Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Today on the Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys discuss Shohei Ohtani becoming the first player in MLB history to steal 50 bases and hit 50 home runs in a single season! They also react to Marlins Manager Skip Schumaker opting not to walk Ohtani when he was faced with the chance at history. NFL insider Jay Glazer joins the show to hit on all of the biggest storylines from around the world of football! Plus, reacting to Aaron Rodgers' postgame press conference audio following a 24-3 win over New England!

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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with
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Speaker 1 (00:30):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live Fromthetirac dot Com studios. Right now,
late third quarter, the Patriots were in field goal range.
The Jets may have just knocked it out of it
three straight plays. Jacoby Brissett gets hit on every one

(00:51):
of them. Yeah, and now facing a fourth and long
down twenty one to three late in the third quarter,
and it's the listen. It's not all about the Jets
and Aaron Rodgers. But one thing you can see tonight
right watching this game. Yes, the Jets are the best
defense of the Patriots have faced.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Jets.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Youre a top five defense, but watching this and you
are seeing on every play that Jacoby Burssett drops back
to pass. He is getting hit. He is getting hit
on every play, whether he is getting sacked, whether he
is releasing the ball and getting hit. He even got
hit on the hail Mary at the end of the
first half where it looked like he was going to
get bent in half. So when you see this, yeah,

(01:29):
it's been pretty cocky.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
But after that miss field goal and then they were
in position for an you were not breathing easy for
those few seconds.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
But you can see watching this game, Oh, now I
get why Drake May is not playing. I get why
Drake May is better than Brissette. And wait what he's done.
He shot. But I completely understand why Drake May is
not playing because he would get absolutely and next look
I get.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yes, it's tough to say, oh, you'll out there, you'll
take the beating for our number one quarterback, But that's
kind of how it works in the NFL. Well, you've
invested a lot in Drake May, and Jacoby Brissett knows
the deal. He knows it's like to be a backup
move around the NFL. That's that's just kind of how
it goes. But you wouldn't want Drake May out there
for this when he is your future that you have
sinked your entire franchise to.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
So I'm in that.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
You know, you're trying to weigh it as you're watching
the offensive structure for New England and how they're dealing
with the what's immense pressure coming from the Jets. There's
been not a single play where you could say the
running back adequately stepped up the block chip or do
anything like it's free and clear runs and they're timing

(02:36):
the blitz is great, no question about it, but they're
a step slow regardless of who's been in the backfield, Like, oh,
he's pass me.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
That's too bad. And Brissette's getting up.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Sorry, sorry, sorry, this last player right the third and
fourteen looks like they're gonna get and they had a
shot down to Henry down inside to five, call back
penalty whatever, and then third down it's third and fourteen
persets on the run and you're like, ah, that's that's grounded,
Like nah.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
He's outside the tackle box.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
It's like it doesn't matter, it's a hole because they're
trying to keep him from getting killed on the backside.
Had nothing to do with that. Guy was never gonna
hit it now, but it didn't matter. It was I'm
not gonna even give him the chance to do so.
So yeah, it's it's a brutal, brutal thing. By the way,
Williams disappointed me though. Wasn't he supposed to be wearing
like some wizard of.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
All that's his brother, Quincy Williams is wearing it. I'm like,
he's just making a big play it.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
That would have been a great spot for a wicked
wizard of the Wizard gotta go.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
They gotta go see the Wizard right after you in
New England. So twenty one to three Jets with the
lead and the ball late in the third quarter. We'll
have more on this game completely throughout the night. Obviously,
Aaron Rodgers is going to be the story. But speaking
of being the story, absolute baseball history today and what
people wanted to run to social media to be the
first one to say, this is the greatest day a

(03:55):
hitter has ever had in baseball history. Shouldn't have been
in the game. Well, the thing is all, look at
you hater, Look at you hater.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
When they were getting their asses, look at you hater.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
A couple of weeks ago, we had one of our
buddies took his family.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
It was his birthday.

Speaker 4 (04:10):
He went to Arizona and they were getting bludgeoned into
the third inning. Everybody went out. But now that it's
eleven three, fourteenth three, Hey, let's pile it on.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh yeah, hater, hater, What a hater you are?

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Oh no, I shot it. I said, you play the
hot hand on a hater. If you're having a day,
you have a day. I just thought it was kind
of funny.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
You want to talk about history, because today we had this.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
And a pitch coming the show. Hey old Tony, Hey,
swings hits a track to left. This bow's back therelas fifty.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
The first player in the history of Major League Baseball
to have a fifty fifty season.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
He is incredible.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Show, Hey old Tony with an opposite field home run
fifty fifty.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
There it is on the call Dodgers Radio Network, the
first player ever. As you hear, fifty to fifty. Now
he's on his way to fifty five to fifty five.
Three home runs, one off a position player, uh to
end the game. Ten rbi in the game. The dodgersloff, Uh, dude, Hey,
I think you said, Hey, I'm five for five with
two home runs. I'm gonna hit against against I'm gonna

(05:21):
hit against this. Yeah, because hey, skip, I'm thinking sixty sixty.
All still got nine games. I'm thinking sixty sixty.

Speaker 4 (05:28):
He got fumbled it that had an opportunity to catch
number fifty.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
The guy who did procure it, yeah, left with it.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
You know, I thought watching that there would be much
more of a fight for that ball, Like it didn't
seem like, hey, here's everybody knows this next ball is
number fifty. I thought there would be more of a
like a twenty eight days later kind of scene going
for that. We're at landed.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
It was. It was a bit of a difficult spot.

Speaker 4 (05:52):
He had a couple of people with the back to
the to the ball as if they didn't want to
get hit like they were. They sat in those seats,
and it's seemed like they were afraid that the ball
was being hit towards that section.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, a little bit odd.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm not gonna lie now. Look, so you've heard so
many superls about this guy's taking a selfie.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Actually, oh okay, like, hey, Otani's at the plate.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
I mean this is oh I missed the home run.
This one's gonna cost you.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't think this is gonna be show hey, oh hey,
how about you come over and say hi, We'll give
you an autograph. Now this is gonna get you want
the fifty to fifty ball. H that's gonna cost you.
And it's gonna go up and look. And I don't
know the uh, the card industry and the memorability industry
like you do. But I have to think that this
ball is going to be I don't know, twice as
valuable because the ball to clinch fifty to fifty wasn't

(06:38):
a stolen base, right Like if he had fifty home
runs and he steals the fiftieth base, Okay, they'll take
the ball into play, they'll give it to him, they'll
give it to the Baseball Hall of Fame. But when
you hit the home run for fifty to fifty, you
got it. That's got to increase the value that I mean,
I'm double itriple it.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
I don't know, that's just saying right when you talk
about an international marketplace, that comes in not that you
didn't have that during the Maguire and Sosa and Bonds
and all of that stuff. To a degree, but let's
call it what it is. We did the stat in
the other other day from the Tourism Commission saying, hey,
ninety percent of people that come from Japan part of
their itinerary is. Yeah, we went to Dodger Stadium right

(07:16):
in the exit discussion of what did you do while
you were in the States. So you're talking about huge
international market, a lot of dollars for the high value,
low numbered autograph cards and memorabilia cards or whatever else,
especially this year with all of them being Dodger stuff.
But now you add a fifty to fifty, Yeah, there'll
be immense bidding. And the beauty of it is, Look,

(07:38):
if nothing else, you're probably able to get the DNA
match to the pitcher. Now the ball itself being authenticated, well,
but we David.

