December 10, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike talk Cowboys/Bengals. Jason explains how the level of play by the Cowboys doesn't drop as much as you think it would when Dak Prescott doesn't play. And everything Week 14 with NFL Insider Jason La Canfora!
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Speaker 3 (01:44):
Twenty four, fifteen and six on the night for cat P.
You had a scare as you were running around trying
to figure out because you had a moment where your
guy Brunson, Yeah, suddenly you gotta build defense. Yeah, build
defense at a barrier between the players and the fans.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The highlight that's going viral right now. Jalen Brunton had
to leave the next game tonight for a few minutes
because he stepped on a fan shoe after shooting a
three trying to go back down court. He stepped on
a fan shoe. He walked right off. David No. It's
good for the Krusty the clown game. He stuck his
big big.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Shoe out out after kicking a field goal. He went
to courtside.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He gets hurt and he has to leave right away.
They take him right into the locker room, but he
comes back out. He plays a bit. He's okay. He
was out there at the end congratulating Karl Anthony Towns
after a big bow Day the MVP.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Dude, he lost his minds that shot went up. You
do the ISO on Brunson. He's jumping up and down
like they just want a title before that ball even
went through. The next big Bodega Man, Big Day, Big Day,
Big big day, because they were all jacked up when
it all started. You know, with that other team of years,
everything's coming up Smith.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It isn't rolling man. And we'll get to Juan Sota
in a couple of minutes. But obviously look quick update
Monday Night Football. A game that looked great when the
schedule came out in late August. Not so much now.
Cowboys and the Bengals seventeen seventeen, nine and a half
to go in the third quarter. There's been a really
(03:17):
entertaining game for you know, two teams that are five
and seven point absolutely Cooper rushes arewn a couple of
touchdowns for the for the Cowboys to get them back
in this You have a great Chase Brown touchdown catch,
tightrope down the sideline. It has been an entertaining game
and I just want to throw this out there because
this is the real takeaway from this game tonight. And
I always go back to when we had Jay Glazer.
(03:40):
We only have Jay Lazer on every week, and we
talked about this is back in the the Nick Foles
Carson Wentz quarterback quandary, where boy Carson Wentz is an
MVP caliber player, but boy Nick Foles throws for four
hundred yards and they win with him. And Jay Glazer
would always say, for whatever reason, we know how talented
Carson Wentz is, Nick Foles been back up for whatever reason,
(04:03):
the Eagles play better with Nick Foles as the quarterback
than they do with Carson Wentz for whatever reason, right,
And that was just me. I mean he said that
a bunch of times. For whatever reason, Nick Foles when
he's the quarterback, the Eagles play better. And I watched
the Dallas Cowboys and I can't say they play better,
(04:23):
but I could say, for whatever reason, the Cowboys remain
competitive when Cooper rush is playing quarterback for whatever reason,
and yes this is this is a sub tweet about
about Dak Prescott. For whatever reason, the Cowboys are really
competitive when Cooper Rush is the quarterback, because that's been
the case when he had to come in when he
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got hurt a year ago. Since he's coming. Now, give
the Cowboys a week or two to get used to
losing Dak Prescott, and suddenly here are the Cowboys at
five and seven. They can stay on the edge of
the periphery of the of the very the very far
outside side of the playoff chase in the NFC with
a win tonight to get to six and seven. For
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whatever reason, the Cowboys continue. They play hard and they're
competitive under Cooper Rushes. I watched Dak Prescott sitting in
the in the in the booth clapping with every big
play coming the Dallas Cowboys wait. For whatever reason, the
Cowboys play really competitive when Cooper Rush is in there. Thanks,
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Ralph always likes to get Ralph Wigham thrown it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
They should have a little Ralph Wickham mixed there in.
It's a beautiful night. The whole Simpson's secondary broadcast thing
going on.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We'll get into that as the night goes on.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But to your point about Cooper Rush versus Dak, Yeah,
there's something to it of a little extra energy. Also,
the schedule has been pretty nice to you. Last week
the Giants, this week the Angles. Who I think if
you took me you Frostburg, De Sager and Mary and
then added another six people, we might be able to
move the ball on this defense. Lou An Arumo's squad
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has been awful. Obviously, Wilson's hurt and done for the year,
and some of the other injuries they've had, but they
were awful from the jump, showing no life, which means
Joe Burrow has had to try to be Superman, Batman,
whatever greatest superhero is in your mind, and he's put
up ridiculous numbers coming into this game, thirty touchdowns against
five picks. But to the Cowboys point, yeah, playing a
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little free and loose, right, the expectations on Cooper Rush,
I mean, everybody wanted to see Trey Lance. There's a
little motivation there. Maybe it's also the kind of nod
and wink of hey, this guy can play, and we
get after it him. And when Ceedee Lamb had one
of his first catches of the night. He's like, yeah,
that's his eightieth of the year. Like, that's not bad
considering how miserable you know, everything is looked and now
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you're on the periphery. I mean, the NFC is a mess. Yeah,
so why not them? You look at their schedule on
the stretch at Carolina, Tampa Bay at Philly, and then
Washington at home. Three of those games you can go
and win if things break right. It's it's really insane
how that works out. But but yeah, there is that
(07:15):
effort thing. And you always wonder what's going on in
a locker room. You always wonder about pecking order. It's
a question being asked today related back to your SODO
signing as to what that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Means in a locker room.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
When a guy makes that much money and whatever, you'd
like to think, Hey, I'm making a pretty good check too,
so I'm not gonna be wallet watching. But maybe there
is something to the fact that, hey, this kid can
wing it around.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
To what reason? We talk about football being the ultimate
team sport and quarterbacks when they have big games and
what their records are and all kinds of crazy stuff.
When when Mahomes came back to win that game yesterday.
You saw the stat that I think puzzled a lot
of people. Wait, when Mahomes is trailing the fourth quarter,
is record's five hundred. By the way, that's the best
record in the history of the NFL for a quarterback
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who is trailing the fourth league. Right, that shows you
just how much you can't just have a guy. All right,
we're gonna give him the football that I'm go up
and down the field. But the Cowboy, it's not that
Dak Prescott's a bad quarterback. This is not that he's
been bad. Dak Prescott has had some big seasons, right,
and the Cowboys still win. They still you know, they've
been twelve and last couple of years. But the whole
point about Dak Prescott is that he's way more valuable
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to the Dallas Cowboys than he is outside the rest
of the league. And and Jerry Jones inflated his value,
paid him more money than he should when not saying okay,
we can start over with Cooper Rush. But understand that
when you give Dak Prescott all that money, right, and
he's your guy, you're locked in with him. You had
the best of Dak Prescott so far, and what do
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you have you have really bad playoff efforts to show
for it, because that's the that's the biggest criticism of
Dak Prescott is that, Okay, you have this level you have.
What you're getting from Dak Prescott is what you get
when he's not in the game. That's not so far.
It's not like, hey, when two is in the game
compared to when someone else is in against It's not
that case. It's not where, Hey, the Cowboys performance is
(09:09):
so far below where it's. Boy, you can tell how
they miss their quarterback. You can tell, and they miss him. Boy,
there's no offense. They can't do anything. The difference is
not great, which should tell you about the real value
of Dak Prescott. It's not that he's Daddy's awful. It's
not that he stinks. Dak Prescott is good, But is
he fifty five million dollars a year good where we're
gonna continue to turn the team over to him for
(09:31):
the next few years after we just had the best
of Dak Prescott and every time the playoffs come, I
want to cut the guy because he stinks and he's
cost us three games in the playoffs the last couple
of years. Just under that. That's the real thing about
Prescott is that look at the Cowboys and you see
how they play with Cooper Russian. No, they're not as dynamic,
but they still they find a way to win a
little bit and they're competitive all the way through. That's
(09:53):
the big thing to know. The big takeaway from Hey,
the Cowboys without Dak Prescott, that difference from where they
are with Dak where are they ill without him? Ain't
as big as you think.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And that's where you go back into the on field
versus off field branding, sales, et cetera. This is where
I'd love a Scott Morris breakdown as to what Dak
Prescott's value is.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
More people come to the games. Here is where parking
is going. You're gonna get all this money here.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Sure, the you know, chemicals in Jerry Jones' brain are
better because that was the guy he found in the draft.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean, Cooper Rush is fine.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I mean it's a nice find, and you think he'd
be latching onto that and selling.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The hell out of that as he can.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But the reality is, you know, there is something to
be said with Jerry and we know his affinity for
those guys that he feels like he's stolen in the draft,
and then you get into well what the market will bear,
And with Dak Prescott, I think we all agreed at
least on this show of I don't know, I just
(10:56):
pay him the franchise done right, walk away. But because
like you, you watched it year after year of the
the playoff fails and it's like you're not getting over,
Like at one point do you decide, all right, this
is where we are And that's that's the McCarthy question
going forward and all of those things. But for Cooper Rush, Yeah,
(11:16):
these guys ball out and you've seen the effort and
you've seen the offensive line firing off again Giants and
Bangles hang a star on it because they both what's
that word?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Do you like to use? What word about? Wait? I'm
trying to describe one word? One word? Yeah, no word,
one word, one one word? Really do that with one word?
