August 23, 2024 • 37 mins
On tonight's edition of the Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike dive into the NFL preseason matchups, analyzing the Colts vs. Bengals and Bears vs. Chiefs games! The guys discuss the hit Apple TV show Ted Lasso, exploring the reasons behind its widespread success. Next, they react to Warriors PG Steph Curry removing the Warriors from his Instagram bio and debate whether Curry might need to leave the team to continue winning! Finally, the guys evaluate the New England Patriots and the Raiders, debating which team is experiencing the bigger dumpster fire and who will be crowned as the worst team in the NFL!
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And right now we got the big Week three of
the NFL preseason. It's underway, it's happening. The Bears are
playing and they're winning. I'm telling you, buddy, the Chiefs
chaps as boring ass as they are on hard knocks
and as awful of a show as that is. I'm
(01:10):
telling you, man, era of good feeling is here. Not
that it's about this because the Chiefs are playing backups, obviously,
and if they were playing the flag football guy who
says he's better than Mahomes, it might be different.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But it doesn't matter. At everything's gonna come up, Bears, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I love everything about your team this year, man, except
Hard Knocks is terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, Hard Knocks is boring.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
But like I theorized earlier in the week, I reiterated
for the audience nationwide and globally listening in, this is
a master strategy and leave us the hell alone.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We are so boring.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And then as soon as the cambers go away, ib
Refluse lets his hair down.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That beard gets a little mangy and it gets loose.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yea the interim, you got a very boring Hard Knocks
where it's all right, let's talk about the punter.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know he's Australian. Let's get my nickname.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Hey, he's an Australian. Let's give him a whole segment. Let's
give him a whole segment. We learned about him and
where he's from, and let's hear him talk, because hearing
Australian people talk is funt's.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's always fun.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Let's make a bunch of references to the crocodile hunter,
his family, his kid, the Australian zoo wallabies, and every
other animal we may know that could potentially kill you
from Australia.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, that was great.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That was fan That's the most exciting thing in three
episodes of Hard Knocks.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, Williams is a nice guy. He's got a sponge
DJ Moore. Look at what he got.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
He got his contract and then he and his family
went to the Museum of ice Cream.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, that that that's a that's not really a show
like that's like you get left out of Hollywood with
that one.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's what we're doing. That's what we can't.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
But you know what I got to happen, Reddy Stewart
with a forty eight yard pick six Betty's go turnovers,
Get it on, No, buddy, I'm telling you man, it's
it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It is it is. It is a great error now
and it is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You know what, though, I built that that arc long
long ago, right, this is I'm gonna go Biblical here.
It's like being you know, Noah, and I'm building this
arc and it's like, I think I need to build
it a little bigger.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I got word that it's gonna be and it's gonna
get big. And then you look and all of a
sudden you're in jaws. You're like, I think I need
a bigger boat, because that's where we're at with the
amount of people trying to jump on board my ship.
See what I did there, jump on board my ship?
Not even go a bandwagon. There's not an even enough.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Room, not a bus, no nothing, no, no, I get
you because it's not two by two.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, no, no, there's no order here. They're coming in droves.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's like storming the gates when they open up that
party deck in Dallas at Jerry World.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
This is, you know, a Taylor Swift concert where you've.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Got to get down into the pit because you want
to get as close there and maybe you can convince
them that you're the one that gets the lucky hat. No,
this is what it is for the Bears right now.
And you know what, I got to figure out how
to profit. That's really the only thing left in all
of this process.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And who are you? I'm an honor. This is my wife, Otter,
what do you do? We make people happy as we
swim around.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay, get on the arc. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm Matt Naggie, this is my wife. Go get out,
get out now, you're not getting on. You're not getting on. No,
go go somebody else. Bring those two giraffs on first,
get net. Naggy gets out. He's out, He's out, out
out out of.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Are you gonna?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Did you learn anything from the next run with Kansas
City that you can bring back that's materially relevant to
what we're trying to build here, you know with this quarterback.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If so, you can get in the back of the boat.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Meanwhile, the game that does have the biggest amount of
drama happening right now, Colts and the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Why because we.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Are getting the best and worst and biggest question of
everybody's next favorite breakout quarterback in the NFL, Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
All right, now, there's.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Things to be worried about with him after seeing him
seeing him tonight, and there's things to not be worried about,
but they may not be the same things so so
far tonight Anthony Richardson in his in his playing time,
eight out of fourteen for eighty six yards in a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Right, look terrific.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
On that first drive right down the field, just slicing
and dicing the ball looked fantastic. Okay, hey, that's the
best of Anthony Richardson. And then on the next drive
you kind of got this. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You can't pucket minutes picked up Jordan Battle right there,
puts down.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
There.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It is Amazon Prime on the call a pick six
inside his own twenty yard like now, it looked like
potentially the receiver turned the wrong way or didn't turn
away that Richardson was expecting him to turn. And he
put the ball in a spot where were the defensive
backs and thank you very much, so we'll see where
that is. And then you know, he got sacked later
on in the half and he fumbled. They were able
(06:02):
to dive on it. There's things to be concerned about,
things not to be concerned about. I don't care about
the interception. I don't care about the fumble. Anthony Richardson
is fine. You see how talented the guy is. The
guy's like the freaking Shaquill O'Neill when coming into the
NFL with the freak of nature that he is.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The guy's all kinds of talented. He needs reps.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The guy hasn't played a lot of football in four years, right,
Like Trey Lance looks like a guy that was an
iron man coming out of college compared to Anthony Richardson.
Because he didn't play a lot. He got hurt, and
then then he came into the draft, he got hurt again.
He just needs the reps and then that's gonna be fine.
When you're that talented, you're the mistakes like this. This
is stuff that you are able to erase as time
(06:44):
goes on. So I'm not that concerned about it. I'm
glad he's pushing the ball downfield. I'm glad he's moving
the team. That doesn't concern me at all. But this guy,
you know, if he's going to become the next great
quarterback in the NFL, I still I can't get past
the fact that how the hell is he gonna stay
healthy for a guy that thinks he can When a
quarterback thinks he can make every play, and Anthony rich
(07:06):
is one of those guys, I can make every play
no matter what you leave yourself open to getting hit.
You make bad decisions. Now to mean bad you turn
over the football, I mean bad decisions. You get hit,
you're stretching the wrong way, you get hit wrong, and
you're out of the lineup. He had two bad injuries
last year. He came back after one and knocked out
for the season a week five. Like he's got to
be able to protect himself going forward and not playing
(07:29):
a lot of football. I don't know how long it's
gonna take him to do that. That's my real concern
is that is he good enough? Is he does he
know enough about the NFL game and understand, Okay, this
is what I can do and this is what I
can't do. Because you can't even say he knows all
that about the college game because he barely played, and.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Now he's under the NFL. What can I do? What
can I not do?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And when you haven't played a lot, you're gonna it's
like kind of trial and error, and trial and error
can ended in a lost season very quickly. So for him,
I'm more concerned than other guys, the dual threat quarterbacks.
Can they stay healthy, Can they stay in the lineup?
Because I just don't know that he knows what he
doesn't know yet, if that makes sense, like he doesn't
know what he doesn't know about the NFL, and in
five games last year he played very reckless. He wound
(08:12):
up getting hurt and was out for the year. And
now I don't know that he knows enough to be
able to stay away from it.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I want to pick the Colts to go far.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
They have a lot of great offensive weapons, they go
four deep at wide receiver man, and they are talented
as hell. But wow, if he's not on the field
and I can't trust that he's going to be on
the field, I can't pick them to go crazy because
if I knew he was going to be not They
always say, well, of course, quarterback, that's hurt, But when
you have a propensity to being injured and not playing
a lot, it's a big concern. This is not oh, hey,
(08:42):
this guy got hurt, how's he going to be now.
It's not Aaron Rodgers, Hey had the freak injury. He's
back this year. This is when your style of play
is it portends to the fact that maybe have a
tough time staying on the field. It's hard for me
to believe in that man, and I want him to
succeed because he's exciting as hell man, as big as
he is, how he can move, and what he can
do delivering the football and running. He's fantastic to watch.
(09:03):
But I can't. I can't pick them for anything because
I just don't know. Will he be the quarterback after
week one, Week three, week seven, I can't tell you.
