January 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike debate which QB needs a win more on Sunday between Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen. The guys preview and pick Rams @ Eagles. And Roki Sasaki announced he's signing with the Dodgers!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh, happy Friday, everybody. Welcome to the Rokie Sazaki Show
with my best friend Rokie Suzaki.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's the Justin Frosberg takeover here on Fox Sports Radio.
Don't be jelly, No, I'm dude, I'm for you. Are
I knew I wasn't I you know you think? Look,
I'm playing you're playing chess. Another per I'm playing chess
while you were playing checkers.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I knew you were gonna wind up with rope.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I was playing what's that game where you have to
conquer the world?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Risk domination?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
A fellow total domination part cheesy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You just wanted to get Cheese into the show.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What was he? What was that? Oh stratigo?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, playing all these guys.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
He gets some battleship in there. I mean, we got them.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All we were playing cribbage. Well you were trying to
figure out who's going to signe.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Well, you know, I did have my five minutes of Man,
that's just too bad because this is a guy that
White Sox could have actually afforded if you wanted to
go there.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, look the Rokie Sosaki, who is the big
superstar pitcher this offseason, coming over from Japan, just like
Yoshinobu Yamamodo was last year. But obviously you're not spending
as much money on him because of his age and
the lack of years he is spent in the Japanese League.
He comes into Major League Baseball as a free agent
who is still under team control. You're only paying this
(02:00):
guy six million dollars a year, and he could be
a superstar.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's it's a freebie.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's it's it's you know, the Dodgers are this franchise
and it's getting a free superstar as much as he
doesn't put them over the top, because you can't do
that in baseball.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Uh, this is this is about.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
As great a move as you can get. You mean,
we get a guy that could be a potential start. Yeah,
what's it gonna cost us six million dollars?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah? What about what about anything?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
No, what about players?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Who do they want return? No, you don't need any
of that. You just need to pay him. What the
Major League Baseball says is the the minimum you need
to pay a guy. Uh, coming over with this sort
of of of detail about him and how much he
has played or not played yet. Uh, it's it's a
it's a win. It's it's free money. It's free money
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for the Dodgers. Right, he's they've already spent more money
on him for this year. Think about the Dodgers more
money on him for this year. Then they'll pay for
Otani last year, this year, and the year after. They've
already had that because Otani's only making two million a
year the next three all his money's coming do in
like fifteen years when the Dodgers are going to sell
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the team when it's worth like twenty five billion dollars,
so they never have to pay that out. But I mean,
you're paying more money for Sasaki now than technically you're
paying Otani for the next two years and the year
you just had where you won the World Series.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if
millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were
suddenly silenced.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, that's how it goes.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Shar Ali Guinness, Bobi Wan Kenobi, congrats on aj Minter, Buddy.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm excited about aj min That's.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
How sucking your franchise is.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
When when when the Mets beat the Dodgers in the
NLCS this year and it's you know, because we keep
them morning unlike last year where not a lot of
money was on the field.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Billy likes to keep the money on the field.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Uh, with the money when you're watching guys like Minter
and we re signed Ryan's Stannik and he's got.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What How are they sawing off Dodger bats? How are
they winning? How are the Mets winning? Their not nearly
as good as we are.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We're striking a blow for all the other small market
teams like the Mets and the Yankees and the Red
Sox who can't afford players like this. Now suddenly we're
the underdogs. We're the good guys. Hey, look at look
at those small market Mets Yankees teams. They just can't
compete with the Dodgers. Man, they just can't do it.
We look like we're scrimping nickels together just to get
a guy at the major league minimum, Like the Dodgers
(04:23):
make the Mets and the Yankees look like the A's Like,
that's how bad it is. That's how bad of a
differential there is between star power and money and what
you're paying out the guys from the Dodgers compared to
the rest of the league, even the big market guys.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Look at what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah, just truly setting them up as we did so
aptly long ago as a new evil empire. And now folks,
because the devil's in the details about the contracts and
you know, choice of where you can go in Major
League Baseball, like they get everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
It's like, yeah, guys have to choose to go there.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, that's called free agency. If it was not free agency,
they would call it that. It would be oh, what's
up for? Not free agency? Oh yeah, Yeah, that's where
a player has to go to a team that Major
League Baseball says he has to go to.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh okay, what about free agency? Oh that's different that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's that would have been kind of interesting in the
auracy of competitive balance, kind of like watching a game
that is on tape delay.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Hey we move the action further into the third quarter.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Say think are in the interest of competitive balance, the Dodgers,
Red Sox, Cubs, Yankees, and Mets will not be able
to participate in this round of free agency.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
This is controlled agency. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There's no there's nothing free about this is controlled agency.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, free except for level one teams. You are now
a level one team. You you are super saturated, saturated
with stars.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I feel like you're in ready player one.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Congratulations pars of all on making it past the first level.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
You've made it. That's great.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now get another key, go to the second level, go
see all the blood in the shining, and then come
back to me.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It'll work. There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So we'll have more on the Sasaki situation coming up
in a little bit. But yes, the Dodgers get what
could be another great player for not a lot, and
it's just the rich get richer and the Dodgers at
another great player for next season. But with this weekend
coming up, we talked about the Bills and the Ravens
Last hour game of the week, probably game of the
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year in the NFL, and it's it's just to see
Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen go at it when when
so much is at stake with their legacies and and
their teams and how you view a guy as as
a success in the playoffs or not. I gotta say
the storyline I'm looking forward to seeing the most this
weekend is either Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson is gonna
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get absolutely destroyed on Monday. Yeah, the world can't win
the big game. It could be a fifty one fifty game.
And Lamar Jackson could go for three hundred yards and
five touchdowns and one hundred yards rushing and Josh Allen
could go for three point fifty and six touchdowns, three passing,
three rushing. But if if the Bills defense gives up
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a last minute drive, it's Josh Allen's fault, like like
one of these guys is like it's it's made to order,
no matter how they play, just because of the playoff
failures that we want to pounce up and down on
these two quarterbacks for it's absolutely happy for one of them.
One of them is going to be completely overrated on Monday,
regardless as to whatever they do on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Well, and this is where we get to sit back
and chuckle after we watch a thriller, hopefully on Sunday,
and they both ball out and give us big stat lines,
highlight performance reels for days to see. Who shows their
ass on Monday morning, right in terms of what they watched,
what's real versus hot take nonsense. You can line them
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up in your head. Go ahead, everybody, America World. Yeah,
there you go as to where that'll go. But yeah,
it's the unfortunate occurrence that they play in the same conference,
so we get this game earlier than unfortunately the Super Bowl.
Otherwise then we can fight about it there, but at
least you'd have gotten to a super Bowl. Unfortunately, the
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road ends pretty early, lucky for us as football fans
and fans of all the guys in that twenty eighteen draft.
I'm looking at you two, Josh Rosen. But all that
to say it, it's truly fascinating in the fact that
we're gonna also have the weather as an element that
will be not considered in any way, shape or form
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except when it comes to the failures of kickers.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I will say this.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I will say this far with these two like Okay,
what's on the line for them? On the line for
them Sunday obviously a trip to the AFC Title Game,
ptention to.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
The Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But I will say this the quarterback who needs the
win more, who needs the win more? Right, forget about
the ridiculous this guy's not got, but someone who needs
the win more for his resume. Lamar Jackson needs to
win a little bit more because the convenient narrative about
Lamar Jackson here's in the playoffs. He hasn't played well
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a few times. He's been in the league a while,
he's been the MVP three times. He's someone that, hey,
we need to see something more from him. So he's
got more at stake. If Josh Allen loses, Yeah, there's
still gonna be some of the boy Josh Allen's got
to win one boy, the pressures on him, man, how
do you not win? But I still think he avoids
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a lot a lot of the criticism that Lamar will
get if he loses the game. So I think the
guy with the more at steak on Sunday for his
legacy and how he's viewed it is Lamar just because
he has reached a little bit higher a little bit
higher level than Josh Allen over the course of his career.
We though they're look, they're about the same age and
accomplished almost the same.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But Lamar does have the MVPs.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I think they'll still be some of the excuses for
Josh Allen more so than there would be for Lamar Jackson.
So I will say he's got more at stake this weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, but at.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Least with Lamar you've got the MVPs.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Now we're still looking at the odds even with all
the award other award voting, right, you get your aps
and everything else going out there, all pro teams getting
to going to Josh Allen at last. Look from an
article from the fifteenth with still minus four fifty with
Jackson at plus three twenty, so it looks like he
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ends the MVP drought. But what's curious in Buffalo is
you're gonna lose Joe Brady most likely, and potentially you know,
there's some calling kind of in that Ryan Day kind
of world where McDermott suddenly gets shown the door if
they can't solve Baltimore this week. So a lot of
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that comes into well, Josh Allen didn't get it done,
and look at all the change and will he ever Now,
if he actually gets named MVP at NFL Honor, then
he at least gets to put that feather in his cap.
