October 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you how the absences of Joel Embiid and Paul George were immensely felt in the Sixers’ season opener. NFL Insider Jason Cole joins the show to talk Week 8 and all the trade-rumors. Plus, the Cleveland Browns announce their rolling with Jameis Winston as QB1.
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in the NBA. You know, we go from last night
in the pageantry of the Celtics making twenty nine threes
and tying the all time record, the absolute history of
lebron James playing with Bronnie James first father son jow Ever,
in the history of the game, a lot of people
still really mad about both those things. We had never
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seen that before. We had not seen anything like it
since nineteen ninety with Ken Griffy and Ken Griffy Sr.
And now we have the second night and the biggest
highlight is the Pistons got called for having six guys
on the court. Well, it's good to see there in
mid season form. Did they learn from Xan lanning six
guys on the court? Did they think that was gonna
help him on that one possession to maybe get him over?
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It was pretty interesting, I gotta say, pretty interesting to see.
Oh no, no, that's uh, that's six guys on the
court right there. Yeah, it's good to see the work.
I'm counting them one two, three guys in the back court,
one two three to the front court. Did they run
drills in the offseason where they go six on five?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Maybe, Hey, we want to make it look like where
there's just like a little more frenetic pain the defense
to make sure the feet keep moving and stuff. I
don't know, I'm trying to find an excuse for how
you can be a professional team and show that level
of an aptitude. You mean, we just we just can't
do that. We just can't put six guys out. Oh
and then it's the pistons. You know you want to
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that punchline wrote itself. You want a great story. So
my freshman year of high school, Uh football, we we
were terrible. I think we were what we're like three
and seven or something like that, were really bad and
we were we we won like our We won our
first game, then we lost like seven in a row,
and then we then we won and we tied or
something I forget. Anyway, in the middle of playing all
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the teams that we normally play, uh, there is one
kid who the coaches they put them on the kickoff
team because somebody uh got hurt, like right and warm
ups like I got hamstringer, couldn't play, Okay, so they said, okay,
go out there and be on the kickoff team. Okay,
he goes out there, Pete, I remember Pete. Pete Baias
is his name. So Pete Baiaz goes out in the
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kickoff team and uh, you know, okay, the kickoff happens
and you know, the tackle all of a sudden, Okay, great,
and I'm on the side because I didn't ply. I
didn't play that much by freshman until the very end
of the year. And and the other team gets the ball,
and they start driving down the field on us, and
they're you know, it's it's a lot of running. It's
a lot they're running the ball. It's like probably like
one of those ten play drives. They got the ball
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like their own thirty and the you know, here's six
yards five yards, six yards, five yards. The drive all
the way down and they get down to the ten
yard line and and all of a sudden, the coach
on the other team is frantic, and the referee throws
a flag and they throw a flair like what is it?
And they said, and they said, Curtis in my high school,
Curtis High School, twelve men on the field, and we
counted into like twelve. It's like, come on, man twelve.
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And Pete was the guy on the on the field
and he didn't play like he wasn't a guy that played.
And and they go, Pete, come on and comes off
and they go, what do you do? What you doing
out there? He goes, well, I went out there for
the kickoff and I just stayed. He goes, she went
out there the entire drive and we're still getting dominant.
The assistant coach laughed and said, well, look at it.
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This one. We got away with it for like nine plays,
and me, even freshman year, my thought future sports stock
radio is going, we had twelve guys on the field
for last nine plays, are on the five yard line?
We had, we had it, and we couldn't stop it
with the extra man. We ran a four four four defense,
like we had four defensive linemen, we had four line backs.
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And the thing is like that meant Pete didn't engage
on a single line la I don't understand, is that
he was just hanging out. We ran a four to
four defense right with three defensive backs because nobody really
would throw right, so we ran for the rare tight
end scene. Yet at some point, like, don't the defensive
backs have to go? Why are there four of it?
We don't run this, This is not our system. Why
are we have Why do we have four DB's out
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in getting run over by the pulling guard? And we
had twelve guys on the field for nine plays and
they drove from their thirty down to our fick that
f Nobody catches it on the side, nobody, nobody, None
of the rest of the defenses looking around going what
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the hell? Yeah, but that man, you got run over?
But that's when I knew. I'm like, okay, yeah, uh
you sports talk radio hosts, Hey, how bad is that?
Look at his team? They had twelve guys on the
field and they were giving up seven yards of play
even with the extra man. Now what would have been
funny is if all of a sudden they throw it
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up and there's Pete Now you know, Johnny on the spot. Yeah,
someone does the count, going wait, what the hell? Yeah?
I was like, how do you, dude, how do you You're
you know, you're not supposed to stay in the game,
but he stayed in. He just I'm staying in, staying
in the huddle, Okay, right, all right is what I'm
gonna do. How about this watching a full grid of
four games, a couple of Marquee matchups getting ready to start.
(05:49):
They just did a profile on McClain of the sixers
up there right, here's summer League. Here's what he did.
Here's all this the last thing that they put up
on his little graphic. You know, he's got three point
eight mil followers on TikTok, like it's nine one man
and I get it. They're getting drummed with two minutes
left by the Bucks so what's gonna like, Yeah, we're
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gonna get We gotta get to that here, because that's
the other big part is I got that Zion didn't
play because he was ill, and I don't think they
needed him. And hey, good good, good ups to the Pistons. Oh,
by the way, who really fought hard tonight. Yeah, they
were leading this game for a while and then you
know the Pacers that remembered, oh yeah we were actually
not bad. Uh, and they win the game one thirteen,
one oh six. But the Pistons had to lead for
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a long time. You know, two years ago you said
they were a team on the common. They were ready
to time here, ready to rise up. I mean, somehow
Kate Cunningham got a Max deal. Hey, they were in
fifteen games a year. You got a Max deal. You
gotta pay somebody. Will you stay? What's it gonna take
to get you to stay? Max? Max? Okayn the Max?
(06:56):
Maybe maybe not. You're you're paying me on potential anyway,
So let's get it on. You're now the richest man
in the state of Michigan because Harball left, So congratulations,
how about that? That's you kid cutting him? But now
because there is good with bad look, obviously, and you
know Milwaukee and Philadelphia is one of it. The Bucks
are crushing the Joel embiid less seventy six at this point.
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But how about let's investigate him before we get before
we get into you know, boy, how bad this is.
Let's just let's just have a moment here, an appreciation moment.
The Pelicans lead the Bulls right now, one eleven ninety five. Yeah,
and they're killing them. And the Pelicans are playing without Zion,
which you could say, hey, after the last four years,
they're used to these games without Zion. He did play
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seventy plus regular season, but he's already missed the first one,
so there's that out with an illness, but making his
return to the NBA after nearly three years away because
of various knee and foot injuries. Lonzo ball back tonight
and some of the plays it looked like he has
just missed a couple of weeks. Had a great Ali
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up zachl for the Slam, Zach Levine on Cooper Cup
Revenge Tour. Now. But you know, seeing seeing him out
there was really kind of fun. You know, for a
long time, he was the best plus minus player on
the Bulls tonight. Yeah, he was the only guy that
was in the positives for them for a bit. Didn't
go crazy stat wise, he was at five points for
assists for a long time. His minutes were down. Obviously,
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he's coming back after three years. But you know, you remember,
I mean, he's been gone a long long time, and
you know, you go back and and it was it
was that long ago where Magic Johnson said, hey, where
drafted you number two overall? We want to see your
your jersey and the rafters here at some point and
then you realize, not only did it not work out,
then he went to another team, then he went to
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the Bulls and now he's missed almost three years before
he's come back to play. And that's some kind of
stick touitiveness to come back after that long and come
back and get back and play. And so big up
Salonso for coming back here. Well, good for him. He
also did did the right thing. He had a player
option on his contract. He said, yes, I'll take your money,
so he battled back and giving them minutes. Tonight he's
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played what about fourteen to fifteen minutes in this blowout defeat.
As we sit here against the Pelicans and what Brandon
Ingram and CJ. McCollum have done. But he was a
guy that has done a disservice. Right, the last twenty
four hours had been a bunch of bloviators and hot
take nonsense. Every idiot that can climb to a higher
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pedestal to tell you what a travesty it was that
Bronnie James found his way into an NBA game. Just
get a hold of yourselves, Okay, find someone to give
you a hug, unplug your head set, go do something else.
Go find a nice cartoon, because that's about the aptitude
you're showing. Here is meeting Hey. Look, oh that coyote
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the roadrunner is gonna get him again. It'll make you
feel better about yourself. But the fact is you got
a guy in Lonzo Ball who has done a disservice.
