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(00:53):
This for heaven. Yeah, that's what it is. But the
Mets didn't play today, so everything is fine. That's just
apply that to the Reds. Yeah yeah, well the Reds
haven't scored since what Saturday? I really, I don't think
they've scored since almost a week ago. Sadness. Who this
is where like, was it the third game in a
row getting shut out? This is where like the the

(01:15):
morning shows in Cincinnati would say, hey, we're starting a
Red's diet right now. You only eat when they score
a run, and if they put a runner on base,
you can have a snack like this. Hey, the Reds diet,
You're gonna lose a lot of weight going forward. This
is that works?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Or they go the full other way, because remember a
couple of years ago, they had their executives saying, ah,
you're gonna show up anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Oh that is true. Yeah, no matter what we do,
you'll show up, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
I mean, not to be outdone by the Bengals front
office and things they've had to say the last but certainly.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
They hey, we don't have to do a damn thing.
You're still gonna show up, you lemmings. So here you go,
three straight shutouts. I can't wait to see the signs. Oh, now,
we do have a couple of big quarterback stories coming
your way over the course of the next hour. We
got a guy getting paid today. We've got another guy
getting traded today. But you know, we talked about it

(02:06):
last night, and BOYD has this come home to roost
in a day. Okay, So last night, when we brought
up the story about Ja Morant. He and Buddy Healed
were both in hot water for making the finger gun
gesture at each other during a game two nights ago.
The NBA got a little upset about it, and of course,
of all the people that should be not doing finger

(02:27):
gun gestures, Jahn Morant is at the top of the list.
Why well, because he's gotten suspended twice by the NBA
for brandishing a gun. Again, there's that word brandish only
we talk about guns on social media. Eight game suspension,
twenty five game suspension. Right, Okay, dude, you're the one guy.
You can't be the guy you know doing the finger
gun gesture. But what do we say last night? What

(02:49):
was the big, big message that I told you Ja
Morant would be. Ja Morant is a guy, right, He's
a guy that if I said, Okay, Jaw, I got
a million dollars for you. Okay, that's great, get it. No,
just gotta do something for it. What I gonna do?
You gotta spend ten minutes in this room? Really? Yep?
Ten minutes in this room? Okay, what's the catch? No catch.
We got a comfy chair, We got a four K

(03:11):
TV that gets any station you want. You can watch
any movie, any sporting event you want. We have the top,
top of the line video games. Whatever you want here,
we have it. You have it. Just gotta sit there,
and you gotta you gotta just spend ten minutes. What
do I do? Like? Just ten minutes sitting in the chair.
The only thing you can't do, the only thing you

(03:33):
can't do is get up and play Papa shot. Behind you,
there's a Papa shot right back. Just don't play it
for ten minutes. So you don't play Papa shot. But
I'm a babba basketball play so I know, I know,
but this, don't play Papa shot. Don't play Papa shot.
Just sit in the chair, watch TV, play video games,
play on your phone, take a nap. It's a self
massage chair, right, it's a self beside a Just ten minutes,

(03:56):
don't play Papa shot. And I got a million dollars
for you. Okay, all right, I'll see you in ten minutes. Okay,
and you leave, you can watch a clock.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Go.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
This is the easiest million dollars ever gonna make, right, Okay, Tivitt,
and you go back in. Not only is the TV
not on and there's no video game on. Not only
is John Moran playing Papa Shot. He's moved the furniture
around to give him enough room so we could shoot.
He's built some sort of ball retriever where he can
go right through the net and go right back to him.
And he's called friends in to rebound the basketball for

(04:26):
him so he can keep taking the shots on the
Papa shot. And it would be but I told you
a million dollar Yeah, but you said not to play
Papa shot. So I'm playing Papa shot like this is
John Rant and what did I say. He's a guy
that isn't gonna learn, however you feel about him doing
the finger gun gesture, right, And the NBA wants to
cut down on especially someone who's gotten in trouble for

(04:47):
brandishing guns. For real, I understand the NBA. The NFL's
tried to do this. You saw a lot of penalties
this past fall and in the NFL, and hey, they
want to do a fingergun gesture for a first down,
fifteen yard penal. I remember Alan Lazard blowing a game
for the Jets because I gotta do the fifteen yard
I gotta do the gun thing, right, Okay, So whatever
you feel, yes or no, John Moran's been in hot

(05:08):
water with the league for a long time, right, and dude,
you want to stay in the leagues. Be smart? So
what does he do tonight? After today? He and Buddy
Healed were officially warned by the NBA about it. Not
a fine, not a suspension, just warned not to do it.
Just don't do it, Okay. Tonight, jah Ran against the
Miami Heat makes a shot. What does he do? Fingergun

(05:31):
gesture going back down the floor, and then he goes
on to win the game with a game winning jumper
on the final play. I mean, this is this is
John Morant in a nutshell fingergun gesture and then he
hits this big shot to win the game against the
Heat just moments ago. Oh that's not even right. Fine,
that's not even right right through, that's not that's not

(05:55):
shattered the backboard. Look at what happened. That's not even no. No,
if we're gonna talk about the guy not getting it,
we gotta play his highlight. Thirty points for Morant and
this game winner against the Heat. Yeah, I played it
was Gary Gary. Memphis Radio Network. It was Gary Gary. Yeah,
Gary Gary, Okay, Gary Gary. Sounds like a morning guy
in Washington. Hey, it's Gary Gary in the morning. How

(06:18):
you know it? Hey? And his name is Gary g
A r y Gary g a r r y, Like,
that's the name Gary Gary. It's not a G though,
Gary with a G. Well, then there's another guy who
would be in the same market, and we be Gary
with a G. And they would say, how else do
you spell Gary? Well, exactly Gary with a G. And
then there's Gary Gary. They'd be on competing. They got
to be competing top forty four mats with each other.

