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Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now, Uh, we talked about a story a few minutes ago.
That made everybody happy, Right, the Cowboys didn't get Dak
Prescott suspended for spinning a Jalen Carter Jalen Carter served
as one game suspension. Is not getting suspended for Sunday.
Everybody's happy, right, one of those stories. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no,
(01:33):
I I know I get that that she's not happy. No, no,
I understand that. No, I get that. Well, they won,
they lost.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They came back from Brazil losers. I mean they did
have a new restaurant open.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, you might have.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You might have seen that. Maybe not, Maybe he was
in a state of uphoria. Get out to Brazil to
where he doesn't have memory of such.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm sure, Fred, Look when I here's how dialed in
Fromburg was right Frostburg, who produces the Chargers radio broadcast.
Uh is, I said, how is Brazil? And I'm expecting, okay,
killer spiders, topless beaches something whatever. Yeah, that it was
as I'm expecting something, right, Price the Redeemer, you know what,
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whatever it was? And he says, we beat the chiefs.
What more could I ask for?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, he had a couple of exploitives in there. Yeah,
what's certain things? I can't say that's all he gears,
that's all he gas. I mean he really went down
to brass tacks. In other words, we're not telling you
anything else. For all you know, he just went into
a broadcast booth, did his job.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And came home. Yeah, well it's nothing to see. Here's Frostburg.
It's a business trip, business trip, business trip.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
To get the full magic wand flashy thing, the neuralizer
from men in Black on you business trip.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now, I do have to tell you this justin. And
I know you're gonna be upset, but you're gonna find
out eventually. So I figured I'll Scott's coming in.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Wait for it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's another no hitter and here comes Blake Trenton. No,
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you is last week when
we made our AFC and NFC Championship game picks, I
picked the AFC Championship Chargers Broncos, just so you know
that was my as title that was back. Well, the
Chargers have to play somebody, don't they. I mean Chargers Broncos.
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I'm sorry both. I I talked about it last week.
These teams are now made in both these coaches images.
They are gonna be tough outs. No one's gonna want
to play them. They're solid everywhere they showed that Week one.
So I went try No. I don't think I may
be cursing the Chargers a little bit here, but I
want you to know I went charged. You have no
say anymore? What do you mean I have no say anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Here?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's out of your hands, out.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Of the will. But I don't want to be in
the will. Well you're out, but I don't want to be.
He just excized you, just like that. Chargers down to
ten to one. They were fourteen to one before the
Week one game, Denver sitting at twelve to one. They
were at thirteen to one.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So they must have beat the Chiefs. Well, I think
moving up beating the Chiefs the big deal. I think
the Bronco was only moved up by one because well,
probably should have beat the Titans. But the Chiefs really lost.
You know, Titans plus eight and a half cashed. Yeah,
that's just lost. That's true. Chiefs did lose.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And if Calvin Ridley had caught that ball, Chiefs did lose.
Everything we said about the Chiefs, speaking of who want
to say being right? I said Stock up on Mahomes,
stock down on the Chiefs. Be a big year offensively
for a home for Mahomes, but a really tough year
for the Chiefs to try to win games in that
loaded division. And that's what we saw well. Once Travis
Kelsey broke his colleague there, Xavier Worthy. Yeah, and then
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the video started circulating. Remember when Taylor Swift was on
their podcast and talked about how much she liked when
they drafted Xavier Worthy and suddenly there was the split
screen with Travis Kelcey taking him out as if it was, Hey,
you're starting to like him a little too much.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Xavier Worthy, you are not invited to the wedding. But
between between Rashi Rice.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Being unavailable and now Worthy being hurt, did they bring
Tyreek Hill back? I mean he he's got some other
off field issues now that have and allegations, but just
going straight on the field, it looks like everybody they're
breaking You're gonna break up the band there in Miami.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We said this yesterday Miami that that's the worst Week
one loss was the Miami Dolphins because they look like
they're done and have tuned out Mike McDaniel. They didn't
look like they were ready to play. They get beat
really bad by a team that, hey, well I like
the Colts. We'll have more on them coming up, but
not to that extent where they were non competitive to
the point where McDaniel's gonna get fired this season Tyreek
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Hill as long as depending on what his his legal
situation is now that with the domestic violence allegations from today,
he's gonna get dealt. He's already pouting on the sideline
and upset. He wants out. And I guarantee you this
is too is last year there too, because a new
regime's gonna come in. They even though they paid him,
they still have never given him the hug that you're
the franchise quarterback we're building behind, and somebody else is
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gonna be okay with him saying, hey, it's better than
what we have right now. And two has shown that
he can flat She's done it in the past. He's
had big years. For some reason, the Dolphins just don't
like him. We don't know why. But maybe he's gonna
be even better in our system. It's tough to get
a good quarterback. So yeah, it's gonna be a complete
blow up. And all three of those guys are gonna
be gone after this year.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, potential for chaos ness is there. I mean, we
go back to when it was rumored that Brian Robinson
was going to be dealt. One of the names was Miami,
and then as soon as he ended up in San
Francisco's like, yeah, they just decided they're not even gonna
bother adding more assets because right eight Chan was injured.
Now he played in Week one, did score a touchdown
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on a receiving touchdown, but limited in the run game
as we watched again, and no show effort from the
Dolphins overall, but the fact that they didn't make the
trade for Robinson when that seemed like the most obvious
thing with the rumors that a Chan might miss the
opener and maybe weeks two and three to go with it. Again,
he played but was limited, but they don't make that move.
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So it's like, what exactly is going on in the
larger scope.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So to that story that I talked about where I
can make everybody happy, you're making people happy of this, Okay,
putting aside that big horrendous loss on Saturday to South Korea,
US men's national team tonight beat Japan and a friendly. Okay,
Polistic had a big game, looked really good. He grated
out the highest of all American players. And now I
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think Marisio Pochatina can breathe easier a little bit. They
had a pretty good effort tonight. And the thing the
takeaway for this is there's a lot of controversy about
this roster because it's a lot of MLS players. It's
not all the great players that are playing throughout the world,
but Polisic is here and so is a couple of others,
and there's been a lot of look, a lot of
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talk with Polistic backing out not playing this summer in
the Gold Cup, and it's just been a mess. I'll
be the first person to tell you I am under
no illusions of what's going to happen in the World
Cup next year, even though we're no illusions that suddenly
we're getting a golden era in US soccer. They are
starting over again. Now that being said, you can scheme
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up pretty well to do well enough in the World
Cup where maybe we get a four to twoit of straw,
we make it out and into the knockout round. Like
that's that's where I think that's the ceiling for the
United States because if people buy into Poachattino, and really
it's his program now because clearly you see the decisions
that he is making. I'm taking MLS players. I'm taking
these guys. There is a way to build, right, and
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we haven't had that. We haven't had a system, we
haven't had a way. Hey, this is how we're gonna play.
So it is his, for better or for worse. This
is his baby now for the next eighteen months. And
I'll be honest with you, I am more than okay
if he wants to take if he wants to take
all MLS players, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with
taking MLS guys rather than pulling people from different parts
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because as you see, we've had these guys the last
few World Cups last year qualify and we can't play together.
So if you're playing with some of the best players
but they can't buy into what's going on, does it
really work to have them? Now you have MLS players
coming in and not that suddenly, oh you're bringing MLS
guys in and they're going to be better. But these
players will come in they are more likely to buy
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into what Pochatino is doing. And it also energizes the
United States program where players maybe stay in the MLS
instead of going overseas to play because hey, I want
to play in the World Cup. I want to get
chosen for the Olympic team, and I want and if
I play in the MLS, have a better chance to
do it. You have a chance now to really grassroots
build the program. If you say, hey, the MLS guys
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are going to be our World Cup guys, right. It
juices up the fans because now you're seeing players that
we've that all soccer fans have been watching for the
last however long in MLS and and they're coming back
to play. That makes the MLS better, that it makes
the excitement level for the fans better. And it really
helps build a program that gives it an identity, because
that's been the problem for the United States soccer for
so long as the men's there's been no identity. We've
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not been able to capitalize on the Land and Donovan
Algeria twenty eleven Men's World Cup. It's been a bunch
of well, maybe it's cleansman that didn't work. It's not.
It's here's the next young era of US soccer. And
you know what, Polistic's been around now for almost a decade.
