November 20, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason explains why you have to start taking the Lakers serious after tonight’s win. The guys give you the over/under for games Joel Embiid will play for the 76ers from here on out. Jason tells you exactly how the rest of year will go for Aaron Rodgers. And Dalton Knecht was UNSTOPPABLE tonight!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Actually tight is really?
The Dalton Connect night? Really is got it? A big deal?
Nine to three pointers tie an NBA record by a rookie. Yeah,
you're burying the lead though. Connect scores thirty seven thirty
seven in a row. As the Lakers beat the Jazz,
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they win again one twenty four to one eighteen. Their
win streak is at six. Connect feeling so hot. He
actually hit a three at one point and did the
Jordans shrug at the Lakers bench as he was going
back up the floor.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'll look forward to the trading card of that being
released tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh, that was the best you did.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Bury the lead on this game, though, Okay, what was
a burial the entire night? The Jazz score forty three
points in the fourth quarter, one twenty four, one eighteen,
your final the spread eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You were licking bills if you were a Lakers backer.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Tonight you were, and they let you down with a
half ass fourth quarter out.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You thought that was gonna happen. And how about that?
You were really uh, you were really you were really
nervous looking watching the last thirty seconds of this game?
Was that Janear Smith? I go, oh yeah, gambling, okay,
because I have like it's inid love it. Oh gambling,
got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
All about gambling? At that point was a nine point game?
Has had the ball. It's like, all right, they missed
a shot. You're going to the line.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Maybe you could at least eat the push out of
it instead give up.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
A couple, another couple of buckets, a couple of point
points and here we are six point wait but nine
to oh now in cup play? Yeah, you want to
talk about an Arab dominance that has begun? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, we need a thirty for thirty on the Lakers
ist slash Emirates. Think about the pregame speeches.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
All right, I already have this five hundred thousand dollars
spent you guys, let's go. Lebron says, you know how
much money, you know what arab Aramitz is donated to.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But uh, this is where you have to sit back
and go, Okay, it's time to take the Lakers for real.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
We've talked a lot about the Happy accident when it happened. Hey,
the Lakers might have hit on something the night had
happened when they had to bench D'Angelo Russell because he
was so bad. And look at what the Lakers have
found very quickly that the team is more efficient better
with Lebron at point guard him coming off the bench. Again,
happy accident. But you have to take the Lakers seriously
because yes, it is the forty year old legs of
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Lebron James. That is the thing. It is Anthony Davis
staying healthy for the whole season, which remember.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We had just talked about him whether he was going
to be healthy or not. And what did you have?
I pointed to it because we had it on two
screens back to back. There he was laying on the
ground like he'd been shot.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, and then fine, then he got up and he
was fine. He eventually was up, but he had a
moment where it's like, no, no, I can now tell
the times when when Anthony Davis is on the ground
that it's oh, wow, this is serious, versus he's going
to go to the locker room for five minutes and
come back, or he's gonna sit on the bench and
be back in like two minutes. Like I can tell
now when Anthony don't get what the Anthony Davis said.
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I do like that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We should probably play a game where we just show
you video elements.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
What was the extent of this injury.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But here's here's why you got to take the Lakers
more seriously because it is.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Early in the year. But you look at what they're
getting from players that they need to get more from,
and it's younger players with a bigger ceiling they haven't
gotten close to yet. It's Austin Reeves. As good as
he is, he still got a ways to go to
get to where he is. He's a he's a huge threat,
connect is still a rookie thirty seven points.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You still have young players that you're gonna be able
to rely on for a lot of minutes, and that's
going to be a big thing for the Lakers as
a season develops, because guys like Reason Connect are gonna
get thirty three to thirty five minutes a night, where
Lebron and ad may get thirty minutes a night depending
less depending on how games go. And if that's the case, man,
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you're gonna see the young guys be able to take
some wear and tear off the Lakers and have be
better players when it gets to the postseason. They'll rely
on these guys more. Almost kind of what the Warriors
are doing a bit because why are they so good? Hey,
they decided big strategy, very anti what they've had the
last few years. We're gonna play the young guys. Right
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up until this year was yeah, we got young guys.
We tried to give them some responsibility. When they tried
to give all the young guys a ton of responsibility,
it didn't work. So then the Warriors decided, no, no, we
can't do that. We got to just play our big vets.
And then they decided before the season, and Rick Buker
told us how we spoke to Steve Kerr and Steve Curson.
I don't care what happens. We are playing our young guys.
We are determined and we are bent on playing the
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young guys. And look what they're doing. It's like a
fourteen man rotation in Golden State and they're playing really well.
The same thing with the Lakers. Okay, we're going to
now not just lean on the vets. We're going to
play the young guys, play them through big portions of
the game, let them make mistakes, let him become better players.
And so you're seeing reeves in Connecticut. They're all getting
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many more minutes than even Cam Reddish getting trusted really
for the first time as an NBA starter a little
bit with the Knicks, but now we had playing twenty
five minutes a game with the Lakers. So as long
as they're trusting the young.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Guys and they are able to go on an upward
curve over the course of the season, I'm telling you
watch out for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, I'm still worry about the depth when it's all
said and done in terms of what happens to an injury,
but I think we do that with most teams. So
I pushed that aside shows tonight and what you saw
with the rotation, and yes, you take a little in
to account the fact that it's a jazz team that
let's just face it, they're not good. They've got that
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big problem lingering over them. But the rotation of the basketball,
the extra pass movement off the ball, like all those
things that you would say, well, JJ Reddick is going
to be harping on the fundamentals. Well, you're watching it
night tonight, and certainly after that one little stretch that
they had a few games ago, which was the D'Angelo
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Russell moment, which was at the end of a pretty
long road trip. That everything's settled back in now again,
it's early in the campaign and we'll see how it
flows and what this roster looks like by the time
we get to.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
The trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
A lot of stuff swirling in between. Who the Dodgers
are meeting with, who the Mets sign? Congratulations just on
Syria there, Buddy Jass.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We signed an outfielder whose initials are JS. We're ready taking.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Battle fool the Mets fans pretty soon. The bounty is
gonna be like the Paul Sken's MLB debut patched thing
out of the tops product, where you're gonna have Steve
Cohen going, I'll go one hundred million over anything anybody says,
but the fact is you're eventually gonna make some move.
There were reports today that they're looking at big men
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to try to fortify that rotation. Obviously no hat Chimura here,
and he's been a pivotal member, but.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Always looking to add depth again.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Owing to the fact that you want to hit a
point in the season where you have the opportunity maybe
not to rest Ad and Lebron entirely, but to restrict
some of those minutes and take some of the wear
off of their legs, especially in matchups like this. And
I joke about the eleven point spread. The game was
never in doubt right, Lakers cruised for the most part
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until it got a little interesting towards the end. But
all of that to say, you're gonna have some of
these moments because we know you have the and have
knots across the NBA, So on those nights, well, to
make sure you got enough of a rotation that they
can still get you or w keep you moving towards
a six seed or better, and while making sure you're
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judicious with the minutes of your elder statesman, because it
really doesn't matter. You can make the playoffs and if
Lebron's gas. No matter what you know, the super serum
to go all Captain America is what he's been able
to do and what he does that we all marvel at.
Eventually you run out of gas, and you saw it
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even last year towards the end. So now it's the
question of do you get enough depth? And last year
it was about Vincent and Vanderbilt and those guys. Well,
Vincent's back gave him nineteen minutes tonight. The fortification of
that front line is going to be pivotal for any
postseason aspirations.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Now elsewhere in the NBA. We'll get to the NFL
coming up in a couple minutes, but the Lakers win
this game. Want to bring you the news of Dalt
Connects a record rookie tying game. Here at this point,
it's just a fade Accompley that Joel Embiid is going
to be a non member of the seventy six ers,
either by the deadline or in the offseason. The story
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today is just too embarrassing to think that there's any
way that this relationship with the Sixers can be saved.
Tyres Max, who has become a terrific player, with the
Sixers and their big playoff hero last year. He and
Joel Embiid are kind of tight, but the story gets
out today that Maxi had to challenge Embiid about being
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on time to team activities and practices and meetings because
Embiid wasn't. This is just the latest in a bad
optic and run of Joel Embiid just not seeming to
really care about what goes on with the Sixers, whether
it's him fighting with a writer or getting mad with
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because of his questions about sitting out. Look, he missed
a game with an illness last night. Does it seem
like Embiid in the Sixers can be saved. No, both
sides need a fresh start. And Embiid is someone who
you could see this coming for a while. He has
never been a leader. He's a guy.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
This is a guy who's an MVP who is now
being called out by another player on the team about
saying you need to set a better example. Like this
to me is the final straw where I.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Think that today, this is where the Sixers say, you
know what, we gotta move on now. We can only
trade him once, so we got to trade him at
these at the maximum value and distress, and you can
but you can say, hey, oh, but they brought in
Paul George to be around it and have a big three. Now, yeah,
they brought those guys to play around Joel Embiid, But
I think they kind of thought that, hey, if we
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have to move on from Embiid, we have another star
in there that can play, and then who knows what
we get on the Embid trade. But at this point
this is not gonna be saved. The Sixers are terrible.
