Best of the Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon pay their respects to the Legend Bob Uecker who passed away earlier today at age 90. Jay Glazer joins the show for all the latest on the NFL Coaching Carousel, Tom Brady’s broadcasting future & so much more. Plus, Jason tells you why Aaron Rodgers will be starting Week 1 for the Jets in '25!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the Best of the Jason Smith Show with
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Speaker 1 (00:33):
On into the wind up. In his first offering, Jos
the bit outside was he calling a Mets game? Stop?
You know? Can you let Kate? Can we play the
Mister Belvidere theme song for Bobby Kill? Can we play
it for Bob Buker. I'm surprised you didn't play the
Pete Alonzo home run in the middle of it. Welcome

(00:55):
inside the Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Live from
the tire Rack dot Com studios. And yeah, look, you know,
sometimes you know, shows are different, Sometimes shows begin weird.
And I haven't listened to mister Belvidere theme song all day.
After the news of the passing of Bob Buker at
the age of ninety. There's you know, we say the

(01:17):
word legend and it gets a little bit over you sometimes,
but I mean there is. You try to find somebody
in sports the last forty years bigger than Bob Buker,
from his playing days where he barely could hang on,
into his broadcasting days, and to his commercial days and
times he hosted the Coast of the Tonight Show. He's
a guest on that show over one hundred times. Then

(01:40):
he started on Mister Belvidere, and he was in millert commercials,
and all of a sudden, Bob Uker goes from hey,
here's a backup catcher who has some fun stories to tell,
and he becomes an industry all of his own. And look,
we still play his major league drops. You know, the
movie was nineteen eighty nine, and here we are eleven
twenty one, thirty five years later, and we're still okay Francisker,

(02:06):
and we're still playing. We still run his lines, still
run the Harry Doyle lines all the time. That was
some kind of life, Bob Buker. Well, I mean, you.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Don't often get a guy who achieved so little at
the major league level.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
He made he was a major leaguer. But generally those
are you know, for guys that had.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Long careers, became all stars, became legends, and instead he
had a guy who told a lot of jokes. I
was listening to a bunch of clips over the course
of the day from great comedians telling their stories. Every
one of them was profane. None of them had a
simple Hey, you know, we were hanging out with Bob
and you know, something funny happened, like yeah, Bob started

(02:46):
saying this, like whoa, yeah, So I think he feuded
with almost every comedian that you've come to know and
love through the last forty plus years as well. But
the movies we were running Belvetere lines, and just the
other day we were just.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Like, we were just talking about mister Belvidere two days ago.
I found it like always the right. I looked at it.
I'd like, I said, where were people responding on social media?
I looked like, go, oh, yeah, yeah, we we were
just talking about mister Belvidere. Like he said. This guy
goes from hey, okay, now I'm a I'm a big
sport but sports personality, and I'm doing interviews. Now I'm
starting in a sitcom whoa, Okay, that's how it goes.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
One hundred and seventeen episodes of a sitcom that wasn't
just a hey, you got a shot because you know,
you caught lightning in the bottle, because people were paying
attention to the Brewers like an eighty two right, the
Harvey Wallbanger Team or something like that, to worry me.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
You got a little bit of juice.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
And even then, I mean, and think about Uker as
big as he is, if he's that guy fifteen years
later with the advent and everything else that goes on,
but just that you didn't have that that.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
What one and done.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Like a lot of guys got a cup of coffee
or a quick arc on a sitcom, it's like, ah,
is this gonna work?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah? He was the head guy one hundred and seven Street,
Sure it was. And Bob Yuker right like Christopher Hewett
was the store you know he was, and then Bob
Ucker was you know, a stretch. He was a sports writer.
Then he got a job sorry spoiler, then he gets
a job on TV at the end, like that's his
that's his character.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Rock.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Oh, I'm a TV a sports Announcer's not that Yeah,
He always called him Belvidere, Hey Belvidere, Hey Belvidere, Hey Belvidere.
What a great show. I mean, look Bob Buker's life
like like to wait to hit it as big as
he did. Like you have to remember this is back
in the in the eighties, seventies and eighties, when comedians
and people who were looking for, you know, whatever they

(04:37):
wanted to do next, you went on the late night shows. Sure,
now people going to the late night shows as hey, we're
promoting movies, we're doing all this. People still did that
back then. But this was where as a comedian, you
got you were broke on the Tonight Show like you
got on the Tonight Show, and that's how you became famous.
How Joan Rivers got to start. How many comedians like
you see the video all the time. Here's Jim Carrey's
first appearance on The Tonight Show, right and still nowadays

(04:59):
like Conan o'bra ian, a lot of comedians now got
their start on Conan O'Brien show when when he was on.
But back then in the in the you know, in
the eighties, it was if you were on Letterman or
if you were on Johnny Carson. You were on one
of those shows and you killed all of a sudden whoa, whoa,
who is this guy? Because there wasn't a big there
wasn't a big avenue for it, because after Letterman and
and Carson went off the air, you got the the

(05:21):
the bars and tone and they and you Deserd Boo
from two am until six in the morning. Wow.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
But those are the last guys to really run comedians
all the time? Yeah, right, and Conan did some, but
it usually ended up being in a sketch. And then
we know where we're at in the state of late
night these days, right where it's all right, how do
we make a viral clip?

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Right?

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Where there was also more more more ways. I mean,
there's so many more things, more ways.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
For committing but just saying in terms of those shows,
they still exist, not in that format and where you
would go to the couch.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
What did I read? It was over one hundred times?
Just said that, it's hard to think about that he
was on the Johnny Carson Show over a huh hundred times.
Nobody that guy canceled. Can you get out in thirty years?

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Right?

