March 12, 2025 • 52 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon give you the over/under on number of tees Tiger Woods has left on the PGA Tour in his career. How the Vikings failed themselves just letting Sam Darnold walk. And we introduce you to the new Indiana Jones. Plus, a visit from MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Well harm Just like I said yesterday, Hey, yeah, the
NFL is making sure we get good story and big
(01:00):
stuff to talk about every day with free agency. We
had a bunch of quarterback signed yesterday, still leaving things
open for today. We had a couple of big signings
leaving things open for tomorrow with Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson,
the NFL Arian Foster's got this script where it's not
gonna have it in all day. It's Hey, let's do
a couple on Monday, couple on Tuesday, couple on Wednesday. Hey,
(01:22):
we're in the middle of a great week here. It's Christmas,
but it's three four, five days long, and it's just
exactly how we thought it was gonna go.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, I'm surprised they haven't moved it back a week.
So then they can invade March Madness and say blank
those kids like George Carlin, did you know, Wow, like
your March madness, it's a free agent frenzy. Let's go
maybe on the playing days, but boy, like the Thursday,
take over the Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh, that'd be that would be real. Boom.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You saw what the NBA did to our Super Bowl week.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We're coming for you, and we want to interrup up
Duke and UCLA right now. Yes, there's three minutes left
to go. Cooper Flagg has forty, but Duke trails by
two to tell you that Aaron Rodgers has signed with
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's go live to our CBS studio
where Chris Simson everybody else has more with this like
I can imagine that happening.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Well, i'll tell you I and H when we first
thought about this situation a week ago, they had three
potential shooters out there, and now Flag with another shot,
he's got him up to forty six. Hey, hey, it
doesn't matter. Okay, that defensive lineman that's been waiting in
the wings has been a backup role for that No nothing,
(02:40):
AFC South squad. He's moving West LA and that's got
the headlines.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Let's go. You want a really fun story about that
before we get into the NFL from today. So this
is I'm going back aways now. This is back when
I was working at Fox Sports Net and it was
the precursor to Fox Sports One, right when everybody came
out beginning of the beginning of the two thousands, Like
Kevin Frazier was the big anchor, and you know the
(03:07):
football analysts, who are the football analysts that we had. Oh,
James Worthy was on every day, right, So that was
a big precursor. Right. So Sunday we're all at work.
It's a big day. Obviously, it's Sunday. We're all working.
And that was the day that Cal Ripken decided to
end his hitting streak and his playing games played streak. Right,
he was sitting out at twenty one third, It's like whoa, whoa, whoa.
(03:29):
When it became obvious that, you know, the fifth incomes
and he doesn't come into the game, right, everybody realizes
it in Baltimore that he's not coming into play. He's done,
he's sitting out. Everybody comes out and collapse. He comes out,
waves to the crowd. It's like, oh my god, this
is a big thing, right, So what happens on, you know,
in the middle of the NFL. And so then we're
all at work and we're watching and I forget who
it was, but as a couple of people like like,
(03:50):
this is a big news coming in now and how
does this change the story of the day and everything else?
And they go to the FOT you know, Fox Sunday
was coming down like at halftime or right before the games,
and it's it's at this point it was it was
Howie and Terry and JB you know all and and
Jimmy Johnson, I think it was that, and they were
all talking about it. It was a really big thing.
(04:10):
And they brought Steve lyons on over from the baseball
set because obviously, you know, he's the thing. So they
bring Psycho over and I think it was halftime. I
think it was halftime of the early games when normally
you get highlights and what's going on and everything else,
And so they come over and you know, James Brown
introduces hey, and now we have a huge story in
Major League Baseball. The iron Man streak of cal Ripken
is over. Steve Lions here now to talk to us
(04:32):
about it, and we're watching and like three people that
we're all going, are going, what the hell are we doing?
Show me football highlights?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I want to see? What's going on? What the hell?
Why are we talking to Steve Lyons, Like it's a
really big story? Oh why the hell is he on here?
I don't care the Patriots. I think somebody got hurt,
you know, I don't know what it was, but the
people were just insane that why are we taking time
out of this NFL Sunday where it's time to see
you know, back when when that's where you needed to
see highlight to the early right, if you didn't have
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the dish, you know, you wanted to see highlights. Because
I want to see.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
The highls obviously a magnificent career for cal Ripken Junior
over three thousand. It's Hall of Famer, the gold Gloves,
everything else. But for all of you out there, remember
to tell your kids, eighty five percent is just showing up.
Oh sure, celebrated most to being able to show up, right,
(05:25):
that's absolutely showing up. Uh So, Now, look, obviously we
have a lot of NFL to get to and and look,
Daniel Jones has a new destination.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Joe Soosa now heads to the Buffalo Bills for one
year or four games whatever he plays more?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Does he hate his brother eight seven seven ninety nine?
But wrong thing?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Look, obviously the biggest story today and we saw this,
and this is why this is such a final moment,
I think for all of us. Tiger Woods reveals that
he had surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon and he
is now out for however long it's going to be
for him to come back. And it was shocking. Nobody
(06:06):
knew right he was doing TGL stuff and he was
having fun and laughing. He said, listen, I was just
swinging a club and I felt that, you know what
was something was going on. I went in and it's
a minimally invasive achilles tendon repair. And you know, obviously
Tiger Woods expected to make a full recovery. But you
think about this with Tiger Woods. Okay, Tiger Woods now
(06:27):
hasn't played in a PGA Tour event all season, right
his mom passed away in February. He had entered, but
then Withdrew he's not ready to compete. Last time he
played in a Tour event was last year at the
Open at Troon in July. And you know, this is
just it's just more. It's just more, you know, horrible
news for Tiger with his health and for all of
us who still measure success at golf events when Tiger
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Woods is there playing well because we still kind of
do it. I look at this and I go, He's
he's forty nine years old. Now, how many more times
is he really gonna play golf? Like if I put
the over under for number of times you see Tiger
Woods competing on a golf course again, and I put
it at five, I would probably take the under. The
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number of injuries he has had to his back, to
his legs the last twenty years. I mean, he has
done a yeoman's work trying to get back from this, Right,
he has tried everything he can, but it's just at
the point where his body is really betraying him. And
now you're talking about coming back from an Achilles tendon injury,
which even though minimally invasive, it's still a ruptured Achilles tendon, Like,
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what are you gonna do? Right? How many more chances
are really gonna get? And he's not gonna come out
and keep playing, just as hey, he's gonna come out
and play two holes and limp off. So I wonder
if he's gonna do, you know, again, five more times?
Maybe the Masters. He'll try the Masters at some point
next year, right, because obviously Achilles tendon surgery the one
(07:52):
event that is he's kind of owned for his entire career. Like,
maybe he tries it again in a year, but how
many more times after that? I mean, if you if
you put the number of times we're gonna see Tiger
Woods play again in the PGA Tour in events that
are real like this where he's trying to win, I
would take the under at five. It's just his body
is just it's just not at the point more where
(08:12):
he can even play. He's only playing four or five
events a year anyway, and now after all the rehab,
at some point you just say, you know what, I
think I'm done, and I'm gonna continue to be an
ambassador and I'll be a celebrity and they'll do everything
I can. Maybe I'll be PGA Tour commissioner one day
or something else. But on the golf course, I think
we may see him less than five times. Now.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Keep going to the video game events. See how much
you can build that. Add some celebrities and make it
a chaotic weekend. You know, take the Arizona event and
bring it indoors to the video game where you don't
have to walk the full eighteen, which you obviously can't do.
Hasn't competed since last July when you talk about being
(08:54):
at the Open, and then obviously this year with the
passing of his mom. You know, another one of those
guys right, talk about it all the time on the show, Jason.
We measure our our, our own mortality in a way
with some of these athletes that we grew up and
who came to prominence as you know we were in
our early twenties. And then when they start, one by one,
(09:15):
all going off and usually golfers. They give us a shot.
I mean, because they don't have all these, you know,
horrible injuries that actually take them off the course. We
can always say, hey, still slinging it over on the
senior Tour. So I'm not that old. But with Tiger,
we've just watched incident after incident and all these injuries,
and this one just as like oh, father time came
(09:36):
and just kind of grabbed at my achilles, is the
way he kind of described it. Yeah, I don't know.
I just got it kind of popped and I went
into lucked and yeah, there we go. We got to
go have a big surgery. Interesting in a bunch of
the articles because I know exactly where he'd had that
car accident, because you started enumerting all the different things
he's gone through in the rehabs he's come back from
(09:57):
with these injuries, and they they keep putting in the palisades.
I don't know if it's AI correcting for a recency
when it came to the horrible fires that we had. No, no, no,
I know exactly with the curve because I taught my
daughters to drive there, because it's not a good curve,
it's a it plays down in Pallas Verdes. But all
of that to say, you know, at a little sad
(10:18):
for golf today, right, because as much as you've got
rom And and some of these other heavyweights, Tiger's still
a name when he's on the entry list. Uh, there's
still that hope against hopes, not only that he's gonna
be able to put together a round, but that you know,
the golf gods, the sports gods, the damn it, we're
(10:39):
not old gods let him go through three or four
days without walking after a bad shot into the parking
lot and driving away. So this one was was a
sad one today for me. You know, another one of
our our contemporaries that father time got them.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I mean, it's really it's been so long since Tiger
Woods was Tiger Woods. Right. He had the last Master's victory,
which so much mirroring Jack Nicholas's career, where you know,
Jack won a bunch and then didn't whin. We thought
he was done. He won the eighty six Masters, the
famous photo everybody has seen with him seeing the putt
go in on eighteen, and you know that was Tiger's
(11:17):
last one. Somehow he found a way to win a
few years ago, and that really was it. He just
doesn't play enough golf in general, and it's it's just
strange that he has still had this kind of mysticism
and this kind of attension on him when when it's
been you know, close to twenty years since we've seen
him be dominant. Ight, it's been a long time since
two thousand and eight, right, It's it's been a while
(11:38):
since you know, he hits a you know, he hits
a fire hydrant on his way out of his house,
and his whole career goes, you know, sideways. It's been
a long time, and for him to still have that
hold over the sport really tells you about what he
had when he was playing. And you think about the
times we used to talk about golf, you know, in
the two thousands, Ebby, it was insane. I mean, Tiger
(12:00):
Woods was a was a story that was we talk
about Tiger Woods like we talk about Lebron James like
that's kind of what that's kind of what it used
to be. Like what for tiger Woods? He can he win?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Here?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Can you do that? It doesn't matter if people didn't
know anything about golf, they knew tiger Woods and what
he meant to the game, and and and that was
how much he stirred uh the sports world, and and
for it to be now you sit here and it's
just so awful, and you think about how he's still
able to have all the romanticism and the attention of
all of us, of all fans, and it's still golf
is still about Tiger Woods. I just hope he can
(12:31):
still stay public. And like I said, maybe maybe we're
putting it out there Tiger Woods for PGA Tour commissioner.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Or his son's caddy either what yeah, either one just
around the game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, I mean, because he's still you know, the TGL
stuff is making headlines and and and that's great.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
But that that was kind of fun, like we talked
about it on air when he made his debut and
had the big w WE entrance music and all that
kind of stuff. So but I don't know how it's
like a lot of events that we have like that,
it's is sustainable, right to really build an audience, I
don't know. I'm sure you have some diehards if nothing else,
(13:10):
you get to hang out with Tiger Woods. So I
mean there's still gonna be some of that as long
as he promises to do a little wave to the crowd,
maybe sign a couple of autographs, you'll you'll still get
people hanging around, waiting, wishing and hoping. But from the
Gulf side of it, yeah, it's it's just a tough run.
