January 18, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon preview and pick Ravens-Bills. College Football Insider Pete Fiutak drops by the show for all things Notre Dame and Ohio State. And Bill Belichick's contract at North Carolina is still unsigned.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Say this, you know I talked about We talked about
Rookie Sasaki, who has been looked the big name for
this off sea and because of the attention that's been
on him, the great starting pitcher that you.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Can land and look, I told you last hour.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Look, the Dodgers aren't unbeatable getting him right, They're a
great team that got even better with him. But you
don't know about Sasaki, right, you know? Is he gonna
be great? Like, I mean, if you're the Dodgers, how
do you feel about three hundred million for Yamamota right now?
You're like, okay, Like we wasn't quite what we thought
he was last year. He gave us kind of just enough.
But wow, we're on the hook for a lot of
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money with him.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not our money. What do we get it?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, but that's true.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But you're well, you're only going to spend so much, right,
You're only gonna spend so much money because you're not
going to go into all the penalties. But I will
I will say that this is this is it is
a great move and anybody who got him it would
have been great because of the way his career is
in less than six years in Japan. You're not you
can't give him a lot of money, right, and you don't.
You're not gonna give him any money I think for
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I think it's three years. So you you get you
get a potentially great pitcher that you're spending just a
few million dollars on.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You spending six and a half million dollars on, Like.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
This is the guy to go get like if I
if you said to me, okay, you can have Roki Sasaki, who,
as we talked with Steve Tosaga a few minutes ago, Hey,
you know what, had some injury issues, never won more
than ten games?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
How many in these canny pitch okay?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Or your Shinoba Yamamoto, who is much more accomplished, and
and and the the his arm has been able to
take through go through a lot of innings. I'll still say, well,
it's only six million dollars a year for Sasaki, and
it's three hundred million dollars for the next ten years
to Yamamoto. I'll take Sasaki like whoever he went to,
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you're getting It's like getting a free superstar, right, That's
what it is. It's it's it's walking in to get
an ice cream and they go, oh, you know, I
have a two for one day today.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Wait we do?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, you want two scoops to the price of one.
Of course I do. I had no idea this is
going on. Of course I'll take two scoops. Yes, that's
what this is. It's an extra scoop of ice cream.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's one.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's buying something that you didn't know. There's really no
cost to.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It is no cost.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That's also an ice cream store that ain't gonna be
around very much and didn't give it aways loops.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's a really good ice cream store.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Then they don't need to give you. What if?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What if? What if?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Buying one scoop is thirty five dollars, but we'll give
you the second scoop for free.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I think that they'll be around for a while.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Well, no, I think you've scared everybody off by the
sticker shock. Either that or they get sucked in to
go boy, I paid thirty five. This is the best
damn ice cream I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Good ice cream?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Or you recognize that you've been got for sousaki.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You know the low investment potential, high high reward, right,
and this is the equivalent of that low round NFL
draft pick that becomes your star.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Take a rock party for an instance. I made what
nine hundred and sixty two thousand dollars. We heard that
time and time again. Great deal with a car dealership.
Took care of offensive line or whatever else. Everybody laughed
at him. Peyton Manning took his shots at him the
other day, going, why are you giving guys cars when
you didn't get to the playoffs and they couldn't protect
you enough to let you truly succeed.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, you're buying goodwill.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So when they ask around the locker room whether they
watch you back, maybe you get a vote of confidence
for whatever that's worth. But all of that to say
you've also it comes down to infrastructure as well. Right,
Having the organization that you trust is going to bring
you along. And that's where Sasaki looks around the Major
League Baseball and says, well, these guys have a pretty
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good track record. I'd be asking a lot of questions
if I'm a pitcher, if I'm real honest about it,
given the number of young pitchers who have had to
experience multiple arm troubles and issues along the way, that
I'd want my plan really mapped out as best I could.
But in terms of organizational fortitude and long term success,
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who the hell else matches up? No, you're gonna go there.
So you take advantage of the rules as are in place,
and you get him on the cheap until he hits
his prime and whereby bunch of other folks can come
in in the open market. If he's amenable to doing so,
and potentially he signs with your team in the interim. Sorry, folks,
(05:08):
this is the way the rules, uh are he had
a choice and chose a lea.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It goes sign an Instagram post nonetheless.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I am gonna let everybody know on ig I would
be hey, hey, who can translate? Who can translate? I
think Sasaki just made his decision. Wait, I see the
Dodgers logo. Never mind, the Dodgers had kind of said it.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
But what would have been funny is if he put
it on TikTok so it was like, this message will
self destruct?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Are we still gonna be able to get TikTok? I
don't know, man, I keep hearing stories, but I don't know.
They keep kicking that can down the road.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Uh. I read to make my millions off my dance
capabilities or whatever else?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Real fast.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Uh. We'll have more on Sasaki coming up later on
in the show.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And hey, we're gonna join by Pete Futak coming up
in about fifteen minutes as we preview Ohio State and
note tre Dame for the National Championship on Monday night.
But look, the game of the year in the NFL.
I don't think I'm under selling it.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Look, we had a great game two weeks ago, final
regular season game with the Vikings and the Lions, but
Ravens bills like, this is as.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Titanic as it gets.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And we're not even in the the AFC Championship Round yet.
It is as titanic as it gets. And it's Lamar
Jackson and Josh Allen and I gotta be honest. We
pick a lot of games here, right, It's what we
do on football Fridays. We pick games for the weekends.
You pick college, you pick our upset specials. We picked
the big games and tell you what we think is
gonna Wait, it's what Friday is, right, Hey, how are
(06:35):
these games? I'm gonna spend all weekend maneuvering my schedule
so I can see these games.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
How are they gonna turn out?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
This is the toughest game that I've had to pick
all year. This is I can't tell you how much,
how much time I've spent thinking about it from both
sides and going through things, and you know, the injuries
and all this different stuff, and it's the toughest game
to pick. This is the absolute most difficult game to pick.
I look at both teams. They're both great, and they've
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both fallen short when they're great. Right, We've seen Lamar
Jackson have great success, we've seen him fail. We've seen
Josh Allen and the Bills have great success in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
We've seen them fail.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
We've seen heroics that we didn't think either of them
could accomplish. We've seen failures that we go I don't
know what the hell just happened to this team.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I can't shake the feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I just can't shake the feeling that this is Lamar's
year for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I just can't.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Even without Zay Flowers, who is doubtful for the game tomorrow,
likely not gonna play, I can't see Lamar Jackson falling
short in this game. I mean, it's splitting hairs between
Jackson and Josh Allen, But I have more confidence that
the Ravens defense can come up with something in the
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clutch more than I can see the Bills defense finding
a way to stop Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It just feels like year.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It feels like it's the personal I took that personally,
and I'm on the iPad with MJ from you know,
and I'm taking all of this personally, it doesn't matter.
If he has wide receivers are healthy, they win. If
he doesn't have wide receivers, he wins. I'm sure the
Bills will slow Derrick Henry down and it's not gonna matter.
(08:21):
There's gonna be a lot of points in this game,
not quite scoreboard lighting where it's gonna be forty one.
But I look at this as a twenty seven to
twenty four ish type game that the Ravens pull out
with a big drive and a field goal by Justin Tucker.
And yes, I know this year field goes by Justin
Tucker aren't nearly as automatic as they were in the past,
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but I have a hard time seeing Lamar Jackson falling
short in this game. He's got too much pressure on
him to come up with a big win in the playoffs,
and the entire world is gonna watch this game. I
don't know that there's gonna be a higher rated game
in the NFL to this point all year. I'm sure
we'll find out Monday. Hey, more people watch Bills in
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the Ravens than watched any other game. It's just that
dynamic and that huge with two incredibly talented quarterbacks and
I'll take Lamar and the Ravens to survive, make it
to the AFC title game twenty seven to twenty four.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Twenty seven to twenty four takes us just under the total,
sitting at fifty one and a half. An interesting note
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eleven and three in playoff games that Carl Jeffers referees,
So you got it just under looking for it to
go to twelve and three. There Smith the curiosity right.
This goes back to the end of September and an
absolute beatdown that the Ravens put on the Bills thirty
five to ten. In that game you watched as Lamar
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Jackson eighteen attempts, one hundred and fifty six yards, two
touchdowns in the air, Derrick Henry just under two hundred yards,
one ninety nine waffer Thin one hundred and ninety nine
yards and a touchdown. Jackson added fifty four and a
touchdown on the ground as well so handled their business
at that point in Baltimore. Here's the curiosity of the
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weather and how much it impacts it. Right somewhere between
three and six inches of snow anticipated I'm sure everybody's
gonna get off for ten bucks an hour and a
hardy handshake and a cup of hot coco to come
out there and shovel.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Hold out for more. People hold out from more.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Always hold out to what's your work? Each of the
shovel they need? You hold out for more. Either that
or I would.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Not go out.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I'll buy you a nice shovel.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, I would not go out at all. I would
say you're the Buffalo Bills. You make a lot of money.
