November 21, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason and Mike react to a lackluster performance from Al Michaels on one of the most exciting games of the season. Texans look like dark horse in the playoff run. Plus, Buffalo Bill vs Stranger Things and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show with
my bes friend Mike Harmon. The big hero of the night,
not who you thought it was. We got that coming
up in about twenty minutes. But we have to talk
about al Michaels. Earlier today, an interview went out where
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al Michaels was asked about his future. Al Michaels is
play by play for TNF, the much maligned al Michaels
the past couple of years, complaining about the games. You know,
it's hard to get excited about these bad games. On
Thursday night, which was really a bad misstep by him,
but he talked about his future. He said, I'd like
to come back next year. It's a two way street,
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but I'm enjoying and I'm having fun. Michaels is eighty one,
and he says, I'm enjoying. I'm having fun doing the
game at the kirk kurvetreet on Thursday night. So a
little bit of a different tack from these games. These games,
these games, well, you know, you learn your lesson, right,
We've all been singed one way or another. I think
Michael's realizing, oh, oh, I'm not. I don't hold the
same sway that I when I was calling games at
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ESPN and ABC. I'm not the oh al Michaels, who
is the greatest play by play guy? And it was
I'm sure d Amazon's saying, hey, yeah, we have the
games now, We're good, So we don't need you anymore.
We don't need you to sell the games anymore. Fast
forwarding though, I mean, we've got the Black Friday game,
which is the Bears and the Eagles. Yeah, when is
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he gonna sell me a blender? Well, there's certain things
nderstand you have to do during a broadcast, and I
get that, do you have to goy? Hey, you know
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various athletes and you know, celebrities all the way through. Yeah,
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want a thriller. You want some sort of big time relationship. Hey,
you got Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins read all three ninety
nine right now? What but he wants to come back? Okay?
And it is. Hey, when a couple of years ago
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when they got when they got the rights, it was okay,
we need we need gravitas, right, we need, we need something.
But now the games are on Amazon. They have a
pretty good, pretty well respected pre show with Ryan Fitzpatrick
and a lot of the guys. So okay, so okay, Now,
al Michael's not quite the Hey, we have to have
al And especially when you see every week there is
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comment on his play by playability, his performance level, and
it's kind of like what I saw at the end
with Chris Berman at ESPN where whatever he was on
TV doing something, the social media reaction was just over
the top. Berman, what is he doing? I don't understand us,
and eventually what happened. You hardly ever see Chris Berman anymore, right,
because because the ESPN very conscious social media, they feel
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like people aren't watching the game because they don't like
Chris Berman. And so so now Berman's on ESPN plus
plus whatever it is doing primetime with Booger McFarlane. You
barely see him anymore. The guy built ESPN, okay, the
guy bleeping him gets his fast. And this is how
it is now, for better or for worse. Companies see
something on social media, and when you see it enough,
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you wake up in the morning going, I really don't
need to see this anymore. I don't need to wake
up after every nine and see Chris Berman trending and
everybody hates him, right, I don't need to see after
every Monday night game our booth of Steve Leevy and
Booger McFarlane and Jason Witten get absolutely dragged through the
mud on how bad of a broadcast it is. So
we got to go make a move, all right, This
is where social media is very powerful. So al Michaels,
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if I'm al Michaels, I gotta say I got to
make sure I bring my fastball. Every single chance I
get right, every single chance I get, I got to
bring my fastball. And this brings us to one of
the biggest plays of the year that we saw tonight. Now,
it didn't turn out to be the biggest play because
had the Bills won the game, it would have been
the biggest play. But fourth and twenty seven for the
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Bills in the fourth quarter on their final drive, fourth
and twenty seven and Josh Allen completes a hooken ladder
pass which Khalil Shakir takes the ball at midfield and
runs for a first down. It's a forty some odd
yard play on fourth and twenty seven. It should have
never happened, and it did. And Stingley was the guy
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that made it happen because he left his own when
the ball was caught in the middle of the field
to go and make the tackle. He didn't stay and
Shakira had an easy run for the first down. It's
an incredibly exciting play. I mean, it's the play that
you call you say, oh my goodness, Like we spent
a whole segment talking about that play after it happened. Well, sure,
and what it's set up or potentially set up, and
how they found the space that the past to Palmer
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and how the you know, we got the all twenty
two basically live right. We got that overhead shot showing
exactly how much of that side of the field was
left wide open because Stingley vacated. Like, what do you do?
Like I can see the film session tomorrow, dude, what
are you doing here? What are you doing? Why do
you we got four guys to tackle them in middle
of the field. What are you doing? What are you doing?
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Just pointing with the plazer pointer? And what's the more
exacerbated thing, because I mean, how many times do you
say that with a defensive end, right, you got to
stay home instead of getting into the gap thinking you've
got an opportunity and all of a sudden they get
around you. This was that on steroids. So it's one
of the more exciting, most the most exciting plays in
the league this year. Here's the play call on Bill's
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radio WGR. Here's how the Bills called the fourth and twenty.
Here's the snap, four man rush. Alan throws it over
the middle. It's complete to Palmer, hooking ladder and they're.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Gonna get the first down. Up the sideline is Shakir
and he's out of pounds at the twenty six yard line.
The hooking ladder, Baby, you called it forty six yards.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Holy smokes. Give the Bills life and maybe Joe Brady
gets a head coaching job just for that call. He
drops some mike to you, what do you do? We
got the rest of the drive, dude, I just became
a head coach in the NFL. After that, I'm gonna
take over somewhere. I'm gonna take over in Atlanta. So
I'm just gonna go down there right now. I'm actually
just going down to the sideline right now and taking
the headset from Sean mcdermot's here. Just love me do
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the thing. So there's your call to do it myself.
Now you expect the Bills radio network to be excited about.
Here's al Michael's call of the exact same play.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Four man rush again with a spy and then you
got a ladder room and it's gonna be inside Texas
territory with Shakir.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So kind of a typical al Michael's call. The play
kind of takes them by surprise a little bit. Here's
a little play a little and a little you don't
know what the play is. Here's a pass and Khalil
Shakir gets the first down, Like you get zero description
on what exactly happened on that play? Did he not know?
It was Palmer? So give you the first half spot
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he didn't get it to him? Get it ready to
play it? Play it one more time. Let's hear them
Michael's call one more time, four man.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Rush again with a spy and then you got a
ladder and it's gonna be inside Texas territory.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
With Shakir right like that's a I mean, yes, you're
watching on television, so you see it. But you hear
that call and you say, wow, man, like that's that's
the most exciting play in the NFL maybe this year,
and everybody is watching and and you just gotta here's
a pet like a Pat said, that's a Pat Summer
all did, right, Pat Somemer say, back to pass, hooking,
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ladder down like he did all this stuff going on
and that was his whole big like that was it.
For as long as we watched Pat Summer, all it
was all about word economy, right, oh that would right now,
All the way he did things that just let everything
tell the tale. So this call is now getting a
lot of attention on the internet. Here's al Michael's calling
this play and everything else. And I would I want
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to say this right because it's it's it gets to
a point where everybody realizes when you do stuff for
a living. My fastball is gone, right, my fastball is gone.
I don't have it anymore, and it's time for me
to move on. Let somebody else do it right now.
Al Michaels has been doing this for a long time.
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I can't tell you that as fastball is gone, I
can't tell you that it's about his interest level. But
the best thing I can say is this is that
after tonight, if I'm al Michael's agent, if I'm Kirk Kurbs,
if I'm somebody, I tell him al here's the deal.
Amazon doesn't need us anymore. Okay, even Kirkursey, they don't
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need me anymore. Right, they don't need me. No, they
need my dogs because the dogs are really good. Dog
dogs are po yes, And I was something I would say,
you have to call every one of these games like
its miracle on ice. You have. If you can do that,
they'll maybe you'll stay another year. Maybe you don't go
out on your own terms, whatever it is. But the
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more that that Amazon keeps getting up on Friday morning
and seeing the story of the game and then seeing
can you believe al Michael's call? How bad it was? Now,
it's not the worst call in the world, but it
clearly isn't what you would expect the most exciting play
of the season in the NFL to be. So you
gotta tell them you got to bring your fastball every
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single night. You got to be able to If you
can't do that, guess what This is gonna be your
last year calling games. And I don't know if if
I mean, if you're gonna work again after this or
if you're gonna be doing regional college football like I
don't know, but you've You've done every big game. You're
the most decor rated broadcaster in the history of sports.
You want to you want to call your way out
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like you can and for al Michael's to say, yeah,
it's a two way street. I want to come back
see if they want me. If you have the energy,
if you have that desire, you got to see it
now not always can you do it? Because you know,
you know physically, where are you with the travel with
everything else? Again, the guy's eighty one, right, so I
mean again, But I don't want to say he's lost
his fastball because I've seen him call games great, see
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him when he's interested. Sometimes it could be it's too
late at night, you know, I don't know, like it's
all even though you're spending most of your life, you
know you're working at night. There's a lot of things
and go along. But the best to be positive and
and to think forward is that if you want to
keep doing this, man, you got to make sure that
that the story the next day isn't Al Michael's call
on Amazon, because Amazon's gonna say, Okay, we're gonna go
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give a dump truck full of money to somebody else
because we have endless amounts of money. Because we do
Amazon that they have endless amounts of money, right, we don't.
