December 10, 2024 • 39 mins
Jason and Mike react to the game changing blocked-punt by the Dallas Cowboys. Jason tells you why he LOVES the Mets landing Juan Soto. And the guys debate who should win the Heisman Trophy!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Should be.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Just under four minutes left to go in the fourth quarter.
Micah Parsons on the sideline doesn't look happy. Bengal have
the football their own forty nine yard line, trying to
get down with what could be a go ahead field
goal or potential touchdown. Jamar Chase has just caught us
thirteenth ball of the night, so the Bengals have the
(01:15):
ball again. Just over three minutes left to go in
a game that has The Simpsons broadcast to the alternate
broadcast of The Simpsons, kind of fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, we got to.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Watch that a little bit as we were getting ready
for the show. A Disney Plus go over there. They've
had some latency issues. We were a couple of plays
behind whatever, I mean. But when Krusty the Clown comes
out for the field goal, we got to watch the
halftime speeches.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yep, you know.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
When giving one of those talking about Brian, I'll cut
your belly open, I'll give in.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So, I mean that was fun.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It's a nice little wrinkle to it, and Homer throwing
touchdown passes and such. I mean, you know, it's it's
all you would expect, all the voice actors getting involved.
I'll go back and watch it in earnest later on.
But a nice alternate way for a game that, let's
face it, a lot of folks were arguing should have
been flexed out.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
They weren't going anywhere, but they were able to tell
you we had a lot of alliance.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
On Thanksgiving, two teams going nowhere was the most watched
game in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
This year it was eight thirty nine million. Crazy some nuts,
crazy ass number. I mean, come on, the Cowboys even
did this tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Guess oh, we're backing down in two and Cooper Rush
gives Barney the rock.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He finds a seam on the right side.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
There goes Barney gumble free dup beer for everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
A gain of twenty seven. As Barney sets up first
down and.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Goal, well, I hit the whole really hard. No Burbard
the end, No burberd the end.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
First down like he points the ball and drops it
near the air, Like I kind of like that. Putting
the characters in there to run the ball other than
any Breecee Hall run all year. I think it might
be yeah, Breeze Hall's yeah, I think he might be right.
Is he gonna play against operations for the wind?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I also like I like seeing Krusty kick the field
goal with his big shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know, that was kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Over a tower. I mean the uprights were towers of
Krusty Berger.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah that's good.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I went and you know, went Homer through the touchdown pass.
All of a sudden, there were donuts everywhere. Yeah, they're
all falling down from the sky. Oh it's raining, Jason.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Where are you at on Krusty Burgers? Oh? I love
Krusty burgers? Why not cheese?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh of course cheese. Come on, Why I gotta have
a burger without cheese on it?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Come? I don't think it comes with one? Why would
I do that?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You get added though cheeseburger, but you get a Krusty
burger with cheese.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You get that over and Showbyville, maybe North Averbrook? Is
that even an option in Springfield?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I think it is such a look at Homer he
eats remember the sixty four slices of American cheese.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Sixty three sixty two, and then he goes to one.
I think I'm blind from cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If you could eat signals blind from cheese, Homer ken, Sure,
he almost did.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I mean that is there's a lot of sodium.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
In sixty four slices of American Like not even Joey
Chestnut does that twenty pounds of shrip you see that? Yeah,
but that sixty four slices of cheese.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I think I'm blind.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Such a good, great show, even after all these years,
Oh keeps going.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm going to be in blind. How about the Mets?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh well, look look look I'm gonna look, look, look, look,
look I'm going Chris Brusard on you look, I like
one soda. So again, we'll love more in Cincinnati and
Dallas still twenty to twenty. Bengals have the ball near
midfield two minute warning of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So first things first.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
When when the Mets Scott Soto last night, you know
I told you it was, it was happening. Steve Cohen
wasn't going to be outbidding, and now we're hearing stories
today and seeing stories be reported just why and how
the negotiation went the way it was. The Yankees at
the end felt that no matter what they offered, Steve
Cohen was going to go higher. So they said, you know,
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we're we're done. When you want him for seven hundred
and sixty five million dollars, you got him right. So
that's so we're hearing that. We're hearing the whole thing
with the suite was a big deal that the Yankees
wouldn't give Juan Soto's family a suite at games, and
Steve Cohen said, sure, we'll just build more suites. I
don't care a parking spot, but yeah, so I got
a parking spot. Right, got to like George Costanza, I
(05:20):
gotta have that parking spot. Uh, this is the weirdest
part before I get to a take. You don't think
you're not gonna believe I have on one soda. It's
so weird that you know, I knew this was gonna happen.
This is the way it was going, and all of
a sudden, Bam, Juan Soto is my team's identity for
the next fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, like that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Like no, hey, here comes a star, and and he
comes up and like a guy like Pete Alonzo, it's wham,
here's your here's here's your star. He is your team
for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Or as long as his wait for it, twenty six
year old pause, body holds up.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I mean that's he is.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He is the Mets identity, not Lin d'Or after what
happened this past season with the amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Year he had.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
No, it's all of a sudden, Juan Soto is your identity.
He's my team's identity now for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It still is weird. Stop you just jealous. It still
is weird to process. I'm not quite used to it like,
I get that. Yes, Soto's a met all of it,
but understand understanding that wherever he goes, it's it's beyond
front page news. Whatever he does is beyond front page news.
No matter what the Mets do the next fifteen years,
he's our identity. Like Phillies fans who are like again,
(06:35):
it's Dan Bryce Harper. You know, I don't like Bryce
Harper is no good. I never liked him with what
we can get him for three hundred and thirty million.
Oh I love Bryce Harper and now you hate him. Sure,
but it's so weird that all of a sudden, Bam, overnight,
he is your identity. You've heard all the the waxing
poetic about the Mets day, which is so near and
dear to my heart, that now suddenly, look how much
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of a destination the Mets have become. Look at how
they beat the Yankees out all of that. All of
a sudden that that's the weirdest thing for me is
to go, Bam, he's our identity now, and he's my
team's identity for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, it's a flip the script right as you go,
because you had really Pete Alonso, homegrown guy, and now
the question of where he ends up. Lindor became that hero,
and certainly we lived it in the studio with you
each and every night, and all the back pages of
the fish wraps celebrating his greatness and everything until that,
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well that got snuffed out in the playoffs. And now
we look at you know, this signing is just so
huge because it was just a couple of years ago.
I mean, what were we talking about twenty four months ago?
He's turning down a four hundred and forty million dollar
deal a week ago? All right, will the bidding get
to six or six fifty? And then we go so
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far north of that it's not even funny, right, Like
it went up another one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's kind of funny, though, Mike, it is just I mean,
it's a funny.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Well, but that's why he can if you got you're
just like all Yankee fans. But if he chose the Dodger,
would be, oh, looking to choose the Dodgers, look out great?
It is now, oh they choses look out great. But
everybody's just jealous and upset because he didn't choose. You guys,
I'm Sorry the Mets, I'm sorry and upset.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
No, you still can't be No, But.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
This is the rare occasion where there doesn't appear to
be an opportunity cost like for almost any other team.
It's the we pick him and we can't go there, there, there,
and there with Cohen. It's what else do we want?
Or at least that's my impression of what this guy is.
If he sits down with Sono and boris like, all right,
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you're in. It's like assembling the crew for Oceans eleven.
We need one more, all right, we'll go get one more, right,
And that's where we're at, because this guy will continue
to spend and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
The greatest position to be in.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But it's not a reality for how many other teams
twenty eight other teams and in Major League Baseball? Right,
the Yankees would have been an opportunity cost. Right, you
take Soda, you're not going back probably into the marketplace,
even with that franchise is value, even with their history.
It seemed like that was gonna be a one and done.
The Dodgers, certainly, you've seen several contracts that have been
(09:19):
very creatively structured. Soda wasn't doing.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That it's a ports guy.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He's not doing that, So you know, you would have
to then make your choice and we'll see what the
Dodgers end up doing the rest of this week seeing
a lot of rumors about guys showing up Lois Robert
and several others. But for the Mets, you've got an
owner and this is where you're gotta be, you know,
a little peacocking. Have you got a guy that wants
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in and whether this works or not, oh, it won't
and it might.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Not stop the Mets.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The Mets have turned the page from we're a laughing stock.
We're a horribly run organization. We don't have anybody that
knows what they're doing. What do I tell you all
the time? If you can can solidify the top three
positions of your team, and that's owner, GM, manager, coach,
you can sustain success for a long time. He's not
going to the Mets. If it's the will Ponds, it's
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going to be guys. Didn't you didn't you get caught
with the going to the team and if they gave
him seven Yankees were going to give him. Never about
the games were never in play now, they were never
in place. He could have gotten money from a lot
of other teams. He could have gone to a lot
of other justify paying him more than Aaron Judge, the
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captain of the teams.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And they can't. It's a it's a different of course
they can. What was okay? So say Steve Cohen back down?
