December 31, 2024 • 39 mins
On tonight’s edition of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, Dan Beyer fills in for Jason Smith. Mike and Dan kick off the hour by previewing the Lions vs. 49ers Monday Night Football matchup. Next, longtime friend of the show and NFL analyst Jason La Canfora joins to discuss all things NFL. Finally, the duo dives into the final week of the season for most NFL fantasy leagues and reflects on how their seasons unfolded. Don’t miss all this and more in Hour 1!
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey greetings, Welcome in end of week seventeen of your
National Football League season. For some of these markets, the
long national nightmare will end our local nightmare that turn
national for some me.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I'm a Bears fan. You know my pain all too well.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Welcome in another beautiful edition to Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon. No Jason Smith Tonight back on Thursday
in earnest, as we get ready to approach a brand
spanking new year. In his stead, my guy Dan Beyer,
my co host on the Iwaancherflex podcast. You hear him
each and every day alongside Doug Gottlieb Cavino, and Rich
(01:04):
and then Sundays Red Zone Radio alongside Carry Rhodes and Dan.
Are you gonna play better defense than either of the
teams participating in Monday Night Football.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I'll tell you what, I hope I'm not as bad
as the Lions, but like the Lions, and we'll be
bringing out some trick plays over the next four hours,
including Mike a feud later on in the show.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We always have to get the family together. We've got
the usual combatants mixed here in. We've got our guy
Alex Tye shirt on the board, Steve de Sager at
the news desk, and Shay in for our guy Frostburg.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
He'll be back.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The hangover from the Chargers advancing to the playoffs should
have worn off by then. So all of that to say,
twenty one twenty one, midway through the third quarter, as
we've watched brock Purty, plenty of time to throw, plenty
of space in a beleaguered, battle worn secondary for the
Detroit Lions. No teeth up front in terms of pass rush,
(02:00):
given party time to throw, and he's hitting everybody and
you know, pierceall everything they wanted out of the first pick,
except you know, missing those games because of the gunshot one.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I hate to say it, Mike, but is this that
the forty nine er fans have been waiting for all
season long like this, this somewhat version of the forty
nine ers, and now they do it in Week seventeen
with nothing to play for and having been eliminated, and
now they're in the end zone again. It's just this
is the this is the forty nine ers team that
you would have hoped by saying that, we also realize
(02:33):
what you touched off on the top the Lions defense.
That's not going to be the issue, not only for
this next week coming up with that game against the Vikings,
but wherever they end up being in the NFC playoff picture,
because that is their bugaboo.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Still waiting for that to be determined quite obviously with
what they've got cooking today twenty seven to twenty one,
with the extra point pending here into the end zone.
Party is third passing touchdown. He also had a rushing
touchdown is fifty the year there earlier in the game.
But all of that to say, you know, for the
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forty nine ers, still the brock Purty Show. Still want
to put some great stuff on tape, show what you
can do. And it's not the same as Week twelve.
I get it, but you know, for everybody that was
starting to jump off the bandwagon in San Francisco of
hey him not. I mean, that's been the huge national
story going on the entire season. I can't pay that guy.
(03:27):
It's like he's a quarterback, He's the next guy up. Yeah,
are you trusting that behind door number two is going
to be a quarterback to give you that same level
of performance? Maybe it is, Maybe it is right Jimmy
Garoppolo goes to to Brock party and here we are.
But you know, at some point there's a glitch in
the matrix and that formula doesn't work. Is as well,
(03:50):
and certainly for the forty nine ers, a lot of
expectations this year. Still on paper, I think we had
a little bit of the maybe the run could end
because of all the injury histories, because of all the
contract squabbles in the offseason, whatever, and all of that
came to bear in the worst form of Brandon Ay.
(04:12):
You gets paid, causes issues the offseason, and then he's
not even around to help weather the storm.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, it's it's been. It's been a year of and Mike,
when you really want to start out with it, twenty
twenty four can't leave soon enough for the San Francisco
forty nine Ers because it all started with that Super
Bowl overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, but not
a lot went right for them, and then when they
felt like they were going to get right, when Trent
Williams and Brandon Ayuk end up showing up and Ayuk
(04:42):
ends up getting his deal, then things kind of go
out the door. And you know, thoughts to Trent Williams
and his family for what they're doing, but he's also
battled injuries, he's older. Not that a left tackle, a
veteran left tackle, missing training camp is anything new in
the National Football League, but there were there were bumps
and potholes along this forty nine Ers row this entire offseason,
and then they hit it during the season and it's
(05:04):
just funny now in week seventeen to see them rolling
and there's there may even be another question, Mike, and
I know this is not in the nature of the NFL,
and we'll talk about what happened with the college portion
of it, but what does Brock Perdy have to play
for right now? Does tonight's game prove to the forty
nine ers that he is the guy against a SIV
like defense with Detroit because realistically, now brock Purty is
(05:27):
sitting there and you're gonna play because you're gonna play football.
But what does brock Perty have to prove right now?
Either the forty nine ers are going to want to
sign him or they're not going to want to sign them.
I wouldn't want to risk any injury. I mean, we've
seen Dac break a leg and the Cowboys still paid him.
But I don't think it would be the same situation
with brock Party in San Francisco if you were to
suffer an injury, whether it be this week against the
Lions or next week against the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Now the happy accident or the way the Chips fall
for him is the free agent market quite frankly stinks.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right where we talk about quarterbacks coming in, we have
two quarterbacks of the draft, at least that's where we're
at now. Eventually three or four other guys will pop
into the you know, low first round, front of the
second round, no matter what anybody wants to say. Now
come April, it'll be a different tune and all of
a sudden we'll have our risers even though they were
there all along. But the rest of the free agent
(06:18):
market is what do the Vikings do with Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
That is literally it unless somebody gets dealt, right, unless
they decide, you know, Dallas rips rips things apart and
Dak Prescott isn't there anymore or whatever, like there's nobody
else like Zach Wilson's like QB two.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Sure list Sure do you think Pittsburgh's decided? Or is
it just because Russell Wilson as who he is that
it maybe doesn't come up as a realistic option.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, I think I have to punt on that.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, I mean scenario.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't think there was anything that showed me it
was really ever great and special. It was different now
George Pickens not being on the field to go catch
the moon ball, as everybody loves to call it, certainly
changed the complexion of your offense, There's no question about it.
But to think Russ had rediscovered and hell, we've been
(07:14):
debating you and I for years how much was Russ?
How much was everything else?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Right going back to his days in Seattle and what
you built around in Marshawn Lynch, that defense, everything else,
take nothing away. I don't think overall I mean, the
body of work is what it is, but in terms
of driver and it's really all Russ driving or commanding
the ship, whatever analogy you want to use, versus everything
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had to work in tandem to really make it work.
And in Pittsburgh they got some more out of the
run game. But the passage, wait, we watched it last
year in Atlanta what they tried to do offensively to
think that you're going to bring in a new coordinator
and he was going to fix it when he left
(08:02):
a lot of obvious problems in Atlanta with all that talent.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Well, I would also say, too, just to the point
of whether you like it or not, it's just to
your point that there aren't many quarterbacks available.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, no, that's just it, right, And maybe they decide
Russ stays or they just and look, you can maybe
run it back depending on the dollars on sense. But
I got to imagine both guys will be actively sought
after in a marketplace because how many teams are still
in dire need of efficient quarterbacking. Now those guys aren't
going to be able to go and coach the final
(08:31):
two minutes of haves and and end of game scenarios,
which maybe that should be the job they should start
training for, because we certainly need a lot of those
around the National Football League. But I guess it just
comes to the point of rock Birdies in the most
beautiful of situations and the fact that he wants to
(08:52):
go out here and maybe play a little bit of
spoiler with whatever happens here with this game and next
week for the Lions, and still be able to dictate
a little of the end result of the NFC.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
The hot take is, and I know you guys love him,
Jason oways, you know, hot take, hot take, hot take.
