September 14, 2024 • 41 mins
In Hour 1 of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike open the show previewing the Chiefs vs. Bengals matchup set for this weekend before getting into the Tua Tagovailoa injury. Should he heed his peers' advice and retire? Plus, picking this week's College Football upsets!
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Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Bit of an emotional last few minutes here on the show.
I was gonna say, we got to bring it back
to let entertainment. Ah sadness and you know, people throwing
flowers on the ground. Dusty up in here. Yeah. Farewell
to Chris Brassard after a six year run with Rob
Parker on The Odd Couple. Yeah well yeah, well, I mean,
come on, I mean really, I mean, you know it's
(01:10):
it's it's just listen, listen. It was uh, I'd be looking.
It was. It was great to you know, it was
great to be teammates with Chris. We still kind of
are him with him at FS one ain't going anywhere
at all.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I just texted him or actually I tweeted it out
at you know, he's the Hotel California. Man, you checked out,
you ain't gone cedar and basketball season brother.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And look and and not and not for anything else
other than you think about this. Look, it's a big
change for us. You know, Odd Couple has been a
great show for songs, going to continue to be a
great show with Kelvin Washington coming in with Rob Parker.
You know, Chris is a phenomenal talent and he's been
so good for so long. But I like to think
one of the reasons why and this is this is
this is something we've had conversations about, like why is
(01:54):
Fox Sports Radio, Why is our programming doing well? And
why is it doing so well? And why are we
the re eminent national presence in in radio. And there's
a couple of things. And I think the first the
first thing is that We don't make a lot of changes, Knockwood. Uh,
you know there's not changes like and I can't believe
some of the you change, change, change, change, change, Like me,
if I was managing the Mets and a guy would
(02:16):
throw three balls out of the bullpen, you're out, someone
else coming in. Dude, you gotta win today. But yeah,
but lind Or got hurt and so you know, but
we'll get to that. You know, it's we don't. We
don't have a lot of changes. You keep, you know,
you keep programming for a while and and and and
people find you and they find your shows, and you know,
there's something to be said for I think if you
tune in to our show, you know, you leave it
(02:36):
on the dial, and you tune into the Odd Couple,
you'll like what they have to say. If you like
what the Odd Couple has to say, you tune into
Doug Gottley. But like with Doug gottliebstaying. You know, Doug
and I have had conversations about this before. If you
listen to Colin, you'll like Dan. If you like Dan,
you'll listen to Ben Mallor if you you know, I mean,
it's I think there there's such a a sort of
a it's such a a symbia, not a symbiaut of relationship,
(02:58):
but just how the personalities that you like. It's not like, hey,
some people come out of nowhere and it's I don't
know if I like this. I don't know if I
like this. But you know, I think there's a lot
of I don't want to say togetherness or symbiosis. Now
I'm getting into venom, but I think that's a I
think that's a big Jerry. Let me just eat Tch
Prescott's head. Uh, But there is there is a bit
(03:21):
of that. There is a bit of that, a relationship
wise between the shows where if you like some of
the shows you listen to, if you try the other ones,
you'll like them too. And look like I said, if
you if you like us, like Brissard, you like Rob
you like that. I think that's a big thing for
us here.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh, everybody coming from a different angle to pros right
with with Brady Jonas and LeVar right, You're getting all
sorts of different perspectives, different ages and ranges and pop
culture references. Everything comes through, uh, and you play and
you can spray hitstall all over the field to steal
the baseball metaphor to it. Uh, And there's always going
(03:55):
to be something to make you think, something that's gonna
make you wanna maybe throw something at your read maybe
go full Elvis and shoot it. Every once in a while,
one of us says.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
First of all, it was a television. Secondly, whoa I change.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Out radio for the purpose of an analogy. Where am
I going to get another radio? I just shut my well,
then you can pull it up on the iHeartRadio app
on your on your mobile device.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You' I'm gonna shoot my phone right now. That's what's
happening here.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, you know, skeet shooting, whatever you need to do.
But the point just being that shows are allowed to
grow and gest date and maybe it festers in the
back of your head. You don't want to you know,
hear Jason, you know, tell you how much Aaron Rodgers
is going to exalt and take the Jets to the
highest level. So you shout at him or me trying
(04:44):
to calm him down. Maybe I go too far, or
go on down to Rob Chris, go go through all
of it. It's it's a fun back and forth. We
kid each other and we have fun with it, and
the support staff is fantastic, right from the editors into
the production of everything. So yeah, it's it's a bit.
It's an emotional day. I think we're all taken aback.
(05:05):
I mean you you even did your Chris Brussard impression
to him on the way out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I like, I don't love him, but I like it.
Look the Warriors, look Steph step and Clay is all right. Look, look, look,
look Clay's out there. Look Look, no, Clay's gone Claig. Look,
I love I lot, look love. I like what the
Knicks have done. Let me say, I like what the
Knicks have Maybe I'll continue on with my Chris Brussard.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, like I said, I mean, he's not going anywhere.
He'll be back. I promise you you'll hear his voice on
the network again. Meanwhile, as we get set for Week
two of college football, Week two of the NFL, we
got a couple of close ones happening right now. A
bit of a shocker. I think ever expected Arizona to
have a thousand points right now, but they're getting thumped
by Kansas State for twenty one to seven right now.
(05:50):
Midway through the third quarter. It's all Kansas night here.
Apparently we have Kansas, we have Kansas State. It's like
carry on my wayward Sun. Just decided to get rid
of them on a Friday night. Let's put all again,
let's put the let's put America's heartland on Friday night.
All Kansas all that's very wholesome now, way Yeah, interviews
with Danny Manning. Sure bring it all up, Yeah you go, yeah, yeah,
(06:10):
I got questions for Danny mann point of no return. Sure, sure, sure,
all all songs by Kansas tonight. I'm out after those
two though, Oh no, no, Well and Dustin the Win, well,
you gotta get justin. I'm out at least once or twice.
I'm out after that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Odds are we'll make some predictions that'll that'll surely miss fire.
So you can say you're sorry to those and uh,
you know, play dust In the Wind shows.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Hell, we can play it. I mean there, there you go.
We just did our tribute to Bruce Sard. You can
have that too. Meanwhile, so as you said, we'll have
more in college football coming up. Pete fu Tech's gonna
join us later on in the show. Two big stories
in the NFL, both involving the dreaded injured list, not
really a surprise, but potentially Christian McCaffrey gonna go on
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the i L for the forty nine ers. He has
been ruled out of their game Sunday against Sam Darnold
and the Vikings, so it's gonna be another another day
as well, as long as he doesn't say anything he's
not supposed to and and and potentially get San Francisco
in trouble. Forty Mason will be getting the run again
at running back.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it might get him fined, It might get the
forty nine ers fine, maybe they lose a draft.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Pick or something like that if he really goes too far.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But I mean, the forty nine ers did everybody a
favor by saying, hey, he's not playing this week.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, here's your mate. Yeah no, yeah no, Look and
look here's the thing. First one, they're fine without him.
And it's hard for me to I hard to hear
because wait a minute, he's the best running back in
the NFL. Yeah this is but this and this is
also what happens when your roster is so loaded. Okay,
you have the best roster in the NFL. This is
why you went out and gave Brandon. I yuked that money.
(07:44):
It's why you gave Trent Williams money. You got six
guys or eight guys making more than fifteen million a year.
It's not gonna happen next year, but you have it
for this year. So you're okay without Christian McCaffrey for
a few weeks at the beginning of September, when you
are the most talented roster in the in the entire league,
you're gonna be okay. It sucks that he's out, Obviously
you want him back because he's such a great player.
(08:06):
But trust me, the forty nine ers are absolutely fine
without him.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But you're looking at your board and you're just saying,
all right, do we get enough wins that were in
the tournament in January.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That's all that matters.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What's Christian McCaffrey's health in January. It's not a matter
of the second week of September. I'm sorry to all
fantasy owners who drafted him number one overall because that's
where he should have been. You can be mad about
it now, but you made the pick otherwise because if
you're looking at the receivers you would have drafted. You
tell me you drafted those same guys too, No, you're
not so. For McCaffrey, yeah, get it right, Whether it
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takes two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, whatever, you've got
your offensive line in play. So long as Trent Williams
is upright, I think that's what we've determined in.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So long as he's there and in person, you watched
him push around what's supposed to be a really good
and fearsome Jets front last week. So long as he healthy,
they're gonna make Hay because they're not looking for anybody
to go superstar numbers, right, spread.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The ball around.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
As much as it pains people to hear that, right,
it's it's not about, Hey, you got to go put
up three forty and four brock Purty.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It's no.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You can kick the field, goals, play defense, run the
ball effectively, get the win and move on. And for
Christian McCaffrey, just come back healthy. If it takes six weeks.
It takes six weeks now, Hollywood Brown, oh boy, who
now needs surgery and his season with the Chiefs is
at risk. He is going to miss quote months of action.