It's been a long time for some of these guys,
and we're still no closer to breaking through in the
World Cup. So if we're not gonna win, let's do
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it this way and build soccer in the United States
the way they should have been and taking MLS guys
taking a that would be a huge step towards doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You guys still want the best of the best, and uh,
you know, Poachtino needs to recognize that he can't dictate
how coverage works. If you play poorly, you're gonna be
written about poorly. You're gonna be asked difficult questions. And
we've walked watched it from an organization. You and I
have been doing this together long enough that we've watched
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what was supposed to be the beginning of that golden
era and go back to Altador and all those guys
that were breaking through. Look at it, he's gonna be
a champion if we know, and policy captain America. Maybe
not all the way through. We've had strikers, We've had
rate would be run ups, and it's faltered each and
every time and every the only constant has been the
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coach has complained about the coverage of the team, almost like, okay,
because you're writing bad things. These guys aren't going to
come play for us. Come on, you're kidding yourself, right,
And the MLS I like it. That the theoretical of
you know, trying to build it and sell, and maybe
you build more to the MLS, but let's face it,
guys are still going to go overseas and cash their checks.
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So unless you can prove that it's it's going to
help their bottom line, you're still gonna lose those players
which might have been your best players. So now we're
talking about maybe fielding.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
A B team.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
But the thing is it doesn't need to be a
hard and fast rule. It doesn't need to be. It's
got to be.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But if you want to take the majority of players
from MLS and of course take polistic in a CA, okay,
maybe that's better because then suddenly the scheme up you're
making gets an easier buying, gets players who are familiar
with each other already because they played with or again
them over the course of the season, and then yeah, okay,
you drop in policy, you drop in a couple of
other players. Now I'm I'm okay with it. Doesn't need
(12:06):
to be Hey, you play in the MLS or you
don't play for the World Cup, but you want to
take the majority of MLS players. I think that that
sends the message of this is the way we're building
in the United States, and I think I think that
would I think that would work. That's good.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Just don't make everybody your enemy, because you're not gonna
have efforts like this where you dominate a squad that
often right where your goalie for Japan has to make
nine saves to keep it to keep it close, so
it's only a two Niel loss. Right, you don't have
these dominant efforts where you can get chesty too off,
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which is what he's been kind of laying the law down,
like this is how I want.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It to be.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's like, no, no, no, your team hasn't been very good,
and maybe you could build to that, but I can't
think that you're gonna get many efforts like this where
you can get to walk to the podium strada good
look at us and look like.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
If I but if I thought bring all the best
players in would give us a chance to win. Okay,
but clearly we've had this for the past few years
and we don't get the buy in, and the players
don't look like they're motivated enough. They look like they
play well the first fifteen minutes of a game, and
then it's like, okay, we're going to try to hold
on and we get wide swats where it doesn't look
like they're on the same page. So yeah, I don't
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know that, but.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's also been the park the bus style that we've
seen at times.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
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Speaker 2 (15:29):
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Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now we'll get into this incredibly entertaining college football story
in a second. But Tysi, you asked me a couple
of seconds ago how I feel about the Long Walk? Yes,
because I saw the trailer.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Well, I think he was trying to say he knows
you don't like running, so he was gonna ask you
about walking the long walk?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Isn't that what they call it? Jets for a quarter?
It is.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It is a long, arduous journey, no question about it.
It's a lot. It's been a long walk off a
short pier for many years with the.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Aaron Rodgers leaving after the Achilles injury. A long walk.
Yeah for snaps.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You know, I will say this, the Jets offense look
pretty good. Uh, the long Walk. More people would watch
that than football. I think, Well, well, because you know
the whole thing. Explain to Millenno's the storyline the Long Walk.
This new movie coment based on a Stephen King book
that he wrote like in the nineteen seventies. One of
his nine thousand books is a dystopian like one of
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the first ever great dystopian books like it's it's about
this event called the Long Walk where these kids somehow
sign up. I'm not gonna give you too many details
on it. They sign up to do this walk and
the person left standing at the end wins, and wins
great big prize. So he's got a fundraiser for their
it's a fun vocal. Yeah, the local boy Scouts. They
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visit all the school gymnasiums. There's a bake sale, oister.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah. Once you start walking, you can't stop. If you pause,
you get warned, and if you don't keep walking, they
kill you. Right, that's the that's the plot. Quickly, So
the whole thing is these kids will get it, knowing
full well there's only gonna be one person who's gonna win.
So it's this whole big it's on island. It's like
(17:06):
Hunger Games. It's like it and I wouldn't be surprised.
And I don't know this if Susan Collins got a
little bit of Hunger Games from this thing where here's
all these people who entered this thing and it's and
it takes place in a world like you know, thirty
forty years in the future, where this is the biggest
visual sporting event in the world. More people watch this
in the Super Bowl, they watched The Long Walk and
See and You bet on it and everything else. So
(17:27):
it's very similar to Hunger Games. But I can't wait.
The trailer looks awesome, the actors in it look awesome.
It's got a great vibe from the movie. That's like
my next one. I can't wait to go see. It
comes out this weekend. So excited to see Weapons. I
was so excited to see it. I liked it so much.
I'm like, yeah, some of the other ones out, No,
now this is the next on. I'm really excited to see. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I went back and watched it a second time and
recognized it for the comedy it was.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
There was a lot of comedy in it. I'll tell
you weapons, Yeah, oh, and a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't even know it was intended to And I
certainly laughed my ass on the end. Well that was fine,
I mean, my god, that's that was the perfect They
wanted you to feel it, to feel afraid and full
of anxiety and also laughing at the same time, like
that's really that's a tough thing to pull off.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And they pulled that off. Man.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That was really something, man, I like weapons. There were
a couple of points where they lost me. I don't
need to be hit over the head with them. It
wasn't a perfect movie. It wasn't perfect Which ones. Oh well,
I mean we still have to let let folks watch
it some more.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, but Harmon got hit over the head a couple
of times. You can't recall. Oh that's a good point. Yeah,
it's like I don't remember what happened. You know, I
really thought earlier in my life that amnesia would be
something that affected me. Well, quicksand Yeah, quicksand was a
big one too, But amnesia, quicksand those things, yeah it was.
That's gonna come. It's gonna get really go the Remuta triangle.
Oh yeah, they really got all things growing up I
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was afraid of. That's gonna get me. Man, amnesia is
gonna happen. I'm not gonna remember anything.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I mean, there are a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
As I've gotten older, maybe I just don't care anymore
about those things like I used to really worry about,
you know, compartmentalizing and facts and figures with all this
stuff like you had to do for school, right, quicksand
so much don't but you have to memorize all sorts
of of these data points.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And then well, now I've got the interwebs, like I.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Don't force my brain to remember, you know, the sequencing
of all the national champions going back to the sixties,
like maybe I did at one point.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now I don't care. Yeah that's I can look it up. Yeah,
I know you can. But it's fun too, Like I
could go back really far Heisman trophy wise and that that,
and that's fun. I'd go back with Best Picture winners
and Oscars pretty far, Like it's fun to know that
I didn't want to time. Yeah, I miss a couple
more here, like I got I got more room in
my head now because I have a mortgage, and I
have a family, and I have you know, I have
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much more stuff to worry about with the long Walk.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I mean, you gotta worry that that's coming to a
theater and to your life near you.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Where the Cowboys season is a long walk. And what
happens is they stop walking, I stop paying them. So
in the you have the you know they shoot the
people like that, But I get that, but here's what
it is. In this one. I didn't have to pay anymore.
They do it like sugar ribbins. However they want to
do it, they could do it. But like if Dak
stops walking, I get out of that contract and I
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can go get somebody else. We could tank for the
Manning kid. So that's gonna work pretty well. And now, uh,
you know, try to work for Mica a little bit.
He decided I want to stop walking. I said, well,
I'm not going to pay you, and he walked to
Green Bay. So, uh, that was that. That didn't work
out in our direction at all. So college football today
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a really unbelievable story coming out of the latest college
football pole. There was not over the top of the
pole because the look the new pole came out today
and the top three teams remain unchanged from last week.
You had, uh, you know, Texas still sitting at number seven,
Georgia dropped down a couple of spots, Miami is fifth,
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so it's everything is the same, but there is a
big deal because of the vote by AP voter Hailey
Sawyer of the SoCal Newsgroup. She had a ballot come
out that somehow had Florida moving up two spots while
keeping South Florida unranked. The problem is South Florida beat
Florida last week, and somehow, despite the fact that Florida
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lost to South Florida, she moved the Gators up two
spots and still has South Florida unranked. Okay, well, that's
kind of weird. She also had a little bit of
shenanigans with Auburn being being low on her pole. But
this gained a lot of attention today and it was
you know it. Look, it's it's every it's every polster,
it's every pole that is run. It's their worst nightmare
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where it looks like people who vote for something important
can't be bothered to fill out their poll to the
best of their ability.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I don't think anybody's under any illusion that that everybody
lives with their votes. There's some people who do, which
is awesome because you're supposed to if you're an AP voter,
if you're a Heisman Trophy voter, if you vote for
MVP Rookie of the Year, really if you vote first
Team All NBA, because that's like tens of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
But that's it, which is why that's a dopey thing
in the CBA. Really, perhaps of all the examples, and
we talk about cbas a little more because I'm a
nerd with the business side of all of this, Like
that may be the dopiest concession that anybody's ever made.