Speaker 1 (06:05):
So thirty years that means he was on three times
a year. You have that many stories. I mean, you
played what eight days in the end, you've been around,
but you've been around a game for years of his life.
There's people who are really entertaining that make me laugh
all the time. All this. I don't know that you
have enough to be on a Tonight show three times

(06:26):
a year for for you know, thirty Like, how do
you how does that even happen? As a yeah, you
know what missing? I'm sure it was. Hey, if if
a guest falls through, call you kill me ond Yeah, alchemy.
I mean that's I mean, that's something that I can't
believe he was on that many times. But the way
that Bob Buker was able to become his own cottage

(06:48):
industry and it was really just about self deprecation, which
you don't have anymore. And that's usually the first thing
you're ever taught in any kind of show businesses. Don't
be cocky and arrogant, you know, be self deprecating, understand,
be a little humble. And you know that's kind of
gone because people decide I don't need to do that.
I could just be a jerk and it doesn't matter. But
that was like like that's when you know you and
I coming up was always be self deprecating, be this,

(07:12):
be something like I was told that when we first
started doing radio. Hey, you know, be humble, be self deprecating,
don't don't don't say things. I mean you need to
say things like I hate to say I told you so,
but I'm like, and I can't tell you all the
bad advice I've ever gotten, you know, radio. But the
best thing is that I always told me is you know,
be yourself. Be a version of yourself when you're doing things.
Be yourself. And Bob Buker, that's just who he was, Like, Yeah,

(07:34):
I know I didn't have a great career. What were
your big career highlights. I got intentionally walked by Sandy Kofax,
Like that's a good pride, just to get to the picture, right,
I got intentionally walk by Sandy Kofax. How do you
catch a knuckleball? Well, there's two ways to do it.
Neither of them work. You know, I mean this how
he was able to wait, like just the way he
was able to be so def self deprecating, and that

(07:56):
was his whole that was who he was, Like he
was in every Man and and getting the break on
Major League it was it was I mean, it's lightning
in a bottle for him. And you know, you watch
the movie and your favorite lines of Bob Buker's change
from year to year, and and you know, sometimes everybody
likes to just a bit outside that we played the beginning,
because that's the big calling card. I'm sure if I

(08:16):
had a dollar for every time someone saw him since
nineteen eighty nine and said just a bit outside probably
way you know, you get, you get, you get to
stuff like, you know, three hits. That's all we got
was three bleeping hits. Yeah, I'm half in the bag.
Nobody's listening. You know. He's not the best color guy
in the business for nothing, you know, but he just
says flyball call like you're you're you're the broadcasting really

(08:38):
paying off anyway, run it down for your money? What
do you say? It's great that Okay, he's not the
best color guy in the business for nothing, Uh, just
to be and and and and how that has lived.
That movie's living forever and it still lives forever. And
it's just you know, you you see the genius that
was that that he was able to bring to this
role just because I'm myself. Like when you watch mister

(09:00):
he was himself, the miller, like commercials, he was himself.
That's all. He's a cottage industry because all I was
was this is who I am. And you don't really
get that that much anymore because so many people come
up with this is gonna be my angle, this is
how I have to cut through. I have to have
some sort of wave people to notice me. And boy,
I'm a lot different off the when you don't see
me on TV than when I'm on TV or when

(09:20):
I'm in the movies when I'm not in the movies,
and it's really really rare to see someone that No,
he was, that was pretty much who he was his
entire career. And obviously you know, look we talked about
all the things that he's done, and I haven't mentioned that.
Oh yeah, he worked. He was played by play for
the Brewers up until this last year. You know, I
mean Peter Alonzo was I mean Pete Alonzo again, that

(09:40):
was the last game that he did. You know, the
way he was able to broadcast for that long till
he was ninety years old. He found a way when
you listen to him to do games, to talk about
the game. Part of it is he found a way
to be serious without being too serious, right, like to really,
I understand what I do for a living, and I
know I take it seriously, but I don't take myself

(10:01):
too seriously. And and and when you think about Bob
Eager that way, it's like I feel like it was
it was a golden road for him because he had
he knew the secret, right, take what I do seriously,
don't take myself too seriously. And that doesn't Oh but
that's the era of those broadcasters. Just go town to
town like all those guys. Go back to Harwell, go
back to what Harry Carey was. You leaned into the

(10:22):
fact that everybody knew you like to drink all right
now doing Budwiser commercials. That's great.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Oh wait, we're gonna go sit in the bleachers and
I get to go hang out with the you know,
the co.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Eds that are there in the out there.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Sure, Arnie Harris, our producer is gonna give us all
sort of and director's gonna give us all sorts of
fun angles uh to play over and my partner Steve
Stone's gonna yuck it up. I mean, I I can't
tell you how many times I go back and listen
to old calls, just shaking my head with the back
and forth there. But when it came to the the game,
deadly serious, loved baseball, was you know, honest about what

(10:57):
he was watching. Ken Harrilson, same thing, polarizing, just go
city to city. It's a different era, right, love the game,
being around the game, but also recognizing in the end,
it's a kid's game, right, and you're getting paid to
go city to city, eat at the best restaurants, beat
all sorts of folks and having a great life with it.

(11:18):
And Bob Buker epitomized that, right, all those stories, like
I said, watching some of the old Carson clips, watching
and really an inordinate number of Norm McDonald clips talking
about his relationship with because he had a great Bob
Youuer impression and he was the one guy that had
a Bob Buker impression, Like it really like my brand
children's impression.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Wow, he's got a Bob.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
But like my brother kept getting dating after you know,
we exchanged. This morning the news comes out and it's like, oh,
it's too bad, and obviously I'm up, you know, way
too early. After getting up and it breaks is like
immediately sending them a note. And my older brother within
like five minutes, he's got three Norm McDonald clips talking

(11:59):
about hanging out with you. All very different stories, very different,
you know, my seriousness slash provanity.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
It's kind of like this. Whereas obviously, you know you
don't curse when you're on that's one thing, you know.
You can't bring that to the air, and he couldn't
do that. But like conversations with Bob Uker on the
air and off them, you know, you have that little
more looseness than you curse. Like I curse a lot
when I'm off the Yeah, you kid, I curse a lot.
But like it's almost like it was with Bino Cook,
like when when on the air and he would talk

(12:30):
and and and and and and Jason, I I, Jason,
I can you tell me did the Steelers beat the
Jets on Sunday? I didn't see the final score right,
like stuff like that. But then off the air, Hey dude,
how you doing today? Is a blank and horror show.
I got up late, I missed a mailman came and
didn't get to give him his blanking thing for Christmas.

