August 23, 2024 • 39 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike look at the Colts vs. Bengals matchup and analyze Colts QB Anthony Richardson performance. Next, Pete Fiutak, Publisher of CollegeFootballNews.com, joins the show to preview NCAA football Week 0. They then examine the injury that occurred during the Bears vs. Chiefs preseason matchup and discuss the risks associated with playing in preseason games. Finally, the guys react to the Mariners' decision to fire Manager Scott Servais!
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college football breakdown coming up at about twenty minutes. Pete
Feutac's gonna stop by. We got big players becoming number
one quarterbacks of teams. We got coaches getting suspended. Oh
in all week as we get ready for zero Week
in college football. But a couple of big NFL stories
here as we look back on the night that we
saw tonight. Two preseason games. First one look a game
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where the result was irrelevant. You heard from Steve de
Saga right there getting word that Douglas Coleman, defensive back
for the Bears, who was carted off the field. They
brought out the backboard for him, strapped him in. They
took his face mask off, but did not take his
helmet off as a result of a tackle in which
he went down and didn't move. This was early in
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the second half tonight, very scary moment. Both teams came
off the sidelines. The entire Bear sideline came off and
walked over and knelt as he was being attended to
on the field. We didn't see him moving. There wasn't
a lot to go on. They continued to play the game,
which tells you that maybe, okay, we think that Coleman
was going to be okay, But now we get word,
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as you just heard from Steve de Sager, Coleman was
moving his hands, did give the thumbs up to one
of his coaches on the way off the field, being
attended to right now at a local hospital. So from
that perspective, that's good news. The tackle didn't look like
it was anything big, and I mean, I know we've
said this a few times, but you know, it still
is jarring when you see something that looks like an
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average play. It's not where I went airborne and I
am out of control or I came down awkwardly on
my neck on my head because I slipped and I
fell and I lost my place. This was a play
that just looked like an average play. And Coleman goes down.
But according to these reports, moving his hands did give
a thumbs up. So that seems to be good news
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for Douglas Coleman as we go on.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Take the positivity and hopefully a speedy recovery. We watched
that play, you and I repeatedly going back and forth,
talk about it earlier on the show, Jason, just a
reminder of this game, and you know, a game of inches,
what looks like in an innocuous tackle, a little awkward right,
just in terms of where the contact was made and all,
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but didn't look to be anything of the violent collisions. Remember,
once upon a time so celebrated on jacked up or
in video format and DVDs, you could buy nothing that
would have, you know, risen to that level of contact.
But just you watched the end of the play and
it's you know, just a grim reminder of for all
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of it out a football field or off, you know,
how quickly things can change. But fortunately it looks like
we're getting some great response.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And positivity here.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So all those you know, good thoughts and prayers for
the speedy recovery coming out of this game.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So again, if we hear more, we'll bring it to you.
But again it looks like it's good news for Douglas Coleman. Meanwhile,
the other game tonight saw the Colts beat the Bengals.
Our businesses sports, and this is a big story. We
want to deal with it here for a few minutes
here and talk about it because watching Anthony Richardson play tonight,
and there is no more polarizing guy in the NFL
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at quarterback than Anthony Richardson tonight, and he had a
very polarizing night. Eight out of fourteen eighty six yards
and a touchdown takes the Colts down the field first
drive of the game. Looks fantastic, all right, Anthony Richardson
getting it done. And then this is what happened on
the second drive of the game, which turns out much
better for the Bengals than for Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You can't pocket. But let's picked up Jordan Battle right there. Touchdown.
Now they got me doing preseason games. Now I can't
stand it. Thursday night, welcome back? Al Wait, you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Mean my Thursday start in August? Now wait a minute.
They never made me do this when I was in ESPN.
Come on, August, really I do August football. I don't
do August football. Come on? You know this about whatever? Saw? What? Ever? What?
How would you like to be the Amazon executive that
had to call him and say, also, I just want
(05:08):
to let you know that you're uh uh you're playing
to Cincinnati? Is uh your ticket? We're gonna gonna leave
on on Wednesday. What do you mean playing to Cincinnati?
Yeah for the Bengals Colts game. W What are you
talking about? Yeah, it's part of your contract. You gotta
do preseason games for us. This is it. And right now,
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you know who the happiest guy in the world is
Charles Barkley because he's going, Ah, this is what they'd
make me do. If I had to go to them
and they gave me thirty million dollars a year, I'd
be doing preseason games. They'd make me do it. They'd
make me do Vegas games in the summer for Summer League.
I'd have to do play by play on the championship game.
Look at this. That's why I'm staying at Turner. They're
not gonna ask me to do anything, and they're still
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gonna give me twenty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They're gonna make you play, you know, go and do
that crazy ass whiffle ball thing that we were watching
last night.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Go ahead, Barkley, go comment on that funny Hell, yeah, sorry,
we need you for that. Yeah, I know, I know,
I know we need you for that game out I'm so,
I'm really sorry. You're doing a preseason you know.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I need you to do a couple of warm up games,
much like you're a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You know. And it wouldn't be that big a deal
if al Michaels wasn't so open with the fact that
it's hard for me to do bad football games. It's
really difficult. Hey, how about this preseason game we got you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Come on in if you will.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
We got Colt spangles. Oh that's a good game. What's
that Week eleven, Week twelve? You tell him? I can't Yeah, Oh,
that's week three of the preseason. Sorry about that. Yeah,
we need you for that one. Crazy Oh that's my favorite.
But look, so Anthony Richardson was taking turns, getting lauded
and then roasted on social media. Also had to fumble
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later on in the first half, which they were able
to fall on. Look, I'll tell you there is there
is things to be concerned about Anthony Richardson, and there's
things not to be concerned. I am not concerned about
the pick six. I'm not concerned about the fumble. Anthony
Richardson has not had a lot of football the last
few years. Right. The guy was a he's a freak.
He's incredibly talented. In a very short amount of time
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at Florida he showed how great he was, but he
didn't play a lot of football. He comes to the NFL.
What happens doesn't play a lot of football gets hurt
last year. So the whole comfort level with the offense
and how he cuts down on turnovers and fund that's
gonna come with reps. I'm not concerned about that. The
guy's too talented. He just needs reps. When you don't
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have a lot of football, you can't replicate it, right,
You can't. You can't do it. So he just needs
a good amount of reps and a whole season and
suddenly you're gonna see a guy who is absolutely that talented.
Trust me, he is that good. But here's what's to
be concerned about is that because of the style of
play and because he hasn't had a lot of football,
he doesn't know what he does, doesn't know yet and
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watching him play last year, very reckless, got hurt once
you think, okay, that's your gonna be a moment. We
understand you got to do certain things like slide and
not be Nope, gets hurt again making a run to
the end zone and gets knocked out for the season.
Does he really know what it means to protect yourself
and to not put yourself in a spot where there's
plays you can and can't make, because some of it
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is trial and error over the course of your career,
and when you don't have a lot of football, it's
hard to know, like can I do this? Can I
take the corner on this play? Can I not? Where
As a more seasoned quarterback knows, Okay, I can't take
the corner on this play. I gotta go in, I
gotta slide I'm not gonna be able to make this
play here. I have to step out of bounds. I'm
not gonna be able to die at this point. Like
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quarterbacks that have reps that are more comfortable aren't going
to make those decisions. But Anthony Richardson is still really young, right.
I think the guy's fourteen years old. I mean, he
doesn't know what he doesn't know yet, so the propensity
he's going to have to potentially make mistakes that knock
them out. Like I'd love to believe in the Colts.
(09:05):
I'd love to pick the Colts if you could guarantee
me that Richardson was gonna play all seventeen games or
the vast majority of the season fifteen sixteen games. Like
most quarterbacks. I put them in the AFC title game
because he is that good and the players around him
are that good. His talent that they surrounded with a
skill positions is all very good and very deep. I
love everything they do. Every year, they keep giving the
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quarterback weapons at wide receiver. They always draft skill positions.
The Colts know how to do it. In the NFL Draft,
it doesn't always work with one guy, so we'll give
you three or four guys a year. Great, one of
these guys is gonna work out and we're gonna be fantastic.