One word, one word? Very powerful? I do with one word,
one word, with one word, uh, wonderful. Now they stay
all right, Yes, that's what I do. Yes, they yeah,
today it's one wonderful And oh, by the way, my
(11:51):
dad ditched all of my phone calls today, Every single one.
I could have called him and said, Dad, I will
die if you don't answer the phone. Please add He
wouldn't answer the phone because he knowew it's all gonna
be about the Mets getting Soto, and I'm just I'm
so the way the Yankee fans are just melting down.
I feel like the Emperor from Return to the Jedi.
(12:13):
I'm just putting out my hands, going, yes, let me
feel your hatred. Let me feel your hate.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
It consumes you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yes, yes, the hate that comes over the internet and
on television. Oh yes, leave take your hate.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And strike me down, mixing our Disney Disney plus movies.
Does he come with that flower like Mother Goffle has
entangled that keeps her young?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yes, yes, yeah, that'd aid your hate. I can tell
it courses through you. I'll upset you on losing one
Soto across town.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yes, how many more of your friends came out of
the woodworks and started hammering you.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh it was the text last night. It was like
my birthday and Bobby a Day, the days I get
the most texts in the world. Well, Father's Day, my birthday,
Bobby Benia Day. And then last night, when the when
when the Mets got s that is incorrect. Why is it?
What do you mean it's incorrect? That's not the answer
Mike was looking for. What answer are you looking for?
(13:16):
Nobody cares what to his question? That was the answer,
what what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Are you talking? Baby? Every let's go except you got it?
And they're laughing their butts off. I don't know about that.
I don't know about that. Indeed, I don't think so.
I don't think so. Exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Rman live
from the tirec dot Com Studio is we'll have more
on one so do to the Mets coming up in
a little bit. And oh, by the way, now the
Mets want to go after petere Lonzo and bringing back
(13:49):
uh but coming up next all the latest off a
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
App Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, Live from the tirag dot
com studios. Going to the fourth quarter right now in Dallas.
Feel like this game is moving seventeen seventeen Bengals and
the Cowboys. Look at the Cowboys hanging tough without Dak
Prescott just five and a half. You know what's a
(15:30):
good person to talk to you about that is Jason
lockin Forth. Oh yeah, longtime NFL inside a front of
the show, joins us now in the hotline. Check them
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Fan and ball Tory's on Twitter at Jason locking for
what's happening about? How are you?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Gentlemen, greetings.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You know we talked about this a few minutes ago.
Cowboys kick a field goal. They now lead the Bengals
twenty to seventeen, and it's it's weird that here the
Cowboys remaining oddly competitive in the wake of when their
season should be over. They win tonight, they get to
one game under five hundred, and it's weird because you
know as good as Dak Prescott is. Dak Prescott's a
good quarterback for whatever reason, the drop off when he
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doesn't play to the Cowboys level of play ain't as
great as you think it's going to be when all
you're losing your start up. The Cowboys still find ways
to stay competitive and win games when Cooper Rush is
playing quarterback, Like you would think that drop off would
be really big as far as what happens to the Cowboys,
and it really isn't.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Well, they were blown out a few times early on
after he left, but they were also blown out a
few times at home. With them, they're running the ball
better than they have all year. So I think that's
tough about it. And I think we also need to
keep track up. Just because they're playing in prime time
doesn't mean they're playing difficult teams. You know, their division
is largely you know, I mean, look, I'm starting to
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you know, I have a belief in Washington to a
certain degree, but like you know, you look at who
they've played. It hasn't exactly been murderers. Brow you know,
their their best win was what they'd beat Pittsburgh, right,
I mean, I'm guessing that's their best win on I
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don't know, Like yeah, I mean, look, they're paying Dak
Prescott a ton of money. They butchered that negotiation. We
talked about it all off season long and through the summer,
as Jerry calls himself, millions and millions of dollars. Cooper
Rush is a useful quarterback. He's one of these guys
who the longer he plays, the more settled and he gets,
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and I think the more things do stabilize. He doesn't
usually make backbreaking mistakes. He understands how to manage a game.
He's athletic enough. Yeah, it's it's it's not a cataclysmic
drop off. I mean, but the reality is that their
season has been over for quite some time for the
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most part, and I think they're gon run it back. Like,
I don't think there's going to be massive changes there.
So this is what you get. I mean, they'll be
the same kind of team again next year.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
On the other side, does Zach Taylor keep his gig
in Cincinnati or does he get blown out?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I don't. They don't pay people to go away, you know,
they extended not that long ago. That's not what Mike
Brown does, Like it would be really out of character.
This guy, you know, has taken them to a Super Bowl,
which obviously hasn't happened there for a long time. The
quarterback seems to like him. Maybe they adjust their offensive staff.
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They need players on defense. I mean, look, but Zach
Kerr was an offensive minded coach. They've lost what five
times this year when they scored over thirty points? Like,
and I don't think lou Anarumo got stupid all of
a sudden over the offseason. Like. They haven't spent a
lot of money on defense since they kind of did
the the Hendrickson and Hubbard thing a few years ago.
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Their draft picks on defense have not panned out, and
their personnel department have kind of done a note tied
in the last two or three years. And that's where
I think the problems are, right, They've got problems at
all three levels of their defense. You know, could you
make Zach Taylor walk the playing for it? I guess
you could. I don't think that's what Mike Brown will do.
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You're gonna have to keep Chase and then they're going
to have to figure a lot of things out defensively,
all right, Jay, Now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Before we get to the big weekend that was this
Bill Belichick North Carolina thing just continues to gather steam.
He does an interview on ESPN today on Pat McAfee show, saying,
we'll see if I take over, I want to run
the program this way. How real is this Belichick North
Carolina thing?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I think Bill Belichick is an expert at playing the media,
and Bill Belichick knows exactly what he's doing. And Bill
Belichick is trying to go down as the greatest NFL
coach ever, and he's trying to do it emphatically by
basically having every single record, and you can't do that
at Chapel Hill. I look, he's looking for leverage. He's
(20:06):
looking for these owners to get a little bit more motivated.
I think he's looking. I think he's probably frankly kind
of stunned that he hasn't had the same kind of
action from the NFL teams, Because again, if you've got
an interim coach or whatever, you could start interviewing people
like the guy doesn't have any current obligations to an
NFL team you could have, you could start spending time
with him, so you know, here he is. He's got
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the board of trustees and everybody at UNC and he's
alumni all what's up in a fervor every time he
talks to him. But that hasn't been the case in
the NFL. And yes, you would still have to comply
with the running rowl and there's lots of things you
have to be before you hire, but there's also ways
to enter in the wink wink agreements with people, and
that you know can start happening in the next few weeks.
(20:51):
So I'd be really surprised if he went to college route, Like,
I don't think the idea of having to constantly recruit
and re recruit these kids, you know, it's a never
ending It's like a never ending process. Now, I just
don't know that that's for him. And the whole thing
about setting up Steve Felichick, like you can try to
do that wherever he goes. I mean, he saw Parcels
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move upstairs and become a football zar and a point
you know, basically the next head coach, Like, don't. I
don't think that's something that has to be endemic to
a college situation whatsoever. I think he's coaching.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
In the PROS Sunday game, perhaps the craziest we've seen
in recent memory the mind boggling stats of Josh Allen.
But they take the l against the Rams. How seriously
should we take the Rams here and down the stretch?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Look, I'm a Rams truther wrote about him a month
ago at the Washington Post and thought they could still,
you know, could win that division and be a team
that if they got in the playoffs, might be a
tough out. And they're definitely erratic. They're the second youngest
team in the league. Nobody on the defense is making
any money. I mean, their defense is like thirty five
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or forty million dollars less than anybody else. Like, the
defense basically combined makes what like Aaron Donald was making
in you know, annual cash the last couple of years.
