January 16, 2025 • 41 mins
Is Jayden Daniels a top 5 NFL QB? Longtime NFL Insider Jason Cole drops in to help make sense of the crazy coaching carousel. And LeBron James told the Kelce brothers he “seriously considered” playing in the NFL in 2011.
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it a cold one shot, I drink from the diet
Coca victory for the next tonight.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Nice. Now, this maybe some second to inspire some defense
from the Lakers. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I mean they're getting boat raced by the Miami Heat.
Jimmy Butler is playing all five positions for the heat right. No, no,
but this is going to be valuable for you from
Monsey Frostburg, Mary for everybody. Yes, this is really So
I went to the vending machine, did and I went
in to get a die coll He walked on down
the hall. Now, you know, when you go to a
vending machine, you have to type in the letter and
(01:32):
the number right like it's it's I nine or you know,
I eighteen.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
All the offensive things that you do at a bingo game, and.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Bingo you kick it really hard or tilted. Well yeah,
well then you don't have to put any money exactly.
Then you just pull it right out. But if you
go in and you do what I did, which is
you mistakenly hit the number before the letter right like
age four is what it's supposed to be. I hit
four starts, you know, and I feel like an idiot.
Shake me standing there staring at the machine like we're
(02:00):
having a staring contest, Like I pressed four.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And it's just sitting there and I give you money.
You shit me.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Reset, you can count them four Reset Reset. Now I
just know the four on the machine. I could tell
what it looked like. So I pressed the button and
I'm staring going reset, reset, I'm staring it like it like.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You think they've installed Siri on that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This is like it's like an Old West showdown. I'm
where I'm waiting to draw on the vending machine. I'm
going reset. It's not resetting thirty seconds. Fortune, I finally
put your fists through it.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I'm telling you the story. Could you let me tell
you the story. I'll tell you what happened. You can't
tell the stories. You keep interrupting me, asking me questions,
and I'm going to answer. You must have been a
horrible student in class. I was brilliant. We got to
cut to the chase the Holly Smooth terrify.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I was that Holly and Smooth? Who did it not,
mister Johnson, Holly and Smooth? Yes, yes, Mike. Just just
kind of just sit here. Okay. Was that later outlawed
because it was to be a constitution.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Mike, why don't you go to the principal's offs and
open up a pack of baseball cards? Okay, just just
just just leave the room. I don't care where you go.
Just leave the room so I could teach.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So I'm having the staring contest and I'm waiting and waiting,
and it's still just it with the four, like it's
daring me to do.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Something, and I'm like, stupid machine.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So I'm like, I'm just gonna hit the H and
try to get off of it and see what happens.
But I hit the eight, So now I type in
four agestead of H four die coke still came out.
So if you get the number one, as long as
you have the two digits right, you will get your
food out of there.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Not nearly as interesting as I thought. I thought it
was gonna suddenly have some random flip to a whole
other board where it just gives it to you without money. Yeah,
like where you were going there, like like all of
a sudden, it was a little speakeasy. I it was
like mission impossible.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hello, Jason, here is your mission, should you choose to
accept it. But Jets need a head coach. You're as
qualified as anyone. Fly to New York now and interview
with Brick Johnson. Well, I'm just telling you, hey, next
time you go, you know what, You're on your head.
You're on your own because I used to have to
put money. If you fat finger the vending machine, it
will help you, that's all before they buy them.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, I hit the wrong button, by the way, that
hit the wrong button. Then it happens. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Now we all have more on Lebron James now the
Lakers down to the heat right now at halftime sixty
six fifty four. I love more on Lebron coming up
in about forty minutes, because you know, Lebron said today
that hey, I almost changed sports about twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So we got to get to that. Sure.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But look as we get set for the NFL Action
this weekend, and and you know, we're down to the
you know, the big divisional round. It's the final eight
teams and and you know we talked about it before.
How you know it's seven mobile quarterbacks and Matthew Stafford.
And it's really like he's like, okay, Stafford really holding down.
We only need one really immobile guy. All the other
seven guys are so good, they move so much, but
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Stafford moves so little.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's kind of an equal thing. But you know what
it does, It exemplifies my general theory and all this
why I cheer for Aaron Rodgers look at while I
cheer for Brady until he finally were tired and went
to the Booty Queen. Yeah here for Brady Green, Oh good, absolutely,
And he went to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You went to Northwestern. No, he's kind of shared for
him when he got Notre Dame. Notre Dame takes over Chicago,
like Northwestern's not even there.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, whatever. You guys are smart two again, right,
we're smart too. In our helmets really shinead Northwestern two
thousand and five. Baby, hey, Julia Luis Dreyfus.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yeah, that was the beginning of the road to Pasadena
for the victory over the Irish. But the idea of
just being that the longer these guys play as immobile
as they may be, I don't feel so damn old.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, no, no, you're right, you're right now.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You realize Matthew Stafford's almost twenty years younger than you will,
like dead, No almost?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What is he almost thirty seven? I'm not dead old.
How old are you? Fifty two? Right? No? Fifty one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, so that's forty twenty. That's fourteen. That's a big gap. Okay,
fourteen twenty from zero to twenty. It's a lot to
twenty than it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Is to zero.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it's close to twenty. It's actually really close to fifteen.
Do you feel better if I said that? Feel better?
Would you feel better if I said a superlex You know,
how about when you said to me a couple of
years ago, Oh you know, yeah, you're fifty eight, got
another twenty years? When you talk about twenty years, I
got more than that. He would even give you thirty
you're a twenty years to tell you. Oh you know,
it doesn't feel so good when someone says that to you,
doesn't mister Helper?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh yeah, I realize how much older you are.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Than guys that really can't move around. Oh so I'm
Matthew Stafford was on the other foot. I don't like
the shoe on this one.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I wonder if you told me I had another twenty years,
I'd be happy. Okay, we want more than Frostburg over
the tear him Frozburg over the top. Don't make me choose.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
If you had to choose, if you had to chew,
come on, Harmon Smith Harmon smokes and drinks all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I mean, come on, I know, yeah, that's one of
is people that do that live long.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, and now hey, I'm my carbon I find a
place to channel my hate.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I didn't become a really great voice over God till
I was seventy two. I had to wait all the
whiskey just get to me for a while. So, uh,
here's what we got coming up.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Now, let's go back to Layla, Derek and the Dominos
nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, all those AI tracks instead a dj Q and
these half assed as, it's gonna be all Smoker's voice.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Farman, when you're talking about greatness in the NFL, right,
it's easy. We had a conversation last night about how
it's too easy to confuse getting paid with being great.
Justin Herbert and Jordan Love are two good quarterbacks. They're
very good. They're not elite. They're not the top quarterbacks
in the game. They just aren't. But they're paid that
way because teams, when you find someone who's good, the
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reality is you want to hold on to them because
the alternative is we're still trying to find a guy
that's good, and you can get that wrong and that
holds you back. So, hey, we found a guy that's good,
let's pay him and keep them. But the true superstar quarterbacks,
there are four great quarterbacks in the NFL. Right now four, well,
actually there's five because we're adding somebody to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
The list coming into this year or middle of this year.
You're carving out another boss. Done mountains.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
There are four great quarterbacks and my, my, uh, my
criteria for great quarterbacks is quarterbacks who make everybody around
them better and you win games and you win big games.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Because of them. All right, that's that's that's what you went.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You You make everybody better and you win games, many
games strictly because of your performance. That suddenly now you realize, okay,
that's not that many guys. Right, There's lots of good
quarterbacks in the NFL that can win if they have
the right players around That's why Justin Herbert can win
if he has the right guys around him. Better running game,
another weapon of wide receiver. Uh you know, Jordan love Stay,
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get to get a big guy a wide receiver. Everybody's hurt.
There are four great quarterbacks in the NFL who win
games by themselves on a regular basis and they make
everybody around them better. And those four guys coming into
this season are Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and
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Patrick Mahomes. Those are the four guys that are still
great Aaron Rodgers one spawn of Time was great.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's not a great quarterback anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Four guys that fall under that category of they make
everybody around them better and they win games by themselves regularly.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And when you think, when.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You think about those qualifications, it's oh yeah, Mahomes absolutely,
Josh Allen, absolutely, Lamar Jackson absolutely.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The only thing with Joe Burrow is he's got to
be healthy. But when he is healthy, that's who he is. Look,
he nearly willed the Bengals into the playoffs this year
all by himself, and the Chiefs had to play all
their third stringers and play Steve Bono and Bill Kenny
at quarterback to make sure that they didn't make the playoff.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Oh no, no, no, don't do that. Win a game
in September, actually play a game.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So that Tale should have had his ass fired just
for that and for not getting rid of lou And.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Now they finished better.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You mentioned him on the show more than I think
his family mentions him.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But it's one of those things you saw. It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now they closed a bit better down the stretch defensively.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But it was it was a disaster. So what do
you do? You gotta change it. You got a change vibe.