Another player on the team, say Steve coming back down Judge.
It was never a possibility.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I mean, the Yankees were up to seven hundred something
million dollars. You think if Steve Cohen said no and
they went back.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And driving, we're out. We don't mean it, We didn't
mean it. Sorry, you can't. You can't can't take this money.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Well it's not binding, so I mean, it's not like
to do it. It's not like when you play some
bit on eBay and it's binding auction house. I mean,
like it's an offer and well you didn't take it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But here's the but this is this is the part.
This is where I really zag on this story for
a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
As excited as I am to get one Soto, I
would have been fine if the Mets didn't get him,
because it's not like Sodo doesn't come with risks. And
if you're the Yankees or the Blue Jays or the
Dodgers or the Red Sox who was in it for
for Sodo until the end. If you didn't get them,
it's okay. You still have that money. You can go
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out and get a bunch of players and do a
lot of things to make your team better. Yes, did
you want Juan Soto? Yeah, but you didn't get them.
But it's not like this is suddenly a deal that
comes for the Mets without any risks because you have
his health situation.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
How motivated is he going to be? Now?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know he wants to win, but are you really
motivated when you're when you're making seventy million dollars a year?
How motivated are you to win? Like these are questions.
Is the team gonna be good?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Good?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Are you gonna be able to move on and continue
to revamp your team and sign who you need when
you got one guy who has taking up seventy million
dollars of your money and you know, major League Baseball
is not gonna say, oh, let's up the salary cap
and the luxury tax Nona. They're not gonna let Steve
Cohen get away with that. No, So it's not like
the whole the Sodo deal doesn't come without risk. I
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said it before the Mets got him, and I'm saying
it after it was great they got him. If they
got him, I would have been fine. And for the
other teams, it's okay. If the Yankees go out and
get Pete A. Lowns on Anthony Santander now for half
the money, that's a pretty good that's a pretty good
consolation prize. If the Red Sox do the same thing.
If if you can go out and go get Corbyn
Burns for that money and somebody else, it's okay. You
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didn't get him. I mean, I'm not saying, oh, look
we got him and now we're great, and you guys
all fucked. Of course you're not, because he's really if
it stopped stop you wanted them so bad frostbring just stop.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No matter.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
But again it goes back to we've talked about it
from a business side, because I mean that has to
be considered this and you've got the owner where that
money doesn't matter. It's just wait, we were earning what
in our businesses. Yeah, go ahead, pay it off and
be done with it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
There's no opportunity costs. That's the whole point of this,
So other teams can go and for seven hundred whatever
million dollars, think about the lineup you assemble and a
fraction of that cost on an annual basis, And so
for does this push them over?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
No, he's an outfielder. This is great.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
He's a great player. You know what, ball four outside,
you know, go take first base. You know, it's that
kind of thing. He's a great player, no question about it.
But it is this the thing that says, hey, World
World Series Champion.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
No part, we were in the NLCS last year.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We're not lost, and we got better, and we're still
gonna spend more. It's not like, hey, now we're not
spending money. Steve Collen's like, guys, I make like eighty
million dollars a day hedge fund. I'm okay, whatever you
want to spend, we'll do it. We'll spend a pretty good,
pretty charmed year Overall'll get guys, well, that when you
have the right guy making decisions. How right was David
Stearns about all of the decisions he made, Guys he
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brought in that's when you have the top of your
organization does things the right way, you can sustain winning.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You become a destiny.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
But here's the thing, man, the baseball gods will smite you. Nah,
they've done to the Dodgers almost every year.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
No one Soto twenty thirty nine. You know what came up?
What so make sure Bartolo cologne.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The other thing that comes up is, oh, this is
when show Hao tanis doing a lot of money. So
that's also twenty thirty nine. Is that the first thing
a painting is that the first Hey, we may have
we may have to really one of those van goes
we really like. We we can't just sell any any
uh any any any blankety blank painting. We gotta we
gotta sell a really good one.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
They just loaded out for a week at a time
to rich guys that want to show it off at parties.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We're telling me, man, if you're if you didn't get him,
it's okay, It's okay. You can still do other things.
I'm being honest with you. It's okay. Exit out about
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Speaker 2 (15:24):
It is there.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It goes up about ten minutes after the show is over.
We'll have more on the Soto move to the Mets end.
Are we talking about an incredible Cowboys comeback on Monday
Night football?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Keep it right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 2 (15:52):
Is this stuff from Pitch Perfect three perfect? It is?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I said there going this is what Snoop Doggs do
in the Christmas album and Keith and Michael Key goes,
this is not good. This is not good. This is
not good. This is not good. This is not good.
You could do what I do. This is not good.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
This is not good. This is not good. This is
not good. Let me try something.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the
ti rack dot Com studios, and wow, do we have
something to bring down for you here. Monday Night football
goes to the Bengals twenty seven to twenty. Bengals get
a touchdown pass from Joe Burrow to Jamar Chase and
they hold on stop the Cowboys on downs to win it.
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They improve to five and eight, keep their really really
really faint playoff hopes somewhat alive. Cowboys fall to five
and eight. But the play of this game, it's it's
you talk about bad breaks and bad decisions. The Bengals
were punting to the Cowboys. They were facing a fourth
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and twenty seven, twenty seven, fourth and twenty seven from
their own twenty nine yard line. So we're gonna punt right.
Cowboy's gonna get the ball back with about two minutes
left to go. Right, Everything's gonna be fine. Cowboys get
the ball back, and here they are. Cooper Rush going man,
I give be the started quarterback of the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm gonna leave us down the field.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We're gonna be great, bight ty game, Brandon Aubrey at
the ready, all of that, all.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Good, All ready to go right, great kicker, we're gonna be.
We're gonna be good. From sixty five. I'm feeling it.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jerry Jones feeling it sure, Jerry Jones in the booth
with Montgomery Burns and the Simpsons broadcast.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh it's awesome, Jerry. I would tell you you'd like
to spend too much money. I'd like to keep it all.
So the Bengals are punting. What could possibly go wrong
for the Dallas Cowboys? Well, this here turpin if you
can help it, that's what.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And picked up by.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Cincinnati out across the forty six.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Uh Joe bod Trey Aikman on the call. That call
doesn't really tell you exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What went on. I'm sure they were looking at their
producers going what happened? What happened?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So the punt is blocked, but the ball goes past
the line of scrimmage. Okay, it bounces and then really
just a bad decision by amani Or he tries to
field the ball and it bounces. He muffs it because
it hits his hits his left hand as he goes
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to catch it. Because the ball the punt is blocked
and it's bouncing on the ground, and I'm sure that
wanted to Hey want to stop this ball from going
further downfield. I'm going to try to grab it. Except
it bounces off his left hand right to the Bengals,
who recover it. Now, because it was a block and
it went past the line of scrimmage, doesn't matter if
it was fourth and twenty seven. It's now first and
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ten for the Bengals, and that's where they go on
their drive from their own forty seven yard line. Burrow
throws the touchdown to Jamar Chase. Now, I though Chase
had an unbelievable night, We have more in him in
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But this is a.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Play that was everything was wrong for the Bengals until
they wind up getting the ball because it went past
the line of scrimmage and it was blocked. Okay, it's over.
It's a turnover on downs. But because Aario tries to
grab it and muffs it, the Bengals get it and
they're able to.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Keep their drive alive.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Two minutes left to go, and they go down the
field and they score the touchdown.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, and if you have the Cowboys defense special teams
in fantasy, because it went past the line of scrimmage,
it's not a blocked point either, so you don't even
get the joy of the plus two on that. It's
just a short punt normally, in this case, it ends
up becoming a backbreaking play for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Think about it, five and seven.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
They were potentially creeping their way back into relevance.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just got to stay away from that ball. And the
thing is, you know, how many times have we seen
when something happens on a specialty teams play because it's
it's it's it's the heat of the moment that players
that should know because it's the first thing that coaches
go over with them. Okay, when this happens, when there's
a block field goal, let it go. When there's a
block here, let it go. As long as we don't
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try to touch this every.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Let it go.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It's fine. When but in the heat of the moment, oh,
I can grab this. And whether he knew that if
he if he muffed it, it would be a big deal,
but he wanted to stop it from going downfield more.
