January 25, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon give out their NFC/AFC Championship Game picks and tell you which two teams on Sunday will be punching their ticket to the Super Bowl in New Orleans!
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(00:52):
Schottenheimer is a new head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Looks like Clarence Hll was right. Well, more on that
story coming up in about twenty MT's spent the better
part of the last hour shaking our heads and giving
you real talk about Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys head coach. But
it was fun for a few hours because Pete Carroll
(01:13):
had the spotlight back in the NFL after getting somewhat
pushed out in Seattle. He is now back as the
head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders a three year deal.
Seventy four year old Pete Carroll is back in the game.
And you know, it's really weird because not many days
is it's gonna happen. Right. We talked about it this
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week when the Jets hired Aaron Glenn. Hey, Aaron Glenn.
The Jets may not win another day the rest of
the year, but getting Aaron Glenn this year he was
the right guy because he's bringing exactly what the Jets need.
We talked about the fact he's a former player there.
He understands what it's like to play there. He understands
what's like to play there for the owner, Woody Johnson.
He's apprenticed under the best defensive coaches in the game.
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I have no doubt he is the right guy to
build a culture. Jay Glenn high on him. When he
get the Jay Glazers Seal of approval, you know you're
doing well. And I'll say the same thing for Pete
Carroll because what the Raiders need more than anything is
that it's not even culture, it's just can we stop
the backsliding? Can we just get Like every year it's
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like the raiders are on a you know, some sort
of path climbing up a mountain, and they start at
one point and you'll look away and they look at
the end of the year and they're lower than they
were at the beginning. Like what happened? We found a
way to slide down the mountain, Like they need to
stop the backsliding. They needed somebody who was going to
come in, be able to run an entire program and
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come in with cachet and respect, and that's everything they
got in Pete Carroll right for the what ever you
could say about his coaching and decision making, okay, but
there's no doubt that he's gonna come in. He's gonna
fire up the team. They're gonna be really excited to
play from Nobody didn't like playing for Pete Carroll, whether
Richard Sherman and Russell Wilson for a long time, both
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love playing for Pete Carroll, and they both couldn't stand
each other, right, So when you've got guys that can't
stand each other and they both love playing for a coach, hey, okay,
Now things got weird with Russell Wilson at the end
and he got a little too powerful. But Pete Carroll
is that guy. He's gonna come into Vegas and say, Okay,
this is how we're gonna do it. We're gonna build
things from the studs. And when you build things from
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the studs in the NFL, it shouldn't take more than
a couple of years to get to a point where hey,
we're back in being competitive because we've built something there
was nobody better out there for the Raiders to get
nobody better out there. Which also shows you that, man,
if you can't get a job now this cycle, and
if you're on the list of being a head coaching
you couldn't get a job in this head coaching cycle.
Put it away. You're never getting a head coaching job
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because guys like Pete Carroll are getting Pete Carroll, we
thought he's done, he's never gonna be on the sideline again. No,
he gets a job, right. So it's a very it's
a unique cycle where certain things are happening in January
of twenty twenty five that might never happen again, not
in twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight with a way.
The jobs are falling to people, but they got the
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right guy. And I have no doubt that they have
hit rock bottom and now it's just gonna be a
way to climb up. Now, you got a big division
in front of you, right, you have the Chargers who
are on the rise, The Broncos are on the rise,
the Chiefs are the champs. At least until you know,
things go different. They may be playing another super Bowl,
but at least the Raiders is okay. Now we know
it's not gonna be just Hey, we're probably gonna go
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oh one to eight in the division, and if we
win a game or two here and there, it's okay.
They got the right guy, and Pete Carroll didn't have
a choice. It's either coach the Raiders or you're not
a head coach in the NFL. So okay, you had
the bit of an arranged marriage where hey, it makes
sense for you, it makes sense for me. Let's go
do it. But make no mistake, this was a really,
really good day for the Raiders. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think when you're looking at it from the stop
the backslide, it should just be the mantra coming into
this coaching shirt.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Top the backslide, stop the revolving door.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Okay, that thing so it doesn't keep cycling guys out
minutes after they've shown up. I mean, we've watched it
since Mark Davis took over. For all of the talk
historically of his old man and his temper and the
wild fluctuations of infatuation or just being done with anybody
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on staff or coaching, he at least had some stability
in terms of how he ran things. Might have been
suing cities and wanting to move all the time, but
when it came to finding a coach and building a program,
that was what he was all about. Mark Davis has
just been all right, let's go that way and see
how that goes for a little while. All Right, he's
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riding the storm out, as it were, and you know,
he's kind of like a real life Truman show where
someone's directing the wins.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Hey, this is getting boring. Change it up for me
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So we look at the number of coaches that have
come through. At some point you have to, you know,
Susan Powder, stop the insanity.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Look it up, kids, crazy infomercial people for one hundred Alex.
But just the idea that you've gone through so many coaches,
so many gms, particularly the last decade, it seems like
there's never been enough time to even try to implement
a plan. You had Derek Carr there for a while,
decided to move off him, and then it's been again
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a revolving door of quarterbacks ever since. And the guys
that you've taken in the draft haven't worked out. You've
really not put a lot of stock into making them
better either. You've got a couple of component parts on
your defense that are pretty solid. Maybe beyond Bowers you'll
find three or four pieces to your starting eleven on offense.
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But for Pete Carroll, you can come in right. He's
already a college professor, so he can keep doing that.
So that's joyed. Sure, But a guy that's gonna teach,
and we saw him what he did with John Schneider
in Seattle. Now he gets to work with spy tech
and whatever influenced Tom Brady has and all of this
to go forward and try to recreate a little bit
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of what they had means you got to get the
drafts right quite obviously. And can you win with a
young quarterback?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You don't have to go into the marketplace and overpay
for the veterans. We've talked about it. It's a very
thin marketplace unless you decide that you want to see
if Sam Darnold can be your guy, and he's the
the focal point of everything you do. Reminder that Minnesota
can still block everybody just saying dollar cost averaging, we're
gonna have him and McCarthy here. But all of that
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to say, what what better was going to be out there?
It was either him or McCarthy at this point, and
I'd rather have Pete Carroll with a little bit of
fire and vinegar. I mean obviously everybody goes immediately to
how old he is and vinegar.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, let's get some fire and vinegar.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I don't know what I knew what I was trying
to You.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Were trying to say something in vinegar, but you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Said, yeah, something like man fire, I want to.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Put that on a T shirt.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Hey, look, sometimes the brains a little fashion. I will
forever announce every one of your maleprofits.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
My wife did that the other day. She goes, you know,
we got to have another wrench in the fire, and
I go, uh, what you gotta put a wrench in
the fire. Go No, you either put another iron in
the fire or you throw a wrench into something. You
don't throw a wrench.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I think I like the combination there.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know, man, wrench in the fire or fire
and vinegar like fire in vinegar sounds like it could
be the new Metallica album. Dude, you get fire and vinegar?
It is awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I'm not even sure how those two connected in
my brain.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
And that sounds like it would hurt.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Uh yeah, or you know what? You know? No, you
know it is? No, you know it is. It's like
a specialty shot at a bar that everybody talks about. Dude,
go to the Whistling Pig on Friday. Man, they got
fire and vinegar shots. What Actually, it's ready, you know
it's it's fireball and it's vinegar. Oh my god, it
tastes amazing.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
What they give you out a Bill's tailgate for a
thousand alex.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Now because I had to look this up.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Homemade fire cider, horse radish, ginger garlic, onions, cayenne pepper,
apple cider, vinegar, vinegar, and honey horse radish.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, all right, you can also use a venture your
immune support. Okay, the fact you can also put out
vinegar to put out grease fires.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah you can do that. Yeah that's good.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I don't know about fired vinegar.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, but here you're you're putting out the fire.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Does it come with the side of tombs?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think it comes with a candy dish of tums.
You gotta have it out on your on your tables.
Have you not.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Product very closely for many a year of Frostburg? You
don't think there's enough toms in the media room when
you got to sit and watch that, Oh they got ulcers.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Look you know what this is. You know, we talk
about a marriage of convenience. And I thought about this
today when Pete Carroll is there because the Raiders really
had no choice and he was the best guy there
and Pete Carroll had no choice, And I thought about
that scene in Moneyball when Brad Pitt goes in to
talk to Dave Justice and he says, hey, you know,
David Bill, let's tell you we got a problem here.
(10:15):
He says, no, no, no, you know, I know you
talk to players the way you are, and he goes, look,
let's be honest. What we want from each other? I
want to milk every ounce of baseball that you have
in you and you want to stay in the show.
And you know, and that's because I thought it's Brady
or you know, Mark David saying, hey, let's be honest.
