August 21, 2024 • 41 mins
In Hour 3 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys open Hour 3 with Jason recounting a particularly proud moment from his time as production assistant at the four-letter network in the 90s. Jason later explains what specific potential scenario he's most scared of as a New York Jets fan. Later, the guys share the single best piece of fantasy football advice they can possibly give you. To close out the hour, Jason shares a bold prediction on the Browns QB situation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour three, The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the tirag
dot com studios. Harmon very excited because I'm, you know,
with the games ending in Major League Baseball and the
soccer game that just ended.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
One of our TVs has bowling on it now, Yeah,
bowling from Detroit on the Sports Network. It's I mean,
this takes me back to like Saturday afternoons in the
seventies when I would fall asleep on the couch hearing
Chris Shenkles's voice.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Just ABZ wide World. We used to bet on it
with my uncle and my grandma. You got rawth Anthony
in this one?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah? Yeah, this was Who's got Weber? This was? This
was taped eight weeks ago, but we're you never we
had no idea. No you didn't cause you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Like, no, you can get scores from anywhere, you can
bet on anything.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Then it was hey, it's wide world of sports. All right,
let's go. Okay, you know what it is, National Radio Day.
I'm let's go. I'm gonna tell you this story because
this is I always tell you. Look, I was the
best production assistant and so producer espn ever he might
be applying, I was the best. That is, it's not
even disputed. Are your are your panda hands?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And like, uh walk of fame kind of thing these
hands together video?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, Like if I went back there would go, wow,
that's this. He was a he was a pa here
and now he's on the radio. All that's all.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
You walk by Berman and see if he has any
great memories.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So Burman would remember me. Yeah, I mean, especially now
being on the radio, he would know, Now, toy you
do that impression of me. It was kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I used to sign it with the mail so we
were big fans. We used to send cards from the
pro set.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh you know, okay, I will tell you who will
never I'll tell you this too. Why not because it's
national radio. Yeah, let's go out tell the stories. I
would always be mad at a very specific analyst because
people would send him stuff in the mail all the
time to sign. They would send cards, they would send things,
Can you sign it? Here's and here's a self addressed
(02:27):
stamped envelope. Drop it back in sure, watch you all
the time. And one of the jobs at the end
of Sunday night, at the end of Sunday night in
the newsroom was all the pas had to clean the
newsroom to make sure all everything was thrown away. And
it was a great thing to do to say, Okay,
you don't want one person to do it. You know
that this is your job to do it. We are
twenty two to twenty three because you're doing a lot
of important stuff for to put sportsent around the air.
(02:50):
So it was always, hey, if you're working Sunday night,
come up. And this was just throw stuff away, make
sure everything was neat for the dead, the way Williams
tells the veterans to leak. Hey, hey, hey, DJ Moore,
Hey come on a little snappier with that. Okay, uh,
And I would and anytime I had to do it
during the baseball season. I would always have to take
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stuff and throw it away because it was it was
an open envelope with with it, will you please sign this?
You please sign it? And the person just left it
there and didn't sign it, and then and left and
was gone for the weeks. They only come and do
it Sundays. Peter Gammons would the tie Gambits didn't sign
it all the time. Maybe he come on, maybe he
signed some stuff. But people would send them stuff here
(03:32):
please we love you and watch you every Sunday here
and and it would just be the self addressed, damped
envelope was there, and it's like one pa said, hey,
next time, let me know because that's a free stamp. No,
but that's the thing, right because that was always the
big deal. What are you gonna do? You gonna heat
seal the stamp off and you're gonna do it, Come on.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You turn it out and then you as long as
it doesn't have the postal tracker over it, and of
course gotta count.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
But that was back when a stamp was like twenty three.
But either way people would like even what it is now,
you think of what that stamps does cheap. You know
that stamp is OK.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's pretty cheap when it's all said and done. But
it's the the idea that you'd sent the self addressed
stamped envelope, because that used to be the the thing
that celebrities and athletes would bristle as like you didn't
you didn't send return posts.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Sign and senor all sent it back. Sign this card.
They have to have a card of him that would
be signed. No, no, not, he wouldn't do it. I
always upset me. Yeah, Berman did though, So there. But
the initial story here, like this bowling event that's on
right now, is part of what made my legend at
at ESPN, was when I was a production assistant and
one of the nights was it was like a summer
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night like this, there wasn't a lot going on, and
they had me watching some bowling event Walter Ray Williams.
I remember, well, there you go, Walter Ay Williams. They
got a bowling thing. We'll get to that. So and
he was he was the biggest bowler. This is like
in the mid nineties, and he was going for a
perfect game and he flamed out like in the eighth frame.
But the guy he was competing against was going for
(05:02):
a perfect game too. And it comes down to the end,
and you know, I'm the only one watching this, like
I'm the only one watching this. And it comes down
to the end and the guy and the guy on
this last roll needed to strike and he knocked nine
pins down, and I remember he left the two pin,
and I remember because the call of the playplay is
not the two pin. It's the one you don't want
(05:23):
to leave. So I go to my bosses and I go,
I have a bowling highlight that is fantastic, and they're like,
come on, bowling what I go, let me go cut it,
and you're gonna want to run. And the first segment
of the show was called the Tens, which was all
the biggest stuff was in the Tens. The first segment
of the show. I said, let me go cut this,
and you're gonna run this. In the beginning of the show.
They're like a so I go cut it and I
(05:44):
go upstairs. Now people know this is now a little
bit of that attitude about me, Like you can tell,
and you're like, oh, let's see, let's see this bowling highlight.
And I run it and I go sound full at
the end, the guy misses at the end and everybody, oh,
and the producer goes put it in the tens. Right,
So I did bowling highlight that made the tents that
people were talking about so much so that like a
month later when this new kid started and he and
(06:07):
he you know, he met me high and I'm Kevin Kevin, Hey,
Jason Jason Smith. Ye, he goes, You're the guy that
cut the bowling highlight that made the tens And I
was like, wow, that's me. That's also they all right,
who's in the the anchor chair that day? Because depending
on what, Yeah, I want to say, I want to
(06:28):
say it was Dan and Keith because that was then
they could sell it. Yeah, Kenny Maine also would sell you. Hey, Kenny,
could you sell this? Yeah, give it to me, I'll
do it.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But yeah, my bowling thing. When that got me in
trouble is when Earl Anthony died.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I think he probably got in more trouble, but I
was at Yahoo, fell down the stairs right in his house.
It is a big deal. That was an awful Like.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I told, we were sitting there and and it was
whatever the news day that it was, and we got
that put up on the front of Yahoo Sports, right
hit yeah, yeah, yeah, there was bowling legend or Anthony Dad.
We get a call, go, what are you guys doing?
He's a legend?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What do you mean? Like we do this for any
other sport coaches, explayers, whatever, like Bowler, Like how dare
you wow? Bowler? Hall of Famer and a legend and
many a Saturday afternoon watch. So you have to pull
it off and instead to share his two home runs exactly,
they put up some other nons like that's so big,
(07:28):
that's just a Jose day. In this case it was
a weekend day. But it was the point of really,
what are we doing? Yours is better because you became
the stuff of legend. I was, man, I'm like, ah,
you couldn't be any of the one, three or four
cute girls. I really like going. You got a highlight
that made the bowling highlight, that made the tense. Yeah,
but they shold you as a legend. I did.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Maybe over round of beers, you came up as you
know what, I want to be like him. Only time
that when I'd gotten the kid.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, maybe you know, the women were going to be
chasing the kid after that. Bowling highlight in the tent.
I would have tried to train on that at the bar. Yeah,
you know, got a bowling highlight in the tent. What
the hell are you talking about? It's last call, you
know what. Just leave. I'm cutting you off that nicely
for a last call. Just like watch this repeat, just
watch the re air. This's like it is. Watch this
(08:16):
by highlight right here here it is? Is it in
the tens?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You see it's right here with right with sandwich between
NFL camp training rap with Fred Edelstein and then uh,
you know the big baseball highlights of the night, we
got bowling. We had a bowling highlight in the ten. Hey,
it's sport bowling in the ten bowling for the Olympics.
Talking about stuff that should be in the Olympics for
twenty twenty eight. Let's go the greatest participation sport there is.
(08:42):
We could get bowling in the nation. Yeah, expensive to
go to some of these places. Well you got you can. Yeah, Well,
especially when you go and you're gonna have a couple
of beers, you know, that's what it is, even without
the beers. I forget the comedian. I said, you know,
bowling's my favorite sport. He goes because here's what you do.
You roll a ball, you drink a you sit down.
It's pretty good. Drink a beer, sit up like I
(09:07):
can't just go again. It's the one thing I'll say,
you know, because I'll drink diet coke and I can't
go bowl and say I'm not gonna have a beer.
Of course I'm gonna have a beer bowling. You gotta
have a beer. Can anything else, I'd give me a
diet coke. But bit so we should, we should, we
should organize a bowling night. Let's go come come bating.
