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Fifteen seconds, third and twenty six. Caleb's gotta make a
play here with eleven seconds to go in the game,
awaiting the snap, Gotta hurry it up. Seven to six,
takes the snap, Caleb Williams from the pocket sings it
down the field, twisting, turning inside the five as time
expires for Roma dunsa. That's it, no flags and the

(00:50):
ballgame is over. Everybody's standing around and stunned, displief on
both sides. Nobody's celebrating, but the game is over. Something
happened down.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
The stretch here. It did not make sense. Third and
twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
That ball goes incomplete and Alliance survived.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Hey hillacious comeback by the Bears. From sixteen down, another
one third down and seven from the Seattle nine. Flitz's
coming throwing side. It's pick up. Leo Williams coming near sign.
He's running like a race horse. He's a big field.
Turns up heel that blockers, Paul if jokes, are you
kiving Leo Williams. He's gonna take it in for a

(01:29):
touchdown Jayawks. Meanwhile, holl On.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Do forty seven seconds left, Cousins Robinson to his left
looking middle of the field.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
No pressure throws.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
Editor Sep dead Derwin James ends the game to at
Derwin and due to their defense, the Bolts are gonna
get on a plane back to Los Angeles with a victory.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Gold Chargers. Well, that's night show. Ben Mallor is next.
Good night, everybody. It was a good run. It's good
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Broncos and continually. I can already tell you the storyline
the next twenty four hours is going to be cow great.
Sean Payton is. Yes, he's a coach. The yeah, yeah, no,

(02:40):
we kind of told you a couple of weeks ago.
But there is your there is your big take tonight.
Plus that's a right, he's still gonna lose to Jamis
one of the see Jameis Winston experience. This is exactly
why I think people go, man, I miss Jamis, I
have the lightning. Maybe let's James. He moves his team
up and down the field. It's two touchdowns for his
team to every one he gives up for the other team.

(03:01):
And you had that tonight. Two touchdown passes, actually three
touchdown passes. He's got the two to his team and
he's got the one to the Broncos. No, he keeps
both teams in the game like nobody else. Man, he
is a scoring machine. The pick six, you throw your
hands up and then they get the ball back at bam,
right back down the field and away you go never boring.
You're never gonna be able to say it's a boring

(03:23):
situation there. Look, bo Nix has gotten away with a
couple of pretty bad throws, and his stat line should
look a lot worse, except you know, they smartly batted
the ball down and allowed them to actually punt. All right.
They then got the ball ten yards further back than
they would have with the pick. But that's okay. It
was a third down punt kind of situation. But all said,

(03:44):
twenty one to seventeen at a halftime, it's a game
we will take considering the number of dogs, and obviously
with that open the efforts of our respective teams. I
told you we could run the press conference the Bears
did earlier today with Poles and Warren. Everybody knows my
thoughts on Warren. I almost got bleeped on my own
show for it a while back ago.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
But the that we could run that as a comedy
block and maybe won an Emmy. Uh yeah, Look, it's
a it's been a weekend. It's it's been a weekend
for everybody. I almost stormed the Uh. I was gonna
go down to the Tampa studio just start banging out
of the door on Thursday. I'm believing Thanksgiving dinner. Why
I mean, I'm going into the studio to do the show.
I mean, frafdbury. I couldn't get one of Kyle McCord's touchdowns.

(04:28):
Come on, man, I couldn't get the biggest win Syracuses
had in years, maybe twenty five years. I couldn't get
a col McCord touchdown. I really thought you would have
at least gotten the clip of him mocking Ohio State.
I'll tell you there are happy people this weekend, and
Michigan certainly is happy, but there is nobody had The
party at the mccorthouse must have been lit because they

(04:49):
might just be waking up the performance against Miami. And
oh yeah, you didn't think I could Uh, I could
throw the watching Will Howard give the ball away at
Ohio State. Couldn't trust him to throw the football at
all on Saturday? Oh I was the problem. I was
a problem here. I am I'm the number one passer
in the country. No one has thrown for more yards
this year than me. But I was the problem. It

(05:10):
must have been lit in his house. There's a meme
that makes the rounds whenever there's one of these situations.
You know, there's like like a v formation on a blacktop. Right,
so they're on a basketball court and then the dude
kind of creeps up to the middle and then they
go into a dance that's kind of the McCord family. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
it was full on celebration. You want to talk about

(05:32):
a happy Thanksgiving weekend and a lot of spiking. Man,
they planted a flag somewhere, I'm sure, but look, but
let me just say this because obviously the you know, look,
the Bears have really owned the news cycle for the
past few days. The fire of Eberflus after everything happened
on Thanksgiving. And here's the thing, and this is why
when I'm like, man, I wish I was on the
air that night, Yeah, is that there's a lot to

(05:55):
rip Eberflus for. But I think people just saw, oh,
he didn't he had a timeout and he didn't use it,
and that's just ridiculous, and that became the story, and
that was the piece of momentum that went overboard. Right,
what did you see? What'd you find out today? All
the players after the game channel we had the time out,
why didn't we use it? And I'm sitting here going
how do I know more about football than so many people?

(06:17):
Just want to see the timeout and go how did
that use the timeout? It's third and twenty six. Okay,
there's thirty three seconds left in the game. It's third
and twenty six. You're not getting the first down and
you can't spike it on fourth down, so you need
the time out to get the kicking unit onto the field.
And I know Bill Kawer right after the game said, oh,
you run your kicking unit on the field. Oh you can, really?
I mean you can run. First of all, it's the

(06:37):
Bears kicking unit. You want them to they're the keystone
cops of the NFL. I don't think they could. I
don't think they can find their helmets and time to
run on the field. So I get so, so I
disagree with the Oh you should just call time out. Okay,
you're gonna have to really want to do that. You
want to that kind of chaos and run them onto
the field. That's stupid. That's not the real point. The
real point is that with thirty three seconds left, there

(06:59):
was no anticipy patient that. Okay, if something happens, we
have to run a play quickly so we can try
to get more yards to the field goal. And it
took them thirty three seconds to run that play. It
was Comet and DJ Moore lollygagging their way back when
they got to get back fast, and the Bears overall
and Eberflues didn't really have a plan for if we
get sacked, what do we do? All right, that's that's