What we want. I want you to come in here
and build a culture and stop the backsliding, and you
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want back into the NFL. All right, So he's said,
can we do that for each other? Dave Justice, Yeah,
I got you, man, I got you. Don't worry about
then they have the conversation about, you know, the dollar
for soda. But you know, but I kind of get
that where hey, we both are in a real bad
position of need right now and it works out for
both of us. Again, doesn't mean this isn't a great move.
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Pete Carroll coaching the Raiders phenomenal. He's got the success,
he's got the cache, he's got the cachet with players,
and you know what, here's how full of positivity Friday
I'm at right now? It would make complete and total
sense if they went out and got Sam Darnold. Hey,
we'll take him off your hands. Right, We'll give Sam.
We'll give you two years and thirty million, right, Why
not We're still going to draft a quarterback two years
and thirty million. Come throw the football for me here
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in Vegas, and the Vikings can go, oh, all right, great,
we got a draft pick here, we got something we need. Okay,
we can go to JJ McCarthy not have to worry
about the you know, all the drama coming off the
end of the year, the thirty five touchdowns and four
thousand yards, but the awful last two games. When do
we go to McCarthy. I'm up for that too. Forget
about forget out all the rumors about Russell Wilson. That's
never happened on brand back.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That's just insane.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But God, talk about go get Sam Darnald. Come two
years and thirty million. Come on and guaranteed two years
and thirty million. You can make that come in play.
It's your job for the next two years. Come be here,
be my guy. I'm up for that. I'm up for that.
It would make the Raiders better. It would make it
would it would make for at least Hey, here's kind
of our identity. We went out and we signed a
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guy that had a great year last year, Pro Bowl
quarterback in the NFC. Not many guys like that Now,
I'm even up for that. And I don't even like
Sam Donald, and I'm up for Hey, Pete, go get
Sam Darnald. Make it happen. This is a great The
Jets and Raiders both had great days this week. Man,
I don't know what's happening. It's like the AFL in
nineteen sixty eight and.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
The Cowboys gave us a laugh. So they want to
and the Bears is shoot one hundred years of tradition. Now,
they did hire another first time a head coach, but
they did what everybody wanted. Let's see the Raiders draft
sixth in the first round. You've got all the opportunities
out there. So yeah, Sam Donald plus a draft pick,
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not at the six pick, but someone else to look
and Sam Donald's get more than two for thirty, eh?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Is he?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You thought petere A Lonzo was gonna get more money
coming out this year. I don't know. Those last two
games were really damaging, man, they were really damaging.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It'll be just fine, really bad.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Hey, look, I think I think Brian Flores found them
really damaging.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
In the coaching cycle too, I'd.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Like to make fifteen million a year the next two years.
You can't see that. I'm alright with that now. But
these well, the thing about the thing about Donc. Look,
we'll get into the thing about Donald because really I'll
tell you exactly why I'm down on him for that,
for that kind of a no no, no, down on
him for making all kinds of money this offseason. But
uh but look, look he would he wants a chance
to play, right twenty seven. You get a chance to play.
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If you get a chance playing, you play good, guess
what more money's gonna be there for you. But you
need to be able to play. You need to be
able to clinch. I can go to a spot where
I can go play and make sure I keep this job,
because the minute he has two bad games in a
row in Minnesota, it's gonna be Hey time for JJ McCarthy. Right.
You gotta go and know where you can go. And
in turn, I'm always a big fan of Hey. You
stay where you are because the system works for you.
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But clearly you got a guy pushing behind you that
the team needs to see play. And the minute you
have too bad game that's not gonna happen, go to
the rates be that started quarterback. You get two seasons
to get it right, and then you get pay AGAG
should be twenty nine years old. You come off, you
get a big three four year deal. It will happen.
But I can't believe I'm down. I'm down with this man.
This is I'm feeling weird on this Friday night. Man,
I don't know what it is. Exit out about a
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(16:27):
It's Brian Schottenheimer. We told you this last night, and
that's that's the reaction that was at the actual reaction
throughout Dallas from their fans, fan based Cowboy nation and
the players. That was the reaction. We have that again,
Alex Tischer, What do you want, Jason? I just want
the reaction you just played.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I didn't play reaction.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah you did. You played the Greg Popovich.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yay, No, that was in great Pomvich.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Who was that? Oh we'll give me the lebron ya
here were you all right? So here you go? Really
thought that I thought that was pop I thought that
you played it Popovich. I thought it was Popes, So
I thought it was play it again. Didn't it sound
like pot sounded like pop that sounded like pop.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Pop is the guy who used to steal your girlfriends?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh, I said, pop pop who called for me? I
don't know what was it? A boy or a girl?
I don't know. They called, they asked for you. I said,
you're not home.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Uh, I said they didn't like your hat.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
No, I said, pop, you don't even know. And then
like the things would happen with my grandfather, where like
a girl who called me, and then like a week
and a half would go by, and then she would
say she said, yeah, and I called you. You never
called me back, and I go, oh, so that was
you that called me that night. No, I never got
my ground father. They didn't tell me. Well, I gave
him my name, I wrote down. I told him my
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phone number. I'm like, yeah, I don't I don't get
the you know, I don't get that. I don't get that.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Now hold those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Technology would have helped the kid. Technology would have helped
me back in the you know, if I we had
had cell phones and stuff in text, it would have
been easier. I wouldn't have had that. I called you
two weeks ago. A girl. Girls get I'm a jerk
because they called me I didn't call him back, and
I'm like, I didn't know you called me. I didn't know.
My grandfather didn't tell me.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Should have used that grocery store money to buy a pedro.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Pop all together.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
But I gotta find a payphone to make a phone call.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Get you up one of those Zach Morris cell phones.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
It's a brick.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's about the last time Brian Schottenheimer was relevant. I
think the cell phone he was named a head coach,
you know when he was taking him back to him
when he was the Jets oc back in the early
teens and then they were on hard knocks and hey,
the Jets went back to back AFC championship games. He
had Brailan Edwards on the team, Sanchez and Thomas Jones
and lt Oh, yeah, I was that was Brian Schottenheimer was. Hey,
(18:45):
he was young in a sending. Just took him twelve
years later to finally get a head coach.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You know what, sometimes it takes time to get the
font bigger and to get your name in prominence.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It's insane you twelve years nobody else wanted to talk
to him. He's a He's the head coach of the
most popular team in the in all of the NFL,
the most popular football team of the last thirty Here
here's guys coming in that are just really no threat
to the popularity of Jerry Jones and no threat to
go really far in the playoff. That's that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
But at this point, he's a guy who's a known commodity.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Talks to Emily forever.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's why nobody talked to him.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I was trying to sell that book. They've all hired
him in the past. They have a dossier from his
time there. Did you not hear the CV I read off.
He's been through a lot of teams and a lot
of locker rooms. Whereas the Cowboys might have said, you
know what you'll do, No, you're not doing anything, Rabbit,
not doing it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Not doing it. So we'll have more on the Cowboys
big move coming up in a bit. But oh, by
the way, you know, here's the Cowboys taking the headlines away.
We had the AFC NFC championship games coming up this
week and we talked about him a lot. Yeah, these
pesky game, big week in coaching.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Maybe sure, yeah, look, I mean you have Hawk guys
just won a game in the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Pete Carroll is coming back, sure, Robert Salas a DC,
Matt Eberflus has a gig, the League of Disappointing Head Coaches,
and everybody's coming back around again. Uh So let's give
you our official picks for this weekend. Let's start with
the Commanders and the Eagles. Uh the latest injury news today,
Jalen Hurts is gonna play with a brace, but he
seems like he's gonna be okay. And I'll tell you this,
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it's not gonna matter. It's not gonna matter. I can't
pick Washington because the formula for them to win is
not gonna be there. They need a bunch of turnovers
and they need chunk plays on offense, both of the
things they were able to find against the Lions all
throughout the game, right, chunk plays on offense because the
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Lions defense looked the Lion Yet was the Lion's defense
ever really great? No, it was better than it was.
They had a lot of injuries and at the end,
clearly they couldn't stop anybody. They couldn't stop the Commanders
at all. And the Commanders just have okay weapons outside
of Jayden Daniels, who probably is the MVP of the
NFL this year. But they're also not gonna get the
turnovers like they got. Goff is not gonna give them
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the football. This is not a Lions team that is
going It's not like the Lions where hey, we're gonna
throw it up and down the field, and if you
can scheme us up a little bit, guess what, we'll
give you the football. The Eagles are gonna run the
ball all day because they can. You can only scheme
up so much stuff. But they're gonna give the ball
to Saquon Barkley. He's gonna have another big day, and
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they're gonna control the football a lot. They're not gonna
give it up a lot like Detroit is and did
the air content playing that style. The Eagles are gonna say,
we're okay, we know it's gonna be closer than people expect. People. Well,
here's it, Hey, we know that jayde and Daniels threw
for five touchdowns last time. They're gonna control the football
and it's gonna be a boring game because Hurts is
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not really gonna be dynamic, and that's kind of the thing.
