January 30, 2025 • 41 mins
Bill Belichick jokes that perhaps the Lombardi Trophy should be renamed after Tom Brady. Did Yankees Owner Hal Steinbrenner really try crying poor? And Matthew Stafford plans to play in 2025!
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Who's ready for trivia? Who's ready for trivia?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh? Ready? You guys? Ready?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
All right? So before we we'll get we'll get into
the Tom Brady Trophy coming up in a couple of seconds.
But as you know, Wednesday nights, my wife goes to
trivia and I always have her send the Big questions
A big sports questions is that she's going to trivia
with Steven Jones. There are going to trivia together, Jason.
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So it's not at the houses at a bar, at
a bar. So I got two great questions. One's a
big sports one and one was the final question. Okay,
all right, so you guys ready for the questions. Yes,
we'll do the sports one first, all right. Uh, the
answer is I'm looking for are the countries? The country?
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The countries? The three men with the most Grand Slam
titles in men's tennis are from what countries? This took
me a second. I'm like, wait wait, oh no, no,
I got it. I got it. Just took me a second.
So the three men with the most Grand Slam titles
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in tennis twenty four, twenty two and twenty what three
countries are these three people from? They're east from a
different country. You can tell. You can tell the amount
of tennis we talk on the show I Love Tennis.
Well you should know.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
What three men Jokovic Serbia, Serbia.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, that's all I got.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's all you got?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
What? No? This I got?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I said, okay, this, this and okay great because for
a second I thought, no, no, the guy I thought
was third was actually fourth, Like no, no, he got passed. Well,
it's easy. You just got to figure out where the
doll and co from.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The doll is from Spain. Spain is from Switzerland. There
you go. It took me a second to go. Yeah, no, no,
they both passed out.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I would have kept guessing against Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
They both pass that press. Okay, where the hell's Federer from?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Like I had the first two? Like, I don't know
where he's from.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Now here's here's my favorite. Here's my favorite one. You're
ready for this?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
This is a music this is the final question was
a musical question. Okay, what two movie soundtracks are on
the list of the top five best selling albums of
all time? What two movie soundtracks are on the list
of the top five selling albums of all time? This
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is counting like led Zeppelin four and ac DC Back
in Black two movie soundtracks. I got one right and
I got one wrong. I said, there's no way I
got the second one wrong, but I got it wrong.
Sound of music not sound music. No, so long, farewell.
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Now I want to go watch you into ted Lasso again.
I'll give you the year. I'll your years nineteen seventy
seven and nineteen ninety two, and once I heard ninety two,
I said, oh it was this, So I got the
second one Bodyguard Bodyguard, Yes, Bodyguard nineteen ninety two, nineteen
seventy seven, Greece. No, Grease was the second one. Saturday
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Night Fever, though, Saturday night, are you looking like all
of a sudden you're just no.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
As soon did you give me years?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I can compartmentalize, I said, Oh, it's Grease's Saturday Night Fever. Grease. No,
it's Saturday Night Fever and Bodyguard. I'm like Greease was always.
I was really upset about that. I was very very upset.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, since you give me the years, I mean it
nails it down to a very select number of things.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right, when was the last time the White Sox won?
You're so good at years.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Two thousand and five. They don't really count that one.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You know what's funny, though, is it's starting to come
up in the limited Twitter verse and fan base that
is the White Sox world. But we're already starting to
do that where it's are they becoming the eighty five
Bears where it's such a long long time ago that
we're gonna memorialize every piece right because they announced a
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burly statue. And I keep seeing all these little blips
every every day. It's like, Hey, here's a great memory
from aj Razinski, here's a great memory from Hey let's
go back to Ozzie Gean as manager of.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This going like wow, that's where we're at already in
the fandom.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Look, it's gotta become like a Cowboys super Bowl title.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Listen, the present sucks. Let's just go back. Let's just
let's retro. Man, come on, let's.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Just keep living there. Man, they can never take that
one away.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You know, you want to sit and pat and penning
on this idea. I always had this idea for a
podcast and with the right person, I think it would
be great. And the guy hadn't mind was a guy
who worked with the NFL network, Elliot Harrison was I
think you could have a great podcast where every week
and this could go for years where every week week
you broke down the games from that week of a
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certain year in the NFL. Right, Like you went back
and said, oh, because Ellie Harrison's a huge NFL a story,
you know everything about football from the seventies, Like you know,
my heyday really comes into the eighties, But like say
you started nineteen seventy seven and you said, okay, we're
looking back at week one in nineteen seventy seven, and
you're talking about all the big storylines from week one
of seventy seven. Like, I wonder, is that a podcast
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that would cut through the clutter and everybody would love it?
Like would that be something that people would listen to
or to be one of those Oh it's a niche
podcast and a couple thousand people listen.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know when I'm up late listening and I've
got the iHeart going. One of the commercials is always
about the time capsule. Yeah, I got to hear some
things that happened in this year or this on this
date across time, and that seems to keep people's interest.
I enjoy my today in music history, you know, like
today is the anniversary of the release of the song
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call Me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh okay, y, did anybody call you today?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Most people texted me because they knew I didn't have
much of a voice. At least, they said save it
for the show, and I said, well, I'm gonna try.
I'm gonna give it to the Oak College try. So
I put my head in. Uh, let the steam do
its work here.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I am Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire
rack dot Com studios. Today we found out that maybe
the Lombardi Trophy could be renamed, well, at least if
Bill Belichick had anything to do about it.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
He appeared on the Let's Go podcast that, Brady, is.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That really how they like saying it was? What was
the guy's name, Littman?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, I love the exclamation points side Let's Go podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's all you think of every time Let's go. So
he goes on the Let's Go podcast, All right, let's
go with with Jim Gray, and he's asked about his
life as a coach and winning getting close to the
Super Bowl. When Belichick went on this kind of rant
that says, hey, coaches, how much do we do the
players win games? Great players win games and win Super Bowls?
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And when he talked about great players winning, Jim Gray
brought up that, you know, they don't call them Lombardi Trophy,
the bart Star Trophy. And then that's where Belichick had
his idea for renaming the big trophy.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Players win games. You can't win games without good players.
I don't care who the coach is it's impossible. You
can't win without good players.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
They don't name it the Star Trophy. It's name Littlembardi Trophy.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Maybe it's a name it the Brady Trophy. He won
seven of them.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Brady Trophy. First, For a second, I think that's Ai Belichick, right,
like we've had Ai, Jerry Jones, Ai all these press
conferences like all of a sudden. Now, oh, now, I'm
crediting the players now, and you don't win without good players.
And Bill, why did you draft players out of small colleges?
Why did you let Tom Brady go? Why did you
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bring in just a bunch of Jags and give them
a lot of money if you didn't want to prove
to everybody that we're kicking Brady out the door. And
I want to show everybody that I'm the smartest guy
in the world. Right I'm Adrian Vite from Watchman. I'm
the smartest man in the world. I'm gonna show you
that great players don't win, great coaches do. Because I'm
gonna kick Brady out because I wanted to kick him
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out for four years, because I wanted to go to
Jimmy Bleeping Garoppolo, which oh my God wouldn't disaster that
would have been. And I want to go out and
I want to bring in a bunch of guys that, ah,
we don't need to give a lot of money to.
But we're going to Nelson Agilore and Hunter Henry. This
is what we're gonna do. And I'm gonna go get
Mac Jones and we're gonna go with Cam Newton and
we're gonna draft safeties out of Division two in the
first round with my first draft picks. After I let
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Tom Brady go, he wanted to prove he's the smartest
guy in the world by putting together a no name
roster that he could win with, where all the all
the pundits would say, wow, look at him winning and
there's no talent on that roster. Belichick really is the
smartest man in the world. And now suddenly it's great
players win. Great coaches don't do a lot great great players.