Maybe you had to change McPherson. He cost you a
couple of games. To him and Justin Tucker. I don't
know who failed you more.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Oh Justin Tucker. He missed a big kick every single week.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Seem like it.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
But Costin could have cost Lamar could have No, he didn't,
but he did the v one.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, but it could also cost him of the playoffs
this week. But you have to add somebody else to it?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And is it Brock? Come on? Talk about guys who
need everybody a round? I really just wanton. Here's what
I need. What do you need? Brock?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I need two Pro Bowl wide receivers, okay, I need
a Pro Bowl tight end sure, and need the best
running back in the game. Okay, then I'll be good.
Oh all right, great? Anything else?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, yeah, I need.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Like two or three All pros on the offensive line
and I'll be really really good.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Jump did you press for that equation on that?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But you have to add Jayden Daniels to this list.
Even though it's one year, this is a team that
has won because of him regular and he makes everybody
around him better. They do not have a great roster.
Jaden Daniels last week the performance. To win this game,
all you have to do is look at the final
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play running for the first down, where he's dead to
rights in the backfield and it looks like he's gonna
get tackled, and it's a very calm, stiff arm. I
run forward for the first down, and then Zan Gazalez
comes in and doints it off the upright. You see
him playing. You hear the you hear the the nuncers
say the same thing. Boy, it looks like he's been
playing the game for a long time. He doesn't get
overly excited, and and and that is true. I'm not
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you know, I'm not giving you anything.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You have heard all here pointing everybody said right that
he basically has the heartbeat of a poker player. Right,
You never know what kind of hand they have because
it's just dead even in steady.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
He is.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
He is different because that is who he is as
a quarterback, and he is easily to be mentioned alongside
those other four guys you talk about great not great
fantasy quarterbacks, great quarterbacks in the NFL. Burrow Lamar Allen Mahomes.
And you have to add in Jade and Daniels. This
is in Washington. It wasn't expected to do anything. They
were starting over. They were hoping Jade and Daniels would
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be good, and right away he showed us he was
talented right away. He started winning games. Right away, He
started winning games by himself. And for that to happen,
we are really undervaluing just how good this kid is.
All Right, I get you know, Cayleb Williams has a
lot of attention because it's Chicago. It's a big media market.
He was a Heisman Trophy winner. We saw him in Kyle.
(12:29):
He's a big known star. Jade and Daniels who played
a lot of college football, a burst on the scene,
incredible senior year, Heisman Trophy. Yeah, I guess we're taking
them number two overall. But he has shown you that
he is by far and away, one of the best
quarterbacks to come in this league in the last decade.
The fact that that he's a great quarterback already should
not be should not just because a rookie, That should
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not preclude him from this list, because there's nobody else
in the NFL that has one outside of these five
guys that win games for their teams like they do,
and Daniels want him do it all year, he is
on that list.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, I mean look in an outlier single season. I
mean you had the Baker Mayfield Bucky Irving duo. But
Baker had a monster year because that defense wasn't very good.
But is he a guy that we're putting up there
as a he's gonna do this perennially.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
No, it was an outline. And were you always winning
games because of Baker Mayfield? No, anybody had his moments.
Anybody who had running the football ran. I think Eric
Rhett had a couple one hundred yard games. Now I
think you're going a little too far because.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Rashad White would have left the ball behind him a
couple of times as he ran by, but.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Coming into the air.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
It was interesting because we did talk about the Commanders
a bunch of a all right, they could be interesting
for looking at their roster, looking at the personnel.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Didn't think that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Daniels was gonna end up being their leading rusher at
nine hundred yards. Eckler missed a bunch time, Robinson missed
a bunch of time, and obviously Terry mclaurin's just otherworldly
when you've got a couple of other wide receivers that
were still rising up. And zach Ertz had himself a
fantastic gear. We talked about all of the the big
bonuses he hit down the stretch. Daniels was the number
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five Fantasy quarterback for the year on the strength of
his nearly nine hundred rushing yards. And that's an element
like we see with all like everybody else you mentioned, right,
it's a capability, the ability to tuck the ball, and
even Joe Burrow, that's not what he's known for, but
damn it, he'll do it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Absolutely. One of the things everybody loves about Herbert, right,
why everybody's waiting for that assent, is that he's a.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Football player, right, as Jim Harbaugh loves to tell you.
But yeah, Jadon Daniels, I mean, I don't know that
I'm building the bus yet, but I'll at least carve
out the space and start building a little bit of
a foothold there, and then he can come and dazzle
me again this Sunday and we'll see exit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How about a Fresco exit Swollen Dome five Elite quarterbacks.
Five great quarterbacks in the NFL, Ed Jayden Di g
Gene on that one.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
What about mahomes without the refs? Does he make the list?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
No, Ca, you count the refs with mahomes. Yeah, they
go together. You can't, they can't stay yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Coming up next, Jason Call stops by for all the
latest in the NFL. Does he agree about Jaden Daniels?
How does he see the games going this weekend? Keep
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He has a long time NFL insider. He is with
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Jason Cole. What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh that is beautiful. Actually we're I think we're getting
paid by the interview by the Jets.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Oh okay, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's like one hundred k per interview. So it could
take three or four months before you have a.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Coach Yeah, you're gonna You're gonna get them interview Adam
Gase to make him forget they had him in the
first place a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
How perfect would that be? Bringing back Gate?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Wait a minute, I think I know this guy. Wait
a minute, it escapes me. I know this guy. He's
wearing a fake mustache.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Can you bring can you bring back Lou Holk?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
He was on social media all over today. Does having
fun with that? Hey? So he hate trying day.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Let me bring into what we were talking about a few
minutes ago, because you got a tweet about him not
too long ago. Uh, you know, we're talking about the
elite quarterbacks in the NFL. I think there were there
were five truly great quarterbacks in the NFL, guys who
make everybody around them better and they win games because
of them regularly. And I coming into this year, Mahomes, Burrow, Allan,
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Lamar Jackson, and I think you got to add Jayden
Daniels to that list after what he's done so far
his rookie year.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, I'm trying to think. Yeah, Stroud is closed Herbert
obviously despite the clunker in the UH in the playoff game.
You guys think he's close. Is there anybody else who's
remotely remotely close? Now that's about it. Maybe it's five
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to seven guys. I mean, brock Perty is never really
going to be that guy who's, you know, super accurate
guy who would distribute the ball and they can get overwhelmed,
you know, physically in the pocket if they don't have
a clean pocket for him. So he's not Stafford. Stafford
is in that group too. I would, I would, I would,
(19:40):
I would argue for him.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, I'll let you argue, Matthew Stafford. I had to
put my hand over Harmon's mouth because he kept saying
club Williams, Curl Williams.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Is it not?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And come on, if I don't get Aaron Rodgers, you
don't got Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well yeah, let's just say that's a work in progress.
It's when Todd who was it? He is the guy
who who who kicked Jim Rums's butt the toe Jim Everett. Okay,
so Jim Jim Everett And not that Caleb Williams and
(20:18):
Jim Everett would ever be mistaken for each other in
terms of style of play. But when Ernie's MPs, he
was the offensive coordinator of the rams and he was
training Everett. One of the things he would do is
he would stand behind Everett as he as he as
he would drop back in practice, and he counted three
(20:39):
one two, three balls got to go, you know, get
rid of it, get rid of fort screaming at him
in the middle of practice. Caleb Williams needs that, you know,
he needs that. He probably needs somebody to tether him
to a stake at the back of the pocket so
that he can only scramble so far during Like, you've
(21:01):
got to get out of this habit that you think
you can leave the pocket and create, you know, thirteen
second plays every single time, because you're just killing your
offensive line too, you know, on top of the fact
that they're not very good to begin with, you're killing them.