(07:20):
the big and that's the latest on all the things
that Eberflus did at the end of games. The meltdown
to these had just not being able to navigate the
end of football games. That was, to me was a
big one. Is that, Yeah, I get not using the timeout,
get everybody back, you throw a pass for ten twelve yards,
you call time out, you get your kicker out there,
and you tie the game like that should have been
what it was. But to take twenty eight seconds before

(07:40):
you snap the ball like that, that's what's on Eberflues.
That's that was the worst part. Well, but that's it.
It's the latest in the long line. And look, folks
would go at swollen don plenty of threads on this timeouts, agreed,
just but it's the we don't have anything set so
someone's got to be a leader in the moment, right, Eberflus. Obviously,
it's the amalgam of a month of just misery in

(08:03):
the end of game situations. Right, what do I always say,
if you're gonna fail, fail spectacularly? And he did at
every turn. And here was another end of game situation
where you take the sack right your offensive line. Again,
a lot of questions and this is why the muted
tones and everything in ten to twelve seconds of silence.

(08:25):
We couldn't even play the Ryan Poles clips from the
Pressure today because there'd be too much dead air. We'd
start having all sorts of triggers as he went to
answer questions like what went wrong with Shane Waldron ten
seconds ten seconds before he says a word, you had
four days. You guys have been in hiding for four

(08:46):
bleeping days. And that's which again exactly, hey man, when
we said Eberflus out there on Friday, we didn't know
we were gonna fire him. My answer just a clown
show one after another. But to the end of game situation,
your quarterback. We know his physical attitude as a leader
of the team, he can call all the time out
you got Keenan Allen, you got all these guys that

(09:08):
pretend to be leaders. And I'll give your new head coach,
mister Brown a little bit of love in that he
actually raised his hand and he goes, you know, I
have a part in that too. It's part partially my fault.
It's like, which is if you go back in my timeline,
exactly what I was asking is like, Ebriflo's not the
only guy that can call it damn time out as
soon as you realize you weren't getting to the line

(09:30):
anywhere close to getting it done and giving yourself enough
time to run a real play, and everybody's confused. Someone
could have called the time out at thirty two seconds, yeah,
right as you and Cole Comett needs to stop, you know,
trying to take the guy's heads off in pass routes.
But that's a whole other thing. Two of those. But
all of that to say it was the perfect bookend

(09:50):
because guess what, Caleb Williams pass attempt didn't get to
the end zone, just like the Hail Mary four weeks
ago with Jade and Daniels didn't get to the end zone.
SA same thing. He didn't perfect that at that point, Like,
what did you want at that point? You just to
I just hope they don't the clock that ball. The
ball isn't even stage. That's all you were hoping everyone,

(10:11):
So we're gonna get the playoffs? Are we gonna get
the play that's all your own my mom'sd Is that
gonna happen?

Speaker 5 (10:15):
Like?

Speaker 1 (10:15):
All right, it's time to need I'm like, you're kidding right, Like,
there's two minutes left in this game, and it's the
Bears time. Are you kidding? Like all of that and
your point about getting the field goal unit out and
actually being able to attempt something is apt assuming again,
you can run the other and that's when when. But
if you were said, if you're taking the time out
at thirty seconds and then in theory you can get up,

(10:36):
clock the ball whatever, assuming you're when you got to
get third and twenty six, that's the thing. It's not
fright and four twenty six you're not getting the first down.
You need to be able to get out about Yeah,
So that's what that That's whole thing that people missed
in that whole story was that you know, well, if
you take the time out there, let's you don't know
how long that next play is gonna run. What if
Caleb Williams is rushed out of the pocket, he throws

(10:56):
across the field. Suddenly there's fifteen seconds left by the
time the play is over another and you try to
run everybody on the field for a kick. Now, the
thing was was that and that's and that's the whole
thing is that there's certain times when you can't handle
parts of a game that's going to wind up getting
you fired. Happened with Brandon Stanley in the fourth and
two's with the Chargers, and happened with Matt Eberfluss. When

(11:18):
when you keep melting down at the end of games
and there's decisions you are making after your team fights
for fifty nine minutes and twenty seven seconds and you
make up and you're not ready with something at the
end of a game that's going to get you fired.
It's funny, though, Jason, because part part of the discussion
is also the how about we explain the no show

(11:38):
effort on both sides of the ball for the first half? Right,
you want to talk about lifeless on both ends? Right?
All your offensive your coordinator's a genius. Oh he goes
from being you know, goes up the ladder three rungs
in eighteen days. This is the guy that you finally
now seem to have some semblems of an offense you

(11:58):
want to run. It's like, oh, you know what, let's
keep the head coaching responsibilities on top of that and
promote another guy. This is good, great strategy. So you've
got that rolling. But Iberflus never took accountability for a
damn thing as oh we had the right call. I
wouldn't change a thing, like really, I see that just

(12:19):
and yeah, and that was okay. What he's got to
do is explain. Can't say wouldn't change a thing, because like, okay,
you really screwed up the you can't screw up at
the end inside, I wouldn't change a thing. You have
to take a little bit responsibility and say this is
what I wanted to do. We weren't just explain it
just how I did. It's crazy that from three thousand
miles away that I can say, I go, okay, I
understand what's happening here and you don't see that, and

(12:40):
how I look. I can't help that. I you know
that that I know more about football apparently than Bill
Coward does but uh, you know that you gotta you
gotta take up and understand. Okay, this is my fault.
That goes so far. When someone says my fault, this
is on me. I let the guys down. That goes
a long way. It goes a long way to respect,
the locker room respect, whether you know, even with your friends,

(13:02):
if you screw up, if something happens. All I'm in
a fight with a friend of mine because I was
supposed to pick him up for the airport, but then
he didn't text me. But I wasn't here. But then
I realized it's my fault. I can't say anything. You
come back and say, hey, listen, my fault. I screwed
up that that's my bad. It goes a long way.
It goes well, it was longer than it should, but
it goes a long way. But for have Eberflus, no,
And in a moment again, when when it comes down