Who knows if he's even gonna be motivated to get
it and play when he has been playing, he's been
out of shape, he's not ready to play. He is
simply just going through the motions. So he needs to
get out and the Sixers need to move on from him.
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But again it's got to be when he's at a
high points. He is a distressed property now, so they
need him to get back playing well and then they
can move him. So by the deadline potentially or in
the offseason, after Embiid has time to rest and be
healthy and say I feel great, I'm ready to go.
But that's going to happen if if you put the
over under at future games however many games Joelle Embid
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has left as a seventy six er and put it
at forty. I would take the under. It's just gonna happen,
and both sides of the fresh start it works because
Embiid will go somewhere for a year or two and
be motivated until his body starts to break down because
he's gonna be like Shaquille O'Neil. I'm not gonna take
care of my body, and eventually I'm just gonna be disinterested.
But for the first couple of years you get him.
As long as he is healthy and motivated. Wow, you're
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gonna get a guy that could potentially bring you to
the NBA Finals, if not more. He needs to go
on a team where he's not the number one guy.
Now have to go fit in somewhere a little bit
and find my way, kind of like Kevin Durant to
the Warriors. But that will do it, and he'll be
juiced up.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
He'll just blow torch the Sixers on the way out
and be mad.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It's not gonna be the Nicks, obviously, because we got
Big Bodega. But some team is going to say yes.
The next couple of years. The Joel Embiid gamble is
worth it, and the Sixers can move on. They can
save all kinds of money, go out and get whatever
else they need, and Joel Embiid gets a fresh start.
It feels like that is inevitable after the story today,
when your best player is called out by another guy
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and says you need to be doing better. Yeah, that's it.
That's done. Well a couple of things. I mean, you
got him go into the finals. He goes through it like,
look we got in the finals. Shit, I didn't think
Porzingis ever get to an NBA finals. The guy won
the bleeping championship. Come on, man, Hey, hey ex Jason
team guy. Now, yeah, we get it. There's a running
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theme in those kind of things. Hey, how about those
guys that want to title with the Rangers. Let's talk
about them. Say it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I wouldn't trust his body if I'm opposing potentially acquiring
GM and motivation seem to be lost. Yeah, you might
get a honeymoon period. The thing that's also interesting though,
is Max He's hurt right. He hasn't played since the
seventh of the month. He's got a hamstring injury that's
supposed to keep him out a couple of weeks and
early diagnosis was potentially even worse. The fact that he's saying, dude,
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look at we're spiraling. Lowry calls the team meeting there
two and eleven, and this guy's late. He's not really
showing he wants to be on a basketball court, and
the guy that physically can't be on the court with
you is going, come on, man, we need something from you,
and you're saying no, Like the expectations are so damn low.
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Give us some sort of effort that the fans can
cling to a little bit of hope as opposed to
thirteen games in going.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I don't know. It's like Darren Rodgers, you gonna play
next year?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I guess so. Yeah, maybe maybe exit out out of Fresca,
exit swollen. Don't look, it's just gonna happen. It's just
a matter of time. But Joel embiid X seventy six er,
that's coming, uh, coming up next? Yes, you thought all
the drama surrounding the Jets was done today when they
fired their general manager. Oh no, things got even more
embarrassing a few hours later. Wait, what's this new story?
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We'll tell you about it next right here, Jason and Mike.
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Speaker 2 (14:31):
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Speaker 1 (14:42):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from Thetirack dot Com Studios. Oh
you love this tie shirt because I thinking about you
this weekend. Oh my god, I think about you every day, Jay,
of course you do. Uh, somebody on TikTok TikTok put
this Together're hanging out on TikTok tik talkers. It's one
of those no, no, no, It's one of those things where
I get suggested it on Instagram, like reels or something.
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I get, oh, here whatever it is, and I got suggested,
and it was someone that put this together, and it
was The Avengers. If it was a network television show
in nineteen eighty nine, what the opening credits would look like? Okay,
So if the Avengers, the Avengers, the whole you know,
movie theater the Avengers put together, if it was as
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if it was a nineteen eighty nine television show, so
of course, yes, so, of course you know they had
of course they know they Thanos was Robert de Niro
was Theenos? No, right, yes, And they did all the
and it was it was the the opening credits as
it looked like a network TV show from nineteen eighty nine.
One wasn't he also the parrot in Aladdin?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That was Gilbert Gottfrey. Why am I not surprised, Jeff
A just stop my fingers, Jeff. Uh So they put
the thing together and it was here's Robert Downey Junior
as Iron Man. It's Brad Pitt, even though it was
like three years to early. Brad Pitt is Captain America.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
All this and then it got to where John no, no, no, no,
no to John Stamos as Loki Nicholas Case and I
thought of you, I said, Nicholas Cage would have been
an awesome nineteen ninety Loki, it would.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Have been an awesome you know. Thor we have to
get to as guard. I can't pull the big sword
out of the thing and save him. Notat it's a
little bit too early for Idris. Elma, come on, Thoor,
we have to go save the world. You know, I
love you maybe I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I don't know, you want to drift towards Owen Wilson,
but you're right there.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's a little bit wow. No, Schwarzenegger was the Hulk. Uh,
I can't breathe out my left side of my nose.
To me, Moore was a scarlet witch.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Like.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It was pretty cool when I saw the When I
saw that, Oh yeah, Tysher will love that one.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That's at a moment walking my dog where someone had like
five dogs on leashes and they basically took a stance
against me and mine like they were the Avengers.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like hey, look, Avengers assembly.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So it's like the woman started get it now, I
get they're gonna say.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It was like all the Lokis.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There was Alligator Loki, and there was that would have
been I never went back for season two.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I could be Loki now, I could do it now.
I know I'm seventy, but I could be Lucky now
I could do it. No, which not the way it
is just little Owen Wilson in uh wow, I was homeless.
It's like you mean dupre he was homeless? Uh yes,
Owen Wilson, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was talking
about Yeah. No, yes, I didn't. I didn't know what
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I didn't know what you were doing for a second. Yeah,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You have to give me the Owen Wilson filmography before
I knew you were doing.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You me and Dupree. Okay, dog Marley died.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Hey how much lacquer did you put on this thing?
You could? Oh, it's so much on there. Uh, the
Jets killed Joe Douglas. The Jets killed Carl and they
killed Robert Sala and now they killed Joe Douglas. Now
they're going down the list. They fire their GM today
we will get to the big crazy. If you think
that's a crazy story, Oh no, we got something to
top you.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Like, it's like it's Nicholas Cage from nineteen ninety to
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We're gonna top it. And when this happened, and I'm like, Okay,
there's a tire fire angle to this story. This is
not it. There is a huge dumpster fire jets angle
to which we'll get to, but this is not it because,
quite honestly, I get it because Joe Douglas failed. He
had all kinds of time to build a good team
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and he didn't. Did he draft well, a couple of players.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, But basically you're talking about a guy that's been
the GM for five years and.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Was able to bring in two quarterbacks. Usually you fail
if your first quarterback doesn't work. Yeah, but he's able
to go. We don't think Darnold's our guy. We're drafting
Zach Wilson. Nope, we're letting you bring in another quarterback
to work. That didn't work, didn't work. The offensive line
is supposed to be his specialty, like that was his thing,
and I thought, coming in, Okay, I know for certain
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the offensive line is gonna be great because that's what
he does. Ever year was the same. It was like
the chief cycling through wide receivers every year for the
Jets was we're drafting a guy who doesn't seem to
pan out to be really good. Or we're gonna gamble
in free agency with a guy who was good a
few years ago but is coming off an injury and
we're gonna sign him for a short term deal. Yeah,
here's free offensive lineman the Jets of stuff. But you
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went to work.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, but you went to all the Chiefs guys, and
even if they weren't world beaters, guess what they're all
wearing rings.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
They didn't tear the ship down as opposed to all
your offensive linemen. It does did not help them out
of them and get them sputtering.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
A lot of them stunk.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But at least you didn't cut a guy that you
signed ten weeks ago, three years and thirty million dollars
and let it be the fourth headline of your week
like the Bears.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Lots of there, lots of guys stunk. It was time
for it was really, it was time for him to go,
and the Jets need to start the search for their
next GM. Meanwhile, is it really gonna help? No, it's
the Jets. The Jets are on us stunning run of
going on ten years of not finishing higher than third
in the AFC East, not even impressive, not even a
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second place finish. Whatever they have done, three four gms,
three four head coaches, five or six quarterbacks, none of
it has worked. That is a stunning losing streak. We're
not one of those things has worked. Not one GM,
not one head coach, not one quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You think one year, a decade, how about it make
you feel when you saw the graphic that Zach Wilson,
Sam Darnold had better winning percentages as Jen. Now look,
if you look at the numbers, Aaron Rodgers is having
a better year this year than any of those guys
the past five years winning right. Still, Rogers put seventeen
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touchdowns on the board. Donald didn't do that, and he
did it in a whole season. Rogers has done that
in eleven games. Not that Rogers is going crazy, But
what did I say last year?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
If Rogers just has an average year of twenty five
touchdowns and twelve picks, the Jets will be fine. But no,
the Jets completely have failed. So I get getting rid
of Joe Douglas because they have to, and they need
new leadership. They want to go get a GM. Why
wait and have a lame duck search. No, I get it.