(06:39):
Really takes to a whole other level. Now people are
compiling the master class and how many times Morant's actually
done this in the last month. This would now be
six times. Yeah, and the month Marche heading into April
that he's done this. And then because it became a
thing against the Warriors. Look, Adam Silver did exact actly

(07:00):
what we surmised he might. He bought the whole Buddy
Christ defense that I brought him yesterday. Hey, you know
it wasn't an active aggression, So what the hell? Moving on?
Nothing to see here?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Hey, don't forget the Grizzlies play on National TV tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I mean, really, I mean, he's a guy that doesn't
get it right. And and honestly, with John Moran, he's
so good, he's so exciting, but the guy's a knucklehead.
How long is he really going to be in the
league if this is what he's doing? I mean, really,
I mean how long is he really going to stay
in the league if this is how it's going. I
was worried he wasn't gonna come back after a second

(07:38):
suspension when it was twenty five games, Like, Wow, this
guy's gonna be away from the team. That's the worst thing. Obviously,
he's got people around him that shouldn't be around him. Boy,
how much longer is he going to be around? And
you get warned and all you gonna do is not
do the thing again. Just don't play Papa shot, don't
just watch TV for ten minutes, don't don't do it.
And he can't do it, and he can't not do it.

(07:58):
I really, I don't know. Really, if you said to me,
is he still in the league when he's thirty, I
would say I don't know. I really I don't because
I see someone like this and I go, dude, understand
that you live in a world where the NBA can
trite you know, they make the rules and they don't
want to be next to guns. All right, And you
can say yes no about but you were warned. This

(08:21):
is you could it could be right or not, but
but this is the world you live in. These are
the rules that you have to play by because you
broke them and you were suspended twice. And the NBA
actually was really nice to you by saying, hey, we're
just gonna warn you about the fingergun gesture. Oh okay,
no penalty, nothing else that We're not like in the NFL,
where it's a fifteen yard thing. No, no, no, We're

(08:41):
gonna make sure that we warn you on it. Okay,
we want you to come back, and then you do
it the next night, like if I'm Adam Silver, I
am throwing stuff at the wall tonight, going really, this
is what happens. This is this is what happens. I mean,
how much longer is John Morant going to be in
the league where if this is how when when stuff
comes up that the NBA is concerned about, because he's
given them reasons to be concerned, this is how he

(09:02):
responds to it.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, I guess it just comes down to I was
shocked that nothing came out of this last incident, and
again we've got now the preponderance of evidence showing that,
you know, just because it was the national spot the
other day, it wasn't an isolated incident, that this was
a repeat offender that clearly the NBA hadn't bothered to

(09:24):
do a damn thing with. So now would be disingenuous
for them to really do anything at this point. Even
if they did put out a sternly worded letter today,
I'd be going, if I'm the Grizzlies, going, all right, Adam,
where was the outrage here and here and over there
and over there? I mean, I guess the counter is, hey,

(09:44):
you were speeding for a month that I didn't catch you,
but I got you today. But you have to kind
of decide as a league, right the we we've talked
about it from the performance versus trouble, right the the
whether it's worth the juice is worth to squeeze, whatever euphemism,
whatever phraseology you want to use here comes up with

(10:06):
the game winner, does the postgame interview, and on we go.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Hey, big night for John Morant. As they move on,
By the way, what happened with Taylor Jenkins? Can we
ask cab about that while we're at it now, if
you wanted to say to me, forget about your whole
crazy ass explanation, me telling you had a crazy ass explanation,
But forget about your crazy ass explanation you had last
night about his defense. It was good thought it. Yeah, no,
it was good. But it could have been simpler. It

(10:31):
could have just been, Hey, I did the finger gun
thing because I wanted people to stop asking questions about
our head coach. Oh oh well, well all right, well
and you know we lost six in a row. Oh well, well,
all right. I can disagree with that, but I see
what you're doing. You're being a team first guy. All right,
I get it. I get vegas misdirection. I look over here,
let's go back to my hand gestures.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
But I mean we talked about it the other day,
right with Roger Goodell as part of the meetings, the
ownership meetings for those that missed it, right, they talked
about how coming forward, it'll be a point of emphasis
because the excessive violent celebrations we're up one hundred and
fifty two percent, the excessive sexual innuendo only up fifty

(11:13):
two percent.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
We're gonna meet in the middle can't wait to see
what that looks like. But but all that said, now
you've got to worry about adjudicating everything else out of play,
and then you have to decide, all right, has that
guy wound up on a sack dance?

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Was it something violent? Or is he just a big
fat guy that can't dance? Same thing here in the NBA, Like,
what's he doing? Is he doing a bow and arrow?
I mean, I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
He could come up with any number of explanations as
to who he's paying tribute to or what he's doing.
And I'm like, all right, I mean, what are we
gonna do? I mean, he's terrific, but he also doesn't
get it and refuses to get it. Both things can
be true. It's not one way, or it doesn't have
to be one where to John Morana's misunderstand No, obviously
Yamorant has issues, and the league is saying, hey, and

(12:03):
I don't think it's a it's a it's a big
ask to say, Hey, we kind of want to stay
away from guns. Okay, we kind of want to We
have a big gun problem in the country. Liz, Let's
let's stay away. Let's stay away. From that. Shah, that's
not a big ask, right. It's not a big ask
right to say that it's not well.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
But for yesterday, does he at least get to say, hey,
little buddy heal did it first?

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Yeah, I don't know, You're not just taking a little
buddy healed on the divers like like an elf little buddy.
I mean, I really he he's terrific. He doesn't get it.
I really, I just hope he can stay in the league,
he can end up because I don't know, man, it's
not been that long since he had that that moment
of clarity of hey, I I could lose everything here.

(12:46):
He had people, every single person after the second controversy, Yeah,
with the gun was was pleading with him in the media, dude,
what are you doing? Be smart? Surround yourself with better people.
Everybody was falling all themselves to help him, because yeah,
you should try to help someone that obviously, Hey are
you on a right path? Probably not, and we don't

(13:07):
want to see that. And you're a great story and
you're a great player. So yeah, everybody wants to help him,
but you can't help somebody doesn't want to be helped.
And clearly, hey, I'm getting warned about it, and you
know he knows he was warned about it. I'm gonna
do it again. I'm just gonna do it again. I mean,
what can you say about the guy? I shrugged my
shoulders and go, yep. I hope he can stay in
the league. That's really where I'm at. Great hot, great player,
great highlight tonight. He's a you know, he's a He's

(13:29):
a huge presence and everybody will be talking about it
tomorrow and throughout the night tonight. But I really, I
don't know is he gonna stay in the league. I
don't know. Your guests is as good as mine?

