January 7, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if the Minnesota Vikings trade J.J. McCarthy. The Athletics and Brent Rooker reportedly agree to 5-year extension. Rex Ryan loves his chances of landing the Jets head coaching job. And Jason explains why the Patriots are the biggest dumpster fire!
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Sure I I I the togetherness, that's a pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
This show is kind of like a crazy trade. We
start going and I don't know where it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We're osborne to you know. He always was a hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
When was he not a Hall of Famer? Would you
say to my face? I said, when was he not
a Hall of Famer? He's been a Hall of Famer
since nineteen eighty three, Azzie. Yeah, he just got in
the Rock and Roll.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Hall of Fame. It doesn't matter. He's been He's been
a Hall of Fame way before.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's like when you know a guy's a Hall of Famer,
like like you think, like you know that, Uh, what's
a good example?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Doesn't make it right?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But he has like you know that Lamar Jackson's going
to be a Hall of Famer even though he's still playing.
Like you knew Ozzy was gonna be a Hall of Fame.
But can he deliver in the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He did?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
This isn't a scam like David Wright getting into the
Mets Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, it's not. It's we're tire ring David Wright's number.
That's what they're doing. No one's gonna wear number five.
The Captain Ozzie's actually talented. I are you insane?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I wish I could prove that you cheated in the
playoffs last year in the Nlcyes.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I wish I could. He is going to Houston on
business this week. No, yeah, watch out.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And the way things are going in San Diego, I
could be owning the Padres this week.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is true. Yeah, that's right, that's right. That escalated quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Frostburd would trade everybody from the Padres to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Machana would go to jail. Escalated quickly. I said, hey,
bleep in crazy training. That's what this show is as
a right. Uh So.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We talked a few minutes ago about Trevor Lawrence needing
a change of scenery. Congratulations birth of his child. Yeah,
hed a change the scenery. It's a It's a very
bad quarterback crop this offseason, both in the draft and
in free agency. And this is why. Also, and I
can't believe I'm saying this, but the Vikings need to
(03:09):
trade JJ McCarthy. All right, Sam Donald has been really good.
I'm choosing my words, Kiy, No, carefully, I'm choosing my words.
Sam Donald has been really good. I thought he would
kind of fall off in the second half and'd be
back to being Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He did not.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
He played really well. He is surrounded by really good
weapons and it works. It works to the level of
what Kirk Cousins was at at his best in Minnesota.
Sam Donald's twenty seven and yes he had a bad
final game against the Lions, but not the first guy
to lose to the Lions, not the last guy to
lose to the Lions. Okay, he had a bad game,
(03:50):
but still thirty five touchdowns over four thousand yards passing.
Donald has been terrific. Some every quarterback's journey is on
its own time. Some never get there, Some take a
little bit longer, some take almost too long till you
want to quit. It took Donald a few years, right.
It took it from twenty eighteen until twenty twenty four
(04:12):
to find where he needs to go. Right, Donald has
been really good. There's no way you're not running it
back with Donald next year. Now, if you keep Donald
and McCarthy, eventually you're gonna jettison Donald, right, or you're
gonna trade McCarthy and it's gonna be too late to
really get something for him. See forty nine Ers Commas
(04:33):
San Francisco and Lance coma tray right, Trey Lance, Ah,
we draft to trailer, but boy, Jimmy's Garoppolo's playing really well.
But we like Trede ho, here's brock Purty. But we
like Trey.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Would you get a fourth round pick for Trey Lance
guy who took number three overall in the draft. The
Vikings have to understand that you're built to win right now,
and your quarterback is twenty seven years old, and it's
not like Donald's gonna be a guy gets into his
early thirties and suddenly, oh, he's gonna lose it now.
Maybe Donald's not any good. Maybe Darnold has a bad
next year bad too, and he's not any good. You're
starting over anyway. You're starting over anyway. JJ McCarthy, if
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he came out this year, would be a top five
pick regardless. He would be a top five pick in
this quarterback class.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Everybody loved him last year, but there were a couple
of guys had to go ahead of him. You saw
the Vikings move up for him. With a bad quarterback
class this year, who's gonna say, I'll give you whatever
the hell you want for JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You will get what you put.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
In for him and more back, which means you'll be
able to go get players to help supplement that team.
Your defense is really really good, right, whatever you guys
need more, you guys can go get another offensive lineman.
We'll give you another couple of early round picks like
JJ McCarthy would be worth multiple first round picks, and
and and when you only because of the landscape, because hey,
(05:54):
it's a seller's market, right, Some years a buyer's market.
Some year it's a seller's market. If you're the Vikings
and you're saying, hey, we have a super Bowl window
that's open now, went fourteen games this year, and yeah,
you're on the road this week, and it's a tougher
road for you, but hey, look at how everything came
together so fast. You got a great head coach who
you need to sign really quickly, because it's ridiculous. The
teams are gonna be calling the Vikings saying, hey, you
(06:17):
haven't given Kevin O'Connell a contract to extension, so we'll
call him, we'll trade for him. That's kind of embarrassing.
So you need to get that done. But if you
keep two quarterbacks around, you're just waiting to move on
from one of them. And the longer you wait, the
more depreciation one of the quarterbacks goes through the one
you're gonna keeps a one playing well. The one you're
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not is gonna be a guy you're gonna trade and
you're not nearly gonna get something for him. Think about this,
if you kept Sam Darnold next year and you kept
JJ McCarthy and Darnold had another really good season, right,
thirty touchdowns, four thousand yards. Okay, now it's two years
of JJ McCarthy not playing. What are you gonna get
for a guy who hasn't played for two years? You're
gonna get a second round pick, a third round pick.
What do you get for that guy? Don't do what
(06:59):
happen to Trey Lanch You kept Trey Lance around too long.
You couldn't stay on the field. You never gave him
a chance. Oh we got to move on. Oh now
we're getting a fourth round pick from a guy.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Think about what the forty nine ers could have done
if they had a guy at number three overall who
could be a franchise player. Could have been all the
difference last year in the Super Bowl, could have been
a difference last year this year.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But no, but you.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Couldn't recoup that loss, so put you got nothing out
of the number three overall pick. In a draft, and
that helps set you back or helps aceen the end
of your open window to win something. Don't fall victor
in that. Learn from that and say we can't have
two guys. The Falcons know they couldn't have two guys.
This is one year for Cousins or Michael Pennix June,
and what happened. Kirk Cousins was never comfortable there, never
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wanted to, never really bought in, never knew he was
going to be part of the long term solution, and
he struggled all season, and a Falcons team that was
talented enough to win that division winds up finishing two
games out because they can't get it right. With Jean
Robinson and Darnell Mooney and Drake London and all these
great weapons, they couldn't win. So learn from what happens
(08:03):
when you have two guys and you're just waiting to
make a decision. You're gonna have to move on from
one of them anyway, and all you're gonna do is
is is postpone this, and you're gonna hold your team back.
The Niners held their team back when we were trying
to figure out what we're gonna do with Tree Lance
or we're not gonna do with trade Lance, learn from these
three teams. I just threw out there that, Yeah, when
you have two guys that you need to choose from,
(08:23):
you got to make a tough decision. No one's gonna
be upset if they moved on from JJ McCarthy. And
if things don't work with Sam Donald, guess what you
get to the quarterback in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Tell you about Atlanta is that you had Kirk Cousins
who did have a stretch. What about six weeks where
he played really good football, where physically he was about
as sound as he was gonna go, and that offense clicked.
You were able to make some hay uh. And then
physically we watched how he slowed down. He was not
able to move, not that you were counting on mobility
(08:53):
being the biggest asset, but couldn't get away from a sack.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Offensive line wasn't very good.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
There were better run blockers as evidence what Bjhon Robinson
was able to do down the stretch also evidence.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
To how good that guy really is.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You know, Arthur Smith, who people may talk to about
a head coach, kep Hey, explain why you had that
guy in the box when it mattered.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Two years ago.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yes, you can to ask about twenty twenty three decisions
on your coaching tree if you really even really want
to talk to him other than having a name on
the list. And it's saying we interviewed forty five guys.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But for the.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Current situation, when we look at where you're at with Minnesota,
McCarthy coming off a couple of knee surgeries, so that
comes into effect in terms of compensation and whether it
would be future picks dependent on snaps, playing time, all
of those kind of things, as we've seen teams do,
and sometimes it works for you. Sometimes when it's contractual,
(09:51):
it doesn't quite the same way. Certainly when the Bears
got rid of justin fields to Pittsburgh, you know, when
Russell Wilson got inserted as the starter, that was the
worst scenario for them, right of not getting him enough
snaps to change what that compensation would be. But for McCarthy, yeah,
if he proves to be sound after the knee surgeries,
(10:13):
then sure go in and bolster things. You're also going
to have some changes to that squad and that Flores
probably won't be around now. There haven't been as many
head coaching openings as anticipated as of the time you
and I are talking on a Monday night, which means
there may still be some that open up in the process.