So I still think Caleb has ability, but there are
some serious doubters right now.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, that reverse spin that he used to pull off
at USC, he usually finds a guy ready to plant
him Goldberg style with some regularity.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, that's a that's a problem. Yeah. That reverse then
that Lway made famous once upon a time that he
stole from I think Fram Tarkenton, and I don't know
where Fram got it. But yeah, like there's a long
history of that and as as you go up against
bigger and better people, it tends not to work as well.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
You can find all that chronicled in Jason Gold's book
about John Elway, as well as as many other works
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Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh God, I love you. I love you. Along with
the pizza, by the way, the pizza we're having that
for dinner tomorrow, having a couple of friends over. Just
gonna be what do you sending tom By the way.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm sending you this Laurel and Hardy handshake for tomorrow
for dinner.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
There you go. Hey, now you gotta go watch Laurel
and Hardy. Hey, Mike McCarthy out in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Jason's really kind of losing his mind that Robert Salah
may find his way back on an NFL sideline.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Falla fits the bill perfectly. I mean, here's the here's
the thing I'm thinking about Jerry. He you know, he's
got to consider do I hire Belichick or Dion or
Pete Carroll. There's the other guy who's out there with
some notoriety, Adam.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
We talked about him.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Adam Adam Gate like Gruden, Like bring back Gruden. That
would be a shavvy move for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Rich Coside also available, Yeah, but yeah, very available, Yes, yes,
very much.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Coach Fasio unfortunately is about the way, but he would
be on the list otherwise. No, the question is does
Jerry need cover or does he think that he needs
cover from all the criticism. But the thing is, it's
still not going to stop him from boguarding all the
post game press conferences and just overriding the coach anyways.
(23:31):
So it's not worth spending the money and giving the
power to somebody like dionnor Belichick or Carol or even Gruden.
Although Gruden would be desperate enough to take the job,
it's not it's not worth it, you know, at the
end of it, because he's still going to garner all
the attention and try and grab it because it's just Jerry.
(23:51):
So Sala is perfect because Sala will basically do whatever
Jerry wants. And yeah, like I think Terry was surprised
that McCarthy was willing to walk away from this, but
it tells you so much that McCarthy's like, I'm just
out of this dam I'm just done. Even if I
don't get the Bear's job, Like, I'm out, you know,
(24:14):
just get me out of this mess, okay, because I
can't coach this way. Like that's a really telling statement
that McCarthy, who was desperate to get back in five
years ago when he got of the Dallas job, he's
now just walking away from it without really having that
Chicago job assured.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
NFL insider Jason Call our guest the Jason Smithson with
Mike Carmon Live from the tirec dot Com studios. All Right,
the last couple of days, we've clearly talked about all
the money Sam Donald has lost with the last two
weeks he had in the regular season in playoffs. It's
like that old air conditioner commercial watch don't throw money
out the window, and all the money is flying out
the window. Forget about what's going to happen in your opinion?
(24:54):
What is the right thing for the Viking Sam Donald?
What's the right thing for Donald where he sits right
now going into next year? What's the right thing to happen?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh, I don't know. You could probably do three years
thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
You think he's going to sign for ten million a year, well,
thirty five touchdowns?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He did?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
He did throw thirty five touchdowns in four thousand yards.
Pretty good year.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Did you watch afterday?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I did? They were not good.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And I would make sure that if I'm sending out tape,
I leave those two games off and say, oh, yeah,
we ran out of room on this.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
We just watch up to week.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Sixteen because nobody else could possibly ever find tape of
that game. And that's that's impossible. Like if he doesn't,
it's like in high school, like, oh, what happened to
the other four games from your high school cer?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Those got edited out? There's a couple of plays.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You do you really think Brick Johnson knows where to
find those last couple of games?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Come on, man, oh, Brick sorry uploaded him to it
to man, Rick's got the entire log them, every single
game from the season on it, so he can call
it up any moment when his dad wants to show
me them on third and ten what they do.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And then it's a video game recreation. So he's a
dude from Draft Day Jonah from yeah, hey, call up
that play, call up that vante Van mack sack. Right now,
let's watch who's.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Not on there, that's what and Brick are her names? Are?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Kid?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Brick?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Someone who liked Anchorman?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, only Cowboy, only Sheriff Wood. He would name his
kid Brick, But that's just sick as a brick.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Maybe, hey, great song, great alb.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Maybe he's a big fan of Anchorman and he's a
big fan of Steve Curls.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Brick tamblon, Oh my sweet Brick.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh would that be the best? Would that be the best?
If what he was to knit some day that he
named his kid after a k after a character and Anchorman,
that would be the greatest thing of all time.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
At your front's lip, that would be so for now,
we're going to speak it into existence because you could
make that.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
You could put that up on Wikipedia and make it fact.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh, let's do it right now on Twitter. What's on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter if
it's did you have this at all?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Makes no difference? Does maybe you get a community?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Not play the SoundBite right now? Brick Johnson was named
after the character from Anchorman. Just put that out right now.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Jason Cole goes viral tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
According to Jays's NFL Insider, Jason Cole from the thirty
third team. Brick was named after Brick Tamplin.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I don't know why. I don't want that guy helping
in the hiring of our coach anymore. All right, all
that said, when the carousels, I might get fired.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I might get fired, just I really might.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I might get fired and you lose your Hall of
Fame vote there. That would happen to.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Well, that might happen anyway, that might kick me off.
Who knows. You never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Come on, got a couple of weeks till the next
round of pageantry and us talking about who got snubbed.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It's great, Uh yeah, we got We got a couple
of weeks before we talked. We talked about that before
you start repeating your all of very good stuff, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Out here, hey, Brick Tamblon is a very good owner.
And you're gonna write Brick Tamblon a relentless life at
some point, and you're gonna be the biographer.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Talking about when he cleared that video game hurdle, when
he won the game. He played the Jurassic Park game
and got to the end where Jeff Goldbloom says.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Go out and get some sunshine.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I got my dad to not pay Ryan Fitzpatrick when
I was eleven years old. Man, that was the first
time I knew and I got some of his beard clippings.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
This is classic, this is this is so great.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
So we're spinning the wheel of coaches.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
We mentioned all the big names, right, all the guys
with pageantry and history and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Where's the surprise gonna come? Is it?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Jacksonville? Is like, who's getting on one of these thirty
two that we're we're not talking about enough.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know, but like it's gonna be I don't
know if it's just gonna be one. I think it
might be secure free jobs because when you really think
of that, there's enough coaches to go around, or so
you could there could be a high school guy out there,
you know, looking for a job right now, and he
might end up in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So it's Jerry Foust forty years later.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
But does that high school coach have enough cloud to
go to shod Con to get Trent Balkey fired?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Like you no, I know you're getting it wrong. Trent
Balky will say, oh, I see this up and comers
he's at Pace Academy in Atlanta. I just love this
guy and he might be able to sell it at
this point in time.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Hey, three championships, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
What was that? What's that school that's on the river,
the Saint John River, and it's where Tipper Jones went.
I'm trying to remember the name of that school, like
the high school coach there in Jacksonville, at that school,
he could easily have the job Wars job at the
end of the week. Easy, especially if he has anything
(30:16):
to do with it, you know, just.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
The Bowl school, the Bowl School, not.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Todd Bowles b Yeah, Todd Bowle School.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Not Todd Bowle School.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, not Todd Bowles. Well b O L L E S.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
See what they're doing. Then music started playing. They've got
us on better clock management than Todd Bowles.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Wow, look at this. Yeah that's true. Wait ten seconds
after the plays deat Oh, I think we'll bed time
out now, like I think so it could be possible,
all right, I think they want us out of here
right by.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
J call No, they just want you going, so you
can go call bricking right right as up, see you, buddy,
J call there he goes the Jason Smith Show, The
Mike Harvin Live the Tire Rag dot Com Studios. I
really want him to write the Woody and Brick Johnson's
story now like you just heed did the l Way book.
I right to wear answer. I got the Jets to
(31:09):
draft Mark Sanchez when I was six years old. I
told my dad take the Sanchez kid.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I didn't know anything, but he took them. Look at
watched a couple of those you know, three hundred and
those movies. I said, we need a guy like that.
And that guy played for USC So yeah, it made sense.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Exit off out of Frasca, Exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carbon time not to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports from Monci Milanos,
who was wearing her big clippers had adorned with rhinestones,
ready to go tonight.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I mean, I wish I had a clippers with rhinestones.
I settled for Rugrats today.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Okay, clippers on it?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
No, well, clippers, okay, that's wrong, I dig it.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
I am very disappointed here, fellas. I cannot find a
Clippers lounge flyback package.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I'm trying to help you. I haven't seen that. I
know it doesn't exist. I don't think it exists exists.