This is not the tire fire part. This is the
tire fire part. Wait, we're getting We're at that now.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
If you don't like that location, like when you have
to look at Christmas lights all this house thinks, Oh
that house is great, I'll take you to the tire
fire location. I got a neighborhood down by my place
that you should go check out. I go all the time,
go to the all the time.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Sure yeah, chocolate, never thought yea. So a report from
the Athletic Today that says Woody Johnson, Jets owner who
has fired Robert Sola earlier this year, now fired Joe
Douglas wanted to fire Aaron Rodgers earlier this year after
the loss in Week four that dropped the Jets to
two and two. He wanted to bench Rogers, felt he
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wasn't playing well enough. Wanted the team to go to
Rod Taylor, And there was a big meeting met with
Solo and Joe Douglass and a lot of other coaches
and hey, they looked into it, and he was eventually
talked out of it by saying, hey, they knew that
he wasn't playing great, but making this move now would
alienate Rogers and it would send a horrible message through
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the locker room, like if you do this, it's not
going to have the effect you think it will. So
we can't do this now. But he wanted to bench Rogers,
who they went crazy for for a whole offseason, then
a whole season and he's played four games and now
he wants to bench him. He's not playing well. We
got to bench him. Like, what do I always say,
if you're a bad team, you will get past any invention,
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incarnation you get. If you have a bad GM, he'll
get fired. If you have a bad head coach, he'll
get fired. I have a bad quarterback, eventually he'll get
cut right and you'll be onto what's next. But if
you have a bad owner, you are stuck. You are
stuck as long as he owns the team. In the beginning,
when he bought the Jets, everything was good, the playoffs
every other year, they had a couple of big runs.
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But the last decade plus, the more he got involved
with things and the more snap decisions he made, the
worst things got. And not that the Jets would suddenly
have been winning games with Robert Sala, because they wouldn't,
but just the firing of Sala, the firing of Joe Douglas,
Who want to bench Aaron Rodgers after four weeks? Like,
you can't get past when your owner stinks. Just ask
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Dallas Cowboys fans. You can't get past when your owner stinks.
And that's a really difficult thing because I know, basically, hey,
I'm at the point where I know that I'm never
gonna expect anything from the Jets, right, you say, hope
is a dangerous thing. I go into every Jets season
expecting nothing, and that way, I'll never be disappointed you.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
You were pretty excitable, right, But that's why. But that's
I gotta check. Tried to warn you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'll be excited about the Mets because they're run really well, right,
and they are. I'll be excited about the Knicks they're
run really well. But the Jets, hey, whatever you win,
because I'm not expecting anything because you're an absolute dumpster fire.
How a game can go by, how you're a New
York team and you have the longest playoff drought in
the NFL is amazing, and you may you watch teams
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like the Lions that had less going on than you
for a long time, and suddenly they're the favorites to
get to the super Bowl. And the Jets can't get
anything right. Nothing, They can't get anything right.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Culture changers and an ownership group to get the hell
out of the way. And trust me, I'm watching the
McCaskey hallis the next iteration of whatever that is and
whatever it becomes with Eberflus. Remember all of the style
of the Hard Knocks era, of let's do an entire
episode where this guy sits in a freaking barber chair. Really,
(24:41):
I mean that there you go, all right, so we
got that going for you. So you got that for
your jets. You gave it Rogers a ton of power
like whatever those conversations were. And that's the curiosity of
what flipped based on this new report of wanting to
bench him after week four because you went along with
his entire plan. Here's Hackett, here's former packer receivers that
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are brought in who really only function with him.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That was proof positive last year.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I mean, Lazard looked really good until he got hurt
this year, right playing with Aaron Rodgers again because he
knows where he's gonna be. They know the timing, they
know the rhythm, all of that stuff, and you're able
to overcome a little bit of the offensive line woes
when you have that type of chemistry. And we've seen
it in spurts, but not consistently enough. Story you're getting
over not to mention the complete cratering of what was
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once heralded as a big defense, but yeah, if the
ownership isn't going to get out of the way, and
now you've got to divide. If whatever truth there is
to this, how happy you think Rogers is sitting there
right now?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No, he feels like everybody's gone. However, this is where Isaac,
when you think I'm gonna zeg Because as much as
it seems like, okay, Rogers has no future with the Jets,
you's all. I'll tell you all. They have to move on.
That course, have to move on. But your next GM
is gonna come in and he is gonna say patience,
which is a tough sell because Jets fan, we've been
pretty patient.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, No, we're gonna suck for another couple of years.
We're not gonna rush a young quarterback in because you
saw what happened with Darnold, you saw what happened with
Zach Wilson. We're not gonna rush a young quarterback in.
Aaron Rodgers also knows that the next seven weeks six
seven weeks, he is playing for his NFL future. No
other team is going to sign him, so that's out.
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So it's either I come back with the Jets next
year or I'm done. Now Now you see see what
he's how he's looked over the course of the bet.
No one's gonna say, oh, you're a guy coming in, like,
would they sign him as a backup? Yeah? I think so,
But as Rogers may be back up, forget it. But
if he plays well over the course of the next
few weeks and the Jets finish well, which they've done
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in the past, after the season is long gone, I
can see the Jets saying, Okay, Rogers, still one more year.
He's well liked in the building. Maybe it's a maybe.
We can convince ourselves that he need a full year
to get off his achilles injury and not be skittish
in the pocket, and.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
We can do one more year with Rogers. Meanwhile, knowing
full well, we got Jordan Travis who we really like,
and we're gonna draft a quarterback early, and Rogers, can
you have one more year?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
He can make whatever announcement he wants to make. This
is it for me. I'm hoping to leave with the
Super Bowl time, blah blah blah, all this, and he
will have one more year if he plays well. He
knows this next six seven weeks now, if he wants
to keep playing, this is what he needs, because that
will happen if he plays well and finishes the season.
He will be a Jet next year, and the Jets
will take next year to be that bridge year to
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get to the next level of the team because it
will be a big over. There's gonna be a lot
of overturn on the roster. Now, the flip side of
it is this, if Rogers stinks over the course of the
next few weeks, the Jets keep losing and Rogers plays
kind of like he is now where he's skittish, he
doesn't throw the ball downfield like like he used to.
Sometime shortly after Christmas, he will announce that this is it.
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I'm finished wishing this season and I'm retiring. It didn't
and the way I wanted to in New York, we
gave it a great run. I'm happy with where I'm at.
I'm happy with my decision, and I'm gonna have this
next couple of weeks being my going away present to
the NFL. And he will get in front of everybody
because he's not gonna be someone that's told you can't
play anymore. The best players say that they're not told
you can't play. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit this
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from the ground running. He's not gonna be someone where
the Jets are gonna say, hey, you're going to be
a post June one salary cap cut so we can
save twelve million dollars, which they would be able to.
They'll figure out some kind of buyout retiring because he's
owed twenty five million dollars for next year. That kind
of money, they can figure it out. But if he's
not good, if he doesn't improve, then he will want it.
Shortly after Christmas, we'll get a big Aaron Rodgers bomb,
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either on McAfee somewhere else him and he will maybe
he's somewhere after a vacation saying hey, I'm done, this
is it. I'm finishing this season, and it's my last
couple of weeks in the NFL. And he has a
two week going away period where he gets his flowers,
what a great career, first ballot Hall of Famer, all
the different plaudits you get. But he's not gonna be
a guy that sits out there in the offseason and is, hey, dude,
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do I sign? Is someone gonna give me? Do I
keep it going? He's not gonna be that guy.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Tied for the tenth easiest schedule remaining in the National
Football League. You've got dates against the Bills, Rams, and Seahawks.
One against the Jaguars. I mean that's the one. I
think you'd probably just do your drop the mic because
you're gonna throw for three to eighty because they quit,
and then.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Is he really? But then you got the Dolphins for
two games.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
He's not going anywhere, like unless it's irreparable with Woody Johnson.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
He's a jet.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And even if he's not a Jet, I find it
hard to believe that there's not one team that'll be
desperate enough. I know, we've got a couple of quarterbacks
coming out in the draft. How many of those guys
do you really think are impact, get right to it
type players. We've been lucky where we've seen flashes from
most of the first round guys that have gone right
(29:59):
bo Nick's become a pretty interesting story in Denver and
the balance that they've had.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
But you look.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
At you know, the Raiders or any of these teams
that are cycling around. I mean, it could all be
fixed by the fact that if Stefanski does get fired,
see a call back.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You gotta listen to the whole.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Show by the Browns that whatever the Brins truck Is
and Aaron Rodgers needs to show up personally to try
to move Kevin Stefanski to New York.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Honey, Yonda would.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Come live in New Jersey for a while. I really
could use some help. Yeah, listen, I kind of need something.