(13:23):
to a big moment, not knowing what to say or
what to do, that's Eberflus saying, oh no, no, I
was I would do the right thing, and get no,
you wouldn't do the same thing. And because obviously you
had time to do something different and you didn't do it.
That that was I always think that there's times in
postgame press conferences that is the final straw to see
a coach fire, Like when Robert Sala said nobody in

(13:44):
this locker room is panicking after they lost in London
to the Vikings. I said, that's it. That's the moment
that they decided to fire him. And I think that
was probably the moment for Eberfood when he said, I
do the same thing again. Okay, no, dude, you're gone now.
Now that's wherever it was. It was at Tea. That's
where guys walk away and the owner and the GM
that no, that's it, you're done. I can't believe you

(14:05):
said that. If we were having any sort of question,
that tilted it forever the other way. Yeah, I think whatever.
Jay Glazer reported also Jalen Johnson lighting into Eberflus after
his hey, good job, good effort, I have a good
holiday speech was really about all you needed out of that, right,
he said, it was a good ten to fifteen minutes.

(14:25):
I heard Johnson on in Chicago earlier and he goes, ah,
guys get hired and fired. That wasn't on me, Like, no, no, no,
everybody wants to build a statue to you. Don't try
to dismiss it now, exit out bout of Fresco, exit
swallen dum. Yes, the gang is all back here Fox
Sports Radio The Jason Smithson with Mike Carmon Live the
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(14:47):
spoils of his football team being the only good one
here on the show, they played one side of the ball.
They got it done, it said Hayting Forrest to lead. No, exactly,
it's not it ain't what we no, No, absolutely take it.
We got Jason locking for Coming up next, is the
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third quarter, Broncos on top of the Browns twenty one seventeen.
Jamis Winston giveth Jamis Winston taketh away. We'll have more

(16:47):
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The Washington Post. It is Jason locking for it. Jay,
what's happening? Bud?

Speaker 5 (17:02):
What's going on? Gentlemen? Well?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I figured, what do you have? Twenty thousand words on
Kyle McCord's game against Miami coming up the next couple
of days.

Speaker 5 (17:11):
He's pretty goodly that's so multiple pick six is Huth, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
He's the next time. Jameis Winston, Yeah, next Jameis Winston
is absolutely fun.

Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yeah, he's a gunslinger.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Yeah. You know, I got to say, I didn't realize
how much I missed Jameis Winston until tonight. Back at
the whole. Hey, two touchdowns for my team, one touchdown
for yours, Like I really I kind of missed that
that big uh uh. You know, amusement park ride that
is Jameis Winston.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
He's an adventure. Yeah, there's there's no two ways about it.
Like he's not changing. I mean, look, I think he's
not changing. He first of all, he should be a
starting quarterback in this league, and I don't think he
would lead the league in interceptions if he was now.
I also don't know if he'd lead it in touchdowns again,
and that obviously happened in the same year. But I

(17:59):
don't think he's you know, quite as egregious with some
of this stuff as he used to be. But like
he brings a different energy, people clearly respond to him.
I mean, this is two straight years now where you've
seen two straight older gunslinger quarterbacks with very different outward mentalities, right,
and very different leadership styles. And Joe Flacco and Jameis Winston,

(18:23):
and they both have bought a more of an franchise
to life in a way that the guy that's been
in you know, two hundred and sixty million fully guaranteed
on could never even think of it. Like even if
you take his horrible brand of football out of it
and their superior brand of quarterbacking, Like just if you
just watch the sidelines. If you just listen to their

(18:44):
comments through the week and watch their you know, media interactions,
Like if you just watch their energy from play to play,
it's just so just the way they are in the
huddle and just the tempo and like at night and day,
that owner's got to be feeling like a real jackass,

(19:04):
because like, I don't know if these two guys can
do what they're doing over the course of you know,
seventeen games, like you know, Flackow and Winston, but what
they're being paid, you know, the value that they're deriving,
and just the superior vibes and just the feeling and
a spree de core and all that stuff. It's just

(19:25):
so different. It's it's just so different. This bo Nix
isn't half bad either.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah, that's one hell of a throw, my god. Yeah,
bo Nicks just goes ninety three yards to Marvin Mims
right now. People are going, oh, I had him in
my fantasy two years ago and I let him go.
Now he's good again. Oh my goodness. It's just for
one play, all right, So you use the word more
abund we joked, because coming out of a holiday weekend,

(19:53):
no bigger story than my decrepit Chicago Bears organization, and
then they ran out a clown show press conference today.
I have a vote of no confidence. Did you get
anything that inspired you out of any of this weekend?

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Oh? Come on, you guys know how I feel about
the franchise. I mean, you've got all these people who've
been in the league for generations. I mean, the team
has been in the family for literally generations, and there's
no one there with the damn clue. Like it's just
I mean, it's and I look, I like the Kevin
Warren higher and I'm going to believe that Kevin Warren

(20:33):
can at least get them, you know, help them find
a confident NFL head coach. Like I'm I think that's possible. Now,
will the guy you know actually pull it off and
get them where they want to go and turn them
into a perennial contender. I don't know, a lot of
people have failed at that. I don't know how much

(20:54):
they're going to spend, you know, Like, I mean, there's
there'sould be no excuse for that. Franchi. I like that
that franchise should be buying as hard, spending as much,
doing as much as any in the NFL, just because
of where they are and because of some of the
advantages they have, and because of that fan base, and

(21:15):
because of their history, and because that family has made
so much money off that franchise for so many generations.
But I just don't know, man, you know, they're preoccupied
with the stadium thing. They just don't seem like they
can get out of their way. They let people like
Trace Armstrong, you know, just systematically just treat them like
an ATM. And they just stuck it with his clients,

(21:38):
and he just keeps pulling the strings, and you know,
they keep listening to the same foold telling them the
same stuff. And you know, I don't know. I mean,
there's part of me that says it has to turn,
but like there was also part of me that fault.
When they finally got that fraud ted Phillips out of
the building, it would change. But you know, it was
just a symptom of the problem. Like he wasn't a disease.

