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Jason Smith and Mike Harmon talk about how bad Kirk Cousins looked in his first game and why he may now be a bridge QB. Plus, the guys talk with MLB Insider JP Morosi as they talk about the Dodgers getting Yoshinobu Yamamoto and claim the Jets will be better.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Alex Tischer now just playing songs for his girlfriend on
the radio. That's all he's doing.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Oh no, baby, this is for me.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
It's all I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
Now, I'm sorry, this is me. I love Mickey.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Why can't I could picture you doing this at karaoke?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Oh I could kill it.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I could actually picture you doing this at karaoke.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Invite me one time.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Harmon does karaoke every Friday night. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I've been known to do Hot to Go a couple
of times, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
But here's here's the thing, though, I think it would
be a very eclectic night, like because Tysher would do
this and Harmon would do war Pigs. So I mean,
you definitely have to have a bit of a wide
variety in music if you want to go to karaoke
with the two of you.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
But that's the key though, right, I mean, we get
we draw everybody in because they may have never heard
his songs. And I guarant damn tee, a lot of
folks haven't heard what I'm bringing to the table. Hey,
touch and I got moves you've never seen. So I
mean you add it all together, it is one big
night out toutcher.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
I need you to just go and the whole time,
and then I'm gonna come in and sing. Okay, but
just keep it, don't stop, just keep doing the It's
gonna be like that scene in School of Rock when
Jack Black is teaching everybody how to do smoke on
the water and then Zach, you come in with a
face melter. But Freddy, you could give me the.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I don't resemble that character at all.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
I'd love to see that.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I have never had anybody compare me to the electricity
and effervescence of Jack Black. No, no, no, that's never occurred.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Give me a little. I don't even know who you are.
Just do it. Boy. Guy in the purple shorts is
really amped up tonight.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
He's really getting after it.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
So again, Big Baseball game of the night, Imenaga and
Yamamoto in La both of them get through the first
inning unscathed. Yoshinoba Yamamoto his first start in a while. Look,
the biggest story, playoff story in baseball the next three weeks.
If he's good, Dodgers are okay. If not, they can
lose in the first round. And so far his pitches
look pretty good. He's only gonna throw about fifty ish

(02:31):
pitches tonight. But again, this is the biggest story in
baseball for the next three weeks. We got John Paul
Morosi stopping by less than an hour talk about it
with us. But coming off of the week that was
in the NFL, I can't remember as many conversations about
quarterbacks losing their jobs as I have after Week one,

(02:52):
after this year. Now I get that, And hey, in
the world, now everything ramps up. Now, right, everything is
much more earlier than we expect it to be. You know,
right now, you know, a player used to be able
to get drafted the NFL a first round pick and
get four years to prove that he could be a
franchise quarterback. Now you get like a year and three starts. Yeah,
so I get I understand that Hey, well, you know
this guy, Give this guy some time. Give this guy

(03:13):
some time.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I'm still on board with Brady and Hasselbeck and
a bunch of other folks that you know, subscribe to
that theory of things. Yeah, but that's not the reality
in the world we're living in. No, it is much
to you know, even though the data suggests you probably
should go back to a simpler time. I mean tops now, right,
the program that they do where they commemorate big events

(03:34):
in sports. They just put out a card commemorating the
fact that Caleb Williams was the first number one pick
to win his opening start since two thousand and two. Okay,
that should tell you something. Yeah, that, David Carr is
the answer to that trivia question.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, it's a lot.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
It's a long time, man, that's a lot of number
one picks that loss right out of the jump. Now,
normally you go to a terrible team and not one
coming off a seven win season. But the point being,
that's a long damn time, and maybe you want to
look at things a little differently.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, but look, I mean, it shows you how hard
it is, right, It shows you how hard it is.
It's a big deal. But no, remember Sam Donald won.
Remember Sam Donald one is is his first game. He's
so he was the first numb He wasn't the number one.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Donald was the last rookie quarterback to win his first
start back on.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Twenty eighteen, and Williams was the last number one.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
My goodness, that is It's just this shows you how
tough it is to coming too the league.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Sam.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
We'll get to Sam, darl trust me, I've been waiting
to talk about Sam Donald. But look last night. Look,
the Deshaun Watson era is coming to a close in Cleveland.
It won't be more than a couple of games before
he hits the bench. Right, That's just how it goes.
They're not going to sit and go through this forever.
They'll figure out the money at the end of the year.
And there's always a way to figure out the money.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Now you have another lawsuit, Jason so Trigg contracts, as
we talked about a little bit yesterday. But you know,
more details coming out on that. Certainly not not going
to be an easy end there.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
No, there's when you talk about unforeseen things that can happen, uh, No,
one takes that into account. There are ways to make
the money work. I don't know what the way is,
but they'll find a way. They'll find whether it is
we have the you have these these these new lawsuits
hanging over you, whatever kind of language is in your contract.
Let's figure out a buy out. Let's do this. Let

(05:27):
there'll be a way to do it. The salary cap
is going up. You can always figure out the money.
So if Deshaun Watson only has a couple of games left,
there's a couple other quarterbacks that also are staring down
the barrel of being backups. We'll do We'll do the
easy one first, okay, because I don't think there's any
doubt that Daniel Jones is nearing the end of his
run with the Giants, right, What did I say? One