(09:39):
Andy Reid saying Friday, it's not gonna be weeks more
like months.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Now. This is where I like to say we're ahead
of the curve, okay, because this is what's coming. As
I've said, the Chiefs have shown that look big, we
can win no matter who our wide receivers are. Okay,
I could be I could be throwing the ball to
Dwayne Bow and I mean like the last couple years
of dayne Bow that were really bad. Or it could
be throwing the football to Xavier Worthy and it doesn't matter.
We still find a way to win. But this is
(10:06):
where when I say ahead of the curve, the Chiefs
are not the same team we have now a last
year and now into this year a beginning of Okay, offensively,
they're not what they were. Patrick Mahomes hasn't been an
all world quarterback in a year plus now because last
year he was good enough, right, good enough to win
(10:26):
the Super Bowl obviously, because Chiefs had a great defense,
and they're still scoring enough offensively. But they're not the
roll it up Chiefs team that they were the first
four or five years in the league. They're just not.
They're not that scary. Oh my goodness, they're gonna hang
forty on us every single week. They're not that team.
They were signing Hollywood Brown. They're gonna try to continue
to jump start the offense. They draft Zavier Worthy where
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she Rice is hoping to take that big step this
year after he had a really good rookie year. But
this is not the same team. Travis Kelcey is slowing down.
He is not the same guy. You've seen the results
in Patrick Mahomes. All it's going to take. All it's
going to take is one team to put a blueprint
game together that shuts down the Chiefs in a thirty
(11:13):
one thirteen type win, and all of a sudden, teams
are gonna go that's how you do it, and the
l's are gonna start coming for Kansas City all at
We need that one team to come in and say, okay, no,
not that we're not afraid of the Chiefs, but we
know how to stop them. We're not gonna we're not
gonna cower back. We're gonna play aggressively. We're gonna do X,
Y and Z. And there's going to be a game
(11:33):
plan that some team is gonna come up with, both
defensively and offensively, to say this is how you do
it and it's gonna be all at once, right, because
that happens many times in the NFL where you see
a team is rolling, rolling, rolling, then they hit a
speed bump as well, all of a sudden, now we're losing. Well,
guess what everybody saw? Oh, this is how you do it.
You pressure from the edges, whatever, whatever it is, whatever
the game plan is, one team's gonna come up with it.
(11:56):
They're gonna thump the Chiefs and you're gonna think it's
a speed bump in the road. But every other team,
copycat league is gonna say that's how you do it.
And if teams have that personnel, guess what, they're gonna
be able to make sure that doesn't happen. Right, Like,
what was it a couple of years ago when when
Tampa beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl and Tom
Brady wins, Right, this was, Hey, how did the Chiefs
(12:17):
guess up? Well, we told you the Chiefs that version
of the Chiefs. If you can get pressure with your
four down line, now you can get there and that
way you you can cover Tyreek Hill, you can cover
all the guys. Right, you know that was also the
trash bag offensive line. What I'm saying is that that
that was the blueprint then, was if you can do this,
you can stop them, because then you can leave everybody
(12:37):
back and coverage and Tyree Kill's not running running a
muck in the secondary. And what happened You got to
the Super Bowl and that Tampa Bay defense could get
pressure without blitzing, and it was just an awful day
at the office for Kansas City in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well look at last night, everybody, you know, coming into
the year, how do you stop the speed and excitement
of the Miami offense? And well, we'll get into it
twos in injury as we get on in the show,
and we talked about it lot last night. But what
happened before he got hurt, all you did was push
their offensive line around and Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddell
had no space to operate and take advantage of this
(13:13):
one on one matchup. So for the Chiefs going back
to them, right, their defense is years ahead of where
they were once. Right, So obviously helped there, and so
long as fifteen is still mobile, and that's the thing.
Eventually he slows down and it starts to grind a
little bit there. But until that point, I mean, who's
(13:33):
that guy? Is it lou Anarumo? Is that the guy
that's supposed to do it this week? I think he's
got to worry whether his offense is up to the
task against the Chiefs, right, and whether they can stay
on the field long enough to keep Patrick Mahomes off it.
But eventually, good things come to an end, right, you
were doing your brusard and talking about the Warriors. Well,
(13:56):
eventually things bogged down. Whether you don't have that second
line of players right coming off the bench, there's a
decided drop off or whatever the case may be. But
so long as Andy Reid and to a lesser, much
lesser extent, Matt and Aggie and Patrick Mahomes are there,
I I'd love to see a team come up with
(14:17):
the blueprint to slow it down. It'll come at some time.
Right now, most of their playing point are not scripted plays,
because that's that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You're not stopping necessarily a system here, You're stopping areas
of what Mahomes does, right, Just look at his work
with Travis Kelcey. Most of that is not Hey, Travis,
who's supposed to run an eight yard round?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
This? I know you're gonna be here, gonna get into
a space. Now he's slow. But they but they and
they can't out talent you like they used to. They can't.
They just can't out talent you. And that's when you
can come up with a game plan. But there's still
a little bit of all the big bad Chiefs that
when the Super Bowl they're rolling through.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, this is not the same. That's the problem though,
at least in the AFC. I'm looking at the AFC, going,
who's that team? Don't see them? Just wait out here
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Four, someone is there. Someone is there with a defensive
game plan. And it's because Jim Harbin's on it. Of course,
it's just because he is working feverishly.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Well, he's not wearing just same style shoes as Justin
Herbert because he wants to walk a mile in that
guy's shoes. Yeah, because he's everything he wants in a
football player, had more, except he doesn't let him throw
the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromthtirack dot com Studios. College football, Boy,
hope you enjoyed the Arizona run. Wholly boy. They are
getting thumped by Kansas State right now, late in the
third quarter, now twenty eight to seven. Look, the all
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Kansas night is half over. UNLV beats Kansas twenty three
to twenty, so that game end. But now this game
between two top twenty five teams. The boy Arizona looked like, hey,
maybe we could be that dark horse playoff teach depart.
We got a great quarterback, a great receiver. All they
do is throw to each other. Boys, But now they're
just getting thumped by Kansas State.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, twenty eight to seven, as we get into the
end of the third time of possession, about even the Wildcats,
Kansas State winning the turnover battle one one nil. But
here's nine penalties for her Zona seventy four yards, So
all the positivity, big plays, they just had a drive
that stalled out again in case State comes right back
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and puts another seven on the board. So also running
all over them, one hundred and seventy six rushing yards
to just forty three for Arizona. So playing a bit
of bully ball along the way at home, So we'll have.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
More college football on the way. We'll check in with
Pete Futech following this game, although I mean, I guess
twenty eight to seven, the game is probably over there.
Let me go now, head Pete. But let's get to
the day after. For two, a Tungue of Iloa leaving
last night's game with a concussion at least the third
of his career, probably the fourth, maybe the fourth, depending
(18:42):
on what you're counting. Also, remember the first one was
never counted as a concussion diagnosed, it's not. And this
is what we know from twenty two to forward. We're
not robody's doing the back math and looking at old
tape either. So now there's two. There's two big things
to takeaways from this one. I can tell you why
the overwhelming tuas should retire conversations are coming up right now.
(19:07):
But first, with all the calls to retire we saw,
we heard last night r G three other players, former
players are saying, oh, TA should retire, two I should retire.
And then today Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce said, Hey,
if I was to a tongue of Iloa, I'd retire.
It's not worth it. It's not worth to play the game.
(19:27):
I witness anything like I've seen that's happened to him
three times. Scary. You can see right away the players
faces on the field to help. I just take it.
At some point, you know he's on live and he's
play football. Take care of your family. Okay, now let's
now this plays into both big takeaways for this. The
first one is okay, everybody, relax, Okay, rely good b
(19:52):
R E L A X. Listen to that ballero music
that Aaron Rodgers said the other day, and this is
what this is what the NFL seasons like. It's a
balero r E L A X with this, retire now,
retire now, don't worry about it. To a tongue of Iloa,
is gonna take some time. He's gonna go through everything.
(20:14):
He's gonna he's gonna he's gonna find out, Hey, how
susceptible am I to more concussions? Can I protect myself better?
Am I?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
How?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
How much damage could I be doing to myself by playing?
He's gonna ask all those questions. He's gonna get examined
by neurologists. He's gonna go through it. But all of
a sudden, the retire, retire right away, retire. Yeah, maybe
eventually that is the call for him. It might not be,
but it might be. But this is something that hey,
Tou's gonna do that. This is his life. It's not
it's it's not anybody else's. And I have no doubt
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that he's not just gonna be Hey, I'm finally bounced
back here. Okay, we kind of understand. And there's gonna
be doctors and they're gonna look at things and they're
gonna try to see that. Okay, this is what it is.
If you keep playing, if you don't keep playing, and
he will make a very informed decision, right, don't need
to rush to their retire now and again may wind
up being retire. But he's gonna make that call. He will.
He will make that decision at some point after thinking
(21:06):
about it and going through a lot of things and
talking to his family. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The biggest thing I understand the look the microphone gets
turned on. You get called for an interview. Right, you
have something scheduled this morning on any of the morning
shows or whatever your book to do. You're gonna do
a podcast and it's the story you have to talk about.
So you've got to have an opinion. And what's the
thing that kind of shakes up the earth? He retires, Right.
