November 14, 2024 • 40 mins
Mike Harmon and Arnie Spanier debate if College Football teams have a right being upset at early start times. And he Lakers are favorites in Vegas to land Zion Williamson if the Pelicans decide to trade him!
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notes from all across the globe. We've got fans in Australia,
New Zealand. Nice you name it, Arnie.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
I go on Fox Sports New Zealand every once in
a while with the guys there, so we have a
little bit of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And even though there was a Fox Sports New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You see you do? Now? Did you send you a
T shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No? Do they send T shirts? I never got one
from No.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm just saying, I mean, why don't you ask you
send them some of that, you know, glittery syrup. They
maybe send you a T shirt with the local call letters.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That's the next next time they give me a call.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I take a large journey just so we're keeping track
as we come through. Jason Smith ill tonight, send of
me your well wishes at how about a fresca? Find
me over at Swollen Dome. Find Arnie at Stinking Genius
One now opened a blue Sky account and a new
social media space, Arnie where I was actually able to
get my name. So I'm at Mike's not like is
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that like Twitter? Like it's gonna it's what up been
the threads? Isn't that what It's out there too? Hey man,
there's multiple places you can send your content however you
want to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Arnie, I'm just trying to keep up with Facebook and Twitter.
I don't have time to open up a whole bunch
of other you know, social media accounts. And you have
TikTok and you got this. What's wrong with you? I
am supposed to keep track with everything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, but we can start doing video, uh calls you
and I and and putting up hot takes.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, you can be an influencer.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, that's not about it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
To look on Isaac Lowenkron's face as I said that
related to you being an influencer was about all we
needed right there. As we roll through here on Fox
Sports Radio, we do appreciate you. Thanks to Justin and
to Alex tie shirt guy, Isaac Long and Grown at
the update desk, Shay and Brandon in the back and
the whole team making us sound so pretty. We appreciate
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so thanks for being part of our extended family. It
is the holiday season. As I always say, It's the
best free gift you can give. You know, grab somebody's
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You're gonna add the iHeartRadio app. It's the gift that
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We appreciate you.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Are you going anywhere for the holidays?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Ago?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh, I got I'm gonna go to Florida for a
couple days to see my folks Florida where with part
they're outside of Tampa.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, look at you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A couple of weeks from now and then holiday holiday holiday.
We've got some medical stuff we need to attend to
home wise, so we won't be traveling then, but we'll
be watching a lot of our streaming services, no question
about how about you.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'm waiting for the snow to come here to Vermont.
I mean, you're I know it's November, but I'm I
don't see maybe a day or two of snow and
until we get to December. So it's been kind of
leaned the last couple of years. Hopefully we get a
lot of snow. The tourists come on in, so well
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Never been invited to Vermont.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So the lot out I Bet Mahler was out here,
Bet and I Brian No came out here. A lot
of people have visited me out here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got a lot going on, though, Arnie, I know
you're you got to incentivize me a little bit. You're
you're real busy kids and Frostburg and I trying to
take over the world.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I mean, if.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Taylor Swift was out here in Vermont, you'd be running
out here. She goes up the street in Vermont, I
mean in uh in Maine, right up the street for me.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So come on by you act like you're going and
having tea with her.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, well it's four hours up the street. But so far,
it's a hell.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Of a street, there's no question about it. Like running
across country. And so, Arnie, one of the stories that
that's out and about, and each week it seems to
get a little more play, is the consternation and anger
over scheduling times for college ball teams. There was a
famous one earlier this year, Dion Sanders Gotta. We talked
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about Diana bunch, but he went off on a late
game slate that was given to Colorado against Kansas State.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They ended up losing that game thirty one to twenty eight,
your final. That was after I had said they were
going to be serious playoff contenders. Doesn't mean that they
won't be. But in the moment I look like an
idiot because they took the l You know, you and
I both have been in the business a while. We
know a little bit about that where predictions go wrong.
But overall, like we see the network deals, we see
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the contracts with the different conferences, and the old Spider
Man line certainly rules. With great power comes great responsibility,
i e. You're going to be scheduled for the game
that offers the most exposure to the product being offered
by whatever network that is, be at Peacock, be it ABC, ESPN,
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and CBS, Fox. Right, so big Noone kickoff is a
big deal, Joe Klatt took to X.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And Yeah, but they don't decide the big nuon kickoff.
Doesn't decide what time the kickoffs.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No no, no, no, no no. But they get they get
pushed into it, right, they decide where they're going.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Right, But that doesn't mean the game kicks off at
twelve could kickoff at three thirty. They they don't decide, no.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But the point being that Jen they take the heat
right because it's all packaged as one. So if it's
a Fox product, doesn't matter if it would be I
Saw by thirty or seven or whatever it's.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Brady Quinn was tweeting about that, saying, people, you do
understand we don't dictate the time of the games, right,
So no, but in the.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
End, we've had a number of colleges, whatever the traditions
may be. And this is where you and I get
into a little of We were talking tonight about rule
changes and the changing landscape. Ty Shirt I know, did
a segment with Rob and Kelvin earlier kind of talking
about basketball. Did a little bit of tongue, but the
reality of you know, how much different the game is
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decade to decade and throughout, how it's tele devised, how
it's broadcast, how it's players condition themselves. Just go on
down the line, and for the period we're in now,
it's all about where do you draw eyeballs and money? Well,
not that it ever has been before.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Ohio State's the one complaining though, right there is that
what we're talking about here, that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well that's the loudest of them.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But yes, too many noon kickoffs for them, And I
could understand their displeasure on that. I mean, you certainly
want to have a few of those three thirty kickoffs,
and in the you know, in the colder weather's colder areas,
you don't want to have those seven thirty or a
waiter kickoffs because then it gets really cold. That's what
you're trying to avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Curious, if you pulled the folks that are your season
ticket holders, oh you know, the moneyed season ticket holders,
how many seven o'clock Eastern games they want?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Not many?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I would guess that'd be a pretty low number, right right.
I think that's early is going to be the sweet spots.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
No, LSU They're like, we want to get drug, we
want to party, you want to get all liquored up,
you know. So they you know, they like the night games.
They enjoy something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, there's something to be said for being the spectacle
in a standalone game, but generally you're not standalone games anymore. No,
that's the other part. Like once upon a time you
might have had where you you while you wouldn't be
the only game going, you'd be the only marquee game.
Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Right exactly to where you know the NFL has, here's
Sunday night football. There's nothing else running. You're running unopposed
within the league. But for college football. You know, once
upon a time you had the ABC ESPN three thirty
game was really the only game in town. Now, obviously,
the advent of cable difractioning of the the pie as
it were, from all the different networks and claiming their
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territory i e. Their conferences, Well, you've got competition for
those eyeballs. The networks are still going to decide what's
best for them in terms of programming those slots. And
if Ohio State playing at noon Eastern or three point
thirty at times is better for the network, that's the
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contract everybody signed. You don't have to like it.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Wouldn't it give them an advantage? Though? You would think
if you're a visiting team, you know you come in
the day before, you get to bed early. You got
to get up real early for noon game. What time
you gotta get up like six am? Maybe earlier. You
got to get breakfast. You know you're sleeping away from home.
You would think that'd be the advantage to the home
team or to Ohio State in the situation to have
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a noon game, because you know they got everything in place,
and you know they're at home. They're used to the situation.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I mean to your point, you know, going back
to your calling all the LSU fans drunkards that was
already span your hat, stink and genius.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Well, am I wrong? No? Have I a wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It might be a little bit too generalized, but I
think you're on the right track. But there is something
to be said for the circumstance and the atmosphere of
a college game that is going to be different than
any other sports environment right right when we talk about
you know, big time college football in the SEC or
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PAC twelve after dark, once upon a time, we now
see those games games Fridays.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You didn't bring that up, Like my Arizona team is
playing Friday at ten to fifteen Eastern. I mean it's
tough for me to stay up.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, you look, don't live in Vermont, you.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Don't live on the East coast.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, but again it goes back to television program right,
that's primetime West Coast right seven at night, right, so
it's it's a perfect, perfect night time. I mean it's
in line with West Coast basketball games tipping off, So
no different there obviously the live East Coast, and this
was always the conversation when it came to awards and
really parsing out, you know, the AP twenty fives or
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all of those kind of things of who on the
East Coast really stayed.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, but most of the population lives east of the Mississippi,
like seventy five to eighty percent live like east of
the MISSISSI.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Should the other twenty percent then?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Just now with the other.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Twenty percent, I don't care about them, care about the majority.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Let's go look at you.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, come on now.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And for the most part, that that works, right, I
mean that that is the way most things are scheduled. Unfortunately,
again we're looking at a primetime West Coast opportunity in
a standalone programming situation. And you can watch that game
on Fox, by the way, so be careful already, Spaniard.
