January 15, 2025 • 41 mins
The Eagles being involved in a reading controversy is sort of Jason Smith’s favorite story of the year so far. Everyone's missing the point on Jordan Love & Justin Herbert. And the guys debate if Steph Curry needs to leave the Warriors to win another championship!
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I just love that. That the whole the Eagles controversy
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about reading? What's the controversy though? You know they don't
read in Philly? Oh oh wow? Allegedly allegedly, you say,
allegedly allegedly. No, I've been.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You got to find out if there's any national surveys
about you know, reading.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I don't know why we're reading. I know why everybody's reading.
Why we're wasting time with reading? Math too? Math too
is overrated, don't need math up till a certain point.
It doesn't matter. You know what the longest book in
Philly is. You know what it's called. What whiz with
page one? Page two?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Whiz with that?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Just a picture of cheese. Okay, that's all. That's all
you need. Picture, that's all you need. Just I just
love that we're talking about reading. Reading is fun of man.
But that's such a great Eagles controversy. Like, okay, the Eagles,
what do I always say? One foot on the banana
peel at all times? They always do, but they thrive
in chaos. But now this is something special. This is
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now not about relationships or the quarterback are getting along
or not producing on the field problems. That's about you
got guys reading. I don't know if we want that
coach reading this rampant thing that people just start doing
like crazy stuff and buying books and reading things. We
don't want that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Fun It's funny because you did have a number of
former players on FS one, on ESPN, every network that
went off out of how this would have offended them
to look over on the bench and see if a
teammate reading.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's just like, really, you know why and here's the
other thing. Why is that? And this is why why
people have to just chill out about this ipy no, no, no, no, no,
it's it's that. Look at the people who are saying
stuff like this, right, it's all people who came up
like you and I did when I mean not quite
that old, but when every everything was well because we're
not talking about people that played you know what I played.
(02:40):
Did you talk about the guys who were our age
played in the eighties? Yeah, But the thing is or
in the nineties. But there the thing is is that
I did, I said when I start started watching football
versus how old us is that people have to understand
and they don't get that. You can agree or disagree
with what a generation is about and how they live
their lives and how Gen X is different from Gen
(03:02):
Y and millennials and Generation Z. But the Generation Z,
the players now, they come up differently. They have different values,
they do different they they do things differently, and it
may not be the way that you or I do
it or the way you and I were brought up.
Where hey, we're reading on the side right. When you
and I were brought up, what was it was a
big contoverst a few years ago. Wait, players have their
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cell phones. They got and teams have to cut meetings
short because players have to get on their cell phones
sitting down on how it is right?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I used to be, Hey, you need to be you know,
eyes up, you know, support your teammates. Be loud, be vocal,
don't don't be distracted off to the side, don't be
checking out the cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
They're talking to your family, you know, eyes up here.
It's it's it's hard to understand. But every generation does
things differently, and the one before look exactly. Well, that's
the whole thing. You always blame the generation before you
guys ruined it for us. Uh, but that's the thing. A. J.
Brown is a millennial and and and he came up
a different way with different things that he was able
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to learn growing up different things at his disposal. He
grew up in the age of the Internet. He grew
up in the age of self cell phones and everybody
having a cell phone. And it's weird when you see
a movie. Now's people going, oh, twenty years agoing, oh, no,
twenty years ago. Oh yeah, this looks like it's so
long ago, But you're using a cell phone. It's pretty
close to the cell phone that we use today. And
people don't understand that this is just how players are
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and you cannot like it, and I can't tell you
what to like and not like, but you have to understand.
If you're going to be a successful coach team in
any sport right now in twenty twenty five, you have
to get that the players are different and you have
to be able to reach them. And that's a thing.
Twenty five years ago, is someone gonna be reading on
the sideline? Of course not, of course not. The worst
thing is someone having a hot dog on the sideline
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because they're hungry. But now it's really, oh, it's reading. Now,
this is how players are. They do things differently this
generation Gen Z, and I always say, what if I
said one of the biggest things, biggest challenges the next
ten years of sports talk is going to be, especially
for me, is understanding the Gen Z athletes and the
athletes that come after them are completely different from from
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what we have seen with with Gen X athletes and
with with millennials. Right we're seeing the tail end of
the millennials now with Lebron, James and and and and
Steph Curry and it's okay, yeah, they're they're they're the
ones that are still sort of uh, have a combination
of the the the the big old old school rules
of of the of the of you know gen X
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and in the eighties and the night in the seventies
when when when sports were played, and the new school
of what the twenty first century has brought. Whereas gen
Z is now completely into this new century. We are
not with what's right behind us. We're not what's behind them.
We are we are a different line of demarcation. When when,
the when, the when the computers bolted and jumped in
the mid to late nineties, that changed everything. When the
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cell phone era came in, the social media era came in,
that changed everything. And that's what all gen Z players
are at right now, because remember social media and Twitter
now is is you know, seventeen eighteen years old, and
now you're getting all kinds of new social media. The
players are different. So you have to understand that about
gen Z and players like aj Brown reading on the sideline. Yeah,
some players are gonna do that and you cannot like it,
(06:12):
but you got to understand it. If you're going to
try to reach these athletes.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, even more fundamental now in terms of aj Brown,
since we do have a history of perhaps being a
little bit dissatisfied with his role in certain concepts and
constructs of the team and involvement in a game plan,
or the ability of Jalen Hurts to get him the
ball when he's suddenly got a book in a playoff
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game when he's got one catch. It's going to raise
some eyebrows, especially if, as Jalen Hurts alluded to, we
haven't necessarily seen said book before. But your overall point
is one that I think from the pulpit we sit
in here the Fox Sports Radio studios, recognizing and owing
to our experiences when we played and what we've watched
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through the years, and knowing that we're in a different age,
and certainly you know what practice times are allowed right
at the high school level. The separation of club versus
high school it's like, no, those two can never meet between.
And if you're part of this though, and you can't
be part of that, you can't participate here. You can
go to practice, but if you touch a ball and
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someone sees you, now everybody's in trouble. All of that
and expand that to any other sport. Right, I'm talking
about my daughter's soccer world and having watched that evolved
through the years. But practice schedules, how often you can
be in bads. I mean we watch it with every CBA, right,
every time they go to war with the owners, the NBA, NFL,
(07:43):
whatever it is. You see where the new line in
the sand is drawn and what's allowable and what isn't. Right,
once upon a time, it was two a days in
the heat of insert any town, USA at one hundred
and five degrees and that was the way it worked
for the NFL. Now it's about we.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Want an extra day off, but you didn't get anything
in the long term. Health care doesn't matter. We get
that damn day off now. And that's the way it's
gonna be because it's what's important to them right now.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And as the ownership and the commissioner and everybody else,
you watch the latitude and the way it changes. And
for Sirianni, where you think you may have a tenue
as hold on things, remember you are in Philadelphia where
things can go sideways, and this is any town in
the NFL. It can go sideways on you in a hurry.
(08:30):
But the reputation is we're talking about Philadelphia, let's just
stay where we're at, is that he's got to either
he's got to manage the invisible hand here right as
best he can in terms of his locker room and
public opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And unfortunately for him, he's got a side with his
locker room, even if he doesn't like it. I think
everybody should just stop reading. Nobody read anymore. Let's not
let's not sell books in Philadelphia anymore. It's not books.
Let's not tell but re reading. We don't need it,
we don't need it. Yeah, he may Aj Brown for
this coming up. He can't. You can't let him see
you Sweat's reading books. Uh. Now here's Aj Brown who
(09:07):
waited on the controversy about him reading the self help
book on the sideline. If I can read, then you
can read. Everybody could read without the Russian translator. Very nice.
I'm glad I didn't need it. Way, we got that
right there. That's pretty nice. Uh. Filingel here is kind
(09:29):
of a big deal. Story team always is filled with
such knucklehead stuff that they would get involved in a
book read a reading of books controversy. Eagles Eagles, Eagles, right. Absolute.
You know what the best part about this whole story is,
it's about reading the fact that you actually believe people
read in Philly. Okay, you've said.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
That joke now like four but it's fine, and the
audience keeps changing.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's true. That's true. That's true. Uh. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the direrect dot Com Studios.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Another big story out of the NFL today the Green
Bay Packers. Apparently they want Jordan Love to be more
vocal as a quarterback. Right, They want to be more vocal,
Like if he was more vocal, maybe they would have
won last weekend. If you're more vocal, we win these games.
You gotta be vocal, you gotta be vocal. So they
want Jordan Love to be more vocal next year and
as you know, continue to take a big step. You know,
(10:20):
a lot of the blame on him for Green Bay
losing this week. And the thing is everybody is missing
the point on the two quarterbacks. People want to blame
the most of their teams going home this weekend, and
that's Jordan Love and Justin Herbert. Right, these guys both
had bad games, right, Herbert had a bad game, four interceptions,
and they're questioning whether Herbert's the long term guy with
the Chargers. And hey, Jordan Love, they paid him, did
(10:42):
they pay him too early? Is the only getting paid
for that game he had against the Cowboys last year?
