March 5, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike take you through the Dallas Mavericks last month. Roki Sasaki was as-advertised in his Dodgers Spring Training debut. Maxx Crosby thinks highly of Aaron Rodgers. And Jason explains why Tom Brady needs a win after taking L's on Ben Johnson & Matthew Stafford.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio
dot com, or stream us live every night on the
iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
One ball, two stripes. Man, there's that grunk bring fastball
for strike three. Yeah, hell, little spin on it at
angle hoas unbelievable. There's strike three. Gows a little cutter
up there and he catches mccrane looking show his first
two strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh, welcome into the Roki Sazaki Show with my best
friend Roki Sazaki.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Sports Radio. Happy Tuesday. It's gonna be that kind of
Absolutely it's Yamamoto into Sasaki tonight for the dodgers'll be
that kind of show. Yeah, buckle up, everybody, and the
Knicks lost. Go ahead, Frostburg give Rookie Sasaki's line from today.
I mean, the box score wouldn't even do it. That's justice.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It might be the greatest thing we've ever seen. Good
luck hitting that splinter. Is it anything like the ghost
fork or whatever?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I will absolutely crack. I will take my chances with
Juan Sot in the NLCS against Rokie Sasaki. I will
take my chances with that. Of course you would. But
you can't get there. I will. You can't get We
should have it right now. We should not even need
the baseball season, Mets and the Dodgers in the NLCS
book it. Let's go, let's go. It's all we need
(01:55):
American League. All those pesky other teams Junior Circuit can
go play whatever they want to. Let's go right to
the NLCS. Let's go, let's do it. You're just trying
to kill the economy, don't you know that we sell
a lot of tickets even for bad teams, just like
right now. I really, especially after the Knicks loosen. Oh no,
big Bodega tonight. I really am ready for cav Celtics
and Lakers thunder. Oh yea, I'm kind of ready for that.
(02:16):
We can we could just jump to that. I'm ready
for both.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We got a long ways to go, though, I mean,
we have to celebrate every moment and really build it up. Right.
It's been a short run up to this point. I mean,
I don't I don't think we've done everything we can
to talk about how three weeks ago everybody wanted to
go pack Rob Polinka's house well and fire JJ Reddick,
you know, and people just like the voluntility of the
(02:40):
housing market, you know, or packed your house. No, no, no,
Now it's worth some money, but it's just it's just
so funny how how fast things she has, Like, just
wait for it. Let me do my job, right, it's
it's draft dance. Conser when he's getting run out and
Dennis Leary's ready to walk out. You want to coach
this team? You think you can coach this team now, jerk.
I don't know why I made this. I made this
(03:02):
jump in my head was like, hey, remember the movie
ten point five, the made for TV movie about fifteen
years ago. It was about the ten point five earthquake
that hits Okay and it was seriously over the top. Yeah,
what has to be Dowlay Hill was in it, I think,
and Doulay Hill I remember they they had like the
local news here in La watched it did a whole
(03:23):
thing where hey, here's it was this big made for
TV movie event. So it comes out and they actually
watched it with a bunch of seismologists and watching them
laugh at some of the things that happened to go
a ten point five ago. None of us would be
here if there was a ten point five, right, So
I remember the whole thing was like, oh, you know,
everybody's word, all the valuable real estate across the coast, right,
(03:44):
But then the ten point five hits and like of course,
everybody is trying to get inland as far as they can,
and then everything stops, like in the middle of Nevada,
and I forget it was Deulay Hill's character me Kim
Delaney was that said, well, this is a new beachfront
property that's all of a sudden, this is worth a
lot of money, Kim de Lady boom Bridges, John Schneider
(04:04):
of the Dukes of haz Did I miss him? He's
not listed as one of the stars, Kayley. Oh wow,
that's a fred Ward. Oh Fred Ward was in. It's
my job to keep this very very much.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I love fred Ward. I dig this. I'm gonna go
back and find it a mini series. I remember what
they showed it. They go a ten point five is
gonna hit the seismologists all go, I'm laughing looking at
a dead point five deadoin. But I used to do
that in economics class, so like assume this, this and this.
I'm like, all right, then I'm finding a brick and
I'm chasing. Sure. Wait what I'm like with those those
(04:43):
series of assumptions things have gone down? There goes Harmon
with a brick. Now speaking of things going to hell, Yeah, boy,
I could just that. That's a good one. Just start going.
There's lots of different things I can throw when they're
gonna start trading one. No, no, no, no, no. I
I mean look obviously it's because I mean, like, it's
a big night in the NBA. We talked the Knicks
(05:03):
just lost to the Warriors by ten. They didn't you know,
no shock, they lost to a good team. No Karl
Anthony Towns in the game, you didn't play. So okay,
I get that's fine. And Steff came back. He was
out for a bit but came back in. We're clearly
the third best team in the East. I'm okay with that.
It's absolutely fine. Uh you know, the second night of
the game of the double headers about to begin. But
uh yeah, once again today a gut punch for the Mavericks,
(05:27):
who just boy, they if you said all you have
to do for success is get out of bed in
the morning, they would find a way to trip in
their sheets, hit their heads on the ground and get
knocked on because this way you're like a running back
after a game where you sleep on the ground floor.
You always had to have a bedroom on the first
is it is knowing that the morning after you were
not gonna be able to go up or downstairs. H
it is awful. We got the Lakers coming up. Okay,
(05:48):
obviously it's gonna be another bad night for the for
the Mavericks because here come the Lakers and Luca they're
both everybody's playing Lebron is probable, Lucas probable. They're playing
one fifty. And we we find out today that Kyrie Irving,
after leaving the game last night knee injury, shot a
couple of free throws, left the game torn acl he
(06:10):
is done for the season. And now, yes, and now
you wonder when you're done for the season in March,
when does that mean you're gonna return like done for
the season, You think, Oh man, all right, look at
how things are falling for us now it's not going great. Obviously,
we're still trying to get off of this right away
from the outside front of the Luca trade, all the
(06:31):
all the fallout from it, all right, But when you're
when you tore your acl in March, that's like in
end of the year, maybe beginning a next year kind
of thing, especially when you're thirty two. And for the Mavericks,
it's just they just can't they just can't miss anything.
They are sideshow Bob continuing to step into the rake
on the Simpsons, and they can't avoid no matter where
(06:54):
they step, they can't avoid the rake. It okay, Luca
gets traded, we got ad. Okay, boy ad, he is
hurt buying stepping into the ring. Uh Luca after questions
about his stamina and fitness. Boy now he's terrific buying
stepping into the ring. But okay, we're still winning some
games and Kyrie is turning back into a really good
player buying step into the rake again like they are
(07:14):
continuing to step in the and there are still hundreds
of rakes on the ground and the Mavericks just can't
buy a break. And at this point, if the Mavericks
said you know what a Nico Harrison said. Look, we
got we got to stop. We can't play any more games.
We're done. It's just not going our We'll seed our
spot in the playoffs. We'll slide into the lottery. Maybe
we can get Cooper Flagg. We'll slide in the lottery.
(07:36):
Because it's just this is just not our year. Sometimes
you don't need you need to be you need some
signs now, I don't know if it's our year. I
don't have to No, this is showing you it's not
gonna be your year. It's not gonna be your year.
Today's takes last night as that injury was coming down,
and even if it was a knees brain, you're talking
about a couple of weeks. And we started to see
the internet doctors uh come across and we we posited
(07:58):
that theory of is that that you would look at
it and say operation shutdown. Begins the old Derek Bell
line from way back in the day with the Pirates.
When you look at Anthony Davis, who's always gonna be
already gonna be another couple of weeks, Lively and Gafford
already out indefinitely when they were going to be able
to be cleared, and now you have this devastating injury.
(08:19):
I mean he's coming back what twenty six, twenty seven
at this point, So yeah, you're only a couple of
games from sliding out into the into the abyss. Yeah
for Nico Harrison right now, that's the best scenario. And
they got that dust storm did hit the song crazy
It looks like Corroissant. I'm like, wow, that's a goodness
except without the flying cars. Oh my good, Dallas is
(08:42):
just again. But we can't say g I those in pretty.
Did you said Croissant? I said no, I said Coroissant,
coras Croissant. Now if I said chroissant, you know when
I say croissant, you'll know what I say. Coorissant Coroissant. Okay,
yeah it does sound like chrossotic. But I did say chorissant.
Do you think he was eating breakfast when he came
up with the name. What am I gonna call this planet?
(09:02):
They go, do Did you say Corusot? Yes? Yes, there
you go there there it's I mean, really Dallas and
with everything going on with the you know, with the
cowboys just still being bad, well they cleared up some
cap space today though, so that'll help. But the thing
that you know, and this is where I know that
the Mavericks, if they just stopped playing with the season
can come at the end of the season, can come
fast enough for them. You have the story yesterday with
(09:24):
the with the we're increasing season tickets, the price for
season tickets, and well be here for the rebuild. Ever
it's on, I get a cost you eight percent. Everybody
is mad that, oh, when you play Kyrie all these minutes,
something's gonna happen playing them too many minutes, playing them
to it. Yes, of course, playing two minutes. Okay, let's stop.
Let's examine this, right. I understand, and I'm gonna give
(09:44):
people a pass on this because I get that we're
still in the I just want to be upset stage. Sure,
I just want to because there are certain things that
happened when when I'm mad about something, and like palm
RIZOI will try to say, I go, no, you know what,
I just want to be mad for five minutes and
then I'm gonna move on. Right, the Mavericks are still
in five minute mad mad part of this where they're
just want to be mad. Nkos look at us and
(10:04):
now they're killing us. And look look at Jason Kiddy's
playing him too many minutes? Okay, in the last few days,
is Kyrie Irving playing a few a couple more minutes
than he has been? Yeah, but he had been averaging
about thirty four and a half minutes a game. Now
he's up close to thirty seven. Right, he was at
thirty seven. The whole season's been it's not been a
build up. But he started out at like playing thirty
(10:26):
three minutes, now thirty eight minutes, then thirty five minutes.