You have a lot of money. How many billions of
dollars is franchise worth? You can you can find a
way to.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Get a shovel.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
No, it's not like when you're in Green Bay and
you might be part owner of the team. Yeah, they
didn't pay you with green Bay, right, Like, didn't we
find that out? Hey, come out for this, Laurel and
Hardy Hanschin.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
No, no, no, you got a couple of bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
But again it's still still nothing, man, It's still nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's peanuts.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
It's not worth the potential frost biting and everything that
goes through it. Likewise, in Buffalo, hold out for what
you're worth. I like the altruism is a four letter word.
Everybody's looking for an angle put out of a.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
T shirt hashtag altruism is a four letter.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
One, that's right.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But it comes down to Josh Allen in the pass game, right,
can he survive a pass rush? You know he's gonna
run the ball a ton. So this is one when
we get into our prop bets, you know, dig down deeper,
big spots. He carries the ball more, just like Lamar
Jackson did a week ago when he got to fifteen carries.
So do you like Cook and Allen versus Henry and Jackson?
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Are we just making the tag team match WWE style
in a cage and just be done with it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah? Why not? Yeah? No?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Can we get Becky Lynch involved? If we get Becky
involved in her date, I'm in. I'm in, Yes, Becky.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Great seth Rolins shows up as well.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
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find that wherever you get your podcasts, Uh download to
give it five stars. We'll love you forever and ever. Again,
I'm gonna take the Bills. I mean, I picked them
before the season, so I can't go against them.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You gotta stick with you, gotta say, I got an
answer to who I wrung with. You're like, you know,
you're kind of like John Paul Morosi. Every year he
picks the Mariners to win, uh and get to the
World Tea. But I had last year, you know, I
thought you picked them up your bills every year. Now
I had the Chiefs to win it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Last years, everybody because everybody dove off going they're not
good enough whatever. Like to be the man, you gotta
beat the man. And and this year I thought you
could go and beat the man. So I picked against him,
and I have bills. And then we'll get to the
other game later as to their matchup, because again I'm
beholden to it, kind of like you.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Fearing your wife and extended family in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, it's a little bit. It's a little bit more
difficult for me than it is for you. I mean,
I'm clearly more well, you know, have my feet over
the fire.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, but the people of Buffalo loved me, yeah yeah, character, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But I'm like Han Solo in Return of the Jedi
when they tie him up and the Ewoks are gonna
cook him, and you know, I'm like, hey, like, that's
my danger if I pick against the lions like that. Yeah, yeah,
free bo but trying to blow the fire up.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
So they moved on from Muskrat to uh radio host.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
They're gonna cook. We're gonna cook you. We're gonna cook
that radio host.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was it was it is he a member of
your No, that's it's cooked. You don't fire a gun
when you cooked my shirt?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What kind of well?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I mean you might, you might do the hunting.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You just have to make sure you don't hit it improperly, right,
It's got to be a proper kill.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, you know, harvest the meat.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Wow, Okay, in the zombie Apocalypse, I'm definitely going to
harm and see.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, he seems he seems.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
To know how to deal with situations like that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I mean, I don't know, I not working to a
big end.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Anybody outside of like Walking Dead or any kind of
zombie movie that has used the phrase harvest the meat.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't know that that's not.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Go outside his house, and he's got on the on
the on the on the clothesline.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
He's got all the different hides that.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
He's Hey, you gotta show people who you're messing with.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Come around here no more.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Hey, you guys want a pair of pants? I can
make get your pair of pants out of the.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Right all sent back. You gotta send one person back
to warn the others. And he's got a purple stripe
on his back.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
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Speaker 3 (14:53):
Of the Bills and the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Game of the Year. Can't wait for this one, I
think anybody. I wish it was right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Now to be fantastic Sunday Sunday Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
But speaking of games, we can't wait for national championship
in college football Monday night. Is there any way Notre
Dame can slow down and stop Ohio State? Our next
guest might have a couple ideas about that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
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Speaker 1 (16:45):
We'll get back into the NFL coming up in a
few minutes, but right now it's time to take a look.
We are finally, at long last, at the end of
the college football season, after a postseason that began some
time after the fourth of July, Ohio State a notere
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Speaker 3 (17:16):
It is long time front of the show. Pete feu tech, Pete.
What's happening?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I apologize for not getting in touch with you guys
jarlier before and asking I hope you're doing well through
all this out there, and I hope you guys are
all safe.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh, thank you. Yeah. Everything we've been lucky.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Everything is okay, and it seems like we've hit the
other side of the you know things with the with
the wildfires, and hopefully we're getting continued to get some
good news as time going.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Yeah, it's it's crazy, but not to bring us the sports.
But it's a weird way that did not be happening
in LA this year, the National Championship like it did
a couple of years ago, and it's it seems blake.
Everything else has sort of moved on. But yeah, I
hope you guys for all that. But yeah, it's crazy
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as it's coming up on Monday. It seems like it's
taking forever to get here. But it is Ohio State,
it is Notre Dame. It is two powerhouses that America
is going to care about. I don't know why the
college football playoffs people try to put this game on Monday,
I do know, because they want the whole weekend to
enjoy the party and stuff. But man, it would have
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been awesome if it was right now instead of like,
I don't know, Monday, when there's that inauguration thing and
everyone's gonna be talking about the NFL, you know, championship
games and stuff. It just it seems like an odd time,
but we're gonna get it Monday night.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I feel like Pete, like I could make a lot
of money in sports if I would just be a
calendar guy. Hey, I'm going to give you a calendar
and you're going to get to look at it and
see everything that could be going on on these days.
So you see, if you want to have a game
on this day or not, I'll give you the calendar.
You make the decision. But I'm the calendar guy, and
I'd make a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I actually kind of have to joke that, like, I
just don't care about non football regular season pro sports
because there's no reason to because after this we have
the NFL Playoffs, and then after the NFL playoffs they
were over. Then college basketball kicks in college basketball National
Chance A Tournament, and the Masters, and then we dive
in a little bit of base and then all the
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there's only big things happening every other weekend where you
could just kind of, you know, hop to each thing.
But this is going to be a big thing. I
mean again, it's if Notre Dame wins, then the fighting
Irish crowd are going to go crazy because nobody seems
to have realized that this team is good. Because again,
as I've told to you guys before, I don't think
anybody watched them this year. I just it just they
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were on weird times, they didn't play big games, and
they just sort of all of a sudden gotten here.
It's like, wait a minute, Notre Dame's here. Oh well,
they're you know, playing second fiddle here. But they're good
enough to win this. And if Ohio State loses it,
you know, good luck with the drama and the reality
shows that would be. And if Ohio State wins, well
then you obviously that usher's in a completely new phase
(19:58):
of college football because yeah, you don't have Ryan Day
to kick around anymore. So it'll be it'll be an
interesting narrative nowhere how this works out.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
But that's the beauty of it, right, we all win
no matter what.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Hate Yeah, Michigan wins because you can claim that, hey,
you beat Ohio State, you know, yeah and beat them,
So you got that. So that's all you guys care about.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You're gonna get a big portion. I get what percentage? Okay, Pete,
let's do this. What percentage of the Ohio State fan
base if they win the national championship are gonna say, yeah,
that's great, but we should have beat Michigan, Like how
many people are what percentage of the Ohio State fans
are going to say, yeah, that's great, but we should
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have beat Michigan.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Probably it's a loud fan loud part of it because
they all decide to go on through it because they
just can't help themselves to feel happy. They just I
do not joke when I literally say it is the
most miserable fan base in all sports. They just cannot
enjoy themselves for thirty seconds. And again, it's it's not
even just the lost of Michigan. It's like that actually
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helped you because this team didn't play like this all year.
You kind of needed that moment to kind of kick
your butt in the gear and be like, all right,
enough of this, let's start actually playing. And you could
see that they couldn't play conservative, that they had to
just start to let a rip, that they had to
play after the talent level. So that lost of Michigan
probably are a step back because they giant lead forward
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if they can get by Notre Dame. Now, if they
lose the Notre Dame, then all of a sudden, the
mission that percentage you're talking about, the lost of Michigan
means everything. It's not enough just to get here now,
because they shouldn't have beaten Alabama in twenty twenty, and
you know, had they beaten, had they've not gotten that
one call against Clemson in nineteen they get rocked by
Joe Burrow and ilse you. Anyway, this time there eight
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and a half point favorite. They're supposed to win the
n actual championship, and they're supposed to do it relatively easily.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Beat backs out of Notre Dame enough to slow down
the receiving gore where you can do the box and
one that we saw employed in the last round against
Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
They're good. I mean, I just I think again, I've
mentioned this before. This is not TCU of a couple
of years ago, and they're better than Washington last year.
