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buying should be. One hundred and thirty points, three straight games,
a franchise record of fifty five threes, Yeah, here come
the next.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
No no, no, a franchise record fifty five attempted. Yeah that's okay,
No no no. The way you said that, we scored a
lot of it doesn't make that. Why ruin a good story?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I have fifty five threes the Knicks had tonight attempts,
fifty five franchise record, a.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Lot of ice. Bucket's gonna get a workout in the
post game. Three straight games with one hundred and thirty
or more points. Yeah, but they still may just sweat
down the stretch for a minute. Another it's do it,
It's look, it's it's all I have. There's a miss
lay up Piers, a bad foul an inbounds playing.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, all my other teams, with all my teams are awful.
Take it's low.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
All the others are awful. Had you predicted the Jets
to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Two years ago? Two years ago? Two years ago?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
You either have to say it's were your indicting members
of status?

Speaker 1 (02:03):
No, because people wonder if I'm okay, dude, come into
the season with a new head coach that really is
out of his depth and justin Fields a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
You predicted the Super Bowl? No, I did not. I
did not. That was two years ago when we got
Aaron Rodgers. Well, you didn't know your coach was out
of his depths immediately. No, I don't play the video.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Tape No no, no Today Today Aaron Glenn has taken
on beat writers well you know, upset like uh.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
Boy, but yeah to New York and that's what he does.
This is how it goes.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Uh. We will have big NBA news coming up in
a bit. As I believe they have broken ground on
the Nico Harrison statue outside of Crypto, I think they're
knocking down all the other statues to put up the
Nico Harrison statue. The Gretzky statue is gone, Magic's gone,
everything else is gone, and we're.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Gonna have just the Nico and it's gonna be larger
than life.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I think when you go to Crypto, you'll end up
sitting between Nico Harrison and Chick her Nko.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
He gets a place of prominence where you just sit
for a spell and say thank you. You know, if
Jack can't come to the games anymore, do they give
Nico Jack's chair Like I think they should like that.
There should be some kind of passing of the torch
or changing their gut. Hey, Nico Harrison here, he got
you know, we want you to sit here because boy,
you really saved franchise.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Straight to that level of prominence. Look, I mean we
don't have proof of concept. Just yeah, and I mean
it looks great and they're playing well, but you know,
do you got to finish the job first before you
fully make that statue. Well, he's what would the pos.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Be is he sitting there with a pen in hand
or no him, it would be well, you have to
be him talking to a reporter, a Dallas reporter where
he's pointing his finger at him getting mad at him
for challenging him on the trade, or him talking to
a kid wearing a Laker's Luca jersey. That's like, either
one of those would be great Nico statues. I think

(03:56):
that's where you gotta go. That'd be awesome. You're welcome. Yes,
Nico Harrison fired as general manager of the Dallas Mavericks today.
Will have that story coming up in a few minutes.
But in the last hour we have seen the brand
new college football playoff poll come out and not a
ton of surprises. Ohio State, Indiana after the great escape
over Penn State, Texas, A and M are at the

(04:18):
top of the college football rankings. Georgia is also there
in the top five, Alabama two, so not a lot
of change in what we've seen so far, and when
you look at the rankings, you have to understand that
the teams that are ranked eleventh and twelfth, they're gonna
get knocked out because the best non Power five champ,
non Power four champion is gonna get in that South Florida,

(04:41):
the ACC champion is going to get in as well.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
So just get that.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
You see this twelve of you, there's still a couple
of things that are gonna happen with this pole.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, I mean we still have a couple of squads
that have multiple games against ranked teams. We'll get a
few big matchups this coming weekend. I just thought it
was interesting as you go and parse through the commentary
when asked specifically about squads. Right, so, okay, what what's
the deal with Texas Tech style points? Yeah, and I

(05:10):
want to triple underscore that because we're back to the
old era of the pollsters with a couple of these things.
Right with Miami, Miami, they we love their offense, the
consistency of their offense, that's what we want. But for
Technas Tech, they flat out set too many field goals. Yeah,
like whoa, whoa, whoa now now no, no, now again,

(05:32):
Like we're going back. We're going back to the pollsters
of why did you score seventy five against this non
conference That's just what we have to do. I mean,
nobody's watching this game, so we have to make it
look good when they run down the scores. And that's
exactly where we're back right here. Everything old is new
again in this new age of college football, in this
new age of here's a twelve team playoffs, like no, no, no,

(05:55):
we're back to brass tacks, like now they kick too
many field goals? Yeah, I mean to hear the quotes
about the different tea and it's great that there's transparence.
I love the transparency where they talk about Texas Tech
kicking too many field goals and also member, you know
road saying about Miami.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
We've had teams lose. It's been about their consistency with Miami.
The head to head win with Notre Dame comes up
all the time. So they seem to love Miami, not
love Texas Tech as much, which is okay because we're
still a long time to go, and usually stuff susses
itself out. Right, We're not gonna get to three weeks
or three games from now, we have the last couple
of games, and then we have the conference championships, where

(06:32):
we're gonna be sitting here talking about a ton of teams.
But I'll tell you where the big conversation is gonna be.
And it keeps going back to the one thing that's
going to be the biggest item the College Football Playoff
Committee has to deal with. No matter what they do,
this is the biggest thing. And I saw it last year.
I saw it going into the end of last year,
and I saw it this year, and I see it.

(06:53):
I see it, Mike, I see, I see. I've been
seeing the whole time. Christ The difference that's going to
be between two loss teams and three loss teams whose
third loss is in the conference championship game. That's going
to be the biggest sticky wicket of who gets into
that eleventh and twelve slot and who doesn't. Which is

(07:15):
why I'm telling you they're gonna have to go to
sixteen at some point, because you're gonna have to take
the teams that get to the conference championship games. You
get to the Big ten, the SEC, the ACC even
if you want to do it for the Big twelve,
I'm not thrilled with it. But okay, you get to
the conference title games, you get into the playoff because
that's the fairest way to do it. Because think about this, right,
you have a couple of teams that control their own

(07:36):
destiny outside of the top twelve right now, and I'll
give you a couple of teams. I'll give you USC
in Michigan. Okay, USC and Michigan right now are sitting
sixteen seventeen in the in the poll. USC closes the season,
they are two lost USC team. They close the season
with Iowa, Oregon UCLA. Right, so wait a minute, they

(07:58):
beat Iowa top twenty five team, Oregon top ten team UCLA. Okay,
two loss team, they should get in, right, they move up.
But if they lose the Big Ten championship game, which
would be really right up on brand for Lincoln Riley
to make it that far and lose the Big Ten
championship game. Okay, you have a USC team's got a
couple of those wins, but they lost a Big Ten championship.