Then he was at thirty six and a half minutes.
Now he's at thirty eight minutes. And that's okay, I'm sorry,
that's not over usage. If he was playing twenty minutes
on a minute's restriction and you decided, hey, we're gonna
roll you up to forty, all right, that's playing too
many minutes. But Kyrie Irving is thirty two years old,
he's not coming off a big injury. He's fine, he's healthy.
(10:47):
But I get them. They just want something to be
mad at, so no matter what happens, they just want
to be mad. But wow, I can't remember a team
that's had that not bad but this I can't say
bad because teams have been bad. I mean, you look
at teams the Wizards every year when eight nine games
like this, unfortunate a season like lemony, snickets and the weather,
(11:08):
the unfortunate thing whatever, it is unfortunate, unfortunate that it's like,
I don't know that a team has had a bigger
series of unfortunate events than the Mavericks this season. First off,
pretty good series. Neil Patrick, Harris does a hell of
a job. The kids are fantastic. Or you can go
back to the movie with Jim Carrey if you feel
like you just want a two hour experience. First Off,
you said thirty seven minutes for Kyrie. I didn't want
(11:29):
to interrupt your chart train of thought. So in a row, wait,
they said Chase the Spid the Mike Harbts. So they're
playing all thirty seven minutes. They're out, No, listen to
the show. It's a bit. They do it all the time. Okay, great,
it's a bit. It's a bit. Look they are Are
they a harder thirty seven minutes right now? Or were
they up into the injury? Sure the last couple of
weeks probably a bit more taxing because he's not working
(11:52):
off the ball with Luca, you know, having a lot
of ball dominance. Okay, that's what you're trying to win
and get into the playoffs. You're trying to stem the tide,
wishing and hoping that those three guys on the front
line come back just because you decided you hated Nico
Harrison or you stand for him and say, well, the
(12:13):
there's gotta be this ultimate reason. Look, man, they've said
slings and arrows all over the place, and lots of
ink has been put out there about the bad things
Luca was doing. I'm still waiting for the other shoe
to drop of what was so terrible? I mean, so
all of that to say, you're playing the guy, what
are you gonna do? Hold him back for good? You know,
(12:34):
another old show bit of my mom. It's like, what's
that in the cabinet? It's like, we bought you that
eight years ago? Why is the tag still on it?
You know, it's all those kind of big for Kyrie Irving.
You could say, okay, it was inevitable with these heavy minutes,
get over yourself. No, it did right. He went, He
did he go from thirties five and a half thirty
six to thirty seven. Yeah, but it's two minutes. It's yeah,
(12:55):
I mean again, a little more stress on the body, right,
because he's he's got the ball all the time and
he can't take uh, you know, the the Lebron breaks
like uh Rick Buker coined that phrase all those years ago,
the Lebron minute. This is but does suddenly just start
wagging your finger of Yeah, more mismanagement and malfeasans by
(13:16):
the Mavericks, Like, come on. The difference is my wife
saying to me, hey, can you take out the garbage? Great?
Oh hey, can you take Benny for a walk around
the block? Okay, Like the difference between the two of them, Yeah, okay,
little bit more walking and taking the taking the walking
the dog and taking the garbage out. Okay, I get that,
but that's a but like the difference people are talking about.
It's like the difference between my wife saying can you
(13:36):
take the garbage out? And can you walk all the
way to the grocery store buy it, buy five gallons
of milk and carry him back? Like that's not what
this is. Don't run a marathon now, Smith, that's what
she wanted. Imagine that's what she really meant. Imagine you've
just run ten feet. Yeah. Uh so again, really, if
the Mavericks, if they canceled the season, I would not
go again. I would say, okay, yeah, I give wins
(13:57):
to everybody else. They just need to go home. Wow,
just the damn towel and just go home. I mean really,
it's not packing it up. It's that bad. Yeah, I
mean really, we can't even have five dollar na Cho's Nighter. No, no,
not cho basketball. You know you can do if you
want to have basketball like they do the soccer ball
when you go to if you will game, if you
wanted to have a fan event where you gave food
(14:18):
to everybody because you feel bad about canceling, and they
can sign it's okay, j Yeah, I have a big
mass fan day and then hey, well we'll see in
the fall. They just start boarding up the facilities. Just bang,
it's putting ply what up? Scar and fishing? Oh boy,
exit up about a Fresco exit swollen dome. If you're
(14:39):
ready to lose weight, get the expert help a PhD
weight loss no injections or prescriptions, fast weight loss results.
They work for me. I'm down twenty seven pounds the
last eight weeks. Mike is down thirty one. They will
work for you. Call and schedule a console today. Visit
my phdweightloss dot com. That's m y phdweight loss dot com. Well,
coming up next, we get into a big story from
(15:01):
the National Football League. Oh boy, wait till you hear
who might be going places. That's next Jason and Mike Fox. Now, look,
I'm out a weather man, but I'll give you my forecast.
Snow and ice are coming, gonna make driving a challenge.
Thankfully the experts are ti Iraq know a thing or
two about conquering winters, worst rain, sleet, slush, whatever winter
(15:23):
means to you. Tire Iraq has tires that'll elevate traction,
end breaking and keep you safe. All season tires, all
weather tires, and if you live where it snows a lot,
dedicated winter tires. Go to ti iraq dot com. They're
easy to use, shopping tools will guide you to a
personalized recommendation. They got the right tires for how, what
and where you drive. Choose from a full lineup of
Firestone tires. They're shipped fast and free and back by
(15:45):
two years of free road hazard protection. Go to tiraq
dot com slash sports to see their Firestone test results
and special offers. Tire Iraq has thousands of recommended installers
and offers a convenience of mobile tire installation, great tires,
great deals, great people more. What could you ask for?
That's tirect dot com, slash sports, tirack dot com, which
is the way tire buying should be. And now Rob
(16:07):
Parker has walked in because apparently he left his phone
somewhere in the studio and we'll spend the next five
minutes looking for it. Rob. It might be at Opoyo Loco,
where you want to go for a free refill of
your soda.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
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 (16:30):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
Live in the tirack dot com studio. If you're ready
to lose weight, get the expert help a PhD weight
loss no injections or prescriptions, fast weight loss results. They
work for me, they work for Mike, They'll work for you.
Call schedule a console today visit my phdweightloss dot com.
That's my phdweightloss dot com, My PhD weight loss dot com.
(16:55):
So we are awaiting the start of the Pelicans and
the Lakers. That maybe Luca Lebron combined for one hundred tonight.
Maybe I know they were both twenty. I think Lebron
was twenty six and a half for his point total
and Luca is usually about thirty. Yeah, okay, that sounds
about That's where he's been, like twenty nine and a half.
That sounds about right. Like does Luke have anything to
prove tonight? Is what I'm thinking, Like any or tonight
(17:16):
gonna be one of those. Hey it's the Pelicans. They stink.
Nice easy game today, nice miniature stra nice easy game tonight.
There's a good Bronni kind of situation. And oh, bron well,
you know that's the one thing we haven't seen yet,
Bronnie play with Luca, Like we haven't seen that yet,
Bronni playing with Lebron and Luca. And then Bronnie can
(17:36):
call at the end of the game and say, hey, Dad, Dad, Dad, dad,
how long did you wait to play with Luca? Right?
Like seven years? Ha I waited like seven games. Actually
two more days. They played the Knicks on Yeah, I
played the next they played what happened the last time
they played? The next? Bronnie dropped? How many they did?
I'd like eight? Yeah, okay, they traded Anthony Davis. They
(17:57):
were all on cloud nine. They were all hopped up
on happiness. Of course they're gonna win that game. He
still dropped eight on you. Okay, yoh he did? He did?
Bronni did? Bronnie drops eight? Okay? Uh, So we'll have
more NBA on the way and look, just really quick,
if there's any doubt, the Cavaliers have the best offense
in the NBA. In a ninety second span, and I
don't mean ninety seconds of game time, I mean a
(18:20):
ninety second real time span, real time span, the Cavaliers
with Donovan Mitchell on the bench. Yeah, okay, just trying
to figure out trying to get highlights from the Mets
game earlier today in spring training, Mitchell on the bench.
In a ninety second real time span, the Cavaliers went
(18:40):
from being tied at one oh seven a piece with
the Bulls to a one to sixteen one oh seven
lead in ninety seconds of real time. They went up
nine to zero, and they went from we're tied, and
now you go a little bit later and they're down fourteen.
I mean, like all the stuff we talk about these teams,
that's why the teams like the Celtics, the Cavaliers and
the Thunder at the top we talk about their rosters.
(19:03):
But the offense of the Cavaliers is just unmatched. It's
the best offense in the NBA. Maybe people don't know
a lot of the names outside of Donovan Mitchell, but
it doesn't matter. I mean, they're leading the NBA one
hundred and twenty three points a game and they can
score points like that in that amount of time. It
was insane. And again, ninety seconds, ninety seconds of real life.
(19:23):
We were literally kind of talking about the next couple
of segments, kind of keeping an eye on the games,
as like why are the bulls on it? And Frosburg
was gonna go It's like Dan, I'm like, hey, it's close,
and then he put the graphic comes up. It's like, wait,
it's actually tied. It's like I knew they were within
two or four before the commercial time out. Whatever. Either way,
by the time we walked back and we're having a
(19:45):
quick conversation. It's a nine point deficit and we're watching
it sideye, going really is this happening? Jared Allen losing
his mind. You got tied, Jerome coming off the bench
with an sixteen point performance from him. Mitchell was sitting
on his ass. He had twenty eight at that point,
like is it time? Yeah, it's time, let's go. It's
(20:06):
one of those situations where you feel like, oh, did
you go back in the game to win it was
one oh seven, because now it's one sixteen, one oh seven, Like,
did you go back? And now you gotta hit fast
forward on the button to go up? Oh no, no, no,
that was real time, really, but to hit the rewind
with the team of mine from last night we were
watching UCLA Northwestern. What happened in the first half didn't
really go inside, settling for outside jump shots. Cavaliers doing
(20:26):
a lot of that, right, and we're tied, and we're
going it's like all right, now it's time start working
down low and Jared Allen goes nuts in the fourth
quarter and here we are. I'm gonna give you something
really insane, right, We talked about that for a second.
