November 6, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you why it makes the most sense for Shohei Ohtani to come back from injury as a closer. Jason’s Mets are all-in on acquiring Juan Soto this offseason. Plus, Lincoln Riley’s days are numbered at USC!
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tire buying should be. Well, yes, look obviously today being
election day. Look, it's everybody's been waiting with different levels
of excite for this day for a long time. While
we're conscious of that and what's going on. Look, hey,
you tune any here. You want to hear sports, You
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want to hear us talking about sports, and you know,
maybe we'll give you the oblique election reference now and
again about certain things, like, for instance, once again unanimously.
I just saw it came in. Guy Fieri elected the
mayor of Flavortown unanimous. Oh yeah, No, there was no doubt.
I mean, I mean he ran posed. Yeah, I don't
think there was idea. I didn't even see another.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Name on him.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Might have been a write in, Yeah, it might have
been a Jeff Morrow fan, Alex Guarner Shelley, you know,
your love affair with her work and mayor of Flavortown. Like,
think about how much someone staging a coup is flavor.
Wouldn't that have been a great election day reality show
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where Guy Fieri has to run for mayor of Flavortown
and all these chefs are running against him and there's
some kind of competition every week. I like that to
be the mayor of flavorn You just said something that
would rule it out, though, What's that just said he
would have to run? Oh that's a fair He could stand.
He could stand, or he could be like the President
of Flavortown and he elects the mayor of Flavortown and
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it's a competition to become the mayor. Yeah, but now
it's a whole branding thing. He's been mayor of Flavortown
so long, that's kind of a part of his identity.
I think you can kick him upstairs at this point.
He's not the governor of Mayor Flavor Toown. Come on,
he's the president of Flavortown. Everybody except bladder back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
No, I like that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Antonio la Fossil could be the mayor of flavor Town.
I think that would work. I work pretty well sergeant
at arms in Flavortown. Oh I like that? Yeah, yeah, sure,
thing undershare Flavortown, whole royal court. It looks like the
end of one of the Lord of the Rings movies.
But he's thrones with staff. And what are all the
orcs doing over there? Protection their muscle, that's all they are,
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their muscle. Uh like this, This is good, So let's
keep working. And the one thing I can tell you
is we're likely not going to get a winter tonight.
To listen to us, that's all. And listen to us,
and we're just doing our thing. We're talking sports, we're
having fun. Harmon decided to wear a black T shirt
and a black skull cap like he's in a rap battle.
Uh so he's all ready for tonight. You're wearing a
Syracuse shirt also known as Tuesday. Yeah, no exactly, that's fine. No,
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but you really you're you're you're wearing I wore this yesterday. Yeah,
but you were in here. But but you wore you
wore you wore a black skull cap and a T
shirt and shorts. Yeah, like, like the bottom of you
is is cold, but the bottom of you is fine,
is hot, but yet as you go up you get hotter.
So you have to wear a wool hat, but you're
wearing shorts. Yeah, okay, yeah, because that doesn't make sense.
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I couldn't find the ball cap and I wore this.
I gotta say, Michigan Swing State. Going back to Michigan,
Like one of the most popular outfits that I go
back there is this. And I can't believe what you
need to Michigan. But I can't tell you how many
times to go back, and in the middle of winter,
Like we'll go back at Christmas time and I'll go
to like Meyer or one of the grocery stores whatever,
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and someone is wearing and I'm gonna I'm gonna go
top to bottom. They're wearing a Michigan University of Michigan
skull cap because every third person wears Universe it's a
Michigan skull cap. A bulky down jacket. Uh maybe it's
cortex unzipped, unzipped, uh long basketball shorts like Fab five era, Yeah,
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in a basket and Timberland boots. Oh and like that said,
that's a very popular out So I'm like, how is that?
But yet that's what I mean. You run an errand
real quick. Yeah, that's what it is. Like zero degrees. Yeah,
but I buy, I buy buy basketball shorts on, but
at zero degrees, I'll put my jacket on. That doesn't
make sense. Yeah, this literally was. I didn't see a
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ball cap when I went to grab one, all right,
so okay, just making it. And I went for a
walk with the dog very early this morning, so this
was with me. It is you know, I will say
it is kind of rat Battle or early morning Rocky
Balboa in one of the first two movies, going for
a run. So around walking at about ten after six,
it was there was a little bit of a chill
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in the air. Uh. So, hey, big day for football,
Stop judging me. I'm just saying, jerk. Big day in
college football big day in the NFL at the trade
dead libel more the trade deadline coming up in a
few minutes. But two big baseball headlines. One show Heyo
Tani surgery for his shoulder that he injured in the
World Series against the Yankees. The dislocation has now been
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repaired by world famous surgeon doctor Neil Ela Trosh. How
about that he's the one that put Aaron Rodgers achilles
back together and say hey, you're good to go in
a week. Build a bigger, faster show. Remember that story
last year? Yeah, oh so fast to be back so fast?
Now it looks like, oh, could have taken some more
time to get ready. Did he have a time turner?
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So like we all lived, you know, just three weeks,
but it was really nine months. I don't know. Now
here's the thing, and this is what I this is.
This is where this becomes a bigger story, right Otani?
At some point, I don't know how much you can
expect to see him pitch, because yes, he's coming back
from two UCL surgeries already, right, so he's not even
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thirties at two UCL surgeries. How much longer can the
guy really expect to throw? Now you throw in an
injury in his non pitching arm that he's gonna have
to rehab from. It's not known if that's gonna cut
him back. But when it comes to arm injuries and
shoulder injuries like these are bad ones that he has had.
And so you know, I know the dog and look
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if you can if you go fifty five to fifty
five every year, it doesn't matter. But you know, the
Dodger signed him with thoughts of he's gonna pitch at
some point for us. Now I say, I just don't know,
Like like, I don't know that I would even have
him come back as a starter. I would have him
come back as a closer. You know, when there's less stress,
there's less torque're pitching every couple of day, and there's
a rule that you don't pitch back to back days.
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You still keep him in the in the lineup as
being a designated hitter. I just can't see Shoeo Tani
going through the rigors of being a starting pitcher for
the next few years and staying healthy and staying out there,
and you still need him in the lineup, So you
have to you have to protect him as far as
that goes, and say Okay, too bad elbow injuries. He
started throwing at the end of this year, not well
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enough to throw in the playoffs. Now you don't know,
does this throw his his rehab off because he needs
to keep throwing to be ready for spring training. And
you know that's now that's now out because he knows
how long he can't throw for. Not that it's gonna
affect you coming back, but now your throwing program is
now off. I just I when I look at Otani,
I go if I was the Dodgers, I would say,
you know what, You're going to be a closer, and
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this is gonna be unbelievable, and the excitement level when
you come in the game is going to be awesome,
and it's just gonna be the next level thing for you.
And you're gonna DH every day. You're not gonna play
the field because now with a couple of injuries like this,
you don't want him getting hurt in the field. But
if he DHS every day and then he comes into pitch,
it's all so easy. Okay, well he's dhing, but we
lose him in the ninth thinning, But that's okay. He's
coming in to close the game. So it's okay if
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you lose that position for however you want to do it.
But that's a like like that seems to me to
be the best source of future for Otani is that, yeah,
be a closer. Not only does that help you extend,
maybe he can close for ten years, right. Eckersley close
until his late thirty at the mid mid career change
from starting picture to closer. John Smolt's the same thing.
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His arm was hurt, couldn't do it so much. Went
from starting pittuer to closer and look how good, how
good he was. He was lights out. Like, if I'm
the Dodgers, I think it's a no brainer to say, hey,
you're going to close for us. Yeah. I think the
other part to it is since all that money is deferred, right,
we're still looking at the next couple of years or
two million, two million, two million. It's not like you're
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we have to force him back into the rotation because
we paid all this money that precludes us from doing
something else. You're in bonus. You're you're making profit off
him hand over fist right now. Not that you're short
of money at any point. Just take a painting, sell
it and the way we go. But the idea being
that you're not hamstrung there at all, and you can
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go into the marketplace. We've already seen reports of Snell
and all these other guys that potentially are there, and
we'll see what the contracts become, right, player options and
all of that being declined. That was part of the
subplots of all of this. But for Showyotani, I mean,
this is the injury of weekend warriors and dads everywhere
right slay and moms to that man, slinging kids over
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your shoulders, throwing them in the pool for the backflips, whatever,
and it's like torn labor. Many there. There was an
epidemic of this in Major League Baseball actually a few
years ago that became the injury djure looked much like
the Achilles injury suddenly in football, left and left and right.