But short term, it's reasonable to assume Flora's at least
(10:36):
is getting interviews, whether he actually leaves or not. So defensively,
you may have to bolster your yeah, your weaponry, not
only because well, you need extra bodies, but also because
you're changing out coordinators and maybe whoever comes in has
a different approach in terms of personnel groupings that they
want to go to. But yeah, I mean, you'd certainly
(10:58):
go into the marketplace.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Look at it.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
This quarterback class coming out in the draft not being robust,
and as we talked about, the best veterans are all
guys that are no better than a stop gap. We
may be able to win this year, and for teams
like the Raiders and others that are in the marketplace,
you're looking.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
At long term.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
You're not worried necessarily so much on having advanced results
in twenty twenty five. It's all about finding the guy
that you grow with.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
If if I thought for a second that this could
be solved in a non messy way, I would say okay,
because yeah, clearly Sam Darnald hasn't done it.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He's doing it this year. But I don't see any way.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Where it's not going to be messy where you're not
just waiting to move on from one of them. There's
no way. Maybe it's next year our go Sam Donald stinks. Okay,
he stinks, but now we're getting rid of him. We're
give the job a JJ McCarthy. Well he was great
one year, he wasn't quite as good the second year.
You're just gonna let him go there.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Well, you probably had to, You would have had to
do a franchise, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And when you still don't know what JJ McCarthy can do,
you still don't know what JJ.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
M on the hook for.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
What is it gonna be like forty five million dollars
for Sam Donald or something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Dude, Donald jets he did. There's nothing he did.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And if they kicked field goals now in the red zone,
they were absolutely gross, because that's the thing that gets
lost in the game from Sunday night not you know,
just to maybe make a tepid defense of Sam Donald,
they did move the ball pretty well.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
They just got owned in the in the red zone repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Look and look, it's one bad game. And I know
it's easy to say, look at me defending Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh my god, it's a crazy train. It's one game, right,
and you've been lying to yourself the whole time.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Able to pressure him a lot, and no quarterbacks play
great when they're pressured, except for Aaron Rodgers yesterday. But uh, yeah,
it's one bad game. I think he's shown enough over
the other sixteen games. Hey, I can be okay, just
got to keep Jersey clean a little bit. But you know,
it works with Sam Donald. And that's the whole thing
is that I'm not convinced JJ McCarthy was that great,
(13:07):
but I know where his status is in the NFL now,
and I know that if I've seen Sam Donald do
this and I haven't seen JJ McCarthy do this, well,
who do I want to trust more? The guy that
I've seen do it once because I think he can
do it again when maybe JJ McCarthy is gonna be good,
maybe he's not.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You can't go back to Michigan again, right, You're banned again.
Uh it's but well, they don't care. He's gone. He's
in Minnesota. And they got Bryce Underwood next year. Michigan
is fine.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Uh so, yeah, if you to not make that decision
just holds the team back. When you can add assets,
and you can, you can, you have you have clarity.
You're gonna have players on the team that are gonna
be grumbling. Oh, I like Sam, I don't like that.
You need you can't have it. You can't have two
quarterbacks like this. All the teams have shown us that, Yeah,
(13:53):
it's an impossible situation to handle well.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And in theory, the Bears aren't the same train wreck
they are they are this year. And the Lions and Packers.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Guess what, they're not going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
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posted right after we get off the air. Now, before
we get to the guy that turned out to take
over uh Black Monday Big baseball story, Ken Rosenthal of
Fox reporting that the A's of sign Brent Rooker, who
(16:06):
to a contract extension.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Who Brent Rooker, who is coming.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Off a year of thirty nine home runs, one hundred
and twelve rbi and a war of five and a half.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
How about that? Okay, batted ninety three.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
He was at the Sacramento Kings game tonight and there
was a big moment where they were all celebrating together.
This is because Brent Rooker got a contract extension. Uh,
this is a guy, and I know it. He's a
little bit older, but it's his fourth year in the majors.
Thirty nine, won twelve and a war of five and
a half, and he got five years and sixty million.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Not sixty million a year, He got twelve million year.
He signed for a five year, Yeah, sixty million dollar extension.
And this is not just he had a pretty decent
year of the year before. Right hit thirty home runs
a year before.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
How is this?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Huar, I know it's the A's. Come on, man, this
is your this is your contract. Do they have the
ability to franchise tagging? How do you how do you
not get at least done? How do you not get
Hell's this guy's agent?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
How do you not get triple that?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I mean, I know he's a designated hitter, but you
still got to get You could have got three years
and ninety million from somebody else if you know. Obviously
the A's. You're an player on the A's and they
have your rights.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
But oh my, there are reports coming out that the
Mets offered them a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The Mets wanted him before they went out for soda.
They want everybody like they went out for him before
they didn't think they were in to get soda. They
really wanted Brent Rooker. And I'm like, this is the
I mean, I get that, I get that you're getting money.
It's generational money. Still, it's twelve million dollars a year.
That's awesome, But you get one shot at this when
you're twenty nine years old, and I know that, Hey,
we can have your rights for a while.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But wow, five years and.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Twelve million finesting option. You can take the deal to
six years, ninety million. The Hell's is agent, not Scott Boris, that's.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
For sure, because he has agents the owner of the ASO. Man.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, legitimately, though, I mean, those numbers are pretty absurd,
and again, DH, you take it with the grain of
salt there. But we've seen such so many deals with
the eye popping numbers. Get the home run rate hitting
in that ballpark, which is not an easy park to
hit at home.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean, I really, I this is this, This goes
beyond just being a team friendly deal like this is
this is just hey man, we're keeping you, and I
mean I do. I'm glad he got paid. He's a
really good player, and the A's would have you know,
it's good. It would be a while before they paid him.
We can hold on it because you know, whatever he's later.
(18:46):
You know, he came up later. He didn't make it
to the major so he was twenty five years old.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But wow, man, wow.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
In twenty twenty four, just doing a quick search, over
one hundred and sixty five major league players were set
to earn at least ten million dollars, and that includes
the mutant contracts signed by some of the deferred things
that we've seen with the Dodgors.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
I think the bigger story is, all of a sudden,
the A's have money.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, they have to get to the floor. That's the
whole thing, is I got you have to spend a
certain amount of money. Is that how they got it?
Sign Well, that's why they went so we could do
That's why they went after Severarino for the most pent.
They spent one hundred million dollars this winter. Yeah, well
they had to.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
They have to. Aren't the Marlins zero there?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
There?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
There their salaries, No way they're moving to Las Vegas.
What's not happening.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
The Tigers playoff salary makes the makes the makes the
A's team salary look really small.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It's it's one of show.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Heyo, Tommy's checks in twenty eighty two is going to
be more than that.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It's true, dude, it might be better this year. I mean,
one Soda, one Soto I think is getting paid more
this year than he is for the entirety of his contract.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
One Soda just got paid more. A minute ago, when
you said his name it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Contract is worth more more than the franchise. Wow. Uh
so they congratulated. Good for him. No good from getting
like sixty billion. I just guaranteed money.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
All that is great, But in a in a marketplace
where we usually marvel and shake our heads at the
extra commas and zero's this one. You do the triple
take of Wait, that's over how many years I had
the vesting option though? Man, that could really add the
The AAV goes to fifteen a year.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Under that, hey, got paid, got paid, and your plenty
balling in over the next three years.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Okay, all right, that okay, we know where they spent
the money from the soda machines.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now this is I'm having the reaction like I have
when I see somebody make a fantasy trade in my
league and I go, I know.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That's all you had to give up. What don't you
call me? I'd have given you more than that. What
the hell? I didn't want to insult you. What it
turns out that's the guy you that that's a trade
you made. Really, that's a trade you made.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
That's somewhere Jason Jonah Hill is doing a fist pump.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Billy. I would not do that, Billy. Yeah, pain has
gone too. I would not do that, Billy.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
He also, let's say last year he also walked fifty
nine times, struck out one hundred and seventy seven times.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I'll take thirty nine one. Think about that batting average
with balls in play or man.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, he had like two of the hardest balls in
the league last year.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think nine twenty seven ops. Wow. Man, wow wow.