(08:18):
Do you still take them over a two loss team
that didn't make their conference chap that's maybe ranked a
little bit higher Michigan. Same thing. They control their own destiny. Right,
they have Northwestern this week, then they have Maryland. They
win both those games, they beat Ohio State, Right, they
gotta be in. Right, you're beating number one team in
the country. You gotta get in. But then Michigan goes
to the Big Ten title game and they lose. Do

(08:39):
you still take Michigan a three loss Michigan team over
a two loss team that has a better resume. But hey,
they've only lost two games Michigan and USC And I
could say it for a lot of teams, those two
loss teams. To get into that conference championship game, you're
gonna play a team that's really good. Right, you're playing
in that conference championship game. You're not playing some you know,

(09:01):
fly by night team that you know it wins, that
wins their way in. Like it's like it's the uh,
you know, the first four of the NCAA tournament. You're
playing a really good So if you lose to a
top five, top seven team in the conference, okay, you're
supposed to lose that, But if you have these other
big wins, like that's gonna be the biggest thing that
the committee's got to decide, is boy, do we take
this three loss team, do we take this two loss team?

(09:23):
What do we factor in when it comes to conference
championship games and the real And that's why the best
thing is, okay, keep it the way it is now
and take those extra four slots to get to sixteen
teams and make it the teams that get to the
conference title game, because it's still gonna be teams motivated
to get there because you want to get to the
conference title game because you're clinching a playoff spot, which
is great, right you get in, you clinch, you can celebrate,

(09:45):
it's a fun thing to do. And you are playing
for a bye, you're playing for home field. So in
that conference title game, you're still playing for something. It's
not like, well, okay, we made it in and we
could just play the backups. So you're playing for a
home game, you're playing for a buye however you want
to go. There's still some things really at steak steak
in the conference title game. So that's the that's gonna

(10:07):
be the biggest All this other stuff and style points
that will wind it. We'll get down to just where
we're splitting hairs between one or two teams and if
you're the twelfth team, is it tough to do? But
when you're when you're saying, hey, there's three or four
teams here that lost in their conference title game. Are
they better than the two loss teams? That's gonna be
your big question.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Yeah. But when you say the word better, that gets
me excitable about the larger scope of things. Because you
bring up Michigan, you bring up USC has two examples
of guys of teams that can crash the party. What
do they also bring a lot of fans, a lot
of eyeballs, And it's a TV show. It's a TV show.
So that's that's where we get back into the we've

(10:47):
got this. I always bring up the underpants gnomes from
South Park, Right, it was steal underpants. Step two is
a giant question mark, and step three was profit. Right,
So Cartman's losing his mind and everybody, you know, they're
like trying to figure out this mystery. It's the same
thing here. There's this giant, nebulous gray area of what

(11:07):
gets us to our final twelve teams. Because the difference
between two losses and three seems elemental seam all right,
three grander the two. Yeah, it's done.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
No, no regular season okay, but when you play that
extra game, you shouldn't be able to get penalized for it.
But I know, the big what committee is hoping for
is going we hope this team gets in. This two
loss team gets in and loses forty two to three,
then we don't have to take them in and it's
not out there, but it doesn't matter. It's still an
extra game. The other team could have played and lost

(11:40):
forty two to three two, so.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
That yeah, But I mean, if they get watched, it
helps to solve that that part of the equation, cause
you can just say, okay, that third loss was a disaster.
This is who they are at this point the season,
right because we did that, and we've done that with
injuries and the assessments and again the way they're parsing
out things here field goals they won. No, no, no,

(12:03):
it's not pretty. I need pretty football. So that's gonna
be an interesting thing to watch these next couple of weeks. Again,
you've only got a couple of squads that have multiple
games left against rank squads, so they have the opportunity
to really distance themselves in four to five things. But
then we I mean South Florida is in there. They're
number twenty five, you know what I mean. Like the

(12:25):
way these things work, I can imagine some of the
big conferences coming back doing the the old all right,
here's you know what, why are we letting them in
the party if they're twenty fifth in the nation. So
there's other fights that will fall out of this to
where we we really have that argument for that sixteen
team expansion near term.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
We're getting there. I'm telling you you don't. You don't
want that decision out there. You had it last year
with Miami and it was a question in and I'm
doing the six seven six seven, but it was okay,
hey three lost team not in the conference yet, it
was okay, But in that conference championship game.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
That's a thing.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
That's a thing, Mike Harmon, it's a thing. I'm telling
you that that you gotta solve. I'm helping you out committed.
All the style points you want to talk about with
Texas Tech and the Hurricanes all you can, but that's
you gotta solve. I like the transparency, but sometimes you
don't want to say the quiet part out loud because
now you've opened up a lot of speculation as to
how you're gonna parse that parse those things out, exit

(13:23):
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after the ill advised Luka Doncic's.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Trade to the Lakers under cover of night. Yeah, yeah,
we want no more publicity for this. Now.

Speaker 1 (16:17):
This happened, and you've heard a lot today if it's
long overdue, they you know, obviously this deal was terrible.
But back away from that, right to give you something
a little different than what you've heard all day about this. Yes,
the trade has failed. Obviously it's failed. Luka donci just
started to out with an MVP season already for the Lakers.
He is, I mean, he's scoring forty points a game.

(16:39):
Him and Austin Reeves are having three quarter shot contests
with each other during the game, like, this is how
comfortable Luca is now with the Lakers. This is how
good he has been. Anthony Davis been a tough guy
to get on and stay on the court. They started
out very rough this year, and so yes, the trade
has been a failure. But that's not why Nico Harrison

(17:02):
got fired. And the Mavericks didn't fire Nico.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
The Mavericks didn't fire Nko. Not fire Nico. I will
tell you who fired Nico. It's not like changing it
up a little bit. No, no, no, no, I'll tell you
who fired Nico.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
If it wasn't the Maverick Mavericks. You look, it may
say that, hey we've decided. No, no, no, the Mavericks
did not fire Nico.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
They did not.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
The fans fired Nko. I really thought you were going
a full Brett.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Screwed Brett.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
The fans fired Nico Harrison. If you ever hear the
old tired adage of you know, we don't listen to
the fans. The fans don't programma are to our football team.
They don't make decisions. Yeah, okay, buy and large.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
I get that, But and I give you them a
tumbo finger wag.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Not always, because this is exactly what Harrison got fired
because of the fans the Mavericks making this trade.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Was it an unpopular trade? Yes? Could it have.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
Worked, yeah, But it's months and months later, months and
months later, and still Mavericks fans are coming to the
games channing fire Nico everywhere the guy goes. There's means
the Mavericks are an embarrassment and you can't go forward
with fans continue to be pissed off at your team.