That take is Brock pretty shouldn't be playing in this
game because the forty nine ers are gonna either have
to decide. You know, they've made up their mind. But
to your point, you're gonna beat the Lions, you're gonna
play and right now he's playing. Well, I don't think
like a game like this decides anything. Again, this game
(09:27):
to me is it shouldn't be about the Lions, because
the Lions really don't have the dog in the fight
unless they feel like they need to keep that competitive
momentum going. But it does turn into a forty nine
Ers conversation as well, when I at least talk about
their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh, and that's it, you know. And with Purty again,
it's the the marketplace as a whole. It's his own
personal pride. Maybe he's got incentives to hit. I don't
know what his contract looks like. We all know he
doesn't make a ton of money, right. We've been keenly
aware of that for quite some time in every conversation
that gets spawned about him. But you know, it's one
(10:05):
of those scenarios whereby as a player, I mean, you're
a football player, yep, you won't play like that. I
think the only time a guy doesn't is when the
management folks get in the way and say, no, no,
this is really for your own good.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Forty nine ers are doing it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, and for him, like again, incentives or just personal
pride or whatever the case is, and being able to
start every game and everything. You know, there's a million
other reasons beyond the surface.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
And I fully expect him to not only complete this game,
but to also then again play next week against the Cardinals.
But we talk about the Lions maybe should be sitting
guys because of what they have against the Vikings coming
up on Sunday night, the forty nine ers in their
own financial deals. And again we'll get into the college
game later on, but it isn't too different. But I
(10:57):
just the hot take is that he's be playing. But
I'm not trying to go down the hot bake road.
Just the simple fact of there's not much for brock
perty to play for, and if you're the forty nine ers,
you're just gonna have to figure out what that number
is for him. And I actually don't think it's as
far off as people have talked about that that's the
discussion for now, but still it's a meaningless game for
(11:18):
the forty nine ers and they are showing up tonight
against the Lions. It's only taking them sixteen plus weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Mike losers of five of their last six. The only
win in there Bears and a throttling there that was
reminiscent of a two thousand game that I attended. Dan Oh, Yeah,
that was Jerry Rice's final home game as a forty
nine er. Terrell Owens caught twenty balls and the Bears
didn't get the ball past midfield.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Thanks Kate McNown.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Candlestick would be a top three stadium I would want
rebuilt so I could see what it was like.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It's terrible, and getting out of there was even like
that I've heard. It really encapsulates a lot of the
complaints that we have about the venues here in Los Angeles.
Just a little bit north getting out of there, terrible
one road coming out, Yeah, could take you three hours
to get off the little little inlet there to uh
to get back to the highway and move on. Oftentimes
(12:13):
we would get a cab drop us off, and we'd
walk the rest of the way. Just keep going, just
keep driving by. It's like I can't pull over on
the side of a freeway. Does it look like it's moving.
I'm jumping off here and I'm walking the rest of
the way.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I tried to take the two ten. I try to
take the back way out and.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Try to be sneaky.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yeah. Yeah, now that's up towards where I live. So
see it's even better.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It works so well for you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
There you go twenty eight, twenty four, four to twenty
five Remaning and Party two seventy nine and three. Also
the rushing touchdown. Hey, it's Fantasy Championship Week. Maybe he
also didn't want to let down the percentage that would
still be banking on him.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
And there are a lot of a lot of parties
in this game, George Kittle, I guarantee there's been some
grendo plays you mentioned party, We've got Jamison williams Amanra,
Jamir Gibbs.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Peter Shall probably found his way into some lineup off sure.
So all those fantasy ramification, we'll get into some of
the Week seventeen heroes and busts and who screwed you
during Championship show if you want to get those in
at Dan Byron Fox at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
And this just in Jason McIntire's team that was only
down by three. He just tweeted it with a picture
of his score. So for those of you wondering at home,
just the ridiculousness.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
For those keeping track at home this too.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Wait, let's go to Steve the Sega for the latest
on Jason McIntyre's fantasy football team. Uh do you got
the latest, Steve? Why would I care about his when
mine is in the final? Yeah? Did you take a
picture of yours and screen grab it for everybody that's
just slightly presumptuous. Oh my goodness, Well that would mean.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Steve was also on Twitter for everybody to say that's true.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That would also be presumptuous.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He'd be running around the studio here, look at my team.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Is this the league that I'm in? Steve, that that
is correct. I did not make the playoffs. So my
interest Wayne Wayne quickly, Oh wow, okay, so what.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Do we need here? Since we're already down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I'm done. I had Jayden Daniels last night. Oh so
I am the lead. So you are just basically cheering
against Juwan Jennings. Everybody. What I need is a low
scoring game.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
So what you're really hoping was Jennings was gonna get
thrown out when he ran Arnold.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Through the back of the end zone.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Absolutely that it was.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Gonna be an automatic disqualification.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I heard personal foul. I didn't hear this counts toward disqualification.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Ash, He's going up against this team that was a
juggernaut points wise, but they just had some nasty luck
in who they played. But they made it in. So
good for Steve.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Good on you as they say, succeed and proceed. We'll
keep up with that as the night goes on. He's
Dan Bayer that's Steve Disager. I'm Mike Harmen. It's a
Jason's Bit Show with me Mike Harmon, live from the
Tirec dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,
we've got about Jason locking forward to stop by, talk
about the playoff picture that we have for week eighteen,
(15:07):
and all the little nuggets about coaching hirings, firings and
guys that are gonna interview. I know we don't want
to do a lot of Jets talk, but damn it,
we have to.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We have no choice. That's deck right, Yeah, that's next
on Fox.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
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Speaker 3 (15:32):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with me Mike Harmon here live from the tyrack dot
com Fox Sports Radio Studios. No Jason Smith back on Thursday.
My guy Dan byer in with me as we watch
more scoring attempts here. Red zone opportunity after a Brock
pretty airmailed interception, Lions ensuing drive into the red zone,
(15:56):
third and goal coming up, final seconds of the third
Quarter twenty eight, twenty four. As as we roll through Dan,
it's the which defense breaks worst.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I'll tell you. And for a game that is meaningless
like it is, it's it's actually exciting. Like I hate
Week eighteen forcause I hate all the games just don't
matter my care. I can't stand it. And it's like
a preseason game to me. Obviously, the games that have
something to play for, you're interested them, but this doesn't.
There's nothing to play for in this game. But I'm
(16:28):
still intrigued. I think it's what the Lions do to everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Still a competition, everybody still wants to see what kind
of gadgetry is up the sleeve of the coordinator Johnson
To talk about his future and so much more, we
go to the hotline our buddy Jason lock And for
weekly visit Washington Post one oh five seven the fan
in Baltimore, Odyssey. Jason, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to come.
(16:54):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
I'm doing quite well. Hope you guys are doing the same.
Happy holl of these like we're still on Monday season.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, still holiday holiday?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
All good? Here going a little better. I'm on Ross
Saint Brown Saw that that ball was thrown at Infancinity
and they could have play on it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That's spoiler alert. They came right back to him, four
yard touchdown. Lions go on top thirty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Extra real depending.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm on the delay on the direct TV stream. Really
you got it? Hey? Hey, hey wow?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Minds up from the click out route and man put.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
On the five plan there there. I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, we long ago cash the over. I mean all
this is all good. I mean it's a nice exhibition
time of Monday night.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Not only over, but I am on Detroit minus three
and a half, so we'll see plenty.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Of football to be played.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Jason locking for uh so out of this one, and
I'll I'll leave it for Dan because he asked a
very important question.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah, I know he's going to play, but we were
talking about brock Party and we're just where brock Purty
is right now. Does this change anything? Do these last
two games change anything for brock Purty status, because we're
talking about the Lions have nothing to play for. I
don't know what brock Purty has to play for right now,
and I don't want to sound hot. Take is Jake,
(18:18):
Jason and say Rock pretty shouldn't play these final two games.
But for a guy that is going to want to
be paid and get paid, you know there is some
risk to it. But does do these last two games
do anything for brock Party in terms of what he's
doing coming up in his contract?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I think so. I mean, I don't think he's in
a position to say I'm not, I'm out, I'm yeah, Yeah,
I agree. Agent, Come my agent in January and you know,
tell me what numbers you come up with. He's look,
he's had his share of issues this year, and the
team around him hasn't been as sharp, and he struggled
(18:57):
at times, and certainly when it rains or or anything
like that, he's really struggled. Yeah, I mean, this is
as close as they're going to get to another opportunity
for him in the playoffs. And his playoff performances last year,
we're pretty spotty and sort of you know, he ebbed
and flowed sort of in form and out of form.