(21:31):
We have few guys that have done that and walked away,
all right. Andrew Luck, famously getting beat up, finally just says,
look I'm done. I'm gonna go off and live my life.
Captain Andrew Luck, take the retire and you know, put
the retirement note up on that Twitter account and go through.
And we've had a couple of other players walk away
from myriad injuries and issues and decide I've had enough.
(21:53):
Here's the thing. It's their decision. Okay, until a doctor
refuses to sign a form to clear them, then it's
a whole other discussion. All Right, he's too injured, he
cannot play anymore. But until then, with the counsel of
his family, with Mike McDaniel, who obviously cares about the
individual as much or more as you've ever seen a
(22:14):
guy with a player right came over, hugged him, you know,
gave him the kiss on the forehead, all of those things.
That and his teammates one by one, you know, wishing
him well as he was coming off the field yesterday.
It's like you see the respect, you see the mutual
respect Josh Allen in his comments, everybody's got an outpouring
of love and wants the best for him. But ultimately
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it's his decision and it'll come when the time is right.
There's no way he's trying to rush himself back on
the field. We talked about it with with McCaffrey, and
while the Hollywood Brown injuries another thing that went from
being hey, he's going to miss a week or two
to now it's surgery and he's done for the year.
But with McCaffrey, like there's a longer season ahead and
(22:55):
a longer career ahead, so there's no need to make
a decision right now that may be foolhardy, impetuous, whatever.
And again you'll meet with team of doctors. Now we
know in the history of the NFL you could meet
with a bunch of doctors. Eventually someone's gonna tell you
what you want to hear. And that's, you know, always
the scary, the good part and the scary part. Right
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if you're really wanting to do something. But it's not
that he's rushing in and I know everybody want you know,
was pushed for a comment and you say, well I
would do this, Well, that ain't you right now? Yeah,
And you could say that you don't know if suddenly
your face with that and your football wort and everything
you've known and everything you've done is suddenly gonna be
(23:37):
taken away. Are you telling me you're necessarily coming to
that same decision.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I don't know that you are. This is why I'm here,
because I'm here to tell you exactly why the retire
to or retire stuff is coming up the last twenty
four hours. I'll tell you exactly why, and you're gonna go, oh, yes,
that makes all the sense in the words it is humanity. Look,
does everybody care about to of course they do, right,
of course, everyody want to see him go. He's a
good guy, he's a good dude. He tries to do
(24:03):
a lot of great things, and he's very talented. Everybody
loves seeing him play. He's a great role model. Everybody
wants to see him play, and everybody wants to look
out for him. So I get that they're coming from
that place. Question, but who has been saying retire? Who's
been saying it? Has been loud mouthsed like us on
the radio, going retire. I would just retire. No, what's
(24:24):
it been the last twenty four hours? Players, a lot
of players, former players all saying retire?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Why are they doing it? No matter what you do
in the NFL, no matter how long you play, you
know you're gonna leave with some sort of Hey, look,
I can't move my arm like I used to. Certain
things like that. It's the trade off of what you have.
But there is such a push from the players for
fake safety protocols. They're mad at the NFL because they
(24:54):
don't do the right things for turf, They don't do
the right things for concussions, don't do right things for
a lot they a lot of play layers feel this
is fake player safety, and this is a way to
call out the NFL for fake player safety. Here's another
concussion this guy got, I'd retire and he has no
choice but to retire because the NFL can't take care
of their players. And I can't say I disagree with
(25:15):
that because they definitely have a huge leg to stands.
Let's just go back to opening week. Why are we
playing that game on a soccer fieldhere, everybody's slipping and
sliding and falling and Jordan Love gets hurt. Right, Hey,
player safety, NFL, let's do something. But that's why this
is coming from. This is coming from that place of
the NFL is such bleeping fake player safety and that now, hey,
you know what, Tua should retire. They can't keep him safe.
(25:37):
So it's a it's kind of a way to say, hey,
look at this, what you're responsible for, NFL coming towards
this by not being able to really do the right
things for player safety. And this stems all the way
back from players who had to sue the NFL to
get benefits, to get money because they couldn't walk, they
couldn't do so it's a big thing coming. But I
don't think there's any there's any coincidence that you're hearing
(25:58):
it from players in former plays, who are the ones
that are saying retire because they know what it's going
to be like medically. They don't like the NFL and
the fake player safety that they go through with a lot.
So this is their way of bringing that up by
just now, look look at Tua. Now, the guy's got
to retire. So that's why this has come up the
way it was because it's not been dumping you guys
on the TV. It's on the radio, people on TV.
(26:18):
It's all players and former players.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Again, let me add an extra branch to your argument there.
So to extend it would be perhaps also some guilt,
and let's get them of. I had an injury, but
because of x y Z, I kept playing, and in
hindsight maybe I wouldn't have. And with Tua having mad,
the doctors told me I could play and and I
(26:43):
forced well part of it doctors, but part of it, Hey,
there's the next guy up. I don't want to lose
my job. I have two more years and then I
get this level of you know, benefits because I get
this many more reps in the league, all of those things.
But also to say, all right, Tua got paid and
for injury and all that stuff. You know, we've seen
(27:04):
the reports of how much money and how the contracts
work and everything in terms of guarantees for injury, et cetera.
That he can take his cash and have his multi
generational wealth and have left everything on the field, whereas
a lot of them, a lot of players, And again
(27:25):
it's all theorizing and speculation is that you know what,
with the number of injuries I had, if I could have,
I would, right. Mark Schalrath was on FS one this
morning and he was like, look, I had twenty nine surgeries,
and I do every damn bit of it again because it,
you know, defined who I was, who I am. Yes,
I wish I'd been better to my family and considered
their feelings to it, but it's who I was and
(27:48):
how I approached the game. And so you've got that
army of ex players as well, just saying look until
they rip the jersey off you, that you keep trying
to play as best you can and somewhere in between
is where the sweet spot and it all is. But yeah,
to your point about players rising up. Yeah, I mean
there have been so many myriad issues in terms of
(28:12):
what the CBA battles have been that they never actually
get to the root of the problem because there's always
the easy out, because you know, the union is so fractured,
and we've talked about this forever, right, You've got the
high ranking guys that are making sixty million dollars a
year and then more than half of your roster is
barely above the league minimum and get churned out, which
(28:32):
is why we have that really long tail of average
service time for an NFL player, which means they've all
got very different considerations when it comes to votes and
battling in these cbas and so instead of getting anything substantive,
it becomes a way we got an extra day off
in the middle of the summer. That's great as opposed
to field conditions and all those other things where you
(28:55):
can really maybe make some hay towards substantive player say
longevity and continuity.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Make no mistake, there's a reason why this is all
players and former players who are saying, hey, retire, it's
all about NFL player safety. What they went through, what
they see other players going through. They want to call
it out, and they want to kind of warn. They
want to do a lot of different things here. There's
a reason why it's there. Time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. With special delivery,
(29:26):
Steve to Seger, Who's going to kick things off with
an update on the health of Francisco Lindor, who left
the game tonight after not sliding into second base.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Slide into second base, Lindor, he's sliding again, sliding back up,
slide in and he doesn't go seventh inning.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He doubles in a seven to nothing game. He goes
into second base, awkwardly leaves a game with lower back tightness.
Slide Lindor. So there is a theme here, all right, Steve?
So how is he boo? He left with a sore
bad Why where's your updates? What do you want to know?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
I'm not playing tomorrow. I'm not playing?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
So mu you call David Style? How do you not
call David Sterns and ask him what's going on?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Get Morosi on the phone. Ah, I tried. Do you
think I haven't tried to get Morosi yet? Again? This
is the sager's job, Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
About the positivity of the Mets hitting three three run
homers in this It was a big night.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
It was a big night.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Pete Alonzo a thirty second home run of the season
as well. The Mets one at Philadelphia eleven to three,
Jose Quintana over Aaron Nola Quintana seven scoreless innings. Brave
still one game behind the Mets for the final NL
wild card. Atlanta beat the Dodgers six to two. Atlanta's
record up to eighty and sixty seven. The Dodger losing
pitcher tonight Land and Knack. He lasted two innings, trailed
(30:37):
five nothing, sixty four pitches in two innings, and the
news today from La that pitcher Tyler Glass, now with
the bad elbow, was scratched from his simulated game.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
He was like about to go and pitch, and they
I think in the bullpen he felt something and they
shut him down.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
So I don't know if we're going to be seeing
him in the regular season. Let's just say that out loud.
The Dodgers currently has.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Any coincident that today Dave Roberts said, Hey, you know, oh,
TONI could pitch in the playoffs. That's some chance isn't
zero that.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
He picks in the playoffs, not a zero chance that
he's gonna pitch in the playoffs. Okay. Dodgers currently have
seven starting pitchers on the injured list. The Yankees, Aaron
Judge hit a grand Slam in the seventh for the lead.
It was home run number fifty two. Yanks beat the
rival Red Sox five to four, one hundred and thirty
RBIs for the Yanks Judge this year. The Yankees are
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first in the Al East, now three games ahead of
the Orioles, only a couple weeks left in the regular season.