But for now he's got nothing. He's got a couple
of empty pockets. Yeah, and guys getting thrown through tables.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It's it's but how many guys have gotten thrown through tables?
A lot? Okay, So where does that stuck up for me?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I mean really, But that's that's how insane it is
for Sunday. For Sunday is that whoever loses, no matter
what it's gonna be, look at them. They can't win
the game, can't win, and there will be all kinds
of outline. Look at this game here, and this game
in the playoffs here, this game in the playoffs here,
and it's wow. I mean, look, I'll be the first
guy to tell you that if Josh Allen has a
Sorry Frostburg, if either Alan or Jackson have a Justin
(11:41):
Herbert like game on Sunday, yeah, okay, then it's gonna
be legitimate.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
But I'm telling you it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It doesn't mean Alan could go for three point fifty
three touchdowns. And two picks right and run for seventy
five yards, have a great game. But all we're going
to talk about is, look at those two interceptions. It
costs them the game, right, look at those two it
costs them the game. But wait, but he actually he
accounted for five touchdowns and four hundred and fifty yards
of offense. You have at those two picks cost him
the game, cost him the game right there, And they'll
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say the same for Lamar Jackson. Hey, look at Lamar
can't get it done without good wide receivers. They Flowers
is out, couldn't win the game. I mean they it's
the same old story, Neil Lamar needs more help. They
can't get it for him. They had Derrick Henry this
year who had a phenomenal year and it still wasn't enough.
And he got it done all the way till now.
And how does he have that game? Like, No matter
how this game comes out, that's going to be the
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narrative for Lamar Jackson. It could be he throws for
two seventy five, throws for two touchdowns, runs for one
to twenty five and two touchdowns. But if the final
drive of the game he gets picked off on fourth down,
or he throws an incomplete pass that looked like a
receiver could have gone. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
that the criticism of either one of these guys.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Is going to go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
And that's the beauty and the horror of the sports
chock media fandom world, right, because even within Baltimore and
in Buffalo, you're gonna have those small communities of people going,
I don't know, maybe the blowhards on national ring over right,
our guy can't get it done. He's not our guy.
(13:14):
I might start hearing from old colleagues telling me that
Josh Allen's just a running back again.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't know, Yeah, yeah, no sense that you're gonna
see all those convenient narratives they out come rushing back
to you, rushing back like James Earl Jones and Field
of Dreams that wipe away the memories Ray, They'll wipe
them away in front of them like uh thet like
like what is say, fireflies. They'll have to brush the
memories away, and they'll be so thick, like all these
storylines will be so thick.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Oh, I can't even see I can't even see out
my windshield. Oh, look at all these storylines with Lamar
and Josh Allen. That's how it's going.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Jim, Jim, Jim did you see that throw?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Jim, Jim?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You know what I just found out, Jim Olmore Jackson's
never won a Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Jim. Do you believe that?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Jim Jim Jim. Neither is Josh Allen like Jim Jim.
Neither of these guys have what I didn't know that, Jim.
I thought Lamar had like three or four at Josh
Allen had like two.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Apparently Patrick Mahomes has all of them. Jim, Jim, Jim,
Jim Jim.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Why why are you shaking your head at me? Jim Jim?
Why are you? Why are you getting up and walking away?
There's gonna be a play Jim, Jim Jim. Yeah, I
want to see.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
That exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carvin live from the Tireraq
dot Com Studios. We got more of the Sasaki story
coming up next, as well as the final game we
have yet to preview as we get set for a
big weekend in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I already gave you one big upset, Am I gonna
give you another one? Oh, double up?
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tirack dot com studios. Hey, uh, you know,
I feel well, I really don't feel bad about this.
But remember last week when we talked on Friday Night, Boy,
Georgetown's twelve and two. Maybe Georgetown basketball is back? Well,
I tell you they finally figured it out. Uh do
(16:14):
You're a big believer of that?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, Look tonight and this is why I don't feel
bad about it, because you know it's Georgetown.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Tonight, DePaul snapped their thirty nine game regular season Big
East losing streak by beating Georgetown seventy three sixty eight,
their first regular season Big East win in seven hundred
and thirty days.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
How about that Markaguire and Terry Cummings were still running
the paint. Who well score Dillard action getting that.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
So skip Dillard? Very nice? Ray Meyer Joey Meyer.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh sure, yeah, uh, oscar.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
By, Yeah, that's true. You got it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
The fourth We don't forget the wienermobile.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yes, yep, wienermobile. Sure sure, uh. The fourth longest in
the ap ERA. Fourth longest conference losing streak. The longest
was Colgate, who lost forty seven games in conference in
the Patriot Conference from eighty four to eighty seven. I mean,
first road win for DePaul since December of twenty twenty
two happened one on the road in almost three years.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Then they were Holegate was able to scrape away the
tartar and get back into the wing column.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I like that. Very nice, very nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
they were.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Able to crest over the edge and control you. Yeah,
good for Paul. Maybe Georgetown's not so bad. I mean
that's when we talked about him. They were twelve and two,
and now.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
The twelve and well, maybe it's just the latest in
a long line of things you've jinxed.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I mean, we getting all excited about him.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I mean, hey, and I'm okay with that, because again,
you know Georgetown.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But it was just it was it wasn't like it
was a week before it was it was January third,
and they beat Xavier and all of a sudden they
were two. And it's wow, Georgetown's figured it out. And
if I've cursed Georgetown, I'm okay with that. I'm absolutely
okay with that, because they've lost four straight.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Granted they have played Marquette and Yukon, who are two
of the top ten teams in the country, but then
they lost to Saint John's Town, they lost to the Paul.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Well, but what do you do when Zoe decides she
wants to go to Georgetown, not going to Georgetown, not
going or someone comes into the life who you know
has an affiliation with Georgetown.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, part of me is what doesn't matter. You're
not allowed to talk to that person. It's like footloose. No,
there's no dancing, no dancing in this town. There's no dancing.
It's gotten to the point because you know, we've talked
about this on the air. You just you know, I
told Zoe each Pam and I have one school she
can't go to. I said, you can't go to Georgetown, Pansas,
can't go to Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Everything else is out there. I told you that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now you know, when people ask her where she wants
to go to school. She says Georgetown first, just to
just to get my goat. But now her friends have
picked up on it, and not only her friends, but
her older friends. Like one of her friends is a
senior going to college next year. And I was we
were at a gathering about a week and a half
an hour gathering and someone said, well, it wasn't a party.
(19:06):
It was just a bunch of people hanging out and
somebody and she was sitting, she was standing near me,
and somebody so say, Ruby, where do you want to
go to school? And she goes, I'm thinking Georgetown. And
I turned around and she looked at me, and I'm like, okay, okay, no, stop,
stop stopping.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I can't have this happen. Now all her friends want
to go to Georgetown. Oh, George down, say George to
be fun.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Do you think someone prompted that trying to get get
your goat?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You just wait for Patrick Ewing to come to your
house and recruiter.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He's gonna knock on my door and say, hey, Patrick,
let's talk about the NBA playoffs first. Let's talk about
the Knicks. Okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I think he might you out.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I'll tell you. I always talk. You can go anywhere
you want to. Can't go to Georgetown, can't go there, can't.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Go to George.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Let your kids live their dreams.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Can't go to Georgetown, can't go There's a thousand other colleges.
There's a thousand of them.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
But maybe that would be the best one. No, that's
not why an experience that you would never know. It's
not because it's Georgiatown.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You gonna let her live her life. You a helicopter.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You don't want to go to You're not going to
the tournament anyway. You go to Georgetown, doesn't matter. You
want to go where. You're gonna go to the tournament
a couple of times in four years. You're not gonna
go there.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
See. I think he probably does the little waving the
hand thing like he's a Jedi master or a wizard regularity.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Joey, you don't want to go to Georgetown.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You can just stay here and go to school and
live from upstairs. I'm gonna stay here, go to school
and live upstairs. Great, all right, Great, we solved that.
Let's play hungry hungry hippos. All right, let's go do it.
Uh So, Georgetown, Georgetown. Sorry, Georgetown, I'm not really though,
I'm really not. They lost four in all, I'm not
really sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I'm really not. I'm not I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
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in the NFL this weekend. Well, if you miss any
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love you for the rest of our lives. Now, the
Rams and the Eagles. A little bit of fun stuff
(21:16):
today where Saquon Barkley is talking about one of the
Rams players who said, ah, I hate the Eagles. I know,
every time I look at the Eagles, I look at
their green uniforms, I get mad. And Saquon Barkley said,
you know, I don't know that I would say that.