I don't know, dude, if I'm bullying. Oh my back's
not been the same since I bowl.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
To see how how many frames I could go before
my shoulder goes in down the lane.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Harmon's bowling with his offhand. He's just he's actually bowling
with his feet. He's just pushing it with his foot
down the lane. Why is his arm twitching like that?
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the
tirect dot Com Studios. Uh now, I promise to start.
Look I saw this today and I really really clarified
(09:52):
and crystallized to me, what scares me the most about
the Jets season because I've I'm telling you all laws,
We're going in thirteen games, We're gonna win the division.
We're great, We're going to the super Bowl. I'm probably
gonna pick the Jets go to the super Bowl. I mean,
this is it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But after I've been trying to talk you down off
that for a long time. That's what best friends on
the radio on national rad If I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How many times am I ever going to get to
pick them? Never? They have a great defense. We have
Aaron Rodgers, who right now people still think is great.
Hopefully he's still great. Some pep doesn't stink. But Hall,
you got Garrett Wilson. Yeah, this is my chant to go.
Who's nickname is Sauce for sure. But it's finally hit me.
What scares me the most about Rogers this year? Okay,
(10:36):
now here he is today talking about the camp the
Jets have had. Yesterday, it was a really bad day
at camp. The offense was terrible, and they've run a
lot more plays than they did last year camp so
far at this point, they've run three hundred more plays
this year than they ran last year. At this point,
it's been a very intensive camp.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Is that like Tread's tread on attires that you had
too much football, you get the three snaps.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I really only worry about Rogers, but he had zero
football last year, so I think it might be okay.
Dollar cost averaging. Is that what we're doing now? But
here is Aaron Rodgers talking about the Jets camp so
far and exactly what's the big difference in how he's
feeling getting ready for the season.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I would say the camp is much harder this year,
and maybe the hardest in the last seven or eight
in my career. I knew that at a little insight
coming into camp that's what Robert wanted to do, So
I think it's been good for us. I give Robert
a lot of credit because he from the start of
the offseason said this is going to be a tough
training camp.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So look at that. He's been hard to go and
smoke towards the coach. Yeah, I love when's the last
time I think he talked to Robert Sala eight months ago?
I don't know, but that was pretty a community impressive.
They communicate via smoke signal. They're so far apart on
the field, it looks like Rogers are saying he'll do
another series. Okay, great, you know what you could have
done for hot take nonsense.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
If you cut that bitt and half to where he
doesn't mention Robert Sala, you can start asking the question, does.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Aaron Rodgers still love football? Is that why it's hard?
He'd rather be out a dark diss retreat or hanging
out with his friend's golfing. Or he's talking about Robert
and it's RFK Junior. He's talking. He go eight seven,
seven ninety nine, let's go. I'll go be his vice
presd so. But it's finally done. Okay. This is what
scares me the most about this season. Look, injuries, this okay,
(12:23):
But what scares me the most is this. If the
Jets don't start out fast now they open up against
San Francisco, I'm not expecting them to I don't think
anybody expects them to win. Five and a half I
think is the current spread. The Niners are the Niners,
but the Jets are really good. Okay, but if they
lose that game, the Jets lose, he loses, the Niners
open a lot of question marks. Right, and Williams and
(12:47):
dicapri Hill then everything else. So yeah, wait, if you lose, yeah,
but if you lose, it's not But then the schedules
really light the last rest of the month of September. Right,
you get the Patriots they stink, Broncos new quarterback, and
you have the Titans, who who will be getting their
(13:07):
asses kicked by the Bears in Week one. Bears. If
the Jets start out slow, which could happen if they
start out one in three and they get out of
the early part of their schedule, things will get sideways
so fast, like all of a sudden, a flash flood
(13:28):
that comes out of nowhere. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
that's how fast it. We'll go sideways because Aaron Rodgers
will be in self preservation mode because he wants to
keep playing, and if it's his fault, no one's gonna
pay him after this year. Uh. Robert Solind knows if
I don't win, I'm gonna get fired. Joe Douglass the
same thing. The Jets have been looking forward to this. Okay,
we had it robbed from us last year, but we're
(13:49):
even better than we were last year. We're all healthy.
Breece Hall is not coming back from a season ending injury.
We're ready. If it gets sideways, it goes bad, and
Aaron Rodgers says things like, well, I know we started slow.
I don't know if I'd played more in the preseason,
if if we would have started differently. One nice side
swipe at Robert Sola, because you know he's gonna say
(14:09):
things like that. And it's gonna get ugly fast, and
it's a season that will spiral out of control and
they'll never get it back, and it's gonna look really painful,
and and you're wondering what is next. Are the Jets
gonna start over? Are you know where are they gonna finish?
How bad are things gonna be? Because Sauce Gardener's not
gonna be quiet, Garrett Wilson's not gonna be quiet. A
lot of the guys aren't just gonna say, hey, everything
(14:31):
is fine, it's gonna be This is what's going wrong
with us, this is what's wrong with our coaching. We
weren't coached for this. We went to hard trading camp.
We went this, if they start out slow, the wheels
come off fast. And that's my biggest fear. They should
get out of September three and one should and that
should be fine. Two and two, but if they if
they go slow, they're one and three looking up, going, hey,
(14:53):
now the good teams are coming. It's gonna it's gonna
get sideways so fast and one in three will turn
into one and six and and eight and three and nine,
and it's gonna be what what are we doing? Is
Jordan Travis gonna play? At some point? Can we play him?
Aaron Rodgers clearly is done. Like that's how sideways it
will get.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Because then you get to week five and you have
a meeting with your old friend Sam Donald and Brian Flood.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That would be the the Waterloo moment. If the Jets
lose to the Vikings and Sam Darnold and suddenly Darnald
shows up. Look at this, Hey, five touchdowns in the
first half of Donald Boy. So Us Gardner can't stay
with Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
All I know is this, If that happens the next
day we're on air, the open to the show has
to be ABBA's water leave.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Oh no, dude, I'm not coming in that day. I'm
not gonna be good. Not happening. Yeah, I mean you
look at your roster overall, I mean your big concern
is your on line, which you fortified, kind of can't
be any worse.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Than it was a year ago. Now, your defense carry sure,
You've got a couple of playmakers. I mean, when we
talk about a Hall and Wilson, they're top nine, what
top three in at their respective positions. And maybe I'm
a little more bullish on Wilson than the national average
rankings and all of that fun stuff. But you've got,
at least on paper, a team that should compete at
(16:13):
San Francisco game. I don't I don't write it off
as as a loss as many No, no.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
No, I think, but if they lose, it's not gonna
be it's not too unless unless it's style. Oh if
we lose twenty seven seven, Yeah, to lose, Rogers throws
three picks. We can't move the football. He's running for
his life. Yeah, Party throws for three ten and three
touchdowns because and all of a sudden, how good is
(16:38):
our defense? Really? Oh? No, no, But that that's something
that even if they do lose like that, okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He'll do it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Relax and everyone buying, and if they win the next
three games, everything is fine. But I'm telling you, man,
one and three. I mean that, but then.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Everybody gets fired done and it's a new regime. He's gone,
he's latching on I don't know what, the Raiders or something.
See that's how he gets his reunion with DeVante Adams.
See what I did there?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh, that's how I did that. That's nice. I like that,
Thanks Buch Your team sucks Rogers for Gardner minshew, Hey,
let's come on that. I mean both have wonderful hair
and beards. That is true. That is true. I mean
they would be on the metal stand, but only one
has jeorts. So remember good point Rogers not picking up guarantees,
(17:23):
not picking up Jordans not happening. Uh So again, that's
that's the biggest fear I have. That's where I can
see it going sideways. The Jason Smith Show with Mike
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(20:21):
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That's cute. Look, it is National Radio Day, it is.
I hope you are celebrating. I hope you're enjoying listening
to the show as you are every night. Mike and
(20:43):
I and all of us here at Fox Sports Radio
love getting ready and prepping and getting and doing this
content for you every single night here on the show.
It's so now since both of us, look, both of
us have done fantasy football for the majority of our lives.
You've done it professionally for a long time. I did
it professionally for a few years, and I want to
(21:05):
tell you this. The game, the game has changed, Mike Harmy.
It's a guillotine world. It's a different it's a it's
a much different fantasy experience the last five years because
of the advancements of how everything is now done online.
Everything is faster, everything is now done off an app
(21:27):
and and they're the room for doing things. I would say,
the the the time of doing things. Having that all
the time you need to do fantasy, well, I don't
have to worry about it. There's less time for it.
That you have less time for fantasy because the game
just seems to move faster. Maybe now it's you don't
have your waivers on Wednesday nights. It's rolling waivers, or
(21:50):
you have to get your your bids in on Monday night.