It was still an awful decision because the Cowboys are
getting the football back at midfield. No matter what happens,
you getting the ball back at midfield and it's easy
to get down the field. But instead he tries to
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grab it and he makes a horrible decision. And it
winds up going to the Bengals because of it, and
Joe Burrows able to throw a touchdown pass and Jamaar
Chase with an incredible night tonight, three touchdowns for Burrow,
They're able to win. And Micah Parsons is walking off
the field and he looks like, I like, if you
could beam him up in one of those Kenyon Codo
spaceships from the game tonight and get him out of Dallas,
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he would leave. He like, he's like this, this is
this doesn't happen to me. Why we don't lose games
like this? This is this is not this is not
what I'm used to on.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
A football field.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah, no helmet in the hand, just walking off dejected,
head down. It's funny because we were watching the Simpsons
broadcast during breaks and the top of the hour as
Steve was giving the update, you know where you'd have
these moments where you'd have the little cartoon players walking
off with their heads down as they yielded for the
punter and such. That's very much the look that Micah
(21:31):
Parsons had with that long walk.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To the tunnel.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
And then by way of contrast, you get Jamar Chase
after fulfilling some of the responsibilities on the field. He's
got a box of uh well, the pink glazed donuts
that he was handing out to fans who were lined
up down towards that end of the stadium. Just absolute
insanity in those final moments and really befitting this game
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that it had to have some sort of chaos to it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I you know, I get that you want to make
a play, but it really it happens. Stuff like this
happens on special teams way too often because someone freezes
or they make a bad decision when you have to
know better. And it's it's still a shock to see
it at this level when you know, hey, you're playing
special teams, right, this is the times you're on the field, right,
punt team, punt return. You know, when the ball is here,
(22:21):
don't touch it. When it's blocked here, don't touch it.
And maybe he didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Know it was blocked.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But if the ball is bouncing near midfield, all right,
or he duffed, you know, something bad happened, right that
either he duffed the punt or it got blocked. Let
it go out of bounce, let it go. It's gonna
go another five Okay, let it go another.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Five yardyard kind of spin.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
This is not a This is not a a an
on side kick where you got to touch it because
you don't like the spin. Doesn't matter if the ten
yards someone else is gonna get it. Like, just let
it's another few yards, let it go. Let it go, man,
it's it's you got or you were heading to just
block that guy that's coming down on the punt coverage
and get the hell out of the way of the ball.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Instead, you get absolute chaos and Joe Burrow finishes off
while a masterpiece one. He threw nearly three hundred and
seventy five yards, another three touchdown performance, his fifth straight
three or more touchdown game.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
That was the you know and honestly good because I
was thinking about it now after this. That was the
closest I ever was to scoring a touchdown in high
school because a defensive player close syray Kme was scoring
a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
In high school.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, I told Jo I was on a kickoff teams
were really good. Yeah, I was really I was on
all the specially the kickoff. I was on all special
tams because I was a sure tackler. And we started
a game against I forget who it was, and we're
out there to kick off, and the you know, look
when kids kick off in high school, you're kicking off.
The ball is generally not going to go so so far.
(23:50):
But because our kicker got a pretty big dast of it,
it hit the ground like at the twenty yard line
and started bouncing towards the end zone. And I'm running
after it because I know I can get it. And
their return man is still deep like he's he's standing
on the he's like standing on the goal line and
the ball is bouncing towards him, and he thinks I
(24:11):
can let this go on the end zone and down it.
And I know he thinks that. I know he thinks
that because he's not going up he's just watching it bounce.
And I'm running as fast as I can because I
know if I get there, I'm recovering this fumble and
if it gets in the end zone, you know, or
it gets hear the end zone, I can maybe grab
it and fall into the end zone. You're a burner
so well on this, you know how fast because I was,
(24:32):
I was one of the only people on the field
that we could get that ball. So it's bouncing, and
I know everybody's yelling. I know the coach is yeah,
I know the coach yelling. But I knew. I knew
that I could go get this because I knew the rule.
And I'm running and running, and there were a couple
of guys that got there on my team a little
bit faster than me because they were because I'm coming
from the side and they're running down the middle and
they're watching it go as it's bouncing. They're going to
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try to like down it, like it inside the five
yard line, and I just yell at the top of
the lungs and go get out of my word, a score.
And I went through both those guys and I fell
on the football. I wanted to do it and catch
it and fall into the end zone, but instead I
fell on it because I did the right thing. I
fell on it on the one and the referee comes
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you go first down, Curtis. Everybody's going crazy. We have
the ball. People I think still didn't know what is
going on. We scored a touch it on the next play.
It was awesome, but it was a close as Irack came.
Because I was the only one that knew, like the
guys on my team didn't know. The returner on the
other team didn't know, and and he was. And the
next time we kicked off the next play, Yeah, they said,
can you still run down there? I said no, no, no,
(25:35):
somebody else has to run down there. Somebody else has
to run down there. Shit, I can't because I was.
That's how close I was to scoring a touchdown. That
was that close.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Waffer thin, So is that the moment you had your
Matt Damon decision?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You never run again? This is stupid. You're leaving out
a major detail. Though what detail I leave it out?
You ran to the opposite end zone and almost court
like Bobby be Shit.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I was playing the food's ball again. That was what
happened to me. I can still see it, I guess.
I said, get out of my way. I'm gonna score
at Carlos Cardinas and who is the other guy? I
forget the other way. He was right in front of me,
and I said, get out of it. I said, I'm
gonna score, and I grab it, and I don't know
if I could have scored, because once you grab it,
it's down. So if I got it and tried to
fall in the end zone, I don't know if the
(26:21):
referee with a single touchdown, but I fell on the
one yard line and I remember getting up because our
field was a dust ball.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I remember getting up.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It's all dusty, and I see the white chalk and
I and I reached over my hand and I touched it,
and I touched I was this close to a touchdown.
But then I get up jumping around because you know
I did it, and and the coach was saying after
the game, Hey, that's great awareness.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Everything else I go and of course he's a smart kid.
He's a smart kid.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I was in all the smart cars I could have,
I could have, there were all a great play, great play,
great player. I got a sticker for my helmet because
of the play was all nice. What kind of sticker?
It was a skull. If you made a good defense,
a player, you got a skull. Yes, you got a
football if you made if you're being on offense, you
got a skull on defense. And that play and I think, man,
because I knew the rule. And I think I knew
the rule because it actually happened in a Giants game
(27:06):
against the Rams, like earlier in the season, where one
of the Rams. I think Phil McConkie. I can't believe
I'm pulling this out. I think Phil McConkie was before
he was a receiver with the Giants, had was big
Super Bowl hero. He was covering the play and the
ball was kicked and the guy was waiting, team was
going to the end zone and McConkie fell on it
and the Giants wound up getting a touchdown. So I
(27:27):
saw that, and that's I think that's how I knew
that that ball was still alive. But even though I'm
sure our coaches told us that, like the guys didn't know,
and it was you know, heat of the moment.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Nobody knew. And it was like, okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Well down it here. They're going to take over at
the one yard Like, no, that's a live ball, man,
It's just like, why.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Is it on side kicked away? It is? That's a
live ball.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
That's a live ball, and the legend of me on
special teams was born.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I've tried to search for Phil mcconkeye stuff and immediately
goes his journey from navely Navy officer to Super Bowl champ. Yeah,
I want to say film pil McConkie commenting on Specialty. No,
there we go, so maybe we can actually mind that play?
How about that?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I'm telling that's what happens sometimes, especially you got you
gotta be able to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
We still want to find video of you running this down.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
So if anybody that doesn't has any Curtis High School,
I still have.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I still have.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Videos somewhere of I'm still out of my big plays
that I've made. I ran, I ran once in nineteen
eighty five. What happened. I'm never gonna run and recovered.
I still dis run stupid. I still finish time out
to find out what's trunning from a man who wants
through a football over a mountain.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
It's Steve de Sager. Okay, he's still laughing.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
He's got that whole image of you current Jason Smith
running down on Just.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Picture me except not five nine, more like five two,
running with the biggest set of shoulder pads, and I
looked like a Weebel, except the reverse Weebel, because it
was like I was like I was like a bodybuilder
with the biggest set of shoulder pads running down.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I'm going get out of my way. I'm on a
sport with two Big Max and a diet coked. No, no, no,
that was after the game. That was seven. We're going
to McDonald's after this game. Days with your life.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Well, we do have the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network call
of the amazing play right after the two minute warning
at Dallas tonight. Bengals wound up winners twenty seven to twenty,
but Cincinnati was ready to give Dallas the football via
the punt when this happened.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Here's the punt by Ryan Raco got it is.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Blocked the Bengals, you're gonna have the ball. No, you
can't touch it. Why don't lock beyond the line of
scrimmage and the Bengals you're gonna have it. At the
forty five.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It's Leon Left No no, who was haunted by the
Super Bowl misplay to.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Not really, it was exactly that and in exactly well
essentially that stadium, right. It's for that team the nineteen
ninety three Thanksgiving game that some of us I'll remember.
Leon Lett went after a free ball like that, and
the Cowboys do it again, twenty seven to twenty. Cincinnati
wins at Dallas tonight. Jamar Chase fourteen receptions. He was
(30:12):
targeted eighteen times in this game, fourteen catches, one hundred
and seventy seven yards, two touchdowns, including the game winner
with about a minute left. Bengals with ten points in
about the last ten minutes to take this they actually
win a close game. Bengals and Cowboys each five and eight.