You know what, the voting here is going to decide
whether you get the supermanch Wait a minute, that guy
didn't vote for me and he costs me fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
What's that reporter's name? And can I what's their venmo?
I just want to know so I can make sure.
I just make sure I got their venmo just the
case I need to reason.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
But to the point, we've got three guys that we
talk with and work with around these parts. Jason Cole
who joins us every year every week. He's Pro Football
Hall of Fame voter. We've got Rob Parker and his
Major League Baseball the Baseball Hall of Fame. And then
we've got Steve Hartman. You mentioned your Heisman love. He
goes all the way to where he can name the
fifth you know, the I fifted voting going back fifty years.
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But the three of them, like you talk about one
of the most sacred things in your life. It's on
the metal stand, right because it is a big deal.
So to have her be pretty flippant about this, and
again under no illusions that you're gonna be able to
watch every game. We understand that. But to kind of,
you know, take it to the absurd level as she did,
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has a lot of people in sense what she did
was bad.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Enough because clearly she didn't look at the results the
night before, and she even said that, you know, when
you cover a game, a cover game late at night.
Next time, wait, you know, getting up to do my polls.
Like clearly, okay, I didn't look and see. I didn't
look and see what happened to Florida or South Florida.
Because how do you not I mean, it's easy, even
people that they're watching college football for a week. No,
while I take Florida out of the top twenty five,
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I moved South Florida up, like that's what I hoped.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But everybody came back to the question. Gil Brandt used
to ask you, do you have a system? Do you
have a system? Do you have a system?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Do you have a system? Not that everybody's a sister
system system, So sister at least none that I know about.
Oh no, wait no that yeah, no, So Wow, that
is so Dad. You got a question wall, so it'd
be bad enough, right, it's a bad enough But we
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get these once in a while where people don't vote
and you see that they don't take the care with
voting that they should. That's embarrassing. But then Haley Sawyer
decided to go on social media and make a bad
situation worse to the point where I can't believe she's
gonna still have an ap vote tomorrow after how she
explained herself on social media earlier today. Here's Haley Sawyer
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talking about why she voted Florida up to spots even
though they lost to South Florida last week. Listen to
Haley Sawyer as.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Far as what my votes are and what my process is.
You know, I wake up early in the morning after
covering a game late in the night before.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Don't want to go too.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Much into my progress or process or logic, but I
will say I appreciate everybody's interaction on social media.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Okay, so stop it right there for a second. So
so far, okay, right, she it's kind of I'm watching
this going okay, she's kind of doing with a wink, going, Hey,
it was out late covering my game probably usc right,
and because there's a lot of touchdowns that cover there's
like fourteen different players.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, but that meant by halftime you should have been
looking up the rest of the day's slater that game.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But she's sort of the winking and nod, like, hey,
working late at night doing the poll the next day.
Not that it's an excuse, but just letting you know,
this is what happened, right, This is kind of where
it is. And I appreciate everybody you know, weighing in
on this and all the attention I'm getting. So okay,
it's fine. But then here's where she gets to a
point where I'm pretty sure she's gonna lose her vote.
(25:44):
Let's pick it back up and I'll of your feedback.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You know, there's tons of people that vote on the
EP pole and like it's not a perfect system, but
at the end of the day, like no matter who
you pick, it does even out because there's so many
people who vote. And guy said, it's really fun for discussion.
It doesn't you know, probably matter in the end, but
I'm glad that people are having a really good time.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
With Your vote doesn't matter, that's when you vote. It
doesn't matter because it evens out, so it really doesn't matter.
So she went not once but twice in that explanation that, yeah, look,
your vote doesn't really matter. You vote here, it doesn't matter.
It's like great. People get frustrated when we vote for elections.
When you live in a Democratic state and you're Republican,
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or you live in a Republican state you're a Democrat,
he said, I'm voting. Oh yeah, your vote doesn't matter.
You're not winning the state. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
People get really upset about that. And now you have
Haley Sawyer telling the world that, yeah, this doesn't matter
right now. Honestly, the AP pole is fun to talk about.
It's fun because it gives you a gauge of where
the teams are, where they're ranked about. But we get
(26:52):
the College Football Playoff poll that comes up early in October,
and we pay attention to that, and it's pretty easy
to see, I could do the right when you get
to the end of the year. Where are the teams
to have one or two losses, what's their strength to schedule?
Who did they beat? Who did they not? Right, It's
pretty easy to do. So I get the whole thing
that you know, Hey, this is more an exercise. We're
just keeping in form. It's something fun to talk about.
(27:13):
But when you go out there and say your vote
doesn't matter, that what the vote, the vote for this
thing doesn't matter. This is an industry, man. This is
not just college football AP votes. You have the AP pole,
which which mean a lot to a lot of people.
People like voting in this. You have you have the
coaches vote again, you have the Heisman Trophy vote, you
have a So what what she's saying is that, yeah, look,
(27:34):
there's so many votes these things. It doesn't matter, does
it evens? It doesn't matter that I voted Florida where
it is. It makes no difference because did too many
people vote? And it really doesn't matter. To go down
that road of your vote doesn't matter. I would be
surprised if she still had to vote tomorrow, because this
is so embarrassing for the Associated Press and polls in
(27:54):
general to say that, yeah, here's someone who votes saying yeah,
doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what I vote.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, I start going through down the rabbit hole of
all right, who is she and what's she all about?
And that statement in the back half of that just
read like I'm an influencer, follow me as we go
through this magical world of my ap vote. That's a
great point because normally when voters who do something like
this that are that's really bad, you can't find them.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
They're like, hey, I don't want anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It's like, hey, you know what, not voting for Eachro
for the Hall of Fame, not voting for Jeter for
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You don't find those people. Where are that. I'm not
gonna say, we're not gonna make that vote, but they
don't want to talk about it. They don't have to know, Okay. Usually,
but she's like, hey, yeah, thanks for the support, thanks
for everything. My vote doesn't matter. Yeah, that's that's a
great point, because that's that's another further thing. Or again,
I don't I don't think she's gonna be a voted a.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, you go on the Instagram, there's a bunch of
post photos on fields like it is just odd and
especially just kind of the flippancy of this.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Again, it's an industry that does decide television viewing windows,
it does decide which match gets big nude kickoff, and
all of those kinds of things or which is in
the you know vaulted you know, Saturday evening affair, SEC
games and whatever, like, all of those things come to
play and at least early in the season, as you said,
(29:15):
once we get to October and then we start getting
into playoff rankings in the committee and all of that,
it changes it. But it doesn't diminish the work of
the other sixty people plus that are voting in these things.
As she tried to do here, there's a lot of
work put in, a lot of care and it does
have a flow back into the larger college football universe.
(29:37):
And you know, voting in general, you bring it out
to the election side of things, you know, to take
the severity. You know, your vote still matters in a
lot of these civics locally, even if you feel like
the national vote doesn't have the same jews for you.
I mean, I can't the old rule of law. I
can't tell you how to feel. But like the way
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she goes through this, like, hey, thanks for the intention.
Don't forget to tell your friends so they can be
outraged and follow me too.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
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Speaker 2 (30:36):
Time.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
How to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports from someone. He's gonna bring us a story
that I asked him to bring us last hour. He
doesn't know why, but he's gonna do it. It's deep
Di Segre.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
While we're talking college football, apparently Colorado has a new
starting quarterback for Friday night's game at Houston, Ryan Stobb,
who was okay last weekend against Delaware, he was third
string quarterback now. His coach Dion Sanders, during his media
availability today said a final decision on a starting quarterback
has yet to be determined, and he doesn't want to
(31:09):
play musical chairs at quarterback. Sanders also said, my opinion
doesn't really matter and it'll all even out.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
At the Oh, I'm sorry that was the writer.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Anyway, the media yesterday did see this guy Ryan stopped
working with first team at practice on Monday.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Now, this was the story I asked you to bring
me because do you know how Berman would report this story?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Okay, nationally referenced coming out.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Now, this is a third string quarterback that hasn't seen
a lot of action.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
So TJ clearly Dion sand was hoping he's not too
rusty Stop get him the start this weekend for Colorado.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So I saw that coming from a mile away, Steve, I.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Assume he was going to be Stop is going to
pinch it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I'm say I've been thinking about that one all day.
