October 29, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if the Bears Fail Mary is getting overly criticized. Daniel Jones is now 1-15 in prime time games. And the Dodgers take a commanding 3-0 series lead over the Yankees!
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in the fourth quarter, the Giants have made it close.
Steelers now twenty six to eighteen with the lead Tyrone Tracy,
everybody's favorite fantasy darling now up to one hundred and
thirty seven yards rushing on the night with a touchdown.
He is having a huge night. He has clearly proven
he's the number one running back with the Giants. Down
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Devin Singletary just a couple of carries, but Steelers on
the board, and they get on the board and get
a two score lead early in the second half. They've
been able to keep that there. A big night for Calvin.
Austin has a punt return for a touchdown and a
twenty nine yard catch for a score as well. So
the Steelers, thanks to those big plays, are up over
the Giants, but still time left Giants with the football
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down by a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Austin came into this game with eleven catches on the year.
There was a lot of speculation that he was just
gonna be the odd man out traded for a bucket
of balls. All of a sudden, here he is shining
on a Monday night. As we talked about with Steve
de Sager last hour, and the update on the punt
return play, this game has had penalty after penalty called.
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Punter gets absolutely obliterated. There's no call as it's runback
for it touch all right. We arbitrarily let that one go.
Biggest sighting play, but we got more points out of
this one than I think he anticipated. So it's a
win for the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Meanwhile, in Major League baseball. The Dodgers will go to
the bottom of the eighth inning with at least a
four to nothing lead. They are batting right now. Top
of the eighth inning, Will Smith up, nobody out facing
Clay Holmes. Dodgers lead the Yankees four to nothing, six
outs away from what basically is gonna clinch the World
Series a three games to none lead. We'll have more
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on this game coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I can't say that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Why not? Why game three games to none? I get it?
What am I gonna say? Yankees are still gonna be
in it? Hey, watch out here they come. What am
I gonna go away that fox? Yeah, you tune in
for Game four like anything can happen. What am I
gonna set the hell man? Yeah, Judge could strike out
seven more times.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Well that's it, he gets set all sorts of records.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, hey, tune in and see if Aaron Judge makes
contact with a baseball.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They play the little can't wait play the little violin
music behind.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Maybe Rnaldi's got a story. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I can't wait to see that. Uh so again, still
still a couple of innings left, Yankees, though, down for nothing.
Uh here in the eighth inning, Freddy Freeman with a
two run homer that got the Dodgers out to a
two to nothing lead early, and they have been throwing
zeros up Walker Buller to start a couple of Dodge
relievers in after It has been a typic Dodger playoff
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game in the postseason where no matter what relievers come in,
they've been able to get the job done. But again,
still a couple of times left to come up for
the Yankees to try to cut into this leap. Now,
let's get to a couple of big stories out of
the NFL from this weekend, and let's deal with your Chicago.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Where would you like to start?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Is the big punctuation to Mark, which was primarily a
game of subcitude for the Bear.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It was it was just being dismissed. It was the
game of the week, and it's still in name. Was
the game of the week. Very odd to hear, yeah,
doing the Bears and the Commanders, but look it's Williams
and Daniels and the two really exciting quarterbacks that have
played really well. Caleb Williams, I'm telling you he's coming.
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Man didn't have a great day yesterday, but still gets
the Bears with a touchdown in the final minute, and
they should win the game. Now here's where I'm gonna zig.
What do you think I'm gonna zag? I think the
criticism for this hail mary is way overblown. I think
there is way too much attention being spent on this,
and so many knee jerk reactions jumping up and down
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about oh, this is the worst and the Bears should
have done this, and they could have done this, and
they could have done this. Whenever a team gets a
hail mary, Okay, no matter what, you can blame Tyreek
Stevenson for I'm hunking up with Bears fans and oh,
by the way, I should have been in on the play,
and by the way, it was my job to be
standing on Noah Brown. I understand this. But anytime a
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team gets a hail mary and scores, it is because
of a defensive breakdown of some kind, whether it is
physically they're not in right spot, they get out muscled
for the ball, they're not standing in the right position
or how or hey, we're not marking every receiver when
we go up for the ball. Whenever a hail mary,
hail mary is never completed because a team is great.
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Hail mary is completed because the defense doesn't do what
they should. And you know what, hail Mary's happened once
in a great while, we get them, we get a
couple of year, you know, not everyone at the end
of the game to decide it like this. Sometimes the
end of the first half. Look, the Jets had one
earlier in the season, the last play of the first half.
Sometimes hail Mary's happened. And it happened to the Bears,
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and it happened on the final play, and suddenly it's
everybody should be fired and eber flu should be gone
and got you at them? You know what, you know
what it's it's a hail mary. You know it happens.
And it was bad, right, it was bad because you
can't allow a hail mary and that and that's bad.
But there's whenever this happens, there's never this kind of
reaction to it. But oh, it's the Bears, and we
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don't like Eberflus anyway, and I can't believe this happened.
And suddenly it's the worst miscarriage of of of football
justice you could possibly have. Oh, how do you give
up the fifteen yard pass to play before all right,
because I thought they were going deep. They gave them
a fifth. You still should be able to stop a
hail Mary, right, But everything the Bears did was so
incredibly wrong. And you know what, it's an outlier. The
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Bears are still really beeping. Man. This is this play.
This play is an outlier in their season. This play.
The Bears are still a really good team. They found
a way despite playing awful yesterday. The first half was terrible.
They were all they got nothing going on, and still
all they had to do was Stopahil Mary. They were
gonna beat the hottest team in the NFL on the road.
The Bears are really good and they play in a
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big division. They don't get the attention as far as
wins and losses because the Lions are so good. The
Packers are really coming on now, right, I mean, that's
the toughest division in the NFL. But as time goes on,
we're gonna see this as boy, how about that that
outlier loss by the Bears. Yes, they're four and three,
but they're playing extremely well every week. They're starting to
really impose their will on the game. And the fact
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that they could play so poorly and still find a
way to almost gut it out. Hey, that's a testament
that this team has turned the corner and they're on
the right track. And I loved I still love them
as a playoff team. Still think they're really really good.
It's a tough division, but I've seen nothing from them
that makes me think, oh, the Bears are gonna stink, right.
I know eber Flus is an easy target, and I
know that Williams is an easy target after you actually, oh,
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forget about what about the game the last three games? Yeah,
when his passer rated was like one fifteen, I get it.
I understand the Bears. It's like the Jets. It's like
other teams went all this, look look at this, let's
jump up and down on them, the Raiders when they
blow a game. But this is really it's being overly criticized.
It's a hail Mary. It happened. It's a defensive failure.
Other teams have hail Mary's happen and we move on.
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But for some reason, this is getting so much more play,
and it's so much more of an epic fail. It's
an outlier, it's an out liar. I feel buddy, I
feel fine about your team. I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm glad you do, because I don't think there's a
problem with the man behind the beard. Go back to
that game against Indianapolis when they called the speed option
at the one and got stopped at a game that they
should have beaten the Colts. Go back to the game
against Houston. Yeah, they hurt Joe Mixon, but they should
have won that game. And yes, they've been on a
roll and the offense came to life against in the
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last couple of weeks. This game listless Cole Comet calling
out the effort in the practice week and the energy
all week long, and obviously, you know it's Monday morning
quarterbacking even from him in a post game, but he
went hard in on the squad saying that all week
it wasn't crisp, that there was a lot of laziness
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in terms of their execution and going through their procedurals
to get ready for this game. So that's fairly telling, right.
DJ Moore was in the tent, so he didn't get
to see the debacle. What's getting lost in all of this.
The back end was so bad that they got a
reprieve when they called that dopey handoff to Doug Kramer, Right,
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that was egregious enough, but you get the ball back,
you're able to punch it in and so in some
ways that got forgiven and forgotten, which to me is no,
that's still a problem. You're not good enough. You're not
blowing anybody out to get cute.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
This isn't the eighty five Bears where it's like, all right,
here's the novelty of william refrigerator Perry to flip you
off as he barrels you into the end zone. No,
we're giving it to a damn lineman in a game
you're still losing. And then yes, that play. Caleb Williams
was losing his mind on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I was in an.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Airport bar and restaurant, screaming and my daughter's like, god, Dad,
here he goes.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
People are stopping because, sir.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sorry, you're in an airport, sir, sir, can you please
before the hail Mary, there was no defense.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
They didn't call the defense. That was everybody's gonna stand back.
We're not gonna bother to pass rush him at all.
And mclaurin's standing there doing jumping jacks at the first
down marker.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Come on, that's embarrassing that that's.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
On common Yeah, but if I know, but but then.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It sets up.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
But if the guy didn't have the arm strength. But
if they're throwing the seventy yard.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
If they play the corners up, if they play the
corners up and they complete it pass in the middle
of the field down to the forty yard line, it's
what are you doing? How do you let them complete
that pass down of there?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
They have no timeouts left. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's can he get up to the line of scrimmage
because we saw in other games where they didn't have
time on the clocks.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Should you should have stopped the hell? Mary?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I mean tell you should have started obviously, dope stand
over in the corner barking at the fans and then
deciding to come in. You should in the field to
play after the ball has been snapped. If he didn't
have a fat ass contract, they would have cut his
ass for that. I'm with you because if he and
he would have been fired immediately, he would have not No,
you will send your box a crowd on you. No,
I will see it Tuesday or Wednesday, because it's going
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ground we're not even paying for air.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
No, I'm with you on that, Like that's that's it.