But you're in the best position of all. You're not
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forced to make a decision short term about your rotation
with him, because that that is a bonus territory. And
given the attrition of the Dodgers' pitching staff the last
several years, you know you have to go out into
the marketplace and add arms. You've got a few guys
that are coming back that you hope to remember. We
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didn't even talk about it a lot. As they won
the World Series. You were still coming off with two
guys that you expected to be parts of your rotation
in Urias and Bauer, who were disqualified from contention to
even beyond your roster that had big, big expectations to
be thirty start guys. So all of that to say,
some of those guys are coming back off the injury,
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some of those young guys. And for Otani, you're in
bonus territory if he's physically able to give you a
start on occasion, sure, but if you can go to closer,
as we've seen with how they manage their bullpen, that
doesn't even need to be one guy anymore. Exit Out,
Bout of Fresca, Exit swalling down the Jason Smithzer with
Mike Harmon. Now from Sho Heo Tani to the latest
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with Juan Soto, who is going to own the off
season with the daily story of where he's going to
go as he very famously opened up his free agent
negotiatation five minutes after the World Series. And I don't
mean like a metaphorical no It was about five minutes
after the game ended. He said, yeah, all thirty teams. No, no, no,
give him a little credit. Was a little bit later, okay,
because he did watch the Dodgers celebrate, and he sat
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in the dugout sulking because he watched them celebrate. Ten
minute cooling off period. Then okay, here he says, yeah,
I'm open to all thirty teams. Here he is talking
about exactly what is ahead for him in the off season.
Show me the money very very quick today. That was good.
That was a very quick sound like walking out of
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his meeting today because he met with he and Scott
Boris's agent, met with Brian Cashman. Did he just make
the money sign and keep walking. The interesting comparing to
this is that Brian Cashman Yankees GM said that he
met with Scott Boris about Juan Soto, said, I'll meet
with Scott as many times he wants to about Jan Soto.
We love him, want to keep him, but also about
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Pete Alonso, who is a free agent. And if we
lose one Soto, you take our guy, will take your guy.
So there's a lot of gamesmanship going on here because
Alonzo is a free agent too. How sad would be
to see the polar bear in a Yankee pinstripe. Though,
if we get one Soto, I'd be okay with it.
But here's the thing, It's not gonna happen. Okay, I'm
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telling you. It would be the most unlikely and shocking
Yankee headline of my lifetime, of my lifetime if they
let one Sodo go to the Mets. There's certain rubicons
you don't cross, and losing a superstar who's twenty six
years old to the team you share the same city with,
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is not happening. Not in New York? All right, happened here? Angels?
Oh shit, kind of share that, Well, don't really share,
We're right? Or oh, you guys go take Otani. If
one Sodo had a huge desire to go play for
the Mets, I would say, it's different. But Otani wanted
to be a Dodger. So what were you gonna do?
Were you gonna stop him? No, you couldn't. One Sodo
just wants to go, reason to get paid the most money,
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and whatever Steve and offers him, the Yankees are gonna say,
we're gonna give you more. We are not losing you
to the Mets, Brian Cashman, because I know Brian Cashman.
For the last fifteen years, it's been he's deathly afraid
of any time losing headlines to the Mets, losing players
to the Mets. He wouldn't make a trade for Jacob
de Grom. Do you want to give up Gary Sanchez?
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And and who else it's do now? He's not even
Miguel andrewharp And like I remember his famous phrase, I
gotta walk around this town. He is never never going
to allow a star player with that kind of life
left on his career to go to the Mets where
they got it, where every day he's got to wake
up and see the headlines and see highlight. It's just
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not gonna happen. It may be be a weird way
for me to say that, but trust me, I know
the Yankees, I know how they operate. I know Brian Cashman.
That's not gonna happen. He's gone, men do all the
Mets can do well. He could get outbid by somebody else.
If somebody else comes in and says, hey, one, here's
my Okay, we'll lose you, but we're not losing you
to the Mets. Not just from a dollar perspective, Yeah,
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he will not lose to them. Uh, And that's all
Scott Boris wants, because that's that's really the the crux
of the argument. Does Wan Soda want something else? Because
everybody's gonna kick the tires, the Cubs, the Dodgers, there's
no question you're gonna look around and see, you know
what the asking price is what he wants. Don't forget
from the pitching side. Going back to the Otani talk,
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you've got Roki Sasaki, uh, the young fireballer that that
make him over. And given the fact that Yamamoto and
and show hey are already there. Hey, come on in.
This is a great organization. So there's another picture that
jumps in. So they're maybe they're not in contention for
for Sodo, but yeah, the loss to the Mets would
only really be if Sodo tells Boris, all right, the
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money's one thing, but this this and this about Sterns
versus cash Man or whatever else. See what I did there? Yeah,
but do strike you is that guy?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
No, that's the thing, right, since he's already got a title,
he's already got his reputation, is his street et cetera.
That it would seem to be a more a mercenary.
What do you paying me all the stuff? I see? Oh,
the Mets get one, so to get one. So what
they'll do is drive the price up. They'll drive them.
That's all they're gonna do is drive the price up.
It'll just be like Yamamoto last year at the Dodgers. Hey,
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you're offering him three hundred twenty five million. Okay, Dodgers,
you're gonna match. Great, We're going to the Dodgers like
that's all he's gonna do with the Kirk Cousins years
ago did to the Jets exit? How about a Frescat exit?
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Jim Man. Uh, Happy Election Day, as the vote to
continue to be counted across the country. All the polls
are closed. The first college football playoff poll is out
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coming up in a few minutes. We'll tell you some
teams that look like their locks outside the top five
or six absolute locks to make the college football play
And if you do need consolation, whether you were talking
about election polls or the college football playof polls, there
are plenty of places with poles that are still open.
Uh sure, Yes, where can I go? How gonna give
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you an imreted last number one on the rankings locally
here in Los Angeles. But hey, okay, so speaking of college,
but we'll get to the big story NFL trade deadline
coming up in a couple minutes, but a big college
football story today. And we have to say outside the
playoff because you know, USC is not going. Hey, they're
one play away linked, No, no, no, no, no. There
are seventy five or eighty plays away from winning the
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last two national championships. That's all. That's all it is.
Can you put up a banner for that seventy five
or eighty plays go the other way? USC went just
looks to link at Riley says it all the time,
all the time. You know, I like how those plays
like they like they've they've increased over the past few weeks.
Like first it was two or three plays, and it
was you know, four or five plays. No, but that's
just it, Like you're you're shaking out the rocks on
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the on the yard. You know, ninety five or hundred
plays go the other way? Dude, that enough, all of
a sudden, you got a giant hole in tunnel in
your wall if instead of a pick six, it's a
touchdown pass. We beat Michigan. I mean that's how it goes.
I don't know. People are saying it's all we needed, right,
I mean, it's it's math, fuzzy math. Lincoln Riley has
made a big quarterback change. Miller Moss, who was last
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year's Bowl game hero, came into this season with a
lot of fire and a lot of publicity. Opening week
they beat LSU. Miller Moss is great. Well, Miller Moss
is no longer starting for USC. He got mossed. He
got mossed. There is a quarterback change happening right now
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in USC. And look, I can't say it is shocking
because this is kind of what you have to do
when you get to this point of the season. But
Jaden Mayava is the new quarterback transfer from UNLV at
a really good year last year. He's very mobile. Maybe
he's gonna help me be a bit of a I
would say, inject some energy in. He's more mobile than
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Miller Moss's So maybe this this works out. Remember when
Keaton Slow was supposed to be great. But anyway, this
move shows you that Lincoln Riley is in the end game.
He is in the endgame with USC. This is a
move you make when you have nothing else left and
you are trying to save your job. There's seventy ish
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million dollars that they would have to eat of the
contract they gave him because it was it was a
ten year, one hundred and ten million dollar deal. They
wouldn't let him use the private jet anymore. I know that.
But for these results that they've gotten now. The first
year was great. Oh man. They should have won a
couple of more games with Caleb Williams. How do you
not win? Last year was bad? This year is awful.
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And I'm gonna I'm gonna surprise you here because not
all of this is on Lincoln Riley. Look. Look has
Lincoln Riley under chief hundred percent? They brought him in
with all kinds of flash and substance, and he got
guys to transfer and wide receivers of transfer, but letting
the call finalists to transfer. And he had Caleb Williams.
And look at where he is now. The guy's been
a five hundred head coach for the last year and
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a half plus. But this is an absolute desperation move
because if he doesn't pick it up. He's getting fired.