So they doing all the right things. But and they're
a great team. They're a terrific team. Even with the
Texans in that division. I can see the Colts winning
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that because Richardson is that electric. He can bring you
back in a second. You know, there's games where they
were losing last year. It's sixteen nothing in the middle
of the second quarter and I'm saying, man, this Colts
team looks terrible. Richardson is awful. And then five minutes, lady,
go make a sandwich. Come back. Hey, seventeen sixty, Well
what just happened? Well, Richardson ran for a touchdown, they
got the ball back, then he threw for a touchdown.
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He just ran for a touchdown again. I mean that,
that's kind of that's what the guy does, and that's
how good the Colts can be. But because of his
style of play in his youth, and he doesn't I
don't know that he knows what he doesn't know about
staying healthy, I can't pick them. I want to pick that.
I want to believe in the Colts to be this
great team, and I want to believe in he's gonna
be the next Shaquille O'Neal of the NFL because he's
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that much of a freak. But wow, I don't know
that he can stay healthy. And I don't know what
it's gonna take for me to finally believe in that.
Is it gonna be a whole season? Is it gonna
be a whole season and offseason? Like, I don't know
what it's gonna be. But but for this kid, like
he's got a lot to worry about to be this
next franchise quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, I you know, we laughed about the slip and
slide thing that the Bears did the drills, which they've
referenced every subsequent week, which is kind of funny. Here's
your theme really helps, doesn't it? Getting down and learning
how to slide and trusted yourself or whatever. But that's
something Anthony Richardson's gonna need. You know, we watched him
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and the meteoric rise, the collegiate run run, A couple
of games fell in our window, and you fell in love.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just remember that.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
We can go find the podcasts of you just absolutely
gushing with excitement.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
For what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But every time he went and moved out of the
pocket and ran, you gotta admit you kind of inch
forward in your seat and you set a little silent prayer.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And certainly for Colts fans.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's what they do every time he gets out of
the pocket and starts moving with football, because at this
point he still hasn't learned to get out of harm's way,
live to see another play, throw the ball away, get
out of bound, slide down, do that little turtling thing
that the Manning brothers made so famous, whatever that is.
(11:56):
So it's just it's difficult to try to push the
skill set to final performance. Is it one of those
that we're actually gonna see realized? I guess is the
question here, Jason. When we saw what he did in
a short burst last year, it's like, all right, it
was like a teaser trailer and you were taunted, and
then he was gone for the year. And now you
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look at the receiving corps that they've assembled. Always, as
you said, the roster gets put together, and it's one
that we always ranked top five, top seven, whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But can he stay healthy? Can he get you through?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And that's the thing I fear and why I can't
push past that eight and a half over.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Under total for wins for the Colts. A lot of
good on paper.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Division that you know, you've got the Texans and then
it's kind of up for grabs from there. Expect a
little bit better, more consistent play from the Jaguars and
Will Levis despite the Mayo thing, should be able to
put up some numbers. But you know, going through it,
trying to ascertain whether he's going to be able to
get to fourteen games war on the season, that's a
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difficult proposition, which his playing style.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, I wish that. I wish it. I could be
more confident and if he was three four years in
the league, I would feel differently, right, or if he
had played a lot of football, I would feel differently.
He knows how to protect himself, does he? I mean,
I don't know if he knows how. I really knows, right,
They don't have the proof of concept of that, right.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Everybody kept waiting for Josh Allen to fall apart, and
maybe it does, maybe he finds the cliff hasn't happened yet.
Lamar Jackson's missed a bunch of games, but he's also
got two MVPs with Richardson, it's just a one giant incomplete.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And if if Richardson see the guy to compare him to,
honestly is may he may be a Cam Newton two
point zero or at this point, what do they do now?
Four point zero? Whatever? It is like Cam Newton came
into the league in twenty eleven and he kind of
really put the league on edge because he was a
guy that could throw the football and the way his
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style of running was he would be able to run
people over so he wouldn't take the brunt of the
impact a lot of times because he was just so big,
right that he'd be had like a defensive back is
coming to get him, was okay, I just gotta find
a way to get him out of bounds. But because
he had played so much football, he knew on these
runs how to protect himself. This is the guy coming
off a huge, big senior season and the National championship,
(14:23):
Wow Canada controversy. But the guy had a lot of football,
so he unders he understood that is Richardson that doesn't
understand that yet and and you know, not not saying
that it's it's about a level of of of being
able to comprehend. It's just there's no better way of
being taught something than by doing it right. You can
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learn stuff all you want. You can. You can sit
in the classroom and coaches can show you and say
this is when to slide, this is when to get
out of bounds, this is when to not take on
a defensive back, this is when to do this, this
is when to But it's but you don't learn anything
better than doing it on the field. And and this
is where Richardson really is at as a huge disadvantage
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compared to all the other quarterbacks. Like I was if
he was a running quarterback, that wasn't someone who was
gonna run a lot in the middle of the field
and was going to get out of bounds and was
more of, oh, okay, I kind of understand that, But
this is a guy that's going to run in the
middle of the field because he is that big and
he can try to run people over. But you gotta
know when to run somebody over. And went, okay, I
can't get in the middle of the field and I
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see the strong safety and say I'm gonna go take
him on because if I don't slide. Guess what a
linebacker is hitting me from the side, and now I'm
not getting to the safety. Like those are things that
you really have to get and understand. And my fingers
are gonna be crossed for him the entire time. And
I love the kid. I think he's fantastic. I loved
him since he burst on the scene at floor. Look
how good he is. I thought he's a dark horse
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Heisman Trophy guy. But man, I can't tell you he's
gonna stay healthy and be out there. I love it.
In that month like he was Colorado. Yeah, yeah, he
had September and then things got a little bit different
for him. It's ooh, this is college football. And he
took a couple of hits.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
They had to find the smelling salts, and here we are,
four games played, seven total touchdowns a year ago, mister electricity.
When he's able to play. But you know what they did,
They four to five things. They said, you know what,
we're not content with the backups we have. We're bringing
in the expert. At Joe Flacco has found his way
to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Speaking of experts, we bring in the expert. Coming up next,
College Football News Insider Pete Futech, who might be some
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got cheat codes on how to win an NCAA twenty five.
It's pete futech pete. What's happening? Man?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I don't know if I have any of those things,
but I'm going with it. That's just now.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
I was the one who.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
All off season was screaming to everybody who does what
I do that nca twenty five was gonna be Barbenheimer
And so it was kind of like water World like
it just sort of it was a big deal. Everyone
was excited about it. Oh, is it even a thing?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I mean maybe I'm just so out.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Of the picture of what's cool in this world that.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
I just don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Do people are people playing this thing?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
No? It was hot. It was really hot for like
I would say three weeks like it was really hot
and then like all of a sudden, like nothing like that.
Then there's been not been a lot after it.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Like I was. I was, I'm not joking. I was
really assuming.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
That this was going to take on a life of
the zone and we might have.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
To like kind of like you know, everyone's trying to chase.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
The big thing that everyone like you can't put the
words Katelyn Clark into enough article or Jim Harball or
you know, it's the absolute gold. If you look across
the landscape, notice how many times the word Dion and
Sanders are in every article. I thought that was gonna
be the end with NBA twenty five, where we're gonna
have to have everything's gonna be this. You know, there's
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gonna bee like you said, cheat codes and this is
it's kind of like this old there's something I don't know.
It's a really odd thing that I'm sure it's a
big deal. I'm sure it made a bazillion dollars. I've
been talking out of my butt here, But from from
doing in the inside, I was waiting for the same
thing to be a whole lot bigger.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, maybe it was like Colorado Last year, they were
everything in September and then they just or we just stopped,
We just stopped talking about they stopped winning, and they
stopped being relevant exactly.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Yeah, it's funny how that stuff kind of works out
like that kind of at the other things starts to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yet all right, so wait, let's so let's start there
then with Colorado. This seems to be a make or
break here for Dion. It seems to me make or
break for should you were Sanders and everything else? What's
going on with it? Does he have another September like
last year? Do they win more than four games? Like?