Hang on, So this game was tied one oh seven,
one oh seven, all right, with Bulls seven minutes to
go in the fourth quarter. Yeah, right, was tied one
(20:47):
oh seven, one oh seven, So it's not even five
minutes have gone by. So in the last file of
game time span from one o seven one oh seven,
the Cavaliers now lead one thirty two to one thirteen. Yeah,
one thirty two to one thirteen. It's like the Bulls
are playing knicks like defense and everybody is exhausted. Yeah,
this is this is a run. This is an insane
(21:08):
run in five minutes to go on a twenty five
to six run where hey, we're struggling, we're struggling. It's
one oh seven one. Not that you don't say, but
when you're struggling, Okay, this is gonna be close down
the stretch. Nope, we're gonna turn it on for five
minutes and good luck everybody. You want to make Frostburg
feel good though, ex Laker having himself to night tailor
Horton Tucker for the Bulls off the bench twenty two.
(21:31):
How about that Kobe White with twenty five nine of
twenty three from the field. Zach Collins as twenty oh
that's academic at this point, because this fourth quarter has
just been a clinic. I mean it is a twenty
five to six run to one in five minutes, a
twenty five points in five minutes, and then Donovan Mitchell
(21:53):
just sat back down. He's like shaking everybody's hand, like
good job, good job. I mean, that is insane. I
think about that number because you extrapolate that over the
course of a game, that's fifty do all your efficiency
rating over two hundred points, right, I'm just doing really okay,
half the court forty three home runs in the first
(22:14):
game of a major league baseball season. Yeah, he's a
bast Yeah. Yeah, it's a five minute span. It's not
even half a court. It's over two hundred points. It's
over two hundred points. Crazy man, I'll tell you that's
good math. I didn't see that's pretty good. That's really good, man,
that's really good. I'm good at math. I'm like, like,
very simple math, very very simple. Keep it going. How
(22:36):
many strikeouts did Rokie have Jason five and two innings?
Is that what it was? Count on your fingers one, two, three, four, five,
So one hand five, yes, and three do the bondy five? Count.
You're gonna do this acount of my fingers, account of
my face, like like I'm five years old, five one,
two three, Oh, I got it. Hey, guess who could
(22:57):
be headed to an NFL team near you. That's coming up.
But first let's find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. My man, who's been called the Chicago
Bulls of Fox Sports Radio t keep things close for
a while but then just completely fall down in the job.
It's Steve Disaga. At no point in that paragraph was
that a compliment. You should have said nineties Bulls.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
By the way, Rookie Sasaki averaged ninety nine on the fastball.
Tonight spring training game Dodgers over the Reds four to two.
Sasaki in relief, three scoreless innings, five strikeouts, Mookie Betts
with a solo home run. Earlier today, the Yankees beat
the Phillies twelve to three. The loss to Zach Wheeler
in two plus innings. He allowed five earned runs and
eight hits. The Yankees led ten to one in the
(23:42):
third inning. The Philadelphia Eagles gave running back Saquon Barkley
a two year extension where thirty six million dollars guaranteed
plus incentives. The Jets cut wide receiver DeVante Adams they
could release wide receiver Alan Lazard in the next week.
Adams cap number would have been thirty eight million dollars.
His base salary was not guaranteed. Green Bay reselling kicker
(24:04):
Brandon McManus now to the NBA scoreboard. In New York,
Golden State beat the Knicks one fourteen to one oh two.
New York did not have Karl Anthony Towns out for
personal reasons. Steph Curry was a game time decision with
a sore ankle. He played. He scored twenty eight points
in victory. Meanwhile, for the next og Onanobi with twenty
nine points, jagaln Brunson with twenty five, but Brunson from
(24:27):
three point range one of seven, and starter Josh Hart
one of eight overall shooting from the floor. Lakers starter
Austin Reeves out again tonight with a calf injury the
late game, just a few minutes away from tip. The Lakers,
who won six in a row, or hosting New Orleans.
Luka Donsich is available. He was upgraded to probable earlier
today after a Bruce knee Lebron James is playing. He's
(24:48):
Player of the Month in the West for February, Donovan
Mitchell player of the Month in the East, and the
Cabs are gonna win their eleventh straight game. They're leading
in the final seconds at Chicago one thirty nine to
one seven team Jared Allen twenty five points, seventeen rebounds
as Evan Mobley was rested. Tonight, the Spurs lead with
eight minutes to go one ten ninety three over the
(25:09):
Nets Clippers at Suns Underway victories for Milwaukee and Minnesota.
Indiana over Houston one fifteen one oh two Tyrese Halliburton
twenty eight points, fifteen assists, and Toronto on a last
second three pointer, got a victory at Orlando one fourteen
one thirteen. Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving is out for the
year with the torn acl and the Grizzlies Jared Jackson
(25:31):
has a grade to ankle spring. In men's college basketball, tonight,
twenty seconds left in overtime, Texas leads at number twenty five,
Mississippi State eighty five, eighty two number one. Auburn trails
early second half fifty four forty eight at number twenty
two ranked Texas A and M and a top twenty
five matchup as BYU ahead at number ten Iowa State
(25:54):
fifty four to thirty three with about thirteen minutes to go.
Already wins for Kentucky, Perdue, and Memphis. NHL Tampa Bay
a six to two winner against Columbus. The Islanders beat
Winnipeg three to two.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Back to you, Thank you, STEVEO. I really I don't
know that I've ever seen a run like this to
end a game in a in a basketball game ever. No,
remember once in a while in a college game where
it gets really out of swords in an overtime period
or something because the team's out of gas, but not
like the one oh seven, one o seven with six
and a half minutes left to go, one thirty nine
to one, seventeen moalls like that. I mean, I've never
(26:30):
seen a run like that. I mean, like, we've talked
about how great their offense is in the Cavity, but
it was it was all of a sudden, like Okay,
we're gonna go play for five minutes. But we always
talked about that with with the Warriors for years, right,
the spurt ability first half kind of meandering around feeling
out come out of the the halftime entertainment, Red Panda
leaves the center court and bam, they start hitting threes
(26:52):
at all of a sudden, you know the my signal
on leash. Hell, that's exactly what happened here. I mean,
this was just absurd. And Mombly doesn't even pl and
he's the last man standing. Right as Steve gave us
in the update, Jackson Junior is now out indefinitely with
with an injury. So Mobley's gonna win the Defensive Player
of the Year by default as long as he gets
(27:14):
his sixty five thresholds best offense in the league. And
it's not close crazy wow, crazy efficient, high or low cost.
It doesn't. And since DeAndre Hunter came to the to
the team and at the trade deadline, we've talked about
the metrics. They're like number one. It's one of those uh,
like you're selling a movie after a big box office.
(27:36):
We go number one everywhere? But are you number one
because it's a bad week? Are you going to see
a big down tick at number one? I don't know
number one everywhere except like heat on, look at USA
eat on. No matter she might take issue with it.
(27:58):
Remember remember there is ad he would grab the microphone
from because, of course, for some reason, when the Iron
Cheek used to win, they would have to announce it.
So just to get the ring working, of course, we
could grab the bike and go on, hey man, you
gotta get the crowd involved. You gotta worry do some
crowd work, like you're a stand up comedian. Hey, how
you doing the night? You out on a date? This
(28:19):
is great. Instead, it's no matter what, you need to
be humbled, right, sometimes you need to be humbled once again.
The bulls and whoever he beat would still be laying
oh yeah on the canvas. This is the best you have.
Look at USA, and then you need to go kick
him again while holding the microphone. Oh all right, so
(28:39):
I'm gonna give you a big bull prediction for the
NFL offseason coming off. Okay, what Max Crosby said today, right,
Raiders defensive end said, get me out of here. No,
he said, if we got Aaron Rodgers, it would be legendary, legendary.
I mean Aaron Rodgers is a legend for every other team. No,
(29:00):
he's still legendary. Would be legendary, Like, wow, it's legendary.
You got him way after he was any good. But
the odds of Rogers now the Raiders are the new
favorite to get him about it. Okay, now, I'm gonna
tell you this. The Raiders are either going Their starting
quarterback next season is either going to be Sam Darnold
(29:22):
or Aaron Rodgers. That's who they're They will get one
of them. Because we talked about the big three, the
two of them and Justin Fields last night. Look as
time goes on we get closer to free agency, teams
are gonna realize, hey, this crop of quarterbacks, we might
not find our next quarterback here. Maybe we re examined
the guys. Oh I like Justin Fields a little bit
more than I did a couple months ago. I like
Sam Darnold more than a couple months ago. I like it.
(29:42):
But the Raiders have to come up with somebody. And
Pete Carroll obviously is in a win now mode and
Tom Brady needs a win. Tom Brady coming in his
influence on the team, he needs a win. He needs
to be able to get the quarterback to come here
because part of the reason why he owns that. Okay, now,
you got to get people here. Got didn't work with
(30:03):
Matthew Stafford. Right, he needs a win. He needs a win. Right,
he's the last two guys that you thought, Hey, this
is who Brady's gonna be. It be the pied piper.
He's got big L's for So he needs a win,
and it's either gonna be Rogers or it will be
Sam Darnold. Right, justin Field doesn't feel like it's gonna
work there because they want someone who's either a veteran
(30:24):
to come in, has done it before. Hey, we're gonna
kind of hit the ground running feels maybe a little
bit more of a of a long term Hey, now
he's in another new offense where we're staying with with Steelers,
might wind up being the right thing for him. But
either him or Donald, who now clearly has hit the
market because he wasn't a franchise tag today, the Raiders
will have one of those two guys in next season. Now,
I mean it'll be Rogers if Rogers is smart, because
(30:47):
the Jets cutting Davonte Adams today, which we'll get to
if all of a sudden, like Rogers is smart and
he shows up at every team's facilities him and Devonte Adams,
Hey sign both of us. I could be your quarterback.
