Best of the Week on the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason’s Mets send the NLCS back to Los Angeles for a Game 5. Jason and Mike react to Bill Belichick dismantled the Jets on live television Jerry Jones threatened to fire a Dallas radio hosts after being asked what’s going on with the Cowboys. We head out to Las Vegas and check in with Todd Fuhrman for all great NFL Week 7/CFB Week 8 odds. Plus, a special playoff edition of the Magic Johnson Twitter game!

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
We were down three games to one. No, keep it
going to show it right in here. Show is in
here all the way. The show is in here. You
play that now where you're all fired. You're fired, and
you're fired, and you're fired too, to Sager and you're
fired to Harmon.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
No, no, no, the show is in here. Night on
the show. You want to.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Play the song from a team that lost today, that
lost today, No, no, give me that I was freestyling.
Give it back, give it back right now, or I'll
fire every one of you, every single one of you. Fired, fired, fired, fired,
all of you. I just need right here, just keep
the microphone on. It's all I need.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Fire all of you, everybody here, even everybody editing in
the back. Fire all of.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Them, all of them, fire everybody, just like Jack Flaherty
got fired today in the middle of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Fired. The Mets fired him.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Dave Roberts isn't arrested the second up Plane Lands fired him.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
Now I got a new freestyle. That was the old three.
Now I can do anything for four hours. Here we go,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
We would down three games to one. Last night.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
The Dodgers were talking like the series is already over.
Then Alonso came up in the first hit a three
run bomb.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
That ball was out of sight and we just kept scoring.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Tonight, there's your game one hero, Jack Flaherty giving up
a fistful of runs, and baby, you better believe we're
going back back to Los Angele Liszt game six, going
back back to Los Angele List Game six.

Speaker 5 (02:12):
Yeah, buddy, only three hours fifty six minutes left.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Happy Friday, The Jason.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We're just
gonna play these songs, the dueling songs. It's like dueling banjos.
I have a horrible sinus headache. I can honestly say
this is not helping. I'm not sure this is street legal.

(02:43):
In the immortal words of Mo Shemp, quiet numb skulls.
We're broadcasting. That's like a game fight. Randy win. He
would hit him over the head with his guitar and
he would win. I think I would take as freely
in that.

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Speaker 4 (03:20):
Okay you Jason, Okay, okay, dude, is wow calmer than
you are?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's just again. But here's the thing that ended a
long long time. But it doesn't matter, no, but just in.

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Terms of you know, timelines and riding highs those whatever.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
It doesn't matter. We're adult. I'm already prewe dog.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
How are you okay? All right, that's that's fine, that's fine.
Mets just scored again. Mets just scored again.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
And I had all my ranting against Dave Roberts, as
Prostburg alluded to, he wants him arrested.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I have questions. Did you see the report on Flaherty
that he was bad today? I saw that. I watch
it live. I watch it live.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yes, he was under the weather and ye and Dave
Roberts still didn't pull Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
What was he three miles an hour lest on his
fastball today? Look, the first thing I'll say about the
game is this is that for coming in coming into
this game from last night till today? What woke the
Mets up?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Right?

Speaker 1 (04:19):
What woke the Mets up? They had not scored. It
was done. I guarantee you it was this last night.
And we saw a little bit of it in the
post game, but really didn't see it till till all
the quotes started coming out. The Dodgers kind of celebrated
during the game and then talked after how you do
it when the series is actually over, when you eliminate

(04:39):
a team, you say things like, what are you gonna do?
We have two Hall of Famers at the top of
the line of Freddie Freeman talking after the game. Boy,
when we're on you can't stop us. That's our lineup,
Max Muncy and the Dodgers really they had a good
time playing. And look, when you're scoring runs and having fun.
That's great. And then after the game they I was
really it was really a way where they they talked
about their team, very self congratulatory before the series is over.

(05:03):
Not that you don't talk this way, but you say
it when you've When if if that was the last
game and the Dodgers beat the Mets and you're saying, wow,
look at what happened. The Dodgers then can say, hey,
you can't stop our lineup.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
It's this good. What are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Show hey at the top and then Mookie bets. But
the way the Dodgers carried themselves last night and what
they said after, you know, that made its way back
to the Mets. Because the Mets came out today, Think, okay,
they one of two things is gonna happen. Either the
Mets are gonna roll over the season's over, or they're
gonna fight and say we're going back to LA and
we'll see a bullpend game in game six. And they
came out and they were on fire today. And I

(05:36):
guarantee you that is what got into today which turned
the game chippy as we watch it go on. But
what woke the Mets up? I guarantee you that's what
it was.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
As soon as your guys started acting like an ass,
things got interesting too.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Way to go, Peterson.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
But the just the idea that you need someone to
go to a media member and go, oh, yeah, we're
feeling good. Our top guys they're hitting really well right now.
I'm not hitting worth anything, but the top guys if
that's the thing they need to like in the human ego,
you know, getting your levels right and getting motivated.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
However it takes it.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
The idea that it's just an elimination game should be enough,
I would hope as a professional in anything, you're doing right.
Every time we open the microphones, it's not hey, you
know what, we're gonna get through it. It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be eleven o'clock soon. And then there's a sandwich.
I know, we're gonna try to entertain and wait until
the show is over to have a sandwich. We can

(06:35):
have a sandwich.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Ever we want to game sandwiches on you.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
But just the idea that you know, we're coming in,
entertain and form, find some angles, have some fun with it,
dissect this game, and roll through that. It's it's not
a hey, you know what when this is over. It's
the weekend, so let's get to the weekend. No, likewise,
the Mets, I would really hope that as a squad
they were pissed off. Now I've I was glad that

(07:01):
it actually got a little tense for a moment. Freddie Freeman,
who you you know, gave credit to as the author
of the quote about the Hall of Famers up front, Uh,
bases loaded, like all right, this is about to get spicy,
and Adie did nothing stood there.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
I mean, that was that was the at bat of
the game. That's where that's the kind of here's a game. Okay,
it's eighty two and instead of now eight three and
we're still hitting, we're rolling through the line at.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
The conga line or I mean, or he takes one deep.
I mean, because I was a pitch to hit. I was,
that was a pitch to drive. He watched it across
the plate.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
Uh you know, started way outside and you know, looked
like he try to take the walk.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
But clearly that was a strike. That was a big one.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
Because the old rule of thumb is never go up
there and show the umpire. Hey, I know you're calling
this the ball. At least look like you're still locked
in on the pitch, which he did not. I mean, look,
the Mets never make it easy. They need ds for
two winnings in a six one. Hey, that's just kind
of how it goes.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
But I'll tell you the game was so chippy today
and to make the second, but we will take a
lot of points.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
But to make the second.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
Big point about this is that, like I said, that's
what woke the Mets up. I am sure the Dodgers
very much self congratulatory, the way they talked after the game.
You know, that's what got into them the Mets today
and they came out like a house of fire, like
we're not down. We we can still make this happen.
I was really surprised at the broadcast and Fox Sports won.
And Fox Sports they do a great job on the games,

(08:18):
and watching the pregame shows them. Poppy said, Poppy said
that the Mets were gonna win ten two. I'm like, Poppy,
how caim? But you got every game wrong so far,
he said. And I'm like, oh, now, the Mets are
gonna win ten. But he made out what missus Met
he did stands Yeah, I mean, well, look, missus Met
has been linked with Grimace. Now it's just linked with Poppy.
I mean, missus med has had a year. I get around,

(08:40):
get around. This is missus Met's been having fun the
last I think they're like, yeah, link, that's it. They
are linked in question. But I was really surprised the
game didn't spend more time on how chippy it got
and and the level of.