So I think there's going to be some ebbs and
flows because of that degree of youth. They're still too
vulnerable to the big play. But I dare say they've
sorted the offensive line out. I think this is the
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fourth or fifth time I probably would have said that
to somebody in the last thirteen weeks. But I kind
of feel like they're there again, and then they have
a modicum of a five they can trust up front.
We know you know that the skill players are there,
and when Stafford can have time to operate, he's tough
to beat. So yeah, I thought that was a really
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tough spot for the Bills, like with all the big
games they've played, and then you've got to go out
west and play this one where the other team needs
it more than you, knowing you've got this big game
with Detroit after that, I thought that was a tricky
spot for them. And now we'll see what happens Thursday night.
I mean, was that Chicago forty nine ers thing more
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about Chicago playing a game without without a head coach?
Or is this really the forty nine ers last end
and they've turned it back on, Like I kind of
think it says more about Thomas Brown in Chicago and
that hype machine and people trying to hand them the
job before heading to coach the game, Like that's object failure,
Like you made. What happened to the Jets defense when
they fired Salah, Like you made You're like, hold my beer,
(23:28):
hold my keg, hold you know, hold my whole entire winery,
hold you know, all the wine in France we're going
to take. We'll show you a debacle when the defensive
mind and head coach leaves the building like, I don't know, man,
I think it'll be a fun game. I think it'll
be a high scoring game. And we know that Shanahan's
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had mcveigh's number except for a couple of times in
the playoffs, Dafford has kind of struggled against the forty
nine ers. But I, I don't know, man, I kind
of have a feeling that the Rams are going to
be playing Seattle in Week eighteen and that's going to
settle that division.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
NFL insider Jason Locking for our guest, the Jason Smithscher
with Mike Carmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
All right, let's head to Philadelphia because the GAT the
best thing to say about the Eagles is, no matter
how good things look, they always have one foot on
the banana peel. Well boy, Brandon Graham with a statement
today that Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown used to be
friends and now they're working through it. And I feel
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like nobody in Philadelphia likes each other, whether it's Hurts
and Siriani trying to see eye to eye and now
it's Hurts in AJ Brown like this function in Philadelphia.
Yet they keep winning.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
J Yeah, if one nine in a row. But it
does kind of feel like that the egos and the
personalities are held together by duck tape, and they don't
have much of a passing game these days, and that
has kind of dried up. I think the offensive line
is better, No, it's it's an elite see run blocking
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offensive line. I think past protests and the occasionally get
issues hurts does hurt pulled the ball too long? I
don't know how much they all do really believe in Sirianni,
but they keep winning. They've obviously turned some things around defensively. Yeah,
there's definitely something about them that still gives me a
little pause. I do feel like they might run into
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a buzz saw with the Kittsburgh Steelers this week, Like
you still get that at five and a half. Like
Tomlins won nine in the last eleven straight up where
he's been a road dogs, but he's eleven and five
against the spread his last sixteen as a road dog.
I think five and a half points is too many.
And I do think even without George Kickens, I think
Pittsburgh's got a chance to win that football game. The
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Eagles are just due for a loss. It's hard to
roll off ten to eleven, twelve straight wins in this league.
They kind of got away with one last week. And look,
if Justin Tucker is not even worse kicker than their kicker,
they might have lost the week before. Yes, it's a
situation worth monitoring because we saw those personalities completely unravel
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a year ago at this time.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So we got two sides of a coin.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
We can either do the Sam Sam Sam Sam Darnold
Express or the more entertaining which is the losing locker
room Michael Pennix versus Kirk Cousins for the final four weeks.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
They need to give it to Pennick that if they
want to play cystol football, which is what they want
to do, then you might as well do it with
the quarterback who can actually add explosiveness to your run game.
And they finally did run the ball. Okay, but they
started running the ball in Minnesota. Was okay with them
running the ball because they had that game in hand.
And I mean her Cousins hasn't thrown a touchdown pass.
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It's like November the third, and I know there's a
buy in there, but still that can't happen. Like he's
one of the worst fourth quarter quarterbacks in the NFL.
The interceptions speak for themselves. The time missed this summer,
I guess heard it, you know, in terms of connecting
with these guys. But I think they absolutely need to
make that change. They have to try a different energy,
(27:10):
a different spark. They got to score some damn points.
It's as simple as that. The sweep of the Bucks
is now out the window, but the Bucks have a
better friggin record. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty chicken
bleep not to be willing to go to that kid,
especially when you look at what's happened to these other
teams who've done it. I mean, whole this quarterback class,
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everybody has risen to the occasion. So yeah, it's time Jay.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Lastly, so coming off the big Sunday night game the
Chiefs come from behind win over the Chargers. Should we
just assume that every game for the Chiefs is going
to end with the Chiefs behind with about six minutes
to go, and they score or go ahead touchdown or
kick a field gun. That's just how it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yes, it doesn't matter who the kicker is good Okay, good,
what's happened in the first you know, fifty seven minutes
of that game doesn't matter. The officiating crew, Like, yeah,
I think that is the reality. They're just an expert
operation at winning football games and winning when it's winning
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time and making you know, taking full advantage of that.
And I mean I was looking up today, like Patrick
Mahomes is still the second rated quarterback in the NFL
all third down, Like it's really it's just about keeping
games close, not having backbreaking turnovers. And then their quarterback
wins the fourth quarter on third down and fourth down, right,
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I mean that's really what he does. I mean, how
often is it like third and twenty two? Right? And
they still just keep the drive going like that's who
they are and what they do. The tackle situation looks
really bad. The sort of evaporation of whatever George Carloff
has looked like through the first four weeks of this season,
and what the edge group we thought might be like
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that's not really manifesting it. It probably won't. They're giving
up too many big plays now on defense. The red
zone offense still looks bad and they're on their fourth kicker.
I just don't think it's gonna matter a whole lot.
Although I do think this could be a tricky little
spot in Cleveland this weekend. But I you know, somebody
beating them, a good team beating them when it's all
(29:20):
on the line in the playoffs. I see it to
believe it.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason Lock and fora Jay as always, Buddy, appreciate
you man, enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
You guys do the same.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Thank you, Thanks Jason. Great stuff from Jason. Looking for
how about that? Maybe a little bit of problem with
Cleveland this week? I keep winging it. I mean, come
on with them. They're eliminated, but they're sticking with Jamis.
Wouldn't you? Could you not? I mean, hell, yeah, no,
we're done. We're going to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
They get excited about this guy on the field and
what he's gonna say before, during, and after a game.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Nah, let's bench him. And if Bill Belichick doesn't become
the next TI coach in North Carolina, I know who
will because he set for interview tomorrow. It's Steve the Seger.
How about that? But first he's gonna tell us what's
trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I would take one tenth of what Mac Brown has
accumulated for his results. Let's just say they were not
always good.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, no, they were they you know, depended whatever day
you looked at the standings. It depends how good it was.
About way.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I remember a story directly from Mac Brown at a
press conference of as I went to. He had been
on a championship team as an assistant before he first
got the North Carolina job. And he was out just
at a gas station, like waiting by the pump or something,
got chit chatting with a local and he noticed the ring.
The local said, wow, look at that. He said, yeh,
it's college football championship ring. We're looking to get one
(30:45):
of those with the tar heels. And the guy, not
realizing he was talking to Mac Brown's, Oh, they're never.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Going to get one with that Mac Brown as coach. Well,
you know that'll be eighteen seventy five. Get a Monday
night football game going right now. It's Bengals at Cowboys,
tied in the fourth.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
By the way, there are two Monday night football games
next Monday, kicking off a half hour apart. One of
the games has the Bears, losers of seven straight, and
the other game has the Raiders, losers.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Of nine straits. Set the DVR. Now, people, something's gotta give.
I don't know there can be a tie. Donovan.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Bengals and Cowboys tied at twenty with about ten minutes
left eating regulation right now. Cooper Rush two touchdown passes,
one interception for Dallas. Rico Daudell seventeen carries one hundred
and seventeen yards rushing. Joe Burrow two touchdown passes and
one interception. He's thrown for two hundred and seventy four yards.
Dallas is five and seven this year, the Bengals four
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and eight. The Raiders quarterback Aiden O'Connell's knee injury is
a bone bruise. 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. The four finalists
for the Heisman Trophy include Boise State running back Ashton
Genti and Colorado wide receiver and defensive back Travis Hunter.
