February 25, 2025 • 53 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon recap the last 30 years of highlights for the Chicago Bulls. Jason La Canfora joins the show for all the latest NFL news and the NFL Combine. And Jason shares his favorite Yankees story of the past 20 years. Plus, a take on the weird Mathew Stafford saga!
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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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the way tire buying should be well tonight, isn't It's
It's always something when we celebrate or commemorate. I don't
know that we're celebrated career when you when you talk
about the end of an era, and and in what
we've seen tonight in the NBA, it is time for
the era of one wanna be contender a team that
(01:14):
we've talked about so much for the better part of
the past decade. It is time to officially give them
their funeral, and it is time to move on. I'm saying,
is there's no more hope, there's it's this. This should
be the night where we look back and say this
is where the process ends. We trusted the process for
a long time. The process is over. The process is done.
(01:36):
The process happened. We saw what we saw. The process
has not gotten anywhere. Process carck it out of the
second round of the playoffs, maybe not even the first
round of the playoffs. The process is over. It's over
when you lose Tonight and the Sixers. We get to
the duel and b drama in a second without embiid
who they're pondering what's going to happen next room? Is
it going to be knee surgery? You lose to the
(01:58):
Bulls by thirty two in a game with the Bulls
once led by fifty. I you know what, This must
be the best moment for the Bulls since Jordan hit
the jumper to win a Brian Russell. This's gotta be
the best one jumper over Brian Russell. Tonight. There you go,
there's there's your Bulls memories. You go if you if
you're a Bulls fan, you're pissed. Derek Rose, Okay, Derek Rose,
(02:21):
MVP Season Jordan hits the jumper over Brian Russell. Derek Rose,
MVP Year. Tonight he pushed off though. That's that's the
that's the bull pushed off. They didn't call anything. He's slid.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And if he's that weak to get moved by just
that little half assed forearm shiver, uh, then then it's
on him.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All of that to say for the Bulls is a disaster.
There's a hurry tank mode too. It does. Any times
we're all trying to get to the bottom. You go
out and you put up this kind of effort. Yeah,
but you're not gonna get all the way to the bottom.
I mean at this point, you know, you know the
Wizards are never gonna win.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
A game bad.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's all about the helter skelter, get to the bottom.
I go back to the top. That's it. We got
to get to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And beating the hell out of a hapless Sixers team
is not helping that effort.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I was good. Look, this is this is where I
just enjoy the night. I mean, it's the it's the
third best night you've had in thirty years. Okay, I
just enjoy the night.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
One of the great road winds and the time. I
mean you had five guys, what six guys in double figures,
two off the bench, Terry and Kobe White. Yeah it's right,
Kobe White off the bench, twenty five from Josh Giddy.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, all of us telling you many right, this is
the best. This is the best thing you'll ever seen.
Look again, Jumper over Russell, fast forward to Derek Rose.
What about the e as forward? I mean, the elo
is really where it starts, right.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But if I'm going back in erarors, like I'm only
going back from thirty years, I go back to ninety six,
So that's kind of I go, hope, go back to that.
That's the last one.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I mean, there hasn't been a lot since ninety eight. No,
as soon as.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That, Yeah, you know, I gotta go had those.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Three years with Rod and all its great and stuff.
It's been a long time. Yeah, no, no, it's been
a while. Thirty years. In three highlights, I mean to
show you where we're at. I mean, they're really pumping
up a whole new release from upper deck of Hey,
remember all these classic moments of Jordan man at the
sign picture of.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Remembering where you were in the mid nineties. I'll tell
you now, look, we'll we'll, we'll, we'll get to more
on the Bulls. This is just a great night for them.
But this is the end of the process. Tonight signifies
the end of the process for the Sixers. This is
it in not knowing where to go. They tried to
build around Joel Embiid for a decade. He was hurt
early in his career a lot. By the time he
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came back, okay, prove himself to be an MVP caliber player.
Now he can't stay on the court anymore. Uh likely
gonna have knee surgery. He and the Sixers are talking
about it. I can't believe we're ever going to see
him on the court again this year. So he's not
gonna play again. The Sixers need We've talked about this
for a while. They need a reboot. They got to
five times though, that's the second round of the playoffs.
(05:08):
That's a second round. That's what I made. It sounds
the conference somebody. They've got to the conference quarter finals
and each of the last wee years. That's making the playoffs,
that's getting it to play in and winning a game.
This is what we do.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
We take language and we weaponize it, right, And that's
what I'm doing here by saying, look at the grand
nature of those flameouts, and for Joel Embiid, it's it's
one of those difficult things of yes, we've had some
fun at his expense over his availability, but coming from
where he did, you know those first two years where
it was we're not even gonna play you because there's.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
A process to this. I think process, no more trust,
no more trus.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Trust, I mean no more trust. It's difficult. Can't trust
the process is really a four letter word.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Can't do it. Can't trust the process. Can't And look,
the whole thing is that Joel Embiid should be dealt
in the off season. He should have surgery because he
needs to get healthy as soon as possible so the
Sixers can move on. They need to move taking that
on there, they need to move on. If he is Sixers,
eat every time. I want to make it happy.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Eat it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There's a way to make it happen. There's always a
way for a guy like that who was still a
year and a half removed from being the MVP. If
he is healthy, if that's what I mean, have the
surgery now. So by the time July hits, Hey, everybody's
feeling good, looking good, everything is awesome. You might be
able to move on. This is this is the only
thing you can do well.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You can always find a doctor to sign off saying
there's a problem.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Everybody, this is good. The continued fight over the Mark
Williams flap. Was it good enough? Was he not?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If we pull one hundred doctors, we're gonna find somebody
that says, yeah, let's let's go. He was perfectly fine, right,
same thing with a beat. What's what's going on? Nothing
to see here, It'll be just fine. It's time to go.
It's it was time to trade him. Uh, you can
now officially trade him in the off season.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's time. It's time to move on from Paul. We
talked about this last week. The big names that are
gonna be out there in the off season because teams
need to move on from these big name, high salary players,
the Sixers, Paul George, and Joel Embiid. Yeah, because even
even when all three guys are on the court at
the same time there were a game over five hundred,
So it's not like this whole thing. The process is over.
And that's why tonight is such a big deal because
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we've heard about trusting the process for over a decade.
Sammickey somewhere right now going, people are gonna call me
tomorrow man. They lost by thirty man. This is the process,
is a long living process. It's over. Here's a new
here's your new process. You have to move on from
Joel Embiid. You got to move on from Paul George,
build around Tyres Maxy. It is time for a new process.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Is it like the Freddy Krueger series where they had
the rebirth of what was the school where he's like
the kids like.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well and the kid took
over for Jason and Friday. That that was Corey Feldman. Actually,
I think before Lost Boys, uh, people tried Michael Jackson
when he like tookuse the one the one where Jay
he killed Jsarry spoiler he killed Jason at the end
and he shaved his head like Jason yeyah, Well and
well he doesn't really you think he's dead, And of
course for some reason you have to step over Jason, Like,
(08:09):
why can't just go out the other way? Why I
have to step over him? Well, go on the other way. Well,
maybe they watched Derek Fisher. You're not gonna not gonna
walk over Why am I gonna walk over a guy
with a machine. I'm gonna walk the other way. There's
some other opening, some other way that's less dangerous.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But then they walk over Jason, and then Jason gets up.
He goes, oh no no, and then he just starts
hacking away at him, like and the like the credits
are going and he's still and he's still hitting Jason
with the machete. And I'm sure the guy wasn't Tyler,
it was not tied. That's still.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Over.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's don't know, chuck the credits all the way through
the end. That's what we did in a photography, Key
Grip and Corey Felman is still just chopping away. Okay,
some frustrations well childhood actor, yes, stuff, But I don't
think they said, hey, take out all your frustrations on
this guy we got dressed up as Jason Vorgy. Once
(09:02):
that scene comes to bear, I mean, you don't know
what's gonna come out. I think we saw soon As
you say action, what do you think is gonna happen?
Here's a machete? Okay, what are you gonna do? What
am I You don't know how many times that guy yelled, cut,
I'm gonna shave with it. What am I gonna do?
I'm gonna shave my legs with it? What am I
gonna do? That would this guy? Man? Hey, you know,
we gotta know. But he was always supposed to hit
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him a couple of times. As you say the credits
are still going, do you think that was organic? I mean,
I think that's what came out. He won't stop? Is
he okay?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Okay in the back of yad stop He's already dead?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Hey, I mean he sat in the Simpsons episode later on.
I mean tonight, the process died. Tonight. The process. I
like Jason Vorgan because that's kind of what it is. Man.
It's it's it's Corey Feldman just with the machete and
vorgis is the process. It's just like I'm gonna keep
getting you. I think the process is dead. No no, no,
keep going, keep going, keep going. Okay, we're done now,
no no, no, no way to the end.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
To the bulls process at home to the bulls process.
They should have when Joel Embiid came out before the
trade deadline and he had that triple double, that would
have been phone. You know, operators are standing by and
they should have shown them in the war room and
been like a bank of phones like five, you know,
like that sandwich shop that for whatever reason didn't open
(10:25):
til Nune on Sundays. Yeah, because that made a lot
of sense. Now, what's going on with all those phones
with the death of one? But like it's the way
it goes. It's like at the end of Big Lebowski. Right, hey,
you know Big Lebowski.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Sorry, sorry Donnie, but a new Lebowski comes into the
world right with the the death of one. So there's
no remix of the Big Lebowski. No, but I'm saying
it's the same time. It's the same kind. But I
know what you're doing. Well, most of the principals are
still with us, though. Listen, she kidnapped herself. Okay, don't
you get it. I have all the evidence she kidnapped herself.
(11:00):
So the new birth now, because what have we seen
win their seventh straight game tonight, not the Knicks. The
Detroit Pistons. What did I tell you? JB. Bickerstaff is
your coach of the Year. And it's not even close.
Detroit's now a top six team. And this is a
team that again hadn't been over five hundred since the
(11:22):
All Start break in over fifteen years. And they win
again tonight over the Clippers, and all of a sudden,
Detroit it's like, it's like Detroit basketball is back. Man.
There is no better story in the NBA than the Pistons.
I mean, look at this. They're a couple of games
away from creeping into the top four. They're only a
two games in a lost column back of the Bucks.
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And then there's six games back in the Knicks. But
you're only two. You are two games back of getting
into the four seed, of having home court advantage in
the first round of the playoffs. Look at the Piston
the death of the Sixers, the birth of the Pistons.
How goes It's a sir, circle.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Of great in and out Burger out there. Great enough, Hey,
gunning Hand thirty two points in this one. He's been
on a roll. Kawhi Leonar Norman Poull did not play,
So let's hold up some candles for them? Does norm
not playing kind of shut people up that kept doing
all the lebron shouldn't have played in the All Star Games?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So nor can play? Nor clearly can't play now Caddy
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Speaker 4 (15:31):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What's happening, Bud?