Speaker 5 (08:56):
Of hate between them on lines like not really a
lot of a build to it.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
Like what look I told coming in from last night.
So the Mets are the Mets are kind of pissed.
I'm sure about how the Dodgers said, Well, basically, the
series is over. They come into this game and the
Mets put a bunch of runs on the board, and
then Moncy grounds out to Alonzo in the third inning,
and at this point the Dodgers are happy to go home.
Flarerty is out there taking a beating. Dave Roberts wants

(09:23):
to save his bullpen. I don't know what kind of
impetus the Dodgers even came into this game with to win,
because that's part of it, Like, boy, you really you
want to finish the Mets are down three to one,
you want to be aggressive and they came into this
game flarity where just confound it. It's like I felt
like when it was three to one, when there's three nothing,
Dave Roberts, Okay, well let's let's later. He had no

(09:44):
zip like you talked about it, three miles an hour
off his fastball, no dip, nothing, no like to strikeout pitch.
They didn't strike out in a single Mets hitter today. No, right,
I mean where they've been chasing all series long, and
today all the sudden discipline, focus and extending. Flarety's saying
all right, we're going to do it, and Dave Roberts

(10:06):
bought into it.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah. Look he kept bringing him back. But now you're
down eight one when the Mets.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
When the Mets are up eight one, I'm like, okay,
they're cruising to this game because the Dodgers are done.
The Dodgers are done. They are packing up, They've already
got their stuff packed up. They're ready to come back
to LA for Game six. Right, didn't work out for them,
they didn't. The Mets got a lot of runs, and
that's played like their season was on the line, and
it was. But then the Dodgers woke up and they
woke up because David Peterson on this ground out that
that Max months he had. Alonzo flips to Peterson. He

(10:34):
makes a great play, right, and the great play by
Peterson to make the grab and he turns to Muncie
and he says, sit down blank. Yeah, but you can
see it. I'm like, as soon as I said, oh,
he just barked at Muncie, what did he say on
reading his lips, going, oh, he said sit down blank.
And since then at that moment, then the Dodgers started
having better at bats and they really kind of try
to leak back into it. Paj Haz hits the home run.

(10:56):
He bat flips and then he comes he crosses the
plate and Alvarez barks at him and pauses with whatever, man,
I'm not even listening, Like, dude, okay, you know you
want to you want to peacock. You're down eight one
with a home run. Okay, but right, but then he
Peacock's again. He had another big bat flip. Then Alonso
gets hit right after the home run. He gets hit

(11:17):
on the arm, and then uh, you saw another hit
by pitch in the same inning. Then the Mets hit
one of the Dodgers and the game was chippy, and
it was really like that's like the story of the
game was wow, Like if the Mets are up big late,
is Otani gonna get hit Like I said, Otani's gonna
get thrown at, like or Mookie Bets or somebody is
gonna is gonna get thrown at, Because I honestly thought

(11:38):
the game was gonna start the first pitch to Watani
was gonna be a fastball high and end. Like you
think you're comfortable. You guys are all comfortable against our
pitching staff the last couple of days, We're gonna back
you off the plate a little bit. But when the
game started getting that point, like, if this game gets
out of hand, somebody's getting thrown out at the end,
somebody is because this is the Mets are not going
to sit here and let this go back and forth
and and and and have them end the game this way,

(12:01):
especially hitting Alonso and and the couple of hit by pitches.
It went on. I'm like, boy, this is really gonna
be it. And the broadcast never talked about it, and
I'm like, this is the story of the game. Like
very briefly they say, hey, look at this kind of
barking back and front.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
No, that's part of the game. That's part of it.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
And and and that was that was a big missing
moment that I thought like, hey, man, this is this
game is still going like that if you if you
want to keep people watching in a blowout game, it's Hey,
the Dodgers decided we're going to start having good at bats. Right,
they're down eight to two when they're playing the infield
in on on on in the fifth inning of the game,
They're thinking, we're coming, We're going to hit the ball.
We're gonna come back and eliminate you. Now, So the

(12:38):
Mets woke the Dodgers up in this game. And I said,
I'm like, why is Peterson doing it? Why are you
yelling sit the black? But to your point, why are
you doing that?

Speaker 5 (12:44):
There was a pitch during uh I think it was
the fifth inning Otani at bat that came high and in,
but it wasn't like the sequence was working away. Yeah,
and he came inside and and it just got dismissed.
I'm like, no, no, no, that that he's pitching it one
way for a reason. And you detailed time and time
again as to what he does at trying to hit

(13:06):
the ball on the outer part of the plate, so
that pitch is just in congress to everything they're doing.
To your point about all right, there's there's one in
a little little purpose. Yeah, like that tied within like
and that. That's how you have to dig storylines, man. Yeah,
And when a game is a blow, it's like, wait
a minute, the Dodgers did. The Dodgers started out asleep
and then the Mets woke them up, and I'm like,

(13:26):
the Mets never make things easy this game. This should
be a game where the Dodgers go to sleep and
guys sit out and they get rest and we go
back to La for Game six and all of that,
Like that should have been it like that that. But no, no, no,
that's getting out. We're gonna wake the Dodgers up, and
I'm sweating. I go, it's eight to one. I'm sweating
this guy. Why am I sweating this game out?

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Because you know it's over? Oh man, I'll tell you
that was something.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Uh, the j's a long ass game. Pay some play
man for not happy. Yeah, there's only like three and
a half hours a little bit. It seems a lot
longer than it was. Only like three hours in like
five minutes, I think. But yeah, but these games do
seem a lot longer when.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
You get that. That's how long it felt like Flaherty
was pitching. This is true.

Speaker 3 (14:09):
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Speaker 1 (14:20):
Bills and the Jets inside of seven minutes ago in
the fourth quarter, the New York Jets the last two
times out of the football have missed field goals. Yeah,
Greg Zerline hitting the upright both times, one time from
thirty two yards out, one time for forty seven yards out.
It should be at least a three point lead for
the Jets. Instead, the Buffalo Bills look like they are close.