Now they lean so much on Barkley and the offense
that it's not gonna be a point where, Hey, Hurts
is gonna rescue everybody throwing the football. Number one, he's
two banged up to be the real Jalen Hurts, but
number two, this is how the Eagles are gonna win
this game. But mainly, the Eagles defense is so much
better than the Lions defense. Even with Daniels five TV game,
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you know they're gonna have something different. Vic Fango is
gonna have something different dialed up for them. It's not
gonna be a fun ish watch. Points are gonna be
at a premium. Philadelphia's matched the success with Chaos, and
for the Commanders that's been a magic carpet ride so far.
Look at how far they've gotten. They win a playoff game,
they go and beat the Lions, who hand them the
football continuously in the first half, and make mistakes that
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they didn't make all season long. It's been a great,
amazing run. And you don't want to count Jayden Daniels out,
But the Eagles are just a better, well rounded team.
They're a better team across the board. It's gonna be closer.
It's probably a field goal game. But this is a
game where the Eagles find a way to get ahead,
or they kick the field goal at the end, or
they're up and the defense slams it and takes it home.
(23:03):
Get me the win for the Eagles, and get me
the under because again, not a lot of points this game.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
The over under sitting at forty sevens A lot of
points favored by.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Six in this one, A lot of points.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, it seems to me this is where it bogs
down a little bit again owing to the Jalen Hurts injury.
And you know, the full disclosure, there's there's part of
me that wants the organized chaos that comes with the
Commanders winning this game and all that falls out in Philadelphia,
from a misspelling mayor to just the ongoing saga that
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is Nick Sirianni, especially if the offense fails and Jalen
Hurts referendum on him, all all of those things that
go through. But I picked the Eagles before the season.
I can't jump jump off him now, right. I got
two of the final four teams alive. I can't quit
on them at this point. Looking for Barclay to have
a big day behind that offensive line and for the
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defensive front of Philly to do just enough. Jayden Daniels,
for all his heroics, will still take the inopportune sack
at times. And it's been the year of living dangerously,
a lot of great, fantastic finishes, final possessions. I don't
even think they get that opportunity here here. It's gonna
be whether Saquon Barkley or Kenneth Gainwell in his stead
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are sliding down at the eight to chew clock at
the end of the game. I like what Quinn and
Kingsbury and everybody have done. Terry McLaurin, zach Ertz, you
name him, roll call them here. It's been a fantastic run.
But it ends here. A couple of weeks ago was
just a warm up, all right, it was a tune up.
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They didn't need the game, didn't want the game.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Whatever. Now it's winning time. Eagles take care of business
at home.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, I mean they would need the commanders, would need
some sort of some sort of like last week, like
what do I always say when I pick games, Hey,
this is gonna happen now. Doesn't mean a team can't
turn the football over a ton and all of a
sudden you get one of those games, but you don't
really plan for that. What's exactly what happened last week?
Like if the Lions don't turn the ball over that way,
but look, they scored thirty one points. They still didn't
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get close, right, the defense couldn't stop them. But the
turnover set the tone of the game, Like, are the
Eagles really gonna do that? Are they gonna put the
ball on the carpet four times? Is it Hurt's gonna
throw two picks and Barkley's gonna fumble twice? I don't
see it. Are they gonna be able to go up
and down the field? And suddenly the Eagles defenders are
pointing at each other, going what the hell is going on?
And Howie Roseman's coming out of the stands dressed as
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a grim reaper ready to fire Nick Sirianni as soon
as the clock hits triple zeros. I can't see that happening.
I could see it a little bit with the Lions,
but still it was a real surprise. I really can't
see it here. You know each other, They know each
other too well. Again, it'll be closer if I want
to say the commander's with the points, because six and
a half points is a lot of like the Eagles
(25:50):
like by by three or four. That's why I like
the under a little bit more. But I mean I
would be I would be even more stunned than I
was last week the way the Lions gave it up.
If the Commander's came out and actually won this game.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, I was on the right side of that one
with my Washington upset special thereby meaning I can never
go have a muskrat dinner.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
But that'll be okay, I'll survive.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
No, that's all right. My my family hates you. It's
my family.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
No, I mean it's a it's eleven years running.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean that is, they had no opinion of you
until you started picking against them. Then now suddenly they
have something.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Oh and then I took their coach. Yeah, now I'm
going to take half of their.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well they're mad at me too because we took their
coach too. You and I took both of their coach.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And now Antoine randall El's going to Chicago and maybe
a couple other guys from the staff, all of that
rolling up.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Look, Washington's been a fun story.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
We've talked about it a lot, and Jayden Daniels has
been magnificent in spots you put up, you know, your
thought of Hey, if you added these these first rounds
of the playoffs, would would you reconsider you know, your
MVP vote at this point? And we got some great feedback.
Keep it coming. That's one dome at how about a
fresco at Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts
(27:03):
and and where you're wherever you interact with the show
and the network. We appreciate you you're doing so and
he's been great. But I think it ends here Philadelphia
at home and the defense, even with the attrition because
they've lost a couple of key component parts in that
front seven. Who's stopping Jalen Carter coming off the edge
to get to get after Jad and Daniels the way
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he's running right now, I don't think it happens. And
you've got you know, a Hawk guy in the defensive
backfield as a nominee for for Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I mean, who would have thunk it?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I mean, well, well, Hawkkeys and defense. You think it
would be something if Hey, this offensive rookie from Iowa
is gonna win, it.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Would be a tight end. Tight end or a linebacker, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
An or a kicker, or a kicker if it's you know, hey,
here's why are.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
You doing that at the prosperg. It's Friday, it's a
it's an era of positive vibes. And then you immediately bring.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Up a kicker, which means he's gonna have pictures of
cating in his head.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It we've been we've been toasting to the Cowboys being
worse than our teams all night. Now apparently that toast
is over. Well, you know, it happens. It's okay, I'll
take it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Someone else will clank a glass, so you'll have to
pick it right back up.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
It's okay, exit out about a fresca exit swollen down
the Jason Smith's with Mike Carment, so both of us
have the Eagles to the super Bowl. You know, I'll
go this, I'll say twenty to fourteen. I'll not say
that the command the Commander's cover, but I'll go twenty
to fourteen. That's the how do you spells E E
L E l g s e s elgissis eljis just win?
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The eljessis win. I guarantee you that'll be a chant
on Sunday. I guarantee you will hear that they will.
They will have the Mayor's back and have the E
L G S E s chant.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Five six beers in and that's always the chance.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, and if the Eagles are smart and they'd be
selling T shirts, hats and everything they could in the
team's store, Dude.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Five or six beers in for Eagles fans. That's like
four hours before the game. Talking about man.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, now we're getting in hot damn and the fire
firesider with the vinegar in it, and we got.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
More coming up in ninety seconds. Again, don't forget if
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(29:32):
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for you every single night. Well, we got more coming
up in ninety seconds. But first to a man who's
been called the Nick Sirianni of Fox Sports Radio. Please
he's in charge of stuff, but do people really listen
to him? It's Steve Disaga.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I thought you made like it just in the middle
of work. I'll just start arguing with people.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Leave the sidelines.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
However, in the Eagles are home this weekend, and they
went ten and one at home this year, and they
had the number one rushing team in the NFC and
the league's top ranked defense easily. Philadelphia is hosting Washington
on Fox TV Sunday, three pm Eastern Time in the
NFC Championship game. No snow in the forecast this weekend.
By the way, no rookie quarterback has ever started a
(30:19):
Super Bowl. Rookie Jaden Daniels has been sensational for Washington,
but rookies all time in conference championships.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Are zero to five.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
The late game at Kansas City Chiefs versus Buffalo for
the AFC title. Bills beat him in Buffalo in November. Yes,
the Dallas Cowboys are promoting Brian Schottenheimer to head coach
news conference on this Monday. He reportedly gets a four
year deal, and we can update that story from longtime
NFL reporter ed Werder, who was saying the Cowboys have
(30:47):
hired Matt eberflu Sex of the Bears as their defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
His correction.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Eberflus has emerged as a candidate for defensive coordinator and
has discussed the position, but the team will first conduct
interviews as required by league rules before a final decision,
So that's where that stands. The Raiders are hiring Pete
Carroll as head coach. At age seventy four in September,
he'll be the oldest head coach in NFL history. The
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Raiders haven't won a playoff game since the two thousand
and two season when they lost the Super Bowl. Since then,
zero to two in the postseason with eleven full time
head coaches in that spat.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
They're averaging one playoff game for every five and a
half head coach.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
That's right, game, not win, just one playoff stair case.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
So when I know that the sixth guy is about
to get fired, I'll get a playoff game.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Okay, that's great, it's about your time. New Orleans still
has a head coach opening. That's the last of them.