Speaker 4 (15:33):
What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
About it? We'll get getting ready for the combine, man,
get getting ready for all the all the the over
sell on the players and to hear what the Cowboys
want to say about free agency.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's fun news.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah. All, well, before we get to that, let let's
start here, because obviously this has become a big deal
over the last few days. Is the Matthew Stafford situation
where initially he's talking about read hiring, but then we thought, okay,
he wants more money. Looks like he wants more money
from the Rams. The Rams have allowed him to go
out and see his value on the market. Potentially they're
(16:08):
open to trading Matthew Stafford. Can they really trade him?
Did you really see this ending with Matthew Stafford playing
another team next season? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I absolutely think they can. I mean, I've been hearing
that Sam Donald's been waiting laying in the weeds for
you know, for I mean, I think I first were
about to watch him post six weeks so that you
know if he's not tagged. And again I think they'd
be stupid not to fans of them. But if they don't,
then I think he and Donald McVay think they can
(16:44):
make some pretty good music together. Just like not that
long ago, Sean McVay, right was ready to move off
with Jared Goff and give Bafford a toorol and you
could get Donald a less money. Donald's younger, Donald's got
more upside. Donald at this stage of his career is
more athletic. I yeah. I mean, look, every year people
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think that they're pretty much kind of a milk toast
like team, right, and they keep, you know, ending up
in the playoffs more often than not, even though they've
had injuries and bad luck. This guy can coach his asshof.
So you recoup you know, some serious draft capital and
you get you know, a stand in type quarterback, and
(17:29):
you get him with more upside, and you get them
at a better stage of his career and you get
him cheaper. I mean, I think they could stangle that.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
You think they made less need had a call like
Shane did with Saquon Barkley to kind of say Hey,
you know, just give us a call back, you know,
when you figure out what the market is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Please, I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Just just having fun with it, because you go into
the marketplace and clearly you're a quarterback where you've got
so many desperate teams that that you're going to find
someone that's willing to pay that fifty million dollars. So
is Pittsburgh? Would they be the front runner in this?
Or where do where do you see us the landings?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I think Pittsburgh. I think Pittsburgh absolutely would be interested.
I think the Giants you know, might might be interested.
I think the Raiders absolutely would be interested. Now you know, again,
how feasible is that? How feasible are most of these
places to win anywhere? You know? I think Pittsburgh's in
their own category. You can buy that defense, You certainly
(18:34):
can buy the special teams they need, they need help,
they need help at real players. There's no doubt about that.
You're going to need a commitment from ownership to try
to buy some of those players. And I think they
will come away with a free agent receiver who makes
significant money. I don't know that it'll be T Higgins
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or not. You know, and there's certainly a drop off
after that, but I think I think the Pittsburgh Steelers could,
you know, be viable. I mean, I'm all to remember
the Pittsburgh Steelers and you know, we're four and two
with Justin Fields and like five and two with Russ Wilson,
and then obviously you know, the bottom fell out. But uh,
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they don't run the ball as well as they should.
The offensive lines probably need some help. I mean, there's
no Utopius here, but I think that's an interesting fin.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know. The one thing I think if I could
say one bold prediction, I could say, okay, Matthew Stafford trade.
What would happen? This is what I would say, the
Matthew Stafford trade. The Rams would announce it in conjunction
with the acquisition of their new quarterback. Like it's not
gonna be hey matt it would be hey, Matthew, thanks,
and here's our new quarterback, Like it would be Matthew's
gone and dartles in like they're gonna they're gonna do
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a little bit of a blank you on this, just
like hey, we got to get rid of Jared Goff,
and you're trading you for Matthew Stafford here comes Like
it's not gonna be that kind of move, but it
would be one guy coming out and one guy coming in.
Well you're going out the door and you're coming in
the door.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Well that's what the combines are. I mean, like I said,
like that they'll be able to talk to Sam Donald.
They'll know his price point, They'll they'll know, you know,
what his hierarchy is, what the best fit is. If
if Donald doesn't look like you know that we can
come to a match with him, then maybe it's cousins.
(20:24):
It's not going to take wizardry and rocket science to
be able to gauge this market in real time while
you're trading Stafford for the most you can get for him, Like,
I don't think it's you know, it's going to take
a whole lot of finagalan or a whole lot of imagination.
Like it's just a matter of doing the work. And
(20:48):
again that's exactly what this week is all about. So
you know, do they also have a you know, bring
Garoppolo back in his insurance if it does end up
being a guy like and you're worried about the Achilles blone,
they can they know how to stock a quarterback room, like,
don't don't don't be able to, you know, walk in
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your gum.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At the same time, moving on to one of our
favorite topics, the fun and excitement that is the off
season of the Dallas Cowboys. Can you define quote selectively
aggressive unquote.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I can spell the word BS for you. I can
spell that out.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
They're going to try to spell selectively. I'm like, is
that the E L y or no?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I can definitely spell this other eight letter word. I mean,
it's it's just, it's it's exactly it's verbal masturbasing. It's
saying just enough to make people stay quasi interested about
an utterly boring and pathetic franchise, and to keep themselves
from the periphery of the news cycle, and to know
just enough of a nibble or fake nibble to give
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people to keep them on the line. They have a
certain genius about that kind of stuff. I'm not particularly
good at building rosters or stocking football teams with talent.
They don't know how to do contracts in a fourth
right manner. Their drafts have been pretty pedestrian of late,
especially by their standards from six seven, eight years ago.
(22:19):
But my god, you know we're all in the business
of propagating Dallas Cowboys bs O. This is Look, don't
be the bust will be all over at all the
hotspots in Indianapolis, and they know what the whisper to
whom and what the plant were to Just kind of again,
have cowboys smoke? How much fire there's going to be?
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Go look at this list of free agents. If you've
been saving your money to spend on these guys, you're
a damn fool. Okay, Like you're a you're a jackass
because there ain't much there, Like there just isn't so
and they're not that smart, but they're they're they're they're
smart enough to know that money does more for them
pocket than it does you know what I mean, paying
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thirty thirty to thirty three year old the caliber players
like their B pluses. They're not doing that they used
to do that. That's not as much more fun making
money this way.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
NFL insider Jason Locking for our guest the Jason Smithson
with Mike Carmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
All Right, so, as far as smoke and what we
can see through what we can't, I find it hard
to believe that all this talk about, Hey, Aaron Rodgers
is a fix here, he's a solution here. He's this
guy here that's got to be smoke, right, I mean,
that is that real to be? I know the quarterback
(23:35):
class in frequency is bad, Jay, but is it that bad?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I don't. I don't see a price point match for him.
I just don't, you know. Is he a guy who
just waits and some really good team has an injury
and he comes in with a contract that's loaded with
the sentis sentence for each win, you know, million dollars
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a win, five million dollars if you still get us
to the playoffs, Like I don't know the upfront money.
I just you know, if somebody won't. The smart evaluators
I talked to his final year in Green Bay thought
he was a twenty to twenty five million dollar quarterback then.
And that's one good Achilles ago. So like, could he
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still get that money because of the market forces you're
talking about? Maybe where right now? You know where on
the second day of the league year, or the seventh
day of the league year, or the fourteenth day of
the league year. I don't know. I don't know. I
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don't see fun out Like, I don't see anybody who
got hired in one of these front offices who's a
champion of Aaron Rodgers or you know what I mean,
would have some deep ties to him where it's like, oh, well,
that'll be the guy that thinks he can fix it.
I don't know. I don't see an obvious match and
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the three you're going in the first round and maybe
it ends up being four, who knows, but that wouldn't
be good news for Aaron Rodgers either.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So we get to the combine this weekend. Everybody started
to send on the usual haunts and we'll see everybody
operating except Abdul Carter has got a note from his
doctor and Shador Sanders is not going to do anything
actively anything to.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Read out of that. I mean, does that affect any
of the teams at the top and they're decision making
or is it just the business as usual?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I mean if it does, then that's a blight on them.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, just the idea that you can just start training
now after a couple of months of inactivity for Carter,
whether that slows down, you know, if you're looking for
an impact year one.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Is all poppy cock. These guys don't play football that
matters till September. No, I don't think it'll matter at all,
nor should it matter. They make these kids stay in
college for three years, right, I mean, that's just this
is what it is. It's the it's the NFL's minor leagues,
and they're in kuhoots together and they have arbitrary law,
you know, agreements about how long you've got to be
(26:22):
there so that college gets its labor and then the
NFL gets those Like you've had plenty of time to
evaluate these kids, especially at the top of the draft.
I just I get a chuckle out of all those
who's going to do what this is? This is? It's ridiculous,
like it really, I mean, how many smart football people
(26:43):
like Bill Belichick stop going? You know, but what are
we doing here? Like? What could we do? Okay, if
everybody's being harnessed there, like this is the only place
you could do business, what would a really smart person
find out? What could I do more efficiently? Like if
everybody's caught up in this group thing that really with
modern technology is outplayed. It's usefulness outside of the medicals.
(27:07):
But no football people need to be there for the medicals.
They wouldn't know what they hello to do, you know,
with the medicals if they try so, Uh No, I don't.
I don't think it will matter one bit. And I
don't think either of those young men, and they'll be
waiting very long to hear their name call.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is
at Jason Locke and four Odyssey one O five seven
the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post Jay as always by
the appreciated man. We'll talk to you next week unless
Stafford gets traded. Then we'll call you middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm up for it out, buddy, Thank you for you, buddy.
There goes Jason Locking for you. This is gonna be
one of those This is gonna be one of those
combines where all the big stories are going to be manufactured. Story.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Does this mean anything? I don't think it does. But
maybe he differed. But knowing our our guy, mister Locking
for like I do, I was pretty sure of what
his answer was going to me.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But but I will give you a big, bold predict
now and you know where I'm coming, but I will
I'm telling you now. It's like, oh, Jason's not just
saying no, this is actually happening. I told you, I'm
telling you when it's all said and done, and you're
starting to see the rise now, Kyle McCord will go
in the first round of what did I tell you?
And he's gonna slide up into that first round end
of the front not or nothing. End of the first round.
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Someone's gonna make a move up from early in the
second to get there to get him because he is
the quarterback riser. He is, but it's also the you
know riser.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We always chuckle about that because these guys, we know
there's not only going to be two quarterbacks in a
first round, just not the way the business works, right,
because of such advantages that you get if you've got
a team that's any good, i e. Drafting at the
back end of the first round, and maybe you're in
a transition with your quarterback or expecting to be in
short order that you can go in and get that
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guy and bring him in at the back end of
the first and yeah, but Cord's that guy. Like I
told you this morning and tweeted at you to try
to make you feel better about your Mets team, which
is already.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, the Mets, we've lost two pitchers. The knick stinks
of Hey, all right, man, I'm trying to MC. I'll
tell you manifest McCord to the Jets. If I get
Kyle McCord to the Jets, I'll be extremely happy. But
I'll be the happiest guy. I'm not surprised at all.
And now it's going to be a love fest. He
is the story right shout Or is not gonna throw gent.