I don't think they gave him the licensing, not at all.
And Suns also don't have any.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
So Breeze very upset. We're very upset over here because
of Jason Smith's super cool launch fly in Knicks backpack.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's my fending Knicks backpack that Harmon got me for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
I know, I'm very jealous.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
It's my Fendy bag and a bad attitude. That's all
I need to get me in.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
A good mood.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Yet, I may become a Knicks fan just so I
could buy that backpack.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
And that's how much I like that.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
It is is awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We've got three games going on right now in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Timberwoods still losing to the Warriors at home ninety four
eighty six started the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
The Heat are.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Still beating the Lakers eighty three seventy five. Late in
the third Tyler Hero twenty seven points so far. At halftime,
the Clippers are beating the Nets fifty eight to thirty five.
James Harden fifteen points and six assists the Knicks. Speaking
of the Knicks, they beat the seventy six ers one
twenty five to one nineteen in overtime, the Raptors beat
the Celtics. Yes, everyone for the Celtics played one. Ten
(32:56):
to ninety seven was the final score. The Bucks crushed
the mate two to ninety three. Damian Lillard had thirty
points and the Nuggets wanted up playing their game tonight
without Nicola Yoka. She heard his elbow during warm ups.
Well the rocketstick advantage. They beat Denver one twenty eight
to one oh eight is the final. There one college
hoops game going on twenty two, Utah State beating UNLV
(33:19):
eighteen sixteen with about eight minutes to go in.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
The first half.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
And how about this in soccer got some soccer news.
ESPN reports that brazil superstar and Al Hillo I think
is the name of the Saudi Arabia team Neymar in
preliminary talks with three MLS teams, including Chicago Fire, about
possibly making the move inner Miami does not seem to
be on the list. So, no, he is not going
(33:44):
to team up with the.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
First round of the playoffs. Of course, he's not going
to go to Miami.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
No.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
No, He's coming to MLS to just you know, be
in the US and play for the MLSH League.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Clearly pay cut.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
It is a pay cut, but it is a it's
a pay He doesn't need money, He's made enough.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
But it is a do you ever really have enough?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
It's a fair point.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Apparently you don't, is what I hear from trading all
for just a little bit more. But here he would
just get a lot more.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
I think he would just get more famous if he
comes to play in MLS, even though it's it's Naymar. Also,
why are soccer players like share like they only have
one name?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
You know, Neymar, you're that famous Madonna. I mean that
as a kid soccer. But as a kid I was
just Harmon because there were six mics in my Catholic
grade schools class, so we just went by our surnames.
Fair point, fair point.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Yeah, just it's fight Hudson soccer more than any other story.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
You're just Moncey. I am just Moncy.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You're just.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
But is better rolls off. You don't even need to
see the last name mix. That's true him back to
you guys, Thank you very much, Monzi.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Lot from the Tire
dot Com Studios coming up next. You want a little
bit of revision his history. Guess what Lebron James said
he nearly did a little over a decade ago. That's
coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (35:20):
I always loved how heavy Tommy Lee played the drums.
And I mean that without any sort of insinuation. I
just mean how heavy he always played the drums. He
really thumped so heavy. Woof Fox Sports Radio, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We got
more NBA coming up next hour. Lake has just took
the lead over the heat eighty eight eighty seven. Still
(35:42):
a lot of time to go in the fourth quarter
and maybe Jimmy Butler and pat Riley will fist fight by.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
The end of the game.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
But speaking of the Lakers, Lebron James did a podcast
today and he talked about what he nearly did in
twenty eleven.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
He was on New Heights with with the Kelsey Brothers.
Uh huh, and he.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Said, back in twenty eleven, when the NBA lockout was
going on, he really really thought about changing sports.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Have you ever like taken it like a serious thought, like, man,
what if I just did one year?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
The only time I've like really taken it like super
duper serious, I believe it was I think it was
twenty eleven when we had the NBA lockout and you know,
and I didn't know like when we were going to
make the deal with the with the owners and get
our league back going. So I actually thought about it
a little bit back then. I was still young enough,
(36:38):
you know, to get out there with y'all.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
But oh, wait a minute, then he curses coming up.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
So well you had to say it with him fastest
on that celebl.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He thought during the lockout he had serious dreams about
playing in the NFL during the lockout, what if I
tried one year? But ultimately, I think it was just
one of those what if moments in life. Now, I
know Lebron has played before, and okay, that's great, But
to think that, you know, Lebron when he's getting to
be nearly thirty years old, is going to walk into
(37:11):
the NFL and be great, Come on, man, I mean,
just I get that. When you're a great athlete, you
think you can do anything and We've seen people play
different sports. We've seen that happen. Right, It's one thing
for Travis Hunter to play both sides of the football,
and can he translate that to the NFL. We saw
Deon Sanders do it a little bit. We saw bo
Jackson do it. But these are guys that they've played
(37:32):
all the way through. These guys were playing, you know,
they played. Lebron's not gonna go from being away from
playing for the lesson he played was in high school
to just walking into the NFL. Yes, his body, he
had an NBA body when he's eighteen years old, and yes,
does he have an would you have have an NFL body?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You know who else's NFL bodies? NFL players. You know
it's bigger than Lebron James. Every linebacker he would have
lined up against, he would have gotten pasted, absolutely pasted
if he tried to jump to the NFL. I get thinking,
I'm a great athlete, I've played the game. My skills
will translate. Yeah, let's see you go over the little
one time. Let's see over a little one time and
(38:10):
see what happens when you get hit by a linebacker
who knows exactly what they're doing well.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You're just hey, I can run round. I see the
guys do it.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I got Antonio Gates that yeah, okay, Antonio Gates was
much bigger and and and was was a different time
in the he came out. He played both basketball, he
played football. Uh, Lebron did not do that. You know,
Hey went right from high school to the NBA. So
it's not like I have this really great background that
I can that I can go back on. He would
have gone to the NFL and he would have gotten pasted.
(38:40):
Not if he went to the Jets, he well, okay,
he might have been the best player on the Jets,
but anybody else he would have gotten pasted.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, I love the let's let's talk about history and
make it, you know, walk down memory lane day because
you had the thing about the Cavaliers and talking about
their season.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
You also had when I was sixteen, I was cooking
Michael Jordan, like, do we have videotape? I've not heard
that story, you know, corroborated to the level that you know,
I'm convinced that you know, it was a one on one.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Showdown that he went and just grilled him. But all
of that to say it's nice to do the what
ifs because we do it with with other athletes beyond Lebron.
He's not the first to do it, and it's certainly
not not above this space radio and television to start
pondering memory lane and what if you'd taken a different path.
(39:34):
The sliding doors scenario should go rom communism. All right,
all right, you never expect the Spanish inquisition?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Sure, sure, nicely, Yeah, well done. Couldn't slip that reference passion.
But yeah, for Lebron, like he, we wondered about being
bart cyborg for a number of years. Then the injuries
piled up. I do appreciate because the natural inclination was, oh,
you would have been a tight end, right, That's what
everybody always said, Oh you would have been a tight end.
(40:00):
You watch him with contact, oftentimes you're waiting for him
to break.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Like glass, like you, Samuel Jackson Glass.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
So a guy that a guy that can look for
fouls because he gets bumped. I'm gonna make it through everybody. Okay,
let let's see. I'd love to see.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You're not a quarterback. You're not getting that call. I
don't love to see that. You think you think Ed
Reid wasn't gonna just declete you. If that was you
think that was gonna happen, that would be your welcome
to the NFL moment. You have Ray Lewis going straight
from the Squirrel Dance exit out of Fresco exit. Swellen dumb.
I would have liked to see it. I would have.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I would have liked to see that. Try to have
like to see Lebron tried to That would have been
really Funere's that.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Read he'd have ran back to the NBA so fast,
the greatest, all the fame bust.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Ever, I didn't like that, man, I didn't like any
of that. No, no, not me. Coming up next, there's
Brian Dawkins.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Let's lie him up an NFL debate I've been looking
forward to having for the last couple of days.
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Speaker 3 (01:05):
Nice. Now, this maybe some second to inspire some defense
from the Lakers. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I mean they're getting boat raced by the Miami Heat.
