November 12, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike tell you how much sense it makes for the Cowboys to hire Bill Belichick. Jason explains why you better bring you’re A+ game if your planning on beating the Chiefs in Arrowhead. Plus, a look into Aaron Rodgers future!
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kind of a kind of a wrestling like like like
finger wrestling or thumb wrestling between whose team is the
biggest train wreck between Mitt and yours? Man, I thought, my,
but you're really making a comeback on that. You really
want it, But bears really want that. Man, No, they
want that mantle right, I put up the pole at
Swollen Dome. You can go vote on it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I included the Cowboys just because, well, you have to
include the cowboys. Sure you think about all the hope
being a dangerous thing, We've talked about it for a decade, right,
everybody always talks about the Shawshank hope on the positive side.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, no, no, no, no, hope is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yes, And for you and the Jets and everybody that
wanted to figure out parade roots fine. For me, I
kept telling you it's eber Flus. I was the old
man that you always worn about in the horror film
saying don't go in there. And there he is with
his beautiful beard and well quaffed hair, and it sucks
and it's getting worse every week. Tell me that he
(01:44):
could still try to sell the you know that played
before the Hail Mary really didn't matter. He's still trying
to sell that three weeks later.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah. No.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The thing is, I'm glad you came in, really happy,
happy and ready to go to that positivity ready, man,
you're absolute no, no, no, it's good.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Look my daughter's team won six to one and a
laugh for yesterday, So like a balance in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, because I can tell you came in really I
mean to feel good. I want to laugh at my team.
See here's the thing is, I'm with the acceptance. I
want to just laugh at my team now because they
you know, Jets. But you're like, wait a minute, way man,
I'm like, oh yeah, you're still at the point where Hey,
I'm really mad because they sold me with false hope. No no, no,
Hey lied to me through song. I hate when people
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do that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But remember when I talked about all of the people
in our media sphere that wanted to jump on that bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's like everything is if.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Everybody's going this way generally, I want to be on
the other side now for betting purposes. That hasn't quite
worked out for the books time and time again this year,
and we have all these games decided by seven or
fewer points, six and fewer. We've run those numbers. But
the reality for the Bears is it always was built
on a house of cards in the terms of the
line structure and the coaching staff. And I tried to
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warn you. I tried to warn you. Yeah, good feelings.
They are a good feelings my ass.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So again we'll have more on all the disappointment from
the NFL coming up. But uh, Monday Night football right now,
just when I started believing in the Rams, hey, here
come the Rams. Look at this, the NFC West is
not good that the Rams are putting out an effort
like we're getting tonight against the Dolphins. Dolphins on the
Rams one yard line. They lead it ten to six
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with five and a half to go in the third quarter.
This has not been a great game for anyone. No,
it's it's really it's not. It's not been a it's
it's this is this is one of those games where
you go, well, somebody, it's good. Now it's not really
been good for anybody. Uh, this is a game, that
is how do I say this? It's a game. It's
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a game. It's a game. It's a game, and it's closed.
Someone's got a rank last ten to six. Uh, midway
through the third quarter. Mike McDaniel's still wearing the capris
and the shoes and everything else. So it looks like
a football game. It's just okay, this is what it is.
So far things can change because it's still middle of
the third quarter. But not a lot of offense from teams.
Were expecting a lot of offense from some good.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yak from John new Smith breaking a couple of tackles,
and even here we are in week ten and it's
like we're in training camp. The efforts on tackling, and
you watched it all day Sunday and we're watching it
into Sunday and Monday night football.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's like that used to be as sure, hey, you
got your eight yards and you're done. Now they're pinballing
down the field down to the one yard line. Certainly
everybody with Devin h chan is holding their breath to
try to get this goal line plunge. But earlier in
the game you had to a throw a pick and
subsequent pass rushes. It's like, just get down, get.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Down, man, don't go to try to make that tackle.
Get through the interception. Turtle down.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Two us just throwing a touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill,
his second catch of the game. It is now a
sixteen to six lead, extra point pending for the Dolphins. Again.
They lead it sixteen to six midway through the third quarter.
So we'll have more in this game coming up and
hopefully it gets closer and we get bad.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But I get better play and we're not settling for
fifty seven yard field goal attempts and things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Boy, do we have some crazy stuff out of the
NFL today and nothing more final nailing a coffin for
a head coach and what we got today from the
Dallas Cowboys. Micah Parsons after Cowboys another loss on Sunday,
which we told looks, listen, this is why we call
the show ahead of the curve. We told you what
was coming. We told you was coming for the Cowboys
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this season. They weren't going to be any good. They
didn't make it, all of it. You know, you know
all this by now. We thought it was going to
be a bad loss on Sunday just because they're the Cowboys.
They put the uniforms out, no, and it was a
bad loss. And Micah Parsons was asked today about Mike
McCarthy's status as head coach because basically that's the only
place Jerry Jones gets to go to make headlines. Right, Okay,
(05:51):
let's see, so I gave Dak money, I gave CD money,
all right, Dak got hurt. I made a bad trade
of the deadline. What's left people are not McCarthy, but.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
People are now complaining about the architecture of the stadium
after all these years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Ceedee, Lamb does want he wants a curtain down so
we can see the ball. I couldn't see it when
it was thrown to me.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Did you see the shade that was there to help
Mike McCarthy not be blinded by the light.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
If someone could just pull pull the shades down and
be fine. But Micah Parsons is asked about Mike McCarthy's
status and his answer was, oh, that's way above my
pay grade. So you know that this is you know,
this is right here, This is here, this sound effect
right here, that's me putting the final nails into the
coffin of Mike McCarthy. There it is right there. No, Mike,
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you're not bringing out like Uma Thurman and kill Bill.
Sorry spoiler. Now here you go, stay making cheese. Then
up another another nail, another nail nothing wowha wait wait
wait wait no, I think you might have a little
bit of breathing room here. Hang on, are we go?
There we go?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And okay, Mike McCarthy, look, wouldn't you get adusmatic nail
nail gun with the number of nails you wanted to
put into the coffin there would really be much more efficient.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm gonna again have to amp up a time lying
because I said last week, Hey, by Thanksgiving, the Cowboys
will be irrelevant. They'll be playing Thanksgiving Day with no stakes.
They'll be eliminated from the playoffs. They'll be three and eight.
It will be awful, maybe serer than that. But uh,
Jerry Jones, how do you find a way? Because now
the guy has found a way to get the headlines,
(07:17):
which is all we told you that that he wants
right and congratulates everybody who stole that take over the
course of the past stuff a few days that we
told you about months ago. Again head of the curve.
It's what I like. But let me do we say
things and then on Monday we're proven to be true.
I mean, you said the Jets were gonna win, though
they did win, they just didn't win this week. They
won last week?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, what exactly did they win?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They won?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That was my upset, specially, so I told you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Not to take You're an idiot. No no, no, no, no no.
The Cardinals were home dogs. No, no, only I only
I was upset. There was no doubt those me. It
was upset. So, yeah, we told this is Jerry Jones.
What he has when he knows he doesn't have a
championship team is he has relevancy and he has attention.
And that's it. Look, the Lakers and the Cowboys are
the same thing, Jerry Jones, How is he going to
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go through the rest of this season and still be
relevant with headlines? He's not going to go in and
have the Cowboys getting drubbed every single week? Right, not happening?
So what what? What can he do? The last thing
is Mike McCarthy, does Mike McCarthy get let go? And
I'm you know, I told you, I gave you a
bold prediction. You love it now that what's gonna happen?
(08:26):
Why after Thanksgiving, Jerry Jones says, Hey, Belichick, how about
you stop hanging out with the McAfee kid and come
coach a team. You're gonna coach team anyway, and maybe
you win a game or two and get a couple
of games close to that record you want from the
Shoe La guy. So why don't you come coach a team.
By the time we get to December, Bill Belichick, Cowboys
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head coach, even if they lose. They are a weekly headline.
They are what is Belichick doing? How is he jumping in?
Who does he like for next year? You have taken
a story where the Cowboys words as we laugh at
them because they're so bad, we laugh at Jerry Jones,
and that turns into a front burner story for the
rest of the year because Jerry knows he can't go
small with the next head coach, even though he only
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likes to go certain amounts of fame and responsibility with
a coach, because he's got to be that guy above him.