I mean, as as we've watched him and he'll try
to battle back, there's no question in my mind that
(13:31):
we'll get an announcement he's aiming for this date, uh,
and all of those kind of tales once again. But
you know the that that becomes the all right, I'll
believe it when I see it side of things. As
opposed to all right, he gives it the old college try,
whether it's a round or two rounds, maybe one or
two big shots. But that's hoping against hope anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, I mean, like five times, I'd feel lucky if
we see him play five more times, maybe one or
two Masters, maybe another. Maybe he tries to do all
of the majors one more time like that that will
be his goal, and maybe not all in one calendar year,
but I try to do all the majors one more
time because he deserves a farewell, He deserves something like that.
But I mean That's really where I'm at, Like, I
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don't know, man, I don't know if we'll see him
play five more times. I hope, I hope.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
So yeah, But what I hope is it's not hey
playing is I enter? And then yeah, physically I'm done
at the end of day one, right that becomes a
sad goodbye exit.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
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is just huge, devastating news today on Tiger Woods, and
all best thoughts to him and hopefully you know, this
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Well coming up next. Yes, another big day in NFL
free agency. We had a big quarterback signing, and boy,
I didn't think I would upset one team's fan base
(15:11):
as much as I have the last twenty four hours.
But that's happened, So we'll get to all this coming
up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
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You know, I gotta tell you some TI shirt. So
I did a radio hit today during the day with
my friends at Edmonton, right, because you know we're huge
in Canada, are we?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, yeah? Oh here, I wish I wish, I wish.
I wish Canada mattered in the ratings.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Oh, you don't know that.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
They import us all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
So I come on Normal and they give me this
song as my introduction, do they right? And they specifically
let it play for like twenty seconds and I'm like,
are they waiting for me to say so? Like I no,
And they come on, Jason, how you do it? I said, okay,
I said, first thing, never play this song again. It's enough.
Did I get it every single night? And they go wow,
(16:10):
you know, and the host, Jason Gregor says, you know,
I'm with you. I don't think I like this song either.
I said, okay, cool, we're good, right, great, I do
the hit, interview goes great, everything else that Edmonton's fantastic,
and I hang up and their producer texts me, sorry, dude.
They said, you're getting this song every time from you. Yeah,
come on, man, yeah, Like I couldn't have it go
and not address it how much I can't stand that song. No, no, no, no,
(16:32):
dog good no no, but now no, now I'm getting it.
When I go on, I'm like, okay, uh yeah, lose
my number, never doing it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
But you were question you got to answer. But ty shirt,
look at that. You're a global superstar.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And now you guys know I'm parts. I'm working in
Canada too. Oh that's good, okay, very good. All right, Yeah,
thanks for coming on. Eh yeah yeah, no, make sure
you get paid Canadian because it's more, you know, it's
actually do the exchange rate is really really sure. Yeah,
and a lot of my e as well. We love here.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That's what's it's all a boot you have.
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You have no choice but to love Gretzky, Like that's that's.
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You all drive what sixty five under the speed limit?
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Oh okay, if we just want to get there on time,
you know. Save Okay, now you're getting little you're getting
little Scottish. Now you can don't have it. It's a
bit of a shorter flight coming over home.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
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O c K E T. Now, before we get to
(17:46):
Daniel Jones, we we have we have to we have
to get to Daniel Jones off of something. So yesterday
we talked about Sam Darnold and his journey to the
Seattle Seahawks. One hundred million dollar contract, three years, big deal,
biggest of the moves and quarterback wise, and we talked
about this off the top of the show last night,
and I said, you know, it's such an epic fail
(18:07):
by the Vikings that they couldn't get more. They let
him walk in, have an incredible year, four thousand yards,
thirty five touchdowns, Pro Bowl and walk out and you
get a third round compensation pick.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's an epic fail, and that's a refusal to be
able to be bold and say, hey, we want to
make sure if we're going to move on from Sam Darnald,
we get something for him, right. And we talked about
it last night and I said, you could have gotten
a second round pick, a first round pick for Sam
Darnald because he was that sought after. And I didn't
(18:39):
think that was that much of a hot take. I said,
you know, you let that they just wanted to be
done right. They were nervous that maybe I'm sure they
were nervous at all if we if we franchised tag
Sam Darnald and nobody wants them, what are we gonna do?
I'm sorry, that's what you get paid the big money
to do, right. This is not you and I getting
thrown in to run the Minnesota Vikings. This is what
you get paid all that money to do, is to know, hey,
(19:00):
we need to franchise Sam Darnald so we can trade
him someplace he's going to be well sought after and
we can get something back for him. That's just smart business, right,
And clearly the market was there for a second or
first round pick or play whatever it is. It was there.
Why because the Seahawks gave him one hundred million dollars.
They traded away their starting quarterback because they wanted Sam Donald.
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You really think they wouldn't give up a first round
pick for him, or a second or a high second
round pick, or a second round pick and a third
round pick or something like that. You really think a
team that won that gave him one hundred million dollars
if the Vikings said, well, we got him franchised for you,
and that's forty million, so you can figure out the
rest of the money. That's fine. It's forty million. Okay,
it's only a few million more than the thirty three
million you agreed to. But still the Seahawks gave him
(19:43):
way more money than the Vikings gave him. So here,
here is franchise dead. We'll figure it out. Here's forty million,
we'll figure it out. You think the Seahawks are going
to say, oh no, we're going to completely change the
way we decided to go after this offseason. Oh no,
we can't give up a first round pick for him,
or two seconds or a second and the third, whatever
it is. Of course they would have given it up.
If they're giving him one hundred million dollars to play
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the most important position on the field, they would have
given up within reason, something you would have wanted, right,
They would have given that up so you could get him. Right,
The Seahawks aren't gonna say, oh yeah, here's our plan
for the offseason. But if they want a first round pick, no, no, no, no,
we're not gonna do that. Of course they would have
done it. The Vikings just wanted to be done with
Donald because they wanted to move on. They they had
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the excuse of the last two games of him not
playing well. Wasn't protected very well in either of those
two games, but okay, he had two really bad games.
They wanted to be able to move on and say, okay,
we're done, and no one's gonna blame us because he
had the two bad games and the great season we
had went out the window because we lost the lines
and we lost the first game of the playoffs. They
decided to take the safe route and say, okay, no
one's gonna blame us now. Instead of the march of hey,
(20:48):
let's make sure we get something for We'll trade him
to a team he wants to go to. I'm not
saying you're gonna punish Sam darn say we're trading. No,
the teams that want, the teams that are in it
for Sam Donald are gonna want him as a free agent,
and they're gonna want to trade for him. Like those
teams are gonna change. It's not like you're you're saying, hey,
we don't know if we want a franchise Cooper Cup. No,
people aren't gonna want Cooper Cup. Sam Donald the number
one quarterback in free agency. Of course you're gonna be
(21:10):
able to move him someplace, and of course you're gonna
get something high for him. And that was the fail
of the Vikings because they could have done that and
they didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, just the question of what was what was his
true valuation from a lot of teams, right in terms
of the old Jimmy Johnson draft board that we've been
talking about for thirty years, right, and that they originally
had pieced that together during his time with Gil Brandt
and all those guys in Dallas. So I'm wondering, right
(21:38):
if you got the honest moment, not the what you
tell a source. I mean the honest moment you know
of what we're gonna We would have been willing to
give up for Sam Donald. Is it a day three
pick legit? I mean, or or might Seattle have come
to the table with the big with the big offer instead?
(21:59):
I mean, the Vikis have had one hell of a
run the last forty eight hours. I mean, they've assembled
a lot of talent there. Now it's all continuing on
JJ McCarthy coming out being healthy and dominating. Because again
we'll get to the Daniel Jones thing in a second.
But maybe there's another reclamation project waiting in the wings.
And that's what Kevin O'Connell said. I fixed one. My
(22:22):
job is to fix them all and need another one.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, just think about it from this perspective, right,
and you realize, boy, the Vikings got lucky, right. He
was never gonna play. He was only gonna be a
bridge guy until JJ McCarthy was ready. JJ McCarthy gets
hurt again. He comes in, four thousand yards, thirty five touchdowns,
You go fourteen and three. It's an incredible year. He
(22:45):
goes to the Pro Bowl, he's one of the best.
He's one of the top six quarterbacks in the NFL
last year, and you just decided to say, yeah, no,
we're gonna let him walk away. Tell me, now, when
you look at it from that perspective, how much that
makes sense. Well, here's a guy call everybody is so
starved for a quarterback. You have no idea. You have
in JJ McCarthy, absolutely zero, no idea at all. But no, No,
(23:07):
here's a guy that came in. He's like, you're doing
everything we want. Yeah, see, we're gonna let you go.
Wait what I understand? Yah, sorry, we're going. We got
we we drafted this other guy and I don't know,
so you know, thanks, but we're not really sure. And
yeah we love you but uh yeah I don't know.
But you saw what I actually did, right. This guy
hasn't done anything. Yeah, yeah, but yeah we still like
that guy more. I don't know what it is, dude,
(23:28):
We just like it wars. This is a JJ and
it's kind of fun. And he didn't fail in three
places before we got him. But you saw how well
I worked here. You saw the rapport I had with
Justin Jefferson. So yeah, if you protected me a little
bit better. Maybe we would have won the last two
games or one of the last two games, calling protected
like yeah, no, no, no, we still like the other guy. Sorry,
and we're gonna let you go. What are you gonna get? Well,
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probably a third round compensation pick at the end of
the round, which is like a fourth rounder. We'll get
that for you. Oh okay, I mean tell me in
what world that makes sense? It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Well, it does to the point of how many teams Again,
in terms of evaluation, we're looking at twenty twenty four
as the great anomaly versus what had been on tape
for Sam Darnold for a long long time. Other than that,
the thing is, you know, a vote of confidence of
people saying that you're sual. But even if you need
the quarterback right, depending on where you are in the
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time continuum looks. Part of me is still wondering that
I need to take a long walk on the beach
to think about what Seattle's doing. They're not winning anything, right,
So spending money on Sam Donald's that's a good.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Money, is not bad money, that's no, but it's part
of the conversation. That's a lot, but it is Battle's doing.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
But it is part of the larger conversation of a
lot of teams looking around going all right, we like say,
you're the New York Giants, you're Brian Dable and old
Joe Shane.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Are you looking at Sam Donald?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Going this is the guy that's gonna save our jobs.
We're getting three more years with this guy. I don't
know the jar h.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I don't hear the jar here. Yeah, here's right, I
fight back, youll on it is that we would have
known that there was no interest in Sam Darnald if
his contract was something way less than what it was, right,
what were we saying, hey, maybe a two year deal,
two years and fifty million something like that. Forty million guy,
this is three years and one hundred million dollars right,
this is and it's not like the Seahawks bid against themselves.
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They got it. If nobody else is bidding, well, we're
not gonna pay this. But the fact that that's what
they had to pay to get him tells me there
was interest around the league. Right now.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, you can always love.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Pretty sure about that.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Well, but but again, if you get stuck with the bag,
now you got a forty million quarterback and you're not
getting the rest of this right if nobody wants to
meet your asking price, like, hell, we'll just keep him
at that rate. And then they're still gonna walk away
with the third round pick, exactly what the Seahawks got
for good old Genosmith.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
The guy. They said, Oh, we're gonna change our entire fall.
We're gonna change the direction of the franchise for Sam Darnold.