Speaker 3 (07:47):
Caruso's going to do it. Well, but we offered glasses. Well,
look at least have that, because otherwise it's just a baseball.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
And he'll say, I don't know if we caught a
Marlin glasses off, but we just caught a home run ball.

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Because so that was the big deal.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
When when they tried to you know, when they shook
down the woman all the way back at the beginning
of the season was well, we're not going to authenticate it.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
You go to leave that show. Okay, Okay, that was no,
they didn't.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
They handled that terribly sure from in a million different ways.
There's no way to describe it other than this was
just shoddy. Uh this time around, I mean, dude leaves
with the ball. Now he's got to figure out how
to get it authenticated. Here's a picture of me getting
the ball while these guys are taking a selfie.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Whatever.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
I mean, you have that that rolls through it and
you walk away with it and you corroborate it as
best you can. But you know, when whenever we talk
about providence and authenticity and whatever, whenever there's a bit
of a question becomes the buyer beware situation that it
didn't go straight from this guy's hands into a security
with a security guard to a team official in Major

(08:59):
League Baseball, et cetera. But either way, yeah, I'll be
very curious how quickly this comes to market and its
final strike price.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Now to look forward to say this and look, yes,
was this the best day that we've ever seen by
a hitter? The only one that gets close is Mark Witten,
Mark hitting Witten.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Oh, yes, four home run day. Yeah, because I got
a great story about that.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
I'll tell that next hour on the show, because that
happened when I was a production assistant at ESPN, and
we almost didn't have it on Sports Center.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Really, we almost didn't have it. It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
It was one Yeah, I'll tell you, Okay, we almost
didn't have the highlights on Sports Center, and I'll explain
why it was. It's a crazy story. But that was
four home runs, twelve RBI, second half of a doubleheader.
This is six hits, ten RBI, three home runs, and
they clinch a playoff berth. Yeah, I can easily say

(09:50):
look and and oh, by the way, it gives him
his fiftieth home run of the year, and he's the
first fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Mark Whitten
had a bunch of home runs at RBI's If you
had them in DFS back in nineteen ninety three, you
were feeling pretty good. But overall, yes, I can easily
say that this is the best day you've seen a
hitter in baseball. Ten RBI, six for six, three home runs. Absolutely.

Speaker 7 (10:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
Now for me, I mean hang a star on the
position player one but you still got to hit it out.
But the bottom line for me is, you know, as
much as I hate the Cubs, that Sandberg Suitor game
is always one to hate that game. Oh but look,
you know, as a kid in Chicago, and look, I'm
a White Sox guy, but the Cubs were on in
the afternoon, so I was always able to get home. Yeah,

(10:34):
strong arm the TV away from mom in General Hospital
to watch the Cubs.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
And you know that one's one that over for two
home runs.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
But I hate that, but I will, but I'm going
to give you something even more for this ready, yeah
hit because we always you know, look, we're prisoner of
the moment and we want to talk about things. But yeah,
when I can easily say, well, you look offensively, we've
had guys hit four home runs, nobody's knocked in ten runs,
we've had gotten only one person's ever gotten seven hit
in a game, and on like fifteen twenty people have

(11:02):
gotten six hits in a game. But you want to
look at what's forward for sho Heo Tani. You're looking
at a season in which he is the first player
ever to be fifty to fifty in baseball history. He's
gonna win the NLMVP. We've never seen this before in
the history of the game. Someone with fifty home runs
in fifty stolen bases. It's now no longer a question.

(11:26):
But I'd say one hundred percent. In fact, if I
if I could go to Vegas and there was a
prop bet that said, well, show Heo Tani pitch in
the postseason for the Dodgers, I will tell you one
hundred percent, show Heo Tani is going to pitch.

Speaker 7 (11:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
We talked to John Paul Morosi about this the other night.
The Dodgers have all kinds of injuries. Obviously they haven't
opening their injury wise because there's nobody else really after
maybe a couple of innings of Yamamoto in Game two, Yes,
jobs are on the line, whether it's Dave Roberts or
in the front office. Hey, we got it. We didn't
spend five hundred million on Otani and three hundred million

(11:58):
on Yamamoto, one hundred and sixty on Tyler glassnow, and
we didn't spend that to not win. But the main
thing that John Paul Morosi told is that look at
Dotani's bullpens. Is he throwing a ball like the next
time he's going to hit the mound is in February
spring training or in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (12:15):
Right, it's not light toss. Everything we've heard is the
Subruterer film says, here's the different grips, here's the different
arm angles and rotation that he's putting on at the torque.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
That it's not just.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
A all right, let let me see if we gets
and whatever. No, that he's going at it full tilt, like, hey,
I'm ramping up.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
He comes into the playoffs, right, then, let's just say
how much is he going to pitch. Let's say he's
got to pitch a couple of games, probably go about
three innings because he doesn't have the he doesn't have
the stamina yet. Uh probably he'll his limit will be
anywhere between forty and fifty pitches. What I'm thinking, you know,
because you know they're ramping up to play. It's also
a big boost for them because suddenly, hey, we have

(12:55):
Otani as an opener in a game. He'll go as
long as he goes. If the Dodgers go far in
the playoffs and it doesn't have to win the World Series,
and Otani makes a couple of starts and pitches really
well in both of them. Right, Let's just say three
innings eight strikeouts in one game, four innings seven strikeouts another.
Let's say that we will look back at this season

(13:19):
and say, this is the best season we have ever
seen a player have in the history of the game,
because it's not just about statistics. It's about achievement and
what he's able to do that no one else has.
Because if you have a fifty to fifty season, fifty
first player ever, six people forty forty, first player ever,

(13:39):
and then you pitch in the playoffs and you pitch well,
and you get your team out of the first couple
rounds into the NLCS, tell me a season that is
more impressive than that. You can give me Hack Wilson's
on hundred ninety one RBI one hundred and ninety. Then
when he was dead for seventy five years, I found
another RBI for him. You could tell me all about that.
But there is going to be nothing that can hairs

(14:00):
to Otani fifty to fifty into the postseason, pitches a
few times and pitches, well, what else what else is
going to do it? What else is going to be
that season that says, hey, guess what man, this season
was better. There's not going to be one. You can
always point to the numbers and say, ah, stat with you. Yeah, great,
Ted Williams hitting four hundred, Great, you have fantastic triple crown.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Yes, huh.

