cousins just still
gonna say I don't like the fact you took Michael
Bennox junior, Hey you can maybe two as a guy
you could put pressure on top.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Obviously that wasn't the case.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
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 to learn who your individual
players are, particularly the stars.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Man.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
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 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
(12:26):
him right now. So what's he gonna say. No, 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 way up of a game.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
No, he's not gonna say that.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Likewise, I'd like to think that that flores with everything
that's going 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,
(13:00):
every position, especially when you're looking at the temperament of
a quarterback, is that he could 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,
(13:22):
two years after the fact, you're still at the Oh yeah,
that guy give.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Us a jerk.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I mean we all do it in our other jobs.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
I mean we've done it on air with people we
like that were managers or people we worked with or
for 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 it consumes you, and this was
(13:48):
two of his opportunity.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, I'm glad you asked that one.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Finally, I'm gonna feel comforta because sometimes it takes a
little while. Sure he 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.
(14:13):
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 maybe now it doesn't. But like how
he was treated by Brian Flores, how he says, this
(14:33):
is something that has been on his mind for a while,
and finally now it's blanket.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
I could tell the story.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Because I've made it, I feel comfortable in letting people
know that this is what happened to me when.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I was playing with Miami and look at the results.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
The best revenge is living well, and I've been living
pretty well the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Yeah. I gotta say.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
The one one thing I like from the weekend though,
is McDaniel, you know, throwing a little shade to him
and say, yeah, we ran that play first thing last year.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
At least he completed it this time.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Here we go, right, So when this story comes over
the top of that one, I'm like, all right, let's
go now, game.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
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 3 (15:11):
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Well. Coming up next, we got more from the NFL.
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Speaker 3 (15:42):
The Raiders make a quarterback decision.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
There's other big quarterback decisions around the league as we
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Speaker 3 (15:48):
A big Week two of the preseason.
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Speaker 4 (17:29):
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Speaker 1 (17:31):
Mets Radio Network on the call, Jason, So, I just
didn't know if you had a chance to see the
end of the game tonight.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
I want to let you know how the Mets Oils
game ended.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
Yeah, I was. I saw it in real time or
at most on whatever fifteen second to thirty second delay
that my streaming service has me on. Hey, you've got
the Seaston Michael ISAS's trade deadline. Good for you. Well,
the ass pitcher the sixth most interesting left handed arm
on the Miami Marlin. And you couldn't go through ive innings.
(18:00):
We should be in triple A. Uh. And the Phillies
failed sixth inning guy who's now our closer. So and
those were one of those. Was one of the good
trades he made.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
D you can't hit the.
Speaker 9 (18:13):
Ball to the infield who has like an eighty five
percent ground ball rate since he got here. Eloy, that's
the d H who it's nothing but ground balls. And
my grandmother, uh, neither of whom have been alive for
a long time to get down the first base before
him on those ground balls. Like yeah, oh, and Gregory Soto,
you'll get him tomorrow night because all of our good
relievers I'm using air quotes, or at least most of
(18:35):
them are spent, so you'll you'll get there. I wonder
which one of your writings will homer off of Gregory
Soto tomorrow night?
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Is that the right answer?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
I'm song as he doesn't stand there and take another
called third.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
All right, So I just wanted to make.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Sure about it. It was. I don't know what he
was thinking.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I didn't want it to.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
I just wanted to make we got that going for us.
I'm aware, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Well listen, I don't want us to have a Brian
Flores too, a sung of my Lowe type relationship here.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
So let's get to NFL here a little bit. Look
what do you make of that today?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
To It goes on to podcast and says his former
head coach is a terrible person, told him he sucked
every day and and I mean, this is this is
a stand up and go whoa what did he just
say kind of moment?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
What did you make from this?
Speaker 9 (19:24):
I knew it was bad, and in real time, my
reporting at the time was was centered on how fractured
not just like it wasn't really do you think a
quarterback controversy or the coach doesn't really support the quarterback?