You mentioned Magic Johnson. Obviously we had LaVar Ball, big
ball of brand and everything else. Kid just want to basketball,
and he was a pretty good basketball player. Always se
him like a pretty good kid. And then unfortunately the
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series of knee injuries. So to see him battle back
when most folks would have said, you know, I made
some money, I'm good. Oh, to show the intestinal fortitude
to steal from our old pal Guerrilla Mond soon for
a moment, and Jesse the body Ventura to get back
on the court and give them some minutes, because look,
this team's gonna stink, so he's gonna play substantive minutes.
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He's gonna earn every bit of that contract he opted into.
Zach Lavine, a guy who's gonna showcase himself every night
to get dealt. I think is what we're gonna look
at here thirteen to five and two in his thirty
two minutes tonight, the arrival of Josh Guiney. I mean,
there's a couple of component parts where you're like, all right,
they've got some good young talent, but what does it
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mean Not a whole hell of a lot, because they're
gonna get buried on a nightly basis. So meanwhile, the
third game in the trifecta, we have the Suns and
the Clippers. They're just getting going, Oh yeah, we got
a civil war in the here. Milwaukee has just defeated
the Philadelphia seventy six ers, a game that was not close.
The Bucks obviously had a huge advantage in this game.
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There was no Joel Embiid and they were up by
fifteen throughout they win at one twenty four to one
oh eight, And now the NBA has decided they're going
to investigate the seventy six ers. Why are they doing
this because Embiid missed the preseason and now he's missing
the first three games as he tries to come back
from his injury that limited him to thirty eight games
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last year. But he did come back for the playoffs,
but they're trying to limit his minutes now, and the
NBA is looking into it because what happens is when
you miss a nationally televised game, they always look into it.
We don't want you to miss nationally televised games and
players are sitting out. So it's become a thing, especially
in the way of his comments about a couple weeks
ago with ESPN where he said, listen, I'm such to me,
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I'm not playing another back to back ever, and the
Sixers said the other day they don't anticipate playing both
of them in back to back games. So the Sixers
have just said, yeah, we know the rule, we ain't
doing it. So I get the NBA wanting to do
this because you look, they don't want these big players
to be missing games. Obviously, I think the Sixers wish
they had Joellenbiid for the opening night. Yeah, but this
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is this is their best attempt. And this is why
the NBA is so feeble, because because Adam Silver just
doesn't want to do anything, is that the teams are
still going to not play their players in back to backs.
They don't care. And the NBA can say, and this
is kind of one of those shot across the bows. Okay,
beginning of the season, we're gonna try to get rid
of this early. We're gonna have some kind of investigation.
(12:33):
And the Sixers saying, yeah, whatever he's heard, he's not playing.
Bad time to have the investigation because obviously he's missing
it's opening night. He would play if they if they
wanted him to play. But this is the worst thing
because the NBNBA has empowered the players to do whatever
they want when it comes to playing and sitting out games,
and sitting out games is stupid. That's sitting out games
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is just stupid. But teams are gonna do that because
it's too many games and they're gonna throw back to
backs out there, and the NBA is gonna say, there's
nothing we can do other than shortening the schedule. And
the NBA is not gonna do that because Adam Silver's
not gonna be a commission and says, you know, less
games is great. Like what happened to Jerry maguire when
he said less clients, less money. Yeah, you're fired, Jerry,
And they what did the cronins. So this is where
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the NBA is trying to to kind of assert themselves
a little bit, and it's just gonna be met with
a shrug by the rest of the NBA. Yeah, okay,
you want to investigate this, fine, whatever, what are you
gonna do? And beads hurt. We'll see, We'll see another night.
I mean, that's how it's gonna go. But in the end,
I mean, the owners aren't going to give back the
revenues of those added games, right whenever there's the let's
propose it to a seventy game schedule, it's say, all right,
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convince both sides they want to give up billions of dollars.
Oh and everything you've got to do to now bend
over backwards to appease your rights holders who have just
paid in for the extra amounts and parse this out
and all of these different things that you're doing in
terms of streaming and repackaging, repurposing your content, do it
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within met It's funny, right because immediately he go to, well,
you look pretty good at the Olympics, and like God,
love of country guaranteed paycheck here, all of those things
that play together and the back to backs, they've done
a pretty good job.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Most teams only have a handful on the schedules anymore.
You're not seeing a ton of it, But you can't
eliminate them entirely unless you want to play an extra
month of a season, right, or add another two weeks,
three weeks to your regular season. No, it's already a
season that ends in June, and we're back here mid October.
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We already had a month of preseason and everything else.
So you know the fact that it used to be
what Halloween or a little bit later. I used to
remember trick or treating with my kids when they were little,
and you'd be watching an NFL game if it happened
to be on a Monday or Thursday, or you'd be
watching whatever the big NBA game was, Like, why is
there a crowd outside because you got a giant ass
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TV and your win nose open. That's why. So yeah,
investigate all you want. Nobody's giving the money back. The
only consideration is everybody crying about the fact that you
forced me to play sixty five games so I could
be eligible for an award. It's like now you guys
were doping and agreeing to those circumstances in terms of
the voting and what it means for your money as well.
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Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome again. Opening
Night two of the NBA. Here tonight show brought you
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Coming up, we got Jason Cole stopping by all the
latest news in the NFL. What quarterback said the postgame
speech this weekend was the best he had heard in
(15:43):
twenty years. You Aaron Rodgers. That's coming up next, Jason
and Mike. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
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Opening Night two in the NBA. We'll have more on
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that coming up. However, maybe things are looking up for
the Jets. I may I'm not saying maybe they're looking
up because all of a sudden, the leader that Gotham has,
the leader that Gotham City needed, turns out to be
DeVante Adams. Big story today. Adams gave a big, fiery
(16:47):
speech following the Jets loss to the Steelers on Sunday.
Talked about accountability, said there was no not enough celebrating,
not enough joy at big plays. Aaron Rodgers talked about
that after the game that the sideline was lot. Rogers says,
best speech I've heard, most realist speech in twenty years
in the NFL. Davante Adams a guy who didn't want
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to play the Raiders and said as early as two
and a half years ago, I don't want to be here.
He's the leader the Jets need. Davonte Adams shows you
what kind of locker room you got there, guy, you
just quit on his last team. If I got a hamstring,
Oh yes, I don't. And now he comes in and
that's the speech. Look, he gave the most effort showing
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that and the quick twitch muscles were working well after
the Rogers interception where he did make the chase down
tackle at the one. So that was good. I mean,
he showed a lot of heart and saw the wizard
for that play. But if that's the guy, given your speeches,
you got problem, Well maybe he always had that. He
was just waiting for waiting for the Jets to show
that he's their real role. Okay, joining us your hero,
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a man who is a very good leader, very good
NFL Insider thirty third team on Twitter at Jason Cole
sixty two, lifelong Dodger fan. It is the hall of
very good voter himself, j Cole, what's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh this is great. Just let this go first, se
just let it play out.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's probably better than anything you're gonna say.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So okay, yeah, that's good. How's your neck by the.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Way, Oh, hang on, I'll bite my neck is fine? Why?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh, because you watched all those home runs being hit
by the Dodgers, so you know, it might have made
you crane your neck so often and you might have
hurt yourself as you were watching from those very good seats.
That your wife's guy for you.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Hey, how's your how's your car?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
My car is fabulous?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Good because I just keep it on the way into
work tonight. So congratulations.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I wanted just tell your wife thank you. As a
Dodger fan, I wanted to say thank you to missus
Smith for allowing you to watch the future World Champions
up close and personal and live. That's a great thing
that you got to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, look, I got both ends of the Sean Beneta spectrum.
I got the brilliance of game too, and then each
we're gonna lose in game six, So I got both
of those.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah you got that, but you also got you got
Jeff mess all the liberty. The liberty came through for you, right.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's your I'm true, Hey, looks but traversially yess that
jets that Jeff's effort.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I mean that was just like the chef's kiss. Yeah,
it it really was. It really was. You know that
the Deavante Adams Chase down. That's a great one. That's
really great.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Was the highlight of the night. He's the leader we
need now, I mean, apparently he's Aaron Rodgers said his
speech was the best he's hurd in twenty years in
the NFL. We just had to wait for DeVante Adams.
Now we're going to be fine.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Yeah, what do you made?