But what if you had to get a second round
pick or a second round pick? And I said, oh, no,
we're not going to do that. No, no, no, no,
we really want to change the franchise, but not that badly. Well,
we'll stick going down the road with Geno Smith and
whatever else we have here. I mean, really, that doesn't
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that doesn't you know? The Vikings were bad. They decided
to take the easy way out because they were given
the out of Hey, Donald had a bad last two
games against the Law and all the narrative that he
was exposed, He's going back to the same old Sam
Darnald that festered, and that became the narrative, and that's
how Donald was accepted. So that was their way to say,
you know, we're not going to make this any more
(26:32):
complicated than we have to be, so we're gonna let
it go. And in the end they let him come
in and and do something that if JJ McCarthy that
they would extend him after his first year, they would say, listen,
let's extend you. I know you got four more years,
doesn't matter, doesn't we want to get a said they.
But instead this was, hey, you walk out, and not
only that, but we don't get anything for you other
than the pick that many teams get at the end
(26:53):
of the third round for compensation, picks like I mean that,
that's that's where I come back and go. Did they
even try? How hard did they try? How did they
really try? Everything from Kevin O'Connell was we love Sam,
but we love JJ McCarthy too. Right, There was no
There was no way to play poker at that point.
This was they were telling you we are gonna move
on from Sam Darnold. They didn't franchise, they did, we
are moving on there. And this is not how you
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have sustainability as a team. If this is as bad
as Bill Belichick was the last few years, you think
he would have let people know, hey, we're gonna we're
gonna let a guy, go, we're gonna let a big
quarterback walk. How many teams would have let it be
known that, Yeah, we're gonna let this really good quarterback walk,
So don't worry about coming to us with offers. Right,
we're gonna let them walk because we have another guy
that we like to see. Okay, okay, how many teams
would he?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Not?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Even the Jets would have done that. I mean, all right,
the Jets might have done that, but other teams mainly
do twenty five, twenty seven, twenty eight, other teams would, right,
the Raiders might have done okay, all right, twenty nine.
Other teams would have done that, twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But maybe in the other universes, they're like, you know what,
Kevin O'Connell had some special language and a lot of
special players to get some greatness out of this guy.
What do we got that's gonna do that? Or is
he the guy again that we saw from twenty eighteen
to and in parts all the way up through twenty
twenty three. Is that gonna be worth a hundred million
(28:07):
dollars to us instead of building infrastructure, which is you know,
a recurring theme you know for you and I as
we're talking about it, you know, the celebration and everybody
throwing parades in Chicago and whatever else. Like, you got
the offensive line right, bully for you finally got some
you know, you got the guts. Yeah, you got the
guts right for Minnesota. I like the looks of the
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roster now. The the quarterback McCarthy as healthy might be,
might as well be playing a wearing a Riddler outfit
right now, because I don't know what he's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
He's a guy with a bunch of question marks on
because I have no idea. But the rest of the
roster looks pretty damn good. I mean, look, you have
to be able to ABC always be closing right. You
have to be able to know that here's here's here's
a guy who came in that was really special at
a quarterback. Yeah no, no, no, we're kind of nervous.
We're go on, okay, great, And the Seahawks said, hey,
(29:02):
this is awesome. We we didn't have to give anything
up to get our guy that we wanted all along. Boy,
what we feel really lucky about that man, really really lucky.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
And they got that extra the third.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit, swollen Dome the Jason
smithser with Mike Carmen live from the TIREC dot Com Studios. Yes,
I know I can't believe Vikings fan, but good luck,
Vikings fan, good luck, good luck. We'll revisit this as
the seasons go on, and JJ mccarthur, we'll revisit all.
Don't worry, it's all good, good.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
At How about a fresco if you are a Vikings fan,
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has been called the Ragnar of Fox Sports. He rode
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around on his motorcycle for a long time, finally upset
too many people and they told him he can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
It's Steve Desager and probably needs a shame. We have
four NBA games tonight. They're all final. We'll get to
Cleveland in just a moment, but guys, what a finish
at Indiana. Tyres Halliburton of the Pacers return tonight after
missing three straight games with a strained hit. The guy
averages nineteen points nine assists a game. They're trailing final
seconds against Milwaukee on Pacers Radio, here comes a three
(30:31):
and a foul.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
A foul.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
A foul has Halliburton floating at a bounds in front
of the Milwaukee fence. Hits a three head frown the foul.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
And made the free throw, a game winning four point
play with under four seconds left. Indiana beats Milwaukee won
fifteen one fourteen, each team with a record of thirty
six and twenty eight. Haliburton finished with fourteen points, ten assists,
just one turnover.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Cleveland confused. Was there a foul on that last play?
That's correct, I don't think the play.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
This is just the opposite of the college announcer we
heard last night with no foul six times. Apparently it
was influenced. Cleveland won it's fifteenth straight game. They were
down early third quarter by eighteen points and still won
at home against Brooklyn, one oh nine, one oh four
Darius Garland thirty points. As Donovan Mitchell of the Cavs
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was out tonight with a groin injury. New Orleans got
a triple double from Zion Williamson and beat the Clippers
one twenty seven to one twenty Detroit all over Washington
one twenty three to one oh three. The Wizards now
with a record of thirteen and fifty one in college
hoops four conference finals tonight, including in Vegas. Right now again,
zag is still leading nineteenth ranks Saint Mary's forty eight
(31:46):
forty four with about seven minutes to go. Saint Mary's
from three point ranges ozer for thirteen. Zags are one
for thirteen from long distance. AP says that would be
one of the five worst combined for any game in
the last twenty seasons. As bad as the three point
shooting is.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Update.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Gonzaga fifty to forty four over Saint Mary's.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, but they didn't hit a three to get fifty to.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Fill, certainly not running out of time to actually make one.
UNC Wilmington took the Colonial Tournament finals. Saint Francis PA
won the Northeast Conference forty six forty three, at Central Connecticut.
Each team shot about thirty percent from the floor. Saint
Francis goes to the NCAA tournament with a record of
sixteen and seventeen. Robert Morris won THEI Horizon League, and
(32:33):
we did have first round play in the ACC tonight
Syracuse Edge, Yeah, State.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, thirteen and eighteen. Here we go, here we go.
We're gonna make that run and bus brackets. What we're
gonna do.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Coach Leonard Hamilton done sixty six sixty two qs the
final Notre Dame fifty five to fifty four winners against
pitt cal won in double overtime against Virginia Tech. Eighty
two seventy three Big ten first round wins for Cincinnati, Colorado,
and Kansas State. Among the eleven NHL games, Carolina what
It's fifth straight for to one over Tampa Bay. The
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Buffalo Bill signed defensive end Joey Bosa. Baltimore Ravens also
agreed to a one year deal with this with wide
receiver DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Back to you, thanks a bunch of Steve O. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon live from the tirac
dot Com Studios. Now, I do want to say obviously,
you know, big story Leonard Hamilton, after an incredibly successful career,
calling it quits and retiring as Florida State's head coach.
You already have their next head coach for next year.
Syracuse ends Florida State season most likely Florida State seventeen
and fourteen, and after the game game was on the
(33:35):
ACC Network, they spent a lot of time with a
big on court interview of Leonard Hamilton, which I thought
was really really classy because normally games like this, you
talk to the winning coach, you move on. Hey, we're
onto our next game. This game started late and they
spent a long time with an interview with him, last
time walking off the courton, So I thought was a
really classy move by the ACC Network and talking to
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Leonard Hamilton for one last time.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Six hundred six career wins, sixty one percent winning at
Florida State, but gets retired by Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, Syracuse, we're retiring people now. Coming up next. So
there was your bit on Sam Darnold, who can be
the Sam Darnald of twenty twenty five in the NFL. Wait, doll,
we tell you that's next right here. Jason to Mike
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Live from the tire rack dot Com studios. And as
we look to next season in the NFL, we've had
a lot about Sam Darnald a few minutes ago. Who
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could be the Sam Darnald of twenty twenty five? Right?
Who could be that quarterback that after years of either
not playing well or being a backup or someone that
everybody's cut bait on and no one thinks he's more
than a placeholder and a backup, who could be that
guy to suddenly jump out and say, Wow, here's a
big year. Here's four thousand yards, here's thirty five touchdowns,
(35:12):
and then the team kicks him out the door. Have
a big year, and that's completely unexpected. It's the guy
that's signed with the Colts today and it's Daniel Jones. Okay,
he's gonna battle it out with Anthony Richardson. This is
how the Colts have thrown it out there, and it's
a win win for the Colts. Right, This is Anthony
Richardson's last chance to be a starting quarterback with the Colts,
(35:35):
maybe in the NFL because he can't stay healthy and
he's not nearly as advanced as they hope he would
be after only playing in a handful of games in
college football. Right, so it's a win win, right If
Daniel Jones pushes Anthony richard to be great, Hey, great,
it's worth it. But Daniel Jones, they signed him thinking
he's going to play, and they have not said he's
(35:56):
gonna come in and back up. He's gonna win the job.
This is gonna be Daniel Jones is coming in. It's
gonna be a quarterback derby. And here's the thing about
the Colts. The Colts are kind of like the Vikings Light.
They have a really good rushing attack. You have two
good running backs led by Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Uh the
home improvement they have done at running back.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And then you have four good wide receivers. Right, and
you brought Dueling back today. I mean, Pittman is fantastic.
Alec Pierce has big one hundred yard games once every
three four weeks.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Josh Downs, I mean, if these were you know, consistent
with the ball and more accurate. Think about the kind
of games Piers could actually.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh dude, yeah, I mean instead of go long and
we're gonna throw it to you a long three times
a game. Right. Josh Downs is one of the best
young wide receivers in the NFL, and a Donna Mitchell
is supposed to be not that great last year, but
they thought, I think he would come in and have
a better year. But he's still really talented. This is
a really good offense in Indianapolis. You just need somebody
to be able to get the football to the right guys.
(36:53):
I mean, you have the weapons there. Now. The defense
is terrible, right, but they made some moves already. They're
trying to make that they're trying to improve the defense
and free agency, but the division is not great and
it's clearly there for the taking, and they're really talented,
and they signed the right guy because we've seen Daniel
Jones flash, We've seen him do it in this offense.
And again you're talking about who could be the Sam
Donald of this year, where hey, it goes from a
(37:15):
guy that's forgotten to hey, this guy's pretty good. This
guy look at what he did. We forgot about what
he could do. Daniel Jones is the guy because he's
got all the weapons in Indianapolis, just like Donald had
when he went to Minnesota last year. So my money
Sam Donald this year.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Daniel Jones, Yeah, I'm moderately concerned that you lost two
of your offensive linemen to the Vikings. To bring it
full circle back to the Sam Donalds and JJ McCarthy
conversation over there, Ryan Kelly being the guy that really
stands out with the big blinking light when you lose
your center. But when you look at Indianapolis and we
(37:50):
look at that division as a whole, Jacksonville is suddenly
getting it right. Duvall, You've got the Houston Texans. They've
gotten rid of three members of their offensive line and
those were the guys they liked. So what's DJ Stroud
working with a Tennessee's got the number one pick. So
all of that to say for the Colts for stiking,
(38:12):
he gets the reclamation project. You get to roll the
ball out like you're the Joker and Dark Knight and
say all right, let's go make it quick because we
got work to do. We can go win this division.
