August 31, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith & Mike Harmon discuss the fun rivalry between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese as they played each other yet again.
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should be. Well a game, we'll get you coming up
in a couple minutes. Boy, Dodgers needed every one of
those runs, need to show. Heyotani's big home run tonight
as a ten five ninth inning lead turns into a
ten to nine nail biting win against Arizona.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But is it that much sweeter to like taunt them
with the potential comeback and then record that final.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Out Oh yeah, that's always sweet, and that's always something
the Mets do. Oh we're getting killed. Oh look we've
got four h Yeah, but it's one. It's one too few. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hey, you got a five to one win today. So
it's a glorious Friday for you, buddy, it is.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And I have held off. I mean, look, it's my
It's okay, you can imagine me. I've held off a
little bit tonight because I know it's tough for you.
I know, and I really thought we're gonna come in
here and and maybe get swept, because that's how the
Mets do things. Sure, you know, think they get a
win tonight, another needed win. But I wanted to take
it easy on anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And there's no need to. All right, don't need to
take it easy. Your team stinks, your city stinks.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't I don't think. Well, the city does have
its problems. We can go into a bunch of socioeconomic
and political factors whereby you've got a city divided. But
for the sports purposes, Look, it's football season. Wild Cats
play tomorrow, it's college colors day. I got my purple
on head to toe, and I'm ready for that in
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the makeshift short term stadium that's been built. And look,
next week I'll be talking Bears, Bears, Bears, Bears, Bears,
and it's all good. But for the White Sox, who
I've lived and died with for I don't know, some
forty three forty four years of my consciousness and sports,
this one's been a tough one to watch night and
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night out. I'm still watching. I'm still grimacing at every strikeout,
every time they throw down to second and it hits
a guy in the face because he's not paying attention.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
All of those things still sting.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Just the same. But the one hundred and fifth loss,
the grim reality of where your organization is when just
three short years ago it was.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They're on the come.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
There's a couple of young pitchers, here's a couple of
young hitters dot dot if they can stay healthy, and now.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Here we are and now they're they're all on new teams,
and that's where.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And throwing no hitters winning double digit games be constructed.
After a couple of other stops, Chris Sale is gonna
be the nl SAIJNGA.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, that's awesome, buddy, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So you know you add it all up. It's positive
time for Harmon, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He is you just went third person. I dig that. Yeah,
I'm going third person because I've wearing purple shorts.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well no, and going forward, I'm gonna do a lot
more of that and a lot more bravado and really
trying to elicit the lover hate from the audience, and
and hate works. Hate usually can get me some heel
work as a manager in the WWE.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So let's go now before we get to a big injury.
Just a little bit more on the book. The biggest
story of the night we watched in the eighty sixth
match up this year, the Indiana Fever beat the Chicago
Sky Caitlyn Clark Angel Reese battling for Rookie of the Year.
Look that thing over, man, I don't care whatever crazy
ass stuff. ESPN's gotten their machine if we have these No,
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Caitlyn Clark, forget about Rookie the Year. She's got it.
She's the Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I like to embrace debate as much as the next compation.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But come it's done, Man, it's done. They had to
leave Angel Rees in the game until there was a
minute left to go when they were down twenty, just
because we have to get her a double double. Like,
it's become my identity. If I don't get a double double,
it's a bad night. You're still a bad night. You're
still a bad night.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And now it's become the equivalent of the dude standing
on the corner with the bull horn either telling you
that you know the end of days or nigh and repent,
trying to sell you some remaindered furniture, or leading you
to a used car lot or here in Los Angeles,
that would be the would you like to take a
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tour of celebrity homes? That's one of the four options
that you have. That's kind of what it feels like
the guy with the bullhorn, and you can pick any
of your favorite four letter protagonists in this argument trying
to make an argument out of it. This uh that
they're just shouting into the wind. It's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Uh. Caitlyn Clark Tonight leads the Fever to a nineteen
point win. Again they have to leave angel reesono stat
pad Uh. But this is a big look. We talked
about the fact that really forget about rookie of the year.
It's really MVP now between Caitlyn Clark and Asia Wilson, Like,
that's that's the level that we're at when you talk about.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Don't forget Colliers to meet and the sand.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah Colliers, but what but you're talking about Asia Wilson,
who's the best player, and Caitlin Clark, who has raised
her team up more from where they were at to
where they're at now than than a little bit more
than Collier did. Right, it has done. I'm not saying
she's not great, not saying she's not a great player
having a great season, but this is the fever team
that This was the Clippers of the w NBA for
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the last eight years, Like they're the Pistons of the
w NBA. Where because they're five hundred?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, because the Clippers were at least making the playoffs,
they got you know.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That's a reference millennials got. They understood the Clippers back then.
But you're right. But this is the best part of
and most impressive part of Kaitlyn Clark is that the
best players elevate in the big games. Right, big players
play big and big games. I'm always a believer of
that phrase. And tonight in a huge rivalry game and
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what's going to be a career long rivalry with Angel
Reese and Caitlin Clark, and they both embrace it for
everything it brings. Absolutely on the road, Angel Reese is did.
They're having a Barbie Knight for Angel Reese at the game.
The Sky absolutely need this game because they need to
continue to stay in playoff position. They had beat the
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Fever last time because they came back in the fourth
quarter in what was Angel Reese's best game of the
WNBA to this point. They absolutely needed this. On the
road at home of this game, and Caitlyn Clark goes
in and has her best game of the year points wise,
and is so rolling. She's thrown behind the back passes
at the end of the game, just feeling it less
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on the court with their teammates. She elevates and she
elevated this game. We saw it in college at Iowa
when she smelled something, whether it was a Final four
berth or the all time scoring record, she smelled it
and she did it. Big players elevate, and she absolutely
elevated tonight in a game that really shut the door
on the Rookie of the Year talk everything else, and
she knew she could do it, and this was her
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game tonight, thirty one and twelve, a real double double.
And now they're sixteen and sixteen, they're a team nobody
wants to play in the playoffs. We're talking MVP for
Caitlin Clark and people's heads are exploding hearing bat and
I love that. And that's another thing. That's one thing
about her that she doesn't get enough credit for that
in the big games, when they need it, she elevates,
and she elevated so big tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, and this goes back to some of those battles
against Angel Reese and the heavyweights at the collegiate level
South Carolina. You know, playing against Cardoso and going into
the pain against her, it's et cetera that you know
your you're battle tested. You know, as much as we'd
had all the chatter of oh, she's not going to
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be tough enough, was like, no, she got beat up
a bit in college and got a lot of calls
along the way, so maybe that's evened out a little bit,
and she's certainly taking a bruising and a beating along
the way. You know, if you can't beat them, beat them,
I guess is what it comes down to. But you know,
I like that. The Indiana Fever leaned into it, talking
about how many double doubles she has as a guard
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to lead the WNBA this year and declaring her the
rookie of the year. All of that to be said,
but she came out and hit her first three point
first three three point shots, got all the teammates involved
early defensively on switches, whatever else and a couple of times,
and this was great to see as a squad looking
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out for each other, recognizing the easiest way to get
the Sky back into the game would be to retaliate
for some of the hard fouls or screens or whatever
was going on. We're gonna go after the officials, right
stopping each other from doing that to make sure they
focused on the next play, because a lot of times
you got some great transition buckets coming off of Sky
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makes standing around and being able to get that outlet
pass that has been chronicled so much. But for Caitlyn Clark, yeah,
she knew that crowd was there to see her and
Angel Reese get After it sold out, crowd reshows up
in the Rodman Jersey and Caitlyn Clark we get the
slow walk to the arena. I mean, we got to
just have entrance music like their WWE Superstars with this.
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Oh yeah, sure, let's just go full on in.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah yeah yeah. And hey, remember remember Diana TARROSSI said
reality is coming for Caitlyn Clark. So just boy, it's
gonna be difficult, man. At some point it's gonna be
in her takeover of the league. Boy, it's gonna be difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I mean they lost some games early on. So does
she take credit for that? Because you see Caitlyn Clark
in games against Tarasis, she kind of had her away
in those moments to you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I hope she went down court in the end and
said to her, hey, Diana, reality is coming.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh no, she had it. She had a couple of
blank ewes the last the last time. Go back in
the timeline those are there some great exchanges where you
got a little bit of f bombs going back towards
Tarasi and some of the other vets, And yeah, I
mean the reality is at this point you're resorting to
I mean, whatever Deshields was doing today. And and look,
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Clark's not innocent. We've talked about it a lot. She'll
hang it on uh, waving to the crowd and and
you know, doing not quite the whole Cogan thing because
we don't want to invoke him right now because he's
problematic in a lot of ways. But you know the
old ere you know, hand up to the like to
the ear and getting the crowd excited. She she'll do
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a bunch of that, and she'll she'll trash talk and whatever.