(19:18):
And the reality is this is a coaching staff that
thinks pretty highly of itself and its ability to find
quarterbacks in all ways, shapes and forms. And he's here
in part because they fan so bad on Trey Lance,
but I don't think he has proven unequivocally he's going
(19:42):
to be able to ask for which is more than
guys like Tua and guys like Trevor Lawrence who haven't
been to a Super Bowl far more than they got,
and they got quite a lot. So I think he
does need to finish strong. I think he needs to
put up as quality of a season as possible in
(20:02):
its totality and frankly, massage some of these numbers and
get them looking a little bit closer to last season,
because it hasn't been, frankly anything that close to last season.
I mean, he came into this game with an eighty
one passer rating at home, like that's that's suboptimal.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, losers of five of their last six. I joked
about how they throttled my beloved Bears in a game
reminiscent of one I attended back in two thousand. But
they've scored seventeen or fewer points in each of those
five losses. So the offense certainly sputtering. Now normally we're
an anti Jets zone when Smith isn't here, But other
than kicking the tires of hey, you guys used to
(20:43):
coach in this league with the all around Rivera and
Rex R.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
I am going to give him right, come on, well,
let's there's a lot of people doing a lot of
work for a lot of agents this time of year.
You know, these are the same people who told you
last year Bobby Schlowick is going to be a great
NFL head coach. Bobby slow I don't know if he's
going to fik. He might be fired at halftime of
that playoff game.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
This is true.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I things keep going this way, like I think he
got to beware a lot of this, like nobody's hiring records. Look,
come on, wood he can't do that. I mean, even
Woody even can't do that. And that's a low bar.
I mean, but even by Woody standards, Like I don't like,
come on, he fired Rex. I mean Rex was there.
I mean, but you could tell me, well, yeah, but
(21:27):
he's propended, pomp backed, and I'm like, yes, and this
is Woody, but I don't think he can bring the
band entirely back together, Like I just don't think that's
how it worked. And Rex was starting to lose touch
with everything this job entailed then and now he's been
out of the job for a decade. I just I
(21:48):
don't see it. And Ron Rivera, I mean, come on top, Hey,
I don't know who the next coach of the Jets is,
but I don't think it's either.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Of the together first two names. It's amazing. The week
from tonight, though, we could have more openings in the
National Football League. What are we looking at for head
coaching vacancies if you could fast forward to the end
of the regular season, Jacks.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Probably yep, yeah, I think it's probably around a half dozen.
I mean Jacksonville absolutely. I mean, I don't think that
if Mark Davis sits down with his minority owners that
they're going to be all in agreement that, you know,
we should keep Antonio Pierce, Like, especially if they are
(22:40):
going to be drafting a quarterback very very high in
this draft. I just don't know that you're going to
entrust him to Northern Scott Turner and sort of that
that staff that's been kind of pieced together this year
as they've sort of fired people along the way, Like,
I'm just not sure that that's going to fly. I mean,
(23:00):
I think you're looking at both New York teams. Obviously,
we know the Saints are already on an interim head coach,
and I don't think they're gonna stick with the Rizzler, Like,
I don't think that's going to be possible or feasible,
as much as I think Mickey Loomis maybe would have
kind of hoped that it would come out in a
way that they could, you know, I don't you know,
(23:23):
I think McCarthy would be back in Dallas. He'll just
be making a whole lot more money like everybody else
who Jerry Jones screwed up negotiations with. I don't think
the Patriots are going to do anything. I'd be really
really surprised if they did. You know, Stefanski, they're going
to make him suck it up another year and earn
his money with Deshaun Watson, Like that's just you know,
(23:45):
that just sort of is what it is. So yeah,
I think we'll probably come in around a half dozen now.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Obviously McCarthy likes the being part of the Star to
a degree. But I got to imagine it where Stan
after a while, like week after week, everything scrutinized to
the level it is, what would his place in the
marketplace be, Well, he decided he was done with it.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Yeah, Like all he needs is somebody else to interview him.
And he's got a market, right, I mean that's that's
really all it takes. And like like the Raiders, would
they interview him? Sure? I mean why would would he
Johnson not interview Like, do I think it's going to
be a reunion with Aaron Rodgers? No, stop listening to people.
Aaron Rodgers done. Don't listen to Aaron Rodgers and his
agents and these people selling you buffoonery. Like, No, Aaron
(24:29):
Rodgers won't be there. So could you bring in McCarthy?
I mean why why wouldn't they talk to Mike McCarthy.
He's won a lot of regular season games, He's won
a Super Bowl. They've been bringing people in there lately
who haven't, you know, had any previous head coaching experience
and haven't won anything. I mean Jacksonville. He he doesn't
(24:53):
seem to want to hire anybody other than people who've
done it before. He doesn't seem to be able to
find his coordinat Ben Johnson didn't want him before, he's
not gonna want him now. Like, yeah, I think Mike
McCarthy's going to be able to squeeze what he wants
out of Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
What about the situation in New England? This is it's
I just find it interesting that this Girod Mayo season
one hasn't maybe gone as well as the Craft family
has hoped. What do you think happens in New England
with Gerrod Mayo after one season?
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Well, I don't think anything happens. I mean there it
was Jonathan and Robert Kraft who put all this together.
They weren't under pressure, Like it's not like this was
Bill Belichick, you know, forcing it on them, like, hey,
this is the air parent. I mean he wanted to
be his son.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Like.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
This was completely of their own doing. There was no
public outpouring or sponsors saying we're not going to show
up next here. You don't make Mayo the next guy.
This is completely their thing. They thought him as a
former player and as an assistant, there was the person
to inherit the mantle, whether Belichick liked it or not,
whether the fans liked it, whether anybody liked it or not,
this was their master plan. Put it into his contract
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before anybody knew. So he's had one year where the
rookie quarterbacks didn't even play the whole year and they're
gonna fire, Like I just, it would really surprise me.
It would have really surprised people I talked to around
the league, like that's not usual. Like these guys all
think they're pretty smart, and this guy's won a lot,
(26:21):
Chris won more game than anybody. I don't think he's
going to be like, oh yeah, yeah, we were totally
long on this side, even though they've been in the
building for years. Like I just, it would be a
weird about face to me after one year.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Now we could do a the radio equivalent of a
four hundred page book on coaching malfeasans in the final
minutes of games, I why don't you practice as coaches
like you you allegedly practice two minute drills with your players.
But for the interest of time, Jason Lockforth, that game
Sunday and Sunday Night was a dandy. Some more coaching
(26:58):
malfeasans mixed there, and of course, but what's going on
in Washington? Nothing short and remarkable. Will we talk about
culture shift and a roster that was okay on paper?
But the kid comes in and Daniel's stirring the drink,
and I guess we can rest assured at least coming
out of this year that we've got a couple of
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new quarterbacks that are ready to go, and he's at the.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Head of the class.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Yeah, he's special, man. I mean, the factor, the fourth quarter,
overtime thing, I mean, it is everything. It's such a
cliche to say things slowed down for him, and he
looks like he's sort of just gliding or almost being
carried by this like victorious wind, and he's just along
for the ride, Like he doesn't look like he's killing
(27:42):
himself to win these games. But he's doing it pretty
single handedly. In the offensive line that's fallen a part
of the season's going along, and they got injured yesterday,
so it was all him, and it was a lot
of him running and a lot of him off script,
and it's I really just love watching that kid play.
And he has completely, utterly, irrevocably changed the fortunes of
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that franchise in ways that people in those parts just
haven't even been able to fathom for about a generation.
And the other takeaway is, I think we talked about
this after the Kirk Cousins four interception game against the
Chargers about a month ago, Like, imagine what the Falcons
could have done if they actually made this change when
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they should have. Like, imagine if that was Michael Pennock's
fourth game or fifth game, you know what I mean,
and not like his first road game or whatever. Like
I mean, imagine if they did that thing in the
right way and trusted that kid like they should have
when Cousins started collapsing and it was clear the Achilles
wasn't fully healed, and you know, they might have had
a better shot to win this division than needing the
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kind of help that they're going to win now and
blowing that lead like they did. Because Pennis has got
I mean, he's got a lot to him as well,
and I bet he lights it up. Like God, jump
on that Caroline Atlanta over before those numbers move anymore.
The problem is, I'd also jump on that Tampa New
Orleans over. I think I think Tampa might hang a
(29:12):
forty burger on the same syst to be safe. So yeah,
I mean those look like real, real special quarterbacks for
a long time.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Okay, to take nothing away from Jayden Daniels because it
can't take him out of this equation, But are we
sure the commanders are good? I mean, because he is
your eye is correct, But I don't know if they're
good or not.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Well, he's gonna win, help them win a lot of games.