Robert sala is now returning to San Francisco as defensive coordinator,
as he is interviewed and not going in a head
coaching job in this cycle. The Texans fired offensive coordinator
Bobby Slowick after two seas.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
My how the things change.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
In twelve months.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Las Vegas will host college football's national title game after
the twenty twenty sixth season. After next season, it'll be
held in Miami. South Carolina gave coach Shane Beemer at
extension through twenty thirty. He'll now earn over eight million
dollars this year to the NBA. There were just three games. Tonight,
Memphis won its fifth in a row, and one without
John Moran, he was out due to illness. This evening,
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Memphis beat New Orleans one thirty nine, one twenty six.
Portland won its fourth in a row one oh two
ninety seven at Charlotte Anthony Simon's twenty seven points, and
Philadelphia and in a seven game losing streak, beating Cleveland
one thirty two to one twenty nine. Cleveland's record had
been thirty six and seven, but Paul George had thirty points,
Tyrese Maxey with twenty nine points seven assists. And there
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is college basketball all nights on FS one. Currently it's
Washington leading UCLA twenty two to fifteen mid first half.
Earlier victories for Marquette and Iowa, and there was a
top twenty five game on Fox. Team Purdue pounded Michigan
ninety one sixty four women's college hoops South Carolina over LSU.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from the
tire rack dot Com studios. So we're in lockstep in
the NFC Championship Game, which honestly is the junior varsity
game this weekend, simply because we have Bill's Chiefs in
the AFC, the new Colts Patriots, we got Bill's Chiefs.
Are the Chiefs head to the Super Bowl or the
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Bills get there for the first time under Josh Allen,
Mike and I give you the pick of the game
of games coming up next. Right here, Jason and Mike,
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Speaker 5 (33:39):
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This is more than a game.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Be there. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon live fromthtirerack dot Com Studios.
Hey now, because again I feel weird tonight, I'm full
of positivity. Well except for the Cowboys. Uh, you know,
before we picked the AFC title game. I gotta say
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congratulations to the seventy six ers winning the biggest game
of the year without embiid. They beat the Cleveland Cavaliers
tonight by three. Woo.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
They won right with the world.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
They went nine like Iverson was playing for them, and
they somehow find a way to win this game.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Wow, a little bit of a throwback.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Congratulations thirty two points, buddy, I know, that's an amazing that's.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
An amazing run right there. What did they get here?
Paul George even played.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, I know, Paul Georg played. He played a lot.
He played thirty six minutes, he had thirty, MAXI had two,
twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Look at this, you went twelve and thirteen.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Come on, now, hey went just because the Sixers lose
seven to eight games in a row doesn't mean they
can't win one once in a while.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
And their rotation just as deep as anything is throwing out.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
The congratulations, that's an awesome, awesome thing. Now, let's get
to the AFC Championship game, right. We we talked about
the NFC game. Both Mike and I like the Eagles
to win to move on AFC. If the Bills, if
I was more confident in the Bills defense, I picked
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the Bills. I feel like I do this now. Hey,
I'd like to be but I just can't.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
It's like me saying, I like your thoughts and theory.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I just ever if I thought Buffalo because they're gonna
need to stop the Chiefs and their defense just isn't
good enough, it's it's the Chiefs are gonna do what
they need to do right, and this this has all
the harmarks have yet. I know that we say, hey,
this is going to be the year that Josh Allen
breaks through, just because at some point he's got to.
(36:03):
I'll keep picking the Bills, and I get it. But
what are we seeing from the Chiefs, right? I mean,
other than you know, the the officials making great calls
in their favor right, like Travis Kelcey is like a
latter day Roger Clemens. Right the end of his career,
Clemens was playing half a year coming up. Yeah, I'm
here at the end when you need me. Like there's
Travis Kelcey. I'm invisible for the regular season, but then
near the end, Hey, look at me. Now, sudden, I'm
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an all pro. Wow, all of a sudden, its back
to being Travis Kelcey. It's a big deal, you know,
having his best for now. In the fourth quarter, the
Chiefs are gonna do what they always do. They're gonna
get the points they have to get because it's what
happens to win in Kansas City. You need to be great.
You need to be great to be able to pull
off a win like this. The last time a team
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won it was the Bengals Super Bowl team. They did
everything you need to do offensively. Defensively, they held them back.
Buffalo is terrific. But are they great enough? Is the
defense great enough to cause problems for Patrick Mahomes as
the off starts to really pick things up. I don't
see it. It's still a back and forth game. But
I've seen the movie of the fourth quarter of Chiefs
(37:08):
games all year. Too many times I've seen the Chiefs
always find a way to get past the Bills or
whoever else they're playing. And again, if the Bills, if
I could say, well, if the Bills had the Eagles defense,
I could say, oh man, watch out, this is that
big upset. But they don't. So in the fourth quarter,
the Chiefs will make the plays. Mahmes will make the plays.
Maybe he's the beneficiary of roughing the passer penalty when
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he's not even in the game, but it's something at
something like that. They will make all the plays they
need to. It will be another close one. I'll take
the over in this one, like the under in the
NFC title game. But I like the over in this game.
Give me the over, give me the Chiefs, and we
got the Chiefs and the Eagles back in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Chiefs two point home favorite. Forty eight and a half.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Is your total in this one, mister Smith. Once again,
I can't go against my preseason pick. I've got it
luck with them to have my preseason pick still alive.
Maybe I'll get the MVP right, even if votes and
other forums would say I don't. But I picked Buffalo
to win the AFC before we started, so we'll stay there.
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The loss of Taylor rap and the secondary is certainly
not voting well, particularly the way Travis Kelsey has been
playing of late, finding his way to tiptoe through the
tulips i e a wide open middle of the field.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
These last coups, they just have a big red circle
over that area. Now with that news today, Hey wait
a minute, wait, yeah, here's a big circle. We're gonna
be here all day.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
You know that little route that Travis likes to start
and then he usually ends up drifting about eight yards
this way. That's probably gonna be open for us a
few times here on Sunday, So that one's problematic. Milano
being back and covering the ground that he does certainly
a help, but looking offensively, can you.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Get a ground game going early with.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Cook and then who's stepping up in the passing game
height ends? Maybe Kean Coleman's got a shot down field.
Certainly Khalil Shakir moved those chains. But I'm expecting a
bunch with Josh Allen Uh taking the hits and.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
And going and moving the ball.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
With his legs Uh, And then you get a slight
advantage to bass. Yes, the bassom attic uh is going
to have to be big in this one. Uh him
greater than Butker at least for one day. Just don't
let it go to the judges, right. You left it
up saying hey, there'll be a call or they'll be
something chickanery and people going, oh no, we're losing our
(39:37):
minds again.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
But you know, that's one thing. I think there's so
much attention on it now that I think officials are
wary of blowing that whistle when they're not sure they
see something. So I don't know that they're going to
get those calls even though I know it's I know
it's in Burrowhead, I get it, But there's so much
more calls. I don't know. Man, have you ever watched
the Chiefs game? I do, But there there's just so
(39:59):
much much attention on it now.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
I always has been.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Only only in the movies. Can you say, hey, the hey,
the you know here, here's these charismatic bank robbers. They
keep robin banks. We're gonna watch this bank and they
still are able to get away with it, Like it's
gonna be really difficult for that to happen. I mean,
it's gonna the officials no going in. Yeah, if we're
really not sure we see it, we can't blow the whistle.
I think you're gonna see some uh, you're gonna see
(40:24):
some controversial penalties that aren't called. But in the end,
it's it's the Chiefs and Arrowhead.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
I'm gonna work.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I'm gonna work to find the referee stats as we
go down uh and deeper into the show tonight. But
I do have one uh off the jump underdogs ten
and three against the number with Cleate Blakeman in playoff games.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, but it's actually Scott Foster who's officiating. If you
know that. Yeah, whoa the league call they're sending him
and I don't know if you know that, but he's
doing the game. Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
You really just kind of took things in a weird direction.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Exit out about of Fresco, exit Swallen Dome. So there's
Mike and I on opposite sides of the championship game
of the varsity game this week. We'll have more on
these games coming up next hour, but straight ahead, we
get back into the biggest breaking NFL story of the night.
The Dallas Cowboys have their new head coach, But is
(41:17):
he really the right guy that's next? Jason and Mike
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(00:52):
Schottenheimer is a new head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Looks like Clarence Hll was right. Well, more on that
story coming up in about twenty MT's spent the better
part of the last hour shaking our heads and giving
you real talk about Brian Schottenheimer's Cowboys head coach. But
it was fun for a few hours because Pete Carroll
(01:13):
had the spotlight back in the NFL after getting somewhat
pushed out in Seattle. He is now back as the
head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders a three year deal.