Just such a brilliant call to get rid of a
guy that that people actually liked, but you know, and
now now you're listless. But okay, DeVante Adams will just
get everything going. That's good.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Now we're going to rip off ten
twelve wins.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
In a row.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
We're good.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
There was Salad's fault that they had to have Zach
Wilson at quarterback for how long? For Yeah, for his
entire time, except for like three games or whatever it was,
you know, five games. Yeah, that was that was all
on solid that he was stuck with Zach Wilson and
Zack's mom.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Hey he got a new job now he's he's some
kind of floating coach with the Packers.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He was I'm so glad that the Jets are paying
for the Packers to have another coach so that you
really are contributing to another team success. That's a great thing.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
That all Smith can do his smile.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm sorry I say that again. I missed it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, at this point, all he can do is smile
because you're hurting him with your words, just as sailing
him with a body blow after body blow. Hey, how
much more active? We Yeah, he's close, he's teetering, he's
on the edge here, had that Knicks loss yesterday and
it's really a bad, bad thing for him. But trades,
(21:31):
we've seen a bunch in the NFL. Ram's actually going
to make a bunch of moves. Is it all contingent
on Thursday night results?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I don't think it's contingent. Look, I think they know
where they are. They're not very good and copy. It's
really hard to trade a guy who's that good. But
if you know that his body is breaking down, which
for the last two years it appears that way, you
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better catch out on that one. Now. The question I
have for them is like, does Stafford stick around for this?
Does McVeigh stick around for it? Because you know McVeigh
but two years ago was angling for an ESPN job.
I mean he basically wanted to He wanted something where
he could be, you know, making eight figures by just
talking about football, and God help, we should all do that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, we blied him back onto the field because we
called it out, like the going got tough and he
was going to quit.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, and he probably should have gone. But yeah, Like,
the Rams are in a really serious quandary because you
want to have some ammunition to rebuild this thing, and
you're also dealing with what did your quarterback want to do?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Do you believe the Stafford trade rumors that have been
out there the last day or so or now?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Not really. I mean it's kind of nice, but I
think that to most teams really look at it and go,
can we really really get a guy in here and
turn our season around that quickly when he doesn't know
the guys that he's working with and doesn't know I
just like, it's such a far fetched thing for a quarterback.
(23:18):
It's one thing even wide receivers, you know. And I'm
not trying to drill on the whole Devanta Adams thing
because this applies to you DeAndre Hopkins too. Coming in
the middle of the season, it takes you a while
to get on page. I mean, just learning an offense.
And you know, Adams has an advantage because he knows
the quarterback, but he's still got to figure out some
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of the offense and how it works with the players
that he's got around him, and what the role is.
Hopkins has it more so now Hopkins they can afford
to be patient because the defense is so good that
they can wait for him to kind of work his
way in and give somebody that Mahomes can depend upon. Right.
But I just like, unless it's a corner you know,
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cornerbacks are really easy. Defensive tackles, defensive ends, that's easy.
Running backs relatively easy. Any other position in that very
few times I've seen a guy coming in the mid
season and turn a club around and really take it
to another level. It might, it might improve slightly, but
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it's just not it's not what we're talking about. You know,
Like Mike Haynes is the greatest example. When the Raiders
went and got Haynes with the Patriots, and that's a
billion years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's a long time. Yeah, that is a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, I mean, well, Deon, Deon Sanders, you know, going, well,
you know that was yeah, the forty nine Ers. That
was four weeks into the season. But again, it's a
defensive back. Defensive Backs are easier to work into things,
especially when it's a man cover guy who just like, look,
they'll cover that guy and wipe them out. You're good
(25:05):
and yeah, other positions. Quarterback is just so hard to
get on page.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So as we look at it going forward, we're already
into week eight here, j Coole some Jason, mister Smith
and I have talked about quite a bit. How many
teams would you say are really actually good?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Five maybe and that and sort of that. And the
Steelers peeter on this right because you don't know, they
made the right move to go to Russell Wilson and
the defensive championship caliber the defense. They have the best
defense in the league. And if they can get the
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score in their favor a little bit more, it's even
more dangerous. Now Kansas City is more consistent with their defense,
but you know, they can rely a little bit on
their offense to make sure that they get a key score.
The Steelers until I don't know that they trust either
one of the quarterbacks yet. Wilson just did a better job,
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you know, like he got Pickens involved, made sure that
Pickens was happy, and if you got a happy Pickens,
you might get a player out of them. I mean,
that guy's such a miserable twot. It's just unbelievable, you know,
Like he is like the worst grandfather in the world,
complaining about everything in the world, right, just a miserable
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and the guy's like twenty three years old. I mean,
she just always complaining about something and he has been
that way since he got to you know, Georgia. It's
just ridiculous with that kid. But you know, Wilson got
him involved, and so they have what is a semi
functional offense. And I know everybody's like, oh, Justin Fields great,
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and Russell Wilson is just a camera hog and wants
to do the interviews. Yeah, but Russell Wilson can actually
play quarterback and run an effective offense, and Justin Field
is still like two or three years away from doing that.
I mean, we all see it. I mean, to me,
other than that, Baltimore is excellent Kansas City so far
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as the number one team because they've actually won the games.
Baltimore is the team that's really dangerous out there. Buffalo
is really good, but but man, they just do not
seem all that tough on defense, and it's gotten worse.
I thought they were better on defense last year, but
it's just not very tough. Obviously, the entire NFC North
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is good right now. I mean, we'll see how long
Chicago hangs in there. You know you're not there yet.
You know you're not with Green Bay. You know you're
not with Detroit yet. You know you're not with Minnesota yet,
but you're not. You're not that far behind. And that's
the cool part because the quarterback over the last four
(28:02):
weeks and Grandy's playing lesser talent and lesser teams, but
he looks like he's functional.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I mean, this is I hope Daniels plays this weekend
because that's a that's a really really fun game. But
nobody in the the NFC East Washington. It's fun. I
don't think they're real. The forty nine ers will see
if they managed to just get healthy enough and tape
this thing together. But there's nobody else in the NFC
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that's like, nobody out of the South. And so it's
Kansas City, it's the it's the three teams out of
the you know, the AFC East that you know, feel
like because Cincinnati will get better over the season, and
then you got Buffalo. I just think that it's all
in the a FC and maybe Detroit or you know, Detroit,
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Green Bay or Minnesota most likely since they're healthy, come
out and that becomes a decent kind of a decent
Super Bowl. But it's like what we named, like five
six teams.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Not the Jets. There is nobody to tell you about
who the very good teams are in the NFL better
than Jason Cole. He's on Twitter at Jason Cole Safety two.
J Cole is always buddy appreciated. Good luck in the
world series.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
My friend, I am I as much of an old
coat as George Pickens. That's the question, Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Like, do you both watch CBS late at night? Watch?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Do we watch Fox during the daytime?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah? Bye, I'm watching reruns of Benson on TV loud.
They go nically doing Exit out about a Fresca exit Swellendome.
Always a great visit with Jay Cole. Now we're gonna
visit with Monsey Belanos, who has one eye on what's
trending and one eye on her gambling account because she
(29:55):
has so many clippers bets out tonight. She actually bet
all the best down to gain five million if Kawhi
Leonard plays tonight.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I did facts facts, Yeah, you know, it was it
was it was worth it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It was worth it. It came out. You never know,
you really, you really never know.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
With Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers first game at Into
It Dome, I can't wait to head out there because
it does look pretty amazing, and with three minutes to
go in the first quarter, the Clippers are on top
of the Suns twenty to eighteen. I am wearing a
Clipper shirt, the new Clipper shirt, the new logo. Breeze
wearing her Sun's shirt, So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I thought that's where the other eye was looking over
your shoulder. Oh that case, there was going to be
a sneakerlection. A Clipper fan and Brianna, one of our
producers letters is a huge Suns fan. Monci and Brianna
are best friends. Yes, they're going to fist fight tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, that's the plan.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I may, I may throw a chair, Let me throw
a chair. I don't know, guys, We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
The Grizzlies are beating the add sixty four to fifty
seven early in the third quarter and late in the
first quarter. It's the Trailblazers on top of the Warriors
eighteen to fifteen. But we had a full slate of
games ten total, three are left. The Pacers officially beat
the Pistons one fifteen to one oh nine. Kate Cunningham,
in a losing effort, dropped twenty eight points, five rebounds,
and eight assists, while the Cavs crushed the Raptors one
(31:21):
thirty six to one oh six. Donovan Mitchell a thirty
one piece in that one. The Bucks outscored the seventy
six ers one twenty four to one oh nine. No
Joel Embiid, no Paul George for Philly. You guys were
talking about this. The league plans to investigate the status
of Embiid, who was expected to miss the first three
games of the season because of a knee issue. The
Magic defeated the Heat won sixteen to ninety seven. Paolo
ban Carol thirty three points, eleven rebounds, My boy, Jimmy
(31:43):
Butler one of eight, three points, five assists, No Bly, no.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No boy, No, well you bet the over for like
twenty five reason oh, you should have had a couple
of twenty dollars coffee. Yes, yes, that's so true.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
The Hawks held on to beat the Nets one twenty
to one to sixteen Trey Young thirty points and twelve assists,
and the Pelicans with a one twenty three to one
eleven win over the Bulls. Nozion Williamson he wes scratch
for New Orleans right before the game, apparently he's sick.