Al You're great and we needed you, and we get
give me a lot of money for these couple of years.
But now hey, we got somebody who was either younger,
more exciting, energetic. Somebody people on social media love. They
probably do all sorts of of of of interactions and
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consultants and figure out Q ratings is that they will
do all of that because that's how it's done. So
if you want to do it the games you got left,
you got to show that man, I am on it
and I still have my fastball and I can be
this guy because that's that's because after tonight, like I mean,
you're going to see another night of this is the
biggest play in the NFL this year, and al Michael's
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call was was what it was. Well, you're seeing it already.
I mean there's a lot of stumbling and mumbling videos
and everything being attributed to to al Michaels. Uh much
like you know, we we we keep the the boomerisms
here for Chris Berman, but you know he still does
his job. But you know there's that love hate thing
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with al Michaels. In this particular instance, with this play,
how much of it was word economy and letting the
picture tell the tail versus there was just gaps in
terms of who the players were, the knowledge, et cetera.
Because if you're watching it, maybe you don't notice it
as much. Maybe unless you're obsessing with it. Right, if
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you're a media critic, then certainly it's the first thing
that comes to mind. But we've watched a lot of turnover,
a lot of churn, and guys getting new opportunities in
this business, any every business at this point, right is younger,
cheaper energy, whatever the case may be. But for al Michaels,
you'd love for a guy to be able to walk
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out on his own terms, right, to be able to say, hey,
I've done it. I don't want to do the traveled
all the things that you laid out, but certainly these
kind of plays because it's a standalone game, that's the thing.
It's not buried in the middle of an early Sunday
window to where you're now on the third team or whatever. No, no,
this is still a premium property and premium and for
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the most part, and even this one, it's twenty three
to nineteen. Yeah again, pisar human contaminant thing, which I
think is just funny as hell. But it's twenty three nineteen,
So it's final possession of the game, a big play
and and it ends with some juice. But there's that
gap where it's like, all right, are you letting the
picture tell or is there just not like and without
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having the ability to go watch the rest of the game.
Obviously you and I are on air, so we'd have
to go back and watch it a little more, you know,
closely with volume. But this is certainly being picked up
as the latest example for Al and those earlier comments
from a couple of years ago don't serve him. Well, no,
not at all, right, no matter how much you may
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have had a great year because the games were great
a year ago, because we had a lot of great
Thursday games, and even this year we've had some really
good games the last few weeks. Okay, but no, we've
been this is a good one tonight. But what do
we always say, as long as it's close late, you
got to sell the hell out of it, right, even
if you're not getting eighty points of scoring. But anytime
you're on the air, because I'll give you a story
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about it, anytime you're on the air and you're broadcasting,
you got to bring it. Whatever your style is, bring
it and always be the best version of yourself because
if you're not, people are gonna meet, whether it's people
listening for the first time, people listening for a pinion
of you, it's like, oh, this person is not very
good because they didn't because because you got to bring it.
And I learned that lesson early in my radio career.
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Like I had just gotten hired by ESPN full time,
and so I'm going back like I'm going back like
twel I'm going back to like two thousand and three,
and they just hired me. And I've been doing Game
Day on the weekends for the most part, I've been
filling I was filling in during the week and so
they just hired me to do all night and they,
you know, a couple times a year, they would fly
me back to Bristol and I would do a whole
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week of shows from Bristol. So I had a boss
who was not a great boss, but he said, Okay,
you're gonna fly in Saturday. I said, I'll leave, you know,
fly in Saturday. You'll get in Saturday, you know, get
in Saturday late afternoon. He goes, you know, and and
why don't you do seven to ten on Saturday night?
And I'm like, okay, sure, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
get off the plane. If I'm gonna get out on
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a plane at eight in the morning, I'm gonna get
off at four point thirty in airport and get there.
But Okay, what am I gonna say?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So I go out there and I get there and
I go on at seven, and I'm tired and I
go on and I'm like, you know, it was unfair
of them to do that. I'm like, you're gonna really
have me do that?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And do that?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I mean, come on, But I was new and it
was the just hirem I'm like, okay, So I go
on and I just do an okay show, right, And
I just do an okay show like and and I
knew in the middle, I'm like, man, I'm tired. Just
got to get through this and go off. And the
next day I was having lunch with it with my producer,
a couple of the producers, and and one of my
producers that I knew pretty well said to me, says,
I tell you something I see. I goes, boy, you
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were really bad last night. I said, what do you
mean bad bad? He goes on the air, I said, well,
he goes, that wasn't you. That wasn't you last night,
And I said, well no, I said. I was exhausted,
and I knew that I was going to be that way,
and I just, you know, I just didn't have it
and you know, to kill myself. He goes, well, you
realize that you coming back and doing this show. This
is the first time people are meeting you, and this
is the first time that people some people at ESPN
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are hearing you on a Friday night because it's here
and it's it's seven o'clock at night and there's people
listening here and what you're about, and that's the show
you gave them. And I was like, I didn't think
about that until you just said this now. And I said,
why didn't you tell me yesterday? You know, No, sure that,
but I learned that. I'm like, okay, so I got
to know, no matter what the situation is, I gotta
bring it now. Does everybody follow that philosophy, No, because
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there are some times when I see people getting catered to,
when excuses made for them, when oh I was on
a plane and I'm doing this, So I get that.
But like I know, for me, I'm like, Okay, I
can't have that happen again. Anytime the mic goes on,
this has got to be it's got a guy go
out and got to put out what I want to
think is the best show possible, because I don't want
that to happen again. Sure, you know, so that's a thing,
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and not that al Michael's that's what he's saying. Look,
the guy's accomplished so much more in broadcast than you
and I can will ever forget. But is it the
point now where I'm just working. I'm working, and this
is what I'm doing, and it's probably the last big
thing I'm gonna do, and I'm just gonna do this
until whatever reason I don't want to do it anymore.
But when you're faced with the mortality of you could
do this or not do it, you could be let
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go after this year, and that's it for you, Like
you gotta okay, you gotta understand. You gotta have that
moment where, Okay, if I'm gonna continue to do this,
I really have to make sure that I'm giving you
the best broadcast I possibly can. And that's when you
decide after the season, I can do it at that
level or I can't do it at that level. I'm
not interested in doing it at that level anymore. But
you gotta be able to You gotta be able to
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do that because again, because you're not writing a blank check,
you're not just gonna do this until you decide I'm finished.
It's gonna be Amazon saying yeah, sorry, it's gonna be
some thirty year old guy with an Apple Watch saying yeah, hey, sorry, yeah,
I'll We're gonna call you. But uh yeah, this is
it for you? Okay? What yelse have to recognize? What
is it? Fifty days? Ish? No, right, prep day, travel day,
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game day, travel back. That's your season. So we exit
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Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. So TNF goes to the Texans twenty three
to nineteen twenty three, nineteen and just for a second
to give the Texans props they deserve, right, We had
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Jay Glazer on the show earlier, and if you missed
the interview with Jay. We're the only show he's on.
Always a great visit, always great stuff. After the show
was over, so about forty minutes from now, wherever you
get your podcasts from, just search our names, Jason Smith
and Mike Harbon. It'll the best of will come up.
Jay's interview is there. It's tremendous. And he said, look,
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there's a team every year right around now, the last
four or five weeks they go on a run and
people say that's the team nobody wants to play in
the playoffs. And right now he says, that's the Texans, right,
and clearly they are because how good their defense is? Right,
three best defenses in the NFL. Texans, Broncos, Rams, and
the Texans tonight absolutely harassed Josh Allen. I can't every
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single play Allen would get the snap, would take a
three step drop, wouldn't even get his feet settled for
a second before he had to run. They were able
to their defensive line just overwhelm the Bills offensive line
and harassed him into a night in which he had
to be which he was seen on the side on
the Yellen, what the hell are we doing? Yeah, and
which means that Sean mcdermot's going to get fired if
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the Bill season goes south, because that's a real telling
moment for where the Bills are. Would you like a
little thing from NFL Plus says to the final stats
for this huge defense, go ahead, eight zachs, twelve quarterback hits,
eleven tackles for loss, the two picks, the forest fumble
on the fumble recovery, twelve quarterback hits, and eleven tackles
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for loss, eleven allow of the So yes, are they
a team gonna he wants to play. No, and we'll
get to the big hero in a second. But to
give them credit because many other NFL teams would acquit
if you had the season. The Texans had Joe Mixon
out for the season. We get word today he's not
(21:24):
gonna play again right now. Joe Mixon says, I don't
know about that, but we haven't seen him so far.
We're really going to see in the last four or
five weeks. The running game is just okay. Fantasy owners
love Wood. He marks better than he really is between
him and Chuck Okay, but no Joe Mixon. You start
out zero to three with a difficult schedule and maybe CJ.
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Stroud isn't quite the talent that you thought he was
when he was a rookie. Right again, He's like the
Hunger Games movie trilogy. The first one was really good,
the second one not quite as good as the first,
the third one not quite as good as the second.