Seventy four year old Pete Carroll is back in the game.
And you know, it's really weird because not many days
is it's gonna happen. Right. We talked about it this
(01:34):
week when the Jets hired Aaron Glenn. Hey, Aaron Glenn.
The Jets may not win another day the rest of
the year, but getting Aaron Glenn this year he was
the right guy because he's bringing exactly what the Jets need.
We talked about the fact he's a former player there.
He understands what it's like to play there. He understands
what's like to play there for the owner, Woody Johnson.
He's apprenticed under the best defensive coaches in the game.
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I have no doubt he is the right guy to
build a culture. Jay Glenn high on him. When he
get the Jay Glazers Seal of approval, you know you're
doing well. And I'll say the same thing for Pete
Carroll because what the Raiders need more than anything is
that it's not even culture, it's just can we stop
the backsliding? Can we just get Like every year it's
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like the raiders are on a you know, some sort
of path climbing up a mountain, and they start at
one point and you'll look away and they look at
the end of the year and they're lower than they
were at the beginning. Like what happened? We found a
way to slide down the mountain, Like they need to
stop the backsliding. They needed somebody who was going to
come in, be able to run an entire program and
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come in with cachet and respect, and that's everything they
got in Pete Carroll right for the what ever you
could say about his coaching and decision making, okay, but
there's no doubt that he's gonna come in. He's gonna
fire up the team. They're gonna be really excited to
play from Nobody didn't like playing for Pete Carroll, whether
Richard Sherman and Russell Wilson for a long time, both
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love playing for Pete Carroll, and they both couldn't stand
each other, right, So when you've got guys that can't
stand each other and they both love playing for a coach, hey, okay,
Now things got weird with Russell Wilson at the end
and he got a little too powerful. But Pete Carroll
is that guy. He's gonna come into Vegas and say, Okay,
this is how we're gonna do it. We're gonna build
things from the studs. And when you build things from
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the studs in the NFL, it shouldn't take more than
a couple of years to get to a point where hey,
we're back in being competitive because we've built something there
was nobody better out there for the Raiders to get
nobody better out there. Which also shows you that, man,
if you can't get a job now this cycle, and
if you're on the list of being a head coaching
you couldn't get a job in this head coaching cycle.
Put it away. You're never getting a head coaching job
(03:42):
because guys like Pete Carroll are getting Pete Carroll, we
thought he's done, he's never gonna be on the sideline again. No,
he gets a job, right. So it's a very it's
a unique cycle where certain things are happening in January
of twenty twenty five that might never happen again, not
in twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight with a way.
The jobs are falling to people, but they got the
(04:03):
right guy. And I have no doubt that they have
hit rock bottom and now it's just gonna be a
way to climb up. Now, you got a big division
in front of you, right, you have the Chargers who
are on the rise, The Broncos are on the rise,
the Chiefs are the champs. At least until you know,
things go different. They may be playing another super Bowl,
but at least the Raiders is okay. Now we know
it's not gonna be just Hey, we're probably gonna go
(04:25):
oh one to eight in the division, and if we
win a game or two here and there, it's okay.
They got the right guy, and Pete Carroll didn't have
a choice. It's either coach the Raiders or you're not
a head coach in the NFL. So okay, you had
the bit of an arranged marriage where hey, it makes
sense for you, it makes sense for me. Let's go
do it. But make no mistake, this was a really,
really good day for the Raiders. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think when you're looking at it from the stop
the backslide, it should just be the mantra coming into
this coaching shirt.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Top the backslide, stop the revolving door.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Okay, that thing so it doesn't keep cycling guys out
minutes after they've shown up. I mean, we've watched it
since Mark Davis took over. For all of the talk
historically of his old man and his temper and the
wild fluctuations of infatuation or just being done with anybody
(05:22):
on staff or coaching, he at least had some stability
in terms of how he ran things. Might have been
suing cities and wanting to move all the time, but
when it came to finding a coach and building a program,
that was what he was all about. Mark Davis has
just been all right, let's go that way and see
how that goes for a little while. All Right, he's
(05:44):
riding the storm out, as it were, and you know,
he's kind of like a real life Truman show where
someone's directing the wins.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Hey, this is getting boring. Change it up for me
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
So we look at the number of coaches that have
come through. At some point you have to, you know,
Susan Powder, stop the insanity.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Look it up, kids, crazy infomercial people for one hundred Alex.
But just the idea that you've gone through so many coaches,
so many gms, particularly the last decade, it seems like
there's never been enough time to even try to implement
a plan. You had Derek Carr there for a while,
decided to move off him, and then it's been again
(06:27):
a revolving door of quarterbacks ever since. And the guys
that you've taken in the draft haven't worked out. You've
really not put a lot of stock into making them
better either. You've got a couple of component parts on
your defense that are pretty solid. Maybe beyond Bowers you'll
find three or four pieces to your starting eleven on offense.
(06:50):
But for Pete Carroll, you can come in right. He's
already a college professor, so he can keep doing that.
So that's joyed. Sure, But a guy that's gonna teach,
and we saw him what he did with John Schneider
in Seattle. Now he gets to work with spy tech
and whatever influenced Tom Brady has and all of this
to go forward and try to recreate a little bit
(07:11):
of what they had means you got to get the
drafts right quite obviously. And can you win with a
young quarterback?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
You don't have to go into the marketplace and overpay
for the veterans. We've talked about it. It's a very
thin marketplace unless you decide that you want to see
if Sam Darnold can be your guy, and he's the
the focal point of everything you do. Reminder that Minnesota
can still block everybody just saying dollar cost averaging, we're
gonna have him and McCarthy here. But all of that
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to say, what what better was going to be out there?
It was either him or McCarthy at this point, and
I'd rather have Pete Carroll with a little bit of
fire and vinegar. I mean obviously everybody goes immediately to
how old he is and vinegar.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah, let's get some fire and vinegar.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
I don't know what I knew what I was trying
to You.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Were trying to say something in vinegar, but you.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Said, yeah, something like man fire, I want to.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Put that on a T shirt.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Hey, look, sometimes the brains a little fashion. I will
forever announce every one of your maleprofits.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
My wife did that the other day. She goes, you know,
we got to have another wrench in the fire, and
I go, uh, what you gotta put a wrench in
the fire. Go No, you either put another iron in
the fire or you throw a wrench into something. You
don't throw a wrench.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
I think I like the combination there.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't know, man, wrench in the fire or fire
and vinegar like fire in vinegar sounds like it could
be the new Metallica album. Dude, you get fire and vinegar?
It is awesome.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yeah, I'm not even sure how those two connected in
my brain.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
And that sounds like it would hurt.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Uh yeah, or you know what? You know? No, you
know it is? No, you know it is. It's like
a specialty shot at a bar that everybody talks about. Dude,
go to the Whistling Pig on Friday. Man, they got
fire and vinegar shots. What Actually, it's ready, you know
it's it's fireball and it's vinegar. Oh my god, it
tastes amazing.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
What they give you out a Bill's tailgate for a
thousand alex.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Now because I had to look this up.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Homemade fire cider, horse radish, ginger garlic, onions, cayenne pepper,
apple cider, vinegar, vinegar, and honey horse radish.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Okay, all right, you can also use a venture your
immune support. Okay, the fact you can also put out
vinegar to put out grease fires.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Yeah you can do that. Yeah that's good.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I don't know about fired vinegar.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Well, but here you're you're putting out the fire.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Does it come with the side of tombs?
Speaker 1 (09:39):
I think it comes with a candy dish of tums.
You gotta have it out on your on your tables.
Have you not.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Product very closely for many a year of Frostburg? You
don't think there's enough toms in the media room when
you got to sit and watch that, Oh they got ulcers.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Look you know what this is. You know, we talk
about a marriage of convenience. And I thought about this
today when Pete Carroll is there because the Raiders really
had no choice and he was the best guy there
and Pete Carroll had no choice, And I thought about
that scene in Moneyball when Brad Pitt goes in to
talk to Dave Justice and he says, hey, you know,
David Bill, let's tell you we got a problem here.
(10:15):
He says, no, no, no, you know, I know you
talk to players the way you are, and he goes, look,
let's be honest. What we want from each other? I
want to milk every ounce of baseball that you have
in you and you want to stay in the show.
And you know, and that's because I thought it's Brady
or you know, Mark David saying, hey, let's be honest.
What we want. I want you to come in here
and build a culture and stop the backsliding, and you
(10:36):
want back into the NFL. All right, So he's said,
can we do that for each other? Dave Justice, Yeah,
I got you, man, I got you. Don't worry about
then they have the conversation about, you know, the dollar
for soda. But you know, but I kind of get
that where hey, we both are in a real bad
position of need right now and it works out for
both of us. Again, doesn't mean this isn't a great move.
