The Best of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the NBA Playoff picture coming together and Jason believes one former contender is a team to watch out for this year. The Saints may have lost Derek Carr, but Jason thinks Shedeur Sanders might not be the QB they take at 9. Jason explains why he loves NIL after a star SEC QB is holding out of practice for a better NIL deal. Plus, Pete Fiutak of CollegeFootballNews.com joins the guys to give his thoughts on the QB draft class.

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Speaker 1 (00:29):
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(00:52):
here we are at a big Friday night. We're starting
to see the first round of the NBA playoff schedule
start to come into focus. Just in the last five minutes,
we've had the spots locked up through six in the
Eastern Conference, and I want to say that twenty four
hours later, absolutely nothing has changed. Forget about the Cavaliers,

(01:13):
forget about the Celtics. If the Knicks get past the Pistons,
I think that's a toss up at this point. I mean,
they lose to the Cavaliers tonight, who rested everybody Tonight, Donovan, Mitchell, Hunter, rested, Merrill,
rested Jerome Lebron, Kyrie, Mark Price, Craigie Elo, they all

(01:34):
rested tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Brad Doherty rested tonight.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
B do this one out.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
He did, you know, because every time he was played,
they would yell soft soft.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
That's a brand anybody compared to Charles Oakley.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I mean, the Knicks were up twenty four over the
Cavaliers in this game. The Cavaliers were saying, listen, doesn't
matter anymore, we don't give a crap. And still the
Knicks blew a twenty four point and the Cavalies they
don't come back and just win on a last second shot.
They went at one oweight, one oh two. I mean,
I really, honestly, at this point, if the Knicks even

(02:10):
get out of the first round, it would be an accomplishment.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
I feel awesome right now.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
If I am the Pistons, I feel absolutely awesome, and
I feel terrible if I'm the Pacers, because wow, this
is the time I really don't want to catch the
Bucks because Jiannis has absolutely been on fire and they're
locked into that playoff series now. So yeah, Knicks fans
are upset, Pacers fans are upset. Bucks are happy, Pistons
are happy.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
So you go.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's the in and Yanges Sports Mike Carmen.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Jhanna's giving you triple doubles on a regular basis at
this point, so showing you he can.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Do it all.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
Get out of my way, Doc Rivers, it's my time now.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Can I do the quick complaint about the scheduling because
I do this for the NFL. I hate the fact
that we get the I play you, then we have
a week off, and then.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
We play each other again.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Sure, why do we have all these stupid ass home
and homes and back to backs here in the final
week of season?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
What are we doing? You're killing me? Blue? Well, look
spread this stuff out. Look it's take it nice for
the people.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I've told you from the beginning. The NBA schedule is
too long. It's irrelevant after game fifty five or sixty.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Statistically, I think that bears out, except for a couple
of you know, playoff positions, and certainly in the Western
Conference since we have such.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
A muddled mess beyond the three slot.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Yeah, but look, I mean, yeah, you're gonna get a
little bit of change potentially where maybe the five seed
is the four seed of the four seed to be.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
The five seed.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
But yeah, you look and see the standings, they look
pretty much what they look like every year after about
sixty games, because that because the teams that aren't in
it go in the tank. Nobody goes crazy to get
into the playing round. And that's the thing is that
the teams that are won through six, they kind of
just they jockey a tiny bit, right, tiny bit. Nobody
really comes and takes over first place. Nobody drops from

(03:51):
second to six. It just doesn't happen that way. But
the team, but the back that the other half of
each conference, it just kind of me anders there. Nobody
goes on a big run to say, hey, I know
we're twelve right now, but let's get in the playing round.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
Now.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Teams don't care about that.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Let's we're not playing, we'll go We'll go into the lottery,
try to get better, try and see where the ping
pong balls lie all kinds of things, and so everything
just kind of stays the same.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
It's it's stasis from Game.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Sixty to Game eighty two, except for things like, boy,
the Knicks really aren't giving me any confidence they can
do anything in the playoffs, Like yeah, I mean, when
are you ever gonna beat the cat I get that. Hey,
the playoffs happen, and injuries can happen, Certainly, injuries or
something that can affect anything, as you see in the
playoffs every year the end of the first round. You
can put an all NBA team out there or an

(04:36):
all star team of players who were injured and wind
up missing a lot of time. But you can't count
for injuries and who's gonna get hurt and who's not.
But I mean, I mean, seriously, I mean, if the
if the Knicks can't, they're oh for the Cavaliers, Oh
for the Celtics, Oh for the Thunder, They're oh for
the three best teams in the league. And on a
night again when the Cavaliers rest everybody and they have
a twenty four point league, Yeah, it's okay, get off

(04:59):
the mat, come play, come beat us in Madison Square.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Guard. We don't care.

Speaker 5 (05:02):
We on see you had five more three point makes.
Yet they still with all of those guys sitting down.
Don't discount Darius Garland full on, but they still shot
forty nine percent from the field.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Again, what do I What have I said?

Speaker 5 (05:17):
We've been hopping it all along, but now it's it's
punching people in the face about how poor the defense
is on a nightly basis from this squad.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Again, how many times do I need to watch the
opponent shoot fifty percent or better for or round fifty
to say, Wow, the Knicks really have all kinds of problems, right,
all kinds of problems.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Because they do.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Because this is it's not like, well, hey, the Cavaliers
came in. They're a terrific team, and here they go.
This is, hey, we're resting a lot of people. We
have some good players.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
This is why.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Look, this is why the Cavaliers are terrific right there,
deep right, they go eight nine deep and they just
keep coming at you in waves.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Right, Their offense is amazing, But when.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
You rest half of those great players, it should be
a little bit easier. But instead, nope, they're gonna shoot
fifty percent from the floor and they're gonna win. And
it's really I I don't understand. I don't understand how
things have gotten so bad for the Knicks so fast,
and how bad they are for a team that's competitive.
I mean, they're in the bottom you know, for a

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team the defense is their hallmark. For them to be
in the bottom third of the league for field goal
percentage allowed is embarrassing. And I'm telling you. We talked
about it last night. We had Rick Buker on the
show late last night and I said to him, I said,
because I tell me, agree or disagree. If the Knicks
lose in the first round, Tom Thibodau's out. And he said, yeah, he.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
I haven't heard anything about Tims being in trouble because
obviously you have the season, we see how, we see how.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
The playoffs go. I haven't heard anything.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
But yeah, I mean, because really, if you have the
guy in there and his hallmark is defensive.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Intensity, and you have any defensive intensity, why the hell
you're there? I mean, really, what does it matter.