(05:48):
of the Big Bowl predictions we made a few weeks ago,
about a month ago, Tommy DeVito will be starting a
quarterback for the Giants. By week eight. They will play
and start all three of their quarterbacks this year. They'll
start him the start, Drew Locke and Daniel Jones will
start for another couple of weeks. But things are already
so bad. Just think about this. After week one, he

(06:09):
was booed after the second pass of the game. So
you know there's no rope at all from any of
the fans, right. Brian Dable already has had to talk
about the fact that I'm not benching Daniel Jones, and
that's not happening. When you have to do that after
week one, just where are you at with the confidence
of your players and your team. Malik Neighbors, who has
played all of one game is a New York Giant,

(06:30):
just one game. One game, is asked about Daniel Jones,
what did you think And instead of giving the answer
of hey, Daniel Jones is a great quarterback. We left
some plays out there. It's hey, I don't know, I
go out for passes, he said.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I don't know what's going on. Wow, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Man, No, I don't know. I can't just say the right.
And it's not like Malik Neighbors as someone that's never
had a microphone in front of him before, He's talked
to a lot of people. He knows what it means
to back up a quarterback. People know how to say nothing, right,
even the rookies coming into the league. No, when I'm
asked this question, I say nothing. I say something like, hey,
it was a rough game for all of us. We

(07:06):
can all do better. I'm looking forward to this week.
We're gonna batten it down, will be better. I'm excited
about that. But instead all I do I don't know
what's happened. I don't know what's going on. Hey, my
name's Bennett, and I ain't it. He's got another few
weeks and then it'll be Drew Locke and then he'll
stink and it'll be Tommy Cuttletz. Because we've told you
the Giants are tanking this year to tank and there Hey,

(07:28):
they tanked through week one. They made Sam Donald look good,
which should show you this is the level of tanking
they were at. They were able to make Sam Donald
look good. Giants will play three quarterbacks, They'll start three quarterbacks,
not due to injury.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
By week nine, I would say this, they're all the
greatest actors ever and they should be hired for Hollywood films.
Coming out of that offseason hard knock, because they all
sure as hell seem like they were losing their minds
over some of the decisions they had to make, including
the owner for that matter. Going back to Saquon Barkley,
but for Daniel Jones, He's just a curious case, right

(07:59):
because he's coming off an ACL and gets absolutely no grace.
Michael Parson's even pleading for him. I don't know if
that's just because he wants to face him and sack
him twelve times, but going the man was down to
an ACL just nine ten months ago. But no grace
for him. For the old quarterbacks that we still like

(08:20):
the names and as you'd like to say, the back
of their football cards, it's like, oh, yeah, they're gonna
be fine. It's just a matter of time. They'll be okay.
Daniel Jones neck injury ACL, coming back a lot of
new component parts and getting back into the sit. Nah,
forget it. He stakes he's a bum moving on. And
I'm not saying he was great before he got hurt

(08:42):
last year. I am not doing that. And certainly we've
all seen the graphic the number of turnovers, the number
of interception, and that was other than Will Levis the
worst play of Week one of the National Football League,
right the interception touchdown that he threw, and he's got
more of those than he has touchdown passes, you know,
the last couple of years. And I get that, but

(09:03):
there's absolutely no grace for him getting back on a field,
whereas everybody else, it seems like we lined up excuses
wherever we could.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down the Jason
smithsho with Mike Carmon live from the Tirak dot Com Studios. Now,
the other guy that's a little more difficult, but I'll
tell you what it's gonna happen is Kirk Cousins. I
hate to say I told you so, but it doesn't
matter what kind of money you're making. When you have
a guy that you trade, that you draft high in
the first round, who looks really good in camp, you

(09:35):
are a bridge quarterback. You're a forty million dollar bridge quarterback.
But guess what, you're a bridge quarterback. And the worst
case scenario for the Falcons is also their best case scenario.
Because Kirk Cousins looked awful on Sunday. The whole offense
looked awful. When I watched them trying to run their
hurry up offense near the end, I felt like nobody

(09:56):
knew what plays were gonna be called. They're all looking
back at cut everybody he's looking back at Cousins at
the line of scrimmage, like, what's going on? What are
we doing here? Like normally when that happens, guys get up,
they get in there, they get in their their stance,
and they're ready to go. But I just felt like
none of them were on the same page. And to
hear Raheem Morris with a very telling statement following the game,
Kirk cousins struggles were not injury related. That is an

(10:20):
alarm bell after week one. They're not gonna sit back
a team with expectations. The Falcons went out, they did
all the crazy stuff in the draft, getting Michael Pennix
junior or Kirk Cousins. They got better, They fired a coach,
brought in a new coach. Hey, we're not gonna sit
here in this division with all this talent that people
keep saying we have, how great Bjhon Robinson is, how
great Kyle Pitch is supposed to be, How great Drake