(10:57):
Pete Carroll coaching the Raiders phenomenal. He's got the success,
he's got the cache, he's got the cachet with players,
and you know what, here's how full of positivity Friday
I'm at right now? It would make complete and total
sense if they went out and got Sam Darnold. Hey,
we'll take him off your hands. Right, We'll give Sam.
We'll give you two years and thirty million, right, Why
not We're still going to draft a quarterback two years
and thirty million. Come throw the football for me here
(11:19):
in Vegas, and the Vikings can go, oh, all right, great,
we got a draft pick here, we got something we need. Okay,
we can go to JJ McCarthy not have to worry
about the you know, all the drama coming off the
end of the year, the thirty five touchdowns and four
thousand yards, but the awful last two games. When do
we go to McCarthy. I'm up for that too. Forget
about forget out all the rumors about Russell Wilson. That's
never happened on brand back.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That's just insane.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
But God, talk about go get Sam Darnald. Come two
years and thirty million. Come on and guaranteed two years
and thirty million. You can make that come in play.
It's your job for the next two years. Come be here,
be my guy. I'm up for that. I'm up for that.
It would make the Raiders better. It would make it
would it would make for at least Hey, here's kind
of our identity. We went out and we signed a
(12:02):
guy that had a great year last year, Pro Bowl
quarterback in the NFC. Not many guys like that Now,
I'm even up for that. And I don't even like
Sam Donald, and I'm up for Hey, Pete, go get
Sam Darnald. Make it happen. This is a great The
Jets and Raiders both had great days this week. Man,
I don't know what's happening. It's like the AFL in
nineteen sixty eight and.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
The Cowboys gave us a laugh. So they want to
and the Bears is shoot one hundred years of tradition. Now,
they did hire another first time a head coach, but
they did what everybody wanted. Let's see the Raiders draft
sixth in the first round. You've got all the opportunities
out there. So yeah, Sam Donald plus a draft pick,
(12:43):
not at the six pick, but someone else to look
and Sam Donald's get more than two for thirty, eh?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Is he?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:51):
You thought petere A Lonzo was gonna get more money
coming out this year. I don't know. Those last two
games were really damaging, man, they were really damaging.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
It'll be just fine, really bad.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Hey, look, I think I think Brian Flores found them
really damaging.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
In the coaching cycle too, I'd.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Like to make fifteen million a year the next two years.
You can't see that. I'm alright with that now. But
these well, the thing about the thing about Donc. Look,
we'll get into the thing about Donald because really I'll
tell you exactly why I'm down on him for that,
for that kind of a no no, no, down on
him for making all kinds of money this offseason. But
uh but look, look he would he wants a chance
to play, right twenty seven. You get a chance to play.
(13:30):
If you get a chance playing, you play good, guess
what more money's gonna be there for you. But you
need to be able to play. You need to be
able to clinch. I can go to a spot where
I can go play and make sure I keep this job,
because the minute he has two bad games in a
row in Minnesota, it's gonna be Hey time for JJ McCarthy. Right.
You gotta go and know where you can go. And
in turn, I'm always a big fan of Hey. You
stay where you are because the system works for you.
(13:52):
But clearly you got a guy pushing behind you that
the team needs to see play. And the minute you
have too bad game that's not gonna happen, go to
the rates be that started quarterback. You get two seasons
to get it right, and then you get pay AGAG
should be twenty nine years old. You come off, you
get a big three four year deal. It will happen.
But I can't believe I'm down. I'm down with this man.
This is I'm feeling weird on this Friday night. Man,
I don't know what it is. Exit out about a
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(16:27):
It's Brian Schottenheimer. We told you this last night, and
that's that's the reaction that was at the actual reaction
throughout Dallas from their fans, fan based Cowboy nation and
the players. That was the reaction. We have that again,
Alex Tischer, What do you want, Jason? I just want
the reaction you just played.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
I didn't play reaction.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Yeah you did. You played the Greg Popovich.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Yay, No, that was in great Pomvich.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Who was that? Oh we'll give me the lebron ya
here were you all right? So here you go? Really
thought that I thought that was pop I thought that
you played it Popovich. I thought it was Popes, So
I thought it was play it again. Didn't it sound
like pot sounded like pop that sounded like pop.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
Pop is the guy who used to steal your girlfriends?
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Oh, I said, pop pop who called for me? I
don't know what was it? A boy or a girl?
I don't know. They called, they asked for you. I said,
you're not home.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Uh, I said they didn't like your hat.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
No, I said, pop, you don't even know. And then
like the things would happen with my grandfather, where like
a girl who called me, and then like a week
and a half would go by, and then she would
say she said, yeah, and I called you. You never
called me back, and I go, oh, so that was
you that called me that night. No, I never got
my ground father. They didn't tell me. Well, I gave
him my name, I wrote down. I told him my
(17:44):
phone number. I'm like, yeah, I don't I don't get
the you know, I don't get that. I don't get that.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Now hold those opportunities.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Technology would have helped the kid. Technology would have helped
me back in the you know, if I we had
had cell phones and stuff in text, it would have
been easier. I wouldn't have had that. I called you
two weeks ago. A girl. Girls get I'm a jerk
because they called me I didn't call him back, and
I'm like, I didn't know you called me. I didn't know.
My grandfather didn't tell me.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Should have used that grocery store money to buy a pedro.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Pop all together.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
But I gotta find a payphone to make a phone call.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Get you up one of those Zach Morris cell phones.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
What's that?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
It's a brick.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's about the last time Brian Schottenheimer was relevant. I
think the cell phone he was named a head coach,
you know when he was taking him back to him
when he was the Jets oc back in the early
teens and then they were on hard knocks and hey,
the Jets went back to back AFC championship games. He
had Brailan Edwards on the team, Sanchez and Thomas Jones
and lt Oh, yeah, I was that was Brian Schottenheimer was. Hey,
(18:45):
he was young in a sending. Just took him twelve
years later to finally get a head coach.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
You know what, sometimes it takes time to get the
font bigger and to get your name in prominence.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
It's insane you twelve years nobody else wanted to talk
to him. He's a He's the head coach of the
most popular team in the in all of the NFL,
the most popular football team of the last thirty Here
here's guys coming in that are just really no threat
to the popularity of Jerry Jones and no threat to
go really far in the playoff. That's that's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
But at this point, he's a guy who's a known commodity.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Talks to Emily forever.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
That's why nobody talked to him.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
I was trying to sell that book. They've all hired
him in the past. They have a dossier from his
time there. Did you not hear the CV I read off.
He's been through a lot of teams and a lot
of locker rooms. Whereas the Cowboys might have said, you
know what you'll do, No, you're not doing anything, Rabbit,
not doing it.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Not doing it. So we'll have more on the Cowboys
big move coming up in a bit. But oh, by
the way, you know, here's the Cowboys taking the headlines away.
We had the AFC NFC championship games coming up this
week and we talked about him a lot. Yeah, these
pesky game, big week in coaching.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Maybe sure, yeah, look, I mean you have Hawk guys
just won a game in the Big Ten.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Pete Carroll is coming back, sure, Robert Salas a DC,
Matt Eberflus has a gig, the League of Disappointing Head Coaches,
and everybody's coming back around again. Uh So let's give
you our official picks for this weekend. Let's start with
the Commanders and the Eagles. Uh the latest injury news today,
Jalen Hurts is gonna play with a brace, but he
seems like he's gonna be okay. And I'll tell you this,
(20:31):
it's not gonna matter. It's not gonna matter. I can't
pick Washington because the formula for them to win is
not gonna be there. They need a bunch of turnovers
and they need chunk plays on offense, both of the
things they were able to find against the Lions all
throughout the game, right, chunk plays on offense because the
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Lions defense looked the Lion Yet was the Lion's defense
ever really great? No, it was better than it was.
They had a lot of injuries and at the end,
clearly they couldn't stop anybody. They couldn't stop the Commanders
at all. And the Commanders just have okay weapons outside
of Jayden Daniels, who probably is the MVP of the
NFL this year. But they're also not gonna get the
turnovers like they got. Goff is not gonna give them
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the football. This is not a Lions team that is
going It's not like the Lions where hey, we're gonna
throw it up and down the field, and if you
can scheme us up a little bit, guess what, we'll
give you the football. The Eagles are gonna run the
ball all day because they can. You can only scheme
up so much stuff. But they're gonna give the ball
to Saquon Barkley. He's gonna have another big day, and
(21:34):
they're gonna control the football a lot. They're not gonna
give it up a lot like Detroit is and did
the air content playing that style. The Eagles are gonna say,
we're okay, we know it's gonna be closer than people expect. People. Well,
here's it, Hey, we know that jayde and Daniels threw
for five touchdowns last time. They're gonna control the football
and it's gonna be a boring game because Hurts is
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not really gonna be dynamic, and that's kind of the thing.
