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Speaker 1 (00:31):
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dot Com. Haley Onassist dot Com. So here we are
Monday Night football. The Steelers with the football and uh
just about two twenty left to go. It's a twenty
eight fifteen lead for Pittsburgh. The on side kick nearly
(01:14):
worked out for the Dolphins. Adam Thielen just bounced off them. However,
Heyward able to fall on top of it. So the
Steelers have the football. One first down is going to
end this, but we are gonna have the two minute
warning and the Dolphins still have a couple of timeouts left,
so still a little bit more execution for the Steelers
to win this game.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That was one of my favorite on side kicks. I've seen.
It's a good kick, all right, that spinning, whirling dervish
Tasmanian devil like a fool the hell out of theling
when you come in bad right underneath him, and he
had no idea how to judge it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
The thing is is, there's the way you see so
many players with on side kicks. Now, you see the
old way always would been, I'm gonna come down kick
the top of the ball and you hope to get
a big bounce. Yeah right, you have to get a
big bounce. That's kind of out because you know players
feeling that ball, it's a little bit easier. You also
have the forward momentum where even if the guy doesn't
catch it, it's gonna go out of bounds. So it's
(02:10):
a really difficult thing to try to just hey, we're
gonna get the hop.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Or by time the hop comes down, it's gonna get
blown up. Yeah, it could be like on both sides.
It's it's a problem.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. So the thing is to see on this is
that watching the kick when you can kick the kick
the ball and it's it's bouncing around on the side
and it's a bigger target, Like that was the whole thing.
This is a ball that that's that's side spinning, that
feeling doesn't get and so it just bounces away from
him like and it stays on the field because you're
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kicking it that kind of way. Like I think that's
that's what you got to see. That's like the way
of oh, okay, you can kick it like that, you
can you get much more fourth downs. But again I
wonder what sometimes what some kickers work on, because not
everybody can kick it like that, and every single field
goal kicker, every single kicker, should be able to have
an on side kick down. Pat at this point, find
some way this is gonna give us the best chance
(03:01):
of recovering an on sidekick. I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, I've always wondered because going to traveling training camps
like I used to do, guys are just kind of
sitting around most of the time. I remember Robbie Gold
used to just drive around the cart to deliver water, Like.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Could you be working a little harder? Yeah on something,
Thanks for the water, but like, how about you work
on army Like you're there for a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I know you can't keep driving fifty yard field goals
for two hours. I get that, but now you're just
driving a cart around. And he was great, one of
my favorites. And you know, I lamented his departure for
many years when he was kicking for the forty nine ers,
but it was just to kind of thing. If he
was emblematic of what kickers across the league were doing.
That's a lot of wasted time get back to, you know,
(03:42):
operational efficiency as everybody starts thinking about their own workplace practices.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
On sidekick, as we said, doesn't work out, but it
also doesn't work out for the Steelers. Aaron Rodgers slides
down rather than try to throw the football into traffic
and risk an incomplete PAS makes it fourth and thirteen.
The Dolphins use their final time out, so they have
no timeouts left, but Brandon Eckles is able to down
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the subsequent punt at the three yard line of the Dolphins,
so to in company have two to four to get
the length of the field touchdown on sidekick length of
the field touchdown, and then hey, we got a game.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
He's got a big arm. I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So we'll keep you outdated here. Yeah, what you got,
frost Pop delaying your apology? Just get to it. I
got what you to it. This is what's happening now.
Justin go back and watch video the Chargers beating the Chiefs.
Go ahead and do that my thumbs just.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Really quick though. The guy that like flipped the ball
back former Northwestern Wildcat bench Coronic. You go, hey, he's
had a nice long career in the NFL. So again,
two minute warning.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Now that the Dolphins have a rushing play for their
first play, Okay, all right, old strategy, Come on, why
not Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Now you're thinking maybe maybe this is the one.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, this one will get him ninety seven yards and
won't be expecting it. Oh no, no, well they'll take
us out of the two mint the warning.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So Philip Rivers returned to the NFL a day ago. Now,
I want to be accurate. I want to be accurate
and I want to be correct, So just say your
so as I said, stop I said last week, I said,
no one wants to be more wrong about Rivers coming
back than me. This this comeback against the against the Seahawks,
not the week two. It's going to be awful. He's
(05:32):
forty four, he hasn't played. What are we really going
to get now? He finished the game, stayed up right,
He put him in the chance to win the game. Right,
You need a sixty fifty six yard field goal from
Jason Myers. Your defense played out of their shoes offensively.
You got what you you got enough from the game.
But six field goals fifty six yard or a little
(05:55):
bit too much. Rivers, of course, had to juice the
ball down the field. The last pick I'm not going
to put on him. You got you only have thirty
seconds or twenty seconds to get down the field. You
need something to get into field goal range, so you
have to kind of take a chance on that throw.
It was an overthrow, okay, So I want to be
accurate about this. I was very happy to be sort
(06:15):
of wrong on Philip Rivers because how he looked. To
be honest about how Philip Rivers looked, he looked like
a quarterback that most teams have where the backup gets
no reps because the starter gets all of them, and
he is thrust into play at a moment's notice, and
(06:36):
you get as good a game as you could expect
from him in that situation. Meaning I don't expect him
to come in and throw four touchdowns, but hey, can
we get down the field enough. Can we be in
a position and maybe steal a game where offensive we
just don't look like we're absolutely bereft of everything. And
that's kind of how Philip Rivers played yesterday. He played
(06:57):
like a like when when Lamar Jackson gets hurt and snoop,
someone else has to come in right when when Torod
Taylor gets hurting, Brady Cook has to play. Whatever it
is when a backup quarterback with no reps comes in
and is thrust in right away in a short week
preparing for a game, you would expect, Hey, what's your
realistic best case scenario? It was how Philip Rivers looked
(07:18):
on Sunday. We moved the ball didn't look great, not
like Rivers went for three twenty and three touchdowns, like
move the ball a little bit. Still was a little
slow in the pocket. You know, you can tell his
accuracy wasn't there the reason why he was retired. But
he looked better than expected, better than I thought he
was gonna be. But that's exactly what it was. He
looked like that kind of quarterback that well, if you
(07:38):
told the Colts you're gonna get this kind of week
where you're gonna score fifteen sixteen points and you're gonna
have a chance to win the game because your defense
is gonna play well, your office is gonna light the
world on fire. You know, he's not gonna be great,
but he's gonna be serviceable enough where you don't just
tank it and say, well good luck. Will try to
figure it out for next week. Maybe Riley Leonard is back,
maybe Anthony Richardson comes back, whatever it is. But that's
(08:00):
what you saw from Rivers. That was the best case
scenario you could see, like a backup that was thrust in. Hey,
that's as good as we could expect a guy to play.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I mean Richardson now cleared to get back to work,
so that came out today. Leonard was off the injury report,
so in theory he should be good. But you look
at Rivers on the balance, was it overwhelming. No, you
didn't expect it to be. He finishes eighteen to twenty seven,
just one hundred and twenty yards, but made the plays
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they needed and put him in position to win the game.
You get a big kickoff return, and nowadays, you know,
we extole the virtues of and lament the accuracy and
the aptitude of these kickers to be able to bomb
through stuff. In the mid fifties, once upon a time
you had like three guys in the game that could
do that right, You had Janakowski, Praterer, and then you'd
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have a random guy that would come in right. And
over time, now it's become the norm that you could
at least tap into that with virtually every kicker. So
unfortunately you end up on the down side of it.
But when it's all said and done, I indict the
effort of the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I'm embarrassed for them because that's all that's all the
excuse making. You know, started to was like, well they're
looking ahead to Thursday. It's like you still have to
win this damn game. So to suddenly say, well, we
didn't take it seriously.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
This isn't the NBA with eighty two games where guys
don't play, guys don't show up. No, everybody played, and
you all should run a bunch of extra laps or
do something as penalty for a How do you not
get at him? You had one sack, You had a
couple of things where he was crumpling down, like when
he had to when he had to move.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It was not pretty. Why are you not blitzing on
every every overload, every single if you could beat us downfield,
have at it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But but all of that to say, it's like, look
for folks that want to dismiss it, and we keep
going in the it's the indictment.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Of the colts.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
How about it's the indictment of the rest of the
en that there's not a guy that you say, Okay,
he might be better physically, but it's so hard to
come in and learn the system whatever that we're not
gonna bother, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I remember I remember Jerry Glanville telling this story. Was
it was really funny. Yeah, when Joe Namath was at
the end of his cret He played that very briefly
with the Rams when he thought, Hey, I'm gonna go
out to Hollywood and be a big, big TV start
everything else. He goes play for the Rams and like
his first or second game, I think they played whoever
Jerry Glanvill's defensive coordator for maybe the Falcons and Leeman
(10:34):
Bennett was the head coach right, and it was just
absolutely awful for Joe Namath. Like he got hit, he
got sacked a whole bunch of times and everything and
it was just a really bad like it's one of
those where all the video highlights of Joe Namath with
the Rams, like we're from this game. It's like, oh
my god, Joe, like he couldn't run anymore, he had
no more mobility everything else. And he told a story
where I remember Jerry Glamville telling the story where he
(10:56):
said that after the game, the coach said to me,
because he was a defensive coordinator, he said, hey, uh
do you did you? You blitzed you know Nameth a lot, right,
Like you made sure you blitz the Nameth a lot
in this game. And he said, I said to him, coach,
I think there was one play where I did not
blitz him like we blitzed him on every single play.
