September 18, 2024 • 40 mins
On tonight's edition of The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Jason and Mike dive into the Dolphins placing QB Tua Tagovailoa on injured reserve and debate whether he should consider retiring. Next, they discuss the Ravens' troubling path after a devastating loss to the Raiders and whether the season might be doomed. Finally, the hosts react to the Panthers benching QB Bryce Young in favor of Andy Dalton. Tune in for an action-packed show!
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Happy Tuesday. We're two days away from week three of
the NFL, and it is just a it's a good,
wonderful Mets one. Braves lost night tonight. Right now, so
far here in Major League Baseball, now, a little bit
of sadness here. I mean we are in Los Angeles,
(01:25):
so the localized circle of sadness is here. After the
Dodgers drop one to the Marlins.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, well, I mean there's a lot of angst, a
lot of handwringing.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But this has kind of been who the Dodge has
been for the better part of four months.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And it looks your team the best team in baseball.
I know. It's kind of where I feel like people
are now being paid to tweet that each day, like specifically,
not in general. Hey, major League Baseball, let's take a
look at things like when you pick May thirtieth as
the arbitrary, let's start our stats for the year.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Right Yeah, well, it's always I'm always okay with starting
something at the beginning of a month, Like if you
say since May fourteenth, no, no, no, But if you say, hey,
June first, May one, July first, the All Star break.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, now, it's gonna be a natural stopping.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yes, starting tonight, we celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of this. No, no, no,
it's got to be ten fifteen year anniversary. Sometimes you
can do twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But well, today's the fourteenth anniversary of the release of
Easy A Yeah. So I was running around saying bucket
full the.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Sunshetta, I gotta pa. So we'll do that next year,
because next year is fifteen for easy a Yeah. Run
around screaming take me away.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah it's I got it, got it?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And look, the White Sox have a four game winning streak,
so all this is amazing. Historic stuff going on in
the Fox Sports radios is amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The White Sox and the Bears are like Harry and Voldemort.
One can't live while the other survive. So it's like, well,
things are all good for the Bears. All off season,
everything is wonderful. Caleb Williams is going to be great.
Look at the additions they made. They drafted Roma Dune
say okay, hey, everything is coming up Bears. So the
Socks are absolutely terrible. But now you get the last
(03:02):
few days where boy, the Bears offense really stinks. Hey,
the White Sox are winning, so it's like, well, one
is doing great, the other one cannot live while the
others survived. Would you like me to do a four
hour monologue on the Bears, because I've gone back and
watched that game multiple times, and I have lots of
problems that are not just the surface level ones being
(03:22):
exhibited and strewn about by the rest of our media
loving public.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But you know, hey, here, we have more than surface
level problems right now. No, we do.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But look big football night tonight as well. We got
big stuff to kick things off with. And and you
know this shows you, this story shows you where we're
at as not as an American public, but as sports fans,
where when someone just does the minimum right thing, it's, oh,
my goodness, what a great Oh I go, what a
(03:51):
great move. Today, the Miami Dolphins announce they're placing two
a tongue of Iloa on IR after his life this concussion, right,
it means he's gonna miss the next few games. He's
got to miss at least four games. There's no timetable
for how long he's going to be on IR as
he focuses on his health, be where he gets back
to the field. And I can't tell you how many
(04:14):
people and just just to talk about in my timeline
of Twitter this story comes out and the way it
was like Ian Rappaport broken whoever it was, it doesn't matter.
It was a dolphins are placing to a tongue of
I low on ir as they figure out a situation.
And how many people quote tweeted it saying the same thing.
Smart dolphins are, smart dolphins are so some dolphins look
that this is this is smart by the Dolphins, and
I said, wow, we have lowered the bar so much
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so where this should have been the easy decision. Everybody
should have been retweeting a picture of captain obvious from
commercial this is easy.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh you're gonna put him on I.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I mean, you're not going to rush him back after
his fourth concussion, depending on how what you want to
talk about as an official.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
To nonsensical thing of all of this. Right, obviously he's
played out, But how many other players can we go
back and check tapes like all right, probable but not diagnosed,
Like we could play that game all we want. But
because Tua had the two incidences, which were standalone games
with the visibility of the fencing position of what they
(05:16):
call it, that pastre and it becomes that national outcry
because the Morning shows not just in sports, I'll grab
it as well. So yeah, this one, for a million reasons,
was the most obvious results that the smart decision would be.
We're gonna sit you out for a little bit longer
when you think you can come back. We're gonna have
(05:38):
you meet with other people. We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You talk with whoever you need to talk with to
be counseled about what this is, what you're what the
doctors mean when they say this to you, And we're
going to make sure you are really healthy before you
get back on the field. Like that's smart, Like that
would be, Hey, two is eligible to come off here
he says he feels good, but the Dolphins want to
wait at least two or three more for him to
(06:00):
do X, Y and Z before they bring him back
right in the middle of a football season. Guy invested
a lot of money in Hey, he could come back now,
but we're gonna wait another couple of weeks. We're gonna
wait until we're absolutely sure that's smart. That is okay,
that that is smart. This is easy, Like they'll put
him on I R. Really, it took you this long
to figure out you gonna put the guy in our
I really it took you this long another concussion as
(06:23):
bad as it was, and and he's gotta take some
time away now, and you don't know how he's going
to respond again his fourth concussion. And there's a lot
to break through on this, but this is this is
the easy one.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But like it's like.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We we've lowered the bar for what we what we
believe is smart by people, or what we believe is, hey,
this is great behavior. This is something that we can
really aspire to. That bar is so low right now,
which is why our show does so well, is because
that bar is so low right now.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It's like, oh, oh that's smart, that's smart. No, that's
that's easy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The easy supposed to take care of your kids, you
low expectation having blank or black, you know what I mean.
Like it's all of that, Oh I take care of
my kids, just supposed that, well, I stay out of jail.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You're supposed to stay out of jail. But it's the
whole thing with the NFL in particular, we've become accustomed
to the as long as they're not in jail, because
that was the benchmark before Roder Goodell took over of
as long as you were sober enough and you were
not literally in a jail cell. You were going to
(07:28):
be eligible to play. Right. That was the Tagliabu way,
and Roderdell came in. Everybody got mad because all of
a sudden, guys were being they'll do a different standard.
And maybe there was an overcorrection, right, because you've seen
it as more things have gotten fought by the Players
Association or gotten into the courts that maybe you settle
somewhere in between. But you know, you at least had
(07:49):
to start with a policy when you're going from zero, right,
and so anything was going to be substantively punitive on
a relative basis. So now you come back to this
also with player safety of can you go spell your
mom's maid name, tell me what your cat's name is,
tell me what your kid's name. Okay, good, you're ready
(08:10):
to go, right, I mean, how many fingers am I home?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
We can do the basic elemental things and guys would
be cleared to get back onto a field. What was
it the only murders in the building this week?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
If you can't draw a clock, that means he's got
alzheimer and draw clock, draw.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Climbers right now.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
But yeah, so all of that to say we we've
really the line in the sand. Just keep shifting a bunch,
and now the bare minimum qualifies as greatness. And this
is in all aspects of signing right now, we're localizing
it to the NFT. The smallest thing, Oh, what an
unbelievable Like I get that over the course of my
life and growing up and seeing athletes and and the
(08:48):
stars they become. Is that, Yeah, generally, okay, we we
kind of lower the bar for them a little bit,
we lower the bar for their behavior. You see one
you see one guy do something at one sort of
of of a community event, and suddenly he's the greatest
guy in the world, and you're fawning all over yourself
for stuff to say about it. And and I get that,
I get that part of it. But for something like that,
(09:10):
I mean, have we really gotten the part where we're
just we're just so we don't expect anything that when
the smallest thing happened, smart?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh that that that's smart. That's smart. I think I
think I can.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I I can tell, hey, you're going on ir like
that would have been exactly what I would have said,
because if to it, because the first thing that happened
after Tua got hurt was everybody said he should retire,
which is the worst thing to say, because the last
thing a guy gets hurt wants to hear is you
should retire. You should retire. The guy's not going to
retire just because people are telling.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Him do it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But they the arguments that people were making about it
kept coming back to how much money he's got, all
of these things.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Like that's that's got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
But like every one of you, especially the ex players,
is where it got bad and disingenuous in a lot
of cases was either saltiness that nobody was looking out
for them and I get it right and better, but
also just the idea of if someone tried to rip
the jersey off your back ten years ago, five years ago,
whatever that time was, how are you responding. Right, you're
(10:10):
playing until you can't play and you've decided that you're done,
or the phone stops ringing from teams that don't want
your services anymore. Retirement is along. Well, the first part
is that you know he says, everybody says retire, and
then Tua says, I'm not retiring.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Okay. That's when you say Okay, you know what, let's
take the temperature down on this and too, we're.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Going to put you on IR. It's going to be
at least four weeks. Then we figure it all out
right that that should have been how it went. Once
you heard that that would attempt everything down.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And yeah, the players, look, we talked about it.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The players wanted to make sure they had their thoughts
known about to it because they went through stuff medically,
they probably wouldn't do so again. But also part of
it is we want to show you how upset we
are with the player safety policy. We're pissed at the NFL.