I was trying to find a way to get in
grand Ron, but I couldn't. That's all right.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Meanwhile, it was a truly awful night for the New
York metsiladel.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Now you're side swiping me for that, Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Okay, just dealing with the facts here at the News
Decks nine three Philadelpas, one.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Of Russy Stobbs former teams not playing well tonight.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
How did Montreal do Kyle Schwarber with its fiftieth. How
about them Schwarmer with its fiftieth over in the year,
Phillies first in the NL East, nine games over the Mets,
and now the Mets, who hold the last wild card
spot in the NL. Well, they watched the Giants win
(32:38):
five to three over Arizona. San Francisco has won thirteen
of sixteen. They're only two games back for the last
wild card, and the Reds hit a two run homer
top of the night that San Diego to beat closer
Robert Suarez four to two. San Diego only had three
hits in that game. Giants two back, Reds three back
for the last wild cards. Some point the Mets are
(33:00):
gonna have to win a game.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
By the time there's ten games left in the regular season,
the Mets will be three games out of the last
wild card spot. They're out of gas. They're completely done.
My prediction is there. There's no more pictures to bring up.
They brought them all up. There's nobody else he told
you it was gonna happen. They're just out against told
(33:22):
you six weeks ago, eight week Mets to miss the playoffs.
I take back all the nice things I said about
the Chargers.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Tonight get about two and a half weeks left in
the regular season. The Dodgers lead in the NLS now
two games over the padres La got two home runs
from the slumping Tascar Hernandez in a win over Colorado
seven to two. The Rockies record is now forty and
one oh five on the season. Tonight's losing pitcher was
Herman Marquez. He's three and thirteen. As for the late
(33:49):
ball game, the Red Sox are up six nothing at
the A's with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Connorley,
early in his major league debut, went five scoreless innings
with eleven strikeouts, taking the place of the injured Dustin
may An unknown injury. Maybe it's just the five ERA,
but he's on the injured list. It was a Detroit
over the Yankees in New York twelve to two. Tiger
(34:11):
scored nine times in the seventh inning. Earlier, Aaron Judge
did hit his forty fourth homer, but Casey Maiz with
a Detroit victory, He's fourteen and five. Bad news for Houston.
Not only do they lose, blowing a game at Toronto
in ten innings four to three. Blue Jays, the home
team got two runs in the ninth, one in the tenth,
but Houston starting pitcher Luis Garcia left in the second
(34:32):
inning with a sore elbow. He is coming off Tommy
John rehab the loss to Craig Kimberl. Yes, he is
still in the league and still making team sweat. The
Blue Jays are first in the AL East, three over
the Yankees. By the way, Toronto shorts dot Bo Baschett
is on the il with.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
A spray knee.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Cleveland won its fifth game in a row Cubs in
Texas each one. Seattle beats Saint Louis tonight five to three.
Randy a Rose Arena a homer and four RBIs. In
the WNBA, Seattle won to clinch the last playoff spot
seventy four to seventy three against Golden State. The WNBA
regular season ends this Thursday. Las Vegas won its fifteenth
(35:10):
game in a row, ninety two to sixty one over Chicago.
The Chicago Sky ten and thirty three this season, and
you mentioned earlier US men's soccer with the exhibition win
in Columbus, Ohio to nothing against Japan. Next month, the
Americans have exhibitions against Ecuador and Australia. George Kittle on
IR for the Niners, San Francisco Wave kicker Jake.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Moody back to you, Thank you, Steve O Coo.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Remember when Vegas was in all kinds of trouble early season,
they couldn't buy a win. Yeah, Wnba, things were so
bad they made the big trade, right, they traded away
Kelsey Plumb all these things.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
I say they had a losing record before this win streak, yeah,
I mean they were thirteen and fourteen, I think.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
And now they've won.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
ROWO editioned by Oh, there's a stat that any team
in this league's history that's had a winning streak this
long always won the title that year.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
H bet bet bet bet be coming up next. Something
huge from Week one in the NFL, but I'm gonna
tell you is not gonna have a big impact the
rest of the way. That's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon NFL reporting a huge uptick in Week one
on NFL kickoffs, first time we've had regular season games
since the touchback was moved back to the thirty five
yard line, right like, if you kick it at and
in the end zone, now thirty five yard line. Okay, okay, okay,
(36:42):
we're gonna kick it off and try to make tackles.
Teams returned one hundred and eighteen of one hundred and
fifty six kickoffs, seventy five percent return rate. Last time
NFL had a higher return rate for a single week
was Week seventeen of twenty ten. So we saw more
kickoffs returned week one then we've seen any week in
(37:02):
fifteen years. In the air should have only been one
hundred and seventeen. Look at you, Cairo Santos. Sorry, Ben Johnson,
just kicking out of bounds. Oh but I told him, yeah,
your fault. Now, that's great. He didn't super tote that thing.
It's made it a play again. And I get the
NFL is excited because I wanted to kick off to
be a play. But it's gonna wind up being pretty irrelevant,
(37:28):
all right, because the players are still lining up close
enough to the ball and look for someone who's who
you know? Hey, My main point of pride for most
of my high school career was the special teams I
played on, and I was really good on the kickoff team. Uh,
it's you're not gonna suddenly start seeing breakthroughs in big
returns for touchdowns because it's easier for the kicking team
(37:49):
to find the ball, right. That's the big thing, is
that running down field with a ball, going and looking
and seeing where you are and trying to see where
the return is and how the return is set up.
Because you're lying up so close, it's much easier for
the kickoff team to find the football. And when you
can find the football easier, it's much easier to maintain
lane integrity, which is what stops returners from breaking through right. So,
(38:13):
so the fact that they're lined up this close and
they get to see where the ball is right, you
get to watch like you can't go right until the
ball goes and it's touched, so you get to see
where it goes and see where it lands, so you
know where it's going. Now, obviously the returner can cut
and go, but you're closer to the football and you're
not worried more and there's no more big impact collisions
(38:34):
where you're running then and you're you're you know, one
guy is able to knock out two people because of
the way the play is going. When you when the
guy is cutting to the right, suddenly you have to
continue to keep lane integrity and stay there. That's kind
of been out the window now the last couple of years. So, yeah,
you're gonna see returns and teams are more concentrating on now, Okay,
(38:54):
we want to get them around the twenty. We're not
going to try to burst through and get them at
the fifteen or the ten yard line because if they
break through, hey they break all the way through and
they're gone. So you could see the teams there. The
returners are getting out towards the twenty yard line a
little bit more than I thought they would because teams
are concentrated on we're gonna stop them around the twenty.
We want to make sure that this is what we do.
(39:14):
We cause a lot of a lot of chaos and
nowhere to make sure that there's nowhere for that person
to run and we make the tackle. So yeah, we're
gonna see more kickoffs return, but we're kind of gonna
see it go this way where yeah, they're gonna get
about out to the twenty yard line and then hey,
we're gonna start the offense just like old times, just
like bank to the twenty eighteen point six percent touchbacks
(39:35):
week one, a sixty four point five percent a year
ago and seventy seven point six percent back in twenty
twenty three, the stark difference. But to your point, you
know your average starting field position in that twenty yard range.
In most cases you had a couple of jail break situations,
(39:56):
but for the most part pretty well contained. And then
obviously the Ro Santo's event. Yeah, I mean you kick
it out ane of those things. You kick it out
of bounds. Nah to try to kick it out. You
could do it right, kick it out.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Oh we just lost the game because you didn't kick
it out of the end zone. And I should have
told you to do that.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
That's on me. I'm Ben Johnson. There you go.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Over the last five years, drive starting within one yard
of the thirty yard line generated an average of two points.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
So there you go. Yeah, I mean it's it made
it a play again, which is great, and you're gonna
get a couple of breakthrough I'm gonna say you're not
gonna get it, but this is not gonna suddenly turn
this into a player. Wow, man, the kickoff, it's a
must watch. You gotta see it. It's gonna it's gonna
be a check. No, it's not. It's just gonna make
the kickoff a play again.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
And it actually at least gives you a little bit
of room for chaos, either a big return, perhaps a turnover,
or a big hit as opposed to sail through the end.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Zone exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon, Coming up next, we got more football
on the way. The two most high profile quarterbacks after
Week one? Are they gonna keep doing what they're doing?
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Speaker 1 (01:10):
Now, Uh, we talked about a story a few minutes ago.