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The Phillies signed former Toronto All Star closer Jordan Romano
one NBA game tonight. The Knicks won a close one
at Toronto one thirteen, one oh eight. Tennessee is the
new number one in men's college basketball. Auburn is still
number two, and it's three games. That's it for the NHL.
Tonight Detroit wanted a shootout at Buffalo. Montreal in a
shootout over Anaheim. Chicago a two to one winner at
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the Rangers. And did you note the John Hayman Colum
New York post about the Sodo contract. Details include he
gets a suite at City Field in New York for
his family estimated value five hundred thousand plus a year.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The Yankees would not give him one because they said
Judge and Jeter didn't get one, but they said, oh,
we'll give it to you at a discount. Oh oh thanks.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Queens, and those players pay for theirs the athlete. By
the way, as the Winter Meetings are ongoing this week,
the Athletics says, after the spirited bidding war for Sodo,
Mets and Yankees among the teams vying for the best
starting pitcher available via tray the White Sox lefty Garrett Crochet.
(33:16):
No deal considered close, but those two the most aggressive
suitors as of today.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Thank you, Steve though you can imagine that whole thing,
like they come into Steve Cohen's office. Okay, here's the
latest from Boris. Yeah right, the money is there. He
wants a suite. Wait Boris does no sodo? Does that's it? That?
What does that cost? About five hundred grand?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Hey wait, wait a minute, do we have to stock
it with food or just that's just it?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah? Give it to him? Why not?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, signing bonus is seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
No principle, I'm not giving you an extra five hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's what you want. It's like if I go on
like a shopping spree for Christmas, I go in and
I go, oh, I'm gonna get a stuff Your Why
because I get a T They give you a T
shirt if you spend like over one hundred dollars, but
you're spending a hundred Yeah, but I get a free
T shirt. It's like, yeah, I want to I want
a sweet Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
It's like a guy it orders two quarter pounders with
cheese but has the diet coke.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I mean who knows that? No? Yeah, none, because nobody
does that. Yeah, because it's because it's big Max not
quarter pound cheese. Dam gonna do it? Did get it right?
I wattle correct. Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmon lock from the tireg dot Com Studios.
Bengals Cowboys still at twenty apiece. Will keep you updated
on this but straight ahead why there should be zero
(34:37):
complaints about the college football playoff bracket zero, We'll tell
you an x Y Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
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Speaker 1 (34:54):
Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Simply getting Juan Soto on your team, sip. We'll have
more in the Wan Soto story coming up in a
few minutes. It's about the holiday holiday holidays, not about
you holiday holiday holiday. A big play just got overturned.
(35:18):
A pass that was ruled of fumble and recovery by
the Cowboys instead was ruled an incomplete pass, so the
Bengals are allowed to keep the football. However, can't get
a first down and despite the fact that Joe Burrow's
helmet on that third down play was just twisted, so
the side of his helmet covered the front of his face.
(35:38):
There was no penalty called, and now the Bengals have
punted or are punting to the Cowboys, who will get
the football back with about six and a half left
to go.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Does it just me or does this seem like we
have at least two or three of those with quarterbacks
every week at this point, both at the collegiate and
pro level, where it's like the guy's head's getting twisted
off seemingly in the clear view of everybody watching. Obviously
we have the beautiful television cameras doing it for us.
But it's not like he's in the middle of a scrum,
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right he's getting out and finding space and.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
He has the football. This is where you're looking looking
at the guy with the ball. The ear hole covered
his nose. That's how much they pulled that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
But no breathe So that's good. Oh yeah, just absurd.
Uh So again, we'll have more on this game than
more than one. Soto coming up in a few minutes,
but of course other big drama this weekend. We finally
had the end of the college football season. While we
still have Army Navy.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
But with conference championship weekend in the books, the college
football playoff bracket came out in all kinds of controversy.
Alabama has left out SMU is in how can you
make a case? Why is so and so seated ahead
of it? You know what, I get it, and it's
and it's fun, and it kind of goes back to
the the the worry that everybody had a well, you know,
(36:54):
conference championship Saturday's not gonna mean anything because you let
twelve teams in the playoff. No, pretty sure conference championship
Saturdy was a really big deal. It was a really
big deal. But there should be zero controversy. There should
be zero controversy. Don't complain about who you have to play,
don't complain about where you are. The big complaints are
(37:15):
about who should be twelfth and eleventh in the college
football playoff. I'm sorry, but if you were a team
that got left out, there was a reason why you
got left out. You lost too many games, lost too
many games to bad teams. Alabama, you lost when you
couldn't lose, when you didn't play anybody good in the
one team in the top twenty five you needed to
play and beat you lost to after you had a
(37:36):
twenty one zhering lead Miami. This is like arguing insanely
over who was snubbed out of the NCAA Tournament for basketball. Now, yes,
this is more high profile because it is football and
there's less teams, but think about the college basketball. No
one gets like, yeah you get left out. Yeah, sorry,
you got left out. But you got left out because
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you left too much to chance and you couldn't take
care of business. I have no sympathy for the teams
that got left out because there's all reasons why. There's
no team that I can say, Boy, they got screwed
getting left out of the brat. No they didn't. Miami
didn't get screwed. Alabama didn't get screwed. Nobody got screwed.
Everybody had too many losses, not a good enough resume.
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And when you leave it up to people to vote,
which is how they do it in college football, so
we still want to vote for teams. Okay, this is
what's gonna happen. The best teams got in. The teams
that can win the national championship, they all got in.
Are they all happy with their seeds? No, but go
win a game. I don't give a crap. I don't
give a crowd. Oh, we should be saying no play.
These are the best teams that are in. If you're
Ohio State, go play, Penn State, go play. It doesn't
(38:38):
matter all but Poise States. No, you're in. You're in.
No one's sitting here saying, oh, we're looking at us.
Date they put us in this conference, in the NCAA
tournament where we're number one seed. But look at our
eight and nine game. We gotta play a really good
team in the eight and nine game. Out. I can't
believe they gave us this. Pat You're in the tournament,
go play. There is no I have no sympathy or
desire to sit and debate why a certain team got
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left out, that has three losses or lost to every
top twenty five team they played. There's no reason you
could have won those games and gotten in, because had
you won those games, you're getting in the tournament. But
you didn't. So I'm sorry you left out. Left we're
talking about the twelfth best team and eleventh best team
in the college. No, I'm sorry you got left out.
Let's move on.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Never let it go to the judges. I think it's interesting.
Tennessee a d Danny White saying, hey, let's go back
to computers. You want to buy a computer, Let's get
back to the computers and create the perfect algorithm and model. Yeah,
because that'll go over really well. Look, there'll be tweaks
tod this. You can argue about the automatic you know
buys and Notre Dame is gonna say, well, we'd like
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to put our hand up and become one of those
teams considered for a buy. And obviously Oregon landing was like,
you know, just win your games. Well, now you're gonna
have to because you've got a very difficult road. Yet
everybody's complaining about that. We mentioned it, you and I
talk it off air a little bit. But all that
say Alabama, everybody nobody said, hey, don't play mercer in November.
(40:06):
It was don't lose to Vanderbilt and don't get smoked
by a crap ass.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Oh glaha. Alabama wants to make up like there's a
reason why, Like, oh, because we played two times. You
could have beat teams that are easily to beat. You
could have beat teams. It's not anybody's fault. It's not
somebody else's fault. It's not your schedule's fault that you lost.
You had get if you had played a look at
these eight top twenty five teams we have to play.
All right, that's a difficult schedule. But it's like, oh,
(40:33):
we had Oklahoma stinks, right, I mean vander meets Vanderbilt.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Come on, man, right, Vandy ends up as as a
five hundred team. They were Giants slayers a couple times.
That's all fining.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Good. You lost to Tennessee and then you lose those
two games. Oh and you played Mercer. Okay, whenever we're
doing this, look at this side of the resume.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Don't forget this game, which is a scrimmage to get
guys rested for the big finales.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Should be no. You then lost it out about a
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Soto Big Bodega, Big Bodega.
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game tome the only one you need the Knicks beat
the Raptors one thirteen, one oh eight. Nicks had a
two point lead and the ball with about send ten
(01:25):
seconds left looked like a potential turnover. Maybe the Raptors
will get one more chance and RJ. Barrett could be
the hero against his former team. But no Ogiano Noobi
with a great pass to Big Bodega and Karl Anthony
Towns with the dagger of a three to one thirteen
one o eight is your final score.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Twenty four, fifteen and six on the night for cat P.