So as we sit here getting ready for another week
(11:41):
of National Football League and college football games of note, Really,
the NFL dominates this week, starting with tomorrow's game, or
you've got Washington against Philadelphia. We talked about it a
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we sounded from the Fox Sports Radio studios and Arnie
Spanier complaining about how he's got no snow in Vermont.
So if you want to do something to kind of
push that, have that as you will. As we continue
here at Fox Sports Radio, we'll go back into a
little bit of what's going on in Dallas, in Chicago,
the two big train wrecks as we float towards the
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back end of the season. But a reminder, Hey, the
NBA is back, Yeah, finally back. A couple of fifty
burgers tonight, triple double from Lebron, all of those.
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National Football League, fresh hot takes as games come to
a close Sunday Night football, usually finishing about the time
they get things rolling. This week, they've got the Bengals
and the Los Angeles Chargers, the surging Chargers, balanced definition,
and Jim Harbaugh looking like a genius as he rolls forward.
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Cincinnati's still trying to figure out what happened to that
defense that was once upon a time a big deal.
But we'll see Jamar Chase Trp matchup against that Los
Angeles Chargers defense. So that'll be fun viewing the end
of Sunday. Washington Philadelphia get things started tomorrow and for
a million reasons, Nick Sirianni obviously one of those always
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in the crosshairs no matter how successful they are. But
you're looking at an Eagles offense humming behind Jim Hurts
with the wide receivers in tow and Saquon Barkley sending
kids to the hospital as high schoolers tried to and
I say that with the little tongue in cheek as
high schools school players last week were caught trying to
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emulate that backwards facing drive, leaping over would be defenders
and getting wrecked as if they were in a WWE ring.
So chaos ensued there do we have Arnie backers? He's
still hiding in his Vermont Captain Arney's playing in the
snow in Vermont. We've lost Arnie. It's too bad. He
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had a good run.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I mean he really did.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, it was a pretty long run. I mean, I remember,
you know, little little guy Harmon sorting baseball cards and
listening to Arnie Spanier will wax poetically about gambling and
then yelling for entertainment purposes only fifty five times. That too,
trying to bait Laker fans for years out here.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
That was only a matter of time when you do that.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Do you think the Laker fans got him? He after
this fi and yeah, big Lebron James effort. And then
the response was go after Arnie. You know, we had
a game that we started earlier in the year, justin
I gotta say we got to bring it back, not now,
but just to put in the hopper is the Did
(15:19):
Jim Harbaugh really say this game? Because the press conferences
are gold? I thought you meant just the tip. Well
there's that too, Yeah, No, that that's another one of
those classic phrasings that we get to, no question about it. Yeah,
it's a crazy time of you though, as we start
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to greep towards the holiday and winning time. We talked
a little bit earlier in the show about these struggles
of the National Football League and try to view the
product as a whole. As you know, folks behind the
microphones and you know, you're working with the squads, they're
justin so you're you know, you can stain from all
of this fun stuff. But as a product, the league
is all whole. I mean, we see a handful of
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games each week that really merit the investment of a
three hour time block from fans and punt and even
watching it right, even watching it as a radio host
or TV host, it's hard sometimes to not have the
quick clicker.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Are you watching Chiefs games? The product has never been
better outside of Chief games.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Outside of the chief games. No, but look, I'm not
one to lament. Look the two hundred and seventy two
and then they go away and then we cry football
isn't here for six months. So not saying that, but
just the number of pre snap penalties per game, the
coaching decisions or in decisions inside the final couple of
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minutes of games. Maybe I'm saying this as a bitter
Bears fan and I'm sitting in a chair sometimes occupied
by my guy Smith lamenting his Jets Arnie when he's
not being chased by bears in Vermont his.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Dolphins and going a cocaine bear.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It could be. I mean there was one Historically, a
whole series of movies coming out based on cocaine and
other drug addled animals are going out there, by the way,
you know there's still twelve of those monkeys loose. That's
where do you think they are by now? And how
have they reproduced? Well, I mean in theory they were
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all female. I don't think they change. You don't get
under that fame like Alabama's having fun. That would be
uh well, that's enough for a sci fi movie right there.
Takes it down to a whole other level there. But yeah,
forty three escaped at last count, I think twelve it
was either eleven or twelve. Are still on the loose.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm gonna say it's more than that.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now, well, life finds a way or they've recruited other
animals to their crew.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That could be where Jason is right now.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You think Jason bailed and he's trying to round up monkeys.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
He's probably like Caesar, talk to me. Caesar is doing
his impression the whole time too. He's Curious George. I
think the Curious George.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I think the Curious George might actually bring bring some
of those money.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
He might actually talk back to him when he does that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Actually that you know what? That that is not a
bad theory that maybe he was called in because of
the Curious George impression and he's he's doing it undercover
of darkness for a governmental agency. That is kind of crazy.
Arty Spanier, are you out trying to wrangle those final
remaining monkeys or what do we got going on there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But I sound a little bit better. I don't know.
Maybe that so I had a little technical difficulties, but
I hope it's okay.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Sounds like the gremlins are getting after you a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
So is the bear biting your toss or.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I love from you guys the idea.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, that was the tinny sounds of already Span you're
there as he's being attacked by gremlins or bears. Something
a little different here on Fox Sports trading. You never
know what you're gonna get. The old life is like
a box of chocolates.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
So if it was biting, has took us five minutes ago.
What do you think it's out now?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well, I mean, like you move upwards, right, I think
it's got his ear like Mike Dyson. Yeah, you sweep
the leg, then you go for now, we're talking about
the ears and and all of that. But hopefully we
can get the connection in gremlins out of the system
there for Spaniard as we continue here. But we're we're
just rolling along here talking all all things NFL as
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we continue it. We've got a pretty good story chasing
clout in the social media sphere. I think a guy
got a lot of run for uh well, for being dopey,
but I think he might have been playing chess instead
of checkers. But we're hanging out Isaac Low and Crown
over there at the news desk with us Ilo. I'm
contending that the product of the NFL as a whole
(19:58):
is leaving me wanting. Part of it being the young
quarterbacks and lack of development a little bit what we
talked with Jason Cole earlier in the show, but also
some of the coaching gaps along the way. While we
don't have an obvious spolster moment like last night, yeah,
it's all, well, you know what you never know? I mean,
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how many coaches have left timeouts in their satchel as
they ran back to the locker room down distance and
and such.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Guys has defeated the bear.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Apparently, thank you. You know, I have to take care
of all the technical difficulties around Fox Sports Radio, so
I told Alex to hit the on button and that
seemed to fix everything.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So we oh you three boots as we go through.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The on button. Man, that's all Arnie.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's hard to get to work without a car.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Wow, a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes,
Arnie making a lot of random promises. Our guys are
going to be riding in style by the end of
the year, though, and ILO's put in his request justin
and Alex he keeps ratching it up because he's got
the control of the button.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Well we got one that we got Mary a carr
from our show. So she got a brand new car.
So she's very happy about it. Now everybody wants a
carp It was for.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
All the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Wow, well she's you know, hey, she works on my show.
We're like, go bro, everybody gets a car on my show.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well you're now on my show. Want to spoiler Arnie?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Yeah? Yeah, Christian. Wow, that was hot and ready right.
That was behind the scenes, right there, guys, next.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Level stuff that we we just aired that out and
aired Arnie out. You'll go back to begging for syrup
and meat sticks. Yeah, but it got ratcheted up to cars.