Brandon Ingram Though thirty three points and seven rebounds and
its official to Hornets top the Rockets one ten to
one oh five after being down by fifteen in the
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first half. This was Charles lee first win as a
head coach.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
LaMelo Ball thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Four points, eight rebounds and eleven assists. A little NFL
news for you, fellas. The Panthers are going to start
Bryce Young at quarterback Week eight against the Broncos. Andy
Dalton has a spring thumb following a car accident yesterday.
The Browns are going to start Jamis Winston on Sunday
against the Ravens. Dorian Thompson Robinson is dealing with a
jan finger on his throwing hand. The Tins are leaning
towards starting Mason Rudolph against again this week because Will
(32:49):
Levis is still dealing with his shoulder issue. No practice
today for Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels as he continues to
deal with his rib injury, but practice today. Good news
for Colts running back Jonathan Taylor. They think he may
play actually this weekend against the Texans.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oh, in a hockey game.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
There's a hockey game. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Capitals meet the Flyer six three. I bet the over
on that and I won. I know that's right. That's
how I remember that one. By the way, at GSPN
dot com, the Bulls won eighty one eighty. Yeah, that's
been the whole time. Yeah, they gotta they gotta fix that. Yeah,
it's sweet victory. I'm playing it right now. Is it
still not showing?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Also? Like the nothing all day?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's been like that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, there you go. Congratulations harmon victory at seven two
West Coast The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live
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Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon Opening Night two in the NBA, But two big
quarterback stories to get to. We have two changes in
the NFL this weekend in Cleveland, Jamis Winston takes over
as a starting quarterback following the injury to Deshaun Watson. Also,
Ken Dorsey will now call plays for the Browns first time.
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Kevin Stefanski is not doing that. And uh, look, what's
the effect of this gonna be. I'll tell you it's
gonna have the Andy Dalton Panthers effect, in which, hey,
they'll be a little bit more energy, the offense will
look a little bit better. But in the end, the
Browns are gonna lose. Right, They're gonna be big underdogs
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in every game they'll play the rest of the way.
They'll be a little bit more competitive, but this season
is over, right, They've already sent the message we're gonna
continue to start when he was healthy. We're continue to
start Deshaun Watson and the team is not going anywhere,
and it's just done. They're just punching the clock now
till the end of the year. But this move should
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be a little bit better. It should, It should juice
the offense up a little. But you've already traded your
best receiver away. Uh. The more trades coming, I am sure.
David and Joku is also rumored to be on the
on the trading block teams looking for a tight end
guys on the defensive side, there might be two or
three pieces. Yeah, I mean Jameis wins. Look, they'll have
a little bit more offense, right, so if you have
Brown's fantasy players, maybe you'll get a little bit old
(35:20):
guy opportunity disappeared. But Targets, it's it's just gonna be.
It's just gonna be more of the same. They'll score
a few more points. Maybe they'll win a game or
two the rest of the way. But that's kind of
how it's gonna end. This team is gonna end with
a three to fourteen record. They'll be picking in the
top three in the NFL Draft. They'll get their quarterback
to replace DeShawn Watson. We talked about the other night.
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Because when you're drafting, don't have to worry about you
pay another guy. We can't pay, No, you got money
for your draft picks, and Shadora Sanders or Carson Becker
whoever is going to be their quarterback next year. Yeah.
You look at their next six games. They got a
date against the Ravens this week. That's an L Chargers defense.
That's another L. That's gonna be an L. Following week
it's the Saints. Yeah, okay, okay, so maybe that's a
(36:02):
maybe one. That's one of the maybe Chubb. Yeah, well,
the Kamara got paid. He's done. Oh well, I gotta
I got good. I'm good, good, good point a two
year deal at twenty nine. Wait, wait, I'm good, I'm
good waiting. Then you get the Steelers. That's an L.
Then you get the Broncos. They're off the road. Yeah,
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the defense is really yeah, I mean you look wa
Wayne and one more Yeah, the Steelers you get. So
there'll be two and ten, two and eleven. Right, that's
how it's gonna go. It'll be a little bit more
excepting It's like in a Few Good Men when Kevin
Bacon says, oh, you know, Lieutenant Caffy's gonna dazzle you
with stories of Code reds and and illegal things going on.
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He'll have no evidence, mind you not in the end.
It'll be entertaining, but it's not going to escape the
fact that Santiago's dead and Dawson and Downey did it right, like, hey,
it might be fun. Hey, maybe some high wire racks here,
here's Winston a couple of touchdowns. With the end, the
Browns are well, I'm glad you reversed normal course, you
brought up the dead guys, so that's good. Well, but
he was a fictional dead guy, so it's okay. Well
(37:07):
it's a movie. Have you checked in on that movie.
I think wow. If he is, then then shame on
you for bringing I think he's all right. I don't
know anyway. The point, dude, that we're trying to make
here is that it'll be fun and Jamis will give
us some great speeches because now he's actually the starter.
Remember he was doing all the speeches as third string guy.
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He wasn't even a backup at that point. Meanwhile, in Carolina,
speaking of Andy Dalton, all the best wishes to Andy
Dalton his family who were involved in a car accident
earlier this week. Everybody is okay, and that was the
best news we saw. But Andy Dalton did sprain his
thumb uh in the car accident, and the Panthers and
Dave Canalis are hoping that he can serve as the
backup quarterback. But Bryce Young will be back under center
(37:52):
this weekend for the Panthers, and look, it's it's it's
hard because this week where Andy Dalton was in a
car accident and all all that, Like I said, all
the best to him, but you're looking at the you know,
it's bigger than him, the Panthers have going on. If
Bryce Young comes in and has shown any sort of hey,
I get it a little bit more. He's got to
be the quarterback the rest of the way. I mean,
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I know you've seen him, like you feel like you've
made your decision on him and you're moving on. But boy,
why not just be really really sure you're not going
anywhere you'll be drafting a quarterback again when when when
the off season comes and you're gonna move on. Maybe
Bryce Young will play well enough or just well enough
you could trade him this year at the deadline. Somebody
could be looking for Bryce Young. But if he comes
(38:34):
in and it's not just absolutely abysmal, you really want
to make sure about a first number one overall pick
before you say, okay, we're done, pack it up. So
if he does, if he plays a little bit better, yeah,
he should stay the starter because you're not playing for
anything else. So then what do you have in the
future here in Carolina. So if it's awful and it's
abysmal and it's another no touchdown, three interception, he throws
(38:56):
for sixty five yards, yeah, okay, back and he's finished.
But if he shows a little bit he needs to
stay the startup. But even if he if he's terrible, right,
even if he's shown no growth whatsoever, he was a
diminished product anyway in terms of trade values and whatever else.
And you're gonna be sure that going into next year
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that you're gonna lose as many games as possible. Zany
Dalton hasn't won you games. You got one win on
the year, but he gives you the danger that you
might win just enough to get yourself outside of that
window of top quarterbacks. So I don't know, no, no,
but that's my point. Right, even with whatever he juice
he was bringing you, you still only got one win
(39:39):
on the year. So at this point, what the hell
is the difference? You're circling the drain and creeping up
towards the top, picking the draft again anyway, so you
might as well roll through. Yeah, I look, and you
still all the bears if you, by the way, pile
on ring back. That's not even nice, man, that's not
(39:59):
even nice. You brought it to dead guy. It was
a fictional dead guy. It was fictionally died. Fictionally. That
means he's still alive. He finished the movie. Wasn't a
snuff film. They were line. It happened. It's good, uh,
coming up next. Speaking of trades, a big one went
down today. Does this make the Chiefs even better
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in the NBA. You know, we go from last night
in the pageantry of the Celtics making twenty nine threes
and tying the all time record, the absolute history of
lebron James playing with Bronnie James first father son jow Ever,
in the history of the game, a lot of people
still really mad about both those things. We had never
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seen that before. We had not seen anything like it
since nineteen ninety with Ken Griffy and Ken Griffy Sr.