He's not going to be part of things. This thing
(29:31):
with Carter. I don't think it's a big deal. But
when you've got to go and literally you're.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Putting out a pressure release basically to say, hey, every
team's getting something from his doctor, Like do we need
to do that because a twenty nine of these teams. Yeah,
unless you're really looking to trade a bunch of stuff,
you had no shot at this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
There's a reason why he went from I'm suing the
or I'm bringing action against college football for one more
year to suddenly I'm dropping that and going to the draft.
Like he knew he's he spins it. He throws better
than anybody in the drop. Everybody's gonna see it. Tell
him you man first round time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. But guy
who's been compared to being the Kyle McCord of Fox
(30:11):
Sports Radio a year ago, we got blamed for everything.
A year later, now everybody loves him. It's Steve to say, wasn't.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
McCord the watergate to the guy that chief of the
break in?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Uh? That was Gary McCord. Then went on to be
a golf a host.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah, McCord breaks into first round. I can see it
now and just.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
The lights of the White House go on and off
and on and off. Happy to be on ahead of
the curve.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Tonight I called the police and I told him there's
lots going on in that hotel over there.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
The NFL scouting Combines workouts start Thursday.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Interviews started today.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
This Saturday is the workouts for quarterbacks, running backs, and
wide receivers. Penn State edge rusher Abduall Carter will not
work out it this week's combine, recovering from a shoulder injury.
His pro days in about a month. Boise State running
back Ashton j we'll interview with teams but not work
out this week. He'll have on field drills during his
pro day instead. Colorado quarterback Shoto or Sandiers will reportedly
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meet with teams at the Combine but not work out.
The Carolina Panthers will allow linebacker Shaq Thompson to leave
in free agency. The NFL's new league year begins March twelfth.
The Browns are releasing safety one Thornhill. Training camps open
next Monday for the UFL, the Spring League, which has
eight teams. As for men's college basketball, Tonight, on FS one,
(31:29):
fifteenth ranked Michigan won forty nine forty six at Nebraska,
poor shooting each side, but the Wolverines are now tied
for first with Michigan State in the Big Ten standings,
and Michigan in a couple weeks ends the season at
Michigan State. In the last eleven seasons, it had been
that long since a team won a Big Ten conference
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game scoring less than fifty points like Michigan did tonight.
In fact, the last time the Wolverines won with so
few points was two thousand and eight. Currently numbers.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
If they lost that game to Appalachian State, if they'd
tried to field goal at the end, yeah that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Yeah, Well, the problem was you had Mike hartoff the
field for both two point conversions.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I remember it well.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Number four Houston leads forty six forty two at tenth
three Texas Tech with about eleven minutes to go. And
in the NBA tonight, Oklahoma City's having an incredible season
forty six and ten record. They just won the late
game last night at Minnesota. They're rematching tonight. Okase has
blown a twenty five point lead and now trails in
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overtime one twenty nine, one twenty eight to the Timberwolves
twenty three seconds left in the OT. Two other NBA
games still going. Portland leads mid third quarter seventy three
sixty three at Utah. The late game early second quarter
at Sacramento has the Kings ahead of the Hornets thirty
seven to twenty five. Atlanta and Denver each one Detroit one.
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At seventh in a row. Washington ended a six game
losing streak beating Brooklyn one oh seven ninety nine, so
the Wizards record now ten and forty seven, and Chicago
had lost sixth straight but got to play at Philadelphia
and beat Philly one forty two to one. Ten eight
straight losses for Philadelphia Joel Embiid is having more tests
on his knee this week. He was out tonight due
(33:09):
to knee swelling at a notable NHL game at Winnipeg
come back overtime win for the Jets to one over
San Jose. Winnipeg has won.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Ten games in a row.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Sad to pass along that sportscaster Al Troutwick died of
cancer at the age of sixty eight in New York.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve o msg legend Al Troutwiz.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Absolutely, so many generations of people grew up watching Al
trout We look at the guy was big than Olympics.
He did. He did all kinds of national National Game,
US Open. I mean Al trout He had a great voice. Oh,
he was His voice that was so identifiable. He was
one of those guys where when you say, just hearing
him made the game sound bigger, that's absolutely true. There's
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certain guys here and you go, okay, this is this
is He just had that ability to do that.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Trout Wick, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lock from the Tirack
dot Com studios Coming up next. I'm not selling this short.
If you hate the Yankees. This is maybe the best
story in the last twenty years. That's next right here,
Jason and might.
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this story's pretty simple. When I saw it this weekend
and into today, I thought, oh, this is my favorite story.
I mean, I've been waiting twenty years for a story
like this, waiting that long. The Yankees have decided. Now
you know they play New York, New York after every
game at the Yankee Stadium, right, so that's only what
they do. You know, the Yankee game ends, Yankees win,
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whatever it is, right, But the Yankees have decided, And
I don't know how this got to the point where
they said, we're gonna do this. They're only gonna play
New York, New York after they win. Okay, they're gonna
play a different song after they lose. And now it
looks like it's gonna be That's Life by Frank Sinatra.
And I saw this story and I said, this is
(35:26):
the best story. And my wife said why, I said,
because the Yankees have a loser song. They decided it's
a good idea for us to have a loser song
that they could be trolled with. That I can just
start singing That's Life to any Yankee fan after a
game and they're gonna hang up on me. The Yankees decided,
you know what it is, we can't just keep playing
New York. No, let's get a loser song so that
(35:48):
when we lose a game, everybody knows this is a
song we're gonna hear. This is I don't know how
you sit in a meeting with pr or advertise or
whatever it is. Yes, we're gonna make sure we have
a loser song. I know you have one song, right,
If your song is why I went, I mean win
or lose.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
It's one of my favorite songs all time. Was the
San Diego Supercharger song. They would play it after every game,
win or lose you Sandy, And then you hear Burmant Sandy,
you go super jar jarg DJ. But you heard the song, right,
because that's the team song. No, no, no, We're gonna
have a losers.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
That's the bast you've been identified forever, right.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I mean I still love La one way or another.
I mean, like all that is, like you don't give in.
I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Folks were trolling you a bunch after the change of
the facial hair policy that's been in place for forty
years and rubbing it in the face a big stein
after all these years and changing that. So we had
fun with it. We talked about it on the show.
You could find the podcast there. And I know it's
a reaction to a lot of changes, but I liked
(36:57):
what Aaron Judge had to say. Look, if that's the
determining fact of whether you wanted to be here, then
you don't belong here. And I agree with that all right,
But also you owe to personal brands, identify viable traits
and all of those things.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But this is.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Why would you have a song when you lose? Like
my kids always would joke watching Northwestern games and they'd
stay through when the band would come out and play
the Alma mater. And at one point, because look, we
have not been very good for long stretches of time, newsflash,
they would joke. I was like, so they only play
this when they lose, Like, no play when we win too.
(37:35):
That just doesn't happen as frequently. But they identified that
as the loser song. I'm like, no, no, no, that's
the Alma mater.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
That's different.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
But now this is clearly identified with a loss or
whatever song. It sounds like they may decide on a
rotation of things, but at least in the moment.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
And how do you think Sinatra's family feels about this.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Song?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
But I mean, now that's a loser song. This is
like I expected somebody from the Mets to be working
for the Yankees to come up with this. Hey, let's
have a song. We're gonna have a loser song we
play after when we lose games. Became an embedded agent
with the New York Yankees. What did you do? I
suggested the other song? That's I mean. My dad called
(38:21):
me yesterday and I asked the phone and I said,
been a puppet, a pirate, a poet. Paprio's oh jeez,
you're done. You're done yet you're done.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
But he knew already, see because that started circulating yesterday,
what late morning, early afternoon. I was like, okay, this
is interesting. And now it's gain legs. We were up,
we're down, we're over. We lost, and I know one thing.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I mean, it's it's it's this is this is my
favorite because I can the trolling of the Yankee fans.
We decided we're gonna have a loser song.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Are we gonna write a parody song about everything that
happened in the fifth inning of that World Series game?
In the style of That's life you're in judge in
the fly ball, not holding a runner, not covering first,
like all of these things put to music, I think
it just becomes a poem.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I think I think there's something there. Saw I judged
bumble and bumble and drop the ball. Now you made
it berman even better.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
But then Vopie he threw the ball wide up third base,
the grounder went to Rizzo and they forgot to come
for first base. That's life, that's the World Series.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You just decided, after all these years they're gonna make
some stark changes, you know what, facial hair.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It's kinda still like, we don't want any hippies. We
don't want duck dynasty up in here.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Hip And now we're gonna change the tradition of the
post game song.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I mean, really, I don't know who thought of this.
I mean, I'm glad they did, because this is such
a coach straight, this is such a great song. In fact,
I wouldn't be surprised. After a little while, Yankees go, Okay,
we're just going back to New York, New York, and
we're gonna play it.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You know what, after we win, we're just gonna forget
all together. We're gonna play. We're gonna play a Spring Steak.
I mean the way to Annex, New Jersey. The Yankees
are gonna go play on the road, and then the
top of the ninth. In the games they're losing, fans
are gonna start singing.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
That's live, that's live. That's what Yankee fans say. You're
righting high on Sunday, got swept.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Here in early man.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
How many times does a guy show up in a
suit in a fedora and then behind home plate in
the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Oh yeah, yoh, no no, and they'll give a mic
instead of the seventh and saying that's life. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
ninth inning stretch, you know, going to the top of
the ninth whatever, and somebody when the Yankees are down
to their last three outs. I mean, it's it rights itself.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Now that we have auditions for song leaders, just let
Stanton sing it.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Mike, you know, he's you're not standing itself. He doesn't
have to hold them up.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
He wears one of those little things like Dylan had
for his harmonica.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Exit Up bouta Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike
Harment coming up next, we get into a big NFL story.
There could be a big, big trade on the horizon. Fuck.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Big deal Austin reeves a big deal, right. We talked
about the shooters, right, They're a very big thing. This
is what's gonna open up, right. We talked with Luca
and Lebron opening up the floor. It's gonna be Hotchamore
and Reeves are gonna wind up with wide open shots.
You're gonna see there. Three point percentage is gonna improve.
They're gonna hit more shots. Is this is kind of
what you expected from the team, but it is not
(41:48):
Hotchymore and Austin Reeve.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Is it the fact that JJ Reddick will not have
to activate himself as these guys actually hit.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Shots just your nets. I just keep well, yes, my buddy,
JJ Reddick. I just keep thinking back to the fact,
like that scene from Major League two and when Roger
Dorn comes in and he's got the trench coat on
and he's telling all the bad news, and he says,
but here's a good news today. At eight am, I
activated myself and he opens up his trench coat. He's
(42:15):
got his Indians uniform. I was talking JJ Redding do
that one day. I'm just coming in and I'm doll
you know, he h, Well, coach, what do you?
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Oh? Yo?
Speaker 1 (42:22):
You're playing now? All right? Great? Okay, it works level work.