And I would have picked them if it was Notre
Dame versus Texas. They've got talent that's back seven. Like
you said, they don't misstackles. I mean that it sounds
basic and you kind of get used to when you're
watching the NFL that you assume, oh, there's a one
(22:24):
hundred and sixty pound cornerback tackling Derrick Henry. You know that,
but like that's just these guys can all hit, they
can all tackle, and they just they have a different
sort of mindset and attitude. They are about as confident
a team as he as you can possibly find. They
just do what they do and it all seems to
kind of work. Now. If Ohio State gets up early,
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or if they are mistakes right away by Notre Dame,
uh oh, you know, because then I think Ohio State
just takes that run. Because this is not necessarily a
come from behind team. And that was kind of the
thing in the semi finals where Notre Dame played awful
against Penn State and they were still only ten seven
at halftimes, like, oh, you had them, you didn't put
them down. If Bosey gets up faster, there's gonna be
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a big problem because this is not a team that's
built to make some sort of big type of comeback.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'll tell you, Peter, it's really hard for me to
see Notre Dame winning this game. Ohio State's the better roster,
they're the better team. The only thing and that I
can say, Okay, how can I see Notre Dame winning? Right?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Because I see Ohio State winning.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know, if I if I was a computer in
my head, you know, one out of every fourteen million.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You know, Ohio State wins.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Is that if Michigan Ohio State shows up, that if
the Michigan Ohio State team where when the game is
closed for a little while and all of a sudden,
Ryan Day and Chip Kelly they start daying a little
bit and say, well, let's real conservative, you know, a
couple of turnovers, Will Howard, let's not let's not throw
the football a lot, and all of a sudden it
becomes a pickham game. That's the only thing that makes
(23:54):
me concerned about Ohio State is that I can see
if things don't go well the pressure of the game,
they really get aggressive when they should just keep opening
it up and just driving down the field against them
because Notre Dame doesn't have the firepower to keep up.
That's the only thing that I could see, Okay, that
I can see if Ryan Day gets it's if they
get that way, I could see Notre Dame potentially winning.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, you're right, but that o'h have they did like
you said, Ohosey did that to Delves against Michigan with
their weird game plan. But here's how it happens is
the Georgia game. Georgia's much has more talent than Notre Dame.
But what did Notre Dame do? They just they do
this every single game. And if to watch this team
all year outside of the Northern Illinois game, they they
are actually kind of weirdly explosive. I mean, they did
(24:37):
get the kick six against Georgia. They did get the
nineties any ninety eight yard Jeremiah Love touchdown run against Indiana.
I mean, they got the great House touchdown against Penn State.
They make lots and lots of big plays. It's just
not like the Jeremiah Smith, you know, type of every
other thing. They just kind of seem to do it collectively.
(24:59):
But that's how they Georgia did. They beat Georgia with
two hundred and forty four yards of total offense, and
why they came up with five specific big plays a
strip sack, a kick six, a big throw, you know,
to get it done. And that's kind of what it does.
It just sort of holds teams in place and it
just makes the big plays that other teams don't. And
(25:19):
how they if they start turning the ball over, you know,
there's a shot there, Like I couldn't see them. How
they beat Georgia and they did it. We've got double dindem.
I couldn't. It was hard to make a case how
you're going to be Penn State because they're the same team.
But Penn State's got more talent. They just figured it out.
This team just finds a way more than any other
team I've seen in a long long time.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
So Pete, if Notre Dame wins.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
After waving to James Franklin, does Marcus Freeman go walk
right into Alice Hall to become the coach.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Of the Bears.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Oh? Man, It's so funny because the Notre Dame people
I deal with, they're like, well, this is just the beginning,
this is how it starts. You're right, Marcus Freeman might
be a head coach in the NFL. Oh no, but
he decided the contract extension and I oh you sweet kids,
Oh god love. Yeah, it's all a contract extension is
(26:07):
going to keep him from being there. But like, he
would be great. I think he would be Unlike Dion
for example, I think I think Marcus Freeman would be
a whale of an NFL head coach. I mean, what
they're doing right now, they're already probably gonna lose Al Golden,
their defensive coordinator. But they have coached their tails off
this season, and Freeman has proven that he's got the
(26:29):
chops to be able to kind of get them here.
But let's see what they do. Let's see if they
come up with something special. They've had time off. But
I do say, I say all these nice things about
Notre Dame, and honestly, if it's thirty one eight Ohio State,
I would not be shocked. They are just they're the
best team in the country. They've got more talent. As
long as they just kind of get out of their
own heads and just play up to their talent level,
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they should win this and cover without too much of
a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
College football insider pt tech our guest to Jason smithser
with Mike Carmon all right now to get you outside
of the game, Newers declares for the NFL Draft. He's
had to be turned down what could have been an
eight million dollar nil deal with another school. So I'm
gonna say complete the sentence, all right. We know that
Chador Sanders and cam Ward are going to go somewhere
in the top few picks in the NFL Draft, even
(27:14):
if they don't. Both have great first round grades that
the desire for quarterbacks is too great, so they're going
to go in the first few picks. If I said
to you, the next quarterback off the board after cam
Ward and after Shador Sanders is blank, who are you
telling me?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
And it's okay if you tell me Kyle McCord, it's I.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Mean obvious Kyle McCord is But yeah, that's no who
I like the best?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Who do you like the best that that could translate
the next level?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I actually I actually kind of like yours. He's not
a power pitcher. He doesn't have the big giant arm.
But I don't even like cam Ward or Chaudere all
that much. I kind of like Schadur. But this is
just not it's not last year's draft, and it might
not be next year's draft. A part to Darch, but
it's there's just nobody there. So that's why you're quinn
ne or. Now there's two things about that eight million,
(28:07):
which one, it's the boring side of the technical side
of this, which we won't get into now for another
off even date. But there's that whole thing, the title
nine thing, where they're going to have to start figuring out. Okay, well,
if you're giving Quinny or is eight million, what are
you giving? You know, the women's side of things, that's
it's gonna be kind of a logistical nightmare, which is
why Nil worked. And once you start doing things like
(28:28):
this is impossible. The second part about this is too
It's not about just the okay, well you would make
more this year. It's about getting to that second contract.
Sam Donald's going to get somewhere between twenty and thirty
five million dollars. He's Sam Donald. He's awful at football,
you know. So if you're just a competent you know,
you know, starting quarterback, which Quineyers should be. He should
(28:50):
be pretty decent. He should be you know, a guy
who can start. It's not gonna win any bitting big
for you, but he'll he'll play in the league for
a long long time once you get to that second contract. Look,
you know, Dak Prescott makes me more than the Mountain West.
You know. It's the Jill Burrow, you know, and Justin
Herbert and these guys are your corporations. I mean they're
making you know, thirty forty to fifty million a year.
(29:12):
It's insane with these guys make So it's not just
about the short side of this. It's that if you
believe in yourself, Queen you weres, then go be a pro.
The Bill Parcell's line, if you want to be a
pro player, get out of college, Go be a pro player,
and get to that second contract faster because at that
point you're starting to make you know, real amigo money
at that point.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You can follow on Twitter at Pete few Tech. That
is at Pezu Tech. Visit college Footballnews dot com. Everything
you need college football is there. Maybe my favorite quote
of the year so far, Dak Prescott makes more money
than the Mountain West. Pete, have a great weekend. We'll
talk to you after the game on Monday.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Lady guys, see anybody you but there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I like that Dak Prescott makes more money than the
Mountain West.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
That is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Oh, the Jason Swison was my Carmen Live from the
tirerac dot com studios. We'll have more on the National
Championship coming up, but right now, time to find out
what's trending from.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
A guy who we call the Za Flowers here at
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There's a lot of conversation about him, but I don't
think he's showing up anywhere this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Oh, I thought it's because secretly the knees been bothering
me somehow. We're in the same No, yeah, it's a
Flowers is not looking good for Sunday, but they're not
calling him out. Doubtful for Sunday's playoff at Buffalo. The
Ravens wide receiver as a knee injury. He missed another
practice today after missing the wildcard game last weekend. The
temperature in Buffalo is due to be under twenty degrees
(30:36):
for the divisional round game. Bill's backup running back Ray
Davis is still in concussion protocol and listed as questionable.
Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown has no injury designation for
Sunday's game against the Rams. That's Sunday at three pm Eastern,
with snow in the forecast. The Dolphins will play a
game in Madrid next season. The full NFL schedule won't
come out until the spring. We know the Browns are
(30:59):
one of the teams that play in London next season,
along with Jacksonville again and the Jets there Beginning this year,
the NFL can schedule up to eight regular season games internationally.
Berlin will host a game also with the Colts. You
mentioned Monday night college Football's national title game that's in
Atlanta and its seven seed Notre Dame against eight seed
(31:19):
Ohio State. Ohio State was ten and one until losing
at home to Michigan thirteen to ten. Since then, though,
beat up Tennessee and number one Oregon easily, and then
eliminated Texas twenty eight to fourteen in a game that
was tied mid fourth quarter. Notre Dame lost its home
opener against Northern Illinois, but has won thirteen straight since
defeated Navy Army and USC in the playoffs. The Irish
(31:41):
had beaten Indiana, Georgia and Penn State. By the way,
the Sun Belt Conference find Marshall one hundred thousand dollars
for opting out of its bowl game last month. It
had many players in the transfer portal after its coach
left Pitcher Roki Sasaki is signing with the Dodgers. He's
twenty three years old. The Mets agreed to a deal
with former break reliever aj minter Da signed former Texas
(32:03):
closer Jose Leclair. In the late NBA game halftime in La,
Lakers lead the Nets fifty one to forty five. Austin
reeves sixteen points as Anthony Davis of the Lakers is
out with a foot injury. Tonight, the Grizzlies are leading
at San Antonio with under ten minutes to go, one
oh nine to ninety four. Earlier, Dallas beat Oklahoma City.
(32:23):
Now Shay Gilders Alexander of Okase was out with the
spraying wrist in New York, carl Anthony Towns of the
Knicks out again with a spraying thumb. Minnesota a winner
at New York.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
As Anthony Edwards scored thirty six points at Milwaukee, thirty
five for Giannis Antenacumpo in an easy win over Toronto.
At Boston, thirty points for Jason Tatum and an easy
win against Orlando. Denver got thirty from Jamal Murray in
a twenty point victory at Miami, Charlotte and New Orleans
with wins as far as Charlotte. Hornet's Brandon Miller out
(32:53):
indefinitely with a torn wristligment, he averages twenty one points
a game. College Hoops Indiana won and over time in
Ohio State on Fox TV tonight, seventy seven seventy six
with the last second block wins for UCLA De Paul
and Villanova South. Carolina gave women's coach Don Staley a
contract extension through twenty thirty. Her annual salary starts at
(33:14):
four million dollars and just two NHL games. Tonight, Carolina
at home by Vegas three to two, Pittsburgh at five
to win at Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Back to you, Vegas, Stevo.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
The Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the tiraq
dot Com Studios. We continue on we'll have more college football,
but straight ahead. Speaking of college football, there's a story
in the last twenty four hours that kind of creeped
up on us a little bit.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Gods talking to Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
That's you told us it was science. It was happening
two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
And you're the only guy that didn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Science.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yo, you thought he was going to the mites.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
There's a college football story that's kind of creeped up.
Now it's gotten big. Now it's gotten to be what
the hell is going on? That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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(34:37):
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you get your podcasts from, it is there. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Now, a story came up
yesterday that was a little interesting, and then as time's
going on, it's gotten really interesting. Bill Belichick hasn't signed
his contract with the University of North Carolina. Uh okay,
(35:19):
he's out recruiting. He has been flipping players I think
thirteen at last count that he has helped recruit.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
To come to North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
But he hasn't signed his contract yet, and we boy,
you know, when you don't sign a contract, I think
of an NFL team calls, you can get there and
not have to worry about paying any sort of penalty. Here,
I know that there's been the big I would say
retort of Hey, lots of people haven't signed their contracts yet.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It happens in college football. It's not.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So weird for someone to not officially sign their deal
even after they've agreed to become.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
The head coach. Okay, all right, but you know, now,
give me a little bit more on this.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Well, Michael Lombardi, who of course Bill Belichick brought with him,
had a big interview today and he went everywhere saying, well,
I don't know what he was like his hype man,
he's like Belichick's hype man. Belichick is great, Belichick is great.
He has to sign his contract. But it's fine, it's fine,
it's fine. Hey, Michael, what about you? You sign your contract? No,
I haven't signed my contract yet either.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
This is just awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Right, So, now this is something that's fully out in
the open. Here's Bill Belichick, who the big question was, oh,
is he gonna go back.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
To the NFL. Looks like the NFL doesn't want him.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Wait, why is it such a low.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Buyout in the first year.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Why is it a million dollars and it's only ten million?
Why is it a low buy out? I thought he
was staying at North Carolina. And you've not heard anything
from Bill Belichick other than at the introductory press conference.
I didn't come here to leave. Okay, that's great, but
that's not I'm staying. This is me, This is all
of it. I don't think there's a coincidence that Bill
Belichick's contract is not signed and there are still five
(36:59):
head coaching openings in the NFL. Right, I don't think
that is a that is a a coincidence, considering he
actually called when you call the Jets to see if
you can come after you left writing your your resignation
on a napkin twenty four years ago. Come on, no,
he wrote, I resign as agent.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
No no, no.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I meant allegedly as in terms of calling the Jets.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Well, they wonder if parody account.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
If that was true and he didn't call the Jets,
he would come out of his whatever silence that he
has to say I never called the Jets.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
No, because up getting Johnson some level of credit and
credence the Jets. I never called that so and so.
Better to just leave his name out your mouth.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
So how real is this? Right? How real is this?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
To answer this question, you have to you have to
ask a different question, which is how big of a
jerk could somebody really have to be to accept a
job at North Carolina?
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Have a press conference?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Higher code is hire people outside of the coaching department
to be your GM and everything else you're doing.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Go out and recruit players and bring him in.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
You gotta be some kind of jerk to then say, oh, hey, sorry,
but I'm heading to the NFL. You really have to
be some kind of jerk for that to happen. So
at whatever your level of how much of a jerk
you think Bill Belichick could be with this happening, there's
your answer. But I'll give you, but I'll do you
one better. This has now become a thing, right, This
(38:29):
has now become a thing.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yes, is there potentially a gray area from time to
time about a guy not signing his contract. No, but
you never have to worry about a guy taking a
job and leaving before they play a game.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Usually that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
But now this story is out in the open, and
you've had Michael Lombardi doing damage control for Belichick.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
You've not heard from Belichick at all.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I will say this, If Belichick's contract isn't signed by Monday,
then that's your answer. That's your answer about how real
this is that Belichick's still trying to get back to
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Because now it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Right now, it's like, okay, Bill, you got to sign
your deal and so we can we can get ready
to put this to bed because now all that's gonna
happen is you're trying to recruit players different things, and
and what are the other recruits hearing? Hey, you don't
want this guy. He's not even gonna stay. He hasn't
even signed his contract yet. He's not staying, he's not coaching.
You don't want that, and you don't want to look bad.
You're not gonna look bad if you're North Carolina. So,
(39:21):
now that it's out there in the open, if this
contract isn't signed by Monday, you know this Belichick to
the NFL thing is real and can still happen.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
There's your answer. That's what you're looking for.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, I like the potential, potentially the chaos theory here
of all of this going on. Maybe Bill Belichick just
wants to have all the pomp and circumstance that comes
with signing the contract after the National Title Game. So
he's doing it in deference.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Okay, I could see that, Sure, sure.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Sure, I don't know what you percentage you would give
that on this.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
He's gonna do it during it like like a Rod
opting out of his contract in the middle of the
World Series. Hey, middle of the National Title Game. Bill
Belichick signed to deal with North Carolina. We have Bill
live now telling us why. Okay, I know it's thirty
five thirty five and there's two minutes left to go,
but let's talk to Bill Belichick and find out what
he's got planned North Camp.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Bill sent a a napkin back to the University of
North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I resign as HC of the UNC that would be
at now that that, if he did.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Would be completely underrand and kind kind of funny after
you got past the anger.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
If you're at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I would not criticize him at all. If that's how
we were, I resign as HC. Of the UNC one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
We're on the Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
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Say this, you know I talked about We talked about
Rookie Sasaki, who has been looked the big name for
this off sea and because of the attention that's been
on him, the great starting pitcher that you.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Can land and look, I told you last hour.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Look, the Dodgers aren't unbeatable getting him right, They're a
great team that got even better with him. But you
don't know about Sasaki, right, you know? Is he gonna
be great? Like, I mean, if you're the Dodgers, how
do you feel about three hundred million for Yamamota right now?