And now we have the second night and the biggest
highlight is the Pistons got called for having six guys
on the court. Well, it's good to see there in
mid season form. Did they learn from Xan lanning six
guys on the court? Did they think that was gonna
help him on that one possession to maybe get him over?
(01:38):
It was pretty interesting, I gotta say, pretty interesting to see.
Oh no, no, that's uh, that's six guys on the
court right there. Yeah, it's good to see the work.
I'm counting them one two, three guys in the back court,
one two three to the front court. Did they run
drills in the offseason where they go six on five?
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Maybe, Hey, we want to make it look like where
there's just like a little more frenetic pain the defense
to make sure the feet keep moving and stuff. I
don't know, I'm trying to find an excuse for how
you can be a professional team and show that level
of an aptitude. You mean, we just we just can't
do that. We just can't put six guys out. Oh
and then it's the pistons. You know you want to
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that punchline wrote itself. You want a great story. So
my freshman year of high school, Uh football, we we
were terrible. I think we were what we're like three
and seven or something like that, were really bad and
we were we we won like our We won our
first game, then we lost like seven in a row,
and then we then we won and we tied or
something I forget. Anyway, in the middle of playing all
(02:37):
the teams that we normally play, uh, there is one
kid who the coaches they put them on the kickoff
team because somebody uh got hurt, like right and warm
ups like I got hamstringer, couldn't play, Okay, so they said, okay,
go out there and be on the kickoff team. Okay,
he goes out there, Pete, I remember Pete. Pete Baias
is his name. So Pete Baiaz goes out in the
(02:57):
kickoff team and uh, you know, okay, the kickoff happens
and you know, the tackle all of a sudden, Okay, great,
and I'm on the side because I didn't ply. I
didn't play that much by freshman until the very end
of the year. And and the other team gets the ball,
and they start driving down the field on us, and
they're you know, it's it's a lot of running. It's
a lot they're running the ball. It's like probably like
one of those ten play drives. They got the ball
(03:18):
like their own thirty and the you know, here's six
yards five yards, six yards, five yards. The drive all
the way down and they get down to the ten
yard line and and all of a sudden, the coach
on the other team is frantic, and the referee throws
a flag and they throw a flair like what is it?
And they said, and they said, Curtis in my high school,
Curtis High School, twelve men on the field, and we
counted into like twelve. It's like, come on, man twelve.
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And Pete was the guy on the on the field
and he didn't play like he wasn't a guy that played.
And and they go, Pete, come on and comes off
and they go, what do you do? What you doing
out there? He goes, well, I went out there for
the kickoff and I just stayed. He goes, she went
out there the entire drive and we're still getting dominant.
The assistant coach laughed and said, well, look at it.
(04:02):
This one. We got away with it for like nine plays,
and me, even freshman year, my thought future sports stock
radio is going, we had twelve guys on the field
for last nine plays, are on the five yard line?
We had, we had it, and we couldn't stop it
with the extra man. We ran a four four four defense,
like we had four defensive linemen, we had four line backs.
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And the thing is like that meant Pete didn't engage
on a single line la I don't understand, is that
he was just hanging out. We ran a four to
four defense right with three defensive backs because nobody really
would throw right, so we ran for the rare tight
end scene. Yet at some point, like, don't the defensive
backs have to go? Why are there four of it?
We don't run this, This is not our system. Why
are we have Why do we have four DB's out
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in getting run over by the pulling guard? And we
had twelve guys on the field for nine plays and
they drove from their thirty down to our fick that
f Nobody catches it on the side, nobody, nobody, None
of the rest of the defenses looking around going what
(05:07):
the hell? Yeah, but that man, you got run over?
But that's when I knew. I'm like, okay, yeah, uh
you sports talk radio hosts, Hey, how bad is that?
Look at his team? They had twelve guys on the
field and they were giving up seven yards of play
even with the extra man. Now what would have been
funny is if all of a sudden they throw it
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up and there's Pete Now you know, Johnny on the spot. Yeah,
someone does the count, going wait, what the hell? Yeah?
I was like, how do you, dude, how do you You're
you know, you're not supposed to stay in the game,
but he stayed in. He just I'm staying in, staying
in the huddle, Okay, right, all right is what I'm
gonna do. How about this watching a full grid of
four games, a couple of Marquee matchups getting ready to start.
(05:49):
They just did a profile on McClain of the sixers
up there right, here's summer League. Here's what he did.
Here's all this the last thing that they put up
on his little graphic. You know, he's got three point
eight mil followers on TikTok, like it's nine one man
and I get it. They're getting drummed with two minutes
left by the Bucks so what's gonna like, Yeah, we're
(06:12):
gonna get We gotta get to that here, because that's
the other big part is I got that Zion didn't
play because he was ill, and I don't think they
needed him. And hey, good good, good ups to the Pistons. Oh,
by the way, who really fought hard tonight. Yeah, they
were leading this game for a while and then you
know the Pacers that remembered, oh yeah we were actually
not bad. Uh, and they win the game one thirteen,
one oh six. But the Pistons had to lead for
(06:34):
a long time. You know, two years ago you said
they were a team on the common. They were ready
to time here, ready to rise up. I mean, somehow
Kate Cunningham got a Max deal. Hey, they were in
fifteen games a year. You got a Max deal. You
gotta pay somebody. Will you stay? What's it gonna take
to get you to stay? Max? Max? Okayn the Max?
(06:56):
Maybe maybe not. You're you're paying me on potential anyway,
So let's get it on. You're now the richest man
in the state of Michigan because Harball left, So congratulations,
how about that? That's you kid cutting him? But now
because there is good with bad look, obviously, and you
know Milwaukee and Philadelphia is one of it. The Bucks
are crushing the Joel embiid less seventy six at this point.
(07:16):
But how about let's investigate him before we get before
we get into you know, boy, how bad this is.
Let's just let's just have a moment here, an appreciation moment.
The Pelicans lead the Bulls right now, one eleven ninety five. Yeah,
and they're killing them. And the Pelicans are playing without Zion,
which you could say, hey, after the last four years,
they're used to these games without Zion. He did play
(07:37):
seventy plus regular season, but he's already missed the first one,
so there's that out with an illness, but making his
return to the NBA after nearly three years away because
of various knee and foot injuries. Lonzo ball back tonight
and some of the plays it looked like he has
just missed a couple of weeks. Had a great Ali
(07:59):
up zachl for the Slam, Zach Levine on Cooper Cup
Revenge Tour. Now. But you know, seeing seeing him out
there was really kind of fun. You know, for a
long time, he was the best plus minus player on
the Bulls tonight. Yeah, he was the only guy that
was in the positives for them for a bit. Didn't
go crazy stat wise, he was at five points for
assists for a long time. His minutes were down. Obviously,
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he's coming back after three years. But you know, you remember,
I mean, he's been gone a long long time, and
you know, you go back and and it was it
was that long ago where Magic Johnson said, hey, where
drafted you number two overall? We want to see your
your jersey and the rafters here at some point and
then you realize, not only did it not work out,
then he went to another team, then he went to
(08:40):
the Bulls and now he's missed almost three years before
he's come back to play. And that's some kind of
stick touitiveness to come back after that long and come
back and get back and play. And so big up
Salonso for coming back here. Well, good for him. He
also did did the right thing. He had a player
option on his contract. He said, yes, I'll take your money,
so he battled back and giving them minutes. Tonight he's
(09:02):
played what about fourteen to fifteen minutes in this blowout defeat.
As we sit here against the Pelicans and what Brandon
Ingram and CJ. McCollum have done. But he was a
guy that has done a disservice. Right, the last twenty
four hours had been a bunch of bloviators and hot
take nonsense. Every idiot that can climb to a higher
(09:22):
pedestal to tell you what a travesty it was that
Bronnie James found his way into an NBA game. Just
get a hold of yourselves, Okay, find someone to give
you a hug, unplug your head set, go do something else.
Go find a nice cartoon, because that's about the aptitude
you're showing. Here is meeting Hey. Look, oh that coyote
(09:44):
the roadrunner is gonna get him again. It'll make you
feel better about yourself. But the fact is you got
a guy in Lonzo Ball who has done a disservice.
You mentioned Magic Johnson. Obviously we had LaVar Ball, big
ball of brand and everything else. Kid just want to basketball,
and he was a pretty good basketball player. Always se
him like a pretty good kid. And then unfortunately the
(10:06):
series of knee injuries. So to see him battle back
when most folks would have said, you know, I made
some money, I'm good. Oh, to show the intestinal fortitude
to steal from our old pal Guerrilla Mond soon for
a moment, and Jesse the body Ventura to get back
on the court and give them some minutes, because look,
this team's gonna stink, so he's gonna play substantive minutes.