(10:42):
London is? Oh, how great? And we're not gonna lose.
Kirk Cousins does not have a lot of time to
get things going because eventually, and I mean by I'm
thinking week six ish or so if Kirk Cousins, and
maybe sooner because you can imagine how the calls are
gonna grow because Michael Pennock junior good in the preseason,
he didn't look overmatched. All the players said, what a

(11:04):
great ball he throws. He carries himself differently. They are
excited about this kid and he could be special. Now,
am I concerned a little bit about plays when they
kind of get off kilter, which happens in the NFL
like sixty percent of the time. How is he going
to be when something is not made to order for him?
Because that's kind of been his career at ed Washington
was when he's able to get time and throw, he

(11:25):
was great, but you pressure and move him out of
the pocket. Suddenly he's just a guy. Michigan showed you
that in the National Championship game. But by and large,
they're all excited about him, and he's got a play,
and the money for Kirk Cousins does not matter anymore
because you have both of these guys on the team.
You fit him under the salary cap, and it's gonna
be a case of, just like we said with Deshaun
Watson last night, you replace him with a better quarterback

(11:47):
in Jamis Winston or Brian Sipe. Whoever you want to.
And I keep going back to Brian siche you do
you like that, and you figure out the money in
the offseason, it'll be the same thing. Michael Pennick Junr.
Will step in and they'll figure out Kirk Cousins at
the deadline or in the off season when they want
to move on. So that's absolutely closer than you think.
The money does not matter. He is a bridge quarterback

(12:07):
to get you to Michael Pennix Junior. Another couple of
starts like this, and that's going to happen too well.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
At the end, it's all dollar cost averaging. And with
Cousins and with the Falcons. You know, again I put
the star on it because again, not a lot of
reps together, and that's by choice, right by design, and
what they built into their preseason for him. Morris kind
of telling as almost to say, that's not my guy,
that's not my choice, but this is the way it

(12:33):
has to go. But you look at their schedule coming up,
Jason on the road at Philadelphia, home against the Chiefs,
home against the Saints. I look, the Saints beat the
hell out of the Panthers, but you know their defense
probably is going to be decent. I don't think their
offense is any great shakes, but either way, not an
easy game, divisional game. And then you get the Buccaneers,

(12:57):
our Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield. And then you go all
the way to Week six. That's when you get a
road tilt against the Carolina Panthers. Maybe you got a
month and remember dollar cost averaging Kirk dollars and what
Penix is making as a rookie, not that it counts
against the salary cap the same way. We understand that,

(13:19):
but it's you know, the rookie pool and all that
fun kind of stuff. But when we get down to it, yeah,
they're not beholding him. There's a lot of change made
in that in that coaching staff and on that squad
and Michael Pennix junior. If they think that he can
push the offense forward, they will. For Captain Kirk, the
mobility thing is the biggest thing for me. If you're

(13:41):
not gonna be able to extend plays at least a
little bit. Not that he was captain mobility, but my goodness,
he was stiff.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well and here's the and here's the other part of it.
If you all, I don't why would that be coming.
Why would that be coming? You know, no matter what,
after this year, you're going to Michael Pennick Junior, right,
And you have to be able to move on from
Kirk Cousins. The longer you let him play if he's
not good, the harder it's gonna be to trade him,
and the less you're gonna get in return. So that's
why this is gonna be a quicker trigger where it's, hey,

(14:10):
Kirk might not be right. We cease and you're gonna
see the story, Hey, we don't think he's quite right yet,
and rush himself back from injury, and Cousins will go
along with the timeline. Look, we're gonna go to Michael
Pennick junior. Hey, we're sorry it didn't work out, but
let's make sure you're still someone that teams want. So
you keep his value at its highest in the offseason,

(14:30):
because if he plays nine weeks and he stinks, what
are you getting for him? How are you able to
trade him in the off season less you're eating so
much money. But if you do it after yet, but
if you do it after three or four weeks and
you say, hey, he's not quite right, something is wrong,
and that's the narrative. You further and then you go
to Michael Pennick Junior. Well then suddenly, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

(14:51):
we believe that that you know, Kirk is now healthy.
He wasn't really comfortable. There's a lot of things happening,
and we're more We feel better about absorbing that salary
and trading away whatever draft picks you're gonna get. So
they need to be able to preserve his value. And
the longer he plays, if he's not good, that's not
going to work for them. So that's why it's going
to be a quicker hook than you think for him,

(15:12):
and Pennick Junior will get in there to play.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
The other bar was I mean, look, and the Steels
are pretty good defense, right, whatever we think about the offense,
they're good enough to be dangerous defensively. So long as TJ.
Watts on the field. You watched he terrorized them this week,
but for a couple of penalties he would have had
a monster day. But you're looking at Ziggy. You know,
when you talk about Arthur Blank, he's eighty one. We

(15:35):
talk about the mortality of Jerry Jones and I got
a win now kind of thing. They're in Atlanta, and
they kind of got the same mentality, which is why
they went heavy in for Kirk Cousins and then Michael
Pennix Junior fell into their lap. So now we see
how quickly they pull that band aid off.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Time now
to find out about a guy who just yanks band
aids off him, whether he's got a cut or not.
It's Isaac Lowenkron. He's got what's trending.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Actually, it's surprisingly lucrative because pharmaceutical companies actually pay you
to test out their new band aids. Unfortunately, you do
have to sign a waiver, so that has had several
undesirable side effects. A desirable what do you mean by
that now, I'm just kidding, A desirable side effect. The