Speaker 1 (14:20):
But no one's done this, No one's done this to
this level, at this level of play, which is a
higher level of play than we've ever seen before. Each year,
the level of play in baseball just gets better and
better and better and better. Right, there's better pitchers, better hitters,
better fielders. Everybody's more athletic, everybody can throw harder, everybody
makes bigger plays. You know, some of the competition when
you go back to the nineteen twenties, nineteen thirties, Okay, well,

(14:41):
how was it really in the forties and fifties? How
great was it really? The best level? What we're seeing
is what we're seeing now. He does that, and we'll
say we just saw the greatest season that a player
has had in baseball history.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
If you have the pitching side to it, right, yeah, right,
if he's SS, if he goes and he pitches, well,
oh and gives you Okay, I could be had thinking
of my lifetime. I look the two thousand and one
Barry Bond year where he hits all the home runs
seventy three was ridiculous. The following up year, to me

(15:14):
was an even better year when he had one hundred
and ninety eight walks, right because every time he actually
got to swing the bat, something huge happened because he
hit three seventy So like that was an edge of
your seat kind of thing for Otani. Yeah, we ride
the lightning and I think part of it. And I
don't mean to denigrate downgrade at whatever is we were expecting,

(15:35):
I think greatness, but we're expecting the Dodgers to be
good and to be a machine. So him being part
of that machine was an expectation that we came into
the year with stealing fifty bases. Come on, that's absurd,
and we can talk about the rules, we could talk
about the bases whatever. The fact that you've got him
hitting lead off and never seeded that role, which is

(15:55):
still kind of curious. I'd love an honest moment with
Mookie Bets every once in a while, but it's the
idea that you know he was able to dominate still
rehabbing his arm during this entire process, because that's the
other part of it, right, We've only gotten so much chronicled,
and we know the bullpen sessions, but behind the scenes,

(16:17):
what he's been trying to do in terms of strengthening
and the rehab in addition.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
To going out every day and dominating.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
That's the part of the equation that I still want
to get a little more clarity, if nothing else, maybe
to widen my eyes at the magnificence of this year
even more. But fifty to fifty with still another week
to go, a King's homecoming tomorrow in front of the
Dodger faithful. Yeah, I mean it's special all the way around,

(16:44):
and anybody that's trying to push it away your kidding yourself.
I mean that's day to day excellence, no prolonged slumps,
no agonizing. Hey he's on the DL or IL, I
guess we call it now for weeks at a time,
I mean durability, and yes, being a DH helps, but

(17:04):
you know, you play the game as it stands.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen. Now you
talk about excellence, day to day execution.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
Yeah, let's turn things over to special delivery, Steve the
Seger who has the entire big night in sports for
us and what's trending.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
And it is that.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
And by the way, if Shoe a Otani is back
to full time pitching next year, that's probably a hundred
fewer at bats as a DH on a season. But yeah,
he's up to fifty one homers. Baseball will find a
way to change her. They will change rules, whatever they need.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
What do you need us to do? What do you
need more games?

Speaker 8 (17:42):
Though?

Speaker 3 (17:42):
I don't think that more just for the Dodgers, just
more games for the Dodger.

Speaker 8 (17:48):
Is at fifty one hovers fifty one stolen bases this season.
Before last year, only one team ever had had one
guy hit at least fifty one homers and a separate
guy on the same team with fifty one steals. And
then last year you had Matt Olsen in the homers
category with the Braves and Ronald Acunya way over fifty
one steals. But here you've got a Tony doing both,

(18:11):
same guy, same season. Dodgers won twenty to four at
Miami as Otani went six for six, ten RBIs, three homers,
two more steals. He's up to one hundred and twenty
runs batted in in late night baseball. The last game
going is at Houston. It's the Astros over the Angels
in the top of the ninth, three to one, and yes,
the Mets were victorious again ten to six over Philadelphia.

(18:34):
Mets hit four home runs. Pete Alonzo with his thirty
fourth the Mets record their last twenty games sixteen and four.
The great Sarah Lanks with a stat just for you.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
By the way, Yeah, what's that?

Speaker 8 (18:46):
The Mets have scored at least ten runs in three
straight games for the first time in the franchises.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Wow.

Speaker 9 (18:53):
As of tonight, so the first time in Atlanta's still
two games out of the final in no wildcard Braves
winners fifteen three at Cincinnati today Chris Sailee the winning
pitcher eighteen and three.

Speaker 8 (19:05):
Arizona and Seattle with wins Baltimore and Cleveland as well
ten inning win for the Guardians to clinch playoff berth
Today tonight, it's dominance for the Jets, up twenty one
to three over the New England Patriots early in the
fourth quarter, although tackle Morgan Moses did limp off after
being rolled up on his ankle. As a sack was allowed,
but Aaron Rodgers is having a great game. Twenty five

(19:27):
of thirty one through the air for the Jets, two
hundred and fifty five yards. Two touchdowns won, a ten
yarder to Alan Lazard in the first quarter, another a
two yard td third quarter to Garrett Wilson. It's early
fourth quarter, twenty one to three Jets ahead of the Pats,
and the Patriots have just six first downs in this game.
There is a college football game tonight and two minutes

(19:50):
to go. South Alabama leads its Sun Belt opener at
app State forty eight to seven.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen
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We'll have more on Monday Night Football. As Steve said,
twenty one to three Jets with the lead, Patriots have
the football in their own end with about fourteen minutes
to go in the fourth quarter. And show Heyo Tani
the first fifty to fifty player in baseball history. Why

(20:19):
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Speaker 1 (21:44):
That's the two and one New York Jets after a
dominant performance against the Patriots twenty four to three. Is
your final? Aaron Rodgers through his first two touchdowns at
home as a member of the Jets. Fantastic night. Quarterback
rating up near one twenty?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Is he all the way back?

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Joining us now? In the hot line? Nobody better NFL?
On Fox Insider extraordinary. He's on Twitter at Jay Glazer.
That is Jay Glazer. What's happening, Bud?

Speaker 3 (22:14):
How are you great?

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Man? How are you guys doing great?

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Are you doing better than Aaron Rodgers right now? He's
doing pretty well?

Speaker 11 (22:21):
Jay, Well, Aaron's doing great. But we have different jobs,
so you know, no one's trying to tackle me.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
But I was.

Speaker 11 (22:28):
I had a pretty damn good day. Actually, you go
look my Instagram. I was I was doing all my
Scooper's cults that I was working really hard, but I
was doing it while I was at the beach in Malibu.
So I think, and I had that Rosie and her
sister Renee with me. I think Schefter and I do
our jobs.

Speaker 7 (22:43):
A little different.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
I think Jay Glazer wins. Yeah, I think so. I mean,
I mean, this is a pretty good day for Aaron Rogers.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
So like Jay in the middle of a rep, Like,
if you're doing a big rep in your phone rings,
do you stop the rep or do you finish the rep?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Like what happens?

Speaker 11 (22:57):
What do you mean the rep? I'm playing out at
the beach for my wife and talk.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Oh no, I mean like pulled it up for him. Oh,
I was looking at when you were working out at
Muscle Beach. I thought that was you know, he was
trying to get you back on Venice Beach.

Speaker 11 (23:10):
Yeah, the Muscle Beaches it for the first time. Yeah.
So yeah, my wife's trained her all the time. She
goes you gotta go obviously, owner unbreakable. I just always
went trus to my gym all the time.