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He's gonna earn every bit of that contract he opted into.
Zach Lavine, a guy who's gonna showcase himself every night
to get dealt. I think is what we're gonna look
at here thirteen to five and two in his thirty
two minutes tonight, the arrival of Josh Guiney. I mean,
there's a couple of component parts where you're like, all right,
they've got some good young talent, but what does it
(10:47):
mean Not a whole hell of a lot, because they're
gonna get buried on a nightly basis. So meanwhile, the
third game in the trifecta, we have the Suns and
the Clippers. They're just getting going, Oh yeah, we got
a civil war in the here. Milwaukee has just defeated
the Philadelphia seventy six ers, a game that was not close.
The Bucks obviously had a huge advantage in this game.
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There was no Joel Embiid and they were up by
fifteen throughout they win at one twenty four to one
oh eight, And now the NBA has decided they're going
to investigate the seventy six ers. Why are they doing
this because Embiid missed the preseason and now he's missing
the first three games as he tries to come back
from his injury that limited him to thirty eight games
(11:30):
last year. But he did come back for the playoffs,
but they're trying to limit his minutes now, and the
NBA is looking into it because what happens is when
you miss a nationally televised game, they always look into it.
We don't want you to miss nationally televised games and
players are sitting out. So it's become a thing, especially
in the way of his comments about a couple weeks
ago with ESPN where he said, listen, I'm such to me,
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I'm not playing another back to back ever, and the
Sixers said the other day they don't anticipate playing both
of them in back to back games. So the Sixers
have just said, yeah, we know the rule, we ain't
doing it. So I get the NBA wanting to do
this because you look, they don't want these big players
to be missing games. Obviously, I think the Sixers wish
they had Joellenbiid for the opening night. Yeah, but this
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is this is their best attempt. And this is why
the NBA is so feeble, because because Adam Silver just
doesn't want to do anything, is that the teams are
still going to not play their players in back to backs.
They don't care. And the NBA can say, and this
is kind of one of those shot across the bows. Okay,
beginning of the season, we're gonna try to get rid
of this early. We're gonna have some kind of investigation.
(12:33):
And the Sixers saying, yeah, whatever he's heard, he's not playing.
Bad time to have the investigation because obviously he's missing
it's opening night. He would play if they if they
wanted him to play. But this is the worst thing
because the NBNBA has empowered the players to do whatever
they want when it comes to playing and sitting out games,
and sitting out games is stupid. That's sitting out games
(12:53):
is just stupid. But teams are gonna do that because
it's too many games and they're gonna throw back to
backs out there, and the NBA is gonna say, there's
nothing we can do other than shortening the schedule. And
the NBA is not gonna do that because Adam Silver's
not gonna be a commission and says, you know, less
games is great. Like what happened to Jerry maguire when
he said less clients, less money. Yeah, you're fired, Jerry,
And they what did the cronins. So this is where
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the NBA is trying to to kind of assert themselves
a little bit, and it's just gonna be met with
a shrug by the rest of the NBA. Yeah, okay,
you want to investigate this, fine, whatever, what are you
gonna do? And beads hurt. We'll see, We'll see another night.
I mean, that's how it's gonna go. But in the end,
I mean, the owners aren't going to give back the
revenues of those added games, right whenever there's the let's
propose it to a seventy game schedule, it's say, all right,
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convince both sides they want to give up billions of dollars.
Oh and everything you've got to do to now bend
over backwards to appease your rights holders who have just
paid in for the extra amounts and parse this out
and all of these different things that you're doing in
terms of streaming and repackaging, repurposing your content, do it
(14:00):
within met It's funny, right because immediately he go to, well,
you look pretty good at the Olympics, and like God,
love of country guaranteed paycheck here, all of those things
that play together and the back to backs, they've done
a pretty good job.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
Right.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
Most teams only have a handful on the schedules anymore.
You're not seeing a ton of it, But you can't
eliminate them entirely unless you want to play an extra
month of a season, right, or add another two weeks,
three weeks to your regular season. No, it's already a
season that ends in June, and we're back here mid October.
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We already had a month of preseason and everything else.
So you know the fact that it used to be
what Halloween or a little bit later. I used to
remember trick or treating with my kids when they were little,
and you'd be watching an NFL game if it happened
to be on a Monday or Thursday, or you'd be
watching whatever the big NBA game was, Like, why is
there a crowd outside because you got a giant ass
(14:59):
TV and your win nose open. That's why. So yeah,
investigate all you want. Nobody's giving the money back. The
only consideration is everybody crying about the fact that you
forced me to play sixty five games so I could
be eligible for an award. It's like now you guys
were doping and agreeing to those circumstances in terms of
the voting and what it means for your money as well.
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Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome again. Opening
Night two of the NBA. Here tonight show brought you
by the studios here the tire rec dot Com studios. Uh.
Coming up, we got Jason Cole stopping by all the
latest news in the NFL. What quarterback said the postgame
speech this weekend was the best he had heard in
(15:43):
twenty years. You Aaron Rodgers. That's coming up next, Jason
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Opening Night two in the NBA. We'll have more on
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that coming up. However, maybe things are looking up for
the Jets. I may I'm not saying maybe they're looking
up because all of a sudden, the leader that Gotham has,
the leader that Gotham City needed, turns out to be
DeVante Adams. Big story today. Adams gave a big, fiery
(16:47):
speech following the Jets loss to the Steelers on Sunday.
Talked about accountability, said there was no not enough celebrating,
not enough joy at big plays. Aaron Rodgers talked about
that after the game that the sideline was lot. Rogers says,
best speech I've heard, most realist speech in twenty years
in the NFL. Davante Adams a guy who didn't want
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to play the Raiders and said as early as two
and a half years ago, I don't want to be here.
He's the leader the Jets need. Davonte Adams shows you
what kind of locker room you got there, guy, you
just quit on his last team. If I got a hamstring,
Oh yes, I don't. And now he comes in and
that's the speech. Look, he gave the most effort showing
(17:29):
that and the quick twitch muscles were working well after
the Rogers interception where he did make the chase down
tackle at the one. So that was good. I mean,
he showed a lot of heart and saw the wizard
for that play. But if that's the guy, given your speeches,
you got problem, Well maybe he always had that. He
was just waiting for waiting for the Jets to show
that he's their real role. Okay, joining us your hero,
(17:52):
a man who is a very good leader, very good
NFL Insider thirty third team on Twitter at Jason Cole
sixty two, lifelong Dodger fan. It is the hall of
very good voter himself, j Cole, what's happening, buddy?
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Oh this is great. Just let this go first, se
just let it play out.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It's probably better than anything you're gonna say.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
So okay, yeah, that's good. How's your neck by the.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Way, Oh, hang on, I'll bite my neck is fine? Why?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh, because you watched all those home runs being hit
by the Dodgers, so you know, it might have made
you crane your neck so often and you might have
hurt yourself as you were watching from those very good seats.
That your wife's guy for you.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Hey, how's your how's your car?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
My car is fabulous?
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Good because I just keep it on the way into
work tonight. So congratulations.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I wanted just tell your wife thank you. As a
Dodger fan, I wanted to say thank you to missus
Smith for allowing you to watch the future World Champions
up close and personal and live. That's a great thing
that you got to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, look, I got both ends of the Sean Beneta spectrum.
I got the brilliance of game too, and then each
we're gonna lose in game six, So I got both
of those.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah you got that, but you also got you got
Jeff mess all the liberty. The liberty came through for you, right.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
That's your I'm true, Hey, looks but traversially yess that
jets that Jeff's effort.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
I mean that was just like the chef's kiss. Yeah,
it it really was. It really was. You know that
the Deavante Adams Chase down. That's a great one. That's
really great.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Was the highlight of the night. He's the leader we
need now, I mean, apparently he's Aaron Rodgers said his
speech was the best he's hurd in twenty years in
the NFL. We just had to wait for DeVante Adams.
Now we're going to be fine.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Yeah, what do you made?