He is hoping that this move to Mayava is going
to ignite the team. They go on a win streak
to end the year, they beat UCLA and he says, see, guys,
I kind of got it all right, We'll give you
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one more year. But if they bought him out, like
USC is gonna find a way to put the money
together to say, sorry, Lincoln, you're done. That is a
giant mountain the cash. That's what we're done. That's like
the size of the pile that the Joker was burning
up the dark night. It's a lot of money. But schools,
if you had one hundred and ten million dollars to
give to give him, I think you have seventy million
to buy him out with. Right, it's very very same way,
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or as it all become due and pay them all
in that first of We're gonna give you two million
dollars a year now, and then in ten years you
get fifty million a year. You'll get some compound interest,
just like o'toni. That's how it's gonna go. But every
week Lincoln Riley is a bad headline for an unrealistic
fan base, and that's the part that's that's not on him,
is that. Yeah, they expect him to come in and
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win because look at what look at the run he
had at Oklahoma. Oh, by the way, you're talking about
three guys who are now star quarterbacks in the NFL.
So okay, these are the guys he had. One of
them was Caleb Williams. Uh. But usc it's it's unrealistic.
It's like the Michigan fans pre Connor Stallions, who kept
expecting Michigan to win eleven twelve games in a year.
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We talked, Nay, they hadn't won. They lose three games
a year. That was Michigan football for most of that.
They won the national title in ninety seven, but every
other year they lost three games. Michigan is a was
a fantastic heritage program in college football. They win the
national title, Heisman Trophy, win with Charles Woodson, and it's
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an amazing story. Michigan football is back. But every year
since then, they're a three loss team and to expect
them to send it, why are we not winning? Because
that's not how it goes. It's not how you do
when you're a three loss team. For twenty years, you
were a three loss team. For twenty years. And oh,
by the way, Connor Stallion starts to get the signals
in twenty twenty one, Jim Harbough starts going eleven and one,
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twelve and zero wins a national championship. Right, that's kind
of what it is. USC. In the last twenty years,
they are averaging four losses a year, four since Pete
Carroll left, and you want to talk about Pete Carroll's
last year before he went. Before he left, they are
averaging four losses a year. I mean, when the SIPs
ships started to sinking, he scurried away, gotta go, gotta
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go guys. Sorry, Hey, say what's happening here? Sanchez? Are
you staying? No, I gotta do one lame duck here
with John David Booty. Fine, but USC is a four
loss a year program. Four loss a year, that's what
they're averaging for nearly the last twenty years. The salad
days of USC are gone. Man, this is like the
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people that kept thinking, oh, Mike Tyson eventually is gonna
get No same people thought Shaq was gonna start making
his free throws. No, not gonna happen. This USC was
a great pray. It was a great run. They were
box stars in college football, and if they're ever really
good again, those days could come back. But those days
are gone. They're just not that team anymore. And to
expect Lincoln Riley to come in and it should be
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a national championship by year two, that's unrealistic because that's
not what they have now. It's a combination because Lincoln
Riley has tremendously underachieved and it just hasn't worked there.
There's never been a Lincoln Riley shows up and there's
a honeymoon period where everything is great and we love
Lincoln Riley and look at what he's doing. He had
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one of the shortest honeymoon periods ever. Sometimes coaches and
their schools are just not good right. The mixes just
aren't right, and we've seen it Rich Rodriguez at Michigan.
He went on to coach someplace else and did really well.
But sometimes it happens where a really good coach is
really good in one place, but then changes conferences, changes schools,
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changes recruiting area. Everything is different now and you don't
win like you should. Doesn't mean you're a bad coach,
but it just mean that you are failing right here.
Now if he goes back to the middle of the country,
he goes back to some he goes back to Nebraska,
you go some place, that goes to some place. But
maybe he does well because maybe that's the area that
knows him where he's able to mind talent nowhere to
go to find kids. And this is just too difficult
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for him coming out and trying to run the West coast.
But for whatever reason, he is failing. And US is
not going to put up with this because their expectations
are unrealistic. But when you get to the point where hey,
we're under five hundred and now we don't know if
we're going to go to a bleep and Bowl game, Yeah,
they're not gonna stand for that. They will find the
money to put together to get rid of Lincoln Riley,
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and it will be somebody else coming in to try
to build the program back up, and it will be
a not a risky hire, but someone they're not going
to go spend a lot of money on. And that's
how us he's gonna do it. But mark my words,
Lincoln Riley for all those reasons, he's in the endgame now.
He is near the end of his career with the
USC and now you're putting it on the shoulders of
your backup quarterback to come in and say save me,
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because a big run will save him. A big run
will save him. But if they just meander and lose
and you don't make a bully, that's it. Like Lincoln
Riley in the off season. That's we're finding a way.
We're moving on. We're done, all right. We got a
couple of things that we need to parse out here.
We we let me. Let me do the first thing
with the new quarterback of Mayava. Not relate into the
rock and the Maya Villas just so, okay, you know
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there is I mean, we can conflate that because he's
got fun, but you could still smell what he's cooking. Yeah,
but if he was suddenly part of the Blood, lying
okay and life after or he becomes an honorary part
of the Blood, that's it. He starts playing well and
then suddenly, hey, got his arm around him. Yeah, no,
you're from the other side of the final Boss, and
all of a sudden he's running around. Yeah that works. Hey,
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I love him. Go see Red One. It's coming out
in two weeks. Go see Red One. All right, another
movie that needs to come out because I'm tired of
the ads. Yeah, but it's great. It's like that weeked
I'm done, It's Christmas, it's done, released Christmas. It's it's got.
It's got to be a little bit closer to the holidays.
You can listen to holiday holly music right now. I
am Jimmy Jimmy Fallons. Holly Channel is back up and
running and you get you get Happy Holiday by Andy
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Williams every five minutes. It's fine, Okay, Happy Holiday ding
don't Yeah, how do we start with the holiday? Holiday?
Holiday music? Going to play Happy Holiday? Coming up next
probably pretty soon. Holiday thing with Lincoln Riley is you know,
we heard all the talk of how they were getting
tougher right better in the weight room, all of the
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pounds that they added, getting ready for big ten play.
And that's fine because you're losing close games. But that's
the problem. You're losing close games, and that's a problem
with coaching, right. We've been saying that that's a truism
in sports for years. If you consistently lose in the
margins where it comes down to you being able to
call a play and execute the one play that's a
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you problem. That that is not a Hey, we're miles
from nowhere. So it's like, all right, let's try to
recalibrate where we are as an organization. Now, this is
the coach isn't getting the job done in big spots,
and particularly this last week, right running the same play,
kid read it all day long, and that was the
end of it. Right, another l You've got UCLA and
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playing better football of late, so we'll see what happens there.
I mean, when those two teams get together, you throw
the records out, or at least that's the old euphemism
for in state, in city rivalry things. And then you
got a game against Notre Dame. You want to win
back a bunch of your fan base, you gotta go
up against the top ten team and see if you
can put something together and maybe a little bit of
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that offense flexing, but overall, you're right, it's the fit.
You know you had Nebraska, Well that's still a big
ten team, so that doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
It helps you know, from a recruiting standpoint, Yeah, maybe
going back to the middle of the country is where
he finds some love. Maybe he needs to go and
become a coordinator. I think that's worked. I think he
should look at what Cliff Kingsbury's doing and maybe that's
I think he's still somebody that other big time programs
would say, yes, let's go get him. I didn't think
he's He's somewhere where maybe the NFL come calling. Yeah,
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I think you needed to go from Oklahoma like that.
That's something where if he was going head coach, was
going to the NFL as a head coach, he needed
to go after all off the Heisman. But I think
he could still at most any other school in the country,
he could write his ticket. He could go someplace else
and and and and do really well. People say, oh, yeah,
come in and do it didn't work for you here,
maybe it works for you here, like especially with the
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buyout coming. Like if all of a sudden, Florida says,
oh we can, we can get Lincoln Riley and we'll
try it. Whine not billion Paper hasn't worked out, Okay,
we'll go get Lincoln Riley or you know, you're talking
about any other school Florida state in the middle Florida,
Florida says say listen, just come here, whatever you need, man,
we'll do whatever did they build that statue to Jordan Travis. Yeah.
But but like there's schools that will that will go
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after him, big time schools, and we'll say, yes, come
in and be in charge of the name recruiting. Obviously
you've seen what he's done with quarterbacks historically. This one again,
it's in the margins, like it's it's not that your
quarterback has played rily situational football. You haven't finished. And
that's that's the tail of the tape, right. They are
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legitimately possessions away. I won't do the one playing, but
possessions away. And when that possessions, When you do that consistently,
there's a U problem.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I kind of like your Florida State thing because if
he if he goes five hundred at Florida State, they
would love him. Oh that's it, right, Like you just
do what you're doing now at USC do that with
you're a hero a right man. We got a bit
of flash some points on the board from one win
to five or six. Florida Florida State is back, man,
We are back. Charlie Ward is back flipping the ceremonial
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club and know what's going on with the the lawsuits
of trying to get out of the conferences and stuff?
