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the way tire buying should be. Well Mike Harmon, Tonight, look,
we got big baseball stuff, big football stuff to get
to butt over the place. Tonight is the night the
Caitlin Clark Ride of this year has come to an end.
The NBA. It was a year run, it was it
was a great kind She had a run. Unlike few

(01:10):
people in the history of sports had a run. She come.
She comes out of college as the as the biggest
score in the history of the game. The most popular
college basketball player the last twenty years men or women,
comes to the WNBA gets them to a level like
did NBA when they got Magic and Larry to come in,
And yes, she is Magic and Larry in this all

(01:31):
the way through the season. And it comes to an
end tonight as the Fever fall of the Connecticut Son
they get knocked out of the playoffs best of three.
I got a feeling next year the playoffs will improve
the best of five. But that's just me. But a
big night for Caitlin Clark, and I will say this
on a big, big thing to say about her, but
I really do wish I said it last night. I said,

(01:53):
you know, watch the game she has tonight. She's pissed
about the Carrington ipoke. She knows it was a dirty play.
Watch come out tonight. I'd go over on all the
props for her tomorrow night. Over on points, over on rebounds,
over on assists. I said, I should go, I should
bet it right, I should do it. What happens, She's
over on points, she's over on rebounds, she's over on assists.

(02:14):
The Fever almost pull the upset, but Connecticut wins. I
should have done it, Mike, I said it, and I
should have done it.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Well, you know, just place a call or drive to
the border and away you go ten to twenty three
from the field, three of twelve from three point range
for twenty five points.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Look, it was a back, great back and forth fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I mean frenetic pace, a lot of activity, a lot
of officials looking at each other as if you're gonna
call that?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Or am I calling that? Or what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (02:42):
And some intense, anxious moments that you want, hard fought,
physical playoff game. It goes down as a sweep, but
as you say, hey, there's more money to be had.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
This will expand next year. But in the end, hey,
you know, tell me it's best of three. We do
best of five. I think we can do that. We
do best of five in the first round, that'd be better.
I think an extra game for Katelyn. Look, and also,
this is probably the last time for quite a while
Caitlyn Clark's gonna go home in the first round of
the playoffs. The team is just getting better. They had

(03:14):
a huge stride this week, making the players for the
first time in like eight years. She's becoming a better
She's becoming a better player. Look, she ended the year
one of the top five players in the league, finished
fourth in MVP voting. This is the last time anybody's
gonna say, hey, we're favored over the Fever in a
large way in the playoffs. I think that changes for her. No,
you get good balance.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And you watched as this team came together second half
of the year, and you know, at points you wonder
any of the rookies, but particularly Clark. You know, if
they're honest about it, the way the schedule works, going
straight off the college season and grind through the NCAA
tournament and right into the season, whether that's to their detriment,

(03:56):
they'll lie to you straight faced about it. But let's
you know, the old truth serum thing of hey, what
did you have left? How did you get through the
final month? Because even with the Olympic break, I mean,
that's just a grind and a half for all of
the young players coming into the league. But it was
a fun as hell game to watch as it rolled up.
I mean, for a while it looked like maybe Connecticut

(04:18):
was going to pull away and maybe this would become
a laugher in the fourth quarter, but not so fast
cut that eleven point deficit. Take a brief lead in
the fourth quarter, but you know, get the tongues wagging. Unfortunately,
now with Indiana out, you know, we immediately start to
tense up a little bit, wondering, you know, what the

(04:40):
coverage and expectation and interest level is going forward.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, well, the first thing that happens that happens in sports.
Ask baseball what happens when the Yankees and Dodgers get eliminated? Right?
Ask ask the NFL what happens when the Cowboys and
Steelers aren't play. I mean, that's just how sports go. Yeah,
I mean, we're talking about you know, but this is
to be But I could see it being already presented as,
oh see, these are all fake WNBA fans. You just

(05:05):
tune in to watch Caitlin, which is like, you don't
want that, really, you don't don't want people. I mean,
people just want to move the goalposts on how they
feel about cal of course, but this is just how
it goes. When the popular teams go out, yet less
people want that. That's kind of how it goes. Ask
that again, Ask any sport if they have surprise teams
making it far ask the final four, the NCAA tourna. Hey,

(05:26):
do you like all the upsets? Yeah, we like the
upsets until we get to the final weekend. We don't
want San Diego State, Come on, what were you crazy? No,
we need North Carolina, we need Michigan State, and we
need you. So this is just how it goes. But
I could already see it being presented a different way
just because people want to be mad. But that's just
the fact of how sports goes.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
No, but it's all fair. It's more just the the
longer term, right. Obviously, reinforcements are coming. We're already seeing
the excitement for the pending college basketball season, all the
promos for pagebackers and for Juju Watkins and everything else else.
But it's more so for the w NBA. This is
the first year of you know, that splash of success,

(06:06):
celebrity whatever, you know, where you want to sustain, you
know that that crest of goodwill, et cetera. And let's
face it, she doesn't touch a basketball again in the
public form until April.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, she said, I'm not playing I'm not playing it
like I'm I'm not going to be doing three out there.
None of this. She's like out of the public eye
as far as being bad being televised playing basketball. She's
going to be out of the public eye now until April.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
But that's the question, right, So coming back when you
get back into it next April, you know, the thirstiness
for a repeat performance or was this the the grand Hey,
everybody came to the party this time around. I'd like
to think it's it's the former and that you know,
you're building on this and certainly the league growing and
expansion and all those plans.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
But it's just the curiosity. People are fickle. Nah, this
is that there is no danger of this going away.
She's this big a deal, this fat. People will be
ready for her to come back in April. Just it's
just it's part of the sports calendar. Now. The WNBA
is one of the major leagues in the sports calendar. Hey,
they come back in April, they play until the middle
of late September. That's kind of how it goes. Yeah,

(07:15):
you're pretty hey, Ron right later than September after what
happened today. But this is not She's a big superstar.
She'll find a way to stay in the public eye.
There's enough polarization about her to keep interest level in
her growing, and we saw that was on display tonight.
But this gets into the bigger thing about Caitlin Clark
as her star power grows, as a league grows, and

(07:36):
now the money they have now television wise, the charter
flights all of these things, is that when she came
in right because she just keeps hitting comparisons to big
time NBA superstars, right Magic and Larry with her effect
on the WNBA a game kind of like Steph Curry's,
except now it's actually a little more well rounded than
Steph's because she's become the best point guard in the

(07:57):
game as well at leading the league and assists. Doesn't
do that. He's a much bigger scorer. But you know,
her game was much Hey pattern a lot like Steph Curry.
I get my shots, I hit a lot. I should
get a lot of threes. That's kind of what it was.
But after the playoffs and now now putting this season
into perspective, he had a couple of plays tonight that
were crying out for calls that Caitlyn Clark should have gotten.

(08:20):
A couple ones that are really weird that she doesn't
get and she gets absolutely hacked by Maybury in the
lane when she goes up doesn't get a foul call. Uh,
you had you had the play earlier in the in
the game that that that went viral when bonnerd doesn't
give her a landing spot coming down off of three
and Caitlyn Clark gets mad and gives her a shove, like,
these are things that have to be called, like the

(08:42):
these are things that and w NBA referees as time
has gone on, like this is like there's some of
the worst in all of sports. Like there's plays that
you see that go on in front of you and
and you say, there's no call on that. I mean,
you're watching the action and there's still no call. The
referees just missed, and they miss a lot on her.
And seeing how things go with her, you're ready for this.