(18:28):
That doesn't work. So there's sometimes where you need to
listen to the fans. I'll never forget. Steve Phillips told
me this once when I was at ESPN and we
were talking about he got fired by the Mets.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, I mean then Steve Phillips had, you know, had
some adventures, but this is, you know, to keep this
on the field. I asked him about getting, you know,
getting fired and the pressures in New York and he says,
you know, but here's the thing is that sometimes when
there's an overwhelming sense from the fans that they want
something to happen, and all of a sudden, their treatment
of the team is naga and they're upset, you kind

(19:02):
of have no choice but to do something. And I
understood that. I understood that as a general manager, that hey,
things aren't going well. There's a mutiny and the Mets
fans want to just you know, blow torch, you know,
city Field, Chase Stadium. I need to you know, yes,
you fire me. I understand. And that's what's happened. They've
never been able to move past this trade. Mentally, they've

(19:24):
never been able to make it's a breakup that you're like, guys,
it's been a year later, Okay, that you're not getting
back together. It's not happening. Okay, she's moved in with
her new boyfriend. Yeah, but I don't know how good
it's going.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
You know, I passed by the new apartment every night
and I look into the window and I don't see
them talking a lot, So I don't know what's going Well, No, dude,
it's not. They're not coming back. But they've not moved
past this. And that's what the Mavericks didn't factor into
this trade, is that the blowback from the fans was
going to be so great that they would never get
over it, never, And I am sure they thought that

(19:59):
at the end the year and you get in the playoffs. Hey,
number one pick in the draft. Guys, we got Cooper Flag.
It's awesome. Now suddenly we're gonna really do some things.
But they started out slow. They've played almost every game
at home, and they've lost almost every game, and there
was no positive energy. The fans were still coming to
games channing Fire. Nico and the Mavericks knew this was

(20:21):
never going to change. So yes, that's why they fired
Nico Harrison because they need a fresh start before the
season spirals out of control. Because you know, listen, you're
talking about being one through ten at this point. Yes,
you're starting out three to eight. But okay, Cooper Flag's
gonna continue to get his legs under him. The guy's
really he's done some stuff already. That's fantastic. But they
I applaud them because they're making the break at the

(20:42):
right time, because now fans can stop being pissed and
can get back into it, and there's a much better
aura around the teams. There's a much more sense of
going forward. Instead of every time we come to games
or every time you mentioned the Dallas Mavericks, it's Nico
Harrison and Fire Nico. The fans fired Nico now here.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
It is beyond the chanting. You had a very big
streak end with their latest home game for the first
time in twenty four years. It was not a sellout
in Dallas, right, I equate it again. Go back to
the trade. We can get into the particulars of it.
It's kind of like Jerry trading Michaeh Parsons away. Not

(21:21):
necessarily a bad thing for your squad. However, you're gonna
take a lot of negativity. You're gonna take a lot
of incoming kind of like you know, all of the
Avengers coming at Thanos and he's just wearing it, and
then he just brushes them off because eventually he's proven
kind of right with Nico Harrison. Same thing here, like
he got a heroes welcome for about a minute, right
once once whatever you decide on, conspiracy theories and whatever.

(21:44):
In part of that, Cooper flag lands and he becomes
a member of the maverage. You had a little bit
of a honeymoon last night. Great game, and then he
slipped and he got prompts. But they fall to three
and eight and they're not getting healthy anytime soon. Western
Conference is pretty deep so you can fix the glitch,

(22:04):
but people not buying tickets and voting to not put
asses in seats, to not keep giving you money for
an inferior product. No matter how much they may love
Cooper Flag, they're gonna take that money that they would
have spent on a ticket in parking and concessions. They'll
buy a jersey, they'll still support him, but they're gonna
go sit at home and watch it and wait for
it to get better, wait for the ancillary parts to

(22:27):
get healthy, if that ever happens. Like you knew the
risk bringing in Anthony Davis, there was no great mystery there.
It was a wishing and hoping that these guys would
all play together and all would go right with the world.
And Cooper Flag just having turned eighteen would have the
same effect on the NBA as Lebron James had, just

(22:49):
what nobody's Lebron James. And you know how much it
pains me to say that.

Speaker 1 (22:54):
So here we are where you fix the glitch and
you get a little bit of good will, and we're
advancing this, we're moving forward, and whoever gets chosen ultimately
to lead this squad into the next era, whether they
again make more trades and shuffle up this roster and say, okay.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Cooper Flag, who do you want to play with?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Which is really where this is gonna end up, right,
which of these veteran guys can you tolerate? Okay, we
can get rid of this contract, this contract to this
guy gone, and.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
Then we move forward.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
This is think about something like this, where a person
is a daily reminder of something terrible just when you
see them. It's a daily reminder of something terrible. I
don't know anything about that. Maybe it's an X. Maybe
it's someone who missed a big field goal in a game.
And then that's why that's why guys get cut because

(23:45):
every time I see him, I think back to that
missed field goal. But just think of every time every
Dallas fans, anytime any fan saw Nico Harrison, it was
that's the guy that screwed up and with him. Right.
But you can't have you can't have your general manager

(24:05):
be someone that every time he is seen by anyone
on video or in person, it's guy traded Lucas, screwed
the franchise.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
You can't have that.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
But I have a question for you can't go forward
when that reminder of such bad stuff and bad memories
and bad situations is prevalent every day. You have to
move on for that. You got to get that out.
You can't see that every single day.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
But here's the thing. You talked about it a little before.
You want to build a statue here for Nico in
Los Angeles. Do you build a statue of him? Or
is it Michael Finley and a can of beer?

Speaker 1 (24:37):
No?