I really don't know. Jared Vers declaring how much he
hates Eagles fans ahead of this game. I mean, I
(21:37):
don't know that you want to do that going into Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I mean, you saw what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You just saw what happened last week with the one
fan who was yelling at the Packers fan.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You don't want to antagonize everybody.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Well, but then you saw that the Packers fan that
was their objective, you know, like that came out as
the week went on like it was a whole lot
of bad.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well, it was the guy's objective. I don't think it
was the wife's.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No, no, no, no, I think I don't have that. It's
the case she might have, you know, gotten caught in
that crossfire.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, I don't know that. You want to sit there
and be You're gonna be called all these names. Oh okay, yeah,
but we're.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Gonna get hits on social media. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And then watch this guy's gonna get fired and I'm
gonna wear a cheese hat.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't know that I would have said that if
I was Jared Verse, but he said it, Okay. I
picked the Rams for the Super Bowl before the season.
I don't know if I know if I told you this,
I remember that yet?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Did I remember that? I picked the Rams for the
Super Bowl? And I'm not backing off it. Now?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Give me the Rams over the Eagles. The Eagles might
be hitting the wall a little. Last week was not
a great game for the Eagles. It looks like Saquon
Barkley had a great game, and you look at his numbers,
but he had one run at the end of the game.
He had one run at the end of the game,
and he slid down to clinch it. But it was
tough sledding. It was twenty three carries for ninety eight
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yards for Barkley. The offense doesn't look the same. I mean,
I know they're getting aj Brown back healthy this week,
but it just I feel like the Eagles have They've
gone all in on Barkley, which is great, but when
he doesn't run wild, and let's face it, when running
backs to you know, get two hundred and fifty three
hundred touches, you get to the playoffs, some of them
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that gas tank hits empty. And the reliance on Saquon
Barkley has been so much so that I don't know
that they can change and suddenly go from hey, Barkley's
not doing it, We're just gonna throw. We have to
throw the football up and down the field. I don't
know that they can. I don't know that they can.
They can change that strategy to say, Okay, we're just
not gonna run Saquon anymore. Like if if you run
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into trouble at some point you have to abandon the
running game, but it's Barkley. Are you really gonna do that?
The offense has become so Barkley dependent, which is great.
During the season, he's had a phenomenal year and he's
helped keep a lot of controversies at Bay because he's
been the focal point of the team and not whatever
relationship that Jalen Hurts has with his head coach or
they have with aj Brown and should people read or not.
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In Philadelphia, if they're hitting the wall a little bit,
they are gonna really struggle. And I'll tell you who's
gonna exploit that as the Rams. We talked about it
last hour with the Texans and the Chiefs. The Rams
can get to the quarterback with just four down linemen
and that's a big thing. That's gonna be a big thing.
Forcing Jalen Hurts in the pocket to be able to
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have to throw the football in difficult coverage. That's gonna
make it near impossible for Philadelphia to move the football.
They're gonna rely on Barkley, who's gonna have tough sledding
because I guarantee you Sean McVay is gonna say, we're
gonna make Jalen Hurts win this game because I don't
know that he can. We're gonna do everything we can
to sell out and stop Barkley. Our defensive line is
good enough, We're gonna have just enough offense, and we're
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gonna win this game. And I'm gonna take the Rams
twenty to sixteen because in the end, I also believe
in Sean McVay way more than I believe in Nick Sirianni.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, you just want Nick Sirianni fired so we get
that chaos come Monday too. Isn't it great how all
of these storylines can get spun out left right? Yeah,
there's a trust issue with the pass game for Philadelphia
for sure. Now do I believe that the Rams won't
need extra bodies to get home? Not against this offensive line.
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You're gonna need some extra extra bodies. You're gonna need
to mix and match a bit. AJ Brown's gonna have
to be more than a spectator and a book reader
like he was a week ago, foreshadowing of what transpired
a week ago, maybe a little salty. If he's not
involved early, then they really none of those guys deserve
the interviews.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
They're getting bad coaching jobs.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I can tell you that DeVante, Smith, Dallas, Goddard guys
that will be in the mix. And for Barkley, I'm
not worried about the proverbial wall here. I think he's
gonna be able to get to the finish line. But
for Stafford in the offense, it's generally a two man gang.
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Very they got the six man tag Jamps. I guess
Kyrin Williams, Phukin Nakua and Staffords the trigger man, even
though he hasn't had to put up ridiculous numbers all
year long. I picked Philly before the year. None often
go chalk, but thought that they had the great path
of least resistance coming out of that division, so that
they'd be ready for this time of year. I'm gonna
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lay the points and I'm gonna take Philly to win.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Woo, you're laying I'll take off see, because I'll take
the points, but i won't need them.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
No, No, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I'll take the point.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
You're gonna take them.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah, I'm not gonna but I'm not gonna need them.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
But you know they're there as a consolation when you lose.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Hey, your team didn't win, but did you get them?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, because they cover this spring, they took care of
their backers.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
You know when last we saw them, Barkley was running wild.
That won't happen again to that level. I don't believe
and not, you know, because he's worse for the wear
just second meeting, better better squad, healthier squad, all of that.
Philly is six and a half. I could take him
by a touchdown. Forty three and a half is your total?
You're getting price one hundred and sixty bucks.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I am okay with with being on the other side
of this because you know, I mentioned Sean McVay and
I mentioned I'll take him over Nick Siriotti. Because the
other side of this for the Rams and the Eagles
is this is an Eagles team that's been to the
Super Bowl. They've also flamed out in the first round
of the playoffs. They're a little more unpredictable, of course,
they're a little more volatile, and the Rams are a
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bright lights team. When the lights are bright, they play
their best right. We saw that against the Vikings. We
saw that in the last few weeks of the season.
The Rams have become that team where, hey, we're gonna
start one and four, but we're gonna finish ten and
three and we're gonna get in the playoffs and nobody's
gonna want to play us. They are the definition of
a bright lights team. And maybe they don't look like
they have a lot of star power, but you look
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at the end, you watch the end of a game
and go, how did Sean McVay do that?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
How did the Rams do that?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Matthew Stafford's clutching the fourth quarter and he doesn't get
enough due for being the clutch quarterback he has been
throughout the back half of his career, and when the
lights are bright, I trust him and McVeigh more than
I'll trust Dick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts. It's been mainly
because the Eagles offense has gotten so far away from
Hurts being the focal point playmaker that I don't know
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that he steps right back into it, you know, I
don't know. I don't know that he can. And the
Rams being designed where we can do what we want
to with just our defensive line. That's becoming the key
to the NFL. Hey, if you can, if your defensive
line can wreck havoc on the quarterback and the running
game without having a blitz, you're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
A lot games.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Age old adage.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
But yeah, Jalen Hurts is the wild card and all
of this because what will be fun is Monday we
start doing quarterback rankings and all of a sudden you
get to jumble him and Sam Darnold so legends and
fall into the wayside. Should they lose, boy, it becomes
a whole other thing.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah, it would be. It would be very difficult.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
It would be a very different think about those conversations
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know, Hey, listen next year when Mike McCarthy's the
head coach. This isn't it gonna happen in philadel.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Hey, Bill Belichick you talked about it doesn't have a
signed contract.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
How fast would Belichick if the Eagles lose, right and suddenly,
how fast would he jump to the Eagles if they
called him dude, He'll.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Be sitting there with a pen where they signed the
Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Bill, I have a Howie Roseman on the line. Tell
him never mind. I'm going to the airport. I'll be
there in three hours. Get me a flight. I'm quitting,
but you're quitting. We get your last act as my assistant.
Get me a flight to Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Figure out who his favorite signer of the declaration was.
He'll be standing in that exact spot where that quill.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallowing down The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon time. How
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Speaker 7 (29:56):
Its stems Wow, you know, first, I thought you were
going like he argues with every fan in the no.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
That that wouldn't be the case either.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
That Philadelphia home game, by the way, against the Rams
Snow is in the forecast Sunday, three pm Eastern Time.
Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean out for the postseason with the
torn Pateeller tendon. Eagles had the top ranked defense easily
in the NFL this year and allowed just eighteen.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Points a game.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
After that.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
On Sunday, it's Baltimore at Buffalo. Ravenstar wide receivers. Za
Flowers is doubtful for Sunday on the road with his
knee injury. He missed another practice after missing their wild
card game last weekend. The temperature in Buffalo is due
to be under twenty degrees for that Divisional round game.
Two games tomorrow, starting with Houston at Kansas City temperature
in the mid twenties, and then Detroit will be hosting
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on Fox TV Saturday Night a Washington team that's won
six in a row. The Dolphins will play a game
in Madrid next season. The full NFL schedule won't come out.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Until that's in Spain, Steve, that's in Spain.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
That's in Spain.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's correct.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
They're going to be playing at the real Madrid stadium.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Yeah, we're gonna do that entire show in Spanish as
a tribute.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yes, I hear he can speak it fluently.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Uh mucho.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Gusta Pitcheroki Sazaki is coming over from Japan to sign
with the Dodgers. He is twenty three years old. He
was on the Japanese team that won the World Baseball
Classic a couple of years ago with a couple of
guys that are now Dodgers, sho Heyo Toni and Piccherioshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
In the NBA, the late game.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Is in LA and with about three minutes left, the
Lakers are leading the Nets one hundred to ninety five.