But but he's good, so it's tough to cut. It's
tough to cut. But that used to get you cut.
A play like that used to get you cut in
the NFL. But it doesn't anymore. No, it was good
enough to get your contract. It doesn't like this is
this is where you lose, lose the city. It happened.
It happened, and you can move on from it. And
I the attention on this was so insane that that
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was so over the top that it was okay, if
this happened and the Commanders beat the Seahawks, or if
the Commanders beat the Chargers, or if they beat the Bengals,
it would be Wow. What a great play by Jaden Daniels.
Look at him keep by time. What a smart play
he made the play before getting the getting to midfield
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knowing he can't probably can't throw the ball seventy yards.
What a great play keeping it alive. What a great
play throwing it to the middle. But it's the Bears.
And because the Bears, it's.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Oh, the Bears, they suck. They just suck.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It's because it was the Bears. This is being made
a bigger deal because it's them.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Well sure, because the expectations are much like with anything
happening with your Jets. Right, they got beaten by the
soft ass Patriots. Is how this one comes down. Right,
last week, you have the coach base say the thing
you cannot say in public. You could say it in
the locker room, but you don't say it in public.
And look, i've heard the promo from Dan Patrick. I'll
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vehemently disagree. A hold is a hold whenever it's whenever
it happens that it's so egregious in the field to
play that it needs to be called.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'm sorry, but it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Look, you still have to make a play, right, They
don't blow, They don't blow the whistle, they don't throw
the flag in a flag happy NFL.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
They don't and that's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It clearly, dude was held, which allowed Jon Daniels to
just keep dancing for another five six seconds. And clearly
he didn't have the armstrength because it didn't go to
the end zone, right, it needed the push over the top,
oh from the guy that was out of the frame.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
When the plays started.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
So all of that to say, yeah, the Bears have expectations,
So this is the stuff. You're supposed to be able
to dot the i's and cross the t's and finish,
and you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
As the season goes, it'll be an out lot. Look
at that game, Look how look at how great it
would have been if they had won that game. But
that's gonna be one of those hey speed bump because
the rest of the way, the Bear, the Bears are
just fine. The Bear they're they're just they should have
won yesterday. They would have beat the hottest team in
the NFL. Everything is fine, but you're.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Coming out but you're coming out of a bye week. No,
but that's the other part. You're coming out of a
bye week. In theory, during the week you refocus, going
all right, yeah, we're not getting Carolina and Jacksonville again.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You don't get to beat on a pretty good team.
And if you stop the Hail Mary, you would have
won that Dutch.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But you come back playing the half that they did,
and they were awful, and they were awful for a
good chunk of this game.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But Washington's pretty good. Washing is a lot better than
people give them credit for it.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Then that's fine. You know, you would you may got
to step the no.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And that's the thing, Caleb Williams, if you come away
with anything on the positive is that fourth quarters don't
seem to be too big, just slow starts. You're not
gonna beat good teams with that kind of start.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, more on this game coming up the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the ti raq dot
Com Studios. Meanwhile, we may have just witnessed the final
play as Daniel Jones is the starting quarterback for the Giants,
not because he got hurt. The Giants are driving down
by a touchdown with about three minutes left to go
and very careless with the ball in the pocket. TJ.
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Watt is able to come in from the front side,
reach out knock the ball out of his hands. Daniel
Jones is facing TJ. Watt. He's able to knock it
out of his hands. The Steelers fall on the fumble,
and now they are one first down away from potentially
salting this game away and winning it twenty six to eighteen.
We'll have more on this game coming up. Again. Steelers
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are maybe potentially one couple of plays away from beating
the New York Giants, and maybe maybe that's it for
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But coming up next to be Tommy cut Let's uh oh,
I don't have to get Locke.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it would be Drew
Locked first. That that will be Tommy Cupkins. Yeah. Then it'll
be Phil Simms. So that there there's your order right
there by that time. But coming up next we'll have
more in the World Series. Still a four to nothing lead,
bottom of the eighth inning, Dodgers over the Yankees, and
the big story about quarterback that everybody seems to be
missing coming off of yesterday. That's next right here, Jason
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Speaker 2 (15:06):
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Speaker 1 (15:14):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Dodgers
batting in the top of the ninth inning. They lead
the Yankees for nothing. They are three outs away from
a three games to non lead in the World Series,
and it looks like the Yankee Stadium is emptying out quickly.
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Here in the eighth inning, the upper.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Deck behind home plate.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I don't think there was a single soul in the
four section.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Swat, I paid one thousand dollars for these seats. I'm
gonna leave whenever.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
The hell I want to uh again is You're right?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
The Dodgers will go to the bottom of the ninth
inning with at least a four to nothing lead. They
are beginning, They're at bat here in the top of
the ninth inning, still for nothing. What do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yankee Stadium is so cool right now. You would think
that Joe was performing again. No, he's the postgame concert too.
I don't know if you know that he's gonna he's
gonna He's gonna perform.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Everybody's leaving the stands to what the eight people in
the Rats that are there.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's like, what was uh, who was it movie with
Jim Carrey? Yes, man, when Zoe de Chanel's in the
band and they only have like the same five people
to come see them every gig, and they come out
to go, Hey, thanks to Jimmy and Mickey and Leverne
and Mary for coming out. Whoa, thanks to you more
for staying at the end of this game all the
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way through. We're down three zip in the world series.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yay, we did it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He still made the World Series. My team lost one
hundred and twenty one games.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So this is where we sit right now. Meanwhile, in
the NFL, uh it is not the final snap for
Daniel Jones, the starting quarterback for the Giants, because the
Steelers could not get the first down to close out
the game. And so the Giants have the football down
by eight forty five seconds left to go and they
are in Steeler territory again, down twenty six eighteen in
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Steeler territory, the chance for a touchdown two point conversion
to tie the game and send it to overtime chaos.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Russell Wilson on a third down play, ran in alignment
with the yard markers instead of north south. You know
who would have got that first down? Was that Justin Fields? Probably?
Who would have run for that first picket?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
For that? I think Wilson. He didn't have to throw it,
Wilson picket would have run for that, oh nicely.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He would have waited though till the midnight hour DJ
and then he would have run for the first down,
did Jim.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So again, we'll have more on both of these games again.
Dodgers batting and the ninth Giants now again forty seconds
away from the end of the fourth quarter, looking to
try to get ah my goodness, Daniel Giants again.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That may be the last play for.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Daniel Jones, a starting quarterback for the Giants. Second and
ten with thirty five seconds left to go when the game.
Daniel Jones tries to escape trouble, looks to have a
receiver and looked like Devin Singletary was open, would have
been able to get a Probably he probably was able
to gain about fifteen yards because it was it was
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a play where he kept the Daniel Jones kept the
play alive, except he threw it too high. It tips off.
I think it's Singletary, Yes it is. It tips off
of his hands and bounces to a Steelers. Steelers get
the interception. I couldn't tell who it was. Was tipped
by a couple of players and now they will be
running out the clock with less than a minute left
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to go. It goes over Singletary's head and it's picked off,
and now the Steelers in victory formation will win this
game twenty six to eighteen.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Bishop was Johnny on the spot another interception for him
that's at least three, right, last couple weeks.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I mean, I'm telling you, man, the Giants are gonna
go to two and six, you know. And here's the
thing now, right, because we'll get to Anthony Richardson in
a second. All right, the Steelers win, Mike Tomin's gonna
break his arm, patting himself on the back, saying started
Russell Wilson. Yeah, yeah, that's great, that's great. But when
I say this is the last time that Daniel Jones
is going to start a quarterback for the Giants, the
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season's over, right, The New York football season is over
for both. It's in Buffalo, the actual team that plays,
the only one, the only one. The Giants are now
two and six, and Daniel Jones looked awful in the
final few minutes of this game. He gets the ball
knocked out of his hands by TJ. Watt, and then
with a chance to potentially win the game, he makes
a bad throat at Devin Singletary and it's picked off
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by Bishop and the Steelers win. He has played awful.
He is a terrible quarterback, and the Giants are on
the hook for guaranteeing I believe up the twenty five
million dollars for next year. His contract is guaranteed due
to injury. So, just like Russell Wilson last year, I'm
sure the conversations have already started. I'm sure it's not
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to be something that's brand new, But how much longer
is he really going to be the Giants quarterback? Until
they say, you know what, we're gonna get a quarterback
at the end of the this year, We're gonna go
do something else. We're not gonna run it back with
Daniel Jones again, so to save us that money in
the offseason, and also to help us get a higher
draft pick, to get a quarterback, to get you do
or Sanders or somebody else. You're gonna see Drew Locke,
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maybe Tommy Cutlet's start quarterback for the Giants. There's gonna
be some kind of move that's gonna be made. I
would not be surprised if it's made after this week,
because if Daniel Jones gets dinged up and gets hurt
and suddenly, hey, here's money you gotta pay out. Look,
we saw Russell Wilson, they saw it last year. It's
gonna happen sooner rather than later. And it's gonna happen
with the Giants and Daniel Jones again. It might happen
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for Sunday. Like I said, every time we see it,
that might be the last play of the Daniel Jones era.