Like c J. Stroud is on that sort of a
path where we've seen his best football and now it's
the football we've seen since has been well a little
bit less, a little bit less. Not to derailist too much,
(22:05):
but did you see the trailer for Anyone?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, yeah, Well it's a different year. You're talking about
a different, different worldemort shows up. It's all hey, match,
So you're zero and three, your quarterback doesn't play very
well and then he gets hurt. Okay, well you know what,
It's just not our year, right The Colts start out
like a house of fires, scoring forty points a week.
It's not our year. Many teams would acquit except and
(22:31):
I give Demiko Ryans and his coaching staff so much
credit on this because listen, the jury was out on Ryans.
Is Ryan's really a great head coach? Or did he
hit it big very early and has that trouble adjusting,
but this year keeping them together, especially with that defense
as good as it bleeping is and how relentless it is.
Resiliency is the best quality any team can have, because
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no matter what happens, you know, we're still gonna come
back the next week, the next play, the next quarter,
and we're gonna give you hell. And that's exactly what
the text and have done. And now they're six and five.
They vault themselves right back into the middle of the
playoff picture. And right now I take them over probably
five or six teams ahead of them. Yeah, right, Like
that's how good. I don't know that I would take
him over the Broncos right now, would I don't know
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that would take him quite over the Colts because the
Colts offense really puts up a ton of points, but
almost everybody else. I'd take them over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I take them over the Bills after tonight, I take
them over the Jaguars. Like, there's lots of teams. I
would say, hey, Texans, right now, that's where they are.
So I give them so much credit because they could
have quit. They could have said that's it, we're done,
it's not our year. Let's pack it away and instead
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here they are all kinds of injuries. Still no Tank Dell,
who you thought was going to turn the NFL on,
it's here. He can't stay healthy. Nico Collins has been
a revelation. He's been the only one they're trying to
young draft picks. And Jayden Higgins finally caught a touchdown tonight.
They were hoping for big things for him. They got
a young receiving corps there, but you didn't think you
were gonna get anything. And now here you are smack
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damn middle playoff contention and that is some kind of achievement.
Three straight with Is that defense best in terms of
points allowed per game? Uh? Maybe going to the Jay
Glazer conversation again, check out the whole thing. Uh, maybe
the Bill should have signed Mercedes Lewis oh and had
him as a blocker to try to slow down Anderson
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and everybody. Maybe the Bill should have signed Davis Mills
oh to bed. It's his time. That is the hero
of the night when you think about Davis Mills, right,
these are the most fun stories out there four years ago. Right,
Just to go back on Davis Mills because I I
have I have a thing for Davis Mills four years ago.
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One of my best friends've been coaching UH soccer together
for a long time.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
He's a big guy in the card industry, like you.
You and he would get along great. You would talk
about cards and everything in memorabilia. And he says to me, Hey,
who's the who's Who's a couple of rookies coming in
the league this year that you liked it. Maybe I
can get a lot of their their rookie stuff cheap
and then I can flip it and make money. And
I you know who I really like is Davis Mills.
No one's talking about him, but he had a really
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good college career and he's stepping into a pretty good
situation with a team that's on the rise. I really
like Davis Mills. Now, Davis Mills, of course, kind of
puttered around for a couple of years and then lost
the job in CJ S. Rodcumes he's been the backup. Yeah,
but just remember, I mean in that year, you had
eight quarterbacks taken in the first three rounds, right, A
lot of big, heavy hitters. And for those that are
unaware of the card business, a lot of it becomes
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the do you get the autograph, and that's gotten spliced
up the way of the licenses are now. But it
became the all right, people were chasing those top guys,
which meant you might have been able to get Davis
Mills because someone was just disappointed of though that quarterbacks.
So we bought like a hundred bucks in Davis Mills
cards and everything else, and nothing happened. And to this,
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every time I see him, he says, hey, what do
you think I could get for Davis Mills autograph? Rookie
like so for four years now, for years he's been
he would give me one of those comments all the time.
After tonight, after that second touchdown, I texted you, I said, hey,
blank or Blanker, sell some of that Davis Mills stuff now,
because I know I told him to do what you do,
which is as soon as the guy makes one good pass,
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you try to sell stuff it well, no, if it's there.
I mean, look, we we watch a marketplace right now,
so instantaneous through all the different selling you know whatnot
eBay live, all of those things that people are are
day trading. If a guy are I'm just suddenly gonna
become the next big running back wide receiver quarterback. I'm
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gonna know, I'm gonna tell, I'm gonna tll everybody. Something
that you do all the time that I love is
that all somebody has to do right in a game
is make a big play, right, Jayden Higgins catching his
touchdown past night Jayde Higgins, you know, touchdown past Davis Mills,
Jaden Higgins. Right, We're watching the play it happens, and
Harmon will turn and he does this for so many people.
He'll turn to me and go, you want to buy
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a rookie Jaden Higgins card from me? Like, no, no, nobody.
It's implied. It may be implied to buy it from
somebody else. Sure, like Austin Reeves could hit a three
his first one of the you want to buy some off?
I'm like, dude, how many rookie cards do you have?
But like so I say that to him all now,
I'm like, hey, blank or blanker, Davis Mills tonight man go.
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But the thing about Mills is is that he gave
the great statement after the game. Hey, because CJ. Stropp
potentially could be healthy enough to come back and play. Yeah,
he kind of is the quarterback. It's not quite a
Brock party mac Jones situation where you would say, man,
we're getting the same kind of production. We gotta go
back to brock party now, or we're gonna really look
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bad because mac Jones is gonna continue to do the
same thing for less money. But what mac Jones and
Davis Mills have in common now is this mac Jones
a little bit more, a little bit more of a run,
and he was a little bit more, a little bit
more productive. But right now Davis Mills is three and
zero in his last three starts. Beating Buffalo, is beating Jacksonville.
Quarterback rating is a little bit above average. Five touchdowns,
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one pick, throwing for any where. Tonight had a lower
night throwing the football, but still two touchdowns. They won
the game. He made big, he made some big plays.
He's somebody that can throw for two to two fifty
a game, throw a couple of touchdowns. He's not gonna
go crazy, not quite as dynamic as maybe we saw
mac Jones be a little bit earlier this season with
San Francisco. But what Davis Mills has done is he
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has restarted his career to after this season. Now, Hey,
mac Jones was the sought after quarterback this offseason, right,
who's out there free agent wise that you would be
somewhat excited about signing next year because you need a
bridge quarterback. Matt Jones is the guy, right, because the
Niners can't bring him back because if you have Brock,
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Prete's give him the same thing. You got to make sure, Hey,
Brock is our guy and you're paying Brock that kind
of money. Also, Mac Jones wants a good chance to
go start because he's proven, Hey, in the right situation,
with the right system, I can be a really good player. Right,
And that's all. Did we say this all the time?
There's a system for every quarterback. With mag he's under contract,
I have to trade him away something. Yeah, so you
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will be able to. You know, you'll be able to.
There's a system for everybody. Sometimes it takes a little
bit to find it, and back Jones took him a
little bit Definemans here. But now teams like the Jets,
who I'm sure will get Mac Jones, will give him money.
They will say, hey, we can go with mac Jones.
The Steelers, I'm sure we'll be in on mac Jones. Right,
all these teams. But now Davis Mills potentially has become
that second guy that we can be in on because hey,
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he would be available. You think, oh, we want to
keep Davis Mills our backup quarterback. Hey, here's a fourth
round pick for Davis Mills. Or here's a third round
pick and you give us a fourth Oh, we'll take that.
We'll take that because that's an asset, that's a starting
player for us in the third round, whereas you know,
for you it's a starting question. So he has played
himself into that conversation where he can be an answer
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to a team either when or for mac Jones, either
when the contract is up or via trade. They can
be those guys. And and that's a big deal. And
and for to do this just in this three four weeks,
even if he doesn't play again, he has become that
guy for next year where he's the next bridge quarterback.
And we've seen Geno Smith do it. We've seen Sam
Darnold do it. We've seen Baker Mayfield do it. We've
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seen all these guys. Every week goes by, there seems
to be more and more guys that are doing this
right today. They were somebody's gold once and now there
They were terrible for a while, but now maybe they
found it. Hey, we'll give them a chance again. And
now Davis Mills has become that guy again. Not as
high as Mac Jones, but now your pecking order goes
Mac Jones, Davis Mills for your bridge quarterbacks to the
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NFL for next year. Quarterback rating this year of about
an eighty four, completing about fifty nine percent of his passes,
five touchdowns against one pick, taking care of the ball,
giving you a little bit with his legs as well.
To put it in perspective, go back to that twenty
twenty one draft class that your friend was buying into.
Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, the aforementioned
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Mac Jones, Kyle Trask, Kellen Mond, and Davis Mill. He
was aid of need in there in terms of that draft.
And even go back to the first time he had
significant action. He actually put the Texans in position to
take the Broncos to overtime. Yeah, but fair Baron missed
a fifty one yarder. Yeah, so they lose eighteen to fifteen.