Playoffs start October first, Baltimore lost won nothing at Detroit,
giving up a first inning home run. The O's offense
one for twenty eight, thirteen strikeouts, one walk. In fact,
Detroit was pitching a perfect game through seven innings. Gunner
Henderson broke up a combined no hit bid with two
(31:48):
outs in the top of the ninth with a triple.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Didn't they use like eleven pitchers to get there? No,
it was like four.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I was like four.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay, all right? It was a lot.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
September we hadn't heard of any of them. There's no
excuse for Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I mean the one pitcher gave him six good innings
and you know the least walk, right, we had the opener.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Opener got him.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
At fifteen pitches and then sure the next guy for
about six Oakland beat the White Sox in Chicago Tonona thing.
The White Sox record now thirty three and one fifteen.
The White Sox still trailed the division by fifty one games.
We have brought it up before the record is finishing
sixty one games out in the divisional era Baltimore twenty eighteen.
(32:29):
You see, Cleveland lost at home tonight three to one
to Tampa Bay. Kansas City got an eighty three win
at Pittsburgh. The Cubs are tied five to five at
the Rockies in the bottom of the eighth, Houston winning
four to two at the Angels top of the fourth.
But the Mariners are getting shot at at home by
Jacob de Gram and the Rangers in the top of
the second.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Is don't people tell Come on, man, people are gonna
go He's not telling us the truth.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Come on.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
In fact, pitcher Max Scherzier is due to start a Saturday.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It is Nolan Ryan pitching on Sunday. Yeah, right shaking
the hill on Sunday, Baby, let's go. He's gotta be
smoking up.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
He's got to be in his eighties. Come on.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
No, as I mentioned last night, I believe it's ra
A Dickey on Sunday finished.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Charlie Hoff's only seventy six. Phil nekro is gonna go
on Tuesday Shore.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Charlie Huff maybe seventy six. He was never seventy six
miles an hour by in his career. And yes, forty
nine Ers running back Christian McCaffrey is out again with
calf and achilles injuries. Going on injury reserve that is
now a possibility. Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison out against
San Francisco with an ankle injury. And you mentioned college football. Yes,
this is going to keep happening. There's Fox TV college
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football on a Friday night, and it's a Top twenty matchup,
and it's not a conference matchup in the Big Twelve,
even though they're in the same conference. You see, they
had already signed for these games this home and home
before Arizona ever moved into the Big Twelve. So not
a conference game. At Kansas State tonight, the Wildcats of
k State lead the Wildcats of Arizona twenty eight with
(34:00):
about eight minutes to go in this one, unov scord
late to win at Kansas twenty three to twenty in
Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon live from the tyrack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, we start getting to our big picks
of the weekend. We'll give your upset special picks in
college football, and we'll pick the big one tomorrow. Could
we see a huge upset in the big nude kickoff?
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
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Speaker 7 (34:34):
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
Good thoughts out to Francisco Lindor leaving the game.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
With We're about positivity, baby leaving the game the type
of guy to say, my low one back is killing
me out ha well, edge my drift at DJ.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Clearly Lindor first injuring his back carrying the Mets in
the last couple of months like he has him and Grimace,
but now a real injury for him. DJ, nicely done.
He ate heavy, he's my brother. Hopefully Lindor plays tomorrow.
Lindor better play tomorrow. But he's day to day. But
then again, all right, we all Charlie Steiner was always
(35:56):
the guy walking around the ESPN Newsroo would say that
all the time, Hey, what we have anything we know?
How how so and so is? Yeah, he's day to day,
but then again, aren't we all? Okay? You asked what
he was? I told you he's day to day. All right,
I get it, Yes, I got that. Let's think about
the meaning of life now for a few minutes. You
want to know how so and so was. We said,
he's day to day. Okay, great? Uh. Now, big weekend
(36:18):
in college football to mar I got the big nude
kickoff kicking things off, big game of the day, number four,
Alabama at Wisconsin. And I'll get to this before I
get to my upset special. I would love to pick
Wisconsin in this game, right, I mean the home crowd,
I mean it's gonna take him a while to all
file in because it's like the wisconstantly a Dodger game.
(36:38):
I was like, why aren't there stands full? And then
by the time you have to the midway of the
second quarter, Oh well, look at those stands are full.
Can I trying to get in? I can?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I just say it's different, right, Dodger fans, it's traffic
and trying to get your way up down that hill
to go do the thing with Wisconsin. You're not going
in because the tailgating is so damned point yeah right.
Having been to Camp Random, a number of operators, even
wearing purple, invited to come and eat and drink to.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yours the beer.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The Bronx oh yeah, man, I would never make it inside.
You would never actually, you'd be like you got it
on the TV, right, that is you.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I don't even need We should actually do that. I
don't even the game. Just have gfchese and brons. Yeah
that's all I need. Yeah, yeah, great, great. Now I
don't want to beer because that's going to make me
not be able to eat more cheese and brots. So
that's fine. That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
We don't need a whole road trip, you and I.
We could just go to Wisconsin and Camp Randall. You
would never want to leave. Hey man, the game is
going on and then if it's cold, the hot damn
comes out and it's a whole other, a whole other
mess in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
It's kind of like that scene from Fast Times when
they're all in the in the in the van and
they're all they're all smoking in here. Spaccoli goes, dude,
I think I heard a bell and the doors open,
all the smoke comes out. There Agar running in the
class Olive. I'd love to be able to pick Wisconsin tomorrow.
But they just have no offense. Okay, they really they
struggle to football. They can't and I'll tell you this,
(37:55):
Alabama is loaded and this is going to be Jalen
Milrow really announcing his candidacy, his big time candidacy for
the Heisman Trophy, national television, big nude kickoff on Fox
at noon. Milroe. You know the talent he was last
year carrying Alabama all the way to the semi final,
and this is going to be tomorrow where we remember
(38:17):
how good he was. He's going to put up a
big stat line. It's a big game, Alabama Wisconsin. Alabama
wins this big. I can't see Wisconsin covering. I can't
see Wisconsin scoring more than thirteen points in this game.
It's going to be a blowout. And we say, hey,
maybe Jalen Milro is going to be the Heisman Trophy winner.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
There you go through two weeks, Wisconsin fifty five points.
They are are seventeen points spread sixteen and a half
some places as you do your shopping for the line.
But largest home dog situation for them in I think,
in their history is what I read. So you're looking
at Fickle trying to figure out this offense. They came
(38:53):
at it with a new look and thus far, okay,
fine succeed and proceed, but decided step up in class
in a big spot. So here's the question. Can the
defense rise up and give you a bit of a surge?
Do you have something cooked up to make life hard
for Milroe? Early? Maybe, but I don't know that your
offense is gonna match it. They expected Van Dyke to
come over from Miami and you know, give them a
(39:16):
shot in the arm. Thus far, it looks like a
huge work in progress. This is not where you take
that next step forward against an Alabama squad. I'll tell
you after tomorrow it's gonna be boy Milroe or Kyle McCord.
Who's your husband? Who's your man?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Stopping with your McCord? He leaves all of fbs and touchdowns?
Come on, man, it doesn't matter. So now to our
upset special picks, Mike and I can each give you
a top twenty five pick. Here in college football, I
will take Boston College getting seventeen. All right, now, the
line was seventeen. Now it's come down a little bit,
But when I decided decided to do this this morning,
(39:52):
it was seventeen. So give me Boston College getting seventeen
against Missouri. Boston College is pretty good, right, We already
saw them with a big win quote on the road
and it was a far road trip. But they can
run the football really well. Thomas Castellanos is talented. He
is the head of the snake. When you can run
the ball, well, you're going to keep the ball away
from Missouri. You know, I think Missouri's defense is really good,
(40:15):
you know, not allowing a point, but it's not like
you know, you opened up against Alabama and LSU. So
I like Boston College being able to keep this close
in seventeen sixteen seventeen is a lot of points, especially
because I've seen Boston College run. They can run it
up and control the clock. So gimme BC getting seven.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Look at you, Well, I could not get on board
the Badgers.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
You know me resident Big ten apologist wearing my purple
proudly on a daily basis. I am going to take
another Big ten team to spring it upset, and it's
in the state of Indiana at ross Aids Stadium fourteen
and twenty seven in the series. But look for the
Boilers plus seven and a half to give the fighting
(40:57):
Irish fits and take them to down down.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Wow. You're going to Marcus Freeman and you wow Wow,
that's gonna be some postgame press conference. Who can I blame? Now,
that's kind of where we're at. What I can blame that?
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I guess it came down for me the the number
of apologists of well, they always stubbed their toe and
then they'll be just fine. Okay, some of the years
are not the same. This is not that same squad.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Uh So there it is. Our upset special picks for
the weekend in college football. Coming up next, we'll take
a look at a couple of the biggest games in
the NFL. Right here, give you our picks.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Who do we like?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
What surprises are coming your way? That's coming up next
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Speaker 1 (00:49):
Bit of an emotional last few minutes here on the show.
