Hour 2 - JP Morosi Joins!

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk with MLB Insider JP Morosi as they talk about the Dodgers getting Yoshinobu Yamamoto. 

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Biggest game of the night in Major League Baseball, maybe
the biggest game of the month now at Chavez Ravine.

(00:55):
The return of Yoshinobu Yamamoto. If he's what he was
expected to be over the next three weeks, Dodgers can
win the World Series if I would say thirty one
other teams but or twenty nine of the teams but
the White Sox twenty eight. Okay, maybe not. A bunch
of other teams now think they'll be able to win
the World Series if he is not what the Dodgers

(01:16):
expected making his big return. He again showed to Imanaga
tonight great pitchers duel so far one to one in
the middle of the fourth. Then he got John Paul
Morosi coming up in about twenty minutes, tell us latest
on that Yamamoto may be done for the night. He
has struck out eight in the first four innings, fifty
nine pitches. We know this is about what he was

(01:36):
going to be limited to, so maybe we've seen the
last him. Emon Augera while still going to be in
for a bit thirty five pitches for him through three
and a half innings. Now, let's deal with a couple
of quarterbacks here. Okay, we got we got news today
and the Steelers quarterback competition, But let me deal with
this first, okay, because this is this is this is

(01:56):
this is what this is, this is this is I
think a deep six seven eight Mets are tied for
the Wildcard. Everything is fine. Aaron Rodgers is sealthy, everything
is fine. Sam Donald is still not good. Okay, let
me let me just let me just say it.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
All right, you got to take out his sledge, Sam Donald.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
He's still not good. It seemed the Hey, Sam Donald,
now is bad? Okay, hang on, Sam Donald played okay
against a team that is tanking. Because the Giants are tanking, right,
we understand how bad they are. Maybe now they are
in pole position to get the number one overall pick

(02:35):
in the draft in the next spring, because well, the
Patriots already won a game, and boy man, I don't
know how the Giant, Giants and Panthers right now should
be in that hammer lock for that job.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yeah, I mean, I'm still in the You can stink
without tanking, but you know.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
But the Giants are terrible. And yes, was Sam Donald? Okay,
yeah he was. He completed his best Okay, you know
why because the Giants stink. That's why they have the
only guy. If if you were if you were running
a team and they said you could have anybody off
this team you want, you would say, give him the
leak neighbors want anybody else? Nope, but wait a minute, Nope,

(03:11):
I'm all good. You don't want them, but no, no, nope,
I'm good. Give him a leak, Neighbors, may. Maybe he's
really good. That's it like that, that's where they're at
because they're waiting for next year. That's why they didn't
go out and get anybody in the offseason this year.
That's why they didn't move up to get JJ McCarthy
because they know if they stink, it's a new GM,
a new head coach and knew everything. You don't want
to saddle your new GM, your new head coach with

(03:31):
a quarterback they didn't draft because all the reports Jay,
they love JJ McCarthy. He's our guy. He's a right. No,
why didn't you move You could have moved up to
get him, could have got him, could have done it right.
He was there, he was ticketed there for you, and
instead no, so you know they're tanking. I've seen this
movie with Sam Donald before, right. I saw it week
one when he was a quarterback of the Panthers when
the Jets got rid of him in a few years ago,

(03:53):
and he played Week one Zach Wilson's first game. Yes,
the Panthers won, they started three and zero, But watching
Sam Donald that first game, what did I see? A
guy that still missed a lot of throws, left a
lot of things on there. Will he be bailed out
a little bit more because he has the best receiver
he's ever played with. Yeah, But bottom line, Sam Darnold
is still a guy. He's not great. He's not suddenly

(04:17):
a player who, Hey, in his third stop in the NFL,
he's really gonna get it. I'm not worried about that.
I'm not worried or fourth stop in the NFL that
now suddenly he's really gonna get it. I'm not concerned.
He had a good day Week one against a team
that's terrible. All right, that's great, Great for him. I'm
happy for him. He's a good he's a good dude,
and and he's been able to take the ups and

(04:39):
downs of his career so far really well, never hanging
his head about it, never getting to a point where
it's to blame people in different organizations. He has carried
himself very classly. But nothing's gonna change that. He's just
not that good. Yes, he had a he had a
decent week one against a team that's absolutely terrible. You're
telling me you're putting in Derek Carr to the Pro
Bowl because he had a big week Week one. Want

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to give to the Carolina patics. Come on, man, I mean.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Seriously, the Pro Bowl was voting end to today. You
have to be likewise. Sam Donald was one of those
three guys after his effort nineteen to twenty four, two
eight and two.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Well, you know what, I'd be okay with that because
that means Kyle McCord would be the Heisman Trophy winner
at the college.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Well, that's just sane, right, like the show is today
as we always talk about, right, you know, hang on.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
A second, buddy, wait a minute, I'm changing everything I said.
I like that Heisman Heisman hus.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Hey, I knew I could get you on board.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Just uh, you know, have you taken deep breath?