(12:51):
So now I gotta stay up tomorrow when he comes in,
Like that's what Bino was like. It was funny like,
but it's still that's still who he was. He just
you know, I'm throwing an F bomb in here now
and again that's kind of what Uker would be off there. Look,
he did the same thing in Major League.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
They just bleeped it out and he's had a different
you know, it just kind of funny like some of
those stories like and and then he paused in the
middle of Senate. It's like, boy, I'm really taking away
some of you know, the sanctity of what Bob.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Like.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Ah, he's just a man. So anyway he tells me, hey,
like such a good stuff. We'll continue to remember the
legend of Bob Youker throughout the night. Tonight died at
the age of ninety The Jason Smith Show with Mike
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(14:19):
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Speaker 2 (14:35):
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Speaker 4 (14:47):
Best Please about PTA x pig leaguers getting previes to the.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Game, call the front office fingo. And once these fans
recognize me, I probably won't even have to.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Pay for my life here for Billings. I love them,
these fans. No. I break w because it's West Philly
and it tastes great good. See, sir, on im like
beer from Miller everything you always wanted in a beer
and left. Let's say, hey, buddy, he.

Speaker 1 (15:15):
Missed from from having the chief seats. He missed the tag,
he missed the tag.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
I mean, come on, he's even got a card game
named after him. That guy play in the Midwest.

Speaker 1 (15:27):
I wish it's OK. It's the eu ce It you
think I don't know what. I don't do anything in
the world better than I play Uker, even even host
a radio show. Anything better than that. Come I'm playing
Uker for twenty five years. I am, I am the
I am the Tiger Woods meets Lebron James meets Tom
Brady of Youker.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
See after I watched tiger Wood play some simulated golf
the the I now I'm not gonna doubt for because
I've also been observing you do radio for eleven years.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Maybe maybe you do play ucre better?

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Really wow? Okay mister okay, okay. Jerk Hobo wrote itself,
I think I think I think eleven years might be
a long time to be partners with somebody. We could
take some one, two, three, four eleven. You're listening nine,

(16:18):
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Speaker 4 (16:39):
Forty one.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Now we're gonna talk about Tom Brady. Gonna do that
in a few minutes. You know, a decision looks like
it's been made on Tom Brady's broadcasting career, because he
tries to be a broadcaster and be an owner and
all of these different things. But the reason we are
pushing this is because we're gonna be joined for the
first time this new year. No oh, tysher, come on,

(17:04):
man from beyond. Yeah no, no, that's too dude. You're
going to hell. Hell, You're going to Hell for the year.
You're going to hell. You're going to hell. There's a
time limit. Mephistophle is gonna be waiting for you. Man,
you've been waiting going. Oh this guy, harri oh Tysan, Yeah,
come on in. You're the table in the back right
there there, you go, right there, right there, Okay, right there? Uh,
joining us now the hotline for the first time this
year NFL on Fox Insider Extraordinary, Jay Glazer and I know, Jay,

(17:29):
it's been an absolute wild week for you with the
fires here in Los Angeles. You safe, your family is safe.
Everything Okay.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
We actually got back in our house. Thank you guys,
our house we are, Thank god, we're safe. We got
back in our house about two hours ago. We've got power,
no hot water or no heat, which just means, I
guess it's snuggle Rosie times. I'm good and uh, but
you know it's it's it's wild because we're our old

(18:00):
house was, which is just some miles down the road,
is completely gone, as is everything over there. So it's
kind of like about four miles down from us, everything
south without is gone, everything north without us here. I've
got a lot of friends who lost every day and listen, guys,
one thing I would tell you here. I was on

(18:21):
ground zero, not eleven, and it's the worst thing that
ever happened to us, and the best of people came out.
And the same thing is happening here, Like the worst
of times brings out the best of people, some of
us that God is saying, this is how I want
you to act. Can you please act like this? Not
just in time to tragedy and it's it's been, It's

(18:45):
just it's it's it's listen. We haven't better than the most,
but which exhausting just being displaced and not knowing and
you know, we came up there, I met with the Uh.
It's pretty well across like now I've figured it out though,
like where my house is state this place here because
the ground zero for the fire department. It's pretty much

(19:07):
right almost cross the street, a little bit downs in
the beach, but it looks like a military base. It
goes on for about a mile. There's four thousand firemen
and women and support staffs. There are four thousand and
from you see, we drove past, say and there's two.
We just got back up here and there's cars from everywhere,
like fire trucks from everywhere, notts, just here and there's

(19:31):
tents for them on the beach for them to fire
fires come back to sleep. But it's not like there's
a lot of fire. There's a lot of people here
from I mean it goes different countries, different states. Well
you know, think about that. Where are they going to sleep?
So there's all these tents set up, there's all these
trucks set up for them, there's trucks set up for shout,
there's always I mean, there's so many volunteers to set

(19:54):
up for like food and for you. I think also
like it's us, they have like conpractice and physical therapist
here for these guys to put their bodies through. It
was just it's amazing. I'm actually going back tomorrow in
the morning to bring more supplies and just talk mental
health to whoever needs it. Whoever I can just be

(20:17):
around it, be around them, and it's really part of
it too, like just giving your time, uh to them.
I think it was a lot when I realized the
other day when I went there and I went with Rosie
and they're kind of making a big go over her,
which is good, which is funny. So we had a
little we had a little levity there, which is good.
Look laughter, right, I always say it one of my pillars,

(20:39):
like laughter fights to that gradient. And this was this
is beyond gray. This is they're in for a tough
fight too, because after they put these fires out right now,
thank god they're contained, they said, you know, our next
fights can be really hard. We have to go kind
of search the house to house for for for bodies
and remains, and so there's gonna be gonna be a

(21:00):
really it's not. I just I don't want people to think, hey,
the fires are out and the fight's over. It's not
the case. Like I think, the struggle is just beginning
for a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Good to hear our guys voice. Things are turning in
a positive direction. He's on the ground helping out and
obviously nationwide globally wherever you can help.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Chime in as well.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Jay Glaizer, our guests here on the show, jays some
news in the in the Fox line, a lot of
speculation about Tom Brady in the broadcast world, his ties
to the Raiders and what it all means and what
his tenure happens. I mean, you've been working with Tom
and we've had a couple of great clips with you
this year on the pregame show What's the expectation going forward?