Speaker 5 (06:47):
I wanted to do one of those rants about how
he can't get guys to watch film.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, oh yeah, he should just do a dramatic reading
of everything. Michael Malone said about a month ago.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
Yeah, I mean, oh, maybe full Shakespearean urb or maybe
a wrestling role, but I don't know. Whatever it is
to try to get folks inspired. I mean, they do
a lot of big events at the Garden.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
This good.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
I think if you're Leon Rose, you know, you come in,
you come in before the playoffs and say, hey, uh
you know team only mean it just me?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
You know, Tim's I got it. I'm gonna talk to
the guys. Hey, uh, just let you guys know.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
You guys lose in the first round and and and
you guys or you guys look really really bad in
the second round.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Danny Hurley's coming in, right. I don't care. I don't
care if they're I don't care if they it's true
or not. Danny Hurley's coming.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
You think you don't like Tim's yelling at you're telling
you what you do play in defense, Wait till I
bring Danny Hurley and you're gonna love that this guy yet?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Or what?

Speaker 5 (07:39):
Every night you've got him, either with the Knicks or
anything where there's chaos. Hey, NFL team in trouble, Danny Hurley,
your college football team has some issues down with it.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
Danny Hurley can do both.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
I mean, you know where they really might You know
who's that I guarantee you this, And how funny would
this be? You know whose name is gonna jump to
the top. If the Knicks after a place there coach
he was able to jump right to.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
The Top's Jay right? Yeah, that would make sense.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Why not? He can coach, He can coach. You won
two national championships with these guys. He can come back,
come back and coach. And you know there's eight there's
seven or eight guys on the team, and you'll love Kat.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Don't worry about it. He doesn't play defense like you
think he's going to. And mcclbridge is really disappointing. But boy,
the other guys you'll love. Man, You will love these guys. Man,
go go with it again, Jay Wright.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Don't please.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
You have those relationships with the core and you can
always go back into the marketplace and see if you
can add a few more.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
You know, but look the way the Eastern Conferences is it? Like,
because I'm serious about this, Like, if the Knicks get
out of the first round, it is a it is
an accomplishment at this point because I expect absolutely nothing.
I'm into these playoffs with just fear and dread. Right,
That's where I'm at. But the other part of it is,
I know they have flown under the radar, and I

(08:55):
know they've you know, look, they've they've some of the
teams during this win streak haven't been the best, but
in the last they have some big wins. They've beaten
the Lakers a couple of times. Watch out for the
Bucks seven in a row. Now they beat the Pistons,
albeit for the Pistons second night at back to backs.
But the Bucks have figured things out and it's been
all been without Damian Lillard and who knows what's gonna

(09:18):
happen there. But Giannis has just simply taken this team
and it's gone back to the team it kind of
was when they were they were they were clawing up
to win a championship. We're okay, are we kind of finished?
Or we need we need the right guys around him. Okay,
Middleton was the right guy around him. But you know,
here you're talking about Kuzma uh coming in and being

(09:38):
a big playmaker now and being someone who gives you stuff.
Didn't have a great night tonight. But look, when Giannis
is thirty two, fifteen eleven. There's only so much out there.
But they have had a really big run late and
they are entering the playoffs incredibly hot. Watch out for
the Bucks. And I know it's hard to give Doc
you know, I feel you know, I believe it because
you know what's hard for me to give Doc Rivers credit? Right,

(09:59):
I'm waiting for h this say tonight, No, it gives
me credit for seven in a row. They don't want
to say game seven games, No, it gives me credit
for seven.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, we want seven games in a row, seven in
a row.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Here now forty seven three without Damian Lillard, you know,
without my son Austin's out on the team. Remember all
these cotting and narrow cone. I mean, it's hard for
me to give to give Doc Rivers credit. But the Bucks,
you want to say, peaking at the right time and
all the big cash, all the big phrases that go
along with it. That's exactly what the Bucks are doing
right now. And Giannis is absolutely carrying them. And again

(10:30):
you don't want to play them in the first round
of the playoffs. This is this is gonna be one
of those man the Pacers are saying, you know, we
were playing really well, thinking, Ay, we'd love to get
another shot at the Knicks because we're so emotionally playing.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Oh now we get the Bucks and Yon's is gonna
go for fifty every game.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Ready for a little bit of fun.

Speaker 5 (10:47):
Fun with numbers. They are currently the fourth favorite out
of the East to win the NBA title odds one
hundred to one. Your Knicks are somehow thirty eight. They're
one hundred to one.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, well, I mean there's the officiating thing. You never know,
like the officials may you know, want to keep those
big market teams in the.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Playoffs, Danny Davis showing up But no, you know what
are we doing?

Speaker 6 (11:11):
No?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Rick Carlo'll talked about it last year. I want to
keep these big market teams like the Knicks in the
playoffs as much as they can. So you know how
the officiating is gonna go.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yiannis greater than big market team? All right, thunder your favorite,
followed by the Celtics and Cavaliers, Lakers now just eight
to one, Warriors at nine and a half to one,
Nuggets twenty to one, Clippers thirty to one, followed by
the Knicks, Rockets, Timberwolves back down to the Bucks at
one hundred to one h man.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
I mean this is this is gonna be.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Look the playoffs here now for the last twenty games
being really I would say, just you know, they're filler
a lot again, except the fact that the Knicks just
proved to you and want to show you we just
aren't going to do anything.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
The playoffs are really gonna be something.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
The playing round in the East is not that's gonna
be absolutely awful, right, that's gonna be absolutely terrible. But
the playing round in the West, and then when you
get to the big matchups, it is gonna be some
kind of playoff this year. Why do you keep dismissing
my squad, jerk, dude, Come on, man, you can't.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
You can't sit here and tell me that that.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Oh yeah, I want to see four teams that aren't
none of them are gonna be over five hundred playing
a playing round.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah, but we're creeping forward to it.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
It's gonna after this win tonight.

Speaker 5 (12:21):
Come on, it's a new look squad, young, exciting. Kobe
White's hair is electric. Come on, Kobe White had a
great run for a little while. But it doesn't matter, man,
Magic Heat, Hawks, Bulls. That's gonna be.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Like I got a guy named Giddy for crying out loud.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
They're gonna be on television, these games are are They're
gonna not either're gonna be on NBA TV. They won't
even be on True TV. To find a new place
to put these games on. But then you get to
the West and you get to the matchups. Yet, hey, okay,
suddenly we're we're looking at stuff that's pretty good man.
And I'll tell you this is this playoff I mean
to get to this, it's going to really be something, man.