He's like, all right, right, watch to watch this and
he throws like a nerf ball to DeVante Abas throws
it back to Hey. But both of us, we just
want to talk to Davante. No, I'm with horse Racers.
(31:08):
I get both of them. I get one and one A.
It's like you can box them, you get them both
if they're smart. If Ryman Rodgers are smart, that's what
he does. Hey, you can get me and you can
get Davonte from draft Kings earlier today, Aaron Rodgers next
team odds, The Giants are the favorite at minus one fifty,
Steelers at plus two fifty, followed by the Raiders at
(31:29):
plus four hundred. The Adams thing, which is a much
bigger conversation, uh, watching a guy who's value and returns,
shall we say uh or are much different and very
stark from that that first exit. But you look at
the the Aaron Rodgers situation. Yeah, it's him and Darnold
(31:51):
and then obviously lurking in the background is still Captain Kirk.
I mean, we we have no matter what they say
in front of a microphone, he's there. Yeah, it's if
the price is right. But the money. It's just too
tough because does Kirk Cousins strike you with someone that's
gonna take any one dime less? No, of course not.
So he's got to understand that we need a quarterback here.
(32:14):
Maybe one of the guys slips to us at six,
but we still have to sign and maybe maybe that's
the philosophy of boy, you really think one of those
guys is gonna slip, so we go with Aaron Rodgers
or no, Sam's our guy, he's twenty seven. This is
the guy we believe in. But one of those two
will be quarterback of the Raiders as fault. The other
piece that came out earlier, including the Giants, is that
they're now co favorites to actually have the number one pick.
(32:38):
So a lot of uh well, lying that that's we're
in lying season now, so trying to figure out what's
real what's imagined in terms of information and subterfuge, which
is great for us. So there's this W. The W
will be in the form of Sam Darnold or Aaron Rodgers.
Now there could be a big W LITTLEW like, not
big W like, but it's a W because he needs
(32:59):
he's got to get somebody he needs that win either way.
At x jets Now Good Exit out about a Fresca
exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
TIREC dot com studios. Hey, don't forget if you miss
any of our content. Our best of podcasts goes up
right after the show is over. Just search Jason Smith
and Mike Harmon wherever you get your podcasts from. Download, rate, subscribe.
(33:20):
We'll love you forever and ever and ever again. Give
us five stars. Jason Smith and Mike Harmon. Just search
it right after the show gets done wherever you get
your podcasts from. Thank you for your continued support. Mike
and I love bringing this content with you every single night. Well,
coming up next, somebody had a big ear in the
NFL last year, and somebody got paid today. That's next,
(33:41):
right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live tirerac dot com Studios. You can
stream this show and all of our Fox Sports Radio
shows live. Twenty four to seven in the new iHeartRadio app.
Just search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream
us live and one of the newest features in the app,
you can select Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets,
(34:16):
just like the presets on a radio dial. So be
sure to preset Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app.
It'll always pop up at the top of your screen.
What do I say, Mike Harmon, lock it in and
rip there we go. Uh, we have a big milestone,
a huge milestone in the NBA to get to coming
up in about ten minutes you will hear it. But yes,
(34:40):
t Bo's playing basketball. Now, that's what it is. Well,
I mean, you gotta keep reinventing yourself. If t BO
played basketball, I have a feeling he'd be kind of like, uh,
he'd be a point guard obviously, but kind of like
Ben Simmons. I can't really see him shooting. No, I
really can't. I can't see too long. Have a wind
up to get that show and again otherwise, a lot
(35:00):
of leadership, right, A lot of passes, yeah, a lot,
a lot of good passes. Hey, how many passes? Yeah?
Four passes before we shoot four? And the jump pass. Hell,
the jump pass will be awesome, right and jump instead
of shooting, he just passes. Still favorite jump pass. I
don't know. He would right to the line of scrimmage
and jump up. Oca McMahon used to do that, Like
there were always these guys that that was just in
(35:22):
the arsenal. Start to move up. He's like, I forget it.
It's such a high risk play. But if you could
pull it off, it's not a risky play. But the
problem is if you're too close to the line of scrimmage,
odds are you're getting a guy going road warrior animal
stuff that is flying through your chest. Yeah, that is true.
That is true. So big news today, and and and
and this flies in the face anybody anybody who says
(35:44):
running backs from the NFL can't get paid. Yes, you
could get paid. If you run for two thousand yards
and nearly break the all time record and rushing and
your team goes and wins the Super Bowl, you can
get paid. Like Saquon Barkley today, Eagles give him two years,
forty million dollars. So doing that math, that's how many
million a year my Carmen twenty? Yes, very good. See
(36:08):
that's all you gotta do. Run for two thousand yards.
Win the Super Bowl. You'll get paid his running back.
Don't give you give me all this hardship crap. I
know and paid right. Run for two thousand yards, get
a good offensive line, win the Super Bowl? How hard
can it be? Saquon Barkley went from the Giants who
were saying, oh, we're nazzing ar deeply. Don't know who
you can get rid of.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I'm showing up a bu a team that's loaded, and
I won the Super Bowl, ran for two k here's
the problem with your saquad Barkley, fine dollars and cents.
Darius Slay had to go blanken ship had to go
blankdass uh you know that is? That is a blank this?
How do you like that? I went full eagles? You
think that's how they did a blanket ship? Hey, blanket ship?
Blank this? You're out? What? Yeah? Sorry, hey Slay? What
(36:48):
we we just laid you. You're out? Nice to see it.
But Howie, I'm sorry. This cut on my forehead has
really had a good run. It was a good thing
that your your your family did by getting people his
extra large jerseys. We didn't have him in the team shop.
I like do you know why we didn't print him
because you weren't gonna be I like doing this, Blanke
and ship blank you you're out. I like it good.
(37:09):
Hey Sligh, I just killed. You're out? Hey, someone go
find me. Jalen Hurts. Who'll get it. I'll get rid
of it really fast. Munchmen the leg going. It hurts,
don't it? Uh? But this serious about this now, is
that this is the best thing for running backs in
the NFL because as you've seen now the last year
or so, like the NFL big copycat league, as you know,
(37:32):
the NFL is starting to come back a little bit
to running backs a little bit. But you have to
be a running back that can do it all. You know.
You can't be a guy that just hey, I carry
the ball back. If you are a do it all
running back, if you're a Bijon Robinson, right, if you
run Saquon Barkley, if you're a guy like that, you
will get paid. Right. If you're someone that can be
(37:52):
a big dual threat, awesome, Yes, we'll give you money.
We'll pay you because you're that kind of guy. And
there's a few running backs like that in the NFL
that as time goes on because we went from great
quarterback play across the league to now quarterback play is
way down across the league. So when quarterback play is down,
the NFL goes and cycles. Now a little bit more
reliance on the running back, especially the guys catch a
lot of passes out of the backfield. So now you're
(38:14):
getting back not not quite the running back renaissance, but
it's better news for running backs and guys like Bijon Robinson.
In a year or two, they're gonna get big hun
they will get contracts upwards of Hey, here's two or
three years and a lot of money. Right, you're not
gonna forget about that five seven year not happening. But
two or three years for running back and a lot
of money. That's what they should aspire to because that's
(38:35):
a deal that's completely palatable. An NFL team can say, listen,
you're a star, you're a great player. We love you.
We're gonna give you a lot of money the next
couple of years. Okay, but I want a five year deal. Yeah,
let's come back, come back to me, come back off
of Mars, come back to reality. Yeah, we're only going
to do it for a couple of years. So you
will see that now and you will see guys like
Bijon Robinson signing an extension for two years. The extension
for two years and forty million dollars. Wow, look at that. Now,
(38:57):
they got until twenty twenty nine or whatever it's gonna be.
That's what you can expect from the NFL. So that's
good news. It's not the great news. You don't. You
want the lifetime money in three hundred million guaranteed quarterback,
but that's not gonna go that way. But they're starting
to come back now a little bit. And the best
thing for all running backs is Saquon Barkley having that
year the yet last year. Hey, a running back can
carry a team to a super Bowl. Okay, I'm backing
(39:19):
on it a little bit. Let's back reinvesting in the
in the position a little bit, and let's go back
to that. So that's a it's a I mean, you
think about it, it's a really really big thing for
the NFL. Yeah, part of me wonders how much of
it is is a bit of an outlier in that
you do have to have everything go right for you,
right in terms of roster construction and flow healthy offensive line.
(39:40):
Look to me, you know a lot of the post
Super Bowl chatter was well and they didn't really even
need Barkley. It's like, no, he had a lot of
tough runs and you know what happens, you run clock,
you beat people up. You never got the big hit.
But you know what else he did. He also blocked
down field on a couple of those big Jalen Hurts runs.
Don't tell me that didn't go over with the front
(40:01):
office folks in terms of sacrifice, because that that's not
going in the stats, right, and that's only for nerds
like us talking on the radio to point those things out,
but also to the and it's a point I've made
a bunch is you know, the guys that are leading
the renaissance all really went to good teams. When you
look at Josh Jacobs, Derrick Henry, and the aforementioned Barkley,
(40:24):
So you know you're into a good structure, so you're
going to achieve. For Barkley, massive numbers gets rewarded. Here's
a little bit of a spot bonus for what you
just did. Let's keep the train moving, keep doing good work.
B Jon Robinson, he like hell had forty six total
receptions this year, which is down from once upon a
time he was about double that, right, but if you
(40:46):
still active. But usage in the middle of the season
it went from I'm splitting time with with Aligart. Now
he's the guy. No, that's a middle. Last season he
became okay, our offense rolls through him. And when as
Arthur Smith got out the doors, Hey do I get
the football now? Yes, you get it early and off
in bejone. Yeah, you know I forgot about you don't
sit in the back, come and sit up in the
(41:06):
fucking a home Pittsburgh back again this year. So there
coming up next and absolute superstar is on the market.
Could be the difference in a Super Bowl or bust.