But once in a while he'll be okay with letting
his hair down and saying, I want somebody baby to
come in like the guy hired Bill Parcels great, right,
Bill Belichick is the guy. There's lots of other up
and coming people who could be good, Like, Look, Ben
Jones is gonna want a gig at some points, he
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gonna want to go work for Dallas. He's gonna be
the big guy offensively.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The end of the season.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So but Bill Belichick is someone who you're seeing coaches
fail with a lot of talent. And whereas the door
was closed for him for the Cowboys, it's really open
and Jerry Jones can say I can get a Hall
of Fame coach. You know, the game is passed him by,
doesn't matter. The optics are I get a Hall of
Fame coach, We gain a lot of attention. Maybe he
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brings some sort of accountability into the building, and all
of a sudden, maybe we're back on a wavelength that
we signed some free agents and it works well. Bill
is my guy, and the Cowboys then become the story
in the NFL December all the way through the offseason
like that, Like, I don't see there being any other
solution for the Cowboys other than by Thanksgiving. Mike McCarthy
(10:15):
out Bill Belichicken.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I think if you're gonna go down that we
do it before Thanksgiving and he comes out, you know,
being serenaded by Laney Wilson, who's gonna do the halftime show,
but she also gets to do one pregame as a
welcome to Dallas kind of situation. Look, Bill Belichick makes
sense if you hire someone to actually do the roster
building because as you say, the stuff's past, Bill By,
(10:39):
it ain't the X as it o's, it ain't the
dog eared playbook, it ain't the coaching part of it.
It's the actual picking of the groceries. He's the guy
going to the end being trying to save fifty cents
on Well, there might be a little bit of green
on the back ends of that loaf of bread, but
I could save the rest of it. That's what he's
done as a coach, because up to the imperfect and
(11:01):
I'm gonna work at eighty percent. Guess what the winning
is done in that twenty percent margins that you were
cutting off because it was moldy or in this case,
players that had no business with starting roles coming out
of the draft right time and time again you saw it,
or uh, they used to be very good at getting
rid of a player a year too early, and that
(11:22):
suddenly changed in the final stretches. And then he got
cute with his coaching staff as well. So there needs
to be some checks and balances if you're gonna go
down this road. But why wait till then that's a
date on Thanksgiving against the Commanders and then the following
week he got the Giants.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I mean, come on, well, if you want to do
it in a big ww style where that's the point
before the night before Thanksgiving Mike McCarthy is fired, and
Jerry says, you're gonna see who's coaching the team tomorrow
when you tune in to the game. So again, that's
when you'll see it. And then you know, Belichick comes
out like in the hoodie with a you know, you
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can't tell it's in. He's got the towel over his
head and he comes out of take sod.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
He's like Hi hiding, like Solo Socoa ringside when he
first joined the bloodline.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
See what I did there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We're bringing everybody together across sports and entertainment, but just
the idea. Once upon a time you mentioned Bill Parcells.
You had Jimmy Johnson, you have Bill Parcells, very different
personalities and control necessary to implement their paths. And then
he's hired coaches that didn't and Mike McCarthy successful coach,
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and you're talking about twelve wins seasons year after year.
But you're not getting over that next step. But there's
got to be a bit of introspection. There's got to
be that look in the mirror moment of all right,
something we're not getting from B to C. And it's
not all McCarthy, right, you can't you can't put everything
on him. I'll put some of it for sure, but
you've got a very faulty roster. And we got to
address the Parsons comment real quick because those blew up,
(12:51):
right because he just said, when your best defensive player says, yeah,
I'm not gonna talk, I can't even say I want
the coach back.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, you know you're done, but you know you're done.
But I interpret that.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
More in and he talked about it a little more today,
but it was more a push that to the side,
like I can't control that. He's gonna go get another gig,
He's gonna go do this. But for veteran players, like
you're watching, perhaps the flame on your career going out
in what is just a dismal, dismal second half of
the season. He comes back. Remember they sucked when he
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was there to start the season. Remember when they got
blown out by the Saints and everybody stunk as to
the Cowboys, So it's a matter of looking in the
mirror and realizing what you are. But Bell cowboys sense,
no sure not sense cowboys sense because you know the
sky is a little bit different color in the Cowboys world,
So you know the Cowboys sense.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It makes a lot of sense, makes all of it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, all they go old is new again. You make
headlines and for the final month of the season on
all those primetime games, they don't have to get flexed
out for being that bad.
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Well.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
live from thee tirerac dot com studios. Dolphins lead the
Rams seventeen to nine. Right now, early in the fourth quarter.
All the Rams do is kick fifty yardfield goals. It's
all they do.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Means you're moving the ball very little.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But if you're moving it, you know, after the ensuing kickoff,
when you give up a touchdown, I mean that means
you're in range in twenty five yards, right, if you're
gonna keep going super tow.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Joining us now on the hot line longtime NFL insider
friend of the show, Jason lock and For. He's on
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Odyssey Washington Post one A five seven the fan in Baltimore.
A man who needs the Rams to win tonight. Jay,
how you doing, man?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Hey? Yeah, I leave him to win by a couple
of points. We shall see. They keep cheez. It was
one stupid thing after the next. A weird game.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That's okay. I mean they kick four or five more
fifty yard field goals. I think you're pretty good.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well, I mean the one that came off the board
because of another, Yeah, a procedural penalty. We've had, you know,
snap issues. You know, there's a personal file there, some
weird turnovers.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You know the thing with this Rams team is that
every I feel like every time I feel like, okay,
they've turned the corner. Here they come, they got it going,
Sean mcvay's got it back there, getting healthy. We get
a game like this and I go, man, this is
every time I feel like I want to back leaving
the Rams. Like they kind they come up with an
effort that's like this, where boy, you're at home on
Monday night and you really have in trouble doing anything.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, I mean, we'll see. They also kind of have
a way to win these games, but they've got to
straight out the offensive line here. You know, they got
some guys back, and that doesn't seem to be helping
them a whole lot tonight. That that's the thing that
I guess would be the biggest concern for me. Like
Kyram Williams is an able and willing runner, but there's
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nowhere to go. There's nowhere to go, and you know,
Stafford's been taking hits his whole career to make a play.
But you know, tonight it just looks like they don't
have any feel for what Miami's bringing. But the defense
is completely legit, and the you know, the quarterback is
pretty accomplished. The head coach is pretty accomplished. They've got
some pieces on offense. I think they've got to straight
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out the point of attack on the offensive side of
the ball. It's it's a young, fast, hungry, angry defense,
and I think that we'll keep them in the mix.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Jason, let's turn to big D in the next decisions
by Jerry Jones. We got blinded by the light with
CD Lamb. So that's a nice little side story to
everything going on. But poet pasting by the Eagles. Does
McCarthy walk the plank hear? Or does he have to
ride this out?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh? I don't think he wants to fire somebody mid
season and figure that out and reshuffle the staff. And no,
that would surprise me. I don't think that's really how
Jerry will roll. Now. He's going to have to fire
this guy in the offseason because at the end of
the day, Jerry's a businessman above all else, and he's
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starting to tare at the fabric of cowboy fans with
his shenanigans, and like, if you don't want to spend
any money, okay, but then like trying to run it
back with this head coach. I just think the marketing
side of him, the optic side of him, which, let's
face it, the significant side of him. Like that's that's
going to I think carry the day. And so he'll
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throw the fans up bone and he'll find a new
puppet and they'll, you know, they'll keep being what they are. See.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I like the idea of, look, they're going to be
completely irrelevant by Thanksgiving, He's going to probably take a
long look and hire Bill Belichick. Anyway, why not bring
him in, get all the headlines. Bill will take it
because maybe wins a game or two and gets that
much closer to Don Shula.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I don't think that's where Belichick's going. I just don't
see that that marriage, like it didn't work for his
buddy Parcels like I at this stage of his career
having a butt heads with Jerry Jones and beg him
for money for this and that. I don't First, I
don't think Jerry wants to pay Bill Belichick whatever, fifteen
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million dollars a year and have a whole bunch of
coaches on the staff making three to five million. I
don't think that's where Jerry is. I don't think that's
where Jerry's ever been certainly not, you know, since he
stopped competing for Super Bowl. So I don't see that.
I don't think there's anybody outside who's gonna step in
and fix it or come in now, you know, to
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take it over full time next year. I don't. I
don't see it. I don't. I don't see it. I
think he's okay with like McCarthy. I mean, I think
they've got a million other excuses and a million other problems,
and you know, the head coach with no quarterback and
a team that can't run the ball and can't stop
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the run. Like, I don't think i'll make McCarthy walk
the plank from that. These tickets are already sold, This
is already paid for next year, next year's tickets. That's
where you know. He'll get around to that in January,
and he'll maybe he'll fire him in a couple of
weeks left. But I don't think anything's imminent.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, I think it was fun to see all the
video people kept posting of folks still in the team
store standing in line for their fifty dollars hats after
that game ended.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
But it's it's amazing stuff, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Let me.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Take this this one from my guy Smith over here.
You were never a believer in the Jets, mister Locke.
And for if you were to fraud, there's your there's
your one one sentence explanation to it all, because that's
the question, how do you sum up where we're at.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
At week ten?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I mean, none of this surprises me in the least.