But really, now it is like, Bill, you're not getting
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back in the NFL. These guys are Teddy Bruski is
not gonna help you get back in the NFL. Mike
Vrabel is not gonna It's done. It's over. Like to
stay true to yourself where you didn't really have anything
good to say about players. For years, you didn't want
to credit Brady with anything. But now suddenly Tom's won
enough and great players win, like, this is not Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
That's why I think it's gotta be ai Bill Belichick,
because this is not who he's been for his entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I mean a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Number one, he's part of the McAfee coaching tree, so
he can get back into uh maybe get back to
the NFL this way, I mean in North Carolina becomes
a nice stepping stone back for him.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But in the interim, it's interesting that all these guys.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Played a different character except for Gronk for all those years, quiet,
buttoned up, no give you a little bit of depth
when you talked about special teams or nuances to things.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
But now everybody's a jokester.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Looks at Belichick and they should call it them Brady,
he won seven and.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Jim Gray is looking ahead him like, who, what's what's
with you? You know? Why? Why are we being funny? Now?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I kind of like the idea of shaking it up,
but that's just me, uh not necessarily for an individual player,
but you know, we reevaluate all these things from time
to time. Why not why not look at some of
those as well. But yeah, Belichick, let's give it, giving
you a little more glimpse into it. Living life, you know,
a little freer getting on that recruiting trail. Maybe a
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couple of extra you know, random greasy spoons on the
recruiting trail.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm enjoying college line his life. Yeah, I'm enjoying college life.
My girlfriend just won Miss Universe or whatever that helps you.
One last week, I'm going to all these great diners
and all these different college towns. Yeah, I'm a much
happier dude. This is not you, man, this is this
is like this. I mean, this is like a like
a football late in life crisis that Bill Belichick gets
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having all of a sudden. Now, oh, the players are great.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I bet you know.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's nice. And he said that, but I bet players
are going. Man, I wish you would have let up
on us a little bit and when we're playing well,
a little bit, giving us some more credit, a little
not like we weren't gonna try as hard in practice,
wouldn't be as motivated. But man, you could have been
nicer about it. He could have been smarter about it.
If he was smarter, he wouldn't have let Brady go,
and maybe the Patriots have another championship. But no, no, no,
I want to make sure. I want to push Brady out.
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I don't want to low ball him with money. Oh
I don't know. But now Tom Brady is great. Now
he's the greatest guy that's ever played.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, I think, you know, with Belichick, just doing a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Of a trip down memory lane and trying to look
at the history of how he coined these terms and
how he, you know, would refer back to players. You know,
there's the constant tales of how he would eviscerate Brady
and the stars in meetings and in you know, film review,
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et cetera. But there's plenty of evidence, at least from
the last couple of years. And again maybe it's since
he was ousted that he sings a different tune, but
talking about you know, players winning titles and coaching and
coaches and coaches and decisions being more appropriate that they
should be ascribed with the losses.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Than the players.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So I, you know, he's been a little consistent, at
least in recent years with that. But I don't know,
And like I said, I think they took on these
characters and as a coach decided there was one way
he had to go about his business. I fear that
you were going to be replaced the next week, that
no matter how great you were in week five, week
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six was a new week, and you could be shredded
just the same if you weren't up to par. You know,
if we won thirty eight seven last week, we did
well better win.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
By thirty one or more the next week.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Not saying the real h you know, expectations were realistic
and that he anybody got treated fairly. But it seems
like it's a complete separation.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right like it was.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
He was a character as a coach of this is
how we're gonna do it. It's the lead Tasso you
you brought up Ted Lasso before. Now I'm gonna be
the hard ass. I gotta go, I gotta I gotta
tear things up, as opposed to, you know, kill him
with kindness, which is what Belichick's doing now he's gone
revers ted Lasso.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I would say he can't let tassel because his initials
will still be he'd be He's gonna be Bill belleto No,
it's the same. I can't it's it's the same Bill Bellet.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We've got to figure out another name for him. But
you know what I mean, it's Ill Ellichick.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm gonna introduce me Ill Ellichick. That's how it's gonna work. Yeah,
there's a they're not letting you back in Bill, they're
not letting you back. And it's done. You're done just
coaching college. Pete Carroll got a job and you didn't. Bill,
You're done. You're done. People are not gonna hire you. Man,
that's a wow.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
You decide swipe them over the Pete Carroll thing.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's over, Pete. Come on man, Pete Carroll job and
Bill Belichick did, and come on, man, it's over.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's absolutely am But but it's the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah yeah, but still, I mean you gotta think, hey,
I'll sign my contract and you keep me, and I'm
gonna claw until I break that Don Shula record and
then you can fire me. But you can't fire me
until he win that number of games.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Now, now here's what I would do if I were
Belichick's camp, right to fight back on some of these narratives,
that you're never gonna get let back in the club.
You can really just go after the Jaguars and Saints.
And who's gonna say you're wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
How about of Fresca exit swollen.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Dough If you said they are right at the job,
you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Let me know what are they gonna say? It's the Saints.
It's the worst job in the NFL. They still have
they have, there's no candidates that they still can't fill it.
That's how bad the job is. Exit out about a
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
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studios were before you get into this scride. I love
this story out of baseball. I love the story out
of baseball. But big night in the NBA tonight, and
I do just mean, you know, the Knicks just just
wiping up the floor with the Nenver Nuggets. Uh. It
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kind of shocking because you would think, well, Warriors and
the thun it's not been a great year for Golden
State Thunder, you know, or you know thirty seven and eight. No, No,
Warriors beat them again. They're one of only two teams
of the winning record against the Thunder this year, one
sixteen to one oh nine. Okay, well, not that big
a deal, you know, We've seen this happen before. Steph
Curry had had a pretty nice night with twenty one points,
(18:19):
but in defeat Shake Gilders Alexander fifty two points. He
had forty one in the first three quarters, fifty two
points for SGA. He is now the first player this
year to have multiple fifty point games in the NBA,
and he's the only of a third player in Thunder
history to have multiple fifty point games. Again, this is
(18:41):
a team that had Kevin Durant and James Harden and
Russell Westbrook. You know, we talked about this a couple
of weeks ago, and nothing has changed. When it comes
down to it, at the end of the year, we're
not even gonna have a conversation about MVP. Shake Gilders
Alexander is going to win. Like that's not going to change.
Like that's the story out It's gonna be the story
of the rest of the season. He's the leading scorer
(19:03):
in the NBA. He plays on the best team. He's
the best player on the best team. What he's doing
numbers wise, again, first player with multiple fifty point games
this season, there's no argument for anybody else. I mean,
that's the whole thing is that, you know, can you
really argue all but Jokic did, Like every the Nuggets
are in the middle of the pack in the West,
but Jokich is so good. Yeah, I don't even know
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you can make that argument this year. As much as
I want to see Big Bodega win, I understand he's
not going to and Shay Gilders Alexander's gonna be the
NBA MVP.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
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Speaker 2 (19:36):
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Speaker 3 (19:36):
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These are the three they're going. Next is Brownie James, Right,
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Speaker 3 (19:48):
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Speaker 1 (20:05):
Third, one hundred to one third, Okay.
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Speaker 3 (20:14):
And then you get when Minyama, Mitchell Cat and everybody
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between those two guys and everybody else all right.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Let me ask you that this will be a special
one for you, Frostburg. If you had to bet one
or the other, what would you rather bet? Shake Gilders
Alexander wins NBMVP or Bronnie James plays again in the
Laker game this season for sure?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh yeah, no, go play again as well. Hand some
money right now. If you don't think he's getting into
that game in Washington.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't think I don't think he's getting I don't
think he's getting it.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Of course he is, dude, he's getting starter minutes against
Washington that might play them on Saturday night against the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Just be well, yeah they may did they just let
everybody that just true. They may just have everybodyless and
fly out. We're not going to beat the Knicks without ad.
So just all you guys go go to the next
city and and we'll just we'll just leave a bunch
of guys here. Austin Reeves, you stay, Ruey Hachamoor, you stay,
Brianni Ustay, you'll play all forty eight minutes. How does
that sound? Ru ru uh so congratulations SGA. It may
(21:24):
as well give give it to him now, just have
the ceremony now and we don't have to worry about
at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Hey Gaffer from the Warriors tonight, though a lot of
questions as to whether, uh Steph Curry was going to
play because he's tenuous and on a day to day basis,
you don't know what you're getting. And now we're within
two weeks of the trade deadline, so let everybody go in.
I don't know if all their calculators though, that people
used for the trade evaluators, do they have the proper
(21:50):
notations and coding for the second apron?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know. What about the third apron? Do you
have the fourth apron?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I don't know in the fifth?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
How many aprons deep you have to go? I think
we got to go more, but it's got to be
multiple aprons deep is where we're going to gotta be
like ten aprin you got you need like ten of
those kiss the cook aprons Like that's it.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It's like a kitchen gone a monk.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Eh now, speaking of going a monk, like this is
my this is my favorite story of the day.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Last night, the Dodgers signed Kirby Yates, right, one of
the best relievers in Baseball All Star last year. He's
thirty seven, but he came up when he was older,
so you know, he's still left in the tank. Thirty
seven in a row, but you know, still got a
lot left in the tank. And he was really good
last year. And here the Dodgers spending a lot of
money and keep spending more money than anybody else has.