Speaker 7 (23:20):
But she convinced him to go there. Man. What a
what a cool place man? It was like it was unbelievable.

Speaker 11 (23:26):
It's like I was a little kid going there and
I actually texted, uh, some of my friends who've been
there for a long time, and Stallone text back goes.

Speaker 7 (23:34):
Oh, you're so sheltered.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
How have you never been there? Nothing could ever happen
to you?

Speaker 7 (23:39):
Why did I?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
All Right?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
So you had that day. Aaron Rodgers had the night tonight.
You know, Jay, I watch him play sometimes, and I
watched some of the throesy makes and always finding the
right receiver, and I say, I know, there's anybody I've
ever seen that knows as much about the quarterback position
as Aaron Rodgers does.

Speaker 11 (23:59):
Yeah, but it's if what I really like to see
about Aaron tonight is I'm gonna say the old Aaron Rodgers.
As far as Aaron Rodgers like, the play doesn't really
begin until the play breaks down. And when Aaron was
at the height of Green Bay, the teams would say,
we have to tell our our specially the back seven

(24:20):
in our defense, of like, hey, we're going to game
plan for what happens after the snap, But after we
get to him and he rolls out, there's a totally
different play. The receivers run completely different routes. You guys
have to be ready for basically two sets of plays
when it breaks down.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
And that's what Aaron's doing.

Speaker 11 (24:37):
That at forty years of age, he's still making everything.
Like man, there's so many times that looks like they're
gonna get him right and he get away, roll out
here and make these throws that like basically nobody but
him and Patrick Mahomes can make when they're on a
run like that. It was really impressible.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, Jay, you know Smith, I want.

Speaker 11 (24:56):
To remind you something to get We're all waiting for
the other Aaron Rodgers, but the guys he hadn't played
in a long time, right, And it's like football is
a timing game, and everybody just wanted him to come
right advocates and have that old timing from two years ago.

Speaker 7 (25:11):
Two years so it's it's really it's the.

Speaker 11 (25:14):
Timing game, not the timing game. You have to get
timing with the people you're playing with. And that's why
I think, like Terry Bradshaw said it and tell me,
we posted on the NFL and Fox said, you're not
seeing a lot of great offense outputs because for the
most part preseason, guys, you know, you're kill peditions, aren't
playing and you can't get your timing down, you're not playing.
The preseason takes the little time for Aaron in just

(25:34):
the third game and you know his first game at
home in uh you know and and uh, well second
game home, but his it's the second game right at home.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
The first ye first one at home.

Speaker 11 (25:48):
First, first of all, right, first one at home. And
I thought it was gonna take a little bit longer,
to be honest with you, it was just because it's
such a timing game. But it just shows you what
a g R Rodgers dudes is different.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
Different, Yeah, watching it here with on a bashed Jets
guy Smith here, I think Jay was tonight, you know,
watching him moving laterally, you know, to your point of
you know, the that the first couple of weeks seemed
a little reticent, maybe a little rusty, but tonight, like scrambling,

(26:21):
making plays with his legs, like if this is the
guy that's fully back that way, then all of a sudden,
you know, all those bullish Jets fans are going to
be tough to deal with.

Speaker 11 (26:30):
Yeah, but also like Kirk Cousins, you know, I fucked
Tory Moorise.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
He's like he's fully healthy.

Speaker 11 (26:35):
He just doesn't have confidence in that. He needs to
be confident in that leg and.

Speaker 7 (26:40):
The Achilles, And I think it's you know.

Speaker 11 (26:42):
Sitting with with Aaron, like, Okay, you're healthy, but you
have to have confidence. You have to have confidence to
do everything, and man, Aaron's obviously. I think tonight was
big for Aaron for that confidence. And you know, I
was out there camp there they're scrimmaging against Washington and
it was rainy housing and eras like, mat no, not
gonna do it. He's just didn't and smartly, but like

(27:04):
you don't have the confidence yet to really test it
in conditions like that.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
So he's really big smart. But the other thing I
gotta say that the the roster the Jets have.

Speaker 11 (27:16):
Joe Douglas has put together a really good roster over there,
and I think that as they start to mesh and
get you know, more and more timing and their confidence down,
more and more Jets are going to be And I
thought of going into the year, I thought the Jets
are going to be this playoff team because of who's
on the roster, the roster personnel wise and the fantastic roster.

(27:36):
But it's hard to believe because of the.

Speaker 7 (27:38):
Jets, because it's the Jets now, it is.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Put that one off.

Speaker 11 (27:48):
It's almost like r kursber trading Babe Ruth, Like.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
It's just just because you were close Jets, Jay Glazer,
our guests Jason Smith Show and the Mike Carmon live
from the tirec dot Com studios.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
All right now outside of this, check.

Speaker 11 (28:04):
Wait another thing real quick here too good that defense
corner Jeff Olbrick.

Speaker 7 (28:11):
That dude is a stud.

Speaker 11 (28:13):
He is a he will be on head coaching list,
and he is man.

Speaker 7 (28:18):
He's the leader of men. He's a creative cat.

Speaker 11 (28:20):
Just just keep his guys, keep his name up there
on the forefront. Has those head coaching jobs open up
next year?

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Here you go, Jay Glazer trowing that out there.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, So as we get away from the Jets
and other big storylines we've been going through this week,
Jay Bryce Young says today he vows to be better
after his benching. Kind of a surprise to see after
two games when you watch him play, it's kind of
not a surprise. Where are you with what you've been
hearing about this story with Bryce Young as it's evolved
the last few days.

Speaker 11 (28:50):
What what story like this results speak for themselves that
this is what happens.

Speaker 7 (28:55):
Also when an Orner.

Speaker 11 (28:57):
Beer things for quarterbacks with the owner try to get
them to trade for Deshaun Washington. They were gonna give
him an awful lot for Deshaun, and luckily for them,
he went to Cleveland.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
The owner is the one who steered this for Bryce
Young and.

Speaker 11 (29:10):
And look in pharmis the owner. When you don't have
a quarterback in this league, life is miserable. He was like,
can't coach, He was like, can't pick players. He needed
a quarterback. Bryce s Young was clearly and I can't
fault he was. It wasn't like anybody had tj extra
out above him, because they did. And even the Houston
Texans were trying to trade up for Bryce Young. Well

(29:32):
luckily for them that Carolina, you know, was the one
who made the deal with the Bears. They were trying
to trade up with Chicago, and that too they were
really getting a deal done with. And then Houston kind
of they got the wires crossed and the Bear said,
you know what, we're not going to deal with this anymore,
and we're going to move on and go to Carolina

(29:54):
and they did, so Houston was trying to move up
for them also, but I don't blame him for.

Speaker 7 (29:58):
What he said, but it is the owner that's steerous.

Speaker 11 (30:01):
If the owner steered it in Cleveland for the Shaun
Watson also that way, you just gotta let your football
people do football, because man, they give up an awful
lot from a quarterback and nobody. And it's the thing
like when you talk to coaches, you're like, hey, when
you want to trade up for a guy and he's
not prototype, you really got to check yourself. I was

(30:21):
in campus year with a team of the head coach.
I'm not gonna say who it is, he said, man,
and before we ever knew it was gonna.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Happen, Brice Hums.