(16:25):
Los Angeles Dodgers getting Yoshinobu Yamamoto back on the mound
for the first time since June fifteenth. He'd been out
with a right triceps injury. Right now, Yamamoto and the
Dodgers are tied with the Cubs at one at the
top of the third inning. Yamamoto has allowed a run
in three hits, but he has recorded five of the
six outs he's recorded so far on strikeouts. Also going

(16:48):
on right now, the Oakland A's and Houston Astros tied
to two. They're in the bottom of the ninth inning,
and Christian Walker of the Diamondbacks has two home runs Arizona,
leading the Texas Rangers for nothing in the top of
the fourth. Josh Warber the Phillies said a major league
record Tuesday night with his fourteenth home run leading off
a game this season, the record previously held by Alfonso Soriano.

(17:09):
Trey Turner later added two home runs as the Phillies
beat Tampa Bay nine to four from their major league
leading eighty seventh victory of the season. Detroit's Kaider Montero
a complete game, three hit shutout on the tigers eleven
nothing win over the Colorado Rockies. Michael Harris of the
Braves had two home runs and a twelve nothing win
at Washington. Yankees had just three hits at a three

(17:29):
nothing loss at home to the Kansas City Royals. Baltimore
Cedric Mullins two home runs in a five to three
victory over the Red Sox at Fenway. You know, Jason
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Speaker 3 (17:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
Also tonight, the New York Mets lost north of the
border to the Toronto Blue Jays six to two. Chicago
White Sox lost at home.

Speaker 2 (18:08):
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Speaker 1 (18:09):
I heard that Secretary.

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Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay, guys, I did. That's Wes Netsman right. The farm
report right from WKFP would always have that.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
You just went until Thanksgiving?

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Oh the pork bellies. That God is my witness. I
thought turkeys could fly. Thank you. I appreciate it, my friend.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live the Tirec
dot Com Studio. So there's two quarterbacks again who are closer,
way closer than you think to getting replaced. How about
coming up next, Mike and I break down the biggest
rule change in the NFL for week one to tell
you what it's going to look like going forward. Yeah,
We're telling you exactly how the kickoffs are going to

(18:49):
be going forward in the NFL, and it's not gonna
go how you think that's next, Right here, Jason and
Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
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Fox Forest Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. This is one of my mom's favorite songs.
She loved this song. She would sing it all the time.
She loved every time this came on, boom turn, I'm like, okay,
we're okay. Who's Rod Stewart? Tell me what's going on?

(20:06):
Tell me why you like him so much? Okay? Love
this song because.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
He's got that raspy voice. Yeah he did raspb oh yeah,
that weathered hair.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Oh sure? And Rachel Hunter yeah, TJ clearly hoping to
be forever Young is Rod? Start the Jason Smith Show
of Mike Harmon Live the Tirac dot Com Studios. I
still remember the video of this. It was so long.
I still remember the video seeing you would want to
watch it all the time. Uh, tonight maybe the biggest

(20:37):
night in baseball that we've seen 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.

(21:01):
John Paul, what's happening, Bud? How are you?

Speaker 4 (21:03):
I'm outstanding, my friends, And let me tell you this.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
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.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Our audience tonight.

Speaker 6 (21:22):
Almost every time that we have a conversation on this
radio program during football season, I predict two things. That
the Lions will win and that they will score twenty
seven points.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Yes, so, as we.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
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.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
Can we just kick the extra point to twenty seven?

Speaker 6 (21:55):
So that way that I can go on on the
network on Tuesday night and say, listen, was right on
the Lions twenty seven points. Alas, alas once they once
they scored, what a brilliant drive it was from David Montgomery. Uh,
they get 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 thumb an after

(22:18):
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 (22:26):
Well, did Montgomery score and walk up to the camera
with the football saying, Pope, this one's for you, Pope.
You believed trust I didn't say.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
I think that's almost exactly what he said.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
And uh, what a great night, Lions. Lions are want
to know. I'm want to know, Michigan not want to know.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
But we've got a lot of good topics to discuss
right now.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
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 talking. That's what this team looks like this year,
the pre Connor Stallion Michigan.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Wow, it's like the defense he's running out as interim
head coach at that school.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
He's not 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 going to
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.

(23:25):
If 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

(23:46):
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 4 (24:00):
What do you think, Well, it's a big story.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
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 4 (24:11):
I think that you're correct.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
To an extent, although I do wonder this with Yamamoto.
What we know tonight is he can pitch effectively for
fifty nine pitches four innings.

Speaker 4 (24:26):
What we don't know is can.

Speaker 6 (24:27):
He do it every fifth day now for the next
two months.

Speaker 4 (24:32):
And that's the piece of this that gets a little
bit interesting.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
I do agree that this outing tonight makes me feel
better about the Dodgers' chances of getting through the first
round and avoiding what would be a calamitous first round exit,
But I need to see a little more from him.
You'll see a little more of what I think Glass
now is going to be down the stretch before I'm

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comfortable saying this is going to be a nationally championship
team and one.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
That goes to the World Series.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
I sort of 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

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a 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 4 (25:41):
The kind of team the Dodgers mad.