Speaker 4 (21:45):
Every time I've talked to him, he's like, I'm doing
this for ten years, like he loves it, and I'll
tell you this, he is working his butt off on
the seats like people have no idea what he's doing.
I do. A lot of people talk to you like
he is, but he's not one of the likes. He's
a private dude. But he is working so hard to
be great at this. And I picked like Tom Brady

(22:06):
thought it's the greatest something. He ain't gonna stop till
he's like, that's just great, but the best of it.
So I think everyone else is speculated without really even
asking him. Remember they should ask him. I think, idea,
why don't you ask him? How's that for a novel? Idea? Right?

Speaker 1 (22:27):
I tell you to tell me he's your new Uber driver.
I thought that was gonna just.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
How he longs. Don't ever take that job from how
he longs he lives for that. By the way. By
the way, recently I raised his Uber rating up to
four point one stars.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Whoa there.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
He was down the two for while he was down
the two fu while he was getting lippy. I didn't
like it. I don't like him, my uber driver stought
back to me, and get lippy. He he felt a
spectacus your job and drive me around?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Has he been suspected the swim move that he's pattented
in nineteen eighty five and driving me around the two
greatest things? And how he does?

Speaker 4 (23:10):
I mean, let me tell you, let me tell you
that again. The Howie Longman, you gotta see this. You
know this square dude, how we the baddest soob you
ever played? You know that position? Right? And and BRODDI
one of the nastiest humans who've ever played football. Like
he's a bad soob. Or my son he's like eight
or nine years old. And Sammy says, Daddy, I got

(23:31):
to do a book report. I'm not gonna say what
the player is and I gotta do a book report
on such and such. I said, well, what don't you
call Uncle Holley? Uncle Howie probably knows him. You could
call Clowie. And my eight year old son called uncle Howe.
Says uncle Howie, I got to do a book report
at such and sun and how he goes, Yeah, that
rat bastard cupped me.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
In this game.

Speaker 4 (23:53):
My knee is I'm a smash howm killss Like I
was like, whoa, whoa whoa. Sammy is like, oh my god,
I'm a Sammy. That's not part of the book report.
I'm like, dude, you have the fun with Sammy? Yeah, well,
Sammy know what kind of guys doing a book report? Off?
Wrapped faster, cut my knees.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Out this game.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
We can kill this dude, I got. I'm like Sammy,
then he should do a book report on the real
Howie Long.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Daddy, what's a chop block?

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Can you explain that to? What is that?

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Bro? You're talking to an eight year old, but old
Howie He clicks over, He looks over. You do not
want to be in the crosstairs and hence the two
point two rating. At first, that's it.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
I'm going to a card show and I'm gonna ask
for the inscription of lippy.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
All right, Well, hey Jay, let's get to the coaching carousel.
A couple of big stories, obviously, the Cowboys opening. Dion
Sanders has mentioned, Jason Whitten has mentioned, what's happening in Dallas.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
That's not really what's going on right now, they're just
kind of kind of going through They've got Ke'm kind
of opening that here a little bit. But they have
a couple of different ways they want to go. You know,
Dean and Jerry are really really really close, like was
like a second on it, like he loves Dion, but

(25:21):
I don't see that happening, you know, and I think,
you know, they love Jason witten To, but that isn't
the thing of like, hey, let's just hire something that
we love. Like it's just it's it's just not what
they're gonna do. So so they got Robert Sala coming
in here soon, they're bringing killing more in. But I
think they're sitting there going, Okay, what are we really
going to do here? Because they have a couple of

(25:43):
different ways to go. I know they actually they like
their offensive stuff. They love actually what Michael Clart and
Brian A. Shot Hummer do with dak Now, we'd be
surprised if they kept Bryan in there. But I think
right now too, there's kind of like, Okay, which way
we're going to go to? And then we got think
think I think it's early for them.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
And then we got the fun and exciting, always swirling
world of Bill Belichick.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Too. They missed their window. I'm talking to like Ben Johnson,
Aaron Glenn. Eric Glenn was there all right, and Eric
Glenn is a phenomenal choice. If you want to keep
your offensive staff and you want to get a guy,
all right, we already know this guy and the phenomenal
coach and motivator of defensive coasts, that's a great choice.

(26:30):
But they missed their window. They can't talk to him now,
you know, I think until talking about I think about
is it the part week Predamn? If they make it
over the Super Bowl, I don't remember. There's so many
rules that change, but remember, but they can't do it now.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
The Jets are going to get Aaron Blenjay right, we're
putting out at the Jets are going to.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Get out the twentiest guy on this the Dungeons and
Dragon died.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
There. A couple of teams a gonna like Aaron Glenn,
hoping he's just Jets. I'm saying, if I'm Dallas, I'm like, man,
we know him. If we like our offensive staff, great,
gotta go after How am I saying? That's where they're
going to go? I know they don't know where they're
going right now.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Jake Lazer with us here on Fox Sports Radio. You
want to check out Unbreakable, a mental wealth podcast. And
I know a great guest this week, a very difficult
guest you had Jayu had Body by Jake Jake steinfeld
On and unfortunately he lost everything in the fires. What
was that conversation?

Speaker 4 (27:21):
Like with him everything he has to be sure on
his back literally, that's it. And I want to say
something here because people have commented about rich people losing
their homes. That is such an ignorance statement. The rich
Preet Blon lost their homes, became rich and got there
because they worked their freaking asses off more than anybody could.

(27:45):
You could ever mess. They've got knocked down more than
anybody else. They've got rejected more than anybody else. And
it's in stop. So it's such a garbage thing for
people to go, oh, it's a bunch of rich people.
That is such a horrible thing. And when tragedy it's
rights everywhere else people don't go, oh, it's what's poor people.
It's about the middle classic but we don't do that,

(28:05):
not the right thing as Americans. You've come together. So
that's garbage. So here is Jake Donzeld, who, Yeah, he's
lived in my house for forty years and he literally
has he closed off his back and guys, I showed
a clip today's with the clip tomorrow is the one
you're gonna want to see because he talks and he

(28:27):
looks tied by Jake is that he's the first infomercial
guy for waits in America. He was the first personal
trainer ever in Hollywood. He was a Looferting knows body
double on The Incredible Hope and the Legend right, and
he starts crying on the podcasts and the reason why
that's how somebody make a remark today too about all

(28:49):
possessions are for the week. Shut up. He said, ma'am,
I'm a like that crazy dad. I saved every single
thing for my kids ever that I got anything you
ever did in school, and he never saved them all.
And then he just started crying to use it's all gone,

(29:10):
and he said, I tryly like to do my thing
where I pump someone up, but the memories never gone.
Like Jay, I love you, but you're not You're not there,
like you're not you're not going through it. It's it's gone.
And and he is like, he's a strong He's one
of the strongest people I know, so he has every
right to cry. He's the only question in his manhood.