Speaker 3 (24:37):
No, no, no, no. Nico is one set that in motion.
He was the fall. He was the Nico. Nico was
the one who made the trade.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Look, you heard Sean Serrania say today, this was Nico
Harrison's calls.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
What Nico wanted to do. He's a No, Nico's the guy.
He's the guy.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
He gets the statue. Michael Finley didn't get fired. He
doesn't get the statue. Nico got fired. He made that trade.
He gets the statue.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
You have to and really he was just following order.
You can't.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
You can get rid of every other statue. To build
that Nico Harrison statue should be like fifty feet tall,
like you should be able to walk downtown and go
look at Crypto man. That the arena is dwarfed by
the Nico Harrison status. It looks like Galactys fantastic. Like
when I remember when my wife and I UH driving

(25:25):
across country to drive to La.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
We went to UH.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
We drove through South Dakota and we went to the
bad Lands where they're building the Crazy Horse Monument. That
is a monument that can fit like what like it's
gonna be able to fit like twelve Mount rushmoores in it.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
And I remember going this.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
We went there in the late nineties and they said, yeah,
this has been going on for twenty years, and the
architect realized this project is going to outlive him by
fifty years. So they're gonna this crazy Horse monument that
they've been building is still gonna go, and it's gonna
be for you and I. It's still gonna keep going, right.
That's how big. That's how big and how big of
a deal this Horse monument is.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
I remember looking at it.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
We were there and in ninety six is when we
were there and seeing it was just a little bit
of his head and his finger pointing, and now there's
you know, a little bit more of it. But I'm like,
oh my goodness, this is almost thirty years later. That's
the type of care that the Lakers need to take
into putting that Nico Harrison statue up if you if
it takes you fifty years, you need to make sure

(26:23):
that it's up there.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
So you can start planning it now. I mean you
you can't put it in, you know, in cement and
and and put it outside the arena until Luca wins
something though. No, no, no, no, no, you need you
need the reminder of this is this is what jump
started our franchise. No, you need a reminder of that,
and that way you can say, oh, yeah, there's no
room for a Lebron statue, so you know, there's just
there's no other room. We had to look, we had
to get rid of the Gretzki one. Look, we gave

(26:45):
Gretzky the Gretzky statue, so he was happy to have that.
But yeah, there's there's no room for anything else. Yeah,
I mean, I don't mean to be a Debbie downer,
but at this point you're just selling hope and change.
There's no there's nothing that's actually I'll tell you what
I feel.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
I feel pretty good if I'm the Lakers right now
after this start with and not having to think about
the Lakers start this year, you.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Were gonna say, you don't have to worry about James.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Because you don't have to worry about Lebron James and
being healthy and how he fits into this team, because
he's gonna come back as a third option and it's
gonna be awkward and it's gonna be delicious. But you
don't have to worry about Lebron running the team making
decisions because this is Luca Dontage driven right. Austin Reeves
is the number two or the one A. He's the
Scottie Pippen of this situation, and Lebron's gonna come in

(27:27):
and have to figure out what his role is going
to be because I'll tell you what. The minute he
tries to take over a little bit more and the
Lakers start losing, Lebron, guess what, Nope, not happen anymore. Man,
Go get your points. Michael Finley walking out and takes
whatever he needs. Go get your points. But the Lakers,
you didn't think this is gonna be a great start.
They've missed Luca for a little bit, They've missed Reees

(27:47):
for a little bit, they've missed Lebron for the whole thing,
and here there are at the top of the Western Conference.
I mean that that's some kind of start. Yes, they
lost to the Hawks. They should not have lost that game.
But you win five and row, you lose a game. Okay,
this start by Luca. This I'm motivated, I'm in shape,
and I'm putting this team on my back. Start by
Luca is the best thing you could possibly ask for.

(28:09):
The Lakers fan base has already embraced Luca more than
they embraced Lebron when he came, you know, six years ago,
seven years ago, they've already embraced him more than that.
They even bray, you are our guy. Lebron has always
been at arms length. You're coming here because you want
the Laker brand, you want Los Angeles. You want to
be able to push your off the court business activities. Okay,

(28:30):
so we like you, but yeah, you know, you're not Kobe.
You're not Shock, you're not Magic, you're not cap You're
not any of these guys. But Lucas Hey, Luca. Luca
could be Kobe. Luca could be Shot Like Luca is
the guy that now Hey has that un unconditional love
from the fan base, and starting out this way yeah,
I'm okay with building the statue for Nico. Now, I'm

(28:50):
just gonna come back to this. For all of you
out there globally, find someone who loves you like Jason
loves Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves. Hey, Austin Reeves is fantastic.
I'm sorry you don't like I mean, look.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
I like it's elevated, Jordan, pip You're a hater games.
He's way better than Pippin. He probably, yeah, that's probably again. Yeah.
The only thing here's a ci napkin. I mean, forty
eight thousand dollars worth of service.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Pippin's got a better bourbon. But that's about it. It
is pretty good, is it good? I got that and
I got the lebron.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
What was it? The Cavassier?

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Really very nice?

Speaker 1 (29:32):
Okay, time now to find out what's trending in the
wide world of sports. Is someone who's been called the
Steve De Sager of Fox Sports Radio. Really it's Steve
De Sager. Hey, I hope I can live up to
that lofty villain. Not only did the Mavericks fire general
manager Nico Harrison today news from the league tonight, the
NBA announcing a new format for this season's All Star Game,

(29:54):
the US against the World in LA in February. Two
teams of American All Stars one team of interne national
players in a round robin format, a total of four
twelve minute games that day. Twenty four total All Stars,
twelve from each conference. Suns guard Jalen Green will miss
at least four to six weeks with a strained hamstring.
Brandon Clark of the Grizzlies will miss another couple months

(30:16):
after a procedure on his knee. As yet to play
this season. Joel Embiid and the Sixers was out again
tonight with a sore knee, but at Philadelphia, the home
team edge Boston one oh two, one hundred. The Celtics
record now five and seven. Oklahoma City's eleven and one
after blitzing Golden State one twenty six to one oh
two Shay Gilgis Alexander twenty eight points eleven assists in

(30:37):
just twenty eight minutes. Brooklyn is one and ten after
losing it home to Toronto one nineteen one oh nine.
Raptors and the Knicks won there fifth in a row,
seven and three overall after beating Memphis one thirty three
to one twenty Jalen Brunson thirty two points. Former Knicks
All star guard Michael Ray Richardson died at the age
of seventy. He was drafted number four overall in nineteen

(30:59):
seventy also played for the Nets. In college basketball, Louisville
held on to beat rival Kentucky ninety six eighty eight.
Number six Michigan won in overtime against Wake Forest eighty
five eighty four. Tenth rank Florida edge Florida State seventy
eight to seventy six. Right now on FS one about
three and a half minutes to go. Top twenty matchup
at Illinois as the home team ahead of Texas Tech