So yeah, you're probably gonna get a little harder follow
what we saw a couple of times tonight. We're not
basketball plays, right, especially that third fall called in what
a minute of game action against the Shields. Oh yeah,
did you order the code red? When you ran her
down from behind? Like there was no attempt at the ball.
It got up Grady to do a flagrant that one
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needed all about three seconds because they're really slow at
for as much as weak a plane about Major League
Baseball or the NFL or NBA with the reviews, my god,
the WNBA, it takes forever to adjudicate something that goes
to the monitors. It was one look and it's like, yeah,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm okay with that. Just because of the way things
were officiated early on, it felt like, hey, officials. Officials
can't make somebody earn something in the WNB. Okay, I'm sorry,
but I felt like Kateler Clark was officiated where the
officials say, Okay, you gotta earn it. No, no, no,
that's not your job. Your job. It's the job of
the players to try to make her earn it. It's
the job of it's your job to make sure that
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dirty plays don't happen. And when Kennedy Carter slams are
from behind, you call a flagrant and you make sure
that there's no place for that in the game. But
I felt that happened, So I'm okay to see it now,
I'm okay to see how because how they're.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Calling the fouls because she's done some tough fouls. I mean,
there's plenty of videos of some of the stuff she's
she's not above retaliation. But you know, let's let's everybody
make sure that it's like all I ever asked for,
like in my kids' games or when I played, or
the stuff we watch is that you're calling it down
the middle right, and that a fall over here is
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a fall over there, and we're consistent, et cetera. And
I'm sure you coaching, you know that's all you were
hoping for. Yeah, you want the one extra call, but
you at least want it even and oftentimes we've seen
some chaos in these games.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I learned. I learned after a little while that okay,
and I know that I would always I would always
uh build in and we're not going to get any help,
like you know, like that, don't ever expect referees umpires
to help us. I'm very rarely happy with the way
a game is a officiated or refereed. When I was coaching,
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whether it's soccer or softball, I was very rare. But
there's very rare times where I say, you cost us
the game, Like I could not like it, but I
could always look and say, well, even if they called
this and this and this, where we're still gonna win.
Was this gonna happen? But oh no. But there's a
bunch of times to stand out that I go, boy,
you took that away from us? Why I took that
away from us? So I got to understand that we're
not only playing the team that we're playing against, but
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we're playing the officials too. We're playing the umpires or
playing them too, and that things aren't gonna go our way.
And it wasn't that I did it in a malicious way.
It was just a way to say, hey, so when
it didn't go our way, that it didn't take any
of the girls out of the game, Like, oh, I
can't believe so and so got caught that pitch was
five feet outside. I go, I know, but let's go, like,
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you gotta understand that that that's gonna happen. Let's get
out there at five second memory and go out there
and play. So that was kind of where I was
always because I always knew I'm not gonna be happy.
I'll shake the officials hand at the end and I'll
lay off him because I understand that he's out here
doing a you know, he doesn't need to be out
here on a Saturday or Wednesday night or whatever it
is doing this. But in the end of it to
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walk away going yeah, yeah, you you stunk tonight. Say
you know where it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Gets tump though, Jason, they're not volunteering. This isn't a
YS so they're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You get paid, No, you get paid to do so.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Like that's that's where there's a tough line that you
got to draw. On it because they're not volunteering their time. Yeah,
they're actually making a pretty fair wage for the hour
that they're.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hour and a half. But I still always know that
that don't you want to be respect to look cool,
But it's also something that official. I know, the officials like, hey,
they could choose to come to this game or not, right, Like,
do I want to go make sixty bucks or whatever
it is there's seventy five bucks forget? Or do I
want to not show up? You like, there's always that
out there and you work, so I understand that you know,
they're taking time out of their weekend or their night
to go do it, even though they're getting paid at
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the same time, doesn't even have to agree with how
they know.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Hey, let me circle back to Caitlin Clark for one
last second, because for once, it's not about him or
something he's doing. Lebron James has chimed in Caitlyn Clark
five exclamation points, high haters.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Guess who's gonna be playing point guard for the Lakers
this year?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Caitlyn Clark, I tell you what that would be some
fun uh fun outlet passes. We talk about show time
coming back in some of the long leads or the
bound bounce passes, the staple of the IOWA program, Men
and women going all the way back to doctor Tom.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I want to I want to see Lebron photoshop Caitlyn
Clark into D'Angelo Russells. Jersey.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, I mean he can follow up like he did. Hey,
Bronni can play for us now. Now Cantly's come in
and give us some heavy minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, yeah, Now he's got he's got some kind of
of of of computer wizards that goes. Here's Caitlyn on
the break to Bronnie to Lebron for slag.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And Bronnie shelling dead dead.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
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acc after dark Stanford trails TCU twenty to seventeen in
the fourth quarter Stanford keeping it close, so of course
had to text, you know. Friend of the show, Jason
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Cole comes on once a week with us talking NFL.
Stanford gred I said, Hey, welcome to the ACC. This
is glorious. What do you think I got back from him?
This is where you say what what did he say?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah? Noway, yeah you could just let's do it again
back from him? What did they get back from him?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What did you get back from Jason Cole? Was it
a picture or words I blank and hate you? Okay,
that sounds about right, just so we're consistent in that.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
No, that's Jay Cole right there? Uh so again yes,
college football. Stay, Hey, this game, this game may be
going on when Bernie Frattle comes on in a half hour,
like crazy, we were still going up. Bernie Frattle is
going to get the end of this game.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
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for Bernie tell ye by the end of the game.
But either way, the show following us here coming up
in about thirty five minutes, because they're twelve minutes of
action and let's face it, a lot of passing, a
lot of incompletions.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, to come here, there's a lot of that. Meanwhile, hey,
big injury tonight that we all have our fingers crossed on.
We may have seen Clayton Kershaw walk off the mound
for the last time. Tonight, the Dodgers beat Arizona in
a game that looked like they had it going away.
Joe Heyo Tani. It's his forty third home run of
the year. He's now a forty three forty three guy.
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And it's not even in September first yet. But the
Diamondbacks get four in the ninth, it's not enough. The
Dodgers win at ten to nine. Clayton Kershaw left this
game in the second inning with a toe injury. Couldn't
get anything on his pitches. His first two pitch of
the second inning was an eighty seven mile an hour
fastball and a sixty seven mile an hour curveball that
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Corbyn Carroll deposited in the seats for a home run.
Carol wasn't even around second base and Dave Roberts was
out from the dugout the team. The infielders were out,
Kershaw walked off. Didn't look like he was in an
over amount of pain because he walked off the field,
but it was a really bad vibe and a really
bad look, and for a guy that's come back from
(20:41):
injury so many times, to be hurt here at the
end of August. You wonder is this gonna be? It? Like,
is this the last time you see me? You know,
he's doesn't have much left. We talked about it earlier
in the year. If I put the over under it,
Clayton Kershaw starts the rest of his career at twenty,
Are you taking the over on that? Like, you know
how close he is to the end, doesn't want to
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walk off, I'm sure, being his last pitch being a
home run to Corbyn Carrol, But you don't know what
the toe injury is. We're waiting to hear more information
on it. But this is just I mean, it just
does a really weird vibe and have him walking off
and you see the look on his face. He walks
by his teammates into the locker room and I just
said he in wondergo is that the last time we
see him pitch? Is that the last pitch that he
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throws in his surefire first ballot Hall of Fame career? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I mean, unless it's something that requires a big surgery,
I like to think that maybe it's something that's just
a short term ill. Bob Nightingale just tweeted this out,
dealing with a bone spur in his tone. That's what
per manager Dave Roberts and preparing for a possible Iel
move quote, I'd be shocked if we don't make an
IL move or two because they've had a bunch of
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issues in that rotation. They did get Freddy Freeman back tonight.
He comes back and deposits a home run. He's been
dealing with a finger issue. Took the Orioles series off.