Speaker 11 (30:28):
But he was talking about that, and he said, anytime
you're going to trade up, make sure that person is prototype.
Otherwise hold back from how much you're you're you're really
kind of salivating for this, because again, you're your need
starts to cloud your judgment. But he was like, very clear,

(30:50):
only if you're a trade up, make sure you trade.

Speaker 7 (30:52):
Up for a prototype.

Speaker 3 (30:55):
Jans.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
We sit here through two weeks of the season, I
think we all at least to some degree are still
kind of scratching our heads and wondering what got in
the water in New Orleans.

Speaker 11 (31:07):
You know, I think Dennis Allens loved in this league
to get a guy like kid Quint Kubiak, who obviously
comes from Gary Kubiak, right, who's got a great you know,
he's really is a great offensive line. But then to
go to Kyle Shanahan's Kyle Shanahan's an evil g as
I told you got this and you know that kind
of style of offense. To bring that down and use the

(31:28):
tools they have in New Orleans, it fit perfectly. I
mean he's using Tomar like they used Christian McCaffrey up
there in San Francisco. The receivers are, you know, crossing
all over the place, and all you kind of need
is your quarterbacks to have good timing. And you know, look,
remember Derek Carr is up there with Dennis Allen and
with the Raider.

Speaker 7 (31:45):
In fact that they always believed in them.

Speaker 11 (31:48):
I don't know how much Derek has always believed in
Derek and for him to get a little bit more
confidence to something like this.

Speaker 7 (31:55):
I don't think we've ever seen Derek Carr like this.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
Hey, Jay, a lastly, uh the weird story today, Dan
Campbell says, hey, look I'm selling my house where I
live into true dude.

Speaker 12 (32:07):
Yeah. Shoot, last year Dallas Cowboy lian and and I
said this on Foxingable Sunday, Dan Campbell, they have that
crazy game, right, but there at the end with the
whether the tackle was eligible or not?

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Right, yep, Oh.

Speaker 11 (32:26):
It's uh this is this is a game that Jimmy
Johnson down in the Hall the Ring of Honor in Dallas.

Speaker 7 (32:31):
So we were there, right, we.

Speaker 11 (32:34):
Come back to La We're doing Foxingable Sunday. So it
was Saturday night game, right. So Dan Campbell gets back
at like four in the.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
Morning, and I called him up and he goes, oh, dude,
I haven't slept this what happened? He said, I got docks.
I said, what is that? He said?

Speaker 11 (32:53):
These people call Like basically all these like wor showed
up to his house. Somebody played a practical joke, and
like a contractor showed up to like fix a porch,
and another guy showed up to like like mop driveway, and.

Speaker 7 (33:10):
Another guy showed up to fix the back door.

Speaker 11 (33:12):
And then plumber showed up in this and like all
these people showed up and kept Dan Campbell away as
a practical joke, which he did not find joking at all,
And apparently it's continue to happen to him. Oh, Lee,
freaking Dan Campbell alone, Like he's done a great.

Speaker 7 (33:33):
Job there in Detroit. Do you want to guy to
move out? What are you doing? Lead Dan Campbell alone?

Speaker 4 (33:40):
Well, because they did that to him, and then we
had the uh, the will love this story too, right,
everybody finding his phone number and getting after him.

Speaker 11 (33:47):
Yes, he don't sell his house. Hey, let me tell
you that there were and for everybody out there does
stuff like this. They were the coach whose wife last
year some idiot get her a threat on Twitter and
he's gonna he's gonna kill her husband, and her husband
was like, hey make sure, Like I was like yeah,

(34:08):
kill security. Security got involved, FBI got involved, They tracked it,
they kicked at his news door, and there was some
dude who's like fifty freaking lives with his parents, like,
don't don't do this, got like, don't do.

Speaker 7 (34:23):
Things like that.

Speaker 11 (34:23):
We're just sports, we're escaping. Don't send people to Dan
Campbell's out at five o'clock in the morning. Don't say
you're gonna kill someone over sports.

Speaker 7 (34:31):
If you don't get this man.

Speaker 11 (34:32):
When your kid comes home with a DM a report card,
don't get this man about sports. It's crazy, like how
much people are kind of going overboard. And yeah, like
unfortunately now because the social media people are at here,
they're a lot closer than they've ever been before. But
damn Campibell. By the way, also Campbell will beat your ass.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
Yeah, that's not they gotta go at It's like showing
up at your house. I'm not doing that. What are
we doing?

Speaker 7 (34:58):
What are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (35:01):
He's on Twitter at Jay Glazer.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
That is at Jay Glazier and check out all the
latest Jay as always, Buddy appreciated everybody.

Speaker 11 (35:10):
Check out Break this week my podcast off the great Man.
Last week Greg Hardy, who was coached Tom Brady, Michael
Felt puts in and we did a podcast back back
in the day and and Greg asked me about months
or two.

Speaker 7 (35:27):
Ago, save me from really really.

Speaker 11 (35:30):
Dark bands, place elegent. So go listening to the masterly
of Greg Harvey. You'll he'll lift you up.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
The link is there on Jay's Twitter page. Greg Hart
Michigan had a moment of silence for him after he
passed away last week. Uh, Jay, great stuff as I
keep fighting the good fight, my friend. We'll talk to
you next week, all right, damp he goes again. Check
out Jay's Twitter page again. Got the latest Greg Hard
interview post up there. It is phenomenal stuff. Look, Michigan
had a moment of sounds for him and James Earl

(36:00):
Jones last week because James Old Jones does the voice
Welcome to the big House. You're in the big house right.
It was really like, wow, you know, James, people forget James,
j moobes Michigan. Yeah, but yeah, Greg Hart and so
many people, so many great stories about this guy.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
I've gotten you through about half the podcast after Jay
put it back up. Definitely worth a watch. And if
you're going through something or know somebody that is one
always you know, look after your people, but two, you
know'll find a little bit of help wherever you can.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
Lai from the Tirec dot Com Studios time out to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
We go to Special Delivery Steve to Seger, who I
don't know what's bigger the Mets win tonight or the
Jets win tonight, Syracuse's game tomorrow, Steve, I don't know, Steve,
what do what he got?

Speaker 8 (36:47):
Well, the Mets played a real team, so I think
that decides the classes.

Speaker 11 (36:52):
I know.

Speaker 8 (36:53):
The Patriots surprised us all in the first week of
the season. They're now one into. They lost twenty four
to three at the Jets. In fact, first half, New
England's offense had four drives, four first downs, and only
forty total yards for the game, one hundred and thirty.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
Nine yards for New England. In fact, if you go.

Speaker 8 (37:10):
Back for worst pass offenses of early seasons the last
fifteen years, to have your first three games, each of
them one hundred and twenty five net yards passing are fewer.

Speaker 3 (37:22):
New England's done that, the Bears a couple of years ago.
And that's it. That's the list for the last fifteen years,
New England and the Bears. And there's your n Y
that's your last. Okay.