Oh but again we'll have that coming up in about
twenty minutes. Meanwhile, the Matthew Stafford saga just gets weirder
and weirder, to the point where now We're back to
where we were when it first came out that the
Rams can move on from Stafford. This weekend, you saw
(42:45):
the bombshell that the Rams are allowing he and his
agent to look at other teams, see if you can
find a trade, another other contract situation. You want to
find another situation that works better than this. And first
thing is because we got two big takes off of this.
First thing is, this is exactly what we told you
it was when it broke. This wasn't Matthew Stafford's thinking
about retiring. This is not he's waffling, because right after
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Stafford said I don't know what I want, Sean McVeigh
came out very strongly and said, you gotta let us
know soon. We don't want to revisit last year. This
is not what we want. And right away I knew
he wants more money, right because his contract's coming to
an m theaonio ohum five million dollars for this year.
He wants more money. He's not gonna quit, He's still
playing at a really high level. He wants more money.
(43:30):
And that was and you saw that point exacerbated last
week when Kelly Stafford were on a podcast saying I
love Los Angeles, but I love adventure. Like okay, So
both of you were throwing down the gauntlet, so we
knew this is a negotiation. They want more money from
the Rams, and the Rams are saying, not gonna do it.
Go out and try to get a better deal. You
get a better deal that you know, we'll figure something out.
(43:51):
It was real when it happened, and it was real
when it went through. I don't know that I would
I don't think I wouldn't move on from Stafford. I
would try to find a way to make this work
because clear the Rams are in a win now mode.
They were the they should be the team in the
NFL feeling the best. Not name the Eagles after the
Super Bowl because they were They were closest. They were
a couple of blocks or one bad penalty away from
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knocking out the Eagles and getting to the NFC Championship. Now,
I mean this was this is a very big deal,
right this They were the closest team to beating the
Eagles because they're really loaded on both sides of the ball,
and it wasn't even a great Rams team. They're gonna
replace Cooper Cup with DeVante Adams or someone like that.
This is a Rams team that's ready to go. Do
you really want to go break in a new quarterback?
(44:32):
I get that at some point you need to and
the Rams reload on the fly. I wouldn't trade Stafford.
I would hold on him and think, okay, let's try
to do it one more time. But it doesn't matter
because this was this was smoke, this was fired. This
is everything. The Rams are telling you. They're not gonna
tell Matthew Stafford go get another deal if they thought
they were confident one hundred percent wanted to bring him back.
(44:52):
They are okay with him finding some other deal and
moving on and maybe a little bit of an itchy
trigger finger for Sean McVeigh and company to move on
and say, hey, let's go get our next quarterback. But
this is absolutely real, and I can see Matthew Stafford
not coming back and pushing, pushing, pushing, and okay, this
is you know, what do they say about the dog
that catches the car? Hey, you did, but look look
what happened to you? Like this is Matthew Stafford going
(45:13):
a want more and want more. Okay, we'll let you
go get what you want now you're gonna go play
for the Titans or the Raiders or someplace else. We're
gonna reload and go to the super Bowl. So yeah,
they're absolutely ready to give him what he wants. This
is a real thing, and Stafford really could get trade.
This is not no longer a negotiation. Stafford thought it
was a negotiation and the Rams said, no, it's not.
You come back to play next year and that's it.
(45:33):
And Stafford and Kelly Stafford are upset and put out
there a little bit of two different avenue. Stafford with
the hey, I don't know what I want, Kelly Stafford
saying we're ready. I'm ready for adventure. Okay, now be
careful what you wish for, because you're just gonna put
you might get it right now.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Well, you have last season, a lot of waffling and
a lot of tiptoeing into the season, and they started
terribly and yes they were banged up, but the expectation
was that you had the veteran quarterback that would help
lead you through that. Kyn Williams still putting up numbers
and doing his thing defense that got off off the field,
and young and aggressive. You have two guys that you know,
(46:11):
qualify for Rookie of the Year and all of this
stuff that you have in the infrastructure to build. And
I think the message of hey, make a decision so
we can get after it. I think you got to
feel really good if you're a RAMS fan that you're
also not in that is Sean McVay waffling that you
did a year ago.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Oh here's right. Sean McVay seeks like he's got his
finger on that button going just tell me you want out,
or tell me you got to deal with other team
and boom. I'm not jetously, but that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Like, if they're ready to get on from Stafford, I'd
feel much better about my long term prospects if I'm
a RAMS fan or if I'm in the organization of Okay,
he's not going to TV anytime soon. He's gonna Dable
on Super Bowl Sunday and go hang out with Glazer
and the Fox guys. But he wants to be here
because otherwise you'd be trying to ride out whatever the
(46:58):
last vestiges of Matthew Stafford run. But the fact that
you're looking at the rest of whatever's out there in
free agency, whatever you're looking at in the draft. Maybe
you've identified a guy you like there, but odds are
you're you're looking at whether it's Rogers, whether it's Sam
Darnold that we talked with Jason locking for. And that
seemed to be a fairly obvious slide over. If the
(47:23):
Vikings don't put any type of tag on him, that
he would be the next guy. Remember, after all, he
is only twenty seven. We do that all the time,
either if you're really young and we think you're you're
at a position where all right, it's time, or you're
olding being put out the past there's the only time.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
We use ages.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
But all of that say, and this is where I
get to the uphamson.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
How oh, let's move on now.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
You're a very young defense, good offense. Probably need another
piece on the old line. Always can use an extra
piece on the old line. You'll replace Cooper cup like
we said, whether it's DeVante Adams or somebody else. Yeah,
for the organization, you're look, the numbers were not overwhelming
for staff. What was he twenty and eight on the year.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
But the last six, just like the year before, the
last was real and into the playoffs, he was really
But if you.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Played better early because you're not dancing around contracts or
sliding sliding into the quarterback needs to be there. Okay,
I think you, as a Jets fan would agree your
guys can't be off any wherever because you need to.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Establish afforts in Egypt with Aaron Rodgers what the hell
is he doing there?
Speaker 3 (48:31):
But the point being that games in September matter to go.
Ask Joe Burrow how he feels about things in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Look, how do you feel about having to play that
game in Philadelphia? Right instead of being in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (48:42):
But exactly right, you drop games to the Bears and
some other you know, woebe gone squads, and all of
a sudden your path towards getting to the end game
is a lot harder. And I think for this year
they're going, all right, we've got a team that could
bete Look at the division round. Yes, the division around
you more or less stinks, right, Seattle looks like they're
gonna sell off everybody for par sure, and with Gino
(49:04):
still as the trigger man.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah, the forty nine ers are gonna have to start.
They're gonna say they've got a lot of money, and
they gotta give Brock party money. At some point, right,
So it's and the Cardinals of the Cardinals, and the
Cardinals are interesting, but are they good now? And that's
why she looks, And that's why Sean McVay is staying
because he sees this window is open. They again, no
one reloads on the fly like the Rams. It is
so amazingly impressive, Like no matter what we we get
(49:28):
out from contracts, f them, picks, whatever it was, they
get out and they roll on. And I'll tell you
what's exciting, because I guarantee you this, and then I'll
tell you where the Ram should go is that there's
no way they move on from Stafford. And they don't know.
They know right now who their next quarterback is, Sean McVay.
They know right now it's either Matthew Stafford if he
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finishes this celling whatever it is, or it's our next guy.
And the more that this goes on, the more they
the more you you are able to move on from
Stafford and say okay now instead of being ready for
both cases, then you start rooting for Okay, we're moving
on from Matthew Stafford and we're gonna go to this
because the shiny new toy just gets more and more interesting.
That's just how people's psychees go. And when when you're
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saying we're good with either to either of these two guys,
eventually one guy becomes someone that, Okay, we don't want
him that much anymore. We want the other guy. And
if Stafford's not gonna be a big part of the future, hey,
they're gonna want to move on. So I guarantee you
they know and the minute they trade Matthew Stafford, it
will be a twofold uh situation where they will say,
we're trading Matthew Stafford to this team for this and
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we are acquiring Blank to be our starting quarterback. Right
It's gonna be bang bang, just like it was we're
trading Jared Goff. We're getting Matthew Stafford. It's not gonna
be one transaction, but they will trade him away and
they will announce their new quarterback right away. That's how
it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
The other part to this, and I joked about it
with mister Locke and for last hour is you know,
it's it's not that different than what Shane did with
with the Saquon Barkley situation. Right the phone call that
was her round the world seen on the off season
Hard Knocks and became the laughing stock. Is you don't
want to pay him what market is, right, That's what
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Shane decided with Barkley, go out and figure it out. Well,
if you had a number, you just get to the number.
Same thing here with Matt Stafford. You're very comfortable with
him walking away. Does it potentially set you back? Is
there are a lot of work that needs to be
done because you've got now established a full new identity.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
With another quarterback.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Yeah, it makes it harder, but you also recognize there's
going to be a marketplace for him and you and
you've got a number, right, the cap is whatever it
is that two seventy seven to two eighty one. You've
got other guys you need to pay. You're young in
a bunch of other places, which is great.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
So you can be.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Aggressively selective or selective aggression or whatever that cowboys term is.
It's what the Rams can do to go fill in
the pieces with stars that are out in the open marketplace.
If you don't have to commit fifties plus million dollars
to Matt Stafford, he's next two, three, whatever years he's
looking at but you recognize at a position like quarterback,
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there are a lot of starving teams. And we're talking
about Kyle McCord. Cool, that's great, but how many of
these guys are gonna be able to come in and
play Day one this year? One, maybe two of them
get to get thrown into the fire of whoever drafts
them out of this draft class. Otherwise it's Matt Stafford
head and shoulders of anybody else in the class except
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for Sam.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Now you say that maybe Sam Donald is the next
quarterback of the Red Right. Jason lock and Forred said
that last hour. A couple weeks now, he's been saying, hey,
they can make beautiful music together, and Sean McVay if
they can do a lot with Sam Donald. He's younger,
he's more mobile. You know, Sam Donald would be that guy.
And I would not be surprised if that was the move,
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If it was Okay, we are saying goodbye to Matthew Stafford,
and we'll say it to Sam Darnald because the Vikings said, oh,
we'll side whatever it is. We'll get something for him,
we'll transition him, we'll try to find a way to
get some kind of asset for him. Uh, it's gonna
be Sam Donald. But they should go bigger. They should
go bigger. And I would call this team for him
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and say, hey, what if we offered you whatever for
your quarterback? Are you trying to save Trevor Lawrence from
Shane Walder?
Speaker 4 (53:30):
I am.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
I will tell you who that is coming up. Now,
we got that and we have the Lakers, the one
biggest thing that people aren't talking about coming off this
win over the Nuggets in their back. That's straight ahead
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It's always something when we celebrate or commemorate. I don't
know that we're celebrated career when you when you talk
about the end of an era, and and in what
we've seen tonight in the NBA, it is time for
the era of one wanna be contender a team that
(01:14):
we've talked about so much for the better part of
the past decade. It is time to officially give them
their funeral, and it is time to move on. I'm saying,
is there's no more hope, there's it's this. This should
be the night where we look back and say this
is where the process ends. We trusted the process for
a long time. The process is over. The process is done.