We'll see if he plays out the season. I'm not
so sure he will. But no, I mean, this is
this is what it is. That's what it was going
to be. I think it's hilarious though. I think only
four teams in the league have given up more offensive
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touchdowns than them. Since they fired their head coach and
defrocked their defensive coordinators so he could pretend to be
a head coach, it's working out really well. I mean,
it's it's amazing. Do you want to talk about cutting
your nose off to spite your face to pop up
a garbage quarterback who still like has he gotten any
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better as the defense has gotten worse? Like the whole
thing of it was also utterly predictable. Some people were
ready about in the lodging and post way before it happened,
Like it's just it's it's it's kind of mine like
it would be mind blowing it for anything other than
a Woody Johnson operation. But they're a joke franchise. I
feel sorry for their fans. They're a total weeping joke.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Thanks Jake, Tom, I'm glad you feel bad for me.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Thank you, you feel bad for you. But I tried
to warn I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
No, you did you did?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
You did it for six months? How long is the
office isn't there?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And I know, I know you did all of these
guys every week and we very we talk about the Jets.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I mean, I just tried to brace you for all this.
I tried to get you to make some money off
it by taking these losers. They were giving away plus
money for the Jets to miss the playoffs again. They
were doing it again. They're not very generous in Vegas,
but they were being a really generous with the Jets.
Go under Aaron Rodgers touchdowns, go under Aaron Rodgers yardage,
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go under Jets win total, go Jets to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I mean, I could have been a millionaire, could be
all right.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So now, since quid pro quot, since Mike Harmon wanted
to just slap me across the face like it's a
slap show in Chicago. Now, obviously we saw the dysfunction.
Is it more the coaching? Is it Caleb Williams? Is
it a combination of both? What do you see?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well, it's a I mean, look, this is another one
where like who who thought that eber Flus in this
crew with Shane Waldron and these terrmokes, we're gonna be
there for two or three years or whatever while this
kid has sended like who I think really highly of
Kevin Warren, but I'm surprised that he didn't nip this
(22:52):
in the butt like this has you know, hallis McClaskey
written all over it, Like they should have just gotten
ahead of this and gone and gotten their head coach
and gotten the staff that actually had a chance to
stick with this kid and not been fooled by a
few games late last year or whatever it was. And
even if you thought even Flus could run a defense
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a little bit, the idea that he was going to
be a head coach in this league and do a
good enough job to stick around with this kid, it
just never makes sense. It never it never like that
was never going to happen. And then not having the
foresight to see that. But like, good luck this year.
(23:35):
I mean because there were eight head coach in the openings.
I think last year seven. You're looking at that all
over again. Like so it's not like if they thought
that they'd have like the pick of the litter this year,
there'd be less competition for jobs or whatever. When you
have the first overall pick and the kid looks like,
you know, a sure thing, there's certainly somebody a lot
of people want to work with, that's the time to
(23:57):
do it. Not when he's sort of been devoted a
little bit and you wait a year and you get
them beat up and you put them in a system
you know that that that's not really working, and you
put them with guys who he's already feeling sorry for
it because am I getting these guys fired? I don't
know what to tell you, man, Like and now I
think they quit on that coach. Like you want to
(24:18):
talk about people who need to be fired, it's not
Mike McCarthy. I mean they need to get Eberflus out
of the building just to be able to evaluate, you
know what I mean, who wants to be there and
who doesn't And who's fighting and who's not. We're an embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, I've never seen a team with more players get
in front of a microphone on their local radio appearances
to throw the Goaji stap under the bus.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I mean it's not like Burner or Council, Twitter and
anonymous sources. I mean it started like five minutes after
that game in as soon as we opened the door
in the locker room, and in DC or whatever landover
Maryland four weeks ago. I mean it started that haven't stopped.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Oh no, it's it's all over the place, and certainly
McCaskey hollis the old rule of thumb in Chicago sports
in general, if there's still a season left on the
contract the guy, the guy's not going anywhere. The same rule.
Uh let me ask. By the way, there's also a fire.
Ryan Poles signed ringside at Monday Night Raw in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I mean, if he comes out of it is more empowered.
That's an interesting look too, like if he gets to
hire another head coach, Like all right, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Exactly, all right, let's go to the Pittsburgh Steelers there
in the division. Are you buying what they're selling there
in Pittsburgh right now with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I'm buying it. Yeah. The defenses, I mean, there's not
a whole lot of holes there, Like, hey, I mean,
what have they give it up? Fifteen offensive touchdowns? I mean, look,
the sack rate, the pressure rate is not great. But
Verbig's coming back. They just got lot off the buy
(26:02):
last week. I think that'll improve. But I mean they're
in the league and opposer passer rating. I mean, they're
fifth in the league and EPA against the run. They're
allowing three point eight to carry like. They're great in
the red zone. They're great on turn down. They defend
heavy runs, they defend runs out of light personnel like.
(26:23):
They're great on wide receivers. They're great on tight ends.
We can talk about who they faced and haven't faced,
guibble about some of the offenses, but no, they don't
turn the ball over like. They get better as games
go on. They're a dominant second half team. They've got
an elite point differential. Russ has made the plays he's
(26:44):
had to make. They run the ball now the last
four weeks, they're running the ball a little better. They
got quarterall Patterson back. I mean, I I yeah, look,
Mike Tomlin is a road dog. Week you can look
at Mike Tomlins eschy you may, I'm sorry, at home
(27:05):
dog like he's there to make you money, Folks like
heit eleven and five straight up the last sixteen times
somebody else has been favored at Hinefield or Actors Church
or Sure or whatever the hell that thing is called
the big catchup Like, He's twelve three and one against
the spread since twenty seventeen at home as a dog
(27:28):
and eleven and five straight up in his career, He's
eighteen six and three against the spread as a home
dog and seventeen and ten straight up. Lamar Jackson has
struggled against the Pittsburgh defense in his career, hasn't faced
them that much. And he's other than ever and he'll
put up points. But I think Pittsburgh can win that
game out right, and I think they can win that
(27:50):
game with that game being played in the fifties, because
everybody scores twenty nine or thirty or thirty two on
the Ravens and I don't think there'll be any different.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason lock and fora one oh five seven the
fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, Washington Post. Jay has always Buddy appreciated.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Enjoy the rest of the game. I hope the Rams
come through for you.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh. Thanks, I think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Stay positive, buddy.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
What's funny is you also have Mike Tomlin do the
thing where it's like, hey, don't go be putting. Uh,
you know the new kid in Lamar Jackson's class, almost
like setting him up for the stats already.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh, he's already.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Yes, play, let's go forward. No, No, Jayden Daniels is no Lamar.
That's mister Jackson.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Open.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We want we want the Ravens to be asleep for
this game.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Go to sleep, Go to sleep. We love Lamar. I
mean he's really great. Wait do you see what we
got for him?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Great stuff from Jason Lock and for there. If you
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(29:06):
why are things not looking great for Jason locking For
and his Rams tonight? Well special delivery Steve de Sager
has the reasons why, coming up right now with what's trending.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Oh, there are many things to mention for starters on
third down conversions. The Rams are one for nine in
the first quarter as they fell behind. The Rams had
eleven plays nineteen yards. It's the Dolphins twenty to nine
in the lead eight and a half minutes to go.
The Rams don't have a single touchdown. Puka Naku has
been targeted eleven times. He has seven catches sixty seven yards.
(29:37):
As for the Dolphins only two hundred yards even in offense,
and that includes the seventy yard touchdown drive in the
first three minutes that opened up quickly as seven to nothing.
Dolphins lead now twenty to nine for the visitors Miami
trying to go to three and six on the season.
Former Rams and USC head coach John Robinson died at
the age of eighty nine. Bill's wide receiver Keyon Coleman,
(29:59):
with a wrist in will miss another game this Sunday
against the Chiefs. The Bears say quarterback Caleb Williams will
remain their starter. Chicago's gone twenty three straight possessions without
scoring a touchdown. Bear's host Green Bay Necks. Dallas will
stick with Cooper Rush at QB and Yesterday's loss. He
went thirteen for twenty three, just forty five yards and
two fumbles. Next Monday, Dallas hosts Houston. The Colts will
(30:23):
stay with Joe Flacco as starting quarterback Indy plays at
the Jets Sunday. It was flexed out of the Sunday
night slot to the NBA. Everything is now final. Oklahoma
City has just won the late game against the LA
Clippers one thirty four to one thirty one. Victor Weman
Yama at San Antonio with thirty four points fourteen rebounds.
Spurs beat Sacramento one sixteen. Ninety six wins for Brooklyn, Houston,
(30:46):
and the Cleveland Cavaliers are still undefeated.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Cavaliers win one nineteen to one thirteen.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
How about a sweet dozen for the Cavaliers twelve.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Just stuck the twenty four to twenty five campaign a win.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
In Chicago tonight.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
That was Cavaliers Radio Network WTAM eleven hundred. Donovan Mitchell
with thirty six points. Damian Lillard of Milwaukee is in
concussion protocol. In college basketball, it was Rutgers ranked twenty fourth,
having to come from behind to beat Saint Peter's seventy
five sixty five NHL Dallas led six nothing in the
first got a seven to one win at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon Live from the tirerack dot Com Studios.