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But all of that to say, is he world beating No,
But you're looking at what they are right now and
that young receiving corps and a defense that's gonna keep
you in every game. Tell you, man, it's it's really
fun to see where quarterback where a quarterback roulette goes,
where they can suddenly show you, yes, I'm still that player, right,
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Davis Mills coming out a little bit flashed couple of years,
but same team. You know, obviously the system changes a
little bit with the quarterbacks, but same team bides his time,
gets back in a couple of years later. Hey, okay, right,
you saw a lot of good things. Davis Mills is
in charge of that offense. He is making throws. Is
he is stepping into all the throws? He is not,
you know, his eyes aren't all over the field like
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he is making good decisions with the football. It's not
just I'm defaulting to Nico Collins where every game is.
Nico Collins has fourteen targets and eight catches, like he's
spreading the football around. Really impressive re emergence of Christian Kirk.
Help all those Iowa State receivers. You got Dalton Schultz.
What was interesting to watch as that game war on
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because he started terribly right. He missed a couple of
big throws early I think to start the game he
was one for eight, So I mean that's a hell
of a comeback as they figured things out and adjusted accordingly.
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, everybody, it's Monsey Belangos.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
All right, guys, We'll start with the NFL, where the
Texans held on to defeat the Bills twenty three to nineteen,
kicking off Week twelve of the NFL, and Houston's defense
was the story of the game. Josh Allen completed twenty
five of thirty five passes for two hundred and sixty
two yards and two interceptions. He was also sacked a
career high eight times. My fantasy team is not happy. Houston,
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after starting oh and three, has won three in a row,
and they now improved to six and five, while Buffalo
falls to seven and four. Other NFL news, Ravens quarterback
Lamar Jackson returned to practice today after missing Wednesday's practice
with an ankle injury. Colts have added Daniel Jones to
the injury report with a calf injury, and for a
second consecutive day, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was a full
participant in practice. When it comes to the NBA, Tyrese
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Maxi put on a show in Milwaukee. He dropped fifty
four points in the seventy six Ers top the Bucks
one twenty three to one fourteen in overtime. The Grizzlies
they crushed the Kings one thirty seven to ninety six.
Sacramento has lost eight in a row. Also, their center
Demonte Sabonis has suffered a partially tor moniscus in his
left knee, so he's going to be re evaluated in
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three to four weeks. The Clippers, they lost to the
Magic one twenty nine to one oh one. La is
one in nine in their last ten games. I am
not a happy camper. This Spers beat the Hawks one
thirty five to one twenty six deer Fox at twenty
six points in the win. When it comes to the NHL,
the app the Lanche have won seven in a row.
They topped the Rangers six to three. Alex Ovechkin had
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a hat trick, the thirty third of his career, and
the Capitals outscored the Canadians eight to four. The Kings
and the Sharks went to a shootout. Sharks won at
four to three, and the Senators. They outscored the Ducks
three to two.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Back to you, guys, nice a bunch of Monzie great
stuff tonight. Yeah. Coming up next we get into a
real life sports succession story and without a doubt, the
most bonkers banana story of the week. That's next Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. You have one week,
(34:39):
Alex ty Shirt, one week left to play this song
only if you get Wings next week. I will buy
Wings on Tuesday. Then it'll be the last week Wings
on Tuesday from a deal I struck so long ago
with a bad deal, but I'm finally gonna win. We've
all struck bad deals in our lives and me. Come on,
this is the worst song. You know how I feel?
This one's missed been long stay because you had no
(35:01):
control over an ending. So I said, Okay, when the
new season The Stranger Things finally comes out, we don't
play this song anymore. Tyer said, Okay. Nine years later,
we're finally getting the first episode of the season dropping
the end of next week. You have one week left
to play this song before. We never hear it again.
(35:22):
So you're going into holiday rotation with some of the
stations because we've already flipped a couple here in Los Angeles,
which is fantastic. Uh so, but what happened? What? What's
the song that takes its place though?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
We go back to We wait and find out what
the new one? Yeah? No, we go back to Goodbye Horses?
Do you have to go back to Goodbye Horses? Would
I tuck me? We go back to the Buffalo Bill song?
I Tuck me good because I just love it. It's
so jarring to hear it. It really does make you
(35:56):
pause every time you hear that opening.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Go?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
What? How good this show is? This? They're playing the
Buffalo Bill song. It puts the lotion in the basket.
But considering we had the Buffalo Bills tonight, we probably
should have played the Buffalo Bill song earlier. Way to go?
Tell right, you got it in ahead of the wire.
It's been our going out song. At least under the wire.
(36:21):
You don't get ahead of the wire. I am the
show with it under the Wire under the way, you didn't,
and you just played it because I said the song. No,
I'm saying usually I'm the show, okay on tonight. Okay,
all right, so real life succession. Forget about the Murdocks. Okay,
the Bus family has been a better real life succession
(36:43):
because it's just more interesting with all the stuff that's
gone on the last few years with the family, and
and who's gonna succeed doctor Jerry Buss and Jeanie Buss
has the governor of the Lakers. At our former colleague
here at Fox Sports Radio, Jaymore that a Lakers owner right. Uh,
today you saw this headline the Lakers reorganized their basketball
(37:04):
operations and fired executives Joey and Jesse Buss from their
respective front office positions, effective immediately. Now, folks outside of
Los Angeles didn't know these two guys existed. No, No,
looks like we were talking about the lesser Debtmer. It does.
They're the lesser buses. This is if Koy Detmer had
a bunch of other brothers and got fired and none
of them was tied Detmer. So now, these guys have
(37:26):
had a pretty good track record, right they They've unearthed
Austin Reeves, Alex Caruso, Kyle Kuzmas, and they're a pretty
good track record. But but these two Bus brothers are out,
and Jeanie Buss stays as the governess of the Lakers
while Mark Walter owns the team, and her status holding
this job is going on now. It's it's till turn
(37:47):
out that we have no idea when there's an end date,
if one has been established. So Joey Buss put out
a state Joey Buss and and and Jesse Bus put
out statements today. And here's where it gets really fun
is they put on a statement saying how honored they
were to be part of your organization. But quote, we
wish things could be different with the way our time
ended with the team. At times like this, we wish
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we could ask our dad what he would think about it. All.
Doctor Buss's idea was for Joey and I to run
basketball operations one day, I mean, was it. But Jeanie
has effectively kept herself in place with her siblings fired.
Now I've got someone down the street from me that
advertises that they can help you communicate with those in
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the great beyond. They accept all sorts of forums of payment.
I mean, she's fell out with Johnny and Jim, her
other brothers. In twenty seventeen, after Jim got removed as
president of basketball operations and got replaced by Magic Johnson,
they tried to let the new border directors and that
didn't happen. And now here's the two younger brothers who
have been fired. This is Sarah Snook winning at the end,
(38:52):
at the end of success. Yeah. I mean there's six
siblings and they say it was a four to two vote.
And these are the two guys that were on the
opposite side because they had visions of eventually running things
beyond being the alternate governor and president of research and
development and an assistant general manager. Now here's where things get.
(39:13):
You want you want, you want a big takeaway from this,
and just think about this. So the Lakers, Lakers, Cowboys, Nicks, Yankees, Dodgers,
probably the five biggest franchises of the guys, yes, right,
five biggest franchise in North American sports. Unbelievably popular, unbelievable,
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full of heritage and history and the value of these teams.
Doctor Buss died in twenty thirteen. Twelve years after he died,
the family had to sell the team. You talk about
dysfunction and and something that sounds unforgivable. Twelve years, not
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thirty years, not forty years. Twelve years after he died,
the the siblings can't get along, they can't figure things out.
The team is not closer to winning championships. The mom
and pop operation, their way of doing things is so
out of date. They had to sell the team. Twelve
years after doctor Buss died. The kids couldn't keep together enough,
(40:17):
and they had to sell the Lakers. This is not
we had to sell the Bucks or we had to
sell the Rays. We had to sell They had to
sell the Lakers. Can you imagine, Jerry Jones that you
have family step and I can't get you. We gotta
sell the Cowboys. We gotta sell the Yankees out of
the steinbrennerfro. I gotta sell the Yankees, gotta do I mean,
that's what this is. Twelve years after he died, they
had to sell the Lakers. If that's just it, you
(40:38):
couldn't come to an agreement within the six of you
as to all right, you take your part and go
off into the sunset, and the rest of us move on.
Doesn't have to be happy, go lucky, right, You're always
gonna have contention and people want titles and power and
whatever else. But the fact that you had to get
to this endgame just really sad. Yeah, I mean you
(40:59):
think about it. That's what they that's what they had
in twelve years, A million dollars they had to sell it.
Exit about a Fresco exit. Swollen dumb, goodbye horses again. Yeah,
Alexy shirt, my buddy Ben Mallar coming up next. This
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Welcome inside final hour tonight the Jason Smith Show with
my bes friend Mike Harmon. The big hero of the night,
not who you thought it was. We got that coming
up in about twenty minutes. But we have to talk
about al Michaels. Earlier today, an interview went out where
(00:52):
al Michaels was asked about his future. Al Michaels is
play by play for TNF, the much maligned al Michaels
the past couple of years, complaining about the games. You know,
it's hard to get excited about these bad games. On
Thursday night, which was really a bad misstep by him,
but he talked about his future. He said, I'd like
to come back next year. It's a two way street,
(01:13):
but I'm enjoying and I'm having fun. Michaels is eighty one,
and he says, I'm enjoying. I'm having fun doing the
game at the kirk kurvetreet on Thursday night. So a
little bit of a different tack from these games. These games,
these games, well, you know, you learn your lesson, right,
We've all been singed one way or another. I think
Michael's realizing, oh, oh, I'm not. I don't hold the
same sway that I when I was calling games at
(01:36):
ESPN and ABC. I'm not the oh al Michaels, who
is the greatest play by play guy? And it was
I'm sure d Amazon's saying, hey, yeah, we have the
games now, We're good, So we don't need you anymore.