That's why we're saying you should retire. Nobody's saying anybody
else should retire. Who's had concussions a guy, but Tua
should injuries of other parts? No, no, no, no, no, you
(11:02):
should retire. So it's a little bit of a hey,
it's it comes from a good place. But also, hey,
I want to get out. I want to stand in
a soapbox and say how upset I am about player safety. Yeah,
the NFL sometimes, hey, they make it seem like they're
real player safety. But I go back to the field
opening week in Brazil when it was not safe for
the players to play.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
We're playing this game. We're playing it. So we've talked
about it for as long as we've been on air.
I actually read a lot of the collective bargaining stuff
and it's mind numbing the legal ease. But the reality
is the players, they're so fractured that they they take
the little little bits because guys that are just trying
to hang on to their jobs, any little bit is
(11:43):
going to be enough in the moment as opposed to
thinking big picture, because they're not thinking about what they're
walking around at. It's sixty years old, right, They're not
worried about that. And so all the argument about too
is like, well, he's got to think about his health
long term. It's like, I'm sure he is, Okay, I
don't I don't think you need to preach at the
man about his long term health. He's got to think
(12:05):
about Yeah, No, he's not thinking about that at all,
Are you kidding me? Yeah? Come on? And the money.
The money.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They'll figure out the money when it's time to the insurances.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The need to be figured out.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now all of this, Oh two is not retiring tomorrow.
There's a lot of time to breathe on this right.
But but again, this is part of who we are
a society where here's something happens, and I want to
be the first guy to come and to say you
should retire. I want to be the first guy to
say I want to be the first guy. All the money,
the money, relax on some things. Aaron Rodgers is right,
ten years the ten year anniversary, relax. This should have
(12:39):
been the easy decision. But instead people think it's smart
because we've set that bar so low, everything's gonna turn it.
Okay for to a tongue of I loa right that
we we we have we have hit the brakes on it.
We've tapped the brakes and now he's on IR. He's
gonna talk to people. They're gonna figure things out. It's
gonna happen. Right for hot takes when when certain things
happen in sports, Look, I got I love a big
hot take, but you talk about someone's brain and someone saying, okay,
(13:02):
you can you can dial back the hot take a
little bit here, dial about the hot take just a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
In the tiny bit. He goes on IR.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's four games, he gets reevaluated, and he'll seek multiple opinions, right,
because independent neurologists aren't always independent. There's still arms of
the NFL. So you know, find your your sphere of influence. Fine,
people you trust, see counsel, from your family, whatever else.
But in the end, if the doctors clear him, now
(13:29):
it becomes a choice in his choice alone, right, that's
the thing, right, If he can't get medically cleared, there's
no decision. That's all good, And you can all sleep
well at night because this happened and you're concerned for
Tua and and I hope he's well, but there's no
guarantee that he goes back out on the last year.
He went through a whole year, and we don't know, right,
(13:52):
we don't know because he didn't miss time. Yeah, and
because we didn't get the posturing, we didn't get the fencing,
you know, the hand, you know, motion and all that stuff.
How do we know he didn't have somebody? How about
where any guy?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Look, but when Giselle Bunching went on TV when she
was married to Tom Brace, so we don't talk about
Tom's concussions, whoa WHOA Tom's had a lot of concussions.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, we asked, well, wait a minute, like, is there
anything on the record of diagnost and I know that's
a recent concussions. Yeah, but exactly it's the same thing,
Like he went through the whole year. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Because he didn't miss time, we have to assume suddenly,
miraculously he went seventeen games healthy. Well, if that's the case,
why can't that happen again? Everything will get decided right
for TUA. It's gonna be a little bit of time.
Just wow, we just don't expect anything from anyone. So
in the domphins to the smallest Oh so great. Oh
(14:43):
it's such a great. Oh smart move.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They're so smart, Like I could have never figured that out.
I can ever figure out put him on injured reserve
and fag. Yeah, it's an easy thing, easy thing, right,
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Well,
before we look back at week two going into week three,
before we play week two, I hate to say I
told you so, let me ask you this. We're getting
into that already. I'm gona hit you right between the
eyes on this. What do you think Chargers fans love
(17:07):
more right now? Jim Harbaugh or the schedule maker? Who
do they love more? Schedule maker? Schedule makersta be the
schedule maker. I mean, look, I think Brandon Stanley might
have won these last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, but that might be closer. But I think they
win the last I mean, there might have been a
couple of decisions in the course of the game where
we would have all been inching up in our seats
to say, what's he going to do? Keep the camera
on Staley, Keep the camera on Stanley. And obviously there's
a love affair with Jim Harbaugh here and lots of
billboards up and down the highways. I mean, you and
(17:41):
I in between all of the lawyers, right that'll help
you out if you're in a motorcycle accident or your
uber gets hit or there's plenty of those guys. But
it became an you know, every other with a picture
of either Justin Herbert or Jim Harbaugh for a while
here on the four h five in southern California. And
he's quirky, he's full of quotes and story time. The fact,
(18:05):
you know, last week we were talking about the you know,
him actually figuring out what kind of Jim shoes Justin
Herbert wears so he can walk around in the same
gym shoes. It's an interesting cat man, so like you can,
you can.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Get a lot of little Hey, last segment of the
news instead of doing something about us, you know, water,
ski and squirrel, it's like, here's another Harborism. And look
at this dog that jumped into the lake right here
after the fourth of July fireworks. Look at that boy
swims right out there to get that tennis ball. We'll
see tomorrow. Everybody, enjoy your commute to work.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Now it's Jim Harborism's right. Mondays with horrorball. Why don't
you gotta give us Tuesdays with morey Mondays with harbor again.
And then we'll figure out a Wednesday, which we were
trying to do with the odd couple. Yeah and Rob, Yeah,
you know what what's Wednesday become?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Now, NFL week to eight to say, I told you
something coming off of week one? What do we tell you?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You just love that? Right? It's weak too. No, listen,
it's week two. You've already got the handg the D
shirt and gun or the giant flamethrower because you're ready
to eviscerate a squad.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
No, no, no, I said, look, what did we say? What
did I tell you? After week one? I was really
not thrilled with how the Ravens dealt with their loss
to the Chiefs. Couldn't admit that they lost. They felt
they were still robbed of a touchdown even though Isaiah
Likely was out of bounds on the final play. I'm
sorry that it was really close. It was really close.
(19:36):
I feel like the Winklevi twins in Social Network. Could
he tell us how close of a race it was? Again,
he tell us how close of a race it was. Yeah,
I'm sorry it was close, but he was out of bounds.
But they I felt that they couldn't really reconcile themselves
with the fact they lost that game, Isaiah likely saying
at the end of day, but that's the best they got.
We'll see them in the postseason. Like, guys, you have
(19:57):
to understand you lost this game and move on, because
if you can, then this is gonna wind up snowballing.
What happens on Sunday? They blow a lead to the
Bleeping Raiders.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Who ran the ball.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I think the Raiders ran the ball four times the
entire day, and Marcus Allen had three of the attempts,
and they still lost to Gardner bleep In Minshew at.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Home, they still lost.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
How does that have? This is a team that's not focused.
And sometimes I told you those if you lose a
bad game week one, that can stay with festers and
that can ruin an entire season. And I'm seeing that
right now for the Ravens in a large way, because
you don't blow that game again. That's that's a game
you win thirty five to fourteen and say great, we're
(20:38):
back on the winning track. We're ready for Week three.
You put everything behind us. Now, this is again those
Week one losses. Sometimes they will stay with you and
ruin your season. And that's the path the Ravens are
on right now.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah. I mean with some of it, you just get
into the curiosity. You know, the offensive line they give
up a sack hill with a two yard run and
then the old short pass. So it's like all right,
wish wanting, hoping that yak and that the blocking scheme
has enough time to shore up. Well, when you do
an awful lot of screen passes, bubble screens and whatever,
(21:09):
as the Ravens are wont to do, guess what Raiders
are bringing the heat and that's gonna get blown up
at the spot as it did they're forcing the punt
and eventually leading to the field goal the prior possession again,
you know, a couple of run calls Derrick Henry, you
have false starts, and there goes another another thing we've
seen time and time again through the first two weeks
(21:30):
of the season. It's just been sloppy. Whether it's a
point of emphasis that any official wants to raise their
hand and go, yeah, we were told about that, but
how many times did you watch your squad? Certainly me
watching the Bears on Sunday night, false start, like it's
not scared of the guys, Like what functionally is happening here?