(14:41):
Even if they don't get in the end zone with
a short field goal, it's going to give them a lead.
And boy, it's gonna suck when the Bills win this
game by a touchdown. I mean really, I know I
got the Mets, so it's gonna.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Suck when the Bills win this game by Yeah, it's
been a very difficult watch me watching you as you
watch these zer Line field goal tries. And incredulously looking
up because the wind socks are hanging straight down, right.
We had all of the talk coming into the game
wind advisories, right, that was all over the place, like

(15:12):
if it was really that windy, are they now tied down?
Because otherwise they'd be flying and flapping in the breeze.
But yeah, just a couple of miserable up like.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
The thirty two year old yard.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
It's almost like he was playing the game you do
when you go all right, we're gonna play the crossbar
challenge to end to soccer practice. Yeah, yeah, that's kind
of what he looked like he was doing, like I'm
gonna hit it right here?

Speaker 2 (15:34):
What's this?

Speaker 1 (15:35):
And meanwhile looked like the Jets are gonna hold the
Bills to a field goal everage of von Kinlaw gets
called for roughing Josh Allen after an incomplete pass on
aw Buffalo has first and goal from the nine yard line,
where a touchdown would really make it a tough go
for the Jets to try to get down the field,
who have not been able to get down the field
at all since Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary and the first time.

Speaker 5 (15:56):
But you know that Hail Mary is always in the
arsenal as long as we haven't well, you know, you
can get sixty air yards, let's go, let's use.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
It a couple of times.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Look, it's it's a very frustrating game. The officials have
really taken it over. There have been ridiculous calls on
both teams. It's been it's like, every every time there's
a play, you are is there a flag? Like it's
one of those timescent like, I'm looking for a flag
after every single play. And that's not how the NFL,
that's not how you want this to.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Go standalone game.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
We talked about it a little bit last hour with
Jason lacafor where you just tried to decide what's enough
contact again, owing to the world of soccer, are.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
We going to call the fall or you know? Or
are we not?

Speaker 7 (16:36):
You know?

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Is it a free kick? Is it not? Like where
we drawn that.

Speaker 5 (16:40):
Line in the sand, And they've certainly done that with
both secondaries, and then we've watched them mind numbingly confusing
calls on offensive linemen.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
You know what constitutes holding.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
We talked about it a little bit before the you know,
the personal foul penalty that went on. It's like, well,
the ball's not been released yet, is not just finishing
a block at that point, right, letter of the law,
spirit of the law, all of that, But it just
makes it a very difficult watch at times, like all right,
what it constitutes a legal contact in the secondary on

(17:16):
both sides. And we've seen a lot of former athletes
chiming in, like in a big way. I don't know
that everybody's sat at the keyboard like they are tonight.

Speaker 7 (17:27):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Meanwhile, speaking of wanting to sit at the keyboard and
say things, Yeah, there is criticizing a team, there's criticizing
a coach, and then there's going full scorched earth, which
is what Bill Belichick did a few moments ago on
the Manning Cast with Peyton and Eli talking about the
New York Jets franchise. Obviously, the Jets are playing this game,

(17:49):
first game since firing Robert Sala, and you know Belichick
who doesn't like the Jets, not only from his rivalry
with the team the last twenty years, but he resigned
as head coach the Jets. He doesn't like Woody Johnson.
He hates Woody Johnson, the owner of the Jets, but
might need to do a little more of the history.
Lesson on that as.

Speaker 5 (18:07):
A Jets fan, because I think a lot of our
audience doesn't recognize that he was actually the Jets coach.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, albeit briefly. Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
When Bill Parcells retired in two thousand, Bill Belichick was
named head coach of the Jets and then resigned at
the press conference and passed a note saying I resign
as HC of the nyj and then went on to
go become the head coach in New England and build
a dynasty.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
He's asked about it.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
He talks about it on the on the Manning cast,
and he also takes a moment to light the Jets
franchise up.

Speaker 8 (18:39):
That's kind of what it's been there at the Jets.
You know, barely won over thirty percent in the last
ten years, so you know, the owner being the owner
just ready fire aim.

Speaker 9 (18:50):
But Bill you mentioned, I mean in ninety nine you
were in the DC for the Jets parcels and the
head coach he stepped down and you replaced him for
a day before resigning.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
We have a creation of your.

Speaker 9 (19:01):
Resignation letter that we can show here.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
You will quote it.

Speaker 9 (19:04):
I resigned as HC the Jay and you run it
on a napkin.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
But looking back, what's a stranger? Have you resigned on
a napkin?

Speaker 9 (19:13):
And then you couldn't be bothered to write out the
words head coach?

Speaker 2 (19:18):
I was tight on space.

Speaker 8 (19:21):
Hey, look, Peyton, I was the head coach of the
Jets twice. I was a head coach before Parcels came there,
and I was head coach after Bill resigned, undefeated, unscored on.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Right out Belichick del just got jokes. Now Beligi's got jokes,
He's got jokes.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Defeat is pretty far.

Speaker 4 (19:42):
But here they went in Jets head coach over I
mean this, yeah, I mean look, you heard him say
it right there when their games, the owner being the
owner ready fire Aim you know I'm firing Robert Sala
And I get it.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Look, I get it.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Bill Belichick hates the Jets and and he has and
he's hated Woody Johnson. But I will tell you this,
you want to let's be honest, now, Bill, Yes, you
hate the Jets for and.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (20:05):
Like Woody Johnson wasn't really the owner for that long,
and he was named the head coach and he's never
talked about what went on that turned him into why
I'm resigning after a day like I don't know what
he's built up over the last twenty four years. He's
never talked about it. But I'll tell you this for certain,
all right, I'll tell you this for certain. Yes he
hates the Jets. Yes he hates Woody Johnson. If the

(20:27):
Jets called him tomorrow, if they said we don't like
Jeff Ulbrick, what went on to that? If they called
him tomorrow and Woody Johnson called him himself tomorrow and said, Bill,
it's been a while, it's been twenty four years, would
you come back and coach? He couldn't get to one
met life drive fast enough to be a head coach

(20:49):
again in the NFL where he can coach against the
Patriots and get closer to Don Shula. I know that
all the rumors with him and the Cowboys are gonna
go crazy because the Cowboys are terrible. But he would go, oh,
coach the Jets tomorrow if they called him, because he
knows that he doesn't have any real cachet anymore. And
if he gets back into the league somehow, it's incredibly

(21:11):
lucky and he and if they call again, That's why
if they called him tomorrow, and like saying tomorrow, if
they called him tomorrow, he would show up Jets hat, hoodie,
sleeves cut off.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Here's my new look, new Jets law. I'm ready, guys,
give me my whistle. I'll go out to coach. He
would coach the Jets tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (21:31):
What's the curiosity to it all? If we could get
into the mind of Bill Belichick. I like your theory
that he would walk through that door, but it's really
the ultimate test of loyalty. How much does he hate
the Jets as a franchise? And whatever's there right, maybe
it's for a tell all book that'll be published posthumously

(21:53):
somewhere down the line. Maybe it's all sitting in a
vault already written and ready to go. And maybe he's
already recorded that audiobook.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
We don't know.