We don't need you to sell the games anymore. Fast
forwarding though, I mean, we've got the Black Friday game,
which is the Bears and the Eagles. Yeah, when is
(01:56):
he gonna sell me a blender? Well, there's certain things
nderstand you have to do during a broadcast, and I
get that, do you have to goy? Hey, you know
what if you don't like that touchdown by Caleb Williams
right there, you might like that. All of the top
twenty books of the Year right now, are on sale
three ninety nine apiece, get him downloaded to your kindle
right now. Up to five hundred of them are autographed,
(02:18):
various athletes and you know, celebrities all the way through. Yeah,
you want to thriller, Take Wild, Dark Shore, Fantastic, You
want a thriller. You want some sort of big time relationship. Hey,
you got Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins read all three ninety
nine right now? What but he wants to come back? Okay?
And it is. Hey, when a couple of years ago
(02:38):
when they got when they got the rights, it was okay,
we need we need gravitas, right, we need, we need something.
But now the games are on Amazon. They have a
pretty good, pretty well respected pre show with Ryan Fitzpatrick
and a lot of the guys. So okay, so okay, Now,
al Michael's not quite the Hey, we have to have
al And especially when you see every week there is
(03:02):
comment on his play by playability, his performance level, and
it's kind of like what I saw at the end
with Chris Berman at ESPN where whatever he was on
TV doing something, the social media reaction was just over
the top. Berman, what is he doing? I don't understand us,
and eventually what happened. You hardly ever see Chris Berman anymore, right,
because because the ESPN very conscious social media, they feel
(03:24):
like people aren't watching the game because they don't like
Chris Berman. And so so now Berman's on ESPN plus
plus whatever it is doing primetime with Booger McFarlane. You
barely see him anymore. The guy built ESPN, okay, the
guy bleeping him gets his fast. And this is how
it is now, for better or for worse. Companies see
something on social media, and when you see it enough,
(03:44):
you wake up in the morning going, I really don't
need to see this anymore. I don't need to wake
up after every nine and see Chris Berman trending and
everybody hates him, right, I don't need to see after
every Monday night game our booth of Steve Leevy and
Booger McFarlane and Jason Witten get absolutely dragged through the
mud on how bad of a broadcast it is. So
we got to go make a move, all right, This
is where social media is very powerful. So al Michaels,
(04:07):
if I'm al Michaels, I gotta say I got to
make sure I bring my fastball. Every single chance I
get right, every single chance I get, I got to
bring my fastball. And this brings us to one of
the biggest plays of the year that we saw tonight. Now,
it didn't turn out to be the biggest play because
had the Bills won the game, it would have been
the biggest play. But fourth and twenty seven for the
(04:29):
Bills in the fourth quarter on their final drive, fourth
and twenty seven and Josh Allen completes a hooken ladder
pass which Khalil Shakir takes the ball at midfield and
runs for a first down. It's a forty some odd
yard play on fourth and twenty seven. It should have
never happened, and it did. And Stingley was the guy
(04:50):
that made it happen because he left his own when
the ball was caught in the middle of the field
to go and make the tackle. He didn't stay and
Shakira had an easy run for the first down. It's
an incredibly exciting play. I mean, it's the play that
you call you say, oh my goodness, Like we spent
a whole segment talking about that play after it happened. Well, sure,
and what it's set up or potentially set up, and
how they found the space that the past to Palmer
(05:13):
and how the you know, we got the all twenty
two basically live right. We got that overhead shot showing
exactly how much of that side of the field was
left wide open because Stingley vacated. Like, what do you do?
Like I can see the film session tomorrow, dude, what
are you doing here? What are you doing? Why do
you we got four guys to tackle them in middle
of the field. What are you doing? What are you doing?
(05:34):
Just pointing with the plazer pointer? And what's the more
exacerbated thing, because I mean, how many times do you
say that with a defensive end, right, you got to
stay home instead of getting into the gap thinking you've
got an opportunity and all of a sudden they get
around you. This was that on steroids. So it's one
of the more exciting, most the most exciting plays in
the league this year. Here's the play call on Bill's
(05:56):
radio WGR. Here's how the Bills called the fourth and twenty.
Here's the snap, four man rush. Alan throws it over
the middle. It's complete to Palmer, hooking ladder and they're.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Gonna get the first down. Up the sideline is Shakir
and he's out of pounds at the twenty six yard line.
The hooking ladder, Baby, you called it forty six yards.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Holy smokes. Give the Bills life and maybe Joe Brady
gets a head coaching job just for that call. He
drops some mike to you, what do you do? We
got the rest of the drive, dude, I just became
a head coach in the NFL. After that, I'm gonna
take over somewhere. I'm gonna take over in Atlanta. So
I'm just gonna go down there right now. I'm actually
just going down to the sideline right now and taking
the headset from Sean mcdermot's here. Just love me do
(06:40):
the thing. So there's your call to do it myself.
Now you expect the Bills radio network to be excited about.
Here's al Michael's call of the exact same play.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Four man rush again with a spy and then you
got a ladder room and it's gonna be inside Texas
territory with Shakir.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
So kind of a typical al Michael's call. The play
kind of takes them by surprise a little bit. Here's
a little play a little and a little you don't
know what the play is. Here's a pass and Khalil
Shakir gets the first down, Like you get zero description
on what exactly happened on that play? Did he not know?
It was Palmer? So give you the first half spot
(07:23):
he didn't get it to him? Get it ready to
play it? Play it one more time. Let's hear them
Michael's call one more time, four man.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Rush again with a spy and then you got a
ladder and it's gonna be inside Texas territory.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
With Shakir right like that's a I mean, yes, you're
watching on television, so you see it. But you hear
that call and you say, wow, man, like that's that's
the most exciting play in the NFL maybe this year,
and everybody is watching and and you just gotta here's
a pet like a Pat said, that's a Pat Summer
all did, right, Pat Somemer say, back to pass, hooking,
(07:58):
ladder down like he did all this stuff going on
and that was his whole big like that was it.
For as long as we watched Pat Summer, all it
was all about word economy, right, oh that would right now,
All the way he did things that just let everything
tell the tale. So this call is now getting a
lot of attention on the internet. Here's al Michael's calling
this play and everything else. And I would I want
(08:19):
to say this right because it's it's it gets to
a point where everybody realizes when you do stuff for
a living. My fastball is gone, right, my fastball is gone.
I don't have it anymore, and it's time for me
to move on. Let somebody else do it right now.
Al Michaels has been doing this for a long time.
(08:40):
I can't tell you that as fastball is gone, I
can't tell you that it's about his interest level. But
the best thing I can say is this is that
after tonight, if I'm al Michael's agent, if I'm Kirk Kurbs,
if I'm somebody, I tell him al here's the deal.
Amazon doesn't need us anymore. Okay, even Kirkursey, they don't
(09:01):
need me anymore. Right, they don't need me. No, they
need my dogs because the dogs are really good. Dog
dogs are po yes, And I was something I would say,
you have to call every one of these games like
its miracle on ice. You have. If you can do that,
they'll maybe you'll stay another year. Maybe you don't go
out on your own terms, whatever it is. But the
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more that that Amazon keeps getting up on Friday morning
and seeing the story of the game and then seeing
can you believe al Michael's call? How bad it was? Now,
it's not the worst call in the world, but it
clearly isn't what you would expect the most exciting play
of the season in the NFL to be. So you
gotta tell them you got to bring your fastball every
(09:43):
single night. You got to be able to If you
can't do that, guess what This is gonna be your
last year calling games. And I don't know if if
I mean, if you're gonna work again after this or
if you're gonna be doing regional college football like I
don't know, but you've You've done every big game. You're
the most decor rated broadcaster in the history of sports.
You want to you want to call your way out
(10:04):
like you can and for al Michael's to say, yeah,
it's a two way street. I want to come back
see if they want me. If you have the energy,
if you have that desire, you got to see it
now not always can you do it? Because you know,
you know physically, where are you with the travel with
everything else? Again, the guy's eighty one, right, so I
mean again, But I don't want to say he's lost
his fastball because I've seen him call games great, see
(10:26):
him when he's interested. Sometimes it could be it's too
late at night, you know, I don't know, like it's
all even though you're spending most of your life, you
know you're working at night. There's a lot of things
and go along. But the best to be positive and
and to think forward is that if you want to
keep doing this, man, you got to make sure that
that the story the next day isn't Al Michael's call
on Amazon, because Amazon's gonna say, Okay, we're gonna go
(10:48):
give a dump truck full of money to somebody else
because we have endless amounts of money. Because we do
Amazon that they have endless amounts of money, right, we don't.
Al You're great and we needed you, and we get
give me a lot of money for these couple of years.