You're really up the ante for twenty twenty four. Yes,
I hope your wife understands this.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It was, you know, it was a little present married
because she had to commute through the bus. So we
helped her get a car, and now she makes life
a lot easier for her. Good for her.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
What about me?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You have a car, don't you.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
It's quasi functional.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, there you go, that's all you need. Back and forth.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Now I need more, Arnie.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You now set the bar way too high, all right,
So product across the NFL, you know, we watch all
two seventy two and rank them, celebrate them as they are,
but let's face it, some of them are tough, three
hour slogs, long winded way and a long winding road
between monkeys and bears and everything else. To get back
to the task at hand, we celebrate the big teams
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on top, where we've got the Chiefs, where we've got
the Bills as they stand right now on the NFC side,
everybody throwing flowers at the feet of the Detroit Lions,
and deservedly so, but trying to figure out the separation
between that next level. But we've spent a lot of
time down in that bottom, particularly when you're talking about
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the Bears and the Cowboys and the jets of teams
that are spiraling into the chaos and the abyss as
we get to the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, you know, right now, I still think I'm one
of those people that think the Chiefs are Yes, they're
lucky and they're good, but they're getting real lucky. They're
not as good as there nine to oh record. Sooner
or later, it's going to come back and bite you.
When you're winning games by one possession and you're getting
lucky at the end a blocked field goal. You know
how many times there has been a block field goal
of thirty five yards or less in the NFL over
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the last two hundred and fifty kicks, like three or four.
I heard or was on the Collins Show. So very
lucky to pull that out. They're still the best team
in the AFC. But if I had to bet all
my money, I want team to win the Super Bowl,
all my money's going on the Detroit Lions. Right now.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Now, you're trusting that Dan Campbell's going to make the
right decisions in the final minutes of games, or you're
saying that it won't matter.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It won't matter. I mean, who's better than them right now?
Anybody else? Philadelphia? You picking?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think Philadelphia is trending there right now. Atlanta, we've
got questions as to weather. Captain Kirk's healthy.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You trust Sarianni. I don't even know if he's going
to be back next year with Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I don't need him back next year. I need the
players and the offensive players on the field and as
constituted when right and all wide receivers are available, including Goddard.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
They're pretty damn formidable.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Now does that mean in a neutral field situation at
this moment they take down the Lions. No, I'm not
terribly confident in that. But their secondary's gettable, so aj Brown, DeVante, Smith,
and Goddard. I think I could make some hay back
if I was.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
If I was gonna do one of the you know,
obviously it's easy to pick Detroit, it's easy to pick
Kansas City. They're on top of the of both conferences.
If I was going to go for not a long shot,
but somebody who's trending up, somebody that's gonna give me
good value, somebody that's gonna give me maybe twenty five
to one or something like that. They win a Super Bowl, Man,
I've jump the board. The Arizona Cardinals bail wagon. I
(25:03):
like the way they're playing. They're looking good. They I mean,
they're leading their division. That's a hard division too. Watch
out for them. Nobody's paying attention to Murray. They're a
good team and right now they're sitting at the number
four seed. Watch out for what they're doing there. They're
going in the right direction and going in the wrong direction.
The Houston Texans, what have they lost like two of
(25:25):
the last three or something.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You look offensive line woes, Minico wide receivers, CJ. Stroud,
I think has a little bit of the Caleb Williams
holding on to the ball too long behind to makeshift
an offensive lineup until last week he was sacked more
than Williams was when we looked at it week to week.
But you know, excuses, reasons. You know, it's a fine
(25:48):
line between the two words and concepts as we go
through Arnie. But yeah, Houston, they're gonna win the division.
But that's more by default than anything. As the Colts
go back to Anthony Richardson after the short experiment with
Joe Flacco that you thought, at least for a moment
like and look, he didn't take care of the football either,
you know, going back to last year when he had
(26:10):
the big run with Cleveland. We did it on the
Eyewatch of Flex podcast A little Bit Buyer and Ian
Roddy and myself talking about Joe Flacco for all the
wins and look, winnings, all that matters. But when you
do the deep dive of do you put the ball.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
In Harm's way?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, he did quite a bit. And here in the
margin of error for the Colts wasn't great enough for
that for them to overcome it. So now you go
back to Richardson, So you don't think they're serious contenders.
The Titan, Titans and Jaguars are what they are. They're Baltimore.
Baltimore's Baltimore can't play defense. They're one side of the ball,
(26:48):
you know what I mean, Like you look at where
they're at, I mean Pittsburgh. This game against Pittsburgh's really
interesting because I still don't know how good Pittsburgh is.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I'm amazed that they're on top. I never think I
thought that was gonna happen. I thought they were destined
for last place in that division. I I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They pulled it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I thought there was a big question at quarterback. I
didn't believe in Russell Wilson coming this into this year
at all. I thought he was gonna be miserable.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, I mean when the game based on defense. The
run game has really sparked the last couple of weeks.
The moon ball from Russell Wilson gives them some opportunity downfield. Right.
The one thing big difference between the delivery of justin
fields to Russell Wilson his Fields, throws a lot of
line drives.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I like him, though I know, well I think.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Just philosophically though Arnie, I mean, like just in terms
of getting the ball out. There's gotta be a little
bit of an arc. If you're gonna throws headed down,
it's like a jump shot.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
You gotta have a little bit of an arc there.
But I like him. I think he's better than Russell
Wilson is right now, I would build a team around
him if I had him as my quarterback. I think
he's a lot better than people are giving him credit for.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Mark No, I would agree, you know, as a guy
that watched him in Chicago, I think there's stuff to
build on. But you take the shot while you've got
things rolling. You bring in Mike Williams, another guy who
can go up while he's healthy and go get the
fifty to fifty ball alongside with Pickens.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Who would you.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Rather have right now? Would you rather have Fields what
you're paying him, which is what like a couple million
a year? Or would you rather have dek Press Dak
Prescott and what you're paying that guy, which is ridiculous?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Now, well, at this point again it goes back to
faulty roster construction. Uh wait, but I mean you don't
give a run game, right. A lot of your your
offense was predicated on the play action pass or having
a running back that was serviceable to set up manageable
second and third downs. They don't have that.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
No, they don't like playing the whole thing on that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
No, no, no, And dakt Prescott was bad, like he
was terrible this year. There's no question about it in
terms of where would I want to be as I
go forward. Sure, I'd much rather have a guy who's
always muscle. Uh and tendons and everything are intact versus
whatever the hell Dak Prescott has. You know, contracts obviously
(29:02):
are part of the equation, but you know Dak's got
a few extra years on his body in the NFL,
And yeah, the contract and coming back now off a
big injury when you don't have money, right, because that
was one of the things Jerry kept saying. We didn't
have any money to spend on Derrick Henry. We didn't
have any money to spend on Xyz, which is why
you're there. Re signed him in CD. You still haven't
(29:24):
figured out Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Let me ask you this, like, how many quarterbacks right
now that have long term deals or sign that teams
would say, I wish we didn't have that contract, like
a Deshaun Watson or Daniel Jones or Aaron Rodgers or
Trevor Lawrence or who am I missing? You know? Or
Doc Prescott or or gosh, who knows so many quarterbacks
(29:46):
out there that they wish that they didn't weren'ent titled.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
But yeah, most of them are terrible, right, most of
them are starting to look like some of the baseball
contracts that were eight to ten years long and at
year four was the tipping point, right, and you just
hoped and prayed that you want a World Series or
were viable. I'm looking squarely at the Los Angeles Angels
of Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Oh they're miserable. But besides that, though, there's there's a
lot of teams that wish they can get out of it.
I don't think, you know, like somebody like a Deshaun Watson,
I don't think he's ever going to see the football
field as a starter again.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It shouldn't maybe go downfield again at this point. And
that's a deal that was just terrible in a million
different ways. Never never mind the off field questions that
you had even as that was coming to coming to
get signed. It set a precedent that was curious. But
also from a guy who had taken a year off
(30:37):
of football. Yeah, I would to forget about that that,
you know, the agreed upon Hey operation shutdown here in
Houston before he actually got to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Right, I want to see what brock perty is going
to get in, uh, you know, in money wise, if
they're going to go ahead and open up the bank
for him or there's gonna be some negotiation problems there.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Well, it is curious, right when we look at guys
like Jordan Love getting his money.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yes, several of the others, but that's your first round pick.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
But he's also a guy that puts the ball in
harm's way a bunch one hundred splash, big flash, but
also the opportunity to torpedo you the other way. That's
the one thing brock Berdy generally does not do. But yeah,
I don't care where he was drafted. What's he worth
right now?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well, it does make a difference on what you're going
to offer him. That's why Doc didn't get all the
money right away, because he was what a second or
third round pick.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Right, Well, when you go back to the next contract,
that shouldn't matter. I mean, I know it does for
some the theoretical world. But how's the guy playing now?
