August 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Smelling Salts NOT Banned? NFL Insider/Hall of Fame voter Jason Cole drops by for all things BALL. And Aaron Rodgers said he will play in the preseason if the Steelers want him to!
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To that big NFL story coming up in a second.
But I'd want to say, I don't know. I'm still
at this point. Now it's it's six or seven hours old,
and they still don't know how I feel about the
Mets nearly getting no hit today, the big story in
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Major League Baseball. Jan Soto breaks it up with a
home run in the ninth inning, but I felt like
the embarrassment was already there. The Mets, we've been terrible,
haven't won any games. The trade deadline is we've won
one game. I'm like, Okay, the whole world knew we
were getting no hit and they were gonna leave Williams
in there to throw one hundred and thirty hundred pitchers
to get that no hitter.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There is no tomorrow steal from rah uh.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It was so much, so much more METSI that they,
oh yeah, we actually did break up there, but we
still lost, still got swept.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Still, everything is still terrible. Okay. But I mean yesterday
you said you were good with it, you lied to
America multiple times.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well you almost got no hit today, man, dude. In
the second inning, I'm watching the game and I'm like,
this is one of those dead from the neck up
games that the Mets have. And I said, it's not
gonna surprise me if the Mets get no hit today,
and every couple innings I reposted, yeah, eight, like I
could just tell. I said they're gonna get no hit
today because they have when the Mets. When the Mets
are gibing, man, it is awesome and they are something else.
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But when they have nothing going on, this is what
they look like, and they are just it's like they're
just showing up and going home after every game. It's amazing.
You talk about the dog days of August.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
All we're here. Oh, you hit a bad streak, right,
most of your guys aren't hitting. Soto hits a home run.
It's like, yeah, that's great, number twenty six on the year,
and it'll count towards what looks like a great end
of year. But you're playing bad situational baseball. Pitching staff
is nih which we've talked about at Nausium. So game
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like today, yeah, part of you would rather just have
the no hitter. See that's where it all went. Instead
it's a one hit and hit rock bottom and the
no hitter would have been absolute rock bottoms. Oh no,
because tomorrow it's just a a we los by this
final count. Right, It's it's bad that there was a
near no hitter today, but tomorrow morning it's it's like that,
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you know, blue bass hit. It's awful as you're watching it.
Oh yeah, you know, but you know it looks like
a line shot. Hey, he's breaking out of a slump.
He's like, no, you know, the short sun just one
step away. But here you are.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Louck.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I was like, if we get no hit, I'm gonna
I'm gonna do one of those zero Dark twenty three
social media bands for like a day. I'm like, I
can't do it. I can't do it. I couldn't do it.
But we broke it up. Okay, I mean broke doing
his job, but I did. But you also broke up
the shutout, which is always good. You don't like being
shut out. There's not a lot of those in baseball.
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We still stink, though, We still stink going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No, no, no. And I know this is when you
get a bunch of uh pope pourri, which is he's
got pop. He's like, no, no, no. That means there's
something that stinks in the room that they're trying to
cover up.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We got Jason Cole coming up in about fifteen minutes
talk all big time NFL training camp stories with us.
But one story that's gotten way more attention than I
thought it was gonna get in the last twenty four
hours involves smelling salts at TJ.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Clearly, NFL players can once again breathe easy.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It was yesterday the story breaks that NFL players, according
to the story yesterday, are not going to be allowed
to use smelling salts during a game. And players have
us smelling salts for the better part of fifty years,
either to amp up their senses to clear their heads
after a big hit.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We've seen this happen.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But the NFL puts out a statement saying or puts
out a ruling saying, hey, no smelling salts this year,
and players were upset. Nobody more upset than George Kittle.
Forty nine ers tight end to He decided, hey, wait
a minute, I use smelling salts all the time. And
this was George Kittle a day ago. This was George
Kittle a day ago.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I honestly just came up here to Eric Grievance. Oh,
our team got a memo today. That's smelling s that's pneumonia.
Packets were made illegal in the NFL, and I've been
just straught all day illegal.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
He even said he's not practicing anymore. I considered retirement. Yeah,
you got to figure out the middle ground.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Here.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Guys helped me out somebody a couple of good ideas grievances. Yeah,
that's all I had to get out there, off get
that is it?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Every before every every drive?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm uh.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
The good news for George Kittle and other players is
that smelling salts aren't banned, but teams will not provide
them for the players. So hey, man, the players got
to get their own stash. Man, You got your own
stash and smelling salts and pneumonia, like, hey, man, go
for it.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But you can use that stuff. Man, Where did I
tell you can't use it? You just can't use from
us giving it to you.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Man, But go ahead, man, to your own smelling so
whatever you need to whiff it up, man to get
out there and play, Go ahead, man, And you ever
just look at your thumb and stare at it and think, wow,
how unique your finger pretty is?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Everybody else they don't make you high? Right, Yeah you do, man,
Yeah you do?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You suddenly we're super awasts. I'm dude, it's more funny
when I do this voice of going it's not funny
because that's not what they do. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
I know what smelling salts do.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Clearly you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well what what is wrong? What?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
What?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Why can't we have fun doing a whole Hey, man,
I just playing the Miami Dolphins line coach, so of.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Course that's where I'm gonna go. That was smelling salts.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh, that was okay, all right, that was smelling salts. Okay, basalt,
he was I think you guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He was a little bit groggy and needed the the
extra wake up. Now, I have done a little bit
of research that you can get a three pack for
fifteen bucks. Himalayan salt and hailer helps clear a congestion,
boost your focus, and improve your breathing. You can get
an empeppermint, lavender and tea triol essential oil. Oho, but
you have to bring your own Does this mean each
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team now is probably gonna have to hire an extra
guy or to because everybody's running around with their own bag. No, no,
you can't. You can't be taking mind. Hey, who's in
charge of smelling salts? I got ammonia on this side.
I got the salts on this side.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now look, obviously Kittle's bag and over there's Fred Will
I get the NFL part of this because they're super
hyper to concussions, right, because obviously if you get hit,
you get jarred.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Hey, you see it all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Players do smelling salts on the on the sideline so
they can clear their heads to get back in the game.
So you say it a lot, right, but you get
so I get the NFL going. Hey, the concussion thing
is a thing. Maybe we don't want to be the ones,
but if you want to use it, that's great. Because
Kittle says, I'm someone that sniffs them and uses them.
Doesn't matter. I use them because it amps me up
and I can focus more. Now we can argue, you
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know how safe that is. But he says, look, I'm
not doing it because I'm getting hit. I'm doing it
because before every drive, Hey, I'm it hyper focuses me.
I get out there and I'm ready to go play. Right,
My my tension doesn't wander, and so I'm able to
do this. So I get that for Kittle, I understand.
I'd also go to the other side and go drink
some coffee. They know, like just you know, go get
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a Starbucks with like eight get one of those Pedro
Pascal eight shot Starbucks drinks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No, right now, you don't want anything to do it.
Pedro Pascal bring it in. What it's bad news. Well
he got a lot of jobs. But I mean they're
all getting dismissed. Mike, he might hug you. Fantastic four
made a lot of money. Yeah, it made money. They're
now immediately spinning to it. Did what we needed to
launch this other stuff. But I mean, but he had
he had that photo a year ago.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He had like what the eight pumps, like the eight
espresso pumps in his Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
If you have that, you'll be ready to play man. No,
that's it, You're ready. So there was a whole thing
off twenty twenty four, an FDA UH issuing the warning
about ammonia. Ammonia Inhalin's UH talking about the safety efficacy
from marketing mental alertness or boosting the energy and saying
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potent atually, you know, masking the neurological signs and symptoms,
including concussions. So the Headneck and Spine Committee recommended the
prohibiting use of it. In other words, liability. We don't
want to be the ones distributing this to you, and
then there's an issue down the line and you come back, Well,
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they either there's a problem with these inhalers themselves, right
to the point of twenty years from now you find out, Wow,
that was not the best decision to let alone masking concussions.
So all of this is a big legal you know,
blinking red light in the NFL's you can use. Yeah,
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we're just not gonna give them to you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And it's not even where they have to look the
other way, Like, it's not these guys can just bring
him in on the you know, just carry him in before.
But I figure there probably would be a guy. Where's
the smelling salts guy? You gotta have the name on
the bag?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Think that trying to monitor those like and five guys
come running up to you at the same time. I
need my bag, but like you run around with a
giant bucket. I don't want this. This was the tea
tro one. Where's the lavender? Oh you took my lave?