Just such a brilliant call to get rid of a
guy that that people actually liked, but you know, and
now now you're listless. But okay, DeVante Adams will just
get everything going. That's good.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, okay, Now we're going to rip off ten
twelve wins.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
In a row.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
We're good.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
There was Salad's fault that they had to have Zach
Wilson at quarterback for how long? For Yeah, for his
entire time, except for like three games or whatever it was,
you know, five games. Yeah, that was that was all
on solid that he was stuck with Zach Wilson and
Zack's mom.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Hey he got a new job now he's he's some
kind of floating coach with the Packers.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
He was I'm so glad that the Jets are paying
for the Packers to have another coach so that you
really are contributing to another team success. That's a great thing.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
That all Smith can do his smile.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I'm sorry I say that again. I missed it.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Yeah, at this point, all he can do is smile
because you're hurting him with your words, just as sailing
him with a body blow after body blow. Hey, how
much more active? We Yeah, he's close, he's teetering, he's
on the edge here, had that Knicks loss yesterday and
it's really a bad, bad thing for him. But trades,
(21:31):
we've seen a bunch in the NFL. Ram's actually going
to make a bunch of moves. Is it all contingent
on Thursday night results?
Speaker 3 (21:39):
I don't think it's contingent. Look, I think they know
where they are. They're not very good and copy. It's
really hard to trade a guy who's that good. But
if you know that his body is breaking down, which
for the last two years it appears that way, you
(22:00):
better catch out on that one. Now. The question I
have for them is like, does Stafford stick around for this?
Does McVeigh stick around for it? Because you know McVeigh
but two years ago was angling for an ESPN job.
I mean he basically wanted to He wanted something where
he could be, you know, making eight figures by just
talking about football, and God help, we should all do that.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Well, we blied him back onto the field because we
called it out, like the going got tough and he
was going to quit.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yeah, and he probably should have gone. But yeah, Like,
the Rams are in a really serious quandary because you
want to have some ammunition to rebuild this thing, and
you're also dealing with what did your quarterback want to do?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Well?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Do you believe the Stafford trade rumors that have been
out there the last day or so or now?
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Not really. I mean it's kind of nice, but I
think that to most teams really look at it and go,
can we really really get a guy in here and
turn our season around that quickly when he doesn't know
the guys that he's working with and doesn't know I
just like, it's such a far fetched thing for a quarterback.
(23:18):
It's one thing even wide receivers, you know. And I'm
not trying to drill on the whole Devanta Adams thing
because this applies to you DeAndre Hopkins too. Coming in
the middle of the season, it takes you a while
to get on page. I mean, just learning an offense.
And you know, Adams has an advantage because he knows
the quarterback, but he's still got to figure out some
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of the offense and how it works with the players
that he's got around him, and what the role is.
Hopkins has it more so now Hopkins they can afford
to be patient because the defense is so good that
they can wait for him to kind of work his
way in and give somebody that Mahomes can depend upon. Right.
But I just like, unless it's a corner you know,
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cornerbacks are really easy. Defensive tackles, defensive ends, that's easy.
Running backs relatively easy. Any other position in that very
few times I've seen a guy coming in the mid
season and turn a club around and really take it
to another level. It might, it might improve slightly, but
(24:27):
it's just not it's not what we're talking about. You know,
Like Mike Haynes is the greatest example. When the Raiders
went and got Haynes with the Patriots, and that's a
billion years ago.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's a long time. Yeah, that is a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, I mean, well, Deon, Deon Sanders, you know, going, well,
you know that was yeah, the forty nine Ers. That
was four weeks into the season. But again, it's a
defensive back. Defensive Backs are easier to work into things,
especially when it's a man cover guy who just like, look,
they'll cover that guy and wipe them out. You're good
(25:05):
and yeah, other positions. Quarterback is just so hard to
get on page.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So as we look at it going forward, we're already
into week eight here, j Coole some Jason, mister Smith
and I have talked about quite a bit. How many
teams would you say are really actually good?
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Five maybe and that and sort of that. And the
Steelers peeter on this right because you don't know, they
made the right move to go to Russell Wilson and
the defensive championship caliber the defense. They have the best
defense in the league. And if they can get the
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score in their favor a little bit more, it's even
more dangerous. Now Kansas City is more consistent with their defense,
but you know, they can rely a little bit on
their offense to make sure that they get a key score.
The Steelers until I don't know that they trust either
one of the quarterbacks yet. Wilson just did a better job,
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you know, like he got Pickens involved, made sure that
Pickens was happy, and if you got a happy Pickens,
you might get a player out of them. I mean,
that guy's such a miserable twot. It's just unbelievable, you know,
Like he is like the worst grandfather in the world,
complaining about everything in the world, right, just a miserable
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and the guy's like twenty three years old. I mean,
she just always complaining about something and he has been
that way since he got to you know, Georgia. It's
just ridiculous with that kid. But you know, Wilson got
him involved, and so they have what is a semi
functional offense. And I know everybody's like, oh, Justin Fields great,
(26:54):
and Russell Wilson is just a camera hog and wants
to do the interviews. Yeah, but Russell Wilson can actually
play quarterback and run an effective offense, and Justin Field
is still like two or three years away from doing that.
I mean, we all see it. I mean, to me,
other than that, Baltimore is excellent Kansas City so far
(27:16):
as the number one team because they've actually won the games.
Baltimore is the team that's really dangerous out there. Buffalo
is really good, but but man, they just do not
seem all that tough on defense, and it's gotten worse.
I thought they were better on defense last year, but
it's just not very tough. Obviously, the entire NFC North
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is good right now. I mean, we'll see how long
Chicago hangs in there. You know you're not there yet.
You know you're not with Green Bay. You know you're
not with Detroit yet. You know you're not with Minnesota yet,
but you're not. You're not that far behind. And that's
the cool part because the quarterback over the last four
(28:02):
weeks and Grandy's playing lesser talent and lesser teams, but
he looks like he's functional.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
I mean, this is I hope Daniels plays this weekend
because that's a that's a really really fun game. But
nobody in the the NFC East Washington. It's fun. I
don't think they're real. The forty nine ers will see
if they managed to just get healthy enough and tape
this thing together. But there's nobody else in the NFC
(28:28):
that's like, nobody out of the South. And so it's
Kansas City, it's the it's the three teams out of
the you know, the AFC East that you know, feel
like because Cincinnati will get better over the season, and
then you got Buffalo. I just think that it's all
in the a FC and maybe Detroit or you know, Detroit,
(28:51):
Green Bay or Minnesota most likely since they're healthy, come
out and that becomes a decent kind of a decent
Super Bowl. But it's like what we named, like five
six teams.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Not the Jets. There is nobody to tell you about
who the very good teams are in the NFL better
than Jason Cole. He's on Twitter at Jason Cole Safety two.
J Cole is always buddy appreciated. Good luck in the
world series.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
My friend, I am I as much of an old
coat as George Pickens. That's the question, Uh.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Like, do you both watch CBS late at night? Watch?
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Do we watch Fox during the daytime?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah? Bye, I'm watching reruns of Benson on TV loud.
They go nically doing Exit out about a Fresca exit Swellendome.
Always a great visit with Jay Cole. Now we're gonna
visit with Monsey Belanos, who has one eye on what's
trending and one eye on her gambling account because she
(29:55):
has so many clippers bets out tonight. She actually bet
all the best down to gain five million if Kawhi
Leonard plays tonight.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I did facts facts, Yeah, you know, it was it
was it was worth it.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It was worth it. It came out. You never know,
you really, you really never know.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
With Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers first game at Into
It Dome, I can't wait to head out there because
it does look pretty amazing, and with three minutes to
go in the first quarter, the Clippers are on top
of the Suns twenty to eighteen. I am wearing a
Clipper shirt, the new Clipper shirt, the new logo. Breeze
wearing her Sun's shirt, So we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I thought that's where the other eye was looking over
your shoulder. Oh that case, there was going to be
a sneakerlection. A Clipper fan and Brianna, one of our
producers letters is a huge Suns fan. Monci and Brianna
are best friends. Yes, they're going to fist fight tonight.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah, that's the plan.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I may, I may throw a chair, Let me throw
a chair. I don't know, guys, We'll see how it goes.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
The Grizzlies are beating the add sixty four to fifty
seven early in the third quarter and late in the
first quarter. It's the Trailblazers on top of the Warriors
eighteen to fifteen. But we had a full slate of
games ten total, three are left. The Pacers officially beat
the Pistons one fifteen to one oh nine. Kate Cunningham,
in a losing effort, dropped twenty eight points, five rebounds,
and eight assists, while the Cavs crushed the Raptors one
(31:21):
thirty six to one oh six. Donovan Mitchell a thirty
one piece in that one. The Bucks outscored the seventy
six ers one twenty four to one oh nine. No
Joel Embiid, no Paul George for Philly. You guys were
talking about this. The league plans to investigate the status
of Embiid, who was expected to miss the first three
games of the season because of a knee issue. The
Magic defeated the Heat won sixteen to ninety seven. Paolo
ban Carol thirty three points, eleven rebounds, My boy, Jimmy
(31:43):
Butler one of eight, three points, five assists, No Bly, no.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
No boy, No, well you bet the over for like
twenty five reason oh, you should have had a couple
of twenty dollars coffee. Yes, yes, that's so true.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
The Hawks held on to beat the Nets one twenty
to one to sixteen Trey Young thirty points and twelve assists,
and the Pelicans with a one twenty three to one
eleven win over the Bulls. Nozion Williamson he wes scratch
for New Orleans right before the game, apparently he's sick.