Again going back to Shane Walter and maybe he was
(21:50):
scared calling the play so they didn't get the proper
count in. But whatever the case was, we see that,
you know, and that is absolutely torpedoing drives along the way.
But you take the ball out of Derrick Henry's hands,
who's run the ball pretty well in theory, that's why
you brought him in. And the worst of it is
the Ravens are one of what five or six teams
that we always go the culture's right. You may not
(22:12):
like the results, oh you may not like how the sausage.
You may like we were talking about the Steelers last hour,
but you know, there's a thought process to the roster construction,
to the identity of that squad, and for the Ravens.
Even though we might have expected with the emergence of
likely Andrew's healthy Za Flowers year or two that there
might be a little more in the passing game, the
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identity is still the run game of Henry and Lamar Jackson.
And then in theory, Justin Tucker's not missing field goals.
So maybe while we're worried about everybody else crossing that
bridge and falling off the cliff in the NFL, maybe
old Justin Tucker's range has shortened up quite a bit. Ye, well,
(22:54):
he's gone from boy, this is the best kicker anybody's
ever seen, to dude, the guy can't make one from
over fifty. But that's it. But I mean that was
a big part of how their offense has been run
for years. And we're seeing all the other teams in
the National Football League, like I said, thirty five thirty
five makes from at least fifty yards already, so a
lot of your offensive structure and we've seen touchdown passing down.
(23:16):
It's like the whole objectives score points, not put the
ball on Harm's way. It's the age of the kicker,
just for your dad's fantasy teams, just in time.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The other week two, I told you so, told you
that Trevor Lawrence is just a guy.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Okay, And it's hard with Trevor Banks Stadium and he
had that effort.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Dude, it's not look and I want to keep saying
it's not all on Trevor Lawrence, but how do you
lose this game? And Lawrence has an abysmal game, throw
in the football, he takes the safety at the end, which, ah,
it's not all on him, but dude, you got to
get rid of the football man. You're down by fights
still there for you. Trevor Lawrence just isn't great. And
(23:59):
it's like the Jaguars are paying him and treating him
because of his college resume, and you took him number
one and you believed for a full year he was
your savior. He was gonna be your savior from the
middle of October when you knew what was you were
the Jets getting that number one pick all the way through.
(24:20):
And Trevor Lawrence has proved in three years to be
just a guy. He's a league average quarterback. He had
one good year, not one unbelievable. He had one good
year with twenty five touchdowns, right two years ago. Last
year was more average, and he still gets paid. Is
in the top three quarterbacks in the NFL. That's the
contract that everybody's got to be pissed off about. The
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team's got to be pissed off about. Not guys like
Burrow and they get paid. No, no, but Trevor Lawrence,
Come on, man, Trevor Lawrence. He doesn't elevate. They've given
him playmakers and he's just okay. There's nothing wrong with him.
He's an okay quarterback. But he's not someone that is
going to grab the team and elevate them. He's His
(25:03):
entire Jaguars reputation is living off the one comeback playoff
game over the Chargers, where hey, if you had to say,
one team in the playoffs are going to gag away
a fifty point lead, Chargers charge, Yeah, that's right. Congratulations.
So yeah, So the image of that makes you think
he's so great. It's like Jadavian Clowney has played his
entire NFL career off the reputation has to hit from
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the outback bowl, right, Like that's it. Odell Beckham's entire
NFL career has come off the one catch, right. And
it's not that these guys aren't good, but it's like
they're not as great as you think they are. Their
resume is not there. And Trevor Lawrence is just a
guy still. He doesn't make enough throws, he turns the
ball over too much. And at some point you're finding out, boy,
(25:45):
we overpaid for someone just because we took him number one,
because we thought he was going to be a star.
And boy, it's embarrassing if we don't pay him the money,
because wow, how often do we get someone like this
a generational quarterback? So understand that Trevor Lawrence is really
overrated and we're seeing it week after week in the NFL. Yeah,
I think part of it when we look at it's
the I'll use the analogy of you see Larry Thomas
(26:10):
up there. You know who Larry Thomas is. Let's go
to Seinfeld. Here are the rules of engagement. Walk in
order your soup, don't ask for extras, take what's in
the bag, pay.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
The lady at the end, and get the hell out,
don't engage, don't insult, don't make jokes. Soup guy Larry
Thomas ain't happy if you do that. That's how most
of these teams line up for the quarterback position when
it comes time to do a contract, like, hey, that
last guy got paid, guess what dollar more? Come on
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and you'll get what you want. Here's your bag, move on.
And that's what we do every time a quarterback comes up,
because nobody's decided. And there was that outside shot that
maybe the Cowboys, we're gonna say it to Dak go
find the open market deck. We love like you, we
don't love you. And then eleventh or Jerry had Tom
Brady in the house. It's the season opener. I have
(27:04):
a big announcement. Yeah yeah, shake it out. We we
signed the dat kid, right, I mean, and here we go,
so he's the next man up.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Now, you would argue consistent to save that announcement from
before the Saints game. Maybe would have had a little
bit better game. Maybe you wouldn't have lost a fifty
six to three like we did. Save me a little
more energy.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Maybe maybe we should have paid the Parsons kid while
we were at it, or a couple of other defenders
to help the Parsons kid. But the point being that
you know they did what was expected. Here's the next
man up, and what are your alternatives? Who else is
out there that you're gonna go clamoring for? Look at
what the packers are doing. All right? They brought in Molquals.
They gotta win. It was not stylish. I don't I
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don't think he did. I don't think he threw.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You want to talk about old school think he was
for oh h for zero yards and had minus two
yards rushing because of the that's all.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Of us, but the idea. All right, you won, but
you're still sitting here going art. If Jordan Love is
not cleared for weeks? Does this look like twenty seventeen? Right?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
When you're looking at Miami right now with two a
tongue of iloan now to the IR you've got Skyler Thompson.
But you're also trying to say, okay, what does it
look like?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Right? We were talking about waiver claims for fantasy Tyreek Hill.
When Guillotine leads he's out there, how much your reasonably
bid for Tyreek Hill here going into week three out
of your one thousand dollars, free agent acquisition budget, right,
I mean it's it's one of those debates of how
much can that offense run because nobody's riding to the
rescue and running the offense like to it.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Isn't that Spider, isn't it The kid that hates Peter
Parker in high school is playing quarterback now, Skyler Thompson Flash.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, wasn't he He hates some that's right, beating him up.
That was the uh what was it death stroke or
death throke or whatever his name was in Yea, Yeah, okay.
Joe Manganella is married to Sophia Vigar a while. Yeah,
yeah he was. He was the original Flash beating up
on Zobe Maguire.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, I like this kid who plays Flash. Thompson is pretty,
he's fun, Yeah, so annoying. Yeah, he's Spider Man and
I are best friend. No, that's it, right, total different take.
The other on was meathead picking on. It's just antagonist.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Spider Man and I are best friends. Hey, what's up Parker?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So you couldn't even read the whole Parker line, not
save for air No, because what he says says, Oh,
Spider Man, I be best friends.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And he looks, Hey, what's.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Up, Blanker.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
There you go, Spider Man some week two NFL. I
hate to say I told you so, right, Peterson overrated.
Let's do that too, well, a guy who's gonna tell
you everything about the night in the world of sports,
smart and wise them dog, what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Well right now, I got the Yankees with a seven
to one lead over the Mariners, top of the sixth inning.
There the Yankees, of course, leading the American the American
League East.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
The Guardians lost to the Twins earlier today for to one.
Cleveland is atop the AL Central. The Tigers and Royals
will squarely in the wildcard mix. Detroit beat Kansas City
three to one and ten innings. That's detroit second.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Win over the Royals in a row. Royal is currently
on a three game losing streak.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Oriol's still holding on to the top spot in the
AL wild Card despite dropping to the Giants ten and nothing.
Blake's now with the start for the Giants to all strikeouts,
gave up one hit over six innings, pitched the thirty
six and one hundred and fifteen White Sox, trying to
avoid the record of one hundred and twenty losses in
the season. Five nothing Angels, bottom of the seventh inning.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Doesn't look good for them. Tonight does not look good tonight.
You know, we're watching it and we're celebrating every inning
of it because it's almost gone four and six in
the last ten. No, it's it four game winning streak. Baby,
come on, They hadn't done that all year. That's what
is that.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I can't even do the matter nine times the ninth
of their wins.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
In the last week. But they gotta go.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
If they lose this game tonight, which they do, they
gotta win five of their last nine games to avoid
being the worst team of all.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Right, look, at this point, you just go for it, man,
come on, let's get that record. They will hang a banner,
will do a parade, we'll do weelives like all those
dopes clogging up the freeways in Chicago. So that's right,
your dopes get off the road.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
According to Harmon, you know, records are like publicity. There's
no such thing as a bad one, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But if you lose nineteen, what the hell is the difference? Martin?