(29:31):
And he's a really close friend of mine. But he's right.
I'm out there. I mean, I just had to evacuated.
He lost everything, right down to everything besides literally the
clothes that he has on his back. And I wanting
to do this, I asked him because I want to
understand people understand the pain that the rest of us

(29:52):
are in, because we need you right now. We need
our teammates, and our teammates are the rest of America.
And god, I was I was down learn ground zero
for nine to eleven and oh my god, the kindness
and the everyone becoming teammates together, it was it lifted
us all up. We all need it. Katrina Art, Dan Harvey,

(30:16):
we all became teammates. And I hope I listened to
the podcasts. If you're understand how much we all need
you as our teammates to get through. This is ain't
going to be easy. Like again, there's there's a lars
like most of my time is gone and we love you,
and it's it's it's it's hard to see if it's

(30:39):
it's hard to see people have work their whole lives
for something and it's all gone and like it's not
it's not just that, it is those memories with kids
and grandkids. Some things you just can't get back. So
we need our teammates now more than ever. So please
listen this week to our podcast with me and Jay
on Breakable Mental Wealth Podcasts incited by Jake. If you

(31:00):
want to know what it's like here, and even if
you don't, you should listen because you're gonna want to
end up help with someone and being of service will
help you as much as it helps whoever you help out.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
You can get the link on Jay's Twitter page as
well at Jay Glazer That is at Jay Glazer Unbreakable
a Mental Wealth podcast wherever you get your podcast from Jay.
In a really tough week, Man, appreciate everything. Appreciate everything
you've done stopping by with us. Best for you and
Rosie and everybody will talk to you next week.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
I appreciate you're the best, buddy, Be good buddy.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Man uh Man. That's a conversation with Jay from from
the beginnings of losing everything to Hollie Lung saying that
blankety pants. I mean really talking.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
About needing some levity and finding those pieces. Look, I
got like seven tubs of my kids stuff. They laugh
at me all the time and it's like, no, that's
that's mine. Now, Yeah, it's it's part of who we are,
so I can feel every bit of that. We got
more coming up than ninety seconds. But first, Monti Bolangos
has what's trending in the wide world of sports.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Wance. Hi guys, Happy Thursday, Happy Thursday, and your voice
is back to Norman's got so rough last week?

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah, I mean I I miss it, though I'm not
gonna lie to you.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
You know, I feel like.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Phoebe, you miss your you miss your we get sexy boys,
go get MoMA, Go get mama whiskey exactly.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
Exactly exactly which you guys said the last time. I
think are the last time I was like, but yes, exactly.
I don't know if the Cavaliers would say happy Thursday
because they just got crushed by the thunder one thirty
four to one fourteen now one point. Okay, see was
up by forty two points. Shay Gildes Alexander forty points
in the win. Pacers top the Pistons one eleven to
one hundred. Pascal Siakam twenty six points. In the wind

(32:42):
Sons defeated the Wizards one thirty to one twenty three.
Devin Booker thirty seven points in the wind. Right now,
James Harden has twelve points. The Clippers are on top
of the Trailblazers thirty six twenty two early in the
second quarter. Halfway through the second the Kings are beating
the Rockets at home forty three thirty six.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
In college hoops, number.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
Twenty miss again went down to the wire and then
some against Minnesota. Minnesota wins it eighty four to eighty
one in overtime thanks to a logo three from Dawson Garcia.
Temple defeated number eighteen Memphis eighty eight to eighty one.
And on the ice, Alexevechkin, we are paying attention.

Speaker 1 (33:16):
He gets the puck back, he turns it made into
what you on wan coming with old thatch ny.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Fires be stars, Peace.

Speaker 6 (33:23):
Stars, alex sobatch Kin and over time game winning goal
here d on a wall, alex Sobachkin gets gold age seventy.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
Four and the Capitols win.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
It won nothing you just heard all on the Capitals
Radio Network. So Vechkin twenty one goals away from breaking
Wayne Gretzky's all time goal record of eight ninety four,
so we're getting closer both he does.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Back to you guys, all.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Right, thanks so much. The Jason Smithcher with Mike Carbon
Livethtireck dot Com Studio. So Tom Brady looks like he's
coming back and to be in broadcasting for the next
ten years, fulfilling his Fox contract. How I can help
him improve immensely. Just need one thing, one thing, need
one thing. I'll tell you what it is next Jason

(34:16):
and Mike Fox.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific. Oh five Second Dance Party. Darnold, got sacked, got.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Sacked again, got sacked again, and again and again. She
did ballet. You've never made this personal. It's no longer.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
That was funny. They were all like day four of it.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'm the little kid in the Simpsons episode yelling stop stop.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
He's already The Jason Smith Show is my best friend.
Mike Harmon. We're getting no workout of Monty Blagios right now.
She's just happy to hear the song as I am.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
I just like the full chair dancing because you can
tell the legs are kicking underneath in the whole nine yards.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
So thanks to Jay Lazer for stopping by while you
missed it. We'll get that up and the best of
our best of podcast goes up right after the show
is over. Wherever you get your podcasts from, just search
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon. Incredible visit from Jay who
was evacuated because of the wildfires back home now and
we talked a little bit with about Tom Brady with
Jay Lazer, and now according to Brady's agent, he's gonna

(35:33):
stay broadcasting, gonna fulfill the ten year deal. Well, I say,
when I have nine years and thirty seven million dollars
a year, I'm gonna find a way to do that.
But or at least have them pay me out one day.
There was questions can he do that? Can he still
own the Raiders? Is there some sort of conflict of interest?
The conflict of interest is just stupid. It's just stupid.
Oh Brady said this on the air. That means he's good.