I was gonna say, we got to bring it back
to let entertainment. Ah sadness and you know, people throwing
flowers on the ground. Dusty up in here. Yeah. Farewell
to Chris Brassard after a six year run with Rob
Parker on The Odd Couple. Yeah well yeah, well, I mean,
come on, I mean really, I mean, you know it's
(01:10):
it's it's just listen, listen. It was uh, I'd be looking.
It was. It was great to you know, it was
great to be teammates with Chris. We still kind of
are him with him at FS one ain't going anywhere
at all.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I just texted him or actually I tweeted it out
at you know, he's the Hotel California. Man, you checked out,
you ain't gone cedar and basketball season brother.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
And look and and not and not for anything else
other than you think about this. Look, it's a big
change for us. You know, Odd Couple has been a
great show for songs, going to continue to be a
great show with Kelvin Washington coming in with Rob Parker.
You know, Chris is a phenomenal talent and he's been
so good for so long. But I like to think
one of the reasons why and this is this is
this is something we've had conversations about, like why is
(01:54):
Fox Sports Radio, Why is our programming doing well? And
why is it doing so well? And why are we
the re eminent national presence in in radio. And there's
a couple of things. And I think the first the
first thing is that We don't make a lot of changes, Knockwood. Uh,
you know there's not changes like and I can't believe
some of the you change, change, change, change, change, Like me,
if I was managing the Mets and a guy would
(02:16):
throw three balls out of the bullpen, you're out, someone
else coming in. Dude, you gotta win today. But yeah,
but lind Or got hurt and so you know, but
we'll get to that. You know, it's we don't. We
don't have a lot of changes. You keep, you know,
you keep programming for a while and and and and
people find you and they find your shows, and you know,
there's something to be said for I think if you
tune in to our show, you know, you leave it
(02:36):
on the dial, and you tune into the Odd Couple,
you'll like what they have to say. If you like
what the Odd Couple has to say, you tune into
Doug Gottley. But like with Doug gottliebstaying. You know, Doug
and I have had conversations about this before. If you
listen to Colin, you'll like Dan. If you like Dan,
you'll listen to Ben Mallor if you you know, I mean,
it's I think there there's such a a sort of
a it's such a a symbia, not a symbiaut of relationship,
(02:58):
but just how the personalities that you like. It's not like, hey,
some people come out of nowhere and it's I don't
know if I like this. I don't know if I
like this. But you know, I think there's a lot
of I don't want to say togetherness or symbiosis. Now
I'm getting into venom, but I think that's a I
think that's a big Jerry. Let me just eat Tch
Prescott's head. Uh, But there is there is a bit
(03:21):
of that. There is a bit of that, a relationship
wise between the shows where if you like some of
the shows you listen to, if you try the other ones,
you'll like them too. And look like I said, if
you if you like us, like Brissard, you like Rob
you like that. I think that's a big thing for
us here.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh, everybody coming from a different angle to pros right
with with Brady Jonas and LeVar right, You're getting all
sorts of different perspectives, different ages and ranges and pop
culture references. Everything comes through, uh, and you play and
you can spray hitstall all over the field to steal
the baseball metaphor to it. Uh, And there's always going
(03:55):
to be something to make you think, something that's gonna
make you wanna maybe throw something at your read maybe
go full Elvis and shoot it. Every once in a while,
one of us says.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
First of all, it was a television. Secondly, whoa I change.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Out radio for the purpose of an analogy. Where am
I going to get another radio? I just shut my well,
then you can pull it up on the iHeartRadio app
on your on your mobile device.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You' I'm gonna shoot my phone right now. That's what's
happening here.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Well, you know, skeet shooting, whatever you need to do.
But the point just being that shows are allowed to
grow and gest date and maybe it festers in the
back of your head. You don't want to you know,
hear Jason, you know, tell you how much Aaron Rodgers
is going to exalt and take the Jets to the
highest level. So you shout at him or me trying
(04:44):
to calm him down. Maybe I go too far, or
go on down to Rob Chris, go go through all
of it. It's it's a fun back and forth. We
kid each other and we have fun with it, and
the support staff is fantastic, right from the editors into
the production of everything. So yeah, it's it's a bit.
It's an emotional day. I think we're all taken aback.
(05:05):
I mean you you even did your Chris Brussard impression
to him on the way out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
I like, I don't love him, but I like it.
Look the Warriors, look Steph step and Clay is all right. Look, look, look,
look Clay's out there. Look Look, no, Clay's gone Claig. Look,
I love I lot, look love. I like what the
Knicks have done. Let me say, I like what the
Knicks have Maybe I'll continue on with my Chris Brussard.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Well, like I said, I mean, he's not going anywhere.
He'll be back. I promise you you'll hear his voice on
the network again. Meanwhile, as we get set for Week
two of college football, Week two of the NFL, we
got a couple of close ones happening right now. A
bit of a shocker. I think ever expected Arizona to
have a thousand points right now, but they're getting thumped
by Kansas State for twenty one to seven right now.
(05:50):
Midway through the third quarter. It's all Kansas night here.
Apparently we have Kansas, we have Kansas State. It's like
carry on my wayward Sun. Just decided to get rid
of them on a Friday night. Let's put all again,
let's put the let's put America's heartland on Friday night.
All Kansas all that's very wholesome now, way Yeah, interviews
with Danny Manning. Sure bring it all up, Yeah you go, yeah, yeah,
(06:10):
I got questions for Danny mann point of no return. Sure, sure, sure,
all all songs by Kansas tonight. I'm out after those
two though, Oh no, no, Well and Dustin the Win, well,
you gotta get justin. I'm out at least once or twice.
I'm out after that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Odds are we'll make some predictions that'll that'll surely miss fire.
So you can say you're sorry to those and uh,
you know, play dust In the Wind shows.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Hell, we can play it. I mean there, there you go.
We just did our tribute to Bruce Sard. You can
have that too. Meanwhile, so as you said, we'll have
more in college football coming up. Pete fu Tech's gonna
join us later on in the show. Two big stories
in the NFL, both involving the dreaded injured list, not
really a surprise, but potentially Christian McCaffrey gonna go on
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the i L for the forty nine ers. He has
been ruled out of their game Sunday against Sam Darnold
and the Vikings, so it's gonna be another another day
as well, as long as he doesn't say anything he's
not supposed to and and and potentially get San Francisco
in trouble. Forty Mason will be getting the run again
at running back.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Yeah, it might get him fined, It might get the
forty nine ers fine, maybe they lose a draft.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Pick or something like that if he really goes too far.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
But I mean, the forty nine ers did everybody a
favor by saying, hey, he's not playing this week.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yeah, here's your mate. Yeah no, yeah no, Look and
look here's the thing. First one, they're fine without him.
And it's hard for me to I hard to hear
because wait a minute, he's the best running back in
the NFL. Yeah this is but this and this is
also what happens when your roster is so loaded. Okay,
you have the best roster in the NFL. This is
why you went out and gave Brandon. I yuked that money.
(07:44):
It's why you gave Trent Williams money. You got six
guys or eight guys making more than fifteen million a year.
It's not gonna happen next year, but you have it
for this year. So you're okay without Christian McCaffrey for
a few weeks at the beginning of September, when you
are the most talented roster in the in the entire league,
you're gonna be okay. It sucks that he's out, Obviously
you want him back because he's such a great player.
(08:06):
But trust me, the forty nine ers are absolutely fine
without him.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
But you're looking at your board and you're just saying,
all right, do we get enough wins that were in
the tournament in January.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
That's all that matters.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
What's Christian McCaffrey's health in January. It's not a matter
of the second week of September. I'm sorry to all
fantasy owners who drafted him number one overall because that's
where he should have been. You can be mad about
it now, but you made the pick otherwise because if
you're looking at the receivers you would have drafted. You
tell me you drafted those same guys too, No, you're
not so. For McCaffrey, yeah, get it right, Whether it
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takes two weeks, four weeks, six weeks, whatever, you've got
your offensive line in play. So long as Trent Williams
is upright, I think that's what we've determined in.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
All of this.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
So long as he's there and in person, you watched
him push around what's supposed to be a really good
and fearsome Jets front last week. So long as he healthy,
they're gonna make Hay because they're not looking for anybody
to go superstar numbers, right, spread.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The ball around.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
As much as it pains people to hear that, right,
it's it's not about, Hey, you got to go put
up three forty and four brock Purty.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
It's no.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
You can kick the field, goals, play defense, run the
ball effectively, get the win and move on. And for
Christian McCaffrey, just come back healthy. If it takes six weeks.
It takes six weeks now, Hollywood Brown, oh boy, who
now needs surgery and his season with the Chiefs is
at risk. He is going to miss quote months of action.
(09:39):
Andy Reid saying Friday, it's not gonna be weeks more
like months.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Now. This is where I like to say we're ahead
of the curve, okay, because this is what's coming. As
I've said, the Chiefs have shown that look big, we
can win no matter who our wide receivers are. Okay,
I could be I could be throwing the ball to
Dwayne Bow and I mean like the last couple years
of dayne Bow that were really bad. Or it could
be throwing the football to Xavier Worthy and it doesn't matter.