Do you have any desire at all? I called HATSLM.
I told him what a bad guy you are, and
he's gonna fire you. So then we're gonna take you.
Just so you know, I was a source of all that,
just because I need.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You here in New York with me. Exit out out
of Frasca, exit Swallingdome. So that's how the next few
months are gonna go for Aaron Rodgers. How do things
go in the world of sports tonight? Luckily Martin weiss
And is newly minted Detroit Lions hoodie is gonna tell
us all the results of the actions right now.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Man, NBA Cup was was intense tonight, fellas the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's always intense, I know, Mancid, it counts year after
year after year.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I've always waited for the NBA Cup.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
It's like Christmas Day. You see that crazy ass floor,
you know you're getting the game right.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
The Cavaliers got hitded their first loss of the year.
They were fifteen to oh prior to today It's one seventeen
the score. Jason Tatum led to Celtics thirty three points,
twelve rebound, seven assists. The Spurs beat the Thunder one
oh four to one. I'm Sorry one ten to one
oh four. Victor Winbiyama was out for rest. Okc falls
to eleven and four. The Lakers remain undefeated at home.
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They beat the Jazz one twenty two to one thirteen.
Dalton connect made nine three pointers, tying the NBA rookie record.
LA has won its last six games in a row.
The top two teams in the NHL Central Division get wins.
The Jets sixty three over the Panthers in a while
beat the Blues four to two. The AL manager of
the Year in Major League Baseball's Guardians manager Stephen Vote,
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the ANL Manager of the Year Brewers manager Pat Murphy,
and men's college basketball fifteenth ranth Marquette beat sixthreinth per
Due sixty seventy six to fifty eight. Number one Kansas
and Yukon Kentucky, Cincinnati and Florida all winners. All ranked
in the top twenty five. You guys are just talking
about it. But the Athletic reporting that Jets owner Woody
Johnson suggested benching quarterback Aaron Rodgers after the team lost
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to the Broncos in Week four. Robert Sala was the
head coach and GM Joe Douglas. They convinced Johnson to
change his mind. Sawad fired two weeks later. Joe Douglas
was fired yesterday. Jason, Mike, you guys weren't fired yesterday,
so you got a little bit more of a radio
show to do.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
No, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
All right, much good breaking news, I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Thank you. Jock's coming up next, we have the latest
on a record setting night for one NBA rookie, plus
what to Make Sense and something you haven't heard about
the Cavaliers. Who's Unbeaten Street came to an end tonight.
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
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is time for the Express Pros Pro of the Week.
But well, when you tie a rookie record for three
pointers made in the game and you hit six in
a quarter, well, Dalton Connect, you get to be the
pro of the week. You don't have the crowd walks
and if you're the Reskers, you got to give them
the ball. You got to give them the ball. Okay,
I think they're gonna be. You got Williams out of
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the zonne now here is it as about it.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
He's going He's going on it.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Lakers Radio Network, on the Lakers TV. On the call,
Billy Matt, congrats to Dalton Connect for being our Express
Pros Pro of the week. Now there's a little bit
to be said here on a little bit something to
look this guy's the story of the night. Right thirty
seven points for Connect, thirty in a row, who was
drafted number seventeen overall Lebron James is asked about Dalton
(34:29):
Connecting the post game tonight, and you know, he's being
very chesty. He can remember he was a guy saying
I want this guy go back to go back to
the NCAA tournament. Anyways, wanted to watch Dalton connect one
hundred percent like he was he was on Connecting and yes, absolutely,
And he was asked about Connecting about the you know
what he thought about him coming up and getting him
the draft, and he said, we didn't really do so
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much as sixteen other teams blanked up. Lebron did a
lot of cursing in his post game tonight. Yeah, I
did a look at him. Yeah, we didn't do it
as much as other teams blanked up.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Then was asked about what you saw in connect last
season at Tennessee. He goes the same blank I said
last year. Everybody on the internet calls me a liar
all the time. They say a lie about every blank
and thing. So what am I?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
This is great?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
This might be the most I've ever applauded and agreed
with something.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Lebron said, you take that victory? Laugh? Wow, how do
you like me?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
This is like Dave Roberts saying, talk to me about
my bullpend management and my starting pitching and relief pitching plan.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Talk to me about that now. But this actually gets dancing. Yes,
this gets into.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
A point we made earlier about how the happy accident
the Lakers had when they discovered they had to bench
D'Angelo Russell, and it was probably a motivational thing, but
they discovered that, Wow, the team functions better with Lebron
at point guard and the Angela Russell off the bench.
Lebron opens things up more there, more efficient. He's better
with the basketball than D'Angelo Russell is. The Russell can
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come off the bench and just play his game. But
there is you know, to sit here and say, okay,
you know it's a happy accident, and boy, you really
have to say we got lucky on that one. You
have to think, if you're the Lakers, okay, we have
used up our luck for maybe the next two or
three seasons. Because yeah, when you're drafting, once you get
(36:24):
outside the top three or four in the NBA, you're
throwing a dart. It's all developmental. Guys. You're in the lottery,
in the back end of the lot and you're saying
we're drafting a guy that maybe in three years can
be something because we have to develop him. And it's
about getting lucky. And here's Dalton Connect coming in at
number seventeen overall, and in any metric you look. You
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look at any rookie rankings over the course of the
season so far, and Dalt connects to the top three.
Right like Stefan Cass who I told you I loved
and he was my guy in the draft. He's right
up there to McCain. Has been phenomenal for the seventy
six ers, especially with Maxi being out. But here's Dalt
connect his drafted seventeenth, seventeenth and the Lakers got him,
and look, you know the talent he has. You don't
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score thirty seven by accent, You don't hit six threes
in a quarter by accent. This is not one of those. Hey,
the ball just happened to fall for it. This wasn't
Nemhard against the Knicks in game against the Pacers where
he closed his eyes and threw the ball in. Uh,
he's hero. You have to you know what you can plan,
You can figure things out, you can you can get
it down to every decimal point. But sometimes you just
(37:28):
have to catch a break, and the Lakers caught a
break that Connect didn't get snapped up by anybody else.
And he came to the right situation with a player
who loves him. And there's something to be said that
when you have a player on your team that's gonna
distribute the ball most of the time and there's a
guy he really likes, guess who he's.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Going to pass the ball to and give every chance
to succeed. Dalton Connect. If Dalton Connect wasn't his guy,
maybe the ball doesn't go there. Dare you talk about
the invisible hand of Lebron James Gutting Dalton Connects, maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Three or four more shots, Dame, go to Anthony Davis,
a three or four more, go to Austin Reeves, or
go to Ruya Chimura when he's in there. But you know,
if this guy that's gonna be handling the ball likes you,
he's gonna get you the basketball and you're gonna be
in a position to succeed. And look at what's happened
so far, Lebron has made sure of that. You think
you see him thumping his chest right here, going I
(38:19):
told you all about him he's gonna get on the
floor and Dalt Connect's gonna come out of a game
where he doesn't have a big game. Of course not
since Lebron has taken over, Connect has been better, the
team has been better. He's gonna make sure. Yes, they
caught a huge break. Sometimes you just have to get lucky.
They were lucky. He lasts till seventeen and they went
to a team where the biggest superstar on the team says,
(38:40):
you're my guy, You are my number one Ny, And
look at what Connect is doing, because Lebron's gonna make
sure he succeeded. Because as you see Lebron, hey, you
maybe look bad by saying Dalt Connect is no good?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
What do you say about me now? At all the
blankety blankety blankety blanks. He's gonna make sure he succeeds.
Really taking the victory lap. Maybe a little early, right,
but on a record breaking night, why not you take
care of business in your Emirates Cup game. You win
by six, You did get the game to the over.
It was two thirty four and a half, so we
got to forty two, so you got that victory. But
(39:14):
when all said and done, you needed a shooter. You
identified that shooter in college and found him. And now
with the ball moving as crisply as it does from
Lebron's hands and others, and how many behind the back
passes and things where he started getting Globe Trotter esque
at times, but a wide open connect. He's a guy
(39:35):
that's gonna hit shots and they fell into a good thing.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Tell me, man, just got to get lucky, that's all
it is. Exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dough.
Maybe the Jets can get lucky with the next general,
but probably not coming up next, I guess so, My
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Actually tight is really?
The Dalton Connect night? Really is got it? A big deal?