You know, just real quick on John Robinson, you know,
one of the few coaches who was able to succeed
big time in college football in the NFL, and you
know with USC and and incredible success and pretty good
success with the Rams. He comes in with Eric Dickerson.
(31:46):
He goes to play assic his first five years with
LA with an NFC championship game. Of course they played
the Bears in eighty five. Tough luck there. Yeah, yet,
but not many guys have had that kind of success
in both leagues, and that's really underrated. Can you think, oh, yeah,
look at Pete Carroll. Yeah, not many guys like Peter's
Jim Harbo. Okay, but we just happen to have a
couple of guys now, But what boy, that list is
(32:08):
not very long.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, they're outliers.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I mean, how many guys tried it and maybe had
a year of success, but in terms of sustained anything.
Because look, you beg a star on Barry Switzer right,
like he's a guy that gets dismissed despite the Super
Bowl win, but so many others that that tried it
through the years.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And watch him and look at Nick Saban, right.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
If if he chose the other quarterback all those years
ago and got the clean bill of health for Drew Brees,
would we have ever had the Alabama run that we did.
But no, he chose like the last crusade poorly and
away you go.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I remember the one.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I interviewed him once and it was really weird because
I didn't think this is a thing, but he said
to me he was. I sat down and interviewed him
and he would lean real forward. He said, he goes,
I'm sorry, you don't mind, I'm gonna lean forward here.
And I said, okay, but like leaning really forward, really
close to me. He goes, that's just how I'm comfortable.
I'm like, oh, okay. And I don't know that was
a thing apparent when it came back from the interview.
(33:04):
Someone said to me, how did you interview John Robinson?
That's all pretty good? He goes, Hey, did he lean
forward and lean right at you? I go, yeah, he did,
he goes, it's how he likes to sit. I'm like,
all right, it was.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It wasn't to intimidate the line of questioning or I
don't know, maybe just if listening to what you had
to say.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
If I get really.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Close to you and I don't like the question, pow,
I could just reach out.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I don't know, your piercing eyes at you as you're
asking that question.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I'm just gonna lean forward. Maybe I'll just tackle you.
I just get right out you tackle you. I mean
it was a big guy, so you know that's that's
one step and that shoulders coming through you.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But no one.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Hell of a career, a legend, and certainly his name
bannied about quite a bit here in Los Angeles through
the years. There's always the list of this that the
other related to coaching and the local teams, and you
can't tell the tale without John Robinson.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Thanks to
Jason Locking for for stopping by coming up next. After
what we saw yesterday, it is bad news for thirty
one NFL teams. That thirty second though, oh boy, it's
great for them. What is it? We'll tell you next
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
Live fromthtyrac dot com Studios. Dolphins lead the Rams twenty
to twelve, six and a half to go in the
fourth quarter. More on this game coming up in a bit,
but the result of yesterday that no one can stop
talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You would think it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Was the first ever blocked field goal in the history
of the NFL. But sure enough, it may be the
most scrutinized blockfield goal in NFL history, and it's blocked.
It's prosper He'd be a great play by playing guy. Well, no,
you know, really excitable, went out an Indivision rival, he'd
(34:57):
be outstanding with that.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
That was the equivalent Godzilla stumping out of building right there.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I don't want to know part of this.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
We're gonna get a game closer the charge is gonna
get to get No, what are you forget? How far
away from his microphone was he? Because how about something
you haven't heard about? The Chiefs win over the Broncos yesterday?
Right because you know, the the the block field goal
at the end when it seemed like the Broncos just
(35:27):
we we're going to win this game. And I know
there's been so many different takes out there, and want
to give you something a little bit different about it,
because yes, oh you gotta play for the end zone
when you're playing the Chiefs. Now, everything was fine, it
was an easy field goal. Oh the chief stink they're
just escaping week act. We Yeah, you know for a
little bit, okay, but when you do it, you know,
(35:48):
nine ten weeks earo, you win games like this. There's
a little bit more to it than that. But here's
the thing is that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
There's very few times when I say what what the
what people are saying about a topic doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter if you think the Chiefs are a lucky
nine to zero team. It doesn't matter if you think
the Chiefs are a terrific undefeated team. It makes no
difference because this is the reality for Kansas City. They
(36:17):
are fantastic and it takes a perfect game for you
to beat them, especially if you have to play them
at Arrowhead. No matter if you think they're lucky that
it doesn't matter. You need to play a perfect game
to beat them. Now you can because you've seen them
in the first three quarters they're not a great team.
But in the fourth quarter, while they turn into a
(36:38):
team that makes every single play, it's amazing. And after
a few weeks of the escapes, they go, okay, well boy,
they're really escaping every single week. But that's the reality
about Kansas City is that if you're gonna beat them,
you have to play a perfect game. The Broncos didn't
make one play yesterday and they lost the game because
they couldn't convert a thirty five yard field goal and
(36:59):
they the game because of it, and the Chiefs are
able to walk away with a win they probably shouldn't
have had. You have to play a perfect game. And
if the road to the super Bowl goes through Kansas City,
I mean, it's just like the Patriots from the aughts,
which you're welcome. We were way ahead of the curve
on that and everybody else was stolen that one. Congratulations,
This is kind of who they are. To beat the
Patriots in Foxborough in the aughts and in the teams,
(37:22):
you had to play a perfect game. You had to
find a way to win where wow, I can't believe
they were able to do X, Y and Z and
no matter what the Patriots did, those were very few games,
very few times they lost to Foxborough. Didn't really lose
there in the playoffs a couple of times they were
able to. It's like, what happened? How did they lose
this game? The Jets beat them once, turning forty five
to three into a twenty eight twenty one win. It
(37:43):
doesn't happen, never happened that often. When it did, it
was mind blowing. It's the same thing here. You have
to play a perfect game to beat the Chiefs. Now
you can. It's not that, you kid, It's not the
point where, hey, you have to play a perfect game
you might not win. You can play a perfect game
and win because you can get to Mahomes. You can
force him to throw the football when he when he's
(38:03):
not ready. He doesn't scramble as much. He's not the
running threat that he was a few years ago in his.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
He gets to the side.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Look, yeah, when you get hit him in the failure.
But it's not that you Hey, you play a perfect game. No,
if you play a perfect game, you can beat them.
We have seen also got to beat the refs. We
have seen that. But that's part of a perfect game.
That's part of being a game. It's part of perfect game. Sure,
referees are in charge of the game too, and they're
charged to throw in the flags.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, perfect game.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Pretty sure teams have shown up and played perfect games
and still lost them.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Anyway, the idea be like that other time twenty second
in turnover differential they are minus four on the year.
So you can get it right. You can get your
your possession, but you got to make the most of
it right. You're not they're not getting into shootouts with
you most weeks in this iteration of the squad. Now
there are the odd weeks where Kareem hunt uh and
(38:53):
the passing attack do you get in stride and curious
to see as we get deeper into the season and
the weather starts to because that's starting to become a
factor a little bit, especially wins where we start looking
at kicking games and where perhaps if your kicker is
a little bit less than you get full advantage. Butker
in what you're doing in the punting game. But for
(39:16):
Mahomes and the.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Chiefs, yeah, you got to play sixty minutes. There's no
there's no let up.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
And if it's in a one possession game, I'll throw
my hat in with Andy Reid number fifteen every time
then until they're deposed. Right, The Rick Flair mantra to
be the man you gotta beat the man has never
been as appropriate since Brady's final days.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
In the NFL. I mean, this is it. This is
the squad that somehow will find a way. Now I
didn't have that on my Bengo card that you'd have
a block field goal of that length, right because of
if it's like a fifty two yard or whatever, where
we start talking about their trajectory and maybe you get
a fingertip or whatever.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Now, well here's here's one nice and easy, uh, and
succeed and proceed. Yeah, everybody, we can do all the
hot take nonsense we want about this squad, but you
can't tell me that there's any team uh that's that's
in their category because everybody else is far further flawed.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Right, they have no obvious problem.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
No, and that's the that's the obvious problem, like the
Ravens defense stakes, the Bengals defense stakes, like all that.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
They the Chiefs aren't running away and hiding, but they
don't have an obvious deficiency.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
And it ain't gonna happen in the playoffs. You're not
You're not gonna go in. And that's why this this
Bills game is so unbelievably huge because they will waltz
the number one seed and you're playing You're talking about
the Chiefs and the Lions being just a couple of
playoff wins away against inferior teams from meeting in the
super Bowl. Like, it's not happening in Kansas City. If
you're playing in Kansas City, that perfect game, I mean,
(40:54):
that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I wonder a couple of weeks revisited revisiting this with
Todd Furman later in the week, what that game is
on a neutral field, you know, like in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
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kind of a kind of a wrestling like like like
finger wrestling or thumb wrestling between whose team is the
biggest train wreck between Mitt and yours? Man, I thought, my,
but you're really making a comeback on that. You really
want it, But bears really want that. Man, No, they
want that mantle right, I put up the pole at
Swollen Dome. You can go vote on it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
I included the Cowboys just because, well, you have to
include the cowboys. Sure you think about all the hope
being a dangerous thing, We've talked about it for a decade, right,
everybody always talks about the Shawshank hope on the positive side.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
No, no, no, no, no, hope is a dangerous thing.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yes, And for you and the Jets and everybody that
wanted to figure out parade roots fine. For me, I
kept telling you it's eber Flus. I was the old
man that you always worn about in the horror film
saying don't go in there. And there he is with
his beautiful beard and well quaffed hair, and it sucks
and it's getting worse every week. Tell me that he
(01:44):
could still try to sell the you know that played
before the Hail Mary really didn't matter. He's still trying
to sell that three weeks later.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah. No.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
The thing is, I'm glad you came in, really happy,
happy and ready to go to that positivity ready, man,
you're absolute no, no, no, it's good.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Look my daughter's team won six to one and a
laugh for yesterday, So like a balance in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, because I can tell you came in really I
mean to feel good. I want to laugh at my team.