That made everybody happy, Right, the Cowboys didn't get Dak
Prescott suspended for spinning a Jalen Carter Jalen Carter served
as one game suspension. Is not getting suspended for Sunday.
Everybody's happy, right, one of those stories. Yeah, yeah, no, no, no,
(01:33):
I I know I get that that she's not happy. No, no,
I understand that. No, I get that. Well, they won,
they lost.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
They came back from Brazil losers. I mean they did
have a new restaurant open.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Yeah, you might have.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
You might have seen that. Maybe not, Maybe he was
in a state of uphoria. Get out to Brazil to
where he doesn't have memory of such.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
I'm sure, Fred, Look when I here's how dialed in
Fromburg was right Frostburg, who produces the Chargers radio broadcast.
Uh is, I said, how is Brazil? And I'm expecting, okay,
killer spiders, topless beaches something whatever. Yeah, that it was
as I'm expecting something, right, Price the Redeemer, you know what,
(02:18):
whatever it was? And he says, we beat the chiefs.
What more could I ask for?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Well, he had a couple of exploitives in there. Yeah,
what's certain things? I can't say that's all he gears,
that's all he gas. I mean he really went down
to brass tacks. In other words, we're not telling you
anything else. For all you know, he just went into
a broadcast booth, did his job.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And came home. Yeah, well it's nothing to see. Here's Frostburg.
It's a business trip, business trip, business trip.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
To get the full magic wand flashy thing, the neuralizer
from men in Black on you business trip.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Now, I do have to tell you this justin. And
I know you're gonna be upset, but you're gonna find
out eventually. So I figured I'll Scott's coming in.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Wait for it.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's another no hitter and here comes Blake Trenton. No,
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you is last week when
we made our AFC and NFC Championship game picks, I
picked the AFC Championship Chargers Broncos, just so you know
that was my as title that was back. Well, the
Chargers have to play somebody, don't they. I mean Chargers Broncos.
(03:22):
I'm sorry both. I I talked about it last week.
These teams are now made in both these coaches images.
They are gonna be tough outs. No one's gonna want
to play them. They're solid everywhere they showed that Week one.
So I went try No. I don't think I may
be cursing the Chargers a little bit here, but I
want you to know I went charged. You have no
say anymore? What do you mean I have no say anymore?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Here?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
It's out of your hands, out.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Of the will. But I don't want to be in
the will. Well you're out, but I don't want to be.
He just excized you, just like that. Chargers down to
ten to one. They were fourteen to one before the
Week one game, Denver sitting at twelve to one. They
were at thirteen to one.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So they must have beat the Chiefs. Well, I think
moving up beating the Chiefs the big deal. I think
the Bronco was only moved up by one because well,
probably should have beat the Titans. But the Chiefs really lost.
You know, Titans plus eight and a half cashed. Yeah,
that's just lost. That's true. Chiefs did lose.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And if Calvin Ridley had caught that ball, Chiefs did lose.
Everything we said about the Chiefs, speaking of who want
to say being right? I said Stock up on Mahomes,
stock down on the Chiefs. Be a big year offensively
for a home for Mahomes, but a really tough year
for the Chiefs to try to win games in that
loaded division. And that's what we saw well. Once Travis
Kelsey broke his colleague there, Xavier Worthy. Yeah, and then
(04:35):
the video started circulating. Remember when Taylor Swift was on
their podcast and talked about how much she liked when
they drafted Xavier Worthy and suddenly there was the split
screen with Travis Kelcey taking him out as if it was, Hey,
you're starting to like him a little too much.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Xavier Worthy, you are not invited to the wedding. But
between between Rashi Rice.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Being unavailable and now Worthy being hurt, did they bring
Tyreek Hill back? I mean he he's got some other
off field issues now that have and allegations, but just
going straight on the field, it looks like everybody they're
breaking You're gonna break up the band there in Miami.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
We said this yesterday Miami that that's the worst Week
one loss was the Miami Dolphins because they look like
they're done and have tuned out Mike McDaniel. They didn't
look like they were ready to play. They get beat
really bad by a team that, hey, well I like
the Colts. We'll have more on them coming up, but
not to that extent where they were non competitive to
the point where McDaniel's gonna get fired this season Tyreek
(05:33):
Hill as long as depending on what his his legal
situation is now that with the domestic violence allegations from today,
he's gonna get dealt. He's already pouting on the sideline
and upset. He wants out. And I guarantee you this
is too is last year there too, because a new
regime's gonna come in. They even though they paid him,
they still have never given him the hug that you're
the franchise quarterback we're building behind, and somebody else is
(05:55):
gonna be okay with him saying, hey, it's better than
what we have right now. And two has shown that
he can flat She's done it in the past. He's
had big years. For some reason, the Dolphins just don't
like him. We don't know why. But maybe he's gonna
be even better in our system. It's tough to get
a good quarterback. So yeah, it's gonna be a complete
blow up. And all three of those guys are gonna
be gone after this year.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, potential for chaos ness is there. I mean, we
go back to when it was rumored that Brian Robinson
was going to be dealt. One of the names was Miami,
and then as soon as he ended up in San
Francisco's like, yeah, they just decided they're not even gonna
bother adding more assets because right eight Chan was injured.
Now he played in Week one, did score a touchdown
(06:35):
on a receiving touchdown, but limited in the run game
as we watched again, and no show effort from the
Dolphins overall, but the fact that they didn't make the
trade for Robinson when that seemed like the most obvious
thing with the rumors that a Chan might miss the
opener and maybe weeks two and three to go with it. Again,
he played but was limited, but they don't make that move.
(06:57):
So it's like, what exactly is going on in the
larger scope.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So to that story that I talked about where I
can make everybody happy, you're making people happy of this, Okay,
putting aside that big horrendous loss on Saturday to South Korea,
US men's national team tonight beat Japan and a friendly. Okay,
Polistic had a big game, looked really good. He grated
out the highest of all American players. And now I
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think Marisio Pochatina can breathe easier a little bit. They
had a pretty good effort tonight. And the thing the
takeaway for this is there's a lot of controversy about
this roster because it's a lot of MLS players. It's
not all the great players that are playing throughout the world,
but Polisic is here and so is a couple of others,
and there's been a lot of look, a lot of
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talk with Polistic backing out not playing this summer in
the Gold Cup, and it's just been a mess. I'll
be the first person to tell you I am under
no illusions of what's going to happen in the World
Cup next year, even though we're no illusions that suddenly
we're getting a golden era in US soccer. They are
starting over again. Now that being said, you can scheme
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up pretty well to do well enough in the World
Cup where maybe we get a four to twoit of straw,
we make it out and into the knockout round. Like
that's that's where I think that's the ceiling for the
United States because if people buy into Poachattino, and really
it's his program now because clearly you see the decisions
that he is making. I'm taking MLS players. I'm taking
these guys. There is a way to build, right, and
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we haven't had that. We haven't had a system, we
haven't had a way. Hey, this is how we're gonna play.
So it is his, for better or for worse. This
is his baby now for the next eighteen months. And
I'll be honest with you, I am more than okay
if he wants to take if he wants to take
all MLS players, I'm okay with that. I'm okay with
taking MLS guys rather than pulling people from different parts
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because as you see, we've had these guys the last
few World Cups last year qualify and we can't play together.
So if you're playing with some of the best players
but they can't buy into what's going on, does it
really work to have them? Now you have MLS players
coming in and not that suddenly, oh you're bringing MLS
guys in and they're going to be better. But these
players will come in they are more likely to buy
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into what Pochatino is doing. And it also energizes the
United States program where players maybe stay in the MLS
instead of going overseas to play because hey, I want
to play in the World Cup. I want to get
chosen for the Olympic team, and I want and if
I play in the MLS, have a better chance to
do it. You have a chance now to really grassroots
build the program. If you say, hey, the MLS guys
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are going to be our World Cup guys, right. It
juices up the fans because now you're seeing players that
we've that all soccer fans have been watching for the
last however long in MLS and and they're coming back
to play. That makes the MLS better, that it makes
the excitement level for the fans better. And it really
helps build a program that gives it an identity, because
that's been the problem for the United States soccer for
so long as the men's there's been no identity. We've
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not been able to capitalize on the Land and Donovan
Algeria twenty eleven Men's World Cup. It's been a bunch
of well, maybe it's cleansman that didn't work. It's not.
It's here's the next young era of US soccer. And
you know what, Polistic's been around now for almost a decade.