Speaker 1 (05:32):
And away we go.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
But the opportunity for for Sam Donald, and it's the
curiosity because he is only twenty seven, right, think about
all the quarterbacks being drafted these last two years, like, oh,
that guy's gonna turn twenty five, that guy's already twenty six.
Here's we're talking a lot about Michael Pennock junior. That
guy has traveled many a weary mile uh in his road,
and he did it at the collegiate level. Well, Sam

(05:55):
Donald just happened to have his uh learning curve with
the uh sorry sorry organization that is the Jets, and
then he goes to Carolina. Then he spends a year
under the tutelage of Shanahan and everything going on in
an organization that actually knows how to do things in
San Francisco. And now he goes to Kevin O'Connell, so

(06:16):
he gets to go to another competent quarterback. I hate
using the whisperer, but a quarterback coach a guy that
can bring people along. So I'm not gonna rule out
the and categorically dismiss what he did here. Am I
gonna annoint him? Hell no, But it's the curiosity of
maybe he's an unfinished talent and maybe this is the

(06:37):
start and the right compliment of players when you look
at that receiving corp, because think about it, they're only
gonna get better because TJ. Hacketson's not even there yet. Yeah, okay,
look it a'll get go off the rails tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
No no, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
And it certainly can. But look, just because you're jilted
that he might have had some success in a post
Jets world, which is what it is, it sounds like
you're a little mad that you're Sam Donald Jets jersey
is not collecting muffuls.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
No.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Well, first of all, I never got a Sam Donald
Jets jersey because I was over forty, right, I can't
can't wear can't wear jerseys over the age of forty.
It's categorically and you can't do it. No, I mean
that's a personal choice. No, no, man, you do.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
What's gonna make you feel good, right, look good, feel good,
play good, talk good, whatever the case may be. You
know that this is the this is and then they
pay good.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Hang on, that's the second really rough English language moment.

Speaker 4 (07:32):
No, no, no, but I used it, I know, but I
used the way and the phraseology has always been used, right,
That's all I did. Because then when I change it
and I make it well, people are like, you're just
trying to sound like you're better. You use the big
words and your five dollar words took good.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
I use those expensive man.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
I used to write fantasy columns that would come back
to be going dumb this down. I'm like, I'm not
speaking the idiots, a writing for idiots. Why I gotta
dumb this down? Who who do you think my constituents are?

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Will you writing articles like Jim Lampley, the mellifluousness of
the quarterback position.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
You're making it entertaining for yourself. Wait, I gotta look ups.
I mean Maleficent Villain Lewis got two movies with Angeline
and Jolie.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
The conflagration of what you're going to see at the
running back position.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
On the conflagration anyway, the point being that you want
to wear a jersey, I to care.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
If you're eighty five in a day, have at it.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
If other people want to judge you, that's a them problem.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
You want to go buy a Sam Darnold Jet's jersey, Hey,
that's your problem going.

Speaker 4 (08:43):
No, look he again, spend your money how you're gonna
spend your money. But I don't judge folks. I gotta
I might smile, especially if it's a guy that you
know had a cup of coffee, but they were pot
invested and that's the jersey they're rocking because they're they're
showing their fandom.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Just because you are set, because you got stuck with
a gate with a you because you paid eight hundred
dollars for a game used Darnell Mooney jersey. Don't try
to push that on anybody else.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
If I if I had paid the eight hundred, I
would proudly say it that I did the job.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
But I did so.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
Look, Sam Darnald still stinks. Okay, hey, but you know what,
prove me wrong. I'll be that guy like at the
on the on the on the college campus is sitting
at the table with the prove me wrong sign. Prove
me wrong is Sam Darnald. I've seen this movie with
Sam Darnald. Now we get to what's going on with
Pittsburgh the way I love you, good good luck, good luck.