Speaker 8 (37:32):
Jets defense with seven sacks Aaron Rodgers two touchdown passes.
Packers quarterback Jordan Love will be a game time decision
this Sunday with the sprained MCL. He was limited in
practice again. Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert was limited in practice
with an ankle injury. Texan's running back Joe Mixon missed
practice with an ankle injury. Bears wide receiver Keenan Allen

(37:52):
did not practice today due to the heel injury. Titan
Evan Ingram of Jacksonville misspractice with his bad hamstring, Vikings
wide receiver Jordan Addison did not practice due to his
ankle injury, and Philadelphia wide out aj Brown did not
practice today due to his bad hamstring. To Major League
Baseball Everything's Final, Houston took the late game over the
Angels three to one with a two run double in

(38:15):
the bottom of the eighth. Usey Kakuchi the starter, no
decision but nine strikeouts in six innings of work. The
Cubs got three RBIs from Cody Bellinger at eds Washington
seven to six wins for Pittsburgh, Toronto, and Tampa Bay,
which shut out Boston to nothing. The Red Sox offense
went one for twenty eights with eleven strikeouts on Fox
TV for most of the country. The Mets hit four

(38:37):
home runs and beat Philadelphia ten to six. Pete Alonzo
with his thirty fourth home run of the season and
Mets short stuff. Francisco Lindor was still out with the
sore back, but the loss to Taiwan Walker his ERA
up to six point nine to one for the season.
The win to Luis Severino of the Mets eleven and
six on the year, six innings of work, just three runs, allowed,

(38:57):
seven strikeouts. Tonight, it's over the Braves by two games
for the final NL wildcard. Right now, Atlanta was a
winner today fifteen three at Cincinnati. Chris Sale eighteen and
three got the win with five innings of work. The
Braves hit six homers, two by Matt Olson, who has
twenty eight Baltimore won, Yankees lost. Cleveland won in ten

(39:18):
innings to clinch a playoff Berth and the Dodgers officially
clinched a playoff berth LA first in the NL West,
four games over the Padres. They got an actual start
from a pitcher, I mean a guy who went six
innings in this whole game. Jack Flaherty got the win
the final twenty to four at Miami. But of course
the story show Hey Otani six for six, ten RBIs,

(39:39):
three homers, He's up to fifty one two more stolen bases.
He has fifty one. Shoeo Tani amazingly had the most
games played in the majors among active players without ever
playing in the postseason, apparently until now, because the Dodgers
have clinched that postseason berth, and a week from Sunday,
the regular season will come to a conclusion.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
tyrac dot Com Studios coming up next. Yes, maybe the
greatest individual day a baseball player has ever had, but
let's give you something a little different about the dominance
of show Heyo Tani over the course of the last
couple of months.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
That's coming up next, right here, Jason and Mike. This
is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (40:31):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Speaker 13 (40:35):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Well, the Patriots turned them all over. Fumble recovered by
the Jets. Greg zerline field goals made a twenty four
to three Jets of the leading out with about ten
minutes left to go in the game. Aaron Rodgers right
now twenty six out of thirty three, two seventy three
and two touchdowns. Have yourself a day of more on

(40:59):
this game coming up in a few minutes. But in
the wake of show Haotani becoming the first fifty to
fifty player in baseball history. Uh, the two people that
are getting the most attention right now obviously are Otani
and Marlon's manager, Skip Schumacher, because he decided to pitch
to Otani when the game was out of hand and

(41:20):
twice twice well the free well and once he hits fifty,
it doesn't matter. But no, nobody wants to get up
the fiftieth home run and be on the other side
the highlight of fifty home runs. But yeah, are you
gonna keep doing it?

Speaker 11 (41:33):
No?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
And Schumacher pitches to Otani Otani it's his fiftieth home run,
and you could see video of Schumacher before the pitch
saying blank that we're not gonna do it. I respect
the guy too much to walk him, right, Which was
a pretty cool thing, right you could that was a
great lip reading because you saw it, Sam Blake, because
you know, someone said skip for first base open you

(41:55):
want to walk him?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Blank that.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
I respect the guy too much to do that. The
game's out of hand. Yeah, pitched to o Tani. If
you can hit a home run, you hit a home run,
and he hit a home run. Here's Schumacher explaining his
decision following the game.

Speaker 13 (42:10):
I think that's a bad move. Baseball wise, karma wise,
baseball god wise. You you go after him and see
if you can get him out, and I think, out
of respect for the game, we're going to go after him.
He hit the home run, I mean, you know, that's
just part of the deal. He's hit fifty of them.
He's the most talented player I've ever seen. He is

(42:33):
doing things that I've never seen done before before in
the game, and if he has a couple more of
these peak years, he might be the best ever to
play the game. So I just yeah, as a fan, yeah,
I wish I was in the stands, not in the
dugout seeing it. But it's I'm proud of like the
guys that were attacking him and not scared of him.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
And that's that's how you should go after it.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
And then you know, he hit he hit the home run.

Speaker 13 (43:01):
I mean, I know Boman didn't want the home run
to he hit, but he hit it, and and so yeah,
it was a good day for baseball. A bad day
for the Marlins, you know, but a good day for
you know, the game of baseball.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
I can still talk about how good it was even
though we got some twenty to four.

Speaker 4 (43:17):
Why isn't that special? Don't you just love the game
of baseball? Every day you never know what you get
a get on the way, teow, my team is behind me. Sorry, guys,
but I mean we gave up twenty We gave up
how many runs? Well we read twenty four.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
That guy did what today.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Gip Schumacher is a guy that was a pretty good
utility player in a good run for about a dozen
years in Major League baseball.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Guy won the World.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Series, was manager of the year last year in the
National League. And this is what he's going to be
known for. Skip showing when you go back and read
accounts of Otani. When people get online five ten, twenty,
twenty five, thirty forty five, fifty years from now and
they read about Otani being the first player to fifty
to fifty, they'll read about that like I read about

(43:58):
Babe Roots called home.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
Run in the in the World Series.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
In nineteen twenty seven, and and his name he is
immortal because it's gonna come up where. And Marlin's manager
Skip Schumacher was shown before the pitch saying he had
too much respect for Otani to pitch to him. And
they pitched to you when Otani went up with a
home run. This is what this is his dark side
of the moon. You never know when history is gonna
come calling on you, and it does. This is it,

(44:21):
Skip Schumacher. Oh yeah, he's a guy that said blank
that let's pitch to Otani. I have too much respect
for the guy. This is what he's going to be
known for.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
I feel like I need to create a shirt that
says blank that respect and then some kind of think
somebody hasn't done that already.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
Now I think they probably, I don't know, they're too
busy trying to hawk ticket stubs.

Speaker 3 (44:39):
Well yeah, it's trying to get six hundred a piece. Yeah,
well it's gonna be. And what's what's the ball at
right now?