That was my last lavender.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I saved the lavender for two minutes in the second half,
and now you throw it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Now you ruin it. Now, I gotta have the check
I've got. I got two teenage daughters. They've fought for
less in terms of what's in the toilet tree.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I may well not even take it anymore. I can't
have the lavender, you know. Joh, fine, you took my
I'm gonna kick your ass after this game. You're taking
my lavender.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, now your hype back up, get get it back
out on the fields. I don't even need it anymore
right out there.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But I'm saying I don't think because like I like, like,
you know, I talk about how I discovered coffee in
my in my mid forties, and I'm like, no, coffee'll
do coffee'll do that to you, Like, just bring just
on the side like this, you know, instead of sitting
down smelling salts, not just seeing you know, seeing George
Kittle sit down and he picks up the Starbucks I
mean one of the good ones, not the one with
the biodegradable where it's awful. You have to replace him.
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But just like you gotta always got a big Mocha
latte right there, takes a couple.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Of they get a sambovar like on the sideline for
kicking and screaming, Oh no, no, no, Pharaoh went full on.
I never had coffee. Tim Now I'm gonna I'm the
greatest coffee machine, no delivery system possible.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You actually have a Starbucks on the field. It's actually yeah,
like you want like you have the Whether the players
walk out of the tunnel and another tunnel is a Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm shocked. We already don't have somebody walking around. Players
only Starbucks. That's what it is. Players only Starbucks. Oh,
they've not done that. You walk around with beer, you
walk around with peanuts and pop corner. You can't have
a coffee guy? Why not? Especially in the late innings
folks in baseball games, plenty of folks that would want
a coffee.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh and there's a turnover, and I'll tell you, oh, man,
the Jets defense has to get back out on the field.
But oh my goodness, Sauce Gardener is in line. He's
second in line. He's been waiting in that line for
his coffee drink for about twelve minutes. Does he leave
the line or does he stay in line? You know
he wants that coffee.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What does he do? As you can see, he bit
on that go route a little sleepy. Hey, this replay
brought to you by a Triple Espresso.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Then they cut over and then at some point it
would be guys drinking and then like oh oh he's well,
he's got his coffee and a scone. Oh it's okay, wonderful,
I tell you, you know, they would you like that?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Heat it up?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Oh yes, get up? Yeah, great that you will heat
that up for your bloating for the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, and instead of the you know that when they
come out with water and timeouts and guy's got one
of the tongs and just reaches here, he warmed up
your Uh so I don't put my fingerprints on your
chocolate croissante.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Here you go, sir, Here you go, mister Williams, there
you go. I have it right there. Okay. Another guy
run around with cake pops. Yeah, there's a whole thing
you could do with this.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But they would run out of cake pops because they
always run out of cake pops, of course, so they
run out of cake pops. That would just make people mad.
So they might have to do a Hey, we're not
even gonna serve cake pops because we're not gonna run out.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're not gonna have that happen. I think this works.
I think we've created a whole other industry within the industry.
The entirety. When the offense is on the field, the
entire defense is line of Starbucks. Well, I mean you
gotta have alternatives to smelling salts. Yeah, I'm telling you, man,
it works. That works. I mean, if you're worried about
smelling salts, coffee gotta bring gotta bring your own though.
(13:02):
How many pumps would you want? Forty six? Okay? Hang on,
forty four okay, an tribute to the Bear's forty sixteen.
Then you just need a sip. I'm ready to go.
It's instantaneous. Three SIPs of coffee. I'm ready. What do
you got, Frostburg? You clearly know nothing about coffee either,
not just smelling salts. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You keep bringing up Starbucks like it's good. What, Well,
you're not gonna get a mom and pop coffee shop there?
You know you got to get something that. Hey, what
did the players do to you?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Star offering? Because Starbucks is it's convenient. There's a Starbucks everywhere,
the easier they put it on. Just because it's convenient
doesn't mean it's good, right, But what I'm saying is,
in a pinch, it's good. He's convenient. They fight, Yeah,
well they we'll get to McDonald's being at every every
every sing. This was kind of using. He used Starbucks
like he uses a kleenex. Right, it's not a tissue,
it's a kleenex.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It became ubiquitous. Not so sure about that. No, Starbucks
would be the one. They would have the money to
put them in. Oh, I'm just saying, Bean doesn't have
the money for that. Come on, man, they just closed
two locations down by me. I'm still salty about it.
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Week one of the preseason for the Steelers. Mike Rabel
may have to have some kind of cosmetic surgery to
repair the gash in his cheek after breaking up a
fight a training camp practice earlier today. Joining us on
the hotline now to break it all down. Longtime NFL
insider check him out on the thirty third team. He
is a Pro Football Hall of Very Good voter. It
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is the aforementioned Jason Call What's Happened to j cal.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
So? Would Toy Story be in the Hall of Fame
of Kids Movies? Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Sure, absolutely, Toy Story Hall of Fame? I mean even
the third one is one of the finest sequels ever made.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, first ballad, First Ballad Hall of Fame or Toy Story.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Okay, I just wanted to know that, Yeah, Little murmait like,
if you how about Woody Johnson.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, Woody Johnson in uh, in.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
The in the in the Disney Pixar Toy Story Hall
of Fame. Sure, he's like a cartoon character, so that works.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Oh hey, remind me off there. I want to text
you something about Woody Johnson. Trust me, it's fine. Uh,
I would say if you had.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I heard some very funny stories about Woody Johnson on
the gyps today. I can't unfortunately can't repeat. So I'm
just teasing you on that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Wow, you can't just tell one story.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's a little too fresh. I gotta I gotta get
it confirmed, Okay, I mean, I know, I know, I
know it's true, but I don't want. I don't want.
I know, I don't really want to for somebody under
the bus. They're just getting started in their jobs. So
that's probably probably probably why was it what he was?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What he Johnson one that hit Mike Rabel breaking up
the fight at training camp today.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There's there's no question about it was what you know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I love if you said, hey, what coach would go
in to a scuffle in training camp and come out
bloody and have his players say, wow, that was awesome.
Mike Rabel's at the top of the list.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
M Dan Campbell, Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Oh har I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know how I think he'd instigated at this point.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I don't think, not John, not John, but Jim would.
Jim definitely would do that. Jim is the guy who
is like on Christmas Eve when you're at Stanford, was
had them in full pad workout, hitting and the fight started,
and he was like overjoyed that they were having a
fight on Christmas Eve. It was on. Yes, he would
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he would jump into a fight.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It Merry Christmas, doll all.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I love the totess of my team. They will They'll
go down a chimney for me. I know it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, there you go. The fighting Patriots. Man, they got
they got to going on in training camp today.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah, I Kundt preferred Baltic's way of handling fights. He
just kicked guys out out of practice and say, yeah,
we don't do that. This is game. In games, if
you get in a fight, you get a personal fallue,
you get kicked out of the game. We don't do that.
So you get kicked out of practice and you have to,
you know, pay the consequences for getting in a fight
(19:05):
and getting kicked out of practice, which is probably a
fine to go with it. So I kind of like
that way of doing it. But I do have an
appreciation for Rabel and what a tough guy is. So
I have some Rabel stories with Belichick, but I absolutely
can't share on this. The FCC would not allow that.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Okay, escalated, They're they're fun, they're fun, they're funny stories,
they're they're you know, Rabel saying, coach, what were you
saying about that?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You know that kind of line, you know, like you
get under Belichick's a little bit of stuff there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And I do think you're saying that the Belichick's throwing
people out of practice and take care of them. That's
a pre twenty twenty Belichick. I don't think that's a
post twenty twenty Belichick. I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
No, it's no, it's always been a Belichick then bel Chick. No,
that's that's that's consistent. Okay, I would I would argue
on that one. He he believes in guys keeping their
cool in the middle of games.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Okay, all right, Well I brought you.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
On a serious note. You know, I'm like, say, you know,
the owner of the Cowboys who can't seem to keep
as cool about the fact that he blew it with
and he's trying to explain away this negotiation.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So he looked me in the eye and we shook hands.
That's a contract, just so you know. And when you
look look me in the eye, and it's as good
as signs.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
When I'm negotiating with you, which is illegal and against
the rules. But hey, I can't say anything right now
because you know what, they just had some guy who
was the screen actors deal. He didn't know anything about football,
He didn't know the rules. He doesn't know that I
can't talk to a player without talking to his agent.
That's against the collected bargain in agreement. He didn't know
(20:50):
any of that kind of stuff. So I'll just talk
about it openly and nobody will do anything to me.