It's funny because you watch him play, and there were
a couple of balls he threw into neighbors and a
couple even on that last drives like all right, good zip,
good pace, and then he airmails the ball to Singletary.
That looked like an easy throw, right, just sit down,
take your yardage and you still have thirty five seconds
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on the clock. Instead it's airmailed, tipped and you get
an interception. They do have an out on the contract
after this year. Believe it results in a twenty two
point two million dollar dead cap hit for next year.
But you know what, that would be a drop in
the bucket again owing to the old salary cap fund
that we hadn't drafting, which was obviously wrong talking about well,
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we're drafting a rookie quarterback anyway, So you move on
and find your guy in the future, because clearly Daniel
Jones has taken them as far as he possibly could.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And that was the playoff Berth. A couple of.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Years ago, injuries and gross and effectiveness should take him
off the field.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And look, we knew this was coming for the Giants
simply because coming into this year they didn't make any changes. Right,
this is a team that was crying out for a change.
The love affair we saw with the Giants potentially and
JJ McCarthy all, we're going to move up to get
JJ McCarthy. They love JJ McCarthy. Guess who didn't move
up to get J McCarthy the Giants. Now, why is this?
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The Giants are dealing with a situation where their GM,
their head coach, their quarterback are all on thin ice. Right,
a bad year by the Giants. Dable is gone, Shane
is gone, and and and Daniel Jones is gone, and
there's a new quarterback in there. Now, when you make
these changes, teams don't want to sad. They want to
be able to say we're starting over with a new GM,
new head coach. The GM is gonna hire his head coach.
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The head coach is gonna get together and pick their
new quarterback, and that's going to be our next level.
You don't want a head coach to have to worry
about I'm the head coach. But now here comes a
new GM with a new quarterback and it doesn't work.
You want to get all three of those positions on
the same page. GM head coach, quarterback. So it didn't
surprise me the Giants did nothing and they didn't move
up for JJ McCarthy because, okay, JJ McCarthy would be drafted.
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And if the Giants stunk this year, okay, well then
Brian Dable's out and Joe Shane is out and whoever
comes in, guess what, whatever offensive system you have and everything,
you got to make it work with JJ McCarthy, he's
our guy. Whoa wait, wait wait, So that that at
least I get, And that's a smart thing to do,
to say, hey, maybe our next coach has something different,
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Maybe it's a different kind of quarterback he wants. So
let's not get locked in with a guy if we're
not one hundred percent sold on him. Because if they're
good this year, guess what, everybody will come back, the
Giants still paying Daniel Jones. And if they're good, Dable
comes back and Shane comes back and Daniel Jones comes back.
But if they're bad, all three of these guys are
getting fired. So This shows you why they didn't make
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any big moves in the offseason, why they didn't get
a quarterback, because this was John Marras saying, Hey, why
I'm all in on this year like Jerry Jones, I'm
all in on this year. And if we're good, everybody stays,
and if we're bad, we're starting over. And I'm not
gonna have any new people come in and big in
the top three positions there on the field that are
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going to be leftovers or having to make arranged marriages
work because it doesn't. So that's why they didn't go
out and get anybody in the off season. Now you
can see this isn't a year where the Giants are
playing well. The season's over for them. They're two and
six now, so it's going to be a clean sweep
in the off season. And now whoever comes in, all right, now,
the new gn the new head coach, they will identify
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their quarterback in the draft or in free agency, depending
who they like. Maybe Kirk Cousins will be available, if
Michael Pennix Junior have to play. You don't know how
things are gonna go, but you're gonna have the new
regime come in and pick their new quarterback. So all there,
the way they acted in the off season makes sense
coming into now because this was the scenario that was
likely the Giants weren't gonna be good, so let's let's start.
(24:22):
Let's have a clean break after this year. So now
they can have that clean break.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, and you may have found a running back in
Tracy that at least makes the loss of Saquon Barkley
not as terrible because we saw that get a lot
of run in the off season. It was one of
the highlights of the off season hard knocks run that
we saw, and it's been reiterated now that the Eagles
have seemingly righted the ship, which is you know, might
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be just duct tape and band aids. But they're healthy
right now, receivers are back and they're up to five
and two record and starting to move. But with Tracy
putting up the effort he did, I know we were
talking about for fantasy per He was a guy that
a lot of people had big hopes for today, even
in a tough spot, and he'd left the game with
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an injury, came back and made a big play and
scored the touchdown.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So at least you have a building block towards the future.
Who's on a rookie deal.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Right, So that's great, you'll have the quarterback next year
on a rookie deal. And to your point, we'll see
what the free agent class becomes of veteran quarterbacks. But
all of it to say, yeah, Shane's going to be gone,
Dable is going to be gone. Daniel Jones the way
they orchestrated his deal, which is always why don't believe
the sticker shock, right, because it's not. It's not always
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a four year deal, five year deal. Yes, it's all
about whatever the signing bonus is, and then you work
from there. The money can always be worked out your
case in point, and aptly so the Russell Wilson they
swallowed eighty five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
If it doesn't work, you move on.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah. Well, and and I'm not saying this is a
bad decision by the Giants. I actually agree with all Right,
if you're not sold on, if if you have the
number one pick in the draft, that's why we love Caleb. Okay,
you're drafting that guy. But but look what the did. Yeah,
they bring back eberflus No, who nobody agreed was a great.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Good, adequate head coach, but he's a good defensive coach.
So what they did defensively the second half of last year,
he gets to stay of execution. Why because the Bears
also don't pay out contracts for guys that aren't working anymore.
I would hope to think the Bear and the Giants
will be better.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But there's the Bears way of doing business. Yes, since
sometimes that really don't do that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
No, the Bears have never done Yeah, the point is
most teams are smarter than that, and we'll do the
full sweep off.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
But but this is but this is, this is how
it should have been done. And I completely understand this
by the Giants. But at some point now big decisions
have to be made and you can't run the risk of, hey,
we gotta pay Daniel Jones at twenty five million dollars
because he's hurt. You're gonna and it's gonna it's gonna
be a season where, hey, we're just trying to make
ends meet. We're just trying to see how many games
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we can win. If we don't win, it's gonna be
easy for us to get a quarterback. And if, like
I said, if they had had the number one pick
in the draft and it's Caleb. Well, okay, what are
you gonna do? Not gonna take him? But it would
have cost a lot to move up to get JJ McCarthy.
Would have cost a lot of a lot of collateral,
a lot of draft picks, and who knows what elver
do we really want to do this, knowing full after
this year we could be starting over. No, we don't
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want to do it. And so JJ McCarthy goes to
the Vikings and we move on from there. So that's
a thing that I get the Giants philosophy of it,
and it worked out well. And now you want to
talk about adding a little insult to injury. Here is
that when it looked like the Giants finally found Tyrone
Tracy's our number one running back in New York, had
a huge night, potentially he was lost to a concussion
(27:43):
at the end of the game. That's why Singletary was
in hit his head on the ground on a tackle.
He was brought into the medical tent. He did not
look happy being brought into the tent to be looked at,
but it could be a concussion for time. The one
big bright spot that had was Hey, this could be
our he could be our number one running him. You
got neighbors and you're thinking, at least have a couple
of buildings. We've got a couple of guys. And now
(28:04):
maybe Tyro Tracey is gonna be out again. I don't
know if he a shorter week this week, obviously coming
back to play, so we'll keep you updated on that. Meanwhile,
right now, the Dodgers are three outs away from a
three game to none lead in the World Series. Two
outs with us now to tell us how everything is going.
A guy who actually is pitched earlier tonight for the Dodgers.
(28:26):
He got out of the sixth inning. Okay, good, it's
Steve de Sager and he's got what's trending.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
I understand that people would not remember me, because, of
course there have been seven pitchers on the Dodgers side,
and I believe eight for the Yankees. That's why this
game is still going. After eleven thirty five in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Is Eric ganne up in the bullpen? He will be tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
It's at our bullpen game, So pretty much everybody's gonna
be used. If the trainer, like through in high school,
not even a full game, I think they could probably
use him for tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Jot.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
The Dodgers are up for nothing at Yankee Stadium with
one out in the bottom of the ninth inning. Michael
Kopek is on to try and close things out. Walker
Buehler was the starting pitcher. He went the first five innings,
five strikeouts, two walks. In fact, the votes at stats
Saying point out that Buehler has started three World Series
games in his career, and in each of them he's
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gone at least five innings with fewer than five base
runners allowed. No one else has three such starts in
their World Series careers, and this is his first three
and only three World Series starts. So a guy coming
off another surgery this year who was one and six
in the regular season is proving himself somehow to be
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yet again the pressure pitcher that the Dodgers had relied
on years ago. Three games to non lead is what
they're on the verge of. And yes, Fox TV will
have Tuesday night's Game four, also at eight pm Eastern,
and the Wednesday night game if necessary.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Steeve, do we know if they're bringing fat jollback?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
He's fired?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
What do you bring out for Game four? Though?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
You gotta save the season, that's right, Fat Jolly probably
not good comes out, not a good luck term or
ozembic Joe as he was preferred to. A Monday night
football game at Pittsburgh went to the Steelers over the Giants,
twenty six to eighteen. Giants offense at least has had
a touchdown tonight. So there's that Pittsburgh six and two record.