I like it. I like their skill position players one
hundred percent just need to figure out what that front
five is. And Daniel Jones was always a guy that
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I had that soft spot for, k saying, get this
guy some talent around him. And you had Saquan for
a bit, but they couldn't seem to be on the
field together. And then obviously had the freak neck injuries,
so that that took him out of out of sorts
and hopefully you know, the full full year of healing
and learning. And you know, Bucky Brooks and I'm a
couple months ago he surmised that maybe he would be
(38:55):
the next guy if Sam were to leave instead.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
He's a coal and you know, you mentioned Shane Steiken,
who is one of the best young offensive minds in
the NFL. You look at some of the offenses that
he was able to, you know, pilots. How he got
the gig with Indianapolis. It's quarterback friendly, you know, not
the dables, not quarterback friendly, but clearly there was some
sort of friction. It worked for a little bit, but
then it didn't. Now he gets a chance to do
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things over again with Stiken telling you, man, Dan Dangel
Jones can be the Sam Darnald of twenty. I can't
believe we're having this conversation who could be the Sam
Darnold of this year? And it's Daniel Jones. I don't
know what's crazier that we're mentioning Sam Darnold or Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
But he's Indiana Jones. And you get to yo, you cheat,
doctor Jones.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
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are streaming through spring training. Juan Soto's ops is one
and a half, and the Yankees may not have enough
(40:19):
people to feel the team It has not been a
banner exhibition season so far for the Yankees. And I'm
being kind right now with that kind when I say.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
That, Mike Carmin, that is overly kind. It's been a
situation whereby you need every bit of sage brushes and
magic crystals you can possibly put together. Let's just try
to save Already they're calling for boon. You did this.
It's all your fault. And he hasn't had to manage anything.
(40:53):
You weren't supposed to let him throw a pitch and
spring training didn't.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
You know, not till opening day? What are you doing?
I didn't want to see him at all. Why do
I even see him here on the Paba rap? I
don't know. I don't need to see this guy. I
know what he is. I don't understand. I don't understand. Well,
lucky they went unspent all that money, But is it
going to be enough with us now? The hot line
(41:16):
nobody better for all these big stories than Fox Sports Radio,
MLB Network insider extraordinaire. He is on Twitter at John Morosi.
That is at John Morosi. It is the Pope, John
Paul Morosi, who is now penciled in as the Yankees
fourth starter, John Paul Hope, you got your arm ready
(41:36):
to go here, because I know you're a quarterback in
high school, so just you know, build up your pitching,
so you get your pitch count up to about sixty
seventy five for opening day.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Well, good evening, my friends. And you do remember what
my record was as a quarterback in high school. That
would be oh to nine o nine. So that the
Yankees do not need me, trust me that they need
somebody with actual talent. And what I can tell you
you this evening is that based on all my most
recent correspondence, is that it's unlikely to be Dylan ceas
(42:07):
it's unlikely to be Sandy Alcantra. So the the Yankees
will at this moment in time, have to go with
their internal options. Marcus Stroman. Initially when spring camp began,
there was the thought that he was going to be
in the bullten and if things continue at their current pace,
he might have the ball on opening Day. That's that's
(42:28):
where where the Yankees seemed to be at the moment.
And my goodness, there are a lot of a lot
of hopes that are rising I think elsewhere right now
in the American League East.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yeah, Jump Paul, Jump Paul. And this is this is
how insane, this is. This is why my dad won't
return my phone calls. It is because, I mean, the
beginning of spring training, this was the Yankees couldn't get
in touch with Marcus Stroman because he was so upset
that he wasn't going to be one of the top
five starting pitchers. Like he was not in the touch,
like it was how are they gonna go? And now
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he could wind up starting.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Gone by well, And I'll say this with respect to baseball,
it is amazing. And it's one of the reasons why
I tend to pay a lot more attention to the
roster conversations now than I do a month previous to this,
because it always changes, and for the most part, especially
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with twenty six players and every team times thirty rosters,
usually for the most part, the most talented players and
the best players wind up in the major leagues because
of the number of injuries that occur or performance, etc.
And it's important to point out that what we've witnessed
the last couple of weeks, especially the last week with
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the Yankees luis heal and now most notably with Garrett
Cole is. It affirms and tracks very well with what
the MLB research was along these lines, which is that
March late February March, when pitchers really start to ramp up,
is the time of the year where most injuries occur
because they're going from this intensive period of pitch design
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and offseason throwing and building up to then the game performance.
And it's just it is a very very difficult time
of year for pitcher health. And this year is just
one more data point in.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
That regard JP As we look at the spring through
the first couple of weeks, I mean, we're only a
week away from the Cubs and Dodgers starting to get
after it, which is just really odd to think about.
You've had an attrition in the Al East. Is there
something on you on your radar that's popped up here?
You know, prospect wise, because the fantasy baseball drafts are underway, Buddy.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Ooh, the fantasy baseball drafts, well a couple so let's
say this. It does appear that Matt Shaw is going
to have a role on the Chicago Cubs. He has
made the travel roster to Tokyo. And by the way,
if you to just get a look at how immediate
things are and how soon the season starts. Those buses
(45:06):
are rolling out of Mesa, Arizona right now as the
Cubs are bound for the airport and flying to Japan,
so I think Matt Shaw being part of the travel
roster is a big one. I would also point out
that Cam Smith, who was traded from the Cubs to
the Astros and the Kyle Tucker deal, there is some
excitement that Cam Smith might well find himself in an
(45:29):
opening day roster spot, and so he's a really intriguing guy.
Chandler Simpson there with the Tampa Bay Rays really interesting
prospect too in terms of his ability to run the
bases and get on base. So I'll mention those names.
I think Simpson, Smith, Shaw for your fantasy baseball draft consideration.
(45:50):
And how about this Trace Thompson putting together a pretty
strong bid to make the roster in Boston. He has
had an up and down career, some injuries and time
in the leagues, but obviously one of the great athletic
families in American sports history. You could say Trace is
making a pretty good bid to make the Boston Red
Sox roster too. So some pretty good stories around spring
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camp so far.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, all those are great, John Paul One Soto's ops
is one and a half. Okay, Like that's great.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
I tried to fill Come on is one and a half?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Well one? So he Mike, what do all the fantasy
baseball prognostications have for where one Soto is going to
get drafted? Is the number one? Number two after Show A? Well,
what do we have?
Speaker 4 (46:38):
It would be number two after show Hey.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Number two after show By the way, we were talking
this morning on on Hotsova. I'm just thinking about Show
A right now, and of course what we will a
lot in the next couple of weeks, the next couple
of decades. But a point to make about about Show A.
We were talking on the air about about the global
profile Show A, and it is massive. Eight point eight
(47:03):
million followers on Instagram for Show A. That's a massive following,
certainly bigger than anybody in baseball, anybody else in baseball.
But then we were comparing to other athletes. Lionel Messi
five hundred five million Instagram followers again, which is massive.
(47:24):
Lionel Messi, I'll repeat that, five hundred five million, that
is and again I always say, don't ever do math
live on on the radio. But based on my my,
my up math from where I'm from in Michigan, that
would appear to be about sixty times greater than the
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show's following sixty times. That is pretty pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
So now wait a minute, and UP of course stands
for Upper Peninsula.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, I just want to do one's run, by the way,
and congratulated to Tommy's seems to be setting a new
hear it every every week, And wouldn't it be amazing
if he celebrates the the twenty fifth anniversary of the
two thousand championship with another one here in twenty twenty five.
But I digress. Go ahead, Yes, it was up math
as I was learning it up there.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
In the up. But Harvin, here's the thing. I think.
I think we're getting onto something here that we've never
gotten into before. With John Paul. He doesn't he very
rarely talks fantasy baseball with us, but here he is
two questions about going number one overall and going number
two overall. I'm thinking somebody has the number one pick
in his fantasy league. And with okay, so it's it's
(48:36):
so Tawani, is it? Is it? Soto like well, you
know what the third guy is going on? The third guy.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
That goes into the mix, and maybe he didn't want
me to say his name would be Bobby Witt.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
I think he's yeah. I mean, so you would you
would put with the head of Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Oh wait, maybe John Paul's picking forth. Hang on, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
The last time. The last time I played a fantasy
sport and you know the answer to this question, I'm
sure from all of our conversations over the years, was
was back in the nineties when I was doing fantasy
football with my high school friends. And at that time,
maybe eighth or ninth grade, you would pick Steve Young
because you got the rushing touchdowns of the passing touchdowns.
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So Steve Young was a great pick. So the last
time that I was actually paying attention to a draft,
the consensus number one overall pick was either Steve Young
or theatron means one of the two. What and if
you thought you would have a Steve Young or theatron
means reference on this conversation, I am here to surprise you,
(49:46):
my friends.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
No, that is that I didn't think we would get
a full surprises here.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
I am that's some next level stuff right there. I
mean forty five career touchdowns for Natron, So I mean,
you know, you go down that road, it's certainly found
the end zone. But the the I guess the last
piece for me, I mean is just getting jacked up
about the fact that we're gonna have some baseball, even
though the Whites really don't play. It is the idea
(50:16):
that that we do have, you know, these up and
coming squads. We talk about Kansas City and Bobby Witt Junior.
We always talk about Seattle on the show, and certainly
the Mets give me a team really off the pack
that you know you you may drive them to great
heights this year.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
I think the Rays are going to be better this year.
They've got a healthy pitching staff, which is more than
what the Orioles and the Yankees can say in the
same division. So I think the Rays are underrated. The
Angels are going to be better. Now I'm not going
to put them in the playoffs, but they're going to
be better. I think they've got more pitching depth. The Giants,
(50:53):
I believe, are going to be a better ball club.
And again, hard to make progress in that division because
you've got the Dodgers, and to some extent, the Podres
and the Diamondbacks. But I believe the Giants are better,
and I like the Cincinnati Reds. I'm a big believer
in the Tito effect. I'm looking actually right now at
my bookshelf and I see the Francona book that he
wrote with Dan Johnsy. Not just because I'm looking at
(51:16):
Tito's face on the cover of the book, but I
believe that he's going to find a way to get
the Cincinnati Reds, if not to the playoffs, then certainly
into the conversation. So I've just given you a few
teams that I believe are underrated globally speaking, as we're
talking about the various division races there. And I think
the Mets. The Mets are properly rated. They are not overrated,
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nor are they underrated, but they are properly rated in
what I expect to be a pretty tough division. The
Braves are going to be a good ball club, and
I think that you overestimate or underestimate them. I should
say that you would underestimate the Braves at your own peril,
because with just a little bit better health, they're going
to be a very dangerous team this year.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
No one has ever underestimated in his life, except for
maybe when he was nine in high school. It is
John Paul Morosi. He's on Twitter at John Morosi, MLD Network,
Fox Sports Radio. John Paul is always buddy of Blast.
We'll talk to you next week, my friend. Have fun.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
You got it, I always said, speaking of underrated Taylor,
the receiver from the Niners back in the nineties. John
Taylor right, he was underrated. Rice got all the glory.
Taylor good possession receiver. I was. He had a big
Super Bowl against the Bengals, I believe. So I was
on with Taylor. He's a good, good pick.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
There did you throw.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
To him in high school?
Speaker 3 (52:33):
Like?
Speaker 4 (52:34):
Was?
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Was?
Speaker 3 (52:34):
He?
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Was he your guy? What were your statue?
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Finally we had we had an entire We had all
my receivers on their fastest days, hoped to one day
be like Wes Welker, which is why we were all.
Owen nine.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Dropped the mic by John Paul Morosi. Take it easy, buddy,
J
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Well harm Just like I said yesterday, Hey, yeah, the
NFL is making sure we get good story and big
(01:00):
stuff to talk about every day with free agency. We
had a bunch of quarterback signed yesterday, still leaving things
open for today. We had a couple of big signings
leaving things open for tomorrow with Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson,
the NFL Arian Foster's got this script where it's not
gonna have it in all day. It's Hey, let's do
a couple on Monday, couple on Tuesday, couple on Wednesday. Hey,
(01:22):
we're in the middle of a great week here. It's Christmas,
but it's three four, five days long, and it's just
exactly how we thought it was gonna go.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, I'm surprised they haven't moved it back a week.