(09:05):
She now sort of reminds me her impact on the game, right,
Magic and Larry coming in game like Steph. But the
way she's treated, the way she's perceived is very lebron esque,
in which she is a superstar who is polarizing, and
a lot of it through none of her own fault.
Because Lebron early in his career was very much and

(09:26):
always was a look at me kind of guy. Caitlyn
Clark doesn't look at me on the court, not so
much off it, But that breeds jealousy, that breeds contempt,
that breeds players not respecting you, and players going out
of their way to either poke you in the eye
or faulue it. Also, still after twenty years in the league,
I say, how does Lebron not get these calls? How
does Lebron? And you keep going back to that play

(09:49):
where he's crying after the foul that what didn't get
called against the Celtics, Like, how does a superstar like
that not get the calls that Michael Jordan got that
most superstars get. So seeing now where Caitlyn Lark is,
that's kind of where I can slaughter now with the
impact of magic and Larry the game like steps but
a little bit more well rounded, but the perception and

(10:09):
being treated like Lebron who still gets treated that way.
Players still don't treat him with the respect that normal
players treat the great players in the game with respect.
And Lebron has carried the NBA for the better part
of two decades and still and still here we are
in twenty twenty four, and there's tons of players where
I go, Lebron really doesn't get that call? How does
Lebron not get that call? That's where Caitlin Clark is

(10:32):
gone in a short span of from April this year
to where they sit right now the end of September.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
See, I got the other NBA comp which is a
lot of luka, doncis a lot of flash, a lot
of substance, a lot of points, and a lot of
complaining to the officials.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Coach taking a beer away from her in the locker
room too.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
We haven't seen that yet, but I mean, you know,
if they'd advanced, maybe we have seen that. I don't know,
but because that's part of the equation that I don't
think can be ignored, right, is that it's Look, the
officials were awful all night long. And it's not just
Caitly and Clark calls that weren't made. I mean, how
many times you see someone get hacked in the lane

(11:11):
and it's kind of the shrug play on. Oh yeah,
three people are laying on the court, look getting around
going there's no fill and there was no.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Risk it right, and I'm going in the riff they're
looking right at it. I mean they're looking. There were
a couple of calls down the stretch. It's like there's
a body that.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Flew into the second row behind the stanchion, and there's
two other people that kind of go down to one
knee and it's like, wow, that's a lot of contact.
No call, mislay, a ball going the other way with
three players still getting up off the court. I mean,
there were just so many of those where you're just
scratching your head, going, all right, I like letting let

(11:48):
them play to a point, Like I always say this,
and you know, whatever sport we're watching and what you
and I have been doing together for years or you
know it left to my own devices when I go
watch you know, games my daughter's in or tournaments that
they're around, it's like, all right, at some point you've
got to stop because the elbow is gonna come up
a little higher. Until you do right, you're gonna you're

(12:08):
gonna push the envelope. And we certainly have seen that
in in the w NBA as the season war on,
uh and more and more. You know, the intentional or
not of Game one, Game two, congratulations, not only did
everybody say and try to get on the Hey, there's
nothing to see here. Here's also an award for most

(12:28):
improved players, Like all right, let's.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Go and then you're watching this game coming down the stretch.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
But you know all of that to say, she's got
Caitlin Clark, a bunch of Lebron in her and Luca
in her in the I'm gonna go after the official after.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Every play where I think I'm I'm fouled or I've.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Been done wrong, and and after a while they're gonna
they're gonna turn a deaf year to it. Right, You're
only you're only gonna get so many of those calls.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, well, I think for her, I understand the frustration
of you gotta call this, You gotta call this, right you?

Speaker 3 (13:00):
How many times can you go back to the official
after they've they've not and it's the third quarter.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
At some point you gotta get it. You can't if
you don't say anything. And I get what you're saying,
but this is this look I see Luca. Luca gets
it's the image of him. He cries after every single one.
I get Caitlin Clark in the beginning in this doing
it because it's Hey, we need to get calls at
some point, right, we need to start getting called. And
if I don't, if I don't complain, we're not going
to get them if the referees aren't giving to them

(13:28):
us if we don't complain. But if we start complaining
and we feel like, hey, you're in the crosshairs and
you better start giving us some calls, maybe you get them.
You know, like like that that that's that's part of gamesmanship.
But yeah, you do have to pick your spots a
little bit. And I think you don't think your spots
is things that. Yeah, you got to pick your spots
after you get poked in the eye. Yeah, after you
get poked in the eye, after you know a player

(13:50):
doesn't give you a place to land, that's where you
kind of get Hey, listen, this is injury stuff, Like
this is where I could get hurt and and be
out and I understand the rest of it, but this
is where you got to really star up up and
do something. So again, that's why I mean like, she's Lebron,
that's where she is magic, Larry Steph Lebron. It's a
pretty good company to be in.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
So you're saying she's a man.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
I think she would stop. I think you would say
she would like to get those calls you make looks
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whether it's our Caitlin Clark content. We're going to get
into now the big night in the NFL Major League Baseball.
Mike and I love all the support and thank you
for all the support you've given us throughout these last
few years. Mike, this is weird because the first thing
I want to say is, obviously everybody is hopeful that

(15:48):
Hurricane Helen hitting the East coast and we're seeing the
reports about Florida and Atlanta, and that everybody is safe
and everybody is able to to get to the ground
they need to and is able to do whatever they
need to protect themselves, their family and their properties. That's
the number one thing we want to say, because everything
else is secondary. Right we see things like this happening,

(16:10):
and you see videos of what a category four hurricane
looks like. That's kind of what Hurricane Helene is supposed
to look like. Now. Now, obviously things change. We have
no idea. But these next couple of days are going
to be really really big deals. And again, we hope
everybody is safe, however, for this, because we're a sports
station and we're a sports network, and what happened today

(16:33):
in Major League Baseball, the fiasco that went on today
involving the Mets and the Brave Series is going to
affect everybody in the playoffs. We have to get to
it from the baseball side of it, because it's a
really big deal. And all you've seen all day is
how Major League Baseball has blown it by not being
able to play these games earlier. Then they should have

(16:53):
played the games on Monday and Tuesday instead of having
the off day on Monday. And then we find out
the Braves didn't want to move the games because they
didn't want to either lose gate or gamesmanship, because they
liked their pitching rotation the way they had it. With
Chris Sale was scheduled to go tonight in the middle game,
they moved him. So, for whatever reason, this thing didn't happen, right,

(17:14):
they make up the games the extra option of, hey,
maybe it'll dissipate and change, right, And.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
As we've seen many many a storm in the past
of Hey, this is gonna hit, this is gonna be huge,
and nothing. I mean, having lived in the Midwest, you
know for the first half of my life, I mean
plenty of times it was hey, you're gonna get nine
inches of snow, and then you walked out it was
sixty five degrees. I mean, there's plenty of those things.
And hopefully, look, everybody spared the worst of what's expected here.

(17:45):
But yeah, I mean, it's not all the farious gamesmanship
I guess, which is what side of it on the
Twitter verse.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
But in the beginning, Hey, the Braves didn't want baseball
could have stepped in, but they didn't. And look, the
Braves wanted to keep where they weren't. Look at there's
other times during the season. Look, the Mets had a
chance to make this game up earlier in the year.
They didn't want to do it on an off day,
so they had it here. Look, let me just say
this before we get to a big sports takeaway from this, right,
is that playing these two games on Monday and then

(18:16):
figuring out the baseball schedule after is absolutely the right move.
Did you really want to sit here and try to
jam in two games during a hurricane. When maybe you're
only playing a couple of innings, if you can even
get on the field, and not knowing what's happening from
one moment to the next, you are sowing absolute chaos.