Did that that quiet down? What the one wind sees? Hey, guys,
I know we were a little chesty last year when
we were thirteen to er, but you know, hey, we're
We're fine state in the end. We love the acc
We love you guys. We love you guys. There's some
Sweet Tea and Cookies. Time now to find out what's
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turning from a guy who also once tried to leave
his conference but stayed. It's imglow and Crown.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Of course that was technically on a zoom call. By
the way, you had me at Sweet Tea and Cookie.
Signed me up for that show, signed us up for
The first college football playoff rankings of twenty twenty four,
revealed earlier this evening. Oregon number one, followed by Ohio
State Georgia at number three. Miami was fourth, with Texas five.
Then you got Penn State Tennessee, Indiana coming in at
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number eight, BYU ninth and Notre Dame rounds out the
top ten in the first college football Playoff rankings of
the year. World champion Los Angeles Dodgers revealed this afternoon
that Shohei Otani suffered a torn labrum in his left
shoulder when he was injured back during Game two of
the World Series against the Yankees. He had successful arthroscopic
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surgery today and is expected to be ready for spring training.
The NBA suspended Philadelphia seventy six er star Joel Embid
three games without pay for shoving a member of the
media in the locker room after a game this past Saturday.
NBA Vice President of Basketball Operations and former bad Boy himself,
Joe Dumars said in a statement, quote, While we understand
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Joelle was offended by the personal nature of the original
version of the reporter's column, interactions must remain professional on
both sides and can never turn physical.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Unquote.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Trade deadline day in the NFL Steelers acquiring linebacker Preston
Smith from the Packers. Steelers also got receiver Mike Williams
from the New York Jets, and the Washington Commanders acquired
cornerback Marshawn Lattimore from the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
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Still performing well in the polls. Yes, yes, I'm seeing
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where it goes right now with the play. Yes, absolutely
at five I'm seeing now I'm on five thirty eight.
Right now we're just above the Yankees fifth inning. But
we're just but we're below the Garrett Wilson catch. That's
where we're pulling over your head. Uh. Coming up next,
all right, we get into the best trade today for
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the trade deadline in the NFL. What team did the
most to get them just that much closer to the
Super Bowl. That's next right here, Jason abike Cleveland did
not make a trade to get them closer to anything,
not this year. No, who it? It's coming up next
right here, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio especially, I
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
Liveromthetirack dot Com Studios. And uh, the NFL trade deadline
was today. We'll get into the big finally we saw
a big wide receiver get trade. And we'll get into
that coming up in a few minutes, because that was
a really good move today. But I gotta be honest,
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the move I like the most of all the trades
we have. Well, I mean, I like the Panthers getting
a fourth round pick for Jonathan Mingo. But I that's
the deal of the year right there. I mean, great trade.
You might be executive of the year. Wait you want
to what you got fast? Can I get that in?
You get out? Fox by David Tepper? Wait what yeah?
And did he I'm not asking it legitimately did Jerry
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Joe lose a bet to David Temper worried this was
the payoff?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Oh oh, And if the Yankees blow this five nothing lead,
I'll trade you for Jonathan Mino and I'll give you
a good draft pick. Now that watch Judge catch just
let oh oh hey, watch Mopee get this out at
the Oh, alright, well here's a ground bow. Well they're
gonna cover first pace. Oh oh, shouldn't have made the bet.
N it's not gonna work. Uh. The move I like
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the most, and it's a move of need and they filled.
Really the last need they had was the lines getting
Zadarius Smith from the Browns. Clearly they have been missing
Aiden Hutchinson, who's out for the rest of the season.
Potentially could come back for a Super Bowl, which is
a great little fun thing that the shared lines. Look, hey,
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let's let's go, because Hutcheon's one of the heartbeat guys
of the team and maybe he can come back if
they make it that far. But clearly the one thing
they are missing is a pass rush, because why they
have one sack in the last two games. The one
thing they have been able to do in their dominance
is get to the quarterback. And that's what Zadarius Smith does.
He's got five sacks this year. He is a pro
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bowler a couple of years ago. He's still a really
good player. They needed somebody on the defensive line that
could potentially get to the quarter I gotta have somebody
that's a threat to get there because if you don't, hey,
then you got a blitz. And then when you blitz,
it's less people in coverage, and you know how it
goes in the NFL. But this Lions team, they have
zero weaknesses. I mean, you watched them play again. I'll
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double down what I said last week about them. The
only thing I'm worried about for the Lions is that
they're peaking too early and that by the time we
get to the middle of December, some teams will have
figured some stuff out. But if the Lions aren't playing
at home through the playoffs, and if the more importantly,
if the Lions aren't in the Super Bowl, I'm surprised
at this point because they are clearly in the driver's
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seat in the NFC. And if you had to go
through Detroit to play, good blank and luck there man
as good as I mean Detroit, showing we can play
on the road. They're play in the rain. Look what
they did to the Packers, who are a really good
team last week. But when they're playing at home, it's
a different story.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
It is great at show on turf type offense that
they have, and people have to understand that's the offense.
They are on the road to a couple of easy
home games and we're in the super Bowl. If they're
not in the super Bowl, I'm surprised right now. That's
how good they are. And they made a smart move
and going, what's our one weakness to get it? We
have to get somebody to get to the quarterback. Boom,
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we go get a guy to get to the quarterback. Now,
it wasn't hey, we're gonna move and get a son
radd I can do all. No, they went out and say,
let's get somebody short term rental that we know is
still really good and Smith is still a really good player.
Look that Brown's defense is pretty underrated. They've always been
pretty good. Not now this year. Obviously they're giving up,
they're moving on. But this is a good player they
made and basically, I mean people got to get ready
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for the fact the Lions are going to the Super Bowl. Yeah,
he's got a very minimal deal for one more year.
I mean there is a potential out so renegotiating based
on what he does here, but the opportunity is there,
and then there's a year before a void year and
all of that in But we've been hearing about maybe Garrett,
maybe Crosby, all of that in the in the wins
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and it's great for fodder, right of here's two of
the biggest names going. Zadarias Smith's been fantastic. The move
that I thought was interesting was Latimore heading out to Washington.
A couple of picks. Yeah, I think a lot, but
a third or fourth and you and you swapped the
swap picks. But it's the idea of a lot. But
what it signals is we've got a whole new way
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of running things here in Washington. Toy think we can
actually win now because that's the larger class of going
back to the lines of how many teams quote scare
you in the NFC Philadelphia, if they keep on the
path where they're at right now. With Saquon Barkley playing
as well as he is, Jalen Hurts makes plays when
he needs to, and hopefully you have health in your
wide receiving core, because that's been an issue thus far.
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But for Washington, one of the things early on was
they did not have strength and numbers in the secondary
and they were being exposed there. You see what they
have offensively, even with Robinson out this last week, still
able to win a game. Austin Eckler's there playing well,
You've got the receiving corps led by scary Terry. So
you go and add to the secondary. You know that
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that's the trade that that I like see. I think
that's more of a panic move where it was, hey,
we're suddenly good and the NFC seems pretty open. We
gotta do something, so let's handle this just like I
just think it's we didn't think I mean give it
giving up a third note. I think that's a lot
to give up for a guy. I mean, yeah, is
he still good? He's still twenty eight. But that's when
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you see somebody and he's a proper guy. Pick you know,
those guys were a lot man which superstars. DeAndre Hopkins
wasn't a superstar anymore. DeVante Adams is still a He
wants to play football, and now he wants to You
didn't know if he wanted to play football. He just
did want to play with the regulars. Well but still,
but he's done that before. He didn't want to play
with the backer. But you got to know where he's
gonna go play for a minute. I want to hurt
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you want to be there anymore. That's why you make
a trade for this season. That's why it's a fourth
round roll the dice. I mean, look, I like the
but my point is like at this point, for the
trade deadline and any of that big time move was
going to be off the board. So here you're just
look and you say, all right, can we win now?
Because you didn't expect to be in this position? Right,
maybe the Cowboys would be, but it is unexpected. But
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it's like, wow, we're here and everything is new, and
people want to come play here. Let's make a trade. Oh,
this is what we have to remember who reported that
from ESPN? Like ESPN had that report about people wanting
to play there, and one of the guys in the
rebuild is Bob Myers. That was astutely pointed out by
a couple of media's horses. So I'd like to hear
from who really has been jones in to go play
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in Washington versus Hey, let's build up demand. Who they?
Who's they? Hey? They all want to come play Stars
the Stars They love it. Dak Prescott. No, I mean
all the history of the Washington franchise has all been
w away in one season, one half of a season.
Exit out by the Fresca Exit swollen Dome. The Jason
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smithser with Mike carmon Life the Tyrech dot Com Studios
telling you get used to the Lions in the Super Bowl.
Get used to that thought. Man, it's amazing. Get used
to it.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Coming up next, we got more of the very first
college football playoff poll is out and the other sneaky
good move today the trade deadline in the NFL. That's next.