(31:22):
seventy four to sixty seven. Seven thranc BYU has taken
the lead on Delaware fifty five fifty two with about
eleven minutes to play. Among the nine NHL games, laa
five to one winner at Montreal, Dallas won in overtime
at Ottawa three to two. Washington a four to one
winner at Carolina. In the new college football playoff rankings,

(31:43):
the top five stayed the same, led by number one
Ohio State. Texas Tech is up to number six. Texas
is up to number ten in the country to the
NFL Jaguars. Rookie Travis Hunter is out for the year
after knee surgery. He was injured in practice a couple
weeks ago. Carlos Alcarez won another match at the season
ending atp Finals, and the American League Manager of the

(32:04):
Year is Cleveland. Stephen Vote. Vote also won this award
a year ago in his first year as a manager.
He dominated the voting that season, so TJ clearly Vote
getting enough votes for the second straight year.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
In fact, it was seventeen votes to ten the og H,
however he spells it, and the NL Manager of the
Year a repeat winner as well, the Brewers Pat Murphy.
He got twenty seven of the thirty first place votes.
Milwaukee and the number one overall seed this year had
ninety seven wins.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Back to you and TJ clearly.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
John Schneider finding a lot of hazard in winning American
League Manager.

Speaker 4 (32:44):
Of the Year.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
But he's just a good old boy, absolutely true. Thanksually done, sake,
Thank you, Steve. And I misspoke it was Hennessy, right,
because that's a league sponsor in partner.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Yeah, okay, but that's okay enough. Thing's good too. It's good,
sounds really good. How about a Fresca exit swollen down.
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Coming up next, we got the Play of the Day
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Speaker 2 (33:19):
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Speaker 1 (34:12):
Nixt TV on the call. Yes, another big win for
the Knicks. They beat the Grizzlies one thirty three to
one twenty Suddenly their offense is insane. And let me
just say this before we get to a big football story.
Ten games in and I can see where Mike Brown's
imprint is, specifically getting Karl Anthony Towns on board. He

(34:35):
is a He is a bit of a different player
from last year. Michel Bridges is a completely different player
from last year. He's the guy that's bought into the
system the most. They're using their bench really well. He's
playing the guys. He said he was gonna play the guys.
He's playing the mc clarkson's playing well. Heart's gonna be
dinged up all year, but he's still playing well. Yeah,
so far, I feel really good about this change going

(34:57):
forward because now other guys are starting to get on
locked under the Knick system. Little drama to start, but
now things are going pretty good.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
Yeah, you beseid like giving them what fifteen to twenty
minutes a night and being able to utilize the bench.
Just such a vast departure from what we've seen in
past years. High TIBs, so you get an opportunity to
maybe spell these guys a bit. So in games seventy
one through eighty two and throughout the playoffs, they're not

(35:26):
tripping over their tongues. What will be interesting is to
see your team actually win a game away from Madison Square.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Oh no, I don't know if you know this. The
Knicks get to play the rest of their games at MS.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Is that right? They changed, So it's a residency like
Billy Joel.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
Yeah, they get Yeah, whatever games they played on the road,
well you can't do them. They may want to replay them,
the losses, but all the rest of the games, all
the next seventy two all at home.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
So occasionally you do go out on the road just
because you realize the bank of the scarcity of it,
so everybody can make some extra cash. But otherwise it's
home games. You got to go on the road. Man
Guns and Roses have been on the road for a decade.
Last show, finally, at least for a minute, last show,
last show till the next show. But here's the thing,
even if they're not touring again, Duffin Slash will be

(36:10):
in the studio or back on tour. Momentarily so today
being the day after the Giants fire head coach Brian
Dable and the New York Post ad video of Brian Dable.
Here are the first pictures of Brian Dable since he
was fired, wearing a Penn State hoodie outside his house
in the snow. Hey, here's the first pictures of Brian
Dable after Who's fired?

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Uh. Bill Belichick was asked about the Giants opening at
his weekly press conference today, And maybe it's a couple
of wins under his belt now, but Bill Belichick going
back to being the old Bill Belichick when he's asked
about something he doesn't want to talk about it.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
And then when you got here, you said you're not
coming here at tea.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
But as soon as the Giants shot came over to
this shock, your name got thrown out there. I'm certainly
sure with other NFL jobs, What is your message to
players to recruits?

Speaker 3 (36:56):
I'm sure people are asking me about that. Who want
to come very right for Wake Forest. That's all I
got this week.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
As anyone ask you the players or recruits. I mean,
I've been asked about it from time to time.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
But yeah, i I've been done this real before I'm
focused on wake Forest. That's it, and that's my commitment
of this team. And next week it'll be to our
next opponent and so forth. But you know, I'm here
to do best I can for this team.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
All right, So the old Bill Belichick kind of coming back.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Still a little bit longer of an answer because normally
we would just get I'm focused on wake Forest. Yeah,
but Bill X, Y and Z and Dable and they
meant your name, Yeah, I'm focused on wake Forest. So
still a little bit of the old Bill Belichick because
they've won a couple of games, but still not so
comfortable that I can just go without giving an answer
to everybody. So maybe he's on his way back to

(37:51):
being the old Bill, But I think it's a little
bit of a push. We saw in it a couple of
weeks ago, right as they were in the middle of
that losing streak, and there were all the rumors and
and hit pieces coming left and right about what they
were and weren't doing in terms of recruiting and all
that other stuff, And we certainly talked about it, but
he very much was, Hey, I'm committed to this job.

(38:13):
Whatever happens happens, right, because there are started to be
a bunch of articles as other coaches started getting the
acts that whether Bill Belichick was gonna be next Guess
what a couple of wins. They're four and five and
they've got three winnable games to close out the season,
all of a sudden Bill Belichick Bowl Bowl Game and
building towards year two. But I would expect that response

(38:36):
like like, I got what do you want me to
do with this?

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Like good luck?

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Let me just let me just stop everybody right here,
Bill Bell. There is no way that is happening. There
is no Bill Belichick is persona non grada in the NFL.
He may not even make it past this year at
North Carolina. He's not going back. That would be the
worst thing for Jackson dart Is to have Bill Bell
Belichick coaching him. You saw what Belichick did with Mac Jones.