We still find a way to win. But this is
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where when I say ahead of the curve, the Chiefs
are not the same team we have now a last
year and now into this year a beginning of Okay, offensively,
they're not what they were. Patrick Mahomes hasn't been an
all world quarterback in a year plus now because last
year he was good enough, right, good enough to win
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the Super Bowl obviously, because Chiefs had a great defense,
and they're still scoring enough offensively. But they're not the
roll it up Chiefs team that they were the first
four or five years in the league. They're just not.
They're not that scary. Oh my goodness, they're gonna hang
forty on us every single week. They're not that team.
They were signing Hollywood Brown. They're gonna try to continue
to jump start the offense. They draft Zavier Worthy where
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she Rice is hoping to take that big step this
year after he had a really good rookie year. But
this is not the same team. Travis Kelcey is slowing down.
He is not the same guy. You've seen the results
in Patrick Mahomes. All it's going to take. All it's
going to take is one team to put a blueprint
game together that shuts down the Chiefs in a thirty
(11:13):
one thirteen type win, and all of a sudden, teams
are gonna go that's how you do it, and the
l's are gonna start coming for Kansas City all at
We need that one team to come in and say, okay, no,
not that we're not afraid of the Chiefs, but we
know how to stop them. We're not gonna we're not
gonna cower back. We're gonna play aggressively. We're gonna do X,
Y and Z. And there's going to be a game
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plan that some team is gonna come up with, both
defensively and offensively, to say this is how you do
it and it's gonna be all at once, right, because
that happens many times in the NFL where you see
a team is rolling, rolling, rolling, then they hit a
speed bump as well, all of a sudden, now we're losing. Well,
guess what everybody saw? Oh, this is how you do it.
You pressure from the edges, whatever, whatever it is, whatever
the game plan is, one team's gonna come up with it.
(11:56):
They're gonna thump the Chiefs and you're gonna think it's
a speed bump in the road. But every other team,
copycat league is gonna say that's how you do it.
And if teams have that personnel, guess what, they're gonna
be able to make sure that doesn't happen. Right, Like,
what was it a couple of years ago when when
Tampa beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl and Tom
Brady wins, Right, this was, Hey, how did the Chiefs
(12:17):
guess up? Well, we told you the Chiefs that version
of the Chiefs. If you can get pressure with your
four down line, now you can get there and that
way you you can cover Tyreek Hill, you can cover
all the guys. Right, you know that was also the
trash bag offensive line. What I'm saying is that that
that was the blueprint then, was if you can do this,
you can stop them, because then you can leave everybody
(12:37):
back and coverage and Tyree Kill's not running running a
muck in the secondary. And what happened You got to
the Super Bowl and that Tampa Bay defense could get
pressure without blitzing, and it was just an awful day
at the office for Kansas City in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Well look at last night, everybody, you know, coming into
the year, how do you stop the speed and excitement
of the Miami offense? And well, we'll get into it
twos in injury as we get on in the show,
and we talked about it lot last night. But what
happened before he got hurt, all you did was push
their offensive line around and Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddell
had no space to operate and take advantage of this
(13:13):
one on one matchup. So for the Chiefs going back
to them, right, their defense is years ahead of where
they were once. Right, So obviously helped there, and so
long as fifteen is still mobile, and that's the thing.
Eventually he slows down and it starts to grind a
little bit there. But until that point, I mean, who's
(13:33):
that guy? Is it lou Anarumo? Is that the guy
that's supposed to do it this week? I think he's
got to worry whether his offense is up to the
task against the Chiefs, right, and whether they can stay
on the field long enough to keep Patrick Mahomes off it.
But eventually, good things come to an end, right, you
were doing your brusard and talking about the Warriors. Well,
(13:56):
eventually things bogged down. Whether you don't have that second
line of players right coming off the bench, there's a
decided drop off or whatever the case may be. But
so long as Andy Reid and to a lesser, much
lesser extent, Matt and Aggie and Patrick Mahomes are there,
I I'd love to see a team come up with
(14:17):
the blueprint to slow it down. It'll come at some time.
Right now, most of their playing point are not scripted plays,
because that's that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Right.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
You're not stopping necessarily a system here, You're stopping areas
of what Mahomes does, right, Just look at his work
with Travis Kelcey. Most of that is not Hey, Travis,
who's supposed to run an eight yard round?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
This? I know you're gonna be here, gonna get into
a space. Now he's slow. But they but they and
they can't out talent you like they used to. They can't.
They just can't out talent you. And that's when you
can come up with a game plan. But there's still
a little bit of all the big bad Chiefs that
when the Super Bowl they're rolling through.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, this is not the same. That's the problem though,
at least in the AFC. I'm looking at the AFC, going,
who's that team? Don't see them? Just wait out here
in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Four, someone is there. Someone is there with a defensive
game plan. And it's because Jim Harbin's on it. Of course,
it's just because he is working feverishly.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Well, he's not wearing just same style shoes as Justin
Herbert because he wants to walk a mile in that
guy's shoes. Yeah, because he's everything he wants in a
football player, had more, except he doesn't let him throw
the ball.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
But that's okay. Exit out aout a fresco exit, swalling
down The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from
the TIREC dot Com Studios. Just wait, someone's coming up
with that game plan because the Chiefs just ain't quite
the Chiefs. Coming up next, we'll start previewing the big
weekend in the NFL College football. Give you our big
upset specials, but we'll tell you why a certain big
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live Fromthtirack dot com Studios. College football, Boy,
hope you enjoyed the Arizona run. Wholly boy. They are
getting thumped by Kansas State right now, late in the
third quarter, now twenty eight to seven. Look, the all
(17:27):
Kansas night is half over. UNLV beats Kansas twenty three
to twenty, so that game end. But now this game
between two top twenty five teams. The boy Arizona looked like, hey,
maybe we could be that dark horse playoff teach depart.
We got a great quarterback, a great receiver. All they
do is throw to each other. Boys, But now they're
just getting thumped by Kansas State.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Yeah, twenty eight to seven, as we get into the
end of the third time of possession, about even the Wildcats,
Kansas State winning the turnover battle one one nil. But
here's nine penalties for her Zona seventy four yards, So
all the positivity, big plays, they just had a drive
that stalled out again in case State comes right back
(18:08):
and puts another seven on the board. So also running
all over them, one hundred and seventy six rushing yards
to just forty three for Arizona. So playing a bit
of bully ball along the way at home, So we'll have.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
More college football on the way. We'll check in with
Pete Futech following this game, although I mean, I guess
twenty eight to seven, the game is probably over there.
Let me go now, head Pete. But let's get to
the day after. For two, a Tungue of Iloa leaving
last night's game with a concussion at least the third
of his career, probably the fourth, maybe the fourth, depending
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on what you're counting. Also, remember the first one was
never counted as a concussion diagnosed, it's not. And this
is what we know from twenty two to forward. We're
not robody's doing the back math and looking at old
tape either. So now there's two. There's two big things
to takeaways from this one. I can tell you why
the overwhelming tuas should retire conversations are coming up right now.
(19:07):
But first, with all the calls to retire we saw,
we heard last night r G three other players, former
players are saying, oh, TA should retire, two I should retire.
And then today Raiders head coach Antonio Pierce said, Hey,
if I was to a tongue of Iloa, I'd retire.
It's not worth it. It's not worth to play the game.
(19:27):
I witness anything like I've seen that's happened to him
three times. Scary. You can see right away the players
faces on the field to help. I just take it.
At some point, you know he's on live and he's
play football. Take care of your family. Okay, now let's
now this plays into both big takeaways for this. The
first one is okay, everybody, relax, Okay, rely good b
(19:52):
R E L A X. Listen to that ballero music
that Aaron Rodgers said the other day, and this is
what this is what the NFL seasons like. It's a
balero r E L A X with this, retire now,
retire now, don't worry about it. To a tongue of Iloa,
is gonna take some time. He's gonna go through everything.
(20:14):
He's gonna he's gonna he's gonna find out, Hey, how
susceptible am I to more concussions? Can I protect myself better?
Am I?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
How?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
How much damage could I be doing to myself by playing?
He's gonna ask all those questions. He's gonna get examined
by neurologists. He's gonna go through it. But all of
a sudden, the retire, retire right away, retire. Yeah, maybe
eventually that is the call for him. It might not be,
but it might be. But this is something that hey,
Tou's gonna do that. This is his life. It's not
it's it's not anybody else's. And I have no doubt
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that he's not just gonna be Hey, I'm finally bounced
back here. Okay, we kind of understand. And there's gonna
be doctors and they're gonna look at things and they're
gonna try to see that. Okay, this is what it is.
If you keep playing, if you don't keep playing, and
he will make a very informed decision, right, don't need
to rush to their retire now and again may wind
up being retire. But he's gonna make that call. He will.
He will make that decision at some point after thinking
(21:06):
about it and going through a lot of things and
talking to his family. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
The biggest thing I understand the look the microphone gets
turned on. You get called for an interview. Right, you
have something scheduled this morning on any of the morning
shows or whatever your book to do. You're gonna do
a podcast and it's the story you have to talk about.