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election day. Look, it's everybody's been waiting with different levels
of excite for this day for a long time. While
we're conscious of that and what's going on. Look, hey,
you tune any here. You want to hear sports, You
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want to hear us talking about sports, and you know,
maybe we'll give you the oblique election reference now and
again about certain things, like, for instance, once again unanimously.
I just saw it came in. Guy Fieri elected the
mayor of Flavortown unanimous. Oh yeah, No, there was no doubt.
I mean, I mean he ran posed. Yeah, I don't
think there was idea. I didn't even see another.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Name on him.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Might have been a write in, Yeah, it might have
been a Jeff Morrow fan, Alex Guarner Shelley, you know,
your love affair with her work and mayor of Flavortown. Like,
think about how much someone staging a coup is flavor.
Wouldn't that have been a great election day reality show
(01:46):
where Guy Fieri has to run for mayor of Flavortown
and all these chefs are running against him and there's
some kind of competition every week. I like that to
be the mayor of flavorn You just said something that
would rule it out, though, What's that just said he
would have to run? Oh that's a fair He could stand.
He could stand, or he could be like the President
of Flavortown and he elects the mayor of Flavortown and
(02:10):
it's a competition to become the mayor. Yeah, but now
it's a whole branding thing. He's been mayor of Flavortown
so long, that's kind of a part of his identity.
I think you can kick him upstairs at this point.
He's not the governor of Mayor Flavor Toown. Come on,
he's the president of Flavortown. Everybody except bladder back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
No, I like that.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Antonio la Fossil could be the mayor of flavor Town.
I think that would work. I work pretty well sergeant
at arms in Flavortown. Oh I like that? Yeah, yeah, sure,
thing undershare Flavortown, whole royal court. It looks like the
end of one of the Lord of the Rings movies.
But he's thrones with staff. And what are all the
orcs doing over there? Protection their muscle, that's all they are,
(02:53):
their muscle. Uh like this, This is good, So let's
keep working. And the one thing I can tell you
is we're likely not going to get a winter tonight.
To listen to us, that's all. And listen to us,
and we're just doing our thing. We're talking sports, we're
having fun. Harmon decided to wear a black T shirt
and a black skull cap like he's in a rap battle.
Uh so he's all ready for tonight. You're wearing a
Syracuse shirt also known as Tuesday. Yeah, no exactly, that's fine. No,
(03:17):
but you really you're you're you're wearing I wore this yesterday. Yeah,
but you were in here. But but you wore you
wore you wore a black skull cap and a T
shirt and shorts. Yeah, like, like the bottom of you
is is cold, but the bottom of you is fine,
is hot, but yet as you go up you get hotter.
So you have to wear a wool hat, but you're
wearing shorts. Yeah, okay, yeah, because that doesn't make sense.
(03:41):
I couldn't find the ball cap and I wore this.
I gotta say, Michigan Swing State. Going back to Michigan,
Like one of the most popular outfits that I go
back there is this. And I can't believe what you
need to Michigan. But I can't tell you how many
times to go back, and in the middle of winter,
Like we'll go back at Christmas time and I'll go
to like Meyer or one of the grocery stores whatever,
(04:01):
and someone is wearing and I'm gonna I'm gonna go
top to bottom. They're wearing a Michigan University of Michigan
skull cap because every third person wears Universe it's a
Michigan skull cap. A bulky down jacket. Uh maybe it's
cortex unzipped, unzipped, uh long basketball shorts like Fab five era, Yeah,
(04:23):
in a basket and Timberland boots. Oh and like that said,
that's a very popular out So I'm like, how is that?
But yet that's what I mean. You run an errand
real quick. Yeah, that's what it is. Like zero degrees. Yeah,
but I buy, I buy buy basketball shorts on, but
at zero degrees, I'll put my jacket on. That doesn't
make sense. Yeah, this literally was. I didn't see a
(04:45):
ball cap when I went to grab one, all right,
so okay, just making it. And I went for a
walk with the dog very early this morning, so this
was with me. It is you know, I will say
it is kind of rat Battle or early morning Rocky
Balboa in one of the first two movies, going for
a run. So around walking at about ten after six,
it was there was a little bit of a chill
(05:05):
in the air. Uh. So, hey, big day for football,
Stop judging me. I'm just saying, jerk. Big day in
college football big day in the NFL at the trade
dead libel more the trade deadline coming up in a
few minutes. But two big baseball headlines. One show Heyo
Tani surgery for his shoulder that he injured in the
World Series against the Yankees. The dislocation has now been
(05:28):
repaired by world famous surgeon doctor Neil Ela Trosh. How
about that he's the one that put Aaron Rodgers achilles
back together and say hey, you're good to go in
a week. Build a bigger, faster show. Remember that story
last year? Yeah, oh so fast to be back so fast?
Now it looks like, oh, could have taken some more
time to get ready. Did he have a time turner?
(05:48):
So like we all lived, you know, just three weeks,
but it was really nine months. I don't know. Now
here's the thing, and this is what I this is.
This is where this becomes a bigger story, right Otani?
At some point, I don't know how much you can
expect to see him pitch, because yes, he's coming back
from two UCL surgeries already, right, so he's not even
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thirties at two UCL surgeries. How much longer can the
guy really expect to throw? Now you throw in an
injury in his non pitching arm that he's gonna have
to rehab from. It's not known if that's gonna cut
him back. But when it comes to arm injuries and
shoulder injuries like these are bad ones that he has had.
And so you know, I know the dog and look
(06:31):
if you can if you go fifty five to fifty
five every year, it doesn't matter. But you know, the
Dodger signed him with thoughts of he's gonna pitch at
some point for us. Now I say, I just don't know,
Like like, I don't know that I would even have
him come back as a starter. I would have him
come back as a closer. You know, when there's less stress,
there's less torque're pitching every couple of day, and there's
a rule that you don't pitch back to back days.
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You still keep him in the in the lineup as
being a designated hitter. I just can't see Shoeo Tani
going through the rigors of being a starting pitcher for
the next few years and staying healthy and staying out there,
and you still need him in the lineup, So you
have to you have to protect him as far as
that goes, and say Okay, too bad elbow injuries. He
started throwing at the end of this year, not well
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enough to throw in the playoffs. Now you don't know,
does this throw his his rehab off because he needs
to keep throwing to be ready for spring training. And
you know that's now that's now out because he knows
how long he can't throw for. Not that it's gonna
affect you coming back, but now your throwing program is
now off. I just I when I look at Otani,
I go if I was the Dodgers, I would say,
you know what, You're going to be a closer, and
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this is gonna be unbelievable, and the excitement level when
you come in the game is going to be awesome,
and it's just gonna be the next level thing for you.
And you're gonna DH every day. You're not gonna play
the field because now with a couple of injuries like this,
you don't want him getting hurt in the field. But
if he DHS every day and then he comes into pitch,
it's all so easy. Okay, well he's dhing, but we
lose him in the ninth thinning, But that's okay. He's
coming in to close the game. So it's okay if
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you lose that position for however you want to do it.
But that's a like like that seems to me to
be the best source of future for Otani is that, yeah,
be a closer. Not only does that help you extend,
maybe he can close for ten years, right. Eckersley close
until his late thirty at the mid mid career change
from starting picture to closer. John Smolt's the same thing.
(08:17):
His arm was hurt, couldn't do it so much. Went
from starting pittuer to closer and look how good, how
good he was. He was lights out. Like, if I'm
the Dodgers, I think it's a no brainer to say, hey,
you're going to close for us. Yeah. I think the
other part to it is since all that money is deferred, right,
we're still looking at the next couple of years or
two million, two million, two million. It's not like you're
(08:37):
we have to force him back into the rotation because
we paid all this money that precludes us from doing
something else. You're in bonus. You're you're making profit off
him hand over fist right now. Not that you're short
of money at any point. Just take a painting, sell
it and the way we go. But the idea being
that you're not hamstrung there at all, and you can
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go into the marketplace. We've already seen reports of Snell
and all these other guys that potentially are there, and
we'll see what the contracts become, right, player options and
all of that being declined. That was part of the
subplots of all of this. But for Showyotani, I mean,
this is the injury of weekend warriors and dads everywhere
right slay and moms to that man, slinging kids over
(09:22):
your shoulders, throwing them in the pool for the backflips, whatever,
and it's like torn labor. Many there. There was an
epidemic of this in Major League Baseball actually a few
years ago that became the injury djure looked much like
the Achilles injury suddenly in football, left and left and right.