How do you see where they're at right now?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
I kind of hope so, I mean, it's a it's
a fun story.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
But you know that was always kind of the thing,
is what was going to happen when something bad happened,
or what was gonna happen when there was adversity and
not everything is going deon Sanders' way? And look, I
still keep praising Schador Sanders. He got the stuff beaten
out of him last year behind that offensive line, and
he kept getting up and he kept pushing. I mean,
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if I'm an NFL scout. I look at what he
did last year, and I'm more impressed with the fact
that he, no matter what, just kept on balling out
rather than you know, just kind of like heroly gave up.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
He kept fighting and pushing.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And I think he's still threw like twenty seven touchdown
passes just three interceptions. You know, those two of those
receptions were really really important, but only three picks and twice.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I mean he was He's good.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I mean, he's fine no matter what happens, Coach Prime, Look,
just keep improving.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I think we talked about this last week.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
If this was like coach Jones, you know, you go
from one win to four wins.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
And have a competitive, fun season. Yeah, that's a step forward.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
And then the season is suposed to win six or
seven and go forward from there. But because of all
the hype and because everything was so disastrously bad, Yeah,
a lot of things happening for Coach Prime at this point,
he's not making a whole lot better.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And now we get things started.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
On Saturday Live from Dublin, Florida State a lot made
about being left out, injury and everything that flows through
Top ten squad at a viva.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So we get started with a bang.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yeah, I'm really curious to see just how fired up
this Florida State team is because a lot of new parts.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
You know, they can play a disrespect card all they want.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
That's all nice and everything, but does that actually translate
to this team in this year? The game will write
the narrative. And if if they blow them out, like
oh look out Florida Saints, all man and all that,
and if they move, it's gonna be a whole o
their animal party. But like I just I think they're
gonna be fine. I think they're gonna win by They're
gonna cover with the Late Store. I think way too
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many people are hyping up Georgia text because they everyone
watched them play Georgia late last year. And uh but
when Georgia George took loss last year, they usually got
beaten relatively badly.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
But they are talented, They've got a fun offense.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
It's a fun team.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
But I'm not quite buying that they're gonna come out
and roar against the Seminoles just to those.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Things, all right, one thing to buy. As we get said,
everybody's putting out their list now the best players Heisman Trophy.
Every single list I see of top quarterbacks in the country,
Carson Beck is number one and a really good year
for Georgia last year. Was you know, the growth he
had from the first week to the last week. You know,
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everything going on with him. Is he really that good?
Is Carson Beck really that good?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
I yeah, at the moment, you're right.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
I mean, if you I think Shadora Sanders is better
in terms of a pro prospect. But right now, Carson
Beck is right there among the top of the possible
number one overall six. But uh, I think again, I
told you guys this last week.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
If you look at Jalen no Row and.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
What he did last year and the guy he's got
coaching him this year, in his style and his ability
to throw the deep fall, I kind of think he's
the quarterback that everyone's sort of missing on a little bit.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I mean, Carson Beck's kind of easy.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
You know, he's got he plays behind an elite line,
he sticks four to twenty, he's got everything about him
just kind of screams NFL starting quarterback. But you know,
let's let's.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
See him do it.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I mean, did he win the SEC championship last year? No,
you know, not an individual thing, but Jalen no rope
pulled that thing out.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
You know. Did they win the national championship under him?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
No? You know, so it's I still want to kind
of see a little more of them because he's got
the most around him, so he's got to be pretty
flawless considering what he has.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So we get the I don't know if it's a bombshell,
but we get a suspension in Iowa. No, not just
their offense, and it's an aptitude through the years, but.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Kirk Farrens gets a level too.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Is it a new I mean, is Kate McNamara going
to be the guy that leads them to offensive proficiency
to where the level two infraction is Okay, take the suspension.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It was worth it.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I you know, I like the punt baby punt style.
I'm you know, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
It works. Look, they've they've been really good.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Without an offense, and I kind of I kind.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Of think when you're a team like.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Iowa and you kind of need that little attitude. I'm
not saying you shouldn't have any offense, but sometimes that
just sort of works. It's just sort of your style.
It's just things that you just take your your one
side of the ball up another notch and let the
other one not screw it up. So I do think
they are going to complete a few forward passes this year.
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And I mean with fruiting violation doing this now still,
I mean, are they are then really a thing? Now?
Like I just we discussed this last week of Harriball,
I don't care. I mean what Parence is miss the
Illinois state, which you know what that's the problem though,
if you do have an offense, you could you know,
fight you can fight that out in a thirteen to
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three games. But it's yeah, it's the thing because it's fair.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And but there's all, you know, he's like his first time.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
He's had a few little run ins with you know,
stuff to but the guy's pretty flawless. I mean, he's
a he's the longest tenured head coach in one spot.
He's been around since nineteen ninety nine, uh just one year,
you know, less than CFN.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
But he's you know, he's been you know, he's Kurt Farence.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
The guy's an institution.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
He helps sick kids. He's just been.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
The best guy possible to help the children's hospital there.
It's kind of hard to like say, hey man, he's
a bad dude because of a recruiting violation or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
All right, lastly, Pete, I'm sure you're getting said to
put your your college football playoff possibilities together now, first
year with twelve teams, if I said to you the
team or two that you wouldn't be surprised to see
sneak into the playoffs, that we're not spending a lot
of time talking about who could be your your surprise
team or two that could make the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Name any team except for possibly Colorado from the Big twelve.
Because the thing that you're gonna have to remember, we're
all have to remember, is.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
The top four conference champions.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Five conference champions get in, and almost certainly the Power
four conference champion they're going to get in the top
four seas And so we're after kind of ready for
It's like, okay, let's say the Utah Arizona Big twelve champion.
You know, it goes the champions in, but they're also
like and then three or something. They might be like
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twelve in the college football playoff rankings and third or
fourth in the actual college football playoffs. So I mean,
think about like last year Louisville pulled it off against
Florida State. If there all that wackiness and State Louisville
wins it, then Louisville's in the College Football Playoff last
year as a four seed, you know. So if there's
an upset somewhere along the way in one of these
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conference championships, then all of a sudden, we're going to
see something sort of funky. Put the opposite end, though,
is the anti IOWA talk is with no divisions anymore,
they're not going to see it perdue playing in a
in a conference championship ever again, so it's going to
be Ohio State versus a Michigan type of thing. It's
going to be Georgia versus Alabama. But again the Big
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twelve and maybe the ACC could have something a little
quirky and funky in there as well. And it starts
on Saturday, which we see at Florida State. It's going
to be that team with a big win right out
of the gates that they con told the a SEC.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
He's on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is at Pete Feutech.
Check out college Footballnews dot com all the analysis, all
the breakdowns, all addictions you could possibly want everything, your
one stop shopping home for college football always Pete appreciated,
my friend. We'll talk to you next week. Get rolling
on the season. Happy to your brother that goes Bete.
Few Tech pick anybody from the Big twelve who can
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crash this, anybody from the Big twelve, anybody. I was
just hoping he would say, Syracuse. But okay, I understand.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Well, I mean you're included in anybody, right you say
anybody put Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, that is true. That is anybody put Syracuse. Anybody.
But uh, time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. With special delivery Steed to
Seger as me, what do you have for us?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Let's start with college football, as Iowa has suspended coach
Kirk Farns for a recruiting violation, contacting a player and
his family before he'd entered the transfer portal. There are
four college football openers this Saturday, including the game in Dublin,
Georgia Tech against Florida State. Most teams open the next weekend.
The first game on Fox TV is next Thursday, the
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twenty ninth, North Carolina at Minnesota. Then the first Big
New game is Penn State at West Virginia on Saturday,
the thirty first. This is the final week of the
NFL preseason. Two games tonight, three more tomorrow. Most teams
will play on Saturday. Three NFL games on Sunday. As
for the two exhibitions this evening, Indianapolis won at Cincinnati
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twenty seven to fourteen Anthony Richardson one touchdown pass one
interception return for a TD both in the first quarter,
Chicago four to zero. In the preseason one at Kansas
City thirty four to twenty one. Kansas City's giving center
Creed Humphrey a new contract, a four year extension. The
Commanders traded for kicker Cade York from Cleveland and released
Riley Patterson. The Eagles acquired wide receiver Johan Dotson from Washington.
(29:42):
Atlanta gave defensive back A J. Terrell a four year extension.