(18:37):
I get that it's making chaos with the rest of
the MLB schedule, but this was the right decision. It
was the right call to say, let's kick the can
down the road. Let's schedule these two games for Monday
if necessary, because we don't know what's going to happen
this weekend. We don't know how the Mets games are
going to go, how the Braves games are going to go,
how the Diamondbacks games are going to go. Yes, there
could be a scenario where a team could have to

(18:58):
play eighteen innings on Monday and then flo to l
A or fly to San Diego, UH for a game
on Tuesday. I gotta think Major League Baseball is gonna
do something there. But they don't need to make any
changes now because it's it's Wednesday and and and we're
day to day and let's see how things go. And
trust me, major League Baseball can make moves and make
decisions if they have to. There's so many things still

(19:20):
at play. There's even a scenario in which the Mets
and Braves clinch because the Diamondbacks don't make it, and
the teams decide if they want to even play the games,
and Rob Manford would decide who gets the higher seeds
as so you know who goes into the playoffs is
the higher seed, which would probably be easy because the
Braves have won more games than the Mets. So if
that's how you do it, I understand that's how you

(19:41):
do it. They've won six, the Mets have won five
against each other this year.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
That's good math.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
There's see I'm good at math for you later in
the show. Yeah, I got a good mass story from
today for you. But so it's it's it's very easy.
This thing can be figured out. Everybody needs to just relax. Yes,
all the all the doom and glooms areas of flying it,
playing eighteen innings of this and figuring out your pitch it. Yeah,
I get it. But this is a hurricane. It's a

(20:06):
big hurricane that showed up and it's a big deal.
So yeah, let's do the smart thing. Let's postpone it
and we'll see where we go. I mean, this is
this is not the evils of sports and all kinds
of different things. Yes, could Major League Baseball stepped in? Yeah?
Did the Brays really want them to step in? Probably not.
At the end when it came down to it and
they saw they had to postpone, they postponed, right. They

(20:27):
did it early enough. No one had got tryout to
come to the game. And who knows when the hurricane
would hit. What be like trying to drive home, light
poles falling in the street, whatever it could be. So
it's fine, everybody should just relax. They'll play the rest
of the games this weekend. We'll see where we're at
on Monday. And I'll tell you what. There's twenty five
teams in Major League Baseball. If you said, hey, we'll

(20:48):
give you a double header on Monday, and if you win,
you go to the playoffs. But you got to play
the next day. There's twenty five teams. I would say,
sign me up. I'm sign me up for that. Sign
me up for that right now. I'll go do that
right now. Everything is going to be fun. People just
need to relax with this story.

Speaker 4 (21:03):
Just relax.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Oh, it's like anything.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
You add variables to the equation and people freak out
right because you can't necessarily quantify the the response and
the effect of each of them. You try to, but
you also remember the human element to it all and
and how players players will react, you know, bullpen management,
all of those things from the from the game side

(21:26):
of it, and trying to get through able bodied and stress,
all of that stuff. But it's four days in advance.
You got plenty of time, plenty of baseball that's going
to be played in the interim that may prove you know,
as you laid out, some of this is going to
be moot. And if it comes down to Rob Manford
making decisions, God help us all. But at least in

(21:47):
this case, it seemed that the powers that be got
together and came to some sort of a logical conclusion
to this and trying to do things at break neck
speed or braid the elements and see what happens. No,
it's decisive action on a Wednesday, and we normally don't
get that. So I'll give the office credit whoever gets

(22:09):
the you know, the lion's share of it. Great if
it's the commissioner himself, because you want to do it
that way.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
Fine.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
I got to think there's someone else who was in
his ear that had a bunch of fact figures and
data points that made the pitch. So they get the
tag of the real MVP to this. But in the end,
it's baseball. It's a diversion. It's a game. It's a
big business. There's no question about it, and we all
care about it, which is why we're yapping about it,

(22:36):
and you're listening and yelling at me right now, going
I'm on my.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Tape, jerk.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
But in the end, it is about keeping people safe. Yeah,
fifty thousand at a time in Major League ball parks
and you know, those on the roads come on and seeing.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
All the reaction today has just been they knew what
was coming for a week, they knew that could have
planned it. Yeah, okay, well sometimes maybe the hurricane makes landfall.
Maybe it does it. There's different things. Yeah, you can
always go back and say, oh, you could have made
this contingency plan and played this game on Monday to okay,
you didn't. It's a human thing that happens, right, This
is Mother Nature saying, Okay, you think you like this

(23:15):
little baseball thing you have going on, I'll show you
what everything is really all about. Okay, just so you
get it, everything's gonna be fine. Now. From a perspective
of this, what it does for the teams, this is
a much better situation for the Mets than it is
for the Braves. This is absolutely bad. Like I'm I'm
hop and mad if I'm the Braves right now because
I just lost all my momentum because how this favors

(23:38):
the Mets. The Mets have already come into this series
on the road and lost Game one, right, they were
not good against a really good pitcher, and the Braves
lined up their pitching staff exactly how they wanted. Mets
lined up their pitching staff too, but the Braves really
wanted it to go the way they have it, with
their two aces going on tonight and tomorrow, especially with
Chris Sale going in the middle game, who has been

(24:01):
unbeatable the last eight nine starts, right, He's just been
a machine. So for the Mets to dodge both of
these guys right now, that's a really big thing. It's
a really big thing. And it's compounded by the fact
that the Braves being a game behind, they can't save them.
They can't say, okay, we'll say they can't save Chris
Sale and Max Freed for Monday. They need to win,

(24:22):
so they're gonna need Sale and Freed to pitch Friday
and Saturday. So guess who's not pitching Monday in a
double header if you need to. Tom Glavian is not and
Greg Maddox is not walking from that shore. Avery's not
walking through that. It's not it's not happening. So Charlie
Lee Brandt, you're to all too soon for that home run,

(24:45):
Charlie Lee brand too soon soon. So you're you're talking
about coming in with you know, maybe one of your
your your really good pitchers. You're not gonna have these
guys on Monday, right because they're not coming back on
that short rest. It would be a two day rest
period for Chris Saale and in a one day rest
period for Free. So that's not happening. So now you
have to navigate use those knowing full well on Monday,

(25:07):
those guys aren't going to be available. And for the Mets,
what have they been waiting for? What were they waiting
for to come back? Francisco Lindor and with him pinch hitting,
he was set to pinch hit last night and the
ninth inning, except the Mets went out one, two, three.
Most likely, I feel pretty good in saying Lindor will
be back and he'll be playing by Monday. He'll be
playing by the weekend and be ready to play. He's
not going to miss those games. So when you talk

(25:29):
about who really, you know who is affected the most
by this. The Braves had everything lined up, they had
all the momentum, they had the pitchers like, they had
it lined up the way they wanted to, and now
they have to scramble and figure things out a different way.
And the Mets are able to postpone, say, Okay, we
got our asses kicked last night. Let's go into this
series here this weekend against Milwaukee's got everything clinched. Let's

(25:50):
take care of business. See where we sit on Sunday night,
and we'll be ready to go on Monday. The Mets
pitching staff, while they do have top three pitchers, it's
not like the Braves, we really want these guys going. Yeah,
the Mets would love to have David Peterson or Sean
Manea go, but if not, they have confidence in the
other guys. So even though it you know, you see
that affect both teams, it really affects the Braves way

(26:11):
more than the Mets. Oh, certainly.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, it was all set up perfectly to get the Well, yeah,
if you play today you get sale much to your
sugarn But now you're gonna miss them entirely. It's just yeah,
it's it's crazy, all right. So it's the unfortunate part
of the last week of a season, right, we see
lots of calculations and best laid plans that get torn

(26:37):
asunder where Unfortunately at that point in the calendar. Hell,
I'm I already have the bookmark for the NFL weather page,
because it's only a matter of time before, you know,
we start having to talk about that and factor that
into our discussions about players, teams, picks and everything else.
So yeah, it's it's it's unfortunate. It's especially when you've

(26:59):
managed it well and the baseball gods have been on
your side for much of the year where you didn't
miss giant chunks of time due to injury like some
other teams Dodgers and others that you know, Now this
comes up at the most inopportunity of time, but you know,
it's a factor both teams have to work through. Yes,
it's unfair. Yes, if you're a Braves fan, you can

(27:22):
write a letter to Mother Nature and burn it in
a fire. I mean, that's about all you got. That's
the only recourse you have because it'll go on red
at the Major League offices.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallen down the Jason
smithser with Mike Carmon live from the tyreck dot Com studios.
That just relax. Everything is fine. Everything is fine. Now,
let's talk to a guy who I know everything is
fine because I think he's still drinking champagne following the
padres last night. It is Brian Finley, who has what's
trending in the wide world?