And that's a big red flag for me. Over under
wins is eight and a half.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
We talked a lot about Richardson today in the first
episode of the iWatch Flex season five podcasts, Up and Going,
and I kind of echoed a lot of what you
just said there, Jason, every when he comes down to
it of I want to I want to believe. And
if you look at average draft position, people are bullish
and he's fifth amongst quarterbacks. Guess what this guy spoiler alert,
(09:37):
no chance at hell top five on just based on
that doesn't mean he won't get past it, right, Matthew Stafford,
Once upon a time, he started his career with a
couple of big injuries. For all that we talk about
Joe LMB, the big man in his feet whatever, I'm
not saying, he gives you every game. I'm not saying
he's anywhere near one hundred percent in the playoffs, but
guess what, he got past some.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Of that, Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You need to see him get past some of that,
right because everybody's been predicting dooman gloom for Josh Allen
for years based on style of play. Hasn't happened. Lamar
Jackson has had his injury conserves. You know what, He's
also got two little trophies that say for two years
he was the best player in the damn game. So
he was healthy enough to do that without discernible top
(10:20):
end weapons as you may have in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Because you look at what they added.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
You already had Pittman Junior, who I just decided was
quarterback proof, and I do oven him in a keya
teine league, right, say, all right, that guy's a talent.
You got downs if he can stay healthy. And then
you add ad Ni Mitchell. You got three guys and
you used to have Taylor in the backfield, and you
can get after it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
But there's no guarantee. I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
One of the interesting things, you know, we forgot about
hard knocks when we chronicled that first episode that had
all sorts of just little things. Nick Saban showed up
all of that stuff was how they played on the
slipping slide. I don't know that the Colts had Anthony
Richardson play on the slipping slide or simulate the Hey,
you're gonna about to go through a tunnel like you're
at Disneyland Universal Studios.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Pick your favorite slot.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You gotta get down or your head is gonna get
clanked by a sign. Okay, all of these things or
in this case, a blitzing safety cornerback or a linebacker
who's got you dead on lock right, So all of
those things, I can't trust it. I gotta believe that
the division will be better and stronger. That's fine, But
just from the individual style of play, self preservation's gotta
(11:29):
be first and foremost in his mind. Live to see
another play, and until we have proof of concept, I
can't back them. Eight and a half is they're over
and under on wins. I was actually trying to look
up the over under on games played for Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I look like, I like you got Joe. You want
to get Joe Flacco w in every conversation.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, in this case, it's Germaine because well he's a cold.
I mean, look, I would I would love to be
able to sit here.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And say, Okay, yeah, I completely believe in what I'm
seeing from Anthony Richardson and that he's gonna say. I'd
love to say that because the ceiling for him and
the Colts are they can win this division even with
the Texans. I mean, even with the Texans being as
good as they are, they could run away because they
could score points in bunches. I mean, you watch Richardson
(12:20):
play last year and it looks like for a quarter
and a half, Wow, man, that Colts are getting killed.
They're losing seventeen nothing, they have no life. And then
seven minutes later he throws for a touchdown, runs for
a touchdown, and then throws for another touchdown, and it's twenty
one seventeen at a half time, and it's wow, look
at what this kid can do. And so his talent
it's not in question at all. And the Colts picking him, Boy,
(12:42):
did they get the right guy as far as.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
What he could do for the team. But you need
to be able to be available.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And you know, look, if I could feel for certain,
all right, if I got I'll tell you how much
how good I feel about them, if I could feel
for certain, if you could tell me Anthony Richardson is
playing the entire season, tell you playing all seventeen games,
and I would say, Okay, I can see the Colts
making to the AFC Championship, like I can see them
(13:07):
going that far because he's that talented.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
But you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And while you can potentially do that with other team,
you could say, hey, Josh Allen, all right, yeah, I'll.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Probably play at seventeen games.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
My homes will playoff seventeen to all the buff But
you can't do that with Richardson. If you could, that's
as good as he can take them, because this team
is this team is ready to take off.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They have a lot of good talent. They surrounded him
with good talent. They keep drafting wide receivers for their quarterbacks.
All this guy's now, Alec Pierce isn't working out. Okay,
We're gonna bring mitchellan now and see where he's at.
And Pittman's a great receiver, and we still have one
of the best running backs in the game. We're just
gonna continue to roll through talent for you. That's how
they did. That's one thing the Colts have always done,
(13:45):
no matter who their quarterback is. We're gonna keep bringing
in talent. We're gonna keep bringing in receivers and running
backs and everything else and make sure they have enough
guys to throw to. It's a great philosophy to have
something a lot of quarterbacks would like to do. So
I'm never worried about where they are talent wise offensively,
but this is it, man. That's how good they can be.
If I knew we could stay healthy all year. That's
how I'll put it in.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
A couple of stats again, quarterback Y episode of the pod,
gonna go up. Ten guys top four thousand passing yards
a year ago. You add four thirty plus touchdown throwers
six twenty five to twenty nine, eight twenty to twenty four.
What does that tell you? That's eighteen guys at his
means fourteen teams had eight quarterback or multiple quarterbacks or
(14:31):
the single quarterbacks through for nineteen touchdowns or fewer. Only
fifteen guys actually got to sixteen or seventeen games. And
obviously you got a couple of guys that were operation
shut down in the final week five guys played fifteen games,
three guys played thirteen, and then it's a veritable hodgepodge
all the way down to that whole number of sixty
(14:53):
six different starters a year ago. The Colts are praying, wishing, wanting,
hoping that Richardson, if he's gonna miss that, that over
under because we said it last year for Lamar. We
need him at thirteen and a half games, right, I
think that's where we put it at. I need that
from Anthony Richardson. And the key is miss a game
or two in September, save them for good, and maybe
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Speaker 3 (16:15):
You know I actually have a Rick Springfield story. You
do you want a Rick Springfield story?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Was this when you were watching General Hospital back in
the day when he was doctor Noah Drake no singing
to Jimmy Hart song go this is about this is about.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Oh my goodness, I was doing all night on ESPN Radio.
This is like maybe two thousand and five, is so,
maybe almost twenty years ago. And somehow my one of
my bosses at ESPN, who's one of the best bosses
I ever had, Louise Cornetta, she said, Hey, I got
you an invite to the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Big ABC.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Like fall soap opera up front something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It's a big dinner or something said Okay, why am
I going?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And she was, well, because we have a lot of
people that want to do stuff with us at ESPN,
and you know they want to do stuff with the show,
with your show because you're La and everything. You could
go there and you know, hopefully you wind up meeting
some people and everything. I said, sure, I mean it's
it's a free dinner. I was like, shit's all you
have to do is say free dinner. And I was,
I care what it was? Oh, free dinner? Yeah, what
do you want me to do? Well, I want you
(17:23):
to eat snails and drive over a bunch of nails.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So I go to the dinner and I wind up
sitting at a table with Thorston K, who was a
really big soap operact about twenty years, huge Red Wings fan, right,
and I wound up to spend most of the night
talking to him. But Rick Springfield is there and he
is like the big star, right because he's bleeping Rick
Springfield and one of my best friend's wives. It was
a huge Rick Springfield fan, like bought everything he bought,
(17:49):
you know, his albums, everything else, and going oh my god,
like what like I can't take a picture with him
and send it to her because that would feel weird, like, hey,
look who I met and you didn't, right, Like, it's
kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So I don't know. I'm like, ah, what can I do?
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I saw what they did when we all sat down,
was we all had name plates for our seats.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm like, oh, okay, all right, that's cool. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then I go, oh, I'll wait till the end
and I'll take his name plate because it was, you know,
done incursive, it was printed out on an official invitation
to look great. I'm like, oh, I'll send her this
and she'll love it. I'm like, all right, great. So
I just got to go to the table at the
end of the night and I gotta take it. I'm like, okay, fine.
So it's breaking up, the dinner is over, and he
and he gets up and I wait for him to leave,
and I'm like, okay, Rick Springfield left, all right, that's cool.
(18:30):
So I go over and I go and I pick
up the thing and it's a little piece of paper
right like it's maybe like four inches high and like
six inches wide, not even like that's what it is.
And I go to put it in my pocket, and
the guy who was clearing off the table said, sir,
what are you doing, sir? I said, oh, nothing, I'm
just grabbing a piece of paper.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Sir.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You can't take the nameplate, test or you can't. I go,
there are pieces of paper you can't, sir, you can't.