How does it fracture the locker room? This was a
fractured coaching staff, This was a fractured front office. And
(19:44):
the deterioration of the relationship between Chris Greer, the GM,
and and Flores was was very much tied to this
quarterback who you know. I think the GM, in his
own way, tried to kind of love up and pop
up around the edges. But the reality is the coach
was the alpha there. The coach pulled his best Belichick act,
(20:07):
and the coach tried to pull stuff with Tua that
Belichick pulled with Tom Brady. I mean, the difference is
tom Brady. He wasn't doing that to Tom Brady. When
tom Brady was on the way up. You know, tom
Brady got all the tough love and tom Brady was
made the example of. And the whole thing was, I
can beat Brady down like this, and you know, all
you other moves better fall in line, like you can't
(20:28):
do that to Tua when he's just trying to find
his way. But that's what it was. And you could
tell that the coach, you know, you talk to anybody
in that building, anybody was watching practice, you know, trainers, whatever,
everybody got the sense of that this ain't his guy,
and he was involved in the selection of him. But boy,
you saw you know, you heard narratives in the media
(20:50):
pretty quickly about you know, the sort of revisionist history
about it wasn't my guy. And you know, there obviously
was a pursuit of Tom Brady in there that everybody
in trouble like it was never good. I just I'm surprised,
like surprised that Tua kind of went all the way there,
only because just sort of the way he usually would
(21:14):
handle a situation like this. I don't begrudge him anything
at all. He should he should say his truth, he
should live his truth. Like he's clearly better because of
some of that in the long run. But it was
it was. I mean, that building was crazy toxic for
a long time, like until very recently, Like the whole
(21:37):
Stephen Ross's run was a whole lot more like Woody
Johnson than Robert Kraft obviously, if you just want to
talk about owners in that division. Yeah, it was. It
was pretty nasty in real time, and I you know,
I think it had to be a little bit cathartic
(21:57):
for Tua to kind of, you know, go all the
way there. And look, I don't know if blank Floyd
is another side of the head coach or not, but
he very much was emblematic on the legion of Belichick
disciples who were way too full of themselves and just
way too full of his stick without having earned anything
(22:18):
at that level as a head coach. He is one
hell of a defensive coordinator, and I think I'll have
that Vikings team more competitive than maybe some others might think,
and on that side of the ball that they're pretty
damn good. And I just don't know. All these guys
say they learn from it and they'll be better than
next time, but you just never know.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
In the interim, he gets to run the defense that
will support Sam Darnold. But you talked about long time
toxic cultures. Hey, let's go to Washington where a new
quarterback and they've turned.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
A new leap as well.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
What are you expecting from Daniels in your one look.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
I don't think he's going to like this isn't going
to be a CJ. Stroud, you know, or Lamar Jackson situation,
Like he's not flipping the script overnight and turning them
into these out of nowhere contenders and saving the season
and all that. But I think he's going to I
think he's going to have a damn good rookie season
(23:14):
and he's not getting all the creature comforts that some
of these other day one starters have benefited from. And
you know, I'm not a big Cliff Kingsbury guy, So
we'll just see how that part of the equation works.
Itself out. But I believe he's incredibly talented. Man. I
(23:36):
believe that they well, they could still bleep it up,
but I think they have the opportunity to truly find
someone who's going to be working multiple contracts at the
quarterback position. That's not to say that Cousins couldn't have been,
but he clearly got the one contract and then they
did the franchise dance. Like, I think this will be
the first quarterback in modern NFL, modern Redskins slash come
(24:00):
Manders slash wtfs or whatever wft's history to actually get
a mega contract there. I mean, even when Joe Gibbs
was winning Super Bowls, right, it was a different quarterback
every time, and they were kind of more vagabond or
late bloomers than they were. Build your franchise for the
next fifteen years around them. Like, I think they truly
(24:21):
have a unique opportunity here if they incubate him the
right way, if they can protect him a little bit.
But I believe he's a transcendent talent.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Jason Locking for our guest NFL Inside of The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon, live from the tirec dot
Com Studios, All right, let's get to everybody's favorite preseason
quarterback controversy. We saw another underwhelming kind of game for
the Steelers on offense. Russelly correct survey says.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
That dude in five notes.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
All year long and all preseason long, it's been it's
Russell Wilson's job.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Justin Fields is back.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You have Russell Wills, John, and I think you and
I are on the same page that Justin Fields has
to play and play at some point soon. Are you
still on that? Is it still as soon as timeline?
How do you see it going after what you've seen
so far?
Speaker 9 (25:11):
I thought Justin Fields would play the most snaps of
anybody at quarterback for the Steelers this year before they
signed him. So that's where I've been this one, Like
before they signed him or Russ, I'm like, Justin Fields
is going to play like a lot of He's going
to be their starting quarterback like a lot and people
are like, you're crazy. And then they signed Russell Wilson
(25:32):
and I said, yeah, Fields is still going to be
their quarterbolek Fields isn't even on their team, Jared, Well,
wait a couple of weeks and neither distinguished themselves against
the Bills and the offensive line right now for the Steelers,
which I didn't think would be problematic, looks very problematic
Roderick Jones among others. So they did RUSS no favors there,
(25:54):
but it just it looks like a guy who's done
and he knows he's done, and it's ducking cover. It's
checkdowns galore. I don't even know if the eyes are
scanning downfield, like at least Fields tries to push the
ball downfield, especially now with with Jalen Warrent being out
and I think he's going to be out a little
bit into the regular season, and let's face it, they
(26:15):
want to run the ball. They want to you know,
be smart offensively and let what they think will be
a transcendent defense shine. Like I just don't know how
you don't try to further unlock the run game with
justin fields and win time of possession and then hit
you deep shots off boots and waggles and rollouts and
play act like you know, I have a hard time
(26:42):
not thinking that wins the day. Does it win the
day the first snap of the season, I don't know,
probably wins the day by the first third down, or
you know what, I mean the first goal line situation,
and there's way more upside with Fields and with the
money being basically you know, and with Russ becoming increasingly
(27:02):
accustomed to losing his job and just being along for
the ride. And again, I just don't think I'm like
a huge Russ guy for a long time. But he
looks like a guy who's aged rapidly the last few years.