It's been a long time for some of these guys,
and we're still no closer to breaking through in the
World Cup. So if we're not gonna win, let's do
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it this way and build soccer in the United States
the way they should have been and taking MLS guys
taking a that would be a huge step towards doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You guys still want the best of the best, and uh,
you know, Poachtino needs to recognize that he can't dictate
how coverage works. If you play poorly, you're gonna be
written about poorly. You're gonna be asked difficult questions. And
we've walked watched it from an organization. You and I
have been doing this together long enough that we've watched
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what was supposed to be the beginning of that golden
era and go back to Altador and all those guys
that were breaking through. Look at it, he's gonna be
a champion if we know, and policy captain America. Maybe
not all the way through. We've had strikers, We've had
rate would be run ups, and it's faltered each and
every time and every the only constant has been the
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coach has complained about the coverage of the team, almost like, okay,
because you're writing bad things. These guys aren't going to
come play for us. Come on, you're kidding yourself, right,
And the MLS I like it. That the theoretical of
you know, trying to build it and sell, and maybe
you build more to the MLS, but let's face it,
guys are still going to go overseas and cash their checks.
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So unless you can prove that it's it's going to
help their bottom line, you're still gonna lose those players
which might have been your best players. So now we're
talking about maybe fielding.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
A B team.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
But the thing is it doesn't need to be a
hard and fast rule. It doesn't need to be. It's
got to be.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
But if you want to take the majority of players
from MLS and of course take polistic in a CA, okay,
maybe that's better because then suddenly the scheme up you're
making gets an easier buying, gets players who are familiar
with each other already because they played with or again
them over the course of the season, and then yeah, okay,
you drop in policy, you drop in a couple of
other players. Now I'm I'm okay with it. Doesn't need
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to be Hey, you play in the MLS or you
don't play for the World Cup, but you want to
take the majority of MLS players. I think that that
sends the message of this is the way we're building
in the United States, and I think I think that
would I think that would work. That's good.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Just don't make everybody your enemy, because you're not gonna
have efforts like this where you dominate a squad that
often right where your goalie for Japan has to make
nine saves to keep it to keep it close, so
it's only a two Niel loss. Right, you don't have
these dominant efforts where you can get chesty too off,
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which is what he's been kind of laying the law down,
like this is how I want.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
It to be.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
It's like, no, no, no, your team hasn't been very good,
and maybe you could build to that, but I can't
think that you're gonna get many efforts like this where
you can get to walk to the podium strada good
look at us and look like.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
If I but if I thought bring all the best
players in would give us a chance to win. Okay,
but clearly we've had this for the past few years
and we don't get the buy in, and the players
don't look like they're motivated enough. They look like they
play well the first fifteen minutes of a game, and
then it's like, okay, we're going to try to hold
on and we get wide swats where it doesn't look
like they're on the same page. So yeah, I don't
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know that, but.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That's also been the park the bus style that we've
seen at times.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
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Speaker 1 (15:30):
Now we'll get into this incredibly entertaining college football story
in a second. But Tysi, you asked me a couple
of seconds ago how I feel about the Long Walk? Yes,
because I saw the trailer.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Well, I think he was trying to say he knows
you don't like running, so he was gonna ask you
about walking the long walk?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Isn't that what they call it? Jets for a quarter?
It is.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It is a long, arduous journey, no question about it.
It's a lot. It's been a long walk off a
short pier for many years with the.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Aaron Rodgers leaving after the Achilles injury. A long walk.
Yeah for snaps.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
You know, I will say this, the Jets offense look
pretty good. Uh, the long Walk. More people would watch
that than football. I think, Well, well, because you know
the whole thing. Explain to Millenno's the storyline the Long Walk.
This new movie coment based on a Stephen King book
that he wrote like in the nineteen seventies. One of
his nine thousand books is a dystopian like one of
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the first ever great dystopian books like it's it's about
this event called the Long Walk where these kids somehow
sign up. I'm not gonna give you too many details
on it. They sign up to do this walk and
the person left standing at the end wins, and wins
great big prize. So he's got a fundraiser for their
it's a fun vocal. Yeah, the local boy Scouts. They
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visit all the school gymnasiums. There's a bake sale, oister.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah. Once you start walking, you can't stop. If you pause,
you get warned, and if you don't keep walking, they
kill you. Right, that's the that's the plot. Quickly, So
the whole thing is these kids will get it, knowing
full well there's only gonna be one person who's gonna win.
So it's this whole big it's on island. It's like
(17:06):
Hunger Games. It's like it and I wouldn't be surprised.
And I don't know this if Susan Collins got a
little bit of Hunger Games from this thing where here's
all these people who entered this thing and it's and
it takes place in a world like you know, thirty
forty years in the future, where this is the biggest
visual sporting event in the world. More people watch this
in the Super Bowl, they watched The Long Walk and
See and You bet on it and everything else. So
(17:27):
it's very similar to Hunger Games. But I can't wait.
The trailer looks awesome, the actors in it look awesome.
It's got a great vibe from the movie. That's like
my next one. I can't wait to go see. It
comes out this weekend. So excited to see Weapons. I
was so excited to see it. I liked it so much.
I'm like, yeah, some of the other ones out, No,
now this is the next on. I'm really excited to see. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
I went back and watched it a second time and
recognized it for the comedy it was.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
There was a lot of comedy in it. I'll tell
you weapons, Yeah, oh, and a lot of it.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
I don't even know it was intended to And I
certainly laughed my ass on the end. Well that was fine,
I mean, my god, that's that was the perfect They
wanted you to feel it, to feel afraid and full
of anxiety and also laughing at the same time, like
that's really that's a tough thing to pull off.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And they pulled that off. Man.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
That was really something, man, I like weapons. There were
a couple of points where they lost me. I don't
need to be hit over the head with them. It
wasn't a perfect movie. It wasn't perfect Which ones. Oh well,
I mean we still have to let let folks watch
it some more.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, but Harmon got hit over the head a couple
of times. You can't recall. Oh that's a good point. Yeah,
it's like I don't remember what happened. You know, I
really thought earlier in my life that amnesia would be
something that affected me. Well, quicksand Yeah, quicksand was a
big one too, But amnesia, quicksand those things, yeah it was.
That's gonna come. It's gonna get really go the Remuta triangle.
Oh yeah, they really got all things growing up I
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was afraid of. That's gonna get me. Man, amnesia is
gonna happen. I'm not gonna remember anything.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
I mean, there are a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
As I've gotten older, maybe I just don't care anymore
about those things like I used to really worry about,
you know, compartmentalizing and facts and figures with all this
stuff like you had to do for school, right, quicksand
so much don't but you have to memorize all sorts
of of these data points.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
And then well, now I've got the interwebs, like I.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Don't force my brain to remember, you know, the sequencing
of all the national champions going back to the sixties,
like maybe I did at one point.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Now I don't care. Yeah that's I can look it up. Yeah,
I know you can. But it's fun too, Like I
could go back really far Heisman trophy wise and that that,
and that's fun. I'd go back with Best Picture winners
and Oscars pretty far, Like it's fun to know that
I didn't want to time. Yeah, I miss a couple
more here, like I got I got more room in
my head now because I have a mortgage, and I
have a family, and I have you know, I have
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much more stuff to worry about with the long Walk.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I mean, you gotta worry that that's coming to a
theater and to your life near you.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Where the Cowboys season is a long walk. And what
happens is they stop walking, I stop paying them. So
in the you have the you know they shoot the
people like that, But I get that, but here's what
it is. In this one. I didn't have to pay anymore.
They do it like sugar ribbins. However they want to
do it, they could do it. But like if Dak
stops walking, I get out of that contract and I
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can go get somebody else. We could tank for the
Manning kid. So that's gonna work pretty well. And now, uh,
you know, try to work for Mica a little bit.
He decided I want to stop walking. I said, well,
I'm not going to pay you, and he walked to
Green Bay. So, uh, that was that. That didn't work
out in our direction at all. So college football today
(20:35):
a really unbelievable story coming out of the latest college
football pole. There was not over the top of the
pole because the look the new pole came out today
and the top three teams remain unchanged from last week.