Now the gravitas, the weight of this four game set
against Arizona on board. But yeah, for Clayton Kershaw, I mean,
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just his reaction, right, because immediately you and I are
looking at and texting each other, going, all right, he's
not you know, holding his elbow or doesn't look like
it's visible, you know, discomfort with his shoulder, which is good,
or is back for that matter, which we've seen for years, right,
and wondering for years, And I mean we've been doing
this a while, Probably four or five years ago, we
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were wondering how many more starts we were gonna get
then because of the back issues on and off again.
So the fact that he keeps battling back has been impressive.
But the countenance walking off the mound and pass the teammates,
and the dugout was really something different, kind of weighty.
And you and I being big baseball fans and following
his whole career, you know, there's just when when legends
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had those moments, you know your heart sinks a little bit,
like the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Passage of time.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I always joke about the forty year old guys, and
I need them, not necessarily to dominate, but I need
them in the league right. So I need your guy
Rogers upright and playing. I need Lebron to keep doing
whatever in the hell it is Lebron's doing, which is
million or two spend. I need Brady to come back
out of the booth, forget about the ownership, forget about
the Fox booth, and just go back and be at quarterback. Okay,
(23:25):
I really want him in the Fox booth because I
think he's going to be great. But we've been reading
all about the legal ease and problems in terms of
ownership and everything else that's going on there and how
it's messing with his job. But for Clayton Kershaw, he's
one of that older group, particularly South Pause when they
start hitting the crafty side of their career that you
hope that it's a long tail as opposed to where
(23:47):
we are now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Coming up in ninety seconds. A big NFL story that
is really irrelevant, but not why you think, but first
specially delivery. Steve Desager has everything about what's trending in
the water world of sports, including how much money he
has on the under for Stanford and TCU in hashtag
ACC after Dark.
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pick up, but oh give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
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terrible for a long time, and still we had back
twelve after dark.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Back twelve after dark was great, really great. Saturday nights, Well,
we'll see Stanford. Of course it's Stanford, an Cow and
SMU are all ACC schools, because of course they are.
It's early fourth quarter. TCU leads at Stanford twenty to seventeen. Earlier,
sixteenth ranked Oklahoma dominated Temple fifty one to three. Jackson
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Arnold four touchdown passes in the first half. The Owls
had six turnovers in this loss. Michigan State was up
sixteen nothing first half, beat Florida Atlantic sixteen to ten.
Spartans was seven sacks. The Duke defense had eight sacks
in a home win over Elon twenty six to three.
Army forty two to seven over Lehigh six rushing touchdowns
(25:01):
passing for Army Tonight five for eight fifty seven yards,
no punts, no turnovers, easy win, and on fass one.
Wisconsin picked up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and
beat Western Michigan twenty eight fourteen. North Carolina quarterback Max
Johnson is out for the year. He suffered a broken
leg last night and had surgery. Pitt running back Rodney
Hammond was declared ineligible for the season. Most college football
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teams opened their season this weekend. The first big noon
game is tomorrow on Fox TV, Penn State at West Virginia.
Ravens tight end Mark Andrews returned to practice he missed
over two weeks after a car accident. The Ravens are
re signing quarterback Tyler Huntley. The Chargers gave kicker Cameron
Dicker a four year extension. The Giants re signed defensive
back of Dori Jackson. The Dolphins gave head coach Mike
(25:47):
McDaniel a three year contract extension. Scottie Scheffler leads the
PGA's Tour Championship by four strokes over Colin Morikawa upset
in New York. At the US Open tonight, number two
seed Novak Djokovic is out, losing a third round match
to Alexi Popperrin of Australia in four sets, And there
are two matches still going here at does quick math.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
In the US Open after dark?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be US Open at sunrise shortly
the way things are going.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Doesn't the US Open go right to the big noon kickoff?
I think that's how it would.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
You know, actually, if it was the same network, because
you know that pregame shows a couple hours worth, you
might be onto something there Arena satellec.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Rob Stone is just getting to work out with a
coffee in his hand, going all right, we still love.
US Open was.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Playing Zerav Zerav is still playing what arena sableca for
love in the third and final set of her third
round match to WNBA Indiana one at Chicago one hundred
and eighty one. Caitlin Clark thirty one points, twelve assists
in Vegas, Asia Wilson twenty six points, sixteen rebounds and
an aces win against Atlanta victories for Dallas and New York,
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and in that New York Factory at Seattle, Breonna Stewart
thirty two points. The Clippers reportedly gave center at Vitze
Zubats a three year extension. The late game in Major
League Baseball was the Dodger win at Arizona, holding on
ten to nine Diamondbacks with four runs bottom of the
ninth against the completely overworked Dodger bullpen. You see, another
starter was well. He had a short outing tonight, the
(27:21):
aforementioned Clayton Kershaw leaving in the second inning with the
toe injury, likely going to the injured list. The Dodgers
are five games up on the Diamondbacks and Padres now
in the NL West. San Diego won its game thirteen
to five at Tampa Bay, Houston and Seattle with wins.
Mariners still four games back at first place Houston. In
the AL West, Baltimore a five to three winner at Colorado,
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while the Yankees won six to three over Saint Louis So.
Baltimore is still a game and a half back of
the Yanks. San Francisco with a win, and the Mets
as well. They won five to one at the White Sox,
who've lost eight straight, Cleveland and Minnesota with victories. Atlanta
won at Philadelphia seven to two, third basement Alec Baum
out tonight with a hand injury, and Milwaukee swept a
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doubleheader at Cincinnati when the opener in ten innings five
to four, took the nightcap fourteen to nothing, including ten
runs in the ninth. Again that college football game twenty
to seventeen. TCU leads at Stanford about nine minutes ago. Boy,
we got a while to go there.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Back to well, here's why ACC after dark is already great.
Stanford's within three of TCU. Both of you, quick quiz
for both of you. How many days has it been
since Stanford beat an FBS team at home? Oh? My,
not big game, I remember, yeah, okay, not FBS. Last
(28:42):
time they beat an FBSD one they won a game
at home against an FBS team. How many days?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I think it's only two total in the last four years.
So wow, I'll say five hundred days.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Okay, seven fifty uh one dollar six and seventy eight
days it's been since Stanford has won an FBS game
at home six hundred and seventy eight And here they
are with TCU.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Meaning they couldn't even be cal at home.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
No, no, no, no no, I'll tell you, Quentin Johnson
eight walking through that door. Although they'll take him, the
Charger would easily give him up at this point, Quentin,
he's not walking through. Max Duggan is not Max Duggan
is not returning, you know, door.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
No with the ACC. Their first ACC game is Stanford
at Syracuse in just a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Stanford's inside there, inside the five yard line, six hundred
and seventy eight days. It could be over.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Thank you calling that upset this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Let's go. Still a long way to go again, eight
and a half to go in the game, Stanford again
knocking on the door. Uh, down by three. Haven't won
a game at home against the FBS team in over
two years.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
But let me let me just say this. We saw
a big story today. We're week away from beginning of
the nf season and the Chiefs are not gonna have
Hollywood Brown when they kick off their title defense next Thursday. Right.
He got hurt the first snap of practice this summer,
and Andy Reid said today, not gonna have him. You know,
(30:14):
he's making tremendous progress, But we're gonna be smart and
we'll see when he comes back. But he is not
going to play on Thursday night, which means Xavier Worthy
might see a little bit of an uptick where she
Rice might see, I might see an uptick. Who knows
how much Juju Smith Shu's just gonna get to play.
But I gotta tell look, Hollywood Brown's terrific player, right,
He's a big addition for this team. But quite honestly,
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it is irrelevant who plays wide receiver for the Chiefs.
It's irrelevant because this is how and this is what
we don't talk about when you talk about the greatness
of Patrick Mahomes. We talked about it this week a
little bit that last year was the most impressive year
of Mahomes' career because he didn't have anybody to throw to. Nobody.
You had her. She Rice catched seventy nine passes. He
(30:57):
had a good year. Last half of the year he
was good. But the next closest wide receiver twenty eight
receptions and they won the Super Bowl. It doesn't matter.
He's won with Tyreek Hill, He's won two without Tyreek Hill.