(21:59):
He was. He was a symptom of the disease. He was.
He was spawned and caused and created and incubated by
the disease. The disease is ownership.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Jason Locking for our guest the Jason Smithson with Mike
Carmen live from the tirach dot Com studios. All right,
so from the embarrassing, let's go from the bottom to
the top here because it doesn't get much lower. I
thought you were going to go talk about my team. No, no, no, no, no,
it's Look, we saw a couple of unbelievable performances this weekend,
and I know that the general consensus after the big
touchdown last night. Oh, Josh Allen MVP. I look at this, Jay,

(22:34):
I goo. I think it's a two man race now
for the rest of the season with Josh Allen and
Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 5 (22:40):
I mean, people want to throw Lamar Jackson out of
this thing. And I mean I just I keep kind
of sitting back and chuckling, Like, look at the schedule
coming out of the buy you know what I mean.
Like he's played a lot of football, they played the
championship game last year. They don't have to buy till
week fourteen. Like, you don't think he's going to tear
the New York Jets up coming out of a buye,
you know, Like he hasn't run the ball forever. Then

(23:02):
he ends up You looked yesterday, I only picked up
seventy five on the ground. Like, he averages sixty eight
yards a game rushing in the month of December in
his career. Like, you don't think he's gonna come out
of this thing with like eight hundred and fifty rushing yuts, Like,
and he rushes for eight hundred and fifty or nine
hundred yards right, an illegial league in passer rating, And
he throws thirty four or thirty six touchdown passes, and

(23:26):
he grows for forty five hundred yards. Like, he produces
close to fifty five hundred yards and over forty combined
touchdowns and has his best season he's ever had. You're
telling me he's not going to win the MVP.

Speaker 1 (23:41):
It's justin Ducker's fault.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
I mean, I don't know if it's fault. I mean, like,
and look, the Eagles are a good team, and the
Eagles shut them down in a way nobody has. But like,
do you think the Giants are doing that? Do you
think the Texans are doing it? And look, it's going
to come down to a Saturday against Pittsburgh, and everybody's
going to the narratives, right, and Pittsburgh owns him And
you got to be kidding me.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah, you're not in a too deep shell, Like you
don't think that's what you're gonna do that.

Speaker 5 (24:15):
But like if he if he goes out and and
and even if they lose that game, but if he
goes out and has a Lamar Jackson game against Pittsburgh
and and then you know, I just I think the
numbers are going to speak for themselves. I just do,
like think about that, Like, nobody in the history of
the game is had a forty five hundred yard passing
season and a nine hundred yard rushing season and combined

(24:39):
for forty some touchdowns. And you're telling me that's not
gonna be good enough.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Well, but Barkley, what if if Saquon Barkley could break
Dickerson's record Week sixteen.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
Happens that if that were to happen, then we've got
a conversation. But I also don't know that what are
they going to do if they run away with that division?
Like if they clinched the division in a week, you
know what I mean? Are they gonna be riding him
really hard? Like they're not going to back off him?
And I get it, Like if they've got a chance

(25:09):
to get to buy. I get it, but like, I
don't know, man, I just don't. I think the Ravens
are going to have to push proceeding and to try
to keep pace with Pittsburgh. You know, maybe week eighteen
and he's nothing for other team. But I don't think
he's breaking that record if he doesn't play every game.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
There you go, MVP chatter. As we roll through automatic bids.
We've already finished off some of the divisions. I'd be
remiss if we didn't circle back. We've kicked the can
on Aaron Rodgers quite a bit here on the show,
and certainly with you, mister Lockevore. I mean, look, the
end of the year is fine, get rid of him.

(25:50):
Does he actually get bench to released?

Speaker 5 (25:54):
I guess it just depends on what he I mean
the release part. I mean, you've already paid him a
lot of money. If you're going to bench him, you
might as well just cut him. I mean, right, will
be a point of paying all that money to back up?
Like if you're dumb with them, you're dumbling them, and
he's got there, He's got you know, mechanism and trigger
in his in his contract that comes up early in
the league year, and I mean, there's no way in

(26:15):
hell they're going to keep him. I mean, I about
we don't watching the post that there's no freaking way
that they were going to pay him that money next year,
whether he wants to play or doesn't want to play,
or wants to be there or doesn't want to be there,
all that whole line of reporting is just it's it's
all just trash because it's not his decision. You don't
pay him that kind of money.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
He sucks.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
Nobody's paying that kind of money. They were going to
fools who want to pay him this money in the
first place. So that's a moot point. You know, Look,
he has a way of writing checks with his mouth
that his body can't cash anymore. So could you go
out and say something stupid or try to call their blaff,
or you know, just just talk his way out of

(26:57):
the building, like say enough stupid craft that they're just
get his ask out of here, like you could. I
don't think that's beneath him by any stretch of the imagination.
He's so machiavellian. He's probably sitting there right now trying
to figure out what he could do to extradite it,
you know. So I don't know, guys, but who cares.
I mean, if they're blite on football, he's a blite

(27:17):
on football. Like they're just they're both so full of
their own fet they were a perfect match, like they
were the first perfect fraud franchise to bring that fraud
quarterback in and pay him, you know, for a fall
joint salary. So there's that all right.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Lastly, obviously the big injury news of the day, the
forty nine ers find out no Christian McCaffrey for the
rest of the season, No Jordan Mason for the rest
of the season. I think Charlie Garner is going to
start on Sunday. The forty nine are sitting there at
five and seven. Yes, they've had injuries. Are they done?
Can they have a run? Do they still have anything
in them here at five and seven?

Speaker 5 (27:54):
No? No, I like, I haven't bought him since the summer,
So you're asking I'm the wrong guy because all they've
done is confirm I guess my predos entises that this
is going to be a long, long year for them. No,
I don't buy really anything about them, and they're going

(28:14):
to have one of the more interesting offseasons in the NFL, Like,
what do they do with that quarterback? Do they just
kick the can on that for another year? I saw
as hell would who stays? Who goes? Like nobody's buying
that they're going to pay debot and I you that
that money, like it doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
What are they going to do with McCaffrey, you know,

(28:35):
like that whole thing is supposed to be the scheme
is the star in the run game, it's and it
has been. And this look, Mason was running the ball
pretty damn well without Trent Williams there, or even a
healthy Trent when he did play. And then this kid,
next man up, he'll be fine, Like so, I I
don't know, man, But no, they're they're done. They're done.