Giants fall to two and six. But you know, the
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Giants did enter averaging just fourteen points per game and
the Steelers were allowing just fourteen points per game. Twenty
six eighteen, Pittsburgh the final. Packers quarterback Jordan Love has
a straying groin, but test showed no significant damage. Green
Bay host Detroit Sunday on Fox TV. The Brown say
quarterback Jamis Winston will remain their starter. Cleveland defensive back
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Denzel Ward is still in concussion protocol. Patriots QB Drake
May is in concussion protocol. New Orleans quarterback Derek Carr
is expected to return to practice on Wednesday after his
oblique injuries missed the last three games. The Seahawks are
optimistic wide receiver DK Metcalf will return to play neck
weekend after a knee injury. Jacksonville wide receiver Christian Kirk
(31:04):
had surgery today on his broken collar bone.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
He is out for the year.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
A couple of late games in the NBA, the Lakers,
who were up by eighteen early only lead at Phoenix
seventy two sixty eight late in the third quarter Anthony
Davis twenty five points, and early third quarter at Sacramento
Kings fifty six fifty one over the Trailblazers. Denver won
in overtime. At Toronto Nicola Jokic forty points, and at Orlando,
the Magic edged Indiana at Polo Benkerra fifty points. Ben
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Caro had thirty seven in the first half. It's now
two outs, bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium, LA
leads New York for nothing.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen Livethtirach dot Com Studios. We're a very
nervous and excited justin Frosburg is ready for one more
out in the World Series. Hei fil a, man, what
am I nervous about? Just you know? Did you're gonna
be up three to nothing in the World Series? You're
full of nerves.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Nervous because your one, he's calmer than you are, one
went away from winning the World Series.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
That wouldn't be nervous. Okay, I think I think.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
You know, that's a lifetime of Nick's Jets and Mets.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
The worst thing is gonna happen now, waiting for the
sky to fall, frostburgs on the path of saying this,
this is his last.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Question for you guys, had what he Who is worse? Okay,
Daniel Jones or Aaron Judge? Wow, Oh that's tough man.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
No, it's got to be Aaron Judge because I mean
he's doing nothing in meaningful games.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, but no, but Daniel Jones. I mean it's week eight.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
But you say worse though, and like Aaron Judge was
great and now he stinks, doesn't Daniel Jones stunk and
he still stucks. He did, Okay, it's not like he
gave Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Get the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
No, it's not like Daniel Jones. That was two years ago.
It's not like Daniel Jones is giving you things to
to you know, Oh hey, wait, he might be really good. No, No,
he's he's been bad. He continues to be bad. You
shouldn't be surprised. Yeah, but Aaron Judge is much more surprise.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It is now four to two.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Anthony Rizzo has just gone deep off of Michael Kopek. Sorry,
Alex Rdugo has just gone deep off of Michael Kopek.
White Sox cutting the lead to four to two. Still
two outs in the ninth inning, Dodgers lead the Yankees
one out away from going up three zip in the
World Series. But maybe a death cry home run for.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
The Yankees in this one.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Coming up next, are we breaking down a three to
nothing Dodger lead or the Yankees getting all the way
back in it? Get right here, that's next. Jason and Mike.
This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
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Speaker 1 (33:50):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
tire rack dot Com Studios, where we are gonna be
one game away at most from crowning the Dogs as
World Series champions. They beat the Yankees four to two.
They take a three games to none lead in the
World Series alex Erdugo with a home run to make
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a four to nothing game look closer than it was.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
How many of the forty nine? Three sixty eight announced?
Do you think we're still there to watch it?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Three sixty eight?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Just tight it out? Minus forty nine? How do you
do that? How do you do the math? I just
crossed out the forty nine.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Look not a lot of offense tonight, each team mustering
only five hits. But you know, the life gets sucked
out a Yankee stadium in the first inning when Freddie
Freeman hits another home run, He's gonna wind up being
World Series MVP. He's got a home run in every
game so far, and it was the worst possible start
for the Yankees. Okay, they're home now. They had two
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games in LA where they potentially could have won that
big bullpen question that they'll be asking themselves forever about
Game one? Why was cortesen? Why wasn't Tim Hill in?
They have a chance in Game two and the Dodgers win,
and now here they are back at home. Okay, let's
put it all. Let's put it all aside. We have
three games here. Let's get right back in it. We
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love where we play. We love playing in front of
the fans. The Dodgers have their worst starting pitcher going
and it doesn't matter. Walker Buehler throws zeros for five
plus innings and the Dodgers' bullpen is able to get
it done. But just an absolute demoralizing start, the worst
possible start to the game for the Yanks. Before they
come up to bat, they're already down to nothing.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Yeah, I mean you.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Already lost the pregame because the fat Joe thing just
didn't It fell flat.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Had its issues with his appearance there, and then he
gave up the homer to Freeman. So everything you had,
the feel good, the excitement, You're finally playing a home
World Series game and bam, it's Freddie Freeman again. Just really,
this is how it starts. And look, opportunities. You know,
stanton rounding third, that image is gonna be etched in
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your brain. The Dodgers also have an opportunity, right, you
have the bunt, you go for the squeeze play and
I still think he was safe, but he's called out
and it's upheld on review. You know, you don't have
enough evidence to overturn whatever. But a couple of near
misses at the plate. But for the Yankees, the decision
to send Stanton and ta Oscar just you know, a
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strike to home plate and that's the end of what
could have been potentially at least an inning to kind
of stretch maybe mess up Dave Roberts, bullpen architect. I
just got a wonder, is he got it in sharpie
at this point? Is he that bold God? Because it's
no longer in pencils or the grease pen. It's it's
all in sharpie, Like, nope, this is how it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Six relievers tonight win. But you know, but look but
more the first inning of this game, like Clark Schmidt
is the guy that's charged with keeping the Yankee season going.
All the money, all the money they're spending, and it's
on Clark's.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Clark Schmidt exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
He didn't have control. He didn't have you know, he
was behind hitters all night. And I keep going back
to this, you don't know how healthy show hey Otani is.
And clearly, as we saw the game go on, he
had a tough time. Swing in the bat. He wasn't
quite the same. He had a couple of really awkward swings,
you know, the the the shoulders subluxation and a separation
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you know is affecting it.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
He looked really uncomfortable when he hit that pop up
his last at bet right. He stood at home plays
like it's not good.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, you wonder, you wonder what it is for him.
You wonder if he's gonna get the next game off.
But for me, I come at it like this. Schmid
walked him on four pitches. So Freddie Freeman's home run
is a two run homer. You have to challenge him
so you know what he can or can't do. Like
he's the leadoff batter of the game, and Schmid walked
him on four pitches. Come at Otani. It's one thing
to see a guy hitting batting practice, So you gotta
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be able to know is he gonna be able to
turn on a fastball? Is he gonna be behind? Is
his swing gonna be awkward when suddenly he tries to
get out in front? Can he can he pull something?
Is he gonna You don't know what he's capable of
me as you saw the game go on. Oh maybe
he's not the same, but they were afraid of him
like he is when he is healthy, and I'm sorry,
but you gotta throw. You gotta go after Otani as.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
The first battle around a leadoff battery, and instead I
don't care if he's healthy. I don't care if he's
you know, thirteen feet tall. No, he's still the first
of the game.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But I get him. Well you see that, But I
get it if he's healthy. But you gotta see what
kind of guy he is, Kenny, really, you know, he's
you know, he's struggling. What's he gonna be? You want
to know what he can be for the game, And
instead you put him on like a he's Otani and
as a result, Freddie Freeman's two run homer could have
been a solo home run. I mean, just part of
the mistakes, part of the things the Yankees did tonight
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that make me scratch my head and go, why would
they do that? Why would they send Stanton around third
when he was when he was going to be a
dead duck at the plate? Why why would you throw
four balls wide not even close to Otani when just
throw it over and see what he can do. I mean,
obviously you see his way.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
He wasn't able to hit a home and then he
disappear into the clubhouse. Yeah, I'm running. Joka in the
Twitter verse was we will find out the treatment of
Otani in twenty thirty four.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
That'll be the three snip.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
If he's not going to play, he's not going to
be maybe Edmond will lead off and they'll do something. Look,
that's the one thing the Dodgers have is there. They
can cover different things, but they have a lot of
guys can play multiple positions. But you still want Otani
in the line there.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Him, I mean the really automatic bass. Why not?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I don't understand why?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
When?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
When? When When Clark Smitt went around, I'm like, you
have to see what he's gone and you can see
after one swing, oh hey, Otani's not the same and
you can get him out and and who knows, maybe
it's a different pitch after that, because that's the thing
about baseball. With nobody out and nobody out, maybe Freddie
Freeman gets a different pitch, doesn't get that pitch. So
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maybe there's no runs in the first inning. But I
don't know what, how do you not go after Otani open?
And you got to see what he has and how
he can be because this is the whole game, because
he's gonna be up three, four, five times and and
Clark SMI walks him on four pitch.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well, once again, as we've talked about with the Dodgers
doing well to work counts. I mean, Schmidt didn't finish
three innings. He had what sixty eight pitches thrown. M
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, we have the most shocking thing coming
off of Game three of the.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
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in the fourth quarter, the Giants have made it close.