You can't just take one, sir. And all some people
are looking at me like this guy's taking a nameplate,
like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa woa, and and I'm like, oh,
people think I'm an idiot here. I'm like, oh, whoa,
It's just it's just a name tag he left. I'm
just taking. I'm just taking his name to And now
I'm like, now go, I just have to say.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
What I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm taking his name tag for a friend of mine
who's a big fan of Rick S. And he looks
at me, goes, sir, I don't know what to tell you.
He can't take it, But he doesn't take it from me,
and he doesn't sit there and make a big deal
like he's cleaning the table. He's telling me I can't
take it, and I'm like and then he gets up
and he walks away. I go, did you just do
that to embarrass me, Like why the hell do you
even do that?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If you're gonna stop and try to take it from me,
you could have my Rix Springfield piece of paper when
you pry it for my cold dead hand, like you can. Like,
but he did, he got some. And also he was
embarrassed me and people looking at me going like who's
who's uh, who's who's the bald guy there? Like is
he on any shows? Like what is he doing here?
So I just had to leave and I'm like, oh,
this is kind of embarrassing, all because I wanted to
(19:47):
get the Rick Springfield name tag for my friend's wife. Well,
I mean you tried, Like that's a story of my life,
Like would anybody else get get?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Get?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Get a guy leaning up the table to yell at
them like in a situation like that, like.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Oh, I think we've all we've all been down there.
I mean, how many times have people tried to take
flowers from banquet halls like after parties? I mean I
remember that from the premiere radio parties from the holidays
years ago. You go and and people would be like, yeah,
I'm gonna try to walk out of here with this dude,
(20:26):
at least leave the base behind.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
What do you do The base isn't free.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'm sure the dead flowers stone Jo, I'm sure they'll
be happy you could take those, But the the actual base, no,
probably not a uh not a trophy from your attendance
at the holiday.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Leave those flowers on the wall. It don't bother. Uh So,
now let me get that. That's Rick Springfield.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Did you did you progress to stealing centerpieces from weddings
or did you stop at that point?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Well, at that point, you know, as soon as they
stop me, because I mean, you have to bring your
mouchin satchel.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Where you have several vases. Vases we say.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Vase because then in the secondary market it's gonna be
more expensive.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh okay, very gonna say stop me. Then you know
I went on a watch list, and that one on
this wedding centerpiece watch list. Show the end of it
for me.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Watch the guy in the purple suit. He's gonna try
to steal that centerpiece with the flowers on it and
steal some stuff. We promised to give those to the
wedding party. But that guy's gonna try to get out
with one. He's probably gonna be all liquored up and
he's gonna cause controversy. I'm gonna yell at you. Just
let him go. Well, we'll get him in the parking
lot and we'll get the centerpiece back from him. It's okay,
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I'll tell go, go go.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And I got tackled. It was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Uh So, look, we just had the final snap of
the Bears Chiefs game. The Bears beat the Chiefs thirty
four to twenty one. Again, we'll have an update as
soon as we can on Coleman, who was hurt earlier
tonight taking off the field on a stretcher. Really scary moment. Again,
we're waiting to get something from the hospital for him.
But let's just say, as we look ahead to tomorrow's games, right,
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three games tomorrow night, we got the Jaguars and the Falcons,
Dolphins and the Bucks, Niners and the Raiders. Right, this
is the time of the year, and hey, we don't
want to travel very far, so we're going to play
teams that are really close to us.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
All Right, I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, there's some things everybody's looking and hoping to see
tomorrow night. As you look at these games, I'll tell
you the one thing I don't want to see Kyle Shanahan.
Don't be an idiot. Don't play rock Birdy, don't do it.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
You look stupid enough playing behind all the playing him
last week, behind three backup offensive linemen, no first string
skill position players, and he got hit a bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's like, dude, if he got hurt, people would say
it serves you right because you put the guy out
there behind a bad offensive line.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Really, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like this is where someone needs go to Kyle Shanago, Dude,
what were you doing there?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
What were you doing there?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And there's talk that he and other starters are gonna
actually play tomorrow night, like nobody like, like, we don't
know exactly what kind of combination there is. We know
Trent Williams isn't there, So already you're playing without your
blind side protector. Really want to risk that? Really want
to risk that? I mean, you have to play the
regular season withou him if he doesn't sign. I understand that,
but wow, I really, I really I don't want to
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see Brock Perdy play tomorrow night because it was just
stupid that he played last So it is common sense
not to play him with three backup offensive linemen and
no good skill position players.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's just common said, no, no, no, no, I'm not
gonna do it now.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Hey, yeah, yeah, they're gonna play and maybe play a
little bit more in our final game against the Raiders
on Friday night. I really hope for Brock Purdy's sake,
we don't see him and and he's able to withstand
the ridiculous decisions of his coach. This is why I
say things like when the Niners succeed, it pisses me
off sometimes because they don't deserve it, because their front
office and some of the decisions that they make are
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just ridiculous, laborious, or they're stupid like this one, and
yet they step in it. They try seventeen different ways
to get a quarterback. Oh, the guy who's mister irrelevant
turns out to be a sixty million dollars a year player.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Hey, that works out for us. What are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We're gonna play him behind backup offensive lineman and boy
he's gonna get hit hard, but hey, we escape that
as well.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Like this, it's very oh, this is a very difficult
last year minutes for Northern California but I mean it.
I look this and I go, I really don't want
to see him tomorrow night. Don't do it. Don't don't
do it, don't play him tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah, it seems silly at this point, right, you either
are ready to play or go practice again, don't don't
take the live potential hit. All it takes is getting nudged.
I mean, we're talking about this play out of the
Bearish Chiefs again. Go back and watch it. There's nothing
obvious that says signals. You know, it's it's a big,
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you know, blow, a big event, and he had to
be carted off, the game had to be stopped. I'm
not saying you get something to that level, but you know,
we see injuries. We've seen many through our years of
watching preseason football and getting into the regular season. Also
a guy that you know much of your success is
predicated on his performance. And with Brandon Ayu, Trent Williams,
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all these guys still in flux.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You need your quarterback, you need your signal caller up
and ready to go.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Uh and so adding any level of risk at this
point is just foolhardy.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I really I when I see the Niner succeed I go,
did they make decisions that are.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Horrible and they still find a way to succeed? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
It did?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
They're they're they're the kid.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Who doesn't study all semester and then spends the night
before cramming.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
What'd you get?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I got a B plus? Man.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I went to every single class and I studied my
ass off and I still got to be I don't
want me to tell you just worked out for me.
I don't know what to say, just where I didn't
do anything the right way, but boy, look I wound
up getting to B plus in a better grade than you.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Like. That's how I feel. The forty nine ers are sorry, buddy.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah, you know, sometimes we just don't get the nice things,
which means they're living right in some capacity, or they've
made a deal with the devil.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I mean whatever, wherever you want to go with that,
I mean, either way, take the high road, the low road, right.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Jim harbaughs and he's singing saying, you know here in
the angels, singing all of those things like take it
as you will. But for the forty nine ers, a
lot of missteps, a lot of great moves, a lot
of great uh, you know, scouting and piecing things together,
but certainly playing with fire is something they what they
like to do.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Tell you, it's it's hard. It's really hard to see
people do it this way and still succeed.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Really, it is it is? I really I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Maybe I go back to about ten years ago when
when I was at a fantasy football dinner and John
Lynch was just a you know, an analyst on TV,
and he asked me my advice and Fanky, Jason, what
do you think this guy for fantasy?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Here's what I think right here, and now the guy's
running the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, and here they are. Look at all the decisions.
You are sitting here with me, Ahsucker exit out, bout
of Fresco, exit, swallen down.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon
something I don't want to see tomorrow night. What I
want to see right now is for Steve to saga
or tell me the Mets game is over and they've won.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Can you do that for me, Steve?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
I mean I could say the words, it would be
completely untrue. Yes, I'm capable of speaking the English language.
All right, all right, Mets are winning three to one
bottom of the seventh at San Diego Baseball in a moment,
because we've got two finals from the NFL exhibitions tonight,
Ladies and gentlemen. The Chicago Bears went four and oh
in the preseason. They beat the winless Kansas City Chiefs tonight,
(27:45):
thirty four to twenty one. That Mahomes guy didn't play,
but it doesn't matter. It's a win for the Chicago Bears.