(28:56):
Go look at buck Perty's numbers at home.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
And maybe the Niners look him up.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
You'll get a kick out of him. But the idea
that he was a young quarterback and he can't play
on the road, No he can't, he can't. He can't
play at home this year. No, they're.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
He's on Twitter at Jason Locking for that is at
Jason lock and for Odyssey watching him post one O
five seven the fan of Baltimore Jay as always, Buddy,
appreciate it, man, enjoying the rest of the calm according
story you're working on. We'll talk to you next week.
There he goes, great stuff from him. I just knew
I could get at least one really great drop the
mic out of the the Aaron Rods. No, I know

(29:35):
you could, but listen, I'll comeing up in a few minutes.
I'll tell you why. Everything's gonna be fine. Everything's gonna
be great. Yeah, yea, yeah, everything's gonna be fine. Yeah.
The only question is go ahead, because people don't understand
exactly what is going to happen following the game yesterday.
People don't understand what's going to happen following this loss
to the Seahawks, after the Geno victory tour. But first, yeah,

(29:55):
we have to find out what's trending. For a man
whose first job tonight was to cover Jerry Ju that
didn't go so well. So I am telling us what's
trending in the wide world of sports. It's deep to say, well,
I feel better because the Broncos can't cover him either.
You know, we are still early third quarter at this hour.
In the Monday night football game at Denver, the Broncos
are leading twenty eight to twenty five against Cleveland. Cleveland

(30:19):
this season has allowed twelve different plays of forty yards
or more, and they allowed a ninety three yard touchdown
pass bow Knicks to Marvin Mims early third. Wait now, wait,
are you counting all the forty plus yard plays that
Jamis Winston allows for the other team? No, you should
add that.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
Okay, they're already worse than the league in this category,
but you're right.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
If you add those forty yard plays allowed. I think
that falls into that category.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
We had the pick six of seventy one yards the
other way at the first half of this game, after
the ninety three yard score the long pass from bow
Nicks one offensive play later, the Browns answered, Jamis Winston
to Jerry Judy seventy yards it's in a TD and
then a two point pass to Judy, the former Bronco.
So the lead for Denver is twenty eight twenty five

(31:06):
with under nine minutes to go in the third quarter.
Denver seven and five this year. Cleveland three and eight
forty nine Ers running back Christian McCaffrey will miss at
least six weeks with the spring PCL, so he's likely
out for the season. McCaffrey and running back Jordan Mason
were each placed on injured reserve. Mason has a high
ankle sprain. San Francisco's record is five and seven. Saints

(31:29):
tight end Taysom Hill suffered a torn acl yesterday and
additional damage to his knee. According to NFL Network, Jacksonville
quarterback Trevor Lawrence is still in concussion protocol as his
Packers wide out Romeo Dobbs, but he returned to limited
practice today. Green Bay placed Thursday at Detroit. A reminder
on Fox TV this Sunday. Buffalo at the La Rams.

(31:50):
USC quarterback Miller Moss is transferring for NBA games tonight.
They're all final now. Minnesota beat up the Lakers one
oh nine to eighty. Chicago down Brooklyn won twenty eight
to one oh two. Josh Giddy at triple double. Boston
won again, beating Miami easily one eight eighty nine. Celtics
records seventeen to four. Atlanta got fifteen assists from Trey

(32:11):
Young in a comeback win over New Orleans won twenty
four to one to twelve Depelicans have lost nine in
a row, NHL wins for New Jersey and Toronto, and
a Major League Baseball note as a week from now,
the meetings off season meetings will be going on, and
we've got a draft lottery coming up in Major League
Baseball in just over a week. This will determine the

(32:32):
top six picks next summer. So bad teams from this
past year, like the Rockies and Marlins, had the best
chance to win the MLB lottery. Turns out that clubs
that pay into revenue sharing cannot be in the lottery
in back to back years. So the White Sox, who
had a top five pick last year, are out of
the lottery next week because of that, even though they

(32:55):
just lost one hundred and twenty one games. And for
the Oakland A's, they've been in the lottery.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Two straight years.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Can't do it three straight. So teams like the White
Sox and A's who really deserve top ten picks, cannot
select higher than number ten.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
We wouldn't get right anyway, Steve, Okay, maybe that bears him.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
You're talking about Kevin's available next week and see what
he can.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Do for the way. Well, Ryan Pole's just gonna sit
here and nod. You want to talk about a guy
who looked like he'd rather be anywhere.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
It's right around this time is when I wish I
could see teams if they were allowed to trade first
picks in MLB draft, Like that would just be awesome,
just to see that. The continued, The extra continued.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
Yeah, the small teams are bad teams.

Speaker 1 (33:37):
Get that they can trade? Yeah, I mean that would
just be outstanding. I mean you can't do it obviously
since ginst the rules. But I would love to see them.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Although I've we won't name the show, I've heard a
show talking about trading baseball draft picks.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Sure you can't add to that. Actually, hey, look maybe
you said to maybe Rob Manford doesn't know that. He
might not know that rule.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Oh there's a lot Rob.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Manfred, Hey, sign this piece of paper. It's the old
trick in a movie, right where you just come out
on a piece of paper. They're just playing for a
hunk of metal. Aana, right, I you see the Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the tirect dot
com studios coming up next, a star starting quarterback in
the NFL. That if I was the head coach. I

(34:19):
would tell him, you have one chance this week to
save your job. And know it's not Aaron Rodgers eminem
because I said star quarterback. Who who would I tell
you have this week to save your job? That's coming
up next right here, Jason to Mike Fox Sports Radio.
So excited.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon hobo live from the tirerack dot Com
studios where I don't think anybody knew the kind of
offense we were going to get from this game tonight.
Hit the over twenty eight to twenty five. Denver leads
the Browns four and a half to go in the
third cour Suddenly Jerry Judy, Elijah Moore, they're big weapons.