You had a scare as you were running around trying
to figure out because you had a moment where your
guy Brunson, Yeah, suddenly you gotta build defense. Yeah, build
defense at a barrier between the players and the fans.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
The highlight that's going viral right now. Jalen Brunton had
to leave the next game tonight for a few minutes
because he stepped on a fan shoe after shooting a
three trying to go back down court. He stepped on
a fan shoe. He walked right off. David No. It's
good for the Krusty the clown game. He stuck his
big big.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Shoe out out after kicking a field goal. He went
to courtside.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
He gets hurt and he has to leave right away.
They take him right into the locker room, but he
comes back out. He plays a bit. He's okay. He
was out there at the end congratulating Karl Anthony Towns
after a big bow Day the MVP.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Dude, he lost his minds that shot went up. You
do the ISO on Brunson. He's jumping up and down
like they just want a title before that ball even
went through. The next big Bodega Man, Big Day, Big Day,
Big big day, because they were all jacked up when
it all started. You know, with that other team of years,
everything's coming up Smith.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
It isn't rolling man. And we'll get to Juan Sota
in a couple of minutes. But obviously look quick update
Monday Night Football. A game that looked great when the
schedule came out in late August. Not so much now.
Cowboys and the Bengals seventeen seventeen, nine and a half
to go in the third quarter. There's been a really
(03:17):
entertaining game for you know, two teams that are five
and seven point absolutely Cooper rushes arewn a couple of
touchdowns for the for the Cowboys to get them back
in this You have a great Chase Brown touchdown catch,
tightrope down the sideline. It has been an entertaining game
and I just want to throw this out there because
this is the real takeaway from this game tonight. And
I always go back to when we had Jay Glazer.
(03:40):
We only have Jay Lazer on every week, and we
talked about this is back in the the Nick Foles
Carson Wentz quarterback quandary, where boy Carson Wentz is an
MVP caliber player, but boy Nick Foles throws for four
hundred yards and they win with him. And Jay Glazer
would always say, for whatever reason, we know how talented
Carson Wentz is, Nick Foles been back up for whatever reason,
(04:03):
the Eagles play better with Nick Foles as the quarterback
than they do with Carson Wentz for whatever reason, right,
And that was just me. I mean he said that
a bunch of times. For whatever reason, Nick Foles when
he's the quarterback, the Eagles play better. And I watched
the Dallas Cowboys and I can't say they play better,
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but I could say, for whatever reason, the Cowboys remain
competitive when Cooper rush is playing quarterback for whatever reason,
and yes this is this is a sub tweet about
about Dak Prescott. For whatever reason, the Cowboys are really
competitive when Cooper Rush is the quarterback, because that's been
the case when he had to come in when he
(04:44):
got hurt a year ago. Since he's coming. Now, give
the Cowboys a week or two to get used to
losing Dak Prescott, and suddenly here are the Cowboys at
five and seven. They can stay on the edge of
the periphery of the of the very the very far
outside side of the playoff chase in the NFC with
a win tonight to get to six and seven. For
(05:05):
whatever reason, the Cowboys continue. They play hard and they're
competitive under Cooper Rushes. I watched Dak Prescott sitting in
the in the in the booth clapping with every big
play coming the Dallas Cowboys wait. For whatever reason, the
Cowboys play really competitive when Cooper Rush is in there. Thanks,
(05:33):
Ralph always likes to get Ralph Wigham thrown it.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
They should have a little Ralph Wickham mixed there in.
It's a beautiful night. The whole Simpson's secondary broadcast thing
going on.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
We'll get into that as the night goes on.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But to your point about Cooper Rush versus Dak, Yeah,
there's something to it of a little extra energy. Also,
the schedule has been pretty nice to you. Last week
the Giants, this week the Angles. Who I think if
you took me you Frostburg, De Sager and Mary and
then added another six people, we might be able to
move the ball on this defense. Lou An Arumo's squad
(06:10):
has been awful. Obviously, Wilson's hurt and done for the year,
and some of the other injuries they've had, but they
were awful from the jump, showing no life, which means
Joe Burrow has had to try to be Superman, Batman,
whatever greatest superhero is in your mind, and he's put
up ridiculous numbers coming into this game, thirty touchdowns against
five picks. But to the Cowboys point, yeah, playing a
(06:31):
little free and loose, right, the expectations on Cooper Rush,
I mean, everybody wanted to see Trey Lance. There's a
little motivation there. Maybe it's also the kind of nod
and wink of hey, this guy can play, and we
get after it him. And when Ceedee Lamb had one
of his first catches of the night. He's like, yeah,
that's his eightieth of the year. Like, that's not bad
considering how miserable you know, everything is looked and now
(06:54):
you're on the periphery. I mean, the NFC is a mess. Yeah,
so why not them? You look at their schedule on
the stretch at Carolina, Tampa Bay at Philly, and then
Washington at home. Three of those games you can go
and win if things break right. It's it's really insane
how that works out. But but yeah, there is that
(07:15):
effort thing. And you always wonder what's going on in
a locker room. You always wonder about pecking order. It's
a question being asked today related back to your SODO
signing as to what that.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Means in a locker room.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
When a guy makes that much money and whatever, you'd
like to think, Hey, I'm making a pretty good check too,
so I'm not gonna be wallet watching. But maybe there
is something to the fact that, hey, this kid can
wing it around.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
To what reason? We talk about football being the ultimate
team sport and quarterbacks when they have big games and
what their records are and all kinds of crazy stuff.
When when Mahomes came back to win that game yesterday.
You saw the stat that I think puzzled a lot
of people. Wait, when Mahomes is trailing the fourth quarter,
is record's five hundred. By the way, that's the best
record in the history of the NFL for a quarterback
(08:03):
who is trailing the fourth league. Right, that shows you
just how much you can't just have a guy. All right,
we're gonna give him the football that I'm go up
and down the field. But the Cowboy, it's not that
Dak Prescott's a bad quarterback. This is not that he's
been bad. Dak Prescott has had some big seasons, right,
and the Cowboys still win. They still you know, they've
been twelve and last couple of years. But the whole
point about Dak Prescott is that he's way more valuable
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to the Dallas Cowboys than he is outside the rest
of the league. And and Jerry Jones inflated his value,
paid him more money than he should when not saying okay,
we can start over with Cooper Rush. But understand that
when you give Dak Prescott all that money, right, and
he's your guy, you're locked in with him. You had
the best of Dak Prescott so far, and what do
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you have you have really bad playoff efforts to show
for it, because that's the that's the biggest criticism of
Dak Prescott is that, Okay, you have this level you have.
What you're getting from Dak Prescott is what you get
when he's not in the game. That's not so far.
It's not like, hey, when two is in the game
compared to when someone else is in against It's not
that case. It's not where, Hey, the Cowboys performance is
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so far below where it's. Boy, you can tell how
they miss their quarterback. You can tell, and they miss him. Boy,
there's no offense. They can't do anything. The difference is
not great, which should tell you about the real value
of Dak Prescott. It's not that he's Daddy's awful. It's
not that he stinks. Dak Prescott is good, But is
he fifty five million dollars a year good where we're
gonna continue to turn the team over to him for
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the next few years after we just had the best
of Dak Prescott and every time the playoffs come, I
want to cut the guy because he stinks and he's
cost us three games in the playoffs the last couple
of years. Just under that. That's the real thing about
Prescott is that look at the Cowboys and you see
how they play with Cooper Russian. No, they're not as dynamic,
but they still they find a way to win a
little bit and they're competitive all the way through. That's
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the big thing to know. The big takeaway from Hey,
the Cowboys without Dak Prescott, that difference from where they
are with Dak where are they ill without him? Ain't
as big as you think.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
And that's where you go back into the on field
versus off field branding, sales, et cetera. This is where
I'd love a Scott Morris breakdown as to what Dak
Prescott's value is.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
More people come to the games. Here is where parking
is going. You're gonna get all this money here.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Sure, the you know, chemicals in Jerry Jones' brain are
better because that was the guy he found in the draft.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I mean, Cooper Rush is fine.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I mean it's a nice find, and you think he'd
be latching onto that and selling.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
The hell out of that as he can.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But the reality is, you know, there is something to
be said with Jerry and we know his affinity for
those guys that he feels like he's stolen in the draft,
and then you get into well what the market will bear,
And with Dak Prescott, I think we all agreed at
least on this show of I don't know, I just
(10:56):
pay him the franchise done right, walk away. But because
like you, you watched it year after year of the
the playoff fails and it's like you're not getting over,
Like at one point do you decide, all right, this
is where we are And that's that's the McCarthy question
going forward and all of those things. But for Cooper Rush, Yeah,
(11:16):
these guys ball out and you've seen the effort and
you've seen the offensive line firing off again Giants and
Bangles hang a star on it because they both what's
that word?