So hal Steinbrenner, today, principal owner of the Yankees, gave
(22:44):
a little bit of a and you know, off season
interview about where things are going. And in the same
interview he said, hey, we can't spend like the Dodgers,
which is awesome, right when the Yankees say we can't
spend like the Dodgers, the Yankees. This is not the
Roy saying we can't spend like the Yankees. This is
the Yankee saying we can't spend like the Dodgers. Right. Ah,
(23:05):
the Dodgers have such a great, big advantage over everybody,
and all this blah blah, all the complaining they doa
da dah dah dah. But then he also goes on
to say, oh, right now, our team is better than
they were in twenty twenty four. So wait a minute,
you made it to the World Series last year. If
your team is better than it was in twenty twenty four,
you should win the World Series this year. So why
does it matter how much the Dodgers spend? Like, why
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do you care if you really think you're better than
you are? Why does it matter what the Dodgers spend?
The reason is is because he doesn't believe his team
is better. He is still living in denial and living
off the breakup Ofjan Soto that no matter what they did,
they couldn't keep them away from the Mets. No matter
what they are for them, they couldn't keep them away
from the Mets. So they pivoted, and I like what
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they did right. They went out and signed the guys
they needed to. But to sit here and think that
Cody Bellinger is a slam dunk and Devin Williams a
slam dunk and Paul Goultraz's a slam dunk. No, these
are lottery tickets and he knows their lottery tickets. Oh,
we hope that he's you know, in the friendly confines here,
and you know Bellinger especially can can rediscover his power
and be in middle of the lineup hitter again. Devin
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Williams are hoping, Hey, does he still have it mentally
or is he still pitching a peede? Alonzo right, gold Schmidt,
he's not the same guy. Look, I like what they did.
They went They got Max free too, which is a
nice signing. But you lost a guy that was going
to be a big superstar for you for the next
ten plus years and you're still the X in the breakup.
That is denying that you are still hurting from the breakup. No,
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I've moved on. You haven't moved on. I have look
at all the people he signed. I've moved on. I've
moved on. Yeah, you haven't really moved on. And you
can tell because you want to complain about the Dodgers
being able to outspend you, which, oh, by the way,
that's rich considering the Yankees could outspend everybody for the
last twenty five or thirty years and they didn't seem
to care about that. Then though, we spend more money
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than everybody else, So it's kind of rich that he
says that. But then to say we're better than we
were in twenty twenty four, what does it matter? You
lost the World Series, lost in five games, you had
a couple of games go either way. You completely blew
it with three hours in the fifth inning of the
deciding game, and you allowed to walk off Grand Slam
to win Game one. Even though it was a five
game series. It was a lot closer than it was.
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So why are you complaining about this if you're better
than you were last year? He knows they're not. He
knows they're not, and he's still not over losing one soda.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No, the bigger problem I have looking at around New
York and listening to you know, it's just the silly season.
So before everybody reports to training camp, a lot of
you know, conventions and media opportunities. From Aaron Boone on down,
every everybody keeps going into what secondary, tertiary and ancillary
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players for the Dodgers had to say in the off season. Boy,
and this guy said something about our defense and how
we weren't focused on details, and that really cheesed me off.
Like at that point, the New York interviewers just hit
play on his phone and go, you mean these see
what some events like this. If this makes you angry
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that they mocked you, then don't let it happen.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And it shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Still be in your head. Three months later, it should
be all right. We're ready to get back to work.
We got a ball club.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's gonna win.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
That was an unfortunate series of events, and we're on
to this next season. They're still living there and the
Dodgers relief pictures, many of whom had very little work
in that series, are the guys that did most of
the yapp and so Boone is like, well, I noticed
it wasn't show Hey and Bets and Freemu.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It's like yeah, because they don't talk.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They go back to their families that they're done. Rest
of these guys they're taking.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
A little bit of shine and they're having some fun
with it. And if you take offense to it, then
you took the bait. So when you meet him again,
guess who's losing you. You've already lost the mental lad Aaron.
But the fact that you're coming back for more is
a bit of a shock.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Now you want to tie this together, Okay, you want
to tie this together. The Yankees and the Lakers are
the same, Right, The Yankees and the Lakers are exactly
the same. Hal Steinbrenner is running the Yankees, and I
get that it's a different time now, and players are
different and players have a little bit more power. But
(27:24):
if George Steinbrenner was suddenly transported, he would say, we
lost Sodo. You didn't give one Soto enough money, and
you lost them to the Mets. I just want to understand,
you lost them to the Mets. Why didn't you off
from eight hundred and fifty million dollars? Why didn't we
do this? Well, you know what, I would have given
them eight hundred and fifty million. I still would have
traded for Max Or I still would have got Max Freed.
(27:46):
I still would have got Cody Bellinger. I still would
have done all of these things. You lost him to
the Mets. This is what you have done. You did
You did this to the Mets, right like you've seen that.
The way Steinbrenner ran the Yankees, as controversial as it was,
it worked. They won. They were a dynasty. They won
the World Series. You know, they became the team of
the you know, they won the World Series in the
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seventies and they won the World Series in the nineties.
They were a dynasty. It worked with what was going on,
and now here's Hal Steinbrenner running it with his brother
before he passed away and the Yankees, now there's so
much different from the Yankees. You know, even even Brian
Cashman like George Steinberner wouldn't recognize this Yankee team of saying, hey,
wait an we we're not spending money. And just the
same thing with Jerry Bust. Jerry Buss would come to
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Jeanie Bus and would say, so, you allowed Lebron James
to pick the supporting cast. We don't do that with
the Lakers. We decide who comes in.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You don't let the Lake the players pick. Hey, we
want Russell Westbrook to come in. No, we decide who's
coming in here. We don't allow no one calls us
and says, hey, these are the players we want. And
if a player say they want to get somebody specific,
let them talk all they want to. We're gonna do
things the way we want to do it. Again, I
get it's a different era. Lebron is a powerful player,
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but there's no way Jerry Bus with the Lakers become
this where it's basically they've been run by Lebron James
for the last few years. They would never let that happen.
And and that's the thing Both of these teams have
so much in common in that, you know, their parents
were really good it running, they got it and whatever
was missed when they handed down. You see that these
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teams are not nearly what they used to be. The
Yankees won't spend like they used to. The Lakers can't
can't get things right because they they allow players to
come in and call the shots. Like you see, so
so many similarities between the Yankees and the Lakers, and
they both of had a little bit of success, right.
Yankees won the World Series about twelve fifteen years ago. Okay,
they got there this year. Lakers won the title in
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twenty twenty. But kind of look where they are is
a year to year Finals World Series type threat. There's
so many things that they just kind of have lost
their way of the franchises they were for so long.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Wow, I mean it's only a drought depending on your perspective.
That is true.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Hey, it's not real for the Lakers, not even close
to a drought.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Stephen Jjah like drought died to bring Steven Jones to
the party.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
This is no drought for the Yankees or the Lakers. No, No,
they're for Yankees won an nine Oh, the Yankees are
fine everything, remember the droughts. Just an opinion.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's all a matter of perspective, because for all three teams,
what's fundamental?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Guys, stray Cat.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome. The Jason
Smithshow with Mike Carmon live from the tirerack dot Com Studios,
just selling here. The Yankees say, oh, we can't spend
with the Dodgers, but but we're better than we were
last year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Right, uh.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Time now to talk to the hall Steinbrenner of Fox
Sports Radio, someone who has inherited something huge and makes
a lot of questionable statements.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Care no cap.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh very good, thank you, it's what's trending.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh hellas, Yes, we had a.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Full night of NBA.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
But tomorrow, I mean, if you're still on the West coast,
for tomorrow, we're gonna find out who the fourteen All
Star reserves are. You can get that on TNT at
six thirty Eastern. So we're gonna get the final fourteen
spots remaining.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
All of the Knick starters who are not starting, the
other three starters will all will be the reserves, gotcha,
and then the all play together that's amazing. I'm happy
for you.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
I'm happy for you in your.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Next I'm very happy to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
They also won five in a row.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
We have two fifths of the starting rosters that you do,
Alo and.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
May beeat the Nuggets earlier today, So not a bad
day for Knicks fans. One twenty two to one to
twelve was the final score.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Chall in Bob.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Runs and at thirty points and fifteen assists in the win.