We can certainly have deficiencies. I mean, the pass for
us has become much more hit or missed the deeper
we've gotten into the season. I talked about the offensive
line and the run game outside of him. The design
run game has really been bottled up, you know, much
more of the second half of the year than the
first calf of the year. Dan Campbell, he's got his
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late game moments. We've all seen that. And his defense
seems to come up short in really weird spots like
last night when a wildcard's lit a wildcard when a
Wildcat staffed those twenty five yards downfield and they end
up diverting the touchdown anyway, So yeah, they've got Look,
they've got a lot of holes to fill. But he
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he feels a lot and you know, like urch Is
at the end, but he's still with that playing with
that kid is a formidable red zone tight end and
the Zachary Is is legit in the slot. We know
what Scary Terry can do today. Upgrade at running back,
upgrade at offensive line, A little bit. Yeah. I mean
they've got a real owner now too, So that's the thing.
(30:44):
It's not just that they stumbled into this quarterback and
you know that's all they've got. Like, I think they've
got a real franchise now and a real organization, and
I expect Josh Harris to do whatever he can to
help roster improved.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Zach Er turns himself an extra seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in the process, So all's good and scary.
Terry had one catch for five yards.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Fantasy owners took them away right and they still they
still scored their thirty points or whatever.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Still got it done.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Jason, go finish watching this game, whatever fantasy implications are wagering.
We appreciate you stopping down with us for a few minutes,
as you do each and every week.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Happy New Year to you. We'll catch up with you
next week.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Always my pleasure, gentlemen, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Appreciate you. Add Jason locking forw where you find him.
Read them Washington, but hear them out there in Baltimore
one oh five seven the fan. As we get into
the fourth quarter, it's no better place to go than
our man at the News desk for all the updates,
insights and a check in on his own fantasy line.
If it's our guy, Steve dis j Max and his
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just waiting.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
On it is there.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
It is Funday night football in San Francisco. The Detroit Lions,
of course, went forward on fourth and goal, a late
third quarter chance for the lead against the Niners.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Jared's got it back looking throwing Enzel touchdown Detroit Lions.
I'm and Ross Saint Brown hauled it in at the
one and just turned it up, found pay dirt and
the Lions have the lead.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
It's thirty one to twenty eight at San Francisco, now
eleven minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Lions Radio Network ninety seven point one. The ticket call.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
By the way, San Francisco was up eight at the
half and now trails any guests. In forty nine Ers history,
which head coach has the most losses after leading by
at least eight points in a game.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
It's not even close.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Kyle Shanahan has twenty such losses in his Niners coaching.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Somebody in their car was like Tom Sula.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Frock perty for a while had a perfect passer rating
tonight and then throw throws a pick over the middle
that turns into that touchdown drive. The other way Party
is twenty of twenty six passing three hundred and six yards,
three touchdowns through the air, and one TD run. Jared
Goff has three touchdown passes for Detroit, two hundred and
ninety one yards through the air, first five drives combined
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in this game, five touchdowns and at the time knowing
complete passes. This is San Francisco at six and nine
hosting Detroit, which is thirteen and two lines up thirty
one twenty eight with about ten minutes ago. The Lions
will play the regular season finale this Sunday night, hosting
the Vikings to decide the NFC North and the number
one seed in the NFC. By the way, Vikings running
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back Aaron Jones should be able to practice this week
after yesterday's quad injury. Raven's running back Justice Hill is
due to play Saturday against the Browns despite missing practice
today due to illness. At College Football's Music City Ball,
nineteenth rank Missouri came back to beat Iowa twenty seven
to twenty four. Among the seven NBA games the Clippers
have just won. At New Orleans won sixteen to one. Thirteen.
(33:47):
That's ten straight losses for the Pelicans. Charlotte lost its
eighth in a row in overtime, Chicago won at Charlotte
one fifteen, one oh eight, and the next one there
eighth straight one twenty six to one oh six at Washington.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Back to you, Thank you so much, Steve.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Coming up as we continue here on Fox Sports Radio
Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Harmon, Dan byer In
for Jason, we'll go through week seventeen of the National
Football League season. Yes, we still have a few minutes
left in this one, but everybody plays, everybody wins. Here
we'll talk about the heroes and zeros of the rest
of the schedule as we roll through.
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Speaker 3 (34:30):
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Forty nine Ers moving the ball again down six, a
missfield goal on their end and a made field goal
for the Lions, so the lead is extended to six,
coming up on the midpoint of your fourth quarter here
Monday night football. It's only you know, sixteen and a
half more games, Dan.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
I know Mike's cutting him down like it's a calendar.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Is that chocolate?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Oh, with some rotten piece? So the door came up
empty for brock Purty. Oh another interception, he.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Got skunk with a trading card calendar there.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Which is good for Steve de Sager, who again is
like many sweating out of fantasy performance and Juwan Jennings
stays out of the end zone. But the flip side
of that coin, Mike Carmen, is that the forty nine
ers will still have to keep throwing after this possession
of it, which goes against Steve de Sager, So.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That David Montgomery would be really huge right now, right,
get old knuckles back up in there, but no, he's
not available. Jamiir Gibbs having himself from a fantastic game
as you were talking about a little bit earlier. We'll
get the fantasy notes and nuggets from from this game
as it concludes. Dan, But you know, for weeks week
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seventeen the mixed bag because you suddenly had a bunch
of star players. We did the I Watch a Flex
podcast leading into the week, and we had the caveat
a ton of the players going well, they're saying, he's
going to try to play right and then ultimately no
to a tongue of iloa.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
No.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Jalen hurts and then Kenny Pickett gets hurt. So even
if you'd gone that route, that didn't help you. And
all of a sudden we got McKee and I'm watching
the trading card market of Tanner McKee w go flying.
People getting hundreds of dollars for cards said they could
have they would have sold for a dollar fifty if
someone would have taken it.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Oh, they're getting more than the fan got for catching
the ball that aj Brown threw into the stands.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, I would have held out for more.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah, I get once again people getting screwed in these
exchange The Dodgers did it. Remember when they strong armed
the folks with the show Heyo Tani deal?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
That was bad business? And then you know here you
get a Yeah, keep it coming.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
And someone said, so on did you see? Someone said
and a paycheck, and aj Brown tweeted it, that's pretty good. Yeah,
not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Well, I mean, it depends whose paycheck it is.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (37:16):
But when we look at the finals from from week seventeen,
and for many people, the year's long been over and
now they're just interested observers maybe hate watching certain players
and circumstances because of who's in the driver's seat in
their respective leagues. Maybe maybe you've got that situation you
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just don't want somebody to win. But we watched over
the course of the weekend all those injuries flow up
and some no show efforts along the way as well
by a number of teams where hey man, it's that
time of year. I already saw the movement saying, hey,
let's move championship week to week sixteen.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Well, I'll say I'll say this, for at least of
the showing up. I've been someone who's head stocking T
Higgins forever and in the last couple of years have
had T. Higgins on my teams and it has not
come through. And of course for that reason, I'm not
in any championship games. But what do you know, and
you mentioned our podcast, Mike I said, within the last
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two weeks, this Chase Higgins deal in Cincinnati is not
Holton Bruce in Saint Louis, it's not Harrison and Wayne
in Indianapolis. It's Jamar Chase's number one, and T. Higgins
is somewhere along there.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
On what do you know?
Speaker 5 (38:32):
The hat trick on Saturday to propel anybody that may
have had T. Higgins in their championship game, just.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
An insane performance, right, that was a dandy to watch,
But again owing to the fantasy endgame for it, you know,
Chase still got his nineteen points, but you didn't get
any of the glory touches correct as it were, right, Indianapolis,
no shows in a big spot. But Jonathan Taylor gave
you big points once again, as we pointed out, like
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she looked up my scorecard a little bit in terms
of hits and misses that we were on board there
as well. But the curiosity, you know, for some of
the would be heroes, you're left holding Cole several days.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
After Christmas, earlier the season, we complained about a lack
of points. There were a bunch of points scored in
Week seventeen to make up for it.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Certainly Baltimore and Los Angeles and so many others that
we had a blast watching it come to fruition. We'll
get more into the specifics of the point totals, but
coming up next we talked Bowl season, Bowl takeaways. Oh,
and that whole cam Ward thing.