(12:58):
I mean, you think playoffs every year in the NBA. No,
you have a lot of teams up and down with
stars that are hot at the right time getting in
the playoffs. You want to see teams that have that
have been tried and true the last few years that
are now rising over the past couple of months, like
the Lakers and the Warriors and the Bucks because you
got Giannis and Lebron and Curry. It's really gonna be

(13:20):
some playoffs. I'm telling you this is I don't know,
it's hard for me to say, oh, you the greatest
playoffs ever, but it's gonna be something where every single
night is gonna bring you, is gonna bring you some
fantastic stuff.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Man, These matchups are gonna be out of this.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
World because it's all about harmon.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
Right now, we've got a big blowout lead for the
Bulls and the White Sox are up ten to one
on the red side.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Let's get the Bulls.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Nobody can't both. Dude, the Bulls. You can't make the bus.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
It could be about me. You did a monologue about
the Damn Nixon.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Start the Bulls happen. You can't make I can't happen,
and I will. No, you can't make them. You can't
You have been able to make them happen since Derek Rose.

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Benny the Bull is a legend something else. People think
that it's the guy from Dora the Explorer, Ben the
Bowl of those fans. All those little kids are Bulls
fans and they don't even know it.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I'd rather watch Betty the Bull in a balloon yelling
about getting sticky tape, then I'd rather watch the Bulls
in a series.

Speaker 3 (14:15):
Did you forget about the sticky tape?

Speaker 4 (14:17):
How do we.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Sticky tape? Sticky tape? Why?

Speaker 5 (14:21):
A missed opportunity for that was pretty well done too.
By the way, be careful about your vocal corse. Though
it's been a rash you guys having to have surgery
in our business.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
I don't I don't need doing funny voices. So here
we go.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
We're off to the raises. Big night in the NBA,
Big day in the NFL as well.

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(15:03):
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Speaker 1 (16:00):
So big, big goings on today in the NFL as
reports come out from NFL network insider Ian Rapaport and
others that hey, uh, Derek Carr might.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Be out for the season. Oh by the way, wait
what wait what? Wait what?

Speaker 1 (16:20):
Apparently Derek Carr has a bad shoulder injury that he's
dealing with, and according to all reports, he has been
in communication with the team for this for a while.
So now, was this something that happened wear and tear,
Was it something that happened in the off season. Was
it something that happened away from the team. That's kind
of what we're waiting to see. However, he now may

(16:41):
miss the twenty twenty five season with a shoulder injury.
This is a guy that the Saints said, Hey, we
don't want to wait for Aaron Rodgers to you. We
want to give you all kinds of money. And what
did I say when it happened, I'm glad I wasn't
the team to give Derek Carr that money. Sure, so
here he is now potentially he could miss the entire season.
Last night we told you the topic every single day

(17:03):
between now and the NFL Draft will be one topic
per day surrounding Shadoor Sanders.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
How good is he? And who is going to draft him? Right?

Speaker 1 (17:11):
So we'll keep the ticker going because this really is
about Shadoor Sanders because the Saints. Look, you know, Derek
Carr is a placeholder till they get their new quarterback
in there. And I know that everybody has now linked, well,
Chador Sanders won't fall past number nine to the Saints.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yeah, okay, I may give you he won't.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Fall past number nine, although that that's starting to get
a little bit more difficult to see. But I will
tell you this because I thought it was happening before
before today, and now I am sure it's happening. The
Saints will draft Jackson Dart at number nine. Right, he's
the guy that's been rising throughout a lot of quarterback circles.
Shadoor Sanders has been falling. The Saints have spent a

(17:56):
lot of time with Jackson Dart, a lot of time
on Jackson Dart, and this is why things are gonna
fit for them. Because if you're the Saints at number
nine the offseason comes, you're saying to yourself, Okay, what's
gonna happen? Well, how much homework do we need to
do on camb Wward and Chador Sanders? These guys are
going one too. Who's our next guy? We love Jackson
Dart and they spend a lot of time with this guy.

(18:17):
You're not suddenly going to hit the draft. And if
Shador Sanders and Jackson Dart are both there at nine,
you're gonna say, oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait wait
chaudor Saner d No, you can now do your homework
on them.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
But it doesn't matter. You have spent a lot of
time with Jackson Dart. He's a guy.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
Look, he's the one guy that separated himself from the
rest of the group of quarterbacks that came out last
year with yours and Milroe and McCord. He has separated
himself to the point where he was gonna be a
first round quarterback. We told you he was gonna be
the big riser. He has been the big riser. He
does not get past the Saints at number nine. It
just makes too much sense. Other teams Are they going

(18:54):
to take Chador Sanders if he slides to them? It said, well,
the Jets grab Schad Door Sanders at seven. Man, I
don't think so. They give Justin Field some money and
all of a sudden, yeah, we're gonna upset this apple cart.
We're trying to have a culture come in. We're gonna
take a quarterback at number seven. Don't see it. A
lot of teams are telling you, hey, we're not locked
into taking a quarterback, right, Joe Flacco is back today?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, finned him for a year.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
And what did Jimmy Hassem say last week, We're not
going to force a quarterback at number two? Well, you
pick second. You can have either one of the top
two quarterbacks, right, you could have cam Ward or you
get your Door Sanders. Chances are camp Ward's gonna be gone.
Hence the statement of we're not going to force a quarterback.
So Sanders is not going there. He's suddenly not just
gonna get snapped up. And the Saints are kind of
in a perfect spot because they're in no man's land

(19:39):
where the teams in front of them if they pass
on Sanders. Once you get out of the out of
the top three four, you get past the Giants, it's
and the Giants have said, hey, we got to get
the quarterback right, We're not gonna force a guy like that.
Everybody is basically distancing themselves from saying we're gonna draft
your door Sanders. So once you get past there, the
Saints are the only team just sitting there at nine. Now,

(20:00):
could I see them if somebody wants Sanders, could I
see them dropping down a little bit a few picks
to get them, If the Steelers want to jump up
and get them, yeah, I could see that. But sitting
at nine, they know they need their quarterback. They've been
really quiet the entire time. Whenever you're picking in a
spot like that, you can't let people know who you
really like, who you favor, but you know they like

(20:20):
Jackson dart ole Miss It's a big pipeline there from
Mississippi to New Orleans, and you know, you think about
the Mannings and the fans are gonna be on board
with it because they're gonna love Jackson Dart because the
whole Mississippi thing to New Orleans, it's going to happen.
Like if you had to say to me outside of
cam Woard going number one overall, like where's where's the
next cemented quarterback in a go Like? I will tell