The Celtics beat the Bulls one twenty two to one hundred.
Kristaps Porzingis thirty four points on eleven rebounds.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
The Cavs outscore they heat one twenty six to one.
O six Pacers also won the Nets one. The Raptors
handed the Wizards They're fifteenth straight loss. One O six
to eighty two was the final in that one seventy
six Ers took down the Kings one seventeen one oh four,
while the Mavericks edged the Pelicans one thirty seven to
one thirty six the Clippers. They took down the Spurs
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in San Antonio one twenty eight to one sixteen. Timberwolves
with a one twenty one to one thirteen win over
the Suns in Phoenix, Anthony Edwards thirty three points, Shay
Gilgess Alexander dropped fifty two points. It was not enough
the Thunder They lost to the Warriors, who made a
comeback one sixteen to one oh nine. Steph Curry ended
with twenty one points. Has surpassed Ray Allen for twenty
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seventh on the all time scoring list, so good day
for him. In the NFL, the Jets are hiring former
Cardinals head coach Steve Books to be their new defensive coordinator,
with the plan for him not head.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Coach erin Glenn, to call plays.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
In men's college hoops, Number one Auburn has won twelve
in a row. They beat LSU today or on Wednesday
eighty seven to seventy four, and Number six Houston has
extended their winning streak to thirteen after defeating West Virginia sixty.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Three to forty nine.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
In the NHL, the Wild top the Maple Leaves three
to one, The Panthers shut out the Kings three zero,
and the Devils shut out the f Liars five zero.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Guys, it's been fun.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Let's do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
All right, BONSI that sounds fair.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Fantastic and I'm glad you're feeling better.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Thanks funny, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
All right, guys, I am Jess The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, we got big quarterback news out of
the NFL. Don't for get a nice big story late
at night, but we do. Guess what superstar says I
am playing in twenty twenty five. That's next, Jason and
Mike Fox.
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, live from the tire rack dot Com Studios,
where a nice little late night news dump Ian Rappidport
NFL Network insider one of the couple of insiders reporting
that Matthew Stafford has made his decision about playing in
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twenty twenty five. He is going to retire, return, retire, return.
I feel like I feel like I'm in Farisbeeler's day
off something doo economics higher lower, it was higher the
Holly smoot terr effect. Matthew Stafford will return for twenty
(35:02):
twenty five, wants to play for the Rams. However, according
to these reports, a new contract is going to have
to be worked out. Now. This is the sticky wicket
in all of this, because you know, a week ago
it was Matthew Stafford saying, I don't know it. It
takes some time make a decision, and right away Sean
McVay said, well, we want a decision fast, right, you know,
we love Matthew. Did we want a decision fast. Don't
(35:23):
want to go down the road we did last year,
which was Stafford looking for more money. They added money
onto his deal and he came back for this year.
So Sean McVay seemed to have a pretty insistent Hey,
we're not going to do what we did last year. Okay,
So Stafford takes a week decides he's going to play,
which we told you he was going to play. The
guy is still slinging it really well. Right. He played
(35:44):
phenomenally well the back half of the year. The Rams
get to the playoffs and win the division. It's a
it's a huge deal, right. They nearly upset the Eagles.
The Rams continue to show you they can reload on
the fly every single year, So likely it's going to
be with the Rams. Buck a new deal has to
be worked out because Stafford only has four million dollars
in guaranteed money on his deal for this year, So
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likely he's coming back. But if something happens and it
doesn't get worked out, and maybe Sean McVay already had sorry,
we're already coming back. We already have the new move
in place, whatever it's going to be. If that happens,
Matthew Stafford knows, I will immediately jump to the top
of the list for quarterbacks in the offseason. It's a
(36:31):
bad crop coming out of college football. It's a bad crop.
And free agency. Sam Darnold will be allegedly the top
name of the list if he's not franchised by the
Minnesota Vikings. Stafford would get a big, two year, fifty
to sixty million dollars, all guaranteed deal from someone because
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he's still playing at a really high level. He knows
he jumps to the forefront of quarterbacks that you would
want to go get because, like I said, it's really
the cupboard is bear right. Guys that with any kind
of talent no longer are really getting to free agency.
The guys that get to free agency are guys like
Sam Darnold, who like, well, what can they do? No
(37:14):
one really wants them? And hey, he gets lucky, he
winds up starting and he and he has a lightning
in a bottle for sixteen weeks before he falls flat.
So these are the guys that get to free agency. Now.
So Stafford, if he hit free agency, he would number one.
The Steelers. They would kick both Justin Fields and Russell
Wilson the curb. Oh Matthew Stafford, Let's go get Matthew Stafford.
(37:36):
There's a lot of teams that would say, oh, we
can't do any better than that, right, The Cleveland Browns
would say, forget about dress, will go get Matthew Stafford
the next couple of years and give him a lot
of guaranteed money, which you know, I know we did
that before and it did work out. But we feel
more confident in Matthew Stafford. But there's teams that would
go and do that, that would find themselves in much
better shape and would go from Hey, we like the
(37:57):
fact that we could contend to being hey, we can
be elite contenders because again, Stafford's got a lot of
AMMO left in that arm. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I mean we look at like the numbers the last
couple of years. He's missed time, so that that certainly
comes into the calculation. But to your point, you got Sam,
you got Russ, you got Fields, and Captain Kirk, I
guess is expendable. But he comes with an already signed
massive deal, right so.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And Fields might stay. The Steelers might say, hey, we
want to keep the younger quarterback and he's not hitting
free agency.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
But that's it. One of those guys is staying. Rooney
hasn't picked his favorite child yet, so we don't know.
I like him all the same. What do you want
me to say? I'm not gonna take a side. And
I love Mike. Mike still wins. But for Stafford, you
saw what happened this year. A lot of injuries, but
you had winnable games early in the season. The Bears
(38:51):
weren't a good team. They lose that game you saw
down the stretch, you're playing better football, a little more cohesion.
But Stafford with given his age, the number of injuries, Like,
what do we believe at the end? Was it just Hey,
we have to tell you that he's broken, so it
can excuse any of these plays you would have thought
he would have made or like, cause that's the thing.
(39:13):
I need the full diagnostics on him. I need to
check under the hood. Only four million of guaranteed money
this year was a forty nine plus against the cap.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
So for McVeigh and company, like we want to get
out of the gate strong, right.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It's like you know, if you're over in Cincinnati, Zach
Taylor in company, it's like you have to play football
in September, and I think you know when you're looking
at it from mcveigh's they don't want to.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Be hamstrung like they were this year. Like are you
coming back or not? Cauz.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
We're either building a blueprint this way or we're still
working along the miles with you. But we're not going
to invest a lot of time going this other direction
if you're coming back, and they did. They satin holding
mode for a chunk while he made a decision.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
You can't go through that again, especially when you've still
got an opportunity and division to make some noise. So, yeah,
Stafford's got a gotta market. What are we looking at?
Two for seventy, two for seventy five, maybe a little higher,
because yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
A very small market out there, and we've talked about
that rookie quarterback class.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Nobody's coming to save the day necessarily off the jump.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And this is why I can't rule it out because
the way Sean McVay spoke was almost like, we have
something in mind. If you don't, if you want to
come back and make it difficult, we're gonna move on
and we're gonna pull the trigger on this deal. And
it's okay for the Rams because they know, hey, if
Matthew comes back, we'll draft our quarterback of the future.
He works well in the system. But there's a guy
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we really like that if we and I don't know
who that is. I'm not saying I know who it is,
but they seem like they know who they would go.
Like the way Sean McVay is speaking, it's like, we
know what we're going to do if you don't come back.
So that's why maybe that's become a more appetizing possibility
over the last week or so of they're waiting to
hear back about Matthew Stafford. So I can't close the
(41:06):
door that that's something that absolutely won't happen. That they
might say, no, no, we got this trade coming up,
but we're gonna go get JJ McCarthy or whoever. It's
gonna wind up being. Look, the Rams have made had
done it before. They've done crazy things and made money work.
I don't be surprised if that's what happens. Exit Out
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Speaker 2 (00:58):
Oh? Ready? You guys? Ready?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
All right? So before we we'll get we'll get into
the Tom Brady Trophy coming up in a couple of seconds.
But as you know, Wednesday nights, my wife goes to
trivia and I always have her send the Big questions
A big sports questions is that she's going to trivia
with Steven Jones. There are going to trivia together, Jason.