Speaker 5 (27:51):
I am it was a triple play?

Speaker 1 (27:52):
Was that right?

Speaker 5 (27:53):
Frostburg?

Speaker 6 (27:53):
I can't remember from last night. I'll have to check
in with him. I know he's obviously very happy about it.
But you know who isn't fine as well? Caitlin Clark,
And as you guys are talking about to start off
the show, she and the Fever. Their season comes to
an end. They get bounced to the first round of
the WNBA postseason a Game two, eighty seven eighty one
in a best of three first round series. Clark going

(28:15):
for twenty five points, really nearly mounted a comeback with
her heroics down the stretch, but coming up just Shorre
ten of twenty three from the floor, six rebounds and
nine assists along with that one block. Major League Baseball,
that Mets Brave series that Jason and Mike were talking about.
There's two games left and they're gonna, as it appears,

(28:37):
because of the hurricane in the area and the rain,
they're gonna move it to Monday in the form of
a doubleheader. As it stands now, New York is ahead
by a single game over Atlanta in the Nlild Card picture.
But we know the Mets, we know how they play
at this time of year, and so that might change.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Again. This is not editorialism here in the newsroom.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
No all, not at all, Hey, you speaking not No,
not at all. Well, hey, speaking of that other team
from New York. They are trying to clinch the Al East.
When would do it? As they were taking on tonight,
the Baltimore Orioles swung.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
On that in of the air the deep loft center field.

Speaker 7 (29:13):
That ball is high, it is far, it is gone.
It's a judge and blast. And so they visitors, both
Ben and jeep.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Loft Center the Yankees Radio Network.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
It would be the fifty seventh home runt of the
season for Aaron Judge, a three run blast. But yeah,
it wasn't enough, and the Orioles win again. They went
it nine to seven against the Yanks. The Orioles have
a four game lead for first in the AL wildcard
picture as of right now. Who's behind them? It's a
tie between the Tigers and the Royals. Royals and Tigers
both winning their games tonight. Royals of the Nationals three

(29:49):
and nothing, Tigers seven to one winners versus the Rays
the Ruers who were the NL Central winning champs, or
that's a little bit of a winning champs.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
It's like saying the same thing twice.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
And just the NL champions. They are Central champ.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
They are the NL winners two to one. They lost
against the.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
One the National League Central. The playoffs are still going.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
Still Central winners.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
They didn't win the NL yet that's.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Putting the Jason and Central winners.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
They have one. Yes, is that work? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (30:19):
Okay, that's okay.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
NL East Well, you guys are always quick to point
out the flaws, but then I'm not the only one
that makes the big steak or two.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
But I'm just saying, hey.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
So what a mistake or two? We're human, we all
we all make mistakes. Okay, Philly's nine to six over
the Cubs. And with that, let's get it back over
to Jason Smith and Mike Harmon.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Don't let him rattle you. Hey. I think Fenley was
a little distracted, obviously, because the Padres have just tied
the game with the Dodgers one apiece in the second inning.
They have runners at first and third. Nobody out Jack
Flaherty on the mound for the Dodgers, and uh, you know, look,
coming off that end of game walk off triple play
last night, which we spent the entire last hour of

(31:05):
the show talking about, it still is just an insane
play to think about. There is no bigger must win
game the Dodgers have had in the regular season in
a long time than tonight, because they are at the
lowest point of the season. You're coming off the game
in which you lost a on a walk off triple play.
With Otani on deck, the Padres clinch a playoff spot.

(31:27):
They're the closest to you in the standings that they've
ever been. And if they win the series. They wind
up winning the tie breaker, and you're thinking about going
into the playoffs as a wild card, and you still
have no idea who's going to pitch after Jack Flaherty
but hopefully Yamamoto like this is like this is this
is rock bottom. Today is rock bottom for the Dodgers,

(31:47):
and they have to get up off the mat. This
is an absolute must win. And it's hard to say
that in baseball when they play one hundred and sixty
two games, you still have five or six games left
depending on your team. But this tonight against the Padres,
this is an.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Absolutely I'll give you a rock bottom.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
It's well, you have your ace on the mound. This
is it, Like this is you have to win this
game rock bottom. There you go. I was watching the
Mister McMahon documentary earlier, so.

Speaker 3 (32:11):
Yeah, I'm out in for it. Get a couple of
rock bottoms thrown in. Yeah, I gotta imagine. It was
an interesting couple hours on AM five seventy l A
Sports earlier today in terms of phone calls dialing up
with people's reactions to last night.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh, everybody was so mad. I filled in today during
the day with Fred roch l the hashtag with Otani
on deck. Dude, it was like it was it was like,
uh I could I could hear the blood in caller's
eyes when they were calling in to talk about that
game from last night? Anger Everybody, my friend, everybody wanted

(32:49):
to blame Dave Roberts. I'm like, of course, okay, well
did Dave Roberts fall to hit into a triple play?
Come on, man, but that shows you. Hey, we told
you Dave Roberts job is at stake this year, depending
on how the Dodgers finish and when fans are ready
to blame him for a guy hitting into a triple play,
Like where do you think that? Where do you think that?
The bottom of that sock drawer runs and runs empty?

(33:10):
For giving Robert some cachet Like people are done already,
not even in the playoffs. Oh it says that triple play.
Gotta stay out of the triple play. What are you
talking about? Oh, it's his fault, stay wrong.

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Did you dedicate any songs like get the Let Out
to Rojas?

Speaker 1 (33:24):
No, No, we did not do that. In fact, do
anything with something we did not do anything with. We'll
have to do stuff with songs tonight we'll do songs
and stuff tonight instead. Exit out a bout of Fresca,
Exit Swallen Dome. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon
Live from the tirect dot Com Studios. Coming up next,
a college football controversy that has just taken over in
the last few hours. And yes it's as silly as

(33:44):
it's been reported. That's next Jason and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific Fox.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live
from the Tireract dot Com Studios. Got a big NFL
story coming your way in a few minutes, about ten
minutes away from a quarterback who's about to lose his
job any week now. But TiVo, uh, I don't even
know what he's doing anymore, you probably now, Yeah, I

(34:17):
don't even know either, right like, like he hasn't been
I haven't seen him a lot for college football or anything. Like,
I don't know what he's doing.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
He's probably a Bible study.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Maybe I go back to his charities and philanthropic work.
Let me see, Hey, Tim Tebow backup quarterback New York
Jets hanging O. Okay, may you probably he's he's married now,
I mean he's married. I mean he's of course that's
probably happening. Yeah, he's married. That happens when you get it.