(01:36):
The process happened. We saw what we saw. The process
has not gotten anywhere. Process carck it out of the
second round of the playoffs, maybe not even the first
round of the playoffs. The process is over. It's over
when you lose Tonight and the Sixers. We get to
the duel and b drama in a second without embiid
who they're pondering what's going to happen next room? Is
it going to be knee surgery? You lose to the
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Bulls by thirty two in a game with the Bulls
once led by fifty. I you know what, This must
be the best moment for the Bulls since Jordan hit
the jumper to win a Brian Russell. This's gotta be
the best one jumper over Brian Russell. Tonight. There you go,
there's there's your Bulls memories. You go if you if
you're a Bulls fan, you're pissed. Derek Rose, Okay, Derek Rose,
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MVP Season Jordan hits the jumper over Brian Russell. Derek Rose,
MVP Year. Tonight he pushed off though. That's that's the
that's the bull pushed off. They didn't call anything. He's slid.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
And if he's that weak to get moved by just
that little half assed forearm shiver, uh, then then it's
on him.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
All of that to say for the Bulls is a disaster.
There's a hurry tank mode too. It does. Any times
we're all trying to get to the bottom. You go
out and you put up this kind of effort. Yeah,
but you're not gonna get all the way to the bottom.
I mean at this point, you know, you know the
Wizards are never gonna win.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
A game bad.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's all about the helter skelter, get to the bottom.
I go back to the top. That's it. We got
to get to the bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
And beating the hell out of a hapless Sixers team
is not helping that effort.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I was good. Look, this is this is where I
just enjoy the night. I mean, it's the it's the
third best night you've had in thirty years. Okay, I
just enjoy the night.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
One of the great road winds and the time. I
mean you had five guys, what six guys in double figures,
two off the bench, Terry and Kobe White. Yeah it's right,
Kobe White off the bench, twenty five from Josh Giddy.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, all of us telling you many right, this is
the best. This is the best thing you'll ever seen.
Look again, Jumper over Russell, fast forward to Derek Rose.
What about the e as forward? I mean, the elo
is really where it starts, right.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Thing.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
But if I'm going back in erarors, like I'm only
going back from thirty years, I go back to ninety six,
So that's kind of I go, hope, go back to that.
That's the last one.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I mean, there hasn't been a lot since ninety eight. No,
as soon as.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
That, Yeah, you know, I gotta go had those.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Three years with Rod and all its great and stuff.
It's been a long time. Yeah, no, no, it's been
a while. Thirty years. In three highlights, I mean to
show you where we're at. I mean, they're really pumping
up a whole new release from upper deck of Hey,
remember all these classic moments of Jordan man at the
sign picture of.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Remembering where you were in the mid nineties. I'll tell
you now, look, we'll we'll, we'll, we'll get to more
on the Bulls. This is just a great night for them.
But this is the end of the process. Tonight signifies
the end of the process for the Sixers. This is
it in not knowing where to go. They tried to
build around Joel Embiid for a decade. He was hurt
early in his career a lot. By the time he
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came back, okay, prove himself to be an MVP caliber player.
Now he can't stay on the court anymore. Uh likely
gonna have knee surgery. He and the Sixers are talking
about it. I can't believe we're ever going to see
him on the court again this year. So he's not
gonna play again. The Sixers need We've talked about this
for a while. They need a reboot. They got to
five times though, that's the second round of the playoffs.
(05:08):
That's a second round. That's what I made. It sounds
the conference somebody. They've got to the conference quarter finals
and each of the last wee years. That's making the playoffs,
that's getting it to play in and winning a game.
This is what we do.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
We take language and we weaponize it, right, And that's
what I'm doing here by saying, look at the grand
nature of those flameouts, and for Joel Embiid, it's it's
one of those difficult things of yes, we've had some
fun at his expense over his availability, but coming from
where he did, you know those first two years where
it was we're not even gonna play you because there's.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
A process to this. I think process, no more trust,
no more trus.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Trust, I mean no more trust. It's difficult. Can't trust
the process is really a four letter word.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Can't do it. Can't trust the process. Can't And look,
the whole thing is that Joel Embiid should be dealt
in the off season. He should have surgery because he
needs to get healthy as soon as possible so the
Sixers can move on. They need to move taking that
on there, they need to move on. If he is Sixers,
eat every time. I want to make it happy.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Eat it.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There's a way to make it happen. There's always a
way for a guy like that who was still a
year and a half removed from being the MVP. If
he is healthy, if that's what I mean, have the
surgery now. So by the time July hits, Hey, everybody's
feeling good, looking good, everything is awesome. You might be
able to move on. This is this is the only
thing you can do well.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You can always find a doctor to sign off saying
there's a problem.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Everybody, this is good. The continued fight over the Mark
Williams flap. Was it good enough? Was he not?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
If we pull one hundred doctors, we're gonna find somebody
that says, yeah, let's let's go. He was perfectly fine, right,
same thing with a beat. What's what's going on? Nothing
to see here, It'll be just fine. It's time to go.
It's it was time to trade him. Uh, you can
now officially trade him in the off season.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's time. It's time to move on from Paul. We
talked about this last week. The big names that are
gonna be out there in the off season because teams
need to move on from these big name, high salary players,
the Sixers, Paul George, and Joel Embiid. Yeah, because even
even when all three guys are on the court at
the same time there were a game over five hundred,
So it's not like this whole thing. The process is over.
And that's why tonight is such a big deal because
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we've heard about trusting the process for over a decade.
Sammickey somewhere right now going, people are gonna call me
tomorrow man. They lost by thirty man. This is the process,
is a long living process. It's over. Here's a new
here's your new process. You have to move on from
Joel Embiid. You got to move on from Paul George,
build around Tyres Maxy. It is time for a new process.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Is it like the Freddy Krueger series where they had
the rebirth of what was the school where he's like
the kids like.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well and the kid took
over for Jason and Friday. That that was Corey Feldman. Actually,
I think before Lost Boys, uh, people tried Michael Jackson
when he like tookuse the one the one where Jay
he killed Jsarry spoiler he killed Jason at the end
and he shaved his head like Jason yeyah, Well and
well he doesn't really you think he's dead, And of
course for some reason you have to step over Jason, Like,
(08:09):
why can't just go out the other way? Why I
have to step over him? Well, go on the other way. Well,
maybe they watched Derek Fisher. You're not gonna not gonna
walk over Why am I gonna walk over a guy
with a machine. I'm gonna walk the other way. There's
some other opening, some other way that's less dangerous.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
No, no, no.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But then they walk over Jason, and then Jason gets up.
He goes, oh no no, and then he just starts
hacking away at him, like and the like the credits
are going and he's still and he's still hitting Jason
with the machete. And I'm sure the guy wasn't Tyler,
it was not tied. That's still.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Over.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
It's don't know, chuck the credits all the way through
the end. That's what we did in a photography, Key
Grip and Corey Felman is still just chopping away. Okay,
some frustrations well childhood actor, yes, stuff, But I don't
think they said, hey, take out all your frustrations on
this guy we got dressed up as Jason Vorgy. Once
(09:02):
that scene comes to bear, I mean, you don't know
what's gonna come out. I think we saw soon As
you say action, what do you think is gonna happen?
Here's a machete? Okay, what are you gonna do? What
am I You don't know how many times that guy yelled, cut,
I'm gonna shave with it. What am I gonna do?
I'm gonna shave my legs with it? What am I
gonna do? That would this guy? Man? Hey, you know,
we gotta know. But he was always supposed to hit
(09:24):
him a couple of times. As you say the credits
are still going, do you think that was organic? I mean,
I think that's what came out. He won't stop? Is
he okay?
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Okay in the back of yad stop He's already dead?
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Hey, I mean he sat in the Simpsons episode later on.
I mean tonight, the process died. Tonight. The process. I
like Jason Vorgan because that's kind of what it is. Man.
It's it's it's Corey Feldman just with the machete and
vorgis is the process. It's just like I'm gonna keep
getting you. I think the process is dead. No no, no,
keep going, keep going, keep going. Okay, we're done now,
no no, no, no way to the end.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
To the bulls process at home to the bulls process.
They should have when Joel Embiid came out before the
trade deadline and he had that triple double, that would
have been phone. You know, operators are standing by and
they should have shown them in the war room and
been like a bank of phones like five, you know,
like that sandwich shop that for whatever reason didn't open
(10:25):
til Nune on Sundays. Yeah, because that made a lot
of sense. Now, what's going on with all those phones
with the death of one? But like it's the way
it goes. It's like at the end of Big Lebowski. Right, hey,
you know Big Lebowski.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Sorry, sorry Donnie, but a new Lebowski comes into the
world right with the the death of one. So there's
no remix of the Big Lebowski. No, but I'm saying
it's the same time. It's the same kind. But I
know what you're doing. Well, most of the principals are
still with us, though. Listen, she kidnapped herself. Okay, don't
you get it. I have all the evidence she kidnapped herself.
(11:00):
So the new birth now, because what have we seen
win their seventh straight game tonight, not the Knicks. The
Detroit Pistons. What did I tell you? JB. Bickerstaff is
your coach of the Year. And it's not even close.
Detroit's now a top six team. And this is a
team that again hadn't been over five hundred since the
(11:22):
All Start break in over fifteen years. And they win
again tonight over the Clippers, and all of a sudden,
Detroit it's like, it's like Detroit basketball is back. Man.
There is no better story in the NBA than the Pistons.
I mean, look at this. They're a couple of games
away from creeping into the top four. They're only a
two games in a lost column back of the Bucks.
(11:45):
And then there's six games back in the Knicks. But
you're only two. You are two games back of getting
into the four seed, of having home court advantage in
the first round of the playoffs. Look at the Piston
the death of the Sixers, the birth of the Pistons.
How goes It's a sir, circle.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Of great in and out Burger out there. Great enough, Hey,
gunning Hand thirty two points in this one. He's been
on a roll. Kawhi Leonar Norman Poull did not play,
So let's hold up some candles for them? Does norm
not playing kind of shut people up that kept doing
all the lebron shouldn't have played in the All Star Games?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
So nor can play? Nor clearly can't play now Caddy
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Speaker 4 (15:31):
Jay?
Speaker 1 (15:31):
What's happening, Bud?
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What's going on? Gentlemen?
Speaker 1 (15:34):
About it? We'll get getting ready for the combine, man,
get getting ready for all the all the the over
sell on the players and to hear what the Cowboys
want to say about free agency.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
It's fun news.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Yeah. All, well, before we get to that, let let's
start here, because obviously this has become a big deal
over the last few days. Is the Matthew Stafford situation
where initially he's talking about read hiring, but then we thought, okay,
he wants more money. Looks like he wants more money
from the Rams. The Rams have allowed him to go
out and see his value on the market. Potentially they're
(16:08):
open to trading Matthew Stafford. Can they really trade him?