(35:04):
Broncos are going up and down the field. Who knew?
Who knew? It's crazy getting Nick's making plays with his legs,
creating space, Conick Shutt and running Nix you mix ewhere
mix Player of the Week and now this sure Nicks again.
But we'll have more on this game coming up in
a few minutes again, still a long way to go.
He are still four minutes to go in the third quarter.

(35:26):
But uh, you know, we talked about this a few
months ago, and every few weeks he had done enough
to save his job. But if I'm the head coach
of the Atlanta Falcons, right, if I'm the head coach
and it's not Leeman Bennett, if I'm the head coaches
out of him, I tell Kirk Cousins, hey, dude, you
have this week to show us and show me that

(35:50):
you can still lead this team, or Michael Pennock Junior
is getting the gig. The only reason a change hasn't
been made yet is because the division's terrible and everybody's
five hundred and they're leading the division at six and six. Right,
the division is awful, everybody is mediocre. The Falcons have
the best offensive anybody in the division. So okay, but
he has been Kirk Cousins and the stamp on it now.

(36:10):
Really good defense yesterday, obviously, but still four picks. He
has been on a bad run. And it's not like
he's been great all year. He had a couple of
times where hey, I had to save my job with
big moments. He's a bridge quarterback. And that's what people
fail to understand this whole season, is that no matter
what kind of money you're getting, when you have Michael
Pennick Junior waiting, a guy you traded up for to

(36:31):
get in the first round of the draft, in the
top ten, he's going to play, you're a bridge quarterback
until they are ready to put him in. And for
everybody that wanted to say, oh, he's got the whole year,
no he doesn't, because if he's bad, if they falter,
they're not going to wait to put Michael Pennick Junior
in the only reason they haven't done it yet is
because the division is still there. But I tell him,

(36:53):
you got one more game and if not, I'm going
to the rookie. I gotta have some kind of spark
for the last four games. If you can't do it,
we're not gonna sit here and give away this division
lead and kind of meander and hope you get it
in the final few weeks. We know you're gonna be
on a different team next year. The world knows you're
gonna be on a different team next year. But that's
gonna hasten itself and Initially I said maybe week ten,

(37:14):
Week eleven, Now might be week twelve, Week thirteen, week fourteen,
week fifteen, with about four games left, That's where I
would go to Michael Pennick Junior and say, Okay, you
know what, we need some kind of spark for the
final month of this season where we're trying to get
in the playoffs and it's doing us no good to
hope that Kirk Cousins is gonna get it at some point. Yeah,
it's the curiosity of what you got for the final

(37:36):
stretcher on here. Obviously week fourteen, who's the opponent? Tada,
you're back in Minnesota. Maybe you can walk in with
the swagger and the chains in the whole nine yard.
But obviously Brian Flora is licking his chops to get
after a guy that can't move in the pocket right
and collapse that thing on him. And then you got
a date at Las Vegas. There's a big prime time

(37:59):
of fair on a Monday night. Yeah, and then you've
got New York Washington, Carolina to finish things off. Carolina
playing with some heart tough loss with the Chuba Hubbard
fumble and everything. Washington the offense was reawakened after being
dormant for a while, and the well, the Giants are
what the Giants are. At this point, Vegas sputtering. Although

(38:22):
Aidan O'Connell has everybody all excited because they watched him
on Thanksgiving weekend, they watched him on Black Friday. That
guy could be the guy. He's like, all right, he
had he had a game, Okay, fine, but all of
that to say, you've got a winnable schedule. You could
at least go two and two, maybe three and one
down the stretch following this game against Minnesota, So decision

(38:43):
time by what is it? Zero touchdown, six picks in
his last three air mailing the football even with all
those weapons, just no consistency whatsoever. You'd think you'd at
least be able to establish a run with b John
Robinson and be able to work off that, and you're
not even getting that. It's just never felt like their
offense with all the playmakers, has meshed. It's just he

(39:06):
was upset at the drafting of Michael Pennix Junior going
back to April, and I've just never felt that the
Falcons have gotten passed. Ye, he and the Falcons have
gotten past that drafting of him because he's struggling. Yes,
coming back from a big injury in your mid to
late thirties, that's a thing, right, we're seeing with Aaron Rodgers,
that's a thing. Buffy birthday, Yeah, hey, first birthday of

(39:26):
your forties. Now there's forty one, but forty it's never
it's never worked to the extent that you would think
it would work with all the weapons that they have
had that five week stretch where they were putting up
points through people now and then they got figured out,
and Kirk Cousins has been around long enough it's okay.
If he's playing bad, like you got to think, is

(39:48):
this the end? Like, is this the end of Kirk Cousins?
Do you want to sit him because you want to
preserve his trade value because you don't want to have
to eat all that money the end of this year.
That's the other part of this is that if he's
not good enough and you sent him to go to
Michael Pennix Junior, he still has whatever trade value he does.
Where if you play him all the way down the
stretch and he stinks for the last ten weeks of

(40:08):
the season, who's going to trade for him? Said, good luck.
We don't want him, So you have to do that
just to preserve his trade value because you want to
get out from under the contract after this year. Yeah,
I got to go through and see where the outs
are and buy outs whatever. But we've talked about it.
There's not much of a quarterback market place out there,
and the draft class is fairly shallow. So unless you
want to really go fishing and think you can find

(40:31):
your guy, Captain Kirk's still going to have a marketing.
Just a matter of figuring out the money. And as
we always say, you can figure out the money now.
The Jets will get him now, the Jets cousins eight
years later. These years later, he used him for leverage
and tea. Yeah, the out isn't until after the twenty
five seasons. So exit out, bout a fresca exit Swelling
down The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from

(40:52):
the tire Rack dot Com Studios. Coming up next. After
one of the biggest moments in the NFL yesterday, this
quarterback may have his last down with his current team
and it's not Aaron Rodgers. That's next. Fox Mail on Wednesday, saying, Hey,
our fault we missed that, guys. Uh, I know it
maybe affected the game and potentially it could have swung
the game your favorite hey, but you know we missed it.