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
Hey greetings, Welcome in end of week seventeen of your
National Football League season. For some of these markets, the
long national nightmare will end our local nightmare that turn
national for some me.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
I'm a Bears fan. You know my pain all too well.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Welcome in another beautiful edition to Jason Smith Show with
Me Mike Harmon. No Jason Smith Tonight back on Thursday
in earnest, as we get ready to approach a brand
spanking new year. In his stead, my guy Dan Beyer,
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each and every day alongside Doug Gottlieb Cavino, and Rich
(01:04):
and then Sundays Red Zone Radio alongside Carry Rhodes and Dan.
Are you gonna play better defense than either of the
teams participating in Monday Night Football.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
I'll tell you what, I hope I'm not as bad
as the Lions, but like the Lions, and we'll be
bringing out some trick plays over the next four hours,
including Mike a feud later on in the show.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We always have to get the family together. We've got
the usual combatants mixed here in. We've got our guy
Alex Tye shirt on the board, Steve de Sager at
the news desk, and Shay in for our guy Frostburg.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
He'll be back.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
The hangover from the Chargers advancing to the playoffs should
have worn off by then. So all of that to say,
twenty one twenty one, midway through the third quarter, as
we've watched brock Purty, plenty of time to throw, plenty
of space in a beleaguered, battle worn secondary for the
Detroit Lions. No teeth up front in terms of pass rush,
(02:00):
given party time to throw, and he's hitting everybody and
you know, pierceall everything they wanted out of the first pick,
except you know, missing those games because of the gunshot one.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
I hate to say it, Mike, but is this that
the forty nine er fans have been waiting for all
season long like this, this somewhat version of the forty
nine ers, and now they do it in Week seventeen
with nothing to play for and having been eliminated, and
now they're in the end zone again. It's just this
is the this is the forty nine ers team that
you would have hoped by saying that, we also realize
(02:33):
what you touched off on the top the Lions defense.
That's not going to be the issue, not only for
this next week coming up with that game against the Vikings,
but wherever they end up being in the NFC playoff picture,
because that is their bugaboo.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Still waiting for that to be determined quite obviously with
what they've got cooking today twenty seven to twenty one,
with the extra point pending here into the end zone.
Party is third passing touchdown. He also had a rushing
touchdown is fifty the year there earlier in the game.
But all of that to say, you know, for the
(03:06):
forty nine ers, still the brock Purty Show. Still want
to put some great stuff on tape, show what you
can do. And it's not the same as Week twelve.
I get it, but you know, for everybody that was
starting to jump off the bandwagon in San Francisco of
hey him not. I mean, that's been the huge national
story going on the entire season. I can't pay that guy.
(03:27):
It's like he's a quarterback, He's the next guy up. Yeah,
are you trusting that behind door number two is going
to be a quarterback to give you that same level
of performance? Maybe it is, Maybe it is right Jimmy
Garoppolo goes to to Brock party and here we are.
But you know, at some point there's a glitch in
the matrix and that formula doesn't work. Is as well,
(03:50):
and certainly for the forty nine ers, a lot of
expectations this year. Still on paper, I think we had
a little bit of the maybe the run could end
because of all the injury histories, because of all the
contract squabbles in the offseason, whatever, and all of that
came to bear in the worst form of Brandon Ay.
(04:12):
You gets paid, causes issues the offseason, and then he's
not even around to help weather the storm.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, it's it's been. It's been a year of and Mike,
when you really want to start out with it, twenty
twenty four can't leave soon enough for the San Francisco
forty nine Ers because it all started with that Super
Bowl overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs, but not
a lot went right for them, and then when they
felt like they were going to get right, when Trent
Williams and Brandon Ayuk end up showing up and Ayuk
(04:42):
ends up getting his deal, then things kind of go
out the door. And you know, thoughts to Trent Williams
and his family for what they're doing, but he's also
battled injuries, he's older. Not that a left tackle, a
veteran left tackle, missing training camp is anything new in
the National Football League, but there were there were bumps
and potholes along this forty nine Ers row this entire offseason,
and then they hit it during the season and it's
(05:04):
just funny now in week seventeen to see them rolling
and there's there may even be another question, Mike, and
I know this is not in the nature of the NFL,
and we'll talk about what happened with the college portion
of it, but what does Brock Perdy have to play
for right now? Does tonight's game prove to the forty
nine ers that he is the guy against a SIV
like defense with Detroit because realistically, now brock Purty is
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sitting there and you're gonna play because you're gonna play football.
But what does brock Perty have to prove right now?
Either the forty nine ers are going to want to
sign him or they're not going to want to sign them.
I wouldn't want to risk any injury. I mean, we've
seen Dac break a leg and the Cowboys still paid him.
But I don't think it would be the same situation
with brock Party in San Francisco if you were to
suffer an injury, whether it be this week against the
Lions or next week against the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Now the happy accident or the way the Chips fall
for him is the free agent market quite frankly stinks.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right where we talk about quarterbacks coming in, we have
two quarterbacks of the draft, at least that's where we're
at now. Eventually three or four other guys will pop
into the you know, low first round, front of the
second round, no matter what anybody wants to say. Now
come April, it'll be a different tune and all of
a sudden we'll have our risers even though they were
there all along. But the rest of the free agent
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market is what do the Vikings do with Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
That is literally it unless somebody gets dealt, right, unless
they decide, you know, Dallas rips rips things apart and
Dak Prescott isn't there anymore or whatever, like there's nobody
else like Zach Wilson's like QB two.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Sure list Sure do you think Pittsburgh's decided? Or is
it just because Russell Wilson as who he is that
it maybe doesn't come up as a realistic option.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
Yeah, I think I have to punt on that.
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, I mean scenario.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I don't think there was anything that showed me it
was really ever great and special. It was different now
George Pickens not being on the field to go catch
the moon ball, as everybody loves to call it, certainly
changed the complexion of your offense, There's no question about it.
But to think Russ had rediscovered and hell, we've been
(07:14):
debating you and I for years how much was Russ?
How much was everything else?
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Right going back to his days in Seattle and what
you built around in Marshawn Lynch, that defense, everything else,
take nothing away. I don't think overall I mean, the
body of work is what it is, but in terms
of driver and it's really all Russ driving or commanding
the ship, whatever analogy you want to use, versus everything
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had to work in tandem to really make it work.
And in Pittsburgh they got some more out of the
run game. But the passage, wait, we watched it last
year in Atlanta what they tried to do offensively to
think that you're going to bring in a new coordinator
and he was going to fix it when he left
(08:02):
a lot of obvious problems in Atlanta with all that talent.
Speaker 5 (08:06):
Well, I would also say, too, just to the point
of whether you like it or not, it's just to
your point that there aren't many quarterbacks available.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, no, that's just it, right, And maybe they decide
Russ stays or they just and look, you can maybe
run it back depending on the dollars on sense. But
I got to imagine both guys will be actively sought
after in a marketplace because how many teams are still
in dire need of efficient quarterbacking. Now those guys aren't
going to be able to go and coach the final
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two minutes of haves and and end of game scenarios,
which maybe that should be the job they should start
training for, because we certainly need a lot of those
around the National Football League. But I guess it just
comes to the point of rock Birdies in the most
beautiful of situations and the fact that he wants to
(08:52):
go out here and maybe play a little bit of
spoiler with whatever happens here with this game and next
week for the Lions, and still be able to dictate
a little of the end result of the NFC.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
The hot take is, and I know you guys love him,
Jason oways, you know, hot take, hot take, hot take.
That take is Brock pretty shouldn't be playing in this
game because the forty nine ers are gonna either have
to decide. You know, they've made up their mind. But
to your point, you're gonna beat the Lions, you're gonna
play and right now he's playing. Well, I don't think
like a game like this decides anything. Again, this game
(09:27):
to me is it shouldn't be about the Lions, because
the Lions really don't have the dog in the fight
unless they feel like they need to keep that competitive
momentum going. But it does turn into a forty nine
Ers conversation as well, when I at least talk about
their quarterback.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh, and that's it, you know. And with Purty again,
it's the the marketplace as a whole. It's his own
personal pride. Maybe he's got incentives to hit. I don't
know what his contract looks like. We all know he
doesn't make a ton of money, right. We've been keenly
aware of that for quite some time in every conversation
that gets spawned about him. But you know, it's one
(10:05):
of those scenarios whereby as a player, I mean, you're
a football player, yep, you won't play like that. I
think the only time a guy doesn't is when the
management folks get in the way and say, no, no,
this is really for your own good.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Forty nine ers are doing it.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, and for him, like again, incentives or just personal
pride or whatever the case is, and being able to
start every game and everything. You know, there's a million
other reasons beyond the surface.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
And I fully expect him to not only complete this game,
but to also then again play next week against the Cardinals.