Anthony Davis of LA out with a foot injury. Tonight.
Austin Reeves thirty eight points on thirteen of nineteen shooting
everything else's final. Memphis did not have Ja Morant out
with a foot injury. Still, the Grizzlies won at San
Antonio one forty to one twelve. At Dallas MAVs over
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Oklahoma City one O six ninety eight to Shay Gilgis.
Alexander of OKC was out with a spraying wrist. New
Orleans and Charlotte wins for the Hornets. Brandon Miller out
indefinitely with a torn wrist ligament. He averages twenty one
points a game. Denver won at Miami won thirty three
to one thirteen. Another triple double for Nikola Jokic for
the Heat. Jimmy Butler did return tonight and have eighteen
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points after his seven game team suspension. Milwaukee and Minnesota
with wins Boston as well the Celtics twenty nine and twelve.
After beating up Orlando won twenty one to ninety four.
Jason Tatum thirty points in that one. College hoops wins
for DePaul and Villanova. Indiana won an overtime at Ohio
State with a last second block seventy seven to seventy six,
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and Ucla at home ripped Iowa ninety four to seventy.
The Bruins and a four game losing streak shooting sixty
two percent from the floor. Tonight, just two NHL games,
Carolina and Pittsburgh the winners, and at the Australian Open
Egas Fiantec swept or third round match.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
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Speaker 4 (33:00):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
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Speaker 4 (33:41):
You know, we'll love more on.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The rookie Sasaki situation coming up in a few minutes, because.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Look, there's there's Look, all right, let's do it now.
There's good news for everybody. All right, there's good there's
good news.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah yeah, ty Shirt's gonna keep playing that, so why
not do it? The Japanese star says he's joining the Dodgers.
He was the most sought after starting pitcher in free
agency this offseason simply because of what it would cost,
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and he could be a potential star. It's only six
million dollars a year because of his service time in Japan.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
He doesn't come over with a.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Whole big bidding and three hundred million dollars like Yoshinobu
Yamamoto did last year. So he comes over and like
we said earlier in the show, it's like getting a
free superstar, right, Like, there's no risk here anybody who
got him. It's like having a lottery ticket. If he's great.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Great.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
If not, what are you spending on him? Six million dollars?
That's that's nothing. It's absolutely not your two dollars throw
and a billion. Yeah, it's a it's a great day
for the Dodgers. It's the rich getting richer. And already
you can tell I already see people who are really mad.
We have to kick the Dodgers out of Major League Baseball.
They're getting an unbelievable advantage over everybody.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
What is that reverse relegation?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
You have to sit out?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
And do we have enough of a league in your class?
You just have to sit on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
You just sit and you just figure it out. But
I look, I do have good news for everybody. There's
no need to be really really upset about this. And
the reason is because baseball is unlike all the other
sports right where you build a super team, chances are
you're gonna get to the finals of your sport and win.
Right Uh, If you build the best team in the NBA,
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usually the best team wins. If not, the second best
team is able is able to win.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Right in. In the NHL, it's the same thing in
Major League Soccer. It's the same thing in the NFL.
The best team wins.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
There's no big, crazy run through the playoffs that a
team has as a wild card. It happens once in
a blue moon where a team sneaks in and suddenly.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Here they are in the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
It just doesn't happen, and you you earn that championship.
It's different in baseball is that it's not the best
team that wins. It's always the hottest team, always, always, always, always, always,
because it's three plus rounds of playoffs and it's short
series and a sport that is predicated on playing every
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day and playing one hundred and sixty two games and
having large sample sizes. A very short sample size can
go somebody's way. It can go the underdog's way. If
you have a starting pitcher that gets hot for three
or four starts, you can win the World Series.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
It's always the hottest team.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Now, the Dodgers are gonna come in as the best
team right there, as the best team, the most talented team.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
But I'll tell you it's very easy.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
The Dodgers could have lost any round in the playoffs
last year, right, they could have lost that. They almost
lost the first round of the Padres. Right they were
one game away from being eliminated, and Dave Roberts was
probably gonna get fired, and what was gonna happen? They
spend all this money on Otani and what are they
gonna do? And they win the last two games, but
the Padres had him on the ropes. They were joking
around with the fans, they were in the Dodgers heads
(37:00):
and then all of a sudden they just stopped playing.
I don't get it, but it's what happened. They nearly
lost to the Padres. The Mets gave him a huge series.
And this wasn't even a Mets team that was really good.
This was, Hey, we kind of piecemealed the team because
a lot of money that they were spending on salary
was not on the team anymore.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
And they still took him to six games.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
And if Tommy Edmond doesn't turn into Ted Williams, maybe
the Mets win that series. I mean, you had a
short start, the eleven hits, ten runs, twelve Army out,
whatever the hell he was in the NLC. Yes, the
greatest week of his life.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Do you hate him more or less than Nemar?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
No? Oo?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, no him more, him more because the Knicks would
have had to win another round and beat the Celtics
to get to the finals. This was this was him
keeping us from the World Series, right, this is this
is this, This is him, Tommy Edmund, keeping us from
the World Series because he picked one week to be
the greatest version of himself he's ever been.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Right, Dear Cameo, please add Tommy, I have a friend.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
And the World Series with the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yes, was the Dodgers in five, but remember Dodgers needed
to walk off Grand Slam in Game one and the
Yankees to throw up on themselves in the fifth inning
of Game five with three eras in a row in
a game they were controlling with Garrett Cole on the mount. So, yes,
the Dodgers win. And I'm not taking anything away from
they were the best team. They won the No, no, no,
they were what I'm what, I'm sure exactly what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
What I'm showing you is that the Dodgers are if
even the best season. You know, try it, Frostburg, try
put on a cape, jump out of the window.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
And how it works. We're on the first the lord, jeez,
we're on the first floor.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
He's gonna be if we're on. This happened every year.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Every year teams get teams that win a championship in
Major League Baseball win the World Series can be put
on the ropes and they are hottest team wins. The
best team doesn't always win. Asked the Phillies, we had
they had a much better lineup than the Mets. What happened?
The Mets were absolutely red hot. They even said it
after the series. We have right into a buzz saw.
It didn't take any responsibility for losing.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
But still so that's the other part of the side
of the coin is that it's not taking any responsibility.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, but it's still just.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Saying, hey, you got to get me mad at the
buzz No, you played worse, you made a worse pick,
you got picked off a base, you got caught stealing,
you didn't effectively deploy a hit and run. Your guy
dropped a fly ball in the outfield, high aeron judge,
all of those things.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
It's easy to deflect it.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Oh you know what, you know they were just a
hotter team because you just have to absolutely abdicate any
responsibility for the previous how many games one.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Hundred and eighty that you know.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
But if you if you watch the Mets and the
Phillies and didn't know anything about what their records were
during the regular.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Somebody's watching that crowd, you would have.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Said, oh, the met What where the Mets have the
ten game lead on the Phillies. Meanwhile, was a Phillies
winning the division by twelve games?
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
It was like, That's what happens. It doesn't mean that
Dodgers aren't going to be great next year. It doesn't
mean they're not going to be the favorite to go
to the World Series. It just means in the playoffs
they're vulnerable, just like everybody else, because if you're not
the hottest team, you're vulnerable to lose.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Yeah, but the worst news for Major League Baseball if
you're a fan of other squads is in theory, the
bug that.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Is, the injury.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
You know, gods, they're finding another squad to pick on
this year because the Dodgers sure as how had It
doesn't mean their pitchers aren't still gonna have some issues.
But I don't know that we're gonna run through the
cavalcade of stars. I think that's longer list of guys
that pitch for the Dodgers last year than quarterbacks for
the Brown since ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Dude, that's forty now, man, come on, did they have
forty forty close?
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Forty yeah, forty forty not forty one.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Forty and Tyger doesn't have enough time to play francesaccounting
to forty one.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
It works out for you, now, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Coming up next,
we preview the NFL playoff games tomorrow. Is there a
huge upset coming that's next?
Speaker 4 (40:59):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
Oh, happy Friday, everybody. Welcome to the Rokie Sazaki Show
with my best friend Rokie Suzaki.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
It's the Justin Frosberg takeover here on Fox Sports Radio.
Don't be jelly, No, I'm dude, I'm for you. Are
I knew I wasn't I you know you think? Look,
I'm playing you're playing chess. Another per I'm playing chess
while you were playing checkers.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I knew you were gonna wind up with rope.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I was playing what's that game where you have to
conquer the world?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Risk domination?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
A fellow total domination part cheesy.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You just wanted to get Cheese into the show.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
What was he? What was that? Oh stratigo?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Yeah, playing all these guys.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
He gets some battleship in there. I mean, we got them.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
All we were playing cribbage. Well you were trying to
figure out who's going to signe.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Well, you know, I did have my five minutes of Man,
that's just too bad because this is a guy that
White Sox could have actually afforded if you wanted to
go there.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I mean, look the Rokie Sosaki, who is the big
superstar pitcher this offseason, coming over from Japan, just like
Yoshinobu Yamamodo was last year. But obviously you're not spending
as much money on him because of his age and
the lack of years he is spent in the Japanese League.