Nobody won't take take away nothing from my cowboys. It's
eight It's unbelievable what they're getting away. Was like, you're
not like, it's in the CBA. You're not supposed to
do this, and he's talking about it openly. You're not
(21:15):
supposed to negotiate with a player if he has representation.
It is absolutely one against the rules.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Took somebody in the eye and shake their hand. I
could look him in the eye and shake their hand
and that, you know, in the old days, that's a contract.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But before I looked him in the eye, I said,
I was good with forty million rather than the forty
eight that you really deserve, because I had to talk
about that before I could look him in the eye
and assume that I had a deal. You know, we
did have to do some talking before that. There was
there was a little bit of that, and he was
(21:49):
good with me, you know, selling them short on the deal.
He was fine with that. He was absolutely fine. He
didn't say nothing about his representation, you know, I didn't
even know we had an agent, even though it was
on his last contract. I don't know. I don't know
these things.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
See plausible deniability as established by Jason Coley. So I
gotta have so you gotta have card stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Well, it's just it's just like the criminals just getting
away with everything right in front of our face. Admits
the crime, like, oh, yeah, I took all that money,
But you're not really going to do anything to me,
are you. I guess not, because that's what happens.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, I mean I read the news. There's a lot
of that going on. He's Jason Cole with us and
saying we're gonna leave that right where it is and
leave that.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It's sitting there. I'm not going I'm going anywhere, but
it's true.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, we're gonna leave that right there. Let's continue in
the NFL another We'll talk about head coaches being tough
guys and whatever they say.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Go.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Let's go up to Pittsburgh. Aaron Rodgers saying I'm ready
to play in the first preseason game. If Mike Tomlin
says so not, Hey, I'm a forty one year old quarterback.
I might want some extra reps with the guys. But
I'm going to leave it up to coach. But I'm
ready and I'm game. It's all his decision.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah, and you're a forty one year all quarterback. You
just get take a seat over there, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, but I wanted to play.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I was good with it.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's good. That's great. Go sit out. Yeah, don't even
give him shoulder pads before the game. The helmet, leave
it back behind, Okay, it doesn't don't even take the
helmet off the truck. Don't. Don't do it.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
What about smelling salts? Can I take the smelling salts
off the truck? Or no? If you bring your own.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Smelling sauce, no no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You bring b yoss, bring your own smelling salts.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
That is what That's what this league is about, the
yo SS. That is absolutely what this league is about.
You have to bring your own. If you're going to
mess up your mind and hide your concussion syndrome symptoms,
that's up to you to do that on your own.
We will not supply it, but we don't say anything
about you not doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yes, Plausible deniability the word for today.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
That's what this whole that's what the entire NFL season
is about.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Gonna be videotape in every one of those equipment. Guys. See, hey,
he brought it to us, We bagged it and tagged it, and.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
We didn't touch any of those footballs. I swear we didn't, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
NFL Insider Jason Call our guest to Jason Smithster with
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
so with all this stuff going on, is a big
mystery over how healthy Matthew Stafford is.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
He's not today.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It was, Hey, it's a week to week injury and
the Rams expect him back for week one.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Jay called here, Hey, is a week to week injury. Okay,
in the early part of August. But to hear we
expect him back for week one. That's a little bit
of a wait what you expect him back for week one?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Hang on a.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Second, Yeah, I was. I mean, when you look at
quarterbacks like this, how many downs do they get in
the preseason anyways?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Right, so he's getting zero and we think he has
a little bit of an injury or oh yeah, he's
completely healthy and he's getting zero reps. Anyways, So what's
the I mean, what, what's sort of the difference, Like,
he's an old guy. If he's got a back injury,
you know, just leave it alone, let him, let him
get as healthy as possible, because they have they have
(25:28):
to have him if they're going to be competitive. I mean,
he's the only thing that that you know, saved them
for basically the second half of last season, right, I
mean he was I mean, obviously Nick who is a
good player, they had a lot of mileage out of
a lot of other guys, But Stafford was Stafford. If
not for Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen putting on some
(25:49):
just unbelievable show, Stafford played in the e caliber football.
You know, in any other season, he would have been
up there in the race. He just he was overwhelm
by those two guys, and you know, to a certain extent,
Derrick Henry. But I mean, he was amazing, and he's
the reason they almost beat Philadelphia in the playoffs, I
mean by himself, because he knew how to handle what
(26:11):
they were going to throw at him. So I don't
care if he plays a single down at this point
in time, given that he's been with the team for
a while. Now am I worried about the intrue? Sure,
because he's old. He's just old, and that's what happens.
So that's why, just like with Aaron Rodgers, go sit
over there. Just go sit over there, don't. We don't
(26:34):
need to see you until week one. Go sit over there.
That's what you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm ready for Jimmy Garoppolo time. Hey, let's go back
to Cleveland where they now have at.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Least Jimmy was How many players will give me Garoppolo
forget from the huddle to the Linus Krimmage.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I told you that story, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah, that's my favorite one. How many times he's such
a brain dead ever, I mean a really nice guy,
sweetheart of a guy and good looking, like I mean,
you gotta give it to that guy like that. We
should we should all have. We should all have like
one day when we look like Jimmy Garoppolo, just one day,
that's that's all you need. But man, that's an amazing thing.
(27:17):
So but yeah, he's not not somebody's bault in the drawer.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Okay, neither are the Browns. They've got five quarterbacks working
on fine fantastic five. Now five guys are.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Gonna start now they have ayeah and we and we
have we updated the betting order of when they will play.
Have we done that? I mean? Because what this is like?
It's not tri fact, it's not you haven't boxed it.
What happens when you get the five? It's not a
five factor? What is it?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
It's a it's a it's a four pole fact. I
don't know, it's a it's a quintup. Be careful, well,
it's a super fact that.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Pick five? I think it just gets no. Pick five.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I think somebody owns that though you can't use Yeah,
but is going to get the start?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Jacob, what are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Survival? No? I want to see if the guy, you know,
I want to see the guy in the lights, and
I want to see if he processes fast enough and
take some shots and and uh, I just want to
see the normal kind of rookie stuff out of him.
And I hope that people are not too breathless in
their evaluation of a young quarterback. I want you to. But
(28:32):
I don't feel bad for Shadure. You know, he he
got what he bought.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
And I don't know that he's all that good either, right,
Like when I watch him, when I watched him.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
In Colorado, I was like, hey, he's a good college quarterback.
I don't know that he's prettyular special. Did he get
punished a little bit by the NFL? Probably, But at
the end of the day, like we need good quarterbacks.
So I hope he's good. Hope was really good, and
Cleveland needs a good quarterback because God knows you. Like,
do you put those five guys together, I don't know
(29:06):
that you have more than Jimmy Garoppolo at this time.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Really the voltronedom and still came up with the Jimmy g.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Cop Right, Like, if you took those five guys together,
you still don't get one decent quarterback. Like you just don't.
It's that's not possible, No, it is.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You know, you put them together, you get one super
quarterback out of all the body parts of them, you
get one super quarterback.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
How tell me, how tell me which part becomes the
super quarter Okay, So you have Joe Flacco's arm, which
is not ain't good anymore, but you know he's had
his moment.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Hair, You got your Door Sanders toughness. Okay, you have
Kenny Pickett's giant hands and.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Uh, okay, yeah we're we're not doing the inverted version
of the Bolton.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
And Dylan Gabriel is short, yes.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Yeah, okay, you have Dylan Gabriel's incredible height. Yes, I
look again, you put it all together, and you don't
have a decent quarterback that's you know, like, that's what
their room is, and that's why you came up with
a really great bets me, like what order these guys
are gonna play this year? Because they're all gonna play
(30:20):
because they all suck, all terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And now we got five. Now, we got five.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Now now and now we have hunt like, man, like,
how many guys they get to keep? Like, if you
have that group, how many guys do you keep on
the practice squad?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Do you keep? Like two on the regular season roster?
And see the thinking about it is you can cut
any three you want and you can still at them
back on the practice somebody wants five.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
On the active roster for every game, five active for
every single for every game. You can go short on
special teams. Man, you have five active. Told me last
week they're going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You're not even going short of specialty, Like you don't
even have a nickelback. You can't cover a five wide formation.
That's what. Oh my god, that's fantastic. I love that.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
He's on Twitter, Jason Cole sixty co sixty two.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He's round up it. Jordan loves how easy.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I'll text it him my buddy, take it easy man.
Later on Jaco he loves he loves that. Now, five
quarterback is going to start for the Browns, five of them. Five.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports,
and Monty Bellagios sponsor what you got for?