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Ready, I'm thirty five, nine and four for the losers,
Tyler Hero, this would be a great poll question or
a give out the call number John Moran and Zion
Williamson both headed for disaster. Who's the best pick from
the twenty nineteen draft?

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Wow? There you go? Yeah, man, Tyler Hero, DeAndre Hunter?
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NBA again. We'll listen with John Morant has to say
following the game tonight again a big game winner. Tight

(14:37):
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two big quarterback stories coming up next right here, involving
trades and money. Basically our two favorite things to talk about,
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crypt and hold everything. Lebron James is down on the

(16:39):
floor being looked at by medical personnel. He is holding
his stomach, waiting to see what happened. If not seen
a replay yet. Lakers lead the Warriors twenty to sixteen.
There was a loose ball and Austin Reeves was able
to pick it up, but Lebron coming down. I couldn't

(16:59):
tell if he got an elbow in the stomach. If
he got I'm watching the replay again lower Yeah, well
well I'm wait now they showed the overhead replay. Yeah,
he may have gone a little bit. Yeah, he may
got a little dinged up in the nether regions. He
is standing up. Oh no, he's showing his stomach. He
actually just moved an elbow and showed his stomach. I

(17:21):
don't think he got an elbow. I think he ran
into guys. He's totally fine. He's just being Lebron. Yeah,
I think he ran into Draymond's armor or it was again,
it was a scrum going down low because the Warriors
were coming down on a break. Austin Reeves is able
to grab a loose ball. In the turnover, Lebron, not
looking as he's running down court, runs into one of

(17:41):
the Warriors players. They have just cut to commercial. Hopefully
it's him with the wind knocked out of him, but
seeing him lying on the ground banging his fist on
the hardwood floor. Yeah, that doesn't you know, fill anybody
with warm fuzzies that Lebron is gonna be okay. But
it looks like he is okay. Again, they cut to commercial,
so let you know what happens when the game comes back.

(18:01):
He just wants to be in the next Damy Schumer movie.
Oh you think I wants to return bout? I think
he could headline the next Amy Schumer movie. I think
he could.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
That was one that was just released a couple of
weeks ago. I gave it about five minutes.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Wait wait, Amy Schumer and Lebron are just Amy Schumer? No,
just Amy Schumer? Oh okay, yeah, wait what about Lebron?
And Amy Schumer being an Amy train they were in
a movie. Oh, Frostburg's. Frostburg's like the guy at the
party that was passed out and wakes up and hears
like the the last five seconds of the conversation, what

(18:36):
lebron train Wreck from a few years ago. Frostburg, You
have to stop watching Otani's walk off from last night.
Pay attention to the show. I know, I know, I know.
It's got to be a very sore thumb right now
that you have, uh look and I'll give you hot take.
Amy Schumer owes her entire career to Entertainment Weekly, who
talked about train Wreck for like the six months before

(18:56):
it was coming out, like it was going to reinvent
comedies across the well wait till you see train Wreck. Oh,
train Wreck was funny like other movies are funny, like wow,
like entertainment And that was like the death cry of
Entertainment Weekly, like before Entertainment Weekly lost relevance where it
like stopped publishing and people stopped reading and people got
their entertainment news more up to date, like when magazines

(19:17):
went away, like right before that, I'm like, oh my,
another article on train Wreck a movie that's coming out
through another one another one on train Wreck. Really, I
need that, I need that. You're just not a fan
of Amy Shooter. No, I think Amy Schumer is funny.
I just felt like that. I'm like, Okay, the movie
was so overhyped and it was funny. There was some
funny part, but I'm like, it didn't. It didn't change
the world of comedy. It didn't, you know, it wasn't it. Yeah,

(19:38):
it wasn't really does though. It wasn't Bridesmaids. It wasn't
you know, Anchorman, it wasn't you know. Is Savannah aware
of this, uh that that he was in the movie? Yeah,
I think he was. I think she is. Okay, I
think she is. Yeah, Because then it got so well,
they did the whole thing where the guys broke into
Lebron's house in the movies, not for real in the movies.
In the movies that happened.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Did they try to get anything special from him like
they did Tom Brady and Ted.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
I you know, I didn't see the movie. I I
kind of wanted to, and then I want to. I
waited and I did not see Ted talk. I didn't
see What's wrong with You? Tom Brady could do that. Yeah, no,
I I think that was when I'm like, okay, what
when I got to Netflix and I said, oh, there's
a complete Boston tab I can click on that gets

(20:24):
all kinds of movies about Boston. And I was like, yeah,
I'm kind of done for little Did you watch Fever
Pitch again? Then? No? Okay, anyway, series is pretty funny too, Okay,
I wouldn't. I didn't even watch Ted Talk. I mean
I was. I was really out on the on the
whole Ted thing.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
As soon as Ted Moseby wrapped up on How I
Met Your Mother, I was out for a while.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Uh So, speaking of Lebron, the game has just come
back from commercial. He is out of the game, sitting
on the bench, so he didn't go back to the
locker room. He was looked out on the floor. He
is sitting on the bench. Lakers with a four point
lead for and have to go in the first quarter.
So we'll keep you posting on Lebron. But again, if
he's sitting on the bench and not in the locker room,
you have to think he's gonna be okay, and he'll

(21:07):
come back in at some point. Now, outside of the NBA.
We had big stuff in the NFL today and unless Amy,
I want to say this, Amy Schumer, if you listen
to the show, I Love your career. It's awesome trade
work because the best movie ever. Okay, there we go
a big trade today. And I say big trade because
even though it's for a quarterback that may not see

(21:28):
the field, this was absolutely the right move for the
Dallas Cowboys. I am going to say that they did
absolutely the right thing today in making that trade for
Patriots back up, Joe Milton. I thought it was going
to be about a different quarterback. No, no, no, we
got other quarterbacks to get to it, out of the
quarterbacks to get to But I but this odd. I'm