And Tom Clements's longtime quarterback coach is retiring this year
with Jordan Love. But everybody's missing the point on these
two quarterbacks because I have seen enough of them. And
Jordan Love has been in the league a long time now,
he's been you're talking about getting five years in reading
play his first two years. Is that both of these
(11:04):
guys are good. They're not great, Okay, there are very
few great quarterbacks in the NFL. Right, Laura Jackson is great,
Josh Allen is great, Patrick Mahomes is great. Right, that
list is not very long. Justin Herbert and Jordan Love
are good quarterbacks. They're good, and they're not overpaid. And
(11:26):
I know that that's been a big refrain of all
we're paying this guy's all this money. Look how much
they sucked. Hey, the reason these guys are getting paid
a lot of money is because life is miserable in
the NFL without a quarterback. It's hard enough to get
a good quarterback, let alone a great quarterback. You're lucky
if you get a great quarterback. When you find one
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that's good, meaning, this is a guy we can win with.
He's gonna he's gonna he's gonna produce and we need to.
He's gonna throw twenty five touchdowns to twenty five thirty touchdowns.
You're gonna throw for about four thousand yards. No, maybe
he's not as great as the guys above him, but
to expect him to be in Mahomes or a Josh Allen,
there's only a handful of those guys in the NFL. Ever, reason,
only three or four guys that are that good every year.
(12:08):
But they're being paid because, hey, it's really hard to
find a guy that's just this good. And we found
Jordan Love Hey took over for Aaron Rodgers, did pretty good.
Justin Herbert's come in and been pretty good. Not been
the guy he was four years ago, right, and think
about remember that, not been the guy when it came
in second year, thirty eight touchdowns, But they paid him because, hey,
we found a guy that's good enough. And it's unrealistic
(12:32):
expectations people have for Love and Herbert in that, well,
we expect to me great. No, just because they're getting
paid doesn't mean they're great. They're getting paid because they're
good enough, and they don't want to search for another
quarterback because what are the odds you're going to get
somebody as good as Jordan Love or Justin Herbert. Look
at the Browns. Keep searching, the Jets, keep searching, the Raiders,
keep searching. All these teams keep searching for quarterbacks and
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taking chances. What do we do when you find someone
who is good, Yeah, you pay him because all right,
he's our good quarter back and we can win with him.
People are missing the point and it's unrealistic expectations you
have for these court doesn't mean they had a bad game,
doesn't mean you can't blame them for a loss. But
to think they're gonna they're gonna perform just because they're
they they're sharing television screen time with Alan and Mahomes
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and Jackson doesn't mean they're gonna be great. So to
understand that that's the reality, and that's why Jordan Love
and Justin Herbert are getting paid and they get criticized
for being for being what fans want them to be
rather than what they are.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, it's the unfortunate nature of the position. Right, it's
elevated every win and you're glorified. Uh, and you get
full credit for it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Even if we want to have the old argument of
whether quarterback wins are really a thing, Yeah, they kind
of are. And just leave it at that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Eight different guys, uh started a game this year, down
nine from last year. Yeah, no, fewer Browns quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, that helped everything.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Little victories, but just the idea that you have players
in love and Herbert you're the next up. Don't like
the logic too damn bad? To your point, you're gonna
go back into the draft and wish and hope that
you're gonna bring a guy into a system and it's
going to work that much better because you may have
a flawed system and this guy's just beating the odds
to get to.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Where he is.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, right, because look, how many teams, how many do
we really trust? We do this every year at this
time of the year. Let's say, all right, what have
we got six maybe eight that you just say, you
know what, they know how to build and construct.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And roll over a roster. Everybody else is like, yeah,
you can tell there's a lot of arguments in the building. Oh,
not to mention that the guy that was there calling
the shots last year, he's not there anymore. He's been replaced,
and the guy that was there before him, he got
two years before he got replaced. It's a revolving door.
So if you can get a quarterback that in theory
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you like enough to build around, that's great. But fans,
we want the immediacy. Everybody's gonna be compared to. Look,
one of the things you and I have been talking
about a little bit. We'll get into it even more
as the week goes on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The Alan Jackson and not Alan Jackson, the country saying
the Chattahoochie.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Bubba shot the jukebox, right, that was a Mark chest
nutt Mark Chestnut Okay, all right, very nice.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I thought that was really you sure it's Mark chest
nutt Yeah, And brought me up beside the juke box
was the late great Joe Diffey.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Got it, got it, got it right right right.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Alan Jackson was thinking about the Chattahoochie. Never knew how
much that muddy water meant to me, But I learned
who you know, whatever, The point being that for Josh
Allen and Lamar Jackson. Whoever loses this game, it's the
referendum on anything else. They've done right, and they've reached
such great heights, but they're gonna get lumped in with
(15:41):
Love and Herbert here just that fast of.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They can't win. They stink like you can have a
bad game and every once in a while the floor
or dare you say harball? You guys have to capitalize
when you've got opportunities. Exit out about a Fresco exit
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Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's a day later. Wow, you didn't even do it
in the vein of Fred Schneider. No bad job by you.
I got me a car all rights as big as
a wow. Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with
My best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Nine sacks many Rome in the Vikings backfield, sack Sammy
Donald one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine
If you want nine sacks of Donald.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
All right, sacks of Donald. Nine sacks of Donald to
the B fifty two's room. Yes, it works on the show.
I always feel like when we do something like that
and someone brings it up to me at some point
because you did that, you know you did that that.
I love the like I got people on social media say, going,
oh my god, doing the the Donald sacks to Freddie Mercury,
I was pretty give it. Bowie's under pressure, right, Yeah,
(18:46):
So when that happens in the conversation, someone will bring
it up to me and someone else will go, wait,
what did you do. I go, you know, we did
this whole thing because Donald got sacked nine times when
we played under Pressure, I was singing every time Donald
will get sacked, and he and someon would look at
me and I go, you know, it made sense on
the radio. I feel like that scene from Blades of
Glory when when uh, when they're when they're when Will
(19:07):
Arnett is chasing Will Ferrell up the escalator and and
you know he's trying to catch him. He says, what
are you gonna do in your final routine? And will
Aarnett explains that we're doing a whole Marrilman road thing
and the drugs and all that. He goes, it makes
sense when you see it. That's kind of what I feel, right,
It made sense when he heard it on the radio.
That's kind of what it is. They show the videos
of her like choking on the beat. Uh so how
(19:30):
about appreciation moment and then a hot take for an
NBA super starry about that appreciation? Yeah? Yeah, And you're
gonna think I'm crazy because I'm gonna do an appreciation
moment here for Steph Curry. WHOA I know, I know,
I know, I don't hate Steph. Stop I don't hate
Steph Curry. I don't be avoiding canny phone calls forever. Yeah,
I'm ready for my interviewever you want. Uh in a
(19:51):
in an era in which superstars are always claiming to Hey,
get me help, Joel embiid, get me help. I need
help to win.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Lebron is indeed saying he needs more players, or that
he needs help getting to the court.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I think he needs all of that, all of the help.
All he needs all of the help. Yes, all of
the help, all of that, all of the help. And
he said today, hey, as other teams are figuring out
the trade deadline, which is coming up in a few weeks, now,
is all of a sudden, the trade deadline is here. Uh,
don't go crazy adding to this team if it means
you're mortgaging the future. Because he wants to make sure
(20:29):
that he leaves the Warriors in a place where they
can can they can contend, right. He doesn't want to say, hey,
don't go make a couple of bad trades to trade
young players now for players to be helping to make
us make a run now, because that's gonna leave the
Warriors nothing when I retire.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And has he been promised equity when he retires. I
want to make sure he's trying to make sure he's
got a want to make sure this value is there. Yeah,
the value of that franchise remaine.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So you know, and and this isn't this is an
age when all these other teams, Look, the Lakers are
going to continue to spin their wheel until Lebron James retires. Right,
I'm taking I'm making as much money as I can
and it's still not gonna work, no what players you
bring in, it's just not gonna works. Just scored again.