Steelers now twenty six to eighteen with the lead Tyrone Tracy,
everybody's favorite fantasy darling now up to one hundred and
thirty seven yards rushing on the night with a touchdown.
He is having a huge night. He has clearly proven
he's the number one running back with the Giants. Down
(01:11):
Devin Singletary just a couple of carries, but Steelers on
the board, and they get on the board and get
a two score lead early in the second half. They've
been able to keep that there. A big night for Calvin.
Austin has a punt return for a touchdown and a
twenty nine yard catch for a score as well. So
the Steelers, thanks to those big plays, are up over
the Giants, but still time left Giants with the football
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down by a touchdown.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Austin came into this game with eleven catches on the year.
There was a lot of speculation that he was just
gonna be the odd man out traded for a bucket
of balls. All of a sudden, here he is shining
on a Monday night. As we talked about with Steve
de Sager last hour, and the update on the punt
return play, this game has had penalty after penalty called.
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Punter gets absolutely obliterated. There's no call as it's runback
for it touch all right. We arbitrarily let that one go.
Biggest sighting play, but we got more points out of
this one than I think he anticipated. So it's a
win for the NFL.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Meanwhile, in Major League baseball. The Dodgers will go to
the bottom of the eighth inning with at least a
four to nothing lead. They are batting right now. Top
of the eighth inning, Will Smith up, nobody out facing
Clay Holmes. Dodgers lead the Yankees four to nothing, six
outs away from what basically is gonna clinch the World
Series a three games to none lead. We'll have more
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on this game coming up in a few minutes.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I can't say that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Why not? Why game three games to none? I get it?
What am I gonna say? Yankees are still gonna be
in it? Hey, watch out here they come. What am
I gonna go away that fox? Yeah, you tune in
for Game four like anything can happen. What am I
gonna set the hell man? Yeah, Judge could strike out
seven more times.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Well that's it, he gets set all sorts of records.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, hey, tune in and see if Aaron Judge makes
contact with a baseball.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
They play the little can't wait play the little violin
music behind.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Maybe Rnaldi's got a story. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I can't wait to see that. Uh so again, still
still a couple of innings left, Yankees, though, down for nothing.
Uh here in the eighth inning, Freddy Freeman with a
two run homer that got the Dodgers out to a
two to nothing lead early, and they have been throwing
zeros up Walker Buller to start a couple of Dodge
relievers in after It has been a typic Dodger playoff
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game in the postseason where no matter what relievers come in,
they've been able to get the job done. But again,
still a couple of times left to come up for
the Yankees to try to cut into this leap. Now,
let's get to a couple of big stories out of
the NFL from this weekend, and let's deal with your Chicago.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Where would you like to start?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Is the big punctuation to Mark, which was primarily a
game of subcitude for the Bear.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
It was it was just being dismissed. It was the
game of the week, and it's still in name. Was
the game of the week. Very odd to hear, yeah,
doing the Bears and the Commanders, but look it's Williams
and Daniels and the two really exciting quarterbacks that have
played really well. Caleb Williams, I'm telling you he's coming.
(04:11):
Man didn't have a great day yesterday, but still gets
the Bears with a touchdown in the final minute, and
they should win the game. Now here's where I'm gonna zig.
What do you think I'm gonna zag? I think the
criticism for this hail mary is way overblown. I think
there is way too much attention being spent on this,
and so many knee jerk reactions jumping up and down
(04:31):
about oh, this is the worst and the Bears should
have done this, and they could have done this, and
they could have done this. Whenever a team gets a
hail mary, Okay, no matter what, you can blame Tyreek
Stevenson for I'm hunking up with Bears fans and oh,
by the way, I should have been in on the play,
and by the way, it was my job to be
standing on Noah Brown. I understand this. But anytime a
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team gets a hail mary and scores, it is because
of a defensive breakdown of some kind, whether it is
physically they're not in right spot, they get out muscled
for the ball, they're not standing in the right position
or how or hey, we're not marking every receiver when
we go up for the ball. Whenever a hail mary,
hail mary is never completed because a team is great.
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Hail mary is completed because the defense doesn't do what
they should. And you know what, hail Mary's happened once
in a great while, we get them, we get a
couple of year, you know, not everyone at the end
of the game to decide it like this. Sometimes the
end of the first half. Look, the Jets had one
earlier in the season, the last play of the first half.
Sometimes hail Mary's happened. And it happened to the Bears,
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and it happened on the final play, and suddenly it's
everybody should be fired and eber flu should be gone
and got you at them? You know what, you know
what it's it's a hail mary. You know it happens.
And it was bad, right, it was bad because you
can't allow a hail mary and that and that's bad.
But there's whenever this happens, there's never this kind of
reaction to it. But oh, it's the Bears, and we
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don't like Eberflus anyway, and I can't believe this happened.
And suddenly it's the worst miscarriage of of of football
justice you could possibly have. Oh, how do you give
up the fifteen yard pass to play before all right,
because I thought they were going deep. They gave them
a fifth. You still should be able to stop a
hail Mary, right, But everything the Bears did was so
incredibly wrong. And you know what, it's an outlier. The
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Bears are still really beeping. Man. This is this play.
This play is an outlier in their season. This play.
The Bears are still a really good team. They found
a way despite playing awful yesterday. The first half was terrible.
They were all they got nothing going on, and still
all they had to do was Stopahil Mary. They were
gonna beat the hottest team in the NFL on the road.
The Bears are really good and they play in a
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big division. They don't get the attention as far as
wins and losses because the Lions are so good. The
Packers are really coming on now, right, I mean, that's
the toughest division in the NFL. But as time goes on,
we're gonna see this as boy, how about that that
outlier loss by the Bears. Yes, they're four and three,
but they're playing extremely well every week. They're starting to
really impose their will on the game. And the fact
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that they could play so poorly and still find a
way to almost gut it out. Hey, that's a testament
that this team has turned the corner and they're on
the right track. And I loved I still love them
as a playoff team. Still think they're really really good.
It's a tough division, but I've seen nothing from them
that makes me think, oh, the Bears are gonna stink, right.
I know eber Flus is an easy target, and I
know that Williams is an easy target after you actually, oh,
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forget about what about the game the last three games? Yeah,
when his passer rated was like one fifteen, I get it.
I understand the Bears. It's like the Jets. It's like
other teams went all this, look look at this, let's
jump up and down on them, the Raiders when they
blow a game. But this is really it's being overly criticized.
It's a hail Mary. It happened. It's a defensive failure.
Other teams have hail Mary's happen and we move on.
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But for some reason, this is getting so much more play,
and it's so much more of an epic fail. It's
an outlier, it's an out liar. I feel buddy, I
feel fine about your team. I'm fine.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I'm glad you do, because I don't think there's a
problem with the man behind the beard. Go back to
that game against Indianapolis when they called the speed option
at the one and got stopped at a game that they
should have beaten the Colts. Go back to the game
against Houston. Yeah, they hurt Joe Mixon, but they should
have won that game. And yes, they've been on a
roll and the offense came to life against in the
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last couple of weeks. This game listless Cole Comet calling
out the effort in the practice week and the energy
all week long, and obviously, you know it's Monday morning
quarterbacking even from him in a post game, but he
went hard in on the squad saying that all week
it wasn't crisp, that there was a lot of laziness
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in terms of their execution and going through their procedurals
to get ready for this game. So that's fairly telling, right.
DJ Moore was in the tent, so he didn't get
to see the debacle. What's getting lost in all of this.
The back end was so bad that they got a
reprieve when they called that dopey handoff to Doug Kramer, Right,
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that was egregious enough, but you get the ball back,
you're able to punch it in and so in some
ways that got forgiven and forgotten, which to me is no,
that's still a problem. You're not good enough. You're not
blowing anybody out to get cute.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Right.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
This isn't the eighty five Bears where it's like, all right,
here's the novelty of william refrigerator Perry to flip you
off as he barrels you into the end zone. No,
we're giving it to a damn lineman in a game
you're still losing. And then yes, that play. Caleb Williams
was losing his mind on the sideline.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
I was in an.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Airport bar and restaurant, screaming and my daughter's like, god, Dad,
here he goes.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
People are stopping because, sir.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Sorry, you're in an airport, sir, sir, can you please
before the hail Mary, there was no defense.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
They didn't call the defense. That was everybody's gonna stand back.
We're not gonna bother to pass rush him at all.
And mclaurin's standing there doing jumping jacks at the first
down marker.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Come on, that's embarrassing that that's.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
On common Yeah, but if I know, but but then.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
It sets up.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
But if the guy didn't have the arm strength. But
if they're throwing the seventy yard.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
If they play the corners up, if they play the
corners up and they complete it pass in the middle
of the field down to the forty yard line, it's
what are you doing? How do you let them complete
that pass down of there?
Speaker 4 (10:14):
They have no timeouts left. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
It's can he get up to the line of scrimmage
because we saw in other games where they didn't have
time on the clocks.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Should you should have stopped the hell? Mary?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I mean tell you should have started obviously, dope stand
over in the corner barking at the fans and then
deciding to come in. You should in the field to
play after the ball has been snapped. If he didn't
have a fat ass contract, they would have cut his
ass for that. I'm with you because if he and
he would have been fired immediately, he would have not No,
you will send your box a crowd on you. No,
I will see it Tuesday or Wednesday, because it's going
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ground we're not even paying for air.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
No, I'm with you on that, Like that's that's it.