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Not five quarterbacks? But I do have a Xander Bogart's
home run. Okay, all right, that's fine, just one and
it's not enough. Padres are still losing, but at least
San Diego is on the scoreboard. Diamond Backs up two
to one after seven innings in Arizona. It's been seven
to between the Mariners and the White Sox for like ever,
and that's still the score bottom of the sixth innen
(32:02):
in Seattle. Earlier today in baseball, the Cardinals held on
five to three against the Dodgers in La Show. Hey o,
Tawny did it all? It wasn't enough. He pitched four
and he struck out eight hit a home run number
thirty nine on the season. It was also his thousandth
career hit. The Royals snapped the Red Sox seven game
winning streak, coming out on top seven to three. The
Brewers have won six in a row. They topped the
(32:24):
Braves five to four, completing the sweep, and the Yankees
snapped their five game losing streak by beating the Rangers
three to two. Tigers also lost earlier today to the
Twins nine to four, while the Rays as the Angels
five to four in the WNBA. Yes, nothing has gone
flying of any bright color. Yet the Aces are on
(32:44):
top of the Valkyrie sixty four to fifty four, about
ten minutes to go in the games. Asia Wilson has
twenty one points to lead the Aces right now. In
the NFL, the Titans announced that quarterback Cam Ward and
their starters are gonna play in.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Every preseason game.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Quarterback Jayden Daniels is not gonna play in Washington's preseason
opener against the Patriots, but he did a lot in
their joint practice today. Panthers cornerback JC Horn was in
a car crash this morning, he got stitches on his
left hand is considered day to day, but he won't
be missing Friday's preseason game against the Browns. And despite
confusion around the league, but because of a memo that
(33:22):
wasn't on Tuesday, NFL players are still gonna be able
to whip smelling salts to do that thing that they
want to do during the games as long as they
bring their exactly, just like that, they just have to
bring their own the band is night, okay, exactly. You know,
it's just bring your own beer, but bring your own smellings.
There you go, exactly, That's all it is. Uh. And yeah,
(33:45):
you guys talked about it earlier today, but the female
umpire I agree. I can't believe baseball is so behind
on it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah, when you were talking about that, I was.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Like, really, we've ever done that because out of the
three big sports, it's you know, the easiest one, like
the slowest one to you know, maybe be a ref
at being an umpire at. So I couldn't believe it either.
And I agree, but this is very exciting, exciting for
Gen Powell to be doing that this weekend.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch of Monsey.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yes, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios coming up next. You didn't know it, but
today was a red letter day for one NFL quarterback
who now officially has seen the fast lane end for
him after three years in it.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Oh no, Aaron Rodgers next, right, that's next, right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Maybe it is Aaron Rodgers,
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posted right after we get off the air. Dude, So
we are less than twenty four hours away from the
first full week of NFL preseason games.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, I got three games on Fridaday. I got a
bunch of games Friday, everything on Saturday, and we may
see and look, we're already getting reports. We talked about
this last night. Some of the guys, some of the
starting quarterbacks, we're gonna get to see at least a
little bit of in Week one.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
And one of those guys, maybe Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Rogers says that, hey, he thinks the Steelers offense starting
to figure things out, and he's open to showcasing just
where the offense is in playing Saturday against Jacksonville. If
Mike Tomlin asks him. Roger's saying, quote, it's an interesting conversation.
I think Mike and I will have that at some point.
I don't think it's in the plan for me to
(35:59):
play this week, but whatever Mike wants to do, I'm
fully on board. So this is typical Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
a conversation I could just have with Mike Tomlin. I'm
gonna have it in the media first to throw this
out there that potentially I could play, and then we're
gonna talk about it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Here's the thing where you know my big takeaway from this, right,
I think it's I think it's a different thing than
should Rogers play, should he not? I really don't care
if he does. Right, Like at this point with Aaron Rodgers,
the juice of the last three years of him, all
the oxygen in the room that he is sucked up,
(36:36):
that's gone. I really don't care about anything off the
field with him anymore. And it's about celebrity because just
like in you know, here we are in our country
where hey, somebody gets red hot for a year or
two and then some say, Okay, we've had enough of them,
and we just move on.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I don't know what that mass saturation point is, but
he has a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Okay, I've had enough. Now we're moving on. I mean,
Rogers own the news cycle for the better part of
the last three is last years with green Bay, or
going into his last two years of green Bay, then
year one with the Jets. You're going into year two
with the Jets, and now it's okay, Rogers is near
the end. He doesn't seem like he's he's showing up
here for the Steelers other than I want to have
a peaceful end of my NFL career. I'm at the
(37:16):
point where, you know what, I really don't care about August,
I don't care going in see me when the game start,
when the real game start in September. That's an't all
care about Aaron Rodgers. But this whole soap opera with Rogers,
Like I think now, after this story today, I'm like,
I really don't care if he plays or not, right
cause what are we gonna say about how he looks
with the Steelers offense? If he plays for four plays
(37:37):
or five plays, is it gonna dominate the storyline? Is
it gonna be something we talk about ad nooys, Rogers
look terrible with this play in this play. No, I've
seen him. I've seen him throw off his back foot,
doesn't want to get hit anymore. Let's step into throws.
Does it go downfield? Okay, but the whole drama of
every day is a soap opera with him. I feel
like we're kind of done with that now when the
game start, game start, boy, let me see it. But
(37:59):
until then, like he doesn't have that kind of Q
raiting anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, but even with a lot of that, I was
done with it, but I couldn't avoid it, like it
was there. And this year he's not seeking any of
the big spotlight, just going to work, putting his head down.
Like the only thing that matters at this point is
he the guy at the top of the Wikipedia page
for when Mike Tomlin's streak of winning or non losing
(38:26):
seasons end, that's really it for Aaron Rodgers, Right, how
does he perform this year? Does he keep the streak alive?
And are they viable? In December into January, we're still
talking about the Steelers in what is a pretty crowded division.
Now we make fun of the Cleveland Browns. I remind
everybody again two years ago we were talking about how
great this roster was if Deshaun Watson was serviceable. Well,
(38:49):
now we're making fun of how many quarterbacks that I
literally just showed you a toy where you get the
bonus Franklin doll if you buy a suit store. So
all of that to say for for Aaron Rodgers, like
a lot of it was bluster, and there were some
moments in the second half of last year where he
looked like that guy you remembered before the flag and
(39:09):
four players, before all of the hot take nonsense, and
let's parse out whether this guy is the smartest guy going.
Because he showed up on a radio show, right, all
of that. So it's like you push that aside. It's like,
can he play football? Does he want to play football?
Can he make Arthur Smith's offense serviceable in a very
(39:30):
crowded and really cluttered AFC. Can he break through that?
That's all that matters what happens in the preseason. I
don't care if any of these guys playing. I'd rather
watch a guy that was the end of, you know,
potentially his college run. He gets a couple of snaps
and maybe finds his way into a career, kind of
like we're talking with Jason Cole with with Shador Sanders,
(39:52):
a lot of is gonna be made. It's like, okay,
it's a step, but no longer are we anywhere near
endgame for Aaron Rodgers. If he gives us a good
interview when they put a headset on him, that's the
bigger story than any five plays he's gonna give us
in a game.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah, And I even think that part of it is
kind of gone by the wayside, where we also wanted
to see his appearances every Tuesday in McAfee and what
he's gonna say, Like, I feel like that that's out
the window. Now, dude, there's still if he says something
incredibly outlandish, you'd go, okay, wow, here's what Aaron Rodgers said.
But the overall, hey, he's a big straw that stirs
the drink. Like that time for him is gone now.
(40:28):
I mean, we see the end for Rogers boy, and
that's it. And maybe he changes it after he retires.
He has a big show and he becomes one of
the big talking heads, you know, former athlete. Okay, great,
but I feel like for now, but yeah, you know what,
just when the games start that that's what we can talk.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
That's really I'm really back into Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
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But I'd want to say, I don't know. I'm still
at this point. Now it's it's six or seven hours old,
and they still don't know how I feel about the
Mets nearly getting no hit today, the big story in
(01:14):
Major League Baseball. Jan Soto breaks it up with a
home run in the ninth inning, but I felt like
the embarrassment was already there. The Mets, we've been terrible,
haven't won any games. The trade deadline is we've won
one game. I'm like, Okay, the whole world knew we
were getting no hit and they were gonna leave Williams
in there to throw one hundred and thirty hundred pitchers
to get that no hitter.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
There is no tomorrow steal from rah uh.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
It was so much, so much more METSI that they,
oh yeah, we actually did break up there, but we
still lost, still got swept.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Still, everything is still terrible. Okay. But I mean yesterday
you said you were good with it, you lied to
America multiple times.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Well you almost got no hit today, man, dude. In
the second inning, I'm watching the game and I'm like,
this is one of those dead from the neck up
games that the Mets have. And I said, it's not
gonna surprise me if the Mets get no hit today,
and every couple innings I reposted, yeah, eight, like I
could just tell. I said they're gonna get no hit
today because they have when the Mets. When the Mets
are gibing, man, it is awesome and they are something else.