(35:54):
They're gonna have to get Ben Johnson now, boy, he
talked to Ben Johnson last week. I mean, come on,
it's just it's it's absolutely dumb, especially nowadays. I mean, really,
how much have we blurred the line with confident of venturess?
And it's it's fine if Brady Brady broadcast like it's
just such.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
A joke in this business for folks to be wagging
their fingers on this one. And it's not like, unless
Tom Brady has been classified a wizard, he can't do
mine control.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Yes, you will be coaching with you. That's kind of stupid.
It's a stupid controversy. But Brady's gonna stay. And after
seeing Brady now for a year, I was surprised. I
thought it would be a little bit more natural for him,
it would come a little bit quicker to him, because
I look, I've never seen Tom Brady not succeed in anything,
not that he's not succeeding, but I think everybody expected

(36:43):
a little bit something different. But I'll tell you what
with benefits of now eighteen weeks and a week of playoffs,
in hindsight, you know what would have been great for him.
Because I listened to him broadcast and I say, he
just can't be himself yet because he's worried about explaining
the block on this play and what happened with the

(37:03):
running back, and then he's got no time to be himself.
Pretty he's a great personality, and this is why something
like the Manning cast allows Peyton Manning to be himself,
Eli to be himself. Now Tom wants to call games. Okay, great,
but it's hard to be yourself and do things like
you want to do and tell stories about guys and
be really entertaining when you have to go through that.

(37:26):
I don't think he's been able to get to the
point where he's so comfortable where yeah, I can do this,
then I can segue into a story and I can
spin a yarn. He feels really beholden to explain what
happened on every play. So what would have helped this?
And looking back, you know now eighteen weeks, if they
had put him, if it was a three man booth,
if it was Kevin Burkhart, Tom Brady and another analyst,

(37:50):
and that analyst basically did this stuff after the play, Hey,
what happened on this interception? Here's the nuts and bolts,
this happens, Yeah, bah blah blah and then Tom can
come in and say, let me tell you what happened
on let me tell you from the quarterback what he did,
let me tell you the defensive back did, and come
in with something really insightful, or tell a fun story
about this guy. This guy played basketball with him in

(38:10):
the offseason. Like people want to hear Brady in his
personality because he's got a really good one. He's a
lot of fun and I think that's kind of where
he was looking towards going. But the nuts and bolts
of the job have kind of gotten in that way.
If you had another analyst who'll be able to say you,
after the play, oh, here's this, here's this, and then
Tom can pick and choose, because there's a lot of
mike time. When you're on three and a half hours

(38:31):
doing a football game and you're talking the entire time,
there's a lot of mic time for Tom Brady to
get in and get comfortable and then okay, after this year, Hey,
I think I got it. Now, I think we can
go to a two man booth. And now it's me
and Kevin Burkhart. So I think the first year, if
they had Brady the three man booth, I think it
would have been a different experience. It would be a
different Brady and be a different point for him right now.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
Yeah, the heart part is you also have the hate
watching while we talk about it as players, a lot
of people with the poison pens ready for the first
syllable that Tom Brady uttered this year and they haven't
let up. So no matter how good it is, he's
already you know, been buried as Wow. I mean, look
at what Greg Olsen has been able to do. So

(39:13):
like you say, well he walked right off field, Well
he did it for five years. Yeah as a player.
Why because he kept getting hurt?

Speaker 1 (39:19):
Yeah, yeah, I'm free. I'm hurting.

Speaker 3 (39:21):
I'm ready the last six weeks and I'm not taking
it away from the guy had a fantastic career.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
He's one of my favorite guys.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
I was still pissed when the Bears let him go,
had a chance to talk about all that. He does
a great job, but he gets compared, you know, and
what Romo did right and coming in as he did,
I think a Manning cast like broadcasts, and this is
where you know you got a zag is you don't
need to do it the old traditional way. He could
be him and Burkhart and they just had the conversation.

(39:49):
People are watching the TV. Yeah, they're seeing what's going on,
So tell the story. Oh no, Look, I always say
I don't need to know why.

Speaker 1 (39:56):
I don't always need to know what happened on this
running play the game seven yards? Right, I don't even
know if it's a pass play for forty yards? But yeah,
tell me what I Hey, ok, kids, springs free? Okay, cool? Next? Yeah,
I mean right, I think, but I think a three
man booth would have really helped Tom Brady. I mean,
what do I know. I've just been doing this for
a long time. So what some delated deflated football? Oh wow,

(40:16):
too soon? Too soon? You see him hit the target
with that football. We'll tell you exactly where one superstar
quarterback is going to play next year. Fox.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
It's different, go back to Cornheiser and whatever else. Right,
But that's the experimentation and changing thing.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
You still have people that want nuts and bolts, and
you still need to give nuts and bolts.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
Right.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
You can't just say we're gonna go to dessert all
the time. So it needs to be a three man booth, right,
Like if you said it's gonna be Dennis Miller and
a football guy, and so okay, great, if it's Burkhart
and Tom Brady and Greg Olsen or and somebody else, right, whoever,
whoever you want it to be, that's going to be. Hey,
I'll give you the nuts and bolts and let Tom
Brady come in. What he tells a story after plays

(40:57):
here that would have gotten much more use to what
it means to be to be a broadcaster. And okay
maybe in a year or so, yeah, okay, Now I
feel good with a two man booth because I understand
I don't need to I don't need to say explain
every single play all the time and all the players
who were involved in every play, because that's like I
see Brady go here, what happens is is X, Y
and Z, and you know his Quentin Williams gets in.