Week games and cycles. Fantasy football used up until the
last five years, used to be a sport. Yeah, it's
great because I could do it and then after Sunday
or after Monday night, Okay, I just got to get
my free agency in on by Wednesday night. I know
(22:10):
who I'm gonna start on Thursday and then everything else
I had to wait till Sunday. But now with so
many different things and different leagues going on and activations
and story like, it's become much more intense and you
have to spend more time doing You can't just spend
fifteen minutes. Because that used to be the whole big
thing was, hey, you want to do fantasy football. The
whole push to get more people playing fantasy football with
(22:31):
most of the aughts in the early teens were was hey,
you only need to spend fifteen minutes a week on
your team. That's all you need. It's not that big
a deal. You draft. The draft is the most fun,
and it's gonna be it's a three hour extravaganza there
with all your friends. Now drafts are done in like
an hour. They're done fast, and you only and forget
about fifteen minutes. Now you need to be able to
be up on all different things. And there's all these
(22:52):
different kinds of leagues you can do. Now you do dynasty,
you can do half point PPR, full point PPR, there's
guillotine leagues. There's now gonna be leagues where you can
make changes during Sunday if somebody gets hurt, you can
put somebody in. There's always gonna be more advancements in fairs.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Commissioners that suddenly decide to use IDPs. What league's been
together for.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I don't want to do IDP, but to help things
out a little bit, and to help you out a
little bit, because to help alleviate some of the stress
from fantasy. The biggest lesson in the last five years
that I've learned that helps streamline my strategy and helps
me not waste time on things aren't gonna happen is turn.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Off all notifications of trade requests in your league.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
No, no, no, no, this is and this is a
big thing. You're usually in a league with anywhere from
nine to eleven other maybe more if you're in a
bigger league with your thirteen fourteen, but know your league
and only try to trade with owners you know are
amenable to trading, because you can sit there and try
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to put out I'm gonna send out this offer. This
guy really needs a running back and I need to
wide receive. He won't get back to me. This person's
not riding back. I don't get it. I send him
a message. I do that you have to know the
people that want to trade and don't want to trade.
And sometimes it's fascinating the ones I love people who
are in the industry. Because I'm in a bunch of
industry leagues. I'm going this person never gets back to you.
(24:18):
How do you make a trade off? Just at least
tell me no, at least just say no, don't want
to do it, Okay, decline the trade, fine, don't let
it sit there. And it's so frustrating because if you
need okay, I need to make a trade, or I
need I need, I need a running back. I know
the four guys in this league, or the four owners
in this league, or four or five or that will trade.
These are the people I have to make trade requests too,
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because they're either going to only be the ones that
I trade with or they're gonna decline. And I know
I have to search for my running back somewhere else.
It streamlines your strategy because Okay, I may really want
to get Breeze Hall, but I know this guy is
never gonna get back. He's never gonna trade b Resol.
So if I need a running back, I have to say, Okay,
I have to set my sites a little bit lower
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to get somebody else. I need a running back, and
it streamlines your strategy because you know, okay, these are
the running backs I can go for, or I have
to find something in free agency. I can't just send
out these Hey, I got four or five, six or
seven trade things out there. I'm still waiting to hear
back from this guy. But this guy, it's It makes
it your life so much easier if you know these
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are the people who will trade, and these are the
only ones. All the other players should be dead to you,
because they're dead to me. I mean, if I'm playing
against them, I have to worry about them having big weeks.
But I'm never going to try to email certain people
or tech certain people so or send them an offer
on an app for a trade. I'm never gonna do
it because I know you're not getting back to me,
and I know it's gonna be fruitless and it's just
gonna be aggravation. And with more fantasy taking more and
(25:42):
more time, that's something that easily your weekly look into
what you want to do with your team. You'll cut
that time way down because you know, okay, maybe I'll
trade for a wide receiver. I need a wide receiver.
Let me see these five teams and I'll look at
it instead of looking at twelve teams, going oh, what
about this, I can make this trade for this guy.
And you're spending all this time making a trade offer
that is never gonna happen because the guy's never going
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to get back to you. And trust me, you do that.
It's streamlines. You're thinking, yes, it closes the door in
your player pool, but you're not getting these guys out
of here. Yeah, you know, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And the other part of that is to limit the
number of leagues you're in. We're just discussing this a
little bit. Ian and Mark and I and you Jason.
You know the number back in the day. I think,
while I'm not gonna say I ever got up to
twenty or twenty five like some of our our brethren
in this industry, I got to double digits for a while.
And you know what, the whole trade and roster acknowledgment thing,
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it sucks because now you've got pretty much everybody in
the league on one of your rosters, and if you
do get a trade offer, it's like, all right, I
gotta go back and look at that league, Look at
the settings. Look at my roster, it's like, which one
is that I don't remember? Yeah, so you have those problems.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But the other thing, in terms of the whole trading process,
to take some of it out, it's like the rest
of your life. I'm a big believer. Shoot your shot,
right you have the someone catches your eye, don't be
creepy about it. You want to go ask them out,
Ask them out, ask to answered. Move on. You want
to take a shot at advancing in your career, go ahead,
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shoot your shot. Talk to your boss, try to figure
out if there's something you're missing on your resume. Go
fortify it be better if you want to if that
means you got to move that You know all of
those considerations, but recognize who you are in the game
you're playing and certainly for this in fantasy football. Also
recognize you may be the guy who sends out all
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the crappy trade requests. Don't be that guy, because you
know what, nobody's.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Gonna respond to you except with the middle finger emoji
because you're a jerk.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But again, that's that's somebody that you know. I just
have to ignore that person too well.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But you've got to realize sometimes if you're that guy
right that you're sending out the bad trades, thinking all right,
I can bludgeon them into submission with a volume no
ask an answer, right and to your trade. If you
are getting trade requests, politely declined, say you know what
I'm not and be done with it.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's like when you used to get checks maybe from
your your grandparents or someone for a birthday. Cash him
because eventually their accounting is gonna be off because oh wow,
that was the three hundred dollars checks that someone wrot
you for Christmas, or reimbursement for something. You don't cash it.
You might be setting their financial state into terror when
you finally get around it. Why am I not? Why
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can't I balance my check book with this three hundred
dollar I don't understand where this came from.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
All of a sudden, you got three hundred dollars that
goes missing right as you have to go make a
major purchase.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Mike hadn't take care of that check. You gotta catch that.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Take care of these things in the moment. Answer those questions.
When someone says, hey, are we meeting for Drakes?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No? Can I trade you this player?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I think he stinks. I don't want him. Just be
honest about it and be diligent in your roster management.
I mean, there's there's so many teams, and I look
at my leagues now and I just go, Yep, Nope,
he's not gonna do it. Nope, she's not going to Nope,
he's not. Okay, these four teams, these are the four
teams I at least get answers back from, or I
get a I get a some kind of response to it.
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I mean, really, it's just it's again. It sucks because
you want to feel like, oh, maybe I can make
a trade. There's lots of help out there, but it
really helps you with focus, with with knowing this is
the best way. I'm the only way I'm going to
improve my team. How am I to make my team better?
This what I got. But I do recognize the psychology
of those that don't want to trade. But just say
I'm out, because there is the psychology of I drafted
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this team.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm gonna go down with this ship and maybe I
add and drop guys off waivers. But I'll be damned
if he sucked for me. Suddenly he goes on a
four game tear Oh, yeah, right, So I understand the
psychology of it's it's a no without responding, just say no, right.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Because that because that's the world. That's the most frustrating
part is when you go and I know you've been
on the app because I so you made a move, yeah,
and you sent him and you sent a message to
the league, and my trade offer is still I know
you know how to look at the trade offer, but
but you're not saying anything. You're like, why can't you
just say no?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
When you last access the league, I saw you were
on the site. You were on this site twenty two
hours ago, so I know you saw my requests.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You look, how do you not just say no? Just no,
I'm just not gonna answer it.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And then a trade offer will stay up there for
you know, like like three months, Like, come on, what
do you think is gonna happen? You'renna leave it up there.
Then I'm gonna forget about it. And then in three months,
something's gonna happen. A guy's gonna get hurt, and you're
gonna click accept on that trade and wait a minute.
The guy this is when he was healthy three months ago. Yeah,
he's got a broken leg I don't want to trade
for him. No, you made the offer. I said yes
to it. Take you into another forum that appens all
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the time in the trading card world, where you have
a thing auto repeat, maybe on eBay or another selling
uh place, and you've got it out to buy it now,
and then suddenly the guy goes out a tear or
he gets traded to a new team. So like say,
all of a sudden he's wearing Yankee pinstripes. Well, the
market's gonna jump, or the guy has a three touchdown game,
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or the team is now going to the playoffs. Guess
what card went up. It's like, damn it, I didn't
cancel it or change that buy it now? So I
only got four dollars. It's trading for four hundred now.
It's like I suck. Well, hey, you snooze, you lose.
So just a couple if they listen for the last
few years, this will help you. This will help you
get everybody's getting ready to getting their drafts ready. This
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will help you immensely have a much more enjoyable season.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And you'll listen to the Eye Watcher Flex podcasts and
what Jason and I do for fantasy purposes during the year,
because we'll frustrate the hell out of you exactly and
leading you to the winner circle, of course.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And if you want fantasy tennis advice, oh yeah, you
want to go to this man by and friendly UCLA
play by play man who's got all the best fantasy
tennis analysis. But you know what we're gonna right now.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Is that there's a top sprout of coming out a
tennis product from So we're gonna we're gonna actually do
a box break. I'm gonna get a box and we're
gonna do it the three of us. Okay, he's gonna
show us how many of these guys we have no
idea who they all?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Right, now, do you want to say this one thing?