Did you really see this ending with Matthew Stafford playing
another team next season? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I absolutely think they can. I mean, I've been hearing
that Sam Donald's been waiting laying in the weeds for
you know, for I mean, I think I first were
about to watch him post six weeks so that you
know if he's not tagged. And again I think they'd
be stupid not to fans of them. But if they don't,
then I think he and Donald McVay think they can
(16:44):
make some pretty good music together. Just like not that
long ago, Sean McVay, right was ready to move off
with Jared Goff and give Bafford a toorol and you
could get Donald a less money. Donald's younger, Donald's got
more upside. Donald at this stage of his career is
more athletic. I yeah. I mean, look, every year people
(17:09):
think that they're pretty much kind of a milk toast
like team, right, and they keep, you know, ending up
in the playoffs more often than not, even though they've
had injuries and bad luck. This guy can coach his asshof.
So you recoup you know, some serious draft capital and
you get you know, a stand in type quarterback, and
(17:29):
you get him with more upside, and you get them
at a better stage of his career and you get
him cheaper. I mean, I think they could stangle that.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
You think they made less need had a call like
Shane did with Saquon Barkley to kind of say Hey,
you know, just give us a call back, you know,
when you figure out what the market is.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Please, I don't know anything about that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Just just having fun with it, because you go into
the marketplace and clearly you're a quarterback where you've got
so many desperate teams that that you're going to find
someone that's willing to pay that fifty million dollars. So
is Pittsburgh? Would they be the front runner in this?
Or where do where do you see us the landings?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
I think Pittsburgh. I think Pittsburgh absolutely would be interested.
I think the Giants you know, might might be interested.
I think the Raiders absolutely would be interested. Now you know, again,
how feasible is that? How feasible are most of these
places to win anywhere? You know? I think Pittsburgh's in
their own category. You can buy that defense, You certainly
(18:34):
can buy the special teams they need, they need help,
they need help at real players. There's no doubt about that.
You're going to need a commitment from ownership to try
to buy some of those players. And I think they
will come away with a free agent receiver who makes
significant money. I don't know that it'll be T Higgins
(18:55):
or not. You know, and there's certainly a drop off
after that, but I think I think the Pittsburgh Steelers could,
you know, be viable. I mean, I'm all to remember
the Pittsburgh Steelers and you know, we're four and two
with Justin Fields and like five and two with Russ Wilson,
and then obviously you know, the bottom fell out. But uh,
(19:18):
they don't run the ball as well as they should.
The offensive lines probably need some help. I mean, there's
no Utopius here, but I think that's an interesting fin.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You know. The one thing I think if I could
say one bold prediction, I could say, okay, Matthew Stafford trade.
What would happen? This is what I would say, the
Matthew Stafford trade. The Rams would announce it in conjunction
with the acquisition of their new quarterback. Like it's not
gonna be hey matt it would be hey, Matthew, thanks,
and here's our new quarterback, Like it would be Matthew's
gone and dartles in like they're gonna they're gonna do
(19:49):
a little bit of a blank you on this, just
like hey, we got to get rid of Jared Goff,
and you're trading you for Matthew Stafford here comes Like
it's not gonna be that kind of move, but it
would be one guy coming out and one guy coming in.
Well you're going out the door and you're coming in
the door.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Well that's what the combines are. I mean, like I said,
like that they'll be able to talk to Sam Donald.
They'll know his price point, They'll they'll know, you know,
what his hierarchy is, what the best fit is. If
if Donald doesn't look like you know that we can
come to a match with him, then maybe it's cousins.
(20:24):
It's not going to take wizardry and rocket science to
be able to gauge this market in real time while
you're trading Stafford for the most you can get for him, Like,
I don't think it's you know, it's going to take
a whole lot of finagalan or a whole lot of imagination.
Like it's just a matter of doing the work. And
(20:48):
again that's exactly what this week is all about. So
you know, do they also have a you know, bring
Garoppolo back in his insurance if it does end up
being a guy like and you're worried about the Achilles blone,
they can they know how to stock a quarterback room, like,
don't don't don't be able to, you know, walk in
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your gum.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
At the same time, moving on to one of our
favorite topics, the fun and excitement that is the off
season of the Dallas Cowboys. Can you define quote selectively
aggressive unquote.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I can spell the word BS for you. I can
spell that out.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
They're going to try to spell selectively. I'm like, is
that the E L y or no?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I can definitely spell this other eight letter word. I mean,
it's it's just, it's it's exactly it's verbal masturbasing. It's
saying just enough to make people stay quasi interested about
an utterly boring and pathetic franchise, and to keep themselves
from the periphery of the news cycle, and to know
just enough of a nibble or fake nibble to give
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people to keep them on the line. They have a
certain genius about that kind of stuff. I'm not particularly
good at building rosters or stocking football teams with talent.
They don't know how to do contracts in a fourth
right manner. Their drafts have been pretty pedestrian of late,
especially by their standards from six seven, eight years ago.
(22:19):
But my god, you know we're all in the business
of propagating Dallas Cowboys bs O. This is Look, don't
be the bust will be all over at all the
hotspots in Indianapolis, and they know what the whisper to
whom and what the plant were to Just kind of again,
have cowboys smoke? How much fire there's going to be?
(22:40):
Go look at this list of free agents. If you've
been saving your money to spend on these guys, you're
a damn fool. Okay, Like you're a you're a jackass
because there ain't much there, Like there just isn't so
and they're not that smart, but they're they're they're they're
smart enough to know that money does more for them
pocket than it does you know what I mean, paying
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thirty thirty to thirty three year old the caliber players
like their B pluses. They're not doing that they used
to do that. That's not as much more fun making
money this way.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
NFL insider Jason Locking for our guest the Jason Smithson
with Mike Carmon live from the tirec dot Com studios.
All Right, so, as far as smoke and what we
can see through what we can't, I find it hard
to believe that all this talk about, Hey, Aaron Rodgers
is a fix here, he's a solution here. He's this
guy here that's got to be smoke, right, I mean,
that is that real to be? I know the quarterback
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class in frequency is bad, Jay, but is it that bad?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I don't. I don't see a price point match for him.
I just don't, you know. Is he a guy who
just waits and some really good team has an injury
and he comes in with a contract that's loaded with
the sentis sentence for each win, you know, million dollars
(24:00):
a win, five million dollars if you still get us
to the playoffs, Like I don't know the upfront money.
I just you know, if somebody won't. The smart evaluators
I talked to his final year in Green Bay thought
he was a twenty to twenty five million dollar quarterback then.
And that's one good Achilles ago. So like, could he
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still get that money because of the market forces you're
talking about? Maybe where right now? You know where on
the second day of the league year, or the seventh
day of the league year, or the fourteenth day of
the league year. I don't know. I don't know. I
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don't see fun out Like, I don't see anybody who
got hired in one of these front offices who's a
champion of Aaron Rodgers or you know what I mean,
would have some deep ties to him where it's like, oh, well,
that'll be the guy that thinks he can fix it.
I don't know. I don't see an obvious match and
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the three you're going in the first round and maybe
it ends up being four, who knows, but that wouldn't
be good news for Aaron Rodgers either.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
So we get to the combine this weekend. Everybody started
to send on the usual haunts and we'll see everybody
operating except Abdul Carter has got a note from his
doctor and Shador Sanders is not going to do anything
actively anything to.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Read out of that. I mean, does that affect any
of the teams at the top and they're decision making
or is it just the business as usual?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
I mean if it does, then that's a blight on them.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
Yeah, just the idea that you can just start training
now after a couple of months of inactivity for Carter,
whether that slows down, you know, if you're looking for
an impact year one.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Is all poppy cock. These guys don't play football that
matters till September. No, I don't think it'll matter at all,
nor should it matter. They make these kids stay in
college for three years, right, I mean, that's just this
is what it is. It's the it's the NFL's minor leagues,
and they're in kuhoots together and they have arbitrary law,
you know, agreements about how long you've got to be
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there so that college gets its labor and then the
NFL gets those Like you've had plenty of time to
evaluate these kids, especially at the top of the draft.
I just I get a chuckle out of all those
who's going to do what this is? This is? It's ridiculous,
like it really, I mean, how many smart football people
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like Bill Belichick stop going? You know, but what are
we doing here? Like? What could we do? Okay, if
everybody's being harnessed there, like this is the only place
you could do business, what would a really smart person
find out? What could I do more efficiently? Like if
everybody's caught up in this group thing that really with
modern technology is outplayed. It's usefulness outside of the medicals.
(27:07):
But no football people need to be there for the medicals.
They wouldn't know what they hello to do, you know,
with the medicals if they try so, Uh No, I don't.
I don't think it will matter one bit. And I
don't think either of those young men, and they'll be
waiting very long to hear their name call.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
He's on Twitter at Jason lock and four That is
at Jason Locke and four Odyssey one O five seven
the Fan in Baltimore, Washington Post Jay as always by
the appreciated man. We'll talk to you next week unless
Stafford gets traded. Then we'll call you middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
I'm up for it out, buddy, Thank you for you, buddy.
There goes Jason Locking for you. This is gonna be
one of those This is gonna be one of those
combines where all the big stories are going to be manufactured. Story.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Does this mean anything? I don't think it does. But
maybe he differed. But knowing our our guy, mister Locking
for like I do, I was pretty sure of what
his answer was going to me.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But but I will give you a big, bold predict
now and you know where I'm coming, but I will
I'm telling you now. It's like, oh, Jason's not just
saying no, this is actually happening. I told you, I'm
telling you when it's all said and done, and you're
starting to see the rise now, Kyle McCord will go
in the first round of what did I tell you?
And he's gonna slide up into that first round end
of the front not or nothing. End of the first round.
(28:28):
Someone's gonna make a move up from early in the
second to get there to get him because he is
the quarterback riser. He is, but it's also the you
know riser.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
We always chuckle about that because these guys, we know
there's not only going to be two quarterbacks in a
first round, just not the way the business works, right,
because of such advantages that you get if you've got
a team that's any good, i e. Drafting at the
back end of the first round, and maybe you're in
a transition with your quarterback or expecting to be in
short order that you can go in and get that
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guy and bring him in at the back end of
the first and yeah, but Cord's that guy. Like I
told you this morning and tweeted at you to try
to make you feel better about your Mets team, which
is already.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Yeah, the Mets, we've lost two pitchers. The knick stinks
of Hey, all right, man, I'm trying to MC. I'll
tell you manifest McCord to the Jets. If I get
Kyle McCord to the Jets, I'll be extremely happy. But
I'll be the happiest guy. I'm not surprised at all.
And now it's going to be a love fest. He
is the story right shout Or is not gonna throw gent.
He's not going to be part of things. This thing
(29:31):
with Carter. I don't think it's a big deal. But
when you've got to go and literally you're.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Putting out a pressure release basically to say, hey, every
team's getting something from his doctor, Like do we need
to do that because a twenty nine of these teams. Yeah,
unless you're really looking to trade a bunch of stuff,
you had no shot at this guy.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
There's a reason why he went from I'm suing the
or I'm bringing action against college football for one more
year to suddenly I'm dropping that and going to the draft.