I think there was one play we did not blitz him,
(11:16):
and I think he said it was like the end
of the half and thought they'd throw a hell Mary.
That's the only play they didn't blitz him. All mass
said splits him every single time.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But that's what I thought we'd see. I mean, you
had we talked about it on Friday show. I mean,
and I was hoping for the best, which I thought
that the Colts could still win the game, and they
were there, but that you would attack. They were what
fourth or fifth coming into this weekend's game with forty
one team sacks. They got him once.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, you know. And here's the other part is that
maybe there was a quick because now Philip Rivers has
already been named the starter for Monday Night football against
the Niners, already already that he's been named the starter
for next week. I don't know if this was one
of those Hey, if you come out and play, we'll
guarantee you a couple of weeks. But if you are that,
if you are the Colts, you want to say, Okay,
(12:02):
Riley Leonard is clear he's maybe coming back. Anthony Richardson,
as you said he was coming back, and you still
have three games left the regular season. He'll never come back.
Not that you're going to keep Anthony Richardson, but boy,
wouldn't you want to put him out there? Wouldn't you
want to put Riley Leonard? Because Riley Leonard came in
and ran the offense pretty well, you know when he
came just just for that little bit in relief of
Daniel Jones. So I don't know if this was the
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case of where, hey, we promised Philip another game or
we promised him to start the rest of the way,
but you would think for them the rest of this season, it's, well,
we really we want to get guys on the field
that can maybe get us to more points. Right, So
it's kind of it's it's I think there's a little
more drama surrounding Rivers comeback than you think, because it's
not like you suddenly let the world on fire. He's
(12:45):
a great it's a great story, but let's not get
it confused that. You know, he looked like a guy
that was thrust in and at the minute you can
get back to your old quarterback, you go back there well,
the other part said that that was for River.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That maybe you don't like either of those other quarterbacks,
and you realize that the playoffs are are a distant
past in terms of your aptitude and ability. So now
it's the all right, let's just finish out the string.
By the way, again, San Francisco terrible rushing the passer.
So for Philip hey Man, he was able to stand
(13:18):
tall against the Seahawks, should be able to sit in
the pocket knights and clean against forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
A Christmas gift for us, we got some football. Was
easiestly the softest apology I've ever heard of my life,
because I was only sort of wrong. I was only
from here. I was only sort of wrong. I didn't
have to fully apologize. I was sort of right, do
you I was? First of all, they lost the game. No, no,
you thought he was going to be. They lost the game.
(13:44):
They lost the game. He did everything he said he could.
He threw one hundred and twenty yards. I thought he
would know for about one hundred and twenty yards he
said he could. He didn't know he did.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
By the way, the over under on his passing yards
was one hundred and fifty three pig Fay.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He wasn't even closed. I was sort of wrong. I
was sort of wrong. You were very wrong. I was
sort of I would know I'd be very wrong if
he went for two seventy five and three touchdowns and
they won thirty one twenty three, that I would have
been one hundred percent wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
No, I had people that don't care about football that
were texting me, going, this is not the greatest story ever.
It's like I stopped watching when they left Sandy. Yeah,
I mean, look and all that stuff. Let's understand this.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
They're being a good story and and a really good
showing like he was. He was going to be sincere
about I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Be that fifty six goes wide. Is Philip Rivers not
the hero of the day, Okay, but he's offensive players
should even.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Happen, but that it should have never he put them
in position to win.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, they had the big kickoff return and then it
just took a little bit after it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It did happen, it didn't not happen. Wasn't lost Jets interception. Hey, egg,
you know what else is not happening this year? Frostburg,
the Chiefs winning a playoff game. Oh, Yeah, I'm not
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gotta be honest, this is the stupidest holiday song I
think I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
But I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It doesn't make any sense. I feel like the song
starts like he was recording it, like at RKO Studios
in nineteen fifty one whatever it was, and people just
walk by. It was like a Friday at five point thirty,
and he was in there to do the song and
people waved to him because he knew and he just
started off by saying happy Holiday, and then somebody else
walked by, Happy Holiday, and.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They just went into a song. I mean, this is
God's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
This is like a feeling. This song was written in
like five minutes. Here, just record this. It's for a
kN ivory soap commer we're doing. That's gonna air at
Dana The very beginning of Edward R. Murrou Show on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
All right, fine, remember a lot of these guys were
one take Wonders. Yeah, I got the studio for an hour,
We get a whole album in man, this is on
the Metal Stand alongside Dean Martin's Rootolph the reddoes Reindeer
because he keeps calling him Rudy. Well yeah, it's just
nickname saying, won't you drive Minten Slady. He has fun
with him.
Speaker 1 (17:23):
You got you got it a little bit loose. You
gotta make it your own. Gotta make those songs your own.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Man. You can't just throw it straight. Come on, he
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So big news in the NFL today. Obviously we know
that the Chiefs are out of the playoffs. Patrick Mahomes
tears his acl already has undergone surgery for the torn
acl already, Not like I have to wait a week.
(18:14):
He's gonna have it on Thursday and doctor James Andrews
will perform it all the No, no, no, hey, we
got hurt yesterday, surgery today. Now. The good news for Mahomes,
good news for the NFL is that they're not going
to the playoffs. We're good news for NFL fans. They're
not going to the playoffs. You killed Mahomes, Frostburg, just
so you know, you guys.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Trying to speak that into him for a long time.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You guys did it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He glulied him in the final minute of the game.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because remember, the Chiefs are kind of like the Yankees,
in which, yeah, hey, so many fans are root against
having them in the playoffs, but Yankees cheat the playoffs
because well, yeah, they have the umpires on their side
all the time. You saidn't know, you see the ball
strike calls the Yankees again. Uh, you just can't do
anything like, oh, Aaron Judge really didn't catch that line drive.
We can't just give them it out. He had possession.
(18:59):
Chiefs would have had that overturned. He had possession. Yeah, yeah,
he made a baseball move. Yeah, there would have. There
would have been some kind of interference penalty on the
Dodgers hitting the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well because he was on his glove long enough for
two strides and an extra baseball related attempt.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You got to get that third foot down. You get
the third foot down in the end zone, and then
he's got.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Such an arbitrary thing. How you doing there, Isaiah?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Likely so he's already answered, which is good news. And
we've heard earlier today that he avoided the worst type
of ACL tear, that the rest of his knee is intact,
and the fact that he's able to get so. Not
that I'm a doctor, but going by judging off of
anterior cruciate ligaments injuries the last twenty five years, when
you can undergo your surgery early, that's great. That means
(19:42):
you can start your rehab earlier. You don't have to
wait for swelling to go down or anything else around it.
That's good news.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's also nice to be a football player because you
can get that scheduled. Really fat it is, it is.
I mean, I just gotta call what it is having
dealt with you know, some some healthcare fund myself, Carmen.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, we can get you in problem sometime in twenty
twenty eight. I believe I've been opening in February at
nine by Joe Burrow take on the seventeenth. Yeah, you know,
but don't cancel it. You know we're gonna we're gonna
make sure you're in every month for the rest of
the next two and a half years. If you fail
to respond, you're not You're losing that though. So that's
(20:21):
good news. Now. The thing is a little bit of
a different take on the chiefs of what you've heard
over the course of the past twenty four hours. I
remember when when Colorado deon Sanders first year, when they
were winning in the first month and they owned September. Right,
You'll always have September last year, Dion, You'll always have that, uh.
(20:42):
And everything was great, wonderful for the for the Colorado Buffaloes,
everything was great. And then they started losing and they
haven't stopped losing. And Dion at a press conference, I
think they at some point where you knew they they
were out of the running for the for not just
for the playoff. But they weren't gonna be a top
twenty five team. And I vividly remember dion Ada's weekly
press conference saying, I'm gonna tell you this, get us now, right, like,
(21:04):
get us now, like oh, because I'm gonna be the
big bad guy on the block to go out and
get all the gall the big players to come in,
and I'm gonna get all the best players and we're
gonna run roughshot over everybody else.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well that has twenty I got drummed forty two to
six by Oregon.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But I remember him saying, get us now, get us now.