They change wide receivers every single year. It's like there's
a new five guys every It's it's like they made
an announcement to the rest of the NFL. Hey, listen,
(31:18):
if you guys want to, you'll get to spend one
year as a wide receiver with the Chiefs and maybe
win the Super Bowl and get you get a race,
you get a five guys. Look at this year. They
won a super Bowl last year and right now coming
into this season, the guys who were their starting wide
receivers last year aren't starting. Like it doesn't matter. This
is how good Mahomes is. The best of the best
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can win and it doesn't matter what's around them. Like
we watch Brady win super Bowls with big receivers around him,
we watch with nobody around him. Right, You're seeing Jordan
Love be a terrific quarterback with really nobody that's that
great in Green Bay. He's got some nice receivers, but
these are guys he's making good. Right, So you're seeing
who the best quarterbacks really are because they win with
no one. And it's not that last year was the
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best year that Mahomes ever had, but it was the
most impressive because he didn't have anybody to throw to
and Still they won the Super Bowl, and still he
was big in the playoffs, and still they put enough
points on the board. And that's a part of the
greatness of Mahomes. We don't talk about that. Then you thought, well, no,
Tyreek Hill, watch what happens here? Yeah, didn't need him.
And now you wonder why Andy Reid was so okay
(32:22):
with letting Tyreek Hill go. Yeah, we're okay. What are
you stupid? How are you gonna win? Yeah, okay, we're okay.
Why we don't need him? We don't need him, We
don't need him. What do you mean? Oh? I guess
he was right. I guess they don't need him because
Mahomes is just that good.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Oh, offensive continuity and the quarterback to make it all happen, right,
keep him upright, all's right with the world running back situation.
How many guys have been declared the guy for fantasy
purposes that you've gone after. And I'm not talking about
the old Priest Holmes, Jamal Charles and all those guys
from fantasy yestery here talking about your Clyde Edwards, Hilayers.
(32:58):
And now maybe Check becomes that guy on a bigger level.
But you know, that's been interchangeable the receivers, as you mentioned,
year after year, different guys. The only lynchpin and steady
force has been Kelsey and now they've got to kind
of go and monitor his snaps, make sure that he's
right come November December. So you're going through what's changed,
(33:22):
more on the defensive end and more reliance on them
to hold things down, knowing that Mahomes is going to
be able to make that one play between he and
whether you like Harrison Butker or you don't, the guy
is one of the best kickers we've seen the last
twenty years. Right, you take him, you take Tucker, Now
you take Dicker, the kicker who got twenty two million dollars.
(33:44):
Good for you, But it's you know, you've got steady
and continuity and thought from the building all the way through.
We have very few NFL squads that allow for that,
and that can't be understated in all of this as well,
Jason net you know, whether you've got a guy like
Hollywood Brown, Week one doesn't matter, September doesn't matter. You're
(34:07):
not gonna lose the division. You're still gonna be a
playoff team. So again, so long as fifteen's upright, I'll
take my chances.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirack dot
Com studios coming up next seven minutes away. Stanford is
from ending a six hundred and seventy eight game day
losing streak. Acc after dark. Come get it. Plus, we
got one more big story out of the NFL. Keep
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it right here, Jason and Mike. You are listening to
Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, the Fox Sports Radio. I'm lou Rawls.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Oh yeah, you're going to miss You're gonna miss my
love to know.
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The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Life the Tirac
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Speaker 3 (34:59):
Wait, restart it. The voice coming in.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You'll never fin in.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Fern Fern, Fern Fern for front as.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Long as you live.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Someone too old you.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Uh stop karaoke. Let's go where we meet.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It's just let's just put the brakes on Stanford's first
home win over an FBS team in six hundred and
seventy eight days. TCU has just taken the lead with
three minutes left to go, twenty seven to twenty four.
But Stanford getting the ball back, it could be an
incredible win in the first acc after dark game.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That was easy after eight plays seventy four yards? Yeah, no,
it did did It definitely was easy. That was after
Lu Rolls singing a song for all those TCU fans
right now.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
You'll never find uh. So, look, we talked about how irrelevant,
Uh if Hollywood Brown plays for the Chiefs, he's not
playing that it doesn't matter because of the greatness of
Patrick Mahomes. Really, you say, That's what people don't understand
is how last year was his best, most impressive year
in the NFL because he won a Super Bowl with
nobody at wide receiver. That's your old line.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
That you've used forever, Right, do you come at the King,
you best not missed and you had your shot last
last year.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That was a year to get them right now now
they're back, But really it doesn't matter because they're just
He's just that good. He can win with anybody. But
you want another story that I'll tell you is irrelevant.
Is this story the last couple of days that oh,
Aaron Rodgers is a cancer in the Jets locker room. Okay,
first of all, and this is something that came out
on TikTok where a a a quote insider expert quoted
(36:48):
and an agent by saying, there's a lot of chaos
in the locker room because the Jets have allowed Aaron
Rodgers to do whatever he's wanted to do the last
few years. And it's not a great vibe right now. Okay,
because look, I'll tell you what I think are real
and not with Aaron Rodgers. If this was an actual thing,
we would have heard about it by now. Really, there
would have been the vibeed practice. Things would have been bad,
but we haven't. Now is it a different look in
(37:10):
the Jets locker room because the Jets haven't had a
star player like this in fifteen years. The last time
they had a star player, a big, superstar player was
Brett Farv Right, that's it. They've had some good player,
Dearrel Reeves is a Hall of Famer, They've had really
good they've had terrific players. Haven't had a star like
this in a long time. And yeah, that's kind of
how it goes. Rogers, I don't think is carrying himself
(37:32):
any differently than he has throughout his career where he's
won MVPs and Super Bowls. He's someone that has the
respect of the locker room. Your players all the time
talk about how much they love playing with him and
how and what he can wind up doing for the
team like they love him the wide receivers. They love
Aaron Rodgers. Now, is there a little bit of of
(37:53):
i'd say iciness between Rogers and Robert Slip? Probably? I
don't think they speak all that often. It sounds like,
you see the way they talk in the President's like
they talk, which I wouldn't if I'm If I'm Aaron Rodgers,
I don't want Robert Sola anywhere near the offense. You
stay away. I got this, so no is. I think
everything is perfect. Everybody loves each other. No but cancer
in the locker room. We would have known before now.
(38:15):
And the bottom line is this. No one's gonna care
that Aaron Rodgers went to Egypt. If he throws for
four touchdowns in three point fifty and the Jets beat
the forty nine ers next up next Monday night, no
one's gonna care. They're gonna say, Aaron, you want to
go to Egypt now and come back next week? We
are good. It doesn't matter Rogers has looked really good
in camp. He's the same Rogers is making the same
(38:37):
big throws, the same wild throws. None of this crap
is gonna matter in nine days. None of it is.
And if Rogers is really good and the Jets win, great,
If not, Rogers is gonna be out after this year
and the Jets are gonna start over at quarterback. So
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if they win. No
matter what the vibe is in the locker room, it's
(38:58):
irrelevant because this is win or lose win. Everything is
great lose, and it's a new quarterback, it's a new
coach and a new GM That's how it's gonna go.
This whole Rogers get not happening, and it's irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, I think the solid thing is very real. And
obviously Nathaniel Hackett everybody sees him as an Aaron Rodgers puppet.
To whatever degree that is true or false, you know,
you can decide yourself. And I have no doubt that
guys do a lot of side eye and maybe you
know some of the theories and things that Aaron says,
(39:34):
Get gets a little bit of conversation, but in the
end they know their careers for this year and for
the foreseeable future, go through what number eight does. If
he ain't there, it's gonna be another long year. And
that means the tape that they're putting out ain't gonna
be the best, no matter what their best efforts are.
Right So, you know, for Wilson, for Hall, you know,
(39:55):
their stars whatever, But for everybody else trying to make
their mark and their next deals, Aaron Rodgers is an
important piece. And so long as he's there and he's
in the building, you know you'll have your discussions, you'll
have your back and forth. Last year it got difficult
because he wasn't around right now and you just had
to read stuff and deal with media reaction. And then
(40:15):
they're coming into the locker room to ask you if
you've heard about what Aaron was doing. He's not there, right,
He's not there in battling with you. So yeah, it'll
it'll get noisy. If they lose a couple of games early,
I have no but beyond that, you know, if it
was that bad, we'd have more anonymous sources, especially in
New York. Come on, sure, there's because that's all kinds
(40:37):
of anonymous sources in New York one hundred percent. There's
rats everywhere.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
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should be. Well a game, we'll get you coming up
in a couple minutes. Boy, Dodgers needed every one of
those runs, need to show. Heyotani's big home run tonight
as a ten five ninth inning lead turns into a
ten to nine nail biting win against Arizona.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But is it that much sweeter to like taunt them
with the potential comeback and then record that final.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Out Oh yeah, that's always sweet, and that's always something
the Mets do. Oh we're getting killed. Oh look we've
got four h Yeah, but it's one. It's one too few. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Hey, you got a five to one win today. So
it's a glorious Friday for you, buddy, it is.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And I have held off. I mean, look, it's my
It's okay, you can imagine me. I've held off a
little bit tonight because I know it's tough for you.