(41:18):
But then what happens is on the back CJ. Moses
able to come in here and then come in here
is that's coming here? Like you get caught up with
too much. And honestly, I mean, look, I've told you
I'm someone when I watch the games, I don't care
who the announcers are. I don't I listen, really pay
attention listening when Okay, something is happening, something's going on,
there's a report on somebody who has heard, or we're

(41:38):
talking about a replay. They're bringing the replay official to
talk about what this play is. I mean, I think
in the end we kind of just go too crazy
over what people say because I don't remember what Troy
Yikman says diagramming plays on Monday end. You remember what
they say in the loose moments, right, And that's where
I say, that's where Brady would completely shine is in
the looser moments, like when does Troy Yikman make make

(42:00):
news when he says, hey, when they come back from
break and they're still a minute to go before the
game starts and Aikman says, here's going on with the Cowboys.
I don't know what the hell they're doing? And I
was this, Okay, that's a big deal. But I don't
remember anything anybody says about the gal here. I'm explaining
this all but generally it's outside of the game.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
The less there's a controversial thing like I'm sure he
would have had something to say about the A. J.
Brown book thing or one of those kind of you know, hey,
we had a story from you know, the Cowboys. Obviously
we had a lot of stuff going on in the
early nineties. Aha, and then you get a.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
Joker, let me tell you what Nate Newton used to do.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Whereas unfortunately for Brady, most of U's gonna be like, well,
you know, Bill wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Let any of that stuff go on no time. Bill
would have said this fight, but you can as long
as you're beholden enough to the game, you can get away.
But I think that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
We've also evolved, right in terms of how a lot
of these are broadcast. And I think the Manning cast
or all these other alternate telecasts right where you get
fourteen different espns or whatever for championship games, Fox, alter
it broadcast.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Whatever the case may be.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
The SpongeBob stuff like, there's just different angles to approach it.
And in the end, it's smost be fun. I want
to learn something, I want to know something. Look, and
I'm we do this for a living, and generally on
a Sunday, I've got the four box up and get
guess what, I'm listening to the audio broadcast out of
Chicago to hear them curse the Bears. I'm not listening
to any of the TV guys, but I'll catch a

(43:24):
bit here and there.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
But but that's me.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
That's my my viewing and audio habits and nuts and bolts.
Maybe because I think I know more than anybody else,
but that's my own fault. But it's just that, you know,
now's the time where you can get a little adventurous,
and I think the Manning Cast and all of those yeah,
kind of showed you you can get. But you don't
have to do as answer as cancer ass cancer.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
You need to serve them both. Because let's just say
you're watching the Maning Cast and it's fun, and then
something happens. There's a big play, but there's a flag
and they're looking at it, and you know, Peyton and
and Eli and the guy, they're trying to talk and
watch it, kind of like you and I try to
talk and watch a game, and I think we do
a pretty good job explaining stuff when it happens. Sure,
but they go, wait, what happened? Why they throw the flag?

(44:07):
What's going on? How long are you staying with that
broadcast until you go, I gotta go back and find
out what this is all about? Right, So you kind
of need to still do both, but you don't need
to be so headed into detail on it.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
But that's the thing though, Like it's in individual spots
and that's where I mean, look, you gotta have someone
in the truck that's saying, shut up with your story.
There's a flag and nobody knows what the hell's going on.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Get to it. Yeah, but now, but now it's like, okay,
finish your story. People are watching the game that no
one's not watching. If they see holding offense number seventy eight,
they understand that. And eventually we know we're going to
see a replay and see the hold. Right, as long
as you show it to me, it's fine. And we're
in that eraran now where you know you got to
people have to understand. It's you know, when you get
outside the box a little bit. It's okay to get

(44:48):
too far outside the box. It might be a little
too much, but because people still want to know. I
want to know what's going on when something. I don't
want to turn the channel. I want you to be
able to to tell me what's happening. I want you entertainment,
I want everything, I want convenience. I want you to
tell me everyone yeah, exactly, ills and a three man
booth can do that. And I don't know why there's

(45:10):
there's so much hesitancy for that. I obviously it's money,
you know, for while we can't afford it, But someplace
like Fox and CBS, you could afford a three man
boof you pay somebody else would like to get on there.
They lost their ass when they had dude up on
a crane, did that with Booger. I mean, well, you
got to have the right three people out there. You know,
you have the right three people out there. But that

(45:31):
but that's something where I think it's okay to get
a little bit loose on to say, and and look,
clearly you're spending the money to make Tom Brady look good, right,
I guess for other other places as well. We don't
have the money for a three man booth here it's
a lot of catsh Yeah, but no, but you'll you'll
spend the money to make Tom Brady look good. And
Brady a three man booth, I mean it would be
a different experience from whatsoever. We would have a different

(45:52):
opinion of him, and it would be it would be
like when Tony Romo first started we were talking about
Oh my god, Romo did this predicting plays, doing X,
Y and Z all of this. If that happen, it's
a different spot for Brady.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
The other is, you know, asked and answered, So at
times it's the you made that point. Now now we
need a little more, right, not everything has to be
big third down like if I if I can take
a drink Whenevery analyst says, oh, huge third down here
like four minutes left in the first quarter.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Huge, yeah, huge, Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, huge play. Jim,
it's a huge play.

Speaker 7 (46:24):
Jim nineteen Jim, Jim, nineteen yards Jim, how are you
gonna get nineteen yards? Chip chip chip chip like ninety
Come on, Jim, nineteen Jim, Jim, Jim, Tony.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
The play's over. What they get what they I didn't
see it. I didn't see it. It's all a work
in progress. It's year one and again the poison pens
were out from day one, so you're trying to claw
back from you know, you're in the negative, right, that's uh.
You started by a spot in your opponent seven points.
So now from Tom Brady to another future NFL Hall

(46:57):
of Famer, Aaron Rodgers spoke for the first time since
the Jets season ended today and talked about his future.
Went on the Pat McAfee show and said, well, where
are you gonna play next year? Are you going to play?
We've been hearing rumors about the Steelers and all these
different things, and Aaron Rodgers says, well, if the Jets
want me, we'll have that conversation. If they don't want me,
probably not going to be here. Aaron Rodgers, Oh, come on,

(47:19):
tight shirt. Well here's Rogers. You're acting like that's not valid. No,
that's joff. A lot of Jets that yeah, okay, off
the air off off and times here you several times.
Here's Rogers from earlier today.