Former twin Padre Royal now an A And.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Well we'll talk in baseball for a quick sec. Thank you,
Gavin Lux for your service. He had a good run.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you had to move on. He won't
be messed, But thank you for your service. Thank you
on a job. He did tie.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
He did tie Game five of the World Series against
what that possib And he had a good when he
got healthy. He had three hundred this year. He had
a good back half of the year.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
He did. He was pretty good. I mean. And he'll
never hear his name again.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well you will actually when he comes to Dodger State
and they'll give a nice ho or when we do
fantasy stats, because he can hit in that ballpark and
in that division. But the thing is like the Reds
have so many guys all the positions he plays. The
Reds have guys from Dela Cruz plays them all like
where are you gonna play? I don't know, they'll figure
it out. I have a bunch of those guys. Uh
(22:19):
exit out about a Fresco exit. Swallen down the Jason
Spitzer with Mike Carmon. Now let's get to a guy
who owned Black Monday. This is because he continues to
canvas for a job, like he thinks he can talk
the owner of the New York Jets or the owner's
son into giving him a job.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I think he has a great relationship with brick Rex Ryan.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Go my sweet brick uh Rex Ryan continued his assault
on the NFL today is by a strong by by
telling everybody he's coming back. When dude, you don't have
a job, you're in trying to speak in New Existence.
He wants to be the Jets head coach again, and
(23:03):
he spent the last few weeks saying, hey, I'm ready,
I'm ready to come in. I want to coach a
team again. I understand everything about New York and all
what it means to be to be a Jet and
I'm at such a point of least resistance right now. Yeah,
because we're not gonna get anybody else that has choices, right,
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The Jets aren't gonna get anybody else that has a
choice where they can coach the Jets or someplace else.
They're all going to pick someplace else, right. The Jets
are a dumpster fire. Nobody wants to go work for
Woody Johnson, nobody wants.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
To go.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
As a GM or a head coach. They're only going
to get a guy who is not going to get
a gig someplace else. So Rex Ryan at least a
guy that wants the job. So okay, and we're gonna
stink anyway, so why not at least be fun. We
stink because Rex Ryan was fun. We did get the
two AFC Championship games, and then it was awful and
they had to fire him. But I mean, why not?
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And I say this even after I know how much
that Rex Ryan has basically been stalking the Jets for
the last few years. He still thinks he's the head
coach of the Jets. He is a Stage five clinger.
He still thinks he is. He still thinks he's the
head coach. He thinks I'm just the head coach, but
I'm just not in on the meetings and with the team.
But I'm still the head coach. Right when he got fired,
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he coached the Bills just so we can stay close
to the Jets.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I mean, if he still has a room full of
Jets clothing.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He doesn't want to coach any I bet he wears
it all the time. I bet he has his He
has a room in his house that is designed to
look just like his office of sosplay. That's what he has.
I mean, I mean, he's the he's the He's the
guy who breaks up with his ex and the X
moves on, and the X moves on dates somebody else,
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gets married, has a kid.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Has two kids, moves out of state. But yet he
keeps now stop that's over the line, but it's in line.
But with the history.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He keeps track of her online, follows her on Facebook,
friends her because he thinks, you know, someday we'll get
back together. Maybe we'll we'll get back together. Which we're
just not together right now.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
She's moved on, she's married, she's got kid, daa, we'll
still be together. We we really had something special. And
the breakup was really weird. That's who Rex Ryan is.
He is the he is the ex dogging, just waiting
and now that oh hey, now is the time for
me to to pounce again because I heard she's getting
divorced and she might be moving back to town. Now
I'm pouncing. That's what Rex Ryan is doing, just describing
a Hallmark Christmas pouncing.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Now, I bet it's that's more like a Lifetime movie.
That's more Lifetime. I mean one of them.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
It's not well yeah, but Lifetime as much, not the
one that uh can't Cameron is party now.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He said, Hallmark is is much more full of positive
where Lifetime is like, hey, here's a good story, but
it also involves you know, a teacher who embezzled money
from a from a school, you know, like instance, that's
that's a Lifetime movie that's ripped from the headline.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
He is.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I mean, I say this knowing full well he has
been stalking the Jets like he really he still thinks
he's a Jets head coach. Here look here he was
today ninety eight seven in New York asked about, Hey,
the possibility you could be the Jets head coach and
listen to listen to how brimming with confidence he is
that he's going to win his ex back and suddenly
it's gonna be my way or the highway for everybody. Okay,
(26:31):
that was that was That was Rex. Yeah, that was
Rex for another time. This is Rex from today on
ninety eight seven.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
To touch him again.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Okay, stop, that's from a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That might have been today. That's you don't know that
is not You don't know that for sure. I do
know that that was rolled in on January sixth. Okay, okay,
I know that it could have been said today, but
today because we still.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Have it back to you really beautiful feet.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, okay, that was na smell okay, okay, okay, all right, enough,
can't tell us it wasn't enough enough. It's not the
line we need to hear him talk from today ninety
eight seven about feel sick about the fact that who
Freddy and thinks he's going to be the next Jets
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head coach.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You think you're going to get this job right? You
think you're going to be the next head coach of
the Jets. Absolutely I do.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
And the reason I think I'm going to get it
because I'm the best guy, and it ain't close.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
The thing that you have to do.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
You have to connect with the football team.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
You have to connect with your fan base and the
way they play.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
That's the most important thing, not just the x's and.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
O's and all that. Look this Ben Johnson. I love him,
I absolutely love him. But I'm a better candidate for
this job than he would be.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To touch him again, Okay, all right for number one.
You're not going to run out of those drops, aren't you?
Number one?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He makes a good point. He does understand the Jets.
He wants to be there. He gets the fan base right.
He was a rock star when he was there for
a couple of years, and then it was dude, you
gotta go, and you've lost control of this team. The
Jets are not calling Ben jet They're not of the
fourteen guys the Jets are calling, which is ridiculous. And
how Rex Ryan got on the list. I'm sure I
could get on that list. The one guy they're not
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calling is Ben Johnson, probably because they know he would
just say no, or he has already preemptively reached out
and said, dude, don't call me, I'm not coming there.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
You guys, I am not going there. Man, you guys
are nuclear. I am not going there.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I still think he would put in a call to
figure out exactly the uh the workings of the whole
brick cit.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So how does it work?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Like, like does does the does Brick call the meetings
and then everybody shows up?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Like, how does it really work?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Are we played in the same league on the video game?
So we have to communicate there through the headset?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Or what does Brick walk around the locker room going
a high pressure front, high pressure front, high pressure front,
high pressure I.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Mean, is that what he does? I love lamp.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I mean it's so absurd, and yet he talks like
I'm just gonna he and again, like it is with
an X, like someone who thinks that way about their X,
that we're gonna go to dinner once and all of
a sudden, it's gonna be like it was ten years ago. Right,
he thinks I'm gonna be named the Jets head coach
and suddenly it's gonna be like it was twelve years
(29:18):
Like yeah, but well it's not.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
But as soon as he invokes Johnson to day and
it's like he's gonna go down and it's a WWE
shoot interview, that.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Pencil and that geek. I'll wrap it with my game.
I'll take him out. He just thinks, No, I'm gonna
go back. It's gonna be twenty twelve again, and it's
gonna be No, it's not. Man, you don't know any
of these players. You've been out of the game for
ten years. Uh yeah, maybe you'll be charming for a
little while. But if you don't win, how are you
gonna win the team?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Is he just?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
He just thinks that, yes, I could get my X back. Still,
even after all these years I've been pining away for it,
all I've been thinking about is I just there were
reasons beyond my control why we're not together. I mean
that that's all of it. But you know, in the end,
and I know all of this, and I still say,
why not? We're gonna think anyway?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Why not? Is the best of the pre life behind us? Now?
Are the good times really over? For good Rex?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Ryan Channel Little Merle Haggard on a beautiful Monday.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
John not to find at what's trending from a guy
who wants opened for Merle Haggard Really Yes? At a
fall festival in Vermont. They actually shot some stuff for
a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
It's Steve de Saga. That was actually Arnie Spaniard. Oh okay,
all right, very well, you.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Know you talk and he's also older, so that would
fit the story. Okay, sure, you talked baseball a few
minutes ago. Actually, the big baseball story today is that
the Mets are retiring David Wright's number.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Five this summer. That show. Yeah, do you know.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
I did not know this till I read the article that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He's Captain America.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Yeah, exactly, and he's blinding people with all his World
Series rings. This is ten jerseys retired by the Mets, now,
most of them since Steve.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Cohen bought the team a few years ago.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
The A's gave outfielder DH Brent Rooker a five year
add extension. The Dodgers traded infielder Gavin Lucks to the Reds.