You're like, okay, Like we wasn't quite what we thought
he was last year. He gave us kind of just enough.
But wow, we're on the hook for a lot of
(01:30):
money with him.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Not our money. What do we get it?
Speaker 3 (01:32):
No, but that's true.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But you're well, you're only going to spend so much, right,
You're only gonna spend so much money because you're not
going to go into all the penalties. But I will
I will say that this is this is it is
a great move and anybody who got him it would
have been great because of the way his career is
in less than six years in Japan. You're not you
can't give him a lot of money, right, and you don't.
You're not gonna give him any money I think for
(01:54):
I think it's three years. So you you get you
get a potentially great pitcher that you're spending just a
few million dollars on.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You spending six and a half million dollars on, Like.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
This is the guy to go get like if I
if you said to me, okay, you can have Roki Sasaki, who,
as we talked with Steve Tosaga a few minutes ago, Hey,
you know what, had some injury issues, never won more
than ten games?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
How many in these canny pitch okay?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Or your Shinoba Yamamoto, who is much more accomplished, and
and and the the his arm has been able to
take through go through a lot of innings. I'll still say, well,
it's only six million dollars a year for Sasaki, and
it's three hundred million dollars for the next ten years
to Yamamoto. I'll take Sasaki like whoever he went to,
(02:35):
you're getting It's like getting a free superstar, right, That's
what it is. It's it's it's walking in to get
an ice cream and they go, oh, you know, I
have a two for one day today.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Wait we do?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, you want two scoops to the price of one.
Of course I do. I had no idea this is
going on. Of course I'll take two scoops. Yes, that's
what this is. It's an extra scoop of ice cream.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's one.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's buying something that you didn't know. There's really no
cost to.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
It is no cost.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
That's also an ice cream store that ain't gonna be
around very much and didn't give it aways loops.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It's a really good ice cream store.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Then they don't need to give you. What if?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
What if? What if?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Buying one scoop is thirty five dollars, but we'll give
you the second scoop for free.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
I think that they'll be around for a while.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Well, no, I think you've scared everybody off by the
sticker shock. Either that or they get sucked in to
go boy, I paid thirty five. This is the best
damn ice cream I've ever had.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Good ice cream?
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Or you recognize that you've been got for sousaki.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
You know the low investment potential, high high reward, right,
and this is the equivalent of that low round NFL
draft pick that becomes your star.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Take a rock party for an instance. I made what
nine hundred and sixty two thousand dollars. We heard that
time and time again. Great deal with a car dealership.
Took care of offensive line or whatever else. Everybody laughed
at him. Peyton Manning took his shots at him the
other day, going, why are you giving guys cars when
you didn't get to the playoffs and they couldn't protect
you enough to let you truly succeed.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Oh, you're buying goodwill.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So when they ask around the locker room whether they
watch you back, maybe you get a vote of confidence
for whatever that's worth. But all of that to say
you've also it comes down to infrastructure as well. Right,
Having the organization that you trust is going to bring
you along. And that's where Sasaki looks around the Major
League Baseball and says, well, these guys have a pretty
(04:25):
good track record. I'd be asking a lot of questions
if I'm a pitcher, if I'm real honest about it,
given the number of young pitchers who have had to
experience multiple arm troubles and issues along the way, that
I'd want my plan really mapped out as best I could.
But in terms of organizational fortitude and long term success,
(04:47):
who the hell else matches up? No, you're gonna go there.
So you take advantage of the rules as are in place,
and you get him on the cheap until he hits
his prime and whereby bunch of other folks can come
in in the open market. If he's amenable to doing so,
and potentially he signs with your team in the interim. Sorry, folks,
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this is the way the rules, uh are he had
a choice and chose a lea.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
It goes sign an Instagram post nonetheless.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I am gonna let everybody know on ig I would
be hey, hey, who can translate? Who can translate? I
think Sasaki just made his decision. Wait, I see the
Dodgers logo. Never mind, the Dodgers had kind of said it.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
But what would have been funny is if he put
it on TikTok so it was like, this message will
self destruct?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Are we still gonna be able to get TikTok? I
don't know, man, I keep hearing stories, but I don't know.
They keep kicking that can down the road.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Uh. I read to make my millions off my dance
capabilities or whatever else?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Real fast.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Uh. We'll have more on Sasaki coming up later on
in the show.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And hey, we're gonna join by Pete Futak coming up
in about fifteen minutes as we preview Ohio State and
note tre Dame for the National Championship on Monday night.
But look, the game of the year in the NFL.
I don't think I'm under selling it.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Look, we had a great game two weeks ago, final
regular season game with the Vikings and the Lions, but
Ravens bills like, this is as.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Titanic as it gets.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
And we're not even in the the AFC Championship Round yet.
It is as titanic as it gets. And it's Lamar
Jackson and Josh Allen and I gotta be honest. We
pick a lot of games here, right, It's what we
do on football Fridays. We pick games for the weekends.
You pick college, you pick our upset specials. We picked
the big games and tell you what we think is
gonna Wait, it's what Friday is, right, Hey, how are
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these games? I'm gonna spend all weekend maneuvering my schedule
so I can see these games.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
How are they gonna turn out?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
This is the toughest game that I've had to pick
all year. This is I can't tell you how much,
how much time I've spent thinking about it from both
sides and going through things, and you know, the injuries
and all this different stuff, and it's the toughest game
to pick. This is the absolute most difficult game to pick.
I look at both teams. They're both great, and they've
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both fallen short when they're great. Right, We've seen Lamar
Jackson have great success, we've seen him fail. We've seen
Josh Allen and the Bills have great success in the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
We've seen them fail.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
We've seen heroics that we didn't think either of them
could accomplish. We've seen failures that we go I don't
know what the hell just happened to this team.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I can't shake the feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I just can't shake the feeling that this is Lamar's
year for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I just can't.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Even without Zay Flowers, who is doubtful for the game tomorrow,
likely not gonna play, I can't see Lamar Jackson falling
short in this game. I mean, it's splitting hairs between
Jackson and Josh Allen, But I have more confidence that
the Ravens defense can come up with something in the
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clutch more than I can see the Bills defense finding
a way to stop Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It just feels like year.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It feels like it's the personal I took that personally,
and I'm on the iPad with MJ from you know,
and I'm taking all of this personally, it doesn't matter.
If he has wide receivers are healthy, they win. If
he doesn't have wide receivers, he wins. I'm sure the
Bills will slow Derrick Henry down and it's not gonna matter.
(08:21):
There's gonna be a lot of points in this game,
not quite scoreboard lighting where it's gonna be forty one.
But I look at this as a twenty seven to
twenty four ish type game that the Ravens pull out
with a big drive and a field goal by Justin Tucker.
And yes, I know this year field goes by Justin
Tucker aren't nearly as automatic as they were in the past,
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but I have a hard time seeing Lamar Jackson falling
short in this game. He's got too much pressure on
him to come up with a big win in the playoffs,
and the entire world is gonna watch this game. I
don't know that there's gonna be a higher rated game
in the NFL to this point all year. I'm sure
we'll find out Monday. Hey, more people watch Bills in
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the Ravens than watched any other game. It's just that
dynamic and that huge with two incredibly talented quarterbacks and
I'll take Lamar and the Ravens to survive, make it
to the AFC title game twenty seven to twenty four.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Twenty seven to twenty four takes us just under the total,
sitting at fifty one and a half. An interesting note
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eleven and three in playoff games that Carl Jeffers referees,
So you got it just under looking for it to
go to twelve and three. There Smith the curiosity right.
This goes back to the end of September and an
absolute beatdown that the Ravens put on the Bills thirty
five to ten. In that game you watched as Lamar
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Jackson eighteen attempts, one hundred and fifty six yards, two
touchdowns in the air, Derrick Henry just under two hundred yards,
one ninety nine waffer Thin one hundred and ninety nine
yards and a touchdown. Jackson added fifty four and a
touchdown on the ground as well so handled their business
at that point in Baltimore. Here's the curiosity of the
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weather and how much it impacts it. Right somewhere between
three and six inches of snow anticipated I'm sure everybody's
gonna get off for ten bucks an hour and a
hardy handshake and a cup of hot coco to come
out there and shovel.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Hold out for more. People hold out from more.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Always hold out to what's your work? Each of the
shovel they need? You hold out for more. Either that
or I would.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Not go out.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I'll buy you a nice shovel.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Yeah, I would not go out at all. I would
say you're the Buffalo Bills. You make a lot of money.