San Francisco re signed tight end Logan Thomas Keegan Bradley
as a one stroke lead in Colorado over Hideki Matsuyama,
there was a three hour plus rain delay weather delay,
I should say late in round one. The tour champion
is next week in Atlanta. One WNBA game tonight and
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Dallas is now six and twenty two after losing at
New York again seventy nine seventy one. These two just
played each other on Tuesday, with Dallas losing there by
twenty Brianna Stewart nineteen points tonight on five of eighteen
shooting from the floor, but New York twenty five and four,
and now everything is final in Major League Baseball because
the Mets have just yet is yet it is at
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San Diego eight three the final It was eight to
one in the ninth after a five run top of
the ninth eight three the final score. Earlier, Atlanta edged
Philadelphia three to two, the save to Rice ell Iglesias
with three straight strikeouts in the ninth. He has retired
thirty five straight batters. Houston won six nothing at Baltimore,
beating Corbyn Burns, who allowed five earned runs in five
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and two thirds, and the Orioles offense was just three
for thirty tonight. So now Houston's won nine straight on
the road and the Orioles in the Al East are
a game and a half behind the Yankees. New York
won six nine thing over Cleveland today. Aaron Judge, with
his forty eighth home run. Pittsburgh shutout Cincinnati seven to
nothing this evening, the win to Paul Skeins. He's eight
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and two, lowered his ERA eight to two point one,
six nine strikeouts and six innings for him, and Toronto
beat the Angels five to three. The Angels gave general
manager Perry manassey in a two year extension.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The extension. That's right, he got an extension.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Because they've made so many playoff appearances the past day.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Steve, how many losing seasons in a row for the Angels?
Speaker 8 (31:28):
This is going to be nine, I believe.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Extension, But extension.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
He's only responsible for two of them.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Right, but let's extend him. Why not?
Speaker 8 (31:37):
At some point the front office has to be responsible
for not having anything in the minor league system. Well,
the Mariners fired manager Scott's service. They trail Houston and
the AO West by five games. Seattle's lost eight of
nine back to you.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So now, TJ, they will officially be out of service
in Seattle.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
They fired hitting coach too. If you haven't seen the
Mariners play this year.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
You've fired everybody. Today they fired everyone.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
The team batting average is two sixteen, the worst in
the majors.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, but they're the worst. Brett should be the manager.
Let's go, man, He'll get him going. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirak dot Com
Studios coming up next. I'll tell you there's there's people
you don't want running your favorite team and who we're
gonna talk about next. You definitely don't want running your
(32:32):
favorite team. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
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Speaker 1 (32:44):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon, Mary mcke is. Tonight, Guardians of the Galaxy.
Uh soundtrack night?
Speaker 9 (32:53):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (32:55):
You've been playing You've played like three songs from Guardians
of the Galaxy.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
And just because I'm inspired as at and it's exactly
guard into the Galaxy? Is that what you wanted to be?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'm just saying, if you wanted to play you know,
the Raspberries next hour, I wouldn't be I'd be okay
with that.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I was thinking more like Gucci Mane or Rick Ross.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Okay, not on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack. But okay,
kind of cool. If you kind of that, I.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Can switch it up and we can do Rick Ross
or Gucci Mane or low Wayne.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Or or how about Mainskin? What about that? What about
main Skin? There you go?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
I was as thinking a little bit less of that.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Man.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Okay, the Rapper air, we can do rappers. That would
be fun. I don't mind it. Okay, all right, you
guys want rappers next hour?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
If you want to play the Raspberries next hour, that'd
be okay too. Yeah, thank you. Mary. Uh the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carbon live from the tirec dot
coms too. He's got a great big basketball take come
in your way next. But uh, look, we watched something
crazy happen today that has levels of crazy to it.
(34:02):
Scott's Service got fired as manager of the Mariners. Right
the Dodgers sweep the Mariners. Mariners decide we have to
replace our manager. Jerry Depoto GM, who has known Scott's
Service for thirty years, made the decision last night at
some point, and Scott's Service was fired today after the
Ken Rosenthal report, Mariners are planning to fire Scott's Service
(34:26):
like first of all, dude, how are you planning to
fire someone? Like what does that even mean? Like, how
do you mean?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
How do you get like like you haven't made up
your mind. Well, we're planning to fire, but we haven't
found him yet. How do you let that get out there?
Can't you call Ken Rosenthal and say, dude, we're gonna
fire him. We're making a change. I'll let you know
when it's official you have I mean, they're planning to
fire him, Like, oh, yeah, we're planning to do it.
When as soon as we can find him. I'm got
a phone call. I'm texting him. I'm trying to get
him to text me back. He's he's at his daughter's recital.
(34:55):
He can't get care of called me. He's waiting to
get to a point where can spend five minutes. Like
it's it's so low rent that that's the report right,
Like they're planning a fire service, so they fire him.
Service says he didn't even know until he got the
report from the Athletic that he was going to be fired.
I think he subscribes or did someone screenshot I tweet?
(35:19):
Do I pay the dollar to get the whole story?
Should I pay the dollar for my next time. I
need the story after I see the headline. Okay, can somebody, hey, somebody,
I know, do you have a subscription to the Athletic.
Can you check it and see if I'm fired? Thanks,
Just let me know what it is, take a screenshot
of it and then send it to me so I
can see it.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Go back to the famous Don Lafontaine, the great voiceover actor,
when he was told he was fired, and he goes,
I am fired, and he does it like ten different times.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I am fired. I am fired. You know, I know that,
and it's it's probably good for the Mariners. They operate
this way because you know West Coast team. But wow,
the stuff that has come out of Seattle the last
few years and how they run this team is just
mind boggling. I mean, you know the Jerry Depoto GM, Hey,
(36:09):
we we aim to win fifty four percent of our games.
Comment like, what does that even mean?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I mean, that's what He's a gambler, fifty four If
I if we hit fifty four percent, we're profitable the year.
Let's go dial one nine number right now. I'll tell
you which games you should bet my team.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I mean, that's just we try, but this is what
it's been for the Mariners, and so many people my
timeline are just so sick of it. And everybody's got
the same thing. When the fans and the players want
to win more than the management does, that's a problem.
And I see this and I go, this is just
such an unbelievable mess. And I you know, And there's
times when I say, for my favorite teams, I'm like, boy,
(36:48):
you know, my team has run pretty crappy. But I'm great.
I'm glad they don't run my team like That's how
I feel right now. Boy, the Mets were run so
poorly for so long, and the Jets are still run poorly.
They just happen to have a lot of talent now.
And I go and I'm glad the Mariners aren't running
my team. I'm glad the way they're doing it, the
way they got rid of Scott's Service today, and all
of this, especially because had they made this decision three
(37:10):
weeks ago, when it was still nip tuck for them,
I would have gone, Look, I'm not saying I disagree
with firing Scott's Service, but it's how you do it,
and you wait till now, you wait till now when
you're five games out of first place and eight games
out of the wildcard, Like, what do you expect to
happen over the next five and a half weeks of
the season. Like the time to do this is when
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you gave away that twelve game lead and the Astros
caught you. Okay, they caught us, but the division is
still there for us, The wildcard is still there for us.
Let's keep going, Let's bring something new, and let's bring
in some new ideas. And Dan Wilson's has been helping
run the minor league system in the last few years,
is going to be the new manager, Like this is
how you do it? And instead, no, no, let's wait
and now where it seems like we really have no
(37:53):
way to jump out of this, now we make the move.
You wait this long to do it? Like, what are
you trying to do in Seattle? You make this crazy
decision that's so late, you do it wrong, and then
you do it way too late that you are gonna
have such a minimal impact on this season. Well, and
that's the.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Thing, right, we always talk about optics when moves are made,
statements are put out, reactions to things. How does it
play right. We did it with Tua and Flores the
other day, and long ranging implications. Find the podcast wherever
you get your audio downloaded, give it five stars. We'll
love you forever. I might walk the earth like I'm
you know, our guy Forrest Gump and come give you
(38:28):
a hug. But you know the optics of it, it's
like the season's done.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
You saw the object in the rear view mirror getting
closer in the Houston Astros, and by time you went
to change lanes.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
They were already by you. Right, it was it's done.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
You weren't able to block them in any way, and
there's no reason to believe with as inept as their offenses.
You know, they're only better than the White Sox and
the Marlins, Jason, that you were gonna suddenly come out
of this funk. But it's the old theory of do
something even if it's wrong, and give yourself a chance
and show your fan base that you're at least trying,
(39:07):
that you're at least trying to shake it up to
get down the stretch. Instead, now it's like, eh, we
were gonna do this anyway. Now we're six weeks ahead
in our search.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Glad the Mariners don't run my team. I really am.