Speaker 5 (22:01):
But how much does he hate them versus what's the
real status of the relationship with Bob Craft? Because that's
the thing that would propel him towards jetstam as much
as hey I got an opportunity to go coach in
the league again, because I firmly believe he will have
another opportunity to coach in the League. At this point,
it's just a question of where right. McCarthy's not going

(22:22):
to get fired tomorrow. It was funny when he, you know,
everything Jerry said yesterday and then he was really late
for his press are today, So all of a sudden,
everybody's like, oh wow, this could actually if you have it.
So they had to go and release press releases of no, no, no.
Meetings are just running late. It's like, no, no, that
this really opens a whole other can of worm. But

(22:43):
I mean, Doug Peterson's getting fired.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
See but see here's the thing. This is where it gets.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
So it's getting back in the NFL versus a level.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
He wants to get back in. He wants to get
back in with a good team because he wants to
passed Don Shula.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
Right.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
He knows he's not going to have that long. He
wants to do it now.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
The Jets are a pretty good roster, right, one thing,
we know that that's a pretty good roster.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
But you know, to take it in a different direction.
The Jets, but they don't have a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (23:05):
If you think stop Rogers having he's fine, he is.
He's Rogers having a pretty good night tonight, throwing the
football from a wheelchair.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
He's fine, Well, well that's protecting.

Speaker 5 (23:16):
But we did say coming in he should have been
able to have a day because Buffalo has not been
able to surmount.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
No, but still they're one of the lower pressure teams.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Him throwing the football, it makes you think that, Okay,
maybe it was a scheme thing, because clearly they are
throwing the football much better. He's throwing it better down
the field. I gotta hear it out. I gotta throw
all these really bad passes. But I will tell you this.
You want to left turn for Belichick and the Jets.
You think Jerry Jones isn't going to make a move
with Mike McCarthy and right now, no, he's not three

(23:46):
and three. That's not gonna happen. If the Cowboys fall
out of contention, bye, let's say Thanksgiving. Right, let's say
Thanksgiving happens, he will offer the job to Belichick to
coach the rest of the season. He's not gonna go
all the way through with Hey, we're gonna wait till
the offseason. He will say, Bill, come in now, learn

(24:09):
the players, learn everything going on, and then you'll hit
the ground running next year. And Belichick will say okay,
because maybe I can get three wins closer to Don Schula.
Who knows how it's gonna go, right, I'll get three
wins closer to Donchula if they fall out, and they
got to fall out of it, right, it's got to
be where the Cowboys are. You know, you're talking about
getting to Thanksgiving, you know, four games under five hundred.

(24:31):
If things get really really bad. We told you the
Cowboys thing, so it could happen. If that happens and
they fall he will not sit here and have the
Cowboys go anonymously. He's not gonna go fight for Belichick
in the off season. He will go and he will
replace him, and he will hire Belichick after Thanksgiving. Absolutely,
when they scored their first touchdown on Thanksgiving, does he
go running jump in the kettle? I can't really jump

(24:54):
in and it's kind of slow. Yers. We'll get to
that in a second. We'll get to that in a second.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
Yeah, yeah, we'll get to that in a second. We'll
finish with Bill Belichick. Uh, he will go because look,
Jerry Jones is not going to have the Cowboys spiral
into oblivion without it being front page news.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
And if the Cowboys are bad.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
By after Thanksgiving, which will be the official point of
We'll stop paying attention to Cowboys because it's after Thanksgiving.
We're into the December and the playoff chase. He will
do something, and he's not gonna want to fight for
Bill Belichick. He will he will replace him, and that's
the guy he will go to. And Belichick's gonna have
to say yes, because, Okay, where else do you want
to coach besides Dallas? You have Dallas. You can get close. Look,

(25:41):
we know you want to get close to Shula. Right,
this is not a rebuild. He's not gonna be hires
a coach in the rebuild. As much as Belichick seems
like he's an attractive candidate, now there's only a couple
of teams that he'll be able to go with because
he's gotta go with teams that are quote ready to wait, wait,
you can't. They're not gonna They're not gonna charge him
with Hey, rebuild a team. We just watch you tear

(26:02):
the Patriots down to the studs and they're terrible, So
it would have to be one. And so all of
a sudden, you think, oh, there's gonna be some teams. Well,
he's not gonna go to Jacksonville, right, He's not gonna go.
It's gotta be okay. There's only a couple of teams
out there. The Giants look like maybe not right, they're
playing a little bit better, but he's kind of holding
out hope for a cuple But the Giants have a
lot of talent, So yeah, and go coaching.

Speaker 2 (26:20):
In New York.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
But they really aren't any good. So the Cowboys come up.
All right, I have my quarterback and my star wide receiver.
I have a star defensive player. I'll get a couple
more wins. We'll win two more games, all right, he
will say yes, I'll say sorry, Pat McAfee. I was
entertaining and laughing as much as I could, but now
I got to go be a head coach again.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Yeah, quickly, Giants. Giants aren't closer than one would would think.
I mean, obviously you could run a bunch of metrics
about how terrible Daniel Jones's in primetime games and at
home and whatever else. That game was winnable last night.
They did a good job outside of that giant run
from Joe Burrow to get things started.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Who the hell saw that coming.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
But otherwise defense showed up and eventually you'll figure out
Malik neighbors and everything else. But for the Cowboys just
I mean, it's a much larger topic, but coming off
of yesterday's game, I get it. Historically, you are not
a guy that fires coaches in season. That was a
gutless effort, like just all around, they got run from

(27:20):
pillar to post. And yes, this goes back to they
took it personally right. Dan Campbell put him with the
Jordan iPad meme for the kind of plays he was
calling in the formations and all the trickeration, using offensive
linemen every way you possibly could. That was an embarrassing
loss from pillar to post. So if you're ever gonna

(27:41):
get rid of him, that would have been the I'm
giving myself the greatest birthday present ever.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
This is Bill Belichick. Welcome in.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Jerry Jones making all kinds of headlines today for what
wrong reasons. Now, as you know, Jerry Jones does a
weekly hit on one oh five to three the Fan
in Dallas, and it's a very successful bit, because usually
whatever Jerry Jones says on that Tuesday interview makes headlines

(28:21):
throughout the country.

Speaker 5 (28:22):
It's usually just kind of bad, kind of crazy. We
had come see my monkeys and everything else.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
And he was asked a couple of weeks ago if
the Cowboys slow start is on him, and he said, yes,
put it on me.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Uh did you can blame me if you want to
small slow start? Yep.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Moving to the Saints that didn't can't believe that happened?
Tell him Archie Manning had a good game.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Didn't know.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Uh, Defie Henderson a couple of touchdowns. Wow, Hoky got
John can still run the ball?

Speaker 2 (28:48):
Uh, didn't know?

Speaker 1 (28:49):
You know, real, just to just moving around a little
bit when I get a h Aaron Brooks gave his
problems when he came in in the second half. U tough,
tough game for US. Tough game. So a few weeks ago,
forty five years.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
And over, Ay Bear came in. Now he was pretty good.
What zipping? Heck Joe? That happened?

