Hour 1 – ZERO Chance Bill Belichick Coaches the Giants

Happy Veterans Day from the FSR studios. You think it was the Mavericks who fired Nico Harrison? Think again. And Bill Belichick downplays the NY Giants coaching vacancy!

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buying should be. Hundred and thirty points. Three straight games,
a franchise record of fifty five threes, Yeah here coming next.
No no, no, a franchise record fifty five attempted. Yeah

(01:11):
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? I have fifty five threes the Knicks
had tonight attempts fifty five franchise record, a lot of ice.
Bucket's going to get a workout in the post game.
Three straight games with one hundred and thirty or more points. Yeah,

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but they still may just sweat down the stretch for
a minute. It's it's look, it's it's all I have.
There's a miss layup, heer's a bad fall on an
inbounds playing. Yeah, all my other teams, and all my
teams are awful. Take it's low. All the others are awful.
Had you predicted the Jets to the Super Bowl two
years ago? Two years ago? Two years ago? You either

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have to say it's new or you're indicting members of
stat No, because people wonder if I'm okay. Good dude,
come into the season with a new head coach that
really is out of his depth and justin Fields a quarterback.
You predicted the Super Bowl?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, I did not.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
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 tape. No, no, no, today today Aaron Glenn has
taken on beat writers well you know, upset like uh boy,
but yeah, he to New York. That's what he does.
This is how it goes. Uh. We will have big

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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's gone, Magic's God, everything else is gone and we're
gonna have just the Nico and it's gonna be larger
than life. No. I think when you go to Crypto,

(02:52):
you'll end up sitting between Nico Harrison and Chick Her Nico.
He gets a place of prominence when 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 the gut. Hey, Nico Harrison, here, you got

(03:13):
you know, we want you to sit here because boy,
you really save the franchise straight to that level of prominence. Look,
I mean we don't have proof of concept just yet.
And I mean it looks great and they're playing, well,
you know, do you got to finish the job first
before you fully make that statue. Well, he's what would
the pose be? Is he sitting there with a pen
in hand or no him? It would be well, you'd

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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 that that's where you gotta go. That'd be awesome.
You're welcome. Yes, Nico Harrison fired as general manager of

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the Dallas Mavericksday 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 top of the college football rankings. Georgia

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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 cham non Power four champion is going to get
in that South Florida, the ACC champion is going to

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get in as well. So just get that. You see
this twelve of you, there's still a couple of things
that are gonna happen with this poll. 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 specific

(05:00):
about squads. Right, so, okay, what what's the deal with
Texas Tech style points? Yeah, and I want to triple
underscore that because we're back to the old era of
the pollsters. Yea, with a couple of these things. Right
with Miami, Miami, they seem to we love their offense,
the consistency of their offense, that's what we want. But

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for Technas Tech, they flat out set too many field goals. Yeah,
like whoa, whoa, whoa now now no, no, now again
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

(05:43):
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,
we're back to brass tacks, like now they kick too
many field goals? Yeah, I mean like to hear the
quotes about the different and it's great that there's transparence.
I love the transparency where they talk about Texas Tech

(06:03):
kicking too many field goals and also member, you know
road saying about Miami. 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 suses itself out right, We're not gonna

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get to three weeks or three games from now. We
have the last couple of games, and then we have
the conference championships, where we're going to 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

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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. 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

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sticky wicket of who gets into that eleventh and twelve
slot and who doesn't. Which is why I'm telling you
they're going to have to go to sixteen at some point,
because you're going to 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

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to do it. Because think about this, right, you have
a couple of teams that control their own destiny outside
of the top twelve. Right now, right, 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,

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Oregon UCLA. Right, so wait a minute, they 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 championsip 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

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couple of those wins, but they lost a Big Ten championship.
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
got to be in. Right, you're beating number one team

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in the country. You got to get in. But then
Michigan goes the Big Ten title game and they lose.
Do 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

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playing in that conference championship game. You're not playing some
you know, fly by ninet team that you know win
that wins their way in. Like it's like it's the
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 title, okay,
you're supposed to lose that, But if you have these
other big wins, like that's gonna be the biggest thing

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that the committee's got to decide is, boy, do we
take this three loss team, do we take this two
loss team? 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

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to the conference title game because you're clinching a playoff spot,
which is great, right, you get in, you clinch, you
can celebrate, it's a fun thing to do. And you
are playing for a buye. 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 backup. So you're playing for
a home game, you're playing for a buye. However you
want it to go. There's still some things really at

(09:59):
state hmmm, steak in the conference title game. So that's
the that's gonna be the biggest. All this other stuff
and style points that will want 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?