Speaker 6 (25:43):
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.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
Cannot be replicated.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
We saw it last year with the Dinondbacks they swept
the Dodgers. I agree again tonight it's a good step,
but there's still I think susceptible to dealing with a
very hot team at some point in October.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
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 4 (26:19):
Oh, we do.

Speaker 6 (26:20):
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 4 (26:28):
They're like, yeah, we are, because because they've got a shot.

Speaker 6 (26:31):
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 advantage is a major prize to
compete for. I certainly winning the division and avoiding that
first round series is something that's worth competing for. And
I think both the Yankees and the Orioles have some

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element of questions they're both facing here as we near
the end of the regular season.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
All 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 (27:27):
I appreciate that 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 (27:38):
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.

(28:00):
What teams have the most issues?

Speaker 6 (28:03):
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 bullpend this year. They've 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

(28:24):
their late inning, key leverage relievers. So that's one thing
I think with Cleveland. 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 he

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nears the postseason. I think that's one thing I'm watching
a bit carefully, and honestly, I wonder if Justin Verlander
makes their postseason roster for the first route. My friend
Joe Sherman and that will be Network Today made a.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Very good point, think about it.

Speaker 6 (29:02):
The first round series, if the Astros are there and
playing a three game 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. We're used to
them having not a ton of questions, but oddly enough,

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a future Hall of Fame pitcher, a first ballot Hall
of Famer, is.

Speaker 4 (29:29):
One of the big questions for the Houston Astros right now.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
How about the fact that in Texas they're bringing back
Surezer into Grom. Let's go final three weeks, Let's make
the Bush Day come on now.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Seven and a half games back, I think thats are
in the ground. And by the way, former Mets draft
pic 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 Rangers,

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having Surezer 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 (30:17):
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 that 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

(30:37):
of the New York Post Sports section. Could you let
them 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 4 (30:48):
All right, So here's my thought.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
If you've got a really good back page idea, if
you just text it to me every time, sure.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
In my way, I will say this, I.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
I 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,

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big moment.

Speaker 4 (31:25):
You read Joeld.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
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. I think that's probably probably

(31:49):
the more likely backpage play.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Yeah, didn't you agree?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
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 (31:59):
You have a favorite all time back page headline in
the New Yorkorld?

Speaker 1 (32:04):
I don't know. That's like, uh, what my favorite ones
from just this year?

Speaker 6 (32:09):
You know, I mean, I mean, uhh so good, so
good all time?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's tough boy, all time New York post backpage head locks.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
I don't know the one they did on Aaron Rodgers.
He got out healthy, right, I mean, come on, yeah, no,
that was.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Good No, that's true. That's true. That was a good one.
That was a good one. Uh But, like I said,
that's such a great job.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
At least he didn't get hurt.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
At least he didn't get hurt.

Speaker 6 (32:32):
That's a fairly strong Uh yeah, lots of good context
on that one. I gotta say, I I don't think
this is the Jets here. I just don't.

Speaker 4 (32:45):
He went on, I don't know. I don't know if
that's a hot take. I don't think it's their year.

Speaker 3 (32:50):
How many times will they score twenty seven points? That's
the goal at least two or three?

Speaker 6 (32:55):
Okay, man, you guys again, you have no idea. I'm watching.
I'm watching that game. I said, it's gonna be Oh no,
it's not quite twenty seven 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 4 (33:16):
Amazing, But it was I was thinking about you.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Guys all night there and the on Sunday night football.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
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,

(33:44):
there we go. That's what I want to write.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Those I remember that time, well, that is that is
an excellent one. And uh, when I when I see Joel,
I'll be sure to mention this.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
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 York tomorrow night, when the
Yankees take on the Orioles. John Paul is always buddy
for Oh give us a quick, hey, big game this week?
Detroit Tampa Bay What do you got? What's your final score?

Speaker 6 (34:10):
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.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Four Shaba Bay Bucks.

Speaker 6 (34:25):
I mean, I'm going twenty four to seventeen. I'm feeling
twenty four seventeen. I think, what is what is the line?
By the way, what is the line on that game?

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Oh? I think it's close. I want to say, I
think it was two and a half. If I if
I think it was half last time I looked.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
But yeah, no, no, no, no, no, Lion Lions minus seven?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Maybe is it seven?

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh it's seven.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
It started at six and a half, it's at seven
right now, and.