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Marcus Colston, he was good to Yep. No, just guys,
we just had problems.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Lily had problems. The other they were switching on him
on defense, Harvey.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Martin, uh not play well? H Randy White yep, figured
out we had more pressure on the quarterback. Didn't happen.
Uh So, a couple of weeks ago, everything was fine
and he was okay with taking the blame for the
slow start. However, today on one oh five to three
the Fan, he decided he did not want to take
the blame for anything, and he was asked by the
hosts on the radio, Hey, Jerry, you know, do you

(29:41):
think the reason you guys are three and three another
blowout loss they get thumped by the Lions forty seven
to nine is the reason you know you're struggling because
you didn't get a lot done in the off season.
But Jerry Jones was not having any of that conversation.

Speaker 7 (29:54):
This is not your job. Your job is to let
league go over all the reasons that I'm did something
and I'm sorry that I did it. That's not your job.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Well, my job is to ask one.

Speaker 7 (30:05):
Job, or I'll get another. I'll get somebody else to
ask these questions.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Man, Jerry, we're just we're trying to figure out why
the team out.

Speaker 7 (30:14):
I'm not kidding it. I'm not kidding it. You're not
going to figure out what the team is doing right
or wrong. If you are are any five or ten
like you, you need to come to this meeting I'm
going to today. There are thirty two teams here. Your
genius is Jerry. You don't really think you're going to
sit there with a microphone and tell me all of

(30:36):
the things that I've done wrong and without going over
the rights. Now, listen, we both know we're talking to
a lot of great fans and a lot of great listeners.
And I am very sorry for what happened out there Sunday.
I'm sick about what happened. One of the stupidest things
I've ever done that anybody has ever had loized, I say,
is by the Cowboys. It was an idiot that did that.

(30:58):
So idiot things can turn into good decisions. Okay, smart
things can turn into bad decisions. The facts are that
when you make one, you don't really know whether it's
going to be good or not at the time. So
let's let's just go ahead. I'm trying to answer you questions. Man,
you want some you want some conversation this morning, you'll
get that.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
So hey, I want Hey, so craft and Blank and Roger.

Speaker 7 (31:24):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
These are three guys from the radio. They wanted to
come to the owner's meeting today because they're pretty smart.
So uh, I just can just sit here and just
listen to what we got to talk about here if
we talk about big business, because you know, I'm worth
fifteen billion dollars and I can fire three radio hosts
if I want to. You know, I'm you know that
that's with a B. That's about to be Now, if
I said million, that'd be what I'd paid Dack for

(31:47):
his signing bonus. But it's B with a billion, and
I can certainly. I mean, I don't think these three
guys together even make a total of one hundred thousand dollars, So.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
I could easily have these guys fired. Uh if I
I wanted to questions.

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Wow, he just took shots at the pay scale in
local Dallas radio. But I do like the fact that
in answering that saying hell, I'll take you to the
owner's meeting, basically called himself and the other thirty one
guys and families and whatever conglomerates geniuses.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Genius, which is good.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
You guys are not you guys on and his point
is that when he bought the Cowboys, Folks like what
are you doing like with a lot of these guys,
Like why are you throwing money at this It's a
distressed property. It's like, because I have vision and I
want to own own it. I want to be part
of this. And now he's a rich man. I like
that he got all salty. This is great.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Look and it took the zeros away from the Jets
for him.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Well, look because now we can break this down in
a better way than just how could you say that
a bucket? No, he's not going to have these guys fired. Okay,
he lost his head in the middle of an interview.
Why because he has gone out of his way this
last year to say all these decisions are mine. Right before,
it was well this player, this didn't work, this coach

(32:59):
didn't work. We tried, we tried, we tried to Jason
gave Jason. But this year especially has been this is me,
all my decisions, all my I'm.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
All in on this season, this is all me.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
And then I don't sign any players, and then I
ridiculously give Dak and CD money, which goes against not
bringing players in. I think everybody would have understood if
this was, Hey, this is going to be the year
that is for the Cowboys, then we're going to reset
because it's clearly not going for We've seen the best
of Dak's career and we're not any closer to a
super Bowl. But I'm giving these guys money and now

(33:31):
I'm not gonna be able to go out and get
other players. So he has owned all he has to
own all of this because for this year especially, it's
been me, me, me me, but now the team is
failing and hey, Jerry, what are you doing now? It's
not his fault. I don't want to talk about it. No,
And what he's missing is the is the easiest part
of this conversation. Is it for him to go crazy
like he had a bad couple of minutes, I'm sure,

(33:52):
and he went on I don't think he's gonna fire
radio hosts out, but.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
He doesn't own the only thing he could do is
say I'm not coming on your show anymore. A talk
to somebody else. That's all I mean, that's really all.
That's really what the threat was, right, It wasn't I'm
firing you. I'll get somebody else. He doesn't, well, I'm
gonna buy this station. I'm gonna buy the look. I'm
worth fifteen million. I could buy, I could buy and
sell your ass all every way till Sunday.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Like to introduce you to the new host of the show. Uh,
Steven and Dave Campo, go ahead with your questions. Go ahead, guys,
go ahead ask me. I'm here, I'm here for you today.
But yeah, he threatened to fire the radio host.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
No he didn't.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
He threatened to take his conversation somewhere. I get somebody
else to ask the questions. I get somebody else. I'll
just have somebody else ask.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Me these questions.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
I'll get Stall back to ask me these questions. But
this is what Jerry Jones and and this is this is,
this is this is my big takeaway from Jerry Jones
with this is that he's unhinged because he failed. And
I understand, I understand where he's coming from because he will.
He owned this season and now he's got to own
the failure. Somebody's pissed off about it. That's all it is.

(34:57):
He's pissed off about it. But what he doesn't when
he's it's here wants to insult. But behind the microphones off.
You want to take cake on radio and TV hosts.
I will tell you this. This is where Jerry Jones
has no leg to stand on. You want to sit
here and be upset. You don't know what's going on.
You're not in the room. You're not here, you're not
the owners meet. You're all geniuses. Sports, unlike many things

(35:18):
in life, many things in life, is a very black
and white business. Okay, it all comes down to one
thing in sports, right, everything else, well, there's a different thing,
there's It depends on your opinion, right, like the Hamilton.
No one controls who lives, who dies, who tells your story?

Speaker 7 (35:35):
Right.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
You do what you do for a living, and whatever
happens is out of you. How you're viewed is out
of your control because when you do something creatively, everybody's
gonna have opinions, actors, actresses, politicians, everything, it's opinions. How
do you feel about so and so? But sports and
what Jerry judge, which you should realize after being in
the business for a long time, Sports is about two columns.

(35:56):
There's two columns. It is a win column and there's
a loss. And when you have more in the win column,
you are successful. You're doing things right, you are winning.
When you have more in the loss column, you are
not succeeding, and you are failing.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
It is easy. I don't need I.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Don't need to be in a room with ever to
know the Cowboys stink. Okay, I don't need to be
in a room. There are two a win column and
a lost column. And when you're losing more games, you
are failing. It doesn't matter what at all about it.
But you are failing and it's your team. And that's
what he doesn't get is that sports is so it's
so easy to break down more as compared to everything

(36:32):
else in life. There, yes, there are nuances to things
that go on in sports, and yes the conversations go
in different directions and there's different angles, and we like
to bring those to you. But overall, it's pretty easy
to say, is this team good? Is this team bad?
Is this team succeeding? Or is this team failing? Are
the Jets succeeding, No, they're failing. Oh are the Brown succeeding,
No they're failing. Are the chief succeeding, Yes, they're succeeding.