As we have to pay him? That's it? And what
are we projecting forward? Because again, you know, when we
go through contracts, we're not paying a guy for Hey, thanks,
you've had a great ten years. Here's some money to
(31:49):
make up for what we didn't pay you. That's not
of his works.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
No, it's not a lifetime achievement.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Sat here you go. He's already spanned her out by Carmen.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Here.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It's Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Me,
Mike Carmen, Jason off Ill tonight. So Arnie gracious to
sit with us from his Vermont mansion.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
We'll continue.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
We've got a great randomness story that Arnie brought to
the table about proper etiquette at wedding receptions on both sides.
We'll talk about that in a couple of minutes. First,
we've got our guy, Isaac Lowacron with what's trending, Mike
and Arnie.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
We got two fifty point games on Wednesday night in
the NBA. Giannis on Teda Counpo of the Milwaukee Bucks
scored fifty nine and their one twenty seven to one
to twenty win over the Detroit Pistons. He also had
fourteen rebounds and seven assists. Victor wembin Yama of the
San Antonio Spurs of the first fifty point game of
his career and their one thirty nine one thirty win
over Washington. He scored his fifty points in just thirty
(32:43):
two minutes, including eight three pointers, and at twenty years old,
he's the fourth youngest player ever to have a fifty
point game. The only player's younger Brandon Jennings, Lebron James,
and Devin Booker. Speaking of Lebron, he had his third
straight triple double on Wednesday night in the Los Angeles
Lakers one twenty eight one twenty three win over Memphis.
De Aaron Fox had twenty nine points and ten assists
(33:05):
in Sacramento's one twenty seven one oh four victory over Phoenix.
Earlier Wednesday, the Cleveland Cavaliers became the sixth team in
NBA history to start a season thirteen and zero thanks
to a one fourteen to whatto six win at Philadelphia
Chicago's Kobe White hit three free throws with three seconds
left as the Bulls beat the Knicks in Madison Square
Garden one twenty four to one twenty three. The Boston
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Celtics improved to ten and three with a one thirty
nine one to fourteen triumph at Brooklyn. Jason Tatum thirty
six points, eight rebounds, ten assists. The Oklahoma City Thunder
improved to ten and two with a whatto six eighty
eight win over New Orleans. Mike and Arney Hi loved.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Did you see Giannis's celebration after he hit that big show?
I did not. It wasn't the night night one like
last night.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, it was.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Hey, look at my elephant's trunk ah as his arm
was ooh guys, And there you go, everybody, justra there
you have it at Isaac Low and craw where you
find him on Twitter, Find me over at Swollen Dome,
Fine Arnie at Stinking Genius one. Yeah, coming up next,
(34:13):
a little bit of levity as we talk proper etiquette. Yeah,
you might not be heading to a wedding soon, but
you'll need this information going forward. We'll talk about it
next year on Fox.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 2 (34:31):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Me,
Mike Harmon, Arnie Span your in for Jason to night
as we wrap things up. Coming up in about ten minutes,
you got Big Ben Maller coming up on Fox Sports
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(34:51):
you go. We appreciate you. Thanks for being part of
the extended family. Before we get to your wedding reception,
note that you sent our you also, you know, immediately
dialed up the Zion Williamson Odds and I do this,
and I know our guy, Justin Prosper has his hands
going over his ears, going, I can't hear this, I
(35:11):
can't hear this. Lakers, according to Bovada, the favorites to
land Zion if the Pelicans decide to trade him, they're
at six to one, Rockets at plus seven fifty, the
Clippers at plus eight point fifty, followed by your Nicks
to the Lakers. What's night out?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
You really need a bench player that badly.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Wow, Wow, I think they would take a chance on him.
I mean he doesn't play, but by low sell high
and now you could buy low. Yeah, he doesn't play,
but that doesn't mean no, we're gonna get him in
the shape. We're gonna go ahead and get him healthy,
and once he becomes all that, he'll make a big
deal to us. To me, he's like Anthony Davis too more.
(35:53):
He's heard all the time. I would still take this.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
It's actually good, Arnie.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, well, Zion the lead right now is not good
when he's healthy, though.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
He struggled before he got hurt. Shooting percentage was in
the dumps. A couple of nice statistical games, but dig
a little bit deeper the shooting percentage which was normally
you know, fifty plus, high fifties one of the years. Uh,
just can't stay on the field at this point, Like
he's one of those guys that you'd say, all right,
what's going on in those training rooms, Mike, Like we've
(36:22):
done with the the Ravens and Chargers and some other
teams in years past, going why don't we miss so
many times? Dune to injury all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Remember he was a can't miss coming out. Everybody wanted
him and we were looking at the draft and can
the Knick scad him? And I mean it was a
big thing when the Knicks warn able to get the
number one pick, and he's a big deal. But now,
I mean, like you said, all the injuries, I still
would take a chance on it, depending on how much
it would cost me per year, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, the hard part being the fact that even slim down,
he got hurt once again, Like that was the thing.
If he gets in shape, will he be able to
stay stay stay right? And now you've got a big
contract there as well that you'd have to navigate and
figure out buyouts and add more teams to it and
all of those things that we do the fagezy trade
(37:09):
system that is the NBA. Now you brought up this
story and folks are going to weddings. I know people
in the fall they complain about, you know, I'm missing
this football game or whatever. But you found one where
the cost per person at a reception get a point
that left you offended.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
It was ridiculous. A couple had spent like sixty or
sixty or eighty thousand dollars on a wedding. They invited
two hundred and seventy guests, and they made or made
they were given three thousand dollars cash or cash and checks,
which means that comes out to like eleven dollars person.
(37:51):
That's ridiculous, eleven dollars a person. If you can't afford
to give at least one hundred, one twenty five, one
fifty per person, so two fifty three hundred for you
and your wife, for you and a guest, then you
don't go.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
To the don't be at dope and spend sixty thousand
dollars on your wedding.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Hey, that's the next thing I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
If you don't do that, and if you're expecting to
break even or make money on that, then that's.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
A you problem.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I told my mother in law when I found out
what she was spending, I go, what are you doing?
I could have used that money to buy a house, right, crazy?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Right, But it's one thing to say, hey, we're gonna
have a big event and we're gonna have all our
friends and family. Because I saw a couple of other
stories about weddings that made me laugh. Woman, oh we
spent all this money. We invited all these people and
here's the empty hall. It was almost like she was
begging for GEPs. And I think this is the same
thing of oh, look, we didn't make any money. It's like, well,
if you're thinking your wedding's supposed to be a money
(38:48):
making proposition, there's a whole other problem associated with what's
going on three thousand dollars, Like, O, could they get
any any hard durable goods?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Wait, I'll return the Okay, no, no.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
But if you're setting up the wedding and the reception,
whereby to quote break even, you need one hundred and
fifty to two hundred dollars. Most people don't have, Like
how much time do we spend here where everybody's handwringing
over the fact that it costs them more than five
bucks to park somewhere.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Don't have a wedding, have a party and save on
the wedding. Just go a lope, go enjoy yourself, Go
have a great honeymoon, come back, throw a party for
like ten thousand dollars, And that's the way to do it.
Don't get yourself in debt. I'm sure the people would
that make money off weddings are loving hearing this. But
(39:37):
that's a waste of money, man.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Legitimately though if you spent sixty thousand dollars on it,
But the expectation was you were gonna break even or
make money unless you got a bunch of you know,
oil barons in the extended friend and family group.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Wait, tell me that's not happening.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
That's like a wedding tradition. You and your bride get
into the room and even before you fool around, you
start out up the checks. Though.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, wow, that just took a weird turn right there,
and now you're on a pile of money, but you're
making it rain before you're getting it on. But no,
it's just that curiosity to me, like this just struck
me as a Hey, where's the Venmo address in the
story you were sending me that we needed to go
make restitution for these people.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Oh, I'm glad this shows something on this note you that.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Look what you did. I love you're feeling sorry for
these folks because we got eleven dollars too bad. Hopefully
you had a nice party. That stick a genius one, Arnie.