Dallas at home won and six this season. Panthers rookie
(30:33):
running back Jonathan Brooks tore his acl again yesterday. He
heard it just over a year ago in college.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Saints quarterback Derek Carr could be out for the season,
according to NFL media, with a broken left hand. He's
also in concussion protocol. Raiders quarterback Aidan O'Connell's knee injury
is a bone bruise. Yesterday, he was carted off with
the leg in an air cast. Packers wide receiver Romeo
Dobbs is still in concussion protocol. The Chiefs signed defensive
back Stephen Nelson, who's come out of retirement. Tampa Bay
(31:01):
safety Antoine Winfield will miss a couple weeks at least
with a sprain knee, and forty nine Ers running back
Isaac Quarndo is day to day with a sprain Foot
San Francisco on Thursday, will be hosting the Rams. The
four finalists for the Heisman Trophy include Boise State running
back Ashton Genty and Colorado wide receiver and defensive back
Travis Hunter. The other finalists are Oregon quarterback Dylan Gabriel
(31:24):
and Miami QB cam Ward. The Philadelphia Phillies signed former
Toronto All Star closer Jordan Romano, reportedly for one year,
eight and a half million dollars. Romano is coming off
an elbow injury and arthur scopic surgery. Over the previous
three seasons with the Blue Jays, his ERA was two
point three seven, and the Tigers are signing veterans starter
Alex Cobb, he missed most of last season due to injuries.
(31:47):
The next one the lone NBA game tonight, in a
close one at Toronto one thirteen to oneh eight. Tennessee
is the new number one in men's college hoops. Auburn
is still ranked number two. NHL. Shootout wins for Detroit
and mont treoll back to you.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
Tirack dot Com Studios coming up next We'll have more
on this crazy ending between the Bengals and the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Plus we'll tell you it's gonna win the Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
How about that. Let's go that's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. I want to say from the tirack
dot Com studios, the Mets are fine. We got one Soto,
We're rolling, We're good. I love it. I'll take all
the hate today. Yes, your hate just fuels me. Everyone
they hate of Yanks us, your hate just fuels me. Hoy,
(32:49):
mules us here is knowing that it's gonna hurt so
much more when you get bounced. Okay, let's say when
this when the story next fall is And despite this
Dodger's incredible pay roll, in the addition of Pete Alonzo
and Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris and Mike Schmidt, the
Mets still find a way to win thanks to one
Soto's for home runs.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
There be a lot of money and research and development
to bring back Antle and company.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I want to see how that get how that comes together.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
But before we get back into this game, A monster
game for Jamar Chase on his way to the Triple
Crown for receivers in the NFL fourteen for one, seven
two touchdowns. Unbelievable, unbelieved. He's wearing a seven eleven T shirt.
We're a seven eleven a T shirt. And the post
game that's pretty, it's pretty nicely done.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah. Well, Jamar Chase is always open. A lot of
receivers say that, yeah, right, but he always is. He
actually is.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, I am him and Justin Jefferson, dude, I'm open. No,
you're not, no, trust me. I was just put the
ball up, I'll go find it, don't worry about it.
Then your job is over. I will go get it
after that. But what if I just throw the ball,
I will go get it for you. I mean, unbelievable
night for him. Uh but you heard Steve de Sager
mention this a few minutes ago. The Heisman Trophy finalists
(34:07):
were announced today. The four players who were headed to
New York. One of them is not Kyle McCord.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Ware. Come on, man, you lead the nation in.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Passing you out, you out cam Ward and the Miami Hurricanes. Banan, No,
we gotta make cam Ward a final It's fine.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Uh, it's a.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It's I mean, really the guy should be a fine
Heisman five.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But anyway, it's fine. Sure, let the Nation of passing?
What come on?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
What nine gate? We beat Miami? We killed Miami one game?
Will we beat three teams that were in the top
twenty five?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Of course we.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm not saying we should be in the playoff. I'm
saying Kyle should be in New York. Though there were
multiple times were you called for his outs. One time
he threw eleven against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
One time you called for him to be benched. Out right,
I I I did not say that. Well closed, but
that was a really we don't need this quarterback. We
had twenty five years best quarterback we had. It's mcnag. Yeah. Man.
But with with.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
The finalists being announced, right, Ashton genty is there as
well as Dylan Gabriel and Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Travis Hunter is going to win the Heisman, right, There's
there's not enough.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
There would be a push, there would be some sort
of of movement behind one of these players if they
were going to win, and Genty needed to probably break
Barry Sanders record.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
He did not.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Dylan Gabriel owns the record for touchdowns. But it's not
like Dylan Gabriel has captured the fast nations.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Of America, you know, and and but Travis Hunter. He
is the guy who has captured our imagination, a true
two way player, playing almost every snap of every game
on offense and defense, catching ten to twelve passes a game,
breaking up passes, interceptions like he's doing some thing we
haven't seen in college football really since Charles Woodson and
(36:04):
so yes, we've seen great seasons by running backs, seeing
great received seasons by quarterbacks, but we haven't seen this.
This is what stands out. And I can't even tell
you who I think is gonna finish second, because I
can't believe that he's not gonna get the vast majority
of the votes where it's not even gonna matter, Like
(36:24):
it's not gonna be like, oh, he was able to
beat out Dylan Gate, was able to be in a
I mean, I want to think Ashton Gent is gonna
finish second, But is he really gonna get the did
people watch enough of his games? They're gonna look at
the stats to go, oh yeah, so I can't even
tell you because I don't even think it's gonna be
particularly close. It's not gonna be like Peyton Manning and
Charles Woodson. Boy, look how close that was in ninety seven.
But this was this is gonna be Travis Hunter is
(36:45):
your winner. I know. He walks away with like like
the odds have been there for the last couple of weeks.
He's minus twenty five hundred. Yeah, I can't plays one
hundred dollars. Bet you're getting one hundred and four dollars, right,
I mean the next is gent he's ten to ten
to one, and then everybody else is thirty five, one
hundred and fifty. Keep on going down, right, It's it's
(37:09):
not even where's Miller Moss?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
He's winning the transfer portals into the portal? Uh? Yes,
how many? How many quarterbacks were the Malik Murphy went
in the portal today?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hey Duke won nine games. Hey we're gonna roll with
this guy. Nope, nub going to the portal.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
I'm sorry. It was great to be here at Duke
for one year, but yeah, I'm going bigger sorry about that. Well,
you know, you take your shots. As you do. But
that's it right now. We bounce around.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
But yeah, Travis Hunter actually now is minus four thousand
on looking at a fan, Duel Genty sitting at plus
eleven hundred, and then Dylan Gabriel is four hundred to one.
Cam Word is five hundred to one. So yeah, it's
fata complete, which is why Dion is like, yeah, we're
(37:53):
bringing the Heisman with us when we come to play
the Bowl game.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
All right, we're gonna have it.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
We know we're gonna have He's gonna bring the Heidsmand
with him like next year when he's coaching, and she's
gonna bring this with me because my guy is now
on the tour uh forever more.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Hey, I like the Stanley Cup. It's gonna it's gonna come.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
He's going to hire a guy to go with him
to every recruits house that he shows up at. Yeah,
there's gonna be a crate like it's the Arc of
the Covenant from from the.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Shy.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Here here's some of my custom Dion Sanders shades for
you to wear as you look at this heisman.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
True, if you don't wear the deon change, your fates
will melt like that guy with the glasses. Remember that
guy just melted. This is back when we thought special
effects looked really cool, when it just looked really odd
and awkward.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
It's forty years ago. It's fine. Melting candle was just fine. Yeah, what.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oncen't see it again and see oh yeah wow? Okay,
special effects come a.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Long way, really a long way, a long, no question
about it. But yeah, I mean it's Look, it's obvious
Hunter is gonna walk away with this. You look at
his offensive stats, add the defensive metrics that you go
in for interceptions, past defenses, et cetera. And it's just
the story, right, as you said, If Genty had had
gotten past Barry Sanders said it's a different story, then
(39:12):
maybe it's a different.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Story, all right.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Otherwise, no, it falls short and what Hunter was able
to do. Now you pair him with Charles Woodson and
you get the marketing and merchandising that flows there.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
If yeah, if I could say it, I'd love to
say it's gonna be close it, but if it probably
should have been more of a gent Hunter thingy.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
I think Genty should win, Yes I do, But what
about Scato Scotta?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Bo's not gonna Hey, if Kyle McCord can't win. Scottabo
can't win. It's telling him.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
He's way better than the court. Win if you win.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
See Ricky Bobby is understanding exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen dome. Coming up next, we get back into
this crazy ending between the Cowboys and the Bengals, as
well as more on Juan Soto and what might be next.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:48):
Should be.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Just under four minutes left to go in the fourth quarter.