You have a lot of money. How many billions of
dollars is franchise worth? You can you can find a
way to.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Get a shovel.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
No, it's not like when you're in Green Bay and
you might be part owner of the team. Yeah, they
didn't pay you with green Bay, right, Like, didn't we
find that out? Hey, come out for this, Laurel and
Hardy Hanschin.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
No, no, no, you got a couple of bucks.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
But again it's still still nothing, man, It's still nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
It's peanuts.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
It's not worth the potential frost biting and everything that
goes through it. Likewise, in Buffalo, hold out for what
you're worth. I like the altruism is a four letter word.
Everybody's looking for an angle put out of a.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
T shirt hashtag altruism is a four letter.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
One, that's right.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But it comes down to Josh Allen in the pass game, right,
can he survive a pass rush? You know he's gonna
run the ball a ton. So this is one when
we get into our prop bets, you know, dig down deeper,
big spots. He carries the ball more, just like Lamar
Jackson did a week ago when he got to fifteen carries.
So do you like Cook and Allen versus Henry and Jackson?
(11:51):
Are we just making the tag team match WWE style
in a cage and just be done with it?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah? Why not? Yeah? No?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Can we get Becky Lynch involved? If we get Becky
involved in her date, I'm in. I'm in, Yes, Becky.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Great seth Rolins shows up as well.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Uh, you gotta listen to each and every show. Fine,
find that wherever you get your podcasts, Uh download to
give it five stars. We'll love you forever and ever. Again,
I'm gonna take the Bills. I mean, I picked them
before the season, so I can't go against them.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
You gotta stick with you, gotta say, I got an
answer to who I wrung with. You're like, you know,
you're kind of like John Paul Morosi. Every year he
picks the Mariners to win, uh and get to the
World Tea. But I had last year, you know, I
thought you picked them up your bills every year. Now
I had the Chiefs to win it.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
Last years, everybody because everybody dove off going they're not
good enough whatever. Like to be the man, you gotta
beat the man. And and this year I thought you
could go and beat the man. So I picked against him,
and I have bills. And then we'll get to the
other game later as to their matchup, because again I'm
beholden to it, kind of like you.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Fearing your wife and extended family in Detroit.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Well, it's a little bit. It's a little bit more
difficult for me than it is for you. I mean,
I'm clearly more well, you know, have my feet over
the fire.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Yeah, but the people of Buffalo loved me, yeah yeah, character, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
But I'm like Han Solo in Return of the Jedi
when they tie him up and the Ewoks are gonna
cook him, and you know, I'm like, hey, like, that's
my danger if I pick against the lions like that. Yeah, yeah,
free bo but trying to blow the fire up.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
So they moved on from Muskrat to uh radio host.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
They're gonna cook. We're gonna cook you. We're gonna cook
that radio host.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was it was it is he a member of
your No, that's it's cooked. You don't fire a gun
when you cooked my shirt?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
What kind of well?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
I mean you might, you might do the hunting.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
You just have to make sure you don't hit it improperly, right,
It's got to be a proper kill.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, you know, harvest the meat.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Wow, Okay, in the zombie Apocalypse, I'm definitely going to
harm and see.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, he seems he seems.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
To know how to deal with situations like that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I mean, I don't know, I not working to a
big end.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Anybody outside of like Walking Dead or any kind of
zombie movie that has used the phrase harvest the meat.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I don't know that that's not.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Go outside his house, and he's got on the on
the on the on the clothesline.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
He's got all the different hides that.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
He's Hey, you gotta show people who you're messing with.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Come around here no more.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Hey, you guys want a pair of pants? I can
make get your pair of pants out of the.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Right all sent back. You gotta send one person back
to warn the others. And he's got a purple stripe
on his back.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Exit out about a fresca exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmat, All right
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Speaker 3 (14:53):
Of the Bills and the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Game of the Year. Can't wait for this one, I
think anybody. I wish it was right.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
Now to be fantastic Sunday Sunday Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
But speaking of games, we can't wait for national championship
in college football Monday night. Is there any way Notre
Dame can slow down and stop Ohio State? Our next
guest might have a couple ideas about that.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
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Speaker 1 (16:33):
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Speaker 3 (16:42):
Happy Friday.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
We'll get back into the NFL coming up in a
few minutes, but right now it's time to take a look.
We are finally, at long last, at the end of
the college football season, after a postseason that began some
time after the fourth of July, Ohio State a notere
dame on Monday night with us down the hot line
to break it all down. The owner, editor, proprietor of
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dot Com is a site all the picks, all the prognostications,
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Speaker 3 (17:16):
It is long time front of the show. Pete feu tech, Pete.
What's happening?
Speaker 7 (17:20):
Man?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
How are you?
Speaker 5 (17:21):
I apologize for not getting in touch with you guys
jarlier before and asking I hope you're doing well through
all this out there, and I hope you guys are
all safe.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Oh, thank you. Yeah. Everything we've been lucky.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Everything is okay, and it seems like we've hit the
other side of the you know things with the with
the wildfires, and hopefully we're getting continued to get some
good news as time going.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Yeah, it's it's crazy, but not to bring us the sports.
But it's a weird way that did not be happening
in LA this year, the National Championship like it did
a couple of years ago, and it's it seems blake.
Everything else has sort of moved on. But yeah, I
hope you guys for all that. But yeah, it's crazy
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as it's coming up on Monday. It seems like it's
taking forever to get here. But it is Ohio State,
it is Notre Dame. It is two powerhouses that America
is going to care about. I don't know why the
college football playoffs people try to put this game on Monday,
I do know, because they want the whole weekend to
enjoy the party and stuff. But man, it would have
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been awesome if it was right now instead of like,
I don't know, Monday, when there's that inauguration thing and
everyone's gonna be talking about the NFL, you know, championship
games and stuff. It just it seems like an odd time,
but we're gonna get it Monday night.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I feel like Pete, like I could make a lot
of money in sports if I would just be a
calendar guy. Hey, I'm going to give you a calendar
and you're going to get to look at it and
see everything that could be going on on these days.
So you see, if you want to have a game
on this day or not, I'll give you the calendar.
You make the decision. But I'm the calendar guy, and
I'd make a lot of money.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I actually kind of have to joke that, like, I
just don't care about non football regular season pro sports
because there's no reason to because after this we have
the NFL Playoffs, and then after the NFL playoffs they
were over. Then college basketball kicks in college basketball National
Chance A Tournament, and the Masters, and then we dive
in a little bit of base and then all the
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there's only big things happening every other weekend where you
could just kind of, you know, hop to each thing.
But this is going to be a big thing. I
mean again, it's if Notre Dame wins, then the fighting
Irish crowd are going to go crazy because nobody seems
to have realized that this team is good. Because again,
as I've told to you guys before, I don't think
anybody watched them this year. I just it just they
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were on weird times, they didn't play big games, and
they just sort of all of a sudden gotten here.
It's like, wait a minute, Notre Dame's here. Oh well,
they're you know, playing second fiddle here. But they're good
enough to win this. And if Ohio State loses it,
you know, good luck with the drama and the reality
shows that would be. And if Ohio State wins, well
then you obviously that usher's in a completely new phase
(19:58):
of college football because yeah, you don't have Ryan Day
to kick around anymore. So it'll be it'll be an
interesting narrative nowhere how this works out.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
But that's the beauty of it, right, we all win
no matter what.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Hate Yeah, Michigan wins because you can claim that, hey,
you beat Ohio State, you know, yeah and beat them,
So you got that. So that's all you guys care about.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
You're gonna get a big portion. I get what percentage? Okay, Pete,
let's do this. What percentage of the Ohio State fan
base if they win the national championship are gonna say, yeah,
that's great, but we should have beat Michigan, Like how
many people are what percentage of the Ohio State fans
are going to say, yeah, that's great, but we should
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have beat Michigan.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
Probably it's a loud fan loud part of it because
they all decide to go on through it because they
just can't help themselves to feel happy. They just I
do not joke when I literally say it is the
most miserable fan base in all sports. They just cannot
enjoy themselves for thirty seconds. And again, it's it's not
even just the lost of Michigan. It's like that actually
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helped you because this team didn't play like this all year.
You kind of needed that moment to kind of kick
your butt in the gear and be like, all right,
enough of this, let's start actually playing. And you could
see that they couldn't play conservative, that they had to
just start to let a rip, that they had to
play after the talent level. So that lost of Michigan
probably are a step back because they giant lead forward
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if they can get by Notre Dame. Now, if they
lose the Notre Dame, then all of a sudden, the
mission that percentage you're talking about, the lost of Michigan
means everything. It's not enough just to get here now,
because they shouldn't have beaten Alabama in twenty twenty, and
you know, had they beaten, had they've not gotten that
one call against Clemson in nineteen they get rocked by
Joe Burrow and ilse you. Anyway, this time there eight
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and a half point favorite. They're supposed to win the
n actual championship, and they're supposed to do it relatively easily.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Beat backs out of Notre Dame enough to slow down
the receiving gore where you can do the box and
one that we saw employed in the last round against
Ohio State.