I know, and I really thought we're gonna come in
here and and maybe get swept, because that's how the
Mets do things. Sure, you know, think they get a
win tonight, another needed win. But I wanted to take
it easy on anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And there's no need to. All right, don't need to
take it easy. Your team stinks, your city stinks.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (01:49):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I don't I don't think. Well, the city does have
its problems. We can go into a bunch of socioeconomic
and political factors whereby you've got a city divided. But
for the sports purposes, Look, it's football season. Wild Cats
play tomorrow, it's college colors day. I got my purple
on head to toe, and I'm ready for that in
(02:10):
the makeshift short term stadium that's been built. And look,
next week I'll be talking Bears, Bears, Bears, Bears, Bears,
and it's all good. But for the White Sox, who
I've lived and died with for I don't know, some
forty three forty four years of my consciousness and sports,
this one's been a tough one to watch night and
(02:32):
night out. I'm still watching. I'm still grimacing at every strikeout,
every time they throw down to second and it hits
a guy in the face because he's not paying attention.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
All of those things still sting.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Just the same. But the one hundred and fifth loss,
the grim reality of where your organization is when just
three short years ago it was.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
They're on the come.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
There's a couple of young pitchers, here's a couple of
young hitters dot dot if they can stay healthy, and now.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Here we are and now they're they're all on new teams,
and that's where.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And throwing no hitters winning double digit games be constructed.
After a couple of other stops, Chris Sale is gonna
be the nl SAIJNGA.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, that's awesome, buddy, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
So you know you add it all up. It's positive
time for Harmon, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
He is you just went third person. I dig that. Yeah,
I'm going third person because I've wearing purple shorts.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well no, and going forward, I'm gonna do a lot
more of that and a lot more bravado and really
trying to elicit the lover hate from the audience, and
and hate works. Hate usually can get me some heel
work as a manager in the WWE.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So let's go now before we get to a big injury.
Just a little bit more on the book. The biggest
story of the night we watched in the eighty sixth
match up this year, the Indiana Fever beat the Chicago
Sky Caitlyn Clark Angel Reese battling for Rookie of the Year.
Look that thing over, man, I don't care whatever crazy
ass stuff. ESPN's gotten their machine if we have these No,
(04:05):
Caitlyn Clark, forget about Rookie the Year. She's got it.
She's the Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
I like to embrace debate as much as the next compation.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
But come it's done, Man, it's done. They had to
leave Angel Rees in the game until there was a
minute left to go when they were down twenty, just
because we have to get her a double double. Like,
it's become my identity. If I don't get a double double,
it's a bad night. You're still a bad night. You're
still a bad night.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And now it's become the equivalent of the dude standing
on the corner with the bull horn either telling you
that you know the end of days or nigh and repent,
trying to sell you some remaindered furniture, or leading you
to a used car lot or here in Los Angeles,
that would be the would you like to take a
(04:46):
tour of celebrity homes? That's one of the four options
that you have. That's kind of what it feels like
the guy with the bullhorn, and you can pick any
of your favorite four letter protagonists in this argument trying
to make an argument out of it. This uh that
they're just shouting into the wind. It's it's insane.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Uh. Caitlyn Clark Tonight leads the Fever to a nineteen
point win. Again they have to leave angel reesono stat
pad Uh. But this is a big look. We talked
about the fact that really forget about rookie of the year.
It's really MVP now between Caitlyn Clark and Asia Wilson, Like,
that's that's the level that we're at when you talk about.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Don't forget Colliers to meet and the sand.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah Colliers, but what but you're talking about Asia Wilson,
who's the best player, and Caitlin Clark, who has raised
her team up more from where they were at to
where they're at now than than a little bit more
than Collier did. Right, it has done. I'm not saying
she's not great, not saying she's not a great player
having a great season, but this is the fever team
that This was the Clippers of the w NBA for
(05:43):
the last eight years, Like they're the Pistons of the
w NBA. Where because they're five hundred?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, because the Clippers were at least making the playoffs,
they got you know.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
That's a reference millennials got. They understood the Clippers back then.
But you're right. But this is the best part of
and most impressive part of Kaitlyn Clark is that the
best players elevate in the big games. Right, big players
play big and big games. I'm always a believer of
that phrase. And tonight in a huge rivalry game and
(06:19):
what's going to be a career long rivalry with Angel
Reese and Caitlin Clark, and they both embrace it for
everything it brings. Absolutely on the road, Angel Reese is did.
They're having a Barbie Knight for Angel Reese at the game.
The Sky absolutely need this game because they need to
continue to stay in playoff position. They had beat the
(06:39):
Fever last time because they came back in the fourth
quarter in what was Angel Reese's best game of the
WNBA to this point. They absolutely needed this. On the
road at home of this game, and Caitlyn Clark goes
in and has her best game of the year points wise,
and is so rolling. She's thrown behind the back passes
at the end of the game, just feeling it less
(07:00):
on the court with their teammates. She elevates and she
elevated this game. We saw it in college at Iowa
when she smelled something, whether it was a Final four
berth or the all time scoring record, she smelled it
and she did it. Big players elevate, and she absolutely
elevated tonight in a game that really shut the door
on the Rookie of the Year talk everything else, and
she knew she could do it, and this was her
(07:21):
game tonight, thirty one and twelve, a real double double.
And now they're sixteen and sixteen, they're a team nobody
wants to play in the playoffs. We're talking MVP for
Caitlin Clark and people's heads are exploding hearing bat and
I love that. And that's another thing. That's one thing
about her that she doesn't get enough credit for that
in the big games, when they need it, she elevates,
and she elevated so big tonight.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Well, and this goes back to some of those battles
against Angel Reese and the heavyweights at the collegiate level
South Carolina. You know, playing against Cardoso and going into
the pain against her, it's et cetera that you know
your you're battle tested. You know, as much as we'd
had all the chatter of oh, she's not going to
(08:05):
be tough enough, was like, no, she got beat up
a bit in college and got a lot of calls
along the way, so maybe that's evened out a little bit,
and she's certainly taking a bruising and a beating along
the way. You know, if you can't beat them, beat them,
I guess is what it comes down to. But you know,
I like that. The Indiana Fever leaned into it, talking
about how many double doubles she has as a guard
(08:28):
to lead the WNBA this year and declaring her the
rookie of the year. All of that to be said,
but she came out and hit her first three point
first three three point shots, got all the teammates involved
early defensively on switches, whatever else and a couple of times,
and this was great to see as a squad looking
(08:48):
out for each other, recognizing the easiest way to get
the Sky back into the game would be to retaliate
for some of the hard fouls or screens or whatever
was going on. We're gonna go after the officials, right
stopping each other from doing that to make sure they
focused on the next play, because a lot of times
you got some great transition buckets coming off of Sky
(09:12):
makes standing around and being able to get that outlet
pass that has been chronicled so much. But for Caitlyn Clark, yeah,
she knew that crowd was there to see her and
Angel Reese get After it sold out, crowd reshows up
in the Rodman Jersey and Caitlyn Clark we get the
slow walk to the arena. I mean, we got to
just have entrance music like their WWE Superstars with this.
(09:35):
Oh yeah, sure, let's just go full on in.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Yeah yeah yeah. And hey, remember remember Diana TARROSSI said
reality is coming for Caitlyn Clark. So just boy, it's
gonna be difficult, man. At some point it's gonna be
in her takeover of the league. Boy, it's gonna be difficult.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I mean they lost some games early on. So does
she take credit for that? Because you see Caitlyn Clark
in games against Tarasis, she kind of had her away
in those moments to you.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
I hope she went down court in the end and
said to her, hey, Diana, reality is coming.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Oh no, she had it. She had a couple of
blank ewes the last the last time. Go back in
the timeline those are there some great exchanges where you
got a little bit of f bombs going back towards
Tarasi and some of the other vets, And yeah, I
mean the reality is at this point you're resorting to
I mean, whatever Deshields was doing today. And and look,
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Clark's not innocent. We've talked about it a lot. She'll
hang it on uh, waving to the crowd and and
you know, doing not quite the whole Cogan thing because
we don't want to invoke him right now because he's
problematic in a lot of ways. But you know the
old ere you know, hand up to the like to
the ear and getting the crowd excited. She she'll do
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a bunch of that, and she'll she'll trash talk and whatever.