(09:35):
I love this part of the story because Mike Tomlin
has said, hey, we're gonna really keep an eye on
Russell Wilson to see what it's like this week, to
see if we can get him back in there.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
He missed week one with a calf injury. And while
they're watching Wilson, they are preparing Justin Fields to start again.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
On the road at Denver. Baby, let's go right for
Russell Wilson.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Tomlin's saying, quote, as I said here today, we're preparing
as if Justin is going to be our quarterback. I
think that's the appropriate way to do it. Speculation is
a waste of time. Russell is hurt and is not
available to us. This should be the week that Justin
Fields hammer's home and keeps the quarterback job because he
didn't play badly. That's the whole thing is what people

(10:22):
are missing about this game on Sunday against the Falcons, Like,
oh Joseph, yes, no, they didn't score. They kicked six
field goals, But no one's saying, oh boy, brock Perdy
played terribly last night. They kicked six field goals. They
moved the offense. He moved the offense. He made a
couple of really nice throws. This from a guy that,
yes a is more talented than Russell Wilson. Be can
move more than Russell Wilson and see move the football

(10:45):
and they won the game, all right. Justin Fields had
a completed a high percentage of his passes. He was
able to get outside and make some plays, design runs
nearly sixty yards rushing. If this was anybody else stepping
in for Russell Wilson, you gotta give this guy the job.
The job. This should be the week that Justin Fields
wins the job. That being said, if Russell Wilson gets cleared,

(11:08):
he's gonna start because Mike Tomlin looks at Russell Wilson
like a starry eyed high school student looks at their crush,
like this person can just do no wrong and I
don't know why. And your friends say, are you kidding?
This person is horrible. All they do is cheat off
of people in exams. They smoke cigarettes. I think that person.
I think he stole a car. It doesn't matter. He's

(11:29):
so dreamy and I don't care about that. No, no,
you're not listening to it. Not that Russell Wilson would
ever do it, but you get what I'm saying. You
have the he has that that look of and and
talking about Russell Wilson like I have. I have to
have fealty to him. I have to go to Wilson
when he's healthy. And if he is cleared, he's gonna
start and and and that's the big gamble. And that's
the big story this week is that if he's not cleared,

(11:52):
this should be the week Justin Fields wins the job
and Russell Wilson's got to do everything you can to
get back this week, because if you're two and zero
and you've won a couple of games and Justin Fields
is played okay with a minimal amount of reps. How
can you go back to Russell Wilson, Like Mike Tomin
would lose the locker room if he went back there.
He can still do it now. So this is the
last week. If he is not healthy by the end

(12:13):
of this week, and week two goes like we think
it's gonna go, that's it for Russell Wilson, Like he's
already looking at the end of his starting quarterback situation
barring injury, because Field's is not gonna let it go
if they're two and oh, because he's just he's playing
well enough, he's not struggling, he's not terrible. He didn't
do X, Y and Z poorly, didn't fumble a lot
of snaps, didn't throw a lot of picks. He did

(12:34):
a little bit more than what the team expects out
of Russell Wilson. So, like I say, this is it.
This is the week Wilson is either healthy and he
starts because you know Tomlin's gonna go back to him,
or Field is going to be two and oh and
that's gonna end the quarterback debate.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Steeler's a three point favorite on the road this week.
They've got the road trip to Denver followed by a
home date against Harbaugh and the Chargers. So the slate
is gonna be kind of fun here to watch these matchups.
But for Justin Fields week one, the shot chart, we
talked about it a little bit yesterday, and you've seen

(13:11):
the memes and the images going through on your timelines,
no doubt, just the way he worked to the outside
and he was efficient and he took care of the football.
That's the bottom line. Is he putting the ball in
harm's way If that's how you win, Mike Tomlin over,
especially if the defense is gonna swarm like they did
in week one, And I gotta imagine he's got something

(13:32):
cooked up for bow Nicks and for that Denver offense
for this week. So I mean that's the fun battle, right,
little chess match going on there, Tomlin's structure against what
Sean Payton's gonna be able to try to get out
of that offense. But for Justin Fields, he takes care
of the football and they moved the chains and you
have that many scoring drives again, Yeah you want sevens,

(13:55):
You'll take threes all day, right, better than the alternative.
Go your favorite team? Yeah, how many times did you
go three and out or have a very short lived
sequence for your offense before your defense was back out
and you were watching them, you know, drag and run
across their tongues because they were retired. Yeah, that's where