Like he knew he's he spins it. He throws better
than anybody in the drop. Everybody's gonna see it. Tell
him you man first round time now to find out
what's trending in the wide world of sports. But guy
who's been compared to being the Kyle McCord of Fox
(30:11):
Sports Radio a year ago, we got blamed for everything.
A year later, now everybody loves him. It's Steve to say, wasn't.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
McCord the watergate to the guy that chief of the
break in?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Uh? That was Gary McCord. Then went on to be
a golf a host.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Yeah, McCord breaks into first round. I can see it
now and just.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
The lights of the White House go on and off
and on and off. Happy to be on ahead of
the curve.
Speaker 6 (30:37):
Tonight I called the police and I told him there's
lots going on in that hotel over there.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
The NFL scouting Combines workouts start Thursday.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Interviews started today.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
This Saturday is the workouts for quarterbacks, running backs, and
wide receivers. Penn State edge rusher Abduall Carter will not
work out it this week's combine, recovering from a shoulder injury.
His pro days in about a month. Boise State running
back Ashton j we'll interview with teams but not work
out this week. He'll have on field drills during his
pro day instead. Colorado quarterback Shoto or Sandiers will reportedly
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meet with teams at the Combine but not work out.
The Carolina Panthers will allow linebacker Shaq Thompson to leave
in free agency. The NFL's new league year begins March twelfth.
The Browns are releasing safety one Thornhill. Training camps open
next Monday for the UFL, the Spring League, which has
eight teams. As for men's college basketball, Tonight, on FS one,
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fifteenth ranked Michigan won forty nine forty six at Nebraska,
poor shooting each side, but the Wolverines are now tied
for first with Michigan State in the Big Ten standings,
and Michigan in a couple weeks ends the season at
Michigan State. In the last eleven seasons, it had been
that long since a team won a Big Ten conference
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game scoring less than fifty points like Michigan did tonight.
In fact, the last time the Wolverines won with so
few points was two thousand and eight. Currently numbers.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
If they lost that game to Appalachian State, if they'd
tried to field goal at the end, yeah that's what happened.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
Yeah, Well, the problem was you had Mike hartoff the
field for both two point conversions.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I remember it well.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Number four Houston leads forty six forty two at tenth
three Texas Tech with about eleven minutes to go. And
in the NBA tonight, Oklahoma City's having an incredible season
forty six and ten record. They just won the late
game last night at Minnesota. They're rematching tonight. Okase has
blown a twenty five point lead and now trails in
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overtime one twenty nine, one twenty eight to the Timberwolves
twenty three seconds left in the OT. Two other NBA
games still going. Portland leads mid third quarter seventy three
sixty three at Utah. The late game early second quarter
at Sacramento has the Kings ahead of the Hornets thirty
seven to twenty five. Atlanta and Denver each one Detroit one.
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At seventh in a row. Washington ended a six game
losing streak beating Brooklyn one oh seven ninety nine, so
the Wizards record now ten and forty seven, and Chicago
had lost sixth straight but got to play at Philadelphia
and beat Philly one forty two to one. Ten eight
straight losses for Philadelphia Joel Embiid is having more tests
on his knee this week. He was out tonight due
(33:09):
to knee swelling at a notable NHL game at Winnipeg
come back overtime win for the Jets to one over
San Jose. Winnipeg has won.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Ten games in a row.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Sad to pass along that sportscaster Al Troutwick died of
cancer at the age of sixty eight in New York.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve o msg legend Al Troutwiz.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Absolutely, so many generations of people grew up watching Al
trout We look at the guy was big than Olympics.
He did. He did all kinds of national National Game,
US Open. I mean Al trout He had a great voice. Oh,
he was His voice that was so identifiable. He was
one of those guys where when you say, just hearing
him made the game sound bigger, that's absolutely true. There's
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certain guys here and you go, okay, this is this
is He just had that ability to do that.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Trout Wick, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon Lock from the Tirack
dot Com studios Coming up next. I'm not selling this short.
If you hate the Yankees. This is maybe the best
story in the last twenty years. That's next right here,
Jason and might.
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this story's pretty simple. When I saw it this weekend
and into today, I thought, oh, this is my favorite story.
I mean, I've been waiting twenty years for a story
like this, waiting that long. The Yankees have decided. Now
you know they play New York, New York after every
game at the Yankee Stadium, right, so that's only what
they do. You know, the Yankee game ends, Yankees win,
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whatever it is, right, But the Yankees have decided, And
I don't know how this got to the point where
they said, we're gonna do this. They're only gonna play
New York, New York after they win. Okay, they're gonna
play a different song after they lose. And now it
looks like it's gonna be That's Life by Frank Sinatra.
And I saw this story and I said, this is
(35:26):
the best story. And my wife said why, I said,
because the Yankees have a loser song. They decided it's
a good idea for us to have a loser song
that they could be trolled with. That I can just
start singing That's Life to any Yankee fan after a
game and they're gonna hang up on me. The Yankees decided,
you know what it is, we can't just keep playing
New York. No, let's get a loser song so that
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when we lose a game, everybody knows this is a
song we're gonna hear. This is I don't know how
you sit in a meeting with pr or advertise or
whatever it is. Yes, we're gonna make sure we have
a loser song. I know you have one song, right,
If your song is why I went, I mean win
or lose.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Right.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
It's one of my favorite songs all time. Was the
San Diego Supercharger song. They would play it after every game,
win or lose you Sandy, And then you hear Burmant Sandy,
you go super jar jarg DJ. But you heard the song, right,
because that's the team song. No, no, no, We're gonna
have a losers.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
That's the bast you've been identified forever, right.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
I mean I still love La one way or another.
I mean, like all that is, like you don't give in.
I get it.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Folks were trolling you a bunch after the change of
the facial hair policy that's been in place for forty
years and rubbing it in the face a big stein
after all these years and changing that. So we had
fun with it. We talked about it on the show.
You could find the podcast there. And I know it's
a reaction to a lot of changes, but I liked
(36:57):
what Aaron Judge had to say. Look, if that's the
determining fact of whether you wanted to be here, then
you don't belong here. And I agree with that all right,
But also you owe to personal brands, identify viable traits
and all of those things.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But this is.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Why would you have a song when you lose? Like
my kids always would joke watching Northwestern games and they'd
stay through when the band would come out and play
the Alma mater. And at one point, because look, we
have not been very good for long stretches of time, newsflash,
they would joke. I was like, so they only play
this when they lose, Like, no play when we win too.
(37:35):
That just doesn't happen as frequently. But they identified that
as the loser song. I'm like, no, no, no, that's
the Alma mater.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
That's different.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
But now this is clearly identified with a loss or
whatever song. It sounds like they may decide on a
rotation of things, but at least in the moment.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
And how do you think Sinatra's family feels about this.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Song?
Speaker 1 (37:59):
But I mean, now that's a loser song. This is
like I expected somebody from the Mets to be working
for the Yankees to come up with this. Hey, let's
have a song. We're gonna have a loser song we
play after when we lose games. Became an embedded agent
with the New York Yankees. What did you do? I
suggested the other song? That's I mean. My dad called
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me yesterday and I asked the phone and I said,
been a puppet, a pirate, a poet. Paprio's oh jeez,
you're done. You're done yet you're done.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
But he knew already, see because that started circulating yesterday,
what late morning, early afternoon. I was like, okay, this
is interesting. And now it's gain legs. We were up,
we're down, we're over. We lost, and I know one thing.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
I mean, it's it's it's this is this is my
favorite because I can the trolling of the Yankee fans.
We decided we're gonna have a loser song.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
Are we gonna write a parody song about everything that
happened in the fifth inning of that World Series game?
In the style of That's life you're in judge in
the fly ball, not holding a runner, not covering first,
like all of these things put to music, I think
it just becomes a poem.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
I think I think there's something there. Saw I judged
bumble and bumble and drop the ball. Now you made
it berman even better.
Speaker 6 (39:25):
But then Vopie he threw the ball wide up third base,
the grounder went to Rizzo and they forgot to come
for first base. That's life, that's the World Series.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You just decided, after all these years they're gonna make
some stark changes, you know what, facial hair.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It's kinda still like, we don't want any hippies. We
don't want duck dynasty up in here.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Hip And now we're gonna change the tradition of the
post game song.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I mean, really, I don't know who thought of this.
I mean, I'm glad they did, because this is such
a coach straight, this is such a great song. In fact,
I wouldn't be surprised. After a little while, Yankees go, Okay,
we're just going back to New York, New York, and
we're gonna play it.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
You know what, after we win, we're just gonna forget
all together. We're gonna play. We're gonna play a Spring Steak.
I mean the way to Annex, New Jersey. The Yankees
are gonna go play on the road, and then the
top of the ninth. In the games they're losing, fans
are gonna start singing.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
That's live, that's live. That's what Yankee fans say. You're
righting high on Sunday, got swept.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Here in early man.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
How many times does a guy show up in a
suit in a fedora and then behind home plate in
the ninth inning.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
Oh yeah, yoh, no no, and they'll give a mic
instead of the seventh and saying that's life. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
ninth inning stretch, you know, going to the top of
the ninth whatever, and somebody when the Yankees are down
to their last three outs. I mean, it's it rights itself.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
Now that we have auditions for song leaders, just let
Stanton sing it.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
Mike, you know, he's you're not standing itself. He doesn't
have to hold them up.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
He wears one of those little things like Dylan had
for his harmonica.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Exit Up bouta Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith, Mike
Harment coming up next, we get into a big NFL story.
There could be a big, big trade on the horizon. Fuck.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Big deal Austin reeves a big deal, right. We talked
about the shooters, right, They're a very big thing. This
is what's gonna open up, right. We talked with Luca
and Lebron opening up the floor. It's gonna be Hotchamore
and Reeves are gonna wind up with wide open shots.
You're gonna see there. Three point percentage is gonna improve.
They're gonna hit more shots. Is this is kind of
what you expected from the team, but it is not
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Hotchymore and Austin Reeve.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
Is it the fact that JJ Reddick will not have
to activate himself as these guys actually hit.
Speaker 1 (41:54):
Shots just your nets. I just keep well, yes, my buddy,
JJ Reddick. I just keep thinking back to the fact,
like that scene from Major League two and when Roger
Dorn comes in and he's got the trench coat on
and he's telling all the bad news, and he says,
but here's a good news today. At eight am, I
activated myself and he opens up his trench coat. He's
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got his Indians uniform. I was talking JJ Redding do
that one day. I'm just coming in and I'm doll
you know, he h, Well, coach, what do you?
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Oh? Yo?
Speaker 1 (42:22):
You're playing now? All right? Great? Okay, it works level work.