Speaker 4 (44:45):
Well, according to Revel's site collect they went to the
leading memorabilia guys out there, Golden and Prostein and or
whatever else. They're saying two fifty to three hundred grand
for the ball and for the back. No wow, okay,
some of that stuff's gonna go straight to Cooperstown. But
because the dodd keep the back, well no, but but
the Dodgers own parts of it, right like the bad

(45:07):
is Otani's I gotta think he believes he still has
a few more hits left. Yeah, yeah, sure, So he's
not gonna just say hey, I had a three home
run ten RBI game here.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
O'tana is gonna say, hey, you're only paying me to
my un this year. I need the money, so I'm
gonna I'm gonna sell it. I'm gonna sell my back
when it's done.

Speaker 4 (45:24):
Standing out member Odilia, Hey I got this suck. That's
about a suck.

Speaker 3 (45:29):
Who's got it?

Speaker 4 (45:30):
I mean, I'm gonna be d a couple of band
aids for the blister I had on my big toe
after stealing third.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Anybody want to zory.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
I'm a prince and I'm gonna get in ten years.
I'm gonna get fifty million dollars a year, but I
need five thousand dollars from you to open up my account.
I'm gonna make all kinds of money, but I got
nothing right now.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
So I'm gonna say, well, he can actually send that
email out and you might have to act now.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Exit ou about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the tirect dot com Studios. Coming
up next, more reaction to what we just saw on
Thursday Night football, and and a amazing story involving Sho
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Speaker 4 (46:29):
You know, I enjoyed the Jet Sucks remix of that
song he played earlier.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
But it really you can't play it because it's not true.

Speaker 7 (46:37):
It is true.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
It's not true.

Speaker 7 (46:38):
It is true.

Speaker 8 (46:38):
You gotta say, historically or two and one, when's the
last time you won something? Explain something like a trophy. Uh,
we win the off season trophy. We win the off
season every year.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
We're like trophy that matters. We have like six offseason trophies.
You sound like Laker fans talking about the bubble right now?
You met the the ISD, the nd Season Tournament. No, no, no,
he was going back to the last back.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Okay, well the I T is not a real title.
Come on, they're putting a bat They put a banner up.

Speaker 4 (47:10):
Well, ist baby, because the NBA forced him to to
try to create some sort of.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Gravitas to it. We're gonna make this happen, rob Polinka
put that banner up.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
What do they call it?

Speaker 3 (47:25):
They give it a new name to now, right, what
is it called? It is the Something Cup?

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Right, it's a yeah, it's the Commissioner's Cup, the Players Cup.
Is it just the NBA Cup, the Supporting Cup, the
Athletic Cup, the Athletic Cup.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
Get on board, Athletic Cup. Uh, so we'll get back
into show.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Heyo Tani and the unreal achievement of becoming the first
fifty to fifty player in baseball.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
History earlier today. Try to say the round numbers didn't matter.
Come on, now, no, Welle is great.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
No, yeah, well he did it for Junia last year. Hey,
he's thirty five and fifty six. Well, there's no Romantis
that come on, now, come on, you say thirty five
and fix Usually that's the Mets record the first hundred game.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
But I'd kill for that record.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
If the day belonged to show Hey Otani, the night
belonged to the New York Jets.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Well that it's poetic. I hate you, I hate you.
It ends up talking about the Jets. But it was
still a good line. Damn you.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
They dominate the Patriots twenty four to three. Aaron Rodgers
looks like Aaron Rodgers from a couple of years ago. Which, Oh,
by the way, boy, can we go back to those conversation. Yeah,
I'm old enough to remember that. I can go back
to these conversations this summer where people said that Rogers
is too weird, Rogers is not elite anymore.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
Wow, I mean he's still weird. Wait wait, wait, wait,
wit not done.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Rogers is not a great leader anymore. Rogers might not
have what it takes. Rogers, you can't expect him to
be good. Let's go back and have those conversations now,
because clearly Rogers is close to that m VP version,
and way closer to it than anybody thought they were.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I get you got to come up with stuff.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
You gotta come up with stuff to talk about, because
well it's Aaron Rodgers, like I can't come up with
different things. We're talking about it for three years. But yeah,
I want to go back and have those conversations now
about all the team doesn't like him.

Speaker 7 (49:25):
He's not.

Speaker 3 (49:26):
I may still you think they don't love that. They
love the guy.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
They all love him. They all he was always a
great player, and he was hurt last year. Right, Here's
how I knew, right, you said, Jason said, No, I knew,
and I because you were a Jets fan, and I
told you you built a shrine. I told you Rogers
was still going to be great, and it was very simple.
What told it to me was you remember a little
thing he had ul Remember we had a little thing

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when when Aaron Rodgers missed the last two days of
mini camp because he went to Egypt.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Do I get Eisenhower in here's something.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
And that was the worst thing ever. Look at what
he's doing. He's leaving his team. It's an unexcused absence,
and Rogers is not that guy. A lot of people
are going to be pissed off about it, never mind
the fact that he was there for every other one
of the OTAs. Was it a bad look, Yes, it
was a bad look. Did Rogers know it was going
to be bad look? Of course he did.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
We talked to Rogers.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
Rogers wasn't going to put his career at stake to
leave the team early to go on a trip to
Egypt unless he knew he was going to be really
good this year, close to being his normal self. Rogers
wants to keep playing football. He doesn't want to walk away.
He likes these fifty million dollar checks. He likes being
the most popular player in the NFL. When he speaks,

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when he does something, everybody pays attention. Rogers, just the
last three years has that it factor. He wants that
to continue. He's not going to put that risk unless
he knows I'm still Aaron Rodgers. So knowing full well
the optic was going to be bad if he leaves
and the team was going to be mad, or if

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he had any thought that I was going to be
bad this season, boy, that's just more reason Tim to
get mad at him and for them to want to
push him out. He's not going to risk his career
for anything. So the fact that he was okay leaving
and going and dealing with whatever arrows he got after
that told me he is not worried about this season,
And yes, did he need a couple of games to

(51:33):
get back to being Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, you know what
he needed eleven days, all right, eleven days from Week
one to now week one with the forty nine ers,
I saw signs. Hey, I'm encouraged because Rogers looks like
maybe he can be close to the guy he was.
Then last Sunday, middle of the second quarter when he
started tak control of the offense and change all the plays,
a lot of scrimmage and all the plays the Jets
had that were big plays where plays at Rogers audible

(51:55):
to or called, I felt really really good. And now
tonight watching him do what he did, carving up that
Patriots team with early throws, with late throws, with staying
with with moving the place of the line of scrimmage,
with his pre snap adjustments, with getting outside of the
tackle boxes, and keeping plays alive to make big throws downfield.

Speaker 3 (52:14):
Yeah, No, he's back. He's that guy. He's that guy.
Eleven days is what it took him to be Aaron Rodgers. Again.
I knew it.

Speaker 1 (52:20):
He's not going to put his career at risk unless
he knew he was gonna be good. That's when I
knew I'm not worried about Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 7 (52:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Well, I mean a couple of things. Number One, you
played fast and loose with the word popular. Do you
think he's not popular? You think they don't love him
to death? Right now?

Speaker 7 (52:35):
No?