Yes or no? Fantasy tennis advice? Draft a guy who
who who doesn't pass a steroid test? Yes or no.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Let's just say he might have gotten a little preferential.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Let him like take him later, like, let him drive
he drops, like take him in like the third or
fourth round.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
He's one of those guys that means so much to
the sport that they're willing to look the other way.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Okay, all right, just want to know, Okay, yeah, yeah,
so don't so don't feel bad draft him no matter
run away from it. No matter what tests he fails
or doesn't matter, I still draft him at at the
highest I would say, so, okay, all right, very yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Although you look at his frame and you're like steroids,
it's like where.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Like you know, it's a believate you think about baseball
a hold for wait on it, it does, Yeah, it
really does.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
And from you guys talking about fantasy football to a
baseball player that many fans fantasized they had on their team,
Mookie Betts, who as we transition into Mookie Bets, he
just doubled it a run for the Dodgers, and in
the only game that's still up and running in Major
League Baseball, the Dodgers have tied things against the Seattle Mariners.
It's three apiece in the seventh inning, so they actually
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just wrapped up the bottom of the seventh, but the
Dodgers finally have tied it up to some of the
notable finishes the Yankees coming up short against the Guardians
nine to five. The Yanks are a half game out
of first in the Al East. They do, though, have
the first spot in the Wild card standings, Blue Jays
get it done against the Reds tend to three, and
Orioles win nine to five against the Mets. Albeit one
(33:43):
of our co hosts on the show predicted, guaranteed that
the Mets would win that game.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
And if that's what I was talking about, that is true.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
It's true, that is true. You just said that they're
bound to win. But they are what they are. We
will never know.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I really did think we're gonna win, man, Okay, the truth.
As soon as Martinez hid that home run, the lights took,
I'm like, we're gonna win this game. No, we didn't win.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Yeah, well there's always tomorrow or the next day. But yeah,
Orioles win nine to five against the Mets, and the
Mets are just outside the wildcard spots the three of
course in the NL, they would go to the Padres,
the Diamondbacks, and the Braves, and then the Mets are
two and a half games back at that final wildcard spot,
which is held by the Braves. I mentioned the Padres
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won a comeback for them. They were down five to
three in the eighth inning, Jerks and the Profar hits
a home run Manny Machado as well in San Diego.
Roars to a seven to five win against the Twins,
raised over the Athletics one to nothing. Giants. They stand
up the White Sox four to one Astros. They falter
at home six to five against the Red Sox. Also
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wins for the Angels, the Pirates, the Cubs, the Brewers,
and the Braves three to one over the Hills. Rinaldo
Lopez had a ten strikeout performance on the bump for Atlanta.
And then, lastly, when it comes to the world of football,
Pete Carroll, formerly the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks
and once the head football coach at USC, who had
(35:11):
a very timely departure from the program. Now, according to
a radio interview with KJR, says that he might want
to come back in teach at USC what he teaches.
I know, I'm probably not going to get into that class,
but Jason and Mike, you guys will be sitting in
the first row, raising your hands and answering all the questions.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Hi, I'm Professor P. Carroll. When he got the ball
on the one run, it that's all I got. You
got the rest of class to yourself. Just see you
on Thursday, all right, guys have fun. Enjoyee. Thank you,
Brian Fanly. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon coming up next, you want to, I'm gonna
give you an average bold prediction for the average. Now,
(35:56):
it's a good bold prediction, but because it seems inevitable,
it's gonna maybe seem like, oh, it's just an average bull.
Is this gonna be introduced by the average white bands?
Maybe maybe it's just gonna seem inevitable, but it's gonna happen.
What is it that's next, Jason Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the Tirack dot Com studios. And
here's my bold prediction for this year in the NFL.
A tons of NFL talking about here, No, no, just
right now, A bold prediction that's gonna turn into an
average bold prediction. Why? Because it's inevitable, inevitable. It is
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the fanto snap come to the this is inevitable.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Like all those folks complaining about the cost of Sunday
ticket and then eventually it'll be all right, it's here,
take my money.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, just get all right. Fine, I complained enough, it's
not working. I'll pay it. Uh story Today, the Browns
are looking to deal one of their quarterbacks. Right, they
have what plea seems to be a plethora. Maybe it's
Storian Thompson Robinson. They're looking to trick one of their quarterbacks.
Here's my bull prediction. By the middle of the season,
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Jameis Winston is their starting quarterback and he will start
the rest of the year. He's certainly took soon, could
be so looking. They love him so far. Another great
speech before the game. Coming in as a backup, not
a lot of pressure. He's the guy. You're looking for,
a Gino Smith type player who's been a backup prohile
(37:43):
and suddenly he might as send you a big starting role.
He's the guy because in Cleveland they've had it with
Deshaun Watson. Forget about the fact that and letting him
back in the league. And he's back in the league,
he's playing, and the Browns around the hook for a
lot of money. He has stunk since he came back
in the league. He has not had a lot of
football since twenty twenty. He's had twelve games. Okay, you
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don't get better, right, and he has not been good.
He's not been good. They're not going to let this
season spin out of control because they're not getting quarterback played.
They went through it last year. They went through four
quarterbacks and somehow Stefanski's got the team at ten wins.
I mean, that's a coach of the year job of
five I've ever seen one. They're not going to do
that again. And that's why they went out and they
(38:24):
fortified the backup position and said, no, it's not going
to be Flacco off his couch. Hey, Jameis Winston, who's dynamic,
who when he got the gig a couple of years
ago part time in New Orleans, did pretty well. Then
he got hurt. It was too bad. But we've seen
him throw the football. Well, he's assimilated to the Browns. Well,
you see good things being said about him by his teammates. Again,
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his pregame speeches are fantastic. We've seen him throw for
four thousand yards. We've seen him do it. This is
the guy who could be this year's Geno Smith. And
the minute it gets the point where Deshaun Watson, who
is either unengaging after games or not taking responsibility, not
playing well, the Browns are gonna say, you know, we've
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had enough. I know we're gonna have a lot of money,
but we just can't go forward anymore, and they'll make
the move. It'll be and it will be Jameis Winston
starting the second half of the season, if not sooner,
because I can't see Toshaan Watson suddenly becoming a good quarterback.
He's not. He hasn't been good, hasn't played, He's not
suddenly gonna get it and be great. They'll be going
to Jameis Winston. Yeah. I mean, I look at what
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that defense is led by Miles Garrett and what he's become. Ember.
Once upon a time it was the how longs he
in the league? Well, now he's always in the conversation
of your best defensive players in the game and the
complimentary players they brought up on that defensive line. So
that side of the ball is gonna be strong. We
know this. Offensively, they still have to hopefully to make
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good whatever his favorite foods and cheeses and everything for
Amari Cooper because he got dragged into all the Brandon
Ayu stuff. I was like, wait, what actually said? Ah,
that sounds all right, Like well, whoa, no, sowing the
seeds of malcontentedness. But you've got Nick Chubb coming back,
and you've got Ford there, so you've got a dual
(40:10):
headed monster in the back. You've got a lot of
pieces in a crowded AFC North, and you know, talented team,
and you have a talented Teamranchise guys are gonna need
to get paid or aging out so you don't get
many bites at the apple. And they realize after what
last year was all about. Yeah, I don't know how
long a leash he gets. I don't know that it's
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you get out of the first month of the season.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You know, they were talking twelve touchdowns, seven or eight
interceptions in his twelve games or fourteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
In TDed interception ratio is miserable. Completion percentages at like
fifty nine percent these last two years. That's a tough sled. Yeah,
the mistake they're gonna look back at, Wow, we gave
this guy two hundred and fifty million dollars. A look
at what we're getting from it, and by and large.
You're just seeing his attitude like you didn't seem to care. Yeah,
no care, like wow man, really like that's kind of
(41:02):
been his whole thing. Well that's generally. I mean, if
I had two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed, I
don't know how much i'd care. I don't know. I
had two of cares. And yeah, I think guys, I
think guys care. I think Jordan Love cares. I think
guys care.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
They're going no, but there's a hey, I was away
from the game for a year, so my carrying might
have gone away a little bit.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Gatty Jamis Winston for the majority of the season be
the starting quarterback of the Browns. Exit out about a
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello, Welcome in Side hour three, The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon, live from the tirag
dot com studios. Harmon very excited because I'm, you know,
with the games ending in Major League Baseball and the
soccer game that just ended.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
One of our TVs has bowling on it now, Yeah,
bowling from Detroit on the Sports Network. It's I mean,
this takes me back to like Saturday afternoons in the
seventies when I would fall asleep on the couch hearing
Chris Shenkles's voice.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Just ABZ wide World. We used to bet on it
with my uncle and my grandma. You got rawth Anthony
in this one?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah? Yeah, this was Who's got Weber? This was? This
was taped eight weeks ago, but we're you never we
had no idea. No you didn't cause you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Like, no, you can get scores from anywhere, you can
bet on anything.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Then it was hey, it's wide world of sports. All right,
let's go. Okay, you know what it is, National Radio Day.