Jimmy Butler is playing all five positions for the heat right. No, no,
but this is going to be valuable for you from
Monsey Frostburg, Mary for everybody. Yes, this is really So
I went to the vending machine, did and I went
in to get a die coll He walked on down
the hall. Now, you know, when you go to a
vending machine, you have to type in the letter and
(01:32):
the number right like it's it's I nine or you know,
I eighteen.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
All the offensive things that you do at a bingo game, and.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Bingo you kick it really hard or tilted. Well yeah,
well then you don't have to put any money exactly.
Then you just pull it right out. But if you
go in and you do what I did, which is
you mistakenly hit the number before the letter right like
age four is what it's supposed to be. I hit
four starts, you know, and I feel like an idiot.
Shake me standing there staring at the machine like we're
(02:00):
having a staring contest, Like I pressed four.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
And it's just sitting there and I give you money.
You shit me.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Reset, you can count them four Reset Reset. Now I
just know the four on the machine. I could tell
what it looked like. So I pressed the button and
I'm staring going reset, reset, I'm staring it like it like.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
You think they've installed Siri on that.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
This is like it's like an Old West showdown. I'm
where I'm waiting to draw on the vending machine. I'm
going reset. It's not resetting thirty seconds. Fortune, I finally
put your fists through it.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I'm telling you the story. Could you let me tell
you the story. I'll tell you what happened. You can't
tell the stories. You keep interrupting me, asking me questions,
and I'm going to answer. You must have been a
horrible student in class. I was brilliant. We got to
cut to the chase the Holly Smooth terrify.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I was that Holly and Smooth? Who did it not,
mister Johnson, Holly and Smooth? Yes, yes, Mike. Just just
kind of just sit here. Okay. Was that later outlawed
because it was to be a constitution.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Mike, why don't you go to the principal's offs and
open up a pack of baseball cards? Okay, just just
just just leave the room. I don't care where you go.
Just leave the room so I could teach.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So I'm having the staring contest and I'm waiting and waiting,
and it's still just it with the four, like it's
daring me to do.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Something, and I'm like, stupid machine.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
So I'm like, I'm just gonna hit the H and
try to get off of it and see what happens.
But I hit the eight, So now I type in
four agestead of H four die coke still came out.
So if you get the number one, as long as
you have the two digits right, you will get your
food out of there.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Not nearly as interesting as I thought. I thought it
was gonna suddenly have some random flip to a whole
other board where it just gives it to you without money. Yeah,
like where you were going there, like like all of
a sudden, it was a little speakeasy. I it was
like mission impossible.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Hello, Jason, here is your mission, should you choose to
accept it. But Jets need a head coach. You're as
qualified as anyone. Fly to New York now and interview
with Brick Johnson. Well, I'm just telling you, hey, next
time you go, you know what, You're on your head.
You're on your own because I used to have to
put money. If you fat finger the vending machine, it
will help you, that's all before they buy them.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, I hit the wrong button, by the way, that
hit the wrong button. Then it happens. Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Now we all have more on Lebron James now the
Lakers down to the heat right now at halftime sixty
six fifty four. I love more on Lebron coming up
in about forty minutes, because you know, Lebron said today
that hey, I almost changed sports about twelve years ago.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
So we got to get to that. Sure.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But look as we get set for the NFL Action
this weekend, and and you know, we're down to the
you know, the big divisional round. It's the final eight
teams and and you know we talked about it before.
How you know it's seven mobile quarterbacks and Matthew Stafford.
And it's really like he's like, okay, Stafford really holding down.
We only need one really immobile guy. All the other
seven guys are so good, they move so much, but
(04:47):
Stafford moves so little.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
It's kind of an equal thing. But you know what
it does, It exemplifies my general theory and all this
why I cheer for Aaron Rodgers look at while I
cheer for Brady until he finally were tired and went
to the Booty Queen. Yeah here for Brady Green, Oh good, absolutely,
And he went to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
You went to Northwestern. No, he's kind of shared for
him when he got Notre Dame. Notre Dame takes over Chicago,
like Northwestern's not even there.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, yeah, whatever. You guys are smart two again, right,
we're smart too. In our helmets really shinead Northwestern two
thousand and five. Baby, hey, Julia Luis Dreyfus.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yeah, that was the beginning of the road to Pasadena
for the victory over the Irish. But the idea of
just being that the longer these guys play as immobile
as they may be, I don't feel so damn old.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, no, no, you're right, you're right now.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You realize Matthew Stafford's almost twenty years younger than you will,
like dead, No almost?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
What is he almost thirty seven? I'm not dead old.
How old are you? Fifty two? Right? No? Fifty one? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, so that's forty twenty. That's fourteen. That's a big gap. Okay,
fourteen twenty from zero to twenty. It's a lot to
twenty than it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Is to zero.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So it's close to twenty. It's actually really close to fifteen.
Do you feel better if I said that? Feel better?
Would you feel better if I said a superlex You know,
how about when you said to me a couple of
years ago, Oh you know, yeah, you're fifty eight, got
another twenty years? When you talk about twenty years, I
got more than that. He would even give you thirty
you're a twenty years to tell you. Oh you know,
it doesn't feel so good when someone says that to you,
doesn't mister Helper?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Oh yeah, I realize how much older you are.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Than guys that really can't move around. Oh so I'm
Matthew Stafford was on the other foot. I don't like
the shoe on this one.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I wonder if you told me I had another twenty years,
I'd be happy. Okay, we want more than Frostburg over
the tear him Frozburg over the top. Don't make me choose.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
If you had to choose, if you had to chew,
come on, Harmon Smith Harmon smokes and drinks all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
I mean, come on, I know, yeah, that's one of
is people that do that live long.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, and now hey, I'm my carbon I find a
place to channel my hate.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
I didn't become a really great voice over God till
I was seventy two. I had to wait all the
whiskey just get to me for a while. So, uh,
here's what we got coming up.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Now, let's go back to Layla, Derek and the Dominos
nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Yeah, all those AI tracks instead a dj Q and
these half assed as, it's gonna be all Smoker's voice.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Farman, when you're talking about greatness in the NFL, right,
it's easy. We had a conversation last night about how
it's too easy to confuse getting paid with being great.
Justin Herbert and Jordan Love are two good quarterbacks. They're
very good. They're not elite. They're not the top quarterbacks
in the game. They just aren't. But they're paid that
way because teams, when you find someone who's good, the
(07:35):
reality is you want to hold on to them because
the alternative is we're still trying to find a guy
that's good, and you can get that wrong and that
holds you back. So, hey, we found a guy that's good,
let's pay him and keep them. But the true superstar quarterbacks,
there are four great quarterbacks in the NFL. Right now four, well,
actually there's five because we're adding somebody to.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
The list coming into this year or middle of this year.
You're carving out another boss. Done mountains.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
There are four great quarterbacks and my, my, uh, my
criteria for great quarterbacks is quarterbacks who make everybody around
them better and you win games and you win big games.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Because of them. All right, that's that's that's what you went.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
You You make everybody better and you win games, many
games strictly because of your performance. That suddenly now you realize, okay,
that's not that many guys. Right, There's lots of good
quarterbacks in the NFL that can win if they have
the right players around That's why Justin Herbert can win
if he has the right guys around him. Better running game,
another weapon of wide receiver. Uh you know, Jordan love Stay,
(08:37):
get to get a big guy a wide receiver. Everybody's hurt.
There are four great quarterbacks in the NFL who win
games by themselves on a regular basis and they make
everybody around them better. And those four guys coming into
this season are Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and
(08:58):
Patrick Mahomes. Those are the four guys that are still
great Aaron Rodgers one spawn of Time was great.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
It's not a great quarterback anymore.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Four guys that fall under that category of they make
everybody around them better and they win games by themselves regularly.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
And when you think, when.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You think about those qualifications, it's oh yeah, Mahomes absolutely,
Josh Allen, absolutely, Lamar Jackson absolutely.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
The only thing with Joe Burrow is he's got to
be healthy. But when he is healthy, that's who he is. Look,
he nearly willed the Bengals into the playoffs this year
all by himself, and the Chiefs had to play all
their third stringers and play Steve Bono and Bill Kenny
at quarterback to make sure that they didn't make the playoff.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Oh no, no, no, don't do that. Win a game
in September, actually play a game.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
So that Tale should have had his ass fired just
for that and for not getting rid of lou And.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Now they finished better.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
You mentioned him on the show more than I think
his family mentions him.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But it's one of those things you saw. It was terrible.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Now they closed a bit better down the stretch defensively.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
But it was it was a disaster. So what do
you do? You gotta change it. You got a change vibe.