I agree, tight, Right, at this point, you might as
well go ahead, right, you might as well bring back
Wilbur Wood a bunch of other dudes to chuck a
couple innings for you. The Phillies beat the Brewers five
to one.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Earlier tonight show, heyl Tani hit his forty eighth home run,
but the Dodgers loose to the Marlins nine eleven to nine.
The Dodgers worth three and a half up on the
Padres to start the day in the NL West right
now tied two to two. The Astros and those aforementioned
Padres top of the eighth inning. Rockies beat the Diamondbacks
eight to two, and Arizona loss means the Mets move
(31:51):
up in the wild card.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Congratulations to you.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Braves fallow back two out of the final wildcard spot
as Atlanta drops six to five to The Mets.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Beat the Nationals ten to one. A's beat the Cubs
four to three in the.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
NFL two, and we moved up to tie the Diamondbacks
because they lost a sudden We're in that second wildcard.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Rocky Mountain High.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
There you go to a talking about low on injury reserve,
as you guys just said. Dolphins signed quarterback Tyler Honley
from the Ravens practice squad, released Robbie Chosen receiver, Chiefs
signing Kareem Hunt, Brown signing Royce Freeman, and the Giants
placed Graham Ganol on injured reserve. After that debacle on Sunday,
they'll have they'll have a field goal kicker next week.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I imagine back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't know it's the Giants. They're tanking. Maybe they won't.
Ali Hadji Chik might come back to kick for the
Giants nicely. Now there's a reference. Let's go Haberwood eighty
two years old. He's going to be eighty three this year.
His birthday is right around yours. He'll be eighty three.
Let me go Wilberwood twenty four wins in seventy two
and seventy three, both for the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
There you go, celebrating all the legends going all the
way back.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hey, coming up next to a high profile NFL team
that everybody's concerned about. But I'm telling you I still
love them and everything they're gonna do. That's next right here,
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Speaker 2 (33:15):
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
Mets have a two game lead now over Braves in
the wild card Rays. They could catch the Diamondbacks now
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Speaker 3 (33:43):
Just whatever, give me a song, I'll freestyle to it. No,
just funny because last night we did our weekly the
first couple of episodes of the I Watch Flex podcast
for the week.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
We're wrapping up Week two, Waiver Wire, all that stuff.
You can find it wherever podcasts are downloaded, give it
Fox Shots. But we kind of got into the love
love hate relationship you may have with your fantasy teams,
and I extended it to our conversations of your fandom
and how oftentimes my anger is me just being jealous
that they don't have that same juice. Maybe I'm beating
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down more from all the years of failure.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
And watch my White you know what I mean? Tho
like between the White Sox, like the Bears with hope
and I did so begrudgingly for a show bit say
they're gonna run Weld. I'm like, no, no, no, that
line stains. Walter's the guy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I mean, there's a million problemsody, but it's just the idea.
Like for you, you still ride the lightning. Like yesterday,
right before we went on air, your team hits a
walk off. You screamed and it was not a Rick
Flair homage with a whoo and woo and you know,
arm pump or whatever.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I'm like, I want that. I do that at concerts.
I do that occasionally when we're in here and something
crazy happens on Monday or Thursday night football, because I
know we now have a story that's going to propel
everything we're doing, and we get to do it first.
But like that in eight you know, I'm still a
little kid at heart watching my team. I envy that.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Thanks, buddy, I say, you know, and it's easy is
that when I get too sick of something happened, I
take a nap and wake up and I'm energized again.
I'm just take a nap, but close my eyes. He's
takken ap o coming back to napping. Just take a nap.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Who knew? I'm so mad? What are you gonna do?
I'm going to take a nap. I'll be ready to go.
I'm really salty.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
By the time I wake up, I'll have had a
cool dream, something else will have happened, or maybe someone
will have bought me a sandwich. The fallout from the
Bryce Young storyline continues to look and this is a
much bigger story than I anticipated it to be. A
day ago, the Panthers bench Bryce Young after a really,
really awful week two.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Andy Dalton, who you cannot kill.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Andy Dalton is inevitable, dude, He's Baltimore and not my fingers.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I am inevitable. I will be back. He's in an
alternate timeline for every team in the National Football League,
played for every which earth am I heart, this is
my Steeler. This is when I took the Steelers to
the super Bowl. Oh this was a fun one. But
Bryce Young is benched.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And there's been so many different stories about this, and
the overwhelming one has been about Bryce Young and pulling
the pulling the plug after two weeks and he's done
in in Carolina and what they're doing and how they
mismanaged and how they blew the draft pick and how
they they didn't get him right or the team failed
and there's so many different things.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
The craziest part of this is that I don't question this,
even after two weeks with Bryce Young. I don't question
it because just look at his body language. He's mentally defeated, right.
He doesn't know what he's doing, he doesn't know where
he's going. He is just absolutely lost. And the best
thing I can say about this, so the something a
(36:47):
little bit different than what you've heard all over the
last couple of days, is that the Panthers could have
handled this better from this perspective, not in benching him,
because I agree with benching him, right, but you know what,
David Tepper being the old that just ate wherever he
wakes up is what he's gonna do. And Dave Canalis
is a new head coach and maybe he's only going
to be one year and done. But what I really
(37:07):
wanted to see, and this should have been the way
it was handled, is that Dave Canalis should have come
out and said, Okay, here's the thing, this is not
a great week. We're gonna let him sit a little
bit and absorb the new offense a little bit more Clearly,
he hasn't had a lot of time and the game
is a little bit too fast for him right now,
(37:29):
and there are a lot of things we think he
can benefit by doing by sitting for a bit and
watching it. Eventually we'll get him back in. Obviously, Vanny
Dalton comes in and plays great. Andy Dalton keeps a
job in there drafting a quarterback next year. But that's
the way to handle this. This is not oh he's
our guy. Oh no, we're benching him after week two.
You look like you don't know what the hell you're doing.
It takes all of eight seconds the idea that I've
(37:50):
had today to city. That's why I could be a
pr advisor. This is what you say, Hey, the game's
moving a little bit too fast. He's gonna sit for
a little bit, absorb the offense more. He didn't have
a lot of playing all the things I just said,
and then when we feel he's ready, Bryce is going
to get back out there and play because they have
to see him play, because you want to be sure
the guy you traded everything for it to move up
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to number one really isn't your guy. Because you're going
to be in the quarterback market again next year because
your team is terrible. We'll be drafting very high, So
you want to make absolutely sure that Bryce Young is
not your guy. So you know he's got to come
back at some point. You just want to make you
just want to throw it out there that hey, we're
taking care of the guy, and maybe we didn't do
the right thing with him, but we're going to make
sure that he sits, he learns a lot, and then
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we get him back out there and he'll be ready
to go. He'll be a different Bryce Young. That's the
way I wish it was handled, because that would have
been a right way to do it.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
The other thing is always to remember that Situationally, things
are much different now when I've taken Stroud over Young. Yeah,
we did our mock stuff and we talked about it
all last year and that we already done.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But hindsight is what it is. He goes to Houston
and you've got slowick, you've got some receivers, you've got
a system, you've got an organization that is moving in
the right direction. Right even the year before with Smith
and everything they had, there were some bright spots on
that Houston Texan squad. Despite the fact that you're now
drafting at the top. So you could say, Okay, we
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can build on this. With the Panthers, you went into
a team in absolute chaos with an owner that just
runs everybody out of town, so there's no content and continuityconsistency,
and thinking that Canalis was going to fix him immediately
was foolhardy. Now I had hope that maybe we'd see
some growth, but clearly that's not there yet. But yeah,
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it's a bunch of PIERSO. You've got a bunch of
You've got what fifteen to twenty minutes before you got
to go walk into that room to say something to
the media. And this is where if you've gotten the call,
you know, the batphone rang from upstairs and Tepper's screaming
at you. Okay, you've got that. I'm not going to
talk about that. That's private. Okay, that's not helping anything
by saying it that way either. But now you've got
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a situation where he has to get back on the
field because the next quarterback might not want to come there.
No how about that.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
But if you draft him, he kind of has unless
you gonna pull it in. Let's go exit out bout
of Fresca, exit swallen up. Just that would have been
the right way to handle it. But then again, hey,
it's just me. I'm not the Panthers coming up next.