I'm let's go. I'm gonna tell you this story because
this is I always tell you. Look, I was the
best production assistant and so producer espn ever he might
be applying, I was the best. That is, it's not
even disputed. Are your are your panda hands?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
And like, uh walk of fame kind of thing these
hands together video?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
No, Like if I went back there would go, wow,
that's this. He was a he was a pa here
and now he's on the radio. All that's all.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
You walk by Berman and see if he has any
great memories.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So Burman would remember me. Yeah, I mean, especially now
being on the radio, he would know, Now, toy you
do that impression of me. It was kind of funny.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I used to sign it with the mail so we
were big fans. We used to send cards from the
pro set.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Oh you know, okay, I will tell you who will
never I'll tell you this too. Why not because it's
national radio. Yeah, let's go out tell the stories. I
would always be mad at a very specific analyst because
people would send him stuff in the mail all the
time to sign. They would send cards, they would send things,
Can you sign it? Here's and here's a self addressed
(02:27):
stamped envelope. Drop it back in sure, watch you all
the time. And one of the jobs at the end
of Sunday night, at the end of Sunday night in
the newsroom was all the pas had to clean the
newsroom to make sure all everything was thrown away. And
it was a great thing to do to say, Okay,
you don't want one person to do it. You know
that this is your job to do it. We are
twenty two to twenty three because you're doing a lot
of important stuff for to put sportsent around the air.
(02:50):
So it was always, hey, if you're working Sunday night,
come up. And this was just throw stuff away, make
sure everything was neat for the dead, the way Williams
tells the veterans to leak. Hey, hey, hey, DJ Moore,
Hey come on a little snappier with that. Okay, uh,
And I would and anytime I had to do it
during the baseball season. I would always have to take
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stuff and throw it away because it was it was
an open envelope with with it, will you please sign this?
You please sign it? And the person just left it
there and didn't sign it, and then and left and
was gone for the weeks. They only come and do
it Sundays. Peter Gammons would the tie Gambits didn't sign
it all the time. Maybe he come on, maybe he
signed some stuff. But people would send them stuff here
(03:32):
please we love you and watch you every Sunday here
and and it would just be the self addressed, damped
envelope was there, and it's like one pa said, hey,
next time, let me know because that's a free stamp. No,
but that's the thing, right because that was always the
big deal. What are you gonna do? You gonna heat
seal the stamp off and you're gonna do it, Come on.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
You turn it out and then you as long as
it doesn't have the postal tracker over it, and of
course gotta count.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
But that was back when a stamp was like twenty three.
But either way people would like even what it is now,
you think of what that stamps does cheap. You know
that stamp is OK.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's pretty cheap when it's all said and done. But
it's the the idea that you'd sent the self addressed
stamped envelope, because that used to be the the thing
that celebrities and athletes would bristle as like you didn't
you didn't send return posts.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Sign and senor all sent it back. Sign this card.
They have to have a card of him that would
be signed. No, no, not, he wouldn't do it. I
always upset me. Yeah, Berman did though, So there. But
the initial story here, like this bowling event that's on
right now, is part of what made my legend at
at ESPN, was when I was a production assistant and
one of the nights was it was like a summer
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night like this, there wasn't a lot going on, and
they had me watching some bowling event Walter Ray Williams.
I remember, well, there you go, Walter Ay Williams. They
got a bowling thing. We'll get to that. So and
he was he was the biggest bowler. This is like
in the mid nineties, and he was going for a
perfect game and he flamed out like in the eighth frame.
But the guy he was competing against was going for
(05:02):
a perfect game too. And it comes down to the end,
and you know, I'm the only one watching this, like
I'm the only one watching this. And it comes down
to the end and the guy and the guy on
this last roll needed to strike and he knocked nine
pins down, and I remember he left the two pin,
and I remember because the call of the playplay is
not the two pin. It's the one you don't want
(05:23):
to leave. So I go to my bosses and I go,
I have a bowling highlight that is fantastic, and they're like,
come on, bowling what I go, let me go cut it,
and you're gonna want to run. And the first segment
of the show was called the Tens, which was all
the biggest stuff was in the Tens. The first segment
of the show. I said, let me go cut this,
and you're gonna run this. In the beginning of the show.
They're like a so I go cut it and I
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go upstairs. Now people know this is now a little
bit of that attitude about me, Like you can tell,
and you're like, oh, let's see, let's see this bowling highlight.
And I run it and I go sound full at
the end, the guy misses at the end and everybody, oh,
and the producer goes put it in the tens. Right,
So I did bowling highlight that made the tents that
people were talking about so much so that like a
month later when this new kid started and he and
(06:07):
he you know, he met me high and I'm Kevin Kevin, Hey,
Jason Jason Smith. Ye, he goes, You're the guy that
cut the bowling highlight that made the tens And I
was like, wow, that's me. That's also they all right,
who's in the the anchor chair that day? Because depending
on what, Yeah, I want to say, I want to
(06:28):
say it was Dan and Keith because that was then
they could sell it. Yeah, Kenny Maine also would sell you. Hey, Kenny,
could you sell this? Yeah, give it to me, I'll
do it.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
But yeah, my bowling thing. When that got me in
trouble is when Earl Anthony died.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I think he probably got in more trouble, but I
was at Yahoo, fell down the stairs right in his house.
It is a big deal. That was an awful Like.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I told, we were sitting there and and it was
whatever the news day that it was, and we got
that put up on the front of Yahoo Sports, right
hit yeah, yeah, yeah, there was bowling legend or Anthony Dad.
We get a call, go, what are you guys doing?
He's a legend?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
What do you mean? Like we do this for any
other sport coaches, explayers, whatever, like Bowler, Like how dare
you wow? Bowler? Hall of Famer and a legend and
many a Saturday afternoon watch. So you have to pull
it off and instead to share his two home runs exactly,
they put up some other nons like that's so big,
(07:28):
that's just a Jose day. In this case it was
a weekend day. But it was the point of really,
what are we doing? Yours is better because you became
the stuff of legend. I was, man, I'm like, ah,
you couldn't be any of the one, three or four
cute girls. I really like going. You got a highlight
that made the bowling highlight, that made the tense. Yeah,
but they shold you as a legend. I did.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Maybe over round of beers, you came up as you
know what, I want to be like him. Only time
that when I'd gotten the kid.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, maybe you know, the women were going to be
chasing the kid after that. Bowling highlight in the tent.
I would have tried to train on that at the bar. Yeah,
you know, got a bowling highlight in the tent. What
the hell are you talking about? It's last call, you
know what. Just leave. I'm cutting you off that nicely
for a last call. Just like watch this repeat, just
watch the re air. This's like it is. Watch this
(08:16):
by highlight right here here it is? Is it in
the tens?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Right?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
You see it's right here with right with sandwich between
NFL camp training rap with Fred Edelstein and then uh,
you know the big baseball highlights of the night, we
got bowling. We had a bowling highlight in the ten. Hey,
it's sport bowling in the ten bowling for the Olympics.
Talking about stuff that should be in the Olympics for
twenty twenty eight. Let's go the greatest participation sport there is.
(08:42):
We could get bowling in the nation. Yeah, expensive to
go to some of these places. Well you got you can. Yeah, Well,
especially when you go and you're gonna have a couple
of beers, you know, that's what it is, even without
the beers. I forget the comedian. I said, you know,
bowling's my favorite sport. He goes because here's what you do.
You roll a ball, you drink a you sit down.
It's pretty good. Drink a beer, sit up like I
(09:07):
can't just go again. It's the one thing I'll say,
you know, because I'll drink diet coke and I can't
go bowl and say I'm not gonna have a beer.
Of course I'm gonna have a beer bowling. You gotta
have a beer. Can anything else, I'd give me a
diet coke. But bit so we should, we should, we
should organize a bowling night. Let's go come come bating.
I don't know, dude, if I'm bullying. Oh my back's
not been the same since I bowl.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
To see how how many frames I could go before
my shoulder goes in down the lane.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Harmon's bowling with his offhand. He's just he's actually bowling
with his feet. He's just pushing it with his foot
down the lane. Why is his arm twitching like that?
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Live from the
tirect dot Com Studios. Uh now, I promise to start.
Look I saw this today and I really really clarified
(09:52):
and crystallized to me, what scares me the most about
the Jets season because I've I'm telling you all laws,
We're going in thirteen games, We're gonna win the division.
We're great, We're going to the super Bowl. I'm probably
gonna pick the Jets go to the super Bowl. I mean,
this is it.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
But after I've been trying to talk you down off
that for a long time. That's what best friends on
the radio on national rad If I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
How many times am I ever going to get to
pick them? Never? They have a great defense. We have
Aaron Rodgers, who right now people still think is great.