Now they lean so much on Barkley and the offense
that it's not gonna be a point where, Hey, Hurts
is gonna rescue everybody throwing the football. Number one, he's
two banged up to be the real Jalen Hurts, but
number two, this is how the Eagles are gonna win
this game. But mainly, the Eagles defense is so much
better than the Lions defense. Even with Daniels five TV game,
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you know they're gonna have something different. Vic Fango is
gonna have something different dialed up for them. It's not
gonna be a fun ish watch. Points are gonna be
at a premium. Philadelphia's matched the success with Chaos, and
for the Commanders that's been a magic carpet ride so far.
Look at how far they've gotten. They win a playoff game,
they go and beat the Lions, who hand them the
football continuously in the first half, and make mistakes that
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they didn't make all season long. It's been a great,
amazing run. And you don't want to count Jayden Daniels out,
But the Eagles are just a better, well rounded team.
They're a better team across the board. It's gonna be closer.
It's probably a field goal game. But this is a
game where the Eagles find a way to get ahead,
or they kick the field goal at the end, or
they're up and the defense slams it and takes it home.
(23:03):
Get me the win for the Eagles, and get me
the under because again, not a lot of points this game.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
The over under sitting at forty sevens A lot of
points favored by.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Six in this one, A lot of points.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah, it seems to me this is where it bogs
down a little bit again owing to the Jalen Hurts injury.
And you know, the full disclosure, there's there's part of
me that wants the organized chaos that comes with the
Commanders winning this game and all that falls out in Philadelphia,
from a misspelling mayor to just the ongoing saga that
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is Nick Sirianni, especially if the offense fails and Jalen
Hurts referendum on him, all all of those things that
go through. But I picked the Eagles before the season.
I can't jump jump off him now, right. I got
two of the final four teams alive. I can't quit
on them at this point. Looking for Barclay to have
a big day behind that offensive line and for the
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defensive front of Philly to do just enough. Jayden Daniels,
for all his heroics, will still take the inopportune sack
at times. And it's been the year of living dangerously,
a lot of great, fantastic finishes, final possessions. I don't
even think they get that opportunity here here. It's gonna
be whether Saquon Barkley or Kenneth Gainwell in his stead
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are sliding down at the eight to chew clock at
the end of the game. I like what Quinn and
Kingsbury and everybody have done. Terry McLaurin, zach Ertz, you
name him, roll call them here. It's been a fantastic run.
But it ends here. A couple of weeks ago was
just a warm up, all right, it was a tune up.
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They didn't need the game, didn't want the game.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
Whatever. Now it's winning time. Eagles take care of business
at home.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, I mean they would need the commanders, would need
some sort of some sort of like last week, like
what do I always say when I pick games, Hey,
this is gonna happen now. Doesn't mean a team can't
turn the football over a ton and all of a
sudden you get one of those games, but you don't
really plan for that. What's exactly what happened last week?
Like if the Lions don't turn the ball over that way,
but look, they scored thirty one points. They still didn't
(25:08):
get close, right, the defense couldn't stop them. But the
turnover set the tone of the game, Like, are the
Eagles really gonna do that? Are they gonna put the
ball on the carpet four times? Is it Hurt's gonna
throw two picks and Barkley's gonna fumble twice? I don't
see it. Are they gonna be able to go up
and down the field? And suddenly the Eagles defenders are
pointing at each other, going what the hell is going on?
And Howie Roseman's coming out of the stands dressed as
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a grim reaper ready to fire Nick Sirianni as soon
as the clock hits triple zeros. I can't see that happening.
I could see it a little bit with the Lions,
but still it was a real surprise. I really can't
see it here. You know each other, They know each
other too well. Again, it'll be closer if I want
to say the commander's with the points, because six and
a half points is a lot of like the Eagles
(25:50):
like by by three or four. That's why I like
the under a little bit more. But I mean I
would be I would be even more stunned than I
was last week the way the Lions gave it up.
If the Commander's came out and actually won this game.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Yeah, I was on the right side of that one
with my Washington upset special thereby meaning I can never
go have a muskrat dinner.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
But that'll be okay, I'll survive.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
No, that's all right. My my family hates you. It's
my family.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
No, I mean it's a it's eleven years running.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I mean that is, they had no opinion of you
until you started picking against them. Then now suddenly they
have something.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Oh and then I took their coach. Yeah, now I'm
going to take half of their.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Well they're mad at me too because we took their
coach too. You and I took both of their coach.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
And now Antoine randall El's going to Chicago and maybe
a couple other guys from the staff, all of that
rolling up.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Look, Washington's been a fun story.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
We've talked about it a lot, and Jayden Daniels has
been magnificent in spots you put up, you know, your
thought of Hey, if you added these these first rounds
of the playoffs, would would you reconsider you know, your
MVP vote at this point? And we got some great feedback.
Keep it coming. That's one dome at how about a
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(27:03):
and and where you're wherever you interact with the show
and the network. We appreciate you you're doing so and
he's been great. But I think it ends here Philadelphia
at home and the defense, even with the attrition because
they've lost a couple of key component parts in that
front seven. Who's stopping Jalen Carter coming off the edge
to get to get after Jad and Daniels the way
(27:24):
he's running right now, I don't think it happens. And
you've got you know, a Hawk guy in the defensive
backfield as a nominee for for Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
I mean, who would have thunk it?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I mean, well, well, Hawkkeys and defense. You think it
would be something if Hey, this offensive rookie from Iowa
is gonna win, it.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Would be a tight end. Tight end or a linebacker, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
An or a kicker, or a kicker if it's you know, hey,
here's why are.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
You doing that at the prosperg. It's Friday, it's a
it's an era of positive vibes. And then you immediately bring.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Up a kicker, which means he's gonna have pictures of
cating in his head.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
It we've been we've been toasting to the Cowboys being
worse than our teams all night. Now apparently that toast
is over. Well, you know, it happens. It's okay, I'll
take it.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Someone else will clank a glass, so you'll have to
pick it right back up.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
It's okay, exit out about a fresca exit swollen down
the Jason Smith's with Mike Carment, so both of us
have the Eagles to the super Bowl. You know, I'll
go this, I'll say twenty to fourteen. I'll not say
that the command the Commander's cover, but I'll go twenty
to fourteen. That's the how do you spells E E
L E l g s e s elgissis eljis just win?
(28:38):
The eljessis win. I guarantee you that'll be a chant
on Sunday. I guarantee you will hear that they will.
They will have the Mayor's back and have the E
L G S E s chant.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Five six beers in and that's always the chance.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, and if the Eagles are smart and they'd be
selling T shirts, hats and everything they could in the
team's store, Dude.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Five or six beers in for Eagles fans. That's like
four hours before the game. Talking about man.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, now we're getting in hot damn and the fire
firesider with the vinegar in it, and we got.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
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and ever. Mike and I love putting this content out
for you every single night. Well, we got more coming
up in ninety seconds. But first to a man who's
been called the Nick Sirianni of Fox Sports Radio. Please
he's in charge of stuff, but do people really listen
to him? It's Steve Disaga.
Speaker 6 (29:49):
I thought you made like it just in the middle
of work. I'll just start arguing with people.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Leave the sidelines.
Speaker 6 (29:58):
However, in the Eagles are home this weekend, and they
went ten and one at home this year, and they
had the number one rushing team in the NFC and
the league's top ranked defense easily. Philadelphia is hosting Washington
on Fox TV Sunday, three pm Eastern Time in the
NFC Championship game. No snow in the forecast this weekend.
By the way, no rookie quarterback has ever started a
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Super Bowl. Rookie Jaden Daniels has been sensational for Washington,
but rookies all time in conference championships.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Are zero to five.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
The late game at Kansas City Chiefs versus Buffalo for
the AFC title. Bills beat him in Buffalo in November. Yes,
the Dallas Cowboys are promoting Brian Schottenheimer to head coach
news conference on this Monday. He reportedly gets a four
year deal, and we can update that story from longtime
NFL reporter ed Werder, who was saying the Cowboys have
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hired Matt eberflu Sex of the Bears as their defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
His correction.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Eberflus has emerged as a candidate for defensive coordinator and
has discussed the position, but the team will first conduct
interviews as required by league rules before a final decision,
So that's where that stands. The Raiders are hiring Pete
Carroll as head coach. At age seventy four in September,
he'll be the oldest head coach in NFL history. The
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Raiders haven't won a playoff game since the two thousand
and two season when they lost the Super Bowl. Since then,
zero to two in the postseason with eleven full time
head coaches in that spat.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
They're averaging one playoff game for every five and a
half head coach.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
That's right, game, not win, just one playoff stair case.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
So when I know that the sixth guy is about
to get fired, I'll get a playoff game.