The Jason Smiths are with Mic Carmon live the tyrack
dot Com Studios. You want a great, big, fat hot take,
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college football breakdown coming up at about twenty minutes. Pete
Feutac's gonna stop by. We got big players becoming number
one quarterbacks of teams. We got coaches getting suspended. Oh
in all week as we get ready for zero Week
in college football. But a couple of big NFL stories
here as we look back on the night that we
saw tonight. Two preseason games. First one look a game
(01:12):
where the result was irrelevant. You heard from Steve de
Saga right there getting word that Douglas Coleman, defensive back
for the Bears, who was carted off the field. They
brought out the backboard for him, strapped him in. They
took his face mask off, but did not take his
helmet off as a result of a tackle in which
he went down and didn't move. This was early in
(01:33):
the second half tonight, very scary moment. Both teams came
off the sidelines. The entire Bear sideline came off and
walked over and knelt as he was being attended to
on the field. We didn't see him moving. There wasn't
a lot to go on. They continued to play the game,
which tells you that maybe, okay, we think that Coleman
was going to be okay, But now we get word,
(01:54):
as you just heard from Steve de Sager, Coleman was
moving his hands, did give the thumbs up to one
of his coaches on the way off the field, being
attended to right now at a local hospital. So from
that perspective, that's good news. The tackle didn't look like
it was anything big, and I mean, I know we've
said this a few times, but you know, it still
is jarring when you see something that looks like an
(02:15):
average play. It's not where I went airborne and I
am out of control or I came down awkwardly on
my neck on my head because I slipped and I
fell and I lost my place. This was a play
that just looked like an average play. And Coleman goes down.
But according to these reports, moving his hands did give
a thumbs up. So that seems to be good news
(02:37):
for Douglas Coleman as we go on.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Take the positivity and hopefully a speedy recovery. We watched
that play, you and I repeatedly going back and forth,
talk about it earlier on the show, Jason, just a
reminder of this game, and you know, a game of inches,
what looks like in an innocuous tackle, a little awkward right,
just in terms of where the contact was made and all,
(03:02):
but didn't look to be anything of the violent collisions. Remember,
once upon a time so celebrated on jacked up or
in video format and DVDs, you could buy nothing that
would have, you know, risen to that level of contact.
But just you watched the end of the play and
it's you know, just a grim reminder of for all
(03:25):
of it out a football field or off, you know,
how quickly things can change. But fortunately it looks like
we're getting some great response.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
And positivity here.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So all those you know, good thoughts and prayers for
the speedy recovery coming out of this game.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
So again, if we hear more, we'll bring it to you.
But again it looks like it's good news for Douglas Coleman. Meanwhile,
the other game tonight saw the Colts beat the Bengals.
Our businesses sports, and this is a big story. We
want to deal with it here for a few minutes
here and talk about it because watching Anthony Richardson play tonight,
and there is no more polarizing guy in the NFL
(04:04):
at quarterback than Anthony Richardson tonight, and he had a
very polarizing night. Eight out of fourteen eighty six yards
and a touchdown takes the Colts down the field first
drive of the game. Looks fantastic, all right, Anthony Richardson
getting it done. And then this is what happened on
the second drive of the game, which turns out much
better for the Bengals than for Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
You can't pocket. But let's picked up Jordan Battle right there. Touchdown.
Now they got me doing preseason games. Now I can't
stand it. Thursday night, welcome back? Al Wait, you.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Mean my Thursday start in August? Now wait a minute.
They never made me do this when I was in ESPN.
Come on, August, really I do August football. I don't
do August football. Come on? You know this about whatever? Saw? What? Ever? What?
How would you like to be the Amazon executive that
had to call him and say, also, I just want
(05:08):
to let you know that you're uh uh you're playing
to Cincinnati? Is uh your ticket? We're gonna gonna leave
on on Wednesday. What do you mean playing to Cincinnati?
Yeah for the Bengals Colts game. W What are you
talking about? Yeah, it's part of your contract. You gotta
do preseason games for us. This is it. And right now,
(05:28):
you know who the happiest guy in the world is
Charles Barkley because he's going, Ah, this is what they'd
make me do. If I had to go to them
and they gave me thirty million dollars a year, I'd
be doing preseason games. They'd make me do it. They'd
make me do Vegas games in the summer for Summer League.
I'd have to do play by play on the championship game.
Look at this. That's why I'm staying at Turner. They're
not gonna ask me to do anything, and they're still
(05:48):
gonna give me twenty million dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
They're gonna make you play, you know, go and do
that crazy ass whiffle ball thing that we were watching
last night.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Go ahead, Barkley, go comment on that funny Hell, yeah, sorry,
we need you for that. Yeah, I know, I know,
I know we need you for that game out I'm so,
I'm really sorry. You're doing a preseason you know.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I need you to do a couple of warm up games,
much like you're a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
You know. And it wouldn't be that big a deal
if al Michaels wasn't so open with the fact that
it's hard for me to do bad football games. It's
really difficult. Hey, how about this preseason game we got you.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Come on in if you will.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
We got Colt spangles. Oh that's a good game. What's
that Week eleven, Week twelve? You tell him? I can't Yeah, Oh,
that's week three of the preseason. Sorry about that. Yeah,
we need you for that one. Crazy Oh that's my favorite.
But look, so Anthony Richardson was taking turns, getting lauded
and then roasted on social media. Also had to fumble
(06:55):
later on in the first half, which they were able
to fall on. Look, I'll tell you there is there
is things to be concerned about Anthony Richardson, and there's
things not to be concerned. I am not concerned about
the pick six. I'm not concerned about the fumble. Anthony
Richardson has not had a lot of football the last
few years. Right. The guy was a he's a freak.
He's incredibly talented. In a very short amount of time
(07:17):
at Florida he showed how great he was, but he
didn't play a lot of football. He comes to the NFL.
What happens doesn't play a lot of football gets hurt
last year. So the whole comfort level with the offense
and how he cuts down on turnovers and fund that's
gonna come with reps. I'm not concerned about that. The
guy's too talented. He just needs reps. When you don't
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have a lot of football, you can't replicate it, right,
You can't. You can't do it. So he just needs
a good amount of reps and a whole season and
suddenly you're gonna see a guy who is absolutely that talented.
Trust me, he is that good. But here's what's to
be concerned about is that because of the style of
play and because he hasn't had a lot of football,
he doesn't know what he does, doesn't know yet and
(08:02):
watching him play last year, very reckless, got hurt once
you think, okay, that's your gonna be a moment. We
understand you got to do certain things like slide and
not be Nope, gets hurt again making a run to
the end zone and gets knocked out for the season.
Does he really know what it means to protect yourself
and to not put yourself in a spot where there's
plays you can and can't make, because some of it
(08:24):
is trial and error over the course of your career,
and when you don't have a lot of football, it's
hard to know, like can I do this? Can I
take the corner on this play? Can I not? Where
As a more seasoned quarterback knows, Okay, I can't take
the corner on this play. I gotta go in, I
gotta slide I'm not gonna be able to make this
play here. I have to step out of bounds. I'm
not gonna be able to die at this point. Like
(08:44):
quarterbacks that have reps that are more comfortable aren't going
to make those decisions. But Anthony Richardson is still really young, right.
I think the guy's fourteen years old. I mean, he
doesn't know what he doesn't know yet, so the propensity
he's going to have to potentially make mistakes that knock
them out. Like I'd love to believe in the Colts.
(09:05):
I'd love to pick the Colts if you could guarantee
me that Richardson was gonna play all seventeen games or
the vast majority of the season fifteen sixteen games. Like
most quarterbacks. I put them in the AFC title game
because he is that good and the players around him
are that good. His talent that they surrounded with a
skill positions is all very good and very deep. I
love everything they do. Every year, they keep giving the
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quarterback weapons at wide receiver. They always draft skill positions.
The Colts know how to do it. In the NFL Draft,
it doesn't always work with one guy, so we'll give
you three or four guys a year. Great, one of
these guys is gonna work out and we're gonna be fantastic.
So they doing all the right things. But and they're
a great team. They're a terrific team. Even with the
Texans in that division. I can see the Colts winning
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that because Richardson is that electric. He can bring you
back in a second. You know, there's games where they
were losing last year. It's sixteen nothing in the middle
of the second quarter and I'm saying, man, this Colts
team looks terrible. Richardson is awful. And then five minutes, lady,
go make a sandwich. Come back. Hey, seventeen sixty, Well
what just happened? Well, Richardson ran for a touchdown, they
got the ball back, then he threw for a touchdown.