Speaker 4 (52:35):
No, no, no, no, But see you took it into
a larger use of the word popular. He's popular in
his sphere. There's a lot of people that don't like him,
they pay attention to him. So if we're just talking
about click click, click, click click, then yes, popularity from
that pop from the boy I really like that guy.

Speaker 3 (52:53):
I'm all about poputy. No, I'm ready.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Hey, I will be there with whatever popcorn bucket they're
gonna sell me, and I'll be singing along every work.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
But the fact of the matter is.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
The second part of it is I think he gave
up on the caring part in terms of the larger
populace and what they think of him a long time ago.
He had to because of some of this stuff he's
had to say, some of the stuff he's done, including
leaving right because you knew it was look short term.

(53:23):
Long term, you know, we can quibble about that, but
in the short term it was a terrible look. It
puts Saul in a bad spot. So expose well slave
for what we've said. He is all along And it
basically was him flipping Sala off saying I'm in charge
him leaving no matter how many days you've done, because
you don't do a lot of days of workouts anymore
in terms of what's legal.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
Right, And this is where we can get into the well.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
Tom Brady's working out with guys at a park and
I have no doubt Rogers did plenty of time with
Garrett Wilson, Lazard and his guys behind the scene that
nobody knows about right in terms of getting timing and
whatever together. Now it was how do I do it
dancing behind the five guys? So, but the way they've
taken practices away time and time again, Hey we need

(54:08):
more healthcare.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Would you like to have that every other Wednesday off?

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Yes? Please?

Speaker 4 (54:14):
You don't get those those reps. So if you're a
Jets beat rider, if you're someone that's around the team
and you're expecting, hey, this is gonna go really well,
or it's gonna burn, which we've talked about and dawsium
if he's not around, what do you expected it's gonna
tip to You can't just say I have to trust him.

Speaker 3 (54:35):
No, no, you're not.

Speaker 4 (54:38):
And after three games, maybe he convinced people tonight. Tonight
should have convinced it in terms of the footwork and
trusting his body. Again, the rest of it will see
what kind of days lunacy comes out of his mouth.
Eleven days from being Let's see if he can be
Aaron Rodgers. Who, oh no, the dude's Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
It's a fantastic nine days. What do you have to say?

Speaker 1 (54:58):
Following his first home win making it all the way
from beginning to end of the game as a jet,
Let's listen to a couple of minutes of Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
What he can get all the way from the beginning
to the end. Last time he took the field and
met like he carried the flag out. It didn't end well,
all right tonight, but a lot better just the fact
that you had to cavey out that house. Here's Aaron
Rodgers from just a few moments ago.

Speaker 14 (55:22):
It was that Alford exchange with you and Robert, you
appeared to like pushing away on No, it was not
only awkward at all.

Speaker 7 (55:28):
Just pushing away. Then when he went to hug you,
what happened?

Speaker 10 (55:31):
I didn't know.

Speaker 14 (55:31):
He's not a big hugger usually, so I don't know
he was going for the hug. He likes to do
the two hand chest push as well, but he talks
a lot about two score leads, so I just kind
of game a push and said two score lead. That's
what happened.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
To do this on a short week too.

Speaker 13 (55:51):
How encouraging is that for.

Speaker 7 (55:52):
You to do? That's great.

Speaker 14 (55:53):
Now we get the benefit of playing at home. It's
easier at home on a short week, but the schedulers
made it difficult for us the first three weeks, three
games eleven days, and although we'd love to be three
and zero, I think if you said two and one
going into the mini buy, you know, we'd be feeling
pretty good about things. Obviously, we had a nice little
long break here and then and then Denver and then

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London game. There's not a lot of like normal seven
day week schedules for us, so put it's good Dow.
I'm proud of our guys. I thought we played a
lot more energy tonight that hasn't.

Speaker 11 (56:27):
Had a lot of celebratory and I select to how
do you try to normalize this in one.

Speaker 14 (56:33):
Of its expectations. If the expectation is winning, then we're
going to celebrate it, but we should expect to win.
The next step is expecting to dominate.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
And it's hard, pretty game not to think about it
last year that it's.

Speaker 7 (56:47):
All very similar Burnows this here last year. I'm curious,
just like, what were you feeling in that tunnel coming
out for the game.

Speaker 14 (56:55):
I was hoping I wouldn't have to make a decision
about whether they carry a flag or not, because I
was probably gonna be the only guy that wouldn't. I'm
fustitious and maybe not superstitious, but I think I would
have passed on that. But uh, you know, I felt
I felt a really good calm about it. Honestly, I
didn't uh think a whole lot about it. Obviously it

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was emotional, uh to come back home for the first
time since then, but I really think the first week
kind of took a lot of the fears and anxiety
of plan out, and tonight I felt like I played
pretty free.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
All right, So there's some of Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
My favorite part in that, in that back and forth
was the reporter said, hey, how do you how do
you deal with this? This this this great victory And
he's like, well, we should expect to win. And what
the reporter said, I'm sorry, you're new. We're not used
to stuff like this here, like jets being you are
a jet. Okay, you've seen the Jets, right, I know
you're excited to be here for reasons. It's still we

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don't understand. But we're glad you're here. But you know
how it goes for us, right, I mean, remember, we
don't see a lot of stuff like this, so we
don't really know what to do. So to celebrate what
we're looking at. That's why I ask you the question,
because I don't know. I don't know what to do
right now. Do I go out for donuts at the
end of the night, Do I go home? Do I
go watch a replay in the game? I don't know
what to do. We don't usually have success here.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
You had to tell me how to deal with it. Oh,
but that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Look may not mean a lot to you. You've done
some winning, You've won a bunch of MVP Awards. You've
been to the Promised Land and had the opportunity to celebrate. Hell,
that was the Super Bowl I went to when they
played the Steelers, one of the highest priced tickets and
crazy as situations ever, all those guys on IR and
he carried them to a title.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
He's been there.

Speaker 4 (58:36):
Jets fans, they're just hoping to get an invite to
the dance in January and see what happens. Right, So yeah,
he's trying to impart that as best he can. But
even for the media members, you can tell the all, right,
how do we normalize it? Because I think he was
asking as much for the media there as the players

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in that locker room about normalized again. Sure, right, because
you'll read the columns from whatever New York source and
and certainly from national pundits as well, and it'll be questioned,
I'll be questioning how much hyperbole you get?

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Right, how much you know?

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Look at all this, you know trying because I'm trying
to keep you measured as well, because it's three. Sure,
there's still a long road, there's a lot to be
excited about, but it's week three, and I think that
was Roger's message of Hey, we we've got to get
this expectation. But you know you're gonna have the things. Oh,
let's get those passes booked for New Orleans. Now it's like,
come down, relax, relax, Look how good things are. I

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want to have those conversations about I.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
He's not a leader, knowing that I just like the
tone OF's voice. And then you know, we expect to win.
That's the way we do. Let's take let's take the
energy down a little bit here. Let's talk about it.
If you wanted to light a candle and lead everybody through,
We'll talk about ayahuasca a little bit here. Let's get
to that a little bit. Everybody exiled with me,