He comes into Major League Baseball as a free agent
who is still under team control. You're only paying this
(02:00):
guy six million dollars a year, and he could be
a superstar.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's it's a freebie.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's it's it's you know, the Dodgers are this franchise
and it's getting a free superstar as much as he
doesn't put them over the top, because you can't do
that in baseball.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Uh, this is this is about.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
As great a move as you can get. You mean,
we get a guy that could be a potential start. Yeah,
what's it gonna cost us six million dollars?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Yeah? What about what about anything?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (02:24):
No, what about players?
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Who do they want return? No, you don't need any
of that. You just need to pay him. What the
Major League Baseball says is the the minimum you need
to pay a guy. Uh, coming over with this sort
of of of detail about him and how much he
has played or not played yet. Uh, it's it's a
it's a win. It's it's free money. It's free money
(02:45):
for the Dodgers. Right, he's they've already spent more money
on him for this year. Think about the Dodgers more
money on him for this year. Then they'll pay for
Otani last year, this year, and the year after. They've
already had that because Otani's only making two million a
year the next three all his money's coming do in
like fifteen years when the Dodgers are going to sell
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the team when it's worth like twenty five billion dollars,
so they never have to pay that out. But I mean,
you're paying more money for Sasaki now than technically you're
paying Otani for the next two years and the year
you just had where you won the World Series.
Speaker 6 (03:19):
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if
millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were
suddenly silenced.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah, that's how it goes.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
Shar Ali Guinness, Bobi Wan Kenobi, congrats on aj Minter, Buddy.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I'm excited about aj min That's.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
How sucking your franchise is.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
When when when the Mets beat the Dodgers in the
NLCS this year and it's you know, because we keep
them morning unlike last year where not a lot of
money was on the field.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Billy likes to keep the money on the field.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Uh, with the money when you're watching guys like Minter
and we re signed Ryan's Stannik and he's got.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
What How are they sawing off Dodger bats? How are
they winning? How are the Mets winning? Their not nearly
as good as we are.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
We're striking a blow for all the other small market
teams like the Mets and the Yankees and the Red
Sox who can't afford players like this. Now suddenly we're
the underdogs. We're the good guys. Hey, look at look
at those small market Mets Yankees teams. They just can't
compete with the Dodgers. Man, they just can't do it.
We look like we're scrimping nickels together just to get
a guy at the major league minimum, Like the Dodgers
(04:23):
make the Mets and the Yankees look like the A's Like,
that's how bad it is. That's how bad of a
differential there is between star power and money and what
you're paying out the guys from the Dodgers compared to
the rest of the league, even the big market guys.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Look at what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah, just truly setting them up as we did so
aptly long ago as a new evil empire. And now folks,
because the devil's in the details about the contracts and
you know, choice of where you can go in Major
League Baseball, like they get everybody.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
It's like, yeah, guys have to choose to go there.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Yeah, that's called free agency. If it was not free agency,
they would call it that. It would be oh, what's
up for? Not free agency? Oh yeah, Yeah, that's where
a player has to go to a team that Major
League Baseball says he has to go to.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh okay, what about free agency? Oh that's different that.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
That's that would have been kind of interesting in the
auracy of competitive balance, kind of like watching a game
that is on tape delay.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Hey we move the action further into the third quarter.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Say think are in the interest of competitive balance, the Dodgers,
Red Sox, Cubs, Yankees, and Mets will not be able
to participate in this round of free agency.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
This is controlled agency. That's what it is.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
There's no there's nothing free about this is controlled agency.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yeah, free except for level one teams. You are now
a level one team. You you are super saturated, saturated
with stars.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
I feel like you're in ready player one.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Congratulations pars of all on making it past the first level.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
You've made it. That's great.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Now get another key, go to the second level, go
see all the blood in the shining, and then come
back to me.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
It'll work. There you go.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
So we'll have more on the Sasaki situation coming up
in a little bit. But yes, the Dodgers get what
could be another great player for not a lot, and
it's just the rich get richer and the Dodgers at
another great player for next season. But with this weekend
coming up, we talked about the Bills and the Ravens
Last hour game of the week, probably game of the
(06:24):
year in the NFL, and it's it's just to see
Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen go at it when when
so much is at stake with their legacies and and
their teams and how you view a guy as as
a success in the playoffs or not. I gotta say
the storyline I'm looking forward to seeing the most this
weekend is either Josh Allen or Lamar Jackson is gonna
(06:48):
get absolutely destroyed on Monday. Yeah, the world can't win
the big game. It could be a fifty one fifty game.
And Lamar Jackson could go for three hundred yards and
five touchdowns and one hundred yards rushing and Josh Allen
could go for three point fifty and six touchdowns, three passing,
three rushing. But if if the Bills defense gives up
(07:12):
a last minute drive, it's Josh Allen's fault, like like
one of these guys is like it's it's made to order,
no matter how they play, just because of the playoff
failures that we want to pounce up and down on
these two quarterbacks for it's absolutely happy for one of them.
One of them is going to be completely overrated on Monday,
regardless as to whatever they do on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (07:32):
Well, and this is where we get to sit back
and chuckle after we watch a thriller, hopefully on Sunday,
and they both ball out and give us big stat lines,
highlight performance reels for days to see. Who shows their
ass on Monday morning, right in terms of what they watched,
what's real versus hot take nonsense. You can line them
(07:55):
up in your head. Go ahead, everybody, America World. Yeah,
there you go as to where that'll go. But yeah,
it's the unfortunate occurrence that they play in the same conference,
so we get this game earlier than unfortunately the Super Bowl.
Otherwise then we can fight about it there, but at
least you'd have gotten to a super Bowl. Unfortunately, the
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road ends pretty early, lucky for us as football fans
and fans of all the guys in that twenty eighteen draft.
I'm looking at you two, Josh Rosen. But all that
to say it, it's truly fascinating in the fact that
we're gonna also have the weather as an element that
will be not considered in any way, shape or form
(08:37):
except when it comes to the failures of kickers.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
I will say this.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I will say this far with these two like Okay,
what's on the line for them? On the line for
them Sunday obviously a trip to the AFC Title Game,
ptention to.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
The Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
But I will say this the quarterback who needs the
win more, who needs the win more? Right, forget about
the ridiculous this guy's not got, but someone who needs
the win more for his resume. Lamar Jackson needs to
win a little bit more because the convenient narrative about
Lamar Jackson here's in the playoffs. He hasn't played well
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a few times. He's been in the league a while,
he's been the MVP three times. He's someone that, hey,
we need to see something more from him. So he's
got more at stake. If Josh Allen loses, Yeah, there's
still gonna be some of the boy Josh Allen's got
to win one boy, the pressures on him, man, how
do you not win? But I still think he avoids
(09:33):
a lot a lot of the criticism that Lamar will
get if he loses the game. So I think the
guy with the more at steak on Sunday for his
legacy and how he's viewed it is Lamar just because
he has reached a little bit higher a little bit
higher level than Josh Allen over the course of his career.
We though they're look, they're about the same age and
accomplished almost the same.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
But Lamar does have the MVPs.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I think they'll still be some of the excuses for
Josh Allen more so than there would be for Lamar Jackson.
So I will say he's got more at stake this weekend.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, but at.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Least with Lamar you've got the MVPs.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Now we're still looking at the odds even with all
the award other award voting, right, you get your aps
and everything else going out there, all pro teams getting
to going to Josh Allen at last. Look from an
article from the fifteenth with still minus four fifty with
Jackson at plus three twenty, so it looks like he
(10:29):
ends the MVP drought. But what's curious in Buffalo is
you're gonna lose Joe Brady most likely, and potentially you know,
there's some calling kind of in that Ryan Day kind
of world where McDermott suddenly gets shown the door if
they can't solve Baltimore this week. So a lot of
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that comes into well, Josh Allen didn't get it done,
and look at all the change and will he ever Now,
if he actually gets named MVP at NFL Honor, then
he at least gets to put that feather in his cap.
But for now he's got nothing. He's got a couple
of empty pockets. Yeah, and guys getting thrown through tables.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It's it's but how many guys have gotten thrown through tables?
A lot? Okay, So where does that stuck up for me?