(21:48):
not lying to you because you know me. I love
criticizing the Cowboys because clearly they have no idea what's
going on. I don't know. It's like the Cowboys and
the Vikings. We really have this wrestling match over what
they know what they're doing. But the Cowboys absolutely did
the right thing. Joe Milton is an up and coming
Quarterback's got a lot of heat on him right now
because of his talent level. You know, an old, older

(22:09):
guy coming into the league, started out at Michigan, played
really well at Tennessee as a strong arm. A lot
of good things being said about him. The Patriots obviously
are set at quarterback with Drake May and Milton had
a lot of heat, so they able to turn him
into a fifth and seventh round pick. Okay, obviously you
see the comparison. All Cowboys are getting a little bit smarter.
It's not a fourth round pick like they gave up

(22:29):
for trade Lance, who didn't really see the field. But
this trade is brilliant for the Cowboys, just like the
Trey Lance trade was brilliant for the Cowboys. And don't
worry before you think I'm crazy, I'm gonna tell you
why I ask you this. Mike Carmon, I ask you this.
You're a Chicago Bears fan, and I'm sorry about that.
You know, for the last ten years or so, if

(22:51):
I said to you, you could trade a fourth round
pick to a team and you won't get anything back
for it. Anything back you'll use now get anything. But
you got to give a fourth round pick away to
a team. But your quarterback will throw for thirty five
touchdowns and four thousand yards that year. You would take

(23:11):
that right, Wait, I get a four thousand you heard passer,
and you get a four thousand yard passer and pirtive
touching him on as soon as that completions, right, that's
worth it, right, It's absolutely worth it. That's what the
Cowboys did with Trey Lance. Dak Prescott was coming off
a really bad twenty twenty two. So what did the
Cowboys do they trade for Trey Lance? Did they give

(23:32):
up a little bit more to get them? Sure? Fourth
round pick? But what did the Cowboys want to do?
They wanted to say, Okay, we've given the job to Dak.
Dak has played pretty well, but now he's coming off
a really bad year. We wanted to know that, Hey,
you can't just coast here. We need to see more
from you. You want a new contract. We got a
guy waiting in the wings who's a number three overall
pick in the draft, and hey, if you're playing badly,

(23:55):
Trey Lance, he's got a great pedigree. And what happened.
They went out, They got Trey Lance and look at
Dak Prescott twenty twenty three had his best year in
the NFL. He was fanned until he got to the playoffs.
But that's a different story. You got Trey Lance to
put a little bit of pressure on Dak Prescott, and
you look like geniuses because you got a great year. Now,
last year he got hurt, he missed half the season.

(24:17):
So okay, but the Cowboys know we need to do
this again. We can't just allow him to come back
without having that little bit of pressure on him. They
didn't get Joe Milton to take Dak Prescott's job. I'm
seeing all this Dak Prescott trade. No, that's not at
all why they got Joe Milton. They got Joe Milton
for two reasons, and the big one is the guy

(24:40):
is talented enough and he's young enough to just put
that pressure on Dak that if you stink, Dak, hey,
we could start looking someplace else, to a guy who's
going to be in the system for a little while,
to a guy who's going to maybe get a chance
at some point, and we can spin you off to
another team. They have your contract, somebody else will pay you.
You can do it. We want to put that pressure

(25:00):
on you. So okay, that's the Cowboys that that's aim
number one. Aim number two is they need a guy
that can play in case Dak gets hurt. Because two
of the last three years, Dak has missed a lot
of time and Cooper Rush, Hey, he came in and
played pretty well. Guess what, Cooper Rush is gone. So
they need a backup quarterback that can come in and
play if Dak gets hurt and they don't want to
give stuff away. It's just the way it is in

(25:21):
the NFL. Two out of the last three years you met,
miss seven games two years ago, missed half the season
this past year. So we need somebody else. This is
why the Cowboys went out and got Joe Milton, and
it was brilliant. It's exactly what they should do. And
to keep the pressure on Dak Prescott. So it's not
free lunches all the way through. Dak. You need to
continue on here. We paid you. We need to see
stuff from you. It worked with Trey Lance, they're banking

(25:44):
it's gonna work with Joe Milton. This was brilliant. Well,
it was interesting.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
As the trade goes down, I get the notification and
you know, send along to you guys because you know,
I'm up like a dope early in the morning to say, hey,
how about that because you've been rumbered to be in
a new uniform in what six or seven different spots
we had him connected to even before the carousel stopped spinning,
as if he'd been would have been able to go

(26:09):
in and perhaps fight to be the top guy for
a job. Instead, you go to Dallas, they get a
little flash the trade.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
If you're on the New England side of it, I
don't know how much sense it makes, except that he's
gonna run out of years out a rookie deal at
the same rate as Drake May, So why bother so
get it on the extra pick. I guess so because
that caused people a lot of consternation. This morning, he's like, well,

(26:39):
if you liked him, why right? No, No, because Drake
May is a guy.

Speaker 3 (26:43):
I don't think a lot of people watch New England
Patriots football this year. They have their quarterback now and
that they just have all the money to spend to
build around him to go forward. But for Joe Milton
in Dallas, yeah, Dak Prescott's not a kid. I mean,
he's this This is entering decade two, with a couple
of years of injuries, severe ones. At that you've got

(27:06):
a squad where at some point Schottenheimer might be given
the green light to say, shuffle up and deal if
Dax looks like he did the first half of last year,
because you go back and look at those numbers. Completion
rate was down five percent from the year before. Touchdown
to interception ratio was eleven to eight, putting the ball
in harm's way. And they haven't exactly done a lot

(27:27):
of upgrading to the offense around him except to pay
ceede Lamb. So it'll be a curiosity, uh, to to
see what they come back with, come come the fall,
and what the draft looks like. But Joe Milton, we
watched him at Tennessee. You certainly were wondering if he
was your Michigan man, uh to get them to the
Promised Land for a while, you know, your other team,