That's the case for the Chiefs. If you think next
year is going to be anything like this, right, I've
been your Chiefs whisper all year long, so well, I'll
gut it out into next year. Told you a great
year for Mahomes. Struggle for the Chiefs to make the
playoffs because other teams are younger, more talented, more athletic,
they're hungry, or the AFC is better. And that's exactly
(21:41):
what happened. But you know there's gonna be big changes
in this offseason for the Chiefs. They're got a lot
of guys making a lot of money, they've got a
lot of guys who aren't making that money next year.
The fact that Mahomes already had surgery tells me that
he'll be back for next year. And it's not even
really gonna be close. He's already on pace after today,
(22:01):
they say he will be able to start Week one
right now. Maybe we don't see him as much in
the offseason, obviously, but Mahomes has played enough quarterback. But
this is a big wake up call for the Chiefs,
for everybody from the standpoint of we need to be
doing it better on the field, to need to be
taken care of our bodies better on the field. Whatever
it is you want to make fun of Mahomes, his
dad bought trust Wait do you see the shape he
(22:23):
comes in to the season with next year.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But even still, look how mobile he was and how
much his ability to run. And that's where tell me
you watch a highlight and read a box score versus
watching a game where he extended a lot of plays
and drives because he had to because they had no
running game and a bad offensive. And it's not it
wasn't even that he had to extend plays, it's that
he had to make first down right, because what he
(22:47):
used to do was what he was. He was great
buying time waiting for Tyreek Kill to get open downfield
or pointing to a spot where he wanted Tyreek Kill
to run to, and I would throw you the fiber
of the five hundred yards side to side against the
Bucks and super I.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Mean, yeah, he was a lot more I'm running the
football to run for a first down than I am
I'm keeping the play alive, right, you know that's what
Mahomes did more this year. They played this week with
fourth string offensive tackles, not exactly what the Chiefs rode
up when they said, hey, what do you see December coming? Yeah,
I see Mahomes playing in front of guys that we
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don't want them out there. So yeah, it's it was
difficult this year, but with a lot of guys do
money that they're gonna be able to get out of
for next year. You see, this is going to be
a completely different Chiefs team next year. It's going to
be new offensive line and almost to the to the
to the point they had when they lost to the
Bucks in the Super Bowl, they realized, Okay, we have
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to go bigger on the offensive line. We have to
make big changes, and they did. What happened. Hey, they
went to a couple of Super Bowls. They won another one.
All right, great, we got it, We got it. But
they need changes on the offensive line. They need a
number one running back. They need another number one or
a one A wide receiver. They need a number one
tight end. They will go out and get all of them,
because all of them will want to come to Kansas
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City to play with Mahomes. I have no doubt in
my mind. They will get Breise Hall somehow. They will
go get a wide receiver who either will turn Rashi
Rice into the one A or he'll be the one
A to Rashie Rice, who is flash at times like
maybe he could be a top five, top seven receiver
in the NFL. They will get a tight end to
replace Travis kelce who's done. And I mean I get that.
(24:26):
Travis Kelcey's a great soap opera and it is he
gonna play?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But Travis Kelcey has done How many times this year
have you saw the headline, Oh, a big Travis Kelcey
drop in the fourth quarter really hurt them, or a
Travis Kelcey drop that turned into a deflicted interception wound
up killing the Chiefs three games this year. Travis Kelcey's
had huge drops that cost them games. He's going to retire.
I get he wants to come back and play with Mahomes.
(24:51):
But the Chiefs know they have to do better. They
have to do better at the big weapons, they have
to do better on the offensive line. They are going
to clear out next year, and with my Homes already
on pace to come back, and they feel pretty confident
he'll be there for Week one under center, this is
going to be an off season. You have not seen
an off season of revenge for the Chiefs. As they say, Okay,
(25:11):
you think we've been pretty good. Now, way do you
see how we revamp things for the rest of Patrick
Mahomes's a career, the second half of his prime, where
maybe we are not relying him to run for first
downs as much and it's more going to keep plays
alive because we have guys will break open downfield. We
tried for a couple of years and just throw a
bunch of guys out there. Well, guess what has it worked?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Zavi?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You're worthy as a gadget guy. Did work. Rice was
pretty good, but crushing them with the big mistake he
made driving the suspension for the beginning of this year,
that hurt them. They started out two and four. It
was a bad beginning. They know we have to be
bold and make big change in the offseason, and I
have no doubt in my mind they will be like
the Patriots in the aughts and the early teens, where
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it's hey, one team's misfortune with a star player that
maybe is getting paid a little bit too much money.
We can offer them a draft pick and they want
to get out from under that. And now all of
a sudden, it's a reclamation project. A tight end who
can turn into a star. You mentioned Kyle Pitts's name
a little while ago. It's a Breese Hall from the Jets.
That may the Jets are really starting over. They're really
gonna pay Brisall. He's a guy that wants out. Okay,
(26:12):
we can make that move for you as well. They
are gonna be a lot of moves for the Chiefs
to make. So yeah, get them now, because next year
it's going to be a completely different team. It's gonna
be a much more dangerous team and a bigger and
better team than they said. Right now, get in the
rest of the season. Yeah, I mean you got opportunity.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Pitts becomes the easy name, and it's the recency buys
off the potential. But finally executed in week fifteen, right
the three touchdown performance that he had at a big
Thursday night standalone, Isaiah likely well, Mark Andrews got paid,
Isaiah likely's not getting paid by the Ravens, and you
go on down the line. There are a few other
potential tight ends out there, and maybe that's the only
(26:51):
way I think Kelsey could come back is that he
can't be the focal point. He's a guy that can
be once in a while play kind of thing. If
he wants to continue his run, then sure, you take
a pay cut and you can stick around and be
part of a machine as opposed to he had to
be the lead guy oftentimes and we saw how that failed.
So whether you cut ties all together, he decides he's old.
(27:14):
Whatever that, you get through it, but you've got to
retool the offensive line. First thing is you mentioned the money.
You got eleven guys making at least eleven million dollars.
Top two guys you got Chris Jones scheduled to make
forty four million against the cap next year. Yeah, so
we watched his play. We saw spats multiple times early
this season and certainly late in terms of decisions he made,
(27:36):
in terms of paths trying to get to a quarterback,
taking himself out of plays. Remember justin Herbert sliding down
and we weren't focusing on him because we had drama
on the defensive line. No, you got to keep the outside,
you gotta keep containment, all of that. But you got
Patrick mahomes is gonna have to restructure. He's his cap
hit is seventy eight million. Oh, I'm sure he'll right,
(27:59):
he'll restructure, and it's not there. But that's where it
becomes the creativity. There's a few guys that they'll don't
still shake off, like the Rocks on the yard and Josh, hey,
it was nice, congratulations, you got a title or two.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You're done.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But at the top end, those two guys complete restructuring
to try to free up some money, and the cap
will go up, of course, and.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's not gonna be where the Chiefs just say who's
the best player out there and they can sign them
to a long term deal. It's gonna be that opportunistic. Oh, well, hey,
I'm smelling blood in the water with you because your
team is not really good and you have this wide
receiver that we can fit them in for a year,
or you want to move on from this player for
whatever reason, and we'll bring him into Kansas City and
(28:40):
suddenly it's gonna be great. Like when the Patriots went
out and got Randy Moss, or they went out and
got Wes Welker. Well, all the moves they made to
help Tom Brady around, Boy, that worked out. That move
seemed to work out. That move seemed to work out.
That's kind of what the Chiefs are gonna do. It's
not gonna be the case of, hey, who's the best
wide who's the best wide receiver, best tight end, best
running back is gonna be on the market. It's gonna
be moves they're gonna make involving draft picks and getting
(29:03):
down and being able to save some money with those guys.
But it's gonna be a big aggressive off season for Casey.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah, for Kansas City, for Beach, for Andy Reid if
he sticks right. That was something we talked with Jason
locking for about find that in the podcast that full discussion.
Uh in terms of that part of the potential equation
that needs to be solved as well. But yeah, all
eyes on the cheeks, because really the only thing you
can count on is the Raiders are gonna do things wrong.
(29:30):
The other two teams you're fighting at this point.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Everybody, but at least you have the one team, at
least the one Yet much as paying you to say this,
not as far as you know, he's not paying me anything.