Hopefully he's still great. Some pep doesn't stink. But Hall,
you got Garrett Wilson. Yeah, this is my chant to go.
Who's nickname is Sauce for sure. But it's finally hit me.
What scares me the most about Rogers this year? Okay,
(10:36):
now here he is today talking about the camp the
Jets have had. Yesterday, it was a really bad day
at camp. The offense was terrible, and they've run a
lot more plays than they did last year camp so
far at this point, they've run three hundred more plays
this year than they ran last year. At this point,
it's been a very intensive camp.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Is that like Tread's tread on attires that you had
too much football, you get the three snaps.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I really only worry about Rogers, but he had zero
football last year, so I think it might be okay.
Dollar cost averaging. Is that what we're doing now? But
here is Aaron Rodgers talking about the Jets camp so
far and exactly what's the big difference in how he's
feeling getting ready for the season.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
I would say the camp is much harder this year,
and maybe the hardest in the last seven or eight
in my career. I knew that at a little insight
coming into camp that's what Robert wanted to do, So
I think it's been good for us. I give Robert
a lot of credit because he from the start of
the offseason said this is going to be a tough
training camp.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
So look at that. He's been hard to go and
smoke towards the coach. Yeah, I love when's the last
time I think he talked to Robert Sala eight months ago?
I don't know, but that was pretty a community impressive.
They communicate via smoke signal. They're so far apart on
the field, it looks like Rogers are saying he'll do
another series. Okay, great, you know what you could have
done for hot take nonsense.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
If you cut that bitt and half to where he
doesn't mention Robert Sala, you can start asking the question, does.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Aaron Rodgers still love football? Is that why it's hard?
He'd rather be out a dark diss retreat or hanging
out with his friend's golfing. Or he's talking about Robert
and it's RFK Junior. He's talking. He go eight seven,
seven ninety nine, let's go. I'll go be his vice
presd so. But it's finally done. Okay. This is what
scares me the most about this season. Look, injuries, this okay,
(12:23):
But what scares me the most is this. If the
Jets don't start out fast now they open up against
San Francisco, I'm not expecting them to I don't think
anybody expects them to win. Five and a half I
think is the current spread. The Niners are the Niners,
but the Jets are really good. Okay, but if they
lose that game, the Jets lose, he loses, the Niners
open a lot of question marks. Right, and Williams and
(12:47):
dicapri Hill then everything else. So yeah, wait, if you lose, yeah,
but if you lose, it's not But then the schedules
really light the last rest of the month of September. Right,
you get the Patriots they stink, Broncos new quarterback, and
you have the Titans, who who will be getting their
(13:07):
asses kicked by the Bears in Week one. Bears. If
the Jets start out slow, which could happen if they
start out one in three and they get out of
the early part of their schedule, things will get sideways
so fast, like all of a sudden, a flash flood
(13:28):
that comes out of nowhere. You're like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
that's how fast it. We'll go sideways because Aaron Rodgers
will be in self preservation mode because he wants to
keep playing, and if it's his fault, no one's gonna
pay him after this year. Uh. Robert Solind knows if
I don't win, I'm gonna get fired. Joe Douglass the
same thing. The Jets have been looking forward to this. Okay,
we had it robbed from us last year, but we're
(13:49):
even better than we were last year. We're all healthy.
Breece Hall is not coming back from a season ending injury.
We're ready. If it gets sideways, it goes bad, and
Aaron Rodgers says things like, well, I know we started slow.
I don't know if I'd played more in the preseason,
if if we would have started differently. One nice side
swipe at Robert Sola, because you know he's gonna say
(14:09):
things like that. And it's gonna get ugly fast, and
it's a season that will spiral out of control and
they'll never get it back, and it's gonna look really painful,
and and you're wondering what is next. Are the Jets
gonna start over? Are you know where are they gonna finish?
How bad are things gonna be? Because Sauce Gardener's not
gonna be quiet, Garrett Wilson's not gonna be quiet. A
lot of the guys aren't just gonna say, hey, everything
(14:31):
is fine, it's gonna be This is what's going wrong
with us, this is what's wrong with our coaching. We
weren't coached for this. We went to hard trading camp.
We went this, if they start out slow, the wheels
come off fast. And that's my biggest fear. They should
get out of September three and one should and that
should be fine. Two and two, but if they if
they go slow, they're one and three looking up, going, hey,
(14:53):
now the good teams are coming. It's gonna it's gonna
get sideways so fast and one in three will turn
into one and six and and eight and three and nine,
and it's gonna be what what are we doing? Is
Jordan Travis gonna play? At some point? Can we play him?
Aaron Rodgers clearly is done. Like that's how sideways it
will get.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Because then you get to week five and you have
a meeting with your old friend Sam Donald and Brian Flood.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
That would be the the Waterloo moment. If the Jets
lose to the Vikings and Sam Darnold and suddenly Darnald
shows up. Look at this, Hey, five touchdowns in the
first half of Donald Boy. So Us Gardner can't stay
with Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
All I know is this, If that happens the next
day we're on air, the open to the show has
to be ABBA's water leave.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Oh no, dude, I'm not coming in that day. I'm
not gonna be good. Not happening. Yeah, I mean you
look at your roster overall, I mean your big concern
is your on line, which you fortified, kind of can't
be any worse.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Than it was a year ago. Now, your defense carry sure,
You've got a couple of playmakers. I mean, when we
talk about a Hall and Wilson, they're top nine, what
top three in at their respective positions. And maybe I'm
a little more bullish on Wilson than the national average
rankings and all of that fun stuff. But you've got,
at least on paper, a team that should compete at
(16:13):
San Francisco game. I don't I don't write it off
as as a loss as many No, no.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
No, I think, but if they lose, it's not gonna
be it's not too unless unless it's style. Oh if
we lose twenty seven seven, Yeah, to lose, Rogers throws
three picks. We can't move the football. He's running for
his life. Yeah, Party throws for three ten and three
touchdowns because and all of a sudden, how good is
(16:38):
our defense? Really? Oh? No, no, But that that's something
that even if they do lose like that, okay, it's.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
He'll do it.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Relax and everyone buying, and if they win the next
three games, everything is fine. But I'm telling you, man,
one and three. I mean that, but then.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Everybody gets fired done and it's a new regime. He's gone,
he's latching on I don't know what, the Raiders or something.
See that's how he gets his reunion with DeVante Adams.
See what I did there?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Oh, that's how I did that. That's nice. I like that,
Thanks Buch Your team sucks Rogers for Gardner minshew, Hey,
let's come on that. I mean both have wonderful hair
and beards. That is true. That is true. I mean
they would be on the metal stand, but only one
has jeorts. So remember good point Rogers not picking up guarantees,
(17:23):
not picking up Jordans not happening. Uh So again, that's
that's the biggest fear I have. That's where I can
see it going sideways. The Jason Smith Show with Mike
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roses and like that's it. What happened to the Cult?
Sonic Temple, Firewoman. It was, I mean, it was Grits.
The Cult was great, alb I love the Cult, and
I was like, what happened, man, Like all of a sudden,
just they prove my theory that the world is flat
(19:57):
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you're still Tory? Okay, okay, sure, I think there's still
Are you still making positive? You should have had another better,
a couple of better albums. I have some of that,
you know, gotta have some of that. I can't. I
can't keep going back listening to the Queens of the
Stone Age all the time. I can't do it, man. Sorry,
(20:21):
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the it is yes stone Age quotes. Yeah, uh well,
because that's really all they say it in Prince like.
That's cute. Look, it is National Radio Day, it is.
I hope you are celebrating. I hope you're enjoying listening
to the show as you are every night. Mike and
(20:43):
I and all of us here at Fox Sports Radio
love getting ready and prepping and getting and doing this
content for you every single night here on the show.
It's so now since both of us, look, both of
us have done fantasy football for the majority of our lives.
You've done it professionally for a long time. I did
it professionally for a few years, and I want to
(21:05):
tell you this. The game, the game has changed, Mike Harmy.
It's a guillotine world. It's a different it's a it's
a much different fantasy experience the last five years because
of the advancements of how everything is now done online.
Everything is faster, everything is now done off an app
(21:27):
and and they're the room for doing things. I would say,
the the the time of doing things. Having that all
the time you need to do fantasy, well, I don't
have to worry about it. There's less time for it.
That you have less time for fantasy because the game
just seems to move faster. Maybe now it's you don't
have your waivers on Wednesday nights. It's rolling waivers, or
(21:50):
you have to get your your bids in on Monday night.