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Happy Tuesday. We're two days away from week three of
the NFL, and it is just a it's a good,
wonderful Mets one. Braves lost night tonight. Right now, so
far here in Major League Baseball, now, a little bit
of sadness here. I mean we are in Los Angeles,
(01:25):
so the localized circle of sadness is here. After the
Dodgers drop one to the Marlins.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, well, I mean there's a lot of angst, a
lot of handwringing.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
But this has kind of been who the Dodge has
been for the better part of four months.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And it looks your team the best team in baseball.
I know. It's kind of where I feel like people
are now being paid to tweet that each day, like specifically,
not in general. Hey, major League Baseball, let's take a
look at things like when you pick May thirtieth as
the arbitrary, let's start our stats for the year.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Right Yeah, well, it's always I'm always okay with starting
something at the beginning of a month, Like if you
say since May fourteenth, no, no, no, But if you say, hey,
June first, May one, July first, the All Star break.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, now, it's gonna be a natural stopping.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yes, starting tonight, we celebrate the thirteenth anniversary of this. No, no, no,
it's got to be ten fifteen year anniversary. Sometimes you
can do twelve.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
But well, today's the fourteenth anniversary of the release of
Easy A Yeah. So I was running around saying bucket
full the.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Sunshetta, I gotta pa. So we'll do that next year,
because next year is fifteen for easy a Yeah. Run
around screaming take me away.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah it's I got it, got it?
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And look, the White Sox have a four game winning streak,
so all this is amazing. Historic stuff going on in
the Fox Sports radios is amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You know.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
The White Sox and the Bears are like Harry and Voldemort.
One can't live while the other survive. So it's like, well,
things are all good for the Bears. All off season,
everything is wonderful. Caleb Williams is going to be great.
Look at the additions they made. They drafted Roma Dune
say okay, hey, everything is coming up Bears. So the
Socks are absolutely terrible. But now you get the last
(03:02):
few days where boy, the Bears offense really stinks. Hey,
the White Sox are winning, so it's like, well, one
is doing great, the other one cannot live while the
others survived. Would you like me to do a four
hour monologue on the Bears, because I've gone back and
watched that game multiple times, and I have lots of
problems that are not just the surface level ones being
(03:22):
exhibited and strewn about by the rest of our media
loving public.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But you know, hey, here, we have more than surface
level problems right now. No, we do.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
But look big football night tonight as well. We got
big stuff to kick things off with. And and you
know this shows you, this story shows you where we're
at as not as an American public, but as sports fans,
where when someone just does the minimum right thing, it's, oh,
my goodness, what a great Oh I go, what a
(03:51):
great move. Today, the Miami Dolphins announce they're placing two
a tongue of Iloa on IR after his life this concussion, right,
it means he's gonna miss the next few games. He's
got to miss at least four games. There's no timetable
for how long he's going to be on IR as
he focuses on his health, be where he gets back
to the field. And I can't tell you how many
(04:14):
people and just just to talk about in my timeline
of Twitter this story comes out and the way it
was like Ian Rappaport broken whoever it was, it doesn't matter.
It was a dolphins are placing to a tongue of
I low on ir as they figure out a situation.
And how many people quote tweeted it saying the same thing.
Smart dolphins are, smart dolphins are so some dolphins look
that this is this is smart by the Dolphins, and
I said, wow, we have lowered the bar so much
(04:37):
so where this should have been the easy decision. Everybody
should have been retweeting a picture of captain obvious from
commercial this is easy.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Oh you're gonna put him on I.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I mean, you're not going to rush him back after
his fourth concussion, depending on how what you want to
talk about as an official.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
To nonsensical thing of all of this. Right, obviously he's
played out, But how many other players can we go
back and check tapes like all right, probable but not diagnosed,
Like we could play that game all we want. But
because Tua had the two incidences, which were standalone games
with the visibility of the fencing position of what they
(05:16):
call it, that pastre and it becomes that national outcry
because the Morning shows not just in sports, I'll grab
it as well. So yeah, this one, for a million reasons,
was the most obvious results that the smart decision would be.
We're gonna sit you out for a little bit longer
when you think you can come back. We're gonna have
(05:38):
you meet with other people. We're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
You talk with whoever you need to talk with to
be counseled about what this is, what you're what the
doctors mean when they say this to you, And we're
going to make sure you are really healthy before you
get back on the field. Like that's smart, Like that
would be, Hey, two is eligible to come off here
he says he feels good, but the Dolphins want to
wait at least two or three more for him to
(06:00):
do X, Y and Z before they bring him back
right in the middle of a football season. Guy invested
a lot of money in Hey, he could come back now,
but we're gonna wait another couple of weeks. We're gonna
wait until we're absolutely sure that's smart. That is okay,
that that is smart. This is easy, Like they'll put
him on I R. Really, it took you this long
to figure out you gonna put the guy in our
I really it took you this long another concussion as
(06:23):
bad as it was, and and he's gotta take some
time away now, and you don't know how he's going
to respond again his fourth concussion. And there's a lot
to break through on this, but this is this is
the easy one.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
But like it's like.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
We we've lowered the bar for what we what we
believe is smart by people, or what we believe is, hey,
this is great behavior. This is something that we can
really aspire to. That bar is so low right now,
which is why our show does so well, is because
that bar is so low right now.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
It's like, oh, oh that's smart, that's smart. No, that's
that's easy.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
The easy supposed to take care of your kids, you
low expectation having blank or black, you know what I mean.
Like it's all of that, Oh I take care of
my kids, just supposed that, well, I stay out of jail.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You're supposed to stay out of jail. But it's the
whole thing with the NFL in particular, we've become accustomed
to the as long as they're not in jail, because
that was the benchmark before Roder Goodell took over of
as long as you were sober enough and you were
not literally in a jail cell. You were going to
(07:28):
be eligible to play. Right. That was the Tagliabu way,
and Roderdell came in. Everybody got mad because all of
a sudden, guys were being they'll do a different standard.
And maybe there was an overcorrection, right, because you've seen
it as more things have gotten fought by the Players
Association or gotten into the courts that maybe you settle
somewhere in between. But you know, you at least had
(07:49):
to start with a policy when you're going from zero, right,
and so anything was going to be substantively punitive on
a relative basis. So now you come back to this
also with player safety of can you go spell your
mom's maid name, tell me what your cat's name is,
tell me what your kid's name. Okay, good, you're ready
(08:10):
to go, right, I mean, how many fingers am I home?
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Like?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
We can do the basic elemental things and guys would
be cleared to get back onto a field. What was
it the only murders in the building this week?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
If you can't draw a clock, that means he's got
alzheimer and draw clock, draw.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Climbers right now.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
But yeah, so all of that to say we we've
really the line in the sand. Just keep shifting a bunch,
and now the bare minimum qualifies as greatness. And this
is in all aspects of signing right now, we're localizing
it to the NFT. The smallest thing, Oh, what an
unbelievable Like I get that over the course of my
life and growing up and seeing athletes and and the
(08:48):
stars they become. Is that, Yeah, generally, okay, we we
kind of lower the bar for them a little bit,
we lower the bar for their behavior. You see one
you see one guy do something at one sort of
of of a community event, and suddenly he's the greatest
guy in the world, and you're fawning all over yourself
for stuff to say about it. And and I get that,
I get that part of it. But for something like that,
(09:10):
I mean, have we really gotten the part where we're
just we're just so we don't expect anything that when
the smallest thing happened, smart?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Oh that that that's smart. That's smart. I think I
think I can.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
I I can tell, hey, you're going on ir like
that would have been exactly what I would have said,
because if to it, because the first thing that happened
after Tua got hurt was everybody said he should retire,
which is the worst thing to say, because the last
thing a guy gets hurt wants to hear is you
should retire. You should retire. The guy's not going to
retire just because people are telling.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Him do it.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
But they the arguments that people were making about it
kept coming back to how much money he's got, all
of these things.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Like that's that's got nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
But like every one of you, especially the ex players,
is where it got bad and disingenuous in a lot
of cases was either saltiness that nobody was looking out
for them and I get it right and better, but
also just the idea of if someone tried to rip
the jersey off your back ten years ago, five years ago,
whatever that time was, how are you responding. Right, you're
(10:10):
playing until you can't play and you've decided that you're done,
or the phone stops ringing from teams that don't want
your services anymore. Retirement is along. Well, the first part
is that you know he says, everybody says retire, and
then Tua says, I'm not retiring.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Okay. That's when you say Okay, you know what, let's
take the temperature down on this and too, we're.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Going to put you on IR. It's going to be
at least four weeks. Then we figure it all out
right that that should have been how it went. Once
you heard that that would attempt everything down.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
And yeah, the players, look, we talked about it.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
The players wanted to make sure they had their thoughts
known about to it because they went through stuff medically,
they probably wouldn't do so again. But also part of
it is we want to show you how upset we
are with the player safety policy. We're pissed at the NFL.