(27:51):
because I mean, you're still a Syracuse Orange guy.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
But let's face it, well, now we're a football school.
I mean we're I mean I was, yeah, but now
we're a football school, so that that's what it is. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
But all of that to say, we watched him a
lot of Tennessee and then there were a lot of
big things and when he got drafted to New England
after May, like, wow, that's kind of interesting. Pulling an
old Washington. Now Commander's thing like when they had RG
three and Kirk Cousins all those years ago. You know,
the hey, one of you is gonna win the job.
The other guy's there is insurance. And look at Captain

(28:22):
Kirk's made like four hundred million dollars being the insurance man.
Now you got Joe Milton trying to be that guy
for Jerry Will. There'll be Joe Milton Cowboy Bucks by
the end of the year.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
I don't know if you know this, Joe, but nobody
gets paid like you do in the rest of the world.
It's a cowboy. But don't worry. There's no tariffs on anything.
No tariff. We're tar free right now. So you don't
have to pay me anything to be quarterback of the Cowboys.
Although hang on a second, I think a lot of
people would pay to be quarterback of the Cowboys. Let
me let me revisit that. But for now, you get
paid in the Jerry Bucks. Okay, Well, Steven will come

(28:58):
in with a big briefcase and all the way through
and you have line of lines of credit at the
drog cleaners, uh grocery store, whatever you want. All the
way through we had we got for you, So don't worry. Uh,
just don't go too far outside the Fort Worth area
and uh and you'll be able to buy whatever you want.
So congratulates Joe. Welcome to the Cowboys. I dig what
you're you're laying down there. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Again, Joe Milton gets to be that guy. Uh, play it,
play the insurance man. It could work out very nicely
for you, especially if you get some extra reps with
CD Lamb this offseason. I'd be saying calling him every
day and twice on Sunday, Hey, ce day, c D.
You want to have a have a game of catch?
Want to have a catch?

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Come on telling you man, the trade was brilliant the
cow I give the Cowboys again. You know I'm telling
the truth because I don't really give the Cowboys pitch
show you. They don't know which way is up very often.
But this was a brilliant move. And again, anybody would
trade a fourth round pick to get a four thousand yard,
thirty five touchdown season from their quarterback. Everybody said I'd

(29:57):
give I'd give up. I'd give a fourth pick to
the Patriots. I would drive it up to Bob Kraft.
Myself and drop it off and let him take a
picture of it like it's a big novelty check and
he would smile and I would shake his hand. I
would do that at a second. If I could get
thirty five total touchdowns and four thousand yards from Justin
Fields this year, yeah, well there you go.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Look if anybody's got a line on a Gamers from
the Cowboys, if you can find me a Kelvin Harmon,
that would be great.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
He's on their receiving depth chart.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
And because it's the low hanging fruit, I think I'd
rather take my shot that you can, you know, spin
some magic with Milton here paying basically what you paid
for Jonathan Mingo.

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(31:02):
You did not post a picture on social media like
I asked when you get home to make sure you
got them safe with it, and by that I mean
Frostford didn't come and take it from you. Yes, still
have the bobblehead.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
I still have the babble Ahead, guys.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
And I still have my job at the Dodgers, which
was another questionable thing by the end of the night,
since y'all were trying to sell my bobble Ahead and.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I was trying to find a way to make you money.
I'm sorry, Yeah, I know. That's yeah, that's what it was.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
They couldn't have proven it was that exact bobblehead if
we found you a replacement.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
You're right.

Speaker 4 (31:30):
No, no, no, I just I just being a part
of the conversation doesn't doesn't look well for me, guys.
But you know, I'm good, still got my jobs, still
got my babble Ahead.

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We're chilling. I'm on eBay right now. New listing show,
hail Tony Evythy Bobblehead. It's at m Balao clips.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's actually pretty good. And it's got your picture next
to it.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
With my Chris Paul Jersey from back in the day
as a Clipper.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
You know that's right.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
You know the one that was like a T shirt
remember those years.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I got that one, yeah exactly.
Oh but yeah, oh good guys.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
Glad to be back with you on this Thursday.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
One game going on in the NBA.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
The others have wrapped up, and it's after the first
quarter that the Warriors have a twenty six to twenty
two lead over the Lakers. But the Lakers won scoreless
the last three plus minutes of this quarter. But you know,
Austin Reeves three threes in that so he's got nine
points to lead the Lakers right now. What already happened
in the NBA, Well, Janni Santetokounmpo dropped thirty five points,
seventeen rebounds, twenty assists as the Bucks took down the

(32:35):
seventy six Ers one twenty six to one thirteen. The
Sixers are shutting down Tyree Smaxy for the rest of
the season because of a finger injury. Pawoll Bancaro dropped
thirty three points and eighteen rebounds eight assists as the
Magic took down the Wizards one oh nine to ninety seven.
And it was a close one between the Grizzlies and
the Heat, but Jahn Morant called a.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Game Palmarant with eight seconds. Seven seconds didn't hurt him. Wow,
wear on Morant. Three seconds.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Morant into the paint, steps in, steps back, fade away
at the buzzer and rattles around and goes down. Jim
Arrant will send the Grizzlies off to Detroit with a
last second victory.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
And you just are on the Grizzlies radio network one time.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
Different than the highlight we played for the earlier, last one,
the real one.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
You know, he was under investigation for that gesture of celebration,
and I'm pretty sure he did that gesture.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Twice in today's game. We couldn't wait to get in
the first quarter. He couldn't wait to do it. He
was fired up. He was fired up, very well, very well.
In the world of baseball, Aaron.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
Judge did his did hit his fifth homer of the season.
It was a three run shot in the first inning.
Yankees held on despite a grand slam from the Diamondbacks.
Yankees win it ninety seven. The Reds cannot score. They
just can't score.

Speaker 1 (33:59):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Three games in a row being shut out and the
game before they had scored fourteen runs. They haven't scored
in three games. Brewers win it today one zero. We'll
check in in the NHL. The best team in the
league I think is officially Yep. The Stars crushed the
Predators five to one was the final score. All right,
back to you.