(41:13):
It's okay, but benis le Benito had him wrapped up
and happy holiday because Benito was the guy that got
him earlier with the interception returner. And Cooper comes in
and hits him helmet to helmet and it's not called
and you look the the you know it's I could
see the official saying the quarterback was falling and he
went in to hit him. But still it's helmet to helmet.

(41:34):
These are the these are the plays you're trying to
get rid of in the NFL. That's the thing is
that this is the when you see that play, you go, yeah,
that's a play we're trying to get out of the NFL,
and instead it just doesn't get caught well, especially because
you've had twenty four hours of the debate of the
Trevor Lawrence hit. Right, we'll talk about here momentarily. That's
you know, spoiler alert, but it's just the idea of

(41:54):
all right, if we're going to talk about slides and
the you know, the margin of error when it comes
to those hits. This one's fairly egregious. I mean there's
no there's no attempt to try to change your trajectory
and came right in on him. It's like, well, what
did his head move about six inches as he's starting
to go down, Not enough to where it's anywhere close
to like all right, it's a gleat, you know, glancing blow. No, no, no,

(42:17):
there's fully they'll call a perfect form tackle by the
defensive by the defensive lineman. They'll throw a flag on that.
But this, yeah, that's how we make sorr. Hey, you
landed on the guy. So I was checking my fantasy
stats because boy, Jerry Judy's having a great game, and
I was just upside missed that. I just missed it.
Like we see the roughing call all the time, right

(42:38):
where you hit the guy and too much of your
body is still on top of the quarterback. So that's
a pedally this But I'll let your face mask to
face mask, and I'll keeping the flag in the pocket.
He's probat like he lost a tooth on the hit
or something. I have the I have the Broncos defense
in fantasy, and it's it's it's one of those nights. Okay,
so just stop just gonna look the other way on him.

(42:59):
We'll have more this game come up again, a ton
of time left here, still thirteen minutes left to go,
thirty one thirty one, twenty five lead for the Broncos. Meanwhile,
you mentioned Trevor Lawrence, who the good news today. Resting
at home. He and his wife put out a statement
thank you for all your thoughts after the after the
the horrible hit yesterday that sparked a brawl during the game. Uh,
it's good that Trevor Lawrence seems like he's gonna be okay,

(43:21):
and he was clapping back at people on Twitter. At
least the twitter fingers were good. Good. I mean, you'll
wait to be a good role model for your son.
It's and it's crazy because I'm watching CJ Stride after
the game saying, oh, his intent wasn't to go in
and hit him that way. I'm like, a come on, man,
just the forearm shiver wasn't there. If you didn't see
the play, just say you didn't see it. Don't blindly

(43:41):
have somebody's but I got your back now. I look stupid,
is what happened. You look stupid in that But the
thing about Trevor Lawrence, and think about this because this
is I put this probability really really high that he's
probably played his last down as quarterback for Jacksonville for
a couple of reasons. After a scary hit like this.
There's the health part of it. What are you bringing
them back for? It's a lost season anyway, You've won

(44:03):
two games. Do you really need him the last five
weeks with a scary hit like that? Do you really
need him?

Speaker 5 (44:09):
Right?

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Matt Jones?

Speaker 5 (44:10):
Will?

Speaker 1 (44:10):
You got Matt Jones to play? And it's not like
you're you're throwing a guy out there that's never played
in the other you know, the other fifty plus guys in.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
The locker room.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
We're going, oh man, we're just mailing the rest of
the season. No, you have a quarterback that can come
in that is started in the league, has played pretty
well at times. Okay, But the safety thing for Trevor Lawrence.
But you know, unfortunately, the business part of the NFL
comes into this is that what are you going to
do in the offseason? Because the Jaguars gave Trevor Lawrence.
We talked about the money that he got, and he

(44:39):
got way too much money for the level of quarterback
that he is, and you are seeing that the Jaguars
aren't close to anything, right, They're not close to anything,
and they're due all this money to Trevor Lawrence. So
can you still go forward and think this is going
to be it?

Speaker 5 (44:56):
Right?

Speaker 1 (44:56):
Like Lawrence is, he's a middle of the pack NFL quarterback, right,
So you're looking at your future and saying, what are
we gonna do? How do you get to how do
you try to restart the franchis You're gonna have a
really high draft pick again, maybe you're picking first overall,
depending on how the rest of the season goes. You
know you're gonna maybe you're getting Shedeur Sanders. Maybe you're
getting cam Ward although not after the last big gets
Sirik Kidnap, but maybe you're getting cam Ward. But the

(45:20):
we talked about the overall market for quarterbacks in the
NFL this offseason. Right now, Sam Darnold is the best
free agent quarterback that's out there, and he's starting to
come back to earth a little bit. Maybe Kirk Cousins,
Kirk Cousins will be available. How much do you want
to go in for Kirk Cousins and the rest of
his salary from the four year daily signed. Yes, Trevor
Lawrence has doing a lot of money, but he's a

(45:40):
young quarterback and if the team says, well, maybe we're
the team that can unleash him. We've seen guys it
takes a while for them to really hit their potential.
Guys like Gino Smith, Guys like Sam Darnald. Hey, this
doesn't mean that Trevor Lawrence is never gonna get it.
Maybe he just needs a change, he needs a different
kind of offense and he can hit the potential that
he had four years ago, and there would be a

(46:01):
lot of interest in Trevor Lawrence because of that. We
know the money that's doing our quarterback, we know what's
gonna happen. We know where we're at going forward, and
look in a couple of years, Hey, the money they're
paying Trevor Lawrence, people are gonna go past that and
Lawrence's contract to be more in line with where he's at.
But right now it seems like it's an outlier. So
if you're the Jaguars, I don't know what you have

(46:21):
to gain by playing Trevor Lawrence number one from a
safety perspective and number two from perspective, what are you
gonna do after the season, because there's gonna be a
lot of teams are gonna say, yeah, we'll see if
it works with Trevor Lawrence. The Jets will probably be
a team that jumps in in the mix for Trevor Lawrence.
Are the teams say yes, we'll be in the mix
for Trevor Lawrence. There's probably five or six teams that
are gonna say, hmm, go get a guy in the