Nine to three pointers tie an NBA record by a rookie. Yeah,
you're burying the lead though. Connect scores thirty seven thirty
seven in a row. As the Lakers beat the Jazz,
(00:52):
they win again one twenty four to one eighteen. Their
win streak is at six. Connect feeling so hot. He
actually hit a three at one point and did the
Jordans shrug at the Lakers bench as he was going
back up the floor.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I'll look forward to the trading card of that being
released tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Oh, that was the best you did.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Bury the lead on this game, though, Okay, what was
a burial the entire night? The Jazz score forty three
points in the fourth quarter, one twenty four, one eighteen,
your final the spread eleven.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
You were licking bills if you were a Lakers backer.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Tonight you were, and they let you down with a
half ass fourth quarter out.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
You thought that was gonna happen. And how about that?
You were really uh, you were really you were really
nervous looking watching the last thirty seconds of this game?
Was that Janear Smith? I go, oh yeah, gambling, okay,
because I have like it's inid love it. Oh gambling,
got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
All about gambling? At that point was a nine point game?
Has had the ball. It's like, all right, they missed
a shot. You're going to the line.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Maybe you could at least eat the push out of
it instead give up.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
A couple, another couple of buckets, a couple of point
points and here we are six point wait but nine
to oh now in cup play? Yeah, you want to
talk about an Arab dominance that has begun? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Yeah, we need a thirty for thirty on the Lakers
ist slash Emirates. Think about the pregame speeches.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
All right, I already have this five hundred thousand dollars
spent you guys, let's go. Lebron says, you know how
much money, you know what arab Aramitz is donated to.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But uh, this is where you have to sit back
and go, Okay, it's time to take the Lakers for real.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
We've talked a lot about the Happy accident when it happened. Hey,
the Lakers might have hit on something the night had
happened when they had to bench D'Angelo Russell because he
was so bad. And look at what the Lakers have
found very quickly that the team is more efficient better
with Lebron at point guard him coming off the bench. Again,
happy accident. But you have to take the Lakers seriously
because yes, it is the forty year old legs of
(02:55):
Lebron James. That is the thing. It is Anthony Davis
staying healthy for the whole season, which remember.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
We had just talked about him whether he was going
to be healthy or not. And what did you have?
I pointed to it because we had it on two
screens back to back. There he was laying on the
ground like he'd been shot.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Yeah, and then fine, then he got up and he
was fine. He eventually was up, but he had a
moment where it's like, no, no, I can now tell
the times when when Anthony Davis is on the ground
that it's oh, wow, this is serious, versus he's going
to go to the locker room for five minutes and
come back, or he's gonna sit on the bench and
be back in like two minutes. Like I can tell
now when Anthony don't get what the Anthony Davis said.
(03:31):
I do like that.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
We should probably play a game where we just show
you video elements.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
What was the extent of this injury.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
But here's here's why you got to take the Lakers
more seriously because it is.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Early in the year. But you look at what they're
getting from players that they need to get more from,
and it's younger players with a bigger ceiling they haven't
gotten close to yet. It's Austin Reeves. As good as
he is, he still got a ways to go to
get to where he is. He's a he's a huge threat,
connect is still a rookie thirty seven points.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
You still have young players that you're gonna be able
to rely on for a lot of minutes, and that's
going to be a big thing for the Lakers as
a season develops, because guys like Reason Connect are gonna
get thirty three to thirty five minutes a night, where
Lebron and ad may get thirty minutes a night depending
less depending on how games go. And if that's the case, man,
(04:25):
you're gonna see the young guys be able to take
some wear and tear off the Lakers and have be
better players when it gets to the postseason. They'll rely
on these guys more. Almost kind of what the Warriors
are doing a bit because why are they so good? Hey,
they decided big strategy, very anti what they've had the
last few years. We're gonna play the young guys. Right
(04:45):
up until this year was yeah, we got young guys.
We tried to give them some responsibility. When they tried
to give all the young guys a ton of responsibility,
it didn't work. So then the Warriors decided, no, no, we
can't do that. We got to just play our big vets.
And then they decided before the season, and Rick Buker
told us how we spoke to Steve Kerr and Steve Curson.
I don't care what happens. We are playing our young guys.
We are determined and we are bent on playing the
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young guys. And look what they're doing. It's like a
fourteen man rotation in Golden State and they're playing really well.
The same thing with the Lakers. Okay, we're going to
now not just lean on the vets. We're going to
play the young guys, play them through big portions of
the game, let them make mistakes, let him become better players.
And so you're seeing reeves in Connecticut. They're all getting
(05:27):
many more minutes than even Cam Reddish getting trusted really
for the first time as an NBA starter a little
bit with the Knicks, but now we had playing twenty
five minutes a game with the Lakers. So as long
as they're trusting the young.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Guys and they are able to go on an upward
curve over the course of the season, I'm telling you
watch out for the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah, I'm still worry about the depth when it's all
said and done in terms of what happens to an injury,
but I think we do that with most teams. So
I pushed that aside shows tonight and what you saw
with the rotation, and yes, you take a little in
to account the fact that it's a jazz team that
let's just face it, they're not good. They've got that
(06:05):
big problem lingering over them. But the rotation of the basketball,
the extra pass movement off the ball, like all those
things that you would say, well, JJ Reddick is going
to be harping on the fundamentals. Well, you're watching it
night tonight, and certainly after that one little stretch that
they had a few games ago, which was the D'Angelo
(06:28):
Russell moment, which was at the end of a pretty
long road trip. That everything's settled back in now again,
it's early in the campaign and we'll see how it
flows and what this roster looks like by the time
we get to.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
The trade deadline.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
A lot of stuff swirling in between. Who the Dodgers
are meeting with, who the Mets sign? Congratulations just on
Syria there, Buddy Jass.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We signed an outfielder whose initials are JS. We're ready taking.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Battle fool the Mets fans pretty soon. The bounty is
gonna be like the Paul Sken's MLB debut patched thing
out of the tops product, where you're gonna have Steve
Cohen going, I'll go one hundred million over anything anybody says,
but the fact is you're eventually gonna make some move.
There were reports today that they're looking at big men
(07:21):
to try to fortify that rotation. Obviously no hat Chimura here,
and he's been a pivotal member, but.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Always looking to add depth again.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Owing to the fact that you want to hit a
point in the season where you have the opportunity maybe
not to rest Ad and Lebron entirely, but to restrict
some of those minutes and take some of the wear
off of their legs, especially in matchups like this. And
I joke about the eleven point spread. The game was
never in doubt right, Lakers cruised for the most part
(07:52):
until it got a little interesting towards the end. But
all of that to say, you're gonna have some of
these moments because we know you have the and have
knots across the NBA, So on those nights, well, to
make sure you got enough of a rotation that they
can still get you or w keep you moving towards
a six seed or better, and while making sure you're
(08:12):
judicious with the minutes of your elder statesman, because it
really doesn't matter. You can make the playoffs and if
Lebron's gas. No matter what you know, the super serum
to go all Captain America is what he's been able
to do and what he does that we all marvel at.
Eventually you run out of gas, and you saw it
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even last year towards the end. So now it's the
question of do you get enough depth? And last year
it was about Vincent and Vanderbilt and those guys. Well,
Vincent's back gave him nineteen minutes tonight. The fortification of
that front line is going to be pivotal for any
postseason aspirations.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Now elsewhere in the NBA. We'll get to the NFL
coming up in a couple minutes, but the Lakers win
this game. Want to bring you the news of Dalt
Connects a record rookie tying game. Here at this point,
it's just a fade Accompley that Joel Embiid is going
to be a non member of the seventy six ers,
either by the deadline or in the offseason. The story
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today is just too embarrassing to think that there's any
way that this relationship with the Sixers can be saved.
Tyres Max, who has become a terrific player, with the
Sixers and their big playoff hero last year. He and
Joel Embiid are kind of tight, but the story gets
out today that Maxi had to challenge Embiid about being
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on time to team activities and practices and meetings because
Embiid wasn't. This is just the latest in a bad
optic and run of Joel Embiid just not seeming to
really care about what goes on with the Sixers, whether
it's him fighting with a writer or getting mad with
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because of his questions about sitting out. Look, he missed
a game with an illness last night. Does it seem
like Embiid in the Sixers can be saved. No, both
sides need a fresh start. And Embiid is someone who
you could see this coming for a while. He has
never been a leader. He's a guy.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
This is a guy who's an MVP who is now
being called out by another player on the team about
saying you need to set a better example. Like this
to me is the final straw where I.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Think that today, this is where the Sixers say, you
know what, we gotta move on now. We can only
trade him once, so we got to trade him at
these at the maximum value and distress, and you can
but you can say, hey, oh, but they brought in
Paul George to be around it and have a big three. Now, yeah,
they brought those guys to play around Joel Embiid, But
I think they kind of thought that, hey, if we
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have to move on from Embiid, we have another star
in there that can play, and then who knows what
we get on the Embid trade. But at this point
this is not gonna be saved. The Sixers are terrible.