Ian Book by the way, too late touchdown passes for
KC and rookie running back Carson Steele from UCLA for
the Chiefs, four carries fifty yards, including a short touchdown.
Kansas City is giving center Creed Humphrey a new four
(28:07):
year contract a four year extension. Indianapolis was a winner
at windless Cincinnati, twenty seven to fourteen, Anthony Richardson one
touchdown pass in the first quarter, but also one interception
return for a TD. The Eagles acquired wide receiver John
Dotson from Washington. The Commanders traded for kicker Cade York
from Cleveland and released Riley Patterson. San Francisco signed tight
(28:30):
end Logan Thomas. Atlanta gave defensive back aj Terrell a
four year extension. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford practice fully today
against the Texans after hamstring tightness. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets starters will not play Saturday against the Giants.
This is the final week of the preseason. Two tonight,
three more games Friday. Most teams play on Saturday, three
(28:53):
games on Sunday. By the way, NFL clubs have to
reduce their rosters to fifty three players by Tuesday, then
the waiver claims by the next day to Major League Baseball.
Today in New York, the Yankees shutout Cleveland six nothing,
allowing the Guardians just one hit. Aaron Judge belted his
forty eighth film run of the season. Tonight, Pittsburgh was
a seven nothing winner over Cincinnati. The win to Paul Skeans,
(29:15):
who's eight in two Toronto and Houston with victories. Houston
a six nothing win at Baltimore, beating Corbyn Burns, so
the Orioles are a game and a half behind the
Yankees for first in the Al East. Atlanta edge Philadelphia
three to two. Phillies offense went three for twenty nine
with fourteen strikeouts, and the Mets are they're tanking.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
They're tanking to throw the Mets every time they beat
everybody else except the teams the Mets are fighting with
for the wild card. They can't beat the Braves, they
can't beat the Diamondbacks. Everybody else they beat. But they're
tanking because this would help the Mets if they beat
these other teams in their.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Rias, because of course who else would be foremost in
one's mind. Yeah, going for the playoffs. But but of
course New York Mets.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
See, now you understand ste Now you get it.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Well, I do understand some things. I'm not sure I
understand what you just said.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
That's three one leaders.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
At San Diego in the bottom of the seventh, Dylan
Cease was the Padre starter. Did have seven strikeouts, pulled
in the seventh inning, allowed just two earned runs. The
Mariners fired manager Scott's Service. Former catcher Dan Wilson will
be the interim skipper. About two months ago, Seattle led
the Aos by ten games. Since then, its record is
twenty and thirty two, the worst record in the Majors
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except for the White Sox so in Major League history.
Service is the first skipper to have a ten game
lead and then be fired before the end of that season.
Back to you.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So what you're telling me is there is no service
in Mariner's Land anymore.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Thank you. Well wait, thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Carmen
live from Thetirack dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
This is, without a doubt, the most bizarre sports story
of the day, but it may open up a new
avenue to how people work in the business. Wait a minute,
what y'all? That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (31:23):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tyraq dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And every once in a while a story comes up
that I just go Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Sometimes what people decide and say in public just blows
me away. And I don't mean the Staten Island manager
mad at Aaron Judge, Ay, you didn't talk to my kids.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
John Sterling, who very famously retired a couple of months
ago as the voice of New York Yankees. The guy
who was announcing Yankee games for the last ninety years.
I think he announced when they were the Highlanders, before
they even they made the trade for Babe Ruth and
Susan I ever.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Could be only one, and I mean the league folded Susan.
We have breaking news here.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
No No Nonette has been canceled in Boston and the
Yankees are getting Babe Ruth the Yankees, which John Sterling,
who retired as a longtime voice of Yankee games, said
that you know, I'd kind of like to come back
and announce the playoff games. Well, he said the main
(32:30):
reason for retiring was travel. Look, John Sterling's eighty six
years old, and uh, I get it. Like you know,
travel isn't always great. People get sick and tied of
traveling at certain times in their lives. A guy's been
traveling six seven months a year for the last forty years. Yeah,
I get that he's sick and tied of traveling, so okay,
but now he wants to pull like a Hey. I
(32:50):
saw Roger Clemens do this like fifteen twenty years ago
at the Yankees, where I only want to pitch down
the stretched in the playoffs. So that's what I'm gonna
do the rest of the time with my family, and
I'll come back in August. Like now, he says, yeah,
I would like to maybe call some of the ache
playoff games.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I love it for him. Who oh, hey, you're somebody else.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Who's gonna be Who's gonna be the fro Okay? Now
I ask you this, if you like this so much,
Who's gonna be the first sports talk radio or television
personality to say, you know, I only want to work
during the football season. I'll do my show five days
a week during football, but when football season's over, I'm done.
And from the day after the Super Bowl until we
(33:35):
get into the right before the season starts the end
of August, someone else does the show. But I'll come
in and I'll do football when it when it matters
when I when football is here and the most popular
sport in the world is being played, That's what I'll
come back. But the other rest of it not. I know,
you take that, but you'll take me because I'm a
big star. So someone else could do my show for
seven months, I'll come back for five.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And that's how it works. Who's gonna be the first
guy to do that. I wasn't gonna do it half
a year.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Let me ponder this, candidate one. Yeah, I take you
actually have a lot of vacation. You actually have people
in mind already or people off the to my hand,
I'm like, oh, yeah, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, I'm surprised we haven't gone that way.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Listen, maybe and maybe for very special times, I'll do
a special show. The week of the NFL Draft, I'll
do a special show week program. Absolutely, and maybe not
the first week of NFL free agency, but the first
three days of free agency when all the big players sign. Like,
that's what I'll do. Like, I'll come back for the
That'll be that. But but someone else is doing my show.
(34:43):
Other people are doing my show the rest of the time.
That's gonna be it that. That's what I'm gonna come
out and do. Yeah, I get totally. I'll start typing
out the names to you in a minute.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Oh man, Yeah, I've got a couple of candidates.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
This is the best love the story, John Sterling.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
He actually at least he did say, you know, I
feel bad for the guys calling the games during the season.
What do you mean, But what the guys, who's actually
job it is to do the game? You feel bad,
I'm coming in. I'm coming into uh to take over.
No, I want to call these games in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Tapping back in, that's fine, you call your own number,
or when it's winning time.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I'm rested, I'm ready, I'm fine. We'll come back. A
couple of the ways to twist up a judge and last.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, I feel good, I'm I'm fine. I've rested now
for a little bit. I'll come back and call. My
voice is feeling good. The I could do it just
like that. A couple months of it was the and
I was done. But now I can do the Yeah,
I'm ready, let me come back. I'm ready for October.
This is just broadcasting load management. I mean, because we've
seen load right guys.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
As guys get a little bit older, they don't do
the road trip, right, Ken Harrelson, for you do that
with the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Steve Stone to a degree, now you've got tagging out.
Probably some mental health concern as well with the how
terrible the season was. But he's a little bit older.
So Gordon Beckham, former infielder's been getting some run during
this horrid, horrid twenty twenty four seasons.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
You mean he's not still playing for the White Sox
Gordon Beckham.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Wow, okay, okay, he does look look the part, though
still very youthful in his appearance. A couple of years
like this will age him rapidly. It's like being president
like Grady size More. Look how young Grady Sizemore looks.
Oh yeah, job, No, it's for two or three years,
(36:35):
all age of fast.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
But I don't know for three years, maybe maybe another
couple of months by the end of September one. Hey, congratulations,
I being the worst team in the history of Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I need a drink. Oh my goodness is all the accelerator.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
But yeah, you've got that. I mean you look at
basketball with the number of games. Look, you can still
win an award and miss twenty percent of the time
and people are still mad about it. So an opportunity
here to just tag in and say, you know, I'm
ready for the playoffs. It's winning time, and I'm back.
Get a big wwe like entrance and away you go.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
All right, I'll come back for Week zero of college football.