Week games and cycles. Fantasy football used up until the
last five years, used to be a sport. Yeah, it's
great because I could do it and then after Sunday
or after Monday night, Okay, I just got to get
my free agency in on by Wednesday night. I know
(22:10):
who I'm gonna start on Thursday and then everything else
I had to wait till Sunday. But now with so
many different things and different leagues going on and activations
and story like, it's become much more intense and you
have to spend more time doing You can't just spend
fifteen minutes. Because that used to be the whole big
thing was, hey, you want to do fantasy football. The
whole push to get more people playing fantasy football with
(22:31):
most of the aughts in the early teens were was hey,
you only need to spend fifteen minutes a week on
your team. That's all you need. It's not that big
a deal. You draft. The draft is the most fun,
and it's gonna be it's a three hour extravaganza there
with all your friends. Now drafts are done in like
an hour. They're done fast, and you only and forget
about fifteen minutes. Now you need to be able to
be up on all different things. And there's all these
(22:52):
different kinds of leagues you can do. Now you do dynasty,
you can do half point PPR, full point PPR, there's
guillotine leagues. There's now gonna be leagues where you can
make changes during Sunday if somebody gets hurt, you can
put somebody in. There's always gonna be more advancements in fairs.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Commissioners that suddenly decide to use IDPs. What league's been
together for.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I don't want to do IDP, but to help things
out a little bit, and to help you out a
little bit, because to help alleviate some of the stress
from fantasy. The biggest lesson in the last five years
that I've learned that helps streamline my strategy and helps
me not waste time on things aren't gonna happen is turn.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Off all notifications of trade requests in your league.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
No, no, no, no, this is and this is a
big thing. You're usually in a league with anywhere from
nine to eleven other maybe more if you're in a
bigger league with your thirteen fourteen, but know your league
and only try to trade with owners you know are
amenable to trading, because you can sit there and try
(23:56):
to put out I'm gonna send out this offer. This
guy really needs a running back and I need to
wide receive. He won't get back to me. This person's
not riding back. I don't get it. I send him
a message. I do that you have to know the
people that want to trade and don't want to trade.
And sometimes it's fascinating the ones I love people who
are in the industry. Because I'm in a bunch of
industry leagues. I'm going this person never gets back to you.
(24:18):
How do you make a trade off? Just at least
tell me no, at least just say no, don't want
to do it, Okay, decline the trade, fine, don't let
it sit there. And it's so frustrating because if you
need okay, I need to make a trade, or I
need I need, I need a running back. I know
the four guys in this league, or the four owners
in this league, or four or five or that will trade.
These are the people I have to make trade requests too,
(24:38):
because they're either going to only be the ones that
I trade with or they're gonna decline. And I know
I have to search for my running back somewhere else.
It streamlines your strategy because Okay, I may really want
to get Breeze Hall, but I know this guy is
never gonna get back. He's never gonna trade b Resol.
So if I need a running back, I have to say, Okay,
I have to set my sites a little bit lower
(24:59):
to get somebody else. I need a running back, and
it streamlines your strategy because you know, okay, these are
the running backs I can go for, or I have
to find something in free agency. I can't just send
out these Hey, I got four or five, six or
seven trade things out there. I'm still waiting to hear
back from this guy. But this guy, it's It makes
it your life so much easier if you know these
(25:19):
are the people who will trade, and these are the
only ones. All the other players should be dead to you,
because they're dead to me. I mean, if I'm playing
against them, I have to worry about them having big weeks.
But I'm never going to try to email certain people
or tech certain people so or send them an offer
on an app for a trade. I'm never gonna do
it because I know you're not getting back to me,
and I know it's gonna be fruitless and it's just
gonna be aggravation. And with more fantasy taking more and
(25:42):
more time, that's something that easily your weekly look into
what you want to do with your team. You'll cut
that time way down because you know, okay, maybe I'll
trade for a wide receiver. I need a wide receiver.
Let me see these five teams and I'll look at
it instead of looking at twelve teams, going oh, what
about this, I can make this trade for this guy.
And you're spending all this time making a trade offer
that is never gonna happen because the guy's never going
(26:03):
to get back to you. And trust me, you do that.
It's streamlines. You're thinking, yes, it closes the door in
your player pool, but you're not getting these guys out
of here. Yeah, you know, go ahead.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
And the other part of that is to limit the
number of leagues you're in. We're just discussing this a
little bit. Ian and Mark and I and you Jason.
You know the number back in the day. I think,
while I'm not gonna say I ever got up to
twenty or twenty five like some of our our brethren
in this industry, I got to double digits for a while.
And you know what, the whole trade and roster acknowledgment thing,
(26:35):
it sucks because now you've got pretty much everybody in
the league on one of your rosters, and if you
do get a trade offer, it's like, all right, I
gotta go back and look at that league, Look at
the settings. Look at my roster, it's like, which one
is that I don't remember? Yeah, so you have those problems.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
But the other thing, in terms of the whole trading process,
to take some of it out, it's like the rest
of your life. I'm a big believer. Shoot your shot,
right you have the someone catches your eye, don't be
creepy about it. You want to go ask them out,
Ask them out, ask to answered. Move on. You want
to take a shot at advancing in your career, go ahead,
(27:13):
shoot your shot. Talk to your boss, try to figure
out if there's something you're missing on your resume. Go
fortify it be better if you want to if that
means you got to move that You know all of
those considerations, but recognize who you are in the game
you're playing and certainly for this in fantasy football. Also
recognize you may be the guy who sends out all
(27:34):
the crappy trade requests. Don't be that guy, because you
know what, nobody's.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Gonna respond to you except with the middle finger emoji
because you're a jerk.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But again, that's that's somebody that you know. I just
have to ignore that person too well.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
But you've got to realize sometimes if you're that guy
right that you're sending out the bad trades, thinking all right,
I can bludgeon them into submission with a volume no
ask an answer, right and to your trade. If you
are getting trade requests, politely declined, say you know what
I'm not and be done with it.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
It's like when you used to get checks maybe from
your your grandparents or someone for a birthday. Cash him
because eventually their accounting is gonna be off because oh wow,
that was the three hundred dollars checks that someone wrot
you for Christmas, or reimbursement for something. You don't cash it.
You might be setting their financial state into terror when
you finally get around it. Why am I not? Why
(28:30):
can't I balance my check book with this three hundred
dollar I don't understand where this came from.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
All of a sudden, you got three hundred dollars that
goes missing right as you have to go make a
major purchase.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Mike hadn't take care of that check. You gotta catch that.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Take care of these things in the moment. Answer those questions.
When someone says, hey, are we meeting for Drakes?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No? Can I trade you this player?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I think he stinks. I don't want him. Just be
honest about it and be diligent in your roster management.
I mean, there's there's so many teams, and I look
at my leagues now and I just go, Yep, Nope,
he's not gonna do it. Nope, she's not going to Nope,
he's not. Okay, these four teams, these are the four
teams I at least get answers back from, or I
get a I get a some kind of response to it.
(29:13):
I mean, really, it's just it's again. It sucks because
you want to feel like, oh, maybe I can make
a trade. There's lots of help out there, but it
really helps you with focus, with with knowing this is
the best way. I'm the only way I'm going to
improve my team. How am I to make my team better?
This what I got. But I do recognize the psychology
of those that don't want to trade. But just say
I'm out, because there is the psychology of I drafted
(29:35):
this team.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm gonna go down with this ship and maybe I
add and drop guys off waivers. But I'll be damned
if he sucked for me. Suddenly he goes on a
four game tear Oh, yeah, right, So I understand the
psychology of it's it's a no without responding, just say no, right.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Because that because that's the world. That's the most frustrating
part is when you go and I know you've been
on the app because I so you made a move, yeah,
and you sent him and you sent a message to
the league, and my trade offer is still I know
you know how to look at the trade offer, but
but you're not saying anything. You're like, why can't you
just say no?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
When you last access the league, I saw you were
on the site. You were on this site twenty two
hours ago, so I know you saw my requests.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
You look, how do you not just say no? Just no,
I'm just not gonna answer it.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
What?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
And then a trade offer will stay up there for
you know, like like three months, Like, come on, what
do you think is gonna happen? You'renna leave it up there.
Then I'm gonna forget about it. And then in three months,
something's gonna happen. A guy's gonna get hurt, and you're
gonna click accept on that trade and wait a minute.
The guy this is when he was healthy three months ago. Yeah,
he's got a broken leg I don't want to trade
for him. No, you made the offer. I said yes
to it. Take you into another forum that appens all
(30:51):
the time in the trading card world, where you have
a thing auto repeat, maybe on eBay or another selling
uh place, and you've got it out to buy it now,
and then suddenly the guy goes out a tear or
he gets traded to a new team. So like say,
all of a sudden he's wearing Yankee pinstripes. Well, the
market's gonna jump, or the guy has a three touchdown game,
(31:12):
or the team is now going to the playoffs. Guess
what card went up. It's like, damn it, I didn't
cancel it or change that buy it now? So I
only got four dollars. It's trading for four hundred now.
It's like I suck. Well, hey, you snooze, you lose.