So yeah, you're probably gonna get a little harder follow
what we saw a couple of times tonight. We're not
basketball plays, right, especially that third fall called in what
a minute of game action against the Shields. Oh yeah,
did you order the code red? When you ran her
down from behind? Like there was no attempt at the ball.
It got up Grady to do a flagrant that one
(11:11):
needed all about three seconds because they're really slow at
for as much as weak a plane about Major League
Baseball or the NFL or NBA with the reviews, my god,
the WNBA, it takes forever to adjudicate something that goes
to the monitors. It was one look and it's like, yeah,
let's go.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I'm okay with that. Just because of the way things
were officiated early on, it felt like, hey, officials. Officials
can't make somebody earn something in the WNB. Okay, I'm sorry,
but I felt like Kateler Clark was officiated where the
officials say, Okay, you gotta earn it. No, no, no,
that's not your job. Your job. It's the job of
the players to try to make her earn it. It's
the job of it's your job to make sure that
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dirty plays don't happen. And when Kennedy Carter slams are
from behind, you call a flagrant and you make sure
that there's no place for that in the game. But
I felt that happened, So I'm okay to see it now,
I'm okay to see how because how they're.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Calling the fouls because she's done some tough fouls. I mean,
there's plenty of videos of some of the stuff she's
she's not above retaliation. But you know, let's let's everybody
make sure that it's like all I ever asked for,
like in my kids' games or when I played, or
the stuff we watch is that you're calling it down
the middle right, and that a fall over here is
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a fall over there, and we're consistent, et cetera. And
I'm sure you coaching, you know that's all you were
hoping for. Yeah, you want the one extra call, but
you at least want it even and oftentimes we've seen
some chaos in these games.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
I learned. I learned after a little while that okay,
and I know that I would always I would always
uh build in and we're not going to get any help,
like you know, like that, don't ever expect referees umpires
to help us. I'm very rarely happy with the way
a game is a officiated or refereed. When I was coaching,
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whether it's soccer or softball, I was very rare. But
there's very rare times where I say, you cost us
the game, Like I could not like it, but I
could always look and say, well, even if they called
this and this and this, where we're still gonna win.
Was this gonna happen? But oh no. But there's a
bunch of times to stand out that I go, boy,
you took that away from us? Why I took that
away from us? So I got to understand that we're
not only playing the team that we're playing against, but
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we're playing the officials too. We're playing the umpires or
playing them too, and that things aren't gonna go our way.
And it wasn't that I did it in a malicious way.
It was just a way to say, hey, so when
it didn't go our way, that it didn't take any
of the girls out of the game, Like, oh, I
can't believe so and so got caught that pitch was
five feet outside. I go, I know, but let's go, like,
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you gotta understand that that that's gonna happen. Let's get
out there at five second memory and go out there
and play. So that was kind of where I was
always because I always knew I'm not gonna be happy.
I'll shake the officials hand at the end and I'll
lay off him because I understand that he's out here
doing a you know, he doesn't need to be out
here on a Saturday or Wednesday night or whatever it
is doing this. But in the end of it to
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walk away going yeah, yeah, you you stunk tonight. Say
you know where it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Gets tump though, Jason, they're not volunteering. This isn't a
YS so they're getting paid.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You get paid, No, you get paid to do so.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Like that's that's where there's a tough line that you
got to draw. On it because they're not volunteering their time. Yeah,
they're actually making a pretty fair wage for the hour
that they're.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hour and a half. But I still always know that
that don't you want to be respect to look cool,
But it's also something that official. I know, the officials like, hey,
they could choose to come to this game or not, right, Like,
do I want to go make sixty bucks or whatever
it is there's seventy five bucks forget? Or do I
want to not show up? You like, there's always that
out there and you work, so I understand that you know,
they're taking time out of their weekend or their night
to go do it, even though they're getting paid at
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the same time, doesn't even have to agree with how
they know.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Hey, let me circle back to Caitlin Clark for one
last second, because for once, it's not about him or
something he's doing. Lebron James has chimed in Caitlyn Clark
five exclamation points, high haters.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Guess who's gonna be playing point guard for the Lakers
this year?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Caitlyn Clark, I tell you what that would be some
fun uh fun outlet passes. We talk about show time
coming back in some of the long leads or the
bound bounce passes, the staple of the IOWA program, Men
and women going all the way back to doctor Tom.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I want to I want to see Lebron photoshop Caitlyn
Clark into D'Angelo Russells. Jersey.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Well, I mean he can follow up like he did. Hey,
Bronni can play for us now. Now Cantly's come in
and give us some heavy minutes.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, yeah, Now he's got he's got some kind of
of of of computer wizards that goes. Here's Caitlyn on
the break to Bronnie to Lebron for slag.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
And Bronnie shelling dead dead.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
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Speaker 1 (18:11):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with My best
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acc after dark Stanford trails TCU twenty to seventeen in
the fourth quarter Stanford keeping it close, so of course
had to text, you know. Friend of the show, Jason
(18:33):
Cole comes on once a week with us talking NFL.
Stanford gred I said, Hey, welcome to the ACC. This
is glorious. What do you think I got back from him?
This is where you say what what did he say?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah? Noway, yeah you could just let's do it again
back from him? What did they get back from him?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
What did you get back from Jason Cole? Was it
a picture or words I blank and hate you? Okay,
that sounds about right, just so we're consistent in that.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
No, that's Jay Cole right there? Uh so again yes,
college football. Stay, Hey, this game, this game may be
going on when Bernie Frattle comes on in a half hour,
like crazy, we were still going up. Bernie Frattle is
going to get the end of this game.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Right yeah, and it'll be j mart In for uh
for Bernie tell ye by the end of the game.
But either way, the show following us here coming up
in about thirty five minutes, because they're twelve minutes of
action and let's face it, a lot of passing, a
lot of incompletions.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Yeah, to come here, there's a lot of that. Meanwhile, hey,
big injury tonight that we all have our fingers crossed on.
We may have seen Clayton Kershaw walk off the mound
for the last time. Tonight, the Dodgers beat Arizona in
a game that looked like they had it going away.
Joe Heyo Tani. It's his forty third home run of
the year. He's now a forty three forty three guy.
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And it's not even in September first yet. But the
Diamondbacks get four in the ninth, it's not enough. The
Dodgers win at ten to nine. Clayton Kershaw left this
game in the second inning with a toe injury. Couldn't
get anything on his pitches. His first two pitch of
the second inning was an eighty seven mile an hour
fastball and a sixty seven mile an hour curveball that
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Corbyn Carroll deposited in the seats for a home run.
Carol wasn't even around second base and Dave Roberts was
out from the dugout the team. The infielders were out,
Kershaw walked off. Didn't look like he was in an
over amount of pain because he walked off the field,
but it was a really bad vibe and a really
bad look, and for a guy that's come back from
(20:41):
injury so many times, to be hurt here at the
end of August. You wonder is this gonna be? It? Like,
is this the last time you see me? You know,
he's doesn't have much left. We talked about it earlier
in the year. If I put the over under it,
Clayton Kershaw starts the rest of his career at twenty,
Are you taking the over on that? Like, you know
how close he is to the end, doesn't want to
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walk off, I'm sure, being his last pitch being a
home run to Corbyn Carrol, But you don't know what
the toe injury is. We're waiting to hear more information
on it. But this is just I mean, it just
does a really weird vibe and have him walking off
and you see the look on his face. He walks
by his teammates into the locker room and I just
said he in wondergo is that the last time we
see him pitch? Is that the last pitch that he
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throws in his surefire first ballot Hall of Fame career? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
I mean, unless it's something that requires a big surgery,
I like to think that maybe it's something that's just
a short term ill. Bob Nightingale just tweeted this out,
dealing with a bone spur in his tone. That's what
per manager Dave Roberts and preparing for a possible Iel
move quote, I'd be shocked if we don't make an
IL move or two because they've had a bunch of
(21:51):
issues in that rotation. They did get Freddy Freeman back tonight.
He comes back and deposits a home run. He's been
dealing with a finger issue. Took the Orioles series off.