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Guys, Thanks a bunch of mons and congratulations on continuing
to own the show. Hell talk you, thank you. Just
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undred and twenty five dollars. That's kind of where they're
best offer accepted. That had a nine hundred dollars price.
Now I have a lot of tools at my disposed

(34:36):
little figure out what best offers are on trading guards.
I don't have them for bobbleheads. All right, we gotta
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Speaker 1 (37:16):
Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with my best
friend Mike Harmon. Boy. This show lasted about eight weeks,
but they still play the song amazing, still play this
whole New So Big Quarterback Newsday. We talked about Joe
Milton deal to the Dallas Cowboys and brilliant move by
the Cowboys, and I'm not being facetious. Brilliant move by

(37:37):
the Cowboys. However, the Raiders have decided, I see your
trade for Joe Milton, and I raise you one seventy
five million dollar extension for Gino Smith, who has yet
to take a snap with the team since they acquired
him earlier in the offseason. Raiders of Gino Smith two year,
seventy five million dollar extension ESPN Adam Cheff reporting this

(38:01):
earlier today. There's incentives that could push the contract up
to eighty five million, and he's got sixty six million
dollars in guaranteed money, so he's got a year left
on the deal or one year left out. He's got
two more years on here. And I got to say,
first of all, incredibly happy for a guy who was
a complete and total buzz coming out of New York

(38:21):
and didn't know if he was ever going to even
be a first string quarterback again, and now here he is.
He's gonna have over one hundred million dollars of career
earnings in the NFL. Right, sometimes you got to be patient.
Sometimes it takes a decade. And look at Geno Smith
now here. He is gonna collect at least sixty six
million dollars on this new two year extension with the Raiders.
And you know me, do I think Geno Smith is

(38:43):
worth this kind of money? No, he's not, right, he's not.
He's not two years. You're talking about thirty eight million
dollars a year for Geno Smith. No, But is he
worth this money for the Raiders? One hundred percent? One
hundred percent. I love this move by the Raiders. And again,
the Raiders don't do anything right either, but I love

(39:05):
that they've done like three or four really good things
in the offseason. Man, I like the Raiders doing this. Now.
I know I'm crazy. Maybe I sell that fever that
I had on Monday and Tuesday when I was sick,
But I love it because no team needs stability more
than the Raiders do, specifically at the quarterback position. They've
been trying to get by with guys for the last

(39:25):
few years that you're saying yourself, what are we really doing?
Minshew and O'Connell and before that, Derek Carr. Then know
that we're pushing Derek Carr out. They need stability. This
is a team that needs to hit rock bottom and
dig back up, and that's what they're doing. They have
hit rock bottom and they're digging back up. Is Gino
Smith great? No? Is he good enough? Yes? He is dynamic.

(39:47):
The backsliding is stopped. It's an upward trajectory for the Raiders.
Now they have the most important position taken care of
on the field. That will be a domino effect on
the rest of the team because I can't tell you
what it feels like for a team to go out
there knowing who's gonna play quarterback that week or what
they're gonna get out of it. Right, this is such
a great thing for the Raiders. Even though it's way
more than I would give, way more a lot of

(40:08):
teams would give. The Raiders are in a very specific
special situation. This is awesome for them. Four thousand yard
pass or every year Gino Smith again, he gets the
ball up and down the field. He has four hundred
yard games. This is an absolute needed move by the Raiders.
I love it.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
You got Myers and Bowers, you get whatever you can
out of Raheem Mostert. But we look at where they're
at in the draft, and we've seen jank Ty's name
brought up quite often. Right, it's them or the Bears,
or doesn't preclude them from drafting a quarterback. And then
you go to your dollar cost averaging and Geno's a
guy that could be a pretty good mentor to whoever

(40:47):
is the second chair, whether it's an O'Connell or it
does become shidor Sanders or insert other quarterback here. You
got a good couple of pieces on the offensive line.
You re sign Max Crosby, so you're at least creating
an identity on that squad. You're still in a long
climb to battle within that division, right, because that's the

(41:10):
thing you're You're going to stability. There's not gonna be
some some rapid ascent here if you're not. You know,
the little yodeler dude in the Price is right game man,
it's a slow, steady incline.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
And the long road begins with the first step. So uh,
that's what the market will bear the dollars come out
to somewhere right and where Sam Darnold was. So it's
not really a much of a change there. But we
get the reunion with Pete Carroll. I mean, come on,
how great is that gonna be?

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah? I mean, look the guy he hand picked. Right.
We talked about the trade when it happened, it was
this is the guy you got to get, the guy
that knows your offense is going to come right in
that you trust the Raiders have done the right thing
in this offseason so many how have you ever said
that they've done right thing?

Speaker 3 (41:53):
After you praised the Raiders and the Cowboys in the
same hours, your mouth out with it showers.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
It is insane, filthy. We got more big stuff out
of the NFL coming up next right here, Jason, Mike,
this is Fox Sports Radio Raiders and the Cowboys. It
is true. Yeah, you know what, I gotta find some
positivity in that they're not sitting there in street clothes,
you know, drinking wine or staring up into the rafters.

(42:22):
So I mean, we at least got that going for you. Yeah,
and no fingergun gestures from Buddy Healed yet, Right, I
haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen. But unlike John
Moran who got warned today and still decided, I'm gonna
give you a finger gun gesture. We'll get to that
more coming up in about twenty minutes. But I don't
see anything from Buddy Heeled yet so far. Okay, well,
we'll keep an eye on him. I mean, you know,

(42:42):
I don't know if you have a someone stalking him
from the sideline for you, your own reporter, your own
intern or camera person. This is when I came around.
I actually like Kramer when he had the intern. No, no,
that's right. I actually have to dogs with your luck.
We'll get those chickens. Yeah, you know me, I have
I have ends with the Lakers because JJ redikates me.
I have Dalton connect on it for me. He's the

(43:04):
one doing it. Oh okay, good, yeah, yeah, he's my source.
I found out it. You can have sources anywhere, like
this new season of BOSH that's out. Everybody has sources
within the within the police department, within the DA's office.
Every every time. Oh I wish we knew what they
were doing. Well, I have someone inside. Oh okay, so
I think it's easy to get somebody inside somewhere, because

(43:24):
everybody seems to have somebody inside. Thing with the guy
in the place. Look outside, Muddy Chandler's got somebody inside.
Everybody's got somebody inside somewhere.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
It's I've been watching a lot of NYPD Blue. There's
a lot of inside men and women on these jobs. Man,
let me be sure.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
It's always Hey, it was an inside job, that's what
Sipplewitz just comes up and goes and we think it
was an inside job, like you, Well, season two, I
think it was episode six or seven is the first
time that he gets Sipowitz's ass.