It's always a pleasure, always legend. We'll be listening for
Sunday Night with Plank Coming up. Next is our buddy
Ben Mallor. As we continue, I'm Mike Harmen. This is
the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon. Thanks to Alex,
(40:48):
thanks to Justin.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
We'll see you.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
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Speaker 3 (01:18):
I go on Fox Sports New Zealand every once in
a while with the guys there, so we have a
little bit of fun.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And even though there was a Fox Sports New Zealand.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
You see you do? Now? Did you send you a
T shirt?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
No? Do they send T shirts? I never got one
from No.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I'm just saying, I mean, why don't you ask you
send them some of that, you know, glittery syrup. They
maybe send you a T shirt with the local call letters.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That's the next next time they give me a call.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I take a large journey just so we're keeping track
as we come through. Jason Smith ill tonight, send of
me your well wishes at how about a fresca? Find
me over at Swollen Dome. Find Arnie at Stinking Genius
One now opened a blue Sky account and a new
social media space, Arnie where I was actually able to
get my name. So I'm at Mike's not like is
(02:10):
that like Twitter? Like it's gonna it's what up been
the threads? Isn't that what It's out there too? Hey man,
there's multiple places you can send your content however you
want to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Arnie, I'm just trying to keep up with Facebook and Twitter.
I don't have time to open up a whole bunch
of other you know, social media accounts. And you have
TikTok and you got this. What's wrong with you? I
am supposed to keep track with everything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, but we can start doing video, uh calls you
and I and and putting up hot takes.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, you can be an influencer.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, that's not about it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
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Speaker 3 (03:29):
Are you going anywhere for the holidays?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Ago?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Oh, I got I'm gonna go to Florida for a
couple days to see my folks Florida where with part
they're outside of Tampa.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Oh, look at you.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
A couple of weeks from now and then holiday holiday holiday.
We've got some medical stuff we need to attend to
home wise, so we won't be traveling then, but we'll
be watching a lot of our streaming services, no question
about how about you.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'm waiting for the snow to come here to Vermont.
I mean, you're I know it's November, but I'm I
don't see maybe a day or two of snow and
until we get to December. So it's been kind of
leaned the last couple of years. Hopefully we get a
lot of snow. The tourists come on in, so well
we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Never been invited to Vermont.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
So the lot out I Bet Mahler was out here,
Bet and I Brian No came out here. A lot
of people have visited me out here.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I got a lot going on, though, Arnie, I know
you're you got to incentivize me a little bit. You're
you're real busy kids and Frostburg and I trying to
take over the world.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I mean, if.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Taylor Swift was out here in Vermont, you'd be running
out here. She goes up the street in Vermont, I
mean in uh in Maine, right up the street for me.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
So come on by you act like you're going and
having tea with her.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, well it's four hours up the street. But so far,
it's a hell.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Of a street, there's no question about it. Like running
across country. And so, Arnie, one of the stories that
that's out and about, and each week it seems to
get a little more play, is the consternation and anger
over scheduling times for college ball teams. There was a
famous one earlier this year, Dion Sanders Gotta. We talked
(05:05):
about Diana bunch, but he went off on a late
game slate that was given to Colorado against Kansas State.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Guess what.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
They ended up losing that game thirty one to twenty eight,
your final. That was after I had said they were
going to be serious playoff contenders. Doesn't mean that they
won't be. But in the moment I look like an
idiot because they took the l You know, you and
I both have been in the business a while. We
know a little bit about that where predictions go wrong.
But overall, like we see the network deals, we see
(05:37):
the contracts with the different conferences, and the old Spider
Man line certainly rules. With great power comes great responsibility,
i e. You're going to be scheduled for the game
that offers the most exposure to the product being offered
by whatever network that is, be at Peacock, be it ABC, ESPN,
(06:00):
and CBS, Fox. Right, so big Noone kickoff is a
big deal, Joe Klatt took to X.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
And Yeah, but they don't decide the big nuon kickoff.
Doesn't decide what time the kickoffs.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
No no, no, no, no no. But they get they get
pushed into it, right, they decide where they're going.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Right, But that doesn't mean the game kicks off at
twelve could kickoff at three thirty. They they don't decide, no.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
But the point being that Jen they take the heat
right because it's all packaged as one. So if it's
a Fox product, doesn't matter if it would be I
Saw by thirty or seven or whatever it's.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Brady Quinn was tweeting about that, saying, people, you do
understand we don't dictate the time of the games, right,
So no, but in the.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
End, we've had a number of colleges, whatever the traditions
may be. And this is where you and I get
into a little of We were talking tonight about rule
changes and the changing landscape. Ty Shirt I know, did
a segment with Rob and Kelvin earlier kind of talking
about basketball. Did a little bit of tongue, but the
reality of you know, how much different the game is
(07:04):
decade to decade and throughout, how it's tele devised, how
it's broadcast, how it's players condition themselves. Just go on
down the line, and for the period we're in now,
it's all about where do you draw eyeballs and money? Well,
not that it ever has been before.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Ohio State's the one complaining though, right there is that
what we're talking about here, that.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Well that's the loudest of them.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
But yes, too many noon kickoffs for them, And I
could understand their displeasure on that. I mean, you certainly
want to have a few of those three thirty kickoffs,
and in the you know, in the colder weather's colder areas,
you don't want to have those seven thirty or a
waiter kickoffs because then it gets really cold. That's what
you're trying to avoid.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Curious, if you pulled the folks that are your season
ticket holders, oh you know, the moneyed season ticket holders,
how many seven o'clock Eastern games they want?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Not many?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I would guess that'd be a pretty low number, right right.
I think that's early is going to be the sweet spots.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
No, LSU They're like, we want to get drug, we
want to party, you want to get all liquored up,
you know. So they you know, they like the night games.
They enjoy something like that.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Well, there's something to be said for being the spectacle
in a standalone game, but generally you're not standalone games anymore. No,
that's the other part. Like once upon a time you
might have had where you you while you wouldn't be
the only game going, you'd be the only marquee game.
Is that fair to say?
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Right exactly to where you know the NFL has, here's
Sunday night football. There's nothing else running. You're running unopposed
within the league. But for college football. You know, once
upon a time you had the ABC ESPN three thirty
game was really the only game in town. Now, obviously,
the advent of cable difractioning of the the pie as
it were, from all the different networks and claiming their
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territory i e. Their conferences, Well, you've got competition for
those eyeballs. The networks are still going to decide what's
best for them in terms of programming those slots. And
if Ohio State playing at noon Eastern or three point
thirty at times is better for the network, that's the
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contract everybody signed. You don't have to like it.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Wouldn't it give them an advantage? Though? You would think
if you're a visiting team, you know you come in
the day before, you get to bed early. You got
to get up real early for noon game. What time
you gotta get up like six am? Maybe earlier. You
got to get breakfast. You know you're sleeping away from home.
You would think that'd be the advantage to the home
team or to Ohio State in the situation to have
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a noon game, because you know they got everything in place,
and you know they're at home. They're used to the situation.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I mean to your point, you know, going back
to your calling all the LSU fans drunkards that was
already span your hat, stink and genius.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Well, am I wrong? No? Have I a wrong?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It might be a little bit too generalized, but I
think you're on the right track. But there is something
to be said for the circumstance and the atmosphere of
a college game that is going to be different than
any other sports environment right right when we talk about
you know, big time college football in the SEC or
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PAC twelve after dark, once upon a time, we now
see those games games Fridays.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
You didn't bring that up, Like my Arizona team is
playing Friday at ten to fifteen Eastern. I mean it's
tough for me to stay up.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, you look, don't live in Vermont, you.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Don't live on the East coast.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, but again it goes back to television program right,
that's primetime West Coast right seven at night, right, so
it's it's a perfect, perfect night time. I mean it's
in line with West Coast basketball games tipping off, So
no different there obviously the live East Coast, and this
was always the conversation when it came to awards and
really parsing out, you know, the AP twenty fives or
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all of those kind of things of who on the
East Coast really stayed.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, but most of the population lives east of the Mississippi,
like seventy five to eighty percent live like east of
the MISSISSI.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Should the other twenty percent then?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Just now with the other.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Twenty percent, I don't care about them, care about the majority.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Let's go look at you.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, come on now.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And for the most part, that that works, right, I
mean that that is the way most things are scheduled. Unfortunately,
again we're looking at a primetime West Coast opportunity in
a standalone programming situation. And you can watch that game
on Fox, by the way, so be careful already, Spaniard.