(20:43):
you that the next pick I'm sure about is gonna
be Jackson Dart at nine to the Saints.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
See. I like the cut of your jib. I don't
know that you're right.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
I like your theory because you still have the manning
project for long term and you still have an infrastructure
that you need to build.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
Right.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
I have did Spencer Rattler a year ago. I don't
know how good Spencer Ratler can be. But you're gonna
get Chris Olave back. He missed a lot of last season.
You still have a couple of pieces in place. But
do you necessarily go for the quarterback in round one?
This is where it gets curious, Is it Dart? Is
it Sanders? Do you wait earlier before the signing and

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before the Derek Carr News had come out as reading
all about Tyler Shuck out of Louisville, who was a
guy that they were liking, maybe as a Day two guy.
So a little bit of intrigue there that potentially there's
some other names on their top thirty visits that may
cloud things a little bit in this process. But either way,

(21:44):
the Saints highly intriguing at that number nine spot, maybe
just a little bit more so than your Jets.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Look, and I understand that there's going to be a
bit of a I don't want to say feeding frenzy,
but there's going to be that boy here these teams
that potentially need a quarterback, because yeah, am I sure
that Justin Fields is gonna be really good?

Speaker 7 (22:05):
No?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
I have a feeling he's gonna be good. Because now
the Jets are putting in position to succeed.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
And they said, you're our guy.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
Nobody has done that, right, So Okay, I kind of
like that there's going to be that bit of nervousness
of can we really let this guy go? And I'm
telling you, Cleveland still needs to take Sanders. They still
need to take the guy, right. They see they need
a quarterback, but they need, they need to fix that.
They got scared, right, Cleveland got scared by bringing in

(22:32):
Joe Flacco and saying we're gonna have Kenny Pickett Joe Flacco.
They've gotten scared about the quarterback because they've just dumped
a whole bunch of money. They've dumped two hundred and
thirty million dollars from the quarterback position the last few years,
and it's not working at all. So yeah, they're a
little gun shy about taking a quarterback and saying, hey,
you're you're our franchise. But I'm sorry that happened. But

(22:52):
I'm sorry you're scared. But really saying like you have
to take a guy at two because of Cleveland, where
else are you gonna get your quarterback?

Speaker 3 (23:00):
I mean, tell me where you're gonna get him from.
What's gonna happen?

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (23:03):
Well, next year? Next year? What next year?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Maybe you don't pick high enough to get a quarterback.
Maybe you're not picking second overall. Next year, I mean,
maybe you stink again, you're picking second. Maybe the quarterbacks aren't.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
That but maybe you count McCord round too.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
We'll get a guy in free agency, maybe a guy
in free agency.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Maybe the free agency guys won't be there because no
one really hits free agency anymore. Like I don't know
where that where that that quarterback is coming from. And
when you've spent time and you got it wrong, you
need to energize the team. And maybe you're right. Look,
a quarterback's got to be a gut feeld. But you
still don't know about Sanders until you get him on
the field. Maybe he's great, maybe he turns out to

(23:39):
be great. But when you need a quarterback, you gotta
take somebody. You can't just say, well, yeah we're not
we're not too thrilled this year. We'll see what happens
next year. Because you could easily get the quarterback wrong
just as much as you get it right right. And
that's what people forget about. Oh I'm worried about getting
the quarterback wrong. You should think maybe we'll.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Get it right. You think maybe we'll get it right.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
You won't know about maybe Sanders comes in and he's
the guy you expected to be. If he's not, okay,
but at least you have somebody. You have a quarterback
you took at number two that can be your future
if you had a plan where if we don't get
our quarterback here. We're getting them here. I would say, okay, fine,
go ahead, get go get your guy there.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
But there's no plan. There's just I don't know. Well,
wait and see how it goes.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Oh okay, well wait, we'll hope right, as you always
like to say, Mike Carmen, hope is not a strategy.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Hope to get it right. Hope not not a strategy.
So you know he's gonna fall.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
You can see teams moving away from him, even to
the point where when it gets to nine, forget about Sanders,
Jackson Dart will go there to the Saints at nine,
and it's gonna be fascinating watching what happens to standers.

Speaker 5 (24:37):
I do like your chaos theory, there's no question about it. Look,
Cleveland now gets to boast that they have two Super
Bowl winning quarterbacks on their roster. You have a pretty
good roster right coming into last year. Your giant question
Mark with the full Riddler outfit. If we're gonna go
that because you wanted to have a number one guy,
I'll one up yet, I'll go to the sequels and

(24:59):
get a guy in the question Mark costume under center.
But they had a really good roster, but you're still
fighting up hill in a really tough division. Do you
think that Shadar Sanders is that guy? I don't know
right that, Like that's the big thing for burying for Stefanski.
Is he the guy that puts them over? Or can
they get by like they did a couple of years

(25:19):
ago bringing back Joe Flacco? Can he be elite off
the couch once again?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
How great is this? I don't think that we're talking
about the Saints. He's trying to figure things out.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's nice, isn't it. See, I
thought you were gonna go with the speaking of Ridley
you are my number one god. Well you could do that.
I was just putting his arms around Jack Nicholson, you
are my number one god. Anders Is like yeah, yeah, whatever, Yeah,
that's fine. Whatever.

Speaker 5 (25:50):
Well, but then you'd have to ask me if he
got the reference, And if he doesn't, then you could say,
all right, Dion failed you.

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Speaker 1 (26:56):
Well, here we are our two, and let me just
say that nobody but nobody, but nobody turns two to
one and nobody out into no runs like the Mets.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Nobody does Nobody does that. The drop off in the.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Lineup after Alonzo is like the Mariana Trench.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Nobody is it never's hitting eighty three, eighty five.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
One fifteen, it's it's I can't get over it. Oh,
the best line up in baseball once you get outside
of the third or fourth there nobody gets base.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Yeah, but they're getting Sono beats out of ground or
for a hit, Alonzo gets hit by a pitch. Guess what,
no runs.