The Dodgers just signed an infielder.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
From South Korea.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
The Royals are re signing pitcher Michael Lorenzen one year
plus an option. Texas signed reliever Chris Martin. Top rank
golfer Scotti Scheffler withdrew from next week's event in Southern
California after hand surgery.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
The PGA Tour is still in Hawaii this week.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Scheffler hopes to debut at the end of this month
at Pebble Beach. A reminder, college Football's playoff semi start Thursday.
The NFL playoff schedule begins Saturday. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts
is still in concussion protocol. Philadelphia on Sunday on Fox
TV will be hosting the Packers Sunday four thirty.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Eastern.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Packers wide receiver Christian Watson suffered a torn acl so
his season is over. Green Bay believes quarterback Jordan Love
is okay after yesterday's elbow injury. Washington is not concerned
with quarterback Jaden daniels lakes soreness.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
He sat out some of the season finale.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
The Chargers are signing running back Ezekiel Elliott to their
practice squad. Running Back Gus Edwards has an ankle injury.
Ravens wide receiver Za Flowers is called day to day
by the team with his knee injury. It is not
season ending, according to his coach, Bill's wide receiver Amari
Cooper has not returned to the team yet. He missed
yesterday's game at New England due to a family matter.
The Brown say quarterback Deshaun Watson experienced to set back
(32:18):
in his reheab from October's achilles surgery. The Jacksonville Jaguars
fired head coach Doug Peterson. The Bengals fired defensive coordinator
lou Anarumo, the Colts fired defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, and
Seattle after one season, fired offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb to
the NBA. And amazingly, we had four different teams on
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the same night, all at home, come from at least
fifteen points down to win. That is the most fifteen
point home comeback wins on any day in the last twenty.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Five seasons in the league.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Sacramento in the late game was down seventeen in fact,
came back for a double overtime victory against Miami, won
twenty three one eighteen. Kings have won five straight, and
they won without de Aaron Fox. He was out again
with a bruce leg. Chicago was down nineteen to San
Antonio early third quarter, but beat the Spurs one fourteen
to one.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Ten.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Zach Lavine thirty five points head Minnesota. The Timberwolves were
trailing the Clippers by nineteen in the second quarter, but
beat the Clips one o eight, one oh six Anthony
Edwards thirty seven points. And at Detroit, the Pistons, who've
now won seven of eight, were down twenty two but
defeated Portland won eighteen to one fifteen Ky Cunningham with
thirty two points. Wins for Phoenix and Milwaukee. Wins for Indiana, Memphis,
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and Orlando, which won at New York won OH three
ninety four college hoops victories for Houston, Wisconsin, and Ohio State,
which won in double overtime at Minnesota eighty nine eighty
eight NHL the Lake game to New Jersey three two
at Seattle and by the way the ratings out for
last night, we anticipated it would be a big viewership
(33:51):
to finish the regular season.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
With the one Seat on the Line.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Vikings at Lions twenty eight million viewers, making it one
of the largest audiences ever for Sunday night football.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
What was the Golden gloves? One minute? Should have looked
that one up one minute? Thank you, Steve the Jason
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the Lions.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
That Gibbs kind of a big deal. Uh, coming up next?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
After a big story yesterday in the NFL, it is
now clear who the biggest on field train wreck has
been in the NFL since twenty twenty. And it's not
the Jets. It's not the Bears.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
It's no Browns. Who is it that's next? Chasing the mic? Fox?
What's all the trumps?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
I have you? Meaning?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Gotta get more drops? We'll saying different team name for me,
the Minnesota Laks. All right.
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The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
This crazy train of sports talk radio. It works. So
with today being Black Monday, we actually had Black Sunday
May have black Tuesday, could have black Wednesday, should have
black Thursday, could have black Friday. But we had black Sunday.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
When Gerrod Mayo was fired as head coach of New
England Patriots after one year, after the Patriots had identified
him as Bill Belichick's replacement.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Oh you're the guy in waiting, giving him nothing to
work with. Hey we're firing you?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well why because Mike Vrabel's interviewing with the Jets and
we kind of really want him and now we can
get him. So sorry about that, Gerrod Mayo. If you
are talking about on the field, not with the off
the field crazy stupid drama the teams like the Jets
have all the time or the Raiders, that is not
(36:20):
even football stuff, stuff like an eighteen year old making decisions.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
If you wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Okay, who's been the worst on field franchise since twenty twenty,
the answer is Bears. Now Bears even better, you have
me more hope. The answer is the Patriots. They have
been the worst on field franchise since twenty twenty. Their
record is thirty three and fifty one, which is right
there with the worst teams in the NFL. This is
all of Bill Belichick, post Tom Brady and now this
(36:48):
year with girod Mayo. Why are they the worst on
the field team. They're the worst because the heights they
fell from in twenty twenty are This was every three
years they were winning a Super Bowl and that's how
high they were. And in the last five years it's
all gone away. So they've fallen from a big height,
but mainly because it's all self inflicted. Craft and Belichick
(37:12):
and Brady did this to themselves. Bob Craft couldn't figure
out a way to say, hey, this has been a
great partnership for almost twenty years.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Let's win a couple more Super Bowls. No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Couldn't keep Belichick and Brady happy. Had to push Brady
out the door, wouldn't give Brady a big contract offer,
so Brady said forget it. Belichick ran things, and then
Kraft realized, oh, Belichick doesn't know what he's doing anymore.
We got to replace him now, replacing the guy that
replaced Belichick with somebody else. They did it to themselves,
and that's why they're the biggest worst on field franchise
(37:42):
because it didn't have to happen. They didn't have to
go this way of letting Bill Belichick make all these
decisions that are awful, did making these quarterback decisions that
don't make any sense. All you had to do was
keep it going, keep Brady going for.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Two or three years. You would have won at least
one more super Bowl. Keep it going.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You would have had more talent coming in. People would
have still come to play in free agent. They came
to play with Brady, right, they would have been okay
with dealing with Belichick. But no, no, no, they just
couldn't get along. Everything is self inflicted. And that's why
I look at this and go, wow, it just didn't
have to be this way. But no, no, no, we're gonna
do it to ourselves. And this is where Bob Kraft,
who all he's been doing, is crying last twenty four hours.
(38:21):
Every time Hey so gerardmeo, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I didn't mean town. This is the worst thing.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I'd put him in a bad behind crying. I'm crying.
It's almost like Homer with Pinchee the lobster.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Dasey eats him after putting him in a hot water bath.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
You could have fixed all of this, but you decided
to be I'm just the owner. I don't know how
to do this. I'm just the owner. You could have
fixed it instead. It's all, it's all here, and it's
all because the three of them couldn't figure it out,
but mainly Craft, because he's the adult in the room. Hey, heat, miser,
snow miser, let's get together. Let's make it snow in
South town or right? Can we get together for a
little bit longer, just a couple more years so we
(38:56):
can win another Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (38:57):
No no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
And this is where they're at the bottom the NFL. Now,
am I supposed to start singing, I'm mister white.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Christmas Bump bump what we need a horn player in
the background, kind of make that work to your point?
I mean, look, you'd still give up the two decades
of greatness for what's come. I mean because eventually, if
you do go make the deal at the crossroads, things
are gonna go bad for you at some point. And Belichick,
(39:24):
while he could still coach, assembling a staff and a
roster that proved troubling at times, I feel bad for
Gerrod Mao and that you take over a team you
were the coach in waiting and you get all of
one year and it looks like you have the quarterback.
Because that's the worst of it, right, it's not even
a we didn't show any signs of hope, no signs
(39:44):
of growth whatever. Like you got the quarterback, you got
a couple of pieces that you've drafted the last year
or two that might actually turn out to be okay,
Pop might actually turn out to be a decent receiver,
go on down the line. But now you're in a
situation where you start over and you're become a if
Mike Rabel doesn't take the job, I guess maybe you
(40:04):
try to sell Johnson on Drake May. But beyond that,
who's walking through that door, No nobody.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Who's walking through the door the way you know this guy?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
You they did it that when you do it to
your side, I have I have no sympathy for you
if you did it to yourself, But we.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Have so many of the teams where you look at
ownership at this point. Craft always used to be regarded
as one of the good ones. Why you had a
coach and a player that solved all of that, and
now two decades you didn't have to do anything.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
So sign this, Bob.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Right, and I'm so sign to do this.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Please feel bad for me, you please? Please it Twitter
at
Speaker 1 (40:39):
How about a fresco at swollen dome for my comp
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Speaker 3 (01:07):
Sure I I I the togetherness, that's a pretty good.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
This show is kind of like a crazy trade. We
start going and I don't know where it's gonna go.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
We're osborne to you know. He always was a hall
of Fame.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
When was he not a Hall of Famer? Would you
say to my face? I said, when was he not
a Hall of Famer? He's been a Hall of Famer
since nineteen eighty three, Azzie. Yeah, he just got in
the Rock and Roll.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Hall of Fame. It doesn't matter. He's been He's been
a Hall of Fame way before.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's like when you know a guy's a Hall of Famer,
like like you think, like you know that, Uh, what's
a good example?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Doesn't make it right?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
But he has like you know that Lamar Jackson's going
to be a Hall of Famer even though he's still playing.