So it is refreshing to hear Curry say this because
I know the guy wants to win, right, It's not
to suddenly hey I'm done, man, I'm good, I won
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my tie to I'm all good. I'm about being a mogul. Now,
Like that's Lebron, so you know he wants to win,
but he understands. Look, I care about this. This is
my franchise, and I want them to be in a
good place when I retire. I don't want them to
be bereft of draft picks or young talent. Because we
had to make We made a move for Jimmy Butler
when we let three young players go that really shouldn't
(21:34):
have and now the heat are really good, so I
don't want to do that. So that is that is
extremely commendable. And you don't really hear that. You never
really hear players, especially guys who want to win championships,
because this is what Steph is about, because he's because
you know, he's won a lot in his career. You
don't really get that. So that there is nothing sinister
about this. It is that is a complete appreciation moment
(21:55):
for Steph Curry for saying things that you don't hear
superstars say. And that's a really it's a really cool
and different thing. Yeah, I'll just be cynical. It's you know,
image keeping behind the scenes, like this is really what
we got to run the rest of this. We're a
five hundred team. I gotta ride this out. This is
what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And there might be some legitimacy to the uh unwillingness
to depart, uh to part ways with some of the
assets that they have there as far as draft picks
screwed the draft picks, you're expecting to at least be
at the periphery of the playoffs, which means those draft
picks are okay, but they're they're not world beating. Are
(22:37):
you saying, hey, we're gonna miss the playoffs at some
point here and and then you'll have one or two
ping pong balls and yield lottery. Yeah, that'd be great,
uh for Steph Curry and company. I think a lot
of it's gonna come back to what we were talking
about with Rick Buker earlier in the program. Just you're
kind of hamstrung in terms of what you can do
based on where you're at and spending, uh and the
(23:00):
NBA's lunacy rules when it comes to all right, make
sure those salaries match up. Damn it, I forgot that
one of these two guys.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The only way this is gonna work. I knew there
was I knew there was a sticky wicket somewhere. So
I appreciate him.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, no, no, point, I went just a touch of
cynicism that if we, you know, were to get someone
what's the truth serum, what's the chemical.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Sodian pentathal there? So we get some of that. That
was from read the book. Yeah, I read Boo. I
can't like him go to Philadelphia to that you watch
more spy movies. Read too much in Philadelphia, tinker tailor
soldier just cut football too smart? You are, yes, I
am smart? I am uh. Now here's the hot take.
Here's the hot take. Is that Steph Curry obviously wants
(23:51):
to win again or did he say come get me? Generally?
The other side was it was he showing when he
was saying this, was he blinking in morse code saying
come get me. He's going to have to leave if
he's going to win a championship. And this is not
something new that I've said, but this, but it bears
understanding that the Warriors are not close to winning a championship.
They're not one player away. Then not if we go
(24:13):
get player X where we're suddenly going to win, they're
not player away. They aren't. And Steph Curry, if you
want to understand what he's got left as an elite player,
maybe he's got two postseasons left. When you factor in
his age, the number of minutes he plays, the role
(24:33):
he plays on the Warriors, you're thinking he's got two
elite ish postseasons left if he really wants to win,
and Golden State would understand he would come back. I
know he wants to play his whole career with the
Golden State Warriors. But if you want to win again,
you have the next two postseasons where you could go
someplace else. You could always come back at the end.
(24:55):
You could always come back at the end and say, hey,
the last year is going to be with the Warriors,
and I'm going to retire warrior. If he's thirty nine,
forty years old, I could always do. But if you
want to win, and it's also gonna help set your
team up because the Warriors are gonna get young players,
draft picks, whatever it is for you, you have to go
someplace else. He has to go, he should go. He
should ask for a trade. He should definitely test the
(25:16):
waters and make it and make it out so everybody
understands what's going on. I'm not I'm not trying to to,
you know, bail when things are bad. And maybe this
is where the Warriors get out in front of things
and say, hey, we're gonna look to do something right
for Steph and also what's right for us, because right
now we're not competing at this level and we want,
we want Steph to have one more chance at a
brass ring. To try to do it, but that has
(25:37):
to happen, because if not, it's just gonna be. Hey,
we're gonna see Steph in the playing round for a
couple of games and maybe in the first round of
a of a of a series, and that's it. That's
the rest of his basketball career. And when he looks
at it that way, he under he knows that if
anything's gonna happen, I have to go. He should. He
should talk about a trade and explore it, not make
(25:57):
a demand. Because obviously Steph's got a great relation with
the Golden State Warriors. I'm sure he'll want to come
back and finish his career there, so we can at
least do that. But boy, if you want to win,
you gotta go. The Warriors know if he wants to win,
he's got to go. They can figure out a way
to do this where no bridges are burned, and it
seems like they're doing him a favor by trading him,
and Steph can pick the team where I can goes.
(26:18):
You tell me, Steph Curry's not gonna be able to
win somebody a championship and he goes to the right situation.
Someone needs a shooter he can play a little less minutes.
He's gonna get a little more open looks on the
floor because you have other weapons that people have to
worry about. There are five or six teams that would
fall at the mouth to get two postseasons out of
Steph Curry. Right, we talked about this for Juan Soto. Oh,
trade trade for Juan Soto. The Nationals trade them away. Hey,
(26:40):
you can get him for three postseasons. Right, go make
that trade for Juan Soto. Now wan So will bounce
around the Padres, the Yankees, now the Mets. But it's
the same philosophy of the next two playoffs. You can
have Steph Curry and your chance to win a title
just went up immensely. For maybe you're one of a
bunch of talented teams. You're looking to make that break.
He can be the difference maker. He's got to ask
(27:01):
for a trade. They got to figure it out. If
he wants to win, he's got to go.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
So is that really what he's saying in the don't
make a trade here to compromise, don't.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Trade to help me? Help me by making a trade
like that help you know. It's like that commercial where
it starts out and says, this is the last time
you'll hear my name. I want to quit today, you know,
and then then then read it backwards today I will
not quit. This is the last time you're not going
to hear my name. Like with Steph Curry saying, hey,
don't make trades just just to just to help me,
(27:31):
and what he's really saying when you read it backwards, it's,
you know, trade me to help the team. That's kind
of what I'm thinking. I think. I think that's pretty good. Yeah,
so you want to take back your appreciation moment. No, No,
he's really asking out in that whole thing. I don't
know that he's asking out. What I'm saying is the
next thing if like, hey, don't worry about trading because
he's so we're not going to be close. Let's do something.
(27:52):
He's always chew in the mouthpiece. You really can't do
the lip breathing. Think absolutely you were. He was kind
of interpreting it saying, Tibbs, come get me pretty much
for yah. Yeah, we'll trade you Jericho Simms for Steph Curry.
It'll work out. It'd be fantastic. No, I would know.
(28:13):
I don't know is he got deferred salary, and why
the salaries would match. It's better than the appreciation of
step better than Rick Brunson. The appreciation moment for Steph
is completely separate and not tougher than Charles Bronson so
or tougher than Bronson pinchell. But no, but he knows
he's got to. He was a badass, like I don't
(28:35):
I don't know that. I don't know that that's not
eventually going to happen anyway, So why not now when
you know you're not If you if you thought in
Golden State, hey we make this movie, make this move,
we're gonna be we could really do so. But they can't.
They're not. They decided to give Draymond Green money for
ridiculous reasons. I don't know why. So if it's inevitable,
but Steph's gonna want to go somewhere to win, why
(28:57):
not do it now? Get more for him. He'll come
back at the end, give him his next two postseason.
If he's smart, he's like, Okay, I do have to
go now because this is what I need to do.
If I'm going to try to one another time.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
It gets everything together because then he can potentially come
back for that one final season and guess what, by
having traded him, they've got players and he's ready to
dive back in be that missing piece to lead the
Warriors to glory again.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I don't know that that's going to happen. That's gonna
be one of those. Hey, it's gonna be a season
long wave Goodbye to Steph curR. It's like I read
and was writing a book that was the end. They
are right there. They are going to sell tickets for
that season of Come say Goodbye to Steph Curry over
the courts of this seats on a very special Thursday
night the home game, Come wave Goodbye to Steph Curry
(29:43):
and Draymond two episodes of Friends remaining And that's how
they're going to put it on you. It would say,
come say goodbye to Steph curR with a picture him
smiling to in his mouthpiece and then a very small
picture on the bottom and Draymond every game a different
way of eating Curry, Yeah, exactly, and chewing that mouthpiece.
Here's a chewing mouth off piece. Curry. Uh, that'sous Curry. Curry.
(30:08):
Time now to find out what's treading for man who
is our own Steph Curry, because it just can be
a matter of time before he asked to get off
the show. It is Steve to say, because he's got
what's trained.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Can I just say.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Out loud that Ben Simmons is in the NBA? No,
he's not. Absolutely no playing again tonight. Yes, No, I'm
gonna s Lonzo ball started yesterday. He is. I looked
it up.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
He's averaging seven assists a game. Yeah, right, No, nine assists.
Last game he had eleven assists tonight, Dave and Steve,
don't lie. Now you're gonna tell me Joel Embiid is
playing in back to backs. No, Embiad's not playing at all.
Well started say that we'll get to him beaid in
a moment. But the Brooklyn Nets actually ended a five
game losing streak with a win at Portland. In the
(30:48):
late game tonight, one thirty two, one fourteen, Scoop Henderson
had thirty nine points in the loss. Let's see who
is missing at Philadelphia tonight. See Joel Embiid again sprainfoot.