Who knows if he's even gonna be motivated to get
it and play when he has been playing, he's been
out of shape, he's not ready to play. He is
simply just going through the motions. So he needs to
get out and the Sixers need to move on from him.
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But again it's got to be when he's at a
high points. He is a distressed property now, so they
need him to get back playing well and then they
can move him. So by the deadline potentially or in
the offseason, after Embiid has time to rest and be
healthy and say I feel great, I'm ready to go.
But that's going to happen if if you put the
over under at future games however many games Joelle Embid
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has left as a seventy six er and put it
at forty. I would take the under. It's just gonna happen,
and both sides of the fresh start it works because
Embiid will go somewhere for a year or two and
be motivated until his body starts to break down because
he's gonna be like Shaquille O'Neil. I'm not gonna take
care of my body, and eventually I'm just gonna be disinterested.
But for the first couple of years you get him.
As long as he is healthy and motivated. Wow, you're
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gonna get a guy that could potentially bring you to
the NBA Finals, if not more. He needs to go
on a team where he's not the number one guy.
Now have to go fit in somewhere a little bit
and find my way, kind of like Kevin Durant to
the Warriors. But that will do it, and he'll be
juiced up.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
He'll just blow torch the Sixers on the way out
and be mad.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
It's not gonna be the Nicks, obviously, because we got
Big Bodega. But some team is going to say yes.
The next couple of years. The Joel Embiid gamble is
worth it, and the Sixers can move on. They can
save all kinds of money, go out and get whatever
else they need, and Joel Embiid gets a fresh start.
It feels like that is inevitable after the story today,
when your best player is called out by another guy
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and says you need to be doing better. Yeah, that's it.
That's done. Well a couple of things. I mean, you
got him go into the finals. He goes through it like,
look we got in the finals. Shit, I didn't think
Porzingis ever get to an NBA finals. The guy won
the bleeping championship. Come on, man, Hey, hey ex Jason
team guy. Now, yeah, we get it. There's a running
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theme in those kind of things. Hey, how about those
guys that want to title with the Rangers. Let's talk
about them. Say it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I wouldn't trust his body if I'm opposing potentially acquiring
GM and motivation seem to be lost. Yeah, you might
get a honeymoon period. The thing that's also interesting though,
is Max He's hurt right. He hasn't played since the
seventh of the month. He's got a hamstring injury that's
supposed to keep him out a couple of weeks and
early diagnosis was potentially even worse. The fact that he's saying, dude,
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look at we're spiraling. Lowry calls the team meeting there
two and eleven, and this guy's late. He's not really
showing he wants to be on a basketball court, and
the guy that physically can't be on the court with
you is going, come on, man, we need something from you,
and you're saying no, Like the expectations are so damn low.
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Give us some sort of effort that the fans can
cling to a little bit of hope as opposed to
thirteen games in going.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I don't know. It's like Darren Rodgers, you gonna play
next year?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I guess so. Yeah, maybe maybe exit out out of Fresca,
exit swollen. Don't look, it's just gonna happen. It's just
a matter of time. But Joel embiid X seventy six er,
that's coming, uh, coming up next? Yes, you thought all
the drama surrounding the Jets was done today when they
fired their general manager. Oh no, things got even more
embarrassing a few hours later. Wait, what's this new story?
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We'll tell you about it next right here, Jason and Mike.
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (14:42):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live from Thetirack dot Com Studios. Oh
you love this tie shirt because I thinking about you
this weekend. Oh my god, I think about you every day, Jay,
of course you do. Uh, somebody on TikTok TikTok put
this Together're hanging out on TikTok tik talkers. It's one
of those no, no, no, It's one of those things where
I get suggested it on Instagram, like reels or something.
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I get, oh, here whatever it is, and I got suggested,
and it was someone that put this together, and it
was The Avengers. If it was a network television show
in nineteen eighty nine, what the opening credits would look like? Okay,
So if the Avengers, the Avengers, the whole you know,
movie theater the Avengers put together, if it was as
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if it was a nineteen eighty nine television show, so
of course, yes, so, of course you know they had
of course they know they Thanos was Robert de Niro
was Theenos? No, right, yes, And they did all the
and it was it was the the opening credits as
it looked like a network TV show from nineteen eighty nine.
One wasn't he also the parrot in Aladdin?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
That was Gilbert Gottfrey. Why am I not surprised, Jeff
A just stop my fingers, Jeff. Uh So they put
the thing together and it was here's Robert Downey Junior
as Iron Man. It's Brad Pitt, even though it was
like three years to early. Brad Pitt is Captain America.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
All this and then it got to where John no, no, no, no,
no to John Stamos as Loki Nicholas Case and I
thought of you, I said, Nicholas Cage would have been
an awesome nineteen ninety Loki, it would.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Have been an awesome you know. Thor we have to
get to as guard. I can't pull the big sword
out of the thing and save him. Notat it's a
little bit too early for Idris. Elma, come on, Thoor,
we have to go save the world. You know, I
love you maybe I don't.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I don't know, you want to drift towards Owen Wilson,
but you're right there.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
It's a little bit wow. No, Schwarzenegger was the Hulk. Uh,
I can't breathe out my left side of my nose.
To me, Moore was a scarlet witch.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Like.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
It was pretty cool when I saw the When I
saw that, Oh yeah, Tysher will love that one.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
That's at a moment walking my dog where someone had like
five dogs on leashes and they basically took a stance
against me and mine like they were the Avengers.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Like hey, look, Avengers assembly.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
So it's like the woman started get it now, I
get they're gonna say.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It was like all the Lokis.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There was Alligator Loki, and there was that would have
been I never went back for season two.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I could be Loki now, I could do it now.
I know I'm seventy, but I could be Lucky now
I could do it. No, which not the way it
is just little Owen Wilson in uh wow, I was homeless.
It's like you mean dupre he was homeless? Uh yes,
Owen Wilson, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was talking
about Yeah. No, yes, I didn't. I didn't know what
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I didn't know what you were doing for a second. Yeah,
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
You have to give me the Owen Wilson filmography before
I knew you were doing.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
You me and Dupree. Okay, dog Marley died.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Hey how much lacquer did you put on this thing?
You could? Oh, it's so much on there. Uh, the
Jets killed Joe Douglas. The Jets killed Carl and they
killed Robert Sala and now they killed Joe Douglas. Now
they're going down the list. They fire their GM today
we will get to the big crazy. If you think
that's a crazy story, Oh no, we got something to
top you.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Like, it's like it's Nicholas Cage from nineteen ninety to
twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
We're gonna top it. And when this happened, and I'm like, Okay,
there's a tire fire angle to this story. This is
not it. There is a huge dumpster fire jets angle
to which we'll get to, but this is not it because,
quite honestly, I get it because Joe Douglas failed. He
had all kinds of time to build a good team
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and he didn't. Did he draft well, a couple of players.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, But basically you're talking about a guy that's been
the GM for five years and.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Was able to bring in two quarterbacks. Usually you fail
if your first quarterback doesn't work. Yeah, but he's able
to go. We don't think Darnold's our guy. We're drafting
Zach Wilson. Nope, we're letting you bring in another quarterback
to work. That didn't work, didn't work. The offensive line
is supposed to be his specialty, like that was his thing,
and I thought, coming in, Okay, I know for certain
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the offensive line is gonna be great because that's what
he does. Ever year was the same. It was like
the chief cycling through wide receivers every year for the
Jets was we're drafting a guy who doesn't seem to
pan out to be really good. Or we're gonna gamble
in free agency with a guy who was good a
few years ago but is coming off an injury and
we're gonna sign him for a short term deal. Yeah,
here's free offensive lineman the Jets of stuff. But you
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went to work.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, but you went to all the Chiefs guys, and
even if they weren't world beaters, guess what they're all
wearing rings.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
They didn't tear the ship down as opposed to all
your offensive linemen. It does did not help them out
of them and get them sputtering.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
A lot of them stunk.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But at least you didn't cut a guy that you
signed ten weeks ago, three years and thirty million dollars
and let it be the fourth headline of your week
like the Bears.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Lots of there, lots of guys stunk. It was time
for it was really, it was time for him to go,
and the Jets need to start the search for their
next GM. Meanwhile, is it really gonna help? No, it's
the Jets. The Jets are on us stunning run of
going on ten years of not finishing higher than third
in the AFC East, not even impressive, not even a
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second place finish. Whatever they have done, three four gms,
three four head coaches, five or six quarterbacks, none of
it has worked. That is a stunning losing streak. We're
not one of those things has worked. Not one GM,
not one head coach, not one quarterback.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
You think one year, a decade, how about it make
you feel when you saw the graphic that Zach Wilson,
Sam Darnold had better winning percentages as Jen. Now look,
if you look at the numbers, Aaron Rodgers is having
a better year this year than any of those guys
the past five years winning right. Still, Rogers put seventeen
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touchdowns on the board. Donald didn't do that, and he
did it in a whole season. Rogers has done that
in eleven games. Not that Rogers is going crazy, But
what did I say last year?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
If Rogers just has an average year of twenty five
touchdowns and twelve picks, the Jets will be fine. But no,
the Jets completely have failed. So I get getting rid
of Joe Douglas because they have to, and they need
new leadership. They want to go get a GM. Why
wait and have a lame duck search. No, I get it.