Speaker 8 (47:35):
I think everybody understands that it's going to come down
to GM and the coach and myself and whether we
all want to do a dance together or if it's
it's not in the cards.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
Well, I'll tell you this dance, little sister, dance, don't
bring home your date, and they will. Aaron Rodgers will
be the starting quarterback for the Jets week one of
twenty twenty five. And I'll tell you why because he's
wait what, I'll tell you why? Has he kind of
intimated this the last few weeks. Hey, new coach and
GM come in. We'll make a decision. Ye say it

(48:09):
all right? The first time? He's brilliant. Yeah, but hey,
maybe Woody Johnson hates him and he and Woody have
kind of been doing talk about a dance, doing a
dance around each other, and and and with all the
stories about Brick Johnson being the real decision maker and
maybe I'll get fired by a teenager. If Woody Johnson
wanted to get rid of Aaron Rodgers, it would have happened.

(48:30):
We would know this. We would say we are moving on,
because anybody interviewing for the Jets head coaching job is
going to be told you're not going to have him.
And we would know that by now because they interviewed
twenty some odd people. It's hard to kick loose lips
sink ships, right, You had to be hard to not
know that. If Woody Johnson really wanted to get rid
of Aaron Rodgers, we would have known that. Find out.
But here's Rogers saying, next coaching, GM. Okay, next coach

(48:52):
and GM come in, and what's the plan going to
be for the Jets? Are you getting your future quarterback
this year. No, you're not. You're not getting someone to
jump right in. Are you getting somebody in the second
or third round that might be your quarterback of the future. Yeah,
Jackson Dart, Kyle McCord I like them to the best.
We talked about it last night. But maybe it's just

(49:13):
podcast full analysis. Maybe it's Quinn yours. Okay, this is
the year to do that. For the Jets specifically, they're
gonna say, okay, we're gonna have a quarterback in the
second or third round. You know, look, we we still
I know that he's you know, we took him last
year and everybody everybody forgets because he got hurt at
Florida State. But they still have a big guy they

(49:34):
like in Jordan Travis, who they're hoping to be healthy,
but he hasn't been. But you're looking at a quarterback
room of Okay, so a guy we get in the
second thread. Let's say it's Jackson Dart and Jordan Travis. Okay,
we still need a bridge quarterback. Who is better bridge
quarterback you're gonna get than Aaron Rodgers. You're not gonna
go crazy to go bring somebody in because you're gonna
want a new quarterback in a year. So you're not

(49:56):
going to go crazy saying let's go spend all this money,
let's trade for Kirk Cousins, let's go bring us in
Donald back. That's not happening. As you saw as the
season went on, Aaron Rodgers was better, right, finished top
ten touchdowns, top ten in yards, didn't translate to wins,
but still you saw the Jets had way bigger problems
than Aaron Rodgers. And I will be willing to throw

(50:16):
it out there that he maybe needed a little bit
longer to come back from his injury to feel like
the old Aaron Rodgers than we thought. I thought he
would need three four games. Turns out he needed about twelve. Right,
But when you're forty, this is what happens. He looked
really good the last few weeks of the year, and
the Jets have much bigger issues than Aaron Rodgers. So
when he's gone through the blame game already of oh,

(50:38):
this whole season's Rodgers' fault. He's this, he's this, he's that.
But then you fire the coach, you fire the GM,
you realize your defense is not very good. Rogers went
through the blame gauntlet and now he is out the
other side to the point where the vibe around the
Jets as well. Yeah, they got a lot to worry
about next year. Quarterbacks really not in the top two
or three things. So yeah, Aaron Rodgers coming back for

(51:01):
a year while he helps to groom the next two
because he said I will do that for another I'll
groom the next two guys. I know I'm getting close
to the end of my playing career. That's gonna happen,
and the Jets are gonna have Aaron Rodgers playing quarterback
week one twenty twenty five. Now, doesn't go all that
way all the season, I don't know, but week one,
because there's no other way for the Jets to really
go forward that is not too much dovetailing away from

(51:23):
their plan.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
Yeah, I mean, you're drafting seventh overall, so unless you're
packaging picks to try to move up and decide that
cam Ward or Shador Sanders has to be your guy,
you're not drafting a quarterback there. And you saw so
many glaring needs on that squad beyond what the quarterback
was that and that's where you know we tie the
Brady and Rogers together of as I said, folks were

(51:46):
ready to get after Tom Brady from the first syllable.
He uttered well with Aaron Rodgers from the first drop back,
same damn thing.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Right.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
There were some that were anticipating, wishing, wanting, hoping that
all right, here's a continuation of a career that was
derailed after.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
A big injury in twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
And then you had everybody else who decided based on
his vaccination views, political views, societal views, the fact that
he used to be a packer, the fact that he's
a jet. That they hated him and wanted him to
fail at every turn. And you know what, they didn't
watch him play football the back half of the season,
right coming off a mass of injuries, you said, took
a little bit longer. Also trying to coordinate with what

(52:29):
you had as an offense, and you got a coach
fired and you had offensive coordinators shifting about, like all
of this about. For Aaron Rodgers, it's all new, it's
all and you could practice it all you want. You
gotta go game speed eventually, and it takes time. And
he finished pretty well. You know, statistically, fantasy owners actually

(52:52):
got some good juice from him down the stretch.

Speaker 1 (52:55):
When the quarterback mark it as a whole.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
Right.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
We didn't have a lot of top touchdown throwers this year.
A lot of guys supplemented on the run side of things.
But you know, with Garrett Wilson, with DeVante Adams down
the stretch, got to figure out what's going on there.
Of course, Garrett Wilson, you've got a massage that and
make sure he still wants to stick around. Brese Hall
in theory will be better because at seven, what are

(53:20):
you doing. You're drafting an offensive or a defensive lineman
and you're building out from there, whether Travis is the
the next in line or you do go and get
your guy. You're really trying to talk McCord into existence.
I dig that about you. You've already got him mocked
up in a Jets uniform. But if Rogers is true
to his word and is ready to be a mentor

(53:41):
and be a bit of a less of an ass
and standoffish, then I don't see how you you don't
win in that situation, because again, in the open marketplace,
what are you going to get?

Speaker 1 (53:50):
What are you going to get? If we talked about it,
it's Sam Arnold, I would say yeah, but there's not.
You're not bringing him back, you're not trading for Kirk Cousins.
There's nobody. There's nobody in the first round.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Right Ross Fields. Yeah no, you're that's your guy telling
you he's gonna be starting for the Jets. Got youa
week one,