(14:15):
we're at. So for Justin Fields, take care of the football,
you win, Mike Tomlin over, I would be shocked if
suddenly we didn't get an eleventh hour Russell Wilson clearance
here for a game against Denver though.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah, I mean that that's the thing, Like he he
needs to he needs to be able to get cleared
and if he's if he's not, like I said, that's it.
I'd be stunned if he's not cleared by the end
of the week. I really would be. And I don't
know what the what day time is gonna be Tomlin's

(14:49):
drop dead where we can't we have to go with
Justin again, I don't know what it's gonna be. But
he's gonna keep that all the way to the eleventh
hours as much as he can, as much as he
can to wait because he just has that he's got
thing for Russell Wilson more than he does for Justin Fields.
And we've seen it all and.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
They also heard him in a drill that he shouldn't
have been participating in. So I do like the fact
and I got to bring it back. I mean that
you got an SAT five hour word in when you
went fieldy.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Do you like that?

Speaker 4 (15:16):
I like because I think everybody and a lot of
folks had to look that one up.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
I got malifluous conmration and fielty in the first two were.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
When you were mocking me. The third one you just
tried to slip that in.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
I mean, but I still got him in though it
still Oh I get that.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
I get that well read are you dyet scholarly kind
of thing here?

Speaker 1 (15:35):
So there you go, the biggest week of Russell Wilson's
career is a starting quarterback right now, and Sam Darnold
still is no good exit out out a Fresco exit
swollen down the.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, well you're a lousy softball player. Smith.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
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that you would want to watch it all the time. Uh,
tonight maybe the biggest night in baseball that we've seen

(18:37):
in quite a while as it pertains to who can
win the World Series. Why is this? Well, let's bring
on our next guest. He has a long time MLB
insider MLB Network right here at Fox Sports Radio. You
can follow him on Twitter at John Morosi. It is
the aforementioned John Paul Morosi. John Paul, what's happening, Bud?

(19:00):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (19:01):
I'm outstanding, my friends, And let me tell you this.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
I have been looking forward to this conversation ever since
the Lions Rams game concluded on Sundays because let me
explain exactly why to those of you who are who
are perhaps new to our audience tonight. Almost every time
that we have a conversation on this radio program during

(19:26):
football season, I predict two things that the Lions will
win and that they will score twenty seven points.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yes, so, as we.

Speaker 6 (19:37):
Are all somewhat befuddled by the ever changing NFL overtime rules,
the Lions score to take a twenty six to twenty
lead in overtime, and I'm saying to myself, can we
just kick the extra point twenty seven? So that way
that I can go on on the network on.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Tuesday night and say, listen, I was right on the.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Lions twenty seven points. Alas, alas one stay once they scored,
What a brilliant drive it was for David Montgomery.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Uh, they get.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Twenty six points at that point time, the game's over
and so no need to kick the extra point. But
I am I am giving my film an after us
here in saying that I was really close to being
exactly right and saying they would win that game and
score twenty seven points.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Well, did Montgomery score and walk up to the camera
with the football saying, Pope, this one's for you, Pope,
you believe trust I didn't say that.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
I almost exactly what he said.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
And uh, what a great night Lions. Lions are want
to know, I'm want to know Michigan, not want to know.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
But we've got a lot of good topics to discuss
right now.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
All right, let's start there, Mike and I talk Michigan beginning. No, no, no, Michigan.
Michigan's listen, this is this is pre Connor Stallion's Michigan.
We're taking That's what this team looks like this year,
the pre Connor Stallions Michigan.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Wow, it's like the defense he's running out as interim
head coach at that school.

Speaker 1 (21:02):
He's the quarterback. This looks like a pre Connor Stallion's
Michigan team. So this to me, tonight, John Paul is
the biggest night in baseball, and it's gonna be the
beginning of the biggest story for the playoffs the next
three weeks. Yoshinoba Yamamoto is back for the Dodgers tonight,
making his first start. The Dodgers are overwhelming favorites if

(21:24):
they are healthy. They are not, And if Yamamoto can
come back from the injury that has sidelined him and
be what they expect him to be three hundred million
dollar contract, Dodgers can win the World Series. If not,
they get knocked out in the first round. If he
is what they expected him, to be, and he continues
on with what he was. The Dodgers feel great, and

(21:45):
the other playoff teams are like, wow, we're looking up
at them. If not, it is a free for all
and you can see the bet team with the best
record in the National League may not even get out
of the first round. I think the Yamamoto story is
the biggest when it comes to playoffs over the next
three weeks.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
What do you think that's a big story?