This is not the tire fire part. This is the
tire fire part. Wait, we're getting We're at that now.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
If you don't like that location, like when you have
to look at Christmas lights all this house thinks, Oh
that house is great, I'll take you to the tire
fire location. I got a neighborhood down by my place
that you should go check out. I go all the time,
go to the all the time.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Sure yeah, chocolate, never thought yea. So a report from
the Athletic Today that says Woody Johnson, Jets owner who
has fired Robert Sola earlier this year, now fired Joe
Douglas wanted to fire Aaron Rodgers earlier this year after
the loss in Week four that dropped the Jets to
two and two. He wanted to bench Rogers, felt he
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wasn't playing well enough. Wanted the team to go to
Rod Taylor, And there was a big meeting met with
Solo and Joe Douglass and a lot of other coaches
and hey, they looked into it, and he was eventually
talked out of it by saying, hey, they knew that
he wasn't playing great, but making this move now would
alienate Rogers and it would send a horrible message through
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the locker room, like if you do this, it's not
going to have the effect you think it will. So
we can't do this now. But he wanted to bench Rogers,
who they went crazy for for a whole offseason, then
a whole season and he's played four games and now
he wants to bench him. He's not playing well. We
got to bench him. Like, what do I always say,
if you're a bad team, you will get past any invention,
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incarnation you get. If you have a bad GM, he'll
get fired. If you have a bad head coach, he'll
get fired. I have a bad quarterback, eventually he'll get
cut right and you'll be onto what's next. But if
you have a bad owner, you are stuck. You are
stuck as long as he owns the team. In the beginning,
when he bought the Jets, everything was good, the playoffs
every other year, they had a couple of big runs.
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But the last decade plus, the more he got involved
with things and the more snap decisions he made, the
worst things got. And not that the Jets would suddenly
have been winning games with Robert Sala, because they wouldn't,
but just the firing of Sala, the firing of Joe Douglas,
Who want to bench Aaron Rodgers after four weeks? Like,
you can't get past when your owner stinks. Just ask
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Dallas Cowboys fans. You can't get past when your owner stinks.
And that's a really difficult thing because I know, basically, hey,
I'm at the point where I know that I'm never
gonna expect anything from the Jets, right, you say, hope
is a dangerous thing. I go into every Jets season
expecting nothing, and that way, I'll never be disappointed you.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
You were pretty excitable, right, But that's why. But that's
I gotta check. Tried to warn you.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I'll be excited about the Mets because they're run really well, right,
and they are. I'll be excited about the Knicks they're
run really well. But the Jets, hey, whatever you win,
because I'm not expecting anything because you're an absolute dumpster fire.
How a game can go by, how you're a New
York team and you have the longest playoff drought in
the NFL is amazing, and you may you watch teams
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like the Lions that had less going on than you
for a long time, and suddenly they're the favorites to
get to the super Bowl. And the Jets can't get
anything right. Nothing, They can't get anything right.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Culture changers and an ownership group to get the hell
out of the way. And trust me, I'm watching the
McCaskey hallis the next iteration of whatever that is and
whatever it becomes with Eberflus. Remember all of the style
of the Hard Knocks era, of let's do an entire
episode where this guy sits in a freaking barber chair. Really,
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I mean that there you go, all right, so we
got that going for you. So you got that for
your jets. You gave it Rogers a ton of power
like whatever those conversations were. And that's the curiosity of
what flipped based on this new report of wanting to
bench him after week four because you went along with
his entire plan. Here's Hackett, here's former packer receivers that
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are brought in who really only function with him.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
That was proof positive last year.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I mean, Lazard looked really good until he got hurt
this year, right playing with Aaron Rodgers again because he
knows where he's gonna be. They know the timing, they
know the rhythm, all of that stuff, and you're able
to overcome a little bit of the offensive line woes
when you have that type of chemistry. And we've seen
it in spurts, but not consistently enough. Story you're getting
over not to mention the complete cratering of what was
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once heralded as a big defense, but yeah, if the
ownership isn't going to get out of the way, and
now you've got to divide. If whatever truth there is
to this, how happy you think Rogers is sitting there
right now?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
No, he feels like everybody's gone. However, this is where Isaac,
when you think I'm gonna zeg Because as much as
it seems like, okay, Rogers has no future with the Jets,
you's all. I'll tell you all. They have to move on.
That course, have to move on. But your next GM
is gonna come in and he is gonna say patience,
which is a tough sell because Jets fan, we've been
pretty patient.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Now.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
No, No, we're gonna suck for another couple of years.
We're not gonna rush a young quarterback in because you
saw what happened with Darnold, you saw what happened with
Zach Wilson. We're not gonna rush a young quarterback in.
Aaron Rodgers also knows that the next seven weeks six
seven weeks, he is playing for his NFL future. No
other team is going to sign him, so that's out.
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So it's either I come back with the Jets next
year or I'm done. Now Now you see see what
he's how he's looked over the course of the bet.
No one's gonna say, oh, you're a guy coming in, like,
would they sign him as a backup? Yeah? I think so,
But as Rogers may be back up, forget it. But
if he plays well over the course of the next
few weeks and the Jets finish well, which they've done
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in the past, after the season is long gone, I
can see the Jets saying, Okay, Rogers, still one more year.
He's well liked in the building. Maybe it's a maybe.
We can convince ourselves that he need a full year
to get off his achilles injury and not be skittish
in the pocket, and.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
We can do one more year with Rogers. Meanwhile, knowing
full well, we got Jordan Travis who we really like,
and we're gonna draft a quarterback early, and Rogers, can
you have one more year?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
He can make whatever announcement he wants to make. This
is it for me. I'm hoping to leave with the
Super Bowl time, blah blah blah, all this, and he
will have one more year if he plays well. He
knows this next six seven weeks now, if he wants
to keep playing, this is what he needs, because that
will happen if he plays well and finishes the season.
He will be a Jet next year, and the Jets
will take next year to be that bridge year to
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get to the next level of the team because it
will be a big over. There's gonna be a lot
of overturn on the roster. Now, the flip side of
it is this, if Rogers stinks over the course of the
next few weeks, the Jets keep losing and Rogers plays
kind of like he is now where he's skittish, he
doesn't throw the ball downfield like like he used to.
Sometime shortly after Christmas, he will announce that this is it.
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I'm finished wishing this season and I'm retiring. It didn't
and the way I wanted to in New York, we
gave it a great run. I'm happy with where I'm at.
I'm happy with my decision, and I'm gonna have this
next couple of weeks being my going away present to
the NFL. And he will get in front of everybody
because he's not gonna be someone that's told you can't
play anymore. The best players say that they're not told
you can't play. No, I'm gonna I'm gonna hit this
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from the ground running. He's not gonna be someone where
the Jets are gonna say, hey, you're going to be
a post June one salary cap cut so we can
save twelve million dollars, which they would be able to.
They'll figure out some kind of buyout retiring because he's
owed twenty five million dollars for next year. That kind
of money, they can figure it out. But if he's
not good, if he doesn't improve, then he will want it.
Shortly after Christmas, we'll get a big Aaron Rodgers bomb,
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either on McAfee somewhere else him and he will maybe
he's somewhere after a vacation saying hey, I'm done, this
is it. I'm finishing this season, and it's my last
couple of weeks in the NFL. And he has a
two week going away period where he gets his flowers,
what a great career, first ballot Hall of Famer, all
the different plaudits you get. But he's not gonna be
a guy that sits out there in the offseason and is, hey, dude,
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do I sign? Is someone gonna give me? Do I
keep it going? He's not gonna be that guy.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Tied for the tenth easiest schedule remaining in the National
Football League. You've got dates against the Bills, Rams, and Seahawks.
One against the Jaguars. I mean that's the one. I
think you'd probably just do your drop the mic because
you're gonna throw for three to eighty because they quit,
and then.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Is he really? But then you got the Dolphins for
two games.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
He's not going anywhere, like unless it's irreparable with Woody Johnson.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
He's a jet.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
And even if he's not a Jet, I find it
hard to believe that there's not one team that'll be
desperate enough. I know, we've got a couple of quarterbacks
coming out in the draft. How many of those guys
do you really think are impact, get right to it
type players. We've been lucky where we've seen flashes from
most of the first round guys that have gone right
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bo Nick's become a pretty interesting story in Denver and
the balance that they've had.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
But you look.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
At you know, the Raiders or any of these teams
that are cycling around. I mean, it could all be
fixed by the fact that if Stefanski does get fired,
see a call back.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You gotta listen to the whole.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Show by the Browns that whatever the Brins truck Is
and Aaron Rodgers needs to show up personally to try
to move Kevin Stefanski to New York.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Honey, Yonda would.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Come live in New Jersey for a while. I really
could use some help. Yeah, listen, I kind of need something.