(36:54):
How about the Cowboys, No, they're failing. It's pretty easy win,
calm lost column.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
That's all it is.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
But as we know, right even in the nuanced to
that is, you can get plenty of folks in the
media to kiss your ass if you're losing by narrow margins.
We're seeing it in college, we're seeing it in the pros.
You went out and got worked on your home field.
You've been awful week after week in Dallas, and the
team that you're supposed to be fighting for the top
of the heap with absolutely embarrassed you. On your home

(37:21):
field on your birthday, on your birthday where there's all
sorts of celebrations and interviews and everything else, you go
and absolutely get work to where every offensive lineman they
were going to try to get them touches into the end.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Zone when it was all said and done. So that's
the loss you're coming out of. And oh, that.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Derrick Henry guy that you couldn't figure out a way
to sign, even though he was holding up a sign
saying bring me home is the top rusher in the
game over It couldn't afford him.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Now, you could have given them, you got money under
the salary.

Speaker 5 (37:51):
You couldn't paid the other two guys at that point
I know he's mad.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Bill.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Look, he's just brought back Zeke. Yeah, he's frustrated because
the decisions haven't worked. Took get out on these guys,
which was wrong, and I hope he apologizes, but he's
got to understand that, dude. I don't need to be
in any kind of quarterback meetings to know, Hey, is
Dak playing well, he's not playing well?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Is a team playing well or not?

Speaker 8 (38:11):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:12):
I can pretty much tell that. I can pretty much.
It's very black and white in sports, Jerry. Sorry, I
don't need to need to have any kind of degree
and anything to be able to tell you, Yeah, this
team is good, this team is not.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
That's got That's what makes sports so good?

Speaker 7 (38:24):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Okay?

Speaker 7 (38:25):
That is no.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
There's no trying to color it a different way or
pushing with none. And I know when a team is
playing good. I know when a player is playing good.
I know when a player is playing bad. I know
what a team is playing bad. That's how it goes.
You're playing bad. You're the one that took the ownership
of it, and now you're mad about it. That's Jerry Jones.
It's gotta's got to find a way to fix it
and get my show on another channel, going someplace else.

(38:46):
I'm gonna fire you if you don't break Maybe can
I go on just Monday nights and talk with Joe
and Troy and in the middle of the games going
to Man and Cas.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
And do it. I'll replace both of you.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Joining us down the hotline from La to Las Vegas,
we go our insider form Arod's maker at Caesars. Check
him out the Bet the Board podcast. See him on CBS.
It is Todd Furman. He is on Twitter at Todd Furman.
All right, Todd, I have a parlay I want to
hit you with right.

Speaker 6 (39:22):
Away, boy, fire fire away Smith. I just want to
know if you're a fan of horror movies, first and foremost.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yes, Todd, I am a fan of horror movies. Why
would you ask.

Speaker 6 (39:32):
Because that's where characters come back from the dead, and
that's what we're going to need to see in the
National League Championship Series. If your Mets are able to
stave off elimination.

Speaker 2 (39:39):
Well, that's my parlay.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
I want the Mets to win the NLCS and DeVante
Adams one hundred yards on Sunday.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
Well, the Mets to win the NLCS is a little
bit more straightforward than the Devonte Adams. But you know what,
the one thing I will say before we get to
the price, the Jets must have the best training staff
in the entire NFL. Because the hamstring that was plaguing
DeVante Adams out here in the desert magically no longer
an issue when he's going to be playing Sunday night
football for the Jets. But in terms of the NLCS

(40:07):
right now, with the Mets chasing that three one series
deficit nine to one, the going rate so not astronomical
by any stretch of the imagination, but they'll have to
stave off elimination as an underdog in the next game.
With David Peterson coming in right around a plus one
to twenty dog opposing John Flaherty.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
I figured you'd had another Mets line, you want to know.
That's all that's I.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Don't like to take people when they're down. I got
my one jab in and I will take the high road.
The remainder of this segment.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
Oh no, you're a You're a gentleman and a scholar.
I really just thought Smith was going to start digging
down deep to figure out what brandon Nimo would be
able to bring to the table to.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
Help help matters.

Speaker 5 (40:48):
Did I get odds on how many times the Dodgers
walk tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (40:51):
At this point, I mean, you begin to wonder how
things will play out. But hey, the big biggest storyline
that we've seen all season is every time you write
the Mets off, they stave off elimination. So if there's
one team that's been able to show some level of resilience,
all it takes is one game. And look, I'm a
Yankee fan. I lived through the Boston Red Sox are racing.

(41:11):
He's three nothing series deficits, So anything is indeed possible.
It will just probably have to start with the Mets
having a scoreless frame, not allowing Mooki bets and show
hey with Toni to build a cushion in the first
inning before the Mets come to the dish.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Well, you mentioned the Yankees. Yeah, well, Baseball's going to
put a new rule. They're going to make Otani bat
nine tomorrow. Oh well, that's going to really help them outs. Yeah,
everybody's going to do the reverse batting order from Tom Wow.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
So that's going to help the Mets.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
You know, it's worked, It's worked in little league games
for years, so maybe Major League Baseball wants to try
and get a little bit more inventory out of it.
And we could see it happening. But you know, you
mentioned the Yankees, Harma, and they of course had Cleveland
down to their final out. They were massive favorites in
that spot, and Luke Weaver blinked. I mean a pitcher
that I don't think the Yankees expected to be pitching
these high leverage situations earlier in the season. Clay Holmes

(41:57):
continue to do what he does and pitch with ball,
pitch balls that have no movement whatsoever and typically end
up in the seats at critical junctures and baseball games.
As far as the price for Game four with Lease
Heel opposing Gavin Williams, you're looking at a pick em
right now with a total sitting at seven and a half.
There are some eights out there, and I would anticipate
a little bit of over money potentially entering before first

(42:19):
pitch tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
Coming off the huge emotional win some chicanery last week.
Oregon goes to Purdue tomorrow twenty eight and a half
point favorite, so not looking for a massive upset to happen.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
But can Purdue put a wrinkle into this?