But that's the earliest You're gonna get me, then that's
the earliest you're gonna get me.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Rest of the time, I'm off coming up next.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
What is the big takeaway to come away from preseason
football action tonight?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
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And right now we got the big Week three of
the NFL preseason. It's underway, it's happening. The Bears are
playing and they're winning. I'm telling you, buddy, the Chiefs
chaps as boring ass as they are on hard knocks
and as awful of a show as that is. I'm
(01:10):
telling you, man, era of good feeling is here. Not
that it's about this because the Chiefs are playing backups, obviously,
and if they were playing the flag football guy who
says he's better than Mahomes, it might be different.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
But it doesn't matter. At everything's gonna come up, Bears, Buddy.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I love everything about your team this year, man, except
Hard Knocks is terrible.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No, Hard Knocks is boring.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
But like I theorized earlier in the week, I reiterated
for the audience nationwide and globally listening in, this is
a master strategy and leave us the hell alone.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
We are so boring.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
And then as soon as the cambers go away, ib
Refluse lets his hair down.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
That beard gets a little mangy and it gets loose.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yea the interim, you got a very boring Hard Knocks
where it's all right, let's talk about the punter.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know he's Australian. Let's get my nickname.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Hey, he's an Australian. Let's give him a whole segment. Let's
give him a whole segment. We learned about him and
where he's from, and let's hear him talk, because hearing
Australian people talk is funt's.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's always fun.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Let's make a bunch of references to the crocodile hunter,
his family, his kid, the Australian zoo wallabies, and every
other animal we may know that could potentially kill you
from Australia.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, that was great.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
That was fan That's the most exciting thing in three
episodes of Hard Knocks.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, Williams is a nice guy. He's got a sponge
DJ Moore. Look at what he got.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
He got his contract and then he and his family
went to the Museum of ice Cream.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That's it. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
No, that that that's a that's not really a show
like that's like you get left out of Hollywood with
that one.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
That's what we're doing. That's what we can't.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
But you know what I got to happen, Reddy Stewart
with a forty eight yard pick six Betty's go turnovers,
Get it on, No, buddy, I'm telling you man, it's
it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
It is it is. It is a great error now
and it is fantastic.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
You know what, though, I built that that arc long
long ago, right, this is I'm gonna go Biblical here.
It's like being you know, Noah, and I'm building this
arc and it's like, I think I need to build
it a little bigger.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
I got word that it's gonna be and it's gonna
get big. And then you look and all of a
sudden you're in jaws. You're like, I think I need
a bigger boat, because that's where we're at with the
amount of people trying to jump on board my ship.
See what I did there, jump on board my ship?
Not even go a bandwagon. There's not an even enough.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Room, not a bus, no nothing, no, no, I get
you because it's not two by two.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, no, no, there's no order here. They're coming in droves.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It's like storming the gates when they open up that
party deck in Dallas at Jerry World.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
This is, you know, a Taylor Swift concert where you've.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Got to get down into the pit because you want
to get as close there and maybe you can convince
them that you're the one that gets the lucky hat. No,
this is what it is for the Bears right now.
And you know what, I got to figure out how
to profit. That's really the only thing left in all
of this process.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
And who are you? I'm an honor. This is my wife, Otter,
what do you do? We make people happy as we
swim around.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay, get on the arc. Who are you?
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I'm Matt Naggie, this is my wife. Go get out,
get out now, you're not getting on. You're not getting on. No,
go go somebody else. Bring those two giraffs on first,
get net. Naggy gets out. He's out, He's out, out
out out of.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Are you gonna?
Speaker 4 (04:26):
Did you learn anything from the next run with Kansas
City that you can bring back that's materially relevant to
what we're trying to build here, you know with this quarterback.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
If so, you can get in the back of the boat.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Meanwhile, the game that does have the biggest amount of
drama happening right now, Colts and the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Why because we.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Are getting the best and worst and biggest question of
everybody's next favorite breakout quarterback in the NFL, Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
All right, now, there's.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Things to be worried about with him after seeing him
seeing him tonight, and there's things to not be worried about,
but they may not be the same things so so
far tonight Anthony Richardson in his in his playing time,
eight out of fourteen for eighty six yards in a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Right, look terrific.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
On that first drive right down the field, just slicing
and dicing the ball looked fantastic. Okay, hey, that's the
best of Anthony Richardson. And then on the next drive
you kind of got this. Let's take a listen.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You can't pucket minutes picked up Jordan Battle right there,
puts down.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
There.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
It is Amazon Prime on the call a pick six
inside his own twenty yard like now, it looked like
potentially the receiver turned the wrong way or didn't turn
away that Richardson was expecting him to turn. And he
put the ball in a spot where were the defensive
backs and thank you very much, so we'll see where
that is. And then you know, he got sacked later
on in the half and he fumbled. They were able
(06:02):
to dive on it. There's things to be concerned about,
things not to be concerned about. I don't care about
the interception. I don't care about the fumble. Anthony Richardson
is fine. You see how talented the guy is. The
guy's like the freaking Shaquill O'Neill when coming into the
NFL with the freak of nature that he is.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
The guy's all kinds of talented. He needs reps.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
The guy hasn't played a lot of football in four years, right,
Like Trey Lance looks like a guy that was an
iron man coming out of college compared to Anthony Richardson.
Because he didn't play a lot. He got hurt, and
then then he came into the draft, he got hurt again.
He just needs the reps and then that's gonna be fine.
When you're that talented, you're the mistakes like this. This
is stuff that you are able to erase as time
(06:44):
goes on. So I'm not that concerned about it. I'm
glad he's pushing the ball downfield. I'm glad he's moving
the team. That doesn't concern me at all. But this guy,
you know, if he's going to become the next great
quarterback in the NFL, I still I can't get past
the fact that how the hell is he gonna stay
healthy for a guy that thinks he can When a
quarterback thinks he can make every play, and Anthony rich
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is one of those guys, I can make every play
no matter what you leave yourself open to getting hit.
You make bad decisions. Now to mean bad you turn
over the football, I mean bad decisions. You get hit,
you're stretching the wrong way, you get hit wrong, and
you're out of the lineup. He had two bad injuries
last year. He came back after one and knocked out
for the season a week five. Like he's got to
be able to protect himself going forward and not playing
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a lot of football. I don't know how long it's
gonna take him to do that. That's my real concern
is that is he good enough? Is he does he
know enough about the NFL game and understand, Okay, this
is what I can do and this is what I
can't do. Because you can't even say he knows all
that about the college game because he barely played, and.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Now he's under the NFL. What can I do? What
can I not do?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And when you haven't played a lot, you're gonna it's
like kind of trial and error, and trial and error
can ended in a lost season very quickly. So for him,
I'm more concerned than other guys, the dual threat quarterbacks.
Can they stay healthy, Can they stay in the lineup?
Because I just don't know that he knows what he
doesn't know yet, if that makes sense, like he doesn't
know what he doesn't know about the NFL, and in
five games last year he played very reckless. He wound
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up getting hurt and was out for the year. And
now I don't know that he knows enough to be
able to stay away from it.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I want to pick the Colts to go far.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
They have a lot of great offensive weapons, they go
four deep at wide receiver man, and they are talented
as hell. But wow, if he's not on the field
and I can't trust that he's going to be on
the field, I can't pick them to go crazy because
if I knew he was going to be not They
always say, well, of course, quarterback, that's hurt, But when
you have a propensity to being injured and not playing
a lot, it's a big concern. This is not oh, hey,
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this guy got hurt, how's he going to be now.
It's not Aaron Rodgers, Hey had the freak injury. He's
back this year. This is when your style of play
is it portends to the fact that maybe have a
tough time staying on the field. It's hard for me
to believe in that man, and I want him to
succeed because he's exciting as hell man, as big as
he is, how he can move, and what he can
do delivering the football and running. He's fantastic to watch.
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But I can't. I can't pick them for anything because
I just don't know. Will he be the quarterback after
week one, Week three, week seven, I can't tell you.