See here's the thing is, I'm with the acceptance. I
want to just laugh at my team now because they
you know, Jets. But you're like, wait a minute, way man,
I'm like, oh yeah, you're still at the point where Hey,
I'm really mad because they sold me with false hope. No no, no,
Hey lied to me through song. I hate when people
(02:21):
do that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But remember when I talked about all of the people
in our media sphere that wanted to jump on that bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's like everything is if.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Everybody's going this way generally, I want to be on
the other side now for betting purposes. That hasn't quite
worked out for the books time and time again this year,
and we have all these games decided by seven or
fewer points, six and fewer. We've run those numbers. But
the reality for the Bears is it always was built
on a house of cards in the terms of the
line structure and the coaching staff. And I tried to
(02:52):
warn you. I tried to warn you. Yeah, good feelings.
They are a good feelings my ass.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
So again we'll have more on all the disappointment from
the NFL coming up. But uh, Monday Night football right now,
just when I started believing in the Rams, hey, here
come the Rams. Look at this, the NFC West is
not good that the Rams are putting out an effort
like we're getting tonight against the Dolphins. Dolphins on the
Rams one yard line. They lead it ten to six
(03:20):
with five and a half to go in the third quarter.
This has not been a great game for anyone. No,
it's it's really it's not. It's not been a it's
it's this is this is one of those games where
you go, well, somebody, it's good. Now it's not really
been good for anybody. Uh, this is a game, that
is how do I say this? It's a game. It's
(03:41):
a game. It's a game. It's a game, and it's closed.
Someone's got a rank last ten to six. Uh, midway
through the third quarter. Mike McDaniel's still wearing the capris
and the shoes and everything else. So it looks like
a football game. It's just okay, this is what it is.
So far things can change because it's still middle of
the third quarter. But not a lot of offense from teams.
Were expecting a lot of offense from some good.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yak from John new Smith breaking a couple of tackles,
and even here we are in week ten and it's
like we're in training camp. The efforts on tackling, and
you watched it all day Sunday and we're watching it
into Sunday and Monday night football.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
It's the same thing.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's like that used to be as sure, hey, you
got your eight yards and you're done. Now they're pinballing
down the field down to the one yard line. Certainly
everybody with Devin h chan is holding their breath to
try to get this goal line plunge. But earlier in
the game you had to a throw a pick and
subsequent pass rushes. It's like, just get down, get.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Down, man, don't go to try to make that tackle.
Get through the interception. Turtle down.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Two us just throwing a touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill,
his second catch of the game. It is now a
sixteen to six lead, extra point pending for the Dolphins. Again.
They lead it sixteen to six midway through the third quarter.
So we'll have more in this game coming up and
hopefully it gets closer and we get bad.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
But I get better play and we're not settling for
fifty seven yard field goal attempts and things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Boy, do we have some crazy stuff out of the
NFL today and nothing more final nailing a coffin for
a head coach and what we got today from the
Dallas Cowboys. Micah Parsons after Cowboys another loss on Sunday,
which we told looks, listen, this is why we call
the show ahead of the curve. We told you what
was coming. We told you was coming for the Cowboys
(05:29):
this season. They weren't going to be any good. They
didn't make it, all of it. You know, you know
all this by now. We thought it was going to
be a bad loss on Sunday just because they're the Cowboys.
They put the uniforms out, no, and it was a
bad loss. And Micah Parsons was asked today about Mike
McCarthy's status as head coach because basically that's the only
place Jerry Jones gets to go to make headlines. Right, Okay,
(05:51):
let's see, so I gave Dak money, I gave CD money,
all right, Dak got hurt. I made a bad trade
of the deadline. What's left people are not McCarthy, but.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
People are now complaining about the architecture of the stadium
after all these years.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Ceedee, Lamb does want he wants a curtain down so
we can see the ball. I couldn't see it when
it was thrown to me.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Did you see the shade that was there to help
Mike McCarthy not be blinded by the light.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
If someone could just pull pull the shades down and
be fine. But Micah Parsons is asked about Mike McCarthy's
status and his answer was, oh, that's way above my
pay grade. So you know that this is you know,
this is right here, This is here, this sound effect
right here, that's me putting the final nails into the
coffin of Mike McCarthy. There it is right there. No, Mike,
(06:34):
you're not bringing out like Uma Thurman and kill Bill.
Sorry spoiler. Now here you go, stay making cheese. Then
up another another nail, another nail nothing wowha wait wait
wait wait no, I think you might have a little
bit of breathing room here. Hang on, are we go?
There we go?
Speaker 3 (06:47):
And okay, Mike McCarthy, look, wouldn't you get adusmatic nail
nail gun with the number of nails you wanted to
put into the coffin there would really be much more efficient.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
I'm gonna again have to amp up a time lying
because I said last week, Hey, by Thanksgiving, the Cowboys
will be irrelevant. They'll be playing Thanksgiving Day with no stakes.
They'll be eliminated from the playoffs. They'll be three and eight.
It will be awful, maybe serer than that. But uh,
Jerry Jones, how do you find a way? Because now
the guy has found a way to get the headlines,
(07:17):
which is all we told you that that he wants
right and congratulates everybody who stole that take over the
course of the past stuff a few days that we
told you about months ago. Again head of the curve.
It's what I like. But let me do we say
things and then on Monday we're proven to be true.
I mean, you said the Jets were gonna win, though
they did win, they just didn't win this week. They
won last week?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Well, what exactly did they win?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
They won?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That was my upset, specially, so I told you.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Not to take You're an idiot. No no, no, no, no no.
The Cardinals were home dogs. No, no, only I only
I was upset. There was no doubt those me. It
was upset. So, yeah, we told this is Jerry Jones.
What he has when he knows he doesn't have a
championship team is he has relevancy and he has attention.
And that's it. Look, the Lakers and the Cowboys are
the same thing, Jerry Jones, How is he going to
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go through the rest of this season and still be
relevant with headlines? He's not going to go in and
have the Cowboys getting drubbed every single week? Right, not happening?
So what what? What can he do? The last thing
is Mike McCarthy, does Mike McCarthy get let go? And
I'm you know, I told you, I gave you a
bold prediction. You love it now that what's gonna happen?
(08:26):
Why after Thanksgiving, Jerry Jones says, Hey, Belichick, how about
you stop hanging out with the McAfee kid and come
coach a team. You're gonna coach team anyway, and maybe
you win a game or two and get a couple
of games close to that record you want from the
Shoe La guy. So why don't you come coach a team.
By the time we get to December, Bill Belichick, Cowboys
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head coach, even if they lose. They are a weekly headline.
They are what is Belichick doing? How is he jumping in?
Who does he like for next year? You have taken
a story where the Cowboys words as we laugh at
them because they're so bad, we laugh at Jerry Jones,
and that turns into a front burner story for the
rest of the year because Jerry knows he can't go
small with the next head coach, even though he only
(09:09):
likes to go certain amounts of fame and responsibility with
a coach, because he's got to be that guy above him.
But once in a while he'll be okay with letting
his hair down and saying, I want somebody baby to
come in like the guy hired Bill Parcels great, right,
Bill Belichick is the guy. There's lots of other up
and coming people who could be good, Like, Look, Ben
Jones is gonna want a gig at some points, he
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gonna want to go work for Dallas. He's gonna be
the big guy offensively.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
The end of the season.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
So but Bill Belichick is someone who you're seeing coaches
fail with a lot of talent. And whereas the door
was closed for him for the Cowboys, it's really open
and Jerry Jones can say I can get a Hall
of Fame coach. You know, the game is passed him by,
doesn't matter. The optics are I get a Hall of
Fame coach, We gain a lot of attention. Maybe he
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brings some sort of accountability into the building, and all
of a sudden, maybe we're back on a wavelength that
we signed some free agents and it works well. Bill
is my guy, and the Cowboys then become the story
in the NFL December all the way through the offseason
like that, Like, I don't see there being any other
solution for the Cowboys other than by Thanksgiving. Mike McCarthy
(10:15):
out Bill Belichicken.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Yeah, I think if you're gonna go down that we
do it before Thanksgiving and he comes out, you know,
being serenaded by Laney Wilson, who's gonna do the halftime show,
but she also gets to do one pregame as a
welcome to Dallas kind of situation. Look, Bill Belichick makes
sense if you hire someone to actually do the roster
building because as you say, the stuff's past, Bill By,
(10:39):
it ain't the X as it o's, it ain't the
dog eared playbook, it ain't the coaching part of it.