So then they can invade March Madness and say blank
those kids like George Carlin, did you know, Wow, like
your March madness, it's a free agent frenzy. Let's go
maybe on the playing days, but boy, like the Thursday,
take over the Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Oh, that'd be that would be real. Boom.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
You saw what the NBA did to our Super Bowl week.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
We're coming for you, and we want to interrup up
Duke and UCLA right now. Yes, there's three minutes left
to go. Cooper Flagg has forty, but Duke trails by
two to tell you that Aaron Rodgers has signed with
the Pittsburgh Steelers. Let's go live to our CBS studio
where Chris Simson everybody else has more with this like
I can imagine that happening.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Well, i'll tell you I and H when we first
thought about this situation a week ago, they had three
potential shooters out there, and now Flag with another shot,
he's got him up to forty six. Hey, hey, it
doesn't matter. Okay, that defensive lineman that's been waiting in
the wings has been a backup role for that No nothing,
(02:40):
AFC South squad. He's moving West LA and that's got
the headlines.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Let's go. You want a really fun story about that
before we get into the NFL from today. So this
is I'm going back aways now. This is back when
I was working at Fox Sports Net and it was
the precursor to Fox Sports One, right when everybody came
out beginning of the beginning of the two thousands, Like
Kevin Frazier was the big anchor, and you know the
(03:07):
football analysts, who are the football analysts that we had. Oh,
James Worthy was on every day, right, So that was
a big precursor. Right. So Sunday we're all at work.
It's a big day. Obviously, it's Sunday. We're all working.
And that was the day that Cal Ripken decided to
end his hitting streak and his playing games played streak. Right,
he was sitting out at twenty one third, It's like whoa, whoa, whoa.
(03:29):
When it became obvious that, you know, the fifth incomes
and he doesn't come into the game, right, everybody realizes
it in Baltimore that he's not coming into play. He's done,
he's sitting out. Everybody comes out and collapse. He comes out,
waves to the crowd. It's like, oh my god, this
is a big thing, right, So what happens on, you know,
in the middle of the NFL. And so then we're
all at work and we're watching and I forget who
it was, but as a couple of people like like,
(03:50):
this is a big news coming in now and how
does this change the story of the day and everything else?
And they go to the FOT you know, Fox Sunday
was coming down like at halftime or right before the games,
and it's it's at this point it was it was
Howie and Terry and JB you know all and and
Jimmy Johnson, I think it was that, and they were
all talking about it. It was a really big thing.
(04:10):
And they brought Steve lyons on over from the baseball
set because obviously, you know, he's the thing. So they
bring Psycho over and I think it was halftime. I
think it was halftime of the early games when normally
you get highlights and what's going on and everything else,
And so they come over and you know, James Brown
introduces hey, and now we have a huge story in
Major League Baseball. The iron Man streak of cal Ripken
is over. Steve Lions here now to talk to us
(04:32):
about it, and we're watching and like three people that
we're all going, are going, what the hell are we doing?
Show me football highlights?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
What the hell?
Speaker 1 (04:40):
I want to see? What's going on? What the hell?
Why are we talking to Steve Lyons, Like it's a
really big story? Oh why the hell is he on here?
I don't care the Patriots. I think somebody got hurt,
you know, I don't know what it was, but the
people were just insane that why are we taking time
out of this NFL Sunday where it's time to see
you know, back when when that's where you needed to
see highlight to the early right, if you didn't have
(05:01):
the dish, you know, you wanted to see highlights. Because
I want to see.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
The highls obviously a magnificent career for cal Ripken Junior
over three thousand. It's Hall of Famer, the gold Gloves,
everything else. But for all of you out there, remember
to tell your kids, eighty five percent is just showing up.
Oh sure, celebrated most to being able to show up, right,
(05:25):
that's absolutely showing up. Uh So, Now, look, obviously we
have a lot of NFL to get to and and look,
Daniel Jones has a new destination.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Joe Soosa now heads to the Buffalo Bills for one
year or four games whatever he plays more?
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Does he hate his brother eight seven seven ninety nine?
But wrong thing?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Look, obviously the biggest story today and we saw this,
and this is why this is such a final moment,
I think for all of us. Tiger Woods reveals that
he had surgery on a ruptured Achilles tendon and he
is now out for however long it's going to be
for him to come back. And it was shocking. Nobody
(06:06):
knew right he was doing TGL stuff and he was
having fun and laughing. He said, listen, I was just
swinging a club and I felt that, you know what
was something was going on. I went in and it's
a minimally invasive achilles tendon repair. And you know, obviously
Tiger Woods expected to make a full recovery. But you
think about this with Tiger Woods. Okay, Tiger Woods now
(06:27):
hasn't played in a PGA Tour event all season, right
his mom passed away in February. He had entered, but
then Withdrew he's not ready to compete. Last time he
played in a Tour event was last year at the
Open at Troon in July. And you know, this is
just it's just more. It's just more, you know, horrible
news for Tiger with his health and for all of
us who still measure success at golf events when Tiger
(06:50):
Woods is there playing well because we still kind of
do it. I look at this and I go, He's
he's forty nine years old. Now, how many more times
is he really gonna play golf? Like if I put
the over under for number of times you see Tiger
Woods competing on a golf course again, and I put
it at five, I would probably take the under. The
(07:11):
number of injuries he has had to his back, to
his legs the last twenty years. I mean, he has
done a yeoman's work trying to get back from this, Right,
he has tried everything he can, but it's just at
the point where his body is really betraying him. And
now you're talking about coming back from an Achilles tendon injury,
which even though minimally invasive, it's still a ruptured Achilles tendon, Like,
(07:32):
what are you gonna do? Right? How many more chances
are really gonna get? And he's not gonna come out
and keep playing, just as hey, he's gonna come out
and play two holes and limp off. So I wonder
if he's gonna do, you know, again, five more times?
Maybe the Masters. He'll try the Masters at some point
next year, right, because obviously Achilles tendon surgery the one
(07:52):
event that is he's kind of owned for his entire career. Like,
maybe he tries it again in a year, but how
many more times after that? I mean, if you if
you put the number of times we're gonna see Tiger
Woods play again in the PGA Tour in events that
are real like this where he's trying to win, I
would take the under at five. It's just his body
is just it's just not at the point more where
(08:12):
he can even play. He's only playing four or five
events a year anyway, and now after all the rehab,
at some point you just say, you know what, I
think I'm done, and I'm gonna continue to be an
ambassador and I'll be a celebrity and they'll do everything
I can. Maybe I'll be PGA Tour commissioner one day
or something else. But on the golf course, I think
we may see him less than five times. Now.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Keep going to the video game events. See how much
you can build that. Add some celebrities and make it
a chaotic weekend. You know, take the Arizona event and
bring it indoors to the video game where you don't
have to walk the full eighteen, which you obviously can't do.
Hasn't competed since last July when you talk about being
(08:54):
at the Open, and then obviously this year with the
passing of his mom. You know, another one of those
guys right, talk about it all the time on the show, Jason.
We measure our our, our own mortality in a way
with some of these athletes that we grew up and
who came to prominence as you know we were in
our early twenties. And then when they start, one by one,
(09:15):
all going off and usually golfers. They give us a shot.
I mean, because they don't have all these, you know,
horrible injuries that actually take them off the course. We
can always say, hey, still slinging it over on the
senior Tour. So I'm not that old. But with Tiger,
we've just watched incident after incident and all these injuries,
and this one just as like oh, father time came
(09:36):
and just kind of grabbed at my achilles, is the
way he kind of described it. Yeah, I don't know.
I just got it kind of popped and I went
into lucked and yeah, there we go. We got to
go have a big surgery. Interesting in a bunch of
the articles because I know exactly where he'd had that
car accident, because you started enumerting all the different things
he's gone through in the rehabs he's come back from
(09:57):
with these injuries, and they they keep putting in the palisades.
I don't know if it's AI correcting for a recency
when it came to the horrible fires that we had. No, no, no,
I know exactly with the curve because I taught my
daughters to drive there, because it's not a good curve,
it's a it plays down in Pallas Verdes. But all
of that to say, you know, at a little sad
(10:18):
for golf today, right, because as much as you've got
rom And and some of these other heavyweights, Tiger's still
a name when he's on the entry list. Uh, there's
still that hope against hopes, not only that he's gonna
be able to put together a round, but that you know,
the golf gods, the sports gods, the damn it, we're
(10:39):
not old gods let him go through three or four
days without walking after a bad shot into the parking
lot and driving away. So this one was was a
sad one today for me. You know, another one of
our our contemporaries that father time got them.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I mean, it's really it's been so long since Tiger
Woods was Tiger Woods. Right. He had the last Master's victory,
which so much mirroring Jack Nicholas's career, where you know,
Jack won a bunch and then didn't whin. We thought
he was done. He won the eighty six Masters, the
famous photo everybody has seen with him seeing the putt
go in on eighteen, and you know that was Tiger's
(11:17):
last one. Somehow he found a way to win a
few years ago, and that really was it. He just
doesn't play enough golf in general, and it's it's just
strange that he has still had this kind of mysticism
and this kind of attension on him when when it's
been you know, close to twenty years since we've seen
him be dominant. Ight, it's been a long time since
two thousand and eight, right, It's it's been a while
(11:38):
since you know, he hits a you know, he hits
a fire hydrant on his way out of his house,
and his whole career goes, you know, sideways. It's been
a long time, and for him to still have that
hold over the sport really tells you about what he
had when he was playing. And you think about the
times we used to talk about golf, you know, in
the two thousands, Ebby, it was insane. I mean, Tiger
(12:00):
Woods was a was a story that was we talk
about Tiger Woods like we talk about Lebron James like
that's kind of what that's kind of what it used
to be. Like what for tiger Woods? He can he win?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Here?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Can you do that? It doesn't matter if people didn't
know anything about golf, they knew tiger Woods and what
he meant to the game, and and and that was
how much he stirred uh the sports world, and and
for it to be now you sit here and it's
just so awful, and you think about how he's still
able to have all the romanticism and the attention of
all of us, of all fans, and it's still golf
is still about Tiger Woods. I just hope he can
(12:31):
still stay public. And like I said, maybe maybe we're
putting it out there Tiger Woods for PGA Tour commissioner.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Or his son's caddy either what yeah, either one just
around the game.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, I mean, because he's still you know, the TGL
stuff is making headlines and and and that's great.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
But that that was kind of fun, like we talked
about it on air when he made his debut and
had the big w WE entrance music and all that
kind of stuff. So but I don't know how it's
like a lot of events that we have like that,
it's is sustainable, right to really build an audience, I
don't know. I'm sure you have some diehards if nothing else,
(13:10):
you get to hang out with Tiger Woods. So I
mean there's still gonna be some of that as long
as he promises to do a little wave to the crowd,
maybe sign a couple of autographs, you'll you'll still get
people hanging around, waiting, wishing and hoping. But from the
Gulf side of it, yeah, it's it's just a tough run.
I mean, as as we've watched him and he'll try
to battle back, there's no question in my mind that
(13:31):
we'll get an announcement he's aiming for this date, uh,
and all of those kind of tales once again. But
you know the that that becomes the all right, I'll
believe it when I see it side of things. As
opposed to all right, he gives it the old college try,
whether it's a round or two rounds, maybe one or
two big shots. But that's hoping against hope anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, I mean, like five times, I'd feel lucky if
we see him play five more times, maybe one or
two Masters, maybe another. Maybe he tries to do all
of the majors one more time like that that will
be his goal, and maybe not all in one calendar year,
but I try to do all the majors one more
time because he deserves a farewell, He deserves something like that.