That's five straight games he's missed. So Paul George set
out sore ankle and Tyres Maxy was out left hand
injury and they're hosting Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It did not go well.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
They were down deep early and OKC wins one eighteen
to one oh two. Shay Gilgess Alexander thirty two points.
He started ten of ten shooting from the floor, so
the thunder have won eighteen of nineteen. The record is
now thirty three and six. Cleveland is thirty four and
five after winning at Indiana one twenty seven one seventeen.
(31:30):
There goes the six game winning streak of the Pacers,
who did not have Tyrese Halliburton tonight due to a
string groin. Donovan Mitchell of the Cavs thirty five points
at Atlanta, Trey Young forty three points in a win
over Phoenix won twenty two to one seventeen out for
the Hawks to i DeAndre Hunter due to a sore foot.
Milwaukee got a triple double from Janisan Tenecumpo and beats
Sacramento one thirty to one fifteen. That ends the King's
(31:53):
seven game winning streak. Bucks were up by twenty one
after the first quarter victories also for New Orleans and
Denver each on the road. Upsets In college basketball number
twenty one, Old Miss one at number four Alabama seventy
four to sixty four, and Missouri was a winner at
number five Florida eighty three, eighty two De Paul is
ozho and seven in the Big East and came close
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at home tonight but an overtime Number seven Marquette wins
at to Paul eighty five eighty three victories for Auburn
and Duke wins for Kentucky, Illinois and Wisconsin, and by
the way in the late game. In college hoops, dominance
at Arizona for the Wildcats, leading number twenty five Baylors
sixty one to forty.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
With under nine minutes to go.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
In women's hoops, top twenty five Maryland ninety nine ninety
two over Minnesota, NHL overtime win for Colorado three to
two over the Rangers, and a shootout win for Florida
two to one at New Jersey, and the Houston Texans
waved wide receiver Deontae Johnson back to you.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
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(33:10):
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Speaker 1 (33:28):
The Jason Show with My best friend Mike Harmon live
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a crazy story coming up in about fifteen minutes that
has to do with Dallas, Dion Sanders, Shadore Sanders and
(33:49):
a jacket and and a jacket. Okay, now, is Jerry
Jones involved? He might be. How about Joe Kelly he
might Joe Kelly's not advice. It's not a Mariachi jacket.
It is a different jacket. Is it a smoking jacket? Hey,
I'm smoking in any jacket? Okay, just so you know,
So again, that story coming up in less than fifteen minutes.
(34:13):
Maybe there's something to this. Yeah, Dallas and Dion thing
but I mentioned a few minutes ago that now I
should be in charge of college football. Hey, hey, because
they need somebody. B Because I think I'm pretty sure
I understand the sport better than the coaches do. Today,
a story came out and unanimous show of support FBS
(34:36):
coaches Division one FBS coaches voted in favor of a
proposal that would reduce college football's transfer window down to
a single ten day period in January, which meant that
instead of hey, guys being able to leave and transfer,
the window as for the entire back half of the
month of December into January. Oh, I don't like this
(34:57):
because players are leaving and a backup quarterback Penn State
and Marshall couldn't field players to go to a bowl game.
They want to make it into a single ten day
period in January to preserve the integrity of bowl season
and to put quote, put guardrails on a system many
coaches lament as entirely broken. This is written by David
Hale of ESPN. Yeah, first of all, I love the
(35:20):
fact that now everybody's starting to wonder that, oh yeah,
we really have gone off the rails. I've said for years,
someone's got to pull the emergency brake on college football.
But no, because they still follow whatever the big ten
in the SEC wants to do. There's no governing body.
It's just every year things change every five minutes. There's
no rules. You want a little bit of Okay, I
(35:41):
understand that these are going to be the guidelines for
at least the next couple of years and not where
things change. So I'm glad I tip the cat that
a lot of coaches understand that things have to change
in college football. But here's where I know it's only
because things got hard. Yeah, well here, but here's how
I know I know more about the sport than they do. Guys,
players are gonna opt out anyway. If they're going to leave,
(36:05):
they're going to leave. They're not if they're gonna leave
at the end, again, they're going to leave. Just underline
like a brown they're going to league. Use a highlight
or whatever color you want, and use a highlighter color
of those Seahawks uniforms. Just smear it right across that page.
If a player decides he's gonna leave a team after
the regular season, he's not gonna wait until after the bully.
(36:28):
He's not gonna play because A he's gonna want to
make sure people know he's open. Right, I'm opting out.
I'm just opting out right, I'm not on the board.
I'm opting out. Okay, So now we know we can
talk to this guy when the wind all this stuff,
and plus, they're not gonna risk getting hurt and going
someplace where if if they get in the game and
they play, or something happens at practice and I'm hurt
(36:48):
and I'm and I'm gonna not be able to go.
I am done at this destination. I am done. I'm
not gonna you know, hey, let's do you know one
one for the Gipper, and I'm gonna stay through the
Alimo Bowl or the pool when we'd eat our Independence ball.
I'm gonna stay through them, and stay through the holiday
bawl and stay through all these balls. That's not gonna happen.
If players are gonna leave, they're gonna leave the backup
quarterback for Penn State. How is that gonna help? How
(37:11):
he was gonna leave anyway? He's got the game, he's got,
he had the playoff, and he still decided to leave.
Players are gonna leave anyway. I don't know what what
coaches think is gonna happen. And oh, by the way,
coaches are still going to leave at the end of seasons.
They're still gonna leave. And then players a gonna say, well,
I'm opting out because coaches leaving, I'm leaving. I'm not
staying here. They're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
He's just gonna restrict coaches from bailing before bowling wars.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Not coach. We're talking about the kids.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Coach.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
We want, we can do what we want. But that's
just it, right, the inequities remain. And to your point,
if the guy's going we we saw it. Benns State
quarterback left. He was gonna have a role in the playoffs.
How do how do he might have been a difference maker.
He might have kept Drew Allen for throwing that ball.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I mean, how do they think that's going to do it? Yeah,
we got kind out of it.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
This is all a minute administrative thing though, right, it's saying, well,
going to make it easier because it's only ten days
of paperwork.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Instead of away, instead of thirty days of stress. It's
ten days of stress. That's what it is. Oh, we're
just cutting down the stress by a month. By by
two weeks. Right, it just means that there's only ten
days of paperwork. Everything else remains the stay. If you
are that disenfranchised, you're that unhappy that you're gonna go,
nothing's gonna convince you to stay because A you are
(38:26):
either not playing and and you're you're out anyway and
you're out mentally, or B I don't want to get
hurt at practice and have that mark. My future is
not here. I'm not gonna take one step for a place.
My future isn't I'm not gonna stay. Oh hey, for
the good of the team, I'll stay and play in
the bulgame. No kids are gonna go, kids are gonna
once you saw the Penn State quarterback leaving before the playoff, Okay,
(38:49):
he's gonna leave. He's not gonna stay with the team.
If he's leaving, I'll stay there. No what you I don't.
It's it's two stories that people are upset about. The
Penn State story, which all my good iss. Yeah, I'm sorry.
The seven quarterbacks they have move people up and it
doesn't matter. Oh, Marshall couldn't play a ball game. You
know what, Marshall could have played a ball game if
they have enough players on the team. They could have played. Yes,
they'd played with a lot of guys in the three deep,
(39:11):
but they could have played. But okay, but the coach
is leaving, so of course that's gonna happen. I don't
know what they think is gonna happen here. That's gonna
change things. They'll change this rule because the coaches all
want to say, okay, fine, we'll wind up doing this,
and then I'm gonna go, oh, everything's the same and
players are opting out and coaches are leaving, and oh,
so really we did nothing Like I understand the sport better.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
This is lipstick on a pig, right, because it looks
good and it looks like you're doing something substantive when
really you're not. You're legitimately just making it a ten
day period for appearance's sake, right, the administrative part of it, all, Right,
here's the paperwork. It's gotta be filed between midnight here
(39:51):
at midnight here, And what do you get again? What
was it Rex Ryan waiting outside the guy's house for
free agency to start all those years ago?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I'm fifty nine, come on, might have been that.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Allegedly, But all of that to say nothing changes here.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Right, All of this is just like the prior world
of college football. It's all into shadows anyway. Yeah, I
mean I don't know how. You just have to stamp
it in that period. This shows you they have no
idea how the sport is evolving, and at least they
know they need something. But this is we're getting behind
something that's not going to change anything. Get behind something's
(40:33):
going to change something. Well, as long as they still
get to leave when they want, it's okay. As long
as I get to leave. I don't care what happens,
but I'd like this to happen. We put it on
the kids. We have to keep strict controls on what
they can to get. As for you, hey, exit, how
about a Fresco exit, Small and Dome the Jason Smiths
(40:55):
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I just love that. That the whole the Eagles controversy
(00:52):
about reading? What's the controversy though? You know they don't
read in Philly? Oh oh wow? Allegedly allegedly, you say,
allegedly allegedly. No, I've been.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
You got to find out if there's any national surveys
about you know, reading.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I don't know why we're reading. I know why everybody's reading.