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That's gonna be your big question. 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

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where we get back into the we've 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. I'd it's the same thing here. There's
this giant, nebulous gray area of what gets us to

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our final twelve teams. Because the difference between two losses
and three seems elemental? All right, Pree granted the two Yeah,
it's done. 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

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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 forty two to three two, so that yeah,
But I mean if they get watched, it helps to
solve that that part of the equation. Case, you can
just say, Okay, that third loss was a disaster. This

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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, you know, field goals they won not 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

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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 their number
twenty five, you know what I mean. Like the way
these things work, I can imagine some of the big
conferences coming back doing the old all right, here's you know,

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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 really have
that argument for that sixteen team expansion near term. We're
getting there. I'm telling you, you know, 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

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the sixty seven six seventh, but it was okay, Hey,
three loss team not in the conference yet, it was okay.
But in that conference championship game. That's a thing. That's
a thing, Mike Harmon. 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.

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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 out about a
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today and the Mavericks fired g Nico Harrison months after

(16:03):
the ill advised Luka Doncics trade to the Lakers under
cover of night. Yeah, yeah, we want no more publicity
for this now. 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

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all day about this. Yes, the trade has failed. Obviously
it's failed. Luka Doncic just started to out with an
MVP season already for the Lakers. He is, I mean,
he's scoring forty points a game. 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.

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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 got fired. And the Mavericks
didn't fire Nico. The Mavericks didn't fire Nico. Not fire Nico.
I will tell you who fired Nico. This is not

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like changing it up a little bit. No, no, no, no,
I'll tell you who fired Nico. If it wasn't the Maverick.
Mavericker you look it may say that, hey we've decided. No, no, no,
The Mavericks did not fire Nico. They did not. The
fans fired Nko. I really thought you were going to

(17:27):
full Brett.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Screwed Brett.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
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, by and large, I
get that, But and I give you them a tumbo
finger wag, not always because this is exactly why Harrison

(17:56):
got fired because of the fans. The Mavericks make this trade.
Was it an unpopular trade? Yes? Could it have 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

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are an embarrassment and you can't go forward with fans
continue to be pissed off at your team. 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 3 (18:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
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 negative and they're upset, you kind

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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

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never been able to make it's a breakup that you're like, guys,
it's been a year later, Okay, if 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. Ah. 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 But no, dude, it's not. They're not
coming back. But they've not moved past this. And that's

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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 at the end of
the year, and to get into the playoffs. Hey, number
one pick in the draft. Guys, we got Flag. It's awesome.
Now suddenly we're gonna really do some things. But they

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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 never going
to change. So yes, that's why they fired Nico Harrison
because they need a fresh start before this season spirals
out of control. Because you know, listen, you're talking about

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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 right time,
because now fans can stop being pissed and can get
back into it, and there's a much better aura around
the team. There's a much more sense of going forward.

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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 it is
beyond the chanting. You had a very big streak end
at their latest home game for the first time in
twenty four years. It was not a sellout in Dallas, right,

(21:08):
I equate it again. Go back to the trade. We
can get into the particulars of it. It's kind of
like Jerry trading Michael Parsons away. Not 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
Fanos and he's just wearing it, and then he just
brushes them off because eventually he's proven kind of right

(21:31):
with Nico Harrison, the same thing here, like he got
a Heroes welcome for about a minute, right once whatever
you decide on conspiracy theories and whatever. 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 you got problems.
But they fall to three and eight and they're not

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getting healthy anytime soon. The Western Conference is pretty deep,
so you can fix the glitch, 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

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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 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

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just having turned eighteen would have the same effect on
the NBA as Lebron James had, just what nobody's Lebron James.
And you know how much it pains me to say that.
So here we are where you fix the glitch and
you get a little bit of good will saying we're
advancing this, we're moving forward. And whoever gets chosen a

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ultimately to lead this squad into the next era, whether
they again make more trades and shuffle up this roster
and say, okay, Cooper Flag, who do you want to
play with? 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 then we move forward. This is think

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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 that's
why that's why guys get cut because every time I
see him, I think back to that missed field goal.