Speaker 5 (22:03):
They're good. I mean, I just I think again, I've
mentioned this before. This is not TCU of a couple
of years ago, and they're better than Washington last year.
And I would have picked them if it was Notre
Dame versus Texas. They've got talent that's back seven. Like
you said, they don't misstackles. I mean that it sounds
basic and you kind of get used to when you're
watching the NFL that you assume, oh, there's a one
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hundred and sixty pound cornerback tackling Derrick Henry. You know that,
but like that's just these guys can all hit, they
can all tackle, and they just they have a different
sort of mindset and attitude. They are about as confident
a team as he as you can possibly find. They
just do what they do and it all seems to
kind of work. Now. If Ohio State gets up early,
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or if they are mistakes right away by Notre Dame,
uh oh, you know, because then I think Ohio State
just takes that run. Because this is not necessarily a
come from behind team. And that was kind of the
thing in the semi finals where Notre Dame played awful
against Penn State and they were still only ten seven
at halftimes, like, oh, you had them, you didn't put
them down. If Bosey gets up faster, there's gonna be
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a big problem because this is not a team that's
built to make some sort of big type of comeback.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'll tell you, Peter, it's really hard for me to
see Notre Dame winning this game. Ohio State's the better roster,
they're the better team. The only thing and that I
can say, Okay, how can I see Notre Dame winning? Right?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Because I see Ohio State winning.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
You know, if I if I was a computer in
my head, you know, one out of every fourteen million.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
You know, Ohio State wins.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Is that if Michigan Ohio State shows up, that if
the Michigan Ohio State team where when the game is
closed for a little while and all of a sudden,
Ryan Day and Chip Kelly they start daying a little
bit and say, well, let's real conservative, you know, a
couple of turnovers, Will Howard, let's not let's not throw
the football a lot, and all of a sudden it
becomes a pickham game. That's the only thing that makes
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me concerned about Ohio State is that I can see
if things don't go well the pressure of the game,
they really get aggressive when they should just keep opening
it up and just driving down the field against them
because Notre Dame doesn't have the firepower to keep up.
That's the only thing that I could see, Okay, that
I can see if Ryan Day gets it's if they
get that way, I could see Notre Dame potentially winning.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Yeah, you're right, but that o'h have they did like
you said, Ohosey did that to Delves against Michigan with
their weird game plan. But here's how it happens is
the Georgia game. Georgia's much has more talent than Notre Dame.
But what did Notre Dame do? They just they do
this every single game. And if to watch this team
all year outside of the Northern Illinois game, they they
are actually kind of weirdly explosive. I mean, they did
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get the kick six against Georgia. They did get the
nineties any ninety eight yard Jeremiah Love touchdown run against Indiana.
I mean, they got the great House touchdown against Penn State.
They make lots and lots of big plays. It's just
not like the Jeremiah Smith, you know, type of every
other thing. They just kind of seem to do it collectively.
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But that's how they Georgia did. They beat Georgia with
two hundred and forty four yards of total offense, and
why they came up with five specific big plays a
strip sack, a kick six, a big throw, you know,
to get it done. And that's kind of what it does.
It just sort of holds teams in place and it
just makes the big plays that other teams don't. And
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how they if they start turning the ball over, you know,
there's a shot there, Like I couldn't see them. How
they beat Georgia and they did it. We've got double dindem.
I couldn't. It was hard to make a case how
you're going to be Penn State because they're the same team.
But Penn State's got more talent. They just figured it out.
This team just finds a way more than any other
team I've seen in a long long time.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
So Pete, if Notre Dame wins.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
After waving to James Franklin, does Marcus Freeman go walk
right into Alice Hall to become the coach.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Of the Bears.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Oh? Man, It's so funny because the Notre Dame people
I deal with, they're like, well, this is just the beginning,
this is how it starts. You're right, Marcus Freeman might
be a head coach in the NFL. Oh no, but
he decided the contract extension and I oh you sweet kids,
Oh god love. Yeah, it's all a contract extension is
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going to keep him from being there. But like, he
would be great. I think he would be Unlike Dion
for example, I think I think Marcus Freeman would be
a whale of an NFL head coach. I mean, what
they're doing right now, they're already probably gonna lose Al Golden,
their defensive coordinator. But they have coached their tails off
this season, and Freeman has proven that he's got the
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chops to be able to kind of get them here.
But let's see what they do. Let's see if they
come up with something special. They've had time off. But
I do say, I say all these nice things about
Notre Dame, and honestly, if it's thirty one eight Ohio State,
I would not be shocked. They are just they're the
best team in the country. They've got more talent. As
long as they just kind of get out of their
own heads and just play up to their talent level,
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they should win this and cover without too much of
a problem.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
College football insider pt tech our guest to Jason smithser
with Mike Carmon all right now to get you outside
of the game, Newers declares for the NFL Draft. He's
had to be turned down what could have been an
eight million dollar nil deal with another school. So I'm
gonna say complete the sentence, all right. We know that
Chador Sanders and cam Ward are going to go somewhere
in the top few picks in the NFL Draft, even
(27:14):
if they don't. Both have great first round grades that
the desire for quarterbacks is too great, so they're going
to go in the first few picks. If I said
to you, the next quarterback off the board after cam
Ward and after Shador Sanders is blank, who are you
telling me?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
And it's okay if you tell me Kyle McCord, it's I.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
Mean obvious Kyle McCord is But yeah, that's no who
I like the best?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Who do you like the best that that could translate
the next level?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
I actually I actually kind of like yours. He's not
a power pitcher. He doesn't have the big giant arm.
But I don't even like cam Ward or Chaudere all
that much. I kind of like Schadur. But this is
just not it's not last year's draft, and it might
not be next year's draft. A part to Darch, but
it's there's just nobody there. So that's why you're quinn
ne or. Now there's two things about that eight million,
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which one, it's the boring side of the technical side
of this, which we won't get into now for another
off even date. But there's that whole thing, the title
nine thing, where they're going to have to start figuring out. Okay, well,
if you're giving Quinny or is eight million, what are
you giving? You know, the women's side of things, that's
it's gonna be kind of a logistical nightmare, which is
why Nil worked. And once you start doing things like
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this is impossible. The second part about this is too
It's not about just the okay, well you would make
more this year. It's about getting to that second contract.
Sam Donald's going to get somewhere between twenty and thirty
five million dollars. He's Sam Donald. He's awful at football,
you know. So if you're just a competent you know,
you know, starting quarterback, which Quineyers should be. He should
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be pretty decent. He should be you know, a guy
who can start. It's not gonna win any bitting big
for you, but he'll he'll play in the league for
a long long time once you get to that second contract. Look,
you know, Dak Prescott makes me more than the Mountain West.
You know. It's the Jill Burrow, you know, and Justin
Herbert and these guys are your corporations. I mean they're
making you know, thirty forty to fifty million a year.
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It's insane with these guys make So it's not just
about the short side of this. It's that if you
believe in yourself, Queen you weres, then go be a pro.
The Bill Parcell's line, if you want to be a
pro player, get out of college, Go be a pro player,
and get to that second contract faster because at that
point you're starting to make you know, real amigo money
at that point.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You can follow on Twitter at Pete few Tech. That
is at Pezu Tech. Visit college Footballnews dot com. Everything
you need college football is there. Maybe my favorite quote
of the year so far, Dak Prescott makes more money
than the Mountain West. Pete, have a great weekend. We'll
talk to you after the game on Monday.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Lady guys, see anybody you but there we go.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
I like that Dak Prescott makes more money than the
Mountain West.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
That is pretty good.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Oh, the Jason Swison was my Carmen Live from the
tirerac dot com studios. We'll have more on the National
Championship coming up, but right now, time to find out
what's trending from.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
A guy who we call the Za Flowers here at
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
There's a lot of conversation about him, but I don't
think he's showing up anywhere this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Oh, I thought it's because secretly the knees been bothering
me somehow. We're in the same No, yeah, it's a
Flowers is not looking good for Sunday, but they're not
calling him out. Doubtful for Sunday's playoff at Buffalo. The
Ravens wide receiver as a knee injury. He missed another
practice today after missing the wildcard game last weekend. The
temperature in Buffalo is due to be under twenty degrees
(30:36):
for the divisional round game. Bill's backup running back Ray
Davis is still in concussion protocol and listed as questionable.