Why we're wasting time with reading? Math too? Math too
is overrated, don't need math up till a certain point.
It doesn't matter. You know what the longest book in
Philly is. You know what it's called. What whiz with
page one? Page two?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Whiz with that?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Just a picture of cheese. Okay, that's all. That's all
you need. Picture, that's all you need. Just I just
love that we're talking about reading. Reading is fun of man.
But that's such a great Eagles controversy. Like, okay, the Eagles,
what do I always say? One foot on the banana
peel at all times? They always do, but they thrive
in chaos. But now this is something special. This is
(01:50):
now not about relationships or the quarterback are getting along
or not producing on the field problems. That's about you
got guys reading. I don't know if we want that
coach reading this rampant thing that people just start doing
like crazy stuff and buying books and reading things. We
don't want that.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Fun It's funny because you did have a number of
former players on FS one, on ESPN, every network that
went off out of how this would have offended them
to look over on the bench and see if a
teammate reading.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's just like, really, you know why and here's the
other thing. Why is that? And this is why why
people have to just chill out about this ipy no, no, no, no, no,
it's it's that. Look at the people who are saying
stuff like this, right, it's all people who came up
like you and I did when I mean not quite
that old, but when every everything was well because we're
not talking about people that played you know what I played.
(02:40):
Did you talk about the guys who were our age
played in the eighties? Yeah, But the thing is or
in the nineties. But there the thing is is that
I did, I said when I start started watching football
versus how old us is that people have to understand
and they don't get that. You can agree or disagree
with what a generation is about and how they live
their lives and how Gen X is different from Gen
(03:02):
Y and millennials and Generation Z. But the Generation Z,
the players now, they come up differently. They have different values,
they do different they they do things differently, and it
may not be the way that you or I do
it or the way you and I were brought up.
Where hey, we're reading on the side right. When you
and I were brought up, what was it was a
big contoverst a few years ago. Wait, players have their
(03:23):
cell phones. They got and teams have to cut meetings
short because players have to get on their cell phones
sitting down on how it is right?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
I used to be, Hey, you need to be you know,
eyes up, you know, support your teammates. Be loud, be vocal,
don't don't be distracted off to the side, don't be
checking out the cheerleaders.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
They're talking to your family, you know, eyes up here.
It's it's it's hard to understand. But every generation does
things differently, and the one before look exactly. Well, that's
the whole thing. You always blame the generation before you
guys ruined it for us. Uh, but that's the thing. A. J.
Brown is a millennial and and and he came up
a different way with different things that he was able
(04:03):
to learn growing up different things at his disposal. He
grew up in the age of the Internet. He grew
up in the age of self cell phones and everybody
having a cell phone. And it's weird when you see
a movie. Now's people going, oh, twenty years agoing, oh, no,
twenty years ago. Oh yeah, this looks like it's so
long ago, But you're using a cell phone. It's pretty
close to the cell phone that we use today. And
people don't understand that this is just how players are
(04:24):
and you cannot like it, and I can't tell you
what to like and not like, but you have to understand.
If you're going to be a successful coach team in
any sport right now in twenty twenty five, you have
to get that the players are different and you have
to be able to reach them. And that's a thing.
Twenty five years ago, is someone gonna be reading on
the sideline? Of course not, of course not. The worst
thing is someone having a hot dog on the sideline
(04:46):
because they're hungry. But now it's really, oh, it's reading. Now,
this is how players are. They do things differently this
generation Gen Z, and I always say, what if I
said one of the biggest things, biggest challenges the next
ten years of sports talk is going to be, especially
for me, is understanding the Gen Z athletes and the
athletes that come after them are completely different from from
(05:07):
what we have seen with with Gen X athletes and
with with millennials. Right we're seeing the tail end of
the millennials now with Lebron, James and and and and
Steph Curry and it's okay, yeah, they're they're they're the
ones that are still sort of uh, have a combination
of the the the the big old old school rules
of of the of the of you know gen X
(05:28):
and in the eighties and the night in the seventies
when when when sports were played, and the new school
of what the twenty first century has brought. Whereas gen
Z is now completely into this new century. We are
not with what's right behind us. We're not what's behind them.
We are we are a different line of demarcation. When when,
the when, the when the computers bolted and jumped in
the mid to late nineties, that changed everything. When the
(05:50):
cell phone era came in, the social media era came in,
that changed everything. And that's what all gen Z players
are at right now, because remember social media and Twitter
now is is you know, seventeen eighteen years old, and
now you're getting all kinds of new social media. The
players are different. So you have to understand that about
gen Z and players like aj Brown reading on the sideline. Yeah,
some players are gonna do that and you cannot like it,
(06:12):
but you got to understand it. If you're going to
try to reach these athletes.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, even more fundamental now in terms of aj Brown,
since we do have a history of perhaps being a
little bit dissatisfied with his role in certain concepts and
constructs of the team and involvement in a game plan,
or the ability of Jalen Hurts to get him the
ball when he's suddenly got a book in a playoff
(06:36):
game when he's got one catch. It's going to raise
some eyebrows, especially if, as Jalen Hurts alluded to, we
haven't necessarily seen said book before. But your overall point
is one that I think from the pulpit we sit
in here the Fox Sports Radio studios, recognizing and owing
to our experiences when we played and what we've watched
(06:58):
through the years, and knowing that we're in a different age,
and certainly you know what practice times are allowed right
at the high school level. The separation of club versus
high school it's like, no, those two can never meet between.
And if you're part of this though, and you can't
be part of that, you can't participate here. You can
go to practice, but if you touch a ball and
(07:20):
someone sees you, now everybody's in trouble. All of that
and expand that to any other sport. Right, I'm talking
about my daughter's soccer world and having watched that evolved
through the years. But practice schedules, how often you can
be in bads. I mean we watch it with every CBA, right,
every time they go to war with the owners, the NBA, NFL,
(07:43):
whatever it is. You see where the new line in
the sand is drawn and what's allowable and what isn't. Right,
once upon a time, it was two a days in
the heat of insert any town, USA at one hundred
and five degrees and that was the way it worked
for the NFL. Now it's about we.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Want an extra day off, but you didn't get anything
in the long term. Health care doesn't matter. We get
that damn day off now. And that's the way it's
gonna be because it's what's important to them right now.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And as the ownership and the commissioner and everybody else,
you watch the latitude and the way it changes. And
for Sirianni, where you think you may have a tenue
as hold on things, remember you are in Philadelphia where
things can go sideways, and this is any town in
the NFL. It can go sideways on you in a hurry.
(08:30):
But the reputation is we're talking about Philadelphia, let's just
stay where we're at, is that he's got to either
he's got to manage the invisible hand here right as
best he can in terms of his locker room and
public opinion.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
And unfortunately for him, he's got a side with his
locker room, even if he doesn't like it. I think
everybody should just stop reading. Nobody read anymore. Let's not
let's not sell books in Philadelphia anymore. It's not books.
Let's not tell but re reading. We don't need it,
we don't need it. Yeah, he may Aj Brown for
this coming up. He can't. You can't let him see
you Sweat's reading books. Uh. Now here's Aj Brown who
(09:07):
waited on the controversy about him reading the self help
book on the sideline. If I can read, then you
can read. Everybody could read without the Russian translator. Very nice.
I'm glad I didn't need it. Way, we got that
right there. That's pretty nice. Uh. Filingel here is kind
(09:29):
of a big deal. Story team always is filled with
such knucklehead stuff that they would get involved in a
book read a reading of books controversy. Eagles Eagles, Eagles, right. Absolute.
You know what the best part about this whole story is,
it's about reading the fact that you actually believe people
read in Philly. Okay, you've said.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
That joke now like four but it's fine, and the
audience keeps changing.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
That's true. That's true. That's true. Uh. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the direrect dot Com Studios.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Another big story out of the NFL today the Green
Bay Packers. Apparently they want Jordan Love to be more
vocal as a quarterback. Right, They want to be more vocal,
Like if he was more vocal, maybe they would have
won last weekend. If you're more vocal, we win these games.
You gotta be vocal, you gotta be vocal. So they
want Jordan Love to be more vocal next year and
as you know, continue to take a big step. You know,
(10:20):
a lot of the blame on him for Green Bay
losing this week. And the thing is everybody is missing
the point on the two quarterbacks. People want to blame
the most of their teams going home this weekend, and
that's Jordan Love and Justin Herbert. Right, these guys both
had bad games, right, Herbert had a bad game, four interceptions,
and they're questioning whether Herbert's the long term guy with
the Chargers. And hey, Jordan Love, they paid him, did
(10:42):
they pay him too early? Is the only getting paid
for that game he had against the Cowboys last year?