Do you have any desire at all? I called HATSLM.
I told him what a bad guy you are, and
he's gonna fire you. So then we're gonna take you.
Just so you know, I was a source of all that,
just because I need.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
You here in New York with me. Exit out out
of Frasca, exit Swallingdome. So that's how the next few
months are gonna go for Aaron Rodgers. How do things
go in the world of sports tonight? Luckily Martin weiss
And is newly minted Detroit Lions hoodie is gonna tell
us all the results of the actions right now.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Man, NBA Cup was was intense tonight, fellas the Celtics.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
It's always intense, I know, Mancid, it counts year after
year after year.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
I've always waited for the NBA Cup.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
It's like Christmas Day. You see that crazy ass floor,
you know you're getting the game right.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
The Cavaliers got hitded their first loss of the year.
They were fifteen to oh prior to today It's one seventeen
the score. Jason Tatum led to Celtics thirty three points,
twelve rebound, seven assists. The Spurs beat the Thunder one
oh four to one. I'm Sorry one ten to one
oh four. Victor Winbiyama was out for rest. Okc falls
to eleven and four. The Lakers remain undefeated at home.
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They beat the Jazz one twenty two to one thirteen.
Dalton connect made nine three pointers, tying the NBA rookie record.
LA has won its last six games in a row.
The top two teams in the NHL Central Division get wins.
The Jets sixty three over the Panthers in a while
beat the Blues four to two. The AL manager of
the Year in Major League Baseball's Guardians manager Stephen Vote,
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the ANL Manager of the Year Brewers manager Pat Murphy,
and men's college basketball fifteenth ranth Marquette beat sixthreinth per
Due sixty seventy six to fifty eight. Number one Kansas
and Yukon Kentucky, Cincinnati and Florida all winners. All ranked
in the top twenty five. You guys are just talking
about it. But the Athletic reporting that Jets owner Woody
Johnson suggested benching quarterback Aaron Rodgers after the team lost
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to the Broncos in Week four. Robert Sala was the
head coach and GM Joe Douglas. They convinced Johnson to
change his mind. Sawad fired two weeks later. Joe Douglas
was fired yesterday. Jason, Mike, you guys weren't fired yesterday,
so you got a little bit more of a radio
show to do.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
No, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
All right, much good breaking news, I gotcha.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Thank you. Jock's coming up next, we have the latest
on a record setting night for one NBA rookie, plus
what to Make Sense and something you haven't heard about
the Cavaliers. Who's Unbeaten Street came to an end tonight.
That's next, Jason to Mike Fox.
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is time for the Express Pros Pro of the Week.
But well, when you tie a rookie record for three
pointers made in the game and you hit six in
a quarter, well, Dalton Connect, you get to be the
pro of the week. You don't have the crowd walks
and if you're the Reskers, you got to give them
the ball. You got to give them the ball. Okay,
I think they're gonna be. You got Williams out of
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the zonne now here is it as about it.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
He's going He's going on it.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Lakers Radio Network, on the Lakers TV. On the call,
Billy Matt, congrats to Dalton Connect for being our Express
Pros Pro of the week. Now there's a little bit
to be said here on a little bit something to
look this guy's the story of the night. Right thirty
seven points for Connect, thirty in a row, who was
drafted number seventeen overall Lebron James is asked about Dalton
(34:29):
Connecting the post game tonight, and you know, he's being
very chesty. He can remember he was a guy saying
I want this guy go back to go back to
the NCAA tournament. Anyways, wanted to watch Dalton connect one
hundred percent like he was he was on Connecting and yes, absolutely,
And he was asked about Connecting about the you know
what he thought about him coming up and getting him
the draft, and he said, we didn't really do so
(34:52):
much as sixteen other teams blanked up. Lebron did a
lot of cursing in his post game tonight. Yeah, I
did a look at him. Yeah, we didn't do it
as much as other teams blanked up.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Then was asked about what you saw in connect last
season at Tennessee. He goes the same blank I said
last year. Everybody on the internet calls me a liar
all the time. They say a lie about every blank
and thing. So what am I?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
This is great?
Speaker 3 (35:21):
This might be the most I've ever applauded and agreed
with something.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Lebron said, you take that victory? Laugh? Wow, how do
you like me?
Speaker 3 (35:30):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:30):
This is like Dave Roberts saying, talk to me about
my bullpend management and my starting pitching and relief pitching plan.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Talk to me about that now. But this actually gets dancing. Yes,
this gets into.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
A point we made earlier about how the happy accident
the Lakers had when they discovered they had to bench
D'Angelo Russell, and it was probably a motivational thing, but
they discovered that, Wow, the team functions better with Lebron
at point guard and the Angela Russell off the bench.
Lebron opens things up more there, more efficient. He's better
with the basketball than D'Angelo Russell is. The Russell can
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come off the bench and just play his game. But
there is you know, to sit here and say, okay,
you know it's a happy accident, and boy, you really
have to say we got lucky on that one. You
have to think, if you're the Lakers, okay, we have
used up our luck for maybe the next two or
three seasons. Because yeah, when you're drafting, once you get
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outside the top three or four in the NBA, you're
throwing a dart. It's all developmental. Guys. You're in the lottery,
in the back end of the lot and you're saying
we're drafting a guy that maybe in three years can
be something because we have to develop him. And it's
about getting lucky. And here's Dalton Connect coming in at
number seventeen overall, and in any metric you look. You
(36:44):
look at any rookie rankings over the course of the
season so far, and Dalt connects to the top three.
Right like Stefan Cass who I told you I loved
and he was my guy in the draft. He's right
up there to McCain. Has been phenomenal for the seventy
six ers, especially with Maxi being out. But here's Dalt
connect his drafted seventeenth, seventeenth and the Lakers got him,
and look, you know the talent he has. You don't
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score thirty seven by accent, You don't hit six threes
in a quarter by accent. This is not one of those. Hey,
the ball just happened to fall for it. This wasn't
Nemhard against the Knicks in game against the Pacers where
he closed his eyes and threw the ball in. Uh,
he's hero. You have to you know what you can plan,
You can figure things out, you can you can get
it down to every decimal point. But sometimes you just
(37:28):
have to catch a break, and the Lakers caught a
break that Connect didn't get snapped up by anybody else.
And he came to the right situation with a player
who loves him. And there's something to be said that
when you have a player on your team that's gonna
distribute the ball most of the time and there's a
guy he really likes, guess who he's.
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Going to pass the ball to and give every chance
to succeed. Dalton Connect. If Dalton Connect wasn't his guy,
maybe the ball doesn't go there. Dare you talk about
the invisible hand of Lebron James Gutting Dalton Connects, maybe maybe.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Three or four more shots, Dame, go to Anthony Davis,
a three or four more, go to Austin Reeves, or
go to Ruya Chimura when he's in there. But you know,
if this guy that's gonna be handling the ball likes you,
he's gonna get you the basketball and you're gonna be
in a position to succeed. And look at what's happened
so far, Lebron has made sure of that. You think
you see him thumping his chest right here, going I
(38:19):
told you all about him he's gonna get on the
floor and Dalt Connect's gonna come out of a game
where he doesn't have a big game. Of course not
since Lebron has taken over, Connect has been better, the
team has been better. He's gonna make sure. Yes, they
caught a huge break. Sometimes you just have to get lucky.
They were lucky. He lasts till seventeen and they went
to a team where the biggest superstar on the team says,
(38:40):
you're my guy, You are my number one Ny, And
look at what Connect is doing, because Lebron's gonna make
sure he succeeded. Because as you see Lebron, hey, you
maybe look bad by saying Dalt Connect is no good?
Speaker 3 (38:52):
What do you say about me now? At all the
blankety blankety blankety blanks. He's gonna make sure he succeeds.
Really taking the victory lap. Maybe a little early, right,
but on a record breaking night, why not you take
care of business in your Emirates Cup game. You win
by six, You did get the game to the over.
It was two thirty four and a half, so we
got to forty two, so you got that victory. But
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when all said and done, you needed a shooter. You
identified that shooter in college and found him. And now
with the ball moving as crisply as it does from
Lebron's hands and others, and how many behind the back
passes and things where he started getting Globe Trotter esque
at times, but a wide open connect. He's a guy
(39:35):
that's gonna hit shots and they fell into a good thing.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Tell me, man, just got to get lucky, that's all
it is. Exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dough.
Maybe the Jets can get lucky with the next general,
but probably not coming up next, I guess so, My
buddy Ben mallor, you are listening to Fox Sports Radio Connect, Yo,
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