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Do you like to use? What word about? Wait? I'm
trying to describe one word? One word? Yeah, no word,
one word, one one word? Really do that with one word?
One word, one word? Very powerful? I do with one word,
one word, with one word, uh, wonderful. Now they stay
all right, Yes, that's what I do. Yes, they yeah,
today it's one wonderful And oh, by the way, my
(11:51):
dad ditched all of my phone calls today, Every single one.
I could have called him and said, Dad, I will
die if you don't answer the phone. Please add He
wouldn't answer the phone because he knowew it's all gonna
be about the Mets getting Soto, and I'm just I'm
so the way the Yankee fans are just melting down.
I feel like the Emperor from Return to the Jedi.
(12:13):
I'm just putting out my hands, going, yes, let me
feel your hatred. Let me feel your hate.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
It consumes you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Yes, yes, the hate that comes over the internet and
on television. Oh yes, leave take your hate.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
And strike me down, mixing our Disney Disney plus movies.
Does he come with that flower like Mother Goffle has
entangled that keeps her young?
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yes, yes, yeah, that'd aid your hate. I can tell
it courses through you. I'll upset you on losing one
Soto across town.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Yes, how many more of your friends came out of
the woodworks and started hammering you.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Oh it was the text last night. It was like
my birthday and Bobby a Day, the days I get
the most texts in the world. Well, Father's Day, my birthday,
Bobby Benia Day. And then last night, when the when
when the Mets got s that is incorrect. Why is it?
What do you mean it's incorrect? That's not the answer
Mike was looking for. What answer are you looking for?
(13:16):
Nobody cares what to his question? That was the answer,
what what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Are you talking? Baby? Every let's go except you got it?
And they're laughing their butts off. I don't know about that.
I don't know about that. Indeed, I don't think so.
I don't think so. Exit out about a Fresca exit
swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Rman live
from the tirec dot Com Studio is we'll have more
on one so do to the Mets coming up in
a little bit. And oh, by the way, now the
Mets want to go after petere Lonzo and bringing back
(13:49):
uh but coming up next all the latest off a
big week fourteen in the NFL. Jason Locke and Forrest
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sandwich over the head and you're going, I'll love it.
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Speaker 1 (15:08):
App Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, Live from the tirag dot
com studios. Going to the fourth quarter right now in Dallas.
Feel like this game is moving seventeen seventeen Bengals and
the Cowboys. Look at the Cowboys hanging tough without Dak
Prescott just five and a half. You know what's a
(15:30):
good person to talk to you about that is Jason
lockin Forth. Oh yeah, longtime NFL inside a front of
the show, joins us now in the hotline. Check them
out on Odyssey Washington Post one oh five seven the
Fan and ball Tory's on Twitter at Jason locking for
what's happening about? How are you?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Gentlemen, greetings.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You know we talked about this a few minutes ago.
Cowboys kick a field goal. They now lead the Bengals
twenty to seventeen, and it's it's weird that here the
Cowboys remaining oddly competitive in the wake of when their
season should be over. They win tonight, they get to
one game under five hundred, and it's weird because you
know as good as Dak Prescott is. Dak Prescott's a
good quarterback for whatever reason, the drop off when he
(16:13):
doesn't play to the Cowboys level of play ain't as
great as you think it's going to be when all
you're losing your start up. The Cowboys still find ways
to stay competitive and win games when Cooper Rush is
playing quarterback, Like you would think that drop off would
be really big as far as what happens to the Cowboys,
and it really isn't.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Well, they were blown out a few times early on
after he left, but they were also blown out a
few times at home. With them, they're running the ball
better than they have all year. So I think that's
tough about it. And I think we also need to
keep track up. Just because they're playing in prime time
doesn't mean they're playing difficult teams. You know, their division
is largely you know, I mean, look, I'm starting to
(16:53):
you know, I have a belief in Washington to a
certain degree, but like you know, you look at who
they've played. It hasn't exactly been murderers. Brow you know,
their their best win was what they'd beat Pittsburgh, right,
I mean, I'm guessing that's their best win on I
(17:15):
don't know, Like yeah, I mean, look, they're paying Dak
Prescott a ton of money. They butchered that negotiation. We
talked about it all off season long and through the summer,
as Jerry calls himself, millions and millions of dollars. Cooper
Rush is a useful quarterback. He's one of these guys
who the longer he plays, the more settled and he gets,
(17:35):
and I think the more things do stabilize. He doesn't
usually make backbreaking mistakes. He understands how to manage a game.
He's athletic enough. Yeah, it's it's it's not a cataclysmic
drop off. I mean, but the reality is that their
season has been over for quite some time for the
(17:57):
most part, and I think they're gon run it back. Like,
I don't think there's going to be massive changes there.
So this is what you get. I mean, they'll be
the same kind of team again next year.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
On the other side, does Zach Taylor keep his gig
in Cincinnati or does he get blown out?
Speaker 4 (18:15):
I don't. They don't pay people to go away, you know,
they extended not that long ago. That's not what Mike
Brown does, Like it would be really out of character.
This guy, you know, has taken them to a Super Bowl,
which obviously hasn't happened there for a long time. The
quarterback seems to like him. Maybe they adjust their offensive staff.
(18:36):
They need players on defense. I mean, look, but Zach
Kerr was an offensive minded coach. They've lost what five
times this year when they scored over thirty points? Like,
and I don't think lou Anarumo got stupid all of
a sudden over the offseason. Like. They haven't spent a
lot of money on defense since they kind of did
the the Hendrickson and Hubbard thing a few years ago.
(18:57):
Their draft picks on defense have not panned out, and
their personnel department have kind of done a note tied
in the last two or three years. And that's where
I think the problems are, right, They've got problems at
all three levels of their defense. You know, could you
make Zach Taylor walk the playing for it? I guess
you could. I don't think that's what Mike Brown will do.
(19:20):
You're gonna have to keep Chase and then they're going
to have to figure a lot of things out defensively,
all right, Jay, Now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Before we get to the big weekend that was this
Bill Belichick North Carolina thing just continues to gather steam.
He does an interview on ESPN today on Pat McAfee show, saying,
we'll see if I take over, I want to run
the program this way. How real is this Belichick North
Carolina thing?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
I think Bill Belichick is an expert at playing the media,
and Bill Belichick knows exactly what he's doing. And Bill
Belichick is trying to go down as the greatest NFL
coach ever, and he's trying to do it emphatically by
basically having every single record, and you can't do that
at Chapel Hill. I look, he's looking for leverage. He's
(20:06):
looking for these owners to get a little bit more motivated.
I think he's looking. I think he's probably frankly kind
of stunned that he hasn't had the same kind of
action from the NFL teams, Because again, if you've got
an interim coach or whatever, you could start interviewing people
like the guy doesn't have any current obligations to an
NFL team you could have, you could start spending time
with him, so you know, here he is. He's got
(20:28):
the board of trustees and everybody at UNC and he's
alumni all what's up in a fervor every time he
talks to him. But that hasn't been the case in
the NFL. And yes, you would still have to comply
with the running rowl and there's lots of things you
have to be before you hire, but there's also ways
to enter in the wink wink agreements with people, and
that you know can start happening in the next few weeks.
(20:51):
So I'd be really surprised if he went to college route, Like,
I don't think the idea of having to constantly recruit
and re recruit these kids, you know, it's a never
ending It's like a never ending process. Now, I just
don't know that that's for him. And the whole thing
about setting up Steve Felichick, like you can try to
do that wherever he goes. I mean, he saw Parcels
(21:14):
move upstairs and become a football zar and a point
you know, basically the next head coach, Like, don't. I
don't think that's something that has to be endemic to
a college situation whatsoever. I think he's coaching.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
In the PROS Sunday game, perhaps the craziest we've seen
in recent memory the mind boggling stats of Josh Allen.
But they take the l against the Rams. How seriously
should we take the Rams here and down the stretch?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
Look, I'm a Rams truther wrote about him a month
ago at the Washington Post and thought they could still,
you know, could win that division and be a team
that if they got in the playoffs, might be a
tough out. And they're definitely erratic. They're the second youngest
team in the league. Nobody on the defense is making
any money. I mean, their defense is like thirty five
(22:03):
or forty million dollars less than anybody else. Like, the
defense basically combined makes what like Aaron Donald was making
in you know, annual cash the last couple of years.