But we talk about the Lions maybe should be sitting
guys because of what they have against the Vikings coming
up on Sunday night, the forty nine ers in their
own financial deals. And again we'll get into the college
game later on, but it isn't too different. But I
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just the hot take is that he's be playing. But
I'm not trying to go down the hot bake road.
Just the simple fact of there's not much for brock
perty to play for, and if you're the forty nine ers,
you're just gonna have to figure out what that number
is for him. And I actually don't think it's as
far off as people have talked about that that's the
discussion for now, but still it's a meaningless game for
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the forty nine ers and they are showing up tonight
against the Lions. It's only taking them sixteen plus weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Mike losers of five of their last six. The only
win in there Bears and a throttling there that was
reminiscent of a two thousand game that I attended. Dan Oh, Yeah,
that was Jerry Rice's final home game as a forty
nine er. Terrell Owens caught twenty balls and the Bears
didn't get the ball past midfield.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Thanks Kate McNown.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Candlestick would be a top three stadium I would want
rebuilt so I could see what it was like.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
It's terrible, and getting out of there was even like
that I've heard. It really encapsulates a lot of the
complaints that we have about the venues here in Los Angeles.
Just a little bit north getting out of there, terrible
one road coming out, Yeah, could take you three hours
to get off the little little inlet there to uh
to get back to the highway and move on. Oftentimes
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we would get a cab drop us off, and we'd
walk the rest of the way. Just keep going, just
keep driving by. It's like I can't pull over on
the side of a freeway. Does it look like it's moving.
I'm jumping off here and I'm walking the rest of
the way.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
I tried to take the two ten. I try to
take the back way out and.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Try to be sneaky.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Yeah. Yeah, now that's up towards where I live. So
see it's even better.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
It works so well for you.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
There you go twenty eight, twenty four, four to twenty
five Remaning and Party two seventy nine and three. Also
the rushing touchdown. Hey, it's Fantasy Championship Week. Maybe he
also didn't want to let down the percentage that would
still be banking on him.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
And there are a lot of a lot of parties
in this game, George Kittle, I guarantee there's been some
grendo plays you mentioned party, We've got Jamison williams Amanra,
Jamir Gibbs.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Peter Shall probably found his way into some lineup off sure.
So all those fantasy ramification, we'll get into some of
the Week seventeen heroes and busts and who screwed you
during Championship show if you want to get those in
at Dan Byron Fox at Swollen Dome.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
And this just in Jason McIntire's team that was only
down by three. He just tweeted it with a picture
of his score. So for those of you wondering at home,
just the ridiculousness.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
For those keeping track at home this too.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Wait, let's go to Steve the Sega for the latest
on Jason McIntyre's fantasy football team. Uh do you got
the latest, Steve? Why would I care about his when
mine is in the final? Yeah? Did you take a
picture of yours and screen grab it for everybody that's
just slightly presumptuous. Oh my goodness, Well that would mean.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Steve was also on Twitter for everybody to say that's true.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
That would also be presumptuous.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
He'd be running around the studio here, look at my team.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Is this the league that I'm in? Steve, that that
is correct. I did not make the playoffs. So my
interest Wayne Wayne quickly, Oh wow, okay, so what.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Do we need here? Since we're already down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I'm done. I had Jayden Daniels last night. Oh so
I am the lead. So you are just basically cheering
against Juwan Jennings. Everybody. What I need is a low
scoring game.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
So what you're really hoping was Jennings was gonna get
thrown out when he ran Arnold.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Through the back of the end zone.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Absolutely that it was.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
Gonna be an automatic disqualification.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
I heard personal foul. I didn't hear this counts toward disqualification.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Ash, He's going up against this team that was a
juggernaut points wise, but they just had some nasty luck
in who they played. But they made it in. So
good for Steve.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Good on you as they say, succeed and proceed. We'll
keep up with that as the night goes on. He's
Dan Bayer that's Steve Disager. I'm Mike Harmen. It's a
Jason's Bit Show with me Mike Harmon, live from the
Tirec dot com Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,
we've got about Jason locking forward to stop by, talk
about the playoff picture that we have for week eighteen,
(15:07):
and all the little nuggets about coaching hirings, firings and
guys that are gonna interview. I know we don't want
to do a lot of Jets talk, but damn it,
we have to.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We have no choice. That's deck right, Yeah, that's next
on Fox.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
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 3 (15:32):
Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show
with me Mike Harmon here live from the tyrack dot
com Fox Sports Radio Studios. No Jason Smith back on Thursday.
My guy Dan byer in with me as we watch
more scoring attempts here. Red zone opportunity after a Brock
pretty airmailed interception, Lions ensuing drive into the red zone,
(15:56):
third and goal coming up, final seconds of the third
Quarter twenty eight, twenty four. As as we roll through Dan,
it's the which defense breaks worst.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I'll tell you. And for a game that is meaningless
like it is, it's it's actually exciting. Like I hate
Week eighteen forcause I hate all the games just don't
matter my care. I can't stand it. And it's like
a preseason game to me. Obviously, the games that have
something to play for, you're interested them, but this doesn't.
There's nothing to play for in this game. But I'm
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still intrigued. I think it's what the Lions do to everybody.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Still a competition, everybody still wants to see what kind
of gadgetry is up the sleeve of the coordinator Johnson
To talk about his future and so much more, we
go to the hotline our buddy Jason lock And for
weekly visit Washington Post one oh five seven the fan
in Baltimore, Odyssey. Jason, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to come.
(16:54):
How are you, my friend?
Speaker 7 (16:56):
I'm doing quite well. Hope you guys are doing the same.
Happy holl of these like we're still on Monday season.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Yeah, still holiday holiday?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
All good? Here going a little better. I'm on Ross
Saint Brown Saw that that ball was thrown at Infancinity
and they could have play on it.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That's spoiler alert. They came right back to him, four
yard touchdown. Lions go on top thirty twenty eight.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Extra real depending.
Speaker 7 (17:20):
I'm on the delay on the direct TV stream. Really
you got it? Hey? Hey, hey wow?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Minds up from the click out route and man put.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
On the five plan there there. I'll take it.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yeah, we long ago cash the over. I mean all
this is all good. I mean it's a nice exhibition
time of Monday night.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Not only over, but I am on Detroit minus three
and a half, so we'll see plenty.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Of football to be played.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Jason locking for uh so out of this one, and
I'll I'll leave it for Dan because he asked a
very important question.
Speaker 5 (17:55):
Yeah, I know he's going to play, but we were
talking about brock Party and we're just where brock Purty
is right now. Does this change anything? Do these last
two games change anything for brock Purty status, because we're
talking about the Lions have nothing to play for. I
don't know what brock Purty has to play for right now,
and I don't want to sound hot. Take is Jake,
(18:18):
Jason and say Rock pretty shouldn't play these final two games.
But for a guy that is going to want to
be paid and get paid, you know there is some
risk to it. But does do these last two games
do anything for brock Party in terms of what he's
doing coming up in his contract?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I think so. I mean, I don't think he's in
a position to say I'm not, I'm out, I'm yeah, Yeah,
I agree. Agent, Come my agent in January and you know,
tell me what numbers you come up with. He's look,
he's had his share of issues this year, and the
team around him hasn't been as sharp, and he struggled
(18:57):
at times, and certainly when it rains or or anything
like that, he's really struggled. Yeah, I mean, this is
as close as they're going to get to another opportunity
for him in the playoffs. And his playoff performances last year,
we're pretty spotty and sort of you know, he ebbed
and flowed sort of in form and out of form.
(19:18):
And the reality is this is a coaching staff that
thinks pretty highly of itself and its ability to find
quarterbacks in all ways, shapes and forms. And he's here
in part because they fan so bad on Trey Lance,
but I don't think he has proven unequivocally he's going
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to be able to ask for which is more than
guys like Tua and guys like Trevor Lawrence who haven't
been to a Super Bowl far more than they got,
and they got quite a lot. So I think he
does need to finish strong. I think he needs to
put up as quality of a season as possible in
(20:02):
its totality and frankly, massage some of these numbers and
get them looking a little bit closer to last season,
because it hasn't been, frankly anything that close to last season.