And I don't know that he believes it anymore either.
So I think it's field been a.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
Tough watch with no Justin Herbert in the walking Booth,
eat Easton Stick and Company. For the Chargers, he's out
of the boot over under his at eight and a
half wins.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
What are we saying?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
Look, I was I've avoided the annual lore of the
Chargers to suck you in for i'd say two or
three years. I was lord in prior to camps opening
and was like, you know, I even placed a few wagers.
You know, you're getting pretty good plus money on them
to make the playoffs, and then this thing happened, and
(27:56):
I'm just kind of like, I don't know, man, are
they just cursed? You know? Like who gets hurt next?
Like I do think Harball brings immediate respectability. Harball and
Greg Roman. They're going to run the ball. The defense
has warts, but I think it'll be covered up by
the offense's ability to play bully ball. But I don't know, man,
(28:21):
You tell me when he what week does he play
and look like Justin Herbert and you know it's your
push off foot like it's leverage, its torque. I don't know, man.
It's got me a little concerned.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Fall question how many games are they getting combined from
those former Ravens running backs.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
You know, JK Dobbins at some point, he's got to
have like positive regression, right like, at some point the
football got don't just punch him in the mouth, right Like.
I think JK Dobbins is going to be pretty productive there.
I I really do. And look, they know what Gus said,
(29:03):
Edwards is at this stage and he finishes drives and
when they have leads in the second half, but use
him as a battering ram and I bet you he
still gets tell them he's get thirteen touchdowns like last year,
but I bet he gets at least half that seven eight.
But I do think I think JAK Dobbins could could
be pretty effective for them.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four that is
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as always, Buddy, appreciate it, my friend. Thanks for stopping by,
and good luck in game two of the series tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Yeah, well we got it. We got a legit starter
going to Mars. You might be in a little trouble.
We don't. We don't hit the ball, but we got
legit stuff.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
You know, I'm gonna go out on a limb and say,
Jason lock and For was not happy with what the
Orioles did at the deadline. I don't know I did
that might get Are you getting the same things I'm getting?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
I'm just reading between the lions.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
I think you're inferring a line in putting a lot
of thought behind me.
Speaker 4 (30:05):
Well, it's the strength of his words.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I might be projecting right there. You might be read
about that.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
But hey, speaking of the biggest highlight in sports tonight,
the Francisco Alvarez walk off home run right now.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
For more on this, it's.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Steve Desager, who will only talk about this game and
give you no other scores for tonight in sports with
what's trending.
Speaker 11 (30:24):
At last, a Mets game that deserves to be the lead.
Let's start there by the way. I think Jason might
be actually recommending some sort of torture the GM's desk
at this point. I don't know, maybe bailing matches. It's
something along those lines. You're right, I'm just reading between
the lines of what we're getting. But the Orioles going
into tonight, we're tied with the Idols Yankees for first
(30:46):
in the Al East. Baltimore was tied three to three
at the Mets bottom of the ninth inning on s n.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Y Alva swings swings three Penny wins the game for.
Speaker 5 (31:01):
New York with a look of home run had the
bottom of.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
The night solo shot by Alvarez and four to three
the final. Baltimore's record falls to seventy three and fifty three.
Had a great item from the great MLB researcher Sarah
Langs on the Mets tonight that it's a youngster, not
yet twenty three, who is the hero tonight for the Mets.
Only two Mets have been younger with a walk off
(31:26):
home run in their long history, and that was Ron
Swaboda nineteen sixty six and Lee Mazzilli nineteen seventy six.
Alvarez as soon as ball hit bat celebrating this one
and taking the tool he.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Was, he was already looking in the dugout and making
it like the camera didn't even Normally when someone hits
a ball right the camera goes and follows a ball
right away. Oh no, he was celebrating so quick the
camera just stayed on him like, Oh, I'm pretty sure
it's a home run.
Speaker 11 (31:53):
And they were simone back of the summer celebration up
the first baseline. Forget about not touching home He barely
touched first. There was a lot going on before that.