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I mean really, But that's that's how insane it is
for Sunday. For Sunday is that whoever loses, no matter
what it's gonna be, look at them. They can't win
the game, can't win, and there will be all kinds
of outline. Look at this game here, and this game
in the playoffs here, this game in the playoffs here,
and it's wow. I mean, look, I'll be the first
guy to tell you that if Josh Allen has a
Sorry Frostburg, if either Alan or Jackson have a Justin
(11:41):
Herbert like game on Sunday, yeah, okay, then it's gonna
be legitimate.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
But I'm telling you it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
It doesn't mean Alan could go for three point fifty
three touchdowns. And two picks right and run for seventy
five yards, have a great game. But all we're going
to talk about is, look at those two interceptions. It
costs them the game, right, look at those two it
costs them the game. But wait, but he actually he
accounted for five touchdowns and four hundred and fifty yards
of offense. You have at those two picks cost him
the game, cost him the game right there, And they'll
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say the same for Lamar Jackson. Hey, look at Lamar
can't get it done without good wide receivers. They Flowers
is out, couldn't win the game. I mean they it's
the same old story, Neil Lamar needs more help. They
can't get it for him. They had Derrick Henry this
year who had a phenomenal year and it still wasn't enough.
And he got it done all the way till now.
And how does he have that game? Like, No matter
how this game comes out, that's going to be the
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narrative for Lamar Jackson. It could be he throws for
two seventy five, throws for two touchdowns, runs for one
to twenty five and two touchdowns. But if the final
drive of the game he gets picked off on fourth down,
or he throws an incomplete pass that looked like a
receiver could have gone. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter
that the criticism of either one of these guys.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Is going to go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
No.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
And that's the beauty and the horror of the sports
chock media fandom world, right, because even within Baltimore and
in Buffalo, you're gonna have those small communities of people going,
I don't know, maybe the blowhards on national ring over right,
our guy can't get it done. He's not our guy.
(13:14):
I might start hearing from old colleagues telling me that
Josh Allen's just a running back again.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I don't know, Yeah, yeah, no sense that you're gonna
see all those convenient narratives they out come rushing back
to you, rushing back like James Earl Jones and Field
of Dreams that wipe away the memories Ray, They'll wipe
them away in front of them like uh thet like
like what is say, fireflies. They'll have to brush the
memories away, and they'll be so thick, like all these
storylines will be so thick.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Oh, I can't even see I can't even see out
my windshield. Oh, look at all these storylines with Lamar
and Josh Allen. That's how it's going.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Jim, Jim, Jim did you see that throw?
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Jim, Jim?
Speaker 1 (13:50):
You know what I just found out, Jim Olmore Jackson's
never won a Super Bowl?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Jim. Do you believe that?
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Jim Jim Jim. Neither is Josh Allen like Jim Jim.
Neither of these guys have what I didn't know that, Jim.
I thought Lamar had like three or four at Josh
Allen had like two.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Jim.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Apparently Patrick Mahomes has all of them. Jim, Jim, Jim,
Jim Jim.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Why why are you shaking your head at me? Jim Jim?
Why are you? Why are you getting up and walking away?
There's gonna be a play Jim, Jim Jim. Yeah, I
want to see.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
That exit out about a Fresca exit swollen Dome. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carvin live from the Tireraq
dot Com Studios. We got more of the Sasaki story
coming up next, as well as the final game we
have yet to preview as we get set for a
big weekend in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I already gave you one big upset, Am I gonna
give you another one? Oh, double up?
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
live from the tirack dot com studios. Hey, uh, you know,
I feel well, I really don't feel bad about this.
But remember last week when we talked on Friday Night, Boy,
Georgetown's twelve and two. Maybe Georgetown basketball is back? Well,
I tell you they finally figured it out. Uh do
(16:14):
You're a big believer of that?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, Look tonight and this is why I don't feel
bad about it, because you know it's Georgetown.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Tonight, DePaul snapped their thirty nine game regular season Big
East losing streak by beating Georgetown seventy three sixty eight,
their first regular season Big East win in seven hundred
and thirty days.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
How about that Markaguire and Terry Cummings were still running
the paint. Who well score Dillard action getting that.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
So skip Dillard? Very nice? Ray Meyer Joey Meyer.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh sure, yeah, uh, oscar.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
By, Yeah, that's true. You got it.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
The fourth We don't forget the wienermobile.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yes, yep, wienermobile. Sure sure, uh. The fourth longest in
the ap ERA. Fourth longest conference losing streak. The longest
was Colgate, who lost forty seven games in conference in
the Patriot Conference from eighty four to eighty seven. I mean,
first road win for DePaul since December of twenty twenty
two happened one on the road in almost three years.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
Then they were Holegate was able to scrape away the
tartar and get back into the wing column.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I like that. Very nice, very nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
they were.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Able to crest over the edge and control you. Yeah,
good for Paul. Maybe Georgetown's not so bad. I mean
that's when we talked about him. They were twelve and two,
and now.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
The twelve and well, maybe it's just the latest in
a long line of things you've jinxed.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
I mean, we getting all excited about him.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
I mean, hey, and I'm okay with that, because again,
you know Georgetown.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
But it was just it was it wasn't like it
was a week before it was it was January third,
and they beat Xavier and all of a sudden they
were two. And it's wow, Georgetown's figured it out. And
if I've cursed Georgetown, I'm okay with that. I'm absolutely
okay with that, because they've lost four straight.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Now.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Granted they have played Marquette and Yukon, who are two
of the top ten teams in the country, but then
they lost to Saint John's Town, they lost to the Paul.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Well, but what do you do when Zoe decides she
wants to go to Georgetown, not going to Georgetown, not
going or someone comes into the life who you know
has an affiliation with Georgetown.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You know, part of me is what doesn't matter. You're
not allowed to talk to that person. It's like footloose. No,
there's no dancing, no dancing in this town. There's no dancing.
It's gotten to the point because you know, we've talked
about this on the air. You just you know, I
told Zoe each Pam and I have one school she
can't go to. I said, you can't go to Georgetown, Pansas,
can't go to Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Everything else is out there. I told you that.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Now you know, when people ask her where she wants
to go to school. She says Georgetown first, just to
just to get my goat. But now her friends have
picked up on it, and not only her friends, but
her older friends. Like one of her friends is a
senior going to college next year. And I was we
were at a gathering about a week and a half
an hour gathering and someone said, well, it wasn't a party.
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It was just a bunch of people hanging out and
somebody and she was sitting, she was standing near me,
and somebody so say, Ruby, where do you want to
go to school? And she goes, I'm thinking Georgetown. And
I turned around and she looked at me, and I'm like, okay, okay, no, stop,
stop stopping.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I can't have this happen. Now all her friends want
to go to Georgetown. Oh, George down, say George to
be fun.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
Do you think someone prompted that trying to get get
your goat?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
You just wait for Patrick Ewing to come to your
house and recruiter.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
He's gonna knock on my door and say, hey, Patrick,
let's talk about the NBA playoffs first. Let's talk about
the Knicks. Okay, let's talk about that.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
I think he might you out.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
I'll tell you. I always talk. You can go anywhere
you want to. Can't go to Georgetown, can't go there, can't.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Go to George.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Let your kids live their dreams.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
Can't go to Georgetown, can't go There's a thousand other colleges.
There's a thousand of them.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
But maybe that would be the best one. No, that's
not why an experience that you would never know. It's
not because it's Georgiatown.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
You gonna let her live her life. You a helicopter.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
You don't want to go to You're not going to
the tournament anyway. You go to Georgetown, doesn't matter. You
want to go where. You're gonna go to the tournament
a couple of times in four years. You're not gonna
go there.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
See. I think he probably does the little waving the
hand thing like he's a Jedi master or a wizard regularity.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Joey, you don't want to go to Georgetown.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
I don't want to go.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
You can just stay here and go to school and
live from upstairs. I'm gonna stay here, go to school
and live upstairs. Great, all right, Great, we solved that.
Let's play hungry hungry hippos. All right, let's go do it.
Uh So, Georgetown, Georgetown. Sorry, Georgetown, I'm not really though,
I'm really not. They lost four in all, I'm not
really sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I'm really not. I'm not I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Uh No, you know we've previewed all the games tonight
in the NFL this weekend. Well, if you miss any
of it, don't forget. Our Best Stuff podcast goes up
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love you for the rest of our lives. Now, the
Rams and the Eagles. A little bit of fun stuff
(21:16):
today where Saquon Barkley is talking about one of the
Rams players who said, ah, I hate the Eagles. I know,
every time I look at the Eagles, I look at
their green uniforms, I get mad. And Saquon Barkley said,
you know, I don't know that I would say that.
I really don't know. Jared Vers declaring how much he
hates Eagles fans ahead of this game. I mean, I
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don't know that you want to do that going into Philadelphia.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I mean, you saw what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You just saw what happened last week with the one
fan who was yelling at the Packers fan.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
You don't want to antagonize everybody.
Speaker 6 (21:47):
Well, but then you saw that the Packers fan that
was their objective, you know, like that came out as
the week went on like it was a whole lot
of bad.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well, it was the guy's objective. I don't think it
was the wife's.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
No, no, no, no, I think I don't have that. It's
the case she might have, you know, gotten caught in
that crossfire.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, I don't know that. You want to sit there
and be You're gonna be called all these names. Oh okay, yeah,
but we're.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Gonna get hits on social media. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 6 (22:09):
And then watch this guy's gonna get fired and I'm
gonna wear a cheese hat.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I don't know that I would have said that if
I was Jared Verse, but he said it, Okay. I
picked the Rams for the Super Bowl before the season.