So as we sit here getting ready for another week
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of National Football League and college football games of note, Really,
the NFL dominates this week, starting with tomorrow's game, or
you've got Washington against Philadelphia. We talked about it a
little bit earlier in the show with Todd Ferman. Podcast
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So if you want to do something to kind of
push that, have that as you will. As we continue
here at Fox Sports Radio, we'll go back into a
little bit of what's going on in Dallas, in Chicago,
the two big train wrecks as we float towards the
(12:26):
back end of the season. But a reminder, Hey, the
NBA is back, Yeah, finally back. A couple of fifty
burgers tonight, triple double from Lebron, all of those.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
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Speaker 2 (12:47):
Hey, welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with me Mike Harmon. No Jason Smith tonight, send
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(13:07):
National Football League, fresh hot takes as games come to
a close Sunday Night football, usually finishing about the time
they get things rolling. This week, they've got the Bengals
and the Los Angeles Chargers, the surging Chargers, balanced definition,
and Jim Harbaugh looking like a genius as he rolls forward.
(13:30):
Cincinnati's still trying to figure out what happened to that
defense that was once upon a time a big deal.
But we'll see Jamar Chase Trp matchup against that Los
Angeles Chargers defense. So that'll be fun viewing the end
of Sunday. Washington Philadelphia get things started tomorrow and for
a million reasons, Nick Sirianni obviously one of those always
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in the crosshairs no matter how successful they are. But
you're looking at an Eagles offense humming behind Jim Hurts
with the wide receivers in tow and Saquon Barkley sending
kids to the hospital as high schoolers tried to and
I say that with the little tongue in cheek as
high schools school players last week were caught trying to
(14:14):
emulate that backwards facing drive, leaping over would be defenders
and getting wrecked as if they were in a WWE ring.
So chaos ensued there do we have Arnie backers? He's
still hiding in his Vermont Captain Arney's playing in the
snow in Vermont. We've lost Arnie. It's too bad. He
(14:35):
had a good run.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I mean he really did.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, it was a pretty long run. I mean, I remember,
you know, little little guy Harmon sorting baseball cards and
listening to Arnie Spanier will wax poetically about gambling and
then yelling for entertainment purposes only fifty five times. That too,
trying to bait Laker fans for years out here.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
That was only a matter of time when you do that.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Do you think the Laker fans got him? He after
this fi and yeah, big Lebron James effort. And then
the response was go after Arnie. You know, we had
a game that we started earlier in the year, justin
I gotta say we got to bring it back, not now,
but just to put in the hopper is the Did
(15:19):
Jim Harbaugh really say this game? Because the press conferences
are gold? I thought you meant just the tip. Well
there's that too, Yeah, No, that that's another one of
those classic phrasings that we get to, no question about it. Yeah,
it's a crazy time of you though, as we start
(15:40):
to greep towards the holiday and winning time. We talked
a little bit earlier in the show about these struggles
of the National Football League and try to view the
product as a whole. As you know, folks behind the
microphones and you know, you're working with the squads, they're
justin so you're you know, you can stain from all
of this fun stuff. But as a product, the league
is all whole. I mean, we see a handful of
(16:02):
games each week that really merit the investment of a
three hour time block from fans and punt and even
watching it right, even watching it as a radio host
or TV host, it's hard sometimes to not have the
quick clicker.
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Are you watching Chiefs games? The product has never been
better outside of Chief games.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Outside of the chief games. No, but look, I'm not
one to lament. Look the two hundred and seventy two
and then they go away and then we cry football
isn't here for six months. So not saying that, but
just the number of pre snap penalties per game, the
coaching decisions or in decisions inside the final couple of
(16:44):
minutes of games. Maybe I'm saying this as a bitter
Bears fan and I'm sitting in a chair sometimes occupied
by my guy Smith lamenting his Jets Arnie when he's
not being chased by bears in Vermont his.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Dolphins and going a cocaine bear.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
It could be. I mean there was one Historically, a
whole series of movies coming out based on cocaine and
other drug addled animals are going out there, by the way,
you know there's still twelve of those monkeys loose. That's
where do you think they are by now? And how
have they reproduced? Well, I mean in theory they were
(17:22):
all female. I don't think they change. You don't get
under that fame like Alabama's having fun. That would be
uh well, that's enough for a sci fi movie right there.
Takes it down to a whole other level there. But yeah,
forty three escaped at last count, I think twelve it
was either eleven or twelve. Are still on the loose.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
I'm gonna say it's more than that.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Now, well, life finds a way or they've recruited other
animals to their crew.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
That could be where Jason is right now.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You think Jason bailed and he's trying to round up monkeys.
Speaker 6 (17:56):
He's probably like Caesar, talk to me. Caesar is doing
his impression the whole time too. He's Curious George. I
think the Curious George.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I think the Curious George might actually bring bring some
of those money.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
He might actually talk back to him when he does that.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Actually that you know what? That that is not a
bad theory that maybe he was called in because of
the Curious George impression and he's he's doing it undercover
of darkness for a governmental agency. That is kind of crazy.
Arty Spanier, are you out trying to wrangle those final
remaining monkeys or what do we got going on there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
But I sound a little bit better. I don't know.
Maybe that so I had a little technical difficulties, but
I hope it's okay.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Now.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Sounds like the gremlins are getting after you a little bit.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
So is the bear biting your toss or.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I love from you guys the idea.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yeah, that was the tinny sounds of already Span you're
there as he's being attacked by gremlins or bears. Something
a little different here on Fox Sports trading. You never
know what you're gonna get. The old life is like
a box of chocolates.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
So if it was biting, has took us five minutes ago.
What do you think it's out now?
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well, I mean, like you move upwards, right, I think
it's got his ear like Mike Dyson. Yeah, you sweep
the leg, then you go for now, we're talking about
the ears and and all of that. But hopefully we
can get the connection in gremlins out of the system
there for Spaniard as we continue here. But we're we're
just rolling along here talking all all things NFL as
(19:37):
we continue it. We've got a pretty good story chasing
clout in the social media sphere. I think a guy
got a lot of run for uh well, for being dopey,
but I think he might have been playing chess instead
of checkers. But we're hanging out Isaac Low and Crown
over there at the news desk with us Ilo. I'm
contending that the product of the NFL as a whole
(19:58):
is leaving me wanting. Part of it being the young
quarterbacks and lack of development a little bit what we
talked with Jason Cole earlier in the show, but also
some of the coaching gaps along the way. While we
don't have an obvious spolster moment like last night, yeah,
it's all, well, you know what you never know? I mean,
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how many coaches have left timeouts in their satchel as
they ran back to the locker room down distance and
and such.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Guys has defeated the bear.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Apparently, thank you. You know, I have to take care
of all the technical difficulties around Fox Sports Radio, so
I told Alex to hit the on button and that
seemed to fix everything.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
So we oh you three boots as we go through.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The on button. Man, that's all Arnie.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
It's hard to get to work without a car.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Wow, a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes,
Arnie making a lot of random promises. Our guys are
going to be riding in style by the end of
the year, though, and ILO's put in his request justin
and Alex he keeps ratching it up because he's got
the control of the button.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Well we got one that we got Mary a carr
from our show. So she got a brand new car.
So she's very happy about it. Now everybody wants a
carp It was for.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
All the wrong reasons.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Wow, well she's you know, hey, she works on my show.
We're like, go bro, everybody gets a car on my show.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well you're now on my show. Want to spoiler Arnie?
Speaker 6 (21:32):
Yeah? Yeah, Christian. Wow, that was hot and ready right.
That was behind the scenes, right there, guys, next.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Level stuff that we we just aired that out and
aired Arnie out. You'll go back to begging for syrup
and meat sticks. Yeah, but it got ratcheted up to cars.
You're really up the ante for twenty twenty four. Yes,
I hope your wife understands this.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
It was, you know, it was a little present married
because she had to commute through the bus. So we
helped her get a car, and now she makes life
a lot easier for her. Good for her.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
What about me?
Speaker 3 (22:10):
You have a car, don't you.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
It's quasi functional.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Yeah, there you go, that's all you need. Back and forth.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Now I need more, Arnie.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You now set the bar way too high, all right,
So product across the NFL, you know, we watch all
two seventy two and rank them, celebrate them as they are,
but let's face it, some of them are tough, three
hour slogs, long winded way and a long winding road
between monkeys and bears and everything else. To get back
to the task at hand, we celebrate the big teams
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on top, where we've got the Chiefs, where we've got
the Bills as they stand right now on the NFC side,
everybody throwing flowers at the feet of the Detroit Lions,
and deservedly so, but trying to figure out the separation
between that next level. But we've spent a lot of
time down in that bottom, particularly when you're talking about
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the Bears and the Cowboys and the jets of teams
that are spiraling into the chaos and the abyss as
we get to the second half of the season.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, you know, right now, I still think I'm one
of those people that think the Chiefs are Yes, they're
lucky and they're good, but they're getting real lucky. They're
not as good as there nine to oh record. Sooner
or later, it's going to come back and bite you.