Speaker 5 (27:33):
Yeah, they're getting to check out that cool place that
the athletics are.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
U dude, it's I'm sorry, man, it's embarrassing watching.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
You know.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Look, obviously we've seen the the A's play here now
for a while, and you know, I'm watching the Mets
and the A's right now.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
It's on MLB Network.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
But just like to see the outfield where fans have
blankets down on the grass and they're sitting.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Like it's like it's a little league.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
That's it looks like like when you know, all the parents,
some of the parents, Hey, we're gonna put a blanket
down in the outfield and sit out there. Okay, great, right,
and all the kids are in the stands and there,
and they're just watching and and and and running around
in the outfield playing catch, you know, behind the center. Sure,
like that's what it looks like like anytime anytime you
see someone with a blanket, you know, on a patch

(28:20):
of grass just off of the foul pole, Like, that's embarrassing, man,
I mean, come on, it is.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Come on, what was that guy's name Big Al and
I hit Dingers. They come out and tell me, man,
I got Dodgers and Cubs. Big Freddie Freeman. Bobblehead night,
Welcome back Freddy Freeman. The little Charlie threw out the
first pitch they gave out the bobblehead, and they had
to keep putting all sorts of notices out that you
were only forty thousand bibbleheads today. Oh yeah, that so

(28:47):
they only expanded a full capacity for the Otani days,
so you still had to stand in line, and you
had to.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Be there early today. Information Today you stand in line.
Tomorrow maybe not, but today you stand alone.

Speaker 5 (29:01):
They also put out a notice that they had to
cancel the drone show after the game.

Speaker 4 (29:05):
I mean that that that sucks. I want some restitution.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
Man.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
Wait, Ruben Drones was gonna put on a show after
the game and they canceled it.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
That would have been gone a street like Go Ducks.

Speaker 1 (29:17):
Uh so, hey, speaking of college football, I didn't I
didn't mean to do that. I mean, I'm a professional,
and that's a great segue, but I did not mean
to do that.

Speaker 4 (29:23):
You know what, you don't need to pull the curtain
back all the time, Whiz.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Oh, now you're going with the wrizzler. Now you're gonna
give me some Rizzler, No.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
I said, I was kind of shortening.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Uhriz, Well, if you guys had kept the winning streak,
they were gonna give him a seat and put a
statue up.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Sure, but we lost the game. So yeah, I know
he doesn't get his Grimace seat like Grimace that.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
Now the magic is done by the way, you know,
they're the Happy Meal. They're really uh having parties where
folks are going and getting the happy meals like teenagers
trying to get the Grimace Minecraft.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
Oh yeah, character, Yeah, I guess.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
You gotta have a I mean you gotta have a
Chicken Jockey one out there, right like yeah, I mean there's.

Speaker 5 (30:06):
Guy they didn't want put it in the they didn't
put it in the set. But now there's a lego set.

Speaker 4 (30:10):
You can get with it.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
You have to, like you know what I mean, you
know what it's like, Okay, we'll get to the big
college football story at the second. But it's like, I
remember when Frozen came out and it was such a hit, right,
Elsa on a everybody wanted Elsa and on A dolls
they wanted Elsa and on a dresses like that was
my daughter. That was her first one of the first
big movie events of her life, like el At one
point she said to me before what I chose, Dad,

(30:32):
I wish Elsa was real. I said, oh, I'm so sorry,
baby girl.

Speaker 5 (30:36):
And then you started naming all the ice queens you
knew when you were younger. Yeah, And I said, when
I was on the dating scene, there was this girl
and this Oh look what I just did there?

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Hate me at Swollen Dome.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I said, Hey, I understand. I wish she was real too.
I wish the Jets had a quarterback. That's a bigger
issue than else Elsa not being real. But like they
ran out of stuff so quickly because they didn't expect
that kind of demit. They didn't expect Frozen to be
that kind of hit, So there was no else and
honest stuff for a long time.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
Think about all the off stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Yeah, the.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Baby Yoda after that baby group was not in Frozen
all that.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
No, no, no, But I'm just saying, like, in terms
of underestimating demand, I've been a couple of massive failures
by these movie studios. Yeah, and it took like a
month or like a couple of months to get stuff,
and so, oh, here's your frozen stuff for the hollids. Right,
here's the here's Elsa's ice castle. Here are the dolls.
Here's the Elsa dresses. People were making dresses on Etsy

(31:32):
and selling them for like one hundred and fifty dollars,
Like it was a huge thing. Like I feel like
that's what Minecraft has done. Dude, you gotta get Chicken
Jockey's rolling man. Everybody wants some kind of Chicken Jockey something.
My daughter wants to go see that.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
She's gonna see it for a third time. I told
you it's gen Z's rocky horror picture show.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
That's the that's where, that's the place Minecraft will occupy
in the pop culture pantheon. Like, she wants to go
see it for a third time this weekend just so
she could get the Chicken Hockey popcorn bucket.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Yeah, but you need on knee bay.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah no, I'm not going to do that, but I'll
let her. I'll give her twelve dollars to go to
the movie. She can get a popcorn bucket if they haven't.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
It was a great video from a guy. It was
I forget which of the theaters it was, but the
guy put up say go say hi Hi to Steve.
So Steve was one of the you know, that's what
he called himself, working the counter and he had prizes.
And the first person that read the note and turned
back around to customer service and went over to him,

(32:34):
he gave them the Chicken Jockey popcorn bucket.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
The kid was just like, are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (32:40):
But then you had all these folks and they had
the hidden camera and like they're like should we go?

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Should we go?

Speaker 5 (32:46):
And like you'd have a kid start to walk and
would wait for the mob or the dad to come
with them to go ask. And finally the last two
prizes claimed and got down to gift cards and other
buckets and whatever. Were folks that had to be eighty
five if they were a dance like are you.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Going to see the Minecraft movie?

Speaker 5 (33:02):
You're like, no, well here's your gift card anyway, because
you can't induct men.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Getting a Chicken Jockey popcorn bucket for my nephew Ian,
he really likes the Minecraft and stuff. Uh, what I'm
waiting for and pat and penning on this, what I
really want is I'm waiting for the Halloween costumes because
you know, chicken jockey's be big. But I want the
chicken jockey that you can put on your dog, where
like you put the you put the the outfit on

(33:27):
your dog and it has the chicken jockey riding, you know,
the jockey riding and goes like that's that's amazing, like that,
that's the I want to I want that from my
dog more than I want anything for anything else right now.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
I want I want to see Benny as a.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Chicken jockey, just like you had Benny running around with
a knife like he was Chucky a couple of years.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Yeah, that was great.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Chicken juck all right. So while that's going on, uh
and people are still going to see minecraft. Today was
an incredible story out of college football. Right You probably
woke up and saw the Tennessee quarterback n uh is
not going to practice because his n I L deal.
He wants to readjust it and wants to redo it.