It's the actual picking of the groceries. He's the guy
going to the end being trying to save fifty cents
on Well, there might be a little bit of green
on the back ends of that loaf of bread, but
I could save the rest of it. That's what he's
done as a coach, because up to the imperfect and
(11:01):
I'm gonna work at eighty percent. Guess what the winning
is done in that twenty percent margins that you were
cutting off because it was moldy or in this case,
players that had no business with starting roles coming out
of the draft right time and time again you saw it,
or uh, they used to be very good at getting
rid of a player a year too early, and that
(11:22):
suddenly changed in the final stretches. And then he got
cute with his coaching staff as well. So there needs
to be some checks and balances if you're gonna go
down this road. But why wait till then that's a
date on Thanksgiving against the Commanders and then the following
week he got the Giants.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I mean, come on, well, if you want to do
it in a big ww style where that's the point
before the night before Thanksgiving Mike McCarthy is fired, and
Jerry says, you're gonna see who's coaching the team tomorrow
when you tune in to the game. So again, that's
when you'll see it. And then you know, Belichick comes
out like in the hoodie with a you know, you
(11:56):
can't tell it's in. He's got the towel over his
head and he comes out of take sod.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
He's like Hi hiding, like Solo Socoa ringside when he
first joined the bloodline.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
See what I did there.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We're bringing everybody together across sports and entertainment, but just
the idea. Once upon a time you mentioned Bill Parcells.
You had Jimmy Johnson, you have Bill Parcells, very different
personalities and control necessary to implement their paths. And then
he's hired coaches that didn't and Mike McCarthy successful coach,
(12:29):
and you're talking about twelve wins seasons year after year.
But you're not getting over that next step. But there's
got to be a bit of introspection. There's got to
be that look in the mirror moment of all right,
something we're not getting from B to C. And it's
not all McCarthy, right, you can't you can't put everything
on him. I'll put some of it for sure, but
you've got a very faulty roster. And we got to
address the Parsons comment real quick because those blew up,
(12:51):
right because he just said, when your best defensive player says, yeah,
I'm not gonna talk, I can't even say I want
the coach back.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, you know you're done, but you know you're done.
But I interpret that.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
More in and he talked about it a little more today,
but it was more a push that to the side,
like I can't control that. He's gonna go get another gig,
He's gonna go do this. But for veteran players, like
you're watching, perhaps the flame on your career going out
in what is just a dismal, dismal second half of
the season. He comes back. Remember they sucked when he
(13:20):
was there to start the season. Remember when they got
blown out by the Saints and everybody stunk as to
the Cowboys, So it's a matter of looking in the
mirror and realizing what you are. But Bell cowboys sense,
no sure not sense cowboys sense because you know the
sky is a little bit different color in the Cowboys world,
So you know the Cowboys sense.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It makes a lot of sense, makes all of it.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yeah, all they go old is new again. You make
headlines and for the final month of the season on
all those primetime games, they don't have to get flexed
out for being that bad.
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Well.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
live from thee tirerac dot com studios. Dolphins lead the
Rams seventeen to nine. Right now, early in the fourth quarter.
All the Rams do is kick fifty yardfield goals. It's
all they do.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Means you're moving the ball very little.
Speaker 3 (14:52):
But if you're moving it, you know, after the ensuing kickoff,
when you give up a touchdown, I mean that means
you're in range in twenty five yards, right, if you're
gonna keep going super tow.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Joining us now on the hot line longtime NFL insider
friend of the show, Jason lock and For. He's on
Twitter at Jason lock and For. Check him out on
Odyssey Washington Post one A five seven the fan in Baltimore.
A man who needs the Rams to win tonight. Jay,
how you doing, man?
Speaker 4 (15:19):
Hey? Yeah, I leave him to win by a couple
of points. We shall see. They keep cheez. It was
one stupid thing after the next. A weird game.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
That's okay. I mean they kick four or five more
fifty yard field goals. I think you're pretty good.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Well, I mean the one that came off the board
because of another, Yeah, a procedural penalty. We've had, you know,
snap issues. You know, there's a personal file there, some
weird turnovers.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
You know the thing with this Rams team is that
every I feel like every time I feel like, okay,
they've turned the corner. Here they come, they got it going,
Sean mcvay's got it back there, getting healthy. We get
a game like this and I go, man, this is
every time I feel like I want to back leaving
the Rams. Like they kind they come up with an
effort that's like this, where boy, you're at home on
Monday night and you really have in trouble doing anything.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, I mean, we'll see. They also kind of have
a way to win these games, but they've got to
straight out the offensive line here. You know, they got
some guys back, and that doesn't seem to be helping
them a whole lot tonight. That that's the thing that
I guess would be the biggest concern for me. Like
Kyram Williams is an able and willing runner, but there's
(16:28):
nowhere to go. There's nowhere to go, and you know,
Stafford's been taking hits his whole career to make a play.
But you know, tonight it just looks like they don't
have any feel for what Miami's bringing. But the defense
is completely legit, and the you know, the quarterback is
pretty accomplished. The head coach is pretty accomplished. They've got
some pieces on offense. I think they've got to straight
(16:49):
out the point of attack on the offensive side of
the ball. It's it's a young, fast, hungry, angry defense,
and I think that we'll keep them in the mix.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Jason, let's turn to big D in the next decisions
by Jerry Jones. We got blinded by the light with
CD Lamb. So that's a nice little side story to
everything going on. But poet pasting by the Eagles. Does
McCarthy walk the plank hear? Or does he have to
ride this out?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh? I don't think he wants to fire somebody mid
season and figure that out and reshuffle the staff. And no,
that would surprise me. I don't think that's really how
Jerry will roll. Now. He's going to have to fire
this guy in the offseason because at the end of
the day, Jerry's a businessman above all else, and he's
(17:43):
starting to tare at the fabric of cowboy fans with
his shenanigans, and like, if you don't want to spend
any money, okay, but then like trying to run it
back with this head coach. I just think the marketing
side of him, the optic side of him, which, let's
face it, the significant side of him. Like that's that's
going to I think carry the day. And so he'll
(18:05):
throw the fans up bone and he'll find a new
puppet and they'll, you know, they'll keep being what they are. See.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I like the idea of, look, they're going to be
completely irrelevant by Thanksgiving, He's going to probably take a
long look and hire Bill Belichick. Anyway, why not bring
him in, get all the headlines. Bill will take it
because maybe wins a game or two and gets that
much closer to Don Shula.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I don't think that's where Belichick's going. I just don't
see that that marriage, like it didn't work for his
buddy Parcels like I at this stage of his career
having a butt heads with Jerry Jones and beg him
for money for this and that. I don't First, I
don't think Jerry wants to pay Bill Belichick whatever, fifteen
(18:48):
million dollars a year and have a whole bunch of
coaches on the staff making three to five million. I
don't think that's where Jerry is. I don't think that's
where Jerry's ever been certainly not, you know, since he
stopped competing for Super Bowl. So I don't see that.
I don't think there's anybody outside who's gonna step in
and fix it or come in now, you know, to
(19:08):
take it over full time next year. I don't. I
don't see it. I don't. I don't see it. I
think he's okay with like McCarthy. I mean, I think
they've got a million other excuses and a million other problems,
and you know, the head coach with no quarterback and
a team that can't run the ball and can't stop
(19:29):
the run. Like, I don't think i'll make McCarthy walk
the plank from that. These tickets are already sold, This
is already paid for next year, next year's tickets. That's
where you know. He'll get around to that in January,
and he'll maybe he'll fire him in a couple of
weeks left. But I don't think anything's imminent.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, I think it was fun to see all the
video people kept posting of folks still in the team
store standing in line for their fifty dollars hats after
that game ended.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
But it's it's amazing stuff, all right.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
Let me.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Take this this one from my guy Smith over here.
You were never a believer in the Jets, mister Locke.
And for if you were to fraud, there's your there's
your one one sentence explanation to it all, because that's
the question, how do you sum up where we're at.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
At week ten?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
I mean, none of this surprises me in the least.