Speaker 6 (22:00):
And so this tonight so far, obviously through four innings,
is out of the game now truck out eight, walk
zero a really encouraging start.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
I think that you're correct.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
To an extent, although I do wonder this with Yamamoto.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
What we know.

Speaker 6 (22:19):
Tonight is he can pitch effectively for fifty nine pitches
four innings.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
What we don't know is can he.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
Do it every fifth day now for the next two months.
And that's the piece of this that gets a little
bit interesting. I do agree that this outing tonight makes
me feel better about the Dodgers' chances of getting through
the first round and avoiding it would be a calamitous
first round exit. But I need to see a little

(22:48):
more from him. You see a little more of what
I think Glass now is going to be down the
stretch before I'm comfortable saying this is going to be
a nationallygue championship team and one that.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Goes to the World Series.

Speaker 6 (23:01):
I certainly think tonight's a step in that direction, but
there is still a lot of work for the Dodgers
to do to show that they are a team capable
of winning round after round and what I expect to
be a very difficult postseason because I'm not just saying
this because of who is posting the show, but a

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team like the Mets will be a difficult team for
someone to navigate and negotiate during the course of October
because they're going to be really hot and playing really
good baseball. And the team that gets in there and
gets maybe the last wild card birth is exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
The kind of team the Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
Mad to face at some point in October. And that
momentum we've seen this guy so many times, the momentum
of that team that had to win all those games
to get into the Dance, it cannot be replicated. We
saw it last year with the Dianonbacks they swept the Dodgers.
I agree again tonight it's a good step, but they're
still I think, susceptible to dealing with a very hot

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team at some point in October.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
Well that's the fun part on both in both leagues
though JP right now, the battle for these wild card
slots that for the final three weeks of the season,
we've got more drama than I can remember.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Oh we do.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
And I think it's interesting that by some minor miracle.
I was talking to my parents tonight, I said, hey,
you guys watch the Tigers every night.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
They're like, yeah, we are, because because they've got a.

Speaker 6 (24:29):
Shot, and it's I think it's good for the game
that you're seeing more teams that are that are closing
in the twins one tonight, which I think released a moment,
stemmed a bit of the momentum that the Tigers and
Mariners and the Red Sox have been building here in
recent days. But I think too on the on the
American League East side of things, and I'll be in

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New York tomorrow night for the for the Yankees and Orioles,
there's a lot of urgency there because I do think
that getting potentially homefield Advan is a major prize to
compete for.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
I certainly, winning the division.

Speaker 6 (25:04):
And avoiding that first round series is something that's worth
competing for. And I think both the Yankees and the
Orioles have some element of questions they're both facing here
as we near the end of the regular season, all.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Right, well away from them, and I'm sorry that they
are sending you to see the second best team in
New York tomorrow. Maybe look at you. I'm sorry about that, buddy,
I'm really sorry.

Speaker 6 (25:26):
I appreciate that pad on the back, Chase, and I'll
do my very best to appeal to our network leadership
to get the Mets on the network a bit more
often in the coming weeks.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Now, outside of the Alias, right, you have that game tomorrow,
the Guardians, the Astros, the Phillies, the Brewers, and the Dodgers,
all on top of their divisions. Which of those teams
do you think have the most faults? Are the most
vulnerable out of those five divisions? Again, the Yankees and
areas we covered, we're waiting to see them, Guardians, Astros, Phillies, Brewers, Dodgers.

(25:59):
What teams have the most issues?

Speaker 6 (26:01):
Well, it's interesting I think that in the case of
of Cleveland, I'm I'm a little bit worried about the
amount of fatigue on their bullpen issues that have played
a lot of very low scoring games and they've had
to go to their core relievers a lot. So I'm
a little bit worried about the fatigue elements for their

(26:22):
their late inning, key leverage relievers. So that's one thing
I think with Cleveland. I again I reference my concerns
already about the Yankees and the O's Houston. I am
a little bit worried about Bragman in terms of his
his elbow and how available he'll be to be the
full postseason Bregman that we've seen in the past as

(26:44):
he nears the postseason. And I that's one thing I'm
watching a bit carefully, and honestly, I wonder if Justin
Verlander makes their postseason roster for the first round. My
friend Joe Sherman on that WILLB Network today made a
very good point. Think about it the first round series.
If the Astros are there and playing a three game