Micah Parsons on the sideline doesn't look happy. Bengal have
the football their own forty nine yard line, trying to
get down with what could be a go ahead field
goal or potential touchdown. Jamar Chase has just caught us
thirteenth ball of the night, so the Bengals have the
(01:15):
ball again. Just over three minutes left to go in
a game that has The Simpsons broadcast to the alternate
broadcast of The Simpsons, kind of fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, we got to.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
Watch that a little bit as we were getting ready
for the show. A Disney Plus go over there. They've
had some latency issues. We were a couple of plays
behind whatever, I mean. But when Krusty the Clown comes
out for the field goal, we got to watch the
halftime speeches.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yep, you know.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
When giving one of those talking about Brian, I'll cut
your belly open, I'll give in.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So, I mean that was fun.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It's a nice little wrinkle to it, and Homer throwing
touchdown passes and such. I mean, you know, it's it's
all you would expect, all the voice actors getting involved.
I'll go back and watch it in earnest later on.
But a nice alternate way for a game that, let's
face it, a lot of folks were arguing should have
been flexed out.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's the Cowboys.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
They weren't going anywhere, but they were able to tell
you we had a lot of alliance.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
On Thanksgiving, two teams going nowhere was the most watched
game in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
This year it was eight thirty nine million. Crazy some nuts,
crazy ass number. I mean, come on, the Cowboys even
did this tonight.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Guess oh, we're backing down in two and Cooper Rush
gives Barney the rock.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He finds a seam on the right side.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
There goes Barney gumble free dup beer for everyone.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
A gain of twenty seven. As Barney sets up first
down and.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Goal, well, I hit the whole really hard. No Burbard
the end, No burberd the end.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
First down like he points the ball and drops it
near the air, Like I kind of like that. Putting
the characters in there to run the ball other than
any Breecee Hall run all year. I think it might
be yeah, Breeze Hall's yeah, I think he might be right.
Is he gonna play against operations for the wind?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
I also like I like seeing Krusty kick the field
goal with his big shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
You know, that was kind of fun.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Over a tower. I mean the uprights were towers of
Krusty Berger.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah that's good.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
I went and you know, went Homer through the touchdown pass.
All of a sudden, there were donuts everywhere. Yeah, they're
all falling down from the sky. Oh it's raining, Jason.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Where are you at on Krusty Burgers? Oh? I love
Krusty burgers? Why not cheese?
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Oh of course cheese. Come on, Why I gotta have
a burger without cheese on it?
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Come? I don't think it comes with one? Why would
I do that?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
You get added though cheeseburger, but you get a Krusty
burger with cheese.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You get that over and Showbyville, maybe North Averbrook? Is
that even an option in Springfield?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I think it is such a look at Homer he
eats remember the sixty four slices of American cheese.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Sixty three sixty two, and then he goes to one.
I think I'm blind from cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
If you could eat signals blind from cheese, Homer ken, Sure,
he almost did.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I mean that is there's a lot of sodium.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
In sixty four slices of American Like not even Joey
Chestnut does that twenty pounds of shrip you see that? Yeah,
but that sixty four slices of cheese.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I think I'm blind.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Such a good, great show, even after all these years,
Oh keeps going.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm going to be in blind. How about the Mets?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Oh well, look look look I'm gonna look, look, look, look,
look I'm going Chris Brusard on you look, I like
one soda. So again, we'll love more in Cincinnati and
Dallas still twenty to twenty. Bengals have the ball near
midfield two minute warning of the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So first things first.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
When when the Mets Scott Soto last night, you know
I told you it was, it was happening. Steve Cohen
wasn't going to be outbidding, and now we're hearing stories
today and seeing stories be reported just why and how
the negotiation went the way it was. The Yankees at
the end felt that no matter what they offered, Steve
Cohen was going to go higher. So they said, you know,
(04:59):
we're we're done. When you want him for seven hundred
and sixty five million dollars, you got him right. So
that's so we're hearing that. We're hearing the whole thing
with the suite was a big deal that the Yankees
wouldn't give Juan Soto's family a suite at games, and
Steve Cohen said, sure, we'll just build more suites. I
don't care a parking spot, but yeah, so I got
a parking spot. Right, got to like George Costanza, I
(05:20):
gotta have that parking spot. Uh, this is the weirdest
part before I get to a take. You don't think
you're not gonna believe I have on one soda. It's
so weird that you know, I knew this was gonna happen.
This is the way it was going, and all of
a sudden, Bam, Juan Soto is my team's identity for
the next fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, like that's it.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Like no, hey, here comes a star, and and he
comes up and like a guy like Pete Alonzo, it's wham,
here's your here's here's your star. He is your team
for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Or as long as his wait for it, twenty six
year old pause, body holds up.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I mean that's he is.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
He is the Mets identity, not Lin d'Or after what
happened this past season with the amazing.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Year he had.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
No, it's all of a sudden, Juan Soto is your identity.
He's my team's identity now for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sucks.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
It still is weird. Stop you just jealous. It still
is weird to process. I'm not quite used to it like,
I get that. Yes, Soto's a met all of it,
but understand understanding that wherever he goes, it's it's beyond
front page news. Whatever he does is beyond front page news.
No matter what the Mets do the next fifteen years,
he's our identity. Like Phillies fans who are like again,
(06:35):
it's Dan Bryce Harper. You know, I don't like Bryce
Harper is no good. I never liked him with what
we can get him for three hundred and thirty million.
Oh I love Bryce Harper and now you hate him. Sure,
but it's so weird that all of a sudden, Bam, overnight,
he is your identity. You've heard all the the waxing
poetic about the Mets day, which is so near and
dear to my heart, that now suddenly, look how much
(06:56):
of a destination the Mets have become. Look at how
they beat the Yankees out all of that. All of
a sudden that that's the weirdest thing for me is
to go, Bam, he's our identity now, and he's my
team's identity for the next fifteen years.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, it's a flip the script right as you go,
because you had really Pete Alonso, homegrown guy, and now
the question of where he ends up. Lindor became that hero,
and certainly we lived it in the studio with you
each and every night, and all the back pages of
the fish wraps celebrating his greatness and everything until that,
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well that got snuffed out in the playoffs. And now
we look at you know, this signing is just so
huge because it was just a couple of years ago.
I mean, what were we talking about twenty four months ago?
He's turning down a four hundred and forty million dollar
deal a week ago? All right, will the bidding get
to six or six fifty? And then we go so
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far north of that it's not even funny, right, Like
it went up another one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
It's kind of funny, though, Mike, it is just I mean,
it's a funny.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Well, but that's why he can if you got you're
just like all Yankee fans. But if he chose the Dodger,
would be, oh, looking to choose the Dodgers, look out great?
It is now, oh they choses look out great. But
everybody's just jealous and upset because he didn't choose. You guys,
I'm Sorry the Mets, I'm sorry and upset.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
No, you still can't be No, But.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
This is the rare occasion where there doesn't appear to
be an opportunity cost like for almost any other team.
It's the we pick him and we can't go there, there, there,
and there with Cohen. It's what else do we want?
Or at least that's my impression of what this guy is.
If he sits down with Sono and boris like, all right,
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you're in. It's like assembling the crew for Oceans eleven.
We need one more, all right, we'll go get one more, right,
And that's where we're at, because this guy will continue
to spend and that's.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
The greatest position to be in.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
But it's not a reality for how many other teams
twenty eight other teams and in Major League Baseball? Right,
the Yankees would have been an opportunity cost. Right, you
take Soda, you're not going back probably into the marketplace,
even with that franchise is value, even with their history.
It seemed like that was gonna be a one and done.
The Dodgers, certainly, you've seen several contracts that have been
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very creatively structured. Soda wasn't doing.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
That it's a ports guy.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
He's not doing that, So you know, you would have
to then make your choice and we'll see what the
Dodgers end up doing the rest of this week seeing
a lot of rumors about guys showing up Lois Robert
and several others. But for the Mets, you've got an
owner and this is where you're gotta be, you know,
a little peacocking. Have you got a guy that wants
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in and whether this works or not, oh, it won't
and it might.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Not stop the Mets.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The Mets have turned the page from we're a laughing stock.
We're a horribly run organization. We don't have anybody that
knows what they're doing. What do I tell you all
the time? If you can can solidify the top three
positions of your team, and that's owner, GM, manager, coach,
you can sustain success for a long time. He's not
going to the Mets. If it's the will Ponds, it's
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going to be guys. Didn't you didn't you get caught
with the going to the team and if they gave
him seven Yankees were going to give him. Never about
the games were never in play now, they were never
in place. He could have gotten money from a lot
of other teams. He could have gone to a lot
of other justify paying him more than Aaron Judge, the
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captain of the teams.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
And they can't. It's a it's a different of course
they can. What was okay? So say Steve Cohen back down?
Another player on the team, say Steve coming back down Judge.