Speaker 6 (31:43):
Okay, that's great, it's about your time. New Orleans still
has a head coach opening. That's the last of them.
Robert sala is now returning to San Francisco as defensive coordinator,
as he is interviewed and not going in a head
coaching job in this cycle. The Texans fired offensive coordinator
Bobby Slowick after two seas.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
My how the things change.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
In twelve months.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Las Vegas will host college football's national title game after
the twenty twenty sixth season. After next season, it'll be
held in Miami. South Carolina gave coach Shane Beemer at
extension through twenty thirty. He'll now earn over eight million
dollars this year to the NBA. There were just three games. Tonight,
Memphis won its fifth in a row, and one without
John Moran, he was out due to illness. This evening,
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Memphis beat New Orleans one thirty nine, one twenty six.
Portland won its fourth in a row one oh two
ninety seven at Charlotte Anthony Simon's twenty seven points, and
Philadelphia and in a seven game losing streak, beating Cleveland
one thirty two to one twenty nine. Cleveland's record had
been thirty six and seven, but Paul George had thirty points,
Tyrese Maxey with twenty nine points seven assists. And there
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is college basketball all nights on FS one. Currently it's
Washington leading UCLA twenty two to fifteen mid first half.
Earlier victories for Marquette and Iowa, and there was a
top twenty five game on Fox. Team Purdue pounded Michigan
ninety one sixty four women's college hoops South Carolina over LSU.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. The Jason Smith
Show with my best friend Mike Carmon live from the
tire rack dot Com studios. So we're in lockstep in
the NFC Championship Game, which honestly is the junior varsity
game this weekend, simply because we have Bill's Chiefs in
the AFC, the new Colts Patriots, we got Bill's Chiefs.
Are the Chiefs head to the Super Bowl or the
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Bills get there for the first time under Josh Allen,
Mike and I give you the pick of the game
of games coming up next. Right here, Jason and Mike,
you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
I'm taking the refs.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
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This is football's biggest under the lights on the screen,
where we come together to celebrate the best of the best.
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This is more than a game.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Be there. Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with
my best friend Mike Harmon live fromthtirerack dot Com Studios.
Hey now, because again I feel weird tonight, I'm full
of positivity. Well except for the Cowboys. Uh, you know,
before we picked the AFC title game. I gotta say
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congratulations to the seventy six ers winning the biggest game
of the year without embiid. They beat the Cleveland Cavaliers
tonight by three. Woo.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
They won right with the world.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
They went nine like Iverson was playing for them, and
they somehow find a way to win this game.
Speaker 4 (34:44):
Wow, a little bit of a throwback.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Congratulations thirty two points, buddy, I know, that's an amazing that's.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
An amazing run right there. What did they get here?
Paul George even played.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, I know, Paul Georg played. He played a lot.
He played thirty six minutes, he had thirty, MAXI had two,
twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Look at this, you went twelve and thirteen.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Come on, now, hey went just because the Sixers lose
seven to eight games in a row doesn't mean they
can't win one once in a while.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
And their rotation just as deep as anything is throwing out.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
The congratulations, that's an awesome, awesome thing. Now, let's get
to the AFC Championship game, right. We we talked about
the NFC game. Both Mike and I like the Eagles
to win to move on AFC. If the Bills, if
I was more confident in the Bills defense, I picked
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the Bills. I feel like I do this now. Hey,
I'd like to be but I just can't.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
It's like me saying, I like your thoughts and theory.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I just ever if I thought Buffalo because they're gonna
need to stop the Chiefs and their defense just isn't
good enough, it's it's the Chiefs are gonna do what
they need to do right, and this this has all
the harmarks have yet. I know that we say, hey,
this is going to be the year that Josh Allen
breaks through, just because at some point he's got to.
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I'll keep picking the Bills, and I get it. But
what are we seeing from the Chiefs, right? I mean,
other than you know, the the officials making great calls
in their favor right, like Travis Kelcey is like a
latter day Roger Clemens. Right the end of his career,
Clemens was playing half a year coming up. Yeah, I'm
here at the end when you need me. Like there's
Travis Kelcey. I'm invisible for the regular season, but then
near the end, Hey, look at me. Now, sudden, I'm
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an all pro. Wow, all of a sudden, its back
to being Travis Kelcey. It's a big deal, you know,
having his best for now. In the fourth quarter, the
Chiefs are gonna do what they always do. They're gonna
get the points they have to get because it's what
happens to win in Kansas City. You need to be great.
You need to be great to be able to pull
off a win like this. The last time a team
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won it was the Bengals Super Bowl team. They did
everything you need to do offensively. Defensively, they held them back.
Buffalo is terrific. But are they great enough? Is the
defense great enough to cause problems for Patrick Mahomes as
the off starts to really pick things up. I don't
see it. It's still a back and forth game. But
I've seen the movie of the fourth quarter of Chiefs
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games all year. Too many times I've seen the Chiefs
always find a way to get past the Bills or
whoever else they're playing. And again, if the Bills, if
I could say, well, if the Bills had the Eagles defense,
I could say, oh man, watch out, this is that
big upset. But they don't. So in the fourth quarter,
the Chiefs will make the plays. Mahmes will make the plays.
Maybe he's the beneficiary of roughing the passer penalty when
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he's not even in the game, but it's something at
something like that. They will make all the plays they
need to. It will be another close one. I'll take
the over in this one, like the under in the
NFC title game. But I like the over in this game.
Give me the over, give me the Chiefs, and we
got the Chiefs and the Eagles back in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
Chiefs two point home favorite. Forty eight and a half.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Is your total in this one, mister Smith. Once again,
I can't go against my preseason pick. I've got it
luck with them to have my preseason pick still alive.
Maybe I'll get the MVP right, even if votes and
other forums would say I don't. But I picked Buffalo
to win the AFC before we started, so we'll stay there.
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The loss of Taylor rap and the secondary is certainly
not voting well, particularly the way Travis Kelsey has been
playing of late, finding his way to tiptoe through the
tulips i e a wide open middle of the field.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
These last coups, they just have a big red circle
over that area. Now with that news today, Hey wait
a minute, wait, yeah, here's a big circle. We're gonna
be here all day.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
You know that little route that Travis likes to start
and then he usually ends up drifting about eight yards
this way. That's probably gonna be open for us a
few times here on Sunday, So that one's problematic. Milano
being back and covering the ground that he does certainly
a help, but looking offensively, can you.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Get a ground game going early with.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Cook and then who's stepping up in the passing game
height ends? Maybe Kean Coleman's got a shot down field.
Certainly Khalil Shakir moved those chains. But I'm expecting a
bunch with Josh Allen Uh taking the hits and.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
And going and moving the ball.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
With his legs Uh, And then you get a slight
advantage to bass. Yes, the bassom attic uh is going
to have to be big in this one. Uh him
greater than Butker at least for one day. Just don't
let it go to the judges, right. You left it
up saying hey, there'll be a call or they'll be
something chickanery and people going, oh no, we're losing our
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minds again.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
But you know, that's one thing. I think there's so
much attention on it now that I think officials are
wary of blowing that whistle when they're not sure they
see something. So I don't know that they're going to
get those calls even though I know it's I know
it's in Burrowhead, I get it, But there's so much
more calls. I don't know. Man, have you ever watched
the Chiefs game? I do, But there there's just so
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much much attention on it now.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
I always has been.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
Only only in the movies. Can you say, hey, the hey,
the you know here, here's these charismatic bank robbers. They
keep robin banks. We're gonna watch this bank and they
still are able to get away with it, Like it's
gonna be really difficult for that to happen. I mean,
it's gonna the officials no going in. Yeah, if we're
really not sure we see it, we can't blow the whistle.
I think you're gonna see some uh, you're gonna see
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some controversial penalties that aren't called. But in the end,
it's it's the Chiefs and Arrowhead.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
I'm gonna work.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
I'm gonna work to find the referee stats as we
go down uh and deeper into the show tonight. But
I do have one uh off the jump underdogs ten
and three against the number with Cleate Blakeman in playoff games.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Yeah, but it's actually Scott Foster who's officiating. If you
know that. Yeah, whoa the league call they're sending him
and I don't know if you know that, but he's
doing the game. Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
You really just kind of took things in a weird direction.
Speaker 1 (40:55):
Exit out about of Fresco, exit Swallen Dome. So there's
Mike and I on opposite sides of the championship game
of the varsity game this week. We'll have more on
these games coming up next hour, but straight ahead, we
get back into the biggest breaking NFL story of the night.
The Dallas Cowboys have their new head coach, But is
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he really the right guy that's next? Jason and Mike
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