Speaker 8 (34:45):
Even if he wasn't, I mean, it's his choice him
and uh the you probably saw the story too, involving
the UNLV quarterback Matt Luca TJ.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
His name is Sluke. He no longer lives on the
second floor or in Las Vegas. Matt's Luca, who has
left UNLV over a lack of delivering of nil promises.
He says that offensive coach, the offensive coordinator promised him
one hundred thousand dollars when he transferred to the school
this year. He did not get it, and he is

(35:21):
now taking his red shirt year and gonna go play
someplace else to finish his career. Now, this is not
anything that's not above board. This is nil money that
he says he was supposed to get but he didn't.
UNLV just never came up with it. According to his
dad and his lawyer. Hey, he got three thousand dollars
a couple of times. But now they're kind of paying
out a pocket. Again, this is this is Sluca's side

(35:42):
of the story, but it's over one hundred thousand dollars.
He was promising nil money and he didn't get it.
And the thing is, this is the best UNLV has
been in years, first time they've ever been right in
the top since Kenny Maine was the quarterback there at UNLV.
They weren't right to the top twenty five, they're three
and zero. They got a couple of big games coming up.
The game against Syracuse is gonna be is supposed to

(36:04):
be the biggest sellout, the most anticipated football game in
Las Vegas in a non Raider game in like like
twenty five years. Like it's an insane atmosphere, and Sluca's
played pretty well. Dual threat quarterback doesn't throw for three
hundred yards, but look, the guy throws for one hundred
two hundred yards a week, runs for seventeen one hundred yards.
He's pretty good. And now he's not playing on the

(36:25):
team because he's not didn't get his one hundred thousand
dollars that was promised him in nil money. Now, my
first takeaway is this, before we waited the contoversist, I
want to say they didn't have one hundred thousand dollars
for their quarterback. Really, like this would have never happened
to Jerry Tarkanian, Like you don't have one hundred thousand
dollars for your quarterback in Las Vegas?

Speaker 4 (36:46):
He would have paid them in towels.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
It's Vegas and gold towels that the flex of gold
coming off the towels, Like, I don't know, I don't
understand how your Las Vegas and you don't have one
hundred grand four year quarterback. This is not a defensive
lineman that you were trying to get or a shutdown corner.
This is your starting quarterback and Nile money you don't
have one hundred thousand dollars saying come on.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
This reminds me of an episode of the Andy Griffith Show.
I saw a couple of weeks ago where they needed
a new organ for the church and a bunch of
people pledged money.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
Oh yeah, let's get that organ.

Speaker 3 (37:19):
And then it came time to pass the hat and
they all said, I don't have it, but out of
the times are tough, Andy, I ain't got it, and
they went to the next guy. Andy, you wouldn't believe it.
You wouldn't believe it. The kid needs braces. Andy, go
to the next guy. Hey, my wife, you know she
bought this thing for the house we need, you know,
all the way on down to all that same thing happened here,
I guess for one hundred grand. And then you have

(37:40):
the other wrinkle of a relative of the Cromartes of
NFL fame is the guy's agent, and there's no record
of him being an agent in the state of Nevada.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yeah, yeah, no, I can't find it. So you just
got wrinkles to this and layers to the level of
folly because not only did he leave, but one of
their top rushers also set out out with it. I'm
done to.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Jameson.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
You don't have one hundred grand for your quarterback. I mean,
come on, Ben.

Speaker 4 (38:06):
The big question is how did he not get this
in writing?

Speaker 3 (38:09):
No, Well, that's the whole thing part, right, And that's
the other part that get that in writing?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Right. Well, now there's there's going to be a binding.
That's what part of this, uh, part of the legal
ramifications of this is now you're going to be able
to do that, You're going to be able to make
these promises and writing because now you can't. So a
lot of the n I L is just, hey, we
promise to do this handshake dealing, you come through for it.
But this is not going as as smoothly as they expected.

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Clearly.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
Yeah, so there's a lot of uh, there's a lot
of uh legal uh, a lot of legal issues tied
up in this, and they expect to have it solved
at some point where you can make it binding and
it's a contract and you can wind up getting paid right.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
But that you know, it gets into a messy thing, Jason,
just is that you know, state to state you've got
different rules, and the n C double A is ah know,
they have no power, so.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
They have no plan. I don't know plan. I don't
know how college football makes the money it does because
no big business in anywhere that I've seen has been
run worse than college football. There's no plan. They just
react to stuff and there's a big change every three months.
Like I don't understand how it's still going, like how
it's the there's absolutely no plan. It's just it's a

(39:24):
wild West of conferences and nil and transfers and money
and there's no way to keep track of it. And
yet still college football is a big business. There's your
business school that would that would show you, hey, this
is how you run a successful company. No, they would
say this is how you don't do it. I don't
know how they make money. I love it.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Hey, did you get the memo to see those teams
leaving to go to the BAC twelve?

Speaker 1 (39:45):
How about that? Some crazy stuff right there? We got
that big NFL story coming up next.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
Fuck fans are ripping seats out of the coliseum.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
Oh yes, I've been watching that. I've been watching that.
It reminds me of when when the when the Jets left.

Speaker 4 (40:03):
Of course, because here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Of course, the Jets' final game right when they left
for the Meadowlands right in nineteen eighty three, was against
the Steelers. Also turned out to be Terry Bradshaw's last
game as an NFL quarterback, right los, Yes, because Bradshaw,
who had not been healthy somehow he comes off the
bench and he and he and he and he throws
like two touchdowns and he starts and that's that's his
last game. Like they didn't make the playoffs, but it

(40:29):
was a last game in Chase Stadium because the Jets
were leaving and people were just pulling up seats and
taking them with me. Yeah, my uncle went to the
game and he said, on the way back on the subway,
there were guys just with seats from Chase Stadium and
they took they just ripped him out and took it.
And that's what's happening now, people just ripping out the
seats in the coliseum and taking them as they leave.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
It's just like the video that started yesterday and now
it continues of all right.

Speaker 1 (40:57):
Well, they didn't do anything to those guys.

Speaker 4 (41:00):
They don't realize that those seats are ass.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Well, what they don't what you'd say, nicely do what
if someone wants to sit in those seats? In them
the reference, there's plenty of I did not get it.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Yeah, you didn't see the new hat.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
I just know I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
I'm gonna send you right now.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Terrible. Okay, is it really so bad? No?

Speaker 4 (41:19):
No, you can say it's ass you can.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Really that's what you're advertising. I love wearing a's gear. Okay,
I gotta see it. Okay, all right, it's not good
for anybody. Send it to me and I'll see it.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
But you know, leaving and certainly there's a business in
the memorabilia. Folks set set up part of their their
man cave, woman cave, whatever viewing area for football games
or whatever where they don't have old old time seats
and those are part of stadium sales.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
Oh yeah, that's the worst. That's the worst. Yeah, it
says ASS on the hat. That's an a trailed off.
That's an ass. It just says ads the worst. It's
the worst in the world.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Right, it's not a fading, you know, contrail of an ass.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
It's just says ass.

Speaker 4 (42:08):
Yeah, And they watch for people.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Are you kidding to have that hat? People will buy
that hat?

Speaker 3 (42:14):
It does really people absolutely buy it tell you the
state of affairs.

Speaker 1 (42:18):
I mean, there's no question about it. People make mistakes
on it because they'll think, oh, this is a cool
I gotta have this hat. It says ASS on it,
and they'll spend sixty dollars to get it. By the
time you spend forty nine dollars on it and have
it chipped, and then they're gonna go, why the hell
did I buy this? That was that was that was
an impulse buy. That was just sid buy. It doesn't

(42:39):
make any sense, but it happens.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Like I was gonna buy him one of those jets
helmet ones that just came out, but I figured.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
He'd just leave it, you know, on a table somewhere.
Oh ye, No, no, no, no, I don't mind the
jets out. It's the snap back one right, Oh yeah.
I can't wear a snap back. My head is too big.
I can't wear I'm not gonna wear a snap back
where it's only I can only do the last one,
the only I can only do the last snap That
looks awful. It looks terrible. I can't do that. Do
you see behind your head when you're walking? No, no,

(43:06):
but other people do. I can't, can't, I can't. I
can't be saying about what people think about that.