Like you knew Ozzy was gonna be a Hall of Fame.
But can he deliver in the playoffs?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
He did?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
This isn't a scam like David Wright getting into the
Mets Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, it's not. It's we're tire ring David Wright's number.
That's what they're doing. No one's gonna wear number five.
The Captain Ozzie's actually talented. I are you insane?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I wish I could prove that you cheated in the
playoffs last year in the Nlcyes.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
I wish I could. He is going to Houston on
business this week. No, yeah, watch out.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
And the way things are going in San Diego, I
could be owning the Padres this week.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
This is true. Yeah, that's right, that's right. That escalated quickly.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Frostburd would trade everybody from the Padres to the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Machana would go to jail. Escalated quickly. I said, hey,
bleep in crazy training. That's what this show is as
a right. Uh So.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
We talked a few minutes ago about Trevor Lawrence needing
a change of scenery. Congratulations birth of his child. Yeah,
hed a change the scenery. It's a It's a very
bad quarterback crop this offseason, both in the draft and
in free agency. And this is why. Also, and I
can't believe I'm saying this, but the Vikings need to
(03:09):
trade JJ McCarthy. All right, Sam Donald has been really good.
I'm choosing my words, Kiy, No, carefully, I'm choosing my words.
Sam Donald has been really good. I thought he would
kind of fall off in the second half and'd be
back to being Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He did not.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
He played really well. He is surrounded by really good
weapons and it works. It works to the level of
what Kirk Cousins was at at his best in Minnesota.
Sam Donald's twenty seven and yes he had a bad
final game against the Lions, but not the first guy
to lose to the Lions, not the last guy to
lose to the Lions. Okay, he had a bad game,
(03:50):
but still thirty five touchdowns over four thousand yards passing.
Donald has been terrific. Some every quarterback's journey is on
its own time. Some never get there, Some take a
little bit longer, some take almost too long till you
want to quit. It took Donald a few years, right.
It took it from twenty eighteen until twenty twenty four
(04:12):
to find where he needs to go. Right, Donald has
been really good. There's no way you're not running it
back with Donald next year. Now, if you keep Donald
and McCarthy, eventually you're gonna jettison Donald, right, or you're
gonna trade McCarthy and it's gonna be too late to
really get something for him. See forty nine Ers Commas
(04:33):
San Francisco and Lance coma tray right, Trey Lance, Ah,
we draft to trailer, but boy, Jimmy's Garoppolo's playing really well.
But we like Trede ho, here's brock Purty. But we
like Trey.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Would you get a fourth round pick for Trey Lance
guy who took number three overall in the draft. The
Vikings have to understand that you're built to win right now,
and your quarterback is twenty seven years old, and it's
not like Donald's gonna be a guy gets into his
early thirties and suddenly, oh, he's gonna lose it now.
Maybe Donald's not any good. Maybe Darnold has a bad
next year bad too, and he's not any good. You're
starting over anyway. You're starting over anyway. JJ McCarthy, if
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he came out this year, would be a top five
pick regardless. He would be a top five pick in
this quarterback class.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Everybody loved him last year, but there were a couple
of guys had to go ahead of him. You saw
the Vikings move up for him. With a bad quarterback
class this year, who's gonna say, I'll give you whatever
the hell you want for JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
You will get what you put.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
In for him and more back, which means you'll be
able to go get players to help supplement that team.
Your defense is really really good, right, whatever you guys
need more, you guys can go get another offensive lineman.
We'll give you another couple of early round picks like
JJ McCarthy would be worth multiple first round picks, and
and and when you only because of the landscape, because hey,
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it's a seller's market, right, Some years a buyer's market.
Some year it's a seller's market. If you're the Vikings
and you're saying, hey, we have a super Bowl window
that's open now, went fourteen games this year, and yeah,
you're on the road this week, and it's a tougher
road for you, but hey, look at how everything came
together so fast. You got a great head coach who
you need to sign really quickly, because it's ridiculous. The
teams are gonna be calling the Vikings saying, hey, you
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haven't given Kevin O'Connell a contract to extension, so we'll
call him, we'll trade for him. That's kind of embarrassing.
So you need to get that done. But if you
keep two quarterbacks around, you're just waiting to move on
from one of them. And the longer you wait, the
more depreciation one of the quarterbacks goes through the one
you're gonna keeps a one playing well. The one you're
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not is gonna be a guy you're gonna trade and
you're not nearly gonna get something for him. Think about this,
if you kept Sam Darnold next year and you kept
JJ McCarthy and Darnold had another really good season, right,
thirty touchdowns, four thousand yards. Okay, now it's two years
of JJ McCarthy not playing. What are you gonna get
for a guy who hasn't played for two years? You're
gonna get a second round pick, a third round pick.
What do you get for that guy? Don't do what
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happen to Trey Lanch You kept Trey Lance around too long.
You couldn't stay on the field. You never gave him
a chance. Oh we got to move on. Oh now
we're getting a fourth round pick from a guy.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Think about what the forty nine ers could have done
if they had a guy at number three overall who
could be a franchise player. Could have been all the
difference last year in the Super Bowl, could have been
a difference last year this year.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
But no, but you.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Couldn't recoup that loss, so put you got nothing out
of the number three overall pick. In a draft, and
that helps set you back or helps aceen the end
of your open window to win something. Don't fall victor
in that. Learn from that and say we can't have
two guys. The Falcons know they couldn't have two guys.
This is one year for Cousins or Michael Pennix June,
and what happened. Kirk Cousins was never comfortable there, never
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wanted to, never really bought in, never knew he was
going to be part of the long term solution, and
he struggled all season, and a Falcons team that was
talented enough to win that division winds up finishing two
games out because they can't get it right. With Jean
Robinson and Darnell Mooney and Drake London and all these
great weapons, they couldn't win. So learn from what happens
(08:03):
when you have two guys and you're just waiting to
make a decision. You're gonna have to move on from
one of them anyway, and all you're gonna do is
is is postpone this, and you're gonna hold your team back.
The Niners held their team back when we were trying
to figure out what we're gonna do with Tree Lance
or we're not gonna do with trade Lance, learn from these
three teams. I just threw out there that, Yeah, when
you have two guys that you need to choose from,
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you got to make a tough decision. No one's gonna
be upset if they moved on from JJ McCarthy. And
if things don't work with Sam Donald, guess what you
get to the quarterback in a couple of years.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Tell you about Atlanta is that you had Kirk Cousins
who did have a stretch. What about six weeks where
he played really good football, where physically he was about
as sound as he was gonna go, and that offense clicked.
You were able to make some hay uh. And then
physically we watched how he slowed down. He was not
able to move, not that you were counting on mobility
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being the biggest asset, but couldn't get away from a sack.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Offensive line wasn't very good.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
There were better run blockers as evidence what Bjhon Robinson
was able to do down the stretch also evidence.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
To how good that guy really is.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
You know, Arthur Smith, who people may talk to about
a head coach, kep Hey, explain why you had that
guy in the box when it mattered.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Two years ago.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yes, you can to ask about twenty twenty three decisions
on your coaching tree if you really even really want
to talk to him other than having a name on
the list. And it's saying we interviewed forty five guys.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
But for the.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Current situation, when we look at where you're at with Minnesota,
McCarthy coming off a couple of knee surgeries, so that
comes into effect in terms of compensation and whether it
would be future picks dependent on snaps, playing time, all
of those kind of things, as we've seen teams do,
and sometimes it works for you. Sometimes when it's contractual,
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it doesn't quite the same way. Certainly when the Bears
got rid of justin fields to Pittsburgh, you know, when
Russell Wilson got inserted as the starter, that was the
worst scenario for them, right of not getting him enough
snaps to change what that compensation would be. But for McCarthy, yeah,
if he proves to be sound after the knee surgeries,
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then sure go in and bolster things. You're also going
to have some changes to that squad and that Flores
probably won't be around now. There haven't been as many
head coaching openings as anticipated as of the time you
and I are talking on a Monday night, which means
there may still be some that open up in the process.