But I mean That's really where I'm at, Like, I
(14:14):
don't know, man, I don't know if we'll see him
play five more times. I hope, I hope.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
So yeah, But what I hope is it's not hey
playing is I enter? And then yeah, physically I'm done
at the end of day one, right that becomes a
sad goodbye exit.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
How about a fresco swollen dome. The Jason Smith Show
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is just huge, devastating news today on Tiger Woods, and
all best thoughts to him and hopefully you know, this
recovery is as best as it can be and he
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Well coming up next. Yes, another big day in NFL
free agency. We had a big quarterback signing, and boy,
I didn't think I would upset one team's fan base
(15:11):
as much as I have the last twenty four hours.
But that's happened, So we'll get to all this coming
up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
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Speaker 1 (15:29):
You know, I gotta tell you some TI shirt. So
I did a radio hit today during the day with
my friends at Edmonton, right, because you know we're huge
in Canada, are we?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yeah, yeah? Oh here, I wish I wish, I wish.
I wish Canada mattered in the ratings.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Oh, you don't know that.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
They import us all the time.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
So I come on Normal and they give me this
song as my introduction, do they right? And they specifically
let it play for like twenty seconds and I'm like,
are they waiting for me to say so? Like I no,
And they come on, Jason, how you do it? I said, okay,
I said, first thing, never play this song again. It's enough.
Did I get it every single night? And they go wow,
(16:10):
you know, and the host, Jason Gregor says, you know,
I'm with you. I don't think I like this song either.
I said, okay, cool, we're good, right, great, I do
the hit, interview goes great, everything else that Edmonton's fantastic,
and I hang up and their producer texts me, sorry, dude.
They said, you're getting this song every time from you. Yeah,
come on, man, yeah, Like I couldn't have it go
and not address it how much I can't stand that song. No, no, no, no,
(16:32):
dog good no no, but now no, now I'm getting it.
When I go on, I'm like, okay, uh yeah, lose
my number, never doing it.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
But you were question you got to answer. But ty shirt,
look at that. You're a global superstar.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
And now you guys know I'm parts. I'm working in
Canada too. Oh that's good, okay, very good. All right, Yeah,
thanks for coming on. Eh yeah yeah, no, make sure
you get paid Canadian because it's more, you know, it's
actually do the exchange rate is really really sure. Yeah,
and a lot of my e as well. We love here.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
That's what's it's all a boot you have.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
You have no choice but to love Gretzky, Like that's that's.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
We all drive sixty under you know, five under?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You all drive what sixty five under the speed limit?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Oh okay, if we just want to get there on time,
you know. Save Okay, now you're getting little you're getting
little Scottish. Now you can don't have it. It's a
bit of a shorter flight coming over home.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
We don't drink to our neighbors.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
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O c K E T. Now, before we get to
(17:46):
Daniel Jones, we we have we have to we have
to get to Daniel Jones off of something. So yesterday
we talked about Sam Darnold and his journey to the
Seattle Seahawks. One hundred million dollar contract, three years, big deal,
biggest of the moves and quarterback wise, and we talked
about this off the top of the show last night,
and I said, you know, it's such an epic fail
(18:07):
by the Vikings that they couldn't get more. They let
him walk in, have an incredible year, four thousand yards,
thirty five touchdowns, Pro Bowl and walk out and you
get a third round compensation pick.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That's an epic fail, and that's a refusal to be
able to be bold and say, hey, we want to
make sure if we're going to move on from Sam Darnald,
we get something for him, right. And we talked about
it last night and I said, you could have gotten
a second round pick, a first round pick for Sam
Darnald because he was that sought after. And I didn't
(18:39):
think that was that much of a hot take. I said,
you know, you let that they just wanted to be
done right. They were nervous that maybe I'm sure they
were nervous at all if we if we franchised tag
Sam Darnald and nobody wants them, what are we gonna do?
I'm sorry, that's what you get paid the big money
to do, right. This is not you and I getting
thrown in to run the Minnesota Vikings. This is what
you get paid all that money to do, is to know, hey,
(19:00):
we need to franchise Sam Darnald so we can trade
him someplace he's going to be well sought after and
we can get something back for him. That's just smart business, right,
And clearly the market was there for a second or
first round pick or play whatever it is. It was there.
Why because the Seahawks gave him one hundred million dollars.
They traded away their starting quarterback because they wanted Sam Donald.
(19:22):
You really think they wouldn't give up a first round
pick for him, or a second or a high second
round pick, or a second round pick and a third
round pick or something like that. You really think a
team that won that gave him one hundred million dollars
if the Vikings said, well, we got him franchised for you,
and that's forty million, so you can figure out the
rest of the money. That's fine. It's forty million. Okay,
it's only a few million more than the thirty three
million you agreed to. But still the Seahawks gave him
(19:43):
way more money than the Vikings gave him. So here,
here is franchise dead. We'll figure it out. Here's forty million,
we'll figure it out. You think the Seahawks are going
to say, oh no, we're going to completely change the
way we decided to go after this offseason. Oh no,
we can't give up a first round pick for him,
or two seconds or a second and the third, whatever
it is. Of course they would have given it up.
If they're giving him one hundred million dollars to play
(20:05):
the most important position on the field, they would have
given up within reason, something you would have wanted, right,
They would have given that up so you could get him. Right,
The Seahawks aren't gonna say, oh yeah, here's our plan
for the offseason. But if they want a first round pick, no, no, no, no,
we're not gonna do that. Of course they would have
done it. The Vikings just wanted to be done with
Donald because they wanted to move on. They they had
(20:26):
the excuse of the last two games of him not
playing well. Wasn't protected very well in either of those
two games, but okay, he had two really bad games.
They wanted to be able to move on and say, okay,
we're done, and no one's gonna blame us because he
had the two bad games and the great season we
had went out the window because we lost the lines
and we lost the first game of the playoffs. They
decided to take the safe route and say, okay, no
one's gonna blame us now. Instead of the march of hey,
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let's make sure we get something for We'll trade him
to a team he wants to go to. I'm not
saying you're gonna punish Sam darn say we're trading. No,
the teams that want, the teams that are in it
for Sam Donald are gonna want him as a free agent,
and they're gonna want to trade for him. Like those
teams are gonna change. It's not like you're you're saying, hey,
we don't know if we want a franchise Cooper Cup. No,
people aren't gonna want Cooper Cup. Sam Donald the number
one quarterback in free agency. Of course you're gonna be
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able to move him someplace, and of course you're gonna
get something high for him. And that was the fail
of the Vikings because they could have done that and
they didn't.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Yeah, just the question of what was what was his
true valuation from a lot of teams, right in terms
of the old Jimmy Johnson draft board that we've been
talking about for thirty years, right, and that they originally
had pieced that together during his time with Gil Brandt
and all those guys in Dallas. So I'm wondering, right
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if you got the honest moment, not the what you
tell a source. I mean the honest moment you know
of what we're gonna We would have been willing to
give up for Sam Donald. Is it a day three
pick legit? I mean, or or might Seattle have come
to the table with the big with the big offer instead?
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I mean, the Vikis have had one hell of a
run the last forty eight hours. I mean, they've assembled
a lot of talent there. Now it's all continuing on
JJ McCarthy coming out being healthy and dominating. Because again
we'll get to the Daniel Jones thing in a second.
But maybe there's another reclamation project waiting in the wings.
And that's what Kevin O'Connell said. I fixed one. My
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job is to fix them all and need another one.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, just think about it from this perspective, right,
and you realize, boy, the Vikings got lucky, right. He
was never gonna play. He was only gonna be a
bridge guy until JJ McCarthy was ready. JJ McCarthy gets
hurt again. He comes in, four thousand yards, thirty five touchdowns,
You go fourteen and three. It's an incredible year. He
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goes to the Pro Bowl, he's one of the best.
He's one of the top six quarterbacks in the NFL
last year, and you just decided to say, yeah, no,
we're gonna let him walk away. Tell me, now, when
you look at it from that perspective, how much that
makes sense. Well, here's a guy call everybody is so
starved for a quarterback. You have no idea. You have
in JJ McCarthy, absolutely zero, no idea at all. But no, No,
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here's a guy that came in. He's like, you're doing
everything we want. Yeah, see, we're gonna let you go.
Wait what I understand? Yah, sorry, we're going. We got
we we drafted this other guy and I don't know,
so you know, thanks, but we're not really sure. And
yeah we love you but uh yeah I don't know.
But you saw what I actually did, right. This guy
hasn't done anything. Yeah, yeah, but yeah we still like
that guy more. I don't know what it is, dude,
(23:28):
We just like it wars. This is a JJ and
it's kind of fun. And he didn't fail in three
places before we got him. But you saw how well
I worked here. You saw the rapport I had with
Justin Jefferson. So yeah, if you protected me a little
bit better. Maybe we would have won the last two
games or one of the last two games, calling protected
like yeah, no, no, no, we still like the other guy. Sorry,
and we're gonna let you go. What are you gonna get? Well,
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probably a third round compensation pick at the end of
the round, which is like a fourth rounder. We'll get
that for you. Oh okay, I mean tell me in
what world that makes sense? It doesn't.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Well, it does to the point of how many teams Again,
in terms of evaluation, we're looking at twenty twenty four
as the great anomaly versus what had been on tape
for Sam Darnold for a long long time. Other than that,
the thing is, you know, a vote of confidence of
people saying that you're sual. But even if you need
the quarterback right, depending on where you are in the
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time continuum looks. Part of me is still wondering that
I need to take a long walk on the beach
to think about what Seattle's doing. They're not winning anything, right,
So spending money on Sam Donald's that's a good.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Money, is not bad money, that's no, but it's part
of the conversation. That's a lot, but it is Battle's doing.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
But it is part of the larger conversation of a
lot of teams looking around going all right, we like say,
you're the New York Giants, you're Brian Dable and old
Joe Shane.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Are you looking at Sam Donald?
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Going this is the guy that's gonna save our jobs.
We're getting three more years with this guy. I don't
know the jar h.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I don't hear the jar here. Yeah, here's right, I
fight back, youll on it is that we would have
known that there was no interest in Sam Darnald if
his contract was something way less than what it was, right,
what were we saying, hey, maybe a two year deal,
two years and fifty million something like that. Forty million guy,
this is three years and one hundred million dollars right,
this is and it's not like the Seahawks bid against themselves.
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They got it. If nobody else is bidding, well, we're
not gonna pay this. But the fact that that's what
they had to pay to get him tells me there
was interest around the league. Right now.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
I mean, you can always love.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Pretty sure about that.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Well, but but again, if you get stuck with the bag,
now you got a forty million quarterback and you're not
getting the rest of this right if nobody wants to
meet your asking price, like, hell, we'll just keep him
at that rate. And then they're still gonna walk away
with the third round pick, exactly what the Seahawks got
for good old Genosmith.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
The guy. They said, Oh, we're gonna change our entire fall.
We're gonna change the direction of the franchise for Sam Darnold.