I mean, he came into this game with an eighty
one passer rating at home, like that's that's suboptimal.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Yeah, losers of five of their last six. I joked
about how they throttled my beloved Bears in a game
reminiscent of one I attended back in two thousand. But
they've scored seventeen or fewer points in each of those
five losses. So the offense certainly sputtering. Now normally we're
an anti Jets zone when Smith isn't here, But other
than kicking the tires of hey, you guys used to
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coach in this league with the all around Rivera and
Rex R.
Speaker 7 (20:45):
I am going to give him right, come on, well,
let's there's a lot of people doing a lot of
work for a lot of agents this time of year.
You know, these are the same people who told you
last year Bobby Schlowick is going to be a great
NFL head coach. Bobby slow I don't know if he's
going to fik. He might be fired at halftime of
that playoff game.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
This is true.
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I things keep going this way, like I think he
got to beware a lot of this, like nobody's hiring records. Look,
come on, wood he can't do that. I mean, even
Woody even can't do that. And that's a low bar.
I mean, but even by Woody standards, Like I don't like,
come on, he fired Rex. I mean Rex was there.
I mean, but you could tell me, well, yeah, but
(21:27):
he's propended, pomp backed, and I'm like, yes, and this
is Woody, but I don't think he can bring the
band entirely back together, Like I just don't think that's
how it worked. And Rex was starting to lose touch
with everything this job entailed then and now he's been
out of the job for a decade. I just I
(21:48):
don't see it. And Ron Rivera, I mean, come on top, Hey,
I don't know who the next coach of the Jets is,
but I don't think it's either.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Of the together first two names. It's amazing. The week
from tonight, though, we could have more openings in the
National Football League. What are we looking at for head
coaching vacancies if you could fast forward to the end
of the regular season, Jacks.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Probably yep, yeah, I think it's probably around a half dozen.
I mean Jacksonville absolutely. I mean, I don't think that
if Mark Davis sits down with his minority owners that
they're going to be all in agreement that, you know,
we should keep Antonio Pierce, Like, especially if they are
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going to be drafting a quarterback very very high in
this draft. I just don't know that you're going to
entrust him to Northern Scott Turner and sort of that
that staff that's been kind of pieced together this year
as they've sort of fired people along the way, Like,
I'm just not sure that that's going to fly. I mean,
(23:00):
I think you're looking at both New York teams. Obviously,
we know the Saints are already on an interim head coach,
and I don't think they're gonna stick with the Rizzler, Like,
I don't think that's going to be possible or feasible,
as much as I think Mickey Loomis maybe would have
kind of hoped that it would come out in a
way that they could, you know, I don't you know,
(23:23):
I think McCarthy would be back in Dallas. He'll just
be making a whole lot more money like everybody else
who Jerry Jones screwed up negotiations with. I don't think
the Patriots are going to do anything. I'd be really
really surprised if they did. You know, Stefanski, they're going
to make him suck it up another year and earn
his money with Deshaun Watson, Like that's just you know,
(23:45):
that just sort of is what it is. So yeah,
I think we'll probably come in around a half dozen now.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Obviously McCarthy likes the being part of the Star to
a degree. But I got to imagine it where Stan
after a while, like week after week, everything scrutinized to
the level it is, what would his place in the
marketplace be, Well, he decided he was done with it.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Yeah, Like all he needs is somebody else to interview him.
And he's got a market, right, I mean that's that's
really all it takes. And like like the Raiders, would
they interview him? Sure? I mean why would would he
Johnson not interview Like, do I think it's going to
be a reunion with Aaron Rodgers? No, stop listening to people.
Aaron Rodgers done. Don't listen to Aaron Rodgers and his
agents and these people selling you buffoonery. Like, No, Aaron
(24:29):
Rodgers won't be there. So could you bring in McCarthy?
I mean why why wouldn't they talk to Mike McCarthy.
He's won a lot of regular season games, He's won
a Super Bowl. They've been bringing people in there lately
who haven't, you know, had any previous head coaching experience
and haven't won anything. I mean Jacksonville. He he doesn't
(24:53):
seem to want to hire anybody other than people who've
done it before. He doesn't seem to be able to
find his coordinat Ben Johnson didn't want him before, he's
not gonna want him now. Like, yeah, I think Mike
McCarthy's going to be able to squeeze what he wants
out of Jerry Jones.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
What about the situation in New England? This is it's
I just find it interesting that this Girod Mayo season
one hasn't maybe gone as well as the Craft family
has hoped. What do you think happens in New England
with Gerrod Mayo after one season?
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Well, I don't think anything happens. I mean there it
was Jonathan and Robert Kraft who put all this together.
They weren't under pressure, Like it's not like this was
Bill Belichick, you know, forcing it on them, like, hey,
this is the air parent. I mean he wanted to
be his son.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Like.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
This was completely of their own doing. There was no
public outpouring or sponsors saying we're not going to show
up next here. You don't make Mayo the next guy.
This is completely their thing. They thought him as a
former player and as an assistant, there was the person
to inherit the mantle, whether Belichick liked it or not,
whether the fans liked it, whether anybody liked it or not,
this was their master plan. Put it into his contract
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before anybody knew. So he's had one year where the
rookie quarterbacks didn't even play the whole year and they're
gonna fire, Like I just, it would really surprise me.
It would have really surprised people I talked to around
the league, like that's not usual. Like these guys all
think they're pretty smart, and this guy's won a lot,
(26:21):
Chris won more game than anybody. I don't think he's
going to be like, oh yeah, yeah, we were totally
long on this side, even though they've been in the
building for years. Like I just, it would be a
weird about face to me after one year.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Now we could do a the radio equivalent of a
four hundred page book on coaching malfeasans in the final
minutes of games, I why don't you practice as coaches
like you you allegedly practice two minute drills with your players.
But for the interest of time, Jason Lockforth, that game
Sunday and Sunday Night was a dandy. Some more coaching
(26:58):
malfeasans mixed there, and of course, but what's going on
in Washington? Nothing short and remarkable. Will we talk about
culture shift and a roster that was okay on paper?
But the kid comes in and Daniel's stirring the drink,
and I guess we can rest assured at least coming
out of this year that we've got a couple of
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new quarterbacks that are ready to go, and he's at the.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Head of the class.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Yeah, he's special, man. I mean, the factor, the fourth quarter,
overtime thing, I mean, it is everything. It's such a
cliche to say things slowed down for him, and he
looks like he's sort of just gliding or almost being
carried by this like victorious wind, and he's just along
for the ride, Like he doesn't look like he's killing
(27:42):
himself to win these games. But he's doing it pretty
single handedly. In the offensive line that's fallen a part
of the season's going along, and they got injured yesterday,
so it was all him, and it was a lot
of him running and a lot of him off script,
and it's I really just love watching that kid play.
And he has completely, utterly, irrevocably changed the fortunes of
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that franchise in ways that people in those parts just
haven't even been able to fathom for about a generation.
And the other takeaway is, I think we talked about
this after the Kirk Cousins four interception game against the
Chargers about a month ago, Like, imagine what the Falcons
could have done if they actually made this change when
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they should have. Like, imagine if that was Michael Pennock's
fourth game or fifth game, you know what I mean,
and not like his first road game or whatever. Like
I mean, imagine if they did that thing in the
right way and trusted that kid like they should have
when Cousins started collapsing and it was clear the Achilles
wasn't fully healed, and you know, they might have had
a better shot to win this division than needing the
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kind of help that they're going to win now and
blowing that lead like they did. Because Pennis has got
I mean, he's got a lot to him as well,
and I bet he lights it up. Like God, jump
on that Caroline Atlanta over before those numbers move anymore.
The problem is, I'd also jump on that Tampa New
Orleans over. I think I think Tampa might hang a
(29:12):
forty burger on the same syst to be safe. So yeah,
I mean those look like real, real special quarterbacks for
a long time.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
Okay, to take nothing away from Jayden Daniels because it
can't take him out of this equation, But are we
sure the commanders are good? I mean, because he is
your eye is correct, But I don't know if they're
good or not.
Speaker 7 (29:40):
Well, he's gonna win, help them win a lot of games.