That's why we're saying you should retire. Nobody's saying anybody
else should retire. Who's had concussions a guy, but Tua
should injuries of other parts? No, no, no, no, no, you
(11:02):
should retire. So it's a little bit of a hey,
it's it comes from a good place. But also, hey,
I want to get out. I want to stand in
a soapbox and say how upset I am about player safety. Yeah,
the NFL sometimes, hey, they make it seem like they're
real player safety. But I go back to the field
opening week in Brazil when it was not safe for
the players to play.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
We're playing this game. We're playing it. So we've talked
about it for as long as we've been on air.
I actually read a lot of the collective bargaining stuff
and it's mind numbing the legal ease. But the reality
is the players, they're so fractured that they they take
the little little bits because guys that are just trying
to hang on to their jobs, any little bit is
(11:43):
going to be enough in the moment as opposed to
thinking big picture, because they're not thinking about what they're
walking around at. It's sixty years old, right, They're not
worried about that. And so all the argument about too
is like, well, he's got to think about his health
long term. It's like, I'm sure he is, Okay, I
don't I don't think you need to preach at the
man about his long term health. He's got to think
(12:05):
about Yeah, No, he's not thinking about that at all,
Are you kidding me? Yeah? Come on? And the money.
The money.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
They'll figure out the money when it's time to the insurances.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The need to be figured out.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Now all of this, Oh two is not retiring tomorrow.
There's a lot of time to breathe on this right.
But but again, this is part of who we are
a society where here's something happens, and I want to
be the first guy to come and to say you
should retire. I want to be the first guy to
say I want to be the first guy. All the money,
the money, relax on some things. Aaron Rodgers is right,
ten years the ten year anniversary, relax. This should have
(12:39):
been the easy decision. But instead people think it's smart
because we've set that bar so low, everything's gonna turn it.
Okay for to a tongue of I loa right that
we we we have we have hit the brakes on it.
We've tapped the brakes and now he's on IR. He's
gonna talk to people. They're gonna figure things out. It's
gonna happen. Right for hot takes when when certain things
happen in sports, Look, I got I love a big
hot take, but you talk about someone's brain and someone saying, okay,
(13:02):
you can you can dial back the hot take a
little bit here, dial about the hot take just a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
In the tiny bit. He goes on IR.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's four games, he gets reevaluated, and he'll seek multiple opinions, right,
because independent neurologists aren't always independent. There's still arms of
the NFL. So you know, find your your sphere of influence. Fine,
people you trust, see counsel, from your family, whatever else.
But in the end, if the doctors clear him, now
(13:29):
it becomes a choice in his choice alone, right, that's
the thing, right, If he can't get medically cleared, there's
no decision. That's all good, And you can all sleep
well at night because this happened and you're concerned for
Tua and and I hope he's well, but there's no
guarantee that he goes back out on the last year.
He went through a whole year, and we don't know, right,
(13:52):
we don't know because he didn't miss time. Yeah, and
because we didn't get the posturing, we didn't get the fencing,
you know, the hand, you know, motion and all that stuff.
How do we know he didn't have somebody? How about
where any guy?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Look, but when Giselle Bunching went on TV when she
was married to Tom Brace, so we don't talk about
Tom's concussions, whoa WHOA Tom's had a lot of concussions.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Well, we asked, well, wait a minute, like, is there
anything on the record of diagnost and I know that's
a recent concussions. Yeah, but exactly it's the same thing,
Like he went through the whole year. We don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Because he didn't miss time, we have to assume suddenly,
miraculously he went seventeen games healthy. Well, if that's the case,
why can't that happen again? Everything will get decided right
for TUA. It's gonna be a little bit of time.
Just wow, we just don't expect anything from anyone. So
in the domphins to the smallest Oh so great. Oh
(14:43):
it's such a great. Oh smart move.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
They're so smart, Like I could have never figured that out.
I can ever figure out put him on injured reserve
and fag. Yeah, it's an easy thing, easy thing, right,
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Speaker 1 (16:44):
Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Well,
before we look back at week two going into week three,
before we play week two, I hate to say I
told you so, let me ask you this. We're getting
into that already. I'm gona hit you right between the
eyes on this. What do you think Chargers fans love
(17:07):
more right now? Jim Harbaugh or the schedule maker? Who
do they love more? Schedule maker? Schedule makersta be the
schedule maker. I mean, look, I think Brandon Stanley might
have won these last couple of games.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
No, but that might be closer. But I think they
win the last I mean, there might have been a
couple of decisions in the course of the game where
we would have all been inching up in our seats
to say, what's he going to do? Keep the camera
on Staley, Keep the camera on Stanley. And obviously there's
a love affair with Jim Harbaugh here and lots of
billboards up and down the highways. I mean, you and
(17:41):
I in between all of the lawyers, right that'll help
you out if you're in a motorcycle accident or your
uber gets hit or there's plenty of those guys. But
it became an you know, every other with a picture
of either Justin Herbert or Jim Harbaugh for a while
here on the four h five in southern California. And
he's quirky, he's full of quotes and story time. The fact,
(18:05):
you know, last week we were talking about the you know,
him actually figuring out what kind of Jim shoes Justin
Herbert wears so he can walk around in the same
gym shoes. It's an interesting cat man, so like you can,
you can.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
Get a lot of little Hey, last segment of the
news instead of doing something about us, you know, water,
ski and squirrel, it's like, here's another Harborism. And look
at this dog that jumped into the lake right here
after the fourth of July fireworks. Look at that boy
swims right out there to get that tennis ball. We'll
see tomorrow. Everybody, enjoy your commute to work.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Now it's Jim Harborism's right. Mondays with horrorball. Why don't
you gotta give us Tuesdays with morey Mondays with harbor again.
And then we'll figure out a Wednesday, which we were
trying to do with the odd couple. Yeah and Rob, Yeah,
you know what what's Wednesday become?
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Now, NFL week to eight to say, I told you
something coming off of week one? What do we tell you?
Speaker 3 (18:59):
You just love that? Right? It's weak too. No, listen,
it's week two. You've already got the handg the D
shirt and gun or the giant flamethrower because you're ready
to eviscerate a squad.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
No, no, no, I said, look, what did we say? What
did I tell you? After week one? I was really
not thrilled with how the Ravens dealt with their loss
to the Chiefs. Couldn't admit that they lost. They felt
they were still robbed of a touchdown even though Isaiah
Likely was out of bounds on the final play. I'm
sorry that it was really close. It was really close.
(19:36):
I feel like the Winklevi twins in Social Network. Could
he tell us how close of a race it was? Again,
he tell us how close of a race it was. Yeah,
I'm sorry it was close, but he was out of bounds.
But they I felt that they couldn't really reconcile themselves
with the fact they lost that game, Isaiah likely saying
at the end of day, but that's the best they got.
We'll see them in the postseason. Like, guys, you have
(19:57):
to understand you lost this game and move on, because
if you can, then this is gonna wind up snowballing.
What happens on Sunday? They blow a lead to the
Bleeping Raiders.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Who ran the ball.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I think the Raiders ran the ball four times the
entire day, and Marcus Allen had three of the attempts,
and they still lost to Gardner bleep In Minshew at.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Home, they still lost.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
How does that have? This is a team that's not focused.
And sometimes I told you those if you lose a
bad game week one, that can stay with festers and
that can ruin an entire season. And I'm seeing that
right now for the Ravens in a large way, because
you don't blow that game again. That's that's a game
you win thirty five to fourteen and say great, we're
(20:38):
back on the winning track. We're ready for Week three.
You put everything behind us. Now, this is again those
Week one losses. Sometimes they will stay with you and
ruin your season. And that's the path the Ravens are
on right now.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah. I mean with some of it, you just get
into the curiosity. You know, the offensive line they give
up a sack hill with a two yard run and
then the old short pass. So it's like all right,
wish wanting, hoping that yak and that the blocking scheme
has enough time to shore up. Well, when you do
an awful lot of screen passes, bubble screens and whatever,
(21:09):
as the Ravens are wont to do, guess what Raiders
are bringing the heat and that's gonna get blown up
at the spot as it did they're forcing the punt
and eventually leading to the field goal the prior possession again,
you know, a couple of run calls Derrick Henry, you
have false starts, and there goes another another thing we've
seen time and time again through the first two weeks
(21:30):
of the season. It's just been sloppy. Whether it's a
point of emphasis that any official wants to raise their
hand and go, yeah, we were told about that, but
how many times did you watch your squad? Certainly me
watching the Bears on Sunday night, false start, like it's
not scared of the guys, Like what functionally is happening here?