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set in the wild card round, is Justin Verlander right
now one of Houston's three best starting pitchers. I would
say no, and I think it's fairly clear that he's not.
And so that to me, is one major question for
the Astros.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
We're used to them having.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Not a ton of questions, but oddly enough, a future
Hall of Fame pitcher, a first ballot Hall of Famer
is one of the big questions for the Houston Astros
right now.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
How about the fact that in Texas they're bringing back
Shuzer into Grom.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Let's go final three weeks. Let's make the Bush Davy
come on.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Now, seven and a half games back, I think that
are in the ground. And by the way, former Mets
draft pick Kubar Rocker too. For the Rangers, I think
they're still too far back to really make any serious noise.
But I think that for the big picture of the

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of the Rangers, having sures are into Gram end the
year healthy in the rotation will mean something for them.
But I see that as more of a twenty twenty
five boost than a twenty twenty four chance to make
the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
All right, So now I didn't know this, and I
know I'm kind of taking our friendship a little bit further.
I know the boy you talked to David Stearns about
certain ideas that I have things I like about the Mets,
and we had a great back and forth on social media,
John Paul, you and I, but I didn't know you
knew Joel Sherman. So if you can, I would like
to write some of the headlines for the back page

(28:36):
of the New York Post Sports section. Could you let
him know that I'd be really good at it, and
I'll send him some samples, But I really would like
to do just a couple over the course of the
next few weeks.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
All right, So here's my thought. If you've gone a
really good back page idea, if you just text it
to me any time, send it my way.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
I will I.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
Get to be a friend of Joels. And also I'm
a big I'm a friend who isn't a big fan
of what he does. I would always say, this is
when I get to New York, like right now, and
I'm going to cover a big series like right now
Tomorrow Night, Royals Yankees, I will I always read Joel first.
I just feel like that's that's the way you get
to New York into the baseball mentality of a big series.

(29:23):
Big moment you read Joeld, you see what's on the
back page, And I tend to think when I pick
up the paper tomorrow morning, probably something Yankees related, probably
something about being shut out by the Royals, and they
may even the Yankees defeat tonight might even be the
lead story ahead of Aaron Rodgers being all in one.

(29:44):
I think that's probably probably the more likely backpage play.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Yeah, didn't you agree?

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Well yeah, no, no, Look, I don't want to write
the story. I just want to write the headline. I
don't know the story of you whatever want. I just
want to write the headline for the back That's what
I want to do.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
Do you have a favorite all time back age headline
in the.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
New York World? I don't know. That's like, uh what
my favorite ones from just this year.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
You know, I mean, I mean, uh no, good so
good all time.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
That's tough boy, all time New York Post backpage at lots.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
I don't know the one they did on Aaron Rodgers.
He got out healthy, right, I mean, come on, yeah, no,
that was good.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
No, that's true, that's true.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
That was a good one.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
That was a good one. Uh but like I said,
it's such a great job.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
At least he didn't get hurt.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
At least he didn't get hurt.

Speaker 6 (30:31):
That's a fairly strong Uh yeah, lots of good context
on that one. I gotta say, I I I don't
think this is the Jets here.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
I just don't. Okay, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
I don't know if that's a hot take. I don't
think it's their year.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
How many times will they score twenty seven points?

Speaker 1 (30:51):
That's the goal?

Speaker 3 (30:52):
I think at least two or three. Okay, manage twenty
seven is the best number? You guys, again, you have
no idea. I'm watching. I'm watching that game.

Speaker 6 (31:00):
I said it's gonna be oh no, it's not quite
twenty seven point to twenty six. I mean I was like,
I was staying up late to watch the end of
that game because of this conversation. So I mean like that,
that's you inspired me to stay down. A great call
on Mike Turrico.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Amazing, but it was I was thinking about.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
You guys all night there and the on Sunday night football.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
All right now, if you can't, I'll tell Joel share this.
This was my just a fou I'm thinking of in
the last couple of years. And if I remember right,
there was a big one when when when the Mets
just went to completely just fell apart, and the headline
was like three hundred and seventy million dollars for this
like it was something like that, like with a picture
of Verlander looking to check it and I'm like, yeah,

(31:42):
there we go. That's what I want to write those.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
I remember that time. Well, that is that is an
excellent one.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
And when I when I see Joel, I'll be sure
to mention it.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Uh. He's on Twitter at John Morossi, that is at
John MOROSSI. Check him out. He's going to be watching
the second best team in New York tomorrow night when
the Key's take on the Orioles. John Paul is always buddy, Oh,
give us a quick Hey, big game this week? Detroit
Tampa Bay. What do you got? What's your final score?