And that's a big red flag for me. Over under
wins is eight and a half.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
We talked a lot about Richardson today in the first
episode of the iWatch Flex season five podcasts, Up and Going,
and I kind of echoed a lot of what you
just said there, Jason, every when he comes down to
it of I want to I want to believe. And
if you look at average draft position, people are bullish
and he's fifth amongst quarterbacks. Guess what this guy spoiler alert,
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no chance at hell top five on just based on
that doesn't mean he won't get past it, right, Matthew Stafford,
Once upon a time, he started his career with a
couple of big injuries. For all that we talk about
Joe LMB, the big man in his feet whatever, I'm
not saying, he gives you every game. I'm not saying
he's anywhere near one hundred percent in the playoffs, but
guess what, he got past some.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Of that, Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
You need to see him get past some of that,
right because everybody's been predicting dooman gloom for Josh Allen
for years based on style of play. Hasn't happened. Lamar
Jackson has had his injury conserves. You know what, He's
also got two little trophies that say for two years
he was the best player in the damn game. So
he was healthy enough to do that without discernible top
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end weapons as you may have in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Because you look at what they added.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
You already had Pittman Junior, who I just decided was
quarterback proof, and I do oven him in a keya
teine league, right, say, all right, that guy's a talent.
You got downs if he can stay healthy. And then
you add ad Ni Mitchell. You got three guys and
you used to have Taylor in the backfield, and you
can get after it.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
But there's no guarantee. I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
One of the interesting things, you know, we forgot about
hard knocks when we chronicled that first episode that had
all sorts of just little things. Nick Saban showed up
all of that stuff was how they played on the
slipping slide. I don't know that the Colts had Anthony
Richardson play on the slipping slide or simulate the Hey,
you're gonna about to go through a tunnel like you're
at Disneyland Universal Studios.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Pick your favorite slot.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
You gotta get down or your head is gonna get
clanked by a sign. Okay, all of these things or
in this case, a blitzing safety cornerback or a linebacker
who's got you dead on lock right, So all of
those things, I can't trust it. I gotta believe that
the division will be better and stronger. That's fine, But
just from the individual style of play, self preservation's gotta
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be first and foremost in his mind. Live to see
another play, and until we have proof of concept, I
can't back them. Eight and a half is they're over
and under on wins. I was actually trying to look
up the over under on games played for Joe Flacco.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
I look like, I like you got Joe. You want
to get Joe Flacco w in every conversation.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Well, in this case, it's Germaine because well he's a cold.
I mean, look, I would I would love to be
able to sit here.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And say, Okay, yeah, I completely believe in what I'm
seeing from Anthony Richardson and that he's gonna say. I'd
love to say that because the ceiling for him and
the Colts are they can win this division even with
the Texans. I mean, even with the Texans being as
good as they are, they could run away because they
could score points in bunches. I mean, you watch Richardson
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play last year and it looks like for a quarter
and a half, Wow, man, that Colts are getting killed.
They're losing seventeen nothing, they have no life. And then
seven minutes later he throws for a touchdown, runs for
a touchdown, and then throws for another touchdown, and it's twenty
one seventeen at a half time, and it's wow, look
at what this kid can do. And so his talent
it's not in question at all. And the Colts picking him, Boy,
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did they get the right guy as far as.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
What he could do for the team. But you need
to be able to be available.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And you know, look, if I could feel for certain,
all right, if I got I'll tell you how much
how good I feel about them, if I could feel
for certain, if you could tell me Anthony Richardson is
playing the entire season, tell you playing all seventeen games,
and I would say, Okay, I can see the Colts
making to the AFC Championship, like I can see them
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going that far because he's that talented.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
But you can't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
And while you can potentially do that with other team,
you could say, hey, Josh Allen, all right, yeah, I'll.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Probably play at seventeen games.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
My homes will playoff seventeen to all the buff But
you can't do that with Richardson. If you could, that's
as good as he can take them, because this team
is this team is ready to take off.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Man.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
They have a lot of good talent. They surrounded him
with good talent. They keep drafting wide receivers for their quarterbacks.
All this guy's now, Alec Pierce isn't working out. Okay,
We're gonna bring mitchellan now and see where he's at.
And Pittman's a great receiver, and we still have one
of the best running backs in the game. We're just
gonna continue to roll through talent for you. That's how
they did. That's one thing the Colts have always done,
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no matter who their quarterback is. We're gonna keep bringing
in talent. We're gonna keep bringing in receivers and running
backs and everything else and make sure they have enough
guys to throw to. It's a great philosophy to have
something a lot of quarterbacks would like to do. So
I'm never worried about where they are talent wise offensively,
but this is it, man. That's how good they can be.
If I knew we could stay healthy all year. That's
how I'll put it in.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
A couple of stats again, quarterback Y episode of the pod,
gonna go up. Ten guys top four thousand passing yards
a year ago. You add four thirty plus touchdown throwers
six twenty five to twenty nine, eight twenty to twenty four.
What does that tell you? That's eighteen guys at his
means fourteen teams had eight quarterback or multiple quarterbacks or
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the single quarterbacks through for nineteen touchdowns or fewer. Only
fifteen guys actually got to sixteen or seventeen games. And
obviously you got a couple of guys that were operation
shut down in the final week five guys played fifteen games,
three guys played thirteen, and then it's a veritable hodgepodge
all the way down to that whole number of sixty
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six different starters a year ago. The Colts are praying, wishing, wanting,
hoping that Richardson, if he's gonna miss that, that over
under because we said it last year for Lamar. We
need him at thirteen and a half games, right, I
think that's where we put it at. I need that
from Anthony Richardson. And the key is miss a game
or two in September, save them for good, and maybe
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Speaker 3 (16:15):
You know I actually have a Rick Springfield story. You
do you want a Rick Springfield story?
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Was this when you were watching General Hospital back in
the day when he was doctor Noah Drake no singing
to Jimmy Hart song go this is about this is about.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Oh my goodness, I was doing all night on ESPN Radio.
This is like maybe two thousand and five, is so,
maybe almost twenty years ago. And somehow my one of
my bosses at ESPN, who's one of the best bosses
I ever had, Louise Cornetta, she said, Hey, I got
you an invite to the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Big ABC.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Like fall soap opera up front something like that.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It's a big dinner or something said Okay, why am
I going?
Speaker 1 (17:02):
And she was, well, because we have a lot of
people that want to do stuff with us at ESPN,
and you know they want to do stuff with the show,
with your show because you're La and everything. You could
go there and you know, hopefully you wind up meeting
some people and everything. I said, sure, I mean it's
it's a free dinner. I was like, shit's all you
have to do is say free dinner. And I was,
I care what it was? Oh, free dinner? Yeah, what
do you want me to do? Well, I want you
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to eat snails and drive over a bunch of nails.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I'll be there.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
So I go to the dinner and I wind up
sitting at a table with Thorston K, who was a
really big soap operact about twenty years, huge Red Wings fan, right,
and I wound up to spend most of the night
talking to him. But Rick Springfield is there and he
is like the big star, right because he's bleeping Rick
Springfield and one of my best friend's wives. It was
a huge Rick Springfield fan, like bought everything he bought,
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you know, his albums, everything else, and going oh my god,
like what like I can't take a picture with him
and send it to her because that would feel weird, like, hey,
look who I met and you didn't, right, Like, it's
kind of weird.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
So I don't know. I'm like, ah, what can I do?
What can I do?
Speaker 1 (18:00):
And I saw what they did when we all sat down,
was we all had name plates for our seats.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
I'm like, oh, okay, all right, that's cool. That's cool.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
And then I go, oh, I'll wait till the end
and I'll take his name plate because it was, you know,
done incursive, it was printed out on an official invitation
to look great. I'm like, oh, I'll send her this
and she'll love it. I'm like, all right, great. So
I just got to go to the table at the
end of the night and I gotta take it. I'm like, okay, fine.
So it's breaking up, the dinner is over, and he
and he gets up and I wait for him to leave,
and I'm like, okay, Rick Springfield left, all right, that's cool.
(18:30):
So I go over and I go and I pick
up the thing and it's a little piece of paper
right like it's maybe like four inches high and like
six inches wide, not even like that's what it is.
And I go to put it in my pocket, and
the guy who was clearing off the table said, sir,
what are you doing, sir? I said, oh, nothing, I'm
just grabbing a piece of paper.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Sir.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
You can't take the nameplate, test or you can't. I go,
there are pieces of paper you can't, sir, you can't.
You can't just take one, sir. And all some people
are looking at me like this guy's taking a nameplate,
like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa woa, and and I'm like, oh,
people think I'm an idiot here. I'm like, oh, whoa,
It's just it's just a name tag he left. I'm
just taking. I'm just taking his name to And now
I'm like, now go, I just have to say.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
What I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm taking his name tag for a friend of mine
who's a big fan of Rick S. And he looks
at me, goes, sir, I don't know what to tell you.