(01:20):
So it's not at the houses at a bar, at
a bar. So I got two great questions. One's a
big sports one and one was the final question. Okay,
all right, so you guys ready for the questions. Yes,
we'll do the sports one first, all right. Uh, the
answer is I'm looking for are the countries? The country?
(01:41):
The countries? The three men with the most Grand Slam
titles in men's tennis are from what countries? This took
me a second. I'm like, wait wait, oh no, no,
I got it. I got it. Just took me a second.
So the three men with the most Grand Slam titles
(02:02):
in tennis twenty four, twenty two and twenty what three
countries are these three people from? They're east from a
different country. You can tell. You can tell the amount
of tennis we talk on the show I Love Tennis.
Well you should know.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
What three men Jokovic Serbia, Serbia.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, that's all I got.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
That's all you got?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
What? No? This I got?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I said, okay, this, this and okay great because for
a second I thought, no, no, the guy I thought
was third was actually fourth, Like no, no, he got passed. Well,
it's easy. You just got to figure out where the
doll and co from.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
That's that's a good point.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
The doll is from Spain. Spain is from Switzerland. There
you go. It took me a second to go. Yeah, no, no,
they both passed out.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
I would have kept guessing against Switzerland.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
They both pass that press. Okay, where the hell's Federer from?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Like I had the first two? Like, I don't know
where he's from.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Now here's here's my favorite. Here's my favorite one. You're
ready for this?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
This is a music this is the final question was
a musical question. Okay, what two movie soundtracks are on
the list of the top five best selling albums of
all time? What two movie soundtracks are on the list
of the top five selling albums of all time? This
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is counting like led Zeppelin four and ac DC Back
in Black two movie soundtracks. I got one right and
I got one wrong. I said, there's no way I
got the second one wrong, but I got it wrong.
Sound of music not sound music. No, so long, farewell.
(03:57):
Now I want to go watch you into ted Lasso again.
I'll give you the year. I'll your years nineteen seventy
seven and nineteen ninety two, and once I heard ninety two,
I said, oh it was this, So I got the
second one Bodyguard Bodyguard, Yes, Bodyguard nineteen ninety two, nineteen
seventy seven, Greece. No, Grease was the second one. Saturday
(04:18):
Night Fever, though, Saturday night, are you looking like all
of a sudden you're just no.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
As soon did you give me years?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I can compartmentalize, I said, Oh, it's Grease's Saturday Night Fever. Grease. No,
it's Saturday Night Fever and Bodyguard. I'm like Greease was always.
I was really upset about that. I was very very upset.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, since you give me the years, I mean it
nails it down to a very select number of things.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Right, when was the last time the White Sox won?
You're so good at years.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Two thousand and five. They don't really count that one.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
You know what's funny, though, is it's starting to come
up in the limited Twitter verse and fan base that
is the White Sox world. But we're already starting to
do that where it's are they becoming the eighty five
Bears where it's such a long long time ago that
we're gonna memorialize every piece right because they announced a
(05:12):
burly statue. And I keep seeing all these little blips
every every day. It's like, Hey, here's a great memory
from aj Razinski, here's a great memory from Hey let's
go back to Ozzie Gean as manager of.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
This going like wow, that's where we're at already in
the fandom.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Look, it's gotta become like a Cowboys super Bowl title.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Listen, the present sucks. Let's just go back. Let's just
let's retro. Man, come on, let's.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Just keep living there. Man, they can never take that
one away.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You know, you want to sit and pat and penning
on this idea. I always had this idea for a
podcast and with the right person, I think it would
be great. And the guy hadn't mind was a guy
who worked with the NFL network, Elliot Harrison was I
think you could have a great podcast where every week
and this could go for years where every week week
you broke down the games from that week of a
(06:04):
certain year in the NFL. Right, Like you went back
and said, oh, because Ellie Harrison's a huge NFL a story,
you know everything about football from the seventies, Like you know,
my heyday really comes into the eighties, But like say
you started nineteen seventy seven and you said, okay, we're
looking back at week one in nineteen seventy seven, and
you're talking about all the big storylines from week one
of seventy seven. Like, I wonder, is that a podcast
(06:25):
that would cut through the clutter and everybody would love it?
Like would that be something that people would listen to
or to be one of those Oh it's a niche
podcast and a couple thousand people listen.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't know when I'm up late listening and I've
got the iHeart going. One of the commercials is always
about the time capsule. Yeah, I got to hear some
things that happened in this year or this on this
date across time, and that seems to keep people's interest.
I enjoy my today in music history, you know, like
today is the anniversary of the release of the song
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call Me.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Oh okay, y, did anybody call you today?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Most people texted me because they knew I didn't have
much of a voice. At least, they said save it
for the show, and I said, well, I'm gonna try.
I'm gonna give it to the Oak College try. So
I put my head in. Uh, let the steam do
its work here.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
I am Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire
rack dot Com studios. Today we found out that maybe
the Lombardi Trophy could be renamed, well, at least if
Bill Belichick had anything to do about it.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
He appeared on the Let's Go podcast that, Brady, is.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
That really how they like saying it was? What was
the guy's name, Littman?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Yeah, I love the exclamation points side Let's Go podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
That's all you think of every time Let's go. So
he goes on the Let's Go podcast, All right, let's
go with with Jim Gray, and he's asked about his
life as a coach and winning getting close to the
Super Bowl. When Belichick went on this kind of rant
that says, hey, coaches, how much do we do the
players win games? Great players win games and win Super Bowls?
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And when he talked about great players winning, Jim Gray
brought up that, you know, they don't call them Lombardi Trophy,
the bart Star Trophy. And then that's where Belichick had
his idea for renaming the big trophy.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Players win games. You can't win games without good players.
I don't care who the coach is it's impossible. You
can't win without good players.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
They don't name it the Star Trophy. It's name Littlembardi Trophy.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Maybe it's a name it the Brady Trophy. He won
seven of them.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Brady Trophy. First, For a second, I think that's Ai Belichick, right,
like we've had Ai, Jerry Jones, Ai all these press
conferences like all of a sudden. Now, oh, now, I'm
crediting the players now, and you don't win without good players.
And Bill, why did you draft players out of small colleges?
Why did you let Tom Brady go? Why did you
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bring in just a bunch of Jags and give them
a lot of money if you didn't want to prove
to everybody that we're kicking Brady out the door. And
I want to show everybody that I'm the smartest guy
in the world. Right I'm Adrian Vite from Watchman. I'm
the smartest man in the world. I'm gonna show you
that great players don't win, great coaches do. Because I'm
gonna kick Brady out because I wanted to kick him
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out for four years, because I wanted to go to
Jimmy Bleeping Garoppolo, which oh my God wouldn't disaster that
would have been. And I want to go out and
I want to bring in a bunch of guys that, ah,
we don't need to give a lot of money to.
But we're going to Nelson Agilore and Hunter Henry. This
is what we're gonna do. And I'm gonna go get
Mac Jones and we're gonna go with Cam Newton and
we're gonna draft safeties out of Division two in the
first round with my first draft picks. After I let
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Tom Brady go, he wanted to prove he's the smartest
guy in the world by putting together a no name
roster that he could win with, where all the all
the pundits would say, wow, look at him winning and
there's no talent on that roster. Belichick really is the
smartest man in the world. And now suddenly it's great
players win. Great coaches don't do a lot great great players.
But really, now it is like, Bill, you're not getting
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back in the NFL. These guys are Teddy Bruski is
not gonna help you get back in the NFL. Mike
Vrabel is not gonna It's done. It's over. Like to
stay true to yourself where you didn't really have anything
good to say about players. For years, you didn't want
to credit Brady with anything. But now suddenly Tom's won
enough and great players win, like, this is not Bill Belichick.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
That's why I think it's gotta be ai Bill Belichick,
because this is not who he's been for his entire life.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I mean a couple of things.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Number one, he's part of the McAfee coaching tree, so
he can get back into uh maybe get back to
the NFL this way, I mean in North Carolina becomes
a nice stepping stone back for him.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
But in the interim, it's interesting that all these guys.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Played a different character except for Gronk for all those years, quiet,
buttoned up, no give you a little bit of depth
when you talked about special teams or nuances to things.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
But now everybody's a jokester.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Looks at Belichick and they should call it them Brady,
he won seven and.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Jim Gray is looking ahead him like, who, what's what's
with you? You know? Why? Why are we being funny? Now?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I kind of like the idea of shaking it up,
but that's just me, uh not necessarily for an individual player,
but you know, we reevaluate all these things from time
to time. Why not why not look at some of
those as well. But yeah, Belichick, let's give it, giving
you a little more glimpse into it. Living life, you know,
a little freer getting on that recruiting trail. Maybe a
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couple of extra you know, random greasy spoons on the
recruiting trail.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I'm enjoying college line his life. Yeah, I'm enjoying college life.