(02:14):
But when they have nothing going on, this is what
they look like, and they are just it's like they're
just showing up and going home after every game. It's amazing.
You talk about the dog days of August.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
All we're here. Oh, you hit a bad streak, right,
most of your guys aren't hitting. Soto hits a home run.
It's like, yeah, that's great, number twenty six on the year,
and it'll count towards what looks like a great end
of year. But you're playing bad situational baseball. Pitching staff
is nih which we've talked about at Nausium. So game
(02:45):
like today, yeah, part of you would rather just have
the no hitter. See that's where it all went. Instead
it's a one hit and hit rock bottom and the
no hitter would have been absolute rock bottoms. Oh no,
because tomorrow it's just a a we los by this
final count. Right, It's it's bad that there was a
near no hitter today, but tomorrow morning it's it's like that,
(03:07):
you know, blue bass hit. It's awful as you're watching it.
Oh yeah, you know, but you know it looks like
a line shot. Hey, he's breaking out of a slump.
He's like, no, you know, the short sun just one
step away. But here you are.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Louck.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I was like, if we get no hit, I'm gonna
I'm gonna do one of those zero Dark twenty three
social media bands for like a day. I'm like, I
can't do it. I can't do it. I couldn't do it.
But we broke it up. Okay, I mean broke doing
his job, but I did. But you also broke up
the shutout, which is always good. You don't like being
shut out. There's not a lot of those in baseball.
(03:43):
We still stink, though, We still stink going anywhere.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
No, no, no. And I know this is when you
get a bunch of uh pope pourri, which is he's
got pop. He's like, no, no, no. That means there's
something that stinks in the room that they're trying to
cover up.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
We got Jason Cole coming up in about fifteen minutes
talk all big time NFL training camp stories with us.
But one story that's gotten way more attention than I
thought it was gonna get in the last twenty four
hours involves smelling salts at TJ.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Clearly, NFL players can once again breathe easy.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
It was yesterday the story breaks that NFL players, according
to the story yesterday, are not going to be allowed
to use smelling salts during a game. And players have
us smelling salts for the better part of fifty years,
either to amp up their senses to clear their heads
after a big hit.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
We've seen this happen.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
But the NFL puts out a statement saying or puts
out a ruling saying, hey, no smelling salts this year,
and players were upset. Nobody more upset than George Kittle.
Forty nine ers tight end to He decided, hey, wait
a minute, I use smelling salts all the time. And
this was George Kittle a day ago. This was George
Kittle a day ago.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I honestly just came up here to Eric Grievance. Oh,
our team got a memo today. That's smelling s that's pneumonia.
Packets were made illegal in the NFL, and I've been
just straught all day illegal.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
He even said he's not practicing anymore. I considered retirement. Yeah,
you got to figure out the middle ground.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Here.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Guys helped me out somebody a couple of good ideas grievances. Yeah,
that's all I had to get out there, off get
that is it?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Every before every every drive?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I'm uh.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
The good news for George Kittle and other players is
that smelling salts aren't banned, but teams will not provide
them for the players. So hey, man, the players got
to get their own stash. Man, You got your own
stash and smelling salts and pneumonia, like, hey, man, go
for it.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
But you can use that stuff. Man, Where did I
tell you can't use it? You just can't use from
us giving it to you.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Man, But go ahead, man, to your own smelling so
whatever you need to whiff it up, man to get
out there and play, Go ahead, man, And you ever
just look at your thumb and stare at it and think, wow,
how unique your finger pretty is?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Everybody else they don't make you high? Right, Yeah you do, man,
Yeah you do?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Man.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
You suddenly we're super awasts. I'm dude, it's more funny
when I do this voice of going it's not funny
because that's not what they do. Hey, hey, hey, hey,
I know what smelling salts do.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Clearly you don't.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well what what is wrong? What?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
What?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
What?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Why can't we have fun doing a whole Hey, man,
I just playing the Miami Dolphins line coach, so of.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Course that's where I'm gonna go. That was smelling salts.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh, that was okay, all right, that was smelling salts. Okay, basalt,
he was I think you guys are doing.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
He was a little bit groggy and needed the the
extra wake up. Now, I have done a little bit
of research that you can get a three pack for
fifteen bucks. Himalayan salt and hailer helps clear a congestion,
boost your focus, and improve your breathing. You can get
an empeppermint, lavender and tea triol essential oil. Oho, but
you have to bring your own Does this mean each
(07:01):
team now is probably gonna have to hire an extra
guy or to because everybody's running around with their own bag. No, no,
you can't. You can't be taking mind. Hey, who's in
charge of smelling salts? I got ammonia on this side.
I got the salts on this side.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now look, obviously Kittle's bag and over there's Fred Will
I get the NFL part of this because they're super
hyper to concussions, right, because obviously if you get hit,
you get jarred.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Hey, you see it all the time.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Players do smelling salts on the on the sideline so
they can clear their heads to get back in the game.
So you say it a lot, right, but you get
so I get the NFL going. Hey, the concussion thing
is a thing. Maybe we don't want to be the ones,
but if you want to use it, that's great. Because
Kittle says, I'm someone that sniffs them and uses them.
Doesn't matter. I use them because it amps me up
and I can focus more. Now we can argue, you
(07:48):
know how safe that is. But he says, look, I'm
not doing it because I'm getting hit. I'm doing it
because before every drive, Hey, I'm it hyper focuses me.
I get out there and I'm ready to go play. Right,
My my tension doesn't wander, and so I'm able to
do this. So I get that for Kittle, I understand.
I'd also go to the other side and go drink
some coffee. They know, like just you know, go get
(08:10):
a Starbucks with like eight get one of those Pedro
Pascal eight shot Starbucks drinks.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
No, right now, you don't want anything to do it.
Pedro Pascal bring it in. What it's bad news. Well
he got a lot of jobs. But I mean they're
all getting dismissed. Mike, he might hug you. Fantastic four
made a lot of money. Yeah, it made money. They're
now immediately spinning to it. Did what we needed to
launch this other stuff. But I mean, but he had
he had that photo a year ago.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He had like what the eight pumps, like the eight
espresso pumps in his Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
If you have that, you'll be ready to play man. No,
that's it, You're ready. So there was a whole thing
off twenty twenty four, an FDA UH issuing the warning
about ammonia. Ammonia Inhalin's UH talking about the safety efficacy
from marketing mental alertness or boosting the energy and saying
(08:59):
potent atually, you know, masking the neurological signs and symptoms,
including concussions. So the Headneck and Spine Committee recommended the
prohibiting use of it. In other words, liability. We don't
want to be the ones distributing this to you, and
then there's an issue down the line and you come back, Well,
(09:19):
they either there's a problem with these inhalers themselves, right
to the point of twenty years from now you find out, Wow,
that was not the best decision to let alone masking concussions.
So all of this is a big legal you know,
blinking red light in the NFL's you can use. Yeah,
(09:39):
we're just not gonna give them to you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
And it's not even where they have to look the
other way, Like, it's not these guys can just bring
him in on the you know, just carry him in before.
But I figure there probably would be a guy. Where's
the smelling salts guy? You gotta have the name on
the bag?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Think that trying to monitor those like and five guys
come running up to you at the same time. I
need my bag, but like you run around with a
giant bucket. I don't want this. This was the tea
tro one. Where's the lavender? Oh you took my lave?
That was my last lavender.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Man.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I saved the lavender for two minutes in the second half,
and now you throw it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Now you ruin it. Now, I gotta have the check
I've got. I got two teenage daughters. They've fought for
less in terms of what's in the toilet tree.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I may well not even take it anymore. I can't
have the lavender, you know. Joh, fine, you took my
I'm gonna kick your ass after this game. You're taking
my lavender.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, now your hype back up, get get it back
out on the fields. I don't even need it anymore
right out there.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
But I'm saying I don't think because like I like, like,
you know, I talk about how I discovered coffee in
my in my mid forties, and I'm like, no, coffee'll
do coffee'll do that to you, Like, just bring just
on the side like this, you know, instead of sitting
down smelling salts, not just seeing you know, seeing George
Kittle sit down and he picks up the Starbucks I
mean one of the good ones, not the one with
the biodegradable where it's awful. You have to replace him.