Who is it? We'll tell you next. Oh fuck,
Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike
Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio
dot com, or stream us live every night on the
iHeartRadio app by searching FSR.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
One ball, two stripes. Man, there's that grunk bring fastball
for strike three. Yeah, hell, little spin on it at
angle hoas unbelievable. There's strike three. Gows a little cutter
up there and he catches mccrane looking show his first
two strikeouts.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Oh, welcome into the Roki Sazaki Show with my best
friend Roki Sazaki.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Sports Radio. Happy Tuesday. It's gonna be that kind of
Absolutely it's Yamamoto into Sasaki tonight for the dodgers'll be
that kind of show. Yeah, buckle up, everybody, and the
Knicks lost. Go ahead, Frostburg give Rookie Sasaki's line from today.
I mean, the box score wouldn't even do it. That's justice.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It might be the greatest thing we've ever seen. Good
luck hitting that splinter. Is it anything like the ghost
fork or whatever?
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I will absolutely crack. I will take my chances with
Juan Sot in the NLCS against Rokie Sasaki. I will
take my chances with that. Of course you would. But
you can't get there. I will. You can't get We
should have it right now. We should not even need
the baseball season, Mets and the Dodgers in the NLCS
book it. Let's go, let's go. It's all we need
(01:55):
American League. All those pesky other teams Junior Circuit can
go play whatever they want to. Let's go right to
the NLCS. Let's go, let's do it. You're just trying
to kill the economy, don't you know that we sell
a lot of tickets even for bad teams, just like
right now. I really, especially after the Knicks loosen. Oh no,
big Bodega tonight. I really am ready for cav Celtics
and Lakers thunder. Oh yea, I'm kind of ready for that.
(02:16):
We can we could just jump to that. I'm ready
for both.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
We got a long ways to go, though, I mean,
we have to celebrate every moment and really build it up. Right.
It's been a short run up to this point. I mean,
I don't I don't think we've done everything we can
to talk about how three weeks ago everybody wanted to
go pack Rob Polinka's house well and fire JJ Reddick,
you know, and people just like the voluntility of the
(02:40):
housing market, you know, or packed your house. No, no, no,
Now it's worth some money, but it's just it's just
so funny how how fast things she has, Like, just
wait for it. Let me do my job, right, it's
it's draft dance. Conser when he's getting run out and
Dennis Leary's ready to walk out. You want to coach
this team? You think you can coach this team now, jerk.
I don't know why I made this. I made this
(03:02):
jump in my head was like, hey, remember the movie
ten point five, the made for TV movie about fifteen
years ago. It was about the ten point five earthquake
that hits Okay and it was seriously over the top. Yeah,
what has to be Dowlay Hill was in it, I think,
and Doulay Hill I remember they they had like the
local news here in La watched it did a whole
(03:23):
thing where hey, here's it was this big made for
TV movie event. So it comes out and they actually
watched it with a bunch of seismologists and watching them
laugh at some of the things that happened to go
a ten point five ago. None of us would be
here if there was a ten point five, right, So
I remember the whole thing was like, oh, you know,
everybody's word, all the valuable real estate across the coast, right,
(03:44):
But then the ten point five hits and like of course,
everybody is trying to get inland as far as they can,
and then everything stops, like in the middle of Nevada,
and I forget it was Deulay Hill's character me Kim
Delaney was that said, well, this is a new beachfront
property that's all of a sudden, this is worth a
lot of money, Kim de Lady boom Bridges, John Schneider
(04:04):
of the Dukes of haz Did I miss him? He's
not listed as one of the stars, Kayley. Oh wow,
that's a fred Ward. Oh Fred Ward was in. It's
my job to keep this very very much.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
I love fred Ward. I dig this. I'm gonna go
back and find it a mini series. I remember what
they showed it. They go a ten point five is
gonna hit the seismologists all go, I'm laughing looking at
a dead point five deadoin. But I used to do
that in economics class, so like assume this, this and this.
I'm like, all right, then I'm finding a brick and
I'm chasing. Sure. Wait what I'm like with those those
(04:43):
series of assumptions things have gone down? There goes Harmon
with a brick. Now speaking of things going to hell, Yeah, boy,
I could just that. That's a good one. Just start going.
There's lots of different things I can throw when they're
gonna start trading one. No, no, no, no, no. I
I mean look obviously it's because I mean, like, it's
a big night in the NBA. We talked the Knicks
(05:03):
just lost to the Warriors by ten. They didn't you know,
no shock, they lost to a good team. No Karl
Anthony Towns in the game, you didn't play. So okay,
I get that's fine. And Steff came back. He was
out for a bit but came back in. We're clearly
the third best team in the East. I'm okay with that.
It's absolutely fine. Uh you know, the second night of
the game of the double headers about to begin. But
uh yeah, once again today a gut punch for the Mavericks,
(05:27):
who just boy, they if you said all you have
to do for success is get out of bed in
the morning, they would find a way to trip in
their sheets, hit their heads on the ground and get
knocked on because this way you're like a running back
after a game where you sleep on the ground floor.
You always had to have a bedroom on the first
is it is knowing that the morning after you were
not gonna be able to go up or downstairs. H
it is awful. We got the Lakers coming up. Okay,
(05:48):
obviously it's gonna be another bad night for the for
the Mavericks because here come the Lakers and Luca they're
both everybody's playing Lebron is probable, Lucas probable. They're playing
one fifty. And we we find out today that Kyrie Irving,
after leaving the game last night knee injury, shot a
couple of free throws, left the game torn acl he
(06:10):
is done for the season. And now, yes, and now
you wonder when you're done for the season in March,
when does that mean you're gonna return like done for
the season, You think, Oh man, all right, look at
how things are falling for us now it's not going great. Obviously,
we're still trying to get off of this right away
from the outside front of the Luca trade, all the
(06:31):
all the fallout from it, all right, But when you're
when you tore your acl in March, that's like in
end of the year, maybe beginning a next year kind
of thing, especially when you're thirty two. And for the Mavericks,
it's just they just can't they just can't miss anything.
They are sideshow Bob continuing to step into the rake
on the Simpsons, and they can't avoid no matter where
(06:54):
they step, they can't avoid the rake. It okay, Luca
gets traded, we got ad. Okay, boy ad, he is
hurt buying stepping into the ring. Uh Luca after questions
about his stamina and fitness. Boy now he's terrific buying
stepping into the ring. But okay, we're still winning some
games and Kyrie is turning back into a really good
player buying step into the rake again like they are
(07:14):
continuing to step in the and there are still hundreds
of rakes on the ground and the Mavericks just can't
buy a break. And at this point, if the Mavericks
said you know what a Nico Harrison said. Look, we
got we got to stop. We can't play any more games.
We're done. It's just not going our We'll seed our
spot in the playoffs. We'll slide into the lottery. Maybe
we can get Cooper Flagg. We'll slide in the lottery.
(07:36):
Because it's just this is just not our year. Sometimes
you don't need you need to be you need some
signs now, I don't know if it's our year. I
don't have to No, this is showing you it's not
gonna be your year. It's not gonna be your year.
Today's takes last night as that injury was coming down,
and even if it was a knees brain, you're talking
about a couple of weeks. And we started to see
the internet doctors uh come across and we we posited
(07:58):
that theory of is that that you would look at
it and say operation shutdown. Begins the old Derek Bell
line from way back in the day with the Pirates.
When you look at Anthony Davis, who's always gonna be
already gonna be another couple of weeks, Lively and Gafford
already out indefinitely when they were going to be able
to be cleared, and now you have this devastating injury.
(08:19):
I mean he's coming back what twenty six, twenty seven
at this point, So yeah, you're only a couple of
games from sliding out into the into the abyss. Yeah
for Nico Harrison right now, that's the best scenario. And
they got that dust storm did hit the song crazy
It looks like Corroissant. I'm like, wow, that's a goodness
except without the flying cars. Oh my good, Dallas is
(08:42):
just again. But we can't say g I those in pretty.
Did you said Croissant? I said no, I said Coroissant,
coras Croissant. Now if I said chroissant, you know when
I say croissant, you'll know what I say. Coorissant Coroissant. Okay,
yeah it does sound like chrossotic. But I did say chorissant.
Do you think he was eating breakfast when he came
up with the name. What am I gonna call this planet?
(09:02):
They go, do Did you say Corusot? Yes? Yes, there
you go there there it's I mean, really Dallas and
with everything going on with the you know, with the
cowboys just still being bad, well they cleared up some
cap space today though, so that'll help. But the thing
that you know, and this is where I know that
the Mavericks, if they just stopped playing with the season
can come at the end of the season, can come
fast enough for them. You have the story yesterday with
(09:24):
the with the we're increasing season tickets, the price for
season tickets, and well be here for the rebuild. Ever
it's on, I get a cost you eight percent. Everybody
is mad that, oh, when you play Kyrie all these minutes,
something's gonna happen playing them too many minutes, playing them
to it. Yes, of course, playing two minutes. Okay, let's stop.
Let's examine this, right. I understand, and I'm gonna give
(09:44):
people a pass on this because I get that we're
still in the I just want to be upset stage. Sure,
I just want to because there are certain things that
happened when when I'm mad about something, and like palm
RIZOI will try to say, I go, no, you know what,
I just want to be mad for five minutes and
then I'm gonna move on. Right, the Mavericks are still
in five minute mad mad part of this where they're
just want to be mad. Nkos look at us and
(10:04):
now they're killing us. And look look at Jason Kiddy's
playing him too many minutes? Okay, in the last few days,
is Kyrie Irving playing a few a couple more minutes
than he has been? Yeah, but he had been averaging
about thirty four and a half minutes a game. Now
he's up close to thirty seven. Right, he was at
thirty seven. The whole season's been it's not been a
build up. But he started out at like playing thirty
(10:26):
three minutes, now thirty eight minutes, then thirty five minutes.
Then he was at thirty six and a half minutes.
Now he's at thirty eight minutes. And that's okay, I'm sorry,
that's not over usage. If he was playing twenty minutes
on a minute's restriction and you decided, hey, we're gonna
roll you up to forty, all right, that's playing too
many minutes. But Kyrie Irving is thirty two years old,
he's not coming off a big injury. He's fine, he's healthy.