But but he's good, so it's tough to cut. It's
tough to cut. But that used to get you cut.
A play like that used to get you cut in
the NFL. But it doesn't anymore. No, it was good
enough to get your contract. It doesn't like this is
this is where you lose, lose the city. It happened.
It happened, and you can move on from it. And
I the attention on this was so insane that that
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was so over the top that it was okay, if
this happened and the Commanders beat the Seahawks, or if
the Commanders beat the Chargers, or if they beat the Bengals,
it would be Wow. What a great play by Jaden Daniels.
Look at him keep by time. What a smart play
he made the play before getting the getting to midfield
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knowing he can't probably can't throw the ball seventy yards.
What a great play keeping it alive. What a great
play throwing it to the middle. But it's the Bears.
And because the Bears, it's.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Oh, the Bears, they suck. They just suck.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It's because it was the Bears. This is being made
a bigger deal because it's them.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Well sure, because the expectations are much like with anything
happening with your Jets. Right, they got beaten by the
soft ass Patriots. Is how this one comes down. Right,
last week, you have the coach base say the thing
you cannot say in public. You could say it in
the locker room, but you don't say it in public.
And look, i've heard the promo from Dan Patrick. I'll
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vehemently disagree. A hold is a hold whenever it's whenever
it happens that it's so egregious in the field to
play that it needs to be called.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'm sorry, but it.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Look, you still have to make a play, right, They
don't blow, They don't blow the whistle, they don't throw
the flag in a flag happy NFL.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
They don't and that's fine.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It clearly, dude was held, which allowed Jon Daniels to
just keep dancing for another five six seconds. And clearly
he didn't have the armstrength because it didn't go to
the end zone, right, it needed the push over the top,
oh from the guy that was out of the frame.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
When the plays started.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
So all of that to say, yeah, the Bears have expectations,
So this is the stuff. You're supposed to be able
to dot the i's and cross the t's and finish,
and you didn't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
As the season goes, it'll be an out lot. Look
at that game, Look how look at how great it
would have been if they had won that game. But
that's gonna be one of those hey speed bump because
the rest of the way, the Bear, the Bears are
just fine. The Bear they're they're just they should have
won yesterday. They would have beat the hottest team in
the NFL. Everything is fine, but you're.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Coming out but you're coming out of a bye week. No,
but that's the other part. You're coming out of a
bye week. In theory, during the week you refocus, going
all right, yeah, we're not getting Carolina and Jacksonville again.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You don't get to beat on a pretty good team.
And if you stop the Hail Mary, you would have
won that Dutch.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But you come back playing the half that they did,
and they were awful, and they were awful for a
good chunk of this game.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
But Washington's pretty good. Washing is a lot better than
people give them credit for it.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Then that's fine. You know, you would you may got
to step the no.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
And that's the thing, Caleb Williams, if you come away
with anything on the positive is that fourth quarters don't
seem to be too big, just slow starts. You're not
gonna beat good teams with that kind of start.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Well, more on this game coming up the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon live from the ti raq dot
Com Studios. Meanwhile, we may have just witnessed the final
play as Daniel Jones is the starting quarterback for the Giants,
not because he got hurt. The Giants are driving down
by a touchdown with about three minutes left to go
and very careless with the ball in the pocket. TJ.
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Watt is able to come in from the front side,
reach out knock the ball out of his hands. Daniel
Jones is facing TJ. Watt. He's able to knock it
out of his hands. The Steelers fall on the fumble,
and now they are one first down away from potentially
salting this game away and winning it twenty six to eighteen.
We'll have more on this game coming up. Again. Steelers
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are maybe potentially one couple of plays away from beating
the New York Giants, and maybe maybe that's it for
Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
But coming up next to be Tommy cut Let's uh oh,
I don't have to get Locke.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it would be Drew
Locked first. That that will be Tommy Cupkins. Yeah. Then it'll
be Phil Simms. So that there there's your order right
there by that time. But coming up next we'll have
more in the World Series. Still a four to nothing lead,
bottom of the eighth inning, Dodgers over the Yankees, and
the big story about quarterback that everybody seems to be
missing coming off of yesterday. That's next right here, Jason
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and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (15:14):
Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon, Live from the Tireck dot Com Studios. Dodgers
batting in the top of the ninth inning. They lead
the Yankees for nothing. They are three outs away from
a three games to non lead in the World Series,
and it looks like the Yankee Stadium is emptying out quickly.
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Here in the eighth inning, the upper.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Deck behind home plate.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I don't think there was a single soul in the
four section.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Swat, I paid one thousand dollars for these seats. I'm
gonna leave whenever.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
The hell I want to uh again is You're right?
Speaker 1 (15:50):
The Dodgers will go to the bottom of the ninth
inning with at least a four to nothing lead. They
are beginning, They're at bat here in the top of
the ninth inning, still for nothing. What do you got, Frostburg?
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Yankee Stadium is so cool right now. You would think
that Joe was performing again. No, he's the postgame concert too.
I don't know if you know that he's gonna he's
gonna He's gonna perform.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Everybody's leaving the stands to what the eight people in
the Rats that are there.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
It's like, what was uh, who was it movie with
Jim Carrey? Yes, man, when Zoe de Chanel's in the
band and they only have like the same five people
to come see them every gig, and they come out
to go, Hey, thanks to Jimmy and Mickey and Leverne
and Mary for coming out. Whoa, thanks to you more
for staying at the end of this game all the
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way through. We're down three zip in the world series.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Yay, we did it.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He still made the World Series. My team lost one
hundred and twenty one games.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
So this is where we sit right now. Meanwhile, in
the NFL, uh it is not the final snap for
Daniel Jones, the starting quarterback for the Giants, because the
Steelers could not get the first down to close out
the game. And so the Giants have the football down
by eight forty five seconds left to go and they
are in Steeler territory again, down twenty six eighteen in
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Steeler territory, the chance for a touchdown two point conversion
to tie the game and send it to overtime chaos.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Russell Wilson on a third down play, ran in alignment
with the yard markers instead of north south. You know
who would have got that first down? Was that Justin Fields? Probably?
Who would have run for that first picket?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
For that? I think Wilson. He didn't have to throw it,
Wilson picket would have run for that, oh nicely.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
He would have waited though till the midnight hour DJ
and then he would have run for the first down,
did Jim.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
So again, we'll have more on both of these games again.
Dodgers batting and the ninth Giants now again forty seconds
away from the end of the fourth quarter, looking to
try to get ah my goodness, Daniel Giants again.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That may be the last play for.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Daniel Jones, a starting quarterback for the Giants. Second and
ten with thirty five seconds left to go when the game.
Daniel Jones tries to escape trouble, looks to have a
receiver and looked like Devin Singletary was open, would have
been able to get a Probably he probably was able
to gain about fifteen yards because it was it was
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a play where he kept the Daniel Jones kept the
play alive, except he threw it too high. It tips off.
I think it's Singletary, Yes it is. It tips off
of his hands and bounces to a Steelers. Steelers get
the interception. I couldn't tell who it was. Was tipped
by a couple of players and now they will be
running out the clock with less than a minute left
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to go. It goes over Singletary's head and it's picked off,
and now the Steelers in victory formation will win this
game twenty six to eighteen.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Bishop was Johnny on the spot another interception for him
that's at least three, right, last couple weeks.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I mean, I'm telling you, man, the Giants are gonna
go to two and six, you know. And here's the
thing now, right, because we'll get to Anthony Richardson in
a second. All right, the Steelers win, Mike Tomin's gonna
break his arm, patting himself on the back, saying started
Russell Wilson. Yeah, yeah, that's great, that's great. But when
I say this is the last time that Daniel Jones
is going to start a quarterback for the Giants, the
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season's over, right, The New York football season is over
for both. It's in Buffalo, the actual team that plays,
the only one, the only one. The Giants are now
two and six, and Daniel Jones looked awful in the
final few minutes of this game. He gets the ball
knocked out of his hands by TJ. Watt, and then
with a chance to potentially win the game, he makes
a bad throat at Devin Singletary and it's picked off
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by Bishop and the Steelers win. He has played awful.
He is a terrible quarterback, and the Giants are on
the hook for guaranteeing I believe up the twenty five
million dollars for next year. His contract is guaranteed due
to injury. So, just like Russell Wilson last year, I'm
sure the conversations have already started. I'm sure it's not
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to be something that's brand new, But how much longer
is he really going to be the Giants quarterback? Until
they say, you know what, we're gonna get a quarterback
at the end of the this year, We're gonna go
do something else. We're not gonna run it back with
Daniel Jones again, so to save us that money in
the offseason, and also to help us get a higher
draft pick, to get a quarterback, to get you do
or Sanders or somebody else. You're gonna see Drew Locke,
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maybe Tommy Cutlet's start quarterback for the Giants. There's gonna
be some kind of move that's gonna be made. I
would not be surprised if it's made after this week,
because if Daniel Jones gets dinged up and gets hurt
and suddenly, hey, here's money you gotta pay out. Look,
we saw Russell Wilson, they saw it last year. It's
gonna happen sooner rather than later. And it's gonna happen
with the Giants and Daniel Jones again. It might happen
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for Sunday. Like I said, every time we see it,
that might be the last play of the Daniel Jones era.