(39:02):
My god, he ruined the guy. And now finally, after
a couple of years later, Mac Jones is playing well
in San Francisco. He's ten years too late for this gig.
Right ten years ago, even five years ago, I could say, hey,
Giants head coaching job. Belichick wants to leave. Yeah, the
job he probably always wanted, but it's way too late
for him, and the Giants know this is not the

(39:23):
same Belichick. This is the Belichick that ruined the end
of the run for the Patriots that they needed three
years to dig out from that. Mike vrabel is finally
just digging out of it now because he wanted to
draft terribly. Because I'm not gonna set up the cupboard
and leave it, leave it full for my next guy
coming in. They know he is done. He is done.
He's a bad fit. He's not gonna be the next

(39:44):
head coach of the Giants. There is If that happens,
the Giants player should say, yeah, you know what not
coming to orc.

Speaker 3 (39:50):
I'll tell you this. The one thing that's the wild
card at all is maris still in charge. And what
has he done since red face Tom Coughlin left six
coaches one thing. I mean a couple of guys they
got fired with winning records. And here we sit and
yes it's Jackson Dart. Can you promise not to make
Matt Patrician the offensive coordinator. I wouldn't rule it out

(40:13):
categorically that it's cross Mayra's mind, but I think Belichick
wants to win in college so he can tell everybody
to stick it. Hey, Bill Belichick, if he goes there,
he can take Jackson Dart from being a great quarterback
into being a good quarterback.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
I'm also afraid that Jackson Dart's gonna be broken in
half by the end of the year, but we'll talk
about that a little bit later. I mean, you want
to he's great right now, because Jackson Dart is just
absolutely great. He'll become good to average if Belichick shows
up and the Giants know it, they know they look
like if they don't want to say, you don't want
to understand. I understand, you don't want to really just
continue to trample on the memory of Bill Belichick, NFL

(40:50):
head coach and the best head coach we have seen,
who has lost his fastball and is trying to stay
a head above water at North Carolina. But that is
absolutely not happening North Caroline Way, that's happening.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
The long road begins with the first step. You don't
build a program in seven games. But for the Patriots
out of it, or I should say the Giant side,
if he had Scatabo, I think Bill might be interested
if that guy were fully healthy and he had the
battery is Jackson darkly throwing nine passes a game and
Scatabo's getting thirty eight carries two yards.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
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Just search Jason Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get
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of version posted right after we get off the air. Now,
we'll get to that big NFL story in the second,
but I want to get get to this for a
couple seconds because this is something that's just really eerie today.
One of the big headlines in the NBA legend Michael

(42:10):
Ray Richardson, former Knicks NETS All Star. Many players of
the eighties called him the best guard they played against.
Isaiah Thomas said Dad. He passed away today at the
age of seventy.

Speaker 3 (42:21):
Hell of a career. I mean, you're talking about a
guy who played professionally for what nearly thirty years.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, I mean, you know, obviously he had difficulty. He
was banned from the NBA for drug usage, and he
went and played overseas. But he was the Knicks big
star when I first started watching basketball, right late seventies,
early eighties, and Knicks were absolutely terrible. Right, this is
a terrible team, But Sugar Ray Richardson was the guy
and kind of before his time because he was someone

(42:48):
who was like an eighteen seven and seven guy, terrific
defensive player, like he could do it all. Man, he
was when I started watching, he made me want to
be a point guard. So when I played basketball from
then on, in fifth grade, middle school, high school, we
played like he made me want to be a point guard.
Do I want to be the guy with the ball?
I want to be the guy at the top of
the key defending everybody. I want to be that guy.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Right, So you wanted to play keep away and control things.
Get that seeing Sugar Ray Richardson like he was my guy,
Like you know, it's and it's I just think about
you know, my guys, they're all they're all dying now,
my sugar, Ray Richardson died, Mike Bossi died, and Tom
Seaver died. It's just he had such he was so good, sugar,
Ray Richardson, And to think about this just for a

(43:29):
second last night before the show, and Alex Tyshert's gonna
pop on here for a second before the show. It
came in and came in to say hi to to
Rob and and Kelvin and the guys in the studio.
And Rob Gera is the producer of The Odd Couple,
and him and Ty Shirt sitting next to other, and
we had this quick conversation about the Lakers Celtics rivalry
in the eighties, like they were doing a topic on

(43:50):
the show. And I said, oh man, the Laker Celtics
rivalries were something, uh you know, basically it broke down
along coastal lines. Like if you were on the East
Coast you were a Celtics fan, you rooted for Larry
Bird and McHale and Dennis Johnson. In Parish and the
West coast you root it for Magic Johnson the Lakers, Right,
That's kind of way it went. And Ty Shirt you
said to me, so wait, you root it for the Celtics.

(44:11):
I go, well, when the playoffs came, the Knicks were
never in it. So in the early eighties, like you watch,
you know, the Celtics were great, the Knicks back. They
were in a couple of times. Man, it's just a
couple of times. And who did I say to you
is my favorite player last night? Who did I say?

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Because my guy was Sugar Ray Richardson, Like he was
the best player the Knicks had. Man, I mean, the
Knicks were really bad, but boy was he really really
good The first time I've talked about him. I don't
know the last time. Because I told that story to
my wife today. She goes, I've known you for thirty
five years. I have never heard you say his name,
and you said it last night. I said, yeah, I
said it last night, and today I saw the I

(44:46):
get online. I'm like, oh my god, the guy died,
Like that was the guy who told you about last night?
It was, I mean, it was. I can't get over
that that. I'm again, I don't know the last time
I talked about Sugar Ray Richardson. I really don't, but
I brought it up last night to them talking about
the rivalry, and I wake up to them like you
you've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
I'm just gonna call Michael Ray and distance him from
the Sugar. Well that was all thing because that was
Sugar Ray Leonard was a big deal back then. So
that's why I got Yeah but what mean yeah, well okay, yeah,
but that was still his nickname at the time. I'm
calling him Michael Ray. You know, I'm remembering him as
the basketball.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
And then he spelled his name differently, like he wanted
to go first, he went back to the A and
then you.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Know, see, I think secretly some of the teachers that
I encountered in school were Michael Ray Richardson fans because
they would spell Michael the other way. Well I don't
spell it that way. Yeah whatever, But yeah, man, you're
talking about a guy who both ends of the court,
big time contributions. Unfortunately, uh, your my bulls, your nicks

(45:48):
not not very good. But when they got together, boy, yeah,
they'd fight like kats and dogs.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
No they're not they're not They're not good. No, they
weren't good, which is why everybody gravitated to Lakers.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
And so, hey, the Celtics are in the playoffs. Let's
watch I just remember a drunken family member running way
after we advanced in the playoffs. We went to the
old Stadium and he's chanting beat Boston and suddenly had
more fans and friends around him than he ever did before.
But your Knicks, yeah, they were They were not good.
You know what did good things. I mean he was