Oh but again we'll have that coming up in about
twenty minutes. Meanwhile, the Matthew Stafford saga just gets weirder
and weirder, to the point where now We're back to
where we were when it first came out that the
Rams can move on from Stafford. This weekend, you saw
(42:45):
the bombshell that the Rams are allowing he and his
agent to look at other teams, see if you can
find a trade, another other contract situation. You want to
find another situation that works better than this. And first
thing is because we got two big takes off of this.
First thing is, this is exactly what we told you
it was when it broke. This wasn't Matthew Stafford's thinking
about retiring. This is not he's waffling, because right after
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Stafford said I don't know what I want, Sean McVeigh
came out very strongly and said, you gotta let us
know soon. We don't want to revisit last year. This
is not what we want. And right away I knew
he wants more money, right because his contract's coming to
an m theaonio ohum five million dollars for this year.
He wants more money. He's not gonna quit, He's still
playing at a really high level. He wants more money.
(43:30):
And that was and you saw that point exacerbated last
week when Kelly Stafford were on a podcast saying I
love Los Angeles, but I love adventure. Like okay, So
both of you were throwing down the gauntlet, so we
knew this is a negotiation. They want more money from
the Rams, and the Rams are saying, not gonna do it.
Go out and try to get a better deal. You
get a better deal that you know, we'll figure something out.
(43:51):
It was real when it happened, and it was real
when it went through. I don't know that I would
I don't think I wouldn't move on from Stafford. I
would try to find a way to make this work
because clear the Rams are in a win now mode.
They were the they should be the team in the
NFL feeling the best. Not name the Eagles after the
Super Bowl because they were They were closest. They were
a couple of blocks or one bad penalty away from
(44:11):
knocking out the Eagles and getting to the NFC Championship. Now,
I mean this was this is a very big deal,
right this They were the closest team to beating the
Eagles because they're really loaded on both sides of the ball,
and it wasn't even a great Rams team. They're gonna
replace Cooper Cup with DeVante Adams or someone like that.
This is a Rams team that's ready to go. Do
you really want to go break in a new quarterback?
(44:32):
I get that at some point you need to and
the Rams reload on the fly. I wouldn't trade Stafford.
I would hold on him and think, okay, let's try
to do it one more time. But it doesn't matter
because this was this was smoke, this was fired. This
is everything. The Rams are telling you. They're not gonna
tell Matthew Stafford go get another deal if they thought
they were confident one hundred percent wanted to bring him back.
(44:52):
They are okay with him finding some other deal and
moving on and maybe a little bit of an itchy
trigger finger for Sean McVeigh and company to move on
and say, hey, let's go get our next quarterback. But
this is absolutely real, and I can see Matthew Stafford
not coming back and pushing, pushing, pushing, and okay, this
is you know, what do they say about the dog
that catches the car? Hey, you did, but look look
what happened to you? Like this is Matthew Stafford going
(45:13):
a want more and want more. Okay, we'll let you
go get what you want now you're gonna go play
for the Titans or the Raiders or someplace else. We're
gonna reload and go to the super Bowl. So yeah,
they're absolutely ready to give him what he wants. This
is a real thing, and Stafford really could get trade.
This is not no longer a negotiation. Stafford thought it
was a negotiation and the Rams said, no, it's not.
You come back to play next year and that's it.
(45:33):
And Stafford and Kelly Stafford are upset and put out
there a little bit of two different avenue. Stafford with
the hey, I don't know what I want, Kelly Stafford
saying we're ready. I'm ready for adventure. Okay, now be
careful what you wish for, because you're just gonna put
you might get it right now.
Speaker 3 (45:48):
Well, you have last season, a lot of waffling and
a lot of tiptoeing into the season, and they started
terribly and yes they were banged up, but the expectation
was that you had the veteran quarterback that would help
lead you through that. Kyn Williams still putting up numbers
and doing his thing defense that got off off the field,
and young and aggressive. You have two guys that you know,
(46:11):
qualify for Rookie of the Year and all of this
stuff that you have in the infrastructure to build. And
I think the message of hey, make a decision so
we can get after it. I think you got to
feel really good if you're a RAMS fan that you're
also not in that is Sean McVay waffling that you
did a year ago.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Oh here's right. Sean McVay seeks like he's got his
finger on that button going just tell me you want out,
or tell me you got to deal with other team
and boom. I'm not jetously, but that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Like, if they're ready to get on from Stafford, I'd
feel much better about my long term prospects if I'm
a RAMS fan or if I'm in the organization of Okay,
he's not going to TV anytime soon. He's gonna Dable
on Super Bowl Sunday and go hang out with Glazer
and the Fox guys. But he wants to be here
because otherwise you'd be trying to ride out whatever the
(46:58):
last vestiges of Matthew Stafford run. But the fact that
you're looking at the rest of whatever's out there in
free agency, whatever you're looking at in the draft. Maybe
you've identified a guy you like there, but odds are
you're you're looking at whether it's Rogers, whether it's Sam
Darnold that we talked with Jason locking for. And that
seemed to be a fairly obvious slide over. If the
(47:23):
Vikings don't put any type of tag on him, that
he would be the next guy. Remember, after all, he
is only twenty seven. We do that all the time,
either if you're really young and we think you're you're
at a position where all right, it's time, or you're
olding being put out the past there's the only time.
Speaker 1 (47:39):
We use ages.
Speaker 3 (47:40):
But all of that say, and this is where I
get to the uphamson.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
How oh, let's move on now.
Speaker 3 (47:46):
You're a very young defense, good offense. Probably need another
piece on the old line. Always can use an extra
piece on the old line. You'll replace Cooper cup like
we said, whether it's DeVante Adams or somebody else. Yeah,
for the organization, you're look, the numbers were not overwhelming
for staff. What was he twenty and eight on the year.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
But the last six, just like the year before, the
last was real and into the playoffs, he was really
But if you.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Played better early because you're not dancing around contracts or
sliding sliding into the quarterback needs to be there. Okay,
I think you, as a Jets fan would agree your
guys can't be off any wherever because you need to.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
Establish afforts in Egypt with Aaron Rodgers what the hell
is he doing there?
Speaker 3 (48:31):
But the point being that games in September matter to go.
Ask Joe Burrow how he feels about things in Cincinnati.
Speaker 1 (48:37):
Look, how do you feel about having to play that
game in Philadelphia? Right instead of being in Los Angeles?
Speaker 3 (48:42):
But exactly right, you drop games to the Bears and
some other you know, woebe gone squads, and all of
a sudden your path towards getting to the end game
is a lot harder. And I think for this year
they're going, all right, we've got a team that could
bete Look at the division round. Yes, the division around
you more or less stinks, right, Seattle looks like they're
gonna sell off everybody for par sure, and with Gino
(49:04):
still as the trigger man.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
Yeah, the forty nine ers are gonna have to start.
They're gonna say they've got a lot of money, and
they gotta give Brock party money. At some point, right,
So it's and the Cardinals of the Cardinals, and the
Cardinals are interesting, but are they good now? And that's
why she looks, And that's why Sean McVay is staying
because he sees this window is open. They again, no
one reloads on the fly like the Rams. It is
so amazingly impressive, Like no matter what we we get
(49:28):
out from contracts, f them, picks, whatever it was, they
get out and they roll on. And I'll tell you
what's exciting, because I guarantee you this, and then I'll
tell you where the Ram should go is that there's
no way they move on from Stafford. And they don't know.
They know right now who their next quarterback is, Sean McVay.
They know right now it's either Matthew Stafford if he
(49:49):
finishes this celling whatever it is, or it's our next guy.
And the more that this goes on, the more they
the more you you are able to move on from
Stafford and say okay now instead of being ready for
both cases, then you start rooting for Okay, we're moving
on from Matthew Stafford and we're gonna go to this
because the shiny new toy just gets more and more interesting.
That's just how people's psychees go. And when when you're
(50:10):
saying we're good with either to either of these two guys,
eventually one guy becomes someone that, Okay, we don't want
him that much anymore. We want the other guy. And
if Stafford's not gonna be a big part of the future, hey,
they're gonna want to move on. So I guarantee you
they know and the minute they trade Matthew Stafford, it
will be a twofold uh situation where they will say,
we're trading Matthew Stafford to this team for this and
(50:32):
we are acquiring Blank to be our starting quarterback. Right
It's gonna be bang bang, just like it was we're
trading Jared Goff. We're getting Matthew Stafford. It's not gonna
be one transaction, but they will trade him away and
they will announce their new quarterback right away. That's how
it's gonna go.
Speaker 4 (50:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (50:45):
The other part to this, and I joked about it
with mister Locke and for last hour is you know,
it's it's not that different than what Shane did with
with the Saquon Barkley situation. Right the phone call that
was her round the world seen on the off season
Hard Knocks and became the laughing stock. Is you don't
want to pay him what market is, right, That's what
(51:09):
Shane decided with Barkley, go out and figure it out. Well,
if you had a number, you just get to the number.
Same thing here with Matt Stafford. You're very comfortable with
him walking away. Does it potentially set you back? Is
there are a lot of work that needs to be
done because you've got now established a full new identity.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
With another quarterback.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Yeah, it makes it harder, but you also recognize there's
going to be a marketplace for him and you and
you've got a number, right, the cap is whatever it
is that two seventy seven to two eighty one. You've
got other guys you need to pay. You're young in
a bunch of other places, which is great.
Speaker 1 (51:47):
So you can be.
Speaker 3 (51:48):
Aggressively selective or selective aggression or whatever that cowboys term is.
It's what the Rams can do to go fill in
the pieces with stars that are out in the open marketplace.
If you don't have to commit fifties plus million dollars
to Matt Stafford, he's next two, three, whatever years he's
looking at but you recognize at a position like quarterback,
(52:11):
there are a lot of starving teams. And we're talking
about Kyle McCord. Cool, that's great, but how many of
these guys are gonna be able to come in and
play Day one this year? One, maybe two of them
get to get thrown into the fire of whoever drafts
them out of this draft class. Otherwise it's Matt Stafford
head and shoulders of anybody else in the class except
(52:33):
for Sam.
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Now you say that maybe Sam Donald is the next
quarterback of the Red Right. Jason lock and Forred said
that last hour. A couple weeks now, he's been saying, hey,
they can make beautiful music together, and Sean McVay if
they can do a lot with Sam Donald. He's younger,
he's more mobile. You know, Sam Donald would be that guy.
And I would not be surprised if that was the move,
(52:56):
If it was Okay, we are saying goodbye to Matthew Stafford,
and we'll say it to Sam Darnald because the Vikings said, oh,
we'll side whatever it is. We'll get something for him,
we'll transition him, we'll try to find a way to
get some kind of asset for him. Uh, it's gonna
be Sam Donald. But they should go bigger. They should
go bigger. And I would call this team for him
(53:20):
and say, hey, what if we offered you whatever for
your quarterback? Are you trying to save Trevor Lawrence from
Shane Walder?
Speaker 4 (53:30):
I am.
Speaker 1 (53:31):
I will tell you who that is coming up. Now,
we got that and we have the Lakers, the one
biggest thing that people aren't talking about coming off this
win over the Nuggets in their back. That's straight ahead
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