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But just think of every time every Dallas fans, anytime
anythan saw Nico Harrison, it was that's the guy that
screwed up and him right. But you can't have you
can't have your general nager be someone that every time
he is seen by anyone on video or in person,

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it's guy traded Lucas screwed the franchise. You can't have that.
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. But here's the thing.
You we talked about it a little before. You want
to build a statue here for Nico in Los Angeles,

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Do you build a statue of him? Or is it
Michael Finley and a can of beer? No? No, no, no, no.
Nico is one set that in motion. He was the fall,
He was the emissary. Nico was. Nico was the one
who made the trade. Look, you heard Sean Serrania say today,
this was Nico Harrison's calls. What Nico wanted to do.
He's a No, Nico's the guy. He's the guy. He

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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. One hundred percent. You have to
and really he was just following order. You can't. You
can get 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 down town and
go look at Crypto man like that. The arena is

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dwarfed by the Nico Harrison Statue.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
It looks like Galactys fantastic.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Like when I remember when my wife and I UH
driving across country to drive to La. We went to UH.
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.
And I remember going this. We went there in the
late nineties and they said, yeah, this has been going

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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 Crazy
Horse Monument is. I remember looking at it. We were
there and in ninety six is when we were there,
seeing it was just a little bit of his head

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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 that it's up
there so you can start planning it now. I mean
you you can't put it in, you know, in cement

(26:24):
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 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 Gretzky one. Look, we gave
Gretzky the Gretzky statue, so he was happy to have that.
But yeah, there's there's no room for anything else. Yeah,

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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. I feel pretty good if I'm the Lakers
right now after this start with lou and not having
to work. Think about the Lakers start this year. You
were gonna say, you don't have to worry, you know, James,
because you don't have to worry about Lebron James and
being healthy and how he fits into this team, because

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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
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

(27:28):
Lakers start losing, Lebron, guess what, Nope, not happen anymore. Man,
Go get your points. Michael walking out and takes whatever
he needs. Go get your points. But the Lakers, you
didn't think this is going to be a great start.
They've missed Luca for a little bit, they've missed Rees
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

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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 in this team on my back. Start by
Luca is the best thing you could possibly ask for.
The Lakers fan base has already embraced Luca more than
they embraced Lebron when he came. Uh, you know six

(28:10):
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 arm's 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,
uh business activities. Okay, 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

(28:31):
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 just gonna come back to this. Uh,
for all of you out there globally, find someone who
loves you like Jason loves Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves. Hey,

(28:54):
Austin Reeves is fantastic. I'm sorry you don't like I mean, look,
i'd like it. Don't look, you've elevated the Jordan Pippen.
You're a hater game. He's way better than Pippin. He
probably yeah, that's probably again. Yeah. The only thing here's
a side napkin. I mean, forty eight thousand dollars worth
of service. Pippin's got a better bourbon. But that's about it.

(29:18):
It is pretty good, is it good? I got that
and I got the lebron What was it? The Cavassier? Oh?
Really very nice? Okay, time out 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 Desager. Hey, I hope I can live
up to that lofty villain. Not only did the Mavericks

(29:41):
fire general manager Nico Harrison today news from the league. Tonight,
the NBA announcing a new format for this season's All
Star Game, the US against the World in LA in February.
Two teams of American All Stars one team of international
players in a round robin format, a total of four
twelve games that day, twenty four total All Stars, twelve

(30:03):
from each conference. Sun's 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 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 to one hundred. The Celtics record
now five and seven. Oklahoma City's eleven and one after

(30:26):
blitzing Golden State one twenty six to one oh two.
Shay Gilgis Alexander twenty eight points eleven assists in 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

(30:49):
star guard Michael Ray Richardson died at the age of seventy.
He was drafted number four overall in nineteen seventy eight,
also played for the Nets. In college basketball, Louisville held
on to be rival Kentucky ninety six eighty eight. Number
six Michigan won in overtime against Wake Forest eighty five
eighty four. Tenth thrank Florida edge Florida State seventy eight

(31:09):
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 seventy
four to sixty seven. Seven rank BYU has taken the
lead on Delaware fifty five to fifty two with about
eleven minutes to play. Among the nine NHL games, laa
five to one winner at Montreal, Dallas won in overtime

(31:31):
at Ottawa three to two. Washington a four to one
winner at Carolina. In the new college football playoff rankings,
the top five stayed the same, led by number one
Ohio State Texas Tech is up to number six. Texas
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