I don't know if I know if I told you this,
I remember that yet?
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Did I remember that? I picked the Rams for the
Super Bowl? And I'm not backing off it. Now?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Give me the Rams over the Eagles. The Eagles might
be hitting the wall a little. Last week was not
a great game for the Eagles. It looks like Saquon
Barkley had a great game, and you look at his numbers,
but he had one run at the end of the game.
He had one run at the end of the game,
and he slid down to clinch it. But it was
tough sledding. It was twenty three carries for ninety eight
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yards for Barkley. The offense doesn't look the same. I mean,
I know they're getting aj Brown back healthy this week,
but it just I feel like the Eagles have They've
gone all in on Barkley, which is great, but when
he doesn't run wild, and let's face it, when running
backs to you know, get two hundred and fifty three
hundred touches, you get to the playoffs, some of them
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that gas tank hits empty. And the reliance on Saquon
Barkley has been so much so that I don't know
that they can change and suddenly go from hey, Barkley's
not doing it, We're just gonna throw. We have to
throw the football up and down the field. I don't
know that they can. I don't know that they can.
They can change that strategy to say, Okay, we're just
not gonna run Saquon anymore. Like if if you run
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into trouble at some point you have to abandon the
running game, but it's Barkley. Are you really gonna do that?
The offense has become so Barkley dependent, which is great.
During the season, he's had a phenomenal year and he's
helped keep a lot of controversies at Bay because he's
been the focal point of the team and not whatever
relationship that Jalen Hurts has with his head coach or
they have with aj Brown and should people read or not.
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In Philadelphia, if they're hitting the wall a little bit,
they are gonna really struggle. And I'll tell you who's
gonna exploit that as the Rams. We talked about it
last hour with the Texans and the Chiefs. The Rams
can get to the quarterback with just four down linemen
and that's a big thing. That's gonna be a big thing.
Forcing Jalen Hurts in the pocket to be able to
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have to throw the football in difficult coverage. That's gonna
make it near impossible for Philadelphia to move the football.
They're gonna rely on Barkley, who's gonna have tough sledding
because I guarantee you Sean McVay is gonna say, we're
gonna make Jalen Hurts win this game because I don't
know that he can. We're gonna do everything we can
to sell out and stop Barkley. Our defensive line is
good enough, We're gonna have just enough offense, and we're
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gonna win this game. And I'm gonna take the Rams
twenty to sixteen because in the end, I also believe
in Sean McVay way more than I believe in Nick Sirianni.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Yeah, you just want Nick Sirianni fired so we get
that chaos come Monday too. Isn't it great how all
of these storylines can get spun out left right? Yeah,
there's a trust issue with the pass game for Philadelphia
for sure. Now do I believe that the Rams won't
need extra bodies to get home? Not against this offensive line.
(25:09):
You're gonna need some extra extra bodies. You're gonna need
to mix and match a bit. AJ Brown's gonna have
to be more than a spectator and a book reader
like he was a week ago, foreshadowing of what transpired
a week ago, maybe a little salty. If he's not
involved early, then they really none of those guys deserve
the interviews.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
They're getting bad coaching jobs.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
I can tell you that DeVante, Smith, Dallas, Goddard guys
that will be in the mix. And for Barkley, I'm
not worried about the proverbial wall here. I think he's
gonna be able to get to the finish line. But
for Stafford in the offense, it's generally a two man gang.
(25:51):
Very they got the six man tag Jamps. I guess
Kyrin Williams, Phukin Nakua and Staffords the trigger man, even
though he hasn't had to put up ridiculous numbers all
year long. I picked Philly before the year. None often
go chalk, but thought that they had the great path
of least resistance coming out of that division, so that
they'd be ready for this time of year. I'm gonna
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lay the points and I'm gonna take Philly to win.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
Woo, you're laying I'll take off see, because I'll take
the points, but i won't need them.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
No, No, that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I'll take the point.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
You're gonna take them.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Yeah, I'm not gonna but I'm not gonna need them.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
But you know they're there as a consolation when you lose.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Hey, your team didn't win, but did you get them?
Speaker 6 (26:34):
Yeah, because they cover this spring, they took care of
their backers.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
You know when last we saw them, Barkley was running wild.
That won't happen again to that level. I don't believe
and not, you know, because he's worse for the wear
just second meeting, better better squad, healthier squad, all of that.
Philly is six and a half. I could take him
by a touchdown. Forty three and a half is your total?
You're getting price one hundred and sixty bucks.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I am okay with with being on the other side
of this because you know, I mentioned Sean McVay and
I mentioned I'll take him over Nick Siriotti. Because the
other side of this for the Rams and the Eagles
is this is an Eagles team that's been to the
Super Bowl. They've also flamed out in the first round
of the playoffs. They're a little more unpredictable, of course,
they're a little more volatile, and the Rams are a
(27:22):
bright lights team. When the lights are bright, they play
their best right. We saw that against the Vikings. We
saw that in the last few weeks of the season.
The Rams have become that team where, hey, we're gonna
start one and four, but we're gonna finish ten and
three and we're gonna get in the playoffs and nobody's
gonna want to play us. They are the definition of
a bright lights team. And maybe they don't look like
they have a lot of star power, but you look
(27:45):
at the end, you watch the end of a game
and go, how did Sean McVay do that?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
How did the Rams do that?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Matthew Stafford's clutching the fourth quarter and he doesn't get
enough due for being the clutch quarterback he has been
throughout the back half of his career, and when the
lights are bright, I trust him and McVeigh more than
I'll trust Dick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts. It's been mainly
because the Eagles offense has gotten so far away from
Hurts being the focal point playmaker that I don't know
(28:12):
that he steps right back into it, you know, I
don't know. I don't know that he can. And the
Rams being designed where we can do what we want
to with just our defensive line. That's becoming the key
to the NFL. Hey, if you can, if your defensive
line can wreck havoc on the quarterback and the running
game without having a blitz, you're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
A lot games.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Age old adage.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
But yeah, Jalen Hurts is the wild card and all
of this because what will be fun is Monday we
start doing quarterback rankings and all of a sudden you
get to jumble him and Sam Darnold so legends and
fall into the wayside. Should they lose, boy, it becomes
a whole other thing.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Yeah, it would be. It would be very difficult.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
It would be a very different think about those conversations
in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You know, Hey, listen next year when Mike McCarthy's the
head coach. This isn't it gonna happen in philadel.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
Hey, Bill Belichick you talked about it doesn't have a
signed contract.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
How fast would Belichick if the Eagles lose, right and suddenly,
how fast would he jump to the Eagles if they
called him dude, He'll.
Speaker 6 (29:14):
Be sitting there with a pen where they signed the
Declaration of Independence.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Bill, I have a Howie Roseman on the line. Tell
him never mind. I'm going to the airport. I'll be
there in three hours. Get me a flight. I'm quitting,
but you're quitting. We get your last act as my assistant.
Get me a flight to Philadelphia.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Figure out who his favorite signer of the declaration was.
He'll be standing in that exact spot where that quill.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Exit out about a Fresca exit swallowing down The Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon time. How
to find out what's trending in the wide world of
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Speaker 7 (29:56):
Its stems Wow, you know, first, I thought you were
going like he argues with every fan in the no.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
That that wouldn't be the case either.
Speaker 7 (30:06):
That Philadelphia home game, by the way, against the Rams
Snow is in the forecast Sunday, three pm Eastern Time.
Eagles linebacker Nakobe Dean out for the postseason with the
torn Pateeller tendon. Eagles had the top ranked defense easily
in the NFL this year and allowed just eighteen.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
Points a game.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
After that.
Speaker 7 (30:23):
On Sunday, it's Baltimore at Buffalo. Ravenstar wide receivers. Za
Flowers is doubtful for Sunday on the road with his
knee injury. He missed another practice after missing their wild
card game last weekend. The temperature in Buffalo is due
to be under twenty degrees for that Divisional round game.
Two games tomorrow, starting with Houston at Kansas City temperature
in the mid twenties, and then Detroit will be hosting
(30:46):
on Fox TV Saturday Night a Washington team that's won
six in a row. The Dolphins will play a game
in Madrid next season. The full NFL schedule won't come out.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Until that's in Spain, Steve, that's in Spain.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
That's in Spain.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's correct.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
They're going to be playing at the real Madrid stadium.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Yeah, we're gonna do that entire show in Spanish as
a tribute.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yes, I hear he can speak it fluently.
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Uh mucho.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
Gusta Pitcheroki Sazaki is coming over from Japan to sign
with the Dodgers. He is twenty three years old. He
was on the Japanese team that won the World Baseball
Classic a couple of years ago with a couple of
guys that are now Dodgers, sho Heyo Toni and Piccherioshinobu Yamamoto.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
In the NBA, the late game.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
Is in LA and with about three minutes left, the
Lakers are leading the Nets one hundred to ninety five.