Speaker 4 (34:49):
I gave you a seven point margin.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
I think that my my football knowledge has been underrated
on this program for a long time.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
But I am. I am making a late push here.
I'm feeling good.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
I think it has MLB and NHL an enough for you, yeah,
say says expansion.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Say hi to Eric Hippel for me. You appreciate your
time as always.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
JP, all the best, guys, I love you.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Good c JP.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
There goes John right there, twenty four minute surpriject. I
thought that was like a wow.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Yeah, I know it's seven point line.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
I feel really good about the bucks in this one.
But that's a story.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Yeah we get that another day.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yeah. Uh. Speaking of stories, Isaac lohen Kron has a
lot of them now. And it's called what's trending? Hey,
he bundles them all together for us.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
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 going
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

(35:59):
is 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 diamondbacksys 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 in 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

(36:44):
game this season, record previously held by Alfonso Soriano. Trey
Turner would later hit two home runs as the Phillies
best in Tampa May nine to four for their major
League leading eighty seventh victory of the season. Finally, Jason
and Mike in coed basketball, the two time defending national
champion Yukon Huskies were honored by President Biden at the

(37:07):
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 1 (37:18):
Listen, Yeah, I thought this would be easier in year two.
Oh man, I've been to the White House before. It
is scary.

Speaker 8 (37:23):
You stick to the script, all right, Thank you, mister.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
You just thank you on that note.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Thank 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.

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That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
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the Night, Major League Baseball Dodgers lead the Cubs three
to one, top of the eighth. This was the so
far triumphant return for Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Four innings on a
pitch count, so he through fifteen pitches, eight strikeouts, no walks.
The Dodgers a huge breath of relief, a sigh of

(39:08):
relief after this, because they're going nowhere in the playoffs
unless Yamamoto is close to what they signed him to be. Right,
this is a three hundred million dollar pitcher. And the
Dodgers have nobody outside of Jack Flarity. This is the
Dodgers go from overwhelming co favorites to win the World
Series too. They can go out in the first round

(39:28):
because they outside of Jack Flaherty, they have nobody else.
Everybody else is hurt or ineffective. I mean really everybody else.
I'm not saying other. No, everybody else in their rotation.
The top seven guys, six of them are hurt or
they're ineffective, right, Kershaw, We don't know if we're going
to see him again. Walker Bueller is completely ineffective. Yamamoto,
great sign tonight, right, Gavin Stone injured list Tyler Glassno,

(39:51):
who knows? So you can go into this playoff with
a hey flery Yamamoto. All right, all right, we have
questions at the umber three spot. Okay, other teams have
question with their third starter or two, so it's okay,
we can figure it out from there. But you go
win with Flarity and who knows? Oh, Met, good luck,
good luck. You'd be an underdog to the Mets in
the first round because the Mets will say, well, we
got Manea and Flaherty, and that's kind of a toss up.

(40:14):
Second game the Mets e lev David Peterson, and that's
an advantage. Third game the Mets lev Luis Sevearno, that's
an advantage, Like you lose all sorts of that. So everybody,
everybody who's looking at the World Series right now. That's
why I say this is the biggest story in baseball
the next three weeks, and it comes to playoff positioning
because if Yamamoto is what they expected him to be
and he's healthy, everything is great for the Dodgers. If not,

(40:38):
door is open, well.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
I think even if he's great, it's still potentially the
chaos theory because how strong is he going to be?
How much could he ramp up? What are you expecting
on a game to game basis. I'm not expecting much
more than any of these starters give me five or
six innings. So it's still going to be about Dave
Robertson his ability to pull the strings as the ultimate

(41:01):
puppeteer of the bullpen.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Playoff, Dave, playoff.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
But that's what it is regardless, because you don't have
the depth at starting pitching. Even if Yamamoto's back, right,
I mean, you're building up strength. You got three weeks
to get him back to what you had hoped he
would be in those first fourteen stars, and he pitched
to a sub three e r A, had a good
strikeout rate, all that. You saw all that on display tonight.

(41:27):
But how much are you really gonna ramp them up?
And how much do they trust him? Because we're at
a different age in baseball, don't We don't run guys
out into the seventh and eight and eighth inning like
we used to, even if they are pitching well and
feeling great. It's like, all right, you're gonna see that
guy for the third time. You're coming out like. That's
what we do. We play the analytics game. So in
the end, Yamamoto or not. Yeah, that's that's a nice help.

(41:52):
That ain't gonna be what solves it. It's all gonna
be about Dave and his bullpen. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
No, I just I think that's a huge help. He
can go five or so. He's because he's a guy
you expect to say he'll eat innings for you. He
can go seven innings in a game. We don't need
to worry about getting him out of there after four innings.
That's a huge thing to say. We'll have one bullpen game.
We'll try to get by or get by with a
third starter and a bullpen game, then bring back Flaherty

(42:16):
and Yamamoto again. But man to say, hey, we have
one starter, then it's three bullpen games. Good luck man,
good luck No Eric eight walking through that door.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
Man, that's not it ain't necessarily a bullpen game. It's
just the idea of, well, we're going to the bullpen
in the fifth or sixth anyway, So can I get
guys to give me a decent start? I mean, look, Walker,
Bueller has not had it, Miller didn't have it. Kershaw
I'm seeing in a lot of advertisements for his bobblehead
day as I'm watching this game, I want to see

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him throwing and not the bobblehead. Can the bibblehead throw?
Can he give me a couple of good innings? I
don't know, But you know, Glass, now, you've just had
all of these different question marks, right, you got Bruce Dark,
Graderol coming back off the injury list and and all
this like, you got so many moving parts on that
pitching staff as a whole, and it's amazing that you're