Speaker 6 (32:08):
A rematch of last year's postseason game, which was won
by Detroit. I'm gonna surprise you right here. I'm gonna
surprise you guys. I'm saying Detroit Lions twenty four.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Shapa Bay Buck. Indeed, I mean I'm going twenty four
to seventeen.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
I'm feeling twenty four seventeen.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Think what is what is the line? By the way,
what is the line on that game? Oh?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
I think it's close. I want to say I think
it was two and a half if I think it
was half last time I looked, but.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, lion Lions minus seven?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Maybe is it seven?

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Oh, it's seven. It started at six and a half.
It's at seven right now.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
And I gave you don point margin. I think that
my my football knowledge.

Speaker 6 (32:53):
Has been underrated on this program for a long time.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
But I am I am making a late push here.
I'm feeling good.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
I think it has his MLB and NHL ant enough
for you. Yeah, say says your expansion. Say hi to
Eric Hippel for me. You appreciate your time as always. JP,
all the best, guys, I love you, good ce JP.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
There goes John right there, twenty four gon a surprise.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
I thought that was like a wow, yeah no, it's
seven boyt line.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
I feel really good about the bucks in this one.
But that's a story.

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Feah, we got that another day.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah uh. Speaking of stories, Isaac Lohenkron has a lot
of them now and it's called What's trending? Hey, he
bundles them all together for us.

Speaker 7 (33:35):
I Yes, here is your bundled package of scores and
related sports hijinks. Starting at Dodger Stadium where they've got
a three to one lead over the Chicago Cubs go
out to the bottom of the sixth inning on two
home runs by Tommy Edmond and another home run by
Max Munsey with a story the return of the Yoshinobu Yamamoto,

(33:58):
his first appearance since June fifteenth because of a right
triceps injury. He went four innings, allowed one run, struck
out eight during those four innings. Right now, the San
Diego Padres a seven to two lead at Seattle. In
the top of the seventh inning, Manny Machado hit a
home run for the Padres to become the San Diego
Padres franchise leader in home runs. Speaking of home runs,

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Christian Walker of the Arizona Diamondbacks has at two home runs.
There are four to nothing over the Texas Rangers at
the seventh inning stretch. The Milwaukee Brewers, at three to
two lead at San Francisco in the top of the
ninth age, just wanted Houston to twelve ottings four to three.
Earlier Tuesday night, the Phillies Kyle Schwarber set a major
league record with his fourteenth home run leading off a

(34:43):
game this season, record previously held by Alfonso Soriano. Trey
Turner would later hit two home runs as the Phillies
best in Tampa Vay nine to four for their Major
League leading eighty seventh victory of the season. Finally, Jason
and Mike in college basketball, the two time defending national
champion Yukon Huskies were honored by President Biden at the

(35:06):
White House today. And the reason I'm relating this is
because during the ceremony, head coach Dan Hurley was apparently
so nervous he dropped an S bomb.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Listen, Yeah, I thought this would be easier in year two.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Oh man, I've been to the White House before. It
is scary. You stick to the script, all right, Thank
you mister.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Too.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
You're just thank you on that note. Thank to you guys.
Thank you very much. I love appreciate it. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live the Tirack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, we got a big story out of
college football where it is on one team this week
to win or lose relevancy for the entire season. That's

(36:05):
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
The Bears have won, the Jets have not. Everything is fine,
Everything is fine, Everything is fine one team. Everything is
not fine for.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Well, that's true.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
That's we talked about them last night. We did Deshaun
Watson last night, that we did that one.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Dion Sanders had his weekly press conference today for Colorado
and said that, hey, I still believe we have the
right guys on the offensive line. Right the offensive lines
play has been under fire for the last few days.
Even had Shaduura Sanders say, why do we how many
times did you see Ryola get touched? You know, I'm

(37:04):
gonna throw my offensive line under the bus. Not a
great look, not a great moment for Shadur Sanders. But
this I like Dion has stepped back away. He kind
of zigger. You think he's gonna zach because you would
expect Dion to say something along the lines of our guys,
I'll get new guys to come in. We're not protecting
our quarterback, We're not doing any since instead he has