(10:47):
But I get them. They just want something to be
mad at, so no matter what happens, they just want
to be mad. But wow, I can't remember a team
that's had that not bad but this I can't say
bad because teams have been bad. I mean, you look
at teams the Wizards every year when eight nine games
like this, unfortunate a season like lemony, snickets and the weather,
(11:08):
the unfortunate thing whatever, it is unfortunate, unfortunate that it's like,
I don't know that a team has had a bigger
series of unfortunate events than the Mavericks this season. First off,
pretty good series. Neil Patrick, Harris does a hell of
a job. The kids are fantastic. Or you can go
back to the movie with Jim Carrey if you feel
like you just want a two hour experience. First Off,
you said thirty seven minutes for Kyrie. I didn't want
(11:29):
to interrupt your chart train of thought. So in a row, wait,
they said Chase the Spid the Mike Harbts. So they're
playing all thirty seven minutes. They're out, No, listen to
the show. It's a bit. They do it all the time. Okay, great,
it's a bit. It's a bit. Look they are Are
they a harder thirty seven minutes right now? Or were
they up into the injury? Sure the last couple of
weeks probably a bit more taxing because he's not working
(11:52):
off the ball with Luca, you know, having a lot
of ball dominance. Okay, that's what you're trying to win
and get into the playoffs. You're trying to stem the tide,
wishing and hoping that those three guys on the front
line come back just because you decided you hated Nico
Harrison or you stand for him and say, well, the
(12:13):
there's gotta be this ultimate reason. Look, man, they've said
slings and arrows all over the place, and lots of
ink has been put out there about the bad things
Luca was doing. I'm still waiting for the other shoe
to drop of what was so terrible? I mean, so
all of that to say, you're playing the guy, what
are you gonna do? Hold him back for good? You know,
(12:34):
another old show bit of my mom. It's like, what's
that in the cabinet? It's like, we bought you that
eight years ago? Why is the tag still on it?
You know, it's all those kind of big for Kyrie Irving.
You could say, okay, it was inevitable with these heavy minutes,
get over yourself. No, it did right. He went, He
did he go from thirties five and a half thirty
six to thirty seven. Yeah, but it's two minutes. It's yeah,
(12:55):
I mean again, a little more stress on the body, right,
because he's he's got the ball all the time and
he can't take uh, you know, the the Lebron breaks
like uh Rick Buker coined that phrase all those years ago,
the Lebron minute. This is but does suddenly just start
wagging your finger of Yeah, more mismanagement and malfeasans by
(13:16):
the Mavericks, Like, come on. The difference is my wife
saying to me, hey, can you take out the garbage? Great?
Oh hey, can you take Benny for a walk around
the block? Okay, Like the difference between the two of them, Yeah, okay,
little bit more walking and taking the taking the walking
the dog and taking the garbage out. Okay, I get that,
but that's a but like the difference people are talking about.
It's like the difference between my wife saying can you
(13:36):
take the garbage out? And can you walk all the
way to the grocery store buy it, buy five gallons
of milk and carry him back? Like that's not what
this is. Don't run a marathon now, Smith, that's what
she wanted. Imagine that's what she really meant. Imagine you've
just run ten feet. Yeah. Uh so again, really, if
the Mavericks, if they canceled the season, I would not
go again. I would say, okay, yeah, I give wins
(13:57):
to everybody else. They just need to go home. Wow,
just the damn towel and just go home. I mean really,
it's not packing it up. It's that bad. Yeah, I
mean really, we can't even have five dollar na Cho's Nighter. No, no,
not cho basketball. You know you can do if you
want to have basketball like they do the soccer ball
when you go to if you will game, if you
wanted to have a fan event where you gave food
(14:18):
to everybody because you feel bad about canceling, and they
can sign it's okay, j Yeah, I have a big
mass fan day and then hey, well we'll see in
the fall. They just start boarding up the facilities. Just bang,
it's putting ply what up? Scar and fishing? Oh boy,
exit up about a Fresco exit swollen dome. If you're
(14:39):
ready to lose weight, get the expert help a PhD
weight loss no injections or prescriptions, fast weight loss results.
They work for me. I'm down twenty seven pounds the
last eight weeks. Mike is down thirty one. They will
work for you. Call and schedule a console today. Visit
my phdweightloss dot com. That's m y phdweight loss dot com. Well,
coming up next, we get into a big story from
(15:01):
the National Football League. Oh boy, wait till you hear
who might be going places. That's next Jason and Mike Fox. Now, look,
I'm out a weather man, but I'll give you my forecast.
Snow and ice are coming, gonna make driving a challenge.
Thankfully the experts are ti Iraq know a thing or
two about conquering winters, worst rain, sleet, slush, whatever winter
(15:23):
means to you. Tire Iraq has tires that'll elevate traction,
end breaking and keep you safe. All season tires, all
weather tires, and if you live where it snows a lot,
dedicated winter tires. Go to ti iraq dot com. They're
easy to use, shopping tools will guide you to a
personalized recommendation. They got the right tires for how, what
and where you drive. Choose from a full lineup of
Firestone tires. They're shipped fast and free and back by
(15:45):
two years of free road hazard protection. Go to tiraq
dot com slash sports to see their Firestone test results
and special offers. Tire Iraq has thousands of recommended installers
and offers a convenience of mobile tire installation, great tires,
great deals, great people more. What could you ask for?
That's tirect dot com, slash sports, tirack dot com, which
is the way tire buying should be. And now Rob
(16:07):
Parker has walked in because apparently he left his phone
somewhere in the studio and we'll spend the next five
minutes looking for it. Rob. It might be at Opoyo Loco,
where you want to go for a free refill of
your soda.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
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 (16:30):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon
Live in the tirack dot com studio. If you're ready
to lose weight, get the expert help a PhD weight
loss no injections or prescriptions, fast weight loss results. They
work for me, they work for Mike, They'll work for you.
Call schedule a console today visit my phdweightloss dot com.
That's my phdweightloss dot com, My PhD weight loss dot com.
(16:55):
So we are awaiting the start of the Pelicans and
the Lakers. That maybe Luca Lebron combined for one hundred tonight.
Maybe I know they were both twenty. I think Lebron
was twenty six and a half for his point total
and Luca is usually about thirty. Yeah, okay, that sounds
about That's where he's been, like twenty nine and a half.
That sounds about right. Like does Luke have anything to
prove tonight? Is what I'm thinking, Like any or tonight
(17:16):
gonna be one of those. Hey it's the Pelicans. They stink.
Nice easy game today, nice miniature stra nice easy game tonight.
There's a good Bronni kind of situation. And oh, bron well,
you know that's the one thing we haven't seen yet,
Bronnie play with Luca, Like we haven't seen that yet,
Bronni playing with Lebron and Luca. And then Bronnie can
(17:36):
call at the end of the game and say, hey, Dad, Dad, Dad, dad,
how long did you wait to play with Luca? Right?
Like seven years? Ha I waited like seven games. Actually
two more days. They played the Knicks on Yeah, I
played the next they played what happened the last time
they played? The next? Bronnie dropped? How many they did?
I'd like eight? Yeah, okay, they traded Anthony Davis. They
(17:57):
were all on cloud nine. They were all hopped up
on happiness. Of course they're gonna win that game. He
still dropped eight on you. Okay, yoh he did? He did?
Bronni did? Bronnie drops eight? Okay? Uh, So we'll have
more NBA on the way and look, just really quick,
if there's any doubt, the Cavaliers have the best offense
in the NBA. In a ninety second span, and I
don't mean ninety seconds of game time, I mean a
(18:20):
ninety second real time span, real time span, the Cavaliers
with Donovan Mitchell on the bench. Yeah, okay, just trying
to figure out trying to get highlights from the Mets
game earlier today in spring training, Mitchell on the bench.
In a ninety second real time span, the Cavaliers went
(18:40):
from being tied at one oh seven a piece with
the Bulls to a one to sixteen one oh seven
lead in ninety seconds of real time. They went up
nine to zero, and they went from we're tied, and
now you go a little bit later and they're down fourteen.
I mean, like all the stuff we talk about these teams,
that's why the teams like the Celtics, the Cavaliers and
the Thunder at the top we talk about their rosters.
(19:03):
But the offense of the Cavaliers is just unmatched. It's
the best offense in the NBA. Maybe people don't know
a lot of the names outside of Donovan Mitchell, but
it doesn't matter. I mean, they're leading the NBA one
hundred and twenty three points a game and they can
score points like that in that amount of time. It
was insane. And again, ninety seconds, ninety seconds of real life.
(19:23):
We were literally kind of talking about the next couple
of segments, kind of keeping an eye on the games,
as like why are the bulls on it? And Frosburg
was gonna go It's like Dan, I'm like, hey, it's close,
and then he put the graphic comes up. It's like, wait,
it's actually tied. It's like I knew they were within
two or four before the commercial time out. Whatever. Either way,
by the time we walked back and we're having a
(19:45):
quick conversation. It's a nine point deficit and we're watching
it sideye, going really is this happening? Jared Allen losing
his mind. You got tied, Jerome coming off the bench
with an sixteen point performance from him. Mitchell was sitting
on his ass. He had twenty eight at that point,
like is it time? Yeah, it's time, let's go. It's
(20:06):
one of those situations where you feel like, oh, did
you go back in the game to win it was
one oh seven, because now it's one sixteen, one oh seven, Like,
did you go back? And now you gotta hit fast
forward on the button to go up? Oh no, no, no,
that was real time, really, but to hit the rewind
with the team of mine from last night we were
watching UCLA Northwestern. What happened in the first half didn't
really go inside, settling for outside jump shots. Cavaliers doing
(20:26):
a lot of that, right, and we're tied, and we're
going it's like all right, now it's time start working
down low and Jared Allen goes nuts in the fourth
quarter and here we are. I'm gonna give you something
really insane, right, We talked about that for a second.