So you've got to have an opinion. And what's the
thing that kind of shakes up the earth? He retires, Right.
(21:31):
We have few guys that have done that and walked away,
all right. Andrew Luck, famously getting beat up, finally just says,
look I'm done. I'm gonna go off and live my life.
Captain Andrew Luck, take the retire and you know, put
the retirement note up on that Twitter account and go through.
And we've had a couple of other players walk away
from myriad injuries and issues and decide I've had enough.
(21:53):
Here's the thing. It's their decision. Okay, until a doctor
refuses to sign a form to clear them, then it's
a whole other discussion. All Right, he's too injured, he
cannot play anymore. But until then, with the counsel of
his family, with Mike McDaniel, who obviously cares about the
individual as much or more as you've ever seen a
(22:14):
guy with a player right came over, hugged him, you know,
gave him the kiss on the forehead, all of those things.
That and his teammates one by one, you know, wishing
him well as he was coming off the field yesterday.
It's like you see the respect, you see the mutual
respect Josh Allen in his comments, everybody's got an outpouring
of love and wants the best for him. But ultimately
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it's his decision and it'll come when the time is right.
There's no way he's trying to rush himself back on
the field. We talked about it with with McCaffrey, and
while the Hollywood Brown injuries another thing that went from
being hey, he's going to miss a week or two
to now it's surgery and he's done for the year.
But with McCaffrey, like there's a longer season ahead and
(22:55):
a longer career ahead, so there's no need to make
a decision right now that may be foolhardy, impetuous, whatever.
And again you'll meet with team of doctors. Now we
know in the history of the NFL you could meet
with a bunch of doctors. Eventually someone's gonna tell you
what you want to hear. And that's, you know, always
the scary, the good part and the scary part. Right
(23:17):
if you're really wanting to do something. But it's not
that he's rushing in and I know everybody want you know,
was pushed for a comment and you say, well I
would do this, Well, that ain't you right now? Yeah,
And you could say that you don't know if suddenly
your face with that and your football wort and everything
you've known and everything you've done is suddenly gonna be
(23:37):
taken away. Are you telling me you're necessarily coming to
that same decision.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
I don't know that you are. This is why I'm here,
because I'm here to tell you exactly why the retire
to or retire stuff is coming up the last twenty
four hours. I'll tell you exactly why, and you're gonna go, oh, yes,
that makes all the sense in the words it is humanity. Look,
does everybody care about to of course they do, right,
of course, everyody want to see him go. He's a
good guy, he's a good dude. He tries to do
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a lot of great things, and he's very talented. Everybody
loves seeing him play. He's a great role model. Everybody
wants to see him play, and everybody wants to look
out for him. So I get that they're coming from
that place. Question, but who has been saying retire? Who's
been saying it? Has been loud mouthsed like us on
the radio, going retire. I would just retire. No, what's
(24:24):
it been the last twenty four hours? Players, a lot
of players, former players all saying retire?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Why are they doing it? No matter what you do
in the NFL, no matter how long you play, you
know you're gonna leave with some sort of Hey, look,
I can't move my arm like I used to. Certain
things like that. It's the trade off of what you have.
But there is such a push from the players for
fake safety protocols. They're mad at the NFL because they
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don't do the right things for turf, They don't do
the right things for concussions, don't do right things for
a lot they a lot of play layers feel this
is fake player safety, and this is a way to
call out the NFL for fake player safety. Here's another
concussion this guy got, I'd retire and he has no
choice but to retire because the NFL can't take care
of their players. And I can't say I disagree with
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that because they definitely have a huge leg to stands.
Let's just go back to opening week. Why are we
playing that game on a soccer fieldhere, everybody's slipping and
sliding and falling and Jordan Love gets hurt. Right, Hey,
player safety, NFL, let's do something. But that's why this
is coming from. This is coming from that place of
the NFL is such bleeping fake player safety and that now, hey,
you know what, Tua should retire. They can't keep him safe.
(25:37):
So it's a it's kind of a way to say, hey,
look at this, what you're responsible for, NFL coming towards
this by not being able to really do the right
things for player safety. And this stems all the way
back from players who had to sue the NFL to
get benefits, to get money because they couldn't walk, they
couldn't do so it's a big thing coming. But I
don't think there's any there's any coincidence that you're hearing
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it from players in former plays, who are the ones
that are saying retire because they know what it's going
to be like medically. They don't like the NFL and
the fake player safety that they go through with a lot.
So this is their way of bringing that up by
just now, look look at Tua. Now, the guy's got
to retire. So that's why this has come up the
way it was because it's not been dumping you guys
on the TV. It's on the radio, people on TV.
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It's all players and former players.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Again, let me add an extra branch to your argument there.
So to extend it would be perhaps also some guilt,
and let's get them of. I had an injury, but
because of x y Z, I kept playing, and in
hindsight maybe I wouldn't have. And with Tua having mad,
the doctors told me I could play and and I
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forced well part of it doctors, but part of it, Hey,
there's the next guy up. I don't want to lose
my job. I have two more years and then I
get this level of you know, benefits because I get
this many more reps in the league, all of those things.
But also to say, all right, Tua got paid and
for injury and all that stuff. You know, we've seen
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the reports of how much money and how the contracts
work and everything in terms of guarantees for injury, et cetera.
That he can take his cash and have his multi
generational wealth and have left everything on the field, whereas
a lot of them, a lot of players, And again
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it's all theorizing and speculation is that you know what,
with the number of injuries I had, if I could have,
I would, right. Mark Schalrath was on FS one this
morning and he was like, look, I had twenty nine surgeries,
and I do every damn bit of it again because it,
you know, defined who I was, who I am. Yes,
I wish I'd been better to my family and considered
their feelings to it, but it's who I was and
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how I approached the game. And so you've got that
army of ex players as well, just saying look until
they rip the jersey off you, that you keep trying
to play as best you can and somewhere in between
is where the sweet spot and it all is. But yeah,
to your point about players rising up. Yeah, I mean
there have been so many myriad issues in terms of
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what the CBA battles have been that they never actually
get to the root of the problem because there's always
the easy out, because you know, the union is so fractured,
and we've talked about this forever, right, You've got the
high ranking guys that are making sixty million dollars a
year and then more than half of your roster is
barely above the league minimum and get churned out, which
(28:32):
is why we have that really long tail of average
service time for an NFL player, which means they've all
got very different considerations when it comes to votes and
battling in these cbas and so instead of getting anything substantive,
it becomes a way we got an extra day off
in the middle of the summer. That's great as opposed
to field conditions and all those other things where you
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can really maybe make some hay towards substantive player say
longevity and continuity.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Make no mistake, there's a reason why this is all
players and former players who are saying, hey, retire, it's
all about NFL player safety. What they went through, what
they see other players going through. They want to call
it out, and they want to kind of warn. They
want to do a lot of different things here. There's
a reason why it's there. Time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. With special delivery,
(29:26):
Steve to Seger, Who's going to kick things off with
an update on the health of Francisco Lindor, who left
the game tonight after not sliding into second base.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
Slide into second base, Lindor, he's sliding again, sliding back up,
slide in and he doesn't go seventh inning.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
He doubles in a seven to nothing game. He goes
into second base, awkwardly leaves a game with lower back tightness.
Slide Lindor. So there is a theme here, all right, Steve?
So how is he boo? He left with a sore
bad Why where's your updates? What do you want to know?
Speaker 6 (29:57):
I'm not playing tomorrow. I'm not playing?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
So mu you call David Style? How do you not
call David Sterns and ask him what's going on?
Speaker 5 (30:03):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Get Morosi on the phone. Ah, I tried. Do you
think I haven't tried to get Morosi yet? Again? This
is the sager's job, Hey, wait a minute.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
About the positivity of the Mets hitting three three run
homers in this It was a big night.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
It was a big night.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Pete Alonzo a thirty second home run of the season
as well. The Mets one at Philadelphia eleven to three,
Jose Quintana over Aaron Nola Quintana seven scoreless innings. Brave
still one game behind the Mets for the final NL
wild card. Atlanta beat the Dodgers six to two. Atlanta's
record up to eighty and sixty seven. The Dodger losing
pitcher tonight Land and Knack. He lasted two innings, trailed
(30:37):
five nothing, sixty four pitches in two innings, and the
news today from La that pitcher Tyler Glass, now with
the bad elbow, was scratched from his simulated game.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
He was like about to go and pitch, and they
I think in the bullpen he felt something and they
shut him down.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
So I don't know if we're going to be seeing
him in the regular season. Let's just say that out loud.
The Dodgers currently has.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Any coincident that today Dave Roberts said, Hey, you know, oh,
TONI could pitch in the playoffs. That's some chance isn't
zero that.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
He picks in the playoffs, not a zero chance that
he's gonna pitch in the playoffs. Okay. Dodgers currently have
seven starting pitchers on the injured list. The Yankees, Aaron
Judge hit a grand Slam in the seventh for the lead.
It was home run number fifty two. Yanks beat the
rival Red Sox five to four, one hundred and thirty
RBIs for the Yanks Judge this year. The Yankees are
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first in the Al East, now three games ahead of
the Orioles, only a couple weeks left in the regular season.