Speaker 9 (43:11):
No.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
I want people to take me seriously on here and
say crazy ass stuff every night, And all of a sudden,
you gonna care because it's on the last wrung of
a hat. No, that looks awful, because it looks awful,
all right, you got an exploding head. It's just just
because some of the outfits you walk out of the house,
and last week you walked out with a white Sox hat,
Northwestern T shirt and bear shorts. Man, they were they

(43:35):
were not. Yes they were. Yes, they were where they
were blue and orange? Where they bears colors? Were they
blue an orange? See, that's a whole different story. You
were selling it like I was mcalhanney and you were Beard.
You had a Northwestern shirt, it said Northwestern on it.
You had an you had white sock. I had hat.

(43:57):
You said it said white socks on. You decided I'm
gonna wear all my stuff. Man, I'm sorry. I'm not
going to walk around with a one with a one
snap back on that. I'm not going to do.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
It is what they are on third deck, not do.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Brough Shawn Johnson.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
You should have picked him up on waiver wire like
I told you, because he's going to become the guy
because DeAndre Swift stinks.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah. Hey, no, no I did. But I took your lesson.
I took you advice. I got him in one of
the leagues. I'm excited about that. Yeah it was. I
was a little nervous. I was the only one to
bid on him, and I'm like, much all right, harmon
a couple of bucks. I have the one hundred hundred
for the season. I've been eight bucks out of I
thought it was worth it. You're you're you know, playing

(44:40):
keep away from someone else when he gets the job.
Speaking of the NFL, it is now within the next month,
I can tell you Deshaun Watson is losing his job.
He's not going to be the starting quarterback in Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Right, We said, Linds up with the timeline that we
set out from the beginning.

Speaker 1 (44:57):
We told you Jameis Winston's going to play the majority
of the here barring injury in Cleveland because Deshaun Watson
A is no good and B they're not going to
go through another season where the team plays well but
the quarterback position holds them back. And we told you
this all off season of what's gone on so far
with it with the Cleveland Browns, That's exactly what's happened. Right.

(45:19):
And then you had this from today Toshaun Watson's press conference,
which is part for the course for everything he has
said throughout his time this season, and before he gets
asked about uh it, would they call more running plays
for him as a quarterback and he said, no, no,
I don't. I don't do it. I'm not a running back.
I'm a quarterback, not doing it, not doing I'm not

(45:40):
no I'm not going to ask them. I'm only going
to run if I have to. Oh gee, that's great.
Thanks a lot, DeShawn. Thanks for saying, hey, you'll do
whatever it takes to for the team to win. That's great.
Then he gets asked about why he missed a wide
open receiver on a big fourth down throw, and here
was Deshaun Watson's answer.

Speaker 10 (45:56):
On because other people are not in the film room,
so that not everyone knows that what the reed was.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
That was a decoy.

Speaker 10 (46:02):
So that's the difference. Everyone can pause the tape and say, hey,
you know, he should have thrown a here, should have
thrown a here. You know, every quarterback deal with that.
So if you choose one play and that's that's the
player out of the whole game that everyone is calling.
And so bit it is what it is. You know,
no one's in those feminoms, no one is making those decisions.
So I go based off of what is Ken Dorsey

(46:24):
and Kevin Stefanski is saying. And you know, on that decision,
they made a good play. They got jammed up on
the slant. That's what we did it the previous time
when we scored a touchdown. I did the same as
that reed and I hit Jerry. So did I see
it wrong with then?

Speaker 9 (46:39):
You know?

Speaker 10 (46:40):
So, like I said before, just I go based off
what Kevin and Ken is is making those decisions and
how they're great.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
So just to recap, I'm not going to run because
I don't want to unless I absolutely have to, because
I really don't want to go all out to try
to win games. And I missed the wide open receiver
because he was a decoy, and that's I didn't throw
on fourth and one we need a one yard I
missed him because he was a decoy. Okay, now it
no longer matters whether Deshaun Watson is right about this

(47:11):
this decoy thing or not, because you just look at
his answers when he talks about, No, I don't want
any more running plays. I'm not a running quarter. I'm
not gonna do it. I don't want to do unless
I have to. Like he's done, you should not be
surprised at any of what's been going on with Deshaun Watson.
He has seemed detached from football since he came back.
He signed the big contract, and he has been detached

(47:32):
from everything. Right, I heard Dan Patrick say he plays
sometimes like a zombie and that's a great analogy. But overall,
everything he has ever done, whether it's on the field,
whether it's an interview after, whether it's a press conference,
he seems detached, like I really just don't care about
this and this is not going to go on any

(47:52):
longer because things are not reversing. Deshaun Watson basically was
given the hey, this is your last chance last couple
weeks opening week of the season, this was Hey, you
need to pick it up now. This is the wake
up call. And he's not nearly been good enough the
last couple weeks, right, and at certain spurts he's been
a little bit better here and there, but overall, you're

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not getting anywhere what you need to near what you
need to get for him. And the fact is that
Browns fans have had it, the team has most likely
had it, and if they make a change, no one's
gonna care. No one's gonna care that, Oh, we paid
them all this money. It's gonna be finally we got
somebody in and maybe you can start building some positivity
towards a team. There's no energy about this team, there's

(48:34):
no positivity, there's no hey, we got it. We're close.
This is we're watching a quarterback who just doesn't seem
to care as much as you need to, and we're
watching to go out there every week and underachieve. We
can't keep doing that. And it may be after this week.
It may just be one more game, but they have
to make a change because they can't give the season away.
We're still in the mid to late part of September.

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I told you by week five ish, we're gonna see
Jameis Winston. This might be it. This might at some
point the Browns are gonna say, we just can't do
it where we're gonna lose every game. We're gonna lose
the team because if we don't make a change of quarterback,
the rest of the team is gonna quit because they're
gonna say, if he's not trying, I'm not trying. And
then suddenly we're in one of those awful seasons where
we're just exing off the days till the end of
the season, and there there could be changes and coaching

(49:18):
changes and all kinds of crazy stuff could happen. So
they know they're gonna have to do it for the team.
And I tell you, it could be after this week.
This certainly didn't do him any favors with what he
said about how yeah, I don't want to run unless
I have to. Oh sorry, sorry, I'm sorry. You know
you want to do what it takes to win. Sorry,
I forgot that about you just.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
Show unless it's for a massage.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Then it's not even about the massage. This is about
what he is as a quarterback, right, like that, stuff's
gone like that, stuff's gone from a few No no
no no no no, no, no no, there's still there's still
one pending, don't you. No, no, no, no, it's still pending.
But this is but you don't even have to get
into that. This is about what's going on on the field,
and he's been terrible. You don't even need to get

(49:57):
to the whole. Hey, what's going on? Look, we hold
you off season. They'll do it and they'll figure out
the money in a few months. They'll figure out the
money in February or March, whatever it is. But they
can't keep going. So Deshaun Watson, I mean, maybe one
more week he'll start. But the Browns are gonna have
to say, they're gonna have to depth swallow. They're gonna
have to swallow their pride and everything else that goes
along with it and take a deep breath and say,

(50:18):
we're making a change a quarterback, and this is the
change for the season. And not only that, but Deshaun
Watson won't even be around the team. He'll be someone
that you know, you're you're you're you're deactivated and you're
inactive and you're away from the team for the rest
of the year. Yeah, he gets hot, and it's gonna
happen soon. It's gonna happen in the next week or two.
This is the way it is going, and it's not
gonna be reversed.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Three straight games under two hundred yards passing for the year,
completing just fifty seven point eight percent, and you can say, well,
Nick Chubb's not there, you don't have the balance. Ford's
averaging five yards of pop on twenty nine carries, Foreman's
at two point nine. Watson himself, He's actually carried the
ball fourteen times success rate yards per carry as he

(51:01):
scrambled and made plays with his legs. But you know,
the answers are terse And I think this is interesting
because just like you and I were talking about Trevor Lawrence.
Jaguars aren't sexy. Nobody wants to talk Jaguars football.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
We do it does. Look, there's thirty two teams.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
He's a former number one pick and everybody annoyed at
him as the chosen ones. So he's fair and right
for criticism as well. For Shaun Watson, I get it.
It's an unsavory topic to go through, even if you
just leave it at the football.