But short term, it's reasonable to assume Flora's at least
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is getting interviews, whether he actually leaves or not. So defensively,
you may have to bolster your yeah, your weaponry, not
only because well, you need extra bodies, but also because
you're changing out coordinators and maybe whoever comes in has
a different approach in terms of personnel groupings that they
want to go to. But yeah, I mean, you'd certainly
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go into the marketplace.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Look at it.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
This quarterback class coming out in the draft not being robust,
and as we talked about, the best veterans are all
guys that are no better than a stop gap. We
may be able to win this year, and for teams
like the Raiders and others that are in the marketplace,
you're looking.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
At long term.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
You're not worried necessarily so much on having advanced results
in twenty twenty five. It's all about finding the guy
that you grow with.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
If if I thought for a second that this could
be solved in a non messy way, I would say okay,
because yeah, clearly Sam Darnald hasn't done it.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
He's doing it this year. But I don't see any way.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Where it's not going to be messy where you're not
just waiting to move on from one of them. There's
no way. Maybe it's next year our go Sam Donald stinks. Okay,
he stinks, but now we're getting rid of him. We're
give the job a JJ McCarthy. Well he was great
one year, he wasn't quite as good the second year.
You're just gonna let him go there.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Well, you probably had to, You would have had to
do a franchise, you know.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
And when you still don't know what JJ McCarthy can do,
you still don't know what JJ.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
M on the hook for.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
What is it gonna be like forty five million dollars
for Sam Donald or something like that.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Dude, Donald jets he did. There's nothing he did.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
And if they kicked field goals now in the red zone,
they were absolutely gross, because that's the thing that gets
lost in the game from Sunday night not you know,
just to maybe make a tepid defense of Sam Donald,
they did move the ball pretty well.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
They just got owned in the in the red zone repeatedly.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Look and look, it's one bad game. And I know
it's easy to say, look at me defending Sam Donald.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
Oh my god, it's a crazy train. It's one game, right,
and you've been lying to yourself the whole time.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Able to pressure him a lot, and no quarterbacks play
great when they're pressured, except for Aaron Rodgers yesterday. But uh, yeah,
it's one bad game. I think he's shown enough over
the other sixteen games. Hey, I can be okay, just
got to keep Jersey clean a little bit. But you know,
it works with Sam Donald. And that's the whole thing
is that I'm not convinced JJ McCarthy was that great,
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but I know where his status is in the NFL now,
and I know that if I've seen Sam Donald do
this and I haven't seen JJ McCarthy do this, well,
who do I want to trust more? The guy that
I've seen do it once because I think he can
do it again when maybe JJ McCarthy is gonna be good,
maybe he's not.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
You can't go back to Michigan again, right, You're banned again.
Uh it's but well, they don't care. He's gone. He's
in Minnesota. And they got Bryce Underwood next year. Michigan
is fine.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Uh so, yeah, if you to not make that decision
just holds the team back. When you can add assets,
and you can, you can, you have you have clarity.
You're gonna have players on the team that are gonna
be grumbling. Oh, I like Sam, I don't like that.
You need you can't have it. You can't have two
quarterbacks like this. All the teams have shown us that, Yeah,
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it's an impossible situation to handle well.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
And in theory, the Bears aren't the same train wreck
they are they are this year. And the Lions and Packers.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Guess what, they're not going anywhere?
Speaker 1 (14:05):
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posted right after we get off the air. Now, before
we get to the guy that turned out to take
over uh Black Monday Big baseball story, Ken Rosenthal of
Fox reporting that the A's of sign Brent Rooker, who
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to a contract extension.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Who Brent Rooker, who is coming.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Off a year of thirty nine home runs, one hundred
and twelve rbi and a war of five and a half.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
How about that? Okay, batted ninety three.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
He was at the Sacramento Kings game tonight and there
was a big moment where they were all celebrating together.
This is because Brent Rooker got a contract extension. Uh,
this is a guy, and I know it. He's a
little bit older, but it's his fourth year in the majors.
Thirty nine, won twelve and a war of five and
a half, and he got five years and sixty million.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How about that?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Not sixty million a year, He got twelve million year.
He signed for a five year, Yeah, sixty million dollar extension.
And this is not just he had a pretty decent
year of the year before. Right hit thirty home runs
a year before.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
How is this?
Speaker 1 (16:59):
Huar, I know it's the A's. Come on, man, this
is your this is your contract. Do they have the
ability to franchise tagging? How do you how do you
not get at least done? How do you not get
Hell's this guy's agent?
Speaker 3 (17:11):
How do you not get triple that?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
I mean, I know he's a designated hitter, but you
still got to get You could have got three years
and ninety million from somebody else if you know. Obviously
the A's. You're an player on the A's and they
have your rights.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
But oh my, there are reports coming out that the
Mets offered them a billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
The Mets wanted him before they went out for soda.
They want everybody like they went out for him before
they didn't think they were in to get soda. They
really wanted Brent Rooker. And I'm like, this is the
I mean, I get that, I get that you're getting money.
It's generational money. Still, it's twelve million dollars a year.
That's awesome, But you get one shot at this when
you're twenty nine years old, and I know that, Hey,
we can have your rights for a while.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
But wow, five years and.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Twelve million finesting option. You can take the deal to
six years, ninety million. The Hell's is agent, not Scott Boris, that's.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
For sure, because he has agents the owner of the ASO. Man.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, legitimately, though, I mean, those numbers are pretty absurd,
and again, DH, you take it with the grain of
salt there. But we've seen such so many deals with
the eye popping numbers. Get the home run rate hitting
in that ballpark, which is not an easy park to
hit at home.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I mean, I really, I this is this, This goes
beyond just being a team friendly deal like this is
this is just hey man, we're keeping you, and I
mean I do. I'm glad he got paid. He's a
really good player, and the A's would have you know,
it's good. It would be a while before they paid him.
We can hold on it because you know, whatever he's later.
(18:46):
You know, he came up later. He didn't make it
to the major so he was twenty five years old.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
But wow, man, wow.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
In twenty twenty four, just doing a quick search, over
one hundred and sixty five major league players were set
to earn at least ten million dollars, and that includes
the mutant contracts signed by some of the deferred things
that we've seen with the Dodgors.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
I think the bigger story is, all of a sudden,
the A's have money.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Well, they have to get to the floor. That's the
whole thing, is I got you have to spend a
certain amount of money. Is that how they got it?
Sign Well, that's why they went so we could do
That's why they went after Severarino for the most pent.
They spent one hundred million dollars this winter. Yeah, well
they had to.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
They have to. Aren't the Marlins zero there?
Speaker 5 (19:27):
There?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
There their salaries, No way they're moving to Las Vegas.
What's not happening.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
The Tigers playoff salary makes the makes the makes the
A's team salary look really small.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
It's it's one of show.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Heyo, Tommy's checks in twenty eighty two is going to
be more than that.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
It's true, dude, it might be better this year. I mean,
one Soda, one Soto I think is getting paid more
this year than he is for the entirety of his contract.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
One Soda just got paid more. A minute ago, when
you said his name it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Contract is worth more more than the franchise. Wow. Uh
so they congratulated. Good for him. No good from getting
like sixty billion. I just guaranteed money.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
All that is great, But in a in a marketplace
where we usually marvel and shake our heads at the
extra commas and zero's this one. You do the triple
take of Wait, that's over how many years I had
the vesting option though? Man, that could really add the
The AAV goes to fifteen a year.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Under that, hey, got paid, got paid, and your plenty
balling in over the next three years.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Okay, all right, that okay, we know where they spent
the money from the soda machines.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Now this is I'm having the reaction like I have
when I see somebody make a fantasy trade in my
league and I go, I know.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
That's all you had to give up. What don't you
call me? I'd have given you more than that. What
the hell? I didn't want to insult you. What it
turns out that's the guy you that that's a trade
you made. Really, that's a trade you made.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
That's somewhere Jason Jonah Hill is doing a fist pump.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Billy. I would not do that, Billy. Yeah, pain has
gone too. I would not do that, Billy.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
He also, let's say last year he also walked fifty
nine times, struck out one hundred and seventy seven times.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
I'll take thirty nine one. Think about that batting average
with balls in play or man.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, he had like two of the hardest balls in
the league last year.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
I think nine twenty seven ops. Wow. Man, wow wow.
Former twin Padre Royal now an A And.