So I think there's going to be some ebbs and
flows because of that degree of youth. They're still too
vulnerable to the big play. But I dare say they've
sorted the offensive line out. I think this is the
(22:25):
fourth or fifth time I probably would have said that
to somebody in the last thirteen weeks. But I kind
of feel like they're there again, and then they have
a modicum of a five they can trust up front.
We know you know that the skill players are there,
and when Stafford can have time to operate, he's tough
to beat. So yeah, I thought that was a really
(22:45):
tough spot for the Bills, like with all the big
games they've played, and then you've got to go out
west and play this one where the other team needs
it more than you, knowing you've got this big game
with Detroit after that, I thought that was a tricky
spot for them. And now we'll see what happens Thursday night.
I mean, was that Chicago forty nine ers thing more
(23:06):
about Chicago playing a game without without a head coach?
Or is this really the forty nine ers last end
and they've turned it back on, Like I kind of
think it says more about Thomas Brown in Chicago and
that hype machine and people trying to hand them the
job before heading to coach the game, Like that's object failure,
Like you made. What happened to the Jets defense when
they fired Salah, Like you made You're like, hold my beer,
(23:28):
hold my keg, hold you know, hold my whole entire winery,
hold you know, all the wine in France we're going
to take. We'll show you a debacle when the defensive
mind and head coach leaves the building like, I don't know, man,
I think it'll be a fun game. I think it'll
be a high scoring game. And we know that Shanahan's
(23:51):
had mcveigh's number except for a couple of times in
the playoffs, Dafford has kind of struggled against the forty
nine ers. But I, I don't know, man, I kind
of have a feeling that the Rams are going to
be playing Seattle in Week eighteen and that's going to
settle that division.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
NFL insider Jason Locking for our guest, the Jason Smithscher
with Mike Carmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
All right, let's head to Philadelphia because the GAT the
best thing to say about the Eagles is, no matter
how good things look, they always have one foot on
the banana peel. Well boy, Brandon Graham with a statement
today that Jalen Hurts and AJ Brown used to be
friends and now they're working through it. And I feel
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like nobody in Philadelphia likes each other, whether it's Hurts
and Siriani trying to see eye to eye and now
it's Hurts in AJ Brown like this function in Philadelphia.
Yet they keep winning.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
J Yeah, if one nine in a row. But it
does kind of feel like that the egos and the
personalities are held together by duck tape, and they don't
have much of a passing game these days, and that
has kind of dried up. I think the offensive line
is better, No, it's it's an elite see run blocking
(25:00):
offensive line. I think past protests and the occasionally get
issues hurts does hurt pulled the ball too long? I
don't know how much they all do really believe in Sirianni,
but they keep winning. They've obviously turned some things around defensively. Yeah,
there's definitely something about them that still gives me a
little pause. I do feel like they might run into
(25:23):
a buzz saw with the Kittsburgh Steelers this week, Like
you still get that at five and a half. Like
Tomlins won nine in the last eleven straight up where
he's been a road dogs, but he's eleven and five
against the spread his last sixteen as a road dog.
I think five and a half points is too many.
And I do think even without George Kickens, I think
Pittsburgh's got a chance to win that football game. The
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Eagles are just due for a loss. It's hard to
roll off ten to eleven, twelve straight wins in this league.
They kind of got away with one last week. And look,
if Justin Tucker is not even worse kicker than their kicker,
they might have lost the week before. Yes, it's a
situation worth monitoring because we saw those personalities completely unravel
(26:07):
a year ago at this time.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So we got two sides of a coin.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
We can either do the Sam Sam Sam Sam Darnold
Express or the more entertaining which is the losing locker
room Michael Pennix versus Kirk Cousins for the final four weeks.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
They need to give it to Pennick that if they
want to play cystol football, which is what they want
to do, then you might as well do it with
the quarterback who can actually add explosiveness to your run game.
And they finally did run the ball. Okay, but they
started running the ball in Minnesota. Was okay with them
running the ball because they had that game in hand.
And I mean her Cousins hasn't thrown a touchdown pass.
(26:47):
It's like November the third, and I know there's a
buy in there, but still that can't happen. Like he's
one of the worst fourth quarter quarterbacks in the NFL.
The interceptions speak for themselves. The time missed this summer,
I guess heard it, you know, in terms of connecting
with these guys. But I think they absolutely need to
make that change. They have to try a different energy,
(27:10):
a different spark. They got to score some damn points.
It's as simple as that. The sweep of the Bucks
is now out the window, but the Bucks have a
better friggin record. Yeah, I think it'd be pretty chicken
bleep not to be willing to go to that kid,
especially when you look at what's happened to these other
teams who've done it. I mean, whole this quarterback class,
(27:31):
everybody has risen to the occasion. So yeah, it's time Jay.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Lastly, so coming off the big Sunday night game the
Chiefs come from behind win over the Chargers. Should we
just assume that every game for the Chiefs is going
to end with the Chiefs behind with about six minutes
to go, and they score or go ahead touchdown or
kick a field gun. That's just how it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yes, it doesn't matter who the kicker is good Okay, good,
what's happened in the first you know, fifty seven minutes
of that game doesn't matter. The officiating crew, Like, yeah,
I think that is the reality. They're just an expert
operation at winning football games and winning when it's winning
(28:15):
time and making you know, taking full advantage of that.
And I mean I was looking up today, like Patrick
Mahomes is still the second rated quarterback in the NFL
all third down, Like it's really it's just about keeping
games close, not having backbreaking turnovers. And then their quarterback
wins the fourth quarter on third down and fourth down, right,
(28:36):
I mean that's really what he does. I mean, how
often is it like third and twenty two? Right? And
they still just keep the drive going like that's who
they are and what they do. The tackle situation looks
really bad. The sort of evaporation of whatever George Carloff
has looked like through the first four weeks of this season,
and what the edge group we thought might be like
(28:58):
that's not really manifesting it. It probably won't. They're giving
up too many big plays now on defense. The red
zone offense still looks bad and they're on their fourth kicker.
I just don't think it's gonna matter a whole lot.
Although I do think this could be a tricky little
spot in Cleveland this weekend. But I you know, somebody
beating them, a good team beating them when it's all
(29:20):
on the line in the playoffs. I see it to
believe it.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and for that is
at Jason Lock and fora Jay as always, Buddy, appreciate
you man, enjoy the games. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
You guys do the same.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Thank you, Thanks Jason. Great stuff from Jason. Looking for
how about that? Maybe a little bit of problem with
Cleveland this week? I keep winging it. I mean, come
on with them. They're eliminated, but they're sticking with Jamis.
Wouldn't you? Could you not? I mean, hell, yeah, no,
we're done. We're going to talk about this.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
They get excited about this guy on the field and
what he's gonna say before, during, and after a game.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Nah, let's bench him. And if Bill Belichick doesn't become
the next TI coach in North Carolina, I know who
will because he set for interview tomorrow. It's Steve the Seger.
How about that? But first he's gonna tell us what's
trending in the wide world of sports.
Speaker 5 (30:08):
I would take one tenth of what Mac Brown has
accumulated for his results. Let's just say they were not
always good.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Okay, no, they were they you know, depended whatever day
you looked at the standings. It depends how good it was.
About way.
Speaker 5 (30:23):
I remember a story directly from Mac Brown at a
press conference of as I went to. He had been
on a championship team as an assistant before he first
got the North Carolina job. And he was out just
at a gas station, like waiting by the pump or something,
got chit chatting with a local and he noticed the ring.
The local said, wow, look at that. He said, yeh,
it's college football championship ring. We're looking to get one
(30:45):
of those with the tar heels. And the guy, not
realizing he was talking to Mac Brown's, Oh, they're never.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Going to get one with that Mac Brown as coach. Well,
you know that'll be eighteen seventy five. Get a Monday
night football game going right now. It's Bengals at Cowboys,
tied in the fourth.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
By the way, there are two Monday night football games
next Monday, kicking off a half hour apart. One of
the games has the Bears, losers of seven straight, and
the other game has the Raiders, losers.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Of nine straits. Set the DVR. Now, people, something's gotta give.