We'll see if he plays out the season. I'm not
so sure he will. But no, I mean, this is
this is what it is. That's what it was going
to be. I think it's hilarious though. I think only
four teams in the league have given up more offensive
(20:41):
touchdowns than them. Since they fired their head coach and
defrocked their defensive coordinators so he could pretend to be
a head coach, it's working out really well. I mean,
it's it's amazing. Do you want to talk about cutting
your nose off to spite your face to pop up
a garbage quarterback who still like has he gotten any
(21:02):
better as the defense has gotten worse? Like the whole
thing of it was also utterly predictable. Some people were
ready about in the lodging and post way before it happened,
Like it's just it's it's it's kind of mine like
it would be mind blowing it for anything other than
a Woody Johnson operation. But they're a joke franchise. I
feel sorry for their fans. They're a total weeping joke.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Thanks Jake, Tom, I'm glad you feel bad for me.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Thank you, you feel bad for you. But I tried
to warn I mean.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
No, you did you did?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
You did it for six months? How long is the
office isn't there?
Speaker 1 (21:38):
And I know, I know you did all of these
guys every week and we very we talk about the Jets.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I mean, I just tried to brace you for all this.
I tried to get you to make some money off
it by taking these losers. They were giving away plus
money for the Jets to miss the playoffs again. They
were doing it again. They're not very generous in Vegas,
but they were being a really generous with the Jets.
Go under Aaron Rodgers touchdowns, go under Aaron Rodgers yardage,
(22:06):
go under Jets win total, go Jets to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
I mean, I could have been a millionaire, could be
all right.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So now, since quid pro quot, since Mike Harmon wanted
to just slap me across the face like it's a
slap show in Chicago. Now, obviously we saw the dysfunction.
Is it more the coaching? Is it Caleb Williams? Is
it a combination of both? What do you see?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well, it's a I mean, look, this is another one
where like who who thought that eber Flus in this
crew with Shane Waldron and these terrmokes, we're gonna be
there for two or three years or whatever while this
kid has sended like who I think really highly of
Kevin Warren, but I'm surprised that he didn't nip this
(22:52):
in the butt like this has you know, hallis McClaskey
written all over it, Like they should have just gotten
ahead of this and gone and gotten their head coach
and gotten the staff that actually had a chance to
stick with this kid and not been fooled by a
few games late last year or whatever it was. And
even if you thought even Flus could run a defense
(23:14):
a little bit, the idea that he was going to
be a head coach in this league and do a
good enough job to stick around with this kid, it
just never makes sense. It never it never like that
was never going to happen. And then not having the
foresight to see that. But like, good luck this year.
(23:35):
I mean because there were eight head coach in the openings.
I think last year seven. You're looking at that all
over again. Like so it's not like if they thought
that they'd have like the pick of the litter this year,
there'd be less competition for jobs or whatever. When you
have the first overall pick and the kid looks like,
you know, a sure thing, there's certainly somebody a lot
of people want to work with, that's the time to
(23:57):
do it. Not when he's sort of been devoted a
little bit and you wait a year and you get
them beat up and you put them in a system
you know that that that's not really working, and you
put them with guys who he's already feeling sorry for
it because am I getting these guys fired? I don't
know what to tell you, man, Like and now I
think they quit on that coach. Like you want to
(24:18):
talk about people who need to be fired, it's not
Mike McCarthy. I mean they need to get Eberflus out
of the building just to be able to evaluate, you
know what I mean, who wants to be there and
who doesn't And who's fighting and who's not. We're an embarrassment.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, I've never seen a team with more players get
in front of a microphone on their local radio appearances
to throw the Goaji stap under the bus.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I mean it's not like Burner or Council, Twitter and
anonymous sources. I mean it started like five minutes after
that game in as soon as we opened the door
in the locker room, and in DC or whatever landover
Maryland four weeks ago. I mean it started that haven't stopped.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Oh no, it's it's all over the place, and certainly
McCaskey hollis the old rule of thumb in Chicago sports
in general, if there's still a season left on the
contract the guy, the guy's not going anywhere. The same rule.
Uh let me ask. By the way, there's also a fire.
Ryan Poles signed ringside at Monday Night Raw in Michigan.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
I mean, if he comes out of it is more empowered.
That's an interesting look too, like if he gets to
hire another head coach, Like all right, okay.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Exactly, all right, let's go to the Pittsburgh Steelers there
in the division. Are you buying what they're selling there
in Pittsburgh right now with Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I'm buying it. Yeah. The defenses, I mean, there's not
a whole lot of holes there, Like, hey, I mean,
what have they give it up? Fifteen offensive touchdowns? I mean, look,
the sack rate, the pressure rate is not great. But
Verbig's coming back. They just got lot off the buy
(26:02):
last week. I think that'll improve. But I mean they're
in the league and opposer passer rating. I mean, they're
fifth in the league and EPA against the run. They're
allowing three point eight to carry like. They're great in
the red zone. They're great on turn down. They defend
heavy runs, they defend runs out of light personnel like.
(26:23):
They're great on wide receivers. They're great on tight ends.
We can talk about who they faced and haven't faced,
guibble about some of the offenses, but no, they don't
turn the ball over like. They get better as games
go on. They're a dominant second half team. They've got
an elite point differential. Russ has made the plays he's
(26:44):
had to make. They run the ball now the last
four weeks, they're running the ball a little better. They
got quarterall Patterson back. I mean, I I yeah, look,
Mike Tomlin is a road dog. Week you can look
at Mike Tomlins eschy you may, I'm sorry, at home
(27:05):
dog like he's there to make you money, Folks like
heit eleven and five straight up the last sixteen times
somebody else has been favored at Hinefield or Actors Church
or Sure or whatever the hell that thing is called
the big catchup Like, He's twelve three and one against
the spread since twenty seventeen at home as a dog
(27:28):
and eleven and five straight up in his career, He's
eighteen six and three against the spread as a home
dog and seventeen and ten straight up. Lamar Jackson has
struggled against the Pittsburgh defense in his career, hasn't faced
them that much. And he's other than ever and he'll
put up points. But I think Pittsburgh can win that
game out right, and I think they can win that
(27:50):
game with that game being played in the fifties, because
everybody scores twenty nine or thirty or thirty two on
the Ravens and I don't think there'll be any different.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason lock and fora one oh five seven the
fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, Washington Post. Jay has always Buddy appreciated.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Enjoy the rest of the game. I hope the Rams
come through for you.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Oh. Thanks, I think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Stay positive, buddy.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
What's funny is you also have Mike Tomlin do the
thing where it's like, hey, don't go be putting. Uh,
you know the new kid in Lamar Jackson's class, almost
like setting him up for the stats already.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Oh, he's already.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Yes, play, let's go forward. No, No, Jayden Daniels is no Lamar.
That's mister Jackson.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Open.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
We want we want the Ravens to be asleep for
this game.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Go to sleep, Go to sleep. We love Lamar. I
mean he's really great. Wait do you see what we
got for him?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
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(29:06):
why are things not looking great for Jason locking For
and his Rams tonight? Well special delivery Steve de Sager
has the reasons why, coming up right now with what's trending.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
Oh, there are many things to mention for starters on
third down conversions. The Rams are one for nine in
the first quarter as they fell behind. The Rams had
eleven plays nineteen yards. It's the Dolphins twenty to nine
in the lead eight and a half minutes to go.
The Rams don't have a single touchdown. Puka Naku has
been targeted eleven times. He has seven catches sixty seven yards.
(29:37):
As for the Dolphins only two hundred yards even in offense,
and that includes the seventy yard touchdown drive in the
first three minutes that opened up quickly as seven to nothing.
Dolphins lead now twenty to nine for the visitors Miami
trying to go to three and six on the season.
Former Rams and USC head coach John Robinson died at
the age of eighty nine. Bill's wide receiver Keyon Coleman,
(29:59):
with a wrist in will miss another game this Sunday
against the Chiefs. The Bears say quarterback Caleb Williams will
remain their starter. Chicago's gone twenty three straight possessions without
scoring a touchdown. Bear's host Green Bay Necks. Dallas will
stick with Cooper Rush at QB and Yesterday's loss. He
went thirteen for twenty three, just forty five yards and
two fumbles. Next Monday, Dallas hosts Houston. The Colts will
(30:23):
stay with Joe Flacco as starting quarterback Indy plays at
the Jets Sunday. It was flexed out of the Sunday
night slot to the NBA. Everything is now final. Oklahoma
City has just won the late game against the LA
Clippers one thirty four to one thirty one. Victor Weman
Yama at San Antonio with thirty four points fourteen rebounds.
Spurs beat Sacramento one sixteen. Ninety six wins for Brooklyn, Houston,
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and the Cleveland Cavaliers are still undefeated.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
Cavaliers win one nineteen to one thirteen.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
How about a sweet dozen for the Cavaliers twelve.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Just stuck the twenty four to twenty five campaign a win.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
In Chicago tonight.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
That was Cavaliers Radio Network WTAM eleven hundred. Donovan Mitchell
with thirty six points. Damian Lillard of Milwaukee is in
concussion protocol. In college basketball, it was Rutgers ranked twenty fourth,
having to come from behind to beat Saint Peter's seventy
five sixty five NHL Dallas led six nothing in the
first got a seven to one win at Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Harmon Live from the tirerack dot Com Studios.