Eagles wide receiver AJ Brown has no injury designation for
Sunday's game against the Rams. That's Sunday at three pm Eastern,
with snow in the forecast. The Dolphins will play a
game in Madrid next season. The full NFL schedule won't
come out until the spring. We know the Browns are
(30:59):
one of the teams that play in London next season,
along with Jacksonville again and the Jets there Beginning this year,
the NFL can schedule up to eight regular season games internationally.
Berlin will host a game also with the Colts. You
mentioned Monday night college Football's national title game that's in
Atlanta and its seven seed Notre Dame against eight seed
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Ohio State. Ohio State was ten and one until losing
at home to Michigan thirteen to ten. Since then, though,
beat up Tennessee and number one Oregon easily, and then
eliminated Texas twenty eight to fourteen in a game that
was tied mid fourth quarter. Notre Dame lost its home
opener against Northern Illinois, but has won thirteen straight since
defeated Navy Army and USC in the playoffs. The Irish
(31:41):
had beaten Indiana, Georgia and Penn State. By the way,
the Sun Belt Conference find Marshall one hundred thousand dollars
for opting out of its bowl game last month. It
had many players in the transfer portal after its coach
left Pitcher Roki Sasaki is signing with the Dodgers. He's
twenty three years old. The Mets agreed to a deal
with former break reliever aj minter Da signed former Texas
(32:03):
closer Jose Leclair. In the late NBA game halftime in La,
Lakers lead the Nets fifty one to forty five. Austin
reeves sixteen points as Anthony Davis of the Lakers is
out with a foot injury. Tonight, the Grizzlies are leading
at San Antonio with under ten minutes to go, one
oh nine to ninety four. Earlier, Dallas beat Oklahoma City.
(32:23):
Now Shay Gilders Alexander of Okase was out with the
spraying wrist in New York, carl Anthony Towns of the
Knicks out again with a spraying thumb. Minnesota a winner
at New York.
Speaker 7 (32:33):
As Anthony Edwards scored thirty six points at Milwaukee, thirty
five for Giannis Antenacumpo in an easy win over Toronto.
At Boston, thirty points for Jason Tatum and an easy
win against Orlando. Denver got thirty from Jamal Murray in
a twenty point victory at Miami, Charlotte and New Orleans
with wins as far as Charlotte. Hornet's Brandon Miller out
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indefinitely with a torn wristligment, he averages twenty one points
a game. College Hoops Indiana won and over time in
Ohio State on Fox TV tonight, seventy seven seventy six
with the last second block wins for UCLA De Paul
and Villanova South. Carolina gave women's coach Don Staley a
contract extension through twenty thirty. Her annual salary starts at
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four million dollars and just two NHL games. Tonight, Carolina
at home by Vegas three to two, Pittsburgh at five
to win at Buffalo.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Back to you, Vegas, Stevo.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
The Jason smithser with Mike Carmon live from the tiraq
dot Com Studios. We continue on we'll have more college football,
but straight ahead. Speaking of college football, there's a story
in the last twenty four hours that kind of creeped
up on us a little bit.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Gods talking to Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
That's you told us it was science. It was happening
two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
And you're the only guy that didn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Science.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yo, you thought he was going to the mites.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
There's a college football story that's kind of creeped up.
Now it's gotten big. Now it's gotten to be what
the hell is going on? That's next right here, Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
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you get your podcasts from, it is there. The Jason
Smith Show with Mike Harmon. Now, a story came up
yesterday that was a little interesting, and then as time's
going on, it's gotten really interesting. Bill Belichick hasn't signed
his contract with the University of North Carolina. Uh okay,
(35:19):
he's out recruiting. He has been flipping players I think
thirteen at last count that he has helped recruit.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
To come to North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
But he hasn't signed his contract yet, and we boy,
you know, when you don't sign a contract, I think
of an NFL team calls, you can get there and
not have to worry about paying any sort of penalty. Here,
I know that there's been the big I would say
retort of Hey, lots of people haven't signed their contracts yet.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
It happens in college football. It's not.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
So weird for someone to not officially sign their deal
even after they've agreed to become.
Speaker 3 (35:56):
The head coach. Okay, all right, but you know, now,
give me a little bit more on this.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Well, Michael Lombardi, who of course Bill Belichick brought with him,
had a big interview today and he went everywhere saying, well,
I don't know what he was like his hype man,
he's like Belichick's hype man. Belichick is great, Belichick is great.
He has to sign his contract. But it's fine, it's fine,
it's fine. Hey, Michael, what about you? You sign your contract? No,
I haven't signed my contract yet either.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
This is just awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
Right, So, now this is something that's fully out in
the open. Here's Bill Belichick, who the big question was, oh,
is he gonna go back.
Speaker 3 (36:32):
To the NFL. Looks like the NFL doesn't want him.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Wait, why is it such a low.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Buyout in the first year.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Why is it a million dollars and it's only ten million?
Why is it a low buy out? I thought he
was staying at North Carolina. And you've not heard anything
from Bill Belichick other than at the introductory press conference.
I didn't come here to leave. Okay, that's great, but
that's not I'm staying. This is me, This is all
of it. I don't think there's a coincidence that Bill
Belichick's contract is not signed and there are still five
(36:59):
head coaching openings in the NFL. Right, I don't think
that is a that is a a coincidence, considering he
actually called when you call the Jets to see if
you can come after you left writing your your resignation
on a napkin twenty four years ago. Come on, no,
he wrote, I resign as agent.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
No no, no.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
I meant allegedly as in terms of calling the Jets.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Well, they wonder if parody account.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
If that was true and he didn't call the Jets,
he would come out of his whatever silence that he
has to say I never called the Jets.
Speaker 4 (37:31):
No, because up getting Johnson some level of credit and
credence the Jets. I never called that so and so.
Better to just leave his name out your mouth.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
So how real is this? Right? How real is this?
Speaker 1 (37:44):
To answer this question, you have to you have to
ask a different question, which is how big of a
jerk could somebody really have to be to accept a
job at North Carolina?
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Have a press conference?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Higher code is hire people outside of the coaching department
to be your GM and everything else you're doing.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Go out and recruit players and bring him in.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
You gotta be some kind of jerk to then say, oh, hey, sorry,
but I'm heading to the NFL. You really have to
be some kind of jerk for that to happen. So
at whatever your level of how much of a jerk
you think Bill Belichick could be with this happening, there's
your answer. But I'll give you, but I'll do you
one better. This has now become a thing, right, This
(38:29):
has now become a thing.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Yes, is there potentially a gray area from time to
time about a guy not signing his contract. No, but
you never have to worry about a guy taking a
job and leaving before they play a game.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Usually that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
But now this story is out in the open, and
you've had Michael Lombardi doing damage control for Belichick.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
You've not heard from Belichick at all.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
I will say this, If Belichick's contract isn't signed by Monday,
then that's your answer. That's your answer about how real
this is that Belichick's still trying to get back to
the NFL.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Because now it's a thing.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Right now, it's like, okay, Bill, you got to sign
your deal and so we can we can get ready
to put this to bed because now all that's gonna
happen is you're trying to recruit players different things, and
and what are the other recruits hearing? Hey, you don't
want this guy. He's not even gonna stay. He hasn't
even signed his contract yet. He's not staying, he's not coaching.
You don't want that, and you don't want to look bad.
You're not gonna look bad if you're North Carolina. So,
(39:21):
now that it's out there in the open, if this
contract isn't signed by Monday, you know this Belichick to
the NFL thing is real and can still happen.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
There's your answer. That's what you're looking for.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, I like the potential, potentially the chaos theory here
of all of this going on. Maybe Bill Belichick just
wants to have all the pomp and circumstance that comes
with signing the contract after the National Title Game. So
he's doing it in deference.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Okay, I could see that, Sure, sure.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
Sure, I don't know what you percentage you would give
that on this.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
He's gonna do it during it like like a Rod
opting out of his contract in the middle of the
World Series. Hey, middle of the National Title Game. Bill
Belichick signed to deal with North Carolina. We have Bill
live now telling us why. Okay, I know it's thirty
five thirty five and there's two minutes left to go,
but let's talk to Bill Belichick and find out what
he's got planned North Camp.
Speaker 4 (40:11):
Bill sent a a napkin back to the University of
North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
I resign as HC of the UNC that would be
at now that that, if he did.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Would be completely underrand and kind kind of funny after
you got past the anger.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
If you're at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
I would not criticize him at all. If that's how
we were, I resign as HC. Of the UNC one
hundred percent.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
We're on the Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Coming up next the NFL storyline. I can't wait for
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