You had, uh, you know, Texas still sitting at number seven,
Georgia dropped down a couple of spots, Miami is fifth,
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so it's everything is the same, but there is a
big deal because of the vote by AP voter Hailey
Sawyer of the SoCal Newsgroup. She had a ballot come
out that somehow had Florida moving up two spots while
keeping South Florida unranked. The problem is South Florida beat
Florida last week, and somehow, despite the fact that Florida
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lost to South Florida, she moved the Gators up two
spots and still has South Florida unranked. Okay, well, that's
kind of weird. She also had a little bit of
shenanigans with Auburn being being low on her pole. But
this gained a lot of attention today and it was
you know it. Look, it's it's every it's every polster,
it's every pole that is run. It's their worst nightmare
(21:44):
where it looks like people who vote for something important
can't be bothered to fill out their poll to the
best of their ability.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
I don't think anybody's under any illusion that that everybody
lives with their votes. There's some people who do, which
is awesome because you're supposed to if you're an AP voter,
if you're a Heisman Trophy voter, if you vote for
MVP Rookie of the Year, really if you vote first
Team All NBA, because that's like tens of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
But that's it, which is why that's a dopey thing
in the CBA. Really, perhaps of all the examples, and
we talk about cbas a little more because I'm a
nerd with the business side of all of this, Like
that may be the dopiest concession that anybody's ever made.
You know what, the voting here is going to decide
whether you get the supermanch Wait a minute, that guy
didn't vote for me and he costs me fifty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
What's that reporter's name? And can I what's their venmo?
I just want to know so I can make sure.
I just make sure I got their venmo just the
case I need to reason.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
But to the point, we've got three guys that we
talk with and work with around these parts. Jason Cole
who joins us every year every week. He's Pro Football
Hall of Fame voter. We've got Rob Parker and his
Major League Baseball the Baseball Hall of Fame. And then
we've got Steve Hartman. You mentioned your Heisman love. He
goes all the way to where he can name the
fifth you know, the I fifted voting going back fifty years.
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But the three of them, like you talk about one
of the most sacred things in your life. It's on
the metal stand, right because it is a big deal.
So to have her be pretty flippant about this, and
again under no illusions that you're gonna be able to
watch every game. We understand that. But to kind of,
you know, take it to the absurd level as she did,
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has a lot of people in sense what she did
was bad.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Enough because clearly she didn't look at the results the
night before, and she even said that, you know, when
you cover a game, a cover game late at night.
Next time, wait, you know, getting up to do my polls.
Like clearly, okay, I didn't look and see. I didn't
look and see what happened to Florida or South Florida.
Because how do you not I mean, it's easy, even
people that they're watching college football for a week. No,
while I take Florida out of the top twenty five,
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I moved South Florida up, like that's what I hoped.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
But everybody came back to the question. Gil Brandt used
to ask you, do you have a system? Do you
have a system? Do you have a system?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Do you have a system? Not that everybody's a sister
system system, So sister at least none that I know about.
Oh no, wait no that yeah, no, So Wow, that
is so Dad. You got a question wall, so it'd
be bad enough, right, it's a bad enough But we
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get these once in a while where people don't vote
and you see that they don't take the care with
voting that they should. That's embarrassing. But then Haley Sawyer
decided to go on social media and make a bad
situation worse to the point where I can't believe she's
gonna still have an ap vote tomorrow after how she
explained herself on social media earlier today. Here's Haley Sawyer
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talking about why she voted Florida up to spots even
though they lost to South Florida last week. Listen to
Haley Sawyer as.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Far as what my votes are and what my process is.
You know, I wake up early in the morning after
covering a game late in the night before.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Don't want to go too.
Speaker 5 (24:57):
Much into my progress or process or logic, but I
will say I appreciate everybody's interaction on social media.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Okay, so stop it right there for a second. So
so far, okay, right, she it's kind of I'm watching
this going okay, she's kind of doing with a wink, going, Hey,
it was out late covering my game probably usc right,
and because there's a lot of touchdowns that cover there's
like fourteen different players.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yeah, but that meant by halftime you should have been
looking up the rest of the day's slater that game.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
But she's sort of the winking and nod, like, hey,
working late at night doing the poll the next day.
Not that it's an excuse, but just letting you know,
this is what happened, right, This is kind of where
it is. And I appreciate everybody you know, weighing in
on this and all the attention I'm getting. So okay,
it's fine. But then here's where she gets to a
point where I'm pretty sure she's gonna lose her vote.
(25:44):
Let's pick it back up and I'll of your feedback.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
You know, there's tons of people that vote on the
EP pole and like it's not a perfect system, but
at the end of the day, like no matter who
you pick, it does even out because there's so many
people who vote. And guy said, it's really fun for discussion.
It doesn't you know, probably matter in the end, but
I'm glad that people are having a really good time.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
With Your vote doesn't matter, that's when you vote. It
doesn't matter because it evens out, so it really doesn't matter.
So she went not once but twice in that explanation that, yeah, look,
your vote doesn't really matter. You vote here, it doesn't matter.
It's like great. People get frustrated when we vote for elections.
When you live in a Democratic state and you're Republican,
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or you live in a Republican state you're a Democrat,
he said, I'm voting. Oh yeah, your vote doesn't matter.
You're not winning the state. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
People get really upset about that. And now you have
Haley Sawyer telling the world that, yeah, this doesn't matter
right now. Honestly, the AP pole is fun to talk about.
It's fun because it gives you a gauge of where
the teams are, where they're ranked about. But we get
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the College Football Playoff poll that comes up early in October,
and we pay attention to that, and it's pretty easy
to see, I could do the right when you get
to the end of the year. Where are the teams
to have one or two losses, what's their strength to schedule?
Who did they beat? Who did they not? Right, It's
pretty easy to do. So I get the whole thing
that you know, Hey, this is more an exercise. We're
just keeping in form. It's something fun to talk about.
(27:13):
But when you go out there and say your vote
doesn't matter, that what the vote, the vote for this
thing doesn't matter. This is an industry, man. This is
not just college football AP votes. You have the AP pole,
which which mean a lot to a lot of people.
People like voting in this. You have you have the
coaches vote again, you have the Heisman Trophy vote, you
have a So what what she's saying is that, yeah, look,
(27:34):
there's so many votes these things. It doesn't matter, does
it evens? It doesn't matter that I voted Florida where
it is. It makes no difference because did too many
people vote? And it really doesn't matter. To go down
that road of your vote doesn't matter. I would be
surprised if she still had to vote tomorrow, because this
is so embarrassing for the Associated Press and polls in
(27:54):
general to say that, yeah, here's someone who votes saying yeah,
doesn't matter, it doesn't matter what I vote.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, I start going through down the rabbit hole of
all right, who is she and what's she all about?
And that statement in the back half of that just
read like I'm an influencer, follow me as we go
through this magical world of my ap vote. That's a
great point because normally when voters who do something like
this that are that's really bad, you can't find them.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
They're like, hey, I don't want anybody.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
It's like, hey, you know what, not voting for Eachro
for the Hall of Fame, not voting for Jeter for
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
You don't find those people. Where are that. I'm not
gonna say, we're not gonna make that vote, but they
don't want to talk about it. They don't have to know, Okay. Usually,
but she's like, hey, yeah, thanks for the support, thanks
for everything. My vote doesn't matter. Yeah, that's that's a
great point, because that's that's another further thing. Or again,
I don't I don't think she's gonna be a voted a.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Yeah, you go on the Instagram, there's a bunch of
post photos on fields like it is just odd and
especially just kind of the flippancy of this.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Right.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
Again, it's an industry that does decide television viewing windows,
it does decide which match gets big nude kickoff, and
all of those kinds of things or which is in
the you know vaulted you know, Saturday evening affair, SEC
games and whatever, like, all of those things come to
play and at least early in the season, as you said,
(29:15):
once we get to October and then we start getting
into playoff rankings in the committee and all of that,
it changes it. But it doesn't diminish the work of
the other sixty people plus that are voting in these things.
As she tried to do here, there's a lot of
work put in, a lot of care and it does
have a flow back into the larger college football universe.
(29:37):
And you know, voting in general, you bring it out
to the election side of things, you know, to take
the severity. You know, your vote still matters in a
lot of these civics locally, even if you feel like
the national vote doesn't have the same jews for you.
I mean, I can't the old rule of law. I
can't tell you how to feel. But like the way
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she goes through this, like, hey, thanks for the intention.
Don't forget to tell your friends so they can be
outraged and follow me too.
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Di Segre.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
While we're talking college football, apparently Colorado has a new
starting quarterback for Friday night's game at Houston, Ryan Stobb,
who was okay last weekend against Delaware, he was third
string quarterback now. His coach Dion Sanders, during his media
availability today said a final decision on a starting quarterback
has yet to be determined, and he doesn't want to
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play musical chairs at quarterback. Sanders also said, my opinion
doesn't really matter and it'll all even out.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
At the Oh, I'm sorry that was the writer.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
Anyway, the media yesterday did see this guy Ryan stopped
working with first team at practice on Monday.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Now, this was the story I asked you to bring
me because do you know how Berman would report this story?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Okay, nationally referenced coming out.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Now, this is a third string quarterback that hasn't seen
a lot of action.