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He just ran for a touchdown again. I mean that,
that's kind of that's what the guy does, and that's
how good the Colts can be. But because of his
style of play in his youth, and he doesn't I
don't know that he knows what he doesn't know about
staying healthy, I can't pick them. I want to pick that.
I want to believe in the Colts to be this
great team, and I want to believe in he's gonna
be the next Shaquille O'Neal of the NFL because he's
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that much of a freak. But wow, I don't know
that he can stay healthy. And I don't know what
it's gonna take for me to finally believe in that.
Is it gonna be a whole season? Is it gonna
be a whole season and offseason? Like, I don't know
what it's gonna be. But but for this kid, like
he's got a lot to worry about to be this
next franchise quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, I you know, we laughed about the slip and
slide thing that the Bears did the drills, which they've
referenced every subsequent week, which is kind of funny. Here's
your theme really helps, doesn't it? Getting down and learning
how to slide and trusted yourself or whatever. But that's
something Anthony Richardson's gonna need. You know, we watched him
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and the meteoric rise, the collegiate run run, A couple
of games fell in our window, and you fell in love.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I just remember that.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
We can go find the podcasts of you just absolutely
gushing with excitement.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
For what he was doing.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But every time he went and moved out of the
pocket and ran, you gotta admit you kind of inch
forward in your seat and you set a little silent prayer.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
And certainly for Colts fans.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That's what they do every time he gets out of
the pocket and starts moving with football, because at this
point he still hasn't learned to get out of harm's way,
live to see another play, throw the ball away, get
out of bound, slide down, do that little turtling thing
that the Manning brothers made so famous, whatever that is.
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So it's just it's difficult to try to push the
skill set to final performance. Is it one of those
that we're actually gonna see realized? I guess is the
question here, Jason. When we saw what he did in
a short burst last year, it's like, all right, it
was like a teaser trailer and you were taunted, and
then he was gone for the year. And now you
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look at the receiving corps that they've assembled. Always, as
you said, the roster gets put together, and it's one
that we always ranked top five, top seven, whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But can he stay healthy? Can he get you through?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
And that's the thing I fear and why I can't
push past that eight and a half over.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Under total for wins for the Colts. A lot of
good on paper.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Division that you know, you've got the Texans and then
it's kind of up for grabs from there. Expect a
little bit better, more consistent play from the Jaguars and
Will Levis despite the Mayo thing, should be able to
put up some numbers. But you know, going through it,
trying to ascertain whether he's going to be able to
get to fourteen games war on the season, that's a
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difficult proposition, which his playing style.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Yeah, I wish that. I wish it. I could be
more confident and if he was three four years in
the league, I would feel differently, right, or if he
had played a lot of football, I would feel differently.
He knows how to protect himself, does he? I mean,
I don't know if he knows how. I really knows, right,
They don't have the proof of concept of that, right.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Everybody kept waiting for Josh Allen to fall apart, and
maybe it does, maybe he finds the cliff hasn't happened yet.
Lamar Jackson's missed a bunch of games, but he's also
got two MVPs with Richardson, it's just a one giant incomplete.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
And if if Richardson see the guy to compare him to,
honestly is may he may be a Cam Newton two
point zero or at this point, what do they do now?
Four point zero? Whatever? It is like Cam Newton came
into the league in twenty eleven and he kind of
really put the league on edge because he was a
guy that could throw the football and the way his
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style of running was he would be able to run
people over so he wouldn't take the brunt of the
impact a lot of times because he was just so big,
right that he'd be had like a defensive back is
coming to get him, was okay, I just gotta find
a way to get him out of bounds. But because
he had played so much football, he knew on these
runs how to protect himself. This is the guy coming
off a huge, big senior season and the National championship,
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Wow Canada controversy. But the guy had a lot of football,
so he unders he understood that is Richardson that doesn't
understand that yet and and you know, not not saying
that it's it's about a level of of of being
able to comprehend. It's just there's no better way of
being taught something than by doing it right. You can
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learn stuff all you want. You can. You can sit
in the classroom and coaches can show you and say
this is when to slide, this is when to get
out of bounds, this is when to not take on
a defensive back, this is when to do this, this
is when to But it's but you don't learn anything
better than doing it on the field. And and this
is where Richardson really is at as a huge disadvantage
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compared to all the other quarterbacks. Like I was if
he was a running quarterback, that wasn't someone who was
gonna run a lot in the middle of the field
and was going to get out of bounds and was
more of, oh, okay, I kind of understand that, But
this is a guy that's going to run in the
middle of the field because he is that big and
he can try to run people over. But you gotta
know when to run somebody over. And went, okay, I
can't get in the middle of the field and I
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see the strong safety and say I'm gonna go take
him on because if I don't slide. Guess what a
linebacker is hitting me from the side, and now I'm
not getting to the safety. Like those are things that
you really have to get and understand. And my fingers
are gonna be crossed for him the entire time. And
I love the kid. I think he's fantastic. I loved
him since he burst on the scene at floor. Look
how good he is. I thought he's a dark horse
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Heisman Trophy guy. But man, I can't tell you he's
gonna stay healthy and be out there. I love it.
In that month like he was Colorado. Yeah, yeah, he
had September and then things got a little bit different
for him. It's ooh, this is college football. And he
took a couple of hits.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
They had to find the smelling salts, and here we are,
four games played, seven total touchdowns a year ago, mister electricity.
When he's able to play. But you know what they did,
They four to five things. They said, you know what,
we're not content with the backups we have. We're bringing
in the expert. At Joe Flacco has found his way
to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Speaking of experts, we bring in the expert. Coming up next,
College Football News Insider Pete Futech, who might be some
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where they won a national championship, Quarterbacks getting the nod
is the new qb Ones? And who could be some
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He is the owner, editor, proprietor of college Footballnews dot com.
You're one stop shopping for everything you need in college football,
all the analysis, all the breakdown. And I believe he's
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got cheat codes on how to win an NCAA twenty five.
It's pete futech pete. What's happening? Man?
Speaker 6 (18:10):
I don't know if I have any of those things,
but I'm going with it. That's just now.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
I was the one who.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
All off season was screaming to everybody who does what
I do that nca twenty five was gonna be Barbenheimer
And so it was kind of like water World like
it just sort of it was a big deal. Everyone
was excited about it. Oh, is it even a thing?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
I mean maybe I'm just so out.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Of the picture of what's cool in this world that.
Speaker 7 (18:36):
I just don't know.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Do people are people playing this thing?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
No? It was hot. It was really hot for like
I would say three weeks like it was really hot
and then like all of a sudden, like nothing like that.
Then there's been not been a lot after it.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Like I was. I was, I'm not joking. I was
really assuming.
Speaker 6 (18:52):
That this was going to take on a life of
the zone and we might have.
Speaker 7 (18:56):
To like kind of like you know, everyone's trying to chase.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
The big thing that everyone like you can't put the
words Katelyn Clark into enough article or Jim Harball or
you know, it's the absolute gold. If you look across
the landscape, notice how many times the word Dion and
Sanders are in every article. I thought that was gonna
be the end with NBA twenty five, where we're gonna
have to have everything's gonna be this. You know, there's
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gonna bee like you said, cheat codes and this is
it's kind of like this old there's something I don't know.
It's a really odd thing that I'm sure it's a
big deal. I'm sure it made a bazillion dollars. I've
been talking out of my butt here, But from from
doing in the inside, I was waiting for the same
thing to be a whole lot bigger.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, maybe it was like Colorado Last year, they were
everything in September and then they just or we just stopped,
We just stopped talking about they stopped winning, and they
stopped being relevant exactly.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Yeah, it's funny how that stuff kind of works out
like that kind of at the other things starts to happen.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yet all right, so wait, let's so let's start there
then with Colorado. This seems to be a make or
break here for Dion. It seems to me make or
break for should you were Sanders and everything else? What's
going on with it? Does he have another September like
last year? Do they win more than four games? Like?
How do you see where they're at right now?
Speaker 7 (20:10):
I kind of hope so, I mean, it's a it's
a fun story.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
But you know that was always kind of the thing,
is what was going to happen when something bad happened,
or what was gonna happen when there was adversity and
not everything is going deon Sanders' way? And look, I
still keep praising Schador Sanders. He got the stuff beaten
out of him last year behind that offensive line, and
he kept getting up and he kept pushing. I mean,
(20:33):
if I'm an NFL scout. I look at what he
did last year, and I'm more impressed with the fact
that he, no matter what, just kept on balling out
rather than you know, just kind of like heroly gave up.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
He kept fighting and pushing.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
And I think he's still threw like twenty seven touchdown
passes just three interceptions. You know, those two of those
receptions were really really important, but only three picks and twice.