Brandon Ingram Though thirty three points and seven rebounds and
its official to Hornets top the Rockets one ten to
one oh five after being down by fifteen in the
(32:21):
first half. This was Charles lee first win as a
head coach.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
LaMelo Ball thirty.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Four points, eight rebounds and eleven assists. A little NFL
news for you, fellas. The Panthers are going to start
Bryce Young at quarterback Week eight against the Broncos. Andy
Dalton has a spring thumb following a car accident yesterday.
The Browns are going to start Jamis Winston on Sunday
against the Ravens. Dorian Thompson Robinson is dealing with a
jan finger on his throwing hand. The Tins are leaning
towards starting Mason Rudolph against again this week because Will
(32:49):
Levis is still dealing with his shoulder issue. No practice
today for Commander's quarterback Jaden Daniels as he continues to
deal with his rib injury, but practice today. Good news
for Colts running back Jonathan Taylor. They think he may
play actually this weekend against the Texans.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Oh, in a hockey game.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
There's a hockey game. It's over. It's over.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Capitals meet the Flyer six three. I bet the over
on that and I won. I know that's right. That's
how I remember that one. By the way, at GSPN
dot com, the Bulls won eighty one eighty. Yeah, that's
been the whole time. Yeah, they gotta they gotta fix that. Yeah,
it's sweet victory. I'm playing it right now. Is it
still not showing?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You?
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Also? Like the nothing all day?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
It's been like that.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Yeah, there you go. Congratulations harmon victory at seven two
West Coast The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live
the TIREC dot Com studios. Coming up next. Two big
quarterback changes in the NFL. Should they be permanent? That's next,
Jason Mike.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon Opening Night two in the NBA, But two big
quarterback stories to get to. We have two changes in
the NFL this weekend in Cleveland, Jamis Winston takes over
as a starting quarterback following the injury to Deshaun Watson. Also,
Ken Dorsey will now call plays for the Browns first time.
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Kevin Stefanski is not doing that. And uh, look, what's
the effect of this gonna be. I'll tell you it's
gonna have the Andy Dalton Panthers effect, in which, hey,
they'll be a little bit more energy, the offense will
look a little bit better. But in the end, the
Browns are gonna lose. Right, They're gonna be big underdogs
(34:37):
in every game they'll play the rest of the way.
They'll be a little bit more competitive, but this season
is over, right, They've already sent the message we're gonna
continue to start when he was healthy. We're continue to
start Deshaun Watson and the team is not going anywhere,
and it's just done. They're just punching the clock now
till the end of the year. But this move should
(34:57):
be a little bit better. It should, It should juice
the offense up a little. But you've already traded your
best receiver away. Uh. The more trades coming, I am sure.
David and Joku is also rumored to be on the
on the trading block teams looking for a tight end
guys on the defensive side, there might be two or
three pieces. Yeah, I mean Jameis wins. Look, they'll have
a little bit more offense, right, so if you have
Brown's fantasy players, maybe you'll get a little bit old
(35:20):
guy opportunity disappeared. But Targets, it's it's just gonna be.
It's just gonna be more of the same. They'll score
a few more points. Maybe they'll win a game or
two the rest of the way. But that's kind of
how it's gonna end. This team is gonna end with
a three to fourteen record. They'll be picking in the
top three in the NFL Draft. They'll get their quarterback
to replace DeShawn Watson. We talked about the other night.
(35:40):
Because when you're drafting, don't have to worry about you
pay another guy. We can't pay, No, you got money
for your draft picks, and Shadora Sanders or Carson Becker
whoever is going to be their quarterback next year. Yeah.
You look at their next six games. They got a
date against the Ravens this week. That's an L Chargers defense.
That's another L. That's gonna be an L. Following week
it's the Saints. Yeah, okay, okay, so maybe that's a
(36:02):
maybe one. That's one of the maybe Chubb. Yeah, well,
the Kamara got paid. He's done. Oh well, I gotta
I got good. I'm good, good, good point a two
year deal at twenty nine. Wait, wait, I'm good, I'm
good waiting. Then you get the Steelers. That's an L.
Then you get the Broncos. They're off the road. Yeah,
(36:23):
the defense is really yeah, I mean you look wa
Wayne and one more Yeah, the Steelers you get. So
there'll be two and ten, two and eleven. Right, that's
how it's gonna go. It'll be a little bit more
excepting It's like in a Few Good Men when Kevin
Bacon says, oh, you know, Lieutenant Caffy's gonna dazzle you
with stories of Code reds and and illegal things going on.
(36:46):
He'll have no evidence, mind you not in the end.
It'll be entertaining, but it's not going to escape the
fact that Santiago's dead and Dawson and Downey did it right, like, hey,
it might be fun. Hey, maybe some high wire racks here,
here's Winston a couple of touchdowns. With the end, the
Browns are well, I'm glad you reversed normal course, you
brought up the dead guys, so that's good. Well, but
he was a fictional dead guy, so it's okay. Well
(37:07):
it's a movie. Have you checked in on that movie.
I think wow. If he is, then then shame on
you for bringing I think he's all right. I don't
know anyway. The point, dude, that we're trying to make
here is that it'll be fun and Jamis will give
us some great speeches because now he's actually the starter.
Remember he was doing all the speeches as third string guy.
(37:28):
He wasn't even a backup at that point. Meanwhile, in Carolina,
speaking of Andy Dalton, all the best wishes to Andy
Dalton his family who were involved in a car accident
earlier this week. Everybody is okay, and that was the
best news we saw. But Andy Dalton did sprain his
thumb uh in the car accident, and the Panthers and
Dave Canalis are hoping that he can serve as the
backup quarterback. But Bryce Young will be back under center
(37:52):
this weekend for the Panthers, and look, it's it's it's
hard because this week where Andy Dalton was in a
car accident and all all that, Like I said, all
the best to him, but you're looking at the you know,
it's bigger than him, the Panthers have going on. If
Bryce Young comes in and has shown any sort of hey,
I get it a little bit more. He's got to
be the quarterback the rest of the way. I mean,
(38:13):
I know you've seen him, like you feel like you've
made your decision on him and you're moving on. But boy,
why not just be really really sure you're not going
anywhere you'll be drafting a quarterback again when when when
the off season comes and you're gonna move on. Maybe
Bryce Young will play well enough or just well enough
you could trade him this year at the deadline. Somebody
could be looking for Bryce Young. But if he comes
(38:34):
in and it's not just absolutely abysmal, you really want
to make sure about a first number one overall pick
before you say, okay, we're done, pack it up. So
if he does, if he plays a little bit better, yeah,
he should stay the starter because you're not playing for
anything else. So then what do you have in the
future here in Carolina. So if it's awful and it's
abysmal and it's another no touchdown, three interception, he throws
(38:56):
for sixty five yards, yeah, okay, back and he's finished.
But if he shows a little bit he needs to
stay the startup. But even if he if he's terrible, right,
even if he's shown no growth whatsoever, he was a
diminished product anyway in terms of trade values and whatever else.
And you're gonna be sure that going into next year
(39:17):
that you're gonna lose as many games as possible. Zany
Dalton hasn't won you games. You got one win on
the year, but he gives you the danger that you
might win just enough to get yourself outside of that
window of top quarterbacks. So I don't know, no, no,
but that's my point. Right, even with whatever he juice
he was bringing you, you still only got one win
(39:39):
on the year. So at this point, what the hell
is the difference? You're circling the drain and creeping up
towards the top, picking the draft again anyway, so you
might as well roll through. Yeah, I look, and you
still all the bears if you, by the way, pile
on ring back. That's not even nice, man, that's not
(39:59):
even nice. You brought it to dead guy. It was
a fictional dead guy. It was fictionally died. Fictionally. That
means he's still alive. He finished the movie. Wasn't a
snuff film. They were line. It happened. It's good, uh,
coming up next. Speaking of trades, a big one went
down today. Does this make the Chiefs even better
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