It was never a possibility.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I mean, the Yankees were up to seven hundred something
million dollars. You think if Steve Cohen said no and
they went back.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
And driving, we're out. We don't mean it, We didn't
mean it. Sorry, you can't. You can't can't take this money.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Well it's not binding, so I mean, it's not like
to do it. It's not like when you play some
bit on eBay and it's binding auction house. I mean,
like it's an offer and well you didn't take it.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
But here's the but this is this is the part.
This is where I really zag on this story for
a bit.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
As excited as I am to get one Soto, I
would have been fine if the Mets didn't get him,
because it's not like Sodo doesn't come with risks. And
if you're the Yankees or the Blue Jays or the
Dodgers or the Red Sox who was in it for
for Sodo until the end. If you didn't get them,
it's okay. You still have that money. You can go
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out and get a bunch of players and do a
lot of things to make your team better. Yes, did
you want Juan Soto? Yeah, but you didn't get them.
But it's not like this is suddenly a deal that
comes for the Mets without any risks because you have
his health situation.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
How motivated is he going to be? Now?
Speaker 1 (11:51):
You know he wants to win, but are you really
motivated when you're when you're making seventy million dollars a year?
How motivated are you to win? Like these are questions.
Is the team gonna be good?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Good?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Are you gonna be able to move on and continue
to revamp your team and sign who you need when
you got one guy who has taking up seventy million
dollars of your money and you know, major League Baseball
is not gonna say, oh, let's up the salary cap
and the luxury tax Nona. They're not gonna let Steve
Cohen get away with that. No, So it's not like
the whole the Sodo deal doesn't come without risk. I
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said it before the Mets got him, and I'm saying
it after it was great they got him. If they
got him, I would have been fine. And for the
other teams, it's okay. If the Yankees go out and
get Pete A. Lowns on Anthony Santander now for half
the money, that's a pretty good that's a pretty good
consolation prize. If the Red Sox do the same thing.
If if you can go out and go get Corbyn
Burns for that money and somebody else, it's okay. You
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didn't get him. I mean, I'm not saying, oh, look
we got him and now we're great, and you guys
all fucked. Of course you're not, because he's really if
it stopped stop you wanted them so bad frostbring just stop.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
No matter.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
But again it goes back to we've talked about it
from a business side, because I mean that has to
be considered this and you've got the owner where that
money doesn't matter. It's just wait, we were earning what
in our businesses. Yeah, go ahead, pay it off and
be done with it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Right.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
There's no opportunity costs. That's the whole point of this,
So other teams can go and for seven hundred whatever
million dollars, think about the lineup you assemble and a
fraction of that cost on an annual basis, And so
for does this push them over?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
No, he's an outfielder. This is great.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
He's a great player. You know what, ball four outside,
you know, go take first base. You know, it's that
kind of thing. He's a great player, no question about it.
But it is this the thing that says, hey, World
World Series Champion.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
No part, we were in the NLCS last year.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We're not lost, and we got better, and we're still
gonna spend more. It's not like, hey, now we're not
spending money. Steve Collen's like, guys, I make like eighty
million dollars a day hedge fund. I'm okay, whatever you
want to spend, we'll do it. We'll spend a pretty good,
pretty charmed year Overall'll get guys, well, that when you
have the right guy making decisions. How right was David
Stearns about all of the decisions he made, Guys he
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brought in that's when you have the top of your
organization does things the right way, you can sustain winning.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
You become a destiny.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
But here's the thing, man, the baseball gods will smite you. Nah,
they've done to the Dodgers almost every year.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
No one Soto twenty thirty nine. You know what came up?
What so make sure Bartolo cologne.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
The other thing that comes up is, oh, this is
when show Hao tanis doing a lot of money. So
that's also twenty thirty nine. Is that the first thing
a painting is that the first Hey, we may have
we may have to really one of those van goes
we really like. We we can't just sell any any
uh any any any blankety blank painting. We gotta we
gotta sell a really good one.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
They just loaded out for a week at a time
to rich guys that want to show it off at parties.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We're telling me, man, if you're if you didn't get him,
it's okay, It's okay. You can still do other things.
I'm being honest with you. It's okay. Exit out about
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Speaker 2 (15:24):
It is there.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
It goes up about ten minutes after the show is over.
We'll have more on the Soto move to the Mets end.
Are we talking about an incredible Cowboys comeback on Monday
Night football?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
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Speaker 3 (15:39):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 2 (15:52):
Is this stuff from Pitch Perfect three perfect? It is?
Speaker 1 (15:57):
I said there going this is what Snoop Doggs do
in the Christmas album and Keith and Michael Key goes,
this is not good. This is not good. This is
not good. This is not good. This is not good.
You could do what I do. This is not good.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
This is not good. This is not good. This is
not good. Let me try something.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the
ti rack dot Com studios, and wow, do we have
something to bring down for you here. Monday Night football
goes to the Bengals twenty seven to twenty. Bengals get
a touchdown pass from Joe Burrow to Jamar Chase and
they hold on stop the Cowboys on downs to win it.
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They improve to five and eight, keep their really really
really faint playoff hopes somewhat alive. Cowboys fall to five
and eight. But the play of this game, it's it's
you talk about bad breaks and bad decisions. The Bengals
were punting to the Cowboys. They were facing a fourth
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and twenty seven, twenty seven, fourth and twenty seven from
their own twenty nine yard line. So we're gonna punt right.
Cowboy's gonna get the ball back with about two minutes
left to go. Right, Everything's gonna be fine. Cowboys get
the ball back, and here they are. Cooper Rush going man,
I give be the started quarterback of the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I'm gonna leave us down the field.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
We're gonna be great, bight ty game, Brandon Aubrey at
the ready, all of that, all.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Good, All ready to go right, great kicker, we're gonna be.
We're gonna be good. From sixty five. I'm feeling it.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Jerry Jones feeling it sure, Jerry Jones in the booth
with Montgomery Burns and the Simpsons broadcast.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Oh it's awesome, Jerry. I would tell you you'd like
to spend too much money. I'd like to keep it all.
So the Bengals are punting. What could possibly go wrong
for the Dallas Cowboys? Well, this here turpin if you
can help it, that's what.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
And picked up by.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Cincinnati out across the forty six.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Uh Joe bod Trey Aikman on the call. That call
doesn't really tell you exactly.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
What went on. I'm sure they were looking at their
producers going what happened? What happened?
Speaker 1 (18:08):
So the punt is blocked, but the ball goes past
the line of scrimmage. Okay, it bounces and then really
just a bad decision by amani Or he tries to
field the ball and it bounces. He muffs it because
it hits his hits his left hand as he goes
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to catch it. Because the ball the punt is blocked
and it's bouncing on the ground, and I'm sure that
wanted to Hey want to stop this ball from going
further downfield. I'm going to try to grab it. Except
it bounces off his left hand right to the Bengals,
who recover it. Now, because it was a block and
it went past the line of scrimmage, doesn't matter if
it was fourth and twenty seven. It's now first and
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ten for the Bengals, and that's where they go on
their drive from their own forty seven yard line. Burrow
throws the touchdown to Jamar Chase. Now, I though Chase
had an unbelievable night, We have more in him in
a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
But this is a.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Play that was everything was wrong for the Bengals until
they wind up getting the ball because it went past
the line of scrimmage and it was blocked. Okay, it's over.
It's a turnover on downs. But because Aario tries to
grab it and muffs it, the Bengals get it and
they're able to.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Keep their drive alive.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Two minutes left to go, and they go down the
field and they score the touchdown.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, and if you have the Cowboys defense special teams
in fantasy, because it went past the line of scrimmage,
it's not a blocked point either, so you don't even
get the joy of the plus two on that. It's
just a short punt normally, in this case, it ends
up becoming a backbreaking play for the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Think about it, five and seven.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
They were potentially creeping their way back into relevance.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Just got to stay away from that ball. And the
thing is, you know, how many times have we seen
when something happens on a specialty teams play because it's
it's it's it's the heat of the moment that players
that should know because it's the first thing that coaches
go over with them. Okay, when this happens, when there's
a block field goal, let it go. When there's a
block here, let it go. As long as we don't
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try to touch this every.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Let it go.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
It's fine. When but in the heat of the moment, oh,
I can grab this. And whether he knew that if
he if he muffed it, it would be a big deal,
but he wanted to stop it from going downfield more.
It was still an awful decision because the Cowboys are
getting the football back at midfield. No matter what happens,
you getting the ball back at midfield and it's easy
to get down the field. But instead he tries to
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grab it and he makes a horrible decision. And it
winds up going to the Bengals because of it, and
Joe Burrows able to throw a touchdown pass and Jamaar
Chase with an incredible night tonight, three touchdowns for Burrow,
They're able to win. And Micah Parsons is walking off
the field and he looks like, I like, if you
could beam him up in one of those Kenyon Codo
spaceships from the game tonight and get him out of Dallas,
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he would leave. He like, he's like this, this is
this doesn't happen to me. Why we don't lose games
like this? This is this is not this is not
what I'm used to on.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
A football field.
Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah, no helmet in the hand, just walking off dejected,
head down. It's funny because we were watching the Simpsons
broadcast during breaks and the top of the hour as
Steve was giving the update, you know where you'd have
these moments where you'd have the little cartoon players walking
off with their heads down as they yielded for the
punter and such. That's very much the look that Micah
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Parsons had with that long walk.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
To the tunnel.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
And then by way of contrast, you get Jamar Chase
after fulfilling some of the responsibilities on the field. He's
got a box of uh well, the pink glazed donuts
that he was handing out to fans who were lined
up down towards that end of the stadium. Just absolute
insanity in those final moments and really befitting this game
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that it had to have some sort of chaos to it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
I you know, I get that you want to make
a play, but it really it happens. Stuff like this
happens on special teams way too often because someone freezes
or they make a bad decision when you have to
know better. And it's it's still a shock to see
it at this level when you know, hey, you're playing
special teams, right, this is the times you're on the field, right,
punt team, punt return. You know, when the ball is here,
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don't touch it. When it's blocked here, don't touch it.
And maybe he didn't.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Know it was blocked.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
But if the ball is bouncing near midfield, all right,
or he duffed, you know, something bad happened, right that
either he duffed the punt or it got blocked. Let
it go out of bounce, let it go. It's gonna
go another five Okay, let it go another.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Five yardyard kind of spin.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
This is not a This is not a a an
on side kick where you got to touch it because
you don't like the spin. Doesn't matter if the ten
yards someone else is gonna get it. Like, just let
it's another few yards, let it go. Let it go, man,
it's it's you got or you were heading to just
block that guy that's coming down on the punt coverage
and get the hell out of the way of the ball.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Instead, you get absolute chaos and Joe Burrow finishes off
while a masterpiece one. He threw nearly three hundred and
seventy five yards, another three touchdown performance, his fifth straight
three or more touchdown game.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
That was the you know and honestly good because I
was thinking about it now after this. That was the
closest I ever was to scoring a touchdown in high
school because a defensive player close syray Kme was scoring
a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
In high school.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Okay, I told Jo I was on a kickoff teams
were really good. Yeah, I was really I was on
all the specially the kickoff. I was on all special
tams because I was a sure tackler. And we started
a game against I forget who it was, and we're
out there to kick off, and the you know, look
when kids kick off in high school, you're kicking off.
The ball is generally not going to go so so far.
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But because our kicker got a pretty big dast of it,
it hit the ground like at the twenty yard line
and started bouncing towards the end zone. And I'm running
after it because I know I can get it. And
their return man is still deep like he's he's standing
on the he's like standing on the goal line and
the ball is bouncing towards him, and he thinks I
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can let this go on the end zone and down it.
And I know he thinks that. I know he thinks
that because he's not going up he's just watching it bounce.
And I'm running as fast as I can because I
know if I get there, I'm recovering this fumble and
if it gets in the end zone, you know, or
it gets hear the end zone, I can maybe grab
it and fall into the end zone. You're a burner
so well on this, you know how fast because I was,
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I was one of the only people on the field
that we could get that ball. So it's bouncing, and
I know everybody's yelling. I know the coach is yeah,
I know the coach yelling. But I knew. I knew
that I could go get this because I knew the rule.
And I'm running and running, and there were a couple
of guys that got there on my team a little
bit faster than me because they were because I'm coming
from the side and they're running down the middle and
they're watching it go as it's bouncing. They're going to
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try to like down it, like it inside the five
yard line, and I just yell at the top of
the lungs and go get out of my word, a score.
And I went through both those guys and I fell
on the football. I wanted to do it and catch
it and fall into the end zone, but instead I
fell on it because I did the right thing. I
fell on it on the one and the referee comes
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you go first down, Curtis. Everybody's going crazy. We have
the ball. People I think still didn't know what is
going on. We scored a touch it on the next play.
It was awesome, but it was a close as Irack came.
Because I was the only one that knew, like the
guys on my team didn't know. The returner on the
other team didn't know, and and he was. And the
next time we kicked off the next play, Yeah, they said,
can you still run down there? I said no, no, no,
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somebody else has to run down there. Somebody else has
to run down there. Shit, I can't because I was.
That's how close I was to scoring a touchdown. That
was that close.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Waffer thin, So is that the moment you had your
Matt Damon decision?
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You never run again? This is stupid. You're leaving out
a major detail. Though what detail I leave it out?
You ran to the opposite end zone and almost court
like Bobby be Shit.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I was playing the food's ball again. That was what
happened to me. I can still see it, I guess.
I said, get out of my way. I'm gonna score
at Carlos Cardinas and who is the other guy? I
forget the other way. He was right in front of me,
and I said, get out of it. I said, I'm
gonna score, and I grab it, and I don't know
if I could have scored, because once you grab it,
it's down. So if I got it and tried to
fall in the end zone, I don't know if the
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referee with a single touchdown, but I fell on the
one yard line and I remember getting up because our
field was a dust ball.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I remember getting up.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
It's all dusty, and I see the white chalk and
I and I reached over my hand and I touched it,
and I touched I was this close to a touchdown.
But then I get up jumping around because you know
I did it, and and the coach was saying after
the game, Hey, that's great awareness.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Everything else I go and of course he's a smart kid.
He's a smart kid.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I was in all the smart cars I could have,
I could have, there were all a great play, great play,
great player. I got a sticker for my helmet because
of the play was all nice. What kind of sticker?
It was a skull. If you made a good defense,
a player, you got a skull. Yes, you got a
football if you made if you're being on offense, you
got a skull on defense. And that play and I think, man,
because I knew the rule. And I think I knew
the rule because it actually happened in a Giants game
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against the Rams, like earlier in the season, where one
of the Rams. I think Phil McConkie. I can't believe
I'm pulling this out. I think Phil McConkie was before
he was a receiver with the Giants, had was big
Super Bowl hero. He was covering the play and the
ball was kicked and the guy was waiting, team was
going to the end zone and McConkie fell on it
and the Giants wound up getting a touchdown. So I
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saw that, and that's I think that's how I knew
that that ball was still alive. But even though I'm
sure our coaches told us that, like the guys didn't know,
and it was you know, heat of the moment.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Nobody knew. And it was like, okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Well down it here. They're going to take over at
the one yard Like, no, that's a live ball, man,
It's just like, why.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Is it on side kicked away? It is? That's a
live ball.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
That's a live ball, and the legend of me on
special teams was born.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I've tried to search for Phil mcconkeye stuff and immediately
goes his journey from navely Navy officer to Super Bowl champ. Yeah,
I want to say film pil McConkie commenting on Specialty. No,
there we go, so maybe we can actually mind that play?
How about that?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So there it is.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I'm telling that's what happens sometimes, especially you got you
gotta be able to do it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
We still want to find video of you running this down.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
So if anybody that doesn't has any Curtis High School,
I still have.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
I still have.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Videos somewhere of I'm still out of my big plays
that I've made. I ran, I ran once in nineteen
eighty five. What happened. I'm never gonna run and recovered.
I still dis run stupid. I still finish time out
to find out what's trunning from a man who wants
through a football over a mountain.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
It's Steve de Sager. Okay, he's still laughing.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
He's got that whole image of you current Jason Smith
running down on Just.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Picture me except not five nine, more like five two,
running with the biggest set of shoulder pads, and I
looked like a Weebel, except the reverse Weebel, because it
was like I was like I was like a bodybuilder
with the biggest set of shoulder pads running down.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
I'm going get out of my way. I'm on a
sport with two Big Max and a diet coked. No, no, no,
that was after the game. That was seven. We're going
to McDonald's after this game. Days with your life.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Well, we do have the Dallas Cowboys Radio Network call
of the amazing play right after the two minute warning
at Dallas tonight. Bengals wound up winners twenty seven to twenty,
but Cincinnati was ready to give Dallas the football via
the punt when this happened.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Here's the punt by Ryan Raco got it is.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Blocked the Bengals, you're gonna have the ball. No, you
can't touch it. Why don't lock beyond the line of
scrimmage and the Bengals you're gonna have it. At the
forty five.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
It's Leon Left No no, who was haunted by the
Super Bowl misplay to.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
Not really, it was exactly that and in exactly well
essentially that stadium, right. It's for that team the nineteen
ninety three Thanksgiving game that some of us I'll remember.
Leon Lett went after a free ball like that, and
the Cowboys do it again, twenty seven to twenty. Cincinnati
wins at Dallas tonight. Jamar Chase fourteen receptions. He was
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targeted eighteen times in this game, fourteen catches, one hundred
and seventy seven yards, two touchdowns, including the game winner
with about a minute left. Bengals with ten points in
about the last ten minutes to take this they actually
win a close game. Bengals and Cowboys each five and eight.