My girlfriend just won Miss Universe or whatever that helps you.
One last week, I'm going to all these great diners
and all these different college towns. Yeah, I'm a much
happier dude. This is not you, man, this is this
is like this. I mean, this is like a like
a football late in life crisis that Bill Belichick gets
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having all of a sudden. Now, oh, the players are great.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I bet you know.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
It's nice. And he said that, but I bet players
are going. Man, I wish you would have let up
on us a little bit and when we're playing well,
a little bit, giving us some more credit, a little
not like we weren't gonna try as hard in practice,
wouldn't be as motivated. But man, you could have been
nicer about it. He could have been smarter about it.
If he was smarter, he wouldn't have let Brady go,
and maybe the Patriots have another championship. But no, no, no,
I want to make sure. I want to push Brady out.
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I don't want to low ball him with money. Oh
I don't know. But now Tom Brady is great. Now
he's the greatest guy that's ever played.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Yeah, I think, you know, with Belichick, just doing a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Of a trip down memory lane and trying to look
at the history of how he coined these terms and
how he, you know, would refer back to players. You know,
there's the constant tales of how he would eviscerate Brady
and the stars in meetings and in you know, film review,
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et cetera. But there's plenty of evidence, at least from
the last couple of years. And again maybe it's since
he was ousted that he sings a different tune, but
talking about you know, players winning titles and coaching and
coaches and coaches and decisions being more appropriate that they
should be ascribed with the losses.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Than the players.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
So I, you know, he's been a little consistent, at
least in recent years with that. But I don't know,
And like I said, I think they took on these
characters and as a coach decided there was one way
he had to go about his business. I fear that
you were going to be replaced the next week, that
no matter how great you were in week five, week
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six was a new week, and you could be shredded
just the same if you weren't up to par. You know,
if we won thirty eight seven last week, we did
well better win.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
By thirty one or more the next week.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Not saying the real h you know, expectations were realistic
and that he anybody got treated fairly. But it seems
like it's a complete separation.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Right like it was.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
He was a character as a coach of this is
how we're gonna do it. It's the lead Tasso you
you brought up Ted Lasso before. Now I'm gonna be
the hard ass. I gotta go, I gotta I gotta
tear things up, as opposed to, you know, kill him
with kindness, which is what Belichick's doing now he's gone
revers ted Lasso.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I would say he can't let tassel because his initials
will still be he'd be He's gonna be Bill belleto No,
it's the same. I can't it's it's the same Bill Bellet.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We've got to figure out another name for him. But
you know what I mean, it's Ill Ellichick.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Like that.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I'm gonna introduce me Ill Ellichick. That's how it's gonna work. Yeah,
there's a they're not letting you back in Bill, they're
not letting you back. And it's done. You're done just
coaching college. Pete Carroll got a job and you didn't. Bill,
You're done. You're done. People are not gonna hire you. Man,
that's a wow.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
You decide swipe them over the Pete Carroll thing.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It's over, Pete. Come on man, Pete Carroll job and
Bill Belichick did, and come on, man, it's over.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's absolutely am But but it's the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah yeah, but still, I mean you gotta think, hey,
I'll sign my contract and you keep me, and I'm
gonna claw until I break that Don Shula record and
then you can fire me. But you can't fire me
until he win that number of games.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Now, now here's what I would do if I were
Belichick's camp, right to fight back on some of these narratives,
that you're never gonna get let back in the club.
You can really just go after the Jaguars and Saints.
And who's gonna say you're wrong?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Exit?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
How about of Fresca exit swollen.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Dough If you said they are right at the job,
you're right.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Let me know what are they gonna say? It's the Saints.
It's the worst job in the NFL. They still have
they have, there's no candidates that they still can't fill it.
That's how bad the job is. Exit out about a
Fresca exit swollen Dome. Jason Smith Mike Carbon Live from
the tirec dot Com studios. Coming up next. Oh my goodness,
my favorite quote of the day from yet the latest
person to say, hey, things are unfair when one team
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Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best
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studios were before you get into this scride. I love
this story out of baseball. I love the story out
of baseball. But big night in the NBA tonight, and
I do just mean, you know, the Knicks just just
wiping up the floor with the Nenver Nuggets. Uh. It
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kind of shocking because you would think, well, Warriors and
the thun it's not been a great year for Golden
State Thunder, you know, or you know thirty seven and eight. No, No,
Warriors beat them again. They're one of only two teams
of the winning record against the Thunder this year, one
sixteen to one oh nine. Okay, well, not that big
a deal, you know, We've seen this happen before. Steph
Curry had had a pretty nice night with twenty one points,
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but in defeat Shake Gilders Alexander fifty two points. He
had forty one in the first three quarters, fifty two
points for SGA. He is now the first player this
year to have multiple fifty point games in the NBA,
and he's the only of a third player in Thunder
history to have multiple fifty point games. Again, this is
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a team that had Kevin Durant and James Harden and
Russell Westbrook. You know, we talked about this a couple
of weeks ago, and nothing has changed. When it comes
down to it, at the end of the year, we're
not even gonna have a conversation about MVP. Shake Gilders
Alexander is going to win. Like that's not going to change.
Like that's the story out It's gonna be the story
of the rest of the season. He's the leading scorer
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in the NBA. He plays on the best team. He's
the best player on the best team. What he's doing
numbers wise, again, first player with multiple fifty point games
this season, there's no argument for anybody else. I mean,
that's the whole thing is that, you know, can you
really argue all but Jokic did, Like every the Nuggets
are in the middle of the pack in the West,
but Jokich is so good. Yeah, I don't even know
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you can make that argument this year. As much as
I want to see Big Bodega win, I understand he's
not going to and Shay Gilders Alexander's gonna be the
NBA MVP.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Coming out from covers dot Com the latest odds.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
You ready for this one?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
This is fun, Go ahead, shake Gilger salag Xander bet
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Speaker 2 (19:42):
These are the three they're going. Next is Brownie James, Right,
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Speaker 3 (19:48):
He's minus three twenty to three, minus three fifty okay.
Jokic at plus two point thirty or plus two forty okay.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Ready on the metals, Stan.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Yeah, in third, Okay at one hundred to one, in.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Third, one hundred to one third, Okay.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
He's Joannis Jason Tatum one fifty to one.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
And then you get when Minyama, Mitchell Cat and everybody
else thereafter. All right, so we're talking some major gap
between those two guys and everybody else all right.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
Let me ask you that this will be a special
one for you, Frostburg. If you had to bet one
or the other, what would you rather bet? Shake Gilders
Alexander wins NBMVP or Bronnie James plays again in the
Laker game this season for sure?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Oh yeah, no, go play again as well. Hand some
money right now. If you don't think he's getting into
that game in Washington.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
I don't think I don't think he's getting I don't
think he's getting it.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Of course he is, dude, he's getting starter minutes against
Washington that might play them on Saturday night against the Knicks.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Just be well, yeah they may did they just let
everybody that just true. They may just have everybodyless and
fly out. We're not going to beat the Knicks without ad.
So just all you guys go go to the next
city and and we'll just we'll just leave a bunch
of guys here. Austin Reeves, you stay, Ruey Hachamoor, you stay,
Brianni Ustay, you'll play all forty eight minutes. How does
that sound? Ru ru uh so congratulations SGA. It may
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as well give give it to him now, just have
the ceremony now and we don't have to worry about
at the end of the year.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Hey Gaffer from the Warriors tonight, though a lot of
questions as to whether, uh Steph Curry was going to
play because he's tenuous and on a day to day basis,
you don't know what you're getting. And now we're within
two weeks of the trade deadline, so let everybody go in.
I don't know if all their calculators though, that people
used for the trade evaluators, do they have the proper
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notations and coding for the second apron?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I don't know. What about the third apron? Do you
have the fourth apron?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
I don't know in the fifth?
Speaker 1 (21:59):
How many aprons deep you have to go? I think
we got to go more, but it's got to be
multiple aprons deep is where we're going to gotta be
like ten aprin you got you need like ten of
those kiss the cook aprons Like that's it.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
It's like a kitchen gone a monk.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Eh now, speaking of going a monk, like this is
my this is my favorite story of the day.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Last night, the Dodgers signed Kirby Yates, right, one of
the best relievers in Baseball All Star last year. He's
thirty seven, but he came up when he was older,
so you know, he's still left in the tank. Thirty
seven in a row, but you know, still got a
lot left in the tank. And he was really good
last year. And here the Dodgers spending a lot of
money and keep spending more money than anybody else has.