Maybe you had to change McPherson. He cost you a
couple of games. To him and Justin Tucker. I don't
know who failed you more.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Oh Justin Tucker. He missed a big kick every single week.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Seem like it.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
But Costin could have cost Lamar could have No, he didn't,
but he did the v one.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, but it could also cost him of the playoffs
this week. But you have to add somebody else to it?
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And is it Brock? Come on? Talk about guys who
need everybody a round? I really just wanton. Here's what
I need. What do you need? Brock?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I need two Pro Bowl wide receivers, okay, I need
a Pro Bowl tight end sure, and need the best
running back in the game. Okay, then I'll be good.
Oh all right, great? Anything else?
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Yeah, yeah, I need.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Like two or three All pros on the offensive line
and I'll be really really good.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Jump did you press for that equation on that?
Speaker 1 (10:49):
But you have to add Jayden Daniels to this list.
Even though it's one year, this is a team that
has won because of him regular and he makes everybody
around him better. They do not have a great roster.
Jaden Daniels last week the performance. To win this game,
all you have to do is look at the final
(11:11):
play running for the first down, where he's dead to
rights in the backfield and it looks like he's gonna
get tackled, and it's a very calm, stiff arm. I
run forward for the first down, and then Zan Gazalez
comes in and doints it off the upright. You see
him playing. You hear the you hear the the nuncers
say the same thing. Boy, it looks like he's been
playing the game for a long time. He doesn't get
overly excited, and and and that is true. I'm not
(11:33):
you know, I'm not giving you anything.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
You have heard all here pointing everybody said right that
he basically has the heartbeat of a poker player. Right,
You never know what kind of hand they have because
it's just dead even in steady.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
He is.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
He is different because that is who he is as
a quarterback, and he is easily to be mentioned alongside
those other four guys you talk about great not great
fantasy quarterbacks, great quarterbacks in the NFL. Burrow Lamar Allen Mahomes.
And you have to add in Jade and Daniels. This
is in Washington. It wasn't expected to do anything. They
were starting over. They were hoping Jade and Daniels would
(12:07):
be good, and right away he showed us he was
talented right away. He started winning games. Right away, He
started winning games by himself. And for that to happen,
we are really undervaluing just how good this kid is.
All Right, I get you know, Cayleb Williams has a
lot of attention because it's Chicago. It's a big media market.
He was a Heisman Trophy winner. We saw him in Kyle.
(12:29):
He's a big known star. Jade and Daniels who played
a lot of college football, a burst on the scene,
incredible senior year, Heisman Trophy. Yeah, I guess we're taking
them number two overall. But he has shown you that
he is by far and away, one of the best
quarterbacks to come in this league in the last decade.
The fact that that he's a great quarterback already should
not be should not just because a rookie, That should
(12:50):
not preclude him from this list, because there's nobody else
in the NFL that has one outside of these five
guys that win games for their teams like they do,
and Daniels want him do it all year, he is
on that list.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, I mean look in an outlier single season. I
mean you had the Baker Mayfield Bucky Irving duo. But
Baker had a monster year because that defense wasn't very good.
But is he a guy that we're putting up there
as a he's gonna do this perennially.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
No, it was an outline. And were you always winning
games because of Baker Mayfield? No, anybody had his moments.
Anybody who had running the football ran. I think Eric
Rhett had a couple one hundred yard games. Now I
think you're going a little too far because.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Rashad White would have left the ball behind him a
couple of times as he ran by, but.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Coming into the air.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
It was interesting because we did talk about the Commanders
a bunch of a all right, they could be interesting
for looking at their roster, looking at the personnel.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Didn't think that.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
Daniels was gonna end up being their leading rusher at
nine hundred yards. Eckler missed a bunch time, Robinson missed
a bunch of time, and obviously Terry mclaurin's just otherworldly
when you've got a couple of other wide receivers that
were still rising up. And zach Ertz had himself a
fantastic gear. We talked about all of the the big
bonuses he hit down the stretch. Daniels was the number
(14:05):
five Fantasy quarterback for the year on the strength of
his nearly nine hundred rushing yards. And that's an element
like we see with all like everybody else you mentioned, right,
it's a capability, the ability to tuck the ball, and
even Joe Burrow, that's not what he's known for, but
damn it, he'll do it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Absolutely. One of the things everybody loves about Herbert, right,
why everybody's waiting for that assent, is that he's a.
Speaker 5 (14:30):
Football player, right, as Jim Harbaugh loves to tell you.
But yeah, Jadon Daniels, I mean, I don't know that
I'm building the bus yet, but I'll at least carve
out the space and start building a little bit of
a foothold there, and then he can come and dazzle
me again this Sunday and we'll see exit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
How about a Fresco exit Swollen Dome five Elite quarterbacks.
Five great quarterbacks in the NFL, Ed Jayden Di g
Gene on that one.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
What about mahomes without the refs? Does he make the list?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
No, Ca, you count the refs with mahomes. Yeah, they
go together. You can't, they can't stay yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Coming up next, Jason Call stops by for all the
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He has a long time NFL insider. He is with
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(17:38):
Jason Cole. What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh that is beautiful. Actually we're I think we're getting
paid by the interview by the Jets.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Oh okay, that's really good.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's like one hundred k per interview. So it could
take three or four months before you have a.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Coach Yeah, you're gonna You're gonna get them interview Adam
Gase to make him forget they had him in the
first place a few years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
How perfect would that be? Bringing back Gate?
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Wait a minute, I think I know this guy. Wait
a minute, it escapes me. I know this guy. He's
wearing a fake mustache.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Can you bring can you bring back Lou Holk?
Speaker 3 (18:20):
He was on social media all over today. Does having
fun with that? Hey? So he hate trying day.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
Let me bring into what we were talking about a few
minutes ago, because you got a tweet about him not
too long ago. Uh, you know, we're talking about the
elite quarterbacks in the NFL. I think there were there
were five truly great quarterbacks in the NFL, guys who
make everybody around them better and they win games because
of them regularly. And I coming into this year, Mahomes, Burrow, Allan,
(18:46):
Lamar Jackson, and I think you got to add Jayden
Daniels to that list after what he's done so far
his rookie year.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, I'm trying to think. Yeah, Stroud is closed Herbert
obviously despite the clunker in the UH in the playoff game.
You guys think he's close. Is there anybody else who's
remotely remotely close? Now that's about it. Maybe it's five
(19:17):
to seven guys. I mean, brock Perty is never really
going to be that guy who's, you know, super accurate
guy who would distribute the ball and they can get overwhelmed,
you know, physically in the pocket if they don't have
a clean pocket for him. So he's not Stafford. Stafford
is in that group too. I would, I would, I would,
(19:40):
I would argue for him.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Okay, I'll let you argue, Matthew Stafford. I had to
put my hand over Harmon's mouth because he kept saying
club Williams, Curl Williams.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Is it not?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
And come on, if I don't get Aaron Rodgers, you
don't got Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
Well yeah, let's just say that's a work in progress.
It's when Todd who was it? He is the guy
who who who kicked Jim Rums's butt the toe Jim Everett. Okay,
so Jim Jim Everett And not that Caleb Williams and
(20:18):
Jim Everett would ever be mistaken for each other in
terms of style of play. But when Ernie's MPs, he
was the offensive coordinator of the rams and he was
training Everett. One of the things he would do is
he would stand behind Everett as he as he as
he would drop back in practice, and he counted three
(20:39):
one two, three balls got to go, you know, get
rid of it, get rid of fort screaming at him
in the middle of practice. Caleb Williams needs that, you know,
he needs that. He probably needs somebody to tether him
to a stake at the back of the pocket so
that he can only scramble so far during Like, you've
(21:01):
got to get out of this habit that you think
you can leave the pocket and create, you know, thirteen
second plays every single time, because you're just killing your
offensive line too, you know, on top of the fact
that they're not very good to begin with, you're killing them.