(10:48):
But just like you gotta always got a big Mocha
latte right there, takes a couple.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Of they get a sambovar like on the sideline for
kicking and screaming, Oh no, no, no, Pharaoh went full on.
I never had coffee. Tim Now I'm gonna I'm the
greatest coffee machine, no delivery system possible.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You actually have a Starbucks on the field. It's actually yeah,
like you want like you have the Whether the players
walk out of the tunnel and another tunnel is a Starbucks.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm shocked. We already don't have somebody walking around. Players
only Starbucks. That's what it is. Players only Starbucks. Oh,
they've not done that. You walk around with beer, you
walk around with peanuts and pop corner. You can't have
a coffee guy? Why not? Especially in the late innings
folks in baseball games, plenty of folks that would want
a coffee.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Oh and there's a turnover, and I'll tell you, oh, man,
the Jets defense has to get back out on the field.
But oh my goodness, Sauce Gardener is in line. He's
second in line. He's been waiting in that line for
his coffee drink for about twelve minutes. Does he leave
the line or does he stay in line? You know
he wants that coffee.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
What does he do? As you can see, he bit
on that go route a little sleepy. Hey, this replay
brought to you by a Triple Espresso.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Then they cut over and then at some point it
would be guys drinking and then like oh oh he's well,
he's got his coffee and a scone. Oh it's okay, wonderful,
I tell you, you know, they would you like that?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Heat it up?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Oh yes, get up? Yeah, great that you will heat
that up for your bloating for the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah, and instead of the you know that when they
come out with water and timeouts and guy's got one
of the tongs and just reaches here, he warmed up
your Uh so I don't put my fingerprints on your
chocolate croissante.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Here you go, sir, Here you go, mister Williams, there
you go. I have it right there. Okay. Another guy
run around with cake pops. Yeah, there's a whole thing
you could do with this.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But they would run out of cake pops because they
always run out of cake pops, of course, so they
run out of cake pops. That would just make people mad.
So they might have to do a Hey, we're not
even gonna serve cake pops because we're not gonna run out.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
We're not gonna have that happen. I think this works.
I think we've created a whole other industry within the industry.
The entirety. When the offense is on the field, the
entire defense is line of Starbucks. Well, I mean you
gotta have alternatives to smelling salts. Yeah, I'm telling you, man,
it works. That works. I mean, if you're worried about
smelling salts, coffee gotta bring gotta bring your own though.
(13:02):
How many pumps would you want? Forty six? Okay? Hang on,
forty four okay, an tribute to the Bear's forty sixteen.
Then you just need a sip. I'm ready to go.
It's instantaneous. Three SIPs of coffee. I'm ready. What do
you got, Frostburg? You clearly know nothing about coffee either,
not just smelling salts. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
You keep bringing up Starbucks like it's good. What, Well,
you're not gonna get a mom and pop coffee shop there?
You know you got to get something that. Hey, what
did the players do to you?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Star offering? Because Starbucks is it's convenient. There's a Starbucks everywhere,
the easier they put it on. Just because it's convenient
doesn't mean it's good, right, But what I'm saying is,
in a pinch, it's good. He's convenient. They fight, Yeah,
well they we'll get to McDonald's being at every every
every sing. This was kind of using. He used Starbucks
like he uses a kleenex. Right, it's not a tissue,
it's a kleenex.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
It became ubiquitous. Not so sure about that. No, Starbucks
would be the one. They would have the money to
put them in. Oh, I'm just saying, Bean doesn't have
the money for that. Come on, man, they just closed
two locations down by me. I'm still salty about it.
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Week one of the preseason for the Steelers. Mike Rabel
may have to have some kind of cosmetic surgery to
repair the gash in his cheek after breaking up a
fight a training camp practice earlier today. Joining us on
the hotline now to break it all down. Longtime NFL
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(15:59):
is the aforementioned Jason Call What's Happened to j cal.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
So? Would Toy Story be in the Hall of Fame
of Kids Movies? Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Sure, absolutely, Toy Story Hall of Fame? I mean even
the third one is one of the finest sequels ever made.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah, first ballad, First Ballad Hall of Fame or Toy Story.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Okay, I just wanted to know that, Yeah, Little murmait like,
if you how about Woody Johnson.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Oh, Woody Johnson in uh, in.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
The in the in the Disney Pixar Toy Story Hall
of Fame. Sure, he's like a cartoon character, so that works.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Oh hey, remind me off there. I want to text
you something about Woody Johnson. Trust me, it's fine. Uh,
I would say if you had.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
I heard some very funny stories about Woody Johnson on
the gyps today. I can't unfortunately can't repeat. So I'm
just teasing you on that.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Wow, you can't just tell one story.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's a little too fresh. I gotta I gotta get
it confirmed, Okay, I mean, I know, I know, I
know it's true, but I don't want. I don't want.
I know, I don't really want to for somebody under
the bus. They're just getting started in their jobs. So
that's probably probably probably why was it what he was?
Speaker 1 (17:22):
What he Johnson one that hit Mike Rabel breaking up
the fight at training camp today.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
There's there's no question about it was what you know.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I love if you said, hey, what coach would go
in to a scuffle in training camp and come out
bloody and have his players say, wow, that was awesome.
Mike Rabel's at the top of the list.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
M Dan Campbell, Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Oh har I don't.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
I don't know how I think he'd instigated at this point.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I don't think, not John, not John, but Jim would.
Jim definitely would do that. Jim is the guy who
is like on Christmas Eve when you're at Stanford, was
had them in full pad workout, hitting and the fight started,
and he was like overjoyed that they were having a
fight on Christmas Eve. It was on. Yes, he would
(18:19):
he would jump into a fight.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
It Merry Christmas, doll all.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I love the totess of my team. They will They'll
go down a chimney for me. I know it.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, there you go. The fighting Patriots. Man, they got
they got to going on in training camp today.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah, I Kundt preferred Baltic's way of handling fights. He
just kicked guys out out of practice and say, yeah,
we don't do that. This is game. In games, if
you get in a fight, you get a personal fallue,
you get kicked out of the game. We don't do that.
So you get kicked out of practice and you have to,
you know, pay the consequences for getting in a fight
(19:05):
and getting kicked out of practice, which is probably a
fine to go with it. So I kind of like
that way of doing it. But I do have an
appreciation for Rabel and what a tough guy is. So
I have some Rabel stories with Belichick, but I absolutely
can't share on this. The FCC would not allow that.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Okay, escalated, They're they're fun, they're fun, they're funny stories,
they're they're you know, Rabel saying, coach, what were you
saying about that?
Speaker 4 (19:34):
You know that kind of line, you know, like you
get under Belichick's a little bit of stuff there, Okay.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
And I do think you're saying that the Belichick's throwing
people out of practice and take care of them. That's
a pre twenty twenty Belichick. I don't think that's a
post twenty twenty Belichick. I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
No, it's no, it's always been a Belichick then bel Chick. No,
that's that's that's consistent. Okay, I would I would argue
on that one. He he believes in guys keeping their
cool in the middle of games.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Okay, all right, Well I brought you.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
On a serious note. You know, I'm like, say, you know,
the owner of the Cowboys who can't seem to keep
as cool about the fact that he blew it with
and he's trying to explain away this negotiation.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So he looked me in the eye and we shook hands.
That's a contract, just so you know. And when you
look look me in the eye, and it's as good
as signs.
Speaker 4 (20:27):
When I'm negotiating with you, which is illegal and against
the rules. But hey, I can't say anything right now
because you know what, they just had some guy who
was the screen actors deal. He didn't know anything about football,
He didn't know the rules. He doesn't know that I
can't talk to a player without talking to his agent.
That's against the collected bargain in agreement. He didn't know
(20:50):
any of that kind of stuff. So I'll just talk
about it openly and nobody will do anything to me.
Nobody won't take take away nothing from my cowboys. It's
eight It's unbelievable what they're getting away. Was like, you're
not like, it's in the CBA. You're not supposed to
do this, and he's talking about it openly. You're not
(21:15):
supposed to negotiate with a player if he has representation.