Arizona was a nine to six winner at Miamis. Miami
native Adrian del Castillo hit a grand slam and a
two run single, but Diamondbacks All star second baseman Coutel
Marte is on the il with a sprained ankle. Houston
(32:14):
is tied with the Red Sox now four to four.
Astros have just tied it in the bottom of the
eighth inning. Seattle has the late game scoreless at Dodger Stadium.
In the bottom of the second, nice ovation for Justin
Turner returning to LA. The Seattle Mariners are four games
behind Houston for first in the Al West. In the
Dodger lineup, third baseman Max Munsey is starting he's off
(32:34):
the injured list, and first baseman Freddie Freeman is starting
despite a broken finger. Ray's closer, Pete Fairbanks, goes on
the IL with a lat strain. Houston pitcher Justin Verlander
will come off the IL to start Wednesday. Atlanta All
Star pitcher Rinaldo Lopez will return from a rehab assignment
to start tomorrow. Braves third basement Austin Riley will miss
(32:56):
six to eight weeks with a broken hand. Kansas City
went it's fifth grow five to three over the Angels,
the win to Seth Lugo now fourteen and seven. Padreser
tied two to two with the Twins right now in
the bottom of the third inning. Washington in the NFL
officially named rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels as starter. The Chargers.
QB Justin Herbert resumed practicing for the first time this month.
(33:17):
He had been in a walking boot with the foot injury.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
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Speaker 5 (34:47):
Out to the Orioles celebration backhandedly the Alvarez home run.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yes a little bit, yeah, a little bit so, but
that's okay because you know what. I know how it
happened and what counts it does. I don't care what
you say about it because I know what happened in accounts.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
So it's like it makes it a glorious Monday for you.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Sure it does.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
That's why I always say people, why why are some
days a glorious Monday? Why you just say welcome and
they go, well, when the Mets win, it's a glorious Monday.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
If they don't win, it's a monday. What do you
want for me?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I think comes a glorious day again for you, as
master of your world.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
It is a doubly glorious day here.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
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 3 (35:28):
To be fair, right, I always want to be fair.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
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
a bad team, that is a bad start. No, it's good,
it's good, but you don't know what is he gonna
(35:51):
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. You don't even have no idea about
Drake Bay, right, So they're gonna be bad, and 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,
(36:12):
don't relax for a second, New England or trying to
get up there to get Carson Becker, Shadort Sanders from you.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
You want to get up there to have that choice.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I mean, watch out, because the Raiders are going to
be right on the Patriots heels.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Look, they made their quarterback.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
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, and
neither of.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Them and ever any good.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
You put almost anybody out there against a second team defense,
and if they have any sort of talent, they're going
to stand out a little bit. O'Connell I kind of
get because you know, I thought going into last year
he was gonna.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Be good, but clearly he struggled at Minshew. We know
what he's about.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
I got to think at this point, Minch has been
a veteran here nearly a decade, and he's gonna be
able to put some points on the board.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
He can't do it. The Raiders have looked abysmal.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
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 kind of season are
you gonna have when everybody's playing their best players? Right,
(37:30):
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 3 (37:41):
Well, this is a Jets team with a pretty good defense.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Man, I don't know what we're gonna do a This
is not a team that we watch 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 3 (37:54):
Like, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (37:55):
The Raiders are gonna be absolutely terrible and they will
be on the Patriots heels for that number one pick.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Yeah see, I'm actually a little more bullish. 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. And then you do have some weapons at
your disposal because you brought in Jacoby Myers. You got
the dual tight end set, running back, Alexander Madison cue
the song, and Zamir White. I mean, White looked okay
(38:24):
last year, so I mean you at least have hope.
I really thought it was gonna be the Steelers. And
defensively it comes and goes as TJ. Watts health does.
And offensively, what are they putting up seventeen points a game?
So I really thought they were gonna be the candidate
(38:45):
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 getting too that.
Speaker 3 (38:58):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
I mean, look, I won 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
(39:20):
last year galvanized the team. But it's hard not to
when you hate the head coach before him so much.
Anybody would be better. But I really you look at
some of the teams offensively in their talent wise, and
you go, man, the Raiders are gonna struggle and they're
gonna 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 3 (39:39):
Are we not? Like I don't even know what their
identity is. Question.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
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 5 (39:47):
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 (39:55):
I will say this, if you give up a walk
off punt return, he will be right in the punters
face throwing his stuff down on the field.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
That will absolute. There's that will absolutely happen.
Speaker 9 (40:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Look, even 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
that I mean, the Raiders don't have anything.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Man, it got nothing going on.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
They had the script right, get ready, Patriots, let up
at all.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Raiders are gonna be right there.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
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 3 (40:39):
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