You know, just real quick on John Robinson, you know,
one of the few coaches who was able to succeed
big time in college football in the NFL, and you
know with USC and and incredible success and pretty good
success with the Rams. He comes in with Eric Dickerson.
(31:46):
He goes to play assic his first five years with
LA with an NFC championship game. Of course they played
the Bears in eighty five. Tough luck there. Yeah, yet,
but not many guys have had that kind of success
in both leagues, and that's really underrated. Can you think, oh, yeah,
look at Pete Carroll. Yeah, not many guys like Peter's
Jim Harbo. Okay, but we just happen to have a
couple of guys now, But what boy, that list is
(32:08):
not very long.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, they're outliers.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I mean, how many guys tried it and maybe had
a year of success, but in terms of sustained anything.
Because look, you beg a star on Barry Switzer right,
like he's a guy that gets dismissed despite the Super
Bowl win, but so many others that that tried it
through the years.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
And watch him and look at Nick Saban, right.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
If if he chose the other quarterback all those years
ago and got the clean bill of health for Drew Brees,
would we have ever had the Alabama run that we did.
But no, he chose like the last crusade poorly and
away you go.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
I remember the one.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
I interviewed him once and it was really weird because
I didn't think this is a thing, but he said
to me he was. I sat down and interviewed him
and he would lean real forward. He said, he goes,
I'm sorry, you don't mind, I'm gonna lean forward here.
And I said, okay, but like leaning really forward, really
close to me. He goes, that's just how I'm comfortable.
I'm like, oh, okay. And I don't know that was
a thing apparent when it came back from the interview.
(33:04):
Someone said to me, how did you interview John Robinson?
That's all pretty good? He goes, Hey, did he lean
forward and lean right at you? I go, yeah, he did,
he goes, it's how he likes to sit. I'm like,
all right, it was.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
It wasn't to intimidate the line of questioning or I
don't know, maybe just if listening to what you had
to say.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
If I get really.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Close to you and I don't like the question, pow,
I could just reach out.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I don't know, your piercing eyes at you as you're
asking that question.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
I'm just gonna lean forward. Maybe I'll just tackle you.
I just get right out you tackle you. I mean
it was a big guy, so you know that's that's
one step and that shoulders coming through you.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
But no one.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Hell of a career, a legend, and certainly his name
bannied about quite a bit here in Los Angeles through
the years. There's always the list of this that the
other related to coaching and the local teams, and you
can't tell the tale without John Robinson.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Thanks to
Jason Locking for for stopping by coming up next. After
what we saw yesterday, it is bad news for thirty
one NFL teams. That thirty second though, oh boy, it's
great for them. What is it? We'll tell you next
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
Live fromthtyrac dot com Studios. Dolphins lead the Rams twenty
to twelve, six and a half to go in the
fourth quarter. More on this game coming up in a bit,
but the result of yesterday that no one can stop
talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
You would think it.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Was the first ever blocked field goal in the history
of the NFL. But sure enough, it may be the
most scrutinized blockfield goal in NFL history, and it's blocked.
It's prosper He'd be a great play by playing guy. Well, no,
you know, really excitable, went out an Indivision rival, he'd
(34:57):
be outstanding with that.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
That was the equivalent Godzilla stumping out of building right there.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I don't want to know part of this.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
We're gonna get a game closer the charge is gonna
get to get No, what are you forget? How far
away from his microphone was he? Because how about something
you haven't heard about? The Chiefs win over the Broncos yesterday?
Right because you know, the the the block field goal
at the end when it seemed like the Broncos just
(35:27):
we we're going to win this game. And I know
there's been so many different takes out there, and want
to give you something a little bit different about it,
because yes, oh you gotta play for the end zone
when you're playing the Chiefs. Now, everything was fine, it
was an easy field goal. Oh the chief stink they're
just escaping week act. We Yeah, you know for a
little bit, okay, but when you do it, you know,
(35:48):
nine ten weeks earo, you win games like this. There's
a little bit more to it than that. But here's
the thing is that it doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (35:55):
Right.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
There's very few times when I say what what the
what people are saying about a topic doesn't matter. It
doesn't matter if you think the Chiefs are a lucky
nine to zero team. It doesn't matter if you think
the Chiefs are a terrific undefeated team. It makes no
difference because this is the reality for Kansas City. They
(36:17):
are fantastic and it takes a perfect game for you
to beat them, especially if you have to play them
at Arrowhead. No matter if you think they're lucky that
it doesn't matter. You need to play a perfect game
to beat them. Now you can because you've seen them
in the first three quarters they're not a great team.
But in the fourth quarter, while they turn into a
(36:38):
team that makes every single play, it's amazing. And after
a few weeks of the escapes, they go, okay, well boy,
they're really escaping every single week. But that's the reality
about Kansas City is that if you're gonna beat them,
you have to play a perfect game. The Broncos didn't
make one play yesterday and they lost the game because
they couldn't convert a thirty five yard field goal and
(36:59):
they the game because of it, and the Chiefs are
able to walk away with a win they probably shouldn't
have had. You have to play a perfect game. And
if the road to the super Bowl goes through Kansas City,
I mean, it's just like the Patriots from the aughts,
which you're welcome. We were way ahead of the curve
on that and everybody else was stolen that one. Congratulations,
This is kind of who they are. To beat the
Patriots in Foxborough in the aughts and in the teams,
(37:22):
you had to play a perfect game. You had to
find a way to win where wow, I can't believe
they were able to do X, Y and Z and
no matter what the Patriots did, those were very few games,
very few times they lost to Foxborough. Didn't really lose
there in the playoffs a couple of times they were
able to. It's like, what happened? How did they lose
this game? The Jets beat them once, turning forty five
to three into a twenty eight twenty one win. It
(37:43):
doesn't happen, never happened that often. When it did, it
was mind blowing. It's the same thing here. You have
to play a perfect game to beat the Chiefs. Now
you can. It's not that, you kid, It's not the
point where, hey, you have to play a perfect game
you might not win. You can play a perfect game
and win because you can get to Mahomes. You can
force him to throw the football when he when he's
(38:03):
not ready. He doesn't scramble as much. He's not the
running threat that he was a few years ago in his.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
He gets to the side.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Look, yeah, when you get hit him in the failure.
But it's not that you Hey, you play a perfect game. No,
if you play a perfect game, you can beat them.
We have seen also got to beat the refs. We
have seen that. But that's part of a perfect game.
That's part of being a game. It's part of perfect game. Sure,
referees are in charge of the game too, and they're
charged to throw in the flags.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, perfect game.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
Pretty sure teams have shown up and played perfect games
and still lost them.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Anyway, the idea be like that other time twenty second
in turnover differential they are minus four on the year.
So you can get it right. You can get your
your possession, but you got to make the most of
it right. You're not they're not getting into shootouts with
you most weeks in this iteration of the squad. Now
there are the odd weeks where Kareem hunt uh and
(38:53):
the passing attack do you get in stride and curious
to see as we get deeper into the season and
the weather starts to because that's starting to become a
factor a little bit, especially wins where we start looking
at kicking games and where perhaps if your kicker is
a little bit less than you get full advantage. Butker
in what you're doing in the punting game. But for
(39:16):
Mahomes and the.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Chiefs, yeah, you got to play sixty minutes. There's no
there's no let up.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
And if it's in a one possession game, I'll throw
my hat in with Andy Reid number fifteen every time
then until they're deposed. Right, The Rick Flair mantra to
be the man you gotta beat the man has never
been as appropriate since Brady's final days.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
In the NFL. I mean, this is it. This is
the squad that somehow will find a way. Now I
didn't have that on my Bengo card that you'd have
a block field goal of that length, right because of
if it's like a fifty two yard or whatever, where
we start talking about their trajectory and maybe you get
a fingertip or whatever.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Now, well here's here's one nice and easy, uh, and
succeed and proceed. Yeah, everybody, we can do all the
hot take nonsense we want about this squad, but you
can't tell me that there's any team uh that's that's
in their category because everybody else is far further flawed.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Right, they have no obvious problem.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
No, and that's the that's the obvious problem, like the
Ravens defense stakes, the Bengals defense stakes, like all that.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
They the Chiefs aren't running away and hiding, but they
don't have an obvious deficiency.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
And it ain't gonna happen in the playoffs. You're not
You're not gonna go in. And that's why this this
Bills game is so unbelievably huge because they will waltz
the number one seed and you're playing You're talking about
the Chiefs and the Lions being just a couple of
playoff wins away against inferior teams from meeting in the
super Bowl. Like, it's not happening in Kansas City. If
you're playing in Kansas City, that perfect game, I mean,
(40:54):
that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
I wonder a couple of weeks revisited revisiting this with
Todd Furman later in the week, what that game is
on a neutral field, you know, like in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Exit at about a fresca exits swollen dome. Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon, coming up next, we'll tell you what the
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