Hang on, So this game was tied one oh seven,
one oh seven, all right, with Bulls seven minutes to
go in the fourth quarter. Yeah, right, was tied one
(20:47):
oh seven, one oh seven, So it's not even five
minutes have gone by. So in the last file of
game time span from one o seven one oh seven,
the Cavaliers now lead one thirty two to one thirteen. Yeah,
one thirty two to one thirteen. It's like the Bulls
are playing knicks like defense and everybody is exhausted. Yeah,
this is this is a run. This is an insane
(21:08):
run in five minutes to go on a twenty five
to six run where hey, we're struggling, we're struggling. It's
one oh seven one. Not that you don't say, but
when you're struggling, Okay, this is gonna be close down
the stretch. Nope, we're gonna turn it on for five
minutes and good luck everybody. You want to make Frostburg
feel good though, ex Laker having himself to night tailor
Horton Tucker for the Bulls off the bench twenty two.
(21:31):
How about that Kobe White with twenty five nine of
twenty three from the field. Zach Collins as twenty oh
that's academic at this point, because this fourth quarter has
just been a clinic. I mean it is a twenty
five to six run to one in five minutes, a
twenty five points in five minutes, and then Donovan Mitchell
(21:53):
just sat back down. He's like shaking everybody's hand, like
good job, good job. I mean, that is insane. I
think about that number because you extrapolate that over the
course of a game, that's fifty do all your efficiency
rating over two hundred points, right, I'm just doing really okay,
half the court forty three home runs in the first
(22:14):
game of a major league baseball season. Yeah, he's a
bast Yeah. Yeah, it's a five minute span. It's not
even half a court. It's over two hundred points. It's
over two hundred points. Crazy man, I'll tell you that's
good math. I didn't see that's pretty good. That's really good, man,
that's really good. I'm good at math. I'm like, like,
very simple math, very very simple. Keep it going. How
(22:36):
many strikeouts did Rokie have Jason five and two innings?
Is that what it was? Count on your fingers one, two, three, four, five,
So one hand five, yes, and three do the bondy five? Count.
You're gonna do this acount of my fingers, account of
my face, like like I'm five years old, five one,
two three, Oh, I got it. Hey, guess who could
(22:57):
be headed to an NFL team near you. That's coming up.
But first let's find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. My man, who's been called the Chicago
Bulls of Fox Sports Radio t keep things close for
a while but then just completely fall down in the job.
It's Steve Disaga. At no point in that paragraph was
that a compliment. You should have said nineties Bulls.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
By the way, Rookie Sasaki averaged ninety nine on the fastball.
Tonight spring training game Dodgers over the Reds four to two.
Sasaki in relief, three scoreless innings, five strikeouts, Mookie Betts
with a solo home run. Earlier today, the Yankees beat
the Phillies twelve to three. The loss to Zach Wheeler
in two plus innings. He allowed five earned runs and
eight hits. The Yankees led ten to one in the
(23:42):
third inning. The Philadelphia Eagles gave running back Saquon Barkley
a two year extension where thirty six million dollars guaranteed
plus incentives. The Jets cut wide receiver DeVante Adams they
could release wide receiver Alan Lazard in the next week.
Adams cap number would have been thirty eight million dollars.
His base salary was not guaranteed. Green Bay reselling kicker
(24:04):
Brandon McManus now to the NBA scoreboard. In New York,
Golden State beat the Knicks one fourteen to one oh two.
New York did not have Karl Anthony Towns out for
personal reasons. Steph Curry was a game time decision with
a sore ankle. He played. He scored twenty eight points
in victory. Meanwhile, for the next og Onanobi with twenty
nine points, jagaln Brunson with twenty five, but Brunson from
(24:27):
three point range one of seven, and starter Josh Hart
one of eight overall shooting from the floor. Lakers starter
Austin Reeves out again tonight with a calf injury the
late game, just a few minutes away from tip. The Lakers,
who won six in a row, or hosting New Orleans.
Luka Donsich is available. He was upgraded to probable earlier
today after a Bruce knee Lebron James is playing. He's
(24:48):
Player of the Month in the West for February, Donovan
Mitchell player of the Month in the East, and the
Cabs are gonna win their eleventh straight game. They're leading
in the final seconds at Chicago one thirty nine to
one seven team Jared Allen twenty five points, seventeen rebounds
as Evan Mobley was rested. Tonight, the Spurs lead with
eight minutes to go one ten ninety three over the
(25:09):
Nets Clippers at Suns Underway victories for Milwaukee and Minnesota.
Indiana over Houston one fifteen one oh two Tyrese Halliburton
twenty eight points, fifteen assists, and Toronto on a last
second three pointer, got a victory at Orlando one fourteen
one thirteen. Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving is out for the
year with the torn acl and the Grizzlies Jared Jackson
(25:31):
has a grade to ankle spring. In men's college basketball, tonight,
twenty seconds left in overtime, Texas leads at number twenty five,
Mississippi State eighty five, eighty two number one. Auburn trails
early second half fifty four forty eight at number twenty
two ranked Texas A and M and a top twenty
five matchup as BYU ahead at number ten Iowa State
(25:54):
fifty four to thirty three with about thirteen minutes to go.
Already wins for Kentucky, Perdue, and Memphis. NHL Tampa Bay
a six to two winner against Columbus. The Islanders beat
Winnipeg three to two.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Back to you, Thank you, STEVEO. I really I don't
know that I've ever seen a run like this to
end a game in a in a basketball game ever. No,
remember once in a while in a college game where
it gets really out of swords in an overtime period
or something because the team's out of gas, but not
like the one oh seven, one o seven with six
and a half minutes left to go, one thirty nine
to one, seventeen moalls like that. I mean, I've never
(26:30):
seen a run like that. I mean, like, we've talked
about how great their offense is in the Cavity, but
it was it was all of a sudden, like Okay,
we're gonna go play for five minutes. But we always
talked about that with with the Warriors for years, right,
the spurt ability first half kind of meandering around feeling
out come out of the the halftime entertainment, Red Panda
leaves the center court and bam, they start hitting threes
(26:52):
at all of a sudden, you know the my signal
on leash. Hell, that's exactly what happened here. I mean,
this was just absurd. And Mombly doesn't even pl and
he's the last man standing. Right as Steve gave us
in the update, Jackson Junior is now out indefinitely with
with an injury. So Mobley's gonna win the Defensive Player
of the Year by default as long as he gets
(27:14):
his sixty five thresholds best offense in the league. And
it's not close crazy wow, crazy efficient, high or low cost.
It doesn't. And since DeAndre Hunter came to the to
the team and at the trade deadline, we've talked about
the metrics. They're like number one. It's one of those uh,
like you're selling a movie after a big box office.
(27:36):
We go number one everywhere? But are you number one
because it's a bad week? Are you going to see
a big down tick at number one? I don't know
number one everywhere except like heat on, look at USA
eat on. No matter she might take issue with it.
(27:58):
Remember remember there is ad he would grab the microphone
from because, of course, for some reason, when the Iron
Cheek used to win, they would have to announce it.
So just to get the ring working, of course, we
could grab the bike and go on, hey man, you
gotta get the crowd involved. You gotta worry do some
crowd work, like you're a stand up comedian. Hey, how
you doing the night? You out on a date? This
(28:19):
is great. Instead, it's no matter what, you need to
be humbled, right, sometimes you need to be humbled once again.
The bulls and whoever he beat would still be laying
oh yeah on the canvas. This is the best you have.
Look at USA, and then you need to go kick
him again while holding the microphone. Oh all right, so
(28:39):
I'm gonna give you a big bull prediction for the
NFL offseason coming off. Okay, what Max Crosby said today, right,
Raiders defensive end said, get me out of here. No,
he said, if we got Aaron Rodgers, it would be legendary, legendary.
I mean Aaron Rodgers is a legend for every other team. No,
(29:00):
he's still legendary. Would be legendary, Like, wow, it's legendary.
You got him way after he was any good. But
the odds of Rogers now the Raiders are the new
favorite to get him about it. Okay, now, I'm gonna
tell you this. The Raiders are either going Their starting
quarterback next season is either going to be Sam Darnold
(29:22):
or Aaron Rodgers. That's who they're They will get one
of them. Because we talked about the big three, the
two of them and Justin Fields last night. Look as
time goes on we get closer to free agency, teams
are gonna realize, hey, this crop of quarterbacks, we might
not find our next quarterback here. Maybe we re examined
the guys. Oh I like Justin Fields a little bit
more than I did a couple months ago. I like
Sam Darnold more than a couple months ago. I like it.
(29:42):
But the Raiders have to come up with somebody. And
Pete Carroll obviously is in a win now mode and
Tom Brady needs a win. Tom Brady coming in his
influence on the team, he needs a win. He needs
to be able to get the quarterback to come here
because part of the reason why he owns that. Okay, now,
you got to get people here. Got didn't work with
(30:03):
Matthew Stafford. Right, he needs a win. He needs a win. Right,
he's the last two guys that you thought, Hey, this
is who Brady's gonna be. It be the pied piper.
He's got big L's for So he needs a win,
and it's either gonna be Rogers or it will be
Sam Darnold. Right, justin Field doesn't feel like it's gonna
work there because they want someone who's either a veteran
(30:24):
to come in, has done it before. Hey, we're gonna
kind of hit the ground running feels maybe a little
bit more of a of a long term Hey, now
he's in another new offense where we're staying with with Steelers,
might wind up being the right thing for him. But
either him or Donald, who now clearly has hit the
market because he wasn't a franchise tag today, the Raiders
will have one of those two guys in next season. Now,
I mean it'll be Rogers if Rogers is smart, because
(30:47):
the Jets cutting Davonte Adams today, which we'll get to
if all of a sudden, like Rogers is smart and
he shows up at every team's facilities him and Devonte Adams,
Hey sign both of us. I could be your quarterback.
He's like, all right, right, watch to watch this and
he throws like a nerf ball to DeVante Abas throws
it back to Hey. But both of us, we just
want to talk to Davante. No, I'm with horse Racers.
(31:08):
I get both of them. I get one and one A.