But now hey, we got somebody who was either younger,
more exciting, energetic. Somebody people on social media love. They
probably do all sorts of of of of interactions and
(11:11):
consultants and figure out Q ratings is that they will
do all of that because that's how it's done. So
if you want to do it the games you got left,
you got to show that man, I am on it
and I still have my fastball and I can be
this guy because that's that's because after tonight, like I mean,
you're going to see another night of this is the
biggest play in the NFL this year, and al Michael's
(11:31):
call was was what it was. Well, you're seeing it already.
I mean there's a lot of stumbling and mumbling videos
and everything being attributed to to al Michaels. Uh much
like you know, we we we keep the the boomerisms
here for Chris Berman, but you know he still does
his job. But you know there's that love hate thing
(11:52):
with al Michaels. In this particular instance, with this play,
how much of it was word economy and letting the
picture tell the tail versus there was just gaps in
terms of who the players were, the knowledge, et cetera.
Because if you're watching it, maybe you don't notice it
as much. Maybe unless you're obsessing with it. Right, if
(12:13):
you're a media critic, then certainly it's the first thing
that comes to mind. But we've watched a lot of turnover,
a lot of churn, and guys getting new opportunities in
this business, any every business at this point, right is younger,
cheaper energy, whatever the case may be. But for al Michaels,
you'd love for a guy to be able to walk
(12:34):
out on his own terms, right, to be able to say, hey,
I've done it. I don't want to do the traveled
all the things that you laid out, but certainly these
kind of plays because it's a standalone game, that's the thing.
It's not buried in the middle of an early Sunday
window to where you're now on the third team or whatever. No, no,
this is still a premium property and premium and for
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the most part, and even this one, it's twenty three
to nineteen. Yeah again, pisar human contaminant thing, which I
think is just funny as hell. But it's twenty three nineteen,
So it's final possession of the game, a big play
and and it ends with some juice. But there's that
gap where it's like, all right, are you letting the
picture tell or is there just not like and without
(13:19):
having the ability to go watch the rest of the game.
Obviously you and I are on air, so we'd have
to go back and watch it a little more, you know,
closely with volume. But this is certainly being picked up
as the latest example for Al and those earlier comments
from a couple of years ago don't serve him. Well, no,
not at all, right, no matter how much you may
(13:40):
have had a great year because the games were great
a year ago, because we had a lot of great
Thursday games, and even this year we've had some really
good games the last few weeks. Okay, but no, we've
been this is a good one tonight. But what do
we always say, as long as it's close late, you
got to sell the hell out of it, right, even
if you're not getting eighty points of scoring. But anytime
you're on the air, because I'll give you a story
(14:01):
about it, anytime you're on the air and you're broadcasting,
you got to bring it. Whatever your style is, bring
it and always be the best version of yourself because
if you're not, people are gonna meet, whether it's people
listening for the first time, people listening for a pinion
of you, it's like, oh, this person is not very
good because they didn't because because you got to bring it.
And I learned that lesson early in my radio career.
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Like I had just gotten hired by ESPN full time,
and so I'm going back like I'm going back like
twel I'm going back to like two thousand and three,
and they just hired me. And I've been doing Game
Day on the weekends for the most part, I've been
filling I was filling in during the week and so
they just hired me to do all night and they,
you know, a couple times a year, they would fly
me back to Bristol and I would do a whole
(14:46):
week of shows from Bristol. So I had a boss
who was not a great boss, but he said, Okay,
you're gonna fly in Saturday. I said, I'll leave, you know,
fly in Saturday. You'll get in Saturday, you know, get
in Saturday late afternoon. He goes, you know, and and
why don't you do seven to ten on Saturday night?
And I'm like, okay, sure, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna
get off the plane. If I'm gonna get out on
(15:07):
a plane at eight in the morning, I'm gonna get
off at four point thirty in airport and get there.
But Okay, what am I gonna say?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
So I go out there and I get there and
I go on at seven, and I'm tired and I
go on and I'm like, you know, it was unfair
of them to do that. I'm like, you're gonna really
have me do that?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
And do that?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I mean, come on, But I was new and it
was the just hirem I'm like, okay, So I go
on and I just do an okay show, right, And
I just do an okay show like and and I
knew in the middle, I'm like, man, I'm tired. Just
got to get through this and go off. And the
next day I was having lunch with it with my producer,
a couple of the producers, and and one of my
producers that I knew pretty well said to me, says,
I tell you something I see. I goes, boy, you
(15:44):
were really bad last night. I said, what do you
mean bad bad? He goes on the air, I said, well,
he goes, that wasn't you. That wasn't you last night,
And I said, well no, I said. I was exhausted,
and I knew that I was going to be that way,
and I just, you know, I just didn't have it
and you know, to kill myself. He goes, well, you
realize that you coming back and doing this show. This
is the first time people are meeting you, and this
is the first time that people some people at ESPN
(16:06):
are hearing you on a Friday night because it's here
and it's it's seven o'clock at night and there's people
listening here and what you're about, and that's the show
you gave them. And I was like, I didn't think
about that until you just said this now. And I said,
why didn't you tell me yesterday? You know, No, sure that,
but I learned that. I'm like, okay, so I got
to know, no matter what the situation is, I gotta
bring it now. Does everybody follow that philosophy, No, because
(16:28):
there are some times when I see people getting catered to,
when excuses made for them, when oh I was on
a plane and I'm doing this, So I get that.
But like I know, for me, I'm like, Okay, I
can't have that happen again. Anytime the mic goes on,
this has got to be it's got a guy go
out and got to put out what I want to
think is the best show possible, because I don't want
that to happen again. Sure, you know, so that's a thing,
(16:50):
and not that al Michael's that's what he's saying. Look,
the guy's accomplished so much more in broadcast than you
and I can will ever forget. But is it the
point now where I'm just working. I'm working, and this
is what I'm doing, and it's probably the last big
thing I'm gonna do, and I'm just gonna do this
until whatever reason I don't want to do it anymore.
But when you're faced with the mortality of you could
do this or not do it, you could be let
(17:11):
go after this year, and that's it for you, Like
you gotta okay, you gotta understand. You gotta have that
moment where, Okay, if I'm gonna continue to do this,
I really have to make sure that I'm giving you
the best broadcast I possibly can. And that's when you
decide after the season, I can do it at that
level or I can't do it at that level. I'm
not interested in doing it at that level anymore. But
you gotta be able to You gotta be able to
(17:32):
do that because again, because you're not writing a blank check,
you're not just gonna do this until you decide I'm finished.
It's gonna be Amazon saying yeah, sorry, it's gonna be
some thirty year old guy with an Apple Watch saying yeah, hey, sorry, yeah,
I'll We're gonna call you. But uh yeah, this is
it for you? Okay? What yelse have to recognize? What
is it? Fifty days? Ish? No, right, prep day, travel day,
(17:54):
game day, travel back. That's your season. So we exit
a about a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith Micrmon
live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,
we got a real life succession story in the world
of sports, plus the hidden Hero from Thursday Night Football.
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That's next. Jason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1 (19:20):
Sports Radio, the Jason Smith Show with my best friend
Mike Harmon. So TNF goes to the Texans twenty three
to nineteen twenty three, nineteen and just for a second
to give the Texans props they deserve, right, We had
(19:40):
Jay Glazer on the show earlier, and if you missed
the interview with Jay. We're the only show he's on.
Always a great visit, always great stuff. After the show
was over, so about forty minutes from now, wherever you
get your podcasts from, just search our names, Jason Smith
and Mike Harbon. It'll the best of will come up.
Jay's interview is there. It's tremendous. And he said, look,
(20:01):
there's a team every year right around now, the last
four or five weeks they go on a run and
people say that's the team nobody wants to play in
the playoffs. And right now he says, that's the Texans, right,
and clearly they are because how good their defense is? Right,
three best defenses in the NFL. Texans, Broncos, Rams, and
the Texans tonight absolutely harassed Josh Allen. I can't every
(20:22):
single play Allen would get the snap, would take a
three step drop, wouldn't even get his feet settled for
a second before he had to run. They were able
to their defensive line just overwhelm the Bills offensive line
and harassed him into a night in which he had
to be which he was seen on the side on
the Yellen, what the hell are we doing? Yeah, and
which means that Sean mcdermot's going to get fired if
(20:43):
the Bill season goes south, because that's a real telling
moment for where the Bills are. Would you like a
little thing from NFL Plus says to the final stats
for this huge defense, go ahead, eight zachs, twelve quarterback hits,
eleven tackles for loss, the two picks, the forest fumble
on the fumble recovery, twelve quarterback hits, and eleven tackles
(21:04):
for loss, eleven allow of the So yes, are they
a team gonna he wants to play. No, and we'll
get to the big hero in a second. But to
give them credit because many other NFL teams would acquit
if you had the season. The Texans had Joe Mixon
out for the season. We get word today he's not
(21:24):
gonna play again right now. Joe Mixon says, I don't
know about that, but we haven't seen him so far.
We're really going to see in the last four or
five weeks. The running game is just okay. Fantasy owners
love Wood. He marks better than he really is between
him and Chuck Okay, but no Joe Mixon. You start
out zero to three with a difficult schedule and maybe CJ.
(21:44):
Stroud isn't quite the talent that you thought he was
when he was a rookie. Right again, He's like the
Hunger Games movie trilogy. The first one was really good,
the second one not quite as good as the first,
the third one not quite as good as the second.