But you're in the best position of all. You're not
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forced to make a decision short term about your rotation
with him, because that that is a bonus territory. And
given the attrition of the Dodgers' pitching staff the last
several years, you know you have to go out into
the marketplace and add arms. You've got a few guys
that are coming back that you hope to remember. We
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didn't even talk about it a lot. As they won
the World Series. You were still coming off with two
guys that you expected to be parts of your rotation
in Urias and Bauer, who were disqualified from contention to
even beyond your roster that had big, big expectations to
be thirty start guys. So all of that to say,
some of those guys are coming back off the injury,
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some of those young guys. And for Otani, you're in
bonus territory if he's physically able to give you a
start on occasion, sure, but if you can go to closer,
as we've seen with how they manage their bullpen, that
doesn't even need to be one guy anymore. Exit Out,
Bout of Fresca, Exit swalling down the Jason Smithzer with
Mike Harmon. Now from Sho Heo Tani to the latest
(10:52):
with Juan Soto, who is going to own the off
season with the daily story of where he's going to
go as he very famously opened up his free agent
negotiatation five minutes after the World Series. And I don't
mean like a metaphorical no It was about five minutes
after the game ended. He said, yeah, all thirty teams. No, no, no,
give him a little credit. Was a little bit later, okay,
because he did watch the Dodgers celebrate, and he sat
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in the dugout sulking because he watched them celebrate. Ten
minute cooling off period. Then okay, here he says, yeah,
I'm open to all thirty teams. Here he is talking
about exactly what is ahead for him in the off season.
Show me the money very very quick today. That was good.
That was a very quick sound like walking out of
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his meeting today because he met with he and Scott
Boris's agent, met with Brian Cashman. Did he just make
the money sign and keep walking. The interesting comparing to
this is that Brian Cashman Yankees GM said that he
met with Scott Boris about Juan Soto, said, I'll meet
with Scott as many times he wants to about Jan Soto.
We love him, want to keep him, but also about
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Pete Alonso, who is a free agent. And if we
lose one Soto, you take our guy, will take your guy.
So there's a lot of gamesmanship going on here because
Alonzo is a free agent too. How sad would be
to see the polar bear in a Yankee pinstripe. Though,
if we get one Soto, I'd be okay with it.
But here's the thing, It's not gonna happen. Okay, I'm
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telling you. It would be the most unlikely and shocking
Yankee headline of my lifetime, of my lifetime if they
let one Sodo go to the Mets. There's certain rubicons
you don't cross, and losing a superstar who's twenty six
years old to the team you share the same city with,
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is not happening. Not in New York? All right, happened here? Angels?
Oh shit, kind of share that, Well, don't really share,
We're right? Or oh, you guys go take Otani. If
one Sodo had a huge desire to go play for
the Mets, I would say, it's different. But Otani wanted
to be a Dodger. So what were you gonna do?
Were you gonna stop him? No, you couldn't. One Sodo
just wants to go, reason to get paid the most money,
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and whatever Steve and offers him, the Yankees are gonna say,
we're gonna give you more. We are not losing you
to the Mets, Brian Cashman, because I know Brian Cashman.
For the last fifteen years, it's been he's deathly afraid
of any time losing headlines to the Mets, losing players
to the Mets. He wouldn't make a trade for Jacob
de Grom. Do you want to give up Gary Sanchez?
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And and who else it's do now? He's not even
Miguel andrewharp And like I remember his famous phrase, I
gotta walk around this town. He is never never going
to allow a star player with that kind of life
left on his career to go to the Mets where
they got it, where every day he's got to wake
up and see the headlines and see highlight. It's just
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not gonna happen. It may be be a weird way
for me to say that, but trust me, I know
the Yankees, I know how they operate. I know Brian Cashman.
That's not gonna happen. He's gone, men do all the
Mets can do well. He could get outbid by somebody else.
If somebody else comes in and says, hey, one, here's
my Okay, we'll lose you, but we're not losing you
to the Mets. Not just from a dollar perspective, Yeah,
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he will not lose to them. Uh, And that's all
Scott Boris wants, because that's that's really the the crux
of the argument. Does Wan Soda want something else? Because
everybody's gonna kick the tires, the Cubs, the Dodgers, there's
no question you're gonna look around and see, you know
what the asking price is what he wants. Don't forget
from the pitching side. Going back to the Otani talk,
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you've got Roki Sasaki, uh, the young fireballer that that
make him over. And given the fact that Yamamoto and
and show hey are already there. Hey, come on in.
This is a great organization. So there's another picture that
jumps in. So they're maybe they're not in contention for
for Sodo, but yeah, the loss to the Mets would
only really be if Sodo tells Boris, all right, the
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money's one thing, but this this and this about Sterns
versus cash Man or whatever else. See what I did there? Yeah,
but do strike you is that guy?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
No, that's the thing, right, since he's already got a title,
he's already got his reputation, is his street et cetera.
That it would seem to be a more a mercenary.
What do you paying me all the stuff? I see? Oh,
the Mets get one, so to get one. So what
they'll do is drive the price up. They'll drive them.
That's all they're gonna do is drive the price up.
It'll just be like Yamamoto last year at the Dodgers. Hey,
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you're offering him three hundred twenty five million. Okay, Dodgers,
you're gonna match. Great, We're going to the Dodgers like
that's all he's gonna do with the Kirk Cousins years
ago did to the Jets exit? How about a Frescat exit?
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Jim Man. Uh, Happy Election Day, as the vote to
continue to be counted across the country. All the polls
are closed. The first college football playoff poll is out
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coming up in a few minutes. We'll tell you some
teams that look like their locks outside the top five
or six absolute locks to make the college football play
And if you do need consolation, whether you were talking
about election polls or the college football playof polls, there
are plenty of places with poles that are still open.
Uh sure, Yes, where can I go? How gonna give
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you an imreted last number one on the rankings locally
here in Los Angeles. But hey, okay, so speaking of college,
but we'll get to the big story NFL trade deadline
coming up in a couple minutes, but a big college
football story today. And we have to say outside the
playoff because you know, USC is not going. Hey, they're
one play away linked, No, no, no, no, no. There
are seventy five or eighty plays away from winning the
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last two national championships. That's all. That's all it is.
Can you put up a banner for that seventy five
or eighty plays go the other way? USC went just
looks to link at Riley says it all the time,
all the time. You know, I like how those plays
like they like they've they've increased over the past few weeks.
Like first it was two or three plays, and it
was you know, four or five plays. No, but that's
just it, Like you're you're shaking out the rocks on
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the on the yard. You know, ninety five or hundred
plays go the other way? Dude, that enough, all of
a sudden, you got a giant hole in tunnel in
your wall if instead of a pick six, it's a
touchdown pass. We beat Michigan. I mean that's how it goes.
I don't know. People are saying it's all we needed, right,
I mean, it's it's math, fuzzy math. Lincoln Riley has
made a big quarterback change. Miller Moss, who was last
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year's Bowl game hero, came into this season with a
lot of fire and a lot of publicity. Opening week
they beat LSU. Miller Moss is great. Well, Miller Moss
is no longer starting for USC. He got mossed. He
got mossed. There is a quarterback change happening right now
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in USC. And look, I can't say it is shocking
because this is kind of what you have to do
when you get to this point of the season. But
Jaden Mayava is the new quarterback transfer from UNLV at
a really good year last year. He's very mobile. Maybe
he's gonna help me be a bit of a I
would say, inject some energy in. He's more mobile than
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Miller Moss's So maybe this this works out. Remember when
Keaton Slow was supposed to be great. But anyway, this
move shows you that Lincoln Riley is in the end game.
He is in the endgame with USC. This is a
move you make when you have nothing else left and
you are trying to save your job. There's seventy ish
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million dollars that they would have to eat of the
contract they gave him because it was it was a
ten year, one hundred and ten million dollar deal. They
wouldn't let him use the private jet anymore. I know that.
But for these results that they've gotten now. The first
year was great. Oh man. They should have won a
couple of more games with Caleb Williams. How do you
not win? Last year was bad? This year is awful.
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And I'm gonna I'm gonna surprise you here because not
all of this is on Lincoln Riley. Look. Look has
Lincoln Riley under chief hundred percent? They brought him in
with all kinds of flash and substance, and he got
guys to transfer and wide receivers of transfer, but letting
the call finalists to transfer. And he had Caleb Williams.
And look at where he is now. The guy's been
a five hundred head coach for the last year and
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a half plus. But this is an absolute desperation move
because if he doesn't pick it up. He's getting fired.
He is hoping that this move to Mayava is going
to ignite the team. They go on a win streak
to end the year, they beat UCLA and he says, see, guys,
I kind of got it all right, We'll give you
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one more year. But if they bought him out, like
USC is gonna find a way to put the money
together to say, sorry, Lincoln, you're done. That is a
giant mountain the cash. That's what we're done. That's like
the size of the pile that the Joker was burning
up the dark night. It's a lot of money. But schools,
if you had one hundred and ten million dollars to
give to give him, I think you have seventy million
to buy him out with. Right, it's very very same way,
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or as it all become due and pay them all
in that first of We're gonna give you two million
dollars a year now, and then in ten years you
get fifty million a year. You'll get some compound interest,
just like o'toni. That's how it's gonna go. But every
week Lincoln Riley is a bad headline for an unrealistic
fan base, and that's the part that's that's not on him,
is that. Yeah, they expect him to come in and
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win because look at what look at the run he
had at Oklahoma. Oh, by the way, you're talking about
three guys who are now star quarterbacks in the NFL.