So I still think Caleb has ability, but there are
some serious doubters right now.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Well, that reverse spin that he used to pull off
at USC, he usually finds a guy ready to plant
him Goldberg style with some regularity.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah, that's a that's a problem. Yeah. That reverse then
that Lway made famous once upon a time that he
stole from I think Fram Tarkenton, and I don't know
where Fram got it. But yeah, like there's a long
history of that and as as you go up against
bigger and better people, it tends not to work as well.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
You can find all that chronicled in Jason Gold's book
about John Elway, as well as as many other works
at Amazon and other great bookstores.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh God, I love you. I love you. Along with
the pizza, by the way, the pizza we're having that
for dinner tomorrow, having a couple of friends over. Just
gonna be what do you sending tom By the way.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I'm sending you this Laurel and Hardy handshake for tomorrow
for dinner.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
There you go. Hey, now you gotta go watch Laurel
and Hardy. Hey, Mike McCarthy out in Dallas.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Jason's really kind of losing his mind that Robert Salah
may find his way back on an NFL sideline.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Falla fits the bill perfectly. I mean, here's the here's
the thing I'm thinking about Jerry. He you know, he's
got to consider do I hire Belichick or Dion or
Pete Carroll. There's the other guy who's out there with
some notoriety, Adam.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
We talked about him.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Adam Adam Gate like Gruden, Like bring back Gruden. That
would be a shavvy move for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Rich Coside also available, Yeah, but yeah, very available, Yes, yes,
very much.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Coach Fasio unfortunately is about the way, but he would
be on the list otherwise. No, the question is does
Jerry need cover or does he think that he needs
cover from all the criticism. But the thing is, it's
still not going to stop him from boguarding all the
post game press conferences and just overriding the coach anyways.
(23:31):
So it's not worth spending the money and giving the
power to somebody like dionnor Belichick or Carol or even Gruden.
Although Gruden would be desperate enough to take the job,
it's not it's not worth it, you know, at the
end of it, because he's still going to garner all
the attention and try and grab it because it's just Jerry.
(23:51):
So Sala is perfect because Sala will basically do whatever
Jerry wants. And yeah, like I think Terry was surprised
that McCarthy was willing to walk away from this, but
it tells you so much that McCarthy's like, I'm just
out of this dam I'm just done. Even if I
don't get the Bear's job, Like, I'm out, you know,
(24:14):
just get me out of this mess, okay, because I
can't coach this way. Like that's a really telling statement
that McCarthy, who was desperate to get back in five
years ago when he got of the Dallas job, he's
now just walking away from it without really having that
Chicago job assured.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
NFL insider Jason Call our guest the Jason Smithson with
Mike Carmon Live from the tirec dot Com studios. All Right,
the last couple of days, we've clearly talked about all
the money Sam Donald has lost with the last two
weeks he had in the regular season in playoffs. It's
like that old air conditioner commercial watch don't throw money
out the window, and all the money is flying out
the window. Forget about what's going to happen in your opinion?
(24:54):
What is the right thing for the Viking Sam Donald?
What's the right thing for Donald where he sits right
now going into next year? What's the right thing to happen?
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Oh, I don't know. You could probably do three years
thirty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
You think he's going to sign for ten million a year, well,
thirty five touchdowns?
Speaker 3 (25:16):
He did?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
He did throw thirty five touchdowns in four thousand yards.
Pretty good year.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Did you watch afterday?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I did? They were not good.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
And I would make sure that if I'm sending out tape,
I leave those two games off and say, oh, yeah,
we ran out of room on this.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
We just watch up to week.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Sixteen because nobody else could possibly ever find tape of
that game. And that's that's impossible. Like if he doesn't,
it's like in high school, like, oh, what happened to
the other four games from your high school cer?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Those got edited out? There's a couple of plays.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
You do you really think Brick Johnson knows where to
find those last couple of games?
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Come on, man, oh, Brick sorry uploaded him to it
to man, Rick's got the entire log them, every single
game from the season on it, so he can call
it up any moment when his dad wants to show
me them on third and ten what they do.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
And then it's a video game recreation. So he's a
dude from Draft Day Jonah from yeah, hey, call up
that play, call up that vante Van mack sack. Right now,
let's watch who's.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Not on there, that's what and Brick are her names? Are?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Kid?
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Brick?
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Someone who liked Anchorman?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, only Cowboy, only Sheriff Wood. He would name his
kid Brick, But that's just sick as a brick.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Maybe, hey, great song, great alb.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Maybe he's a big fan of Anchorman and he's a
big fan of Steve Curls.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Brick tamblon, Oh my sweet Brick.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Oh would that be the best? Would that be the best?
If what he was to knit some day that he
named his kid after a k after a character and Anchorman,
that would be the greatest thing of all time.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
At your front's lip, that would be so for now,
we're going to speak it into existence because you could
make that.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
You could put that up on Wikipedia and make it fact.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Oh, let's do it right now on Twitter. What's on Twitter?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter, It doesn't matter if
it's did you have this at all?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Makes no difference? Does maybe you get a community?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Not play the SoundBite right now? Brick Johnson was named
after the character from Anchorman. Just put that out right now.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Jason Cole goes viral tonight.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
According to Jays's NFL Insider, Jason Cole from the thirty
third team. Brick was named after Brick Tamplin.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
I don't know why. I don't want that guy helping
in the hiring of our coach anymore. All right, all
that said, when the carousels, I might get fired.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
I might get fired, just I really might.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
I might get fired and you lose your Hall of
Fame vote there. That would happen to.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Well, that might happen anyway, that might kick me off.
Who knows. You never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Come on, got a couple of weeks till the next
round of pageantry and us talking about who got snubbed.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
It's great, Uh yeah, we got We got a couple
of weeks before we talked. We talked about that before
you start repeating your all of very good stuff, you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Out here, hey, Brick Tamblon is a very good owner.
And you're gonna write Brick Tamblon a relentless life at
some point, and you're gonna be the biographer.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Talking about when he cleared that video game hurdle, when
he won the game. He played the Jurassic Park game
and got to the end where Jeff Goldbloom says.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Go out and get some sunshine.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I got my dad to not pay Ryan Fitzpatrick when
I was eleven years old. Man, that was the first
time I knew and I got some of his beard clippings.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
This is classic, this is this is so great.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
So we're spinning the wheel of coaches.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
We mentioned all the big names, right, all the guys
with pageantry and history and all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Where's the surprise gonna come? Is it?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Jacksonville? Is like, who's getting on one of these thirty
two that we're we're not talking about enough.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know, but like it's gonna be I don't
know if it's just gonna be one. I think it
might be secure free jobs because when you really think
of that, there's enough coaches to go around, or so
you could there could be a high school guy out there,
you know, looking for a job right now, and he
might end up in Jacksonville.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
So it's Jerry Foust forty years later.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
But does that high school coach have enough cloud to
go to shod Con to get Trent Balkey fired?
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Like you no, I know you're getting it wrong. Trent
Balky will say, oh, I see this up and comers
he's at Pace Academy in Atlanta. I just love this
guy and he might be able to sell it at
this point in time.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Hey, three championships, that's right.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
What was that? What's that school that's on the river,
the Saint John River, and it's where Tipper Jones went.
I'm trying to remember the name of that school, like
the high school coach there in Jacksonville, at that school,
he could easily have the job Wars job at the
end of the week. Easy, especially if he has anything
(30:16):
to do with it, you know, just.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
The Bowl school, the Bowl School, not.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Todd Bowles b Yeah, Todd Bowle School.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Not Todd Bowle School.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, not Todd Bowles. Well b O L L E S.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
See what they're doing. Then music started playing. They've got
us on better clock management than Todd Bowles.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Wow, look at this. Yeah that's true. Wait ten seconds
after the plays deat Oh, I think we'll bed time
out now, like I think so it could be possible,
all right, I think they want us out of here
right by.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
J call No, they just want you going, so you
can go call bricking right right as up, see you, buddy,
J call there he goes the Jason Smith Show, The
Mike Harvin Live the Tire Rag dot Com Studios. I
really want him to write the Woody and Brick Johnson's
story now like you just heed did the l Way book.
I right to wear answer. I got the Jets to
(31:09):
draft Mark Sanchez when I was six years old. I
told my dad take the Sanchez kid.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
I didn't know anything, but he took them. Look at
watched a couple of those you know, three hundred and
those movies. I said, we need a guy like that.
And that guy played for USC So yeah, it made sense.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Exit off out of Frasca, Exit swollen down The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Carbon time not to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports from Monci Milanos,
who was wearing her big clippers had adorned with rhinestones,
ready to go tonight.
Speaker 7 (31:40):
I mean, I wish I had a clippers with rhinestones.
I settled for Rugrats today.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Okay, clippers on it?
Speaker 6 (31:47):
Well?
Speaker 3 (31:48):
No, well, clippers, okay, that's wrong, I dig it.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
I am very disappointed here, fellas. I cannot find a
Clippers lounge flyback package.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I'm trying to help you. I haven't seen that. I
know it doesn't exist. I don't think it exists exists.