We can certainly have deficiencies. I mean, the pass for
us has become much more hit or missed the deeper
we've gotten into the season. I talked about the offensive
line and the run game outside of him. The design
run game has really been bottled up, you know, much
more of the second half of the year than the
first calf of the year. Dan Campbell, he's got his
(30:02):
late game moments. We've all seen that. And his defense
seems to come up short in really weird spots like
last night when a wildcard's lit a wildcard when a
Wildcat staffed those twenty five yards downfield and they end
up diverting the touchdown anyway, So yeah, they've got Look,
they've got a lot of holes to fill. But he
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he feels a lot and you know, like urch Is
at the end, but he's still with that playing with
that kid is a formidable red zone tight end and
the Zachary Is is legit in the slot. We know
what Scary Terry can do today. Upgrade at running back,
upgrade at offensive line, A little bit. Yeah. I mean
they've got a real owner now too, So that's the thing.
(30:44):
It's not just that they stumbled into this quarterback and
you know that's all they've got. Like, I think they've
got a real franchise now and a real organization, and
I expect Josh Harris to do whatever he can to
help roster improved.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Zach Er turns himself an extra seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars in the process, So all's good and scary.
Terry had one catch for five yards.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Fantasy owners took them away right and they still they
still scored their thirty points or whatever.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Still got it done.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Jason, go finish watching this game, whatever fantasy implications are wagering.
We appreciate you stopping down with us for a few minutes,
as you do each and every week.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Happy New Year to you. We'll catch up with you
next week.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Always my pleasure, gentlemen, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Appreciate you. Add Jason locking forw where you find him.
Read them Washington, but hear them out there in Baltimore
one oh five seven the fan. As we get into
the fourth quarter, it's no better place to go than
our man at the News desk for all the updates,
insights and a check in on his own fantasy line.
If it's our guy, Steve dis j Max and his
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just waiting.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
On it is there.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
It is Funday night football in San Francisco. The Detroit Lions,
of course, went forward on fourth and goal, a late
third quarter chance for the lead against the Niners.
Speaker 8 (32:01):
Jared's got it back looking throwing Enzel touchdown Detroit Lions.
I'm and Ross Saint Brown hauled it in at the
one and just turned it up, found pay dirt and
the Lions have the lead.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
It's thirty one to twenty eight at San Francisco, now
eleven minutes left in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
Lions Radio Network ninety seven point one. The ticket call.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
By the way, San Francisco was up eight at the
half and now trails any guests. In forty nine Ers history,
which head coach has the most losses after leading by
at least eight points in a game.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
It's not even close.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Kyle Shanahan has twenty such losses in his Niners coaching.
Speaker 5 (32:36):
Somebody in their car was like Tom Sula.
Speaker 6 (32:41):
Frock perty for a while had a perfect passer rating
tonight and then throw throws a pick over the middle
that turns into that touchdown drive. The other way Party
is twenty of twenty six passing three hundred and six yards,
three touchdowns through the air, and one TD run. Jared
Goff has three touchdown passes for Detroit, two hundred and
ninety one yards through the air, first five drives combined
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in this game, five touchdowns and at the time knowing
complete passes. This is San Francisco at six and nine
hosting Detroit, which is thirteen and two lines up thirty
one twenty eight with about ten minutes ago. The Lions
will play the regular season finale this Sunday night, hosting
the Vikings to decide the NFC North and the number
one seed in the NFC. By the way, Vikings running
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back Aaron Jones should be able to practice this week
after yesterday's quad injury. Raven's running back Justice Hill is
due to play Saturday against the Browns despite missing practice
today due to illness. At College Football's Music City Ball,
nineteenth rank Missouri came back to beat Iowa twenty seven
to twenty four. Among the seven NBA games the Clippers
have just won. At New Orleans won sixteen to one. Thirteen.
(33:47):
That's ten straight losses for the Pelicans. Charlotte lost its
eighth in a row in overtime, Chicago won at Charlotte
one fifteen, one oh eight, and the next one there
eighth straight one twenty six to one oh six at Washington.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Back to you, Thank you so much, Steve.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Coming up as we continue here on Fox Sports Radio
Jason Smith Show with Me, Mike Harmon, Dan byer In
for Jason, we'll go through week seventeen of the National
Football League season. Yes, we still have a few minutes
left in this one, but everybody plays, everybody wins. Here
we'll talk about the heroes and zeros of the rest
of the schedule as we roll through.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 3 (34:30):
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Speaker 3 (34:50):
Forty nine Ers moving the ball again down six, a
missfield goal on their end and a made field goal
for the Lions, so the lead is extended to six,
coming up on the midpoint of your fourth quarter here
Monday night football. It's only you know, sixteen and a
half more games, Dan.
Speaker 5 (35:08):
I know Mike's cutting him down like it's a calendar.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Is that chocolate?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Oh, with some rotten piece? So the door came up
empty for brock Purty. Oh another interception, he.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Got skunk with a trading card calendar there.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Which is good for Steve de Sager, who again is
like many sweating out of fantasy performance and Juwan Jennings
stays out of the end zone. But the flip side
of that coin, Mike Carmen, is that the forty nine
ers will still have to keep throwing after this possession
of it, which goes against Steve de Sager, So.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
That David Montgomery would be really huge right now, right,
get old knuckles back up in there, but no, he's
not available. Jamiir Gibbs having himself from a fantastic game
as you were talking about a little bit earlier. We'll
get the fantasy notes and nuggets from from this game
as it concludes. Dan, But you know, for weeks week
(36:04):
seventeen the mixed bag because you suddenly had a bunch
of star players. We did the I Watch a Flex
podcast leading into the week, and we had the caveat
a ton of the players going well, they're saying, he's
going to try to play right and then ultimately no
to a tongue of iloa.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
No.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
Jalen hurts and then Kenny Pickett gets hurt. So even
if you'd gone that route, that didn't help you. And
all of a sudden we got McKee and I'm watching
the trading card market of Tanner McKee w go flying.
People getting hundreds of dollars for cards said they could
have they would have sold for a dollar fifty if
someone would have taken it.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Oh, they're getting more than the fan got for catching
the ball that aj Brown threw into the stands.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Yeah, I would have held out for more.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
Yeah, I get once again people getting screwed in these
exchange The Dodgers did it. Remember when they strong armed
the folks with the show Heyo Tani deal?
Speaker 4 (36:56):
That was bad business? And then you know here you
get a Yeah, keep it coming.
Speaker 5 (37:03):
And someone said, so on did you see? Someone said
and a paycheck, and aj Brown tweeted it, that's pretty good. Yeah,
not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (37:12):
Well, I mean, it depends whose paycheck it is.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (37:16):
But when we look at the finals from from week seventeen,
and for many people, the year's long been over and
now they're just interested observers maybe hate watching certain players
and circumstances because of who's in the driver's seat in
their respective leagues. Maybe maybe you've got that situation you
(37:39):
just don't want somebody to win. But we watched over
the course of the weekend all those injuries flow up
and some no show efforts along the way as well
by a number of teams where hey man, it's that
time of year. I already saw the movement saying, hey,
let's move championship week to week sixteen.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Well, I'll say I'll say this, for at least of
the showing up. I've been someone who's head stocking T
Higgins forever and in the last couple of years have
had T. Higgins on my teams and it has not
come through. And of course for that reason, I'm not
in any championship games. But what do you know, and
you mentioned our podcast, Mike I said, within the last
(38:19):
two weeks, this Chase Higgins deal in Cincinnati is not
Holton Bruce in Saint Louis, it's not Harrison and Wayne
in Indianapolis. It's Jamar Chase's number one, and T. Higgins
is somewhere along there.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
On what do you know?
Speaker 5 (38:32):
The hat trick on Saturday to propel anybody that may
have had T. Higgins in their championship game, just.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
An insane performance, right, that was a dandy to watch,
But again owing to the fantasy endgame for it, you know,
Chase still got his nineteen points, but you didn't get
any of the glory touches correct as it were, right, Indianapolis,
no shows in a big spot. But Jonathan Taylor gave
you big points once again, as we pointed out, like
(39:02):
she looked up my scorecard a little bit in terms
of hits and misses that we were on board there
as well. But the curiosity, you know, for some of
the would be heroes, you're left holding Cole several days.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
After Christmas, earlier the season, we complained about a lack
of points. There were a bunch of points scored in
Week seventeen to make up for it.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Certainly Baltimore and Los Angeles and so many others that
we had a blast watching it come to fruition. We'll
get more into the specifics of the point totals, but
coming up next we talked Bowl season, Bowl takeaways. Oh,
and that whole cam Ward thing.
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