Speaker 6 (42:35):
I mean, wes Lafayette has been a tricky place to
play in the past, But interestingly enough, when you look
at this game, despite the large number we've actually seen,
professional money laying price is shy of four touchdowns here
with the Ducks. It's not for me given the situational
strength to the spot that would benefit the home team
here catching more than four touchdowns in their own building.
Credit to Purdue, they battled back last week. They're chasing

(42:57):
a twenty seven to three deficit against Illinois, score forty
points in the second half, forced overtime before they came
up just short for a team that a lot of
people had written off for dead. But player for player,
man for man and coverall coaching scheme. It's the only
way that Purdue can compete tomorrow night is with a
flat spot for the Oregon Ducks. If they're too busy
reading their own press clippings and celebrating the minor upset

(43:18):
last weekend at the hands of the Ohio State Buck
guys at outsin all right.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
So now before we get to the NFL slate this weekend,
Mike and I talked about this earlier in the show.
Hard for me to believe anybody, but Dennis Allen is
the next favorite to be fired as NFL head coach.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Did you go to even money after tonight? What is it?
It's even better than that or what is it?

Speaker 6 (43:39):
You know, it's such a tough spot because when you
look at the Saints right now, that roster they had
to go out there and compete with tonight isn't up
to snuff. And we talked a little bit about it
on our Beat the Board podcast earlier before some of
the injuries had truly become official. Then you lose another
member of the secondary and Paulson adibo for me. As
the Saints are currently constructed, that's a bottom three roster,
if not rock bottom until they get some of those

(44:01):
pieces back in the fold. I won't even make him
the favorite. The guy that I think we should be
looking at if he loses on Sunday, may have to
pay for his own international plane ticket back to the
States would be Doug Peterson. So that's a guy that
I think is on an even hotter seat than Dennis Allen.
You can overlook some of the injury woes. I'm not
sure there's a coach, whether it's Bill Belichick or Tom
Landry in his prime, that was going to go out

(44:22):
there and get the Saints to perform at a higher
level than what we saw tonight. The problem for them
is that defense is so banged up they can't make tackles.
And I hate to say it, but there looked like
there was a little bit of a quick factor midway
through the third quarter.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
Detroit heads out to Minnesota over under sitting around fifty
one for this one. Todd can Flores and his defense
fly around and keep Jared Goff at bay, you know,
after they embarrass the Cowboys in such dramatic fashion, well
one of.

Speaker 6 (44:47):
The marquee games of the weekend. But I do think
this Lion's offense will find it significantly more difficult. Of course,
that is a relative term to move the football than
what they've done against their last two opponents, where they
hung forty on the Cowboys last weekend and forty before
the buy on Monday Night Football against the Seahawks. Team
that was dealing with a rash of injuries as well.
Minnesota defensively going to try and do everything they can

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to heat up Jared Goff. He is one of the
more sensitive quarterbacks when it comes to his delta between
completion percentage over expectation with and without pressure. On the
other side, I think it'll be interesting to see what
the Lions do to generate pressure in their own right.
Aiden Hutchinson was such a difference maker, and the Lions
knew they were a little bit thin at that position
coming into the season, so you go out, you bringing

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Marcus Davenport, he of course is injured as well. They
did give a Lee McNeil along that defensive line and extension,
and it'll force the Lions' secondary to kind of basically
mature on the spot. It's a group that has a
little better steeling than what we've seen so far, but
they're still inexperienced. So an interesting chess match, to say
the least, for two teams that would love to have

(45:49):
the inside track to what has been the most competitive
and most entertaining division in the NFL, at least through
the first six weeks.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
All right, Now, part of about the board podcast, you
break that game down. He got Texans Packers Jet Steelers.
But of course everybody's eyes are going to be on
the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers the Super Bowl rematch.
No trade this week for the Chiefs. They're going into
this game with a bunch of wide receivers. I think
Carlos Carson's the number one guy. How do you see
this one going, Todd?

Speaker 6 (46:15):
You know the problem for the Chiefs is a receiving
corps that was already thinned may have to contend with
another injury is Juju Smith Schuster popped out of the
injury report today tweaking his hamstring, and as we know,
men that are in the twilight of our athletic careers here,
much like Juju is an NFL ide receiver, a tweak
is never a good thing for a player whatsoever. The Chiefs,
with extra time to prepair, have been one of the

(46:37):
more difficult outs. And we will see a little bit
of history if Kansas City closes as an underdog for
this game on Sunday. You look at Patrick Mahomes. He's
been favored in thirty two straight regular season games, and
the last time he was a dog, they ended up
losing outright to the Buffalo bill So we'll see if
brock perty can put this Kansas City defense that hasn't
faced a prolific passing attack in my opinion, all season long.

(46:59):
And people point to the game against the Bengals, but
since he was down t Higgins even the game against
the Falcons, Atlanta lost a couple of offensive linemen, so
they were a little bit handicapped in that spot. Fascinating game,
but for me, we've seen this before, and I think
the two games earlier in the day are a little
bit more intriguing. Eileen San Francisco, but haven't gotten to
the window yet. Some concerns about the defensive injuries for

(47:20):
the forty nine ers. As on the all Hands on
Deck to sload on the.

Speaker 5 (47:23):
Chiefs, Jason, in setting up a question, talked about what
you guys have outlined check out the bet the Board podcast.
But we have the two big trades, obviously Buffalo and
New York. How much did the acquisitions of those players
Cooper and and Adams set set and change the lines?

Speaker 6 (47:42):
You know, doesn't move the market a ton for their teams.
If anything, The big loser in this entire equation was
the Cleveland Browns, and you saw their game against the
Cincinnati Bengals kind of leak out from four and a
half five out to six. It's a receiving room that
wasn't overly deep. Jerry Judy now has to step into
the number one role, and with Deshaun Watson and continuing
to struggle, you wonder where Cleveland goes for offense, even

(48:04):
getting Nick chubbed back on a pitch count this week.
For Buffalo, adding Cooper to the receiver room, in my opinion,
gives them a bona fide number one, a grizzled veteran,
which allows Khalil Shakir to operate as a number two
to open up the middle of the field for Dalton
Kincaid and Buffalo's defense should get healthier in the coming weeks. Now,
for the Jets, I wonder what they do for an
encore if they lose on Sunday Night Smith, We've already

(48:26):
seen them fire their coach after they lost in London.
They lost on Monday n Football to the Bills, so
they trade for a new big piece offensively? Does that
mean if they lose to the Steelers on Sunday that
what he opens up his check book and gives us
on Reddick whatever he wants, including equity in the franchise,
to try and allow the Jets to have a silver
lining for a season that hasn't exactly started out the
way the franchise.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
Envision and Jamal Adams got released.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
No too, No, that's not bigger than Devontae. We're going
to get Dak Prescott in the trade. That's what's going
to happen next. How do we go bigger? Because we
can't blame anybody else. Let's go bigger.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Let's got it.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
I mean, you know, let's deak u Scott can block
along the offensive line or help contain the edge against
the run. I'm not sure he's what the Jets need,
but it does make for an interesting game on Sunday
night because it's a Jets team trying to figure out
their identity now who has no excuses in terms of
their overall weaponry, and all signs point to them having
to contend with Russell Wilson, who should be as rusty

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as can be operating behind an offensive line that may
only be a half tick or one tick better than
what we saw on display for the Saints earlier tonight.

Speaker 7 (49:26):
Dodd.

Speaker 5 (49:26):
We're watching the NBA preseason mercifully come to an end.
What's the early money looking like in terms of favorites
to hoist the trophy?