When you're winning games by one possession and you're getting
lucky at the end a blocked field goal. You know
how many times there has been a block field goal
of thirty five yards or less in the NFL over
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the last two hundred and fifty kicks, like three or four.
I heard or was on the Collins Show. So very
lucky to pull that out. They're still the best team
in the AFC. But if I had to bet all
my money, I want team to win the Super Bowl,
all my money's going on the Detroit Lions. Right now.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Look at you.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Now, you're trusting that Dan Campbell's going to make the
right decisions in the final minutes of games, or you're
saying that it won't matter.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
It won't matter. I mean, who's better than them right now?
Anybody else? Philadelphia? You picking?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I think Philadelphia is trending there right now. Atlanta, we've
got questions as to weather. Captain Kirk's healthy.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You trust Sarianni. I don't even know if he's going
to be back next year with Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
I don't need him back next year. I need the
players and the offensive players on the field and as
constituted when right and all wide receivers are available, including Goddard.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
They're pretty damn formidable.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Now does that mean in a neutral field situation at
this moment they take down the Lions. No, I'm not
terribly confident in that. But their secondary's gettable, so aj Brown, DeVante, Smith,
and Goddard. I think I could make some hay back
if I was.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
If I was gonna do one of the you know,
obviously it's easy to pick Detroit, it's easy to pick
Kansas City. They're on top of the of both conferences.
If I was going to go for not a long shot,
but somebody who's trending up, somebody that's gonna give me
good value, somebody that's gonna give me maybe twenty five
to one or something like that. They win a Super Bowl, Man,
I've jump the board. The Arizona Cardinals bail wagon. I
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like the way they're playing. They're looking good. They I mean,
they're leading their division. That's a hard division too. Watch
out for them. Nobody's paying attention to Murray. They're a
good team and right now they're sitting at the number
four seed. Watch out for what they're doing there. They're
going in the right direction and going in the wrong direction.
The Houston Texans, what have they lost like two of
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the last three or something.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
You look offensive line woes, Minico wide receivers, CJ. Stroud,
I think has a little bit of the Caleb Williams
holding on to the ball too long behind to makeshift
an offensive lineup until last week he was sacked more
than Williams was when we looked at it week to week.
But you know, excuses, reasons. You know, it's a fine
(25:48):
line between the two words and concepts as we go
through Arnie. But yeah, Houston, they're gonna win the division.
But that's more by default than anything. As the Colts
go back to Anthony Richardson after the short experiment with
Joe Flacco that you thought, at least for a moment
like and look, he didn't take care of the football either,
you know, going back to last year when he had
(26:10):
the big run with Cleveland. We did it on the
Eyewatch of Flex podcast A little Bit Buyer and Ian
Roddy and myself talking about Joe Flacco for all the
wins and look, winnings, all that matters. But when you
do the deep dive of do you put the ball.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
In Harm's way?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Yeah, he did quite a bit. And here in the
margin of error for the Colts wasn't great enough for
that for them to overcome it. So now you go
back to Richardson, So you don't think they're serious contenders.
The Titan, Titans and Jaguars are what they are. They're Baltimore.
Baltimore's Baltimore can't play defense. They're one side of the ball,
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you know what I mean, Like you look at where
they're at, I mean Pittsburgh. This game against Pittsburgh's really
interesting because I still don't know how good Pittsburgh is.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
I'm amazed that they're on top. I never think I
thought that was gonna happen. I thought they were destined
for last place in that division. I I don't know how.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
They pulled it.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
I thought there was a big question at quarterback. I
didn't believe in Russell Wilson coming this into this year
at all. I thought he was gonna be miserable.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
Yeah, I mean when the game based on defense. The
run game has really sparked the last couple of weeks.
The moon ball from Russell Wilson gives them some opportunity downfield. Right.
The one thing big difference between the delivery of justin
fields to Russell Wilson his Fields, throws a lot of
line drives.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I like him, though I know, well I think.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Just philosophically though Arnie, I mean, like just in terms
of getting the ball out. There's gotta be a little
bit of an arc. If you're gonna throws headed down,
it's like a jump shot.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
You gotta have a little bit of an arc there.
But I like him. I think he's better than Russell
Wilson is right now, I would build a team around
him if I had him as my quarterback. I think
he's a lot better than people are giving him credit for.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Mark No, I would agree, you know, as a guy
that watched him in Chicago, I think there's stuff to
build on. But you take the shot while you've got
things rolling. You bring in Mike Williams, another guy who
can go up while he's healthy and go get the
fifty to fifty ball alongside with Pickens.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
Who would you.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Rather have right now? Would you rather have Fields what
you're paying him, which is what like a couple million
a year? Or would you rather have dek Press Dak
Prescott and what you're paying that guy, which is ridiculous?
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Now, well, at this point again it goes back to
faulty roster construction. Uh wait, but I mean you don't
give a run game, right. A lot of your your
offense was predicated on the play action pass or having
a running back that was serviceable to set up manageable
second and third downs. They don't have that.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
No, they don't like playing the whole thing on that.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
No, no, no, And dakt Prescott was bad, like he
was terrible this year. There's no question about it in
terms of where would I want to be as I
go forward. Sure, I'd much rather have a guy who's
always muscle. Uh and tendons and everything are intact versus
whatever the hell Dak Prescott has. You know, contracts obviously
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are part of the equation, but you know Dak's got
a few extra years on his body in the NFL,
And yeah, the contract and coming back now off a
big injury when you don't have money, right, because that
was one of the things Jerry kept saying. We didn't
have any money to spend on Derrick Henry. We didn't
have any money to spend on Xyz, which is why
you're there. Re signed him in CD. You still haven't
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figured out Micah Parsons.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Let me ask you this, like, how many quarterbacks right
now that have long term deals or sign that teams
would say, I wish we didn't have that contract, like
a Deshaun Watson or Daniel Jones or Aaron Rodgers or
Trevor Lawrence or who am I missing? You know? Or
Doc Prescott or or gosh, who knows so many quarterbacks
(29:46):
out there that they wish that they didn't weren'ent titled.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
But yeah, most of them are terrible, right, most of
them are starting to look like some of the baseball
contracts that were eight to ten years long and at
year four was the tipping point, right, and you just
hoped and prayed that you want a World Series or
were viable. I'm looking squarely at the Los Angeles Angels
of Anaheim.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Oh they're miserable. But besides that, though, there's there's a
lot of teams that wish they can get out of it.
I don't think, you know, like somebody like a Deshaun Watson,
I don't think he's ever going to see the football
field as a starter again.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
It shouldn't maybe go downfield again at this point. And
that's a deal that was just terrible in a million
different ways. Never never mind the off field questions that
you had even as that was coming to coming to
get signed. It set a precedent that was curious. But
also from a guy who had taken a year off
(30:37):
of football. Yeah, I would to forget about that that,
you know, the agreed upon Hey operation shutdown here in
Houston before he actually got to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Right, I want to see what brock perty is going
to get in, uh, you know, in money wise, if
they're going to go ahead and open up the bank
for him or there's gonna be some negotiation problems there.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Well, it is curious, right when we look at guys
like Jordan Love getting his money.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yes, several of the others, but that's your first round pick.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
But he's also a guy that puts the ball in
harm's way a bunch one hundred splash, big flash, but
also the opportunity to torpedo you the other way. That's
the one thing brock Berdy generally does not do. But yeah,
I don't care where he was drafted. What's he worth
right now?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well, it does make a difference on what you're going
to offer him. That's why Doc didn't get all the
money right away, because he was what a second or
third round pick.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Right, Well, when you go back to the next contract,
that shouldn't matter. I mean, I know it does for
some the theoretical world. But how's the guy playing now?