So just a couple if they listen for the last
few years, this will help you. This will help you
get everybody's getting ready to getting their drafts ready. This
(31:33):
will help you immensely have a much more enjoyable season.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And you'll listen to the Eye Watcher Flex podcasts and
what Jason and I do for fantasy purposes during the year,
because we'll frustrate the hell out of you exactly and
leading you to the winner circle, of course.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
And if you want fantasy tennis advice, oh yeah, you
want to go to this man by and friendly UCLA
play by play man who's got all the best fantasy
tennis analysis. But you know what we're gonna right now.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Is that there's a top sprout of coming out a
tennis product from So we're gonna we're gonna actually do
a box break. I'm gonna get a box and we're
gonna do it the three of us. Okay, he's gonna
show us how many of these guys we have no
idea who they all?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Right, now, do you want to say this one thing?
Yes or no? Fantasy tennis advice? Draft a guy who
who who doesn't pass a steroid test? Yes or no.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Let's just say he might have gotten a little preferential.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Let him like take him later, like, let him drive
he drops, like take him in like the third or
fourth round.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
He's one of those guys that means so much to
the sport that they're willing to look the other way.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Okay, all right, just want to know, Okay, yeah, yeah,
so don't so don't feel bad draft him no matter
run away from it. No matter what tests he fails
or doesn't matter, I still draft him at at the
highest I would say, so, okay, all right, very yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Although you look at his frame and you're like steroids,
it's like where.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Like you know, it's a believate you think about baseball
a hold for wait on it, it does, Yeah, it
really does.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
And from you guys talking about fantasy football to a
baseball player that many fans fantasized they had on their team,
Mookie Betts, who as we transition into Mookie Bets, he
just doubled it a run for the Dodgers, and in
the only game that's still up and running in Major
League Baseball, the Dodgers have tied things against the Seattle Mariners.
It's three apiece in the seventh inning, so they actually
(33:20):
just wrapped up the bottom of the seventh, but the
Dodgers finally have tied it up to some of the
notable finishes the Yankees coming up short against the Guardians
nine to five. The Yanks are a half game out
of first in the Al East. They do, though, have
the first spot in the Wild card standings, Blue Jays
get it done against the Reds tend to three, and
Orioles win nine to five against the Mets. Albeit one
(33:43):
of our co hosts on the show predicted, guaranteed that
the Mets would win that game.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
And if that's what I was talking about, that is true.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
It's true, that is true. You just said that they're
bound to win. But they are what they are. We
will never know.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I really did think we're gonna win, man, Okay, the truth.
As soon as Martinez hid that home run, the lights took,
I'm like, we're gonna win this game. No, we didn't win.
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Yeah, well there's always tomorrow or the next day. But yeah,
Orioles win nine to five against the Mets, and the
Mets are just outside the wildcard spots the three of
course in the NL, they would go to the Padres,
the Diamondbacks, and the Braves, and then the Mets are
two and a half games back at that final wildcard spot,
which is held by the Braves. I mentioned the Padres
(34:27):
won a comeback for them. They were down five to
three in the eighth inning, Jerks and the Profar hits
a home run Manny Machado as well in San Diego.
Roars to a seven to five win against the Twins,
raised over the Athletics one to nothing. Giants. They stand
up the White Sox four to one Astros. They falter
at home six to five against the Red Sox. Also
(34:48):
wins for the Angels, the Pirates, the Cubs, the Brewers,
and the Braves three to one over the Hills. Rinaldo
Lopez had a ten strikeout performance on the bump for Atlanta.
And then, lastly, when it comes to the world of football,
Pete Carroll, formerly the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks
and once the head football coach at USC, who had
(35:11):
a very timely departure from the program. Now, according to
a radio interview with KJR, says that he might want
to come back in teach at USC what he teaches.
I know, I'm probably not going to get into that class,
but Jason and Mike, you guys will be sitting in
the first row, raising your hands and answering all the questions.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Hi, I'm Professor P. Carroll. When he got the ball
on the one run, it that's all I got. You
got the rest of class to yourself. Just see you
on Thursday, all right, guys have fun. Enjoyee. Thank you,
Brian Fanly. The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon coming up next, you want to, I'm gonna
give you an average bold prediction for the average. Now,
(35:56):
it's a good bold prediction, but because it seems inevitable,
it's gonna maybe seem like, oh, it's just an average bull.
Is this gonna be introduced by the average white bands?
Maybe maybe it's just gonna seem inevitable, but it's gonna happen.
What is it that's next, Jason Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
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 (36:24):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the Tirack dot Com studios. And
here's my bold prediction for this year in the NFL.
A tons of NFL talking about here, No, no, just
right now, A bold prediction that's gonna turn into an
average bold prediction. Why? Because it's inevitable, inevitable. It is
(36:47):
the fanto snap come to the this is inevitable.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
Like all those folks complaining about the cost of Sunday
ticket and then eventually it'll be all right, it's here,
take my money.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Yeah, just get all right. Fine, I complained enough, it's
not working. I'll pay it. Uh story Today, the Browns
are looking to deal one of their quarterbacks. Right, they
have what plea seems to be a plethora. Maybe it's
Storian Thompson Robinson. They're looking to trick one of their quarterbacks.
Here's my bull prediction. By the middle of the season,
(37:22):
Jameis Winston is their starting quarterback and he will start
the rest of the year. He's certainly took soon, could
be so looking. They love him so far. Another great
speech before the game. Coming in as a backup, not
a lot of pressure. He's the guy. You're looking for,
a Gino Smith type player who's been a backup prohile
(37:43):
and suddenly he might as send you a big starting role.
He's the guy because in Cleveland they've had it with
Deshaun Watson. Forget about the fact that and letting him
back in the league. And he's back in the league,
he's playing, and the Browns around the hook for a
lot of money. He has stunk since he came back
in the league. He has not had a lot of
football since twenty twenty. He's had twelve games. Okay, you
(38:03):
don't get better, right, and he has not been good.
He's not been good. They're not going to let this
season spin out of control because they're not getting quarterback played.
They went through it last year. They went through four
quarterbacks and somehow Stefanski's got the team at ten wins.
I mean, that's a coach of the year job of
five I've ever seen one. They're not going to do
that again. And that's why they went out and they
(38:24):
fortified the backup position and said, no, it's not going
to be Flacco off his couch. Hey, Jameis Winston, who's dynamic,
who when he got the gig a couple of years
ago part time in New Orleans, did pretty well. Then
he got hurt. It was too bad. But we've seen
him throw the football. Well, he's assimilated to the Browns. Well,
you see good things being said about him by his teammates. Again,
(38:46):
his pregame speeches are fantastic. We've seen him throw for
four thousand yards. We've seen him do it. This is
the guy who could be this year's Geno Smith. And
the minute it gets the point where Deshaun Watson, who
is either unengaging after games or not taking responsibility, not
playing well, the Browns are gonna say, you know, we've
(39:06):
had enough. I know we're gonna have a lot of money,
but we just can't go forward anymore, and they'll make
the move. It'll be and it will be Jameis Winston
starting the second half of the season, if not sooner,
because I can't see Toshaan Watson suddenly becoming a good quarterback.
He's not. He hasn't been good, hasn't played, He's not
suddenly gonna get it and be great. They'll be going
to Jameis Winston. Yeah. I mean, I look at what
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that defense is led by Miles Garrett and what he's become. Ember.
Once upon a time it was the how longs he
in the league? Well, now he's always in the conversation
of your best defensive players in the game and the
complimentary players they brought up on that defensive line. So
that side of the ball is gonna be strong. We
know this. Offensively, they still have to hopefully to make
(39:49):
good whatever his favorite foods and cheeses and everything for
Amari Cooper because he got dragged into all the Brandon
Ayu stuff. I was like, wait, what actually said? Ah,
that sounds all right, Like well, whoa, no, sowing the
seeds of malcontentedness. But you've got Nick Chubb coming back,
and you've got Ford there, so you've got a dual
(40:10):
headed monster in the back. You've got a lot of
pieces in a crowded AFC North, and you know, talented team,
and you have a talented Teamranchise guys are gonna need
to get paid or aging out so you don't get
many bites at the apple. And they realize after what
last year was all about. Yeah, I don't know how
long a leash he gets. I don't know that it's
(40:30):
you get out of the first month of the season.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
You know, they were talking twelve touchdowns, seven or eight
interceptions in his twelve games or fourteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
In TDed interception ratio is miserable. Completion percentages at like
fifty nine percent these last two years. That's a tough sled. Yeah,
the mistake they're gonna look back at, Wow, we gave
this guy two hundred and fifty million dollars. A look
at what we're getting from it, and by and large.
You're just seeing his attitude like you didn't seem to care. Yeah,
no care, like wow man, really like that's kind of
(41:02):
been his whole thing. Well that's generally. I mean, if
I had two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed, I
don't know how much i'd care. I don't know. I
had two of cares. And yeah, I think guys, I
think guys care. I think Jordan Love cares. I think
guys care.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
They're going no, but there's a hey, I was away
from the game for a year, so my carrying might
have gone away a little bit.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
Gatty Jamis Winston for the majority of the season be
the starting quarterback of the Browns. Exit out about a
Fresco exit swelling down The Jason Smith Show with Mike
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