He can't take it, But he doesn't take it from me,
and he doesn't sit there and make a big deal
like he's cleaning the table. He's telling me I can't
take it, and I'm like and then he gets up
and he walks away. I go, did you just do
that to embarrass me, Like why the hell do you
even do that?
Speaker 3 (19:25):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If you're gonna stop and try to take it from me,
you could have my Rix Springfield piece of paper when
you pry it for my cold dead hand, like you can. Like,
but he did, he got some. And also he was
embarrassed me and people looking at me going like who's
who's uh, who's who's the bald guy there? Like is
he on any shows? Like what is he doing here?
So I just had to leave and I'm like, oh,
this is kind of embarrassing, all because I wanted to
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get the Rick Springfield name tag for my friend's wife. Well,
I mean you tried, Like that's a story of my life,
Like would anybody else get get?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Get?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Get a guy leaning up the table to yell at
them like in a situation like that, like.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Oh, I think we've all we've all been down there.
I mean, how many times have people tried to take
flowers from banquet halls like after parties? I mean I
remember that from the premiere radio parties from the holidays
years ago. You go and and people would be like, yeah,
I'm gonna try to walk out of here with this dude,
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at least leave the base behind.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
What do you do The base isn't free.
Speaker 4 (20:31):
I'm sure the dead flowers stone Jo, I'm sure they'll
be happy you could take those, But the the actual base, no,
probably not a uh not a trophy from your attendance
at the holiday.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Leave those flowers on the wall. It don't bother. Uh So,
now let me get that. That's Rick Springfield.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Did you did you progress to stealing centerpieces from weddings
or did you stop at that point?
Speaker 3 (20:57):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Well, at that point, you know, as soon as they
stop me, because I mean, you have to bring your
mouchin satchel.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Where you have several vases. Vases we say.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Vase because then in the secondary market it's gonna be
more expensive.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Oh okay, very gonna say stop me. Then you know
I went on a watch list, and that one on
this wedding centerpiece watch list. Show the end of it
for me.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Watch the guy in the purple suit. He's gonna try
to steal that centerpiece with the flowers on it and
steal some stuff. We promised to give those to the
wedding party. But that guy's gonna try to get out
with one. He's probably gonna be all liquored up and
he's gonna cause controversy. I'm gonna yell at you. Just
let him go. Well, we'll get him in the parking
lot and we'll get the centerpiece back from him. It's okay,
(21:45):
I'll tell go, go go.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
And I got tackled. It was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Uh So, look, we just had the final snap of
the Bears Chiefs game. The Bears beat the Chiefs thirty
four to twenty one. Again, we'll have an update as
soon as we can on Coleman, who was hurt earlier
tonight taking off the field on a stretcher. Really scary moment. Again,
we're waiting to get something from the hospital for him.
But let's just say, as we look ahead to tomorrow's games, right,
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three games tomorrow night, we got the Jaguars and the Falcons,
Dolphins and the Bucks, Niners and the Raiders. Right, this
is the time of the year, and hey, we don't
want to travel very far, so we're going to play
teams that are really close to us.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
All Right, I get it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Now, there's some things everybody's looking and hoping to see
tomorrow night. As you look at these games, I'll tell
you the one thing I don't want to see Kyle Shanahan.
Don't be an idiot. Don't play rock Birdy, don't do it.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
You look stupid enough playing behind all the playing him
last week, behind three backup offensive linemen, no first string
skill position players, and he got hit a bunch.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
It's like, dude, if he got hurt, people would say
it serves you right because you put the guy out
there behind a bad offensive line.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Really, what is wrong with you?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like this is where someone needs go to Kyle Shanago, Dude,
what were you doing there?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
What were you doing there?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
And there's talk that he and other starters are gonna
actually play tomorrow night, like nobody like, like, we don't
know exactly what kind of combination there is. We know
Trent Williams isn't there, So already you're playing without your
blind side protector. Really want to risk that? Really want
to risk that? I mean, you have to play the
regular season withou him if he doesn't sign. I understand that,
but wow, I really, I really I don't want to
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see Brock Perdy play tomorrow night because it was just
stupid that he played last So it is common sense
not to play him with three backup offensive linemen and
no good skill position players.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's just common said, no, no, no, no, I'm not
gonna do it now.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Hey, yeah, yeah, they're gonna play and maybe play a
little bit more in our final game against the Raiders
on Friday night. I really hope for Brock Purdy's sake,
we don't see him and and he's able to withstand
the ridiculous decisions of his coach. This is why I
say things like when the Niners succeed, it pisses me
off sometimes because they don't deserve it, because their front
office and some of the decisions that they make are
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just ridiculous, laborious, or they're stupid like this one, and
yet they step in it. They try seventeen different ways
to get a quarterback. Oh, the guy who's mister irrelevant
turns out to be a sixty million dollars a year player.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Hey, that works out for us. What are you gonna do.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
We're gonna play him behind backup offensive lineman and boy
he's gonna get hit hard, but hey, we escape that
as well.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Like this, it's very oh, this is a very difficult
last year minutes for Northern California but I mean it.
I look this and I go, I really don't want
to see him tomorrow night. Don't do it. Don't don't
do it, don't play him tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Yeah, it seems silly at this point, right, you either
are ready to play or go practice again, don't don't
take the live potential hit. All it takes is getting nudged.
I mean, we're talking about this play out of the
Bearish Chiefs again. Go back and watch it. There's nothing
obvious that says signals. You know, it's it's a big,
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you know, blow, a big event, and he had to
be carted off, the game had to be stopped. I'm
not saying you get something to that level, but you know,
we see injuries. We've seen many through our years of
watching preseason football and getting into the regular season. Also
a guy that you know much of your success is
predicated on his performance. And with Brandon Ayu, Trent Williams,
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all these guys still in flux.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You need your quarterback, you need your signal caller up
and ready to go.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Uh and so adding any level of risk at this
point is just foolhardy.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I really I when I see the Niner succeed I go,
did they make decisions that are.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Horrible and they still find a way to succeed? Right?
Speaker 2 (25:39):
It did?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
They're they're they're the kid.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Who doesn't study all semester and then spends the night
before cramming.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
What'd you get?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I got a B plus? Man.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
I went to every single class and I studied my
ass off and I still got to be I don't
want me to tell you just worked out for me.
I don't know what to say, just where I didn't
do anything the right way, but boy, look I wound
up getting to B plus in a better grade than you.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Like. That's how I feel. The forty nine ers are sorry, buddy.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yeah, you know, sometimes we just don't get the nice things,
which means they're living right in some capacity, or they've
made a deal with the devil.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I mean whatever, wherever you want to go with that,
I mean, either way, take the high road, the low road, right.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Jim harbaughs and he's singing saying, you know here in
the angels, singing all of those things like take it
as you will. But for the forty nine ers, a
lot of missteps, a lot of great moves, a lot
of great uh, you know, scouting and piecing things together,
but certainly playing with fire is something they what they
like to do.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Tell you, it's it's hard. It's really hard to see
people do it this way and still succeed.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Really, it is it is? I really I don't know.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Maybe I go back to about ten years ago when
when I was at a fantasy football dinner and John
Lynch was just a you know, an analyst on TV,
and he asked me my advice and Fanky, Jason, what
do you think this guy for fantasy?
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Here's what I think right here, and now the guy's
running the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah, and here they are. Look at all the decisions.
You are sitting here with me, Ahsucker exit out, bout
of Fresco, exit, swallen down.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon
something I don't want to see tomorrow night. What I
want to see right now is for Steve to saga
or tell me the Mets game is over and they've won.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Can you do that for me, Steve?
Speaker 7 (27:25):
I mean I could say the words, it would be
completely untrue. Yes, I'm capable of speaking the English language.
All right, all right, Mets are winning three to one
bottom of the seventh at San Diego Baseball in a moment,
because we've got two finals from the NFL exhibitions tonight,
Ladies and gentlemen. The Chicago Bears went four and oh
in the preseason. They beat the winless Kansas City Chiefs tonight,
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thirty four to twenty one. That Mahomes guy didn't play,
but it doesn't matter. It's a win for the Chicago Bears.