Dallas at home won and six this season. Panthers rookie
(30:33):
running back Jonathan Brooks tore his acl again yesterday. He
heard it just over a year ago in college.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
Saints quarterback Derek Carr could be out for the season,
according to NFL media, with a broken left hand. He's
also in concussion protocol. Raiders quarterback Aidan O'Connell's knee injury
is a bone bruise. Yesterday, he was carted off with
the leg in an air cast. Packers wide receiver Romeo
Dobbs is still in concussion protocol. The Chiefs signed defensive
back Stephen Nelson, who's come out of retirement. Tampa Bay
(31:01):
safety Antoine Winfield will miss a couple weeks at least
with a sprain knee, and forty nine Ers running back
Isaac Quarndo is day to day with a sprain Foot
San Francisco on Thursday, will be hosting the Rams. The
four finalists for the Heisman Trophy include Boise State running
back Ashton Genty and Colorado wide receiver and defensive back
Travis Hunter. The other finalists are Oregon quarterback Dylan Gabriel
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and Miami QB cam Ward. The Philadelphia Phillies signed former
Toronto All Star closer Jordan Romano, reportedly for one year,
eight and a half million dollars. Romano is coming off
an elbow injury and arthur scopic surgery. Over the previous
three seasons with the Blue Jays, his ERA was two
point three seven, and the Tigers are signing veterans starter
Alex Cobb, he missed most of last season due to injuries.
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The next one the lone NBA game tonight, in a
close one at Toronto one thirteen to oneh eight. Tennessee
is the new number one in men's college hoops. Auburn
is still ranked number two. NHL. Shootout wins for Detroit
and mont treoll back to you.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon live from the
Tirack dot Com Studios coming up next We'll have more
on this crazy ending between the Bengals and the Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Plus we'll tell you it's gonna win the Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
How about that. Let's go that's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
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 (32:27):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. I want to say from the tirack
dot Com studios, the Mets are fine. We got one Soto,
We're rolling, We're good. I love it. I'll take all
the hate today. Yes, your hate just fuels me. Everyone
they hate of Yanks us, your hate just fuels me. Hoy,
(32:49):
mules us here is knowing that it's gonna hurt so
much more when you get bounced. Okay, let's say when
this when the story next fall is And despite this
Dodger's incredible pay roll, in the addition of Pete Alonzo
and Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris and Mike Schmidt, the
Mets still find a way to win thanks to one
Soto's for home runs.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
There be a lot of money and research and development
to bring back Antle and company.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
I want to see how that get how that comes together.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
But before we get back into this game, A monster
game for Jamar Chase on his way to the Triple
Crown for receivers in the NFL fourteen for one, seven
two touchdowns. Unbelievable, unbelieved. He's wearing a seven eleven T shirt.
We're a seven eleven a T shirt. And the post
game that's pretty, it's pretty nicely done.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Yeah. Well, Jamar Chase is always open. A lot of
receivers say that, yeah, right, but he always is. He
actually is.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Yeah, I am him and Justin Jefferson, dude, I'm open. No,
you're not, no, trust me. I was just put the
ball up, I'll go find it, don't worry about it.
Then your job is over. I will go get it
after that. But what if I just throw the ball,
I will go get it for you. I mean, unbelievable
night for him. Uh but you heard Steve de Sager
mention this a few minutes ago. The Heisman Trophy finalists
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were announced today. The four players who were headed to
New York. One of them is not Kyle McCord.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Ware. Come on, man, you lead the nation in.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Passing you out, you out cam Ward and the Miami Hurricanes. Banan, No,
we gotta make cam Ward a final It's fine.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Uh, it's a.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
It's I mean, really the guy should be a fine
Heisman five.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
But anyway, it's fine. Sure, let the Nation of passing?
What come on?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
What nine gate? We beat Miami? We killed Miami one game?
Will we beat three teams that were in the top
twenty five?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Of course we.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
I'm not saying we should be in the playoff. I'm
saying Kyle should be in New York. Though there were
multiple times were you called for his outs. One time
he threw eleven against Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
One time you called for him to be benched. Out right,
I I I did not say that. Well closed, but
that was a really we don't need this quarterback. We
had twenty five years best quarterback we had. It's mcnag. Yeah. Man.
But with with.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
The finalists being announced, right, Ashton genty is there as
well as Dylan Gabriel and Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Travis Hunter is going to win the Heisman, right, There's
there's not enough.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
There would be a push, there would be some sort
of of movement behind one of these players if they
were going to win, and Genty needed to probably break
Barry Sanders record.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
He did not.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Dylan Gabriel owns the record for touchdowns. But it's not
like Dylan Gabriel has captured the fast nations.
Speaker 4 (35:43):
Of America, you know, and and but Travis Hunter. He
is the guy who has captured our imagination, a true
two way player, playing almost every snap of every game
on offense and defense, catching ten to twelve passes a game,
breaking up passes, interceptions like he's doing some thing we
haven't seen in college football really since Charles Woodson and
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so yes, we've seen great seasons by running backs, seeing
great received seasons by quarterbacks, but we haven't seen this.
This is what stands out. And I can't even tell
you who I think is gonna finish second, because I
can't believe that he's not gonna get the vast majority
of the votes where it's not even gonna matter, Like
(36:24):
it's not gonna be like, oh, he was able to
beat out Dylan Gate, was able to be in a
I mean, I want to think Ashton Gent is gonna
finish second, But is he really gonna get the did
people watch enough of his games? They're gonna look at
the stats to go, oh yeah, so I can't even
tell you because I don't even think it's gonna be
particularly close. It's not gonna be like Peyton Manning and
Charles Woodson. Boy, look how close that was in ninety seven.
But this was this is gonna be Travis Hunter is
(36:45):
your winner. I know. He walks away with like like
the odds have been there for the last couple of weeks.
He's minus twenty five hundred. Yeah, I can't plays one
hundred dollars. Bet you're getting one hundred and four dollars, right,
I mean the next is gent he's ten to ten
to one, and then everybody else is thirty five, one
hundred and fifty. Keep on going down, right, It's it's
(37:09):
not even where's Miller Moss?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
He's winning the transfer portals into the portal? Uh? Yes,
how many? How many quarterbacks were the Malik Murphy went
in the portal today?
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Hey Duke won nine games. Hey we're gonna roll with
this guy. Nope, nub going to the portal.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
I'm sorry. It was great to be here at Duke
for one year, but yeah, I'm going bigger sorry about that. Well,
you know, you take your shots. As you do. But
that's it right now. We bounce around.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
But yeah, Travis Hunter actually now is minus four thousand
on looking at a fan, Duel Genty sitting at plus
eleven hundred, and then Dylan Gabriel is four hundred to one.
Cam Word is five hundred to one. So yeah, it's
fata complete, which is why Dion is like, yeah, we're
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bringing the Heisman with us when we come to play
the Bowl game.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
All right, we're gonna have it.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
We know we're gonna have He's gonna bring the Heidsmand
with him like next year when he's coaching, and she's
gonna bring this with me because my guy is now
on the tour uh forever more.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Hey, I like the Stanley Cup. It's gonna it's gonna come.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
He's going to hire a guy to go with him
to every recruits house that he shows up at. Yeah,
there's gonna be a crate like it's the Arc of
the Covenant from from the.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Shy.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Here here's some of my custom Dion Sanders shades for
you to wear as you look at this heisman.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
True, if you don't wear the deon change, your fates
will melt like that guy with the glasses. Remember that
guy just melted. This is back when we thought special
effects looked really cool, when it just looked really odd
and awkward.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
It's forty years ago. It's fine. Melting candle was just fine. Yeah, what.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oncen't see it again and see oh yeah wow? Okay,
special effects come a.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Long way, really a long way, a long, no question
about it. But yeah, I mean it's Look, it's obvious
Hunter is gonna walk away with this. You look at
his offensive stats, add the defensive metrics that you go
in for interceptions, past defenses, et cetera. And it's just
the story, right, as you said, If Genty had had
gotten past Barry Sanders said it's a different story, then
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maybe it's a different.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
Story, all right.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Otherwise, no, it falls short and what Hunter was able
to do. Now you pair him with Charles Woodson and
you get the marketing and merchandising that flows there.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
If yeah, if I could say it, I'd love to
say it's gonna be close it, but if it probably
should have been more of a gent Hunter thingy.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
I think Genty should win, Yes I do, But what
about Scato Scotta?
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Bo's not gonna Hey, if Kyle McCord can't win. Scottabo
can't win. It's telling him.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
He's way better than the court. Win if you win.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
See Ricky Bobby is understanding exit out about a Fresca
exit swollen dome. Coming up next, we get back into
this crazy ending between the Cowboys and the Bengals, as
well as more on Juan Soto and what might be next.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
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