Like c J. Stroud is on that sort of a
path where we've seen his best football and now it's
the football we've seen since has been well a little
bit less, a little bit less. Not to derailist too much,
(22:05):
but did you see the trailer for Anyone?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, yeah, Well it's a different year. You're talking about
a different, different worldemort shows up. It's all hey, match,
So you're zero and three, your quarterback doesn't play very
well and then he gets hurt. Okay, well you know what,
It's just not our year, right The Colts start out
like a house of fires, scoring forty points a week.
It's not our year. Many teams would acquit except and
(22:31):
I give Demiko Ryans and his coaching staff so much
credit on this because listen, the jury was out on Ryans.
Is Ryan's really a great head coach? Or did he
hit it big very early and has that trouble adjusting,
but this year keeping them together, especially with that defense
as good as it bleeping is and how relentless it is.
Resiliency is the best quality any team can have, because
(22:52):
no matter what happens, you know, we're still gonna come
back the next week, the next play, the next quarter,
and we're gonna give you hell. And that's exactly what
the text and have done. And now they're six and five.
They vault themselves right back into the middle of the
playoff picture. And right now I take them over probably
five or six teams ahead of them. Yeah, right, Like
that's how good. I don't know that I would take
him over the Broncos right now, would I don't know
(23:15):
that would take him quite over the Colts because the
Colts offense really puts up a ton of points, but
almost everybody else. I'd take them over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
I take them over the Bills after tonight, I take
them over the Jaguars. Like, there's lots of teams. I
would say, hey, Texans, right now, that's where they are.
So I give them so much credit because they could
have quit. They could have said that's it, we're done,
it's not our year. Let's pack it away and instead
(23:35):
here they are all kinds of injuries. Still no Tank Dell,
who you thought was going to turn the NFL on,
it's here. He can't stay healthy. Nico Collins has been
a revelation. He's been the only one they're trying to
young draft picks. And Jayden Higgins finally caught a touchdown tonight.
They were hoping for big things for him. They got
a young receiving corps there, but you didn't think you
were gonna get anything. And now here you are smack
(23:56):
damn middle playoff contention and that is some kind of achievement.
Three straight with Is that defense best in terms of
points allowed per game? Uh? Maybe going to the Jay
Glazer conversation again, check out the whole thing. Uh, maybe
the Bill should have signed Mercedes Lewis oh and had
him as a blocker to try to slow down Anderson
(24:17):
and everybody. Maybe the Bill should have signed Davis Mills
oh to bed. It's his time. That is the hero
of the night when you think about Davis Mills, right,
these are the most fun stories out there four years ago. Right,
Just to go back on Davis Mills because I I
have I have a thing for Davis Mills four years ago.
(24:39):
One of my best friends've been coaching UH soccer together
for a long time.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
He's a big guy in the card industry, like you.
You and he would get along great. You would talk
about cards and everything in memorabilia. And he says to me, Hey,
who's the who's Who's a couple of rookies coming in
the league this year that you liked it. Maybe I
can get a lot of their their rookie stuff cheap
and then I can flip it and make money. And
I you know who I really like is Davis Mills.
No one's talking about him, but he had a really
(25:04):
good college career and he's stepping into a pretty good
situation with a team that's on the rise. I really
like Davis Mills. Now, Davis Mills, of course, kind of
puttered around for a couple of years and then lost
the job in CJ S. Rodcumes he's been the backup. Yeah,
but just remember, I mean in that year, you had
eight quarterbacks taken in the first three rounds, right, A
lot of big, heavy hitters. And for those that are
unaware of the card business, a lot of it becomes
(25:26):
the do you get the autograph, and that's gotten spliced
up the way of the licenses are now. But it
became the all right, people were chasing those top guys,
which meant you might have been able to get Davis
Mills because someone was just disappointed of though that quarterbacks.
So we bought like a hundred bucks in Davis Mills
cards and everything else, and nothing happened. And to this,
(25:48):
every time I see him, he says, hey, what do
you think I could get for Davis Mills autograph? Rookie
like so for four years now, for years he's been
he would give me one of those comments all the time.
After tonight, after that second touchdown, I texted you, I said, hey,
blank or Blanker, sell some of that Davis Mills stuff now,
because I know I told him to do what you do,
which is as soon as the guy makes one good pass,
(26:11):
you try to sell stuff it well, no, if it's there.
I mean, look, we we watch a marketplace right now,
so instantaneous through all the different selling you know whatnot
eBay live, all of those things that people are are
day trading. If a guy are I'm just suddenly gonna
become the next big running back wide receiver quarterback. I'm
(26:31):
gonna know, I'm gonna tell, I'm gonna tll everybody. Something
that you do all the time that I love is
that all somebody has to do right in a game
is make a big play, right, Jayden Higgins catching his
touchdown past night Jayde Higgins, you know, touchdown past Davis Mills,
Jaden Higgins. Right, We're watching the play it happens, and
Harmon will turn and he does this for so many people.
He'll turn to me and go, you want to buy
(26:52):
a rookie Jaden Higgins card from me? Like, no, no, nobody.
It's implied. It may be implied to buy it from
somebody else. Sure, like Austin Reeves could hit a three
his first one of the you want to buy some off?
I'm like, dude, how many rookie cards do you have?
But like so I say that to him all now,
I'm like, hey, blank or blanker, Davis Mills tonight man go.
(27:15):
But the thing about Mills is is that he gave
the great statement after the game. Hey, because CJ. Stropp
potentially could be healthy enough to come back and play. Yeah,
he kind of is the quarterback. It's not quite a
Brock party mac Jones situation where you would say, man,
we're getting the same kind of production. We gotta go
back to brock party now, or we're gonna really look
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bad because mac Jones is gonna continue to do the
same thing for less money. But what mac Jones and
Davis Mills have in common now is this mac Jones
a little bit more, a little bit more of a run,
and he was a little bit more, a little bit
more productive. But right now Davis Mills is three and
zero in his last three starts. Beating Buffalo, is beating Jacksonville.
Quarterback rating is a little bit above average. Five touchdowns,
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one pick, throwing for any where. Tonight had a lower
night throwing the football, but still two touchdowns. They won
the game. He made big, he made some big plays.
He's somebody that can throw for two to two fifty
a game, throw a couple of touchdowns. He's not gonna
go crazy, not quite as dynamic as maybe we saw
mac Jones be a little bit earlier this season with
San Francisco. But what Davis Mills has done is he
(28:21):
has restarted his career to after this season. Now, Hey,
mac Jones was the sought after quarterback this offseason, right,
who's out there free agent wise that you would be
somewhat excited about signing next year because you need a
bridge quarterback. Matt Jones is the guy, right, because the
Niners can't bring him back because if you have Brock,
(28:43):
Prete's give him the same thing. You got to make sure, Hey,
Brock is our guy and you're paying Brock that kind
of money. Also, Mac Jones wants a good chance to
go start because he's proven, Hey, in the right situation,
with the right system, I can be a really good player. Right,
And that's all. Did we say this all the time?
There's a system for every quarterback. With mag he's under contract,
I have to trade him away something. Yeah, so you
(29:05):
will be able to. You know, you'll be able to.
There's a system for everybody. Sometimes it takes a little
bit to find it, and back Jones took him a
little bit Definemans here. But now teams like the Jets,
who I'm sure will get Mac Jones, will give him money.
They will say, hey, we can go with mac Jones.
The Steelers, I'm sure we'll be in on mac Jones. Right,
all these teams. But now Davis Mills potentially has become
that second guy that we can be in on because hey,
(29:28):
he would be available. You think, oh, we want to
keep Davis Mills our backup quarterback. Hey, here's a fourth
round pick for Davis Mills. Or here's a third round
pick and you give us a fourth Oh, we'll take that.
We'll take that because that's an asset, that's a starting
player for us in the third round, whereas you know,
for you it's a starting question. So he has played
himself into that conversation where he can be an answer
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to a team either when or for mac Jones, either
when the contract is up or via trade. They can
be those guys. And and that's a big deal. And
and for to do this just in this three four weeks,
even if he doesn't play again, he has become that
guy for next year where he's the next bridge quarterback.
And we've seen Geno Smith do it. We've seen Sam
Darnold do it. We've seen Baker Mayfield do it. We've
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seen all these guys. Every week goes by, there seems
to be more and more guys that are doing this
right today. They were somebody's gold once and now there
They were terrible for a while, but now maybe they
found it. Hey, we'll give them a chance again. And
now Davis Mills has become that guy again. Not as
high as Mac Jones, but now your pecking order goes
Mac Jones, Davis Mills for your bridge quarterbacks to the
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NFL for next year. Quarterback rating this year of about
an eighty four, completing about fifty nine percent of his passes,
five touchdowns against one pick, taking care of the ball,
giving you a little bit with his legs as well.
To put it in perspective, go back to that twenty
twenty one draft class that your friend was buying into.
Trevor Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance, Justin Fields, the aforementioned
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Mac Jones, Kyle Trask, Kellen Mond, and Davis Mill. He
was aid of need in there in terms of that draft.
And even go back to the first time he had
significant action. He actually put the Texans in position to
take the Broncos to overtime. Yeah, but fair Baron missed
a fifty one yarder. Yeah, so they lose eighteen to fifteen.