That wasn't the questions met Pat Mahomes Senior. By the way,
what's that X? Met Pat Mahomes scene. Why do you
think I asked you that? Okay, all right, just met
So when you said that, did you get paid an
extra thousand dollars for that?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Do you know what I would say if I got paid? Oh?
I can't say that now, No, youays yell at me. Yeah, no,
I don't even go.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I don't go anywhere near that, and you yell at me.
Put a dollar on your head, you put a price,
You went DBASI and you actually put a number.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Doing to find out what's trending in the wide world
the Sports with special delivery Steve de Sager, who has
a special update four and a half minutes of preview
of the E Cup Championship. Games's staring the New York Knicks.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
When people hear E Cup, they think there's some video
game challenge going on in the Thunderdome that people can
actually walk in and attend.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Have you ever gone to one of those? No way,
would you like to?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I have seen them locally. They have used like the
old jay Leno studios.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Could also be a new bra Hey, the E Cup
bra Really, I didn't know that. You see the commercial
of the E Cup that is tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
By the way, Vegas hosting the NBA Cup Final, Nicks
against the Spurs San Antonio end at Oklahoma City sixteen
game winning streak and Saturday night semi final. The late
game is something you can count on. You talked about
what you can count on with the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
More on that.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
In the moment, you can count on a Clippers loss.
The way things are going this season.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They're five and fifty one. Right now, it's six.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
And twenty after close five minutes to go at Memphis
leading in LA one oh eight eighty eight against the Clippers.
We had an overtime win for Denver against Houston eight
one twenty five. Nikola Jokic had thirty nine points in
a triple double. Utah came back for an overtime win
at home against Dallas one forty to one thirty three,
despite forty two points from Cooper Flagg. Detroit and Toronto
(31:26):
each one on the road. Arizona remained number one in
men's college basketball. Michigan is still number two in the
Ape Pole. The top six stayed the same in the
NHL victories for Anaheim and Florida. Dallas at home beat
LA four to one. The Sabers fire general manager Kevin Adams. Now,
as far as the Raiders, AP points out that the
Raiders are averaging just fourteen points per game this year,
(31:48):
last in the NFL, on the ground under three and
a half yards per carry, last in the NFL, and
they've allowed the most sacks in the NFL. And since
Mark Davis became owner of the franch winning percentage three
eighty two.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Steve, that's why Arch Manning is staying at Texas. That
would scare me, but that helps.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Pittsburgh was a home winner over Miami tonight, twenty eight
to fifteen. Steelers up to eight and six this season.
Steelers trailed three nothing late first half and then scored
touchdowns on their next four drives. Kenneth Gainwell had thirteen
carries eighty yards rushing, Aaron Rodgers two touchdown passes in
the losing effort, tight end Darren Waller two touchdown receptions
(32:29):
in the fourth quarter. The Jets fired defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes,
who was in his first year there. The team is
allowing twenty eight points per game and still has no
interceptions this season. The Colts will start quarterback Philip Rivers
again next Monday night against the forty nine ers. Washington
shut down quarterback Jayden Daniels for the rest of the season.
He aggravated his dislocated left elbow a week ago, so
(32:51):
Marcus Mariota starts still. The Bengals are due to keep
starting quarterback Joe Burrow even though they've been eliminated, and
the Chiefs were eliminated from the playoff yesterday. Gardner Minshew
expected to start their final three games. Patrick Mahomes, chief
star quarterback, had his surgery tonight on his torn ACL,
and Packers defensive end Micah Parsons does have a torn ACL.
(33:13):
The MRI confirmed that today He's led the NFL in
quarterback pressures this season. The Philly signed right fielder Adolas
Garcia X of the Rangers one year, ten million dollars,
pending a physical. The Twins agreed to a deal with
first baseman Josh Bell. The Mets invited outfielder Christian Pasche
to spring training. The Braves re signed shortstop Hassan Kim
(33:34):
to a one year deal where twenty million dollars. Scotti
Scheffler was voted the PGA Tour Player of the Year
for the fourth straight year. He won six times this season,
including two majors in Major League Soccer. The New York
Red Bulls new coaches Michael Bradley, former US national team player,
and the NCAA Men's soccer final tonight went to Washington
in overtime, three to two over NC State. The game
(33:56):
was in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Back to you, thanks Steve Ol. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next we
get back into Monday night football. Hey, we had a
big take on two A last hour on the show.
What about Rogers and the Steelers? Oh, that's next to
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
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Speaker 1 (34:25):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Bring it on, Sticky Bandits. We just
watched Have you seen the new commercial with McCaulay Culkin
when the cutout instead of Jordan is Kevin Durant that
he's got going in front of the back and forth
in front of the window.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
He's having himself a nice resurgence.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Was he on Twitter calling somebody out? No, no, no, Yeah.
Mcaulay Culkin's burner accounts McCauley was better, always a better
actor than Kieran. I don't care if he's got a
goscar or not.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Think about Cowley Colkin and the evil home alone character
into succession.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Sure it'll blow your mind. Uh So, the Steelers win
tonight over the Dolphins twenty eight to fifteen. We'll have
more on the Dolphins and two are coming up in
a few minutes. But the Steelers win. They're in control
in the AFC North. They have a little bit easier
schedule than the Ravens the rest of the way, but
you know it's gonna come down to the final week
(35:26):
and the Steelers Ravens final week of the season, which
is the way it should right come down. But I
know they won, and I know Aaron Rodgers played okay,
so you know, second second time in a row he's
played okay after some really bad games in a row.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Sounds like you're really getting to get ready to throw
out a big butt.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
But I love them, and they're gonna win the Super Bowl,
no shocking. The Steelers still stink. They're just okay. I
don't know. I mean, I know that I don't have
a list in front of me, but I know that
I can see a worse eight and sixteen than the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh are you doing that? Give me the worst eight
and Steelers that last?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
And I pressed by saying, I don't know, go back
and say eight and six teams where they are. But
I can't believe they're eight and six and they haven't
really beaten anybody. Okay, they can't run the football. They
can throw the football average, but everybody can throw the
football average. They play defense, Okay, they don't play defense
that well. They're an average team. And here they are
(36:20):
at eight and six. They're still not very good. Right.
There is absolutely zero NFL team in the playoffs. That's
gonna say, hey, we really don't want to play them.
We're scared of the Steelers. Nobody is scared of playing
Pittsburgh in the playoffs. In fact, they were looking at
the playoffs, all the playoff teams going, Man, if things
lay right, froust, we get the Steelers in that first
(36:40):
playoff game, that's the game we want. Even though we're
on the road. The Chargers are saying, hey, we'll get
the Steelers on the road in the playoff. Oh, we'll
get that w man. We just went in to Kansas
City and ended their season. We'll get win an end
Aaron Rodgers' career. Okay, check, Nobody is scared of playing
the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Now we're talking about hurting Aaron Rodgers. Nobody doing no.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Well, he's gonna retire after this year, that's what they
in his career on the field, he's not going to play.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I don't know if Philip Rivers plays another couple of weeks.
Aaron Rodgers is suddenly gonna feel reinvigorated.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Rogers takes five years off and comes back.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
When he's also looking at things going, well, we're eight
and six.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Still waiting for your apology to Philip Rivers. We'll get
I had my accurate Philip Rivers apology. We'll get into
it again next hour. No accurate time.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Steelers are still like right in the meaty part of
the curve in terms of points per game twenty four.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Per accurate like a Jets quarterback. Oh no, no more accurate
than that, Like Jets aren't accurate at all.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
No, that's not good for anybody to But well, your
guy had a couple of big throws. I know his
family got excited, so that was good. But for Aaron
Rodgers in this offense, it's dink and dunk. It's scheme
and a lot of yak. So for Arthur Smith today,
they took advantage of what the Dolphins gave them, a
lot of four five yard passes and sprints to daylight.
(37:58):
Can that happen over the course of an AFC playoff
against this particular grid. I think there's opportunities, right, Do
I think they go on a run?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I think it's the usual. Hey, they make the playoffs.
It was nice to be your hang a banner for
an appearance. Uh, they're not making a run.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
No, this is gonna be the quintessential Mike Tomlin. One
playoff game and they're done. That's gonna be my That's
what It's gonna be. One playoff game and they're done
because the look and maybe not right because it comes
down to that final week in a healthy Lamar Jackson, who.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
That's gonna be a different story. How's he getting helped out?
But I mean it was playing football. He's not getting
any hell out here in a couple of ways.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Look to look like he looked a little bit better
yesterday than he than he did the previous I know,
I'm saying it looked a little bit better and in
three looks better.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Sitting at my three.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Weeks he did look good on your couch in your
shorts and your in your long sleeve shot. You said,
But like but look, maybe they get in. But if
they do get in, like like, that's it, man. I mean,
this is gonna be yet another Hey, one playoff game
we lose, and it's what do we do for next year?