Again going back to Shane Walter and maybe he was
(21:50):
scared calling the play so they didn't get the proper
count in. But whatever the case was, we see that,
you know, and that is absolutely torpedoing drives along the way.
But you take the ball out of Derrick Henry's hands,
who's run the ball pretty well in theory, that's why
you brought him in. And the worst of it is
the Ravens are one of what five or six teams
that we always go the culture's right. You may not
(22:12):
like the results, oh you may not like how the sausage.
You may like we were talking about the Steelers last hour,
but you know, there's a thought process to the roster construction,
to the identity of that squad, and for the Ravens.
Even though we might have expected with the emergence of
likely Andrew's healthy Za Flowers year or two that there
might be a little more in the passing game, the
(22:34):
identity is still the run game of Henry and Lamar Jackson.
And then in theory, Justin Tucker's not missing field goals.
So maybe while we're worried about everybody else crossing that
bridge and falling off the cliff in the NFL, maybe
old Justin Tucker's range has shortened up quite a bit. Ye, well,
(22:54):
he's gone from boy, this is the best kicker anybody's
ever seen, to dude, the guy can't make one from
over fifty. But that's it. But I mean that was
a big part of how their offense has been run
for years. And we're seeing all the other teams in
the National Football League, like I said, thirty five thirty
five makes from at least fifty yards already, so a
lot of your offensive structure and we've seen touchdown passing down.
(23:16):
It's like the whole objectives score points, not put the
ball on Harm's way. It's the age of the kicker,
just for your dad's fantasy teams, just in time.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
The other week two, I told you so, told you
that Trevor Lawrence is just a guy.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Okay, And it's hard with Trevor Banks Stadium and he
had that effort.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Dude, it's not look and I want to keep saying
it's not all on Trevor Lawrence, but how do you
lose this game? And Lawrence has an abysmal game, throw
in the football, he takes the safety at the end, which, ah,
it's not all on him, but dude, you got to
get rid of the football man. You're down by fights
still there for you. Trevor Lawrence just isn't great. And
(23:59):
it's like the Jaguars are paying him and treating him
because of his college resume, and you took him number
one and you believed for a full year he was
your savior. He was gonna be your savior from the
middle of October when you knew what was you were
the Jets getting that number one pick all the way through.
(24:20):
And Trevor Lawrence has proved in three years to be
just a guy. He's a league average quarterback. He had
one good year, not one unbelievable. He had one good
year with twenty five touchdowns, right two years ago. Last
year was more average, and he still gets paid. Is
in the top three quarterbacks in the NFL. That's the
contract that everybody's got to be pissed off about. The
(24:41):
team's got to be pissed off about. Not guys like
Burrow and they get paid. No, no, but Trevor Lawrence,
Come on, man, Trevor Lawrence. He doesn't elevate. They've given
him playmakers and he's just okay. There's nothing wrong with him.
He's an okay quarterback. But he's not someone that is
going to grab the team and elevate them. He's His
(25:03):
entire Jaguars reputation is living off the one comeback playoff
game over the Chargers, where hey, if you had to say,
one team in the playoffs are going to gag away
a fifty point lead, Chargers charge, Yeah, that's right. Congratulations.
So yeah, So the image of that makes you think
he's so great. It's like Jadavian Clowney has played his
entire NFL career off the reputation has to hit from
(25:24):
the outback bowl, right, Like that's it. Odell Beckham's entire
NFL career has come off the one catch, right. And
it's not that these guys aren't good, but it's like
they're not as great as you think they are. Their
resume is not there. And Trevor Lawrence is just a
guy still. He doesn't make enough throws, he turns the
ball over too much. And at some point you're finding out, boy,
(25:45):
we overpaid for someone just because we took him number one,
because we thought he was going to be a star.
And boy, it's embarrassing if we don't pay him the money,
because wow, how often do we get someone like this
a generational quarterback? So understand that Trevor Lawrence is really
overrated and we're seeing it week after week in the NFL. Yeah,
I think part of it when we look at it's
the I'll use the analogy of you see Larry Thomas
(26:10):
up there. You know who Larry Thomas is. Let's go
to Seinfeld. Here are the rules of engagement. Walk in
order your soup, don't ask for extras, take what's in
the bag, pay.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
The lady at the end, and get the hell out,
don't engage, don't insult, don't make jokes. Soup guy Larry
Thomas ain't happy if you do that. That's how most
of these teams line up for the quarterback position when
it comes time to do a contract, like, hey, that
last guy got paid, guess what dollar more? Come on
(26:42):
and you'll get what you want. Here's your bag, move on.
And that's what we do every time a quarterback comes up,
because nobody's decided. And there was that outside shot that
maybe the Cowboys, we're gonna say it to Dak go
find the open market deck. We love like you, we
don't love you. And then eleventh or Jerry had Tom
Brady in the house. It's the season opener. I have
(27:04):
a big announcement. Yeah yeah, shake it out. We we
signed the dat kid, right, I mean, and here we go,
so he's the next man up.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Now, you would argue consistent to save that announcement from
before the Saints game. Maybe would have had a little
bit better game. Maybe you wouldn't have lost a fifty
six to three like we did. Save me a little
more energy.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Maybe maybe we should have paid the Parsons kid while
we were at it, or a couple of other defenders
to help the Parsons kid. But the point being that
you know they did what was expected. Here's the next
man up, and what are your alternatives? Who else is
out there that you're gonna go clamoring for? Look at
what the packers are doing. All right? They brought in Molquals.
They gotta win. It was not stylish. I don't I
(27:47):
don't think he did. I don't think he threw.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
You want to talk about old school think he was
for oh h for zero yards and had minus two
yards rushing because of the that's all.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Of us, but the idea. All right, you won, but
you're still sitting here going art. If Jordan Love is
not cleared for weeks? Does this look like twenty seventeen? Right?
Speaker 1 (28:06):
When you're looking at Miami right now with two a
tongue of iloan now to the IR you've got Skyler Thompson.
But you're also trying to say, okay, what does it
look like?
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Right? We were talking about waiver claims for fantasy Tyreek Hill.
When Guillotine leads he's out there, how much your reasonably
bid for Tyreek Hill here going into week three out
of your one thousand dollars, free agent acquisition budget, right,
I mean it's it's one of those debates of how
much can that offense run because nobody's riding to the
rescue and running the offense like to it.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Isn't that Spider, isn't it The kid that hates Peter
Parker in high school is playing quarterback now, Skyler Thompson Flash.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, wasn't he He hates some that's right, beating him up.
That was the uh what was it death stroke or
death throke or whatever his name was in Yea, Yeah, okay.
Joe Manganella is married to Sophia Vigar a while. Yeah,
yeah he was. He was the original Flash beating up
on Zobe Maguire.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Okay, I like this kid who plays Flash. Thompson is pretty,
he's fun, Yeah, so annoying. Yeah, he's Spider Man and
I are best friend. No, that's it, right, total different take.
The other on was meathead picking on. It's just antagonist.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
Spider Man and I are best friends. Hey, what's up Parker?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
So you couldn't even read the whole Parker line, not
save for air No, because what he says says, Oh,
Spider Man, I be best friends.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And he looks, Hey, what's.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Up, Blanker.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
There you go, Spider Man some week two NFL. I
hate to say I told you so, right, Peterson overrated.
Let's do that too, well, a guy who's gonna tell
you everything about the night in the world of sports,
smart and wise them dog, what you got for us?
Speaker 6 (29:43):
Well right now, I got the Yankees with a seven
to one lead over the Mariners, top of the sixth inning.
There the Yankees, of course, leading the American the American
League East.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
There we go.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
The Guardians lost to the Twins earlier today for to one.
Cleveland is atop the AL Central. The Tigers and Royals
will squarely in the wildcard mix. Detroit beat Kansas City
three to one and ten innings. That's detroit second.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Win over the Royals in a row. Royal is currently
on a three game losing streak.
Speaker 6 (30:09):
Oriol's still holding on to the top spot in the
AL wild Card despite dropping to the Giants ten and nothing.
Blake's now with the start for the Giants to all strikeouts,
gave up one hit over six innings, pitched the thirty
six and one hundred and fifteen White Sox, trying to
avoid the record of one hundred and twenty losses in
the season. Five nothing Angels, bottom of the seventh inning.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
Doesn't look good for them. Tonight does not look good tonight.
You know, we're watching it and we're celebrating every inning
of it because it's almost gone four and six in
the last ten. No, it's it four game winning streak. Baby,
come on, They hadn't done that all year. That's what
is that.
Speaker 6 (30:44):
I can't even do the matter nine times the ninth
of their wins.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
In the last week. But they gotta go.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
If they lose this game tonight, which they do, they
gotta win five of their last nine games to avoid
being the worst team of all.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Right, look, at this point, you just go for it, man,
come on, let's get that record. They will hang a banner,
will do a parade, we'll do weelives like all those
dopes clogging up the freeways in Chicago. So that's right,
your dopes get off the road.