As we have to pay him? That's it? And what
are we projecting forward? Because again, you know, when we
go through contracts, we're not paying a guy for Hey, thanks,
you've had a great ten years. Here's some money to
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make up for what we didn't pay you. That's not
of his works.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
No, it's not a lifetime achievement.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Sat here you go. He's already spanned her out by Carmen.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Here.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
It's Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Me,
Mike Carmen, Jason off Ill tonight. So Arnie gracious to
sit with us from his Vermont mansion.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
We'll continue.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
We've got a great randomness story that Arnie brought to
the table about proper etiquette at wedding receptions on both sides.
We'll talk about that in a couple of minutes. First,
we've got our guy, Isaac Lowacron with what's trending, Mike
and Arnie.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
We got two fifty point games on Wednesday night in
the NBA. Giannis on Teda Counpo of the Milwaukee Bucks
scored fifty nine and their one twenty seven to one
to twenty win over the Detroit Pistons. He also had
fourteen rebounds and seven assists. Victor wembin Yama of the
San Antonio Spurs of the first fifty point game of
his career and their one thirty nine one thirty win
over Washington. He scored his fifty points in just thirty
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two minutes, including eight three pointers, and at twenty years old,
he's the fourth youngest player ever to have a fifty
point game. The only player's younger Brandon Jennings, Lebron James,
and Devin Booker. Speaking of Lebron, he had his third
straight triple double on Wednesday night in the Los Angeles
Lakers one twenty eight one twenty three win over Memphis.
De Aaron Fox had twenty nine points and ten assists
(33:05):
in Sacramento's one twenty seven one oh four victory over Phoenix.
Earlier Wednesday, the Cleveland Cavaliers became the sixth team in
NBA history to start a season thirteen and zero thanks
to a one fourteen to whatto six win at Philadelphia
Chicago's Kobe White hit three free throws with three seconds
left as the Bulls beat the Knicks in Madison Square
Garden one twenty four to one twenty three. The Boston
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Celtics improved to ten and three with a one thirty
nine one to fourteen triumph at Brooklyn. Jason Tatum thirty
six points, eight rebounds, ten assists. The Oklahoma City Thunder
improved to ten and two with a whatto six eighty
eight win over New Orleans. Mike and Arney Hi loved.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Did you see Giannis's celebration after he hit that big show?
I did not. It wasn't the night night one like
last night.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
No, it was.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Hey, look at my elephant's trunk ah as his arm
was ooh guys, And there you go, everybody, justra there
you have it at Isaac Low and craw where you
find him on Twitter, Find me over at Swollen Dome,
Fine Arnie at Stinking Genius one. Yeah, coming up next,
(34:13):
a little bit of levity as we talk proper etiquette. Yeah,
you might not be heading to a wedding soon, but
you'll need this information going forward. We'll talk about it
next year on Fox.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Me,
Mike Harmon, Arnie Span your in for Jason to night
as we wrap things up. Coming up in about ten minutes,
you got Big Ben Maller coming up on Fox Sports
or Radio. Keep it tuned the iHeartRadio App, all the affiliates,
your local stations globally, the iHeartRadio App. Take us wherever
(34:51):
you go. We appreciate you. Thanks for being part of
the extended family. Before we get to your wedding reception,
note that you sent our you also, you know, immediately
dialed up the Zion Williamson Odds and I do this,
and I know our guy, Justin Prosper has his hands
going over his ears, going, I can't hear this, I
(35:11):
can't hear this. Lakers, according to Bovada, the favorites to
land Zion if the Pelicans decide to trade him, they're
at six to one, Rockets at plus seven fifty, the
Clippers at plus eight point fifty, followed by your Nicks
to the Lakers. What's night out?
Speaker 4 (35:30):
You really need a bench player that badly.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Wow, Wow, I think they would take a chance on him.
I mean he doesn't play, but by low sell high
and now you could buy low. Yeah, he doesn't play,
but that doesn't mean no, we're gonna get him in
the shape. We're gonna go ahead and get him healthy,
and once he becomes all that, he'll make a big
deal to us. To me, he's like Anthony Davis too more.
(35:53):
He's heard all the time. I would still take this.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
It's actually good, Arnie.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Yeah, well, Zion the lead right now is not good
when he's healthy, though.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
He struggled before he got hurt. Shooting percentage was in
the dumps. A couple of nice statistical games, but dig
a little bit deeper the shooting percentage which was normally
you know, fifty plus, high fifties one of the years. Uh,
just can't stay on the field at this point, Like
he's one of those guys that you'd say, all right,
what's going on in those training rooms, Mike, Like we've
(36:22):
done with the the Ravens and Chargers and some other
teams in years past, going why don't we miss so
many times? Dune to injury all the time.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
Remember he was a can't miss coming out. Everybody wanted
him and we were looking at the draft and can
the Knick scad him? And I mean it was a
big thing when the Knicks warn able to get the
number one pick, and he's a big deal. But now,
I mean, like you said, all the injuries, I still
would take a chance on it, depending on how much
it would cost me per year, to be honest.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Yeah, the hard part being the fact that even slim down,
he got hurt once again, Like that was the thing.
If he gets in shape, will he be able to
stay stay stay right? And now you've got a big
contract there as well that you'd have to navigate and
figure out buyouts and add more teams to it and
all of those things that we do the fagezy trade
(37:09):
system that is the NBA. Now you brought up this
story and folks are going to weddings. I know people
in the fall they complain about, you know, I'm missing
this football game or whatever. But you found one where
the cost per person at a reception get a point
that left you offended.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
It was ridiculous. A couple had spent like sixty or
sixty or eighty thousand dollars on a wedding. They invited
two hundred and seventy guests, and they made or made
they were given three thousand dollars cash or cash and checks,
which means that comes out to like eleven dollars person.
(37:51):
That's ridiculous, eleven dollars a person. If you can't afford
to give at least one hundred, one twenty five, one
fifty per person, so two fifty three hundred for you
and your wife, for you and a guest, then you
don't go.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
To the don't be at dope and spend sixty thousand
dollars on your wedding.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Hey, that's the next thing I was gonna say.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
If you don't do that, and if you're expecting to
break even or make money on that, then that's.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
A you problem.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
I told my mother in law when I found out
what she was spending, I go, what are you doing?
I could have used that money to buy a house, right, crazy?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Right, But it's one thing to say, hey, we're gonna
have a big event and we're gonna have all our
friends and family. Because I saw a couple of other
stories about weddings that made me laugh. Woman, oh we
spent all this money. We invited all these people and
here's the empty hall. It was almost like she was
begging for GEPs. And I think this is the same
thing of oh, look, we didn't make any money. It's like, well,
if you're thinking your wedding's supposed to be a money
(38:48):
making proposition, there's a whole other problem associated with what's
going on three thousand dollars, Like, O, could they get
any any hard durable goods?
Speaker 4 (38:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Wait, I'll return the Okay, no, no.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
But if you're setting up the wedding and the reception,
whereby to quote break even, you need one hundred and
fifty to two hundred dollars. Most people don't have, Like
how much time do we spend here where everybody's handwringing
over the fact that it costs them more than five
bucks to park somewhere.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Don't have a wedding, have a party and save on
the wedding. Just go a lope, go enjoy yourself, Go
have a great honeymoon, come back, throw a party for
like ten thousand dollars, And that's the way to do it.
Don't get yourself in debt. I'm sure the people would
that make money off weddings are loving hearing this. But
(39:37):
that's a waste of money, man.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Legitimately though if you spent sixty thousand dollars on it,
But the expectation was you were gonna break even or
make money unless you got a bunch of you know,
oil barons in the extended friend and family group.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
Wait, tell me that's not happening.
Speaker 3 (39:53):
That's like a wedding tradition. You and your bride get
into the room and even before you fool around, you
start out up the checks. Though.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Yeah, wow, that just took a weird turn right there,
and now you're on a pile of money, but you're
making it rain before you're getting it on. But no,
it's just that curiosity to me, like this just struck
me as a Hey, where's the Venmo address in the
story you were sending me that we needed to go
make restitution for these people.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Oh, I'm glad this shows something on this note you that.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Look what you did. I love you're feeling sorry for
these folks because we got eleven dollars too bad. Hopefully
you had a nice party. That stick a genius one, Arnie.
It's always a pleasure, always legend. We'll be listening for
Sunday Night with Plank Coming up. Next is our buddy
Ben Mallor. As we continue, I'm Mike Harmen. This is
the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon. Thanks to Alex,
(40:48):
thanks to Justin.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
We'll see you.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
Again tomorrow night. Thursday Night, Football Washington
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