(43:10):
still sitting here tonight as we're in the eighth up
three to one, that they're an eighty six win team.
And you can talk about the payroll, but even from
the the roster side on the in the lineup, you've
had guys in and out of the lineup. You've had
you know, the brilliance of Otani on that side of things,
but otherwise you've had guys missed time and you're still

(43:33):
at eighty six wins. What one game behind the Phillies. Yeah,
but we've seen how many years have we seen regular
season wins by the Dodgers and then they flame out
in the bat. But but that's why you're you're even
with Yamamoto there, I'm still I'll see you next month.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
I will feel a hell of a lot better and
and I think baseball feel a hell of a lot
worse if he's the guy pitching Game two for the Dodgers.
And as we say it right now, the Cubs look
like they have tied this game at three. Uh a
base hit to right field and the throw coming in

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gets away and falls into the dugout. Dansby Swanson has
just scored. So now the Dodgers, who had a three
to one lead, now this game is tied at three apiece,
Phillips gives up the single and the throw into the
dugout three to three. Now, Cubs and the Dodgers will
keep you updated on this game throughout the night. But
when we get to the day after, okay, for the

(44:33):
Jets and Aaron Rodgers and the big breath, everybody's got
to take what we saw last night against the forty nine.
They say, well, okay, they did, they did. I only
have one problem with the Jets last night, Mike, And
one problem I had one by the way that.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Garrett Wilson catch or non catch, his heel got down.
Should that have counted?

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Well, his foot came down. You gotta get the whole
foot down. You gotta get white white cleats. Come up
and the heel doesn't count as I was down? Isaaia
likely tell you gotta get white cleats. You gotta get
the whole thing. You gotta wear smaller shoes. That's how
it has to work.

Speaker 3 (45:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
The Jets stunk last night, right they stunk. Did they
stink because they're bad or did they stink because they
were a little overrated thinking that they were gonna walk
in with a lot of attitude, thinking that they were
maybe a little bit further along offensively. That's really what
it is. Look, I I was mad during the game obviously,

(45:35):
watching the defense get holes blown open, and a guy
that doesn't know what he was told he was a
starting running back is running for one hundred and thirty yards.
So yeah, that was tough. But in the end, Look,
it comes down to one thing. And that's why I
like the fact that today Robert Sala who Look, you know,
I'm not the biggest fan of you. I told you
for a long time he's not a great head coaching.
People just starting to come around to that. Like I

(45:55):
saw today, Oh Sala's on the hot seat. Dude, where
have you been for like the last eight months of
the NFL, Like you've just discovered, Oh, Robert Salo's on
the hot seat.

Speaker 3 (46:04):
I've been a flaming dumpster for a man. You could
put him in there, like that's just the rocket ship
of Joyce?

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Is there is there a Is there a meme somewhere
where you can you can take a coach and just
like superimpose him like riding an on fire, like a
like a dumpster fire. I'm gonna work like a rocket ship,
like a dumpster fire rocket ship ridden by a coach,
and you could just take the coach out and put
a new coach in it.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
And I'm gonna work on that all right, the graphics
team to get that done.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
But the two things I love right coming off of
last night, Robert Sala says, today, I feel a lot
better about the team at ohen one this year that
I felt at one and oh last year. Obviously, why
because Aaron Rodgers is healthy after game one. The season
was over after game one last year because Aaron Rodgers
got hurt. And I like that. Aaron Rodgers said today,
we went on Pat McAfee like he's gonna do every week,

(46:56):
uh saying that jump off our bandwagon, but don't jump
back on. And I like that. I like that after
the first game, they were pissed, they were filled with fire,
and they understand that what happened last night isn't all bad.
Do I expect the Jets defense to play that way? No,
I don't. But the big thing that it comes to,
and there's a reason why Aaron Rodgers has been such

(47:19):
a big storyline for the past four years. Whatever he
does we care about deeply, and if he's good, we
talk about it. If he's bad, we talk about it.
But what the Jets are asking him to do is
to cover up all their ills, the fact that maybe
offensively we still have a ways to go. Maybe defensively

(47:39):
we screwed up by trading for a guy that's still
a holdout now and at this point he's not going
to add to the team even if they did get
us on Redikin. We have a head coach that really
has not done well when it's come to developing players.
Cover all this up, Aaron cover it all up. And
the fact that he's mad, and the fact that I
saw last night and Aaron Rodgers looked enough like Aaron

(48:02):
Rodgers after a year away. I feel pretty good about
what's going on now. Talk to me again. After these
next three games, which are three incredibly winnable games Titans,
Patriots and the Broncos. The Jet should win all three
of those games. They should be three and one feeling
like the big bad New York Jets. If they're not,
that's a different conversation. But for now, I feel fine
with where it's at. I feel fine they're going to improve.