Now the gravitas, the weight of this four game set
against Arizona on board. But yeah, for Clayton Kershaw, I mean,
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just his reaction, right, because immediately you and I are
looking at and texting each other, going, all right, he's
not you know, holding his elbow or doesn't look like
it's visible, you know, discomfort with his shoulder, which is good,
or is back for that matter, which we've seen for years, right,
and wondering for years, And I mean we've been doing
this a while, Probably four or five years ago, we
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were wondering how many more starts we were gonna get
then because of the back issues on and off again.
So the fact that he keeps battling back has been impressive.
But the countenance walking off the mound and pass the teammates,
and the dugout was really something different, kind of weighty.
And you and I being big baseball fans and following
his whole career, you know, there's just when when legends
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had those moments, you know your heart sinks a little bit,
like the.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Passage of time.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I always joke about the forty year old guys, and
I need them, not necessarily to dominate, but I need
them in the league right. So I need your guy
Rogers upright and playing. I need Lebron to keep doing
whatever in the hell it is Lebron's doing, which is
million or two spend. I need Brady to come back
out of the booth, forget about the ownership, forget about
the Fox booth, and just go back and be at quarterback. Okay,
(23:25):
I really want him in the Fox booth because I
think he's going to be great. But we've been reading
all about the legal ease and problems in terms of
ownership and everything else that's going on there and how
it's messing with his job. But for Clayton Kershaw, he's
one of that older group, particularly South Pause when they
start hitting the crafty side of their career that you
hope that it's a long tail as opposed to where
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we are now.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Coming up in ninety seconds. A big NFL story that
is really irrelevant, but not why you think, but first
specially delivery. Steve Desager has everything about what's trending in
the water world of sports, including how much money he
has on the under for Stanford and TCU in hashtag
ACC after Dark.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yeah, I don't know if AC after Dark is gonna
pick up, but oh give it a shot.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
Come on, man, you got come on. Back twelve was
terrible for a long time, and still we had back
twelve after dark.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
Back twelve after dark was great, really great. Saturday nights, Well,
we'll see Stanford. Of course it's Stanford, an Cow and
SMU are all ACC schools, because of course they are.
It's early fourth quarter. TCU leads at Stanford twenty to seventeen. Earlier,
sixteenth ranked Oklahoma dominated Temple fifty one to three. Jackson
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Arnold four touchdown passes in the first half. The Owls
had six turnovers in this loss. Michigan State was up
sixteen nothing first half, beat Florida Atlantic sixteen to ten.
Spartans was seven sacks. The Duke defense had eight sacks
in a home win over Elon twenty six to three.
Army forty two to seven over Lehigh six rushing touchdowns
(25:01):
passing for Army Tonight five for eight fifty seven yards,
no punts, no turnovers, easy win, and on fass one.
Wisconsin picked up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter and
beat Western Michigan twenty eight fourteen. North Carolina quarterback Max
Johnson is out for the year. He suffered a broken
leg last night and had surgery. Pitt running back Rodney
Hammond was declared ineligible for the season. Most college football
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teams opened their season this weekend. The first big noon
game is tomorrow on Fox TV, Penn State at West Virginia.
Ravens tight end Mark Andrews returned to practice he missed
over two weeks after a car accident. The Ravens are
re signing quarterback Tyler Huntley. The Chargers gave kicker Cameron
Dicker a four year extension. The Giants re signed defensive
back of Dori Jackson. The Dolphins gave head coach Mike
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McDaniel a three year contract extension. Scottie Scheffler leads the
PGA's Tour Championship by four strokes over Colin Morikawa upset
in New York. At the US Open tonight, number two
seed Novak Djokovic is out, losing a third round match
to Alexi Popperrin of Australia in four sets, And there
are two matches still going here at does quick math.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
In the US Open after dark?
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Oh yeah, it's gonna be US Open at sunrise shortly
the way things are going.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Doesn't the US Open go right to the big noon kickoff?
I think that's how it would.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
You know, actually, if it was the same network, because
you know that pregame shows a couple hours worth, you
might be onto something there Arena satellec.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Rob Stone is just getting to work out with a
coffee in his hand, going all right, we still love.
US Open was.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Playing Zerav Zerav is still playing what arena sableca for
love in the third and final set of her third
round match to WNBA Indiana one at Chicago one hundred
and eighty one. Caitlin Clark thirty one points, twelve assists
in Vegas, Asia Wilson twenty six points, sixteen rebounds and
an aces win against Atlanta victories for Dallas and New York,
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and in that New York Factory at Seattle, Breonna Stewart
thirty two points. The Clippers reportedly gave center at Vitze
Zubats a three year extension. The late game in Major
League Baseball was the Dodger win at Arizona, holding on
ten to nine Diamondbacks with four runs bottom of the
ninth against the completely overworked Dodger bullpen. You see, another
starter was well. He had a short outing tonight, the
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aforementioned Clayton Kershaw leaving in the second inning with the
toe injury, likely going to the injured list. The Dodgers
are five games up on the Diamondbacks and Padres now
in the NL West. San Diego won its game thirteen
to five at Tampa Bay, Houston and Seattle with wins.
Mariners still four games back at first place Houston. In
the AL West, Baltimore a five to three winner at Colorado,
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while the Yankees won six to three over Saint Louis So.
Baltimore is still a game and a half back of
the Yanks. San Francisco with a win, and the Mets
as well. They won five to one at the White Sox,
who've lost eight straight, Cleveland and Minnesota with victories. Atlanta
won at Philadelphia seven to two, third basement Alec Baum
out tonight with a hand injury, and Milwaukee swept a
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doubleheader at Cincinnati when the opener in ten innings five
to four, took the nightcap fourteen to nothing, including ten
runs in the ninth. Again that college football game twenty
to seventeen. TCU leads at Stanford about nine minutes ago. Boy,
we got a while to go there.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Back to well, here's why ACC after dark is already great.
Stanford's within three of TCU. Both of you, quick quiz
for both of you. How many days has it been
since Stanford beat an FBS team at home? Oh? My,
not big game, I remember, yeah, okay, not FBS. Last
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time they beat an FBSD one they won a game
at home against an FBS team. How many days?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I think it's only two total in the last four years.
So wow, I'll say five hundred days.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Okay, seven fifty uh one dollar six and seventy eight
days it's been since Stanford has won an FBS game
at home six hundred and seventy eight And here they
are with TCU.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Meaning they couldn't even be cal at home.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
No, no, no, no no, I'll tell you, Quentin Johnson
eight walking through that door. Although they'll take him, the
Charger would easily give him up at this point, Quentin,
he's not walking through. Max Duggan is not Max Duggan
is not returning, you know, door.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
No with the ACC. Their first ACC game is Stanford
at Syracuse in just a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Stanford's inside there, inside the five yard line, six hundred
and seventy eight days. It could be over.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Thank you calling that upset this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Let's go. Still a long way to go again, eight
and a half to go in the game, Stanford again
knocking on the door. Uh, down by three. Haven't won
a game at home against the FBS team in over
two years.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
But let me let me just say this. We saw
a big story today. We're week away from beginning of
the nf season and the Chiefs are not gonna have
Hollywood Brown when they kick off their title defense next Thursday. Right.
He got hurt the first snap of practice this summer,
and Andy Reid said today, not gonna have him. You know,
(30:14):
he's making tremendous progress, But we're gonna be smart and
we'll see when he comes back. But he is not
going to play on Thursday night, which means Xavier Worthy
might see a little bit of an uptick where she
Rice might see, I might see an uptick. Who knows
how much Juju Smith Shu's just gonna get to play.
But I gotta tell look, Hollywood Brown's terrific player, right,
He's a big addition for this team. But quite honestly,
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it is irrelevant who plays wide receiver for the Chiefs.
It's irrelevant because this is how and this is what
we don't talk about when you talk about the greatness
of Patrick Mahomes. We talked about it this week a
little bit that last year was the most impressive year
of Mahomes' career because he didn't have anybody to throw to. Nobody.
You had her. She Rice catched seventy nine passes. He
(30:57):
had a good year. Last half of the year he
was good. But the next closest wide receiver twenty eight
receptions and they won the Super Bowl. It doesn't matter.
He's won with Tyreek Hill, He's won two without Tyreek Hill.