(37:26):
said the right thing with hey, we still have the
right guys. We still have the right guys. I still
have the right guys on my offensive staff. Phil Lodo, Old,
former NFL lineman, is offensive line coach. So we said
the right things and he and he was a little
bit u calmer and less combative in his postgame press

(37:47):
conference following the Nebraska laws. So I feel like maybe
he's getting a little bit of a different look at
how to motivate his team because clearly the whole hey,
you guys got to get it done or I'll get
people in here out of the transitport. That's not working anymore, right,
So I think he's seen a little bit of a
better way to do it. But the reality is it

(38:08):
is now or never for Colorado, and by that I
mean one more loss and they become irrelevant because they
were these stories. They were the only story in football
last September. It was Aaron Rodgers getting hurt and Colorado football, right,
it was we talked about Colorado on how oft do
we talk college football on Mondays after a big Sunday

(38:29):
in the NFL. But that's what Dean Sanders did. But
the thing about college football, and this is the best part,
is that college football and everything we talk about it
is scoreboard only. We don't talk about teams that are
fumbling around at four and three. No, no, no, they're done.
NFL we do college football. You're done, You're four and three,
You're done. See you next year or maybe at some point.

(38:49):
Never Colorado loses again. It's their second loss of the year.
They're finished, right, Not that you expect them to be.
They have four games against other top twenty five teams
coming up over the course of the rest of the season.
But this is where either Colorado wins, they string together
some wins and they keep the conversation going, or they
become irrelevant, and then the conversation immediately flips to is

(39:14):
Deon the right guy long term? Does Colorado stay with him?
Is he still the right guy to lead Colorado? Because
can you imagine what the decision it would have to
be coming out of back to back four and eight seasons.
But two of the top three players selected in the
NFL draft or Colorado Buffalos where Shador Sanders and Travis
Hunter are going in the top three, And it's wait

(39:34):
a minute, the last two years, you guys were four
and eight both years. How the hell does that happen?
But that could absolutely happen, and who's gonna be the
guy and the look for it, it's gonna be Deon.
So he is in a one game season every week
the rest of the way. One more loss and they're irrelevant,
And the conversation flips to does Deon stay long term?
Is he still the guy? Or are they looking at

(39:55):
some kind of buyout and they move on because of
all the hectic goings on they've had over the course
of the last couple of years. They will deal with
that if they're winning, But if you're not winning, we're
gonna move on and go someplace else. Yes, he bought
them relevancy, but he's not buying them wins, and he's
buying them being out of a conversation by the end
of September. So that's gonna suddenly be what we talk about.

(40:17):
And Colorado as far as being relevant, that part is
done well.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
Some of it has been there under the surface the
whole time, right in the conversations you and I have
had here on the network of I never thought he
was long term for that job, that if it went right,
it would be the building blocks. Once his sons had
moved on to the NFL, or post college careers. Travis

(40:41):
Hunter had moved on that he would either have another
job in college, or he'd become a part of a
staff in the NFL, or he'd go back to being
a commentator.

Speaker 1 (40:49):
That would be it.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
But Colorado wasn't some long term Hey, I'm building some
long term legacy. At least that's mine, no matter what
he had said to the contrary. But where you're sitting
now is the offensive line. Sometimes you get humbled, and
that game against Nebraska, that's a humbling game. And for
Shador Sanders, now, when folks start looking at the film

(41:12):
and breaking it down, it becomes the preservation of a
completion percentage is part of the discussion. That he won't
throw the ball away and that some of it isn't
on his offensive line. So maybe that's why he's backing
off a little bit, because the tape don't lie. It
ain't always on the offensive line. And the last thing

(41:32):
he's gonna do is go and criticize his son.

Speaker 1 (41:35):
Oh wait a minute, Uh hey, let's make sure. Hey,
let's destroy the all twenty two? Can we do that?
Let's destroy it after I look at it, I don't
want it around it.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
He got outside the pocket and he took a sack
instead of throwing it away.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
Find out what Cadel did with the Spygates stuff. I
want to do the same thing so no one can
see these tapes. That's how it's gonna go.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
But they're a seven point favorite this week.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
That's how close they are. It's a one game season
or they fall into irrelevancy. Coming up next, we get
back into a big story from the NFL. Keep it
right here, Jason and Mike. This is Fox Sports Radio.