I don't know there can be a tie. Donovan.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Bengals and Cowboys tied at twenty with about ten minutes
left eating regulation right now. Cooper Rush two touchdown passes,
one interception for Dallas. Rico Daudell seventeen carries one hundred
and seventeen yards rushing. Joe Burrow two touchdown passes and
one interception. He's thrown for two hundred and seventy four yards.
Dallas is five and seven this year, the Bengals four
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and eight. The Raiders quarterback Aiden O'Connell's knee injury is
a bone bruise. 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. The four finalists
for the Heisman Trophy include Boise State running back Ashton
Genti and Colorado wide receiver and defensive back Travis Hunter.
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The Phillies signed former Toronto All Star closer Jordan Romano
one NBA game tonight. The Knicks won a close one
at Toronto one thirteen, one oh eight. Tennessee is the
new number one in men's college basketball. Auburn is still
number two, and it's three games. That's it for the NHL.
Tonight Detroit wanted a shootout at Buffalo. Montreal in a
shootout over Anaheim. Chicago a two to one winner at
(32:29):
the Rangers. And did you note the John Hayman Colum
New York post about the Sodo contract. Details include he
gets a suite at City Field in New York for
his family estimated value five hundred thousand plus a year.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
The Yankees would not give him one because they said
Judge and Jeter didn't get one, but they said, oh,
we'll give it to you at a discount. Oh oh thanks.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Queens, and those players pay for theirs the athlete. By
the way, as the Winter Meetings are ongoing this week,
the Athletics says, after the spirited bidding war for Sodo,
Mets and Yankees among the teams vying for the best
starting pitcher available via tray the White Sox lefty Garrett Crochet.
(33:16):
No deal considered close, but those two the most aggressive
suitors as of today.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Thank you, Steve though you can imagine that whole thing,
like they come into Steve Cohen's office. Okay, here's the
latest from Boris. Yeah right, the money is there. He
wants a suite. Wait Boris does no sodo? Does that's it? That?
What does that cost? About five hundred grand?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Hey wait, wait a minute, do we have to stock
it with food or just that's just it?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Right?
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yeah? Give it to him? Why not?
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Yeah, signing bonus is seventy five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
No principle, I'm not giving you an extra five hundred
thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's what you want. It's like if I go on
like a shopping spree for Christmas, I go in and
I go, oh, I'm gonna get a stuff Your Why
because I get a T They give you a T
shirt if you spend like over one hundred dollars, but
you're spending a hundred Yeah, but I get a free
T shirt. It's like, yeah, I want to I want
a sweet Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
It's like a guy it orders two quarter pounders with
cheese but has the diet coke.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
I mean who knows that? No? Yeah, none, because nobody
does that. Yeah, because it's because it's big Max not
quarter pound cheese. Dam gonna do it? Did get it right?
I wattle correct. Thank you, Steve. The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmon lock from the tireg dot Com Studios.
Bengals Cowboys still at twenty apiece. Will keep you updated
on this but straight ahead why there should be zero
(34:37):
complaints about the college football playoff bracket zero, We'll tell
you an x Y Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Simply getting Juan Soto on your team, sip. We'll have
more in the Wan Soto story coming up in a
few minutes. It's about the holiday holiday holidays, not about
you holiday holiday holiday. A big play just got overturned.
(35:18):
A pass that was ruled of fumble and recovery by
the Cowboys instead was ruled an incomplete pass, so the
Bengals are allowed to keep the football. However, can't get
a first down and despite the fact that Joe Burrow's
helmet on that third down play was just twisted, so
the side of his helmet covered the front of his face.
(35:38):
There was no penalty called, and now the Bengals have
punted or are punting to the Cowboys, who will get
the football back with about six and a half left
to go.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Does it just me or does this seem like we
have at least two or three of those with quarterbacks
every week at this point, both at the collegiate and
pro level, where it's like the guy's head's getting twisted
off seemingly in the clear view of everybody watching. Obviously
we have the beautiful television cameras doing it for us.
But it's not like he's in the middle of a scrum,
(36:09):
right he's getting out and finding space and.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
He has the football. This is where you're looking looking
at the guy with the ball. The ear hole covered
his nose. That's how much they pulled that.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
But no breathe So that's good. Oh yeah, just absurd.
Uh So again, we'll have more on this game than
more than one. Soto coming up in a few minutes,
but of course other big drama this weekend. We finally
had the end of the college football season. While we
still have Army Navy.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
But with conference championship weekend in the books, the college
football playoff bracket came out in all kinds of controversy.
Alabama has left out SMU is in how can you
make a case? Why is so and so seated ahead
of it? You know what, I get it, and it's
and it's fun, and it kind of goes back to
the the the worry that everybody had a well, you know,
(36:54):
conference championship Saturday's not gonna mean anything because you let
twelve teams in the playoff. No, pretty sure conference championship
Saturdy was a really big deal. It was a really
big deal. But there should be zero controversy. There should
be zero controversy. Don't complain about who you have to play,
don't complain about where you are. The big complaints are
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about who should be twelfth and eleventh in the college
football playoff. I'm sorry, but if you were a team
that got left out, there was a reason why you
got left out. You lost too many games, lost too
many games to bad teams. Alabama, you lost when you
couldn't lose, when you didn't play anybody good in the
one team in the top twenty five you needed to
play and beat you lost to after you had a
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twenty one zhering lead Miami. This is like arguing insanely
over who was snubbed out of the NCAA Tournament for basketball. Now, yes,
this is more high profile because it is football and
there's less teams, but think about the college basketball. No
one gets like, yeah you get left out. Yeah, sorry,
you got left out. But you got left out because
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you left too much to chance and you couldn't take
care of business. I have no sympathy for the teams
that got left out because there's all reasons why. There's
no team that I can say, Boy, they got screwed
getting left out of the brat. No they didn't. Miami
didn't get screwed. Alabama didn't get screwed. Nobody got screwed.
Everybody had too many losses, not a good enough resume.
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And when you leave it up to people to vote,
which is how they do it in college football, so
we still want to vote for teams. Okay, this is
what's gonna happen. The best teams got in. The teams
that can win the national championship, they all got in.
Are they all happy with their seeds? No, but go
win a game. I don't give a crap. I don't
give a crowd. Oh, we should be saying no play.
These are the best teams that are in. If you're
Ohio State, go play, Penn State, go play. It doesn't
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matter all but Poise States. No, you're in. You're in.
No one's sitting here saying, oh, we're looking at us.
Date they put us in this conference, in the NCAA
tournament where we're number one seed. But look at our
eight and nine game. We gotta play a really good
team in the eight and nine game. Out. I can't
believe they gave us this. Pat You're in the tournament,
go play. There is no I have no sympathy or
desire to sit and debate why a certain team got
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left out, that has three losses or lost to every
top twenty five team they played. There's no reason you
could have won those games and gotten in, because had
you won those games, you're getting in the tournament. But
you didn't. So I'm sorry you left out. Left we're
talking about the twelfth best team and eleventh best team
in the college. No, I'm sorry you got left out.
Let's move on.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Never let it go to the judges. I think it's interesting.
Tennessee a d Danny White saying, hey, let's go back
to computers. You want to buy a computer, Let's get
back to the computers and create the perfect algorithm and model. Yeah,
because that'll go over really well. Look, there'll be tweaks
tod this. You can argue about the automatic you know
buys and Notre Dame is gonna say, well, we'd like
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to put our hand up and become one of those
teams considered for a buy. And obviously Oregon landing was like,
you know, just win your games. Well, now you're gonna
have to because you've got a very difficult road. Yet
everybody's complaining about that. We mentioned it, you and I
talk it off air a little bit. But all that
say Alabama, everybody nobody said, hey, don't play mercer in November.
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It was don't lose to Vanderbilt and don't get smoked
by a crap ass.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Oh glaha. Alabama wants to make up like there's a
reason why, Like, oh, because we played two times. You
could have beat teams that are easily to beat. You
could have beat teams. It's not anybody's fault. It's not
somebody else's fault. It's not your schedule's fault that you lost.
You had get if you had played a look at
these eight top twenty five teams we have to play.
All right, that's a difficult schedule. But it's like, oh,
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we had Oklahoma stinks, right, I mean vander meets Vanderbilt.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Come on, man, right, Vandy ends up as as a
five hundred team. They were Giants slayers a couple times.
That's all fining.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Good. You lost to Tennessee and then you lose those
two games. Oh and you played Mercer. Okay, whenever we're
doing this, look at this side of the resume.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Don't forget this game, which is a scrimmage to get
guys rested for the big finales.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Should be no. You then lost it out about a
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