I don't think they gave him the licensing, not at all.
And Suns also don't have any.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
So Breeze very upset. We're very upset over here because
of Jason Smith's super cool launch fly in Knicks backpack.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
It's my fending Knicks backpack that Harmon got me for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
I know, I'm very jealous.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
It's my Fendy bag and a bad attitude. That's all
I need to get me in.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
A good mood.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Yet, I may become a Knicks fan just so I
could buy that backpack.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
And that's how much I like that.
Speaker 7 (32:25):
It is is awesome.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
We've got three games going on right now in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (32:29):
Timberwoods still losing to the Warriors at home ninety four
eighty six started the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
The Heat are.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Still beating the Lakers eighty three seventy five. Late in
the third Tyler Hero twenty seven points so far. At halftime,
the Clippers are beating the Nets fifty eight to thirty five.
James Harden fifteen points and six assists the Knicks. Speaking
of the Knicks, they beat the seventy six ers one
twenty five to one nineteen in overtime, the Raptors beat
the Celtics. Yes, everyone for the Celtics played one. Ten
(32:56):
to ninety seven was the final score. The Bucks crushed
the mate two to ninety three. Damian Lillard had thirty
points and the Nuggets wanted up playing their game tonight
without Nicola Yoka. She heard his elbow during warm ups.
Well the rocketstick advantage. They beat Denver one twenty eight
to one oh eight is the final. There one college
hoops game going on twenty two, Utah State beating UNLV
(33:19):
eighteen sixteen with about eight minutes to go in.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
The first half.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
And how about this in soccer got some soccer news.
ESPN reports that brazil superstar and Al Hillo I think
is the name of the Saudi Arabia team Neymar in
preliminary talks with three MLS teams, including Chicago Fire, about
possibly making the move inner Miami does not seem to
be on the list. So, no, he is not going
(33:44):
to team up with the.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
First round of the playoffs. Of course, he's not going
to go to Miami.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
No.
Speaker 7 (33:49):
No, He's coming to MLS to just you know, be
in the US and play for the MLSH League.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Clearly pay cut.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
It is a pay cut, but it is a it's
a pay He doesn't need money, He's made enough.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
But it is a do you ever really have enough?
Speaker 7 (34:04):
It's a fair point.
Speaker 3 (34:05):
Apparently you don't, is what I hear from trading all
for just a little bit more. But here he would
just get a lot more.
Speaker 7 (34:10):
I think he would just get more famous if he
comes to play in MLS, even though it's it's Naymar. Also,
why are soccer players like share like they only have
one name?
Speaker 3 (34:19):
You know, Neymar, you're that famous Madonna. I mean that
as a kid soccer. But as a kid I was
just Harmon because there were six mics in my Catholic
grade schools class, so we just went by our surnames.
Fair point, fair point.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Yeah, just it's fight Hudson soccer more than any other story.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
You're just Moncey. I am just Moncy.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
You're just.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
But is better rolls off. You don't even need to
see the last name mix. That's true him back to
you guys, Thank you very much, Monzi.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmen Lot from the Tire
dot Com Studios coming up next. You want a little
bit of revision his history. Guess what Lebron James said
he nearly did a little over a decade ago. That's
coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I always loved how heavy Tommy Lee played the drums.
And I mean that without any sort of insinuation. I
just mean how heavy he always played the drums. He
really thumped so heavy. Woof Fox Sports Radio, The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. We got
more NBA coming up next hour. Lake has just took
the lead over the heat eighty eight eighty seven. Still
(35:42):
a lot of time to go in the fourth quarter
and maybe Jimmy Butler and pat Riley will fist fight by.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
The end of the game.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
But speaking of the Lakers, Lebron James did a podcast
today and he talked about what he nearly did in
twenty eleven.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
He was on New Heights with with the Kelsey Brothers.
Uh huh, and he.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
Said, back in twenty eleven, when the NBA lockout was
going on, he really really thought about changing sports.
Speaker 8 (36:13):
Have you ever like taken it like a serious thought, like, man,
what if I just did one year?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (36:17):
The only time I've like really taken it like super
duper serious, I believe it was I think it was
twenty eleven when we had the NBA lockout and you know,
and I didn't know like when we were going to
make the deal with the with the owners and get
our league back going. So I actually thought about it
a little bit back then. I was still young enough,
(36:38):
you know, to get out there with y'all.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
But oh, wait a minute, then he curses coming up.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
So well you had to say it with him fastest
on that celebl.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
He thought during the lockout he had serious dreams about
playing in the NFL during the lockout, what if I
tried one year? But ultimately, I think it was just
one of those what if moments in life. Now, I
know Lebron has played before, and okay, that's great, But
to think that, you know, Lebron when he's getting to
be nearly thirty years old, is going to walk into
(37:11):
the NFL and be great, Come on, man, I mean,
just I get that. When you're a great athlete, you
think you can do anything and We've seen people play
different sports. We've seen that happen. Right, It's one thing
for Travis Hunter to play both sides of the football,
and can he translate that to the NFL. We saw
Deon Sanders do it a little bit. We saw bo
Jackson do it. But these are guys that they've played
(37:32):
all the way through. These guys were playing, you know,
they played. Lebron's not gonna go from being away from
playing for the lesson he played was in high school
to just walking into the NFL. Yes, his body, he
had an NBA body when he's eighteen years old, and yes,
does he have an would you have have an NFL body?
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (37:48):
You know who else's NFL bodies? NFL players. You know
it's bigger than Lebron James. Every linebacker he would have
lined up against, he would have gotten pasted, absolutely pasted
if he tried to jump to the NFL. I get thinking,
I'm a great athlete, I've played the game. My skills
will translate. Yeah, let's see you go over the little
one time. Let's see over a little one time and
(38:10):
see what happens when you get hit by a linebacker
who knows exactly what they're doing well.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You're just hey, I can run round. I see the
guys do it.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
I got Antonio Gates that yeah, okay, Antonio Gates was
much bigger and and and was was a different time
in the he came out. He played both basketball, he
played football. Uh, Lebron did not do that. You know,
Hey went right from high school to the NBA. So
it's not like I have this really great background that
I can that I can go back on. He would
have gone to the NFL and he would have gotten pasted.
(38:40):
Not if he went to the Jets, he well, okay,
he might have been the best player on the Jets,
but anybody else he would have gotten pasted.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah, I love the let's let's talk about history and
make it, you know, walk down memory lane day because
you had the thing about the Cavaliers and talking about
their season.
Speaker 5 (38:59):
You also had when I was sixteen, I was cooking
Michael Jordan, like, do we have videotape? I've not heard
that story, you know, corroborated to the level that you know,
I'm convinced that you know, it was a one on one.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Showdown that he went and just grilled him. But all
of that to say it's nice to do the what
ifs because we do it with with other athletes beyond Lebron.
He's not the first to do it, and it's certainly
not not above this space radio and television to start
pondering memory lane and what if you'd taken a different path.
(39:34):
The sliding doors scenario should go rom communism. All right,
all right, you never expect the Spanish inquisition?
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Sure, sure, nicely, Yeah, well done. Couldn't slip that reference passion.
But yeah, for Lebron, like he, we wondered about being
bart cyborg for a number of years. Then the injuries
piled up. I do appreciate because the natural inclination was, oh,
you would have been a tight end, right, That's what
everybody always said, Oh you would have been a tight end.
(40:00):
You watch him with contact, oftentimes you're waiting for him
to break.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
Like glass, like you, Samuel Jackson Glass.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
So a guy that a guy that can look for
fouls because he gets bumped. I'm gonna make it through everybody. Okay,
let let's see. I'd love to see.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
You're not a quarterback. You're not getting that call. I
don't love to see that. You think you think Ed
Reid wasn't gonna just declete you. If that was you
think that was gonna happen, that would be your welcome
to the NFL moment. You have Ray Lewis going straight
from the Squirrel Dance exit out of Fresco exit. Swellen dumb.
I would have liked to see it. I would have.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I would have liked to see that. Try to have
like to see Lebron tried to That would have been
really Funere's that.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
Read he'd have ran back to the NBA so fast,
the greatest, all the fame bust.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Ever, I didn't like that, man, I didn't like any
of that. No, no, not me. Coming up next, there's
Brian Dawkins.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Let's lie him up an NFL debate I've been looking
forward to having for the last couple of days.
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