It is absolutely one against the rules.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Took somebody in the eye and shake their hand. I
could look him in the eye and shake their hand
and that, you know, in the old days, that's a contract.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But before I looked him in the eye, I said,
I was good with forty million rather than the forty
eight that you really deserve, because I had to talk
about that before I could look him in the eye
and assume that I had a deal. You know, we
did have to do some talking before that. There was
there was a little bit of that, and he was
(21:49):
good with me, you know, selling them short on the deal.
He was fine with that. He was absolutely fine. He
didn't say nothing about his representation, you know, I didn't
even know we had an agent, even though it was
on his last contract. I don't know. I don't know
these things.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
See plausible deniability as established by Jason Coley. So I
gotta have so you gotta have card stuff.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Well, it's just it's just like the criminals just getting
away with everything right in front of our face. Admits
the crime, like, oh, yeah, I took all that money,
But you're not really going to do anything to me,
are you. I guess not, because that's what happens.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Well, I mean I read the news. There's a lot
of that going on. He's Jason Cole with us and
saying we're gonna leave that right where it is and
leave that.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
It's sitting there. I'm not going I'm going anywhere, but
it's true.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Yeah, we're gonna leave that right there. Let's continue in
the NFL another We'll talk about head coaches being tough
guys and whatever they say.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Go.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Let's go up to Pittsburgh. Aaron Rodgers saying I'm ready
to play in the first preseason game. If Mike Tomlin
says so not, Hey, I'm a forty one year old quarterback.
I might want some extra reps with the guys. But
I'm going to leave it up to coach. But I'm
ready and I'm game. It's all his decision.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Yeah, and you're a forty one year all quarterback. You
just get take a seat over there, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, but I wanted to play.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I was good with it.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
That's good. That's great. Go sit out. Yeah, don't even
give him shoulder pads before the game. The helmet, leave
it back behind, Okay, it doesn't don't even take the
helmet off the truck. Don't. Don't do it.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
What about smelling salts? Can I take the smelling salts
off the truck? Or no? If you bring your own.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Smelling sauce, no no, no, no no.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You bring b yoss, bring your own smelling salts.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
That is what That's what this league is about, the
yo SS. That is absolutely what this league is about.
You have to bring your own. If you're going to
mess up your mind and hide your concussion syndrome symptoms,
that's up to you to do that on your own.
We will not supply it, but we don't say anything
about you not doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Yes, Plausible deniability the word for today.
Speaker 4 (24:03):
That's what this whole that's what the entire NFL season
is about.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Gonna be videotape in every one of those equipment. Guys. See, hey,
he brought it to us, We bagged it and tagged it, and.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
We didn't touch any of those footballs. I swear we didn't, Okay.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
NFL Insider Jason Call our guest to Jason Smithster with
Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right,
so with all this stuff going on, is a big
mystery over how healthy Matthew Stafford is.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
He's not today.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
It was, Hey, it's a week to week injury and
the Rams expect him back for week one.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
That's a big thing.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Jay called here, Hey, is a week to week injury. Okay,
in the early part of August. But to hear we
expect him back for week one. That's a little bit
of a wait what you expect him back for week one?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Hang on a.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Second, Yeah, I was. I mean, when you look at
quarterbacks like this, how many downs do they get in
the preseason anyways?
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Right, so he's getting zero and we think he has
a little bit of an injury or oh yeah, he's
completely healthy and he's getting zero reps. Anyways, So what's
the I mean, what, what's sort of the difference, Like,
he's an old guy. If he's got a back injury,
you know, just leave it alone, let him, let him
get as healthy as possible, because they have they have
(25:28):
to have him if they're going to be competitive. I mean,
he's the only thing that that you know, saved them
for basically the second half of last season, right, I
mean he was I mean, obviously Nick who is a
good player, they had a lot of mileage out of
a lot of other guys, But Stafford was Stafford. If
not for Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen putting on some
(25:49):
just unbelievable show, Stafford played in the e caliber football.
You know, in any other season, he would have been
up there in the race. He just he was overwhelm
by those two guys, and you know, to a certain extent,
Derrick Henry. But I mean, he was amazing, and he's
the reason they almost beat Philadelphia in the playoffs, I
mean by himself, because he knew how to handle what
(26:11):
they were going to throw at him. So I don't
care if he plays a single down at this point
in time, given that he's been with the team for
a while. Now am I worried about the intrue? Sure,
because he's old. He's just old, and that's what happens.
So that's why, just like with Aaron Rodgers, go sit
over there. Just go sit over there, don't. We don't
(26:34):
need to see you until week one. Go sit over there.
That's what you gotta do.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
I'm ready for Jimmy Garoppolo time. Hey, let's go back
to Cleveland where they now have at.
Speaker 8 (26:42):
Least Jimmy was How many players will give me Garoppolo
forget from the huddle to the Linus Krimmage.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
I told you that story, right, yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Oh yeah, yeah, that was a good one.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Yeah, that's my favorite one. How many times he's such
a brain dead ever, I mean a really nice guy,
sweetheart of a guy and good looking, like I mean,
you gotta give it to that guy like that. We
should we should all have. We should all have like
one day when we look like Jimmy Garoppolo, just one day,
that's that's all you need. But man, that's an amazing thing.
(27:17):
So but yeah, he's not not somebody's bault in the drawer.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Okay, neither are the Browns. They've got five quarterbacks working
on fine fantastic five. Now five guys are.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Gonna start now they have ayeah and we and we
have we updated the betting order of when they will play.
Have we done that? I mean? Because what this is like?
It's not tri fact, it's not you haven't boxed it.
What happens when you get the five? It's not a
five factor? What is it?
Speaker 3 (27:44):
It's a it's a it's a four pole fact. I
don't know, it's a it's a quintup. Be careful, well,
it's a super fact that.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Stuff.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Pick five? I think it just gets no. Pick five.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I think somebody owns that though you can't use Yeah,
but is going to get the start?
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Jacob, what are you looking for?
Speaker 4 (28:07):
Survival? No? I want to see if the guy, you know,
I want to see the guy in the lights, and
I want to see if he processes fast enough and
take some shots and and uh, I just want to
see the normal kind of rookie stuff out of him.
And I hope that people are not too breathless in
their evaluation of a young quarterback. I want you to. But
(28:32):
I don't feel bad for Shadure. You know, he he
got what he bought.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
And I don't know that he's all that good either, right,
Like when I watch him, when I watched him.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
In Colorado, I was like, hey, he's a good college quarterback.
I don't know that he's prettyular special. Did he get
punished a little bit by the NFL? Probably, But at
the end of the day, like we need good quarterbacks.
So I hope he's good. Hope was really good, and
Cleveland needs a good quarterback because God knows you. Like,
do you put those five guys together, I don't know
(29:06):
that you have more than Jimmy Garoppolo at this time.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Really the voltronedom and still came up with the Jimmy g.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
Cop Right, Like, if you took those five guys together,
you still don't get one decent quarterback. Like you just don't.
It's that's not possible, No, it is.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
You know, you put them together, you get one super
quarterback out of all the body parts of them, you
get one super quarterback.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
How tell me, how tell me which part becomes the
super quarter Okay, So you have Joe Flacco's arm, which
is not ain't good anymore, but you know he's had
his moment.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Hair, You got your Door Sanders toughness. Okay, you have
Kenny Pickett's giant hands and.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Uh, okay, yeah we're we're not doing the inverted version
of the Bolton.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
And Dylan Gabriel is short, yes.
Speaker 8 (29:59):
Yeah, okay, you have Dylan Gabriel's incredible height. Yes, I
look again, you put it all together, and you don't
have a decent quarterback that's you know, like, that's what
their room is, and that's why you came up with
a really great bets me, like what order these guys
are gonna play this year? Because they're all gonna play
(30:20):
because they all suck, all terrible.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
And now we got five. Now, we got five.
Speaker 8 (30:26):
Now now and now we have hunt like, man, like,
how many guys they get to keep? Like, if you
have that group, how many guys do you keep on
the practice squad?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Do you keep? Like two on the regular season roster?
And see the thinking about it is you can cut
any three you want and you can still at them
back on the practice somebody wants five.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
On the active roster for every game, five active for
every single for every game. You can go short on
special teams. Man, you have five active. Told me last
week they're going to the super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
You're not even going short of specialty, Like you don't
even have a nickelback. You can't cover a five wide formation.
That's what. Oh my god, that's fantastic. I love that.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
He's on Twitter, Jason Cole sixty co sixty two.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
He's round up it. Jordan loves how easy.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
I'll text it him my buddy, take it easy man.