But what if you had to get a second round
pick or a second round pick? And I said, oh, no,
we're not going to do that. No, no, no, no,
we really want to change the franchise, but not that badly. Well,
we'll stick going down the road with Geno Smith and
whatever else we have here. I mean, really, that doesn't
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that doesn't you know? The Vikings were bad. They decided
to take the easy way out because they were given
the out of Hey, Donald had a bad last two
games against the Law and all the narrative that he
was exposed, He's going back to the same old Sam
Darnald that festered, and that became the narrative, and that's
how Donald was accepted. So that was their way to say,
you know, we're not going to make this any more
(26:32):
complicated than we have to be, so we're gonna let
it go. And in the end they let him come
in and and do something that if JJ McCarthy that
they would extend him after his first year, they would say, listen,
let's extend you. I know you got four more years,
doesn't matter, doesn't we want to get a said they.
But instead this was, hey, you walk out, and not
only that, but we don't get anything for you other
than the pick that many teams get at the end
(26:53):
of the third round for compensation, picks like I mean that,
that's that's where I come back and go. Did they
even try? How hard did they try? How did they
really try? Everything from Kevin O'Connell was we love Sam,
but we love JJ McCarthy too. Right, There was no
There was no way to play poker at that point.
This was they were telling you we are gonna move
on from Sam Darnold. They didn't franchise, they did, we
are moving on there. And this is not how you
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have sustainability as a team. If this is as bad
as Bill Belichick was the last few years, you think
he would have let people know, hey, we're gonna we're
gonna let a guy, go, we're gonna let a big
quarterback walk. How many teams would have let it be
known that, Yeah, we're gonna let this really good quarterback walk,
So don't worry about coming to us with offers. Right,
we're gonna let them walk because we have another guy
that we like to see. Okay, okay, how many teams
would he?
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Not?
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Even the Jets would have done that. I mean, all right,
the Jets might have done that, but other teams mainly
do twenty five, twenty seven, twenty eight, other teams would, right,
the Raiders might have done okay, all right, twenty nine.
Other teams would have done that, twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
But maybe in the other universes, they're like, you know what,
Kevin O'Connell had some special language and a lot of
special players to get some greatness out of this guy.
What do we got that's gonna do that? Or is
he the guy again that we saw from twenty eighteen
to and in parts all the way up through twenty
twenty three. Is that gonna be worth a hundred million
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dollars to us instead of building infrastructure, which is you know,
a recurring theme you know for you and I as
we're talking about it, you know, the celebration and everybody
throwing parades in Chicago and whatever else. Like, you got
the offensive line right, bully for you finally got some
you know, you got the guts. Yeah, you got the
guts right for Minnesota. I like the looks of the
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roster now. The the quarterback McCarthy as healthy might be,
might as well be playing a wearing a Riddler outfit
right now, because I don't know what he's gonna be.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
He's a guy with a bunch of question marks on
because I have no idea. But the rest of the
roster looks pretty damn good. I mean, look, you have
to be able to ABC always be closing right. You
have to be able to know that here's here's here's
a guy who came in that was really special at
a quarterback. Yeah no, no, no, we're kind of nervous.
We're go on, okay, great, And the Seahawks said, hey,
(29:02):
this is awesome. We we didn't have to give anything
up to get our guy that we wanted all along. Boy,
what we feel really lucky about that man, really really lucky.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
And they got that extra the third.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Exit. How about a Fresca exit, swollen Dome the Jason
smithser with Mike Carmen live from the TIREC dot Com Studios. Yes,
I know I can't believe Vikings fan, but good luck,
Vikings fan, good luck, good luck. We'll revisit this as
the seasons go on, and JJ mccarthur, we'll revisit all.
Don't worry, it's all good, good.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
At How about a fresco if you are a Vikings fan,
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Well time out to check in from a guy who
has been called the Ragnar of Fox Sports. He rode
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around on his motorcycle for a long time, finally upset
too many people and they told him he can't do
it anymore.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
It's Steve Desager and probably needs a shame. We have
four NBA games tonight. They're all final. We'll get to
Cleveland in just a moment, but guys, what a finish
at Indiana. Tyres Halliburton of the Pacers return tonight after
missing three straight games with a strained hit. The guy
averages nineteen points nine assists a game. They're trailing final
seconds against Milwaukee on Pacers Radio, here comes a three
(30:31):
and a foul.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
A foul.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
A foul has Halliburton floating at a bounds in front
of the Milwaukee fence. Hits a three head frown the foul.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
And made the free throw, a game winning four point
play with under four seconds left. Indiana beats Milwaukee won
fifteen one fourteen, each team with a record of thirty
six and twenty eight. Haliburton finished with fourteen points, ten assists,
just one turnover.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Cleveland confused. Was there a foul on that last play?
That's correct, I don't think the play.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
This is just the opposite of the college announcer we
heard last night with no foul six times. Apparently it
was influenced. Cleveland won it's fifteenth straight game. They were
down early third quarter by eighteen points and still won
at home against Brooklyn, one oh nine, one oh four
Darius Garland thirty points. As Donovan Mitchell of the Cavs
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was out tonight with a groin injury. New Orleans got
a triple double from Zion Williamson and beat the Clippers
one twenty seven to one twenty Detroit all over Washington
one twenty three to one oh three. The Wizards now
with a record of thirteen and fifty one in college
hoops four conference finals tonight, including in Vegas. Right now again,
zag is still leading nineteenth ranks Saint Mary's forty eight
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forty four with about seven minutes to go. Saint Mary's
from three point ranges ozer for thirteen. Zags are one
for thirteen from long distance. AP says that would be
one of the five worst combined for any game in
the last twenty seasons. As bad as the three point
shooting is.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Update.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Gonzaga fifty to forty four over Saint Mary's.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, but they didn't hit a three to get fifty to.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
Fill, certainly not running out of time to actually make one.
UNC Wilmington took the Colonial Tournament finals. Saint Francis PA
won the Northeast Conference forty six forty three, at Central Connecticut.
Each team shot about thirty percent from the floor. Saint
Francis goes to the NCAA tournament with a record of
sixteen and seventeen. Robert Morris won THEI Horizon League, and
(32:33):
we did have first round play in the ACC tonight
Syracuse Edge, Yeah, State.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, thirteen and eighteen. Here we go, here we go.
We're gonna make that run and bus brackets. What we're
gonna do.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Coach Leonard Hamilton done sixty six sixty two qs the
final Notre Dame fifty five to fifty four winners against
pitt cal won in double overtime against Virginia Tech. Eighty
two seventy three Big ten first round wins for Cincinnati, Colorado,
and Kansas State. Among the eleven NHL games, Carolina what
It's fifth straight for to one over Tampa Bay. The
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Buffalo Bill signed defensive end Joey Bosa. Baltimore Ravens also
agreed to a one year deal with this with wide
receiver DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Back to you, thanks a bunch of Steve O. The
Jason Smith Show with Mike Carbon live from the tirac
dot Com Studios. Now, I do want to say obviously,
you know, big story Leonard Hamilton, after an incredibly successful career,
calling it quits and retiring as Florida State's head coach.
You already have their next head coach for next year.
Syracuse ends Florida State season most likely Florida State seventeen
and fourteen, and after the game game was on the
(33:35):
ACC Network, they spent a lot of time with a
big on court interview of Leonard Hamilton, which I thought
was really really classy because normally games like this, you
talk to the winning coach, you move on. Hey, we're
onto our next game. This game started late and they
spent a long time with an interview with him, last
time walking off the courton, So I thought was a
really classy move by the ACC Network and talking to
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Leonard Hamilton for one last time.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Six hundred six career wins, sixty one percent winning at
Florida State, but gets retired by Syracuse.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Yeah, Syracuse, we're retiring people now. Coming up next. So
there was your bit on Sam Darnold, who can be
the Sam Darnald of twenty twenty five in the NFL. Wait, doll,
we tell you that's next right here. Jason to Mike
Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmon
Live from the tire rack dot Com studios. And as
we look to next season in the NFL, we've had
a lot about Sam Darnald a few minutes ago. Who
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could be the Sam Darnald of twenty twenty five? Right?
Who could be that quarterback that after years of either
not playing well or being a backup or someone that
everybody's cut bait on and no one thinks he's more
than a placeholder and a backup, who could be that
guy to suddenly jump out and say, Wow, here's a
big year. Here's four thousand yards, here's thirty five touchdowns,
(35:12):
and then the team kicks him out the door. Have
a big year, and that's completely unexpected. It's the guy
that's signed with the Colts today and it's Daniel Jones. Okay,
he's gonna battle it out with Anthony Richardson. This is
how the Colts have thrown it out there, and it's
a win win for the Colts. Right, This is Anthony
Richardson's last chance to be a starting quarterback with the Colts,
(35:35):
maybe in the NFL because he can't stay healthy and
he's not nearly as advanced as they hope he would
be after only playing in a handful of games in
college football. Right, so it's a win win, right If
Daniel Jones pushes Anthony richard to be great, Hey, great,
it's worth it. But Daniel Jones, they signed him thinking
he's going to play, and they have not said he's
(35:56):
gonna come in and back up. He's gonna win the job.
This is gonna be Daniel Jones is coming in. It's
gonna be a quarterback derby. And here's the thing about
the Colts. The Colts are kind of like the Vikings Light.
They have a really good rushing attack. You have two
good running backs led by Jonathan Taylor Thomas. Uh the
home improvement they have done at running back.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
And then you have four good wide receivers. Right, and
you brought Dueling back today. I mean, Pittman is fantastic.
Alec Pierce has big one hundred yard games once every
three four weeks.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Josh Downs, I mean, if these were you know, consistent
with the ball and more accurate. Think about the kind
of games Piers could actually.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Oh dude, yeah, I mean instead of go long and
we're gonna throw it to you a long three times
a game. Right. Josh Downs is one of the best
young wide receivers in the NFL, and a Donna Mitchell
is supposed to be not that great last year, but
they thought, I think he would come in and have
a better year. But he's still really talented. This is
a really good offense in Indianapolis. You just need somebody
to be able to get the football to the right guys.
(36:53):
I mean, you have the weapons there. Now. The defense
is terrible, right, but they made some moves already. They're
trying to make that they're trying to improve the defense
and free agency, but the division is not great and
it's clearly there for the taking, and they're really talented,
and they signed the right guy because we've seen Daniel
Jones flash, We've seen him do it in this offense.
And again you're talking about who could be the Sam
Donald of this year, where hey, it goes from a
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guy that's forgotten to hey, this guy's pretty good. This
guy look at what he did. We forgot about what
he could do. Daniel Jones is the guy because he's
got all the weapons in Indianapolis, just like Donald had
when he went to Minnesota last year. So my money
Sam Donald this year.
Speaker 4 (37:28):
Daniel Jones, Yeah, I'm moderately concerned that you lost two
of your offensive linemen to the Vikings. To bring it
full circle back to the Sam Donalds and JJ McCarthy
conversation over there, Ryan Kelly being the guy that really
stands out with the big blinking light when you lose
your center. But when you look at Indianapolis and we
(37:50):
look at that division as a whole, Jacksonville is suddenly
getting it right. Duvall, You've got the Houston Texans. They've
gotten rid of three members of their offensive line and
those were the guys they liked. So what's DJ Stroud
working with a Tennessee's got the number one pick. So
all of that to say for the Colts for stiking,
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he gets the reclamation project. You get to roll the
ball out like you're the Joker and Dark Knight and
say all right, let's go make it quick because we
got work to do. We can go win this division.