It's funny because you watch him play, and there were
a couple of balls he threw into neighbors and a
couple even on that last drives like all right, good zip,
good pace, and then he airmails the ball to Singletary.
That looked like an easy throw, right, just sit down,
take your yardage and you still have thirty five seconds
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on the clock. Instead it's airmailed, tipped and you get
an interception. They do have an out on the contract
after this year. Believe it results in a twenty two
point two million dollar dead cap hit for next year.
But you know what, that would be a drop in
the bucket again owing to the old salary cap fund
that we hadn't drafting, which was obviously wrong talking about well,
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we're drafting a rookie quarterback anyway, So you move on
and find your guy in the future, because clearly Daniel
Jones has taken them as far as he possibly could.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
And that was the playoff Berth. A couple of.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Years ago, injuries and gross and effectiveness should take him
off the field.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
And look, we knew this was coming for the Giants
simply because coming into this year they didn't make any changes. Right,
this is a team that was crying out for a change.
The love affair we saw with the Giants potentially and
JJ McCarthy all, we're going to move up to get
JJ McCarthy. They love JJ McCarthy. Guess who didn't move
up to get J McCarthy the Giants. Now, why is this?
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The Giants are dealing with a situation where their GM,
their head coach, their quarterback are all on thin ice. Right,
a bad year by the Giants. Dable is gone, Shane
is gone, and and and Daniel Jones is gone, and
there's a new quarterback in there. Now, when you make
these changes, teams don't want to sad. They want to
be able to say we're starting over with a new GM,
new head coach. The GM is gonna hire his head coach.
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The head coach is gonna get together and pick their
new quarterback, and that's going to be our next level.
You don't want a head coach to have to worry
about I'm the head coach. But now here comes a
new GM with a new quarterback and it doesn't work.
You want to get all three of those positions on
the same page. GM head coach, quarterback. So it didn't
surprise me the Giants did nothing and they didn't move
up for JJ McCarthy because, okay, JJ McCarthy would be drafted.
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And if the Giants stunk this year, okay, well then
Brian Dable's out and Joe Shane is out and whoever
comes in, guess what, whatever offensive system you have and everything,
you got to make it work with JJ McCarthy, he's
our guy. Whoa wait, wait wait, So that that at
least I get, And that's a smart thing to do,
to say, hey, maybe our next coach has something different,
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Maybe it's a different kind of quarterback he wants. So
let's not get locked in with a guy if we're
not one hundred percent sold on him. Because if they're
good this year, guess what, everybody will come back, the
Giants still paying Daniel Jones. And if they're good, Dable
comes back and Shane comes back and Daniel Jones comes back.
But if they're bad, all three of these guys are
getting fired. So This shows you why they didn't make
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any big moves in the offseason, why they didn't get
a quarterback, because this was John Marras saying, Hey, why
I'm all in on this year like Jerry Jones, I'm
all in on this year. And if we're good, everybody stays,
and if we're bad, we're starting over. And I'm not
gonna have any new people come in and big in
the top three positions there on the field that are
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going to be leftovers or having to make arranged marriages
work because it doesn't. So that's why they didn't go
out and get anybody in the off season. Now you
can see this isn't a year where the Giants are
playing well. The season's over for them. They're two and
six now, so it's going to be a clean sweep
in the off season. And now whoever comes in, all right, now,
the new gn the new head coach, they will identify
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their quarterback in the draft or in free agency, depending
who they like. Maybe Kirk Cousins will be available, if
Michael Pennix Junior have to play. You don't know how
things are gonna go, but you're gonna have the new
regime come in and pick their new quarterback. So all there,
the way they acted in the off season makes sense
coming into now because this was the scenario that was
likely the Giants weren't gonna be good, so let's let's start.
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Let's have a clean break after this year. So now
they can have that clean break.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Yeah, and you may have found a running back in
Tracy that at least makes the loss of Saquon Barkley
not as terrible because we saw that get a lot
of run in the off season. It was one of
the highlights of the off season hard knocks run that
we saw, and it's been reiterated now that the Eagles
have seemingly righted the ship, which is you know, might
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be just duct tape and band aids. But they're healthy
right now, receivers are back and they're up to five
and two record and starting to move. But with Tracy
putting up the effort he did, I know we were
talking about for fantasy per He was a guy that
a lot of people had big hopes for today, even
in a tough spot, and he'd left the game with
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an injury, came back and made a big play and
scored the touchdown.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
So at least you have a building block towards the future.
Who's on a rookie deal.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Right, So that's great, you'll have the quarterback next year
on a rookie deal. And to your point, we'll see
what the free agent class becomes of veteran quarterbacks. But
all of it to say, yeah, Shane's going to be gone,
Dable is going to be gone. Daniel Jones the way
they orchestrated his deal, which is always why don't believe
the sticker shock, right, because it's not. It's not always
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a four year deal, five year deal. Yes, it's all
about whatever the signing bonus is, and then you work
from there. The money can always be worked out your
case in point, and aptly so the Russell Wilson they
swallowed eighty five million dollars.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
If it doesn't work, you move on.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yeah. Well, and and I'm not saying this is a
bad decision by the Giants. I actually agree with all Right,
if you're not sold on, if if you have the
number one pick in the draft, that's why we love Caleb. Okay,
you're drafting that guy. But but look what the did. Yeah,
they bring back eberflus No, who nobody agreed was a great.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Good, adequate head coach, but he's a good defensive coach.
So what they did defensively the second half of last year,
he gets to stay of execution. Why because the Bears
also don't pay out contracts for guys that aren't working anymore.
I would hope to think the Bear and the Giants
will be better.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
But there's the Bears way of doing business. Yes, since
sometimes that really don't do that.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
No, the Bears have never done Yeah, the point is
most teams are smarter than that, and we'll do the
full sweep off.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
But but this is but this is, this is how
it should have been done. And I completely understand this
by the Giants. But at some point now big decisions
have to be made and you can't run the risk of, hey,
we gotta pay Daniel Jones at twenty five million dollars
because he's hurt. You're gonna and it's gonna it's gonna
be a season where, hey, we're just trying to make
ends meet. We're just trying to see how many games
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we can win. If we don't win, it's gonna be
easy for us to get a quarterback. And if, like
I said, if they had had the number one pick
in the draft and it's Caleb. Well, okay, what are
you gonna do? Not gonna take him? But it would
have cost a lot to move up to get JJ McCarthy.
Would have cost a lot of a lot of collateral,
a lot of draft picks, and who knows what elver
do we really want to do this, knowing full after
this year we could be starting over. No, we don't
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want to do it. And so JJ McCarthy goes to
the Vikings and we move on from there. So that's
a thing that I get the Giants philosophy of it,
and it worked out well. And now you want to
talk about adding a little insult to injury. Here is
that when it looked like the Giants finally found Tyrone
Tracy's our number one running back in New York, had
a huge night, potentially he was lost to a concussion
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at the end of the game. That's why Singletary was
in hit his head on the ground on a tackle.
He was brought into the medical tent. He did not
look happy being brought into the tent to be looked at,
but it could be a concussion for time. The one
big bright spot that had was Hey, this could be
our he could be our number one running him. You
got neighbors and you're thinking, at least have a couple
of buildings. We've got a couple of guys. And now
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maybe Tyro Tracey is gonna be out again. I don't
know if he a shorter week this week, obviously coming
back to play, so we'll keep you updated on that. Meanwhile,
right now, the Dodgers are three outs away from a
three game to none lead in the World Series. Two
outs with us now to tell us how everything is going.
A guy who actually is pitched earlier tonight for the Dodgers.
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He got out of the sixth inning. Okay, good, it's
Steve de Sager and he's got what's trending.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
I understand that people would not remember me, because, of
course there have been seven pitchers on the Dodgers side,
and I believe eight for the Yankees. That's why this
game is still going. After eleven thirty five in New York.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Is Eric ganne up in the bullpen? He will be tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
It's at our bullpen game, So pretty much everybody's gonna
be used. If the trainer, like through in high school,
not even a full game, I think they could probably
use him for tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Jot.
Speaker 6 (28:56):
The Dodgers are up for nothing at Yankee Stadium with
one out in the bottom of the ninth inning. Michael
Kopek is on to try and close things out. Walker
Buehler was the starting pitcher. He went the first five innings,
five strikeouts, two walks. In fact, the votes at stats
Saying point out that Buehler has started three World Series
games in his career, and in each of them he's
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gone at least five innings with fewer than five base
runners allowed. No one else has three such starts in
their World Series careers, and this is his first three
and only three World Series starts. So a guy coming
off another surgery this year who was one and six
in the regular season is proving himself somehow to be
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yet again the pressure pitcher that the Dodgers had relied
on years ago. Three games to non lead is what
they're on the verge of. And yes, Fox TV will
have Tuesday night's Game four, also at eight pm Eastern,
and the Wednesday night game if necessary.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Steeve, do we know if they're bringing fat jollback?
Speaker 4 (29:55):
He's fired?
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
What do you bring out for Game four? Though?
Speaker 6 (29:59):
You gotta save the season, that's right, Fat Jolly probably
not good comes out, not a good luck term or
ozembic Joe as he was preferred to. A Monday night
football game at Pittsburgh went to the Steelers over the Giants,
twenty six to eighteen. Giants offense at least has had
a touchdown tonight. So there's that Pittsburgh six and two record.