And the Steelers we're afraid to blow it up because
we're still a good playoff team, but do we want
(39:07):
to make big move? And it's what the Steelers have
been stuck in for the better part of a decade plus. Now, Hey,
we're good enough to get in the playoffs under Mike Tomlin,
but we're not good enough to make a big run.
And we're kind of.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Stuck in that.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
We don't want to blow it up because we're already
pretty good. We want to don't want to risk going
fully backward. So you're stuck in this continuing cycle that
goes from yeah, every year we wind up winning nine
or ten games, we play one playoff game, we lose,
and we go home. We're not nearly as good as anybody.
And that's what's gonna happen again this year.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Final three games at Detroit, at Cleveland, and Baltimore. And
I don't hear everybody getting chesty about Shaduur this week, so.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
We put them. That's kind of be seated a little bit.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that kind of kind of took a
hit this weekend. But but all all said, you know,
for the Steelers as an organization, they want to be relevant,
playing relevant football in December. That's been the mantra since
Ben Roethlisberger. It's been a cavalcade of stars coming through
(40:13):
at the quarterback back positions. Once upon a time, stars
with a capital s and then guys, maybe in a
diminished form as we've seen the last couple times out,
but you're just good enough to keep grinding away and
until philosophically they change things up and say we have
to bottom out right and absolutely strip it down to
(40:33):
the studs and move forward. This is all you're gonna get.
You're gonna outperform what your evaluation of your roster is,
because they are again right. You look at the roster
at eight, eight and six right now, it's like I
wouldn't have expected them there at this point except that
it's tomblin. But that's not quantifiable exit out about a
Fresco exit swollen dome. So yet another year of boy
(40:56):
the steal it. Yeah, tell it Gooes because they're just okay.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Come up next to tail of two quarterbacks, one who
may be playing his last season for his team. That's
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Monday Night football. The Steelers with the football and uh
just about two twenty left to go. It's a twenty
eight fifteen lead for Pittsburgh. The on side kick nearly
(01:14):
worked out for the Dolphins. Adam Thielen just bounced off them. However,
Heyward able to fall on top of it. So the
Steelers have the football. One first down is going to
end this, but we are gonna have the two minute
warning and the Dolphins still have a couple of timeouts left,
so still a little bit more execution for the Steelers
to win this game.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
That was one of my favorite on side kicks. I've seen.
It's a good kick, all right, that spinning, whirling dervish
Tasmanian devil like a fool the hell out of theling
when you come in bad right underneath him, and he
had no idea how to judge it.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
You know.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
The thing is is, there's the way you see so
many players with on side kicks. Now, you see the
old way always would been, I'm gonna come down kick
the top of the ball and you hope to get
a big bounce. Yeah right, you have to get a
big bounce. That's kind of out because you know players
feeling that ball, it's a little bit easier. You also
have the forward momentum where even if the guy doesn't
catch it, it's gonna go out of bounds. So it's
(02:10):
a really difficult thing to try to just hey, we're
gonna get the hop.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Or by time the hop comes down, it's gonna get
blown up. Yeah, it could be like on both sides.
It's it's a problem.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah. So the thing is to see on this is
that watching the kick when you can kick the kick
the ball and it's it's bouncing around on the side
and it's a bigger target, Like that was the whole thing.
This is a ball that that's that's side spinning, that
feeling doesn't get and so it just bounces away from
him like and it stays on the field because you're
(02:39):
kicking it that kind of way. Like I think that's
that's what you got to see. That's like the way
of oh, okay, you can kick it like that, you
can you get much more fourth downs. But again I
wonder what sometimes what some kickers work on, because not
everybody can kick it like that, and every single field
goal kicker, every single kicker, should be able to have
an on side kick down. Pat at this point, find
some way this is gonna give us the best chance
(03:01):
of recovering an on sidekick. I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yeah, I've always wondered because going to traveling training camps
like I used to do, guys are just kind of
sitting around most of the time. I remember Robbie Gold
used to just drive around the cart to deliver water, Like.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Could you be working a little harder? Yeah on something,
Thanks for the water, but like, how about you work
on army Like you're there for a couple hours.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I know you can't keep driving fifty yard field goals
for two hours. I get that, but now you're just
driving a cart around. And he was great, one of
my favorites. And you know, I lamented his departure for
many years when he was kicking for the forty nine ers,
but it was just to kind of thing. If he
was emblematic of what kickers across the league were doing.
That's a lot of wasted time get back to, you know,
(03:42):
operational efficiency as everybody starts thinking about their own workplace practices.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
On sidekick, as we said, doesn't work out, but it
also doesn't work out for the Steelers. Aaron Rodgers slides
down rather than try to throw the football into traffic
and risk an incomplete PAS makes it fourth and thirteen.
The Dolphins use their final time out, so they have
no timeouts left, but Brandon Eckles is able to down
(04:09):
the subsequent punt at the three yard line of the Dolphins,
so to in company have two to four to get
the length of the field touchdown on sidekick length of
the field touchdown, and then hey, we got a game.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
He's got a big arm. I mean, it's.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So we'll keep you outdated here. Yeah, what you got,
frost Pop delaying your apology? Just get to it. I
got what you to it. This is what's happening now.
Justin go back and watch video the Chargers beating the Chiefs.
Go ahead and do that my thumbs just.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Really quick though. The guy that like flipped the ball
back former Northwestern Wildcat bench Coronic. You go, hey, he's
had a nice long career in the NFL. So again,
two minute warning.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Now that the Dolphins have a rushing play for their
first play, Okay, all right, old strategy, Come on, why
not Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Now you're thinking maybe maybe this is the one.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, this one will get him ninety seven yards and
won't be expecting it. Oh no, no, well they'll take
us out of the two mint the warning.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
So Philip Rivers returned to the NFL a day ago. Now,
I want to be accurate. I want to be accurate
and I want to be correct, So just say your
so as I said, stop I said last week, I said,
no one wants to be more wrong about Rivers coming
back than me. This this comeback against the against the Seahawks,
not the week two. It's going to be awful. He's
(05:32):
forty four, he hasn't played. What are we really going
to get now? He finished the game, stayed up right,
He put him in the chance to win the game. Right,
You need a sixty fifty six yard field goal from
Jason Myers. Your defense played out of their shoes offensively.
You got what you you got enough from the game.
But six field goals fifty six yard or a little
(05:55):
bit too much. Rivers, of course, had to juice the
ball down the field. The last pick I'm not going
to put on him. You got you only have thirty
seconds or twenty seconds to get down the field. You
need something to get into field goal range, so you
have to kind of take a chance on that throw.
It was an overthrow, okay, So I want to be
accurate about this. I was very happy to be sort
(06:15):
of wrong on Philip Rivers because how he looked. To
be honest about how Philip Rivers looked, he looked like
a quarterback that most teams have where the backup gets
no reps because the starter gets all of them, and
he is thrust into play at a moment's notice, and
(06:36):
you get as good a game as you could expect
from him in that situation. Meaning I don't expect him
to come in and throw four touchdowns, but hey, can
we get down the field enough. Can we be in
a position and maybe steal a game where offensive we
just don't look like we're absolutely bereft of everything. And
that's kind of how Philip Rivers played yesterday. He played
(06:57):
like a like when when Lamar Jackson gets hurt and snoop,
someone else has to come in right when when Torod
Taylor gets hurting, Brady Cook has to play. Whatever it
is when a backup quarterback with no reps comes in
and is thrust in right away in a short week
preparing for a game, you would expect, Hey, what's your
realistic best case scenario? It was how Philip Rivers looked
(07:18):
on Sunday. We moved the ball didn't look great, not
like Rivers went for three twenty and three touchdowns, like
move the ball a little bit. Still was a little
slow in the pocket. You know, you can tell his
accuracy wasn't there the reason why he was retired. But
he looked better than expected, better than I thought he
was gonna be. But that's exactly what it was. He
looked like that kind of quarterback that well, if you
(07:38):
told the Colts you're gonna get this kind of week
where you're gonna score fifteen sixteen points and you're gonna
have a chance to win the game because your defense
is gonna play well, your office is gonna light the
world on fire. You know, he's not gonna be great,
but he's gonna be serviceable enough where you don't just
tank it and say, well good luck. Will try to
figure it out for next week. Maybe Riley Leonard is back,
maybe Anthony Richardson comes back, whatever it is. But that's
(08:00):
what you saw from Rivers. That was the best case
scenario you could see, like a backup that was thrust in. Hey,
that's as good as we could expect a guy to play.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Yeah, I mean Richardson now cleared to get back to work,
so that came out today. Leonard was off the injury report,
so in theory he should be good. But you look
at Rivers on the balance, was it overwhelming. No, you
didn't expect it to be. He finishes eighteen to twenty seven,
just one hundred and twenty yards, but made the plays
(08:29):
they needed and put him in position to win the game.