I like it. I like their skill position players one
hundred percent just need to figure out what that front
five is. And Daniel Jones was always a guy that
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I had that soft spot for, k saying, get this
guy some talent around him. And you had Saquan for
a bit, but they couldn't seem to be on the
field together. And then obviously had the freak neck injuries,
so that that took him out of out of sorts
and hopefully you know, the full full year of healing
and learning. And you know, Bucky Brooks and I'm a
couple months ago he surmised that maybe he would be
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the next guy if Sam were to leave instead.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
He's a coal and you know, you mentioned Shane Steiken,
who is one of the best young offensive minds in
the NFL. You look at some of the offenses that
he was able to, you know, pilots. How he got
the gig with Indianapolis. It's quarterback friendly, you know, not
the dables, not quarterback friendly, but clearly there was some
sort of friction. It worked for a little bit, but
then it didn't. Now he gets a chance to do
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things over again with Stiken telling you, man, Dan Dangel
Jones can be the Sam Darnald of twenty. I can't
believe we're having this conversation who could be the Sam
Darnold of this year? And it's Daniel Jones. I don't
know what's crazier that we're mentioning Sam Darnold or Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
But he's Indiana Jones. And you get to yo, you cheat,
doctor Jones.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Oh exit out About a Fresca exit swollen dome? Coming
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are streaming through spring training. Juan Soto's ops is one
and a half, and the Yankees may not have enough
(40:19):
people to feel the team It has not been a
banner exhibition season so far for the Yankees. And I'm
being kind right now with that kind when I say.
Speaker 4 (40:30):
That, Mike Carmin, that is overly kind. It's been a
situation whereby you need every bit of sage brushes and
magic crystals you can possibly put together. Let's just try
to save Already they're calling for boon. You did this.
It's all your fault. And he hasn't had to manage anything.
(40:53):
You weren't supposed to let him throw a pitch and
spring training didn't.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
You know, not till opening day? What are you doing?
I didn't want to see him at all. Why do
I even see him here on the Paba rap? I
don't know. I don't need to see this guy. I
know what he is. I don't understand. I don't understand. Well,
lucky they went unspent all that money, But is it
going to be enough with us now? The hot line
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Paul Morosi, who is now penciled in as the Yankees
fourth starter, John Paul Hope, you got your arm ready
(41:36):
to go here, because I know you're a quarterback in
high school, so just you know, build up your pitching,
so you get your pitch count up to about sixty
seventy five for opening day.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
Well, good evening, my friends. And you do remember what
my record was as a quarterback in high school. That
would be oh to nine o nine. So that the
Yankees do not need me, trust me that they need
somebody with actual talent. And what I can tell you
you this evening is that based on all my most
recent correspondence, is that it's unlikely to be Dylan ceas
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it's unlikely to be Sandy Alcantra. So the the Yankees
will at this moment in time, have to go with
their internal options. Marcus Stroman. Initially when spring camp began,
there was the thought that he was going to be
in the bullten and if things continue at their current pace,
he might have the ball on opening Day. That's that's
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where where the Yankees seemed to be at the moment.
And my goodness, there are a lot of a lot
of hopes that are rising I think elsewhere right now
in the American League East.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yeah, Jump Paul, Jump Paul. And this is this is
how insane, this is. This is why my dad won't
return my phone calls. It is because, I mean, the
beginning of spring training, this was the Yankees couldn't get
in touch with Marcus Stroman because he was so upset
that he wasn't going to be one of the top
five starting pitchers. Like he was not in the touch,
like it was how are they gonna go? And now
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he could wind up starting.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
Gone by well, And I'll say this with respect to baseball,
it is amazing. And it's one of the reasons why
I tend to pay a lot more attention to the
roster conversations now than I do a month previous to this,
because it always changes, and for the most part, especially
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with twenty six players and every team times thirty rosters,
usually for the most part, the most talented players and
the best players wind up in the major leagues because
of the number of injuries that occur or performance, etc.
And it's important to point out that what we've witnessed
the last couple of weeks, especially the last week with
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the Yankees luis heal and now most notably with Garrett
Cole is. It affirms and tracks very well with what
the MLB research was along these lines, which is that
March late February March, when pitchers really start to ramp up,
is the time of the year where most injuries occur
because they're going from this intensive period of pitch design
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and offseason throwing and building up to then the game performance.
And it's just it is a very very difficult time
of year for pitcher health. And this year is just
one more data point in.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
That regard JP As we look at the spring through
the first couple of weeks, I mean, we're only a
week away from the Cubs and Dodgers starting to get
after it, which is just really odd to think about.
You've had an attrition in the Al East. Is there
something on you on your radar that's popped up here?
You know, prospect wise, because the fantasy baseball drafts are underway, Buddy.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Ooh, the fantasy baseball drafts, well a couple so let's
say this. It does appear that Matt Shaw is going
to have a role on the Chicago Cubs. He has
made the travel roster to Tokyo. And by the way,
if you to just get a look at how immediate
things are and how soon the season starts. Those buses
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are rolling out of Mesa, Arizona right now as the
Cubs are bound for the airport and flying to Japan,
so I think Matt Shaw being part of the travel
roster is a big one. I would also point out
that Cam Smith, who was traded from the Cubs to
the Astros and the Kyle Tucker deal, there is some
excitement that Cam Smith might well find himself in an
(45:29):
opening day roster spot, and so he's a really intriguing guy.
Chandler Simpson there with the Tampa Bay Rays really interesting
prospect too in terms of his ability to run the
bases and get on base. So I'll mention those names.
I think Simpson, Smith, Shaw for your fantasy baseball draft consideration.
(45:50):
And how about this Trace Thompson putting together a pretty
strong bid to make the roster in Boston. He has
had an up and down career, some injuries and time
in the leagues, but obviously one of the great athletic
families in American sports history. You could say Trace is
making a pretty good bid to make the Boston Red
Sox roster too. So some pretty good stories around spring
(46:12):
camp so far.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Yeah, all those are great, John Paul One Soto's ops
is one and a half. Okay, Like that's great.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
I tried to fill Come on is one and a half?
Speaker 1 (46:24):
Come on?
Speaker 3 (46:25):
Well one? So he Mike, what do all the fantasy
baseball prognostications have for where one Soto is going to
get drafted? Is the number one? Number two after Show A? Well,
what do we have?
Speaker 4 (46:38):
It would be number two after show Hey.
Speaker 3 (46:40):
Number two after show By the way, we were talking
this morning on on Hotsova. I'm just thinking about Show
A right now, and of course what we will a
lot in the next couple of weeks, the next couple
of decades. But a point to make about about Show A.
We were talking on the air about about the global
profile Show A, and it is massive. Eight point eight
(47:03):
million followers on Instagram for Show A. That's a massive following,
certainly bigger than anybody in baseball, anybody else in baseball.
But then we were comparing to other athletes. Lionel Messi
five hundred five million Instagram followers again, which is massive.
(47:24):
Lionel Messi, I'll repeat that, five hundred five million, that
is and again I always say, don't ever do math
live on on the radio. But based on my my,
my up math from where I'm from in Michigan, that
would appear to be about sixty times greater than the
(47:45):
show's following sixty times. That is pretty pretty remarkable.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
So now wait a minute, and UP of course stands
for Upper Peninsula.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Yeah, I just want to do one's run, by the way,
and congratulated to Tommy's seems to be setting a new
hear it every every week, And wouldn't it be amazing
if he celebrates the the twenty fifth anniversary of the
two thousand championship with another one here in twenty twenty five.
But I digress. Go ahead, Yes, it was up math
as I was learning it up there.
Speaker 1 (48:13):
In the up. But Harvin, here's the thing. I think.
I think we're getting onto something here that we've never
gotten into before. With John Paul. He doesn't he very
rarely talks fantasy baseball with us, but here he is
two questions about going number one overall and going number
two overall. I'm thinking somebody has the number one pick
in his fantasy league. And with okay, so it's it's
(48:36):
so Tawani, is it? Is it? Soto like well, you
know what the third guy is going on? The third guy.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
That goes into the mix, and maybe he didn't want
me to say his name would be Bobby Witt.
Speaker 3 (48:50):
I think he's yeah. I mean, so you would you
would put with the head of Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (48:57):
Oh wait, maybe John Paul's picking forth. Hang on, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (49:03):
The last time. The last time I played a fantasy
sport and you know the answer to this question, I'm
sure from all of our conversations over the years, was
was back in the nineties when I was doing fantasy
football with my high school friends. And at that time,
maybe eighth or ninth grade, you would pick Steve Young
because you got the rushing touchdowns of the passing touchdowns.
(49:25):
So Steve Young was a great pick. So the last
time that I was actually paying attention to a draft,
the consensus number one overall pick was either Steve Young
or theatron means one of the two. What and if
you thought you would have a Steve Young or theatron
means reference on this conversation, I am here to surprise you,
(49:46):
my friends.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
No, that is that I didn't think we would get
a full surprises here.
Speaker 4 (49:52):
I am that's some next level stuff right there. I
mean forty five career touchdowns for Natron, So I mean,
you know, you go down that road, it's certainly found
the end zone. But the the I guess the last
piece for me, I mean is just getting jacked up
about the fact that we're gonna have some baseball, even
though the Whites really don't play. It is the idea
(50:16):
that that we do have, you know, these up and
coming squads. We talk about Kansas City and Bobby Witt Junior.
We always talk about Seattle on the show, and certainly
the Mets give me a team really off the pack
that you know you you may drive them to great
heights this year.
Speaker 3 (50:33):
I think the Rays are going to be better this year.
They've got a healthy pitching staff, which is more than
what the Orioles and the Yankees can say in the
same division. So I think the Rays are underrated. The
Angels are going to be better. Now I'm not going
to put them in the playoffs, but they're going to
be better. I think they've got more pitching depth. The Giants,
(50:53):
I believe, are going to be a better ball club.
And again, hard to make progress in that division because
you've got the Dodgers, and to some extent, the Podres
and the Diamondbacks. But I believe the Giants are better,
and I like the Cincinnati Reds. I'm a big believer
in the Tito effect. I'm looking actually right now at
my bookshelf and I see the Francona book that he
wrote with Dan Johnsy. Not just because I'm looking at
(51:16):
Tito's face on the cover of the book, but I
believe that he's going to find a way to get
the Cincinnati Reds, if not to the playoffs, then certainly
into the conversation. So I've just given you a few
teams that I believe are underrated globally speaking, as we're
talking about the various division races there. And I think
the Mets. The Mets are properly rated. They are not overrated,
(51:38):
nor are they underrated, but they are properly rated in
what I expect to be a pretty tough division. The
Braves are going to be a good ball club, and
I think that you overestimate or underestimate them. I should
say that you would underestimate the Braves at your own peril,
because with just a little bit better health, they're going
to be a very dangerous team this year.
Speaker 1 (52:00):
No one has ever underestimated in his life, except for
maybe when he was nine in high school. It is
John Paul Morosi. He's on Twitter at John Morosi, MLD Network,
Fox Sports Radio. John Paul is always buddy of Blast.
We'll talk to you next week, my friend. Have fun.
Speaker 3 (52:15):
You got it, I always said, speaking of underrated Taylor,
the receiver from the Niners back in the nineties. John
Taylor right, he was underrated. Rice got all the glory.
Taylor good possession receiver. I was. He had a big
Super Bowl against the Bengals, I believe. So I was
on with Taylor. He's a good, good pick.
Speaker 4 (52:32):
There did you throw.
Speaker 1 (52:33):
To him in high school?
Speaker 3 (52:33):
Like?
Speaker 4 (52:34):
Was?
Speaker 1 (52:34):
Was?
Speaker 3 (52:34):
He?
Speaker 1 (52:35):
Was he your guy? What were your statue?
Speaker 3 (52:37):
Finally we had we had an entire We had all
my receivers on their fastest days, hoped to one day
be like Wes Welker, which is why we were all.
Owen nine.
Speaker 1 (52:51):
Dropped the mic by John Paul Morosi. Take it easy, buddy,
J
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