(34:09):
Wants a he wants he wants he wants to redo
his contract in.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
The middle of it.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Good for so he's not at practice. He is he
is away from the team. It's a bit of a shock.
You've never seen this before.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Right.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
We have seen players threatened want to leave. We've seen
players quit right. Un l v's quarterback quit last year
because he didn't like the uh uh. They promised him
more money for the N I L deal and he
and he quit middle of the seasons.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I'm leaving. I'm going someplace, you know.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
But but the first thing I want to say is this,
because because this is what I've been waiting for all day,
because this has been this is gonna be a big
build up and release from me.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Is you know how Berman would say this? Do this story?

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, now remember you know remember how uh is spelled, right,
Remember how it's spelled.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
And and and this is this is you can't even
get it out.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
I can't get I can't because because he would say,
and a big story out of Tennessee, they may lose
their starting quarterback as Nico I need more money or
I'm gonna leave you is going to sit out practice
until his NIL deal gets adjusted. Boy, that's exactly.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Can we get that on a training card? They had
that cool set from tops. Can we put that one
in the football And I.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Am to leave you if you don't give me more money.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
Right?

Speaker 1 (35:24):
So, Ayamlava is not a practice and they're figuring things
out right. And you know, two things off of this,
because there's one really big take, and one is that
I love that there's still the number of people on
social media that are like, college football is still the
last noble sport there is amateur is like, come on, man,
just stop because the thing is so many people complain

(35:46):
about nil and the transfer portal.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
And I'll tell you what I love ni L I
love the transfer portal.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
I love what it's happened, what this has done to
college football because it is even the playing field across
the country. Look at some of the teams that when
you figure out nil, you can compete, right, How are
teams gonna compete with Alabama and Michigan and Texas and
Florida and Miamia. How are you gonna compete with all

(36:17):
these teams? They have everything, But maybe we don't quite
have the nil figured out. Maybe we don't have the
same number of people that want to donate and help you.
And that evens the playing field because I look at
teams like Syracuse, like Duke, two teams in the ACC
that clearly football wise, in the last year figured out nil, right,

(36:40):
because there's no reason why Syracuse should have gotten Kyle McCord.
There's no reason why. Hey, good as great a recruiter
as Fran Brown is at Syracuse, Like, how does he
get all these guys from Alabama and A and M
and Georgia and he flips them? They figured out nil?
Duke has figured out nil. They got two of the
most highly sought after quarterbacks in the portal the last
two years.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
Duke has Manny Diaz has.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Figured out the transfer portal more than some other schools have.
This evens the playing field so much. And I get
this is why a lot of schools don't like it,
and because the big schools are like, well, we've lost
our advantage. I'm sorry, Uh, don't you have more resources
than anybody else's in Alabama's athletic department, what football brings in,
what Auburn brings in.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
You don't have the money, Tennessee. You don't have the
money for your quarterback. Really, you're trying to figure something out.
You don't have the money. I mean, it's not like
it's not like yellow Layava is great. He's a good quarterback, right,
he's good. He's not great, but he's good.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
I'm sorry that that a school that prints money in
college football is having trouble. That's why I love the
NIL and the transfer portal because this evens things out
and it lets teams figure stuff out. Yes, for the
end for college basketball, it's Oh, the Cinderellas aren't gonna
be around anymore because kids get to leave. That's a
good thing for the kids, right because Hey, if I'm

(37:55):
going to school X that nobody's really heard of, but
I become that conference player of the year, guess what,
I get a lot of money to go to Florida
State to play basketball, or to North Carolina or to
Michigan State.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Yeah, I think that's good for the kid.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I think almost, Hey, I can I can make this
money if I prove that I'm really good, I'm gonna
move through divisions. Now, I'm gonna go from low one.
Am gonna start out in the MAC. Then I might
get to the ACC. I'll finish in the SEC. Like
this is how kids do it, and it's good for them,
and it's good for the sport because now across the
board you are seeing teams that would normally just be

(38:29):
dead in the water where the only way they're ever
competing is if you have a second tier of Division
one kind of like you do it. You know, you
get regulated in soccer where hey, if you had two
divisions and you had the top division championship and then
the next DIVI championship, Hey, okay, because like schools like
Syracuse and Duke and the lesser schools and college Football
and Rutgers can compete in that lower subdivision for a championship,

(38:51):
But you're not doing it the top one with teams
like Michigan and Ohio State and Penn State.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
No, but now you can, Now you can.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
I love the NIL. I love when I see the
big the big teams like this have problems.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
I laugh.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
I go, man, how you can screw after having the
Golden Goose lay eggs for you for years, how you
can't figure out NIL and the new era of college
football because you think we're gonna do it better than
everybody else. We're not a team that pays that for players.
Other players have to make sure they want to be here. Yeah,
you go ahead, and you keep losing. You see how

(39:23):
things are done, and then you'll hire a young recruiter
who comes in and understands this is the NIL era,
and I don't have a great offensive system. I don't
have a great defensive system, but I'll hire the right
guys and I will get the talent in and you
watch and see what happens. I love the nil and
the Transporter era.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
Well, either jump in or don't. Right, Like for our
schools Syracuse, Northwestern, Duke and the like, you had the
opportunity if you'd embraced it early. They were a little
late and getting to the party. But now they've come
into the club and they're trying to figure it out.
You have an alumni base that you can activate. Eventually
we get into the revenue sharing and they're saying what

(40:01):
cap is gonna be twenty and a half million dollars
or thereabouts. So you have to navigate those waters going forward.
But there'll be a lot of fights as to how
the moneies work out. And moving forward, you have title
nine that it's still consideration in the calculations. But guys
that can go into the portal and make their fortune,

(40:23):
how do you begrudge them?

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Right?

Speaker 5 (40:24):
We talked about it from the basketball side. Don McClain
on with Petros and money. Here am five to seventy
LA sports are our flagship in Los Angeles, saying the
top eight rotational guys, Guys, we're asking for at least
half a million.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Guess what football bryce a poker here, here's what it is.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
And if you've got a quarterback, even if he is
he's good, not great, he's got an opportunity to raise
his hand and say, you guys aren't getting me what
I need. Other teams are gonna be more than happy
to take a look at him, right and if he
can go, and with the rules being what they are,
you don't have to sit out on the transfer side
of things, which like coaches get to just up and

(41:01):
leave and be careful what you ask for because you
open the door. And now the players get their freedom,
which is great. I think it's the perfect perfect thing
for all of those the sanctity. Now, I still wonder
when we get into student athlete, if that's just relegated
to Division III with the rare exceptions anymore, that's a
whole other thing you have to navigate and all of

(41:23):
this if we just have to start say an athlete
student with the S as a lower case, I don't know,
but we're still at a point where, yeah, test test
the waters and test where the It's like when you
go up bowling and they put the bumpers up, go
see how many times you can make.