They change wide receivers every single year. It's like there's
a new five guys every It's it's like they made
an announcement to the rest of the NFL. Hey, listen,
(31:18):
if you guys want to, you'll get to spend one
year as a wide receiver with the Chiefs and maybe
win the Super Bowl and get you get a race,
you get a five guys. Look at this year. They
won a super Bowl last year and right now coming
into this season, the guys who were their starting wide
receivers last year aren't starting. Like it doesn't matter. This
is how good Mahomes is. The best of the best
(31:39):
can win and it doesn't matter what's around them. Like
we watch Brady win super Bowls with big receivers around him,
we watch with nobody around him. Right, You're seeing Jordan
Love be a terrific quarterback with really nobody that's that
great in Green Bay. He's got some nice receivers, but
these are guys he's making good. Right, So you're seeing
who the best quarterbacks really are because they win with
no one. And it's not that last year was the
(32:01):
best year that Mahomes ever had, but it was the
most impressive because he didn't have anybody to throw to
and Still they won the Super Bowl, and still he
was big in the playoffs, and still they put enough
points on the board. And that's a part of the
greatness of Mahomes. We don't talk about that. Then you thought, well, no,
Tyreek Hill, watch what happens here? Yeah, didn't need him.
And now you wonder why Andy Reid was so okay
(32:22):
with letting Tyreek Hill go. Yeah, we're okay. What are
you stupid? How are you gonna win? Yeah, okay, we're okay.
Why we don't need him? We don't need him, We
don't need him. What do you mean? Oh? I guess
he was right. I guess they don't need him because
Mahomes is just that good.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Oh, offensive continuity and the quarterback to make it all happen, right,
keep him upright, all's right with the world running back situation.
How many guys have been declared the guy for fantasy
purposes that you've gone after. And I'm not talking about
the old Priest Holmes, Jamal Charles and all those guys
from fantasy yestery here talking about your Clyde Edwards, Hilayers.
(32:58):
And now maybe Check becomes that guy on a bigger level.
But you know, that's been interchangeable the receivers, as you mentioned,
year after year, different guys. The only lynchpin and steady
force has been Kelsey and now they've got to kind
of go and monitor his snaps, make sure that he's
right come November December. So you're going through what's changed,
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more on the defensive end and more reliance on them
to hold things down, knowing that Mahomes is going to
be able to make that one play between he and
whether you like Harrison Butker or you don't, the guy
is one of the best kickers we've seen the last
twenty years. Right, you take him, you take Tucker, Now
you take Dicker, the kicker who got twenty two million dollars.
(33:44):
Good for you, But it's you know, you've got steady
and continuity and thought from the building all the way through.
We have very few NFL squads that allow for that,
and that can't be understated in all of this as well,
Jason net you know, whether you've got a guy like
Hollywood Brown, Week one doesn't matter, September doesn't matter. You're
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not gonna lose the division. You're still gonna be a
playoff team. So again, so long as fifteen's upright, I'll
take my chances.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Tirack dot
Com studios coming up next seven minutes away. Stanford is
from ending a six hundred and seventy eight game day
losing streak. Acc after dark. Come get it. Plus, we
got one more big story out of the NFL. Keep
(34:35):
it right here, Jason and Mike. You are listening to
Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, the Fox Sports Radio. I'm lou Rawls.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Oh yeah, you're going to miss You're gonna miss my
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dot Com. Have to do the deep voice.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Wait, restart it. The voice coming in.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
You'll never fin in.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Fern Fern, Fern Fern for front as.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Long as you live.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Someone too old you.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Uh stop karaoke. Let's go where we meet.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
It's just let's just put the brakes on Stanford's first
home win over an FBS team in six hundred and
seventy eight days. TCU has just taken the lead with
three minutes left to go, twenty seven to twenty four.
But Stanford getting the ball back, it could be an
incredible win in the first acc after dark game.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That was easy after eight plays seventy four yards? Yeah, no,
it did did It definitely was easy. That was after
Lu Rolls singing a song for all those TCU fans
right now.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
You'll never find uh. So, look, we talked about how irrelevant,
Uh if Hollywood Brown plays for the Chiefs, he's not
playing that it doesn't matter because of the greatness of
Patrick Mahomes. Really, you say, That's what people don't understand
is how last year was his best, most impressive year
in the NFL because he won a Super Bowl with
nobody at wide receiver. That's your old line.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
That you've used forever, Right, do you come at the King,
you best not missed and you had your shot last
last year.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
That was a year to get them right now now
they're back, But really it doesn't matter because they're just
He's just that good. He can win with anybody. But
you want another story that I'll tell you is irrelevant.
Is this story the last couple of days that oh,
Aaron Rodgers is a cancer in the Jets locker room. Okay,
first of all, and this is something that came out
on TikTok where a a a quote insider expert quoted
(36:48):
and an agent by saying, there's a lot of chaos
in the locker room because the Jets have allowed Aaron
Rodgers to do whatever he's wanted to do the last
few years. And it's not a great vibe right now. Okay,
because look, I'll tell you what I think are real
and not with Aaron Rodgers. If this was an actual thing,
we would have heard about it by now. Really, there
would have been the vibeed practice. Things would have been bad,
but we haven't. Now is it a different look in
(37:10):
the Jets locker room because the Jets haven't had a
star player like this in fifteen years. The last time
they had a star player, a big, superstar player was
Brett Farv Right, that's it. They've had some good player,
Dearrel Reeves is a Hall of Famer, They've had really
good they've had terrific players. Haven't had a star like
this in a long time. And yeah, that's kind of
how it goes. Rogers, I don't think is carrying himself
(37:32):
any differently than he has throughout his career where he's
won MVPs and Super Bowls. He's someone that has the
respect of the locker room. Your players all the time
talk about how much they love playing with him and
how and what he can wind up doing for the
team like they love him the wide receivers. They love
Aaron Rodgers. Now, is there a little bit of of
(37:53):
i'd say iciness between Rogers and Robert Slip? Probably? I
don't think they speak all that often. It sounds like,
you see the way they talk in the President's like
they talk, which I wouldn't if I'm If I'm Aaron Rodgers,
I don't want Robert Sola anywhere near the offense. You
stay away. I got this, so no is. I think
everything is perfect. Everybody loves each other. No but cancer
in the locker room. We would have known before now.
(38:15):
And the bottom line is this. No one's gonna care
that Aaron Rodgers went to Egypt. If he throws for
four touchdowns in three point fifty and the Jets beat
the forty nine ers next up next Monday night, no
one's gonna care. They're gonna say, Aaron, you want to
go to Egypt now and come back next week? We
are good. It doesn't matter Rogers has looked really good
in camp. He's the same Rogers is making the same
(38:37):
big throws, the same wild throws. None of this crap
is gonna matter in nine days. None of it is.
And if Rogers is really good and the Jets win, great,
If not, Rogers is gonna be out after this year
and the Jets are gonna start over at quarterback. So
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if they win. No
matter what the vibe is in the locker room, it's
(38:58):
irrelevant because this is win or lose win. Everything is
great lose, and it's a new quarterback, it's a new
coach and a new GM That's how it's gonna go.
This whole Rogers get not happening, and it's irrelevant.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Yeah, I think the solid thing is very real. And
obviously Nathaniel Hackett everybody sees him as an Aaron Rodgers puppet.
To whatever degree that is true or false, you know,
you can decide yourself. And I have no doubt that
guys do a lot of side eye and maybe you
know some of the theories and things that Aaron says,
(39:34):
Get gets a little bit of conversation, but in the
end they know their careers for this year and for
the foreseeable future, go through what number eight does. If
he ain't there, it's gonna be another long year. And
that means the tape that they're putting out ain't gonna
be the best, no matter what their best efforts are.
Right So, you know, for Wilson, for Hall, you know,
(39:55):
their stars whatever, But for everybody else trying to make
their mark and their next deals, Aaron Rodgers is an
important piece. And so long as he's there and he's
in the building, you know you'll have your discussions, you'll
have your back and forth. Last year it got difficult
because he wasn't around right now and you just had
to read stuff and deal with media reaction. And then
(40:15):
they're coming into the locker room to ask you if
you've heard about what Aaron was doing. He's not there, right,
He's not there in battling with you. So yeah, it'll
it'll get noisy. If they lose a couple of games early,
I have no but beyond that, you know, if it
was that bad, we'd have more anonymous sources, especially in
New York. Come on, sure, there's because that's all kinds
(40:37):
of anonymous sources in New York one hundred percent. There's
rats everywhere.
Speaker 5 (40:40):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
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