Ian Book by the way, too late touchdown passes for
KC and rookie running back Carson Steele from UCLA for
the Chiefs, four carries fifty yards, including a short touchdown.
Kansas City is giving center Creed Humphrey a new four
(28:07):
year contract a four year extension. Indianapolis was a winner
at windless Cincinnati, twenty seven to fourteen, Anthony Richardson one
touchdown pass in the first quarter, but also one interception
return for a TD. The Eagles acquired wide receiver John
Dotson from Washington. The Commanders traded for kicker Cade York
from Cleveland and released Riley Patterson. San Francisco signed tight
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end Logan Thomas. Atlanta gave defensive back aj Terrell a
four year extension. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford practice fully today
against the Texans after hamstring tightness. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers and
the Jets starters will not play Saturday against the Giants.
This is the final week of the preseason. Two tonight,
three more games Friday. Most teams play on Saturday, three
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games on Sunday. By the way, NFL clubs have to
reduce their rosters to fifty three players by Tuesday, then
the waiver claims by the next day to Major League Baseball.
Today in New York, the Yankees shutout Cleveland six nothing,
allowing the Guardians just one hit. Aaron Judge belted his
forty eighth film run of the season. Tonight, Pittsburgh was
a seven nothing winner over Cincinnati. The win to Paul Skeans,
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who's eight in two Toronto and Houston with victories. Houston
a six nothing win at Baltimore, beating Corbyn Burns, so
the Orioles are a game and a half behind the
Yankees for first in the Al East. Atlanta edge Philadelphia
three to two. Phillies offense went three for twenty nine
with fourteen strikeouts, and the Mets are they're tanking.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
They're tanking to throw the Mets every time they beat
everybody else except the teams the Mets are fighting with
for the wild card. They can't beat the Braves, they
can't beat the Diamondbacks. Everybody else they beat. But they're
tanking because this would help the Mets if they beat
these other teams in their.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Rias, because of course who else would be foremost in
one's mind. Yeah, going for the playoffs. But but of
course New York Mets.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
See, now you understand ste Now you get it.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Well, I do understand some things. I'm not sure I
understand what you just said.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
That's three one leaders.
Speaker 7 (30:07):
At San Diego in the bottom of the seventh, Dylan
Cease was the Padre starter. Did have seven strikeouts, pulled
in the seventh inning, allowed just two earned runs. The
Mariners fired manager Scott's Service. Former catcher Dan Wilson will
be the interim skipper. About two months ago, Seattle led
the Aos by ten games. Since then, its record is
twenty and thirty two, the worst record in the Majors
(30:29):
except for the White Sox so in Major League history.
Service is the first skipper to have a ten game
lead and then be fired before the end of that season.
Back to you.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
So what you're telling me is there is no service
in Mariner's Land anymore.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Thank you for your service.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Thank you. Well wait, thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
The Jason Smith Show is my best friend Mike Carmen
live from Thetirack dot Com studios.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Coming up next.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
This is, without a doubt, the most bizarre sports story
of the day, but it may open up a new
avenue to how people work in the business. Wait a minute,
what y'all? That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (31:23):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
Live from the Tyraq dot Com Studios.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And every once in a while a story comes up
that I just go Wow.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Sometimes what people decide and say in public just blows
me away. And I don't mean the Staten Island manager
mad at Aaron Judge, Ay, you didn't talk to my kids.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
No.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
John Sterling, who very famously retired a couple of months
ago as the voice of New York Yankees. The guy
who was announcing Yankee games for the last ninety years.
I think he announced when they were the Highlanders, before
they even they made the trade for Babe Ruth and
Susan I ever.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Could be only one, and I mean the league folded Susan.
We have breaking news here.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
No No Nonette has been canceled in Boston and the
Yankees are getting Babe Ruth the Yankees, which John Sterling,
who retired as a longtime voice of Yankee games, said
that you know, I'd kind of like to come back
and announce the playoff games. Well, he said the main
(32:30):
reason for retiring was travel. Look, John Sterling's eighty six
years old, and uh, I get it. Like you know,
travel isn't always great. People get sick and tied of
traveling at certain times in their lives. A guy's been
traveling six seven months a year for the last forty years. Yeah,
I get that he's sick and tied of traveling, so okay,
but now he wants to pull like a Hey. I
(32:50):
saw Roger Clemens do this like fifteen twenty years ago
at the Yankees, where I only want to pitch down
the stretched in the playoffs. So that's what I'm gonna
do the rest of the time with my family, and
I'll come back in August. Like now, he says, yeah,
I would like to maybe call some of the ache
playoff games.
Speaker 3 (33:06):
I love it for him. Who oh, hey, you're somebody else.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Who's gonna be Who's gonna be the fro Okay? Now
I ask you this, if you like this so much,
Who's gonna be the first sports talk radio or television
personality to say, you know, I only want to work
during the football season. I'll do my show five days
a week during football, but when football season's over, I'm done.
And from the day after the Super Bowl until we
(33:35):
get into the right before the season starts the end
of August, someone else does the show. But I'll come
in and I'll do football when it when it matters
when I when football is here and the most popular
sport in the world is being played, That's what I'll
come back. But the other rest of it not. I know,
you take that, but you'll take me because I'm a
big star. So someone else could do my show for
seven months, I'll come back for five.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
And that's how it works. Who's gonna be the first
guy to do that. I wasn't gonna do it half
a year.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
Let me ponder this, candidate one. Yeah, I take you
actually have a lot of vacation. You actually have people
in mind already or people off the to my hand,
I'm like, oh, yeah, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, I'm surprised we haven't gone that way.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Listen, maybe and maybe for very special times, I'll do
a special show. The week of the NFL Draft, I'll
do a special show week program. Absolutely, and maybe not
the first week of NFL free agency, but the first
three days of free agency when all the big players sign. Like,
that's what I'll do. Like, I'll come back for the
That'll be that. But but someone else is doing my show.
(34:43):
Other people are doing my show the rest of the time.
That's gonna be it that. That's what I'm gonna come
out and do. Yeah, I get totally. I'll start typing
out the names to you in a minute.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
Oh man, Yeah, I've got a couple of candidates.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
This is the best love the story, John Sterling.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
He actually at least he did say, you know, I
feel bad for the guys calling the games during the season.
What do you mean, But what the guys, who's actually
job it is to do the game? You feel bad,
I'm coming in. I'm coming into uh to take over.
No, I want to call these games in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Tapping back in, that's fine, you call your own number,
or when it's winning time.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I'm rested, I'm ready, I'm fine. We'll come back. A
couple of the ways to twist up a judge and last.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Yeah, I feel good, I'm I'm fine. I've rested now
for a little bit. I'll come back and call. My
voice is feeling good. The I could do it just
like that. A couple months of it was the and
I was done. But now I can do the Yeah,
I'm ready, let me come back. I'm ready for October.
This is just broadcasting load management. I mean, because we've
seen load right guys.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
As guys get a little bit older, they don't do
the road trip, right, Ken Harrelson, for you do that
with the White Sox.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Steve Stone to a degree, now you've got tagging out.
Probably some mental health concern as well with the how
terrible the season was. But he's a little bit older.
So Gordon Beckham, former infielder's been getting some run during
this horrid, horrid twenty twenty four seasons.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
You mean he's not still playing for the White Sox
Gordon Beckham.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Wow, okay, okay, he does look look the part, though
still very youthful in his appearance. A couple of years
like this will age him rapidly. It's like being president
like Grady size More. Look how young Grady Sizemore looks.
Oh yeah, job, No, it's for two or three years,
(36:35):
all age of fast.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
But I don't know for three years, maybe maybe another
couple of months by the end of September one. Hey, congratulations,
I being the worst team in the history of Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I need a drink. Oh my goodness is all the accelerator.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
But yeah, you've got that. I mean you look at
basketball with the number of games. Look, you can still
win an award and miss twenty percent of the time
and people are still mad about it. So an opportunity
here to just tag in and say, you know, I'm
ready for the playoffs. It's winning time, and I'm back.
Get a big wwe like entrance and away you go.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
All right, I'll come back for Week zero of college football.
But that's the earliest You're gonna get me, then that's
the earliest you're gonna get me.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
Rest of the time, I'm off coming up next.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
What is the big takeaway to come away from preseason
football action tonight?
Speaker 3 (37:24):
We got it for you Next. Fox,
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