Speaker 4 (41:40):
It bounce back and forth across the lane before it.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Gets to the bins.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
That's where we're at in the NCAA.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Right now, exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harbon.
Speaking of college football, we got some quarterback debates coming
up next. Is Shador Sanders really a top three pick?
Is Jackson Dart really gonna go in the top ten? Oh,
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(42:09):
Tech coming up next as we get set.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
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Speaker 2 (42:17):
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Speaker 3 (42:25):
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Speaker 2 (42:50):
Man?

Speaker 6 (42:51):
You have to bake sale for once?

Speaker 5 (42:53):
So do now?

Speaker 6 (42:53):
Like, how's he gonna make ends meet? I mean, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
I'll let you know. We're gonna figure something out. We'll
send a mass a group of email out or group
text out. You can let me know if you can
be there.

Speaker 6 (43:04):
Yeah, you know how they have those things that I
said in college, like when you go like you pay
like ten dollars way back in the day, Like oh
you can drink okay, this first cup of beer is
ten dollars, next cup is five dollars, Like is it
like at this point with Wan Soto swings, Like was
that swing that he got hurt on with that like
a like a seventy eight thousand dollars that cost him?

Speaker 3 (43:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
I think per game, let's go the money he makes it.
Maybe seventy eight thousand dollars a swing it may make.

Speaker 7 (43:36):
I thought it was low maybe maybe maybe.

Speaker 5 (43:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
He is staying in the game though, so that is
good news for what toughness good news. That is good news.
Like an NHL player, Hey, man, I'll tell you it's April.
People get nicked up.

Speaker 1 (43:48):
You got to keep playing, man, You gotta keep playing
your one soda, all right, Pete, So a bunch of
stuff to get to here. You know, we talked about
the Nico Iyamalayava situation earlier this hour. Tennessee quarterback decides,
I'm I'm not going to show up at practice. I
want more money. Potentially I can get a better deal
someplace else. And you know, I love the reaction to

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this that all day has been how dare he do this?

Speaker 3 (44:13):
How to?

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Like people still think, Pete, the college football is like, hey,
we're where, we're having tailgates and we're showing up in
the last bastion of amateur athletes in the world.

Speaker 3 (44:23):
Like people understand what college football is now, don't they?

Speaker 6 (44:26):
I mean, really, well, First of all, you kudos for I.
You know what I'm usually good at this. Roethlisberger is
a chef. He I've been able to like spell and
pronounce us for me, it's yamo b there. I whipped
this game every single but like, yeah, nailed it. But

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you're right, I mean, there's there's no I mean, the
college fans have always been, you know, naive when it
comes to this stuff, and it's you know, they they
assume that they just got the guy on in the morning,
he took his psych tests and after studying it all night,
he got a A and then he went and won
the big game. And then when he went out with
Mary Tube and had el molt at the shot, you know,

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like all the articulous stuff of that. These are college
kids and things when they they're entertainers. I mean, this
is this is high end entertainment, professional entertainment. That's all
it is. There's nothing noble about college sports. It's just
they're out there to make money and that's what everybody does.
So you're right, So now that these guys are actually

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making night now, in the past, they would just do
this behind the scenes and no one would know about it.
Now it's out there, and obviously.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
He got an offer from someone. You know, you're not
supposed to start pandering yet, but you're not gonna do
this unless Old Buck guys or somebody like that. They've
thrown out that four milldo number at him. So uh
so he's kind of I think he probably ends up staying.
So either he really is in a position where they're
gonna get them as much money as he wants you

(45:57):
get because he's kind of hurt that Carson Beck got
four million in to go to Miami and I Darius
Mento went from Tulaine to Duke for something like three
ish and yeah, I was Good's supposed to only make
like two four this year and his eight million dollar deal,
which is is a big deal at the time.

Speaker 6 (46:14):
Uh So, yeah, it's either that or when the transfer
portal opened up on Wednesday, anybody but the SEC school.
He can't go to one of those goods out a year,
uh like in Ohio state or if you're in Oregon
or him I'm Michigan. It would have to be someone
pretty massive to get him at this point.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
I just liked, you know, before before Harmon Diet, we
get to Sanders and Dart is that like, like here's
the story and when you read his name, it looks
like it says I'm gonna leave you. Like is that great?
It looks like his name is I'm gonna leave you.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
Well to your point, also, the problem is like all
these fans are like, well, let him go. Or he
will be just fine, which they kind of would be.
I mean, like, I mean, it's not like Tennessee couldn't
afford someone else in the transfer portal when it opened
up on And he's good, though, but this is when
college quarterbacks take that next leap off. I'm not saying
these Jade Daniels or Joe Burrow, but he's.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Got the skills.

Speaker 6 (47:10):
I mean, he's he is an elite talent of a player.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
So you're right.

Speaker 6 (47:15):
The reaction of the fans, especially tennis defense, good, we
don't need him. But and then a certain extent though,
Now the problem is fans are paying for this with
all the ten dollars talent fee. You're a ten percent
talent fee that's added on the tickets and the collectives
and all being hit up for money for these guys.
So it's it's real messy and there's nothing clean and

(47:38):
easy about it.

Speaker 5 (47:39):
Well, I mean, you just start getting all the emails
like I do. For just twenty three dollars a month,
you can help us stock our defensive backfield.

Speaker 7 (47:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (47:48):
God, Look, here's the thing if we're talking basketball that
I get because all you need is one or two
guys unless you're Rutgers, which somehow sunk even though they
had two, you know, the top five picks in the draft.
But if you get like a couple guys all of
a sudden, you know you could do something big. But
like in football, you need so many parts, Like one

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guy is just not gonna, you know, necessarily cut it.
And that's just a quarterback.

Speaker 7 (48:15):
But look, who do we have last year in the
national championship?

Speaker 6 (48:18):
Will Howard from Kansas State good player, certainly, not you know,
the number one overall pick. And Riley Leonard, who you know,
has a ton of skills, you know, became an intur duke.
But they weren't the highest e end players. But yeah,
you can. You can win with really good quarterbacks. You
don't necessarily need to have the number one overall pick
to win a national title.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
Yeah you're lying about Rutgers, absolutely true. Eight and twelve
in conference, fifteen and seventeen overall.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
What the hell?

Speaker 5 (48:42):
Man? But let's get back to the NFL draft quarterback
play and we get the news of Derek Carr with
the shoulder injury, and now it's all the all right,
what really happened? Was it like Clint Barness where he
was carrying Venison up some stairs. I don't know, but
it does open the door for.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
Well, there's the quarterback slot.