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Well we'll talk in baseball for a quick sec. Thank you,
Gavin Lux for your service. He had a good run.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you had to move on. He won't
be messed, But thank you for your service. Thank you
on a job. He did tie.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
He did tie Game five of the World Series against
what that possib And he had a good when he
got healthy. He had three hundred this year. He had
a good back half of the year.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
He did. He was pretty good. I mean. And he'll
never hear his name again.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Well you will actually when he comes to Dodger State
and they'll give a nice ho or when we do
fantasy stats, because he can hit in that ballpark and
in that division. But the thing is like the Reds
have so many guys all the positions he plays. The
Reds have guys from Dela Cruz plays them all like
where are you gonna play? I don't know, they'll figure
it out. I have a bunch of those guys. Uh
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exit out about a Fresco exit. Swallen down the Jason
Spitzer with Mike Carmon. Now let's get to a guy
who owned Black Monday. This is because he continues to
canvas for a job, like he thinks he can talk
the owner of the New York Jets or the owner's
son into giving him a job.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
I think he has a great relationship with brick Rex Ryan.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Go my sweet brick uh Rex Ryan continued his assault
on the NFL today is by a strong by by
telling everybody he's coming back. When dude, you don't have
a job, you're in trying to speak in New Existence.
He wants to be the Jets head coach again, and
(23:03):
he spent the last few weeks saying, hey, I'm ready,
I'm ready to come in. I want to coach a
team again. I understand everything about New York and all
what it means to be to be a Jet and
I'm at such a point of least resistance right now. Yeah,
because we're not gonna get anybody else that has choices, right,
(23:23):
The Jets aren't gonna get anybody else that has a
choice where they can coach the Jets or someplace else.
They're all going to pick someplace else, right. The Jets
are a dumpster fire. Nobody wants to go work for
Woody Johnson, nobody wants.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
To go.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
As a GM or a head coach. They're only going
to get a guy who is not going to get
a gig someplace else. So Rex Ryan at least a
guy that wants the job. So okay, and we're gonna
stink anyway, so why not at least be fun. We
stink because Rex Ryan was fun. We did get the
two AFC Championship games, and then it was awful and
they had to fire him. But I mean, why not?
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And I say this even after I know how much
that Rex Ryan has basically been stalking the Jets for
the last few years. He still thinks he's the head
coach of the Jets. He is a Stage five clinger.
He still thinks he is. He still thinks he's the
head coach. He thinks I'm just the head coach, but
I'm just not in on the meetings and with the team.
But I'm still the head coach. Right when he got fired,
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he coached the Bills just so we can stay close
to the Jets.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
I mean, if he still has a room full of
Jets clothing.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He doesn't want to coach any I bet he wears
it all the time. I bet he has his He
has a room in his house that is designed to
look just like his office of sosplay. That's what he has.
I mean, I mean, he's the he's the He's the
guy who breaks up with his ex and the X
moves on, and the X moves on dates somebody else,
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gets married, has a kid.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Has two kids, moves out of state. But yet he
keeps now stop that's over the line, but it's in line.
But with the history.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
He keeps track of her online, follows her on Facebook,
friends her because he thinks, you know, someday we'll get
back together. Maybe we'll we'll get back together. Which we're
just not together right now.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
She's moved on, she's married, she's got kid, daa, we'll
still be together. We we really had something special. And
the breakup was really weird. That's who Rex Ryan is.
He is the he is the ex dogging, just waiting
and now that oh hey, now is the time for
me to to pounce again because I heard she's getting
divorced and she might be moving back to town. Now
I'm pouncing. That's what Rex Ryan is doing, just describing
a Hallmark Christmas pouncing.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Now, I bet it's that's more like a Lifetime movie.
That's more Lifetime. I mean one of them.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
It's not well yeah, but Lifetime as much, not the
one that uh can't Cameron is party now.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
He said, Hallmark is is much more full of positive
where Lifetime is like, hey, here's a good story, but
it also involves you know, a teacher who embezzled money
from a from a school, you know, like instance, that's
that's a Lifetime movie that's ripped from the headline.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
He is.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I mean, I say this knowing full well he has
been stalking the Jets like he really he still thinks
he's a Jets head coach. Here look here he was
today ninety eight seven in New York asked about, Hey,
the possibility you could be the Jets head coach and
listen to listen to how brimming with confidence he is
that he's going to win his ex back and suddenly
it's gonna be my way or the highway for everybody. Okay,
(26:31):
that was that was That was Rex. Yeah, that was
Rex for another time. This is Rex from today on
ninety eight seven.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
To touch him again.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Okay, stop, that's from a long time ago.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
That might have been today. That's you don't know that
is not You don't know that for sure. I do
know that that was rolled in on January sixth. Okay, okay,
I know that it could have been said today, but
today because we still.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Have it back to you really beautiful feet.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, okay, that was na smell okay, okay, okay, all right, enough,
can't tell us it wasn't enough enough. It's not the
line we need to hear him talk from today ninety
eight seven about feel sick about the fact that who
Freddy and thinks he's going to be the next Jets
(27:24):
head coach.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
You think you're going to get this job right? You
think you're going to be the next head coach of
the Jets. Absolutely I do.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
And the reason I think I'm going to get it
because I'm the best guy, and it ain't close.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
The thing that you have to do.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
You have to connect with the football team.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
You have to connect with your fan base and the
way they play.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
That's the most important thing, not just the x's and.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
O's and all that. Look this Ben Johnson. I love him,
I absolutely love him. But I'm a better candidate for
this job than he would be.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
To touch him again, Okay, all right for number one.
You're not going to run out of those drops, aren't you?
Number one?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He makes a good point. He does understand the Jets.
He wants to be there. He gets the fan base right.
He was a rock star when he was there for
a couple of years, and then it was dude, you
gotta go, and you've lost control of this team. The
Jets are not calling Ben jet They're not of the
fourteen guys the Jets are calling, which is ridiculous. And
how Rex Ryan got on the list. I'm sure I
could get on that list. The one guy they're not
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calling is Ben Johnson, probably because they know he would
just say no, or he has already preemptively reached out
and said, dude, don't call me, I'm not coming there.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
You guys, I am not going there. Man, you guys
are nuclear. I am not going there.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I still think he would put in a call to
figure out exactly the uh the workings of the whole
brick cit.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
So how does it work?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Like, like does does the does Brick call the meetings
and then everybody shows up?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Like, how does it really work?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Are we played in the same league on the video game?
So we have to communicate there through the headset?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Or what does Brick walk around the locker room going
a high pressure front, high pressure front, high pressure front,
high pressure I.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Mean, is that what he does? I love lamp.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
I mean it's so absurd, and yet he talks like
I'm just gonna he and again, like it is with
an X, like someone who thinks that way about their X,
that we're gonna go to dinner once and all of
a sudden, it's gonna be like it was ten years ago. Right,
he thinks I'm gonna be named the Jets head coach
and suddenly it's gonna be like it was twelve years
(29:18):
Like yeah, but well it's not.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
But as soon as he invokes Johnson to day and
it's like he's gonna go down and it's a WWE
shoot interview, that.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Pencil and that geek. I'll wrap it with my game.
I'll take him out. He just thinks, No, I'm gonna
go back. It's gonna be twenty twelve again, and it's
gonna be No, it's not. Man, you don't know any
of these players. You've been out of the game for
ten years. Uh yeah, maybe you'll be charming for a
little while. But if you don't win, how are you
gonna win the team?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Is he just?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
He just thinks that, yes, I could get my X back. Still,
even after all these years I've been pining away for it,
all I've been thinking about is I just there were
reasons beyond my control why we're not together. I mean
that that's all of it. But you know, in the end,
and I know all of this, and I still say,
why not? We're gonna think anyway?
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Why not? Is the best of the pre life behind us? Now?
Are the good times really over? For good Rex?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Ryan Channel Little Merle Haggard on a beautiful Monday.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
John not to find at what's trending from a guy
who wants opened for Merle Haggard Really Yes? At a
fall festival in Vermont. They actually shot some stuff for
a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
It's Steve de Saga. That was actually Arnie Spaniard. Oh okay,
all right, very well, you.
Speaker 7 (30:30):
Know you talk and he's also older, so that would
fit the story. Okay, sure, you talked baseball a few
minutes ago. Actually, the big baseball story today is that
the Mets are retiring David Wright's number.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Five this summer. That show. Yeah, do you know.
Speaker 8 (30:41):
I did not know this till I read the article that.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
He's Captain America.
Speaker 7 (30:45):
Yeah, exactly, and he's blinding people with all his World
Series rings. This is ten jerseys retired by the Mets, now,
most of them since Steve.
Speaker 8 (30:54):
Cohen bought the team a few years ago.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
The A's gave outfielder DH Brent Rooker a five year
add extension. The Dodgers traded infielder Gavin Lucks to the Reds.