(48:24):
I feel fine that Rogers is the guy who's in charge.
Of this and not Robert Salah. Right, Rogers is the
guy who's going to make it all better or it's
going to all burn down. If it all burns down,
it's Jordan Travison twenty five and hey, let's go, let's go,
no d DA. So that's what it's going to be.
But for now, I'm okay with it. I'm okay with

(48:44):
where he's at because I like where they sit after
this loss. It happened. We just got to use it
as motivation and go on and it's not doom and
gloom where we waited for this game for so long,
for an offseason and boy we stunk up the joint. No,
Aaron Rodgers is our guy. I saw enough of them
last night. Still the same guy throwing the football, Still
the same guys with a set of skills. He moved

(49:06):
okay enough, he wasn't an anchor in the pocket where
suddenly now his escapability and his ability to draw an
extra second or two makes plays happen. Like I saw
him scramble a couple of times. Was he quite as
fast as he had been? No, But that's something that
comes back to you and as you get more awareness
in the pocket, he'll be able to get out, extend
plays for a couple more seconds and be able to

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keep the Jets in business and make plays where they
wouldn't have plays before. So I feel good that this
team is going to grow and get better week to week.
The first game was a huge hurdle and they lost
last night, But mentally for Rogers, now he can just
go out and play because you know it weighed on
him a bit. I like where they're at mentally after
that lost last night. I feel pretty good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
The biggest thing is that you took the punches and
got beaten up by the bully on the block right
in a co super Bowl favorite. So while it didn't
have the aesthetics that you wanted, right you get blown out,
you get a gift touchdown on everybody stops except for
two guys that are playing catch. It all counts just

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the same, by the way in the box score and
takes you to the over anyway. But it's just the
idea that you're not gonna face another team like that,
and certainly not the next three weeks right now. You
look at the way the schedule sets up in theory.
In theory, if you're the team that everybody was starting
to get hyped about for the AFC East and potential

(50:35):
runs towards New Orleans and the Super Bowl. These are
three teams you should beat, and you should beat handily.
I still think that New England game is gonna be
a lot tougher, not that New England's gonna be an
offensive juggernaut. Hats off to Stevenson and some running from
Jacoby Brissett. But the defense is gonna be pretty good,
So that'll be a good test for the Jets on

(50:55):
that side of things. But you got Denver and then
this week you've you've certainly got the opportunity to go
and get a wins. So I mean, you've you've got
three straight games for for the Jets where all of
a sudden you're finished in the first quarter of the season.
At three and one, you're feeling good, and Rogers gets
more reps under under his belt, maybe he feels a

(51:18):
little better and more confident in cutting and getting out
and testing it right. This week you got the Titans,
who gave away one to the Bears. Defense pretty good though,
so they'll they'll they'll certainly get after him a little bit.
They they're pretty aggressive and and they might make him
move off the spot. So he's gonna have to get
comfortable with that really quickly, I think. But it's again

(51:38):
all winnable games before you get back to what do
you got? You got the the Titans, then you've got
the Patriots at home, and then you're got the the
Broncos at home, and then you're on the road at
Sam Darnold.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
I like that at Sam Dargell. You are at Sam
Dargle that game. Good luck at Sam come on that
that should be the log the Jets logo. And then
at Sam Donald's head because.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
That one's actually that's what it looks because that's their
international game too, right, So that's that's what that one's
in London, so not not even at Sam Donald, but
we're exporting Sam Donald to the world.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
But but yeah, I just think about that boy, the
Jets and the Mets in London to say, how about that?
You really want to do that?

Speaker 6 (52:21):
Man?

Speaker 3 (52:21):
We do need to have boots on the ground. We
got to see if we can get you some of
the international series merchandise for the Jets at least coming
out of that one. But it's the idea that for
for Week one you take what you can from it.
It's a loss, but it's a long slate, and if
you're to believe, you know the narrative that Buffalo might

(52:42):
be good but not great. Win against Arizona and certainly
some things to clean up, but the timing go get
better with those secondary receivers. A guy that you expected
in Kincaid to be a world beater was invisible in
week one. I gotta imagine he's a bigger part of
the Buffalo offensive scheme going forward. But all that to say,
nobody's running and hiding in that division, right. Miami eked

(53:06):
out a win over Jacksonville, and the Patriots get a win,
but nobody's expecting them suddenly to be a nine win team.
So the Jets still have everything ahead of them as
long as they take care of business these next three weeks.
Otherwise you can call Morosi back and start writing more
headlines for the back of the fish raps there in

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New York, because it'll be melting down at that point
and Robert Sala will have been dumped from that flaming dumpster.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Exit out by the Fresca exit swallowing up. But right now, fine,
I'm fine, I'm.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Fine, you're feeling good.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
I think it's good. I'm feeling looking good. Billy Ray,
feeling good. Mortimer, That's where I'm at, feeling good right now.
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from the
tyreck dot Com Studios. Floodgates have opened up for the
Chicago Cubs here in the eighth inning. They now lead
the Dodgers five to three. Game. That was all great,
new to them, yamamode was terrific. They were up three

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to one. Now it's the Cubs with a two run lead.
They are still batting in the top of the eight.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Yeah, that ya, Momoto. Feel good. Seemed like a long
time ago, now, doesn't it.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
It does. Yeah, it was just like an hour ago,
But boy, it feels like it was last week. Coming
up next, we had a big coaching move today. What
kind of impact is it really going to have? That's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Hey,
I think that quarterback is gonna throw for more than
three hundred yards? How about that receiver grabbing a touchdown?

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