And Tom Clements's longtime quarterback coach is retiring this year
with Jordan Love. But everybody's missing the point on these
two quarterbacks because I have seen enough of them. And
Jordan Love has been in the league a long time now,
he's been you're talking about getting five years in reading
play his first two years. Is that both of these
(11:04):
guys are good. They're not great, Okay, there are very
few great quarterbacks in the NFL. Right, Laura Jackson is great,
Josh Allen is great, Patrick Mahomes is great. Right, that
list is not very long. Justin Herbert and Jordan Love
are good quarterbacks. They're good, and they're not overpaid. And
(11:26):
I know that that's been a big refrain of all
we're paying this guy's all this money. Look how much
they sucked. Hey, the reason these guys are getting paid
a lot of money is because life is miserable in
the NFL without a quarterback. It's hard enough to get
a good quarterback, let alone a great quarterback. You're lucky
if you get a great quarterback. When you find one
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that's good, meaning, this is a guy we can win with.
He's gonna he's gonna he's gonna produce and we need to.
He's gonna throw twenty five touchdowns to twenty five thirty touchdowns.
You're gonna throw for about four thousand yards. No, maybe
he's not as great as the guys above him, but
to expect him to be in Mahomes or a Josh Allen,
there's only a handful of those guys in the NFL. Ever, reason,
only three or four guys that are that good every year.
(12:08):
But they're being paid because, hey, it's really hard to
find a guy that's just this good. And we found
Jordan Love Hey took over for Aaron Rodgers, did pretty good.
Justin Herbert's come in and been pretty good. Not been
the guy he was four years ago, right, and think
about remember that, not been the guy when it came
in second year, thirty eight touchdowns, But they paid him because, hey,
we found a guy that's good enough. And it's unrealistic
(12:32):
expectations people have for Love and Herbert in that, well,
we expect to me great. No, just because they're getting
paid doesn't mean they're great. They're getting paid because they're
good enough, and they don't want to search for another
quarterback because what are the odds you're going to get
somebody as good as Jordan Love or Justin Herbert. Look
at the Browns. Keep searching, the Jets, keep searching, the Raiders,
keep searching. All these teams keep searching for quarterbacks and
(12:54):
taking chances. What do we do when you find someone
who is good, Yeah, you pay him because all right,
he's our good quarter back and we can win with him.
People are missing the point and it's unrealistic expectations you
have for these court doesn't mean they had a bad game,
doesn't mean you can't blame them for a loss. But
to think they're gonna they're gonna perform just because they're
they they're sharing television screen time with Alan and Mahomes
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and Jackson doesn't mean they're gonna be great. So to
understand that that's the reality, and that's why Jordan Love
and Justin Herbert are getting paid and they get criticized
for being for being what fans want them to be
rather than what they are.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, it's the unfortunate nature of the position. Right, it's
elevated every win and you're glorified. Uh, and you get
full credit for it.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Even if we want to have the old argument of
whether quarterback wins are really a thing, Yeah, they kind
of are. And just leave it at that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Eight different guys, uh started a game this year, down
nine from last year. Yeah, no, fewer Browns quarterbacks.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, that helped everything.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Little victories, but just the idea that you have players
in love and Herbert you're the next up. Don't like
the logic too damn bad? To your point, you're gonna
go back into the draft and wish and hope that
you're gonna bring a guy into a system and it's
going to work that much better because you may have
a flawed system and this guy's just beating the odds
to get to.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Where he is.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Yeah, right, because look, how many teams, how many do
we really trust? We do this every year at this
time of the year. Let's say, all right, what have
we got six maybe eight that you just say, you
know what, they know how to build and construct.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
And roll over a roster. Everybody else is like, yeah,
you can tell there's a lot of arguments in the building. Oh,
not to mention that the guy that was there calling
the shots last year, he's not there anymore. He's been replaced,
and the guy that was there before him, he got
two years before he got replaced. It's a revolving door.
So if you can get a quarterback that in theory
(14:50):
you like enough to build around, that's great. But fans,
we want the immediacy. Everybody's gonna be compared to. Look,
one of the things you and I have been talking
about a little bit. We'll get into it even more
as the week goes on.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
The Alan Jackson and not Alan Jackson, the country saying
the Chattahoochie.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Bubba shot the jukebox, right, that was a Mark chest
nutt Mark Chestnut Okay, all right, very nice.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
I thought that was really you sure it's Mark chest
nutt Yeah, And brought me up beside the juke box
was the late great Joe Diffey.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Got it, got it, got it right right right.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Alan Jackson was thinking about the Chattahoochie. Never knew how
much that muddy water meant to me, But I learned
who you know, whatever, The point being that for Josh
Allen and Lamar Jackson. Whoever loses this game, it's the
referendum on anything else. They've done right, and they've reached
such great heights, but they're gonna get lumped in with
(15:41):
Love and Herbert here just that fast of.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
They can't win. They stink like you can have a
bad game and every once in a while the floor
or dare you say harball? You guys have to capitalize
when you've got opportunities. Exit out about a Fresco exit
Swallen down the Jason Smithsow with Icrmen live from the
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Speaker 1 (17:48):
It's a day later. Wow, you didn't even do it
in the vein of Fred Schneider. No bad job by you.
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Speaker 3 (18:06):
Nine sacks many Rome in the Vikings backfield, sack Sammy
Donald one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine
If you want nine sacks of Donald.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
All right, sacks of Donald. Nine sacks of Donald to
the B fifty two's room. Yes, it works on the show.
I always feel like when we do something like that
and someone brings it up to me at some point
because you did that, you know you did that that.
I love the like I got people on social media say, going,
oh my god, doing the the Donald sacks to Freddie Mercury,
I was pretty give it. Bowie's under pressure, right, Yeah,
(18:46):
So when that happens in the conversation, someone will bring
it up to me and someone else will go, wait,
what did you do. I go, you know, we did
this whole thing because Donald got sacked nine times when
we played under Pressure, I was singing every time Donald
will get sacked, and he and someon would look at
me and I go, you know, it made sense on
the radio. I feel like that scene from Blades of
Glory when when uh, when they're when they're when Will
(19:07):
Arnett is chasing Will Ferrell up the escalator and and
you know he's trying to catch him. He says, what
are you gonna do in your final routine? And will
Aarnett explains that we're doing a whole Marrilman road thing
and the drugs and all that. He goes, it makes
sense when you see it. That's kind of what I feel, right,
It made sense when he heard it on the radio.
That's kind of what it is. They show the videos
of her like choking on the beat. Uh so how
(19:30):
about appreciation moment and then a hot take for an
NBA super starry about that appreciation? Yeah? Yeah, And you're
gonna think I'm crazy because I'm gonna do an appreciation
moment here for Steph Curry. WHOA I know, I know,
I know, I don't hate Steph. Stop I don't hate
Steph Curry. I don't be avoiding canny phone calls forever. Yeah,
I'm ready for my interviewever you want. Uh in a
(19:51):
in an era in which superstars are always claiming to Hey,
get me help, Joel embiid, get me help. I need
help to win.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Lebron is indeed saying he needs more players, or that
he needs help getting to the court.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
I think he needs all of that, all of the help.
All he needs all of the help. Yes, all of
the help, all of that, all of the help. And
he said today, hey, as other teams are figuring out
the trade deadline, which is coming up in a few weeks, now,
is all of a sudden, the trade deadline is here. Uh,
don't go crazy adding to this team if it means
you're mortgaging the future. Because he wants to make sure
(20:29):
that he leaves the Warriors in a place where they
can can they can contend, right. He doesn't want to say, hey,
don't go make a couple of bad trades to trade
young players now for players to be helping to make
us make a run now, because that's gonna leave the
Warriors nothing when I retire.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
And has he been promised equity when he retires. I
want to make sure he's trying to make sure he's
got a want to make sure this value is there. Yeah,
the value of that franchise remaine.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
So you know, and and this isn't this is an
age when all these other teams, Look, the Lakers are
going to continue to spin their wheel until Lebron James retires. Right,
I'm taking I'm making as much money as I can
and it's still not gonna work, no what players you
bring in, it's just not gonna works. Just scored again.