Playoffs start October first, Baltimore lost won nothing at Detroit,
giving up a first inning home run. The O's offense
one for twenty eight, thirteen strikeouts, one walk. In fact,
Detroit was pitching a perfect game through seven innings. Gunner
Henderson broke up a combined no hit bid with two
(31:48):
outs in the top of the ninth with a triple.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Didn't they use like eleven pitchers to get there? No,
it was like four.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
I was like four.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Okay, all right? It was a lot.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
September we hadn't heard of any of them. There's no
excuse for Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I mean the one pitcher gave him six good innings
and you know the least walk, right, we had the opener.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Opener got him.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
At fifteen pitches and then sure the next guy for
about six Oakland beat the White Sox in Chicago Tonona thing.
The White Sox record now thirty three and one fifteen.
The White Sox still trailed the division by fifty one games.
We have brought it up before the record is finishing
sixty one games out in the divisional era Baltimore twenty eighteen.
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You see, Cleveland lost at home tonight three to one
to Tampa Bay. Kansas City got an eighty three win
at Pittsburgh. The Cubs are tied five to five at
the Rockies in the bottom of the eighth, Houston winning
four to two at the Angels top of the fourth.
But the Mariners are getting shot at at home by
Jacob de Gram and the Rangers in the top of
the second.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Is don't people tell Come on, man, people are gonna
go He's not telling us the truth.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Come on.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
In fact, pitcher Max Scherzier is due to start a Saturday.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
It is Nolan Ryan pitching on Sunday. Yeah, right shaking
the hill on Sunday, Baby, let's go. He's gotta be
smoking up.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
He's got to be in his eighties. Come on.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
No, as I mentioned last night, I believe it's ra
A Dickey on Sunday finished.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Charlie Hoff's only seventy six. Phil nekro is gonna go
on Tuesday Shore.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Charlie Huff maybe seventy six. He was never seventy six
miles an hour by in his career. And yes, forty
nine Ers running back Christian McCaffrey is out again with
calf and achilles injuries. Going on injury reserve that is
now a possibility. Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison out against
San Francisco with an ankle injury. And you mentioned college football. Yes,
this is going to keep happening. There's Fox TV college
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football on a Friday night, and it's a Top twenty matchup,
and it's not a conference matchup in the Big Twelve,
even though they're in the same conference. You see, they
had already signed for these games this home and home
before Arizona ever moved into the Big Twelve. So not
a conference game. At Kansas State tonight, the Wildcats of
k State lead the Wildcats of Arizona twenty eight with
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about eight minutes to go in this one, unov scord
late to win at Kansas twenty three to twenty in
Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon live from the tyrack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, we start getting to our big picks
of the weekend. We'll give your upset special picks in
college football, and we'll pick the big one tomorrow. Could
we see a huge upset in the big nude kickoff?
That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
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lose all games and not win in September. Now they're
in the playoffs and we're gonna win. But now lindor
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Speaker 3 (35:00):
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Speaker 1 (35:22):
Good thoughts out to Francisco Lindor leaving the game.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
With We're about positivity, baby leaving the game the type
of guy to say, my low one back is killing
me out ha well, edge my drift at DJ.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Clearly Lindor first injuring his back carrying the Mets in
the last couple of months like he has him and Grimace,
but now a real injury for him. DJ, nicely done.
He ate heavy, he's my brother. Hopefully Lindor plays tomorrow.
Lindor better play tomorrow. But he's day to day. But
then again, all right, we all Charlie Steiner was always
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the guy walking around the ESPN Newsroo would say that
all the time, Hey, what we have anything we know?
How how so and so is? Yeah, he's day to day,
but then again, aren't we all? Okay? You asked what
he was? I told you he's day to day. All right,
I get it, Yes, I got that. Let's think about
the meaning of life now for a few minutes. You
want to know how so and so was. We said,
he's day to day. Okay, great? Uh. Now, big weekend
(36:18):
in college football to mar I got the big nude
kickoff kicking things off, big game of the day, number four,
Alabama at Wisconsin. And I'll get to this before I
get to my upset special. I would love to pick
Wisconsin in this game, right, I mean the home crowd,
I mean it's gonna take him a while to all
file in because it's like the wisconstantly a Dodger game.
(36:38):
I was like, why aren't there stands full? And then
by the time you have to the midway of the
second quarter, Oh well, look at those stands are full.
Can I trying to get in? I can?
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I just say it's different, right, Dodger fans, it's traffic
and trying to get your way up down that hill
to go do the thing with Wisconsin. You're not going
in because the tailgating is so damned point yeah right.
Having been to Camp Random, a number of operators, even
wearing purple, invited to come and eat and drink to.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yours the beer.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
The Bronx oh yeah, man, I would never make it inside.
You would never actually, you'd be like you got it
on the TV, right, that is you.
Speaker 1 (37:09):
I don't even need We should actually do that. I
don't even the game. Just have gfchese and brons. Yeah
that's all I need. Yeah, yeah, great, great. Now I
don't want to beer because that's going to make me
not be able to eat more cheese and brots. So
that's fine. That's it.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
We don't need a whole road trip, you and I.
We could just go to Wisconsin and Camp Randall. You
would never want to leave. Hey man, the game is
going on and then if it's cold, the hot damn
comes out and it's a whole other, a whole other
mess in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
It's kind of like that scene from Fast Times when
they're all in the in the in the van and
they're all they're all smoking in here. Spaccoli goes, dude,
I think I heard a bell and the doors open,
all the smoke comes out. There Agar running in the
class Olive. I'd love to be able to pick Wisconsin tomorrow.
But they just have no offense. Okay, they really they
struggle to football. They can't and I'll tell you this,
(37:55):
Alabama is loaded and this is going to be Jalen
Milrow really announcing his candidacy, his big time candidacy for
the Heisman Trophy, national television, big nude kickoff on Fox
at noon. Milroe. You know the talent he was last
year carrying Alabama all the way to the semi final,
and this is going to be tomorrow where we remember
(38:17):
how good he was. He's going to put up a
big stat line. It's a big game, Alabama Wisconsin. Alabama
wins this big. I can't see Wisconsin covering. I can't
see Wisconsin scoring more than thirteen points in this game.
It's going to be a blowout. And we say, hey,
maybe Jalen Milro is going to be the Heisman Trophy winner.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
There you go through two weeks, Wisconsin fifty five points.
They are are seventeen points spread sixteen and a half
some places as you do your shopping for the line.
But largest home dog situation for them in I think,
in their history is what I read. So you're looking
at Fickle trying to figure out this offense. They came
(38:53):
at it with a new look and thus far, okay,
fine succeed and proceed, but decided step up in class
in a big spot. So here's the question. Can the
defense rise up and give you a bit of a surge?
Do you have something cooked up to make life hard
for Milroe? Early? Maybe, but I don't know that your
offense is gonna match it. They expected Van Dyke to
come over from Miami and you know, give them a
(39:16):
shot in the arm. Thus far, it looks like a
huge work in progress. This is not where you take
that next step forward against an Alabama squad. I'll tell
you after tomorrow it's gonna be boy Milroe or Kyle McCord.
Who's your husband? Who's your man?
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Stopping with your McCord? He leaves all of fbs and touchdowns?
Come on, man, it doesn't matter. So now to our
upset special picks, Mike and I can each give you
a top twenty five pick. Here in college football, I
will take Boston College getting seventeen. All right, now, the
line was seventeen. Now it's come down a little bit,
But when I decided decided to do this this morning,
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it was seventeen. So give me Boston College getting seventeen
against Missouri. Boston College is pretty good, right, We already
saw them with a big win quote on the road
and it was a far road trip. But they can
run the football really well. Thomas Castellanos is talented. He
is the head of the snake. When you can run
the ball, well, you're going to keep the ball away
from Missouri. You know, I think Missouri's defense is really good,
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you know, not allowing a point, but it's not like
you know, you opened up against Alabama and LSU. So
I like Boston College being able to keep this close
in seventeen sixteen seventeen is a lot of points, especially
because I've seen Boston College run. They can run it
up and control the clock. So gimme BC getting seven.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
Look at you, Well, I could not get on board
the Badgers.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
You know me resident Big ten apologist wearing my purple
proudly on a daily basis. I am going to take
another Big ten team to spring it upset, and it's
in the state of Indiana at ross Aids Stadium fourteen
and twenty seven in the series. But look for the
Boilers plus seven and a half to give the fighting
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Irish fits and take them to down down.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Wow. You're going to Marcus Freeman and you wow Wow,
that's gonna be some postgame press conference. Who can I blame? Now,
that's kind of where we're at. What I can blame that?
Speaker 3 (41:17):
I guess it came down for me the the number
of apologists of well, they always stubbed their toe and
then they'll be just fine. Okay, some of the years
are not the same. This is not that same squad.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Uh So there it is. Our upset special picks for
the weekend in college football. Coming up next, we'll take
a look at a couple of the biggest games in
the NFL. Right here, give you our picks.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Who do we like?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
What surprises are coming your way? That's coming up next
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