You get a big kickoff return, and nowadays, you know,
we extole the virtues of and lament the accuracy and
the aptitude of these kickers to be able to bomb
through stuff. In the mid fifties, once upon a time
you had like three guys in the game that could
do that right, You had Janakowski, Praterer, and then you'd
(08:50):
have a random guy that would come in right. And
over time, now it's become the norm that you could
at least tap into that with virtually every kicker. So
unfortunately you end up on the down side of it.
But when it's all said and done, I indict the
effort of the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I'm embarrassed for them because that's all that's all the
excuse making. You know, started to was like, well they're
looking ahead to Thursday. It's like you still have to
win this damn game. So to suddenly say, well, we
didn't take it seriously.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
This isn't the NBA with eighty two games where guys
don't play, guys don't show up. No, everybody played, and
you all should run a bunch of extra laps or
do something as penalty for a How do you not
get at him? You had one sack, You had a
couple of things where he was crumpling down, like when
he had to when he had to move.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
It was not pretty. Why are you not blitzing on
every every overload, every single if you could beat us downfield,
have at it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
But but all of that to say, it's like, look
for folks that want to dismiss it, and we keep
going in the it's the indictment.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Of the colts.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
How about it's the indictment of the rest of the
en that there's not a guy that you say, Okay,
he might be better physically, but it's so hard to
come in and learn the system whatever that we're not
gonna bother, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I remember I remember Jerry Glanville telling this story. Was
it was really funny. Yeah, when Joe Namath was at
the end of his cret He played that very briefly
with the Rams when he thought, Hey, I'm gonna go
out to Hollywood and be a big, big TV start
everything else. He goes play for the Rams and like
his first or second game, I think they played whoever
Jerry Glanvill's defensive coordator for maybe the Falcons and Leeman
(10:34):
Bennett was the head coach right, and it was just
absolutely awful for Joe Namath. Like he got hit, he
got sacked a whole bunch of times and everything and
it was just a really bad like it's one of
those where all the video highlights of Joe Namath with
the Rams, like we're from this game. It's like, oh
my god, Joe, like he couldn't run anymore, he had
no more mobility everything else. And he told a story
where I remember Jerry Glamville telling the story where he
(10:56):
said that after the game, the coach said to me,
because he was a defensive coordinator, he said, hey, uh
do you did you? You blitzed you know Nameth a lot, right,
Like you made sure you blitz the Nameth a lot
in this game. And he said, I said to him, coach,
I think there was one play where I did not
blitz him like we blitzed him on every single play.
I think there was one play we did not blitz him,
(11:16):
and I think he said it was like the end
of the half and thought they'd throw a hell Mary.
That's the only play they didn't blitz him. All mass
said splits him every single time.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But that's what I thought we'd see. I mean, you
had we talked about it on Friday show. I mean,
and I was hoping for the best, which I thought
that the Colts could still win the game, and they
were there, but that you would attack. They were what
fourth or fifth coming into this weekend's game with forty
one team sacks. They got him once.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, you know. And here's the other part is that
maybe there was a quick because now Philip Rivers has
already been named the starter for Monday Night football against
the Niners, already already that he's been named the starter
for next week. I don't know if this was one
of those Hey, if you come out and play, we'll
guarantee you a couple of weeks. But if you are that,
if you are the Colts, you want to say, Okay,
(12:02):
Riley Leonard is clear he's maybe coming back. Anthony Richardson,
as you said he was coming back, and you still
have three games left the regular season. He'll never come back.
Not that you're going to keep Anthony Richardson, but boy,
wouldn't you want to put him out there? Wouldn't you
want to put Riley Leonard? Because Riley Leonard came in
and ran the offense pretty well, you know when he
came just just for that little bit in relief of
Daniel Jones. So I don't know if this was the
(12:25):
case of where, hey, we promised Philip another game or
we promised him to start the rest of the way,
but you would think for them the rest of this season, it's, well,
we really we want to get guys on the field
that can maybe get us to more points. Right, So
it's kind of it's it's I think there's a little
more drama surrounding Rivers comeback than you think, because it's
not like you suddenly let the world on fire. He's
(12:45):
a great it's a great story, but let's not get
it confused that. You know, he looked like a guy
that was thrust in and at the minute you can
get back to your old quarterback, you go back there well,
the other part said that that was for River.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That maybe you don't like either of those other quarterbacks,
and you realize that the playoffs are are a distant
past in terms of your aptitude and ability. So now
it's the all right, let's just finish out the string.
By the way, again, San Francisco terrible rushing the passer.
So for Philip hey Man, he was able to stand
(13:18):
tall against the Seahawks, should be able to sit in
the pocket knights and clean against forty nine ers.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
A Christmas gift for us, we got some football. Was
easiestly the softest apology I've ever heard of my life,
because I was only sort of wrong. I was only
from here. I was only sort of wrong. I didn't
have to fully apologize. I was sort of right, do
you I was? First of all, they lost the game. No, no,
you thought he was going to be. They lost the game.
(13:44):
They lost the game. He did everything he said he could.
He threw one hundred and twenty yards. I thought he
would know for about one hundred and twenty yards he
said he could. He didn't know he did.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
By the way, the over under on his passing yards
was one hundred and fifty three pig Fay.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He wasn't even closed. I was sort of wrong. I
was sort of wrong. You were very wrong. I was
sort of I would know I'd be very wrong if
he went for two seventy five and three touchdowns and
they won thirty one twenty three, that I would have
been one hundred percent wrong.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
No, I had people that don't care about football that
were texting me, going, this is not the greatest story ever.
It's like I stopped watching when they left Sandy. Yeah,
I mean, look and all that stuff. Let's understand this.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
They're being a good story and and a really good
showing like he was. He was going to be sincere
about I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Be that fifty six goes wide. Is Philip Rivers not
the hero of the day, Okay, but he's offensive players
should even.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Happen, but that it should have never he put them
in position to win.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yeah, they had the big kickoff return and then it
just took a little bit after it.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
It did happen, it didn't not happen. Wasn't lost Jets interception. Hey, egg,
you know what else is not happening this year? Frostburg,
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gotta be honest, this is the stupidest holiday song I
think I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
But I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
It doesn't make any sense. I feel like the song
starts like he was recording it, like at RKO Studios
in nineteen fifty one whatever it was, and people just
walk by. It was like a Friday at five point thirty,
and he was in there to do the song and
people waved to him because he knew and he just
started off by saying happy Holiday, and then somebody else
walked by, Happy Holiday, and.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They just went into a song. I mean, this is
God's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
This is like a feeling. This song was written in
like five minutes. Here, just record this. It's for a
kN ivory soap commer we're doing. That's gonna air at
Dana The very beginning of Edward R. Murrou Show on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
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one take Wonders. Yeah, I got the studio for an hour,
We get a whole album in man, this is on
the Metal Stand alongside Dean Martin's Rootolph the reddoes Reindeer
because he keeps calling him Rudy. Well yeah, it's just
nickname saying, won't you drive Minten Slady. He has fun
with him.
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gotta make it your own. Gotta make those songs your own.
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So big news in the NFL today. Obviously we know
that the Chiefs are out of the playoffs. Patrick Mahomes
tears his acl already has undergone surgery for the torn
acl already, Not like I have to wait a week.
(18:14):
He's gonna have it on Thursday and doctor James Andrews
will perform it all the No, no, no, hey, we
got hurt yesterday, surgery today. Now. The good news for Mahomes,
good news for the NFL is that they're not going
to the playoffs. We're good news for NFL fans. They're
not going to the playoffs. You killed Mahomes, Frostburg, just
so you know, you guys.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Trying to speak that into him for a long time.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
You guys did it.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He glulied him in the final minute of the game.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Because remember, the Chiefs are kind of like the Yankees,
in which, yeah, hey, so many fans are root against
having them in the playoffs, but Yankees cheat the playoffs
because well, yeah, they have the umpires on their side
all the time. You saidn't know, you see the ball
strike calls the Yankees again. Uh, you just can't do
anything like, oh, Aaron Judge really didn't catch that line drive.
We can't just give them it out. He had possession.