So it is refreshing to hear Curry say this because
I know the guy wants to win, right, It's not
to suddenly hey I'm done, man, I'm good, I won
(21:14):
my tie to I'm all good. I'm about being a mogul. Now,
Like that's Lebron, so you know he wants to win,
but he understands. Look, I care about this. This is
my franchise, and I want them to be in a
good place when I retire. I don't want them to
be bereft of draft picks or young talent. Because we
had to make We made a move for Jimmy Butler
when we let three young players go that really shouldn't
(21:34):
have and now the heat are really good, so I
don't want to do that. So that is that is
extremely commendable. And you don't really hear that. You never
really hear players, especially guys who want to win championships,
because this is what Steph is about, because he's because
you know, he's won a lot in his career. You
don't really get that. So that there is nothing sinister
about this. It is that is a complete appreciation moment
(21:55):
for Steph Curry for saying things that you don't hear
superstars say. And that's a really it's a really cool
and different thing. Yeah, I'll just be cynical. It's you know,
image keeping behind the scenes, like this is really what
we got to run the rest of this. We're a
five hundred team. I gotta ride this out. This is
what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And there might be some legitimacy to the uh unwillingness
to depart, uh to part ways with some of the
assets that they have there as far as draft picks
screwed the draft picks, you're expecting to at least be
at the periphery of the playoffs, which means those draft
picks are okay, but they're they're not world beating. Are
(22:37):
you saying, hey, we're gonna miss the playoffs at some
point here and and then you'll have one or two
ping pong balls and yield lottery. Yeah, that'd be great,
uh for Steph Curry and company. I think a lot
of it's gonna come back to what we were talking
about with Rick Buker earlier in the program. Just you're
kind of hamstrung in terms of what you can do
based on where you're at and spending, uh and the
(23:00):
NBA's lunacy rules when it comes to all right, make
sure those salaries match up. Damn it, I forgot that
one of these two guys.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
The only way this is gonna work. I knew there
was I knew there was a sticky wicket somewhere. So
I appreciate him.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, no, no, point, I went just a touch of
cynicism that if we, you know, were to get someone
what's the truth serum, what's the chemical.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Sodian pentathal there? So we get some of that. That
was from read the book. Yeah, I read Boo. I
can't like him go to Philadelphia to that you watch
more spy movies. Read too much in Philadelphia, tinker tailor
soldier just cut football too smart? You are, yes, I
am smart? I am uh. Now here's the hot take.
Here's the hot take. Is that Steph Curry obviously wants
(23:51):
to win again or did he say come get me? Generally?
The other side was it was he showing when he
was saying this, was he blinking in morse code saying
come get me. He's going to have to leave if
he's going to win a championship. And this is not
something new that I've said, but this, but it bears
understanding that the Warriors are not close to winning a championship.
They're not one player away. Then not if we go
(24:13):
get player X where we're suddenly going to win, they're
not player away. They aren't. And Steph Curry, if you
want to understand what he's got left as an elite player,
maybe he's got two postseasons left. When you factor in
his age, the number of minutes he plays, the role
(24:33):
he plays on the Warriors, you're thinking he's got two
elite ish postseasons left if he really wants to win,
and Golden State would understand he would come back. I
know he wants to play his whole career with the
Golden State Warriors. But if you want to win again,
you have the next two postseasons where you could go
someplace else. You could always come back at the end.
(24:55):
You could always come back at the end and say, hey,
the last year is going to be with the Warriors,
and I'm going to retire warrior. If he's thirty nine,
forty years old, I could always do. But if you
want to win, and it's also gonna help set your
team up because the Warriors are gonna get young players,
draft picks, whatever it is for you, you have to go
someplace else. He has to go, he should go. He
should ask for a trade. He should definitely test the
(25:16):
waters and make it and make it out so everybody
understands what's going on. I'm not I'm not trying to to,
you know, bail when things are bad. And maybe this
is where the Warriors get out in front of things
and say, hey, we're gonna look to do something right
for Steph and also what's right for us, because right
now we're not competing at this level and we want,
we want Steph to have one more chance at a
brass ring. To try to do it, but that has
(25:37):
to happen, because if not, it's just gonna be. Hey,
we're gonna see Steph in the playing round for a
couple of games and maybe in the first round of
a of a of a series, and that's it. That's
the rest of his basketball career. And when he looks
at it that way, he under he knows that if
anything's gonna happen, I have to go. He should. He
should talk about a trade and explore it, not make
(25:57):
a demand. Because obviously Steph's got a great relation with
the Golden State Warriors. I'm sure he'll want to come
back and finish his career there, so we can at
least do that. But boy, if you want to win,
you gotta go. The Warriors know if he wants to win,
he's got to go. They can figure out a way
to do this where no bridges are burned, and it
seems like they're doing him a favor by trading him,
and Steph can pick the team where I can goes.
(26:18):
You tell me, Steph Curry's not gonna be able to
win somebody a championship and he goes to the right situation.
Someone needs a shooter he can play a little less minutes.
He's gonna get a little more open looks on the
floor because you have other weapons that people have to
worry about. There are five or six teams that would
fall at the mouth to get two postseasons out of
Steph Curry. Right, we talked about this for Juan Soto. Oh,
trade trade for Juan Soto. The Nationals trade them away. Hey,
(26:40):
you can get him for three postseasons. Right, go make
that trade for Juan Soto. Now wan So will bounce
around the Padres, the Yankees, now the Mets. But it's
the same philosophy of the next two playoffs. You can
have Steph Curry and your chance to win a title
just went up immensely. For maybe you're one of a
bunch of talented teams. You're looking to make that break.
He can be the difference maker. He's got to ask
(27:01):
for a trade. They got to figure it out. If
he wants to win, he's got to go.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
So is that really what he's saying in the don't
make a trade here to compromise, don't.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Trade to help me? Help me by making a trade
like that help you know. It's like that commercial where
it starts out and says, this is the last time
you'll hear my name. I want to quit today, you know,
and then then then read it backwards today I will
not quit. This is the last time you're not going
to hear my name. Like with Steph Curry saying, hey,
don't make trades just just to just to help me,
(27:31):
and what he's really saying when you read it backwards, it's,
you know, trade me to help the team. That's kind
of what I'm thinking. I think. I think that's pretty good. Yeah,
so you want to take back your appreciation moment. No, No,
he's really asking out in that whole thing. I don't
know that he's asking out. What I'm saying is the
next thing if like, hey, don't worry about trading because
he's so we're not going to be close. Let's do something.
(27:52):
He's always chew in the mouthpiece. You really can't do
the lip breathing. Think absolutely you were. He was kind
of interpreting it saying, Tibbs, come get me pretty much
for yah. Yeah, we'll trade you Jericho Simms for Steph Curry.
It'll work out. It'd be fantastic. No, I would know.
(28:13):
I don't know is he got deferred salary, and why
the salaries would match. It's better than the appreciation of
step better than Rick Brunson. The appreciation moment for Steph
is completely separate and not tougher than Charles Bronson so
or tougher than Bronson pinchell. But no, but he knows
he's got to. He was a badass, like I don't
(28:35):
I don't know that. I don't know that that's not
eventually going to happen anyway, So why not now when
you know you're not If you if you thought in
Golden State, hey we make this movie, make this move,
we're gonna be we could really do so. But they can't.
They're not. They decided to give Draymond Green money for
ridiculous reasons. I don't know why. So if it's inevitable,
but Steph's gonna want to go somewhere to win, why
(28:57):
not do it now? Get more for him. He'll come
back at the end, give him his next two postseason.
If he's smart, he's like, Okay, I do have to
go now because this is what I need to do.
If I'm going to try to one another time.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
It gets everything together because then he can potentially come
back for that one final season and guess what, by
having traded him, they've got players and he's ready to
dive back in be that missing piece to lead the
Warriors to glory again.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I don't know that that's going to happen. That's gonna
be one of those. Hey, it's gonna be a season
long wave Goodbye to Steph curR. It's like I read
and was writing a book that was the end. They
are right there. They are going to sell tickets for
that season of Come say Goodbye to Steph Curry over
the courts of this seats on a very special Thursday
night the home game, Come wave Goodbye to Steph Curry
(29:43):
and Draymond two episodes of Friends remaining And that's how
they're going to put it on you. It would say,
come say goodbye to Steph curR with a picture him
smiling to in his mouthpiece and then a very small
picture on the bottom and Draymond every game a different
way of eating Curry, Yeah, exactly, and chewing that mouthpiece.
Here's a chewing mouth off piece. Curry. Uh, that'sous Curry. Curry.
(30:08):
Time now to find out what's treading for man who
is our own Steph Curry, because it just can be
a matter of time before he asked to get off
the show. It is Steve to say, because he's got
what's trained.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Can I just say.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Out loud that Ben Simmons is in the NBA? No,
he's not. Absolutely no playing again tonight. Yes, No, I'm
gonna s Lonzo ball started yesterday. He is. I looked
it up.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
He's averaging seven assists a game. Yeah, right, No, nine assists.
Last game he had eleven assists tonight, Dave and Steve,
don't lie. Now you're gonna tell me Joel Embiid is
playing in back to backs. No, Embiad's not playing at all.
Well started say that we'll get to him beaid in
a moment. But the Brooklyn Nets actually ended a five
game losing streak with a win at Portland. In the
(30:48):
late game tonight, one thirty two, one fourteen, Scoop Henderson
had thirty nine points in the loss. Let's see who
is missing at Philadelphia tonight. See Joel Embiid again sprainfoot.