Speaker 5 (49:01):
Is it Youdor Sanders Smith's starting his campaign for Jackson Dark.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
I'm wondering if they wait and they go for shucked
in round two?

Speaker 3 (49:10):
What say you?

Speaker 6 (49:12):
I love Joe, you just can't stay healthy. I mean
that if you're worried about, you know, talent wise, Tellers
really does have the skilled. I mean he was supposed
to be next after Justin Herbert and just had no
luck staying healthy whatsoever. Not his fault. It's not like
it wasn't tough. He had like broken bones and things.
But when he's on, he's got the he's got number

(49:34):
one O world draft pick skills. He's just a little
old and get hurt a little too much. I don't
know if there's that answer in this. I'm a big
Schudor Sandrews fan, as I've told you before, and here
cam Moore's kind of fine. I do think though you
can get some pretty decent value. You know, Quinny yours
can get you from here to there, and there's some
other decent prospects out there. I'm just not a huge

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Jackson's dark guy, a little more of a fist player
with Lane Kiff and Nolan Misremember, you know, I know
we're going to what year five of the great Matt
Corral era when you was supposed to be this number
one overall possible pick. So I don't know if there's
that guy out there who at least I'll tell the
guys up top that you're gonna say, yeah, that's him,

(50:18):
unless you want to roll the dice on Chuck. And
he's probably the third round flyer, even though he's maybe
gonna go maybe early second.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
At this point, Pete, where are you?

Speaker 3 (50:29):
Where are you on Sanders?

Speaker 6 (50:30):
Right?

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Like we finished the college football season, it's boy Him
and cam Ward won two and now every day a
new a new pundit comes out with something hotter take
in the last He's not even gonna go. He's out
of top ten. He's not a first rounder. He's an
undrafted free agent. Like what you've seen him play, You've
seen a lot of him the last couple of years.
Where where do you slot him? How good a quarterback
is Sanders?

Speaker 6 (50:51):
His last name is Manning. He's number one. I mean
it's because he's Shigar Sanders. He's Dion's kid, and it's
the Colorado thing where it kind of got an annoying
and he's, you know, who knows how this works. If
things start to go bad, you know, the Dion and
Shador don't take criticism all that well. But blah blah blah.
But he's Deion Sanders kid. He's a professor. He knows

(51:14):
how to handle himself as a pro. He's been trained
by the best. You know, Deon Sanders has had the
he's obviously had the camps, he's had the talents, the
guys to come in to really sort of coach him
up since he was a kid.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
He's got the skills.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
He's there, He's he's smart, he reads everything so well.
He's so tough. That guy took up beating. I mean,
just imagine what he could do if he doesn't have
a defensive lineman jumping on his head every single play.
Is so he's got. He's one of the best beetball
throwers in college and long long time, I think he's

(51:51):
the easy number one. I think the reason why it's
not is just because he's it's the whole Shador Sanders thing.
But I think he has been number one overall. Pick
Cammot's good. The weird cop I have for him to
really got to go older school Jake Plumber, only because
Jake Plummer was that guy who would make these miracle
great comebacks. He'd be awesome in the fourth quarter, but

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partially because he got them there in the first place
with a couple of really bad interceptions that he would
need to make, you know, the big story to comeback.
That's kind of what Cam Wored does. He'll get you
a beat a little too often, but he's certainly got
the skilled And then there's a drop off of to
those two.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Hee.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
We look at the draft board and we love the
running back position right, all of a sudden, it's back
in vogue, even though it was three guys that were
really good that went to really good teams that fuel that.
In the NFL, how many guys in the first two
rounds do we say?

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Three? Five?

Speaker 6 (52:45):
Yeah, Dancey's the one. Danty's the top five ish guy.
Everyone's gonna love him, and I think they're kind of
over loving him. He's got the speed, he's tough, don't
I don't think he's He's not Seakawn Barkley as of now,
but he's very, very good.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
But I don't But.

Speaker 6 (53:03):
Again, this whole idea, well, look, you know, Sae Kwon
Barkley proved you can win a Super Bowl with a
top light running back. Yeah, well Philapia won the Super Bowl.
That defensive line beat up Patrick Mahomes all game long,
so it's yeah, Barkley had something to do with that.
And you're right, but look at these you know, the
year of the running back that we had from last year. Okay,
of course Joe Mixon did did well, and Josh Jacobs

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had a good year, and there's other good backs out there,
but you know, compared to Derrick Henry, I mean, you're
talking about arguably the top five greatest running backs of
all time, who obviously is just a you know, a
freak of nature with his talent and size and his
ability to stay healthy and all he can do at
Taekwon Barkley, Sakuon Barkley, and I don't think there's that

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in this draft. When I think we really go back
to there are thirty running backs out there that can
absolutely produce at an NFL level in a rotation, I
don't think you have to go that early on a
running back this year.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
Pete, if I said to you, in the first two
rounds of the draft, more running backs or more quarterbacks selected.

Speaker 6 (54:05):
What would you say, first two rounds, first two rounds good?
How much do you really buy that Dart's gonna go?
I guess yeah, you kind of have to because there's
a lot of teams out there that need rookie quarterbacks.
And you know, for all the you know, the big
contracts being thrown around, still the most valuable thing in
probably the entire world of business is a starting quarterback

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in the NFL on a rookie contract. I mean, because
you're just not paying them those fifty four million dollars
that the Joe Burrows and Jerry haven't hurts him to
get paid. So I think someone's gonna have to start
buying me, and you've got to at least have options
for the near future. The problem is there's just not
a lot of sure things like sometimes you know, the
answer is none to be above, you know, like the

(54:49):
Kenny Pickett Malik Willis year where it's like, oh, these guys,
can you know we'll take they'll go in the first round.
Well yeah, but they're not good, you know, so they
might go early because he they're so desperate for quarterbacks,
but there just isn't the talent there. Now the problem
going forward is outside Arch there's a little sketchy going
into next year too. So you've got to kind of

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see something in one of these guys and say, Okay,
maybe a Jalen no Row that is is there's something
there who's a little bit different that we can boil on.
Or you like Seuk or you think Jackson Dark really
does have the skills. But again and again, Sanders and
Cam Woard they're good, but there's this is nothing compared
to last year's amazing drafted quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1 (55:45):
Pete is always by the appreciated man. We'll talk to
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Speaker 3 (55:52):
Shador Sanders easy number one overall pick in the draft.
Whoo