So okay, these are the guys he had. One of
them was Caleb Williams. Uh. But usc it's it's unrealistic.
It's like the Michigan fans pre Connor Stallions, who kept
expecting Michigan to win eleven twelve games in a year.
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We talked, Nay, they hadn't won. They lose three games
a year. That was Michigan football for most of that.
They won the national title in ninety seven, but every
other year they lost three games. Michigan is a was
a fantastic heritage program in college football. They win the
national title, Heisman Trophy, win with Charles Woodson, and it's
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an amazing story. Michigan football is back. But every year
since then, they're a three loss team and to expect
them to send it, why are we not winning? Because
that's not how it goes. It's not how you do
when you're a three loss team. For twenty years, you
were a three loss team. For twenty years. And oh,
by the way, Connor Stallion starts to get the signals
in twenty twenty one, Jim Harbough starts going eleven and one,
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twelve and zero wins a national championship. Right, that's kind
of what it is. USC. In the last twenty years,
they are averaging four losses a year, four since Pete
Carroll left, and you want to talk about Pete Carroll's
last year before he went. Before he left, they are
averaging four losses a year. I mean, when the SIPs
ships started to sinking, he scurried away, gotta go, gotta
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go guys. Sorry, Hey, say what's happening here? Sanchez? Are
you staying? No, I gotta do one lame duck here
with John David Booty. Fine, but USC is a four
loss a year program. Four loss a year, that's what
they're averaging for nearly the last twenty years. The salad
days of USC are gone. Man, this is like the
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people that kept thinking, oh, Mike Tyson eventually is gonna
get No same people thought Shaq was gonna start making
his free throws. No, not gonna happen. This USC was
a great pray. It was a great run. They were
box stars in college football, and if they're ever really
good again, those days could come back. But those days
are gone. They're just not that team anymore. And to
expect Lincoln Riley to come in and it should be
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a national championship by year two, that's unrealistic because that's
not what they have now. It's a combination because Lincoln
Riley has tremendously underachieved and it just hasn't worked there.
There's never been a Lincoln Riley shows up and there's
a honeymoon period where everything is great and we love
Lincoln Riley and look at what he's doing. He had
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one of the shortest honeymoon periods ever. Sometimes coaches and
their schools are just not good right. The mixes just
aren't right, and we've seen it Rich Rodriguez at Michigan.
He went on to coach someplace else and did really well.
But sometimes it happens where a really good coach is
really good in one place, but then changes conferences, changes schools,
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changes recruiting area. Everything is different now and you don't
win like you should. Doesn't mean you're a bad coach,
but it just mean that you are failing right here.
Now if he goes back to the middle of the country,
he goes back to some he goes back to Nebraska,
you go some place, that goes to some place. But
maybe he does well because maybe that's the area that
knows him where he's able to mind talent nowhere to
go to find kids. And this is just too difficult
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for him coming out and trying to run the West coast.
But for whatever reason, he is failing. And US is
not going to put up with this because their expectations
are unrealistic. But when you get to the point where hey,
we're under five hundred and now we don't know if
we're going to go to a bleep and Bowl game, Yeah,
they're not gonna stand for that. They will find the
money to put together to get rid of Lincoln Riley,
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and it will be somebody else coming in to try
to build the program back up, and it will be
a not a risky hire, but someone they're not going
to go spend a lot of money on. And that's
how us he's gonna do it. But mark my words,
Lincoln Riley for all those reasons, he's in the endgame now.
He is near the end of his career with the
USC and now you're putting it on the shoulders of
your backup quarterback to come in and say save me,
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because a big run will save him. A big run
will save him. But if they just meander and lose
and you don't make a bully, that's it. Like Lincoln
Riley in the off season. That's we're finding a way.
We're moving on. We're done, all right. We got a
couple of things that we need to parse out here.
We we let me. Let me do the first thing
with the new quarterback of Mayava. Not relate into the
rock and the Maya Villas just so, okay, you know
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there is I mean, we can conflate that because he's
got fun, but you could still smell what he's cooking. Yeah,
but if he was suddenly part of the Blood, lying
okay and life after or he becomes an honorary part
of the Blood, that's it. He starts playing well and
then suddenly, hey, got his arm around him. Yeah, no,
you're from the other side of the final Boss, and
all of a sudden he's running around. Yeah that works. Hey,
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I love him. Go see Red One. It's coming out
in two weeks. Go see Red One. All right, another
movie that needs to come out because I'm tired of
the ads. Yeah, but it's great. It's like that weeked
I'm done, It's Christmas, it's done, released Christmas. It's it's got.
It's got to be a little bit closer to the holidays.
You can listen to holiday holly music right now. I
am Jimmy Jimmy Fallons. Holly Channel is back up and
running and you get you get Happy Holiday by Andy
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Williams every five minutes. It's fine, Okay, Happy Holiday ding
don't Yeah, how do we start with the holiday? Holiday?
Holiday music? Going to play Happy Holiday? Coming up next
probably pretty soon. Holiday thing with Lincoln Riley is you know,
we heard all the talk of how they were getting
tougher right better in the weight room, all of the
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pounds that they added, getting ready for big ten play.
And that's fine because you're losing close games. But that's
the problem. You're losing close games, and that's a problem
with coaching, right. We've been saying that that's a truism
in sports for years. If you consistently lose in the
margins where it comes down to you being able to
call a play and execute the one play that's a
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you problem. That that is not a Hey, we're miles
from nowhere. So it's like, all right, let's try to
recalibrate where we are as an organization. Now, this is
the coach isn't getting the job done in big spots,
and particularly this last week, right running the same play,
kid read it all day long, and that was the
end of it. Right, another l You've got UCLA and
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playing better football of late, so we'll see what happens there.
I mean, when those two teams get together, you throw
the records out, or at least that's the old euphemism
for in state, in city rivalry things. And then you
got a game against Notre Dame. You want to win
back a bunch of your fan base, you gotta go
up against the top ten team and see if you
can put something together and maybe a little bit of
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that offense flexing, but overall, you're right, it's the fit.
You know you had Nebraska, Well that's still a big
ten team, so that doesn't work.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
It helps you know, from a recruiting standpoint, Yeah, maybe
going back to the middle of the country is where
he finds some love. Maybe he needs to go and
become a coordinator. I think that's worked. I think he
should look at what Cliff Kingsbury's doing and maybe that's
I think he's still somebody that other big time programs
would say, yes, let's go get him. I didn't think
he's He's somewhere where maybe the NFL come calling. Yeah,
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I think you needed to go from Oklahoma like that.
That's something where if he was going head coach, was
going to the NFL as a head coach, he needed
to go after all off the Heisman. But I think
he could still at most any other school in the country,
he could write his ticket. He could go someplace else
and and and and do really well. People say, oh, yeah,
come in and do it didn't work for you here,
maybe it works for you here, like especially with the
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buyout coming. Like if all of a sudden, Florida says,
oh we can, we can get Lincoln Riley and we'll
try it. Whine not billion Paper hasn't worked out, Okay,
we'll go get Lincoln Riley or you know, you're talking
about any other school Florida state in the middle Florida,
Florida says say listen, just come here, whatever you need, man,
we'll do whatever did they build that statue to Jordan Travis. Yeah.
But but like there's schools that will that will go
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after him, big time schools, and we'll say, yes, come
in and be in charge of the name recruiting. Obviously
you've seen what he's done with quarterbacks historically. This one again,
it's in the margins, like it's it's not that your
quarterback has played rily situational football. You haven't finished. And
that's that's the tail of the tape, right. They are
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legitimately possessions away. I won't do the one playing, but
possessions away. And when that possessions, When you do that consistently,
there's a U problem.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I kind of like your Florida State thing because if
he if he goes five hundred at Florida State, they
would love him. Oh that's it, right, Like you just
do what you're doing now at USC do that with
you're a hero a right man. We got a bit
of flash some points on the board from one win
to five or six. Florida Florida State is back, man,
We are back. Charlie Ward is back flipping the ceremonial
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club and know what's going on with the the lawsuits
of trying to get out of the conferences and stuff?
Did that that quiet down? What the one wind sees? Hey, guys,
I know we were a little chesty last year when
we were thirteen to er, but you know, hey, we're
We're fine state in the end. We love the acc
We love you guys. We love you guys. There's some
Sweet Tea and Cookies. Time now to find out what's
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turning from a guy who also once tried to leave
his conference but stayed. It's imglow and Crown.