The Dodgers just signed an infielder.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
From South Korea.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
The Royals are re signing pitcher Michael Lorenzen one year
plus an option. Texas signed reliever Chris Martin. Top rank
golfer Scotti Scheffler withdrew from next week's event in Southern
California after hand surgery.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
The PGA Tour is still in Hawaii this week.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Scheffler hopes to debut at the end of this month
at Pebble Beach. A reminder, college Football's playoff semi start Thursday.
The NFL playoff schedule begins Saturday. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts
is still in concussion protocol. Philadelphia on Sunday on Fox
TV will be hosting the Packers Sunday four thirty.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Eastern.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
Packers wide receiver Christian Watson suffered a torn acl so
his season is over. Green Bay believes quarterback Jordan Love
is okay after yesterday's elbow injury. Washington is not concerned
with quarterback Jaden daniels lakes soreness.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
He sat out some of the season finale.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
The Chargers are signing running back Ezekiel Elliott to their
practice squad. Running Back Gus Edwards has an ankle injury.
Ravens wide receiver Za Flowers is called day to day
by the team with his knee injury. It is not
season ending, according to his coach, Bill's wide receiver Amari
Cooper has not returned to the team yet. He missed
yesterday's game at New England due to a family matter.
The Brown say quarterback Deshaun Watson experienced to set back
(32:18):
in his reheab from October's achilles surgery. The Jacksonville Jaguars
fired head coach Doug Peterson. The Bengals fired defensive coordinator
lou Anarumo, the Colts fired defensive coordinator Gus Bradley, and
Seattle after one season, fired offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb to
the NBA. And amazingly, we had four different teams on
(32:39):
the same night, all at home, come from at least
fifteen points down to win. That is the most fifteen
point home comeback wins on any day in the last twenty.
Speaker 8 (32:49):
Five seasons in the league.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Sacramento in the late game was down seventeen in fact,
came back for a double overtime victory against Miami, won
twenty three one eighteen. Kings have won five straight, and
they won without de Aaron Fox. He was out again
with a bruce leg. Chicago was down nineteen to San
Antonio early third quarter, but beat the Spurs one fourteen
to one.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Ten.
Speaker 7 (33:08):
Zach Lavine thirty five points head Minnesota. The Timberwolves were
trailing the Clippers by nineteen in the second quarter, but
beat the Clips one o eight, one oh six Anthony
Edwards thirty seven points. And at Detroit, the Pistons, who've
now won seven of eight, were down twenty two but
defeated Portland won eighteen to one fifteen Ky Cunningham with
thirty two points. Wins for Phoenix and Milwaukee. Wins for Indiana, Memphis,
(33:31):
and Orlando, which won at New York won OH three
ninety four college hoops victories for Houston, Wisconsin, and Ohio State,
which won in double overtime at Minnesota eighty nine eighty
eight NHL the Lake game to New Jersey three two
at Seattle and by the way the ratings out for
last night, we anticipated it would be a big viewership
(33:51):
to finish the regular season.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
With the one Seat on the Line.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Vikings at Lions twenty eight million viewers, making it one
of the largest audiences ever for Sunday night football.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
What was the Golden gloves? One minute? Should have looked
that one up one minute? Thank you, Steve the Jason
Spitzer with Mike Harmon Life the Tireck dot Com Studios.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
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(34:32):
the Lions.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
That Gibbs kind of a big deal. Uh, coming up next?
Speaker 1 (34:38):
After a big story yesterday in the NFL, it is
now clear who the biggest on field train wreck has
been in the NFL since twenty twenty. And it's not
the Jets. It's not the Bears.
Speaker 3 (34:52):
It's no Browns. Who is it that's next? Chasing the mic? Fox?
What's all the trumps?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
I have you? Meaning?
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Gotta get more drops? We'll saying different team name for me,
the Minnesota Laks. All right.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
This crazy train of sports talk radio. It works. So
with today being Black Monday, we actually had Black Sunday
May have black Tuesday, could have black Wednesday, should have
black Thursday, could have black Friday. But we had black Sunday.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
When Gerrod Mayo was fired as head coach of New
England Patriots after one year, after the Patriots had identified
him as Bill Belichick's replacement.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Oh you're the guy in waiting, giving him nothing to
work with. Hey we're firing you?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Well why because Mike Vrabel's interviewing with the Jets and
we kind of really want him and now we can
get him. So sorry about that, Gerrod Mayo. If you
are talking about on the field, not with the off
the field crazy stupid drama the teams like the Jets
have all the time or the Raiders, that is not
(36:20):
even football stuff, stuff like an eighteen year old making decisions.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
If you wanted to say.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Okay, who's been the worst on field franchise since twenty twenty,
the answer is Bears. Now Bears even better, you have
me more hope. The answer is the Patriots. They have
been the worst on field franchise since twenty twenty. Their
record is thirty three and fifty one, which is right
there with the worst teams in the NFL. This is
all of Bill Belichick, post Tom Brady and now this
(36:48):
year with girod Mayo. Why are they the worst on
the field team. They're the worst because the heights they
fell from in twenty twenty are This was every three
years they were winning a Super Bowl and that's how
high they were. And in the last five years it's
all gone away. So they've fallen from a big height,
but mainly because it's all self inflicted. Craft and Belichick
(37:12):
and Brady did this to themselves. Bob Craft couldn't figure
out a way to say, hey, this has been a
great partnership for almost twenty years.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Let's win a couple more Super Bowls. No, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Couldn't keep Belichick and Brady happy. Had to push Brady
out the door, wouldn't give Brady a big contract offer,
so Brady said forget it. Belichick ran things, and then
Kraft realized, oh, Belichick doesn't know what he's doing anymore.
We got to replace him now, replacing the guy that
replaced Belichick with somebody else. They did it to themselves,
and that's why they're the biggest worst on field franchise
(37:42):
because it didn't have to happen. They didn't have to
go this way of letting Bill Belichick make all these
decisions that are awful, did making these quarterback decisions that
don't make any sense. All you had to do was
keep it going, keep Brady going for.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Two or three years. You would have won at least
one more super Bowl. Keep it going.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
You would have had more talent coming in. People would
have still come to play in free agent. They came
to play with Brady, right, they would have been okay
with dealing with Belichick. But no, no, no, they just
couldn't get along. Everything is self inflicted. And that's why
I look at this and go, wow, it just didn't
have to be this way. But no, no, no, we're gonna
do it to ourselves. And this is where Bob Kraft,
who all he's been doing, is crying last twenty four hours.
(38:21):
Every time Hey so gerardmeo, oh.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
I didn't mean town. This is the worst thing.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I'd put him in a bad behind crying. I'm crying.
It's almost like Homer with Pinchee the lobster.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Dasey eats him after putting him in a hot water bath.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
You could have fixed all of this, but you decided
to be I'm just the owner. I don't know how
to do this. I'm just the owner. You could have
fixed it instead. It's all, it's all here, and it's
all because the three of them couldn't figure it out,
but mainly Craft, because he's the adult in the room. Hey, heat, miser,
snow miser, let's get together. Let's make it snow in
South town or right? Can we get together for a
little bit longer, just a couple more years so we
(38:56):
can win another Super Bowl?
Speaker 3 (38:57):
No no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
And this is where they're at the bottom the NFL. Now,
am I supposed to start singing, I'm mister white.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Christmas Bump bump what we need a horn player in
the background, kind of make that work to your point?
I mean, look, you'd still give up the two decades
of greatness for what's come. I mean because eventually, if
you do go make the deal at the crossroads, things
are gonna go bad for you at some point. And Belichick,
(39:24):
while he could still coach, assembling a staff and a
roster that proved troubling at times, I feel bad for
Gerrod Mao and that you take over a team you
were the coach in waiting and you get all of
one year and it looks like you have the quarterback.
Because that's the worst of it, right, it's not even
a we didn't show any signs of hope, no signs
(39:44):
of growth whatever. Like you got the quarterback, you got
a couple of pieces that you've drafted the last year
or two that might actually turn out to be okay,
Pop might actually turn out to be a decent receiver,
go on down the line. But now you're in a
situation where you start over and you're become a if
Mike Rabel doesn't take the job, I guess maybe you
(40:04):
try to sell Johnson on Drake May. But beyond that,
who's walking through that door, No nobody.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Who's walking through the door the way you know this guy?
Speaker 1 (40:12):
You they did it that when you do it to
your side, I have I have no sympathy for you
if you did it to yourself, But we.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Have so many of the teams where you look at
ownership at this point. Craft always used to be regarded
as one of the good ones. Why you had a
coach and a player that solved all of that, and
now two decades you didn't have to do anything.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
So sign this, Bob.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Right, and I'm so sign to do this.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
Please feel bad for me, you please? Please it Twitter
at
Speaker 1 (40:39):
How about a fresco at swollen dome for my comp
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