It's like you can box them, you get them both
if they're smart. If Ryman Rodgers are smart, that's what
he does. Hey, you can get me and you can
get Davonte from draft Kings earlier today, Aaron Rodgers next
team odds, The Giants are the favorite at minus one fifty,
Steelers at plus two fifty, followed by the Raiders at
(31:29):
plus four hundred. The Adams thing, which is a much
bigger conversation, uh, watching a guy who's value and returns,
shall we say uh or are much different and very
stark from that that first exit. But you look at
the the Aaron Rodgers situation. Yeah, it's him and Darnold
(31:51):
and then obviously lurking in the background is still Captain Kirk.
I mean, we we have no matter what they say
in front of a microphone, he's there. Yeah, it's if
the price is right. But the money. It's just too
tough because does Kirk Cousins strike you with someone that's
gonna take any one dime less? No, of course not.
So he's got to understand that we need a quarterback here.
(32:14):
Maybe one of the guys slips to us at six,
but we still have to sign and maybe maybe that's
the philosophy of boy, you really think one of those
guys is gonna slip, so we go with Aaron Rodgers
or no, Sam's our guy, he's twenty seven. This is
the guy we believe in. But one of those two
will be quarterback of the Raiders as fault. The other
piece that came out earlier, including the Giants, is that
they're now co favorites to actually have the number one pick.
(32:38):
So a lot of uh well, lying that that's we're
in lying season now, so trying to figure out what's
real what's imagined in terms of information and subterfuge, which
is great for us. So there's this W. The W
will be in the form of Sam Darnold or Aaron Rodgers.
Now there could be a big W LITTLEW like, not
big W like, but it's a W because he needs
(32:59):
he's got to get somebody he needs that win either way.
At x jets Now Good Exit out about a Fresca
exit Swelling Dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the
TIREC dot com studios. Hey, don't forget if you miss
any of our content. Our best of podcasts goes up
right after the show is over. Just search Jason Smith
and Mike Harmon wherever you get your podcasts from. Download, rate, subscribe.
(33:20):
We'll love you forever and ever and ever again. Give
us five stars. Jason Smith and Mike Harmon. Just search
it right after the show gets done wherever you get
your podcasts from. Thank you for your continued support. Mike
and I love bringing this content with you every single night. Well,
coming up next, somebody had a big ear in the
NFL last year, and somebody got paid today. That's next,
(33:41):
right here, Jason and Mike. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon Live tirerac dot com Studios. You can
stream this show and all of our Fox Sports Radio
shows live. Twenty four to seven in the new iHeartRadio app.
Just search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream
us live and one of the newest features in the app,
you can select Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets,
(34:16):
just like the presets on a radio dial. So be
sure to preset Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app.
It'll always pop up at the top of your screen.
What do I say, Mike Harmon, lock it in and
rip there we go. Uh, we have a big milestone,
a huge milestone in the NBA to get to coming
up in about ten minutes you will hear it. But yes,
(34:40):
t Bo's playing basketball. Now, that's what it is. Well,
I mean, you gotta keep reinventing yourself. If t BO
played basketball, I have a feeling he'd be kind of like, uh,
he'd be a point guard obviously, but kind of like
Ben Simmons. I can't really see him shooting. No, I
really can't. I can't see too long. Have a wind
up to get that show and again otherwise, a lot
(35:00):
of leadership, right, A lot of passes, yeah, a lot,
a lot of good passes. Hey, how many passes? Yeah?
Four passes before we shoot four? And the jump pass. Hell,
the jump pass will be awesome, right and jump instead
of shooting, he just passes. Still favorite jump pass. I
don't know. He would right to the line of scrimmage
and jump up. Oca McMahon used to do that, Like
there were always these guys that that was just in
(35:22):
the arsenal. Start to move up. He's like, I forget it.
It's such a high risk play. But if you could
pull it off, it's not a risky play. But the
problem is if you're too close to the line of scrimmage,
odds are you're getting a guy going road warrior animal
stuff that is flying through your chest. Yeah, that is true.
That is true. So big news today, and and and
and this flies in the face anybody anybody who says
(35:44):
running backs from the NFL can't get paid. Yes, you
could get paid. If you run for two thousand yards
and nearly break the all time record and rushing and
your team goes and wins the Super Bowl, you can
get paid. Like Saquon Barkley today, Eagles give him two years,
forty million dollars. So doing that math, that's how many
million a year my Carmen twenty? Yes, very good. See
(36:08):
that's all you gotta do. Run for two thousand yards.
Win the Super Bowl. You'll get paid his running back.
Don't give you give me all this hardship crap. I
know and paid right. Run for two thousand yards, get
a good offensive line, win the Super Bowl? How hard
can it be? Saquon Barkley went from the Giants who
were saying, oh, we're nazzing ar deeply. Don't know who
you can get rid of.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I'm showing up a bu a team that's loaded, and
I won the Super Bowl, ran for two k here's
the problem with your saquad Barkley, fine dollars and cents.
Darius Slay had to go blanken ship had to go
blankdass uh you know that is? That is a blank this?
How do you like that? I went full eagles? You
think that's how they did a blanket ship? Hey, blanket ship?
Blank this? You're out? What? Yeah? Sorry, hey Slay? What
(36:48):
we we just laid you. You're out? Nice to see it.
But Howie, I'm sorry. This cut on my forehead has
really had a good run. It was a good thing
that your your your family did by getting people his
extra large jerseys. We didn't have him in the team shop.
I like do you know why we didn't print him
because you weren't gonna be I like doing this, Blanke
and ship blank you you're out. I like it good.
(37:09):
Hey Sligh, I just killed. You're out? Hey, someone go
find me. Jalen Hurts. Who'll get it. I'll get rid
of it really fast. Munchmen the leg going. It hurts,
don't it? Uh? But this serious about this now, is
that this is the best thing for running backs in
the NFL because as you've seen now the last year
or so, like the NFL big copycat league, as you know,
(37:32):
the NFL is starting to come back a little bit
to running backs a little bit. But you have to
be a running back that can do it all. You know.
You can't be a guy that just hey, I carry
the ball back. If you are a do it all
running back, if you're a Bijon Robinson, right, if you
run Saquon Barkley, if you're a guy like that, you
will get paid. Right. If you're someone that can be
(37:52):
a big dual threat, awesome, Yes, we'll give you money.
We'll pay you because you're that kind of guy. And
there's a few running backs like that in the NFL
that as time goes on because we went from great
quarterback play across the league to now quarterback play is
way down across the league. So when quarterback play is down,
the NFL goes and cycles. Now a little bit more
reliance on the running back, especially the guys catch a
lot of passes out of the backfield. So now you're
(38:14):
getting back not not quite the running back renaissance, but
it's better news for running backs and guys like Bijon Robinson.
In a year or two, they're gonna get big hun
they will get contracts upwards of Hey, here's two or
three years and a lot of money. Right, you're not
gonna forget about that five seven year not happening. But
two or three years for running back and a lot
of money. That's what they should aspire to because that's
(38:35):
a deal that's completely palatable. An NFL team can say, listen,
you're a star, you're a great player. We love you.
We're gonna give you a lot of money the next
couple of years. Okay, but I want a five year deal. Yeah,
let's come back, come back to me, come back off
of Mars, come back to reality. Yeah, we're only going
to do it for a couple of years. So you
will see that now and you will see guys like
Bijon Robinson signing an extension for two years. The extension
for two years and forty million dollars. Wow, look at that. Now,
(38:57):
they got until twenty twenty nine or whatever it's gonna be.
That's what you can expect from the NFL. So that's
good news. It's not the great news. You don't. You
want the lifetime money in three hundred million guaranteed quarterback,
but that's not gonna go that way. But they're starting
to come back now a little bit. And the best
thing for all running backs is Saquon Barkley having that
year the yet last year. Hey, a running back can
carry a team to a super Bowl. Okay, I'm backing
(39:19):
on it a little bit. Let's back reinvesting in the
in the position a little bit, and let's go back
to that. So that's a it's a I mean, you
think about it, it's a really really big thing for
the NFL. Yeah, part of me wonders how much of
it is is a bit of an outlier in that
you do have to have everything go right for you,
right in terms of roster construction and flow healthy offensive line.
(39:40):
Look to me, you know a lot of the post
Super Bowl chatter was well and they didn't really even
need Barkley. It's like, no, he had a lot of
tough runs and you know what happens, you run clock,
you beat people up. You never got the big hit.
But you know what else he did. He also blocked
down field on a couple of those big Jalen Hurts runs.
Don't tell me that didn't go over with the front
(40:01):
office folks in terms of sacrifice, because that that's not
going in the stats, right, and that's only for nerds
like us talking on the radio to point those things out,
but also to the and it's a point I've made
a bunch is you know, the guys that are leading
the renaissance all really went to good teams. When you
look at Josh Jacobs, Derrick Henry, and the aforementioned Barkley,
(40:24):
So you know you're into a good structure, so you're
going to achieve. For Barkley, massive numbers gets rewarded. Here's
a little bit of a spot bonus for what you
just did. Let's keep the train moving, keep doing good work.
B Jon Robinson, he like hell had forty six total
receptions this year, which is down from once upon a
time he was about double that, right, but if you
(40:46):
still active. But usage in the middle of the season
it went from I'm splitting time with with Aligart. Now
he's the guy. No, that's a middle. Last season he
became okay, our offense rolls through him. And when as
Arthur Smith got out the doors, Hey do I get
the football now? Yes, you get it early and off
in bejone. Yeah, you know I forgot about you don't
sit in the back, come and sit up in the
(41:06):
fucking a home Pittsburgh back again this year. So there
coming up next and absolute superstar is on the market.
Could be the difference in a Super Bowl or bust.
Who is it? We'll tell you next. Oh fuck,
Hosts And Creators
Jason Smith
Mike Harmon
Popular Podcasts
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. Clay Travis and Buck Sexton tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and current events with intelligence and humor. From the border crisis, to the madness of cancel culture and far-left missteps, Clay and Buck guide listeners through the latest headlines and hot topics with fun and entertaining conversations and opinions.