Speaker 1 (51:32):
Like it's still in your brain and burned in your brain.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Everything in the past and all the allegations and the
piling up of them that any other quarterback would get
more heat against what he's put on the field. But
it's all right. The Browns were supposed to be good,
but they got that guy, so they don't even want
to talk about it. So well, we'll pick up that
chore and do it here as we did before the season.

(51:58):
You got a good roster, a bunch some of these
guys are gonna need to get paid in short order.
Nick Chubb's gonna come back and give you another boost
to what Jerome Forward's already done in your offense. You
can't waste years right saying eventually it'll get right. How
long a sample sized do you a get They say, well,
it's only been fourteen games. Fifteen games over several years. Right,

(52:21):
he's held your organization hostage based on the bad contract
given by Haslam and the front office that is assembled there.
All the things they did, right, they really butchered this one.
That it's held you hostage from moving forward because with
an adequate quarterback play, it's like your Jets last year.
With adequate quarterback play, who the hell those with the

(52:43):
ceiling could have been? And right now they're doing the
same thing. You would think a loss to the Giants
that everybody thought was the worst team in the world. Oh,
by the way, they should be two and one and
they're gonna beat the Cowboys tomorrow night. Spoiler alert, that
that would be the wake up call to just say, hey,
we need to turn.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
To page exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
It's gonna happen next couple of weeks. That we told
you all off season. First we said midseason. By week
eight he's gonna start half the season, Uh, Jameis Winston.
Then as things have gone on, it's not gotten better.
He's still the same. You just can't continue. You can't
you can't his poor play and lack of accountability. They're

(53:22):
just they're they're having enough of it and they're gonna
lose a team if they don't make a change. That's
why the change is coming.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Well, Jamis has been making crazy ass speeches like he's
the starter anyway.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
So he's been getting ready. I mean he's getting ready.
He's got to have the new Eaton W speech. Now
you gotta have the new the Yeah, can't bring the
old Eaton W. You's gotta have the new Eaton WS. Yeah. Uh,
exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome coming up next,
Jason Cole NFL Inside or Extraordinary stops by? Are the
Cowboys problems too tough to solve? Was Josh Allen taking

(53:55):
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(54:35):
Dressed Cobo. Fourth inning, Dodgers trail the Padres two to one.
With a win, the Padres would be within a game
of the Dodgers in the NL West. Meanwhile, in the
sixth Arizona over San Francisco five to one, Diamondback's looking
to stop the bleeding after losing the first two to
the Giants and falling out of the number two wildcard

(54:57):
spot in the National League. Lot more baseball come out up,
but joining us on the hotline right now for all
the latest news in the NFL. Gonna take a big
look at Thursday night football with the Cowboys and the Giants.
There is nobody better than a longtime NFL insider, longtime
friend of the show. He's on Twitter at Jason Cole

(55:19):
sixty two. He is a Hall of very Good voter.
He remains so he's with us. Now, what's happening?

Speaker 9 (55:27):
J Cole, We just don't let this music play for
a little while, baby, Yeah, let you know what this is.
You heard it last Friday, Stanford fight song?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
They didn't, They didn't play it at the game. I
didn't listen to it at the game. Just so you know,
I didn't listen to.

Speaker 9 (55:48):
All right now, yes, all right, but now there is
an adaptation by that well free or bad Company, however
you prefer to name. They were free and then they
became bad company. But yes, there is an old old
fight song, but it's not nearly as interesting as all

(56:09):
right now. So there you go. But just so you know,
Cardinal is the new Orange.

Speaker 1 (56:15):
Yeah. I didn't listen to it last week. Didn't want
to listen to it.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
Now.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
I have no response to that. I have no where
it's smith.

Speaker 9 (56:22):
I just I'm just glad we were able to open
the ACC, Our History and the ACC with a victory
over Syracuse. Yeah, yeah, as long as the as long
as the ACC is going to exist between which could
be another one six months.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
It does Syracuse ever play a game at Stanford? Like
yes or no? Do they ever?

Speaker 9 (56:48):
Probably they ever played a game at Syracuse and got
a w Okay, that's all that matters. It's okay, Friday
field goal last second, went on fourth and nine beautiful things.
I really did. I love the man A man coverage
on our best receiver. I when I when we like,

(57:10):
we have one first round pick on our team, one
first round pick, and you guys played a man the
man single up.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
When I coverage. When I saw that, I said, I
said to Harmon, I said, what the hell defense are
we in on this play? What the hell defense are
we in on this play? That doesn't matter, doesn't.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
Mean died a little bit on Friday.

Speaker 1 (57:36):
Won that game, we'd have been in the top twenty five,
not just the also receiving votes category, I mean the
top twenty five man. And okay, you know what listen
that was last week? R E L A S Y. Yeah, listen.
I gotta remember what's important.

Speaker 9 (57:50):
I'm relaxed.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
I'm relaxed.

Speaker 9 (57:51):
I'm very relaxed.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
I remember, listen, I remember what's important. Gotta got you
want to talk about nerves right now? What I'm nervous about.
I don't who's more nervous, Jerry Jones for the game
tomorrow night or me? Because I don't know how many
Marguerite's Jason Cole is at tonight. I don't know what I.

Speaker 9 (58:07):
Know who's more nervous? I usually don't. I don't drink
on Wednesdays very often now Thursdays and Fridays. Yeah, if
you can catch you catch me on Friday, could be
a good night. If you catch me after a Cowboys
a Cowboys loss on Thursday as a giant, magnificent I'm
not sure who enjoys the Cowboys loss more me or

(58:29):
stephen A Smith. That's really quite the competition.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Do you put the hat on and put a video
on social media? If you just laughing smoking a cigar? Like?
Do you do that?

Speaker 3 (58:38):
No?

Speaker 9 (58:38):
I don't do that. It would be funny, but I
don't do that, mostly because I don't think they make
cowboy hats as big as my head is, unfortunately the
rather enormous nogg and I got to admit that. So so, yeah,
what's your head size?

Speaker 1 (58:55):
I'm seven and three quarters? What's your hat size?

Speaker 9 (58:57):
We're mono and mono baby, right, seven three quarters age?
That's what It's tough. It's tough defined. It really is
stuff defined. I gotta say that anyways, So.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Is it more cowboy lost tomorrow night. Is it going
to be the Giant the redemption of Daniel Jones Tomorrow night?

Speaker 9 (59:17):
Good lord? No, I mean Daniel Jones can't play. I
mean he's going to seem Michael Parsons in this freak out.
You know, the game is going to be too fast
for him.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Right.