Speaker 7 (31:39):
So TJ clearly Dion sand was hoping he's not too
rusty Stop get him the start this weekend for Colorado.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
So I saw that coming from a mile away, Steve, I.
Speaker 6 (31:53):
Assume he was going to be Stop is going to
pinch it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
I'm say I've been thinking about that one all day.
I was trying to find a way to get in
grand Ron, but I couldn't. That's all right.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
Meanwhile, it was a truly awful night for the New
York metsiladel.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Now you're side swiping me for that, Okay.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Okay, just dealing with the facts here at the News
Decks nine three Philadelpas, one.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Of Russy Stobbs former teams not playing well tonight.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
How did Montreal do Kyle Schwarber with its fiftieth. How
about them Schwarmer with its fiftieth over in the year,
Phillies first in the NL East, nine games over the Mets,
and now the Mets, who hold the last wild card
spot in the NL. Well, they watched the Giants win
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five to three over Arizona. San Francisco has won thirteen
of sixteen. They're only two games back for the last
wild card, and the Reds hit a two run homer
top of the night that San Diego to beat closer
Robert Suarez four to two. San Diego only had three
hits in that game. Giants two back, Reds three back
for the last wild cards. Some point the Mets are
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gonna have to win a game.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
By the time there's ten games left in the regular season,
the Mets will be three games out of the last
wild card spot. They're out of gas. They're completely done.
My prediction is there. There's no more pictures to bring up.
They brought them all up. There's nobody else he told
you it was gonna happen. They're just out against told
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you six weeks ago, eight week Mets to miss the playoffs.
I take back all the nice things I said about
the Chargers.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Tonight get about two and a half weeks left in
the regular season. The Dodgers lead in the NLS now
two games over the padres La got two home runs
from the slumping Tascar Hernandez in a win over Colorado
seven to two. The Rockies record is now forty and
one oh five on the season. Tonight's losing pitcher was
Herman Marquez. He's three and thirteen. As for the late
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ball game, the Red Sox are up six nothing at
the A's with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Connorley,
early in his major league debut, went five scoreless innings
with eleven strikeouts, taking the place of the injured Dustin
may An unknown injury. Maybe it's just the five ERA,
but he's on the injured list. It was a Detroit
over the Yankees in New York twelve to two. Tiger
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scored nine times in the seventh inning. Earlier, Aaron Judge
did hit his forty fourth homer, but Casey Maiz with
a Detroit victory, He's fourteen and five. Bad news for Houston.
Not only do they lose, blowing a game at Toronto
in ten innings four to three. Blue Jays, the home
team got two runs in the ninth, one in the tenth,
but Houston starting pitcher Luis Garcia left in the second
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inning with a sore elbow. He is coming off Tommy
John rehab the loss to Craig Kimberl. Yes, he is
still in the league and still making team sweat. The
Blue Jays are first in the AL East, three over
the Yankees. By the way, Toronto shorts dot Bo Baschett
is on the il with.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
A spray knee.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Cleveland won its fifth game in a row Cubs in
Texas each one. Seattle beats Saint Louis tonight five to three.
Randy a Rose Arena a homer and four RBIs. In
the WNBA, Seattle won to clinch the last playoff spot
seventy four to seventy three against Golden State. The WNBA
regular season ends this Thursday. Las Vegas won its fifteenth
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game in a row, ninety two to sixty one over Chicago.
The Chicago Sky ten and thirty three this season, and
you mentioned earlier US men's soccer with the exhibition win
in Columbus, Ohio to nothing against Japan. Next month, the
Americans have exhibitions against Ecuador and Australia. George Kittle on
IR for the Niners, San Francisco Wave kicker Jake.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Moody back to you, Thank you, Steve O Coo.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Remember when Vegas was in all kinds of trouble early season,
they couldn't buy a win. Yeah, Wnba, things were so
bad they made the big trade, right, they traded away
Kelsey Plumb all these things.
Speaker 6 (35:43):
I say they had a losing record before this win streak, yeah,
I mean they were thirteen and fourteen, I think.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
And now they've won.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
ROWO editioned by Oh, there's a stat that any team
in this league's history that's had a winning streak this
long always won the title that year.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
H bet bet bet bet be coming up next. Something
huge from Week one in the NFL, but I'm gonna
tell you is not gonna have a big impact the
rest of the way. That's next Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with My best friend
Mike Harmon NFL reporting a huge uptick in Week one
on NFL kickoffs, first time we've had regular season games
since the touchback was moved back to the thirty five
yard line, right like, if you kick it at and
in the end zone, now thirty five yard line. Okay, okay, okay,
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we're gonna kick it off and try to make tackles.
Teams returned one hundred and eighteen of one hundred and
fifty six kickoffs, seventy five percent return rate. Last time
NFL had a higher return rate for a single week
was Week seventeen of twenty ten. So we saw more
kickoffs returned week one then we've seen any week in
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fifteen years. In the air should have only been one
hundred and seventeen. Look at you, Cairo Santos. Sorry, Ben Johnson,
just kicking out of bounds. Oh but I told him, yeah,
your fault. Now, that's great. He didn't super tote that thing.
It's made it a play again. And I get the
NFL is excited because I wanted to kick off to
be a play. But it's gonna wind up being pretty irrelevant,
(37:28):
all right, because the players are still lining up close
enough to the ball and look for someone who's who
you know? Hey, My main point of pride for most
of my high school career was the special teams I
played on, and I was really good on the kickoff team. Uh,
it's you're not gonna suddenly start seeing breakthroughs in big
returns for touchdowns because it's easier for the kicking team
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to find the ball, right. That's the big thing, is
that running down field with a ball, going and looking
and seeing where you are and trying to see where
the return is and how the return is set up.
Because you're lying up so close, it's much easier for
the kickoff team to find the football. And when you
can find the football easier, it's much easier to maintain
lane integrity, which is what stops returners from breaking through right. So,
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so the fact that they're lined up this close and
they get to see where the ball is right, you
get to watch like you can't go right until the
ball goes and it's touched, so you get to see
where it goes and see where it lands, so you
know where it's going. Now, obviously the returner can cut
and go, but you're closer to the football and you're
not worried more and there's no more big impact collisions
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where you're running then and you're you're you know, one
guy is able to knock out two people because of
the way the play is going. When you when the
guy is cutting to the right, suddenly you have to
continue to keep lane integrity and stay there. That's kind
of been out the window now the last couple of years. So, yeah,
you're gonna see returns and teams are more concentrating on now, Okay,
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we want to get them around the twenty. We're not
going to try to burst through and get them at
the fifteen or the ten yard line because if they
break through, hey they break all the way through and
they're gone. So you could see the teams there. The
returners are getting out towards the twenty yard line a
little bit more than I thought they would because teams
are concentrated on we're gonna stop them around the twenty.
We want to make sure that this is what we do.
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We cause a lot of a lot of chaos and
nowhere to make sure that there's nowhere for that person
to run and we make the tackle. So yeah, we're
gonna see more kickoffs return, but we're kind of gonna
see it go this way where yeah, they're gonna get
about out to the twenty yard line and then hey,
we're gonna start the offense just like old times, just
like bank to the twenty eighteen point six percent touchbacks
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week one, a sixty four point five percent a year
ago and seventy seven point six percent back in twenty
twenty three, the stark difference. But to your point, you
know your average starting field position in that twenty yard range.
In most cases you had a couple of jail break situations,
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but for the most part pretty well contained. And then
obviously the Ro Santo's event. Yeah, I mean you kick
it out ane of those things. You kick it out
of bounds. Nah to try to kick it out. You
could do it right, kick it out.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Oh we just lost the game because you didn't kick
it out of the end zone. And I should have
told you to do that.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
That's on me. I'm Ben Johnson. There you go.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
Over the last five years, drive starting within one yard
of the thirty yard line generated an average of two points.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
So there you go. Yeah, I mean it's it made
it a play again, which is great, and you're gonna
get a couple of breakthrough I'm gonna say you're not
gonna get it, but this is not gonna suddenly turn
this into a player. Wow, man, the kickoff, it's a
must watch. You gotta see it. It's gonna it's gonna
be a check. No, it's not. It's just gonna make
the kickoff a play again.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
And it actually at least gives you a little bit
of room for chaos, either a big return, perhaps a turnover,
or a big hit as opposed to sail through the end.
Speaker 1 (40:46):
Zone exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason
Smith Mike Harmon, Coming up next, we got more football
on the way. The two most high profile quarterbacks after
Week one? Are they gonna keep doing what they're doing?
That's next, Jason to Mike. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
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