That's five straight games he's missed. So Paul George set
out sore ankle and Tyres Maxy was out left hand
injury and they're hosting Oklahoma City.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
It did not go well.
Speaker 4 (31:10):
They were down deep early and OKC wins one eighteen
to one oh two. Shay Gilgess Alexander thirty two points.
He started ten of ten shooting from the floor, so
the thunder have won eighteen of nineteen. The record is
now thirty three and six. Cleveland is thirty four and
five after winning at Indiana one twenty seven one seventeen.
(31:30):
There goes the six game winning streak of the Pacers,
who did not have Tyrese Halliburton tonight due to a
string groin. Donovan Mitchell of the Cavs thirty five points
at Atlanta, Trey Young forty three points in a win
over Phoenix won twenty two to one seventeen out for
the Hawks to i DeAndre Hunter due to a sore foot.
Milwaukee got a triple double from Janisan Tenecumpo and beats
Sacramento one thirty to one fifteen. That ends the King's
(31:53):
seven game winning streak. Bucks were up by twenty one
after the first quarter victories also for New Orleans and
Denver each on the road. Upsets In college basketball number
twenty one, Old Miss one at number four Alabama seventy
four to sixty four, and Missouri was a winner at
number five Florida eighty three, eighty two De Paul is
ozho and seven in the Big East and came close
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at home tonight but an overtime Number seven Marquette wins
at to Paul eighty five eighty three victories for Auburn
and Duke wins for Kentucky, Illinois and Wisconsin, and by
the way in the late game. In college hoops, dominance
at Arizona for the Wildcats, leading number twenty five Baylors
sixty one to forty.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
With under nine minutes to go.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
In women's hoops, top twenty five Maryland ninety nine ninety
two over Minnesota, NHL overtime win for Colorado three to
two over the Rangers, and a shootout win for Florida
two to one at New Jersey, and the Houston Texans
waved wide receiver Deontae Johnson back to you.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
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from the tirerack dot Com studios. And do we have
a crazy story coming up in about fifteen minutes that
has to do with Dallas, Dion Sanders, Shadore Sanders and
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a jacket and and a jacket. Okay, now, is Jerry
Jones involved? He might be. How about Joe Kelly he
might Joe Kelly's not advice. It's not a Mariachi jacket.
It is a different jacket. Is it a smoking jacket? Hey,
I'm smoking in any jacket? Okay, just so you know,
So again, that story coming up in less than fifteen minutes.
(34:13):
Maybe there's something to this. Yeah, Dallas and Dion thing
but I mentioned a few minutes ago that now I
should be in charge of college football. Hey, hey, because
they need somebody. B Because I think I'm pretty sure
I understand the sport better than the coaches do. Today,
a story came out and unanimous show of support FBS
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coaches Division one FBS coaches voted in favor of a
proposal that would reduce college football's transfer window down to
a single ten day period in January, which meant that
instead of hey, guys being able to leave and transfer,
the window as for the entire back half of the
month of December into January. Oh, I don't like this
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because players are leaving and a backup quarterback Penn State
and Marshall couldn't field players to go to a bowl game.
They want to make it into a single ten day
period in January to preserve the integrity of bowl season
and to put quote, put guardrails on a system many
coaches lament as entirely broken. This is written by David
Hale of ESPN. Yeah, first of all, I love the
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fact that now everybody's starting to wonder that, oh yeah,
we really have gone off the rails. I've said for years,
someone's got to pull the emergency brake on college football.
But no, because they still follow whatever the big ten
in the SEC wants to do. There's no governing body.
It's just every year things change every five minutes. There's
no rules. You want a little bit of Okay, I
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understand that these are going to be the guidelines for
at least the next couple of years and not where
things change. So I'm glad I tip the cat that
a lot of coaches understand that things have to change
in college football. But here's where I know it's only
because things got hard. Yeah, well here, but here's how
I know I know more about the sport than they do. Guys,
players are gonna opt out anyway. If they're going to leave,
(36:05):
they're going to leave. They're not if they're gonna leave
at the end, again, they're going to leave. Just underline
like a brown they're going to league. Use a highlight
or whatever color you want, and use a highlighter color
of those Seahawks uniforms. Just smear it right across that page.
If a player decides he's gonna leave a team after
the regular season, he's not gonna wait until after the bully.
(36:28):
He's not gonna play because A he's gonna want to
make sure people know he's open. Right, I'm opting out.
I'm just opting out right, I'm not on the board.
I'm opting out. Okay, So now we know we can
talk to this guy when the wind all this stuff,
and plus, they're not gonna risk getting hurt and going
someplace where if if they get in the game and
they play, or something happens at practice and I'm hurt
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and I'm and I'm gonna not be able to go.
I am done at this destination. I am done. I'm
not gonna you know, hey, let's do you know one
one for the Gipper, and I'm gonna stay through the
Alimo Bowl or the pool when we'd eat our Independence ball.
I'm gonna stay through them, and stay through the holiday
bawl and stay through all these balls. That's not gonna happen.
If players are gonna leave, they're gonna leave the backup
quarterback for Penn State. How is that gonna help? How
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he was gonna leave anyway? He's got the game, he's got,
he had the playoff, and he still decided to leave.
Players are gonna leave anyway. I don't know what what
coaches think is gonna happen. And oh, by the way,
coaches are still going to leave at the end of seasons.
They're still gonna leave. And then players a gonna say, well,
I'm opting out because coaches leaving, I'm leaving. I'm not
staying here. They're gonna go.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
He's just gonna restrict coaches from bailing before bowling wars.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
Not coach. We're talking about the kids.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Coach.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
We want, we can do what we want. But that's
just it, right, the inequities remain. And to your point,
if the guy's going we we saw it. Benns State
quarterback left. He was gonna have a role in the playoffs.
How do how do he might have been a difference maker.
He might have kept Drew Allen for throwing that ball.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
I mean, how do they think that's going to do it? Yeah,
we got kind out of it.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
This is all a minute administrative thing though, right, it's saying, well,
going to make it easier because it's only ten days
of paperwork.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Instead of away, instead of thirty days of stress. It's
ten days of stress. That's what it is. Oh, we're
just cutting down the stress by a month. By by
two weeks. Right, it just means that there's only ten
days of paperwork. Everything else remains the stay. If you
are that disenfranchised, you're that unhappy that you're gonna go,
nothing's gonna convince you to stay because A you are
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either not playing and and you're you're out anyway and
you're out mentally, or B I don't want to get
hurt at practice and have that mark. My future is
not here. I'm not gonna take one step for a place.
My future isn't I'm not gonna stay. Oh hey, for
the good of the team, I'll stay and play in
the bulgame. No kids are gonna go, kids are gonna
once you saw the Penn State quarterback leaving before the playoff, Okay,
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he's gonna leave. He's not gonna stay with the team.
If he's leaving, I'll stay there. No what you I don't.
It's it's two stories that people are upset about. The
Penn State story, which all my good iss. Yeah, I'm sorry.
The seven quarterbacks they have move people up and it
doesn't matter. Oh, Marshall couldn't play a ball game. You
know what, Marshall could have played a ball game if
they have enough players on the team. They could have played. Yes,
they'd played with a lot of guys in the three deep,
(39:11):
but they could have played. But okay, but the coach
is leaving, so of course that's gonna happen. I don't
know what they think is gonna happen here. That's gonna
change things. They'll change this rule because the coaches all
want to say, okay, fine, we'll wind up doing this,
and then I'm gonna go, oh, everything's the same and
players are opting out and coaches are leaving, and oh,
so really we did nothing Like I understand the sport better.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
This is lipstick on a pig, right, because it looks
good and it looks like you're doing something substantive when
really you're not. You're legitimately just making it a ten
day period for appearance's sake, right, the administrative part of it, all, Right,
here's the paperwork. It's gotta be filed between midnight here
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at midnight here, And what do you get again? What
was it Rex Ryan waiting outside the guy's house for
free agency to start all those years ago?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
I'm fifty nine, come on, might have been that.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Allegedly, But all of that to say nothing changes here.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Right, All of this is just like the prior world
of college football. It's all into shadows anyway. Yeah, I
mean I don't know how. You just have to stamp
it in that period. This shows you they have no
idea how the sport is evolving, and at least they
know they need something. But this is we're getting behind
something that's not going to change anything. Get behind something's
(40:33):
going to change something. Well, as long as they still
get to leave when they want, it's okay. As long
as I get to leave. I don't care what happens,
but I'd like this to happen. We put it on
the kids. We have to keep strict controls on what
they can to get. As for you, hey, exit, how
about a Fresco exit, Small and Dome the Jason Smiths
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or Mike Carmen we get back. Another big story out
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