(31:54):
Alcarez won another match at the season ending atp Finals,
and the American League Manager of the 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 4 (32:13):
In fact, it was seventeen votes to ten the og H,
however he spells it and the NL Manager of the
Year of repeat winner as well the Brewers Pat Murphy.
He got twenty seven of the thirty first place votes. Milwaukee,
in the number one overall seed this year, had ninety
seven wins.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Back to you and TJ clearly. John Schneider finding a
lot of hazard in winning American League Manager of the Year.
But he's just a good old boy, absolutely true. Thanks
to going sake. Thank you, Steve, And I misspoke it
was Hennessy, right, because that's a lead sponsor in partner. Yeah, Okay,
but that's okay. One thing's good too. It's good, sounds

(32:54):
really good. Exit outbout a Fresca. Exit swalling down to
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Up next,
we got the Play of the Day coming your way,
and you're not gonna believe who add the field? Questions
about being the next Giants head coach. That's next, Jason
to Mike Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
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Speaker 1 (33:22):
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tire buying should be. Well. When you have three games
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be after the miss got back and forced to steal
Towns nixt TV on the call. Yes, another big win

(34:09):
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 is a He is a bit of a different

(34:29):
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 m 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

(34:49):
forward because now other guys are starting to get unlocked
under the Knick system. Little drauma to start, but now
things are going pretty good. Yeah, you be said, I
giving them what fifteen to twenty minute to 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

(35:13):
a bit. So in games seventy one through eighty two
and throughout the playoffs, they're not tripping over their tongues.
What will be interesting is to see your team actually
win a game away from Madison Square. Oh no, I
don't know if you know this. The Knicks get to
play the rest of their games at MS. Is that right?
They change, so it's a residency like Billy Joel. Yeah,
they get.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
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 next seventy
two all at home. 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 the road finally at

(35:54):
least for a minute, last show, last show till the
next show. But here's the thing, even if they they're
not touring again, Duffin Slash will be 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,

(36:16):
wearing a Penn State hoodie outside his house in the snow. Hey,
here's the first pictures of Brian Dable after who's fired.
H 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

(36:36):
about something he doesn't want to talk about it. And
then when you got here, you said that you're not
coming here at eating. But as soon as the Giants
shot came over to this Jack, your name got thrown
out there. I'm certain sure with other NFL jobs, What
is your message to players to recruits? I'm sure people
are asking me about that. He who want to come in? Yeah,
rightful way for us.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
That's all I got this week.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
As anyone asks you, the players or the Greek.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Tommy, I've been asked about it from tom to time.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
But.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
I I've been done this real before. I'm focused on
wake Forest.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
That's it, and that's my commandment of this team.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
And next week it'll be to our next opponent and
so forth.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
But you know, I'm here to do best I can
for this team, all right, So the old Bill Belichick
kind of coming back. Still a little bit longer of
an answer because no, only we would just get I'm
focused on wake Forest. Yeah, but Bill X, Y and
Z and Dable and they mention 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

(37:40):
without giving an answer to everybody. So maybe he's on
his way back to being the old Bill, But I
think it's a little bit of a push. We saw
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. I've we certainly
talked about it, but he very much was, Hey, I'm

(38:05):
committed to this job. 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

(38:28):
would expect that response like loo, I got what do
you want me to do with this? Like good luck?
Let me just let me just stop everybody right here, Bill.
But 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

(38:50):
worst thing for Jackson Dart is to have Bill Belichick
coaching him. You saw it Belichick did with Matt Jones.
By god, he ruined the guy. And now finally, after
a couple of years later, 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

(39:10):
job he probably always wanted, but it's way too late
for him, and the Giants know this is not the
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 Rabel 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

(39:31):
coming in. They know he is done. He is done.
He's a bad fit. He's not gonna be the next
head coach of the Giants. There is If that happens,
the Giants players should say, yeah, you know what, not
coming to work. 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 fa I mean a couple of

(39:54):
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 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

(40:17):
great quarterback into being a good quarterback. I'm also afraid
that Jackson Dart's going to 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,

(40:38):
I understand, you don't want to really just continue to
trample on the memory of Bill Belichick, NFL head coach
and the best head coach we have seen, who has
lost his fastball and is trying to stay head above
water at North Carolina. But that is absolutely not happening
at North Carolina. Way that's happening. 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

(41:00):
I should say the Giant side, if he had scatterbo
I think Bill might be interested if that guy were
fully healthy, and he had the battery ram. Why is
Jackson dartingly throwing nine passes a game and Scattabo's getting
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