(18:59):
Chiefs would have had that overturned. He had possession. Yeah, yeah,
he made a baseball move. Yeah, there would have. There
would have been some kind of interference penalty on the
Dodgers hitting the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well because he was on his glove long enough for
two strides and an extra baseball related attempt.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
You got to get that third foot down. You get
the third foot down in the end zone, and then
he's got.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Such an arbitrary thing. How you doing there, Isaiah?
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Likely so he's already answered, which is good news. And
we've heard earlier today that he avoided the worst type
of ACL tear, that the rest of his knee is intact,
and the fact that he's able to get so. Not
that I'm a doctor, but going by judging off of
anterior cruciate ligaments injuries the last twenty five years, when
you can undergo your surgery early, that's great. That means
(19:42):
you can start your rehab earlier. You don't have to
wait for swelling to go down or anything else around it.
That's good news.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
It's also nice to be a football player because you
can get that scheduled. Really fat it is, it is.
I mean, I just gotta call what it is having
dealt with you know, some some healthcare fund myself, Carmen.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, we can get you in problem sometime in twenty
twenty eight. I believe I've been opening in February at
nine by Joe Burrow take on the seventeenth. Yeah, you know,
but don't cancel it. You know we're gonna we're gonna
make sure you're in every month for the rest of
the next two and a half years. If you fail
to respond, you're not You're losing that though. So that's
(20:21):
good news. Now. The thing is a little bit of
a different take on the chiefs of what you've heard
over the course of the past twenty four hours. I
remember when when Colorado deon Sanders first year, when they
were winning in the first month and they owned September. Right,
You'll always have September last year, Dion, You'll always have that, uh.
(20:42):
And everything was great, wonderful for the for the Colorado Buffaloes,
everything was great. And then they started losing and they
haven't stopped losing. And Dion at a press conference, I
think they at some point where you knew they they
were out of the running for the for not just
for the playoff. But they weren't gonna be a top
twenty five team. And I vividly remember dion Ada's weekly
press conference saying, I'm gonna tell you this, get us now, right, like,
(21:04):
get us now, like oh, because I'm gonna be the
big bad guy on the block to go out and
get all the gall the big players to come in,
and I'm gonna get all the best players and we're
gonna run roughshot over everybody else.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Well that has twenty I got drummed forty two to
six by Oregon.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
But I remember him saying, get us now, get us now.
That's the case for the Chiefs. If you think next
year is going to be anything like this, right, I've
been your Chiefs whisper all year long, so well, I'll
gut it out into next year. Told you a great
year for Mahomes. Struggle for the Chiefs to make the
playoffs because other teams are younger, more talented, more athletic,
they're hungry, or the AFC is better. And that's exactly
(21:41):
what happened. But you know there's gonna be big changes
in this offseason for the Chiefs. They're got a lot
of guys making a lot of money, they've got a
lot of guys who aren't making that money next year.
The fact that Mahomes already had surgery tells me that
he'll be back for next year. And it's not even
really gonna be close. He's already on pace after today,
(22:01):
they say he will be able to start Week one
right now. Maybe we don't see him as much in
the offseason, obviously, but Mahomes has played enough quarterback. But
this is a big wake up call for the Chiefs,
for everybody from the standpoint of we need to be
doing it better on the field, to need to be
taken care of our bodies better on the field. Whatever
it is you want to make fun of Mahomes, his
dad bought trust Wait do you see the shape he
(22:23):
comes in to the season with next year.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
But even still, look how mobile he was and how
much his ability to run. And that's where tell me
you watch a highlight and read a box score versus
watching a game where he extended a lot of plays
and drives because he had to because they had no
running game and a bad offensive. And it's not it
wasn't even that he had to extend plays, it's that
he had to make first down right, because what he
(22:47):
used to do was what he was. He was great
buying time waiting for Tyreek Kill to get open downfield
or pointing to a spot where he wanted Tyreek Kill
to run to, and I would throw you the fiber
of the five hundred yards side to side against the
Bucks and super I.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Mean, yeah, he was a lot more I'm running the
football to run for a first down than I am
I'm keeping the play alive, right, you know that's what
Mahomes did more this year. They played this week with
fourth string offensive tackles, not exactly what the Chiefs rode
up when they said, hey, what do you see December coming? Yeah,
I see Mahomes playing in front of guys that we
(23:21):
don't want them out there. So yeah, it's it was
difficult this year, but with a lot of guys do
money that they're gonna be able to get out of
for next year. You see, this is going to be
a completely different Chiefs team next year. It's going to
be new offensive line and almost to the to the
to the point they had when they lost to the
Bucks in the Super Bowl, they realized, Okay, we have
(23:41):
to go bigger on the offensive line. We have to
make big changes, and they did. What happened. Hey, they
went to a couple of Super Bowls. They won another one.
All right, great, we got it, We got it. But
they need changes on the offensive line. They need a
number one running back. They need another number one or
a one A wide receiver. They need a number one
tight end. They will go out and get all of them,
because all of them will want to come to Kansas
(24:03):
City to play with Mahomes. I have no doubt in
my mind. They will get Breise Hall somehow. They will
go get a wide receiver who either will turn Rashi
Rice into the one A or he'll be the one
A to Rashie Rice, who is flash at times like
maybe he could be a top five, top seven receiver
in the NFL. They will get a tight end to
replace Travis kelce who's done. And I mean I get that.
(24:26):
Travis Kelcey's a great soap opera and it is he
gonna play?
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Is he not?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
But Travis Kelcey has done How many times this year
have you saw the headline, Oh, a big Travis Kelcey
drop in the fourth quarter really hurt them, or a
Travis Kelcey drop that turned into a deflicted interception wound
up killing the Chiefs three games this year. Travis Kelcey's
had huge drops that cost them games. He's going to retire.
I get he wants to come back and play with Mahomes.
(24:51):
But the Chiefs know they have to do better. They
have to do better at the big weapons, they have
to do better on the offensive line. They are going
to clear out next year, and with my Homes already
on pace to come back, and they feel pretty confident
he'll be there for Week one under center, this is
going to be an off season. You have not seen
an off season of revenge for the Chiefs. As they say, Okay,
(25:11):
you think we've been pretty good. Now, way do you
see how we revamp things for the rest of Patrick
Mahomes's a career, the second half of his prime, where
maybe we are not relying him to run for first
downs as much and it's more going to keep plays
alive because we have guys will break open downfield. We
tried for a couple of years and just throw a
bunch of guys out there. Well, guess what has it worked?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Zavi?
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You're worthy as a gadget guy. Did work. Rice was
pretty good, but crushing them with the big mistake he
made driving the suspension for the beginning of this year,
that hurt them. They started out two and four. It
was a bad beginning. They know we have to be
bold and make big change in the offseason, and I
have no doubt in my mind they will be like
the Patriots in the aughts and the early teens, where
(25:51):
it's hey, one team's misfortune with a star player that
maybe is getting paid a little bit too much money.
We can offer them a draft pick and they want
to get out from under that. And now all of
a sudden, it's a reclamation project. A tight end who
can turn into a star. You mentioned Kyle Pitts's name
a little while ago. It's a Breese Hall from the Jets.
That may the Jets are really starting over. They're really
gonna pay Brisall. He's a guy that wants out. Okay,
(26:12):
we can make that move for you as well. They
are gonna be a lot of moves for the Chiefs
to make. So yeah, get them now, because next year
it's going to be a completely different team. It's gonna
be a much more dangerous team and a bigger and
better team than they said. Right now, get in the
rest of the season. Yeah, I mean you got opportunity.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Pitts becomes the easy name, and it's the recency buys
off the potential. But finally executed in week fifteen, right
the three touchdown performance that he had at a big
Thursday night standalone, Isaiah likely well, Mark Andrews got paid,
Isaiah likely's not getting paid by the Ravens, and you
go on down the line. There are a few other
potential tight ends out there, and maybe that's the only
(26:51):
way I think Kelsey could come back is that he
can't be the focal point. He's a guy that can
be once in a while play kind of thing. If
he wants to continue his run, then sure, you take
a pay cut and you can stick around and be
part of a machine as opposed to he had to
be the lead guy oftentimes and we saw how that failed.
So whether you cut ties all together, he decides he's old.
(27:14):
Whatever that, you get through it, but you've got to
retool the offensive line. First thing is you mentioned the money.
You got eleven guys making at least eleven million dollars.