Speaker 7 (20:57):
I mean he was He's good.
Speaker 6 (20:58):
I mean, he's fine no matter what happens, Coach Prime, Look,
just keep improving.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I think we talked about this last week.
Speaker 6 (21:06):
If this was like coach Jones, you know, you go
from one win to four wins.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
And have a competitive, fun season. Yeah, that's a step forward.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
And then the season is suposed to win six or
seven and go forward from there. But because of all
the hype and because everything was so disastrously bad, Yeah,
a lot of things happening for Coach Prime at this point,
he's not making a whole lot better.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
And now we get things started.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
On Saturday Live from Dublin, Florida State a lot made
about being left out, injury and everything that flows through
Top ten squad at a viva.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
So we get started with a bang.
Speaker 6 (21:42):
Yeah, I'm really curious to see just how fired up
this Florida State team is because a lot of new parts.
Speaker 7 (21:50):
You know, they can play a disrespect card all they want.
Speaker 6 (21:52):
That's all nice and everything, but does that actually translate
to this team in this year? The game will write
the narrative. And if if they blow them out, like
oh look out Florida Saints, all man and all that,
and if they move, it's gonna be a whole o
their animal party. But like I just I think they're
gonna be fine. I think they're gonna win by They're
gonna cover with the Late Store. I think way too
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many people are hyping up Georgia text because they everyone
watched them play Georgia late last year. And uh but
when Georgia George took loss last year, they usually got
beaten relatively badly.
Speaker 7 (22:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
But they are talented, They've got a fun offense.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
It's a fun team.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
But I'm not quite buying that they're gonna come out
and roar against the Seminoles just to those.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Things, all right, one thing to buy. As we get said,
everybody's putting out their list now the best players Heisman Trophy.
Every single list I see of top quarterbacks in the country,
Carson Beck is number one and a really good year
for Georgia last year. Was you know, the growth he
had from the first week to the last week. You know,
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everything going on with him. Is he really that good?
Is Carson Beck really that good?
Speaker 7 (22:59):
I yeah, at the moment, you're right.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
I mean, if you I think Shadora Sanders is better
in terms of a pro prospect. But right now, Carson
Beck is right there among the top of the possible
number one overall six. But uh, I think again, I
told you guys this last week.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
If you look at Jalen no Row and.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
What he did last year and the guy he's got
coaching him this year, in his style and his ability
to throw the deep fall, I kind of think he's
the quarterback that everyone's sort of missing on a little bit.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
I mean, Carson Beck's kind of easy.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
You know, he's got he plays behind an elite line,
he sticks four to twenty, he's got everything about him
just kind of screams NFL starting quarterback. But you know,
let's let's.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
See him do it.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
I mean, did he win the SEC championship last year? No,
you know, not an individual thing, but Jalen no rope
pulled that thing out.
Speaker 7 (23:47):
You know. Did they win the national championship under him?
Speaker 6 (23:49):
No? You know, so it's I still want to kind
of see a little more of them because he's got
the most around him, so he's got to be pretty
flawless considering what he has.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So we get the I don't know if it's a bombshell,
but we get a suspension in Iowa. No, not just
their offense, and it's an aptitude through the years, but.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Kirk Farrens gets a level too.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Is it a new I mean, is Kate McNamara going
to be the guy that leads them to offensive proficiency
to where the level two infraction is Okay, take the suspension.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
It was worth it.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
I you know, I like the punt baby punt style.
I'm you know, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
It works. Look, they've they've been really good.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
Without an offense, and I kind of I kind.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Of think when you're a team like.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Iowa and you kind of need that little attitude. I'm
not saying you shouldn't have any offense, but sometimes that
just sort of works. It's just sort of your style.
It's just things that you just take your your one
side of the ball up another notch and let the
other one not screw it up. So I do think
they are going to complete a few forward passes this year.
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And I mean with fruiting violation doing this now still,
I mean, are they are then really a thing? Now?
Like I just we discussed this last week of Harriball,
I don't care. I mean what Parence is miss the
Illinois state, which you know what that's the problem though,
if you do have an offense, you could you know,
fight you can fight that out in a thirteen to
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three games. But it's yeah, it's the thing because it's fair.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
And but there's all, you know, he's like his first time.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
He's had a few little run ins with you know,
stuff to but the guy's pretty flawless. I mean, he's
a he's the longest tenured head coach in one spot.
He's been around since nineteen ninety nine, uh just one year,
you know, less than CFN.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
But he's you know, he's been you know, he's Kurt Farence.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
The guy's an institution.
Speaker 7 (25:45):
He helps sick kids. He's just been.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
The best guy possible to help the children's hospital there.
It's kind of hard to like say, hey man, he's
a bad dude because of a recruiting violation or something
like that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
All right, lastly, Pete, I'm sure you're getting said to
put your your college football playoff possibilities together now, first
year with twelve teams, if I said to you the
team or two that you wouldn't be surprised to see
sneak into the playoffs, that we're not spending a lot
of time talking about who could be your your surprise
team or two that could make the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (26:17):
Name any team except for possibly Colorado from the Big twelve.
Because the thing that you're gonna have to remember, we're
all have to remember, is.
Speaker 7 (26:25):
The top four conference champions.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Five conference champions get in, and almost certainly the Power
four conference champion they're going to get in the top
four seas And so we're after kind of ready for
It's like, okay, let's say the Utah Arizona Big twelve champion.
You know, it goes the champions in, but they're also
like and then three or something. They might be like
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twelve in the college football playoff rankings and third or
fourth in the actual college football playoffs. So I mean,
think about like last year Louisville pulled it off against
Florida State. If there all that wackiness and State Louisville
wins it, then Louisville's in the College Football Playoff last
year as a four seed, you know. So if there's
an upset somewhere along the way in one of these
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conference championships, then all of a sudden, we're going to
see something sort of funky. Put the opposite end, though,
is the anti IOWA talk is with no divisions anymore,
they're not going to see it perdue playing in a
in a conference championship ever again, so it's going to
be Ohio State versus a Michigan type of thing. It's
going to be Georgia versus Alabama. But again the Big
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twelve and maybe the ACC could have something a little
quirky and funky in there as well. And it starts
on Saturday, which we see at Florida State. It's going
to be that team with a big win right out
of the gates that they con told the a SEC.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
He's on Twitter at Pete Feutech. That is at Pete Feutech.
Check out college Footballnews dot com all the analysis, all
the breakdowns, all addictions you could possibly want everything, your
one stop shopping home for college football always Pete appreciated,
my friend. We'll talk to you next week. Get rolling
on the season. Happy to your brother that goes Bete.
Few Tech pick anybody from the Big twelve who can
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crash this, anybody from the Big twelve, anybody. I was
just hoping he would say, Syracuse. But okay, I understand.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Well, I mean you're included in anybody, right you say
anybody put Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
No, that is true. That is anybody put Syracuse. Anybody.
But uh, time now to find out what's trending in
the wide world of sports. With special delivery Steed to
Seger as me, what do you have for us?
Speaker 8 (28:36):
Let's start with college football, as Iowa has suspended coach
Kirk Farns for a recruiting violation, contacting a player and
his family before he'd entered the transfer portal. There are
four college football openers this Saturday, including the game in Dublin,
Georgia Tech against Florida State. Most teams open the next weekend.
The first game on Fox TV is next Thursday, the
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twenty ninth, North Carolina at Minnesota. Then the first Big
New game is Penn State at West Virginia on Saturday,
the thirty first. This is the final week of the
NFL preseason. Two games tonight, three more tomorrow. Most teams
will play on Saturday. Three NFL games on Sunday. As
for the two exhibitions this evening, Indianapolis won at Cincinnati
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twenty seven to fourteen Anthony Richardson one touchdown pass one
interception return for a TD both in the first quarter,
Chicago four to zero. In the preseason one at Kansas
City thirty four to twenty one. Kansas City's giving center
Creed Humphrey a new contract, a four year extension. The
Commanders traded for kicker Cade York from Cleveland and released
Riley Patterson. The Eagles acquired wide receiver Johan Dotson from Washington.
(29:42):
Atlanta gave defensive back A J. Terrell a four year extension.