Speaker 3 (43:52):
Just for those you know that want to go back
in chronicle television history.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
Wow, it's like you gave me my own personal mister
skin moment here. You want to know when you see
Sipplewitz's ants and n white pat Blue for the first time.
It's season two, episode seven, forty one minutes and sixteen
seconds in, and then three seconds later you get Sharon Lawrence.
There you go. So there we go? All right, Mike Harmon,

(44:17):
who is your man for Andy Sipplewit's nudity? If you
want to stream NYPD Blue, he's your guy. Well, and
where where have I seen that actor or actress. We
can play that game all we want. What are you
gonna say? Where have I seen Sipplewitz's ASTs before? Is
that simple? Ants? I really thought that's where you're gonna go.

(44:37):
It's a new game show sweeping the nation. I'm gonna
show you a picture, is it or is it not?
Sipplewitz's ass Like that TikTok thing going around where Seth
Myers tries to play. Is this actor in the MCU
and Paul Rudd keeps getting it wrong? No? No, they're
in the NCO. No, I never acted with that guy.
How would I know? I'm in the MCU in the

(44:59):
NC But how about a big bold prediction when it
comes to another quarterback in the NFL? You ready for this?
I've saved this for tonight just because it is it
my guy with every quarterback we haven't talked about you, dude.
I love listen, man, I'm telling you I'm in I'm
full of so much. I love the Cowboys what they
did today. I love what the Raiders did to that love.
I love what everybody I love. I love what the

(45:21):
Bears did, man. I love this year for Caleb Williams.
I feel like, man, I've taken something I shouldn't have taken. Man,
you're just with body. I mean Miles Boykin plus Case Keenum.
Come on now, I mean Tyser just said here eat
this collieflower Man, and I said, okay. And he doesn't
like colliflower. You can name almost anything else. That's the one.

(45:43):
He's gonna yell at your name what you're doing. But
that's what made me eat it, because I know if
he doesn't want me to eat it, and something I
should probably eat. Tyshirt's playing checkers, man, and I'm just
I'm playing backgamn man, I'm playing chess. No, man, No,
you're playing a fellow, man, Remember a fellow with the

(46:05):
j Jillen Hall and Washington out there? Ye tell you go.
There's lots of stuff happening out here.

Speaker 3 (46:13):
Man.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
Uh A different movie. Oh yeah, I wish I could
quit you. That's different. Yeah, different different movie, different movie.
Not not nearly a fellow. No. No. But there was
a report today, I believe Mike Florio Pro Football Talk said, hey,
chances are getting slim that the Steelers are going to

(46:36):
wind up getting Aaron Rodgers. And you had Ben Roethlisberger again.
Someone's going to hire Ben Roethlisberger and he's going to
be a popular analyst somewhere that he believes that Aaron
Rodgers is not going to go to the Steelers and
he's waiting for the Vikings. I'll tell you this right now, right,
I know it seems like a FATA compley that Rogers
is going to join the Steelers. That then you can

(46:59):
believe whatever. You can believe that. Well, they're working on
the money. The money shouldn't be any any sort of obstacle, right,
Aaron Rodgers is not at the point where he can
dictate what he wants money wise. This should be something
that's figured out pretty easily. Oh, he's waiting because Pat
McAfee has a big appearance in Pittsburgh and that's when
he's gonna do it. Yeah, that's too predictable for Aaron Rodgers.

(47:22):
He's not gonna do that. Right. And the Steelers, Oh,
by the way, they would like to have him in
the building at some point. They'd like to get a
playbook to him. They'd like the team, the team to
not grumble in grouse and build bad will that. Oh,
Rogers could come here, but he's just waiting to make
it dramatic. Yeah, you want your quarterback to come in
and be a leader. Right, Aaron Rodgers knows what it's
about being a leader, and all the stories about him

(47:43):
with the Jets last year. Half the team loved him
right and had great stories about him. To hey, Rogers,
is this He's not what you think he is. Yes,
you know off the field is one thing, but this
is what the guys like in the locker room. If
Rogers wanted to be a Steeler, he would be there, right.
He's not. Wait, it's not like it's the decision where
Rogers could go a bunch of different places. It's either

(48:06):
Pittsburgh or nobody. Right, That's where it is. If he
wanted to go there, he would have gone there. He's
going through the motions right now. Yes, he threw to
DK Metcalf because really, and I believe Roethlisberger, he's content
to wait out. Maybe not so much of the vikings,
but as far as I'm gonna wait out another situation,
because you know, Rogers has I got one year left here.

(48:28):
I mean maybe if I have a great year, it's two.
But I look at it as I gotta choose this
team really careful, because this is the end of my career.
And it's a big damning indictment of the Steelers that
he hasn't gone there yet, that he thinks there's a
better opportunity out there than the Steelers. And I'm willing
to wait. I'm willing to wait to try to control
the narrative that I'm in charge of the career now

(48:50):
instead of the Jets pushing me out and I beg
to stay with the Jets. No, No, I'm in charge
of things. The fact that he doesn't want to go
to Pittsburgh, that he's not there already, tells me I
don't think they're as close to winning as you think
they are, despite the fact that we brought in DK
metcalf Right. You know, is he going to really go
to Pittsburgh and love playing for Mike Tomlin? Probably not.
It's Mike Tomlin's where the highway you saw Mike Tomlin.

(49:12):
He chased with stars who have their own opinions about
things that might not always be good for the team.
Aaron Rodgers is that guy you think he wants to
go play for Mike Tomlin? Of course not. He wants
to go or I can steamroll the head coach and
I can do my own thing. Or I can be
the quarterback and Robert Sala can be the head coach
of the defense. Or I could just make funnel the
floor and just you know, put my foot on his

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throat every Tuesday when I go on Pat McAfee show.
He doesn't want to go to Pittsburgh where he's got
to be beholden to Mike Tomlin. He is more than
happy waiting out a situation that is more beneficial to him.
And maybe it's Minnesota. He's willing to wake this out
a long time, right because Minnesota needs to know that
JJ McCarthy's healthy and that he's ready to assume the role.