(46:43):
offseason or wait for the draft. Not a lot of
guys in the draft. So who are we gonna go
overboard to get When you are the best guy that
could potentially be available, and Lawrence would be the best
quarterback potentially available on a down market, you have to
I think you have to do that. You have to
find some way to hit reset for your franchise. I said,
I don't know that we haven't seen him play his

(47:03):
final game as a member of the Jaguars.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
As a plus side the way his contract is structured,
and again we take it with the grain of salt, right,
you know, as many details as leak out, but going
to spot track and looking at that, they don't really
get on the hook for heavy, heavy money for another
couple of years. So that makes him more attractive a
to stay in Jacksonville, but certainly to a suitor. The

(47:27):
other is, I mean, Jed Balkey has done a terrible job.
So as much as you want to talk about like, look,
whenever a guy gets paid, God blessed, right, they just
signed their left tackle do an extension. So the expectation
would be, all right, you've got him, and then you
have Trevor Lawrence. So you have the guy that's got
a protected blond side, and you have him. You've got
a couple of running backs that are Jags.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Right.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Etn is not the guy you hope he would be.
Tank biggs By is better than his draft position, but
that's not saying much, right, He's again just a guy.
Your wide receivers. Christian Kirk gets hurt. He was the
one healthy. It's the second year that he's got hurt.
And Ingram's been been great. But beyond that, your your
wide receivers, you've swung and missed repeatedly. It looks like

(48:10):
you've got a guy in Thomas, right, so there's a
star to build from. So all right, we've got a
couple of building blocks, but you don't have the right
coach like that guy had his one shining moment a
couple of years ago. He's a jag. He's he's better
than urban Meyer. That would be that's actually honest, the
front door to his office better than Urban Mind. Thats

(48:32):
better than Urban Mind. But marginally right, they're they're sputtering there.
I don't know, man, urban Meyer was really no, No,
it was this particular, fairly estacular fan. You don't have
to be you don't have to be great to be
better than you just have to just walk in and say, hey,
I'm not having an open mutiny against me way back. Yeah,
I'm just gonna smile and I'm just gonna you know that.

(48:53):
That's as much as I'll say on urban Meyer. I've
had my My my thoughts are in the archives. There's
plenty of podcasts about a lot of things related to
that tenure, and I think the arc as a whole.
But when it comes down to it, Trent Balkey's done
a pretty shoddy job of putting this squad together, and
so around Trevor Lawrence, you don't have a lot. No

(49:16):
Brian Thomas, there's the guy we've got a giant flag
that we can hold up for him. That guy's really good.
Look everything else, let's shuffle up and do it. And
I guarantee you that Jets would be at the front
of any deal for Trevor Lawrence, the guy they wanted
to get three years ago, but they could four years ago,
but they couldn't get him. They will be at the
front because look because quite honestly, the biggest thing coming up,

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like we've seen the tire fire that the Jets have
been me the loss of the Seahawks yesterday was just terrible.
It was full of every thing the Jets losses have
had for the past forty years, really terrible play, bad
mistakes and penalties, and a former player on the team
having a big game in his return. But watching how
things have unfolded, I now, if you said to me
what the future is gonna be. We talked about it

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a few weeks with Aaron Rodgers. Hayes. He's gonna try
to stick around for another year. He knows it's the
Jets or nobody, right. We did this a couple weeks.
That's why we're ahead of the curve. He knows that
the Jets are nobody, so whatever the Jets are doing
to him, however, he feels like he knows nobody else
is coming to get him. But after yesterday and after
the and after coming back with off the by, I
feel the best I have. And Rogers gives you another

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game where he's under two hundred yards passing and he
still looks skittish in the pocket and he can't throw
the ball deep. He knows. And there was the big
talk after the game yesterday. Jeff Aulbrick, the Jets head coach,
was said, Yeah, we're gonna look and see who the
quarterback is. WHOA what do you mean We're gonna look
look at the quarterback situation like Rogers is, like could
get benched. And they made the decision they're sticking with

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him for next week. And Rogers actually gave a statement
where he said, hey, if that's where they're thinking, you
know that. Hey, I understand Jet. We'll have a conversation
about it. He knows the end is coming. He knows
that this I think after yesterday, Aaron Rodgers knows this
is his last year in the NFL. That's why that's
the big thing coming. Yes, we've seen the Jets lose it,
but Rogers after yesterday, just seeing the way he talked,

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seeing the way he is coming off this, he knows
this is it, and I guarantee you by Christmas he
will announce this is my final year in the NFL,
and they'll figure out whatever money they owe in for
next year, but this is gonna be it. This is
his last year, and he will announce that this is
the final year and have a couple of weeks of
a goodbye because I can't because the Jets aren't going
to bring him back, and nobody else is going to

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get him, and so when that happens, he's gonna have
to beat everybody to the punch. He's not gonna be
someone that gets cut, gets waived. That doesn't happen for
Aaron Rodgers. He's always big. Hey, I'm up, I say
what I want, I'm smug, I'm x Y and Z.
So sometime by Christmas, right before Christmas's the holiday season,
he will say, this is it. I'm playing two more games.
I'm going to give the Jets all I have. I'm

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sorry it didn't work out better, but I'm excited to
be here the locker room of the guys one more time.
Because he knows after yesterday, he knows this is it
for him. Yeah, Week fifteen there at Jacksonville, so he
got that going for you. They got two games left
against Miami, the road game this week, and then the
season finale. You've got a game against the Rams and
a road game against Buffalo week seventeen. But yeah, I

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think the Trevor Lawrence contract keeps him in Jacksonville and
everybody else gets blown out everybody else and get rid of.
So Hanky's gone, Peterson's gone, Trevor Lawrence doesn't play another
down this year. So it's like it's the end of
Mary Tyler Moore where instead of Ted getting fired, everybody
gets fired except for Ted. Sorry spoiler alert, I got now.
I gotta play the millennials. What Mary Poore was? Okay?

Speaker 5 (52:27):
Who was it?

Speaker 1 (52:28):
There's a statue. Go see the statue.