San Francisco re signed tight end Logan Thomas Keegan Bradley
as a one stroke lead in Colorado over Hideki Matsuyama,
there was a three hour plus rain delay weather delay,
I should say late in round one. The tour champion
is next week in Atlanta. One WNBA game tonight and
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Dallas is now six and twenty two after losing at
New York again seventy nine seventy one. These two just
played each other on Tuesday, with Dallas losing there by
twenty Brianna Stewart nineteen points tonight on five of eighteen
shooting from the floor, but New York twenty five and four,
and now everything is final in Major League Baseball because
the Mets have just yet is yet it is at
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San Diego eight three the final It was eight to
one in the ninth after a five run top of
the ninth eight three the final score. Earlier, Atlanta edged
Philadelphia three to two, the save to Rice ell Iglesias
with three straight strikeouts in the ninth. He has retired
thirty five straight batters. Houston won six nothing at Baltimore,
beating Corbyn Burns, who allowed five earned runs in five
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and two thirds, and the Orioles offense was just three
for thirty tonight. So now Houston's won nine straight on
the road and the Orioles in the Al East are
a game and a half behind the Yankees. New York
won six nine thing over Cleveland today. Aaron Judge, with
his forty eighth home run. Pittsburgh shutout Cincinnati seven to
nothing this evening, the win to Paul Skeins. He's eight
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and two, lowered his ERA eight to two point one,
six nine strikeouts and six innings for him, and Toronto
beat the Angels five to three. The Angels gave general
manager Perry manassey in a two year extension.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
The extension. That's right, he got an extension.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Because they've made so many playoff appearances the past day.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Steve, how many losing seasons in a row for the Angels?
Speaker 8 (31:28):
This is going to be nine, I believe.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
Extension, But extension.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
He's only responsible for two of them.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Right, but let's extend him. Why not?
Speaker 8 (31:37):
At some point the front office has to be responsible
for not having anything in the minor league system. Well,
the Mariners fired manager Scott's service. They trail Houston and
the AO West by five games. Seattle's lost eight of
nine back to you.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So now, TJ, they will officially be out of service
in Seattle.
Speaker 8 (31:58):
They fired hitting coach too. If you haven't seen the
Mariners play this year.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
You've fired everybody. Today they fired everyone.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
The team batting average is two sixteen, the worst in
the majors.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, but they're the worst. Brett should be the manager.
Let's go, man, He'll get him going. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the Tirak dot Com
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You've been playing You've played like three songs from Guardians
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with that.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
I was thinking more like Gucci Mane or Rick Ross.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Okay, not on the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack. But okay,
kind of cool. If you kind of that, I.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
Can switch it up and we can do Rick Ross
or Gucci Mane or low Wayne.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Or or how about Mainskin? What about that? What about
main Skin? There you go?
Speaker 9 (33:29):
I was as thinking a little bit less of that.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
Man.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Okay, the Rapper air, we can do rappers. That would
be fun. I don't mind it. Okay, all right, you
guys want rappers next hour?
Speaker 1 (33:38):
If you want to play the Raspberries next hour, that'd
be okay too. Yeah, thank you. Mary. Uh the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carbon live from the tirec dot
coms too. He's got a great big basketball take come
in your way next. But uh, look, we watched something
crazy happen today that has levels of crazy to it.
(34:02):
Scott's Service got fired as manager of the Mariners. Right
the Dodgers sweep the Mariners. Mariners decide we have to
replace our manager. Jerry Depoto GM, who has known Scott's
Service for thirty years, made the decision last night at
some point, and Scott's Service was fired today after the
Ken Rosenthal report, Mariners are planning to fire Scott's Service
(34:26):
like first of all, dude, how are you planning to
fire someone? Like what does that even mean? Like, how
do you mean?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
How do you get like like you haven't made up
your mind. Well, we're planning to fire, but we haven't
found him yet. How do you let that get out there?
Can't you call Ken Rosenthal and say, dude, we're gonna
fire him. We're making a change. I'll let you know
when it's official you have I mean, they're planning to
fire him, Like, oh, yeah, we're planning to do it.
When as soon as we can find him. I'm got
a phone call. I'm texting him. I'm trying to get
him to text me back. He's he's at his daughter's recital.
(34:55):
He can't get care of called me. He's waiting to
get to a point where can spend five minutes. Like
it's it's so low rent that that's the report right,
Like they're planning a fire service, so they fire him.
Service says he didn't even know until he got the
report from the Athletic that he was going to be fired.
I think he subscribes or did someone screenshot I tweet?
(35:19):
Do I pay the dollar to get the whole story?
Should I pay the dollar for my next time. I
need the story after I see the headline. Okay, can somebody, hey, somebody,
I know, do you have a subscription to the Athletic.
Can you check it and see if I'm fired? Thanks,
Just let me know what it is, take a screenshot
of it and then send it to me so I
can see it.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Go back to the famous Don Lafontaine, the great voiceover actor,
when he was told he was fired, and he goes,
I am fired, and he does it like ten different times.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
I am fired. I am fired. You know, I know that,
and it's it's probably good for the Mariners. They operate
this way because you know West Coast team. But wow,
the stuff that has come out of Seattle the last
few years and how they run this team is just
mind boggling. I mean, you know the Jerry Depoto GM, Hey,
(36:09):
we we aim to win fifty four percent of our games.
Comment like, what does that even mean?
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I mean, that's what He's a gambler, fifty four If
I if we hit fifty four percent, we're profitable the year.
Let's go dial one nine number right now. I'll tell
you which games you should bet my team.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I mean, that's just we try, but this is what
it's been for the Mariners, and so many people my
timeline are just so sick of it. And everybody's got
the same thing. When the fans and the players want
to win more than the management does, that's a problem.
And I see this and I go, this is just
such an unbelievable mess. And I you know, And there's
times when I say, for my favorite teams, I'm like, boy,
(36:48):
you know, my team has run pretty crappy. But I'm great.
I'm glad they don't run my team like That's how
I feel right now. Boy, the Mets were run so
poorly for so long, and the Jets are still run poorly.
They just happen to have a lot of talent now.
And I go and I'm glad the Mariners aren't running
my team. I'm glad the way they're doing it, the
way they got rid of Scott's Service today, and all
of this, especially because had they made this decision three
(37:10):
weeks ago, when it was still nip tuck for them,
I would have gone, Look, I'm not saying I disagree
with firing Scott's Service, but it's how you do it,
and you wait till now, you wait till now when
you're five games out of first place and eight games
out of the wildcard, Like, what do you expect to
happen over the next five and a half weeks of
the season. Like the time to do this is when
(37:31):
you gave away that twelve game lead and the Astros
caught you. Okay, they caught us, but the division is
still there for us, The wildcard is still there for us.
Let's keep going, Let's bring something new, and let's bring
in some new ideas. And Dan Wilson's has been helping
run the minor league system in the last few years,
is going to be the new manager, Like this is
how you do it? And instead, no, no, let's wait
and now where it seems like we really have no
(37:53):
way to jump out of this, now we make the move.
You wait this long to do it? Like, what are
you trying to do in Seattle? You make this crazy
decision that's so late, you do it wrong, and then
you do it way too late that you are gonna
have such a minimal impact on this season. Well, and
that's the.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Thing, right, we always talk about optics when moves are made,
statements are put out, reactions to things. How does it
play right. We did it with Tua and Flores the
other day, and long ranging implications. Find the podcast wherever
you get your audio downloaded, give it five stars. We'll
love you forever. I might walk the earth like I'm
you know, our guy Forrest Gump and come give you
(38:28):
a hug. But you know the optics of it, it's
like the season's done.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Right.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
You saw the object in the rear view mirror getting
closer in the Houston Astros, and by time you went
to change lanes.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
They were already by you. Right, it was it's done.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
You weren't able to block them in any way, and
there's no reason to believe with as inept as their offenses.
You know, they're only better than the White Sox and
the Marlins, Jason, that you were gonna suddenly come out
of this funk. But it's the old theory of do
something even if it's wrong, and give yourself a chance
and show your fan base that you're at least trying,
(39:07):
that you're at least trying to shake it up to
get down the stretch. Instead, now it's like, eh, we
were gonna do this anyway. Now we're six weeks ahead
in our search.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Glad the Mariners don't run my team. I really am.
The Jason Smiths are with Mic Carmon live the tyrack
dot Com Studios. You want a great, big, fat hot take,
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