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And if he's not, if JJ McCarthy isn't a healthy
or doesn't look good, and I don't know why he
look really good in the preseason game he played last
year before he got hurt, So I don't know why
he's not gonna look good this year. But he's waiting
for an opportunity he thinks is better than the one
he's got with Pittsburgh. And that's a thing. And eventually
he may wind up, you know, he would. He might

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go to Pittsburgh if there's nothing else out there. But
event Pittsburgh's gonna make a move. They're gonna try to
make a trade, They're gonna try to get a court,
They're gonna try to do something. But if he wanted
to be a Steeler, he would be there by now.
He's not waiting for some kind of crazy announcement, not
waiting for pet to make an announcement. People would know if
he goes on Pat McFee and says that if he
wanted to be a Steeler, he would be a Steeler,
And that tells you a lot about what he thinks

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about what Pittsburgh is. He's waiting for a better opportunity
to potentially present itself.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Yeah, I mean you you never know why it spin's
coming out of the owners meeting. I mean he was
part of that little selfie Spinnerama move that Jay Glazer
did when he was hanging out there showing all his guys.
I mean, you had Andy Reid and Mike Tomlin and
I think Rogers was the second guy there.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Tell me you all all you listening across.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
The globe on the iHeartRadio app wherever you are, tell
me you didn't stop it and try to read his hat?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
What does that say? I missed it. I'll go back,
go back, go back.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
I forget what the logo was, but it was like
a clothing company. That's boring because I'm looking at the colors.
I'm like the kind of kind of muted steal it.
No not, but it was one of those all right,
you go around and everybody's there. You got the disheveled
looking coaches having a rough off season as they honder
what they're coming back to.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
But I think the endgame with this is we want
it now. We want It's the microwave society, right. It's
why everybody's complaining about the transfer portal. Why can't these
kids stay and learn and grow because the money's out there.
You're a top eight guy. John mcclayan was saying it
last week. You're getting five hundred thousand dollars. Likewise, here

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we want answers. We want everybody in their new uniforms
so we can get a new trading card photo or
have our fun building our websites and projections. Aaron Rodgers like,
there's nothing forcing him to make a decision today. So
to your point, why not wait it out? See if
something crazy happens. Guy slips in the shower guy decides

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he doesn't want to come back. Team decides, Hey, something
that we found in the background checks and what's going
on that we're not comfortable with this, or a guy
like McCarthy, you know what, the health isn't checking out.
There's a million reasons why something can go sideways in
every professional aspect, you know, when we're talking about football

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players or the shop down the street. So for Aaron Rodgers,
what's forcing him to make a decision today? Nothing? I
mean really, And there's only one choice right now. It's
Pittsburgh or nothing. It's the choice my uncle gave my
cousin when he was applying to colleges in the early
two thousands, where he didn't know where he wanted to go.
He wasn't excited about a couple of places he got in.

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He got into Courtland, right, got into sunny Courtland, and
we're like, oh, very excited to go to Courtland. Okay, okay, great,
great great, And he said he told my uncle, yeah,
his dad, I don't know Courtland. I think I like Courtland.
I'm not sure. And my uncle looked at him in
the eye and said, it's Courtland or the Army. And
he realized, Oh, well, then I guess it's Courtland. He

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decided I'm going to go to Courtland. So it's kind
of it's it's Pittsburgh or nobody, and Rogers is okay
right now saying I'm okay with nobody. I'm okay with nobody,
because look, the Steelers, you know, they want an answer.
You know, as much as they say everything is fine,
we're waiting for the rect. You know, they want an answer.
They want to know what are we doing going into
the draft? What are we doing? Are we trying to
trade up for a quarterback? Are we not? I mean,

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I don't believe Tomlin for a second where he says
we're happy with Mason Rudolph. I mean, no, come on.
So you know they want to know, and you know
his teammates want to know. You already have some Steelers
players kind of chafing that either he wants to be
here or he does it. What is he really waiting for?
There's no place else out there. When you can go
there and there's no other choice, it means I don't
really want to go there, And he's going to exhaust

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every single possibility before he has to make that call
again it's an eye opening thing to show you. This
is what Aaron Rodgers thinks about the opening at quarterback
for the Pittsburgh Steelers. This tells you what do you
think about that opportunity? But Jason, right now, I mean
he can still go through to DK Metcalf or whoever
the hell wants to have a cup of coffee and

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hang out a minute and then have a catch. So
what's the difference whether he's on their payroll or not. Hey, guys,
you want to meet up at the park, let's go
this way. You still get to get your workouts in,
show that you have some interest. You get to ask
all the questions.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
DK's not going to have the guy be the guy
to have all the answers, but I have no doubt
he's got plenty of friends and locker rooms across the
country and across the league.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
So you start piecing it together and you make your decision.
But why not take it to the eleventh hour with
all the information you can possibly get before you have
to go adhere to somebody else's rules, Because don't you
have more freedom as a guy who doesn't have a
contract in terms what you can do with your spare time.
As well, if if if all of your friends had

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dates to the prom and you didn't, and everybody you
were going to ask is not going, and there's one
person you you could ask that would go with you,
and you don't ask that person? How bad do you
really want to go to the prom? How bad do
you really want to go to the problem with that person?
I'm gonna wait and see if something else opens up.
Maybe there's a breakup and I can slide right in somewhere,
and that's somebody else. You don't want to act like

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that doesn't happen. You don't want to go to the
problem with that person. I'm telling you that's why he
doesn't want to go to the Steelers. He does not
want to go there. He would be there if he was.
He's okay with waiting it all out, telling you exit.
How about a Fresco exit swollen dome. If he wanted
to be a Steeler, he would be a steel How
many times are you going to say it? We have?

(55:46):
I'm just telling you because I mean I bon harmon.
I'm just trying to think about cons Would you just
not sow many times you've watched Otani's walk off home
running the last five I would be one hundred and forty.
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