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But all of that to say, is he world beating No,
But you're looking at what they are right now and
that young receiving corps and a defense that's gonna keep
you in every game. Tell you, man, it's it's really
fun to see where quarterback where a quarterback roulette goes,
where they can suddenly show you, yes, I'm still that player, right,
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Davis Mills coming out a little bit flashed couple of years,
but same team. You know, obviously the system changes a
little bit with the quarterbacks, but same team bides his time,
gets back in a couple of years later. Hey, okay, right,
you saw a lot of good things. Davis Mills is
in charge of that offense. He is making throws. Is
he is stepping into all the throws? He is not,
you know, his eyes aren't all over the field like
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he is making good decisions with the football. It's not
just I'm defaulting to Nico Collins where every game is.
Nico Collins has fourteen targets and eight catches, like he's
spreading the football around. Really impressive re emergence of Christian Kirk.
Help all those Iowa State receivers. You got Dalton Schultz.
What was interesting to watch as that game war on
(32:19):
because he started terribly right. He missed a couple of
big throws early I think to start the game he
was one for eight, So I mean that's a hell
of a comeback as they figured things out and adjusted accordingly.
Time now to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports, everybody, it's Monsey Belangos.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
All right, guys, We'll start with the NFL, where the
Texans held on to defeat the Bills twenty three to nineteen,
kicking off Week twelve of the NFL, and Houston's defense
was the story of the game. Josh Allen completed twenty
five of thirty five passes for two hundred and sixty
two yards and two interceptions. He was also sacked a
career high eight times. My fantasy team is not happy. Houston,
(32:59):
after starting oh and three, has won three in a row,
and they now improved to six and five, while Buffalo
falls to seven and four. Other NFL news, Ravens quarterback
Lamar Jackson returned to practice today after missing Wednesday's practice
with an ankle injury. Colts have added Daniel Jones to
the injury report with a calf injury, and for a
second consecutive day, Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow was a full
participant in practice. When it comes to the NBA, Tyrese
(33:22):
Maxi put on a show in Milwaukee. He dropped fifty
four points in the seventy six Ers top the Bucks
one twenty three to one fourteen in overtime. The Grizzlies
they crushed the Kings one thirty seven to ninety six.
Sacramento has lost eight in a row. Also, their center
Demonte Sabonis has suffered a partially tor moniscus in his
left knee, so he's going to be re evaluated in
(33:43):
three to four weeks. The Clippers, they lost to the
Magic one twenty nine to one oh one. La is
one in nine in their last ten games. I am
not a happy camper. This Spers beat the Hawks one
thirty five to one twenty six deer Fox at twenty
six points in the win. When it comes to the NHL,
the app the Lanche have won seven in a row.
They topped the Rangers six to three. Alex Ovechkin had
(34:04):
a hat trick, the thirty third of his career, and
the Capitals outscored the Canadians eight to four. The Kings
and the Sharks went to a shootout. Sharks won at
four to three, and the Senators. They outscored the Ducks
three to two.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Back to you, guys, nice a bunch of Monzie great
stuff tonight. Yeah. Coming up next we get into a
real life sports succession story and without a doubt, the
most bonkers banana story of the week. That's next Jason
and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Be sure to catch live
editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon weekdays
at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific. You have one week,
(34:39):
Alex ty Shirt, one week left to play this song
only if you get Wings next week. I will buy
Wings on Tuesday. Then it'll be the last week Wings
on Tuesday from a deal I struck so long ago
with a bad deal, but I'm finally gonna win. We've
all struck bad deals in our lives and me. Come on,
this is the worst song. You know how I feel?
This one's missed been long stay because you had no
(35:01):
control over an ending. So I said, Okay, when the
new season The Stranger Things finally comes out, we don't
play this song anymore. Tyer said, Okay. Nine years later,
we're finally getting the first episode of the season dropping
the end of next week. You have one week left
to play this song before. We never hear it again.
(35:22):
So you're going into holiday rotation with some of the
stations because we've already flipped a couple here in Los Angeles,
which is fantastic. Uh so, but what happened? What? What's
the song that takes its place though?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (35:34):
We go back to We wait and find out what
the new one? Yeah? No, we go back to Goodbye Horses?
Do you have to go back to Goodbye Horses? Would
I tuck me? We go back to the Buffalo Bill song?
I Tuck me good because I just love it. It's
so jarring to hear it. It really does make you
(35:56):
pause every time you hear that opening.
Speaker 3 (35:58):
Do you hear that?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Go?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
What? How good this show is? This? They're playing the
Buffalo Bill song. It puts the lotion in the basket.
But considering we had the Buffalo Bills tonight, we probably
should have played the Buffalo Bill song earlier. Way to go?
Tell right, you got it in ahead of the wire.
It's been our going out song. At least under the wire.
(36:21):
You don't get ahead of the wire. I am the
show with it under the Wire under the way, you didn't,
and you just played it because I said the song. No,
I'm saying usually I'm the show, okay on tonight. Okay,
all right, so real life succession. Forget about the Murdocks. Okay,
the Bus family has been a better real life succession
(36:43):
because it's just more interesting with all the stuff that's
gone on the last few years with the family, and
and who's gonna succeed doctor Jerry Buss and Jeanie Buss
has the governor of the Lakers. At our former colleague
here at Fox Sports Radio, Jaymore that a Lakers owner right. Uh,
today you saw this headline the Lakers reorganized their basketball
(37:04):
operations and fired executives Joey and Jesse Buss from their
respective front office positions, effective immediately. Now, folks outside of
Los Angeles didn't know these two guys existed. No, No,
looks like we were talking about the lesser Debtmer. It does.
They're the lesser buses. This is if Koy Detmer had
a bunch of other brothers and got fired and none
of them was tied Detmer. So now, these guys have
(37:26):
had a pretty good track record, right they They've unearthed
Austin Reeves, Alex Caruso, Kyle Kuzmas, and they're a pretty
good track record. But but these two Bus brothers are out,
and Jeanie Buss stays as the governess of the Lakers
while Mark Walter owns the team, and her status holding
this job is going on now. It's it's till turn
(37:47):
out that we have no idea when there's an end date,
if one has been established. So Joey Buss put out
a state Joey Buss and and and Jesse Bus put
out statements today. And here's where it gets really fun
is they put on a statement saying how honored they
were to be part of your organization. But quote, we
wish things could be different with the way our time
ended with the team. At times like this, we wish
(38:07):
we could ask our dad what he would think about it. All.
Doctor Buss's idea was for Joey and I to run
basketball operations one day, I mean, was it. But Jeanie
has effectively kept herself in place with her siblings fired.
Now I've got someone down the street from me that
advertises that they can help you communicate with those in
(38:28):
the great beyond. They accept all sorts of forums of payment.
I mean, she's fell out with Johnny and Jim, her
other brothers. In twenty seventeen, after Jim got removed as
president of basketball operations and got replaced by Magic Johnson,
they tried to let the new border directors and that
didn't happen. And now here's the two younger brothers who
have been fired. This is Sarah Snook winning at the end,
(38:52):
at the end of success. Yeah. I mean there's six
siblings and they say it was a four to two vote.
And these are the two guys that were on the
opposite side because they had visions of eventually running things
beyond being the alternate governor and president of research and
development and an assistant general manager. Now here's where things get.
(39:13):
You want you want, you want a big takeaway from this,
and just think about this. So the Lakers, Lakers, Cowboys, Nicks, Yankees, Dodgers,
probably the five biggest franchises of the guys, yes, right,
five biggest franchise in North American sports. Unbelievably popular, unbelievable,
(39:34):
full of heritage and history and the value of these teams.
Doctor Buss died in twenty thirteen. Twelve years after he died,
the family had to sell the team. You talk about
dysfunction and and something that sounds unforgivable. Twelve years, not
(39:56):
thirty years, not forty years. Twelve years after he died,
the the siblings can't get along, they can't figure things out.
The team is not closer to winning championships. The mom
and pop operation, their way of doing things is so
out of date. They had to sell the team. Twelve
years after doctor Buss died. The kids couldn't keep together enough,
(40:17):
and they had to sell the Lakers. This is not
we had to sell the Bucks or we had to
sell the Rays. We had to sell They had to
sell the Lakers. Can you imagine, Jerry Jones that you
have family step and I can't get you. We gotta
sell the Cowboys. We gotta sell the Yankees out of
the steinbrennerfro. I gotta sell the Yankees, gotta do I mean,
that's what this is. Twelve years after he died, they
had to sell the Lakers. If that's just it, you
(40:38):
couldn't come to an agreement within the six of you
as to all right, you take your part and go
off into the sunset, and the rest of us move on.
Doesn't have to be happy, go lucky, right, You're always
gonna have contention and people want titles and power and
whatever else. But the fact that you had to get
to this endgame just really sad. Yeah, I mean you
(40:59):
think about it. That's what they that's what they had
in twelve years, A million dollars they had to sell it.
Exit about a Fresco exit. Swollen dumb, goodbye horses again. Yeah,
Alexy shirt, my buddy Ben Mallar coming up next. This
is Fox Sports Radio three. Mister Lower a telephone
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