Speaker 6 (31:12):
According to Harmon, you know, records are like publicity. There's
no such thing as a bad one, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
But if you lose nineteen, what the hell is the difference? Martin?
I agree, tight, Right, at this point, you might as
well go ahead, right, you might as well bring back
Wilbur Wood a bunch of other dudes to chuck a
couple innings for you. The Phillies beat the Brewers five
to one.
Speaker 6 (31:31):
Earlier tonight show, heyl Tani hit his forty eighth home run,
but the Dodgers loose to the Marlins nine eleven to nine.
The Dodgers worth three and a half up on the
Padres to start the day in the NL West right
now tied two to two. The Astros and those aforementioned
Padres top of the eighth inning. Rockies beat the Diamondbacks
eight to two, and Arizona loss means the Mets move
(31:51):
up in the wild card.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Congratulations to you.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
Braves fallow back two out of the final wildcard spot
as Atlanta drops six to five to The Mets.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Beat the Nationals ten to one. A's beat the Cubs
four to three in the.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
NFL two, and we moved up to tie the Diamondbacks
because they lost a sudden We're in that second wildcard.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
Rocky Mountain High.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
There you go to a talking about low on injury reserve,
as you guys just said. Dolphins signed quarterback Tyler Honley
from the Ravens practice squad, released Robbie Chosen receiver, Chiefs
signing Kareem Hunt, Brown signing Royce Freeman, and the Giants
placed Graham Ganol on injured reserve. After that debacle on Sunday,
they'll have they'll have a field goal kicker next week.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
I imagine back to you guys.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I don't know it's the Giants. They're tanking. Maybe they won't.
Ali Hadji Chik might come back to kick for the
Giants nicely. Now there's a reference. Let's go Haberwood eighty
two years old. He's going to be eighty three this year.
His birthday is right around yours. He'll be eighty three.
Let me go Wilberwood twenty four wins in seventy two
and seventy three, both for the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
There you go, celebrating all the legends going all the
way back.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Hey, coming up next to a high profile NFL team
that everybody's concerned about. But I'm telling you I still
love them and everything they're gonna do. That's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Mets have a two game lead now over Braves in
the wild card Rays. They could catch the Diamondbacks now
if the Rockies can close it out. Dude, do do
do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do Do Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Just whatever, give me a song, I'll freestyle to it. No,
just funny because last night we did our weekly the
first couple of episodes of the I Watch Flex podcast
for the week.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
We're wrapping up Week two, Waiver Wire, all that stuff.
You can find it wherever podcasts are downloaded, give it
Fox Shots. But we kind of got into the love
love hate relationship you may have with your fantasy teams,
and I extended it to our conversations of your fandom
and how oftentimes my anger is me just being jealous
that they don't have that same juice. Maybe I'm beating
(34:14):
down more from all the years of failure.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
And watch my White you know what I mean? Tho
like between the White Sox, like the Bears with hope
and I did so begrudgingly for a show bit say
they're gonna run Weld. I'm like, no, no, no, that
line stains. Walter's the guy.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I mean, there's a million problemsody, but it's just the idea.
Like for you, you still ride the lightning. Like yesterday,
right before we went on air, your team hits a
walk off. You screamed and it was not a Rick
Flair homage with a whoo and woo and you know,
arm pump or whatever.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
I'm like, I want that. I do that at concerts.
I do that occasionally when we're in here and something
crazy happens on Monday or Thursday night football, because I
know we now have a story that's going to propel
everything we're doing, and we get to do it first.
But like that in eight you know, I'm still a
little kid at heart watching my team. I envy that.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Thanks, buddy, I say, you know, and it's easy is
that when I get too sick of something happened, I
take a nap and wake up and I'm energized again.
I'm just take a nap, but close my eyes. He's
takken ap o coming back to napping. Just take a nap.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Who knew? I'm so mad? What are you gonna do?
I'm going to take a nap. I'll be ready to go.
I'm really salty.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
By the time I wake up, I'll have had a
cool dream, something else will have happened, or maybe someone
will have bought me a sandwich. The fallout from the
Bryce Young storyline continues to look and this is a
much bigger story than I anticipated it to be. A
day ago, the Panthers bench Bryce Young after a really,
really awful week two.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
Andy Dalton, who you cannot kill.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Andy Dalton is inevitable, dude, He's Baltimore and not my fingers.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
I am inevitable. I will be back. He's in an
alternate timeline for every team in the National Football League,
played for every which earth am I heart, this is
my Steeler. This is when I took the Steelers to
the super Bowl. Oh this was a fun one. But
Bryce Young is benched.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And there's been so many different stories about this, and
the overwhelming one has been about Bryce Young and pulling
the pulling the plug after two weeks and he's done
in in Carolina and what they're doing and how they
mismanaged and how they blew the draft pick and how
they they didn't get him right or the team failed
and there's so many different things.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Now.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
The craziest part of this is that I don't question this,
even after two weeks with Bryce Young. I don't question
it because just look at his body language. He's mentally defeated, right.
He doesn't know what he's doing, he doesn't know where
he's going. He is just absolutely lost. And the best
thing I can say about this, so the something a
(36:47):
little bit different than what you've heard all over the
last couple of days, is that the Panthers could have
handled this better from this perspective, not in benching him,
because I agree with benching him, right, but you know what,
David Tepper being the old that just ate wherever he
wakes up is what he's gonna do. And Dave Canalis
is a new head coach and maybe he's only going
to be one year and done. But what I really
(37:07):
wanted to see, and this should have been the way
it was handled, is that Dave Canalis should have come
out and said, Okay, here's the thing, this is not
a great week. We're gonna let him sit a little
bit and absorb the new offense a little bit more Clearly,
he hasn't had a lot of time and the game
is a little bit too fast for him right now,
(37:29):
and there are a lot of things we think he
can benefit by doing by sitting for a bit and
watching it. Eventually we'll get him back in. Obviously, Vanny
Dalton comes in and plays great. Andy Dalton keeps a
job in there drafting a quarterback next year. But that's
the way to handle this. This is not oh he's
our guy. Oh no, we're benching him after week two.
You look like you don't know what the hell you're doing.
It takes all of eight seconds the idea that I've
(37:50):
had today to city. That's why I could be a
pr advisor. This is what you say, Hey, the game's
moving a little bit too fast. He's gonna sit for
a little bit, absorb the offense more. He didn't have
a lot of playing all the things I just said,
and then when we feel he's ready, Bryce is going
to get back out there and play because they have
to see him play, because you want to be sure
the guy you traded everything for it to move up
(38:10):
to number one really isn't your guy. Because you're going
to be in the quarterback market again next year because
your team is terrible. We'll be drafting very high, So
you want to make absolutely sure that Bryce Young is
not your guy. So you know he's got to come
back at some point. You just want to make you
just want to throw it out there that hey, we're
taking care of the guy, and maybe we didn't do
the right thing with him, but we're going to make
sure that he sits, he learns a lot, and then
(38:31):
we get him back out there and he'll be ready
to go. He'll be a different Bryce Young. That's the
way I wish it was handled, because that would have
been a right way to do it.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
The other thing is always to remember that Situationally, things
are much different now when I've taken Stroud over Young. Yeah,
we did our mock stuff and we talked about it
all last year and that we already done.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
But hindsight is what it is. He goes to Houston
and you've got slowick, you've got some receivers, you've got
a system, you've got an organization that is moving in
the right direction. Right even the year before with Smith
and everything they had, there were some bright spots on
that Houston Texan squad. Despite the fact that you're now
drafting at the top. So you could say, Okay, we
(39:09):
can build on this. With the Panthers, you went into
a team in absolute chaos with an owner that just
runs everybody out of town, so there's no content and continuityconsistency,
and thinking that Canalis was going to fix him immediately
was foolhardy. Now I had hope that maybe we'd see
some growth, but clearly that's not there yet. But yeah,
(39:29):
it's a bunch of PIERSO. You've got a bunch of
You've got what fifteen to twenty minutes before you got
to go walk into that room to say something to
the media. And this is where if you've gotten the call,
you know, the batphone rang from upstairs and Tepper's screaming
at you. Okay, you've got that. I'm not going to
talk about that. That's private. Okay, that's not helping anything
by saying it that way either. But now you've got
(39:51):
a situation where he has to get back on the
field because the next quarterback might not want to come there.
No how about that.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
But if you draft him, he kind of has unless
you gonna pull it in. Let's go exit out bout
of Fresca, exit swallen up. Just that would have been
the right way to handle it. But then again, hey,
it's just me. I'm not the Panthers coming up next.
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