Anthony Davis of LA out with a foot injury. Tonight.
Austin Reeves thirty eight points on thirteen of nineteen shooting
everything else's final. Memphis did not have Ja Morant out
with a foot injury. Still, the Grizzlies won at San
Antonio one forty to one twelve. At Dallas MAVs over
(31:52):
Oklahoma City one O six ninety eight to Shay Gilgis.
Alexander of OKC was out with a spraying wrist. New
Orleans and Charlotte wins for the Hornets. Brandon Miller out
indefinitely with a torn wrist ligament. He averages twenty one
points a game. Denver won at Miami won thirty three
to one thirteen. Another triple double for Nikola Jokic for
the Heat. Jimmy Butler did return tonight and have eighteen
(32:15):
points after his seven game team suspension. Milwaukee and Minnesota
with wins Boston as well the Celtics twenty nine and twelve.
After beating up Orlando won twenty one to ninety four.
Jason Tatum thirty points in that one. College hoops wins
for DePaul and Villanova. Indiana won an overtime at Ohio
State with a last second block seventy seven to seventy six,
(32:37):
and Ucla at home ripped Iowa ninety four to seventy.
The Bruins and a four game losing streak shooting sixty
two percent from the floor. Tonight, just two NHL games,
Carolina and Pittsburgh the winners, and at the Australian Open
Egas Fiantec swept or third round match.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the
ty rack dot Com Studios coming up next.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
We have taken a look at a lot of different
things over the course of the last couple hours. On
the show tonight, there's one big breaking story that I
don't want you to be afraid of. It's next right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. That's not a breaking story.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 1 (33:32):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
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Speaker 4 (33:41):
You know, we'll love more on.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
The rookie Sasaki situation coming up in a few minutes, because.
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Look, there's there's Look, all right, let's do it now.
There's good news for everybody. All right, there's good there's
good news.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Yeah yeah, ty Shirt's gonna keep playing that, so why
not do it? The Japanese star says he's joining the Dodgers.
He was the most sought after starting pitcher in free
agency this offseason simply because of what it would cost,
(34:16):
and he could be a potential star. It's only six
million dollars a year because of his service time in Japan.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
He doesn't come over with a.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Whole big bidding and three hundred million dollars like Yoshinobu
Yamamoto did last year. So he comes over and like
we said earlier in the show, it's like getting a
free superstar, right, Like, there's no risk here anybody who
got him. It's like having a lottery ticket. If he's great.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Great.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
If not, what are you spending on him? Six million dollars?
That's that's nothing. It's absolutely not your two dollars throw
and a billion. Yeah, it's a it's a great day
for the Dodgers. It's the rich getting richer. And already
you can tell I already see people who are really mad.
We have to kick the Dodgers out of Major League Baseball.
They're getting an unbelievable advantage over everybody.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
What is that reverse relegation?
Speaker 4 (35:03):
You have to sit out?
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:06):
And do we have enough of a league in your class?
You just have to sit on the sideline.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
You just sit and you just figure it out. But
I look, I do have good news for everybody. There's
no need to be really really upset about this. And
the reason is because baseball is unlike all the other
sports right where you build a super team, chances are
you're gonna get to the finals of your sport and win.
Right Uh, If you build the best team in the NBA,
(35:34):
usually the best team wins. If not, the second best
team is able is able to win.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Right in. In the NHL, it's the same thing in
Major League Soccer. It's the same thing in the NFL.
The best team wins.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
There's no big, crazy run through the playoffs that a
team has as a wild card. It happens once in
a blue moon where a team sneaks in and suddenly.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Here they are in the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
It just doesn't happen, and you you earn that championship.
It's different in baseball is that it's not the best
team that wins. It's always the hottest team, always, always, always, always, always,
because it's three plus rounds of playoffs and it's short
series and a sport that is predicated on playing every
(36:18):
day and playing one hundred and sixty two games and
having large sample sizes. A very short sample size can
go somebody's way. It can go the underdog's way. If
you have a starting pitcher that gets hot for three
or four starts, you can win the World Series.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
It's always the hottest team.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Now, the Dodgers are gonna come in as the best
team right there, as the best team, the most talented team.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
But I'll tell you it's very easy.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
The Dodgers could have lost any round in the playoffs
last year, right, they could have lost that. They almost
lost the first round of the Padres. Right they were
one game away from being eliminated, and Dave Roberts was
probably gonna get fired, and what was gonna happen? They
spend all this money on Otani and what are they
gonna do? And they win the last two games, but
the Padres had him on the ropes. They were joking
around with the fans, they were in the Dodgers heads
(37:00):
and then all of a sudden they just stopped playing.
I don't get it, but it's what happened. They nearly
lost to the Padres. The Mets gave him a huge series.
And this wasn't even a Mets team that was really good.
This was, Hey, we kind of piecemealed the team because
a lot of money that they were spending on salary
was not on the team anymore.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
And they still took him to six games.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
And if Tommy Edmond doesn't turn into Ted Williams, maybe
the Mets win that series. I mean, you had a
short start, the eleven hits, ten runs, twelve Army out,
whatever the hell he was in the NLC. Yes, the
greatest week of his life.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Do you hate him more or less than Nemar?
Speaker 4 (37:33):
No? Oo?
Speaker 1 (37:36):
Yeah, no him more, him more because the Knicks would
have had to win another round and beat the Celtics
to get to the finals. This was this was him
keeping us from the World Series, right, this is this
is this, This is him, Tommy Edmund, keeping us from
the World Series because he picked one week to be
the greatest version of himself he's ever been.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Right, Dear Cameo, please add Tommy, I have a friend.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
And the World Series with the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yes, was the Dodgers in five, but remember Dodgers needed
to walk off Grand Slam in Game one and the
Yankees to throw up on themselves in the fifth inning
of Game five with three eras in a row in
a game they were controlling with Garrett Cole on the mount. So, yes,
the Dodgers win. And I'm not taking anything away from
they were the best team. They won the No, no, no,
they were what I'm what, I'm sure exactly what you're doing.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
What I'm showing you is that the Dodgers are if
even the best season. You know, try it, Frostburg, try
put on a cape, jump out of the window.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
And how it works. We're on the first the lord, jeez,
we're on the first floor.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
He's gonna be if we're on. This happened every year.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
Every year teams get teams that win a championship in
Major League Baseball win the World Series can be put
on the ropes and they are hottest team wins. The
best team doesn't always win. Asked the Phillies, we had
they had a much better lineup than the Mets. What happened?
The Mets were absolutely red hot. They even said it
after the series. We have right into a buzz saw.
It didn't take any responsibility for losing.
Speaker 6 (39:02):
But still so that's the other part of the side
of the coin is that it's not taking any responsibility.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yeah, but it's still just.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Saying, hey, you got to get me mad at the
buzz No, you played worse, you made a worse pick,
you got picked off a base, you got caught stealing,
you didn't effectively deploy a hit and run. Your guy
dropped a fly ball in the outfield, high aeron judge,
all of those things.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
It's easy to deflect it.
Speaker 6 (39:30):
Oh you know what, you know they were just a
hotter team because you just have to absolutely abdicate any
responsibility for the previous how many games one.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Hundred and eighty that you know.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
But if you if you watch the Mets and the
Phillies and didn't know anything about what their records were
during the regular.
Speaker 3 (39:47):
Somebody's watching that crowd, you would have.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Said, oh, the met What where the Mets have the
ten game lead on the Phillies. Meanwhile, was a Phillies
winning the division by twelve games?
Speaker 4 (39:54):
Whatever?
Speaker 1 (39:54):
It was like, That's what happens. It doesn't mean that
Dodgers aren't going to be great next year. It doesn't
mean they're not going to be the favorite to go
to the World Series. It just means in the playoffs
they're vulnerable, just like everybody else, because if you're not
the hottest team, you're vulnerable to lose.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Yeah, but the worst news for Major League Baseball if
you're a fan of other squads is in theory, the
bug that.
Speaker 5 (40:16):
Is, the injury.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
You know, gods, they're finding another squad to pick on
this year because the Dodgers sure as how had It
doesn't mean their pitchers aren't still gonna have some issues.
But I don't know that we're gonna run through the
cavalcade of stars. I think that's longer list of guys
that pitch for the Dodgers last year than quarterbacks for
the Brown since ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Dude, that's forty now, man, come on, did they have
forty forty close?
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Forty yeah, forty forty not forty one.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Forty and Tyger doesn't have enough time to play francesaccounting
to forty one.
Speaker 5 (40:48):
It works out for you, now, doesn't it?
Speaker 1 (40:50):
Exit out about a Fresca exit Swallen Dome. Coming up next,
we preview the NFL playoff games tomorrow. Is there a
huge upset coming that's next?
Speaker 4 (40:59):
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