(46:20):
on yeah short, terrifically Watts and others.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
He could do everything. He did it, He did it all.
It was great defensively. This is who the Knicks were
in the early eighties. You know how the Clippers put
out that season ticket package few years ago. We still
talk about where it was, Hey, we stink, but come
see the best teams in sports.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
They did it all the time. Advertisement in the newspaper.
That's what it was. For the Knicks.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
It was, Oh, the Knicks are playing the sixer tonight.
Doctor Jasey, Doctor j oh, Doctor Jay's on Channel nine.
I gotta watch the nixt night because they're playing. They're
gonna get killed, but I can see doctor j play.
All right, great, like that's what it was. Oh, they're
playing the Celtics again tonight. They're gonna get killed. But man,
Larry Bird, you get to see McHale and Parish do
their thing like that's what it was to watch the
Knicks in the early until they got you ing, That's

(47:04):
what it was.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
The Patrick man when he came in to put it
in perspective, he so loved the game of basketball and
traveled the globe to do it. Nineteen seventy eight was
when he made his debut. Finished in two thousand and two. Yeah,
it's a long time, stops across continents and many a
country guy saw a.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
Lot of basketball. Rest in peace, Sugar, Ray Richardson, Jason Smith,
Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Now
to a time where you know a head coach continues
to be in over his head today because you know
the Jets can have nice things coach, No, no Jets
can out No Fran Brown, Come on, man, he's a

(47:44):
whole kind of Stu. Aaron Glenn not happy that certain
injury information is led out to the public before the
Jets have had a chance to talk about it. Specifically
Garrett Wilson. We know he's now out for at least
a month after a knee injury. On Sunday and Rich Samini,
longtime Jets beat reporters been I think with the Post

(48:06):
for forty years.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
Yeah, Buddy and j Cole back and forth all the time.
It was he was the guy that had the story.

Speaker 1 (48:13):
And when he does his weekly press conference today on Tuesday,
and he's asked about injuries this week for certain players,
Aaron Glenn so upset figures that, well, don't ask me,
ask Rich Samini our new insider, because apparently he's got
all the answers.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
I'm going to pass on talking about the injuries since
you're Rich. He's not here.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
He has all the.

Speaker 6 (48:39):
Answers, so you can, guys can get all the injuries
from Rich. So I go right into this game.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
A candidate for I R.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
Is that not something you.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
Want to that's Rich? Well, I'm telling you that's Rich here, boy,
you better call him.

Speaker 2 (48:55):
No disrespect to you or Rich, but like we want
to hear it.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
From you, you know, like you guys have been here.

Speaker 6 (49:00):
You guys have been hearing from me. But now since
we're just reporting stuff you know that I haven't said,
and maybe you should ask you ask.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Rich, just as Grich to medi he's got all, you
got it all shouldn't get you job.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
And Woody Johnson fired this man just insider. You know,
here's here's the thing. Okay, so here's Eric.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
That's the heat you're that mad about that.

Speaker 1 (49:22):
He was someone who the job was too much for him,
And I said, at the beginning of the year, when
you're not going for it, when you're not when you're
not throwing a Hail Mary and deciding to go to halftime,
you do it a couple of times and some of
your decision making. I know the job is too much
for you, But like some other coaches, they grow into

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the job. And I knew I had no choice because
he has the backing of Woody Johnson and Darren Moogie. Right,
he's the They're gonna allow him to make whatever personelmos
they wanted. They didn't make any of these trades of
Sauce Gardener and Quentin Williams without getting his blessing because
right or wrong, and a lot of it's wrong. He
he's got carte blanche right now because he's the head

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coach that Woody Johnson likes.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
So I can.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Dislike it, but I have I gotta get used to
it because apparently he's here now. The last couple of
weeks I thought he's turning the corner a little bit.
Some of his game management's been a little bit better.
Some things he's done, some of the play calling that
they have has been a little bit better. You know,
they won a couple of games in a row and
then you get this here, which is just such elementary knucklehead.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
First year coach. I don't know. We have leaks in
the building and reporters know things. Dude, is this your
day one? Are you, Frankie?

Speaker 1 (50:34):
First year in the NFL? This is the first time
you hear and you've got a report that a reporter
has out there. I mean, this shouldn't surprise you. This
shouldn't be something that you want to you want to
go to war on and stand on this hill on. Yeah,
once in a while you're gonna get things that are
gonna get said that are broken that you don't want broken.
This is injury information that's out there. Sometimes it gets

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out there, that's how it goes. I'm sure it happened
with the Lions. I'm sure you've seen it when you
played for the Jets. I'm sure you've seen it all
your coaching stops throughout your life. But now, oh, I'm
gonna be mad and I'm gonna make it combative with
the media. Just ask Rich Rich has Rich Samani's been
there for forty years. He has outlasted every Jets head
coach and will outlast you. That's Rich Samani. This is

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how this is how it goes. And I see this
and I go, dude, you know this is how it
goes in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
You want to be mad about it, I get it.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
But to be petulant and to act like a like
a kid like Aaron Glenn. Come on, man, just when
you start getting a couple of weeks under your belt
where I think, okay, maybe it's not completely out of
his depth though out Let's go back here and let's
watch him have a fit because Rich Semini had an
injury ISSU. You know, sometimes sometimes agents say things, sometimes

(51:46):
players say things. I get you want to control the message.
Guess what you're not gonna be able to. This is
not the Patriots of the early two thousands, where there's
one voice and it's Bill Belichick and that's all you got.
That's not this case. I know you're trying to be
the guy in charge of the entire operation. That's not
gonna happen. Man, You gotta I see this, and I'd say,
you gotta just understand what it means to be a
head coach and pick your battles. This is why you

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see I see guys like Ben Johnson succeeding because like, okay,
he's learned his lessons the first two three weeks, like
I've seen it, that's been He's been terrific. He has
learned this is what I can do, this is what
I can't do. In the last six eight weeks has
been a huge adjustment for him, and this is why
the Bears are good. Like you gotta be able to understand,
pick your battles. Don't go crazy over.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Stuff like this all the time. Yeah, I mean this one.
You want to address the team, You want to address
different personnel and try to talk to them about Hey,
anything where we can maybe gain a little bit of
an advantage by not letting all of our our injury
issues out into public. All the better. But the reality
is rich to medi was there, you know what, he
started five years before Aaron Glenn he gan his fifteen