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Of course that was technically on a zoom call. By
the way, you had me at Sweet Tea and Cookie.
Signed me up for that show, signed us up for
The first college football playoff rankings of twenty twenty four,
revealed earlier this evening. Oregon number one, followed by Ohio
State Georgia at number three. Miami was fourth, with Texas five.
Then you got Penn State Tennessee, Indiana coming in at
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number eight, BYU ninth and Notre Dame rounds out the
top ten in the first college football Playoff rankings of
the year. World champion Los Angeles Dodgers revealed this afternoon
that Shohei Otani suffered a torn labrum in his left
shoulder when he was injured back during Game two of
the World Series against the Yankees. He had successful arthroscopic
(30:48):
surgery today and is expected to be ready for spring training.
The NBA suspended Philadelphia seventy six er star Joel Embid
three games without pay for shoving a member of the
media in the locker room after a game this past Saturday.
NBA Vice President of Basketball Operations and former bad Boy himself,
Joe Dumars said in a statement, quote, While we understand
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Joelle was offended by the personal nature of the original
version of the reporter's column, interactions must remain professional on
both sides and can never turn physical.
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Unquote.
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Trade deadline day in the NFL Steelers acquiring linebacker Preston
Smith from the Packers. Steelers also got receiver Mike Williams
from the New York Jets, and the Washington Commanders acquired
cornerback Marshawn Lattimore from the New Orleans Saints.
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Still performing well in the polls. Yes, yes, I'm seeing
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where it goes right now with the play. Yes, absolutely
at five I'm seeing now I'm on five thirty eight.
Right now we're just above the Yankees fifth inning. But
we're just but we're below the Garrett Wilson catch. That's
where we're pulling over your head. Uh. Coming up next,
all right, we get into the best trade today for
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the trade deadline in the NFL. What team did the
most to get them just that much closer to the
Super Bowl. That's next right here, Jason abike Cleveland did
not make a trade to get them closer to anything,
not this year. No, who it? It's coming up next
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon
Liveromthetirack dot Com Studios. And uh, the NFL trade deadline
was today. We'll get into the big finally we saw
a big wide receiver get trade. And we'll get into
that coming up in a few minutes, because that was
a really good move today. But I gotta be honest,
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the move I like the most of all the trades
we have. Well, I mean, I like the Panthers getting
a fourth round pick for Jonathan Mingo. But I that's
the deal of the year right there. I mean, great trade.
You might be executive of the year. Wait you want
to what you got fast? Can I get that in?
You get out? Fox by David Tepper? Wait what yeah?
And did he I'm not asking it legitimately did Jerry
(33:59):
Joe lose a bet to David Temper worried this was
the payoff?
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Oh oh, And if the Yankees blow this five nothing lead,
I'll trade you for Jonathan Mino and I'll give you
a good draft pick. Now that watch Judge catch just
let oh oh hey, watch Mopee get this out at
the Oh, alright, well here's a ground bow. Well they're
gonna cover first pace. Oh oh, shouldn't have made the bet.
N it's not gonna work. Uh. The move I like
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the most, and it's a move of need and they filled.
Really the last need they had was the lines getting
Zadarius Smith from the Browns. Clearly they have been missing
Aiden Hutchinson, who's out for the rest of the season.
Potentially could come back for a Super Bowl, which is
a great little fun thing that the shared lines. Look, hey,
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let's let's go, because Hutcheon's one of the heartbeat guys
of the team and maybe he can come back if
they make it that far. But clearly the one thing
they are missing is a pass rush, because why they
have one sack in the last two games. The one
thing they have been able to do in their dominance
is get to the quarterback. And that's what Zadarius Smith does.
He's got five sacks this year. He is a pro
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bowler a couple of years ago. He's still a really
good player. They needed somebody on the defensive line that
could potentially get to the quarter I gotta have somebody
that's a threat to get there because if you don't, hey,
then you got a blitz. And then when you blitz,
it's less people in coverage, and you know how it
goes in the NFL. But this Lions team, they have
zero weaknesses. I mean, you watched them play again. I'll
(35:27):
double down what I said last week about them. The
only thing I'm worried about for the Lions is that
they're peaking too early and that by the time we
get to the middle of December, some teams will have
figured some stuff out. But if the Lions aren't playing
at home through the playoffs, and if the more importantly,
if the Lions aren't in the Super Bowl, I'm surprised
at this point because they are clearly in the driver's
(35:49):
seat in the NFC. And if you had to go
through Detroit to play, good blank and luck there man
as good as I mean Detroit, showing we can play
on the road. They're play in the rain. Look what
they did to the Packers, who are a really good
team last week. But when they're playing at home, it's
a different story.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
It is great at show on turf type offense that
they have, and people have to understand that's the offense.
They are on the road to a couple of easy
home games and we're in the super Bowl. If they're
not in the super Bowl, I'm surprised right now. That's
how good they are. And they made a smart move
and going, what's our one weakness to get it? We
have to get somebody to get to the quarterback. Boom,
(36:23):
we go get a guy to get to the quarterback. Now,
it wasn't hey, we're gonna move and get a son
radd I can do all. No, they went out and say,
let's get somebody short term rental that we know is
still really good and Smith is still a really good player.
Look that Brown's defense is pretty underrated. They've always been
pretty good. Not now this year. Obviously they're giving up,
they're moving on. But this is a good player they
made and basically, I mean people got to get ready
(36:45):
for the fact the Lions are going to the Super Bowl. Yeah,
he's got a very minimal deal for one more year.
I mean there is a potential out so renegotiating based
on what he does here, but the opportunity is there,
and then there's a year before a void year and
all of that in But we've been hearing about maybe Garrett,
maybe Crosby, all of that in the in the wins
(37:07):
and it's great for fodder, right of here's two of
the biggest names going. Zadarias Smith's been fantastic. The move
that I thought was interesting was Latimore heading out to Washington.
A couple of picks. Yeah, I think a lot, but
a third or fourth and you and you swapped the
swap picks. But it's the idea of a lot. But
what it signals is we've got a whole new way
(37:30):
of running things here in Washington. Toy think we can
actually win now because that's the larger class of going
back to the lines of how many teams quote scare
you in the NFC Philadelphia, if they keep on the
path where they're at right now. With Saquon Barkley playing
as well as he is, Jalen Hurts makes plays when
he needs to, and hopefully you have health in your
wide receiving core, because that's been an issue thus far.
(37:52):
But for Washington, one of the things early on was
they did not have strength and numbers in the secondary
and they were being exposed there. You see what they
have offensively, even with Robinson out this last week, still
able to win a game. Austin Eckler's there playing well,
You've got the receiving corps led by scary Terry. So
you go and add to the secondary. You know that
(38:13):
that's the trade that that I like see. I think
that's more of a panic move where it was, hey,
we're suddenly good and the NFC seems pretty open. We
gotta do something, so let's handle this just like I
just think it's we didn't think I mean give it
giving up a third note. I think that's a lot
to give up for a guy. I mean, yeah, is
he still good? He's still twenty eight. But that's when
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you see somebody and he's a proper guy. Pick you know,
those guys were a lot man which superstars. DeAndre Hopkins
wasn't a superstar anymore. DeVante Adams is still a He
wants to play football, and now he wants to You
didn't know if he wanted to play football. He just
did want to play with the regulars. Well but still,
but he's done that before. He didn't want to play
with the backer. But you got to know where he's
gonna go play for a minute. I want to hurt
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you want to be there anymore. That's why you make
a trade for this season. That's why it's a fourth
round roll the dice. I mean, look, I like the
but my point is like at this point, for the
trade deadline and any of that big time move was
going to be off the board. So here you're just
look and you say, all right, can we win now?
Because you didn't expect to be in this position? Right,
maybe the Cowboys would be, but it is unexpected. But
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it's like, wow, we're here and everything is new, and
people want to come play here. Let's make a trade. Oh,
this is what we have to remember who reported that
from ESPN? Like ESPN had that report about people wanting
to play there, and one of the guys in the
rebuild is Bob Myers. That was astutely pointed out by
a couple of media's horses. So I'd like to hear
from who really has been jones in to go play
(39:44):
in Washington versus Hey, let's build up demand. Who they?
Who's they? Hey? They all want to come play Stars
the Stars They love it. Dak Prescott. No, I mean
all the history of the Washington franchise has all been
w away in one season, one half of a season.
Exit out by the Fresca Exit swollen Dome. The Jason
(40:06):
smithser with Mike carmon Life the Tyrech dot Com Studios
telling you get used to the Lions in the Super Bowl.
Get used to that thought. Man, it's amazing. Get used
to it.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
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college football playoff poll is out and the other sneaky
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