So hal Steinbrenner, today, principal owner of the Yankees, gave
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a little bit of a and you know, off season
interview about where things are going. And in the same
interview he said, hey, we can't spend like the Dodgers,
which is awesome, right when the Yankees say we can't
spend like the Dodgers, the Yankees. This is not the
Roy saying we can't spend like the Yankees. This is
the Yankee saying we can't spend like the Dodgers. Right. Ah,
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the Dodgers have such a great, big advantage over everybody,
and all this blah blah, all the complaining they doa
da dah dah dah. But then he also goes on
to say, oh, right now, our team is better than
they were in twenty twenty four. So wait a minute,
you made it to the World Series last year. If
your team is better than it was in twenty twenty four,
you should win the World Series this year. So why
does it matter how much the Dodgers spend? Like, why
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do you care if you really think you're better than
you are? Why does it matter what the Dodgers spend?
The reason is is because he doesn't believe his team
is better. He is still living in denial and living
off the breakup Ofjan Soto that no matter what they did,
they couldn't keep them away from the Mets. No matter
what they are for them, they couldn't keep them away
from the Mets. So they pivoted, and I like what
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they did right. They went out and signed the guys
they needed to. But to sit here and think that
Cody Bellinger is a slam dunk and Devin Williams a
slam dunk and Paul Goultraz's a slam dunk. No, these
are lottery tickets and he knows their lottery tickets. Oh,
we hope that he's you know, in the friendly confines here,
and you know Bellinger especially can can rediscover his power
and be in middle of the lineup hitter again. Devin
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Williams are hoping, Hey, does he still have it mentally
or is he still pitching a peede? Alonzo right, gold Schmidt,
he's not the same guy. Look, I like what they did.
They went They got Max free too, which is a
nice signing. But you lost a guy that was going
to be a big superstar for you for the next
ten plus years and you're still the X in the breakup.
That is denying that you are still hurting from the breakup. No,
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I've moved on. You haven't moved on. I have look
at all the people he signed. I've moved on. I've
moved on. Yeah, you haven't really moved on. And you
can tell because you want to complain about the Dodgers
being able to outspend you, which, oh, by the way,
that's rich considering the Yankees could outspend everybody for the
last twenty five or thirty years and they didn't seem
to care about that. Then though, we spend more money
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than everybody else, So it's kind of rich that he
says that. But then to say we're better than we
were in twenty twenty four, what does it matter? You
lost the World Series, lost in five games, you had
a couple of games go either way. You completely blew
it with three hours in the fifth inning of the
deciding game, and you allowed to walk off Grand Slam
to win Game one. Even though it was a five
game series. It was a lot closer than it was.
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So why are you complaining about this if you're better
than you were last year? He knows they're not. He
knows they're not, and he's still not over losing one soda.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
No, the bigger problem I have looking at around New
York and listening to you know, it's just the silly season.
So before everybody reports to training camp, a lot of
you know, conventions and media opportunities. From Aaron Boone on down,
every everybody keeps going into what secondary, tertiary and ancillary
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players for the Dodgers had to say in the off season. Boy,
and this guy said something about our defense and how
we weren't focused on details, and that really cheesed me off.
Like at that point, the New York interviewers just hit
play on his phone and go, you mean these see
what some events like this. If this makes you angry
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that they mocked you, then don't let it happen.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And it shouldn't.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Still be in your head. Three months later, it should
be all right. We're ready to get back to work.
We got a ball club.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's gonna win.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
That was an unfortunate series of events, and we're on
to this next season. They're still living there and the
Dodgers relief pictures, many of whom had very little work
in that series, are the guys that did most of
the yapp and so Boone is like, well, I noticed
it wasn't show Hey and Bets and Freemu.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
It's like yeah, because they don't talk.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
They go back to their families that they're done. Rest
of these guys they're taking.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
A little bit of shine and they're having some fun
with it. And if you take offense to it, then
you took the bait. So when you meet him again,
guess who's losing you. You've already lost the mental lad Aaron.
But the fact that you're coming back for more is
a bit of a shock.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Now you want to tie this together, Okay, you want
to tie this together. The Yankees and the Lakers are
the same, Right, The Yankees and the Lakers are exactly
the same. Hal Steinbrenner is running the Yankees, and I
get that it's a different time now, and players are
different and players have a little bit more power. But
(27:24):
if George Steinbrenner was suddenly transported, he would say, we
lost Sodo. You didn't give one Soto enough money, and
you lost them to the Mets. I just want to understand,
you lost them to the Mets. Why didn't you off
from eight hundred and fifty million dollars? Why didn't we
do this? Well, you know what, I would have given
them eight hundred and fifty million. I still would have
traded for Max Or I still would have got Max Freed.
(27:46):
I still would have got Cody Bellinger. I still would
have done all of these things. You lost him to
the Mets. This is what you have done. You did
You did this to the Mets, right like you've seen that.
The way Steinbrenner ran the Yankees, as controversial as it was,
it worked. They won. They were a dynasty. They won
the World Series. You know, they became the team of
the you know, they won the World Series in the
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seventies and they won the World Series in the nineties.
They were a dynasty. It worked with what was going on,
and now here's Hal Steinbrenner running it with his brother
before he passed away and the Yankees, now there's so
much different from the Yankees. You know, even even Brian
Cashman like George Steinberner wouldn't recognize this Yankee team of saying, hey,
wait an we we're not spending money. And just the
same thing with Jerry Bust. Jerry Buss would come to
(28:28):
Jeanie Bus and would say, so, you allowed Lebron James
to pick the supporting cast. We don't do that with
the Lakers. We decide who comes in.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
You don't.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You don't let the Lake the players pick. Hey, we
want Russell Westbrook to come in. No, we decide who's
coming in here. We don't allow no one calls us
and says, hey, these are the players we want. And
if a player say they want to get somebody specific,
let them talk all they want to. We're gonna do
things the way we want to do it. Again, I
get it's a different era. Lebron is a powerful player,
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but there's no way Jerry Bus with the Lakers become
this where it's basically they've been run by Lebron James
for the last few years. They would never let that happen.
And and that's the thing Both of these teams have
so much in common in that, you know, their parents
were really good it running, they got it and whatever
was missed when they handed down. You see that these
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teams are not nearly what they used to be. The
Yankees won't spend like they used to. The Lakers can't
can't get things right because they they allow players to
come in and call the shots. Like you see, so
so many similarities between the Yankees and the Lakers, and
they both of had a little bit of success, right.
Yankees won the World Series about twelve fifteen years ago. Okay,
they got there this year. Lakers won the title in
(29:39):
twenty twenty. But kind of look where they are is
a year to year Finals World Series type threat. There's
so many things that they just kind of have lost
their way of the franchises they were for so long.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Wow, I mean it's only a drought depending on your perspective.
That is true.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Hey, it's not real for the Lakers, not even close
to a drought.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Stephen Jjah like drought died to bring Steven Jones to
the party.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
This is no drought for the Yankees or the Lakers. No, No,
they're for Yankees won an nine Oh, the Yankees are
fine everything, remember the droughts. Just an opinion.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
It's all a matter of perspective, because for all three teams,
what's fundamental?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Guys, stray Cat.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swallen Dome. The Jason
Smithshow with Mike Carmon live from the tirerack dot Com Studios,
just selling here. The Yankees say, oh, we can't spend
with the Dodgers, but but we're better than we were
last year. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Right, uh.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Time now to talk to the hall Steinbrenner of Fox
Sports Radio, someone who has inherited something huge and makes
a lot of questionable statements.
Speaker 6 (30:42):
Care no cap.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Oh very good, thank you, it's what's trending.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Oh hellas, Yes, we had a.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Full night of NBA.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
But tomorrow, I mean, if you're still on the West coast,
for tomorrow, we're gonna find out who the fourteen All
Star reserves are. You can get that on TNT at
six thirty Eastern. So we're gonna get the final fourteen
spots remaining.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
All of the Knick starters who are not starting, the
other three starters will all will be the reserves, gotcha,
and then the all play together that's amazing. I'm happy
for you.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
I'm happy for you in your.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Next I'm very happy to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
They also won five in a row.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
We have two fifths of the starting rosters that you do,
Alo and.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
May beeat the Nuggets earlier today, So not a bad
day for Knicks fans. One twenty two to one to
twelve was the final score.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Chall in Bob.