Speaker 9 (59:29):
Oh, no, I can hit. It's just a bad thing.
Like now they have. They could make the game a
little more interesting than last year when it was both
those games were just deep down city. But you know,
this is the kind of game where the Cowboys come
back and they look really good and the usually then

(59:51):
games like this, they run up the score because that's
who they are. But when you play against teams that
are actually really tough, they're not that tough. I mean,
that's that's the problem with them. They're not tough upfront,
particularly on the defensive side. Right now, the defensive tackles
are not very good. Parsons doesn't want any part of contact.

(01:00:13):
So this is just who they are, who they are.
I mean, they were very fortunate that. I mean John
Harball last week in that game, I really didn't understand
the third and three pass when when Derek Henry is
going for like one point fifty and you got Lamar
Jackson and you're going shotgun putting the ball up in

(01:00:35):
the air on third and three with eight minutes left,
Like what are you doing? I mean that allowed that
game to become artificially closer because they scored there, they
get the odd side kick, and they make it interesting
at the end. But that game should have been a
fourteen to twenty point win easily for the Ravens. That

(01:00:56):
game was not close in any ways they performed. The
Cowboys are incredibly disappointed at this point. I'm here and
enough said.

Speaker 3 (01:01:03):
I just seed Jerry to admit that Brandon Aubrey is
by far and away his best player.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Tell me I'm wrong, not.

Speaker 9 (01:01:14):
Gonna not gonna happen. One hundred one hundred million combined
to his quarterback and as wide receiver. But he didn't
get him a running back like you've brought Zeke. And
and it's just amazing how much he hides from this
after after and gets away with it, really like he

(01:01:37):
hides from it. We all in comments, all of this stuff,
but he just he just keeps doing it, and he
keeps coming out and talking. I don't know, I've said
all this stuff about Jerry in the past. No, no
owner undermines his team better than Jerry does. And he's
got talent, but he undermines them constantly.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
No. I love how he came out when he was
asked about Derek Harry says, oh, we couldn't afford him. Wait, really,
you hadn't paid Dack at that point, you hadn't paid
CD he left. You couldn't afford Derek Henry.

Speaker 9 (01:02:09):
Two years twenty five million under the Caps sixteen million.

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
We didn't have the money for him.

Speaker 9 (01:02:15):
No, it's it's ridiculous. He had the money, he had
the Caps. He hadn't this he haded that. You know,
it's you know, there's there's no questions. You know that
they could have had Derrick Henry. They could have had
a lot of guys they don't have to have, you know,
the the last you know, threads of Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah,

(01:02:37):
I mean this is like Ezekiel Elliott is like that
really old pair of jeans that you hold on to
it till the end, despite the fact that there there's
a hole in both knees and the crotch and the
back of the pants, like there's nothing left on that
it's completely and totally threadbare, but they're comfortable, so you
keep hoping like that's that's what Ezekiel Elliott is at

(01:03:00):
this point in time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:01):
Nicely done, all right, let's go to Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Josh Allen continues to talk about how much he loves
his receiving core.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Is he waving at Stefan Diggs the whole time? Oh?

Speaker 9 (01:03:10):
Absolutely, I wouldn't you after after all that noise. Stefan
Diggs spent two years making more noise than Sterling Sharp
gigs during his entire time playing with Brett fare When
he used to come into the huddle and look at
Brett Favre and go, I can't believe you make more
money than they.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
For a second, I really thought you were gonna say
more noise than Shannon Sharp made on that audio tape
that got put out a couple of weeks ago. I
really thought that's what you were going to.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
Actually, that actually would be better.

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
I really know that you were going to, and we played.

Speaker 9 (01:03:47):
The audio right now. No, can't do that.

Speaker 1 (01:03:50):
You can't.

Speaker 9 (01:03:50):
You have more trouble than you did with me a
couple of weeks ago. The Sharp brothers do have a
way of making noise and as it was no I mean,
he's pointing at Diggs. And I mean, I will say this,
Josh Allen, like last year when he didn't show up
for the MVP show, like between that and what he

(01:04:14):
did this week, I gotta say, Josh Allen's showing me
he's a little thin skinned and should be above it all,
but he's not. And at the end of the day,
if you had to name an MVP right now, he's
the MVP. I believe it's only three games, but he's not.
You know, he's cut out the mistakes that he was
making last year, the turnovers, the boss plays. They're winning.

(01:04:36):
I mean, he's playing much much better football. And whether
that's because he doesn't have to worry about Diggs in
his ear all the time or not, I don't know.
But the whole Digs thing did become tiresome a year ago,
and they weren't spreading the ball around the way they
need to. I'm not sure that the Bills are any

(01:04:56):
better as a serious contender than they were before, but
they're you know, they're the next best team in the
AFC after Kansas City right now, and they got a
fighter's chance in that matchup.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Jason Cole with us, the Jason Smithson with Mike Harmon
lot from the TIREC dot Com studios. All right, so
from there, let's go here. Mike and I talked with
us a few minutes ago another day where DeShawn Watson
didn't want to take accountability for a pass he missed
to the press that I don't want to run unless
I have to, you know, basically say I.

Speaker 9 (01:05:27):
Don't want to play in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (01:05:28):
I don't I don't want to have an allion here.

Speaker 9 (01:05:30):
I mean really, I oh, yeah, they guaranteed all the money,
but I didn't really feel like it. I needed to
get out of Houston no matter what. Oh they're still
talking about me in Houston. They're still suing me in Houston.
Oh that's a distraction. That's a problem. Do I really
care about playing football that much? I'm not sure anymore.
I don't know. You know, Deshaun Watson, nobody has gone

(01:05:55):
falling faster from a point of he could have in
one of the top five quarterback in the league. And
I know, like I know, there have been injuries, but
so much of this is self induced, you know, the
behavior in Houston, all his faults the decision to go
to a place that he didn't want to play in

(01:06:17):
simply because of the money. You know, I understand you
take the two hundred million dollars guaranteed, but in your
heart of hearts, you wanted to go home and play
in Atlantic. You should have done that. You should have
followed your followed your passion because you would have enjoyed
it a lot more and you would have put more
effort into it, and you would have liked it more.

(01:06:39):
And this is I say this to guys all the time.
Don't find a place that you're comfortable, that you want
to play that will make you more energized. He's in Cleveland,
like he is the one part of Cleveland, and so
you know, it shows. It shows in the way he plays,
It shows in the work things put in, It shows
in his dedication to his game. I mean, I don't

(01:07:01):
know between him and Trevor Lawrence, who's who's sort of
falling faster. I mean, it's probably Deshaun Watson because there's
so much off the field garbage. But those two guys
were supposed to be, you know, faces of franchises and
faces of the NFL, and neither one of them is

(01:07:23):
even close.

Speaker 1 (01:07:24):
Right now, he's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two.
That is at Jason that man, you were very serious.

Speaker 9 (01:07:35):
Can we play Doug now again?

Speaker 1 (01:07:36):
We can? Yeah, that's great, that's great.

Speaker 9 (01:07:45):
Yeah that's field goal be Syracuse last Friday. It was
so great to go into the ACC with a victory
over the Orangeman. See like that. That's that's beautiful lyric.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
See now you got him free styling Smith. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know, that's what Look what happened. I know,
you know, part of me is a proud I feel
like a proud dad, but all the part of me
feels like I never want to hear this again.

Speaker 9 (01:08:13):
I'm a proud I'm a proud Stanford fan of a
team that actually won the game. That's what I'm proud of.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Smith. You know how you get him back though? Right? Oh?
Inspire a couple of Jerry lines at him right now.

Speaker 9 (01:08:26):
No, no, no, no, that's a very.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Good team there in Stanford. That's very good at Oh,
there he goes