Giants fall to two and six. But you know, the
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Giants did enter averaging just fourteen points per game and
the Steelers were allowing just fourteen points per game. Twenty
six eighteen, Pittsburgh the final. Packers quarterback Jordan Love has
a straying groin, but test showed no significant damage. Green
Bay host Detroit Sunday on Fox TV. The Brown say
quarterback Jamis Winston will remain their starter. Cleveland defensive back
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Denzel Ward is still in concussion protocol. Patriots QB Drake
May is in concussion protocol. New Orleans quarterback Derek Carr
is expected to return to practice on Wednesday after his
oblique injuries missed the last three games. The Seahawks are
optimistic wide receiver DK Metcalf will return to play neck
weekend after a knee injury. Jacksonville wide receiver Christian Kirk
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had surgery today on his broken collar bone.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
He is out for the year.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
A couple of late games in the NBA, the Lakers,
who were up by eighteen early only lead at Phoenix
seventy two sixty eight late in the third quarter Anthony
Davis twenty five points, and early third quarter at Sacramento
Kings fifty six fifty one over the Trailblazers. Denver won
in overtime. At Toronto Nicola Jokic forty points, and at Orlando,
the Magic edged Indiana at Polo Benkerra fifty points. Ben
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Caro had thirty seven in the first half. It's now
two outs, bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium, LA
leads New York for nothing.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen Livethtirach dot Com Studios. We're a very
nervous and excited justin Frosburg is ready for one more
out in the World Series. Hei fil a, man, what
am I nervous about? Just you know? Did you're gonna
be up three to nothing in the World Series? You're
full of nerves.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Nervous because your one, he's calmer than you are, one
went away from winning the World Series.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
That wouldn't be nervous. Okay, I think I think.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
That.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
You know, that's a lifetime of Nick's Jets and Mets.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
The worst thing is gonna happen now, waiting for the
sky to fall, frostburgs on the path of saying this,
this is his last.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Question for you guys, had what he Who is worse? Okay,
Daniel Jones or Aaron Judge? Wow, Oh that's tough man.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
No, it's got to be Aaron Judge because I mean
he's doing nothing in meaningful games.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
Yeah, but no, but Daniel Jones. I mean it's week eight.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
But you say worse though, and like Aaron Judge was
great and now he stinks, doesn't Daniel Jones stunk and
he still stucks. He did, Okay, it's not like he
gave Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Get the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
No, it's not like Daniel Jones. That was two years ago.
It's not like Daniel Jones is giving you things to
to you know, Oh hey, wait, he might be really good. No, No,
he's he's been bad. He continues to be bad. You
shouldn't be surprised. Yeah, but Aaron Judge is much more surprise.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
It is now four to two.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Anthony Rizzo has just gone deep off of Michael Kopek. Sorry,
Alex Rdugo has just gone deep off of Michael Kopek.
White Sox cutting the lead to four to two. Still
two outs in the ninth inning, Dodgers lead the Yankees
one out away from going up three zip in the
World Series. But maybe a death cry home run for.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
The Yankees in this one.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
Coming up next, are we breaking down a three to
nothing Dodger lead or the Yankees getting all the way
back in it? Get right here, that's next. Jason and Mike.
This is Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
tire rack dot Com Studios, where we are gonna be
one game away at most from crowning the Dogs as
World Series champions. They beat the Yankees four to two.
They take a three games to none lead in the
World Series alex Erdugo with a home run to make
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a four to nothing game look closer than it was.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
How many of the forty nine? Three sixty eight announced?
Do you think we're still there to watch it?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Three sixty eight?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Just tight it out? Minus forty nine? How do you
do that? How do you do the math? I just
crossed out the forty nine.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Look not a lot of offense tonight, each team mustering
only five hits. But you know, the life gets sucked
out a Yankee stadium in the first inning when Freddie
Freeman hits another home run, He's gonna wind up being
World Series MVP. He's got a home run in every
game so far, and it was the worst possible start
for the Yankees. Okay, they're home now. They had two
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games in LA where they potentially could have won that
big bullpen question that they'll be asking themselves forever about
Game one? Why was cortesen? Why wasn't Tim Hill in?
They have a chance in Game two and the Dodgers win,
and now here they are back at home. Okay, let's
put it all. Let's put it all aside. We have
three games here. Let's get right back in it. We
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love where we play. We love playing in front of
the fans. The Dodgers have their worst starting pitcher going
and it doesn't matter. Walker Buehler throws zeros for five
plus innings and the Dodgers' bullpen is able to get
it done. But just an absolute demoralizing start, the worst
possible start to the game for the Yanks. Before they
come up to bat, they're already down to nothing.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Yeah, I mean you.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Already lost the pregame because the fat Joe thing just
didn't It fell flat.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Had its issues with his appearance there, and then he
gave up the homer to Freeman. So everything you had,
the feel good, the excitement, You're finally playing a home
World Series game and bam, it's Freddie Freeman again. Just really,
this is how it starts. And look, opportunities. You know,
stanton rounding third, that image is gonna be etched in
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your brain. The Dodgers also have an opportunity, right, you
have the bunt, you go for the squeeze play and
I still think he was safe, but he's called out
and it's upheld on review. You know, you don't have
enough evidence to overturn whatever. But a couple of near
misses at the plate. But for the Yankees, the decision
to send Stanton and ta Oscar just you know, a
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strike to home plate and that's the end of what
could have been potentially at least an inning to kind
of stretch maybe mess up Dave Roberts, bullpen architect. I
just got a wonder, is he got it in sharpie
at this point? Is he that bold God? Because it's
no longer in pencils or the grease pen. It's it's
all in sharpie, Like, nope, this is how it's gonna.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Six relievers tonight win. But you know, but look but
more the first inning of this game, like Clark Schmidt
is the guy that's charged with keeping the Yankee season going.
All the money, all the money they're spending, and it's
on Clark's.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Clark Schmidt exactly.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
He didn't have control. He didn't have you know, he
was behind hitters all night. And I keep going back
to this, you don't know how healthy show hey Otani is.
And clearly, as we saw the game go on, he
had a tough time. Swing in the bat. He wasn't
quite the same. He had a couple of really awkward swings,
you know, the the the shoulders subluxation and a separation
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you know is affecting it.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
He looked really uncomfortable when he hit that pop up
his last at bet right. He stood at home plays
like it's not good.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah, you wonder, you wonder what it is for him.
You wonder if he's gonna get the next game off.
But for me, I come at it like this. Schmid
walked him on four pitches. So Freddie Freeman's home run
is a two run homer. You have to challenge him
so you know what he can or can't do. Like
he's the leadoff batter of the game, and Schmid walked
him on four pitches. Come at Otani. It's one thing
to see a guy hitting batting practice, So you gotta
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be able to know is he gonna be able to
turn on a fastball? Is he gonna be behind? Is
his swing gonna be awkward when suddenly he tries to
get out in front? Can he can he pull something?
Is he gonna You don't know what he's capable of
me as you saw the game go on. Oh maybe
he's not the same, but they were afraid of him
like he is when he is healthy, and I'm sorry,
but you gotta throw. You gotta go after Otani as.
Speaker 3 (38:02):
The first battle around a leadoff battery, and instead I
don't care if he's healthy. I don't care if he's
you know, thirteen feet tall. No, he's still the first
of the game.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
But I get him. Well you see that, But I
get it if he's healthy. But you gotta see what
kind of guy he is, Kenny, really, you know, he's
you know, he's struggling. What's he gonna be? You want
to know what he can be for the game, And
instead you put him on like a he's Otani and
as a result, Freddie Freeman's two run homer could have
been a solo home run. I mean, just part of
the mistakes, part of the things the Yankees did tonight
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that make me scratch my head and go, why would
they do that? Why would they send Stanton around third
when he was when he was going to be a
dead duck at the plate? Why why would you throw
four balls wide not even close to Otani when just
throw it over and see what he can do. I mean,
obviously you see his way.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
He wasn't able to hit a home and then he
disappear into the clubhouse. Yeah, I'm running. Joka in the
Twitter verse was we will find out the treatment of
Otani in twenty thirty four.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
That'll be the three snip.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
If he's not going to play, he's not going to
be maybe Edmond will lead off and they'll do something. Look,
that's the one thing the Dodgers have is there. They
can cover different things, but they have a lot of
guys can play multiple positions. But you still want Otani
in the line there.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Him, I mean the really automatic bass. Why not?
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I don't understand why?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
When?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
When? When When Clark Smitt went around, I'm like, you
have to see what he's gone and you can see
after one swing, oh hey, Otani's not the same and
you can get him out and and who knows, maybe
it's a different pitch after that, because that's the thing
about baseball. With nobody out and nobody out, maybe Freddie
Freeman gets a different pitch, doesn't get that pitch. So
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maybe there's no runs in the first inning. But I
don't know what, how do you not go after Otani open?
And you got to see what he has and how
he can be because this is the whole game, because
he's gonna be up three, four, five times and and
Clark SMI walks him on four pitch.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
Well, once again, as we've talked about with the Dodgers
doing well to work counts. I mean, Schmidt didn't finish
three innings. He had what sixty eight pitches thrown. M
Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, we have the most shocking thing coming
off of Game three of the.
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