Top two guys you got Chris Jones scheduled to make
forty four million against the cap next year. Yeah, so
we watched his play. We saw spats multiple times early
this season and certainly late in terms of decisions he made,
(27:36):
in terms of paths trying to get to a quarterback,
taking himself out of plays. Remember justin Herbert sliding down
and we weren't focusing on him because we had drama
on the defensive line. No, you got to keep the outside,
you gotta keep containment, all of that. But you got
Patrick mahomes is gonna have to restructure. He's his cap
hit is seventy eight million. Oh, I'm sure he'll right,
(27:59):
he'll restructure, and it's not there. But that's where it
becomes the creativity. There's a few guys that they'll don't
still shake off, like the Rocks on the yard and Josh, hey,
it was nice, congratulations, you got a title or two.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You're done.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
But at the top end, those two guys complete restructuring
to try to free up some money, and the cap
will go up, of course, and.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
It's not gonna be where the Chiefs just say who's
the best player out there and they can sign them
to a long term deal. It's gonna be that opportunistic. Oh, well, hey,
I'm smelling blood in the water with you because your
team is not really good and you have this wide
receiver that we can fit them in for a year,
or you want to move on from this player for
whatever reason, and we'll bring him into Kansas City and
(28:40):
suddenly it's gonna be great. Like when the Patriots went
out and got Randy Moss, or they went out and
got Wes Welker. Well, all the moves they made to
help Tom Brady around, Boy, that worked out. That move
seemed to work out. That move seemed to work out.
That's kind of what the Chiefs are gonna do. It's
not gonna be the case of, hey, who's the best
wide who's the best wide receiver, best tight end, best
running back is gonna be on the market. It's gonna
be moves they're gonna make involving draft picks and getting
(29:03):
down and being able to save some money with those guys.
But it's gonna be a big aggressive off season for Casey.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah, for Kansas City, for Beach, for Andy Reid if
he sticks right. That was something we talked with Jason
locking for about find that in the podcast that full discussion.
Uh in terms of that part of the potential equation
that needs to be solved as well. But yeah, all
eyes on the cheeks, because really the only thing you
can count on is the Raiders are gonna do things wrong.
(29:30):
The other two teams you're fighting at this point.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Everybody, but at least you have the one team, at
least the one Yet much as paying you to say this,
not as far as you know, he's not paying me anything.
That wasn't the questions met Pat Mahomes Senior. By the way,
what's that X? Met Pat Mahomes scene. Why do you
think I asked you that? Okay, all right, just met
So when you said that, did you get paid an
extra thousand dollars for that?
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Do you know what I would say if I got paid? Oh?
I can't say that now, No, youays yell at me. Yeah, no,
I don't even go.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
I don't go anywhere near that, and you yell at me.
Put a dollar on your head, you put a price,
You went DBASI and you actually put a number.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Doing to find out what's trending in the wide world
the Sports with special delivery Steve de Sager, who has
a special update four and a half minutes of preview
of the E Cup Championship. Games's staring the New York Knicks.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
When people hear E Cup, they think there's some video
game challenge going on in the Thunderdome that people can
actually walk in and attend.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Have you ever gone to one of those? No way,
would you like to?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
I have seen them locally. They have used like the
old jay Leno studios.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
Could also be a new bra Hey, the E Cup
bra Really, I didn't know that. You see the commercial
of the E Cup that is tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
By the way, Vegas hosting the NBA Cup Final, Nicks
against the Spurs San Antonio end at Oklahoma City sixteen
game winning streak and Saturday night semi final. The late
game is something you can count on. You talked about
what you can count on with the Raiders.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
More on that.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
In the moment, you can count on a Clippers loss.
The way things are going this season.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
They're five and fifty one. Right now, it's six.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
And twenty after close five minutes to go at Memphis
leading in LA one oh eight eighty eight against the Clippers.
We had an overtime win for Denver against Houston eight
one twenty five. Nikola Jokic had thirty nine points in
a triple double. Utah came back for an overtime win
at home against Dallas one forty to one thirty three,
despite forty two points from Cooper Flagg. Detroit and Toronto
(31:26):
each one on the road. Arizona remained number one in
men's college basketball. Michigan is still number two in the
Ape Pole. The top six stayed the same in the
NHL victories for Anaheim and Florida. Dallas at home beat
LA four to one. The Sabers fire general manager Kevin Adams. Now,
as far as the Raiders, AP points out that the
Raiders are averaging just fourteen points per game this year,
(31:48):
last in the NFL, on the ground under three and
a half yards per carry, last in the NFL, and
they've allowed the most sacks in the NFL. And since
Mark Davis became owner of the franch winning percentage three
eighty two.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Steve, that's why Arch Manning is staying at Texas. That
would scare me, but that helps.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Pittsburgh was a home winner over Miami tonight, twenty eight
to fifteen. Steelers up to eight and six this season.
Steelers trailed three nothing late first half and then scored
touchdowns on their next four drives. Kenneth Gainwell had thirteen
carries eighty yards rushing, Aaron Rodgers two touchdown passes in
the losing effort, tight end Darren Waller two touchdown receptions
(32:29):
in the fourth quarter. The Jets fired defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes,
who was in his first year there. The team is
allowing twenty eight points per game and still has no
interceptions this season. The Colts will start quarterback Philip Rivers
again next Monday night against the forty nine ers. Washington
shut down quarterback Jayden Daniels for the rest of the season.
He aggravated his dislocated left elbow a week ago, so
(32:51):
Marcus Mariota starts still. The Bengals are due to keep
starting quarterback Joe Burrow even though they've been eliminated, and
the Chiefs were eliminated from the playoff yesterday. Gardner Minshew
expected to start their final three games. Patrick Mahomes, chief
star quarterback, had his surgery tonight on his torn ACL,
and Packers defensive end Micah Parsons does have a torn ACL.
(33:13):
The MRI confirmed that today He's led the NFL in
quarterback pressures this season. The Philly signed right fielder Adolas
Garcia X of the Rangers one year, ten million dollars,
pending a physical. The Twins agreed to a deal with
first baseman Josh Bell. The Mets invited outfielder Christian Pasche
to spring training. The Braves re signed shortstop Hassan Kim
(33:34):
to a one year deal where twenty million dollars. Scotti
Scheffler was voted the PGA Tour Player of the Year
for the fourth straight year. He won six times this season,
including two majors in Major League Soccer. The New York
Red Bulls new coaches Michael Bradley, former US national team player,
and the NCAA Men's soccer final tonight went to Washington
in overtime, three to two over NC State. The game
(33:56):
was in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Back to you, thanks Steve Ol. The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon coming up next we
get back into Monday night football. Hey, we had a
big take on two A last hour on the show.
What about Rogers and the Steelers? Oh, that's next to
Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best
friend Mike Harmon. Bring it on, Sticky Bandits. We just
watched Have you seen the new commercial with McCaulay Culkin
when the cutout instead of Jordan is Kevin Durant that
he's got going in front of the back and forth
in front of the window.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
He's having himself a nice resurgence.
Speaker 1 (34:48):
Was he on Twitter calling somebody out? No, no, no, Yeah.
Mcaulay Culkin's burner accounts McCauley was better, always a better
actor than Kieran. I don't care if he's got a
goscar or not.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Think about Cowley Colkin and the evil home alone character
into succession.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Sure it'll blow your mind. Uh So, the Steelers win
tonight over the Dolphins twenty eight to fifteen. We'll have
more on the Dolphins and two are coming up in
a few minutes. But the Steelers win. They're in control
in the AFC North. They have a little bit easier
schedule than the Ravens the rest of the way, but
you know it's gonna come down to the final week
(35:26):
and the Steelers Ravens final week of the season, which
is the way it should right come down. But I
know they won, and I know Aaron Rodgers played okay,
so you know, second second time in a row he's
played okay after some really bad games in a row.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Sounds like you're really getting to get ready to throw
out a big butt.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
But I love them, and they're gonna win the Super Bowl,
no shocking. The Steelers still stink. They're just okay. I
don't know. I mean, I know that I don't have
a list in front of me, but I know that
I can see a worse eight and sixteen than the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh are you doing that? Give me the worst eight
and Steelers that last?
Speaker 1 (35:58):
And I pressed by saying, I don't know, go back
and say eight and six teams where they are. But
I can't believe they're eight and six and they haven't
really beaten anybody. Okay, they can't run the football. They
can throw the football average, but everybody can throw the
football average. They play defense, Okay, they don't play defense
that well. They're an average team. And here they are
(36:20):
at eight and six. They're still not very good. Right.
There is absolutely zero NFL team in the playoffs. That's
gonna say, hey, we really don't want to play them.
We're scared of the Steelers. Nobody is scared of playing
Pittsburgh in the playoffs. In fact, they were looking at
the playoffs, all the playoff teams going, Man, if things
lay right, froust, we get the Steelers in that first
(36:40):
playoff game, that's the game we want. Even though we're
on the road. The Chargers are saying, hey, we'll get
the Steelers on the road in the playoff. Oh, we'll
get that w man. We just