Speaker 6 (31:35):
Runs and at thirty points and fifteen assists in the win.
The Celtics beat the Bulls one twenty two to one hundred.
Kristaps Porzingis thirty four points on eleven rebounds.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
The Cavs outscore they heat one twenty six to one.
O six Pacers also won the Nets one. The Raptors
handed the Wizards They're fifteenth straight loss. One O six
to eighty two was the final in that one seventy
six Ers took down the Kings one seventeen one oh four,
while the Mavericks edged the Pelicans one thirty seven to
one thirty six the Clippers. They took down the Spurs
(32:06):
in San Antonio one twenty eight to one sixteen. Timberwolves
with a one twenty one to one thirteen win over
the Suns in Phoenix, Anthony Edwards thirty three points, Shay
Gilgess Alexander dropped fifty two points. It was not enough
the Thunder They lost to the Warriors, who made a
comeback one sixteen to one oh nine. Steph Curry ended
with twenty one points. Has surpassed Ray Allen for twenty
(32:27):
seventh on the all time scoring list, so good day
for him. In the NFL, the Jets are hiring former
Cardinals head coach Steve Books to be their new defensive coordinator,
with the plan for him not head.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Coach erin Glenn, to call plays.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
In men's college hoops, Number one Auburn has won twelve
in a row. They beat LSU today or on Wednesday
eighty seven to seventy four, and Number six Houston has
extended their winning streak to thirteen after defeating West Virginia sixty.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Three to forty nine.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
In the NHL, the Wild top the Maple Leaves three
to one, The Panthers shut out the Kings three zero,
and the Devils shut out the f Liars five zero.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Guys, it's been fun.
Speaker 6 (33:02):
Let's do it again tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
All right, BONSI that sounds fair.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Fantastic and I'm glad you're feeling better.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Thanks funny, I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
All right, guys, I am Jess The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Coming up next, we got big quarterback news out of
the NFL. Don't for get a nice big story late
at night, but we do. Guess what superstar says I
am playing in twenty twenty five. That's next, Jason and
Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
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Speaker 1 (34:18):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon, live from the tire rack dot Com Studios,
where a nice little late night news dump Ian Rappidport
NFL Network insider one of the couple of insiders reporting
that Matthew Stafford has made his decision about playing in
(34:41):
twenty twenty five. He is going to retire, return, retire, return.
I feel like I feel like I'm in Farisbeeler's day
off something doo economics higher lower, it was higher the
Holly smoot terr effect. Matthew Stafford will return for twenty
(35:02):
twenty five, wants to play for the Rams. However, according
to these reports, a new contract is going to have
to be worked out. Now. This is the sticky wicket
in all of this, because you know, a week ago
it was Matthew Stafford saying, I don't know it. It
takes some time make a decision, and right away Sean
McVay said, well, we want a decision fast, right, you know,
we love Matthew. Did we want a decision fast. Don't
(35:23):
want to go down the road we did last year,
which was Stafford looking for more money. They added money
onto his deal and he came back for this year.
So Sean McVay seemed to have a pretty insistent Hey,
we're not going to do what we did last year. Okay,
So Stafford takes a week decides he's going to play,
which we told you he was going to play. The
guy is still slinging it really well. Right. He played
(35:44):
phenomenally well the back half of the year. The Rams
get to the playoffs and win the division. It's a
it's a huge deal, right. They nearly upset the Eagles.
The Rams continue to show you they can reload on
the fly every single year, So likely it's going to
be with the Rams. Buck a new deal has to
be worked out because Stafford only has four million dollars
in guaranteed money on his deal for this year, So
(36:07):
likely he's coming back. But if something happens and it
doesn't get worked out, and maybe Sean McVay already had sorry,
we're already coming back. We already have the new move
in place, whatever it's going to be. If that happens,
Matthew Stafford knows, I will immediately jump to the top
of the list for quarterbacks in the offseason. It's a
(36:31):
bad crop coming out of college football. It's a bad crop.
And free agency. Sam Darnold will be allegedly the top
name of the list if he's not franchised by the
Minnesota Vikings. Stafford would get a big, two year, fifty
to sixty million dollars, all guaranteed deal from someone because
(36:52):
he's still playing at a really high level. He knows
he jumps to the forefront of quarterbacks that you would
want to go get because, like I said, it's really
the cupboard is bear right. Guys that with any kind
of talent no longer are really getting to free agency.
The guys that get to free agency are guys like
Sam Darnold, who like, well, what can they do? No
(37:14):
one really wants them? And hey, he gets lucky, he
winds up starting and he and he has a lightning
in a bottle for sixteen weeks before he falls flat.
So these are the guys that get to free agency. Now.
So Stafford, if he hit free agency, he would number one.
The Steelers. They would kick both Justin Fields and Russell
Wilson the curb. Oh Matthew Stafford, Let's go get Matthew Stafford.
(37:36):
There's a lot of teams that would say, oh, we
can't do any better than that, right, The Cleveland Browns
would say, forget about dress, will go get Matthew Stafford
the next couple of years and give him a lot
of guaranteed money, which you know, I know we did
that before and it did work out. But we feel
more confident in Matthew Stafford. But there's teams that would
go and do that, that would find themselves in much
better shape and would go from Hey, we like the
(37:57):
fact that we could contend to being hey, we can
be elite contenders because again, Stafford's got a lot of
AMMO left in that arm. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
I mean we look at like the numbers the last
couple of years. He's missed time, so that that certainly
comes into the calculation. But to your point, you got Sam,
you got Russ, you got Fields, and Captain Kirk, I
guess is expendable. But he comes with an already signed
massive deal, right so.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And Fields might stay. The Steelers might say, hey, we
want to keep the younger quarterback and he's not hitting
free agency.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
But that's it. One of those guys is staying. Rooney
hasn't picked his favorite child yet, so we don't know.
I like him all the same. What do you want
me to say? I'm not gonna take a side. And
I love Mike. Mike still wins. But for Stafford, you
saw what happened this year. A lot of injuries, but
you had winnable games early in the season. The Bears
(38:51):
weren't a good team. They lose that game you saw
down the stretch, you're playing better football, a little more cohesion.
But Stafford with given his age, the number of injuries, Like,
what do we believe at the end? Was it just Hey,
we have to tell you that he's broken, so it
can excuse any of these plays you would have thought
he would have made or like, cause that's the thing.
(39:13):
I need the full diagnostics on him. I need to
check under the hood. Only four million of guaranteed money
this year was a forty nine plus against the cap.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
So for McVeigh and company, like we want to get
out of the gate strong, right.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
It's like you know, if you're over in Cincinnati, Zach
Taylor in company, it's like you have to play football
in September, and I think you know when you're looking
at it from mcveigh's they don't want to.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Be hamstrung like they were this year. Like are you
coming back or not? Cauz.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
We're either building a blueprint this way or we're still
working along the miles with you. But we're not going
to invest a lot of time going this other direction
if you're coming back, and they did. They satin holding
mode for a chunk while he made a decision.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
You can't go through that again, especially when you've still
got an opportunity and division to make some noise. So, yeah,
Stafford's got a gotta market. What are we looking at?
Two for seventy, two for seventy five, maybe a little higher,
because yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
A very small market out there, and we've talked about
that rookie quarterback class.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Nobody's coming to save the day necessarily off the jump.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
And this is why I can't rule it out because
the way Sean McVay spoke was almost like, we have
something in mind. If you don't, if you want to
come back and make it difficult, we're gonna move on
and we're gonna pull the trigger on this deal. And
it's okay for the Rams because they know, hey, if
Matthew comes back, we'll draft our quarterback of the future.
He works well in the system. But there's a guy
(40:44):
we really like that if we and I don't know
who that is. I'm not saying I know who it is,
but they seem like they know who they would go.
Like the way Sean McVay is speaking, it's like, we
know what we're going to do if you don't come back.
So that's why maybe that's become a more appetizing possibility
over the last week or so of they're waiting to
hear back about Matthew Stafford. So I can't close the
(41:06):
door that that's something that absolutely won't happen. That they
might say, no, no, we got this trade coming up,
but we're gonna go get JJ McCarthy or whoever. It's
gonna wind up being. Look, the Rams have made had
done it before. They've done crazy things and made money work.
I don't be surprised if that's what happens. Exit Out
about a Fresco exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show
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