Later on Jaco he loves he loves that. Now, five
quarterback is going to start for the Browns, five of them. Five.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Let's find out what's trending in the wide world of sports,
and Monty Bellagios sponsor what you got for?
Speaker 9 (31:40):
Not five quarterbacks? But I do have a Xander Bogart's
home run. Okay, all right, that's fine, just one and
it's not enough. Padres are still losing, but at least
San Diego is on the scoreboard. Diamond Backs up two
to one after seven innings in Arizona. It's been seven
to between the Mariners and the White Sox for like ever,
and that's still the score bottom of the sixth innen
(32:02):
in Seattle. Earlier today in baseball, the Cardinals held on
five to three against the Dodgers in La Show. Hey o,
Tawny did it all? It wasn't enough. He pitched four
and he struck out eight hit a home run number
thirty nine on the season. It was also his thousandth
career hit. The Royals snapped the Red Sox seven game
winning streak, coming out on top seven to three. The
Brewers have won six in a row. They topped the
(32:24):
Braves five to four, completing the sweep, and the Yankees
snapped their five game losing streak by beating the Rangers
three to two. Tigers also lost earlier today to the
Twins nine to four, while the Rays as the Angels
five to four in the WNBA. Yes, nothing has gone
flying of any bright color. Yet the Aces are on
(32:44):
top of the Valkyrie sixty four to fifty four, about
ten minutes to go in the games. Asia Wilson has
twenty one points to lead the Aces right now. In
the NFL, the Titans announced that quarterback Cam Ward and
their starters are gonna play in.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Every preseason game.
Speaker 9 (33:00):
Quarterback Jayden Daniels is not gonna play in Washington's preseason
opener against the Patriots, but he did a lot in
their joint practice today. Panthers cornerback JC Horn was in
a car crash this morning, he got stitches on his
left hand is considered day to day, but he won't
be missing Friday's preseason game against the Browns. And despite
confusion around the league, but because of a memo that
(33:22):
wasn't on Tuesday, NFL players are still gonna be able
to whip smelling salts to do that thing that they
want to do during the games as long as they
bring their exactly, just like that, they just have to
bring their own the band is night, okay, exactly. You know,
it's just bring your own beer, but bring your own smellings.
There you go, exactly, That's all it is. Uh. And yeah,
(33:45):
you guys talked about it earlier today, but the female
umpire I agree. I can't believe baseball is so behind
on it.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yeah, when you were talking about that, I was.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Like, really, we've ever done that because out of the
three big sports, it's you know, the easiest one, like
the slowest one to you know, maybe be a ref
at being an umpire at. So I couldn't believe it either.
And I agree, but this is very exciting, exciting for
Gen Powell to be doing that this weekend.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch of Monsey.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yes, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports
Radio studios coming up next. You didn't know it, but
today was a red letter day for one NFL quarterback
who now officially has seen the fast lane end for
him after three years in it.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Oh no, Aaron Rodgers next, right, that's next, right here,
Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Maybe it is Aaron Rodgers,
of course.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
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Speaker 3 (34:47):
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(35:07):
your podcast. You'll find today's show and a best version
posted right after we get off the air. Dude, So
we are less than twenty four hours away from the
first full week of NFL preseason games.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, I got three games on Fridaday. I got a
bunch of games Friday, everything on Saturday, and we may
see and look, we're already getting reports. We talked about
this last night. Some of the guys, some of the
starting quarterbacks, we're gonna get to see at least a
little bit of in Week one.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
And one of those guys, maybe Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Rogers says that, hey, he thinks the Steelers offense starting
to figure things out, and he's open to showcasing just
where the offense is in playing Saturday against Jacksonville. If
Mike Tomlin asks him. Roger's saying, quote, it's an interesting conversation.
I think Mike and I will have that at some point.
I don't think it's in the plan for me to
(35:59):
play this week, but whatever Mike wants to do, I'm
fully on board. So this is typical Aaron Rodgers. Okay,
a conversation I could just have with Mike Tomlin. I'm
gonna have it in the media first to throw this
out there that potentially I could play, and then we're
gonna talk about it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Here's the thing where you know my big takeaway from this, right,
I think it's I think it's a different thing than
should Rogers play, should he not? I really don't care
if he does. Right, Like at this point with Aaron Rodgers,
the juice of the last three years of him, all
the oxygen in the room that he is sucked up,
(36:36):
that's gone. I really don't care about anything off the
field with him anymore. And it's about celebrity because just
like in you know, here we are in our country
where hey, somebody gets red hot for a year or
two and then some say, Okay, we've had enough of them,
and we just move on.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Right.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I don't know what that mass saturation point is, but
he has a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Okay, I've had enough. Now we're moving on. I mean,
Rogers own the news cycle for the better part of
the last three is last years with green Bay, or
going into his last two years of green Bay, then
year one with the Jets. You're going into year two
with the Jets, and now it's okay, Rogers is near
the end. He doesn't seem like he's he's showing up
here for the Steelers other than I want to have
a peaceful end of my NFL career. I'm at the
(37:16):
point where, you know what, I really don't care about August,
I don't care going in see me when the game start,
when the real game start in September. That's an't all
care about Aaron Rodgers. But this whole soap opera with Rogers,
Like I think now, after this story today, I'm like,
I really don't care if he plays or not, right
cause what are we gonna say about how he looks
with the Steelers offense? If he plays for four plays
(37:37):
or five plays, is it gonna dominate the storyline? Is
it gonna be something we talk about ad nooys, Rogers
look terrible with this play in this play. No, I've
seen him. I've seen him throw off his back foot,
doesn't want to get hit anymore. Let's step into throws.
Does it go downfield? Okay, but the whole drama of
every day is a soap opera with him. I feel
like we're kind of done with that now when the
game start, game start, boy, let me see it. But
(37:59):
until then, like he doesn't have that kind of Q
raiting anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, but even with a lot of that, I was
done with it, but I couldn't avoid it, like it
was there. And this year he's not seeking any of
the big spotlight, just going to work, putting his head down.
Like the only thing that matters at this point is
he the guy at the top of the Wikipedia page
for when Mike Tomlin's streak of winning or non losing
(38:26):
seasons end, that's really it for Aaron Rodgers, Right, how
does he perform this year? Does he keep the streak alive?
And are they viable? In December into January, we're still
talking about the Steelers in what is a pretty crowded division.
Now we make fun of the Cleveland Browns. I remind
everybody again two years ago we were talking about how
great this roster was if Deshaun Watson was serviceable. Well,
(38:49):
now we're making fun of how many quarterbacks that I
literally just showed you a toy where you get the
bonus Franklin doll if you buy a suit store. So
all of that to say for for Aaron Rodgers, like
a lot of it was bluster, and there were some
moments in the second half of last year where he
looked like that guy you remembered before the flag and
(39:09):
four players, before all of the hot take nonsense, and
let's parse out whether this guy is the smartest guy going.
Because he showed up on a radio show, right, all
of that. So it's like you push that aside. It's like,
can he play football? Does he want to play football?
Can he make Arthur Smith's offense serviceable in a very
(39:30):
crowded and really cluttered AFC. Can he break through that?
That's all that matters what happens in the preseason. I
don't care if any of these guys playing. I'd rather
watch a guy that was the end of, you know,
potentially his college run. He gets a couple of snaps
and maybe finds his way into a career, kind of
like we're talking with Jason Cole with with Shador Sanders,
(39:52):
a lot of is gonna be made. It's like, okay,
it's a step, but no longer are we anywhere near
endgame for Aaron Rodgers. If he gives us a good
interview when they put a headset on him, that's the
bigger story than any five plays he's gonna give us
in a game.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Yeah, And I even think that part of it is
kind of gone by the wayside, where we also wanted
to see his appearances every Tuesday in McAfee and what
he's gonna say, Like, I feel like that that's out
the window. Now, dude, there's still if he says something
incredibly outlandish, you'd go, okay, wow, here's what Aaron Rodgers said.
But the overall, hey, he's a big straw that stirs
the drink. Like that time for him is gone now.
(40:28):
I mean, we see the end for Rogers boy, and
that's it. And maybe he changes it after he retires.
He has a big show and he becomes one of
the big talking heads, you know, former athlete. Okay, great,
but I feel like for now, but yeah, you know what,
just when the games start that that's what we can talk.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
That's really I'm really back into Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
When the game starts, Kenny's still sling it exit out
about a Fresco exit swelling dumb. Jason Smith Mike Harmon
Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Coming up next, a big.
Speaker 1 (40:57):
Quarterback injury that I'm pretty sure his team is gonna
be okay even without him.
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