Speaker 6 (49:37):
I mean, I don't think it'll shock anybody when we
talk about the teams that are the short shots in
that particular market. And we may have to have Smith
cover his ears here because if odds makers have anything
to say about the NBA Finals you were talking about,
the Knicks is the third favorite on the board. There
is a market discrepancy though, between them and the Celtics

(49:57):
in the East before you get to the seventy six
ers in the West. It's almost like Kevin Durant, Russell
Westbrook and James Harden are back downing the Powder Blues
or whatever shade of blues cerulean they call in Oklahoma City.
The Thunder are the second favorite of most books, priced
anywhere from six to one on the low end upwards
of eight. With that youth movement hopefully taking the next
step this season.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, That is, at Todd Ferman.
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It is all there the Bet the Board Podcast again
Todd on Twitter at Todd Furman. Todd has always buddy.
Appreciate it man. We'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
Hey, you got it. Gentlemen, Good luck to your metropollitins,
and gentlemen, have a tremendous weekend.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
It is now time for the first fall edition of
and Now It's.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
The Magic Johnson Twitter game.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Right about Joson's Winter Game.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
Been a few months. How does the game work? Well,
it's pretty easy. There is no more obvious than vanilla
tweeter in the world than Magic Johnson. So I give
you a tweet. Your job is to decide if it
was a Magic Johnson tweet or made up completely by me.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Yes, it is a tweet.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Playing playing tonight myself, Mike Harmon, Alex tight Shirt justin Frossburg.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Are you ready? All right?

Speaker 1 (51:34):
It was awesome to see show. Heyo Tani hit a
three run home run tonight. We got home runs from Otani,
Hernandez and Munsi in Game three Is that a Magic
Johnson tweet.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
I'm gonna say no. It was awesome to see show.
Hayo Tani hit a three run home run tonight.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
We got home runs from Otani, Hernandez, and Munsie in
game three.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Well, they're all facts, are all things that happen, and
you are right, So it's gotta be real.

Speaker 10 (52:03):
Okay, Jason, was there a period, exclamation point anything?

Speaker 5 (52:08):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (52:08):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (52:09):
I know that you like to use emojis and periods
and punctuation to kinda give you your answer.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Yes, So I am not going to help you with that.
You have to figure it out.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
You have to figure it out. I gotta make the
game tough, man, I'm gonna make it tough. It can't
be like that game show I watched with Travis Kelsey today.
Come on, are you smarter than a celebrity? Well, you
know we're gonna get into that the big question at
the end of it today that I watched. I'm like,
oh my god, this is what you asked me about
that show last hour, And I'm like, how do I
say what the show is? You know what, We'll get
into it coming up next. We'll get into it coming

(52:40):
up next. You figured out your analogy.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
I love it.

Speaker 10 (52:42):
Yeah, Jason, just because you're sad because your team loss
doesn't mean you have to be mean to me.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Okay, I'm just saying, you hit the buttons to plush
all those home runs.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Okay, sure you want to hear them all home runs again? No? No,
no, no playing the magic Johnson Twitter game? Okay, yes, Jays,
I'm gonna says.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Okay, it was awesome. Did she show to see show?
Hey Otani? He had a three run home run tonight.
We got home runs from Otani, Hernandez, and Muncie in
Game three. That is.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
A magic.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Yes, it was that was That is a pure vanilla
bean right there.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Bueller was unbelievable tonight. He's always been a great big
game pitcher, and tonight he did not disappoint, leading the
Dodgers to an eight nothing victory over the Mets. Is
that a magic Johnson tweet?

Speaker 5 (53:38):
If only I knew Magic paid for the extra Twitter space,
But I'm gonna say.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Yes, and he got the score right.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
Bueller was unbelievable tonight. He's always been a great big
game pitture. Tonight he did not disappoint, leading the Dodgers
to an eight nothing victory over the Mets.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
Once again, they're all true facts. Those are okay, Alex,
I'm really confused on this one. How are you? How
are you confused? I don't know.

Speaker 10 (54:07):
Magic seems like he's more philosophical than I was led
to believe. Okay, So, yes, that is definitely a tweet.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Your reasoning makes no sense. It makes absolutely no. That's
a deep tweet. That's sir, whatever you call him, that
is a magic You guys are a dang a little

(54:36):
late there.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
Tonight was all about the Dodgers pictures awesome start by
Walker Buehler.

Speaker 5 (54:42):
Is that a Magic Johnson tweet? Double exclamation point ty shirt?

Speaker 2 (54:47):
What do you think?

Speaker 10 (54:48):
You know what I'm gonna say, Mike on this one.
I think Magic was trying to allure us of his deep,
complexual notions of conversation in his own mind and being
philosophical at times. That is definitely still one.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
Okay, all right, I say no, he clearly didn't watch
the game and it was all about the Dodger bats.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
Hmm huh.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
I'm gonna say this because I'm gonna give you the answer,
and then I'm gonna say I think someone might be cheating.
Tonight was all about the Dodgers pictures. Awesome start by
Walker Buehler. That is a magic Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 7 (55:20):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
No, there were two exclamation points after the word pictures,
which Mike Harmon actually said, ty shirt two exclamation points.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
What do you think?

Speaker 1 (55:32):
I think Mike Harmon is cheating at the Magic Johnson's
my guy.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
I wish we could screenshot my two exclamation.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
Points too, exclamar, I can guarantee you not.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
That's a lot of evidence, man, I know, Frostburg, you
have to do you think all was Harmon cheating?

Speaker 2 (55:49):
You heard the evidence.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
I got it wrong. Hell, just like the Mets, I
got it wrong. So doesn't matter. I think you get
throw it off. I think you bet it in Vegas
and you made money on it. Oh that you just
did that just to say on this game, now we
really arrived.

Speaker 2 (56:04):
You bet that I would go undefeated on this.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Jason's wearing a buzzer like al two events.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
Should I don't pull my shirt off during the Magic
Johnson Twitter game? Don't pull my jersey off? What a
home run by show? Hey Otani, does anyone know how
far that was?

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Is that a magic Johnson tweet what a home run
by show he does every Does anyone know how far
that was?

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Three ninety seven feet.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Hast Risk estimated. I'm gonna say, not a tweet, but
I dig it. If it is, then you know mind
meld with magic Johnson?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
How many exclamation points? Harmon? How many? How many? How
many on this one? Do you think? How many?

Speaker 7 (56:51):
Well?

Speaker 5 (56:51):
If he I mean a question mark plus what three?

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Frostburg, what do you think I'm gonna say?

Speaker 10 (57:01):
No, okay, tight shirt, I'm still waiting for Mike's text.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Still done? Okay, now hold on, sorry was off the
Wi Fi?

Speaker 7 (57:10):
Mike?

Speaker 2 (57:10):
No, that is not that is How do you know?
Because how texted me? It's not a magic shut out?
Go Mike Harmon?

Speaker 1 (57:30):
You are you going to be banned? You're gonna get
banned from this game? Yeah, absolutely banned