(52:50):
year career as a player. Okay, he was there to
welcome you in when you are fresh faced rookie for
the Jets all those years ago in nineteen ninety four,
already was going into his sixth year with the team
and covering the team at that point. So Rich and
maybe he's got beef with Rich going all the way
back to his playing days. I don't know, but we

(53:13):
talked with Jay Guizer all the time about it being
how big a relationship business it is. Everything is right,
no matter what you do for a living, whatever you're
doing out there making your ways on the highways and byways,
we appreciate you being part of the family. But you
recognize it.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
Right, you know, the kill him with kindness, you know,
a lesson that we sometimes forget. But in this business,
if you've got someone inside the building, and let's face it,
a lot of the players do it.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Themselves, going to social media or telling a jackass buddy
as they walk out. Guess what, there's a reporter standing there.
Because you know.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Who's learned that lesson is Mike Tomlin, right, Mike Tomlin
used to hate the fact that stuff would get Leake
Roethlisberger telling the post case at Ned Bouchette like he
would hate that good old But after a while he
is tamped it down because he gets Okay, I'm not
gonna win this war. Once in a while I have
a snarky comment about the median injuries, but he gets it.
This is not a battle that should that I should

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be fighting.

Speaker 3 (54:11):
This is not.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
So this is where you can know that I'm displeased
about it, but this is just how it goes in
the NFL. And Aaron Glenn, who is fighting so much
of a war, I'm like, dude, you gotta understand that
this is not. If this is your first day in
the NFL, I get it, but it's not. And I
just look at this and I go, oh, man, I
really thought we were getting somewhere.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
I really thought we had progress, and now we don't
have progress. No, but make your statement about Rich But
then you've got all these other working media that are
asking you for your quote, for your information whatever. Being
a petty child doesn't help your cause because guess what
the next sixth game losing streak is right around the corner.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
Exit up about a Fresca exit swelling dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Time
how to find out what's trending in the wide world
of sports.

Speaker 3 (54:59):
So someone who been called the Aaron Glenn of Fox
Sports Radio. If you ask me a question, he doesn't know,
he's going to tell you to ask Rich too. It's
Steve the saga.

Speaker 5 (55:10):
I do think that's funny and you know, a little
repulsive at the same time. Actually, the NFL jet Steve
Well like I said, same thing. It's a little funny
and a little repulsive at the same time. Jaguars rookie Travis.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Is a little bit country. It's a little bit rock
and roll. Sure, okay, Donny Marie reference kids.

Speaker 5 (55:28):
Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter is out for the year after
knee surgery. He was injured in practiced a couple of
weeks ago. Three agent defensive back as Sante Samuel Junior
will sign with the Steelers practice squad. Packers offensive lineman
Elgton Jenkins was hurt last night.

Speaker 3 (55:43):
He was placed on.

Speaker 5 (55:43):
Injured reserve today with a broken leg. The ten game
suspension of former Ravens kicker Justin Tucker was lifted he
ad violated the league's personal conduct policy, and defensive back
JayR Alexander, now with Philadelphia, is stepping away from football
to get right physically and mentally.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
In the new college football playoff rankings.

Speaker 5 (56:01):
Tonight, the top five stayed the same, led by number
one Ohio State. Texas Tech is up to number six.
Texas importantly is up to number ten. It's looking like
anyone in the top ten goes to the playoff, but
currently number eleven Oklahoma would not make the College Football Playoff. Instead,
the ACC's highest ranked would that's number fifteen Miami right

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now and also number four twenty four South Florida would
get in as the best of the group of five teams.
BYU fell to number twelve this evening. Utah still number thirteen,
Virginia is down to nineteen, Louisville down to twenty. Louisville
basketball at home be rival Kentucky tonight ninety six to
eighty eight. Number six Michigan played in Detroit and won

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in overtime against Wake Forest eighty five eighty four tenths
ranked Florida at home edge Florida State seventy eight seventy six,
Illinois at homeby Texas Tech eighty one seventy seven in
a top twenty matchup, and currently we've got a top
twenty matchup of Gonzaga hosting Creighton each in the top
twenty five. I should say Zags lead sixty three forty
five with twelve minutes to go. Among the nine NHL

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games wins for Washington and La on the road, Boston
won at seventh straight, Dallas an overtime winner, at Ottawa
three to two, and at Colorado end of two Avalanche
two to one over the Ducks. The NBA this evening
announced a new format for this season's All Star Game,
the US against the World in LA in February. Two

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teams of American All Stars, one team of international players, and.

Speaker 1 (57:32):
We get to play all of the both teams at
the same time, and we get ten on the floor.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
They get five. There's not even gonna be ten on
a roster.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
It's still going to be close because they're going to
play Wenbyn Giannis at the same time and we're going
to get cooked.

Speaker 5 (57:44):
Yeah, that might be happening. Actually, round robin format. So
a total of four twelve minute games that day at
the Clippers Arena, twenty four total All Stars, twelve selected
from each conference. The Mavericks fired general manager Nico Harrison.
He'd been the GM for Dallas since twenty twenty one.
You may have heard he traded Lukadansich to the Lakers
last February in the NBA's late game. They're winding down

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the first quarter at Sacramento and it's the Kings thirty
four to thirty three over the Nuggets, although Denver did
get twelve points in the first twelve minutes from Nikola Jokic.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Utah has just.

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Won its home game one fifty two to one twenty
eight over the Indiana Pacers, or what's left of him.

Speaker 3 (58:24):
The Pacers are one and ten.

Speaker 5 (58:27):
Brooklyn no such excuse one in ten after losing it
home to Toronto. Knicks won their fifth straight Philadelphia edge
Boston and Oklahoma City as eleven and one after beating
Golden State one twenty six to one oh two. Shake
Gilgess Alexander in twenty eight minutes had twenty eight points
eleven assists. The Golden State Warriors record is six and six.

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American League Manager of the Year Cleveland Stephen votes n
OL Manager of the Year, The Brewers Pat Murphy each
repeat winners.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
Back to You, Thank You, Steve.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carr
coming up next. An NFL quarterback Big time in the news.
The last twenty four hours, and it's just it's Fretey.
He hasn't made news in a while. Yeah, hasn't made
news in a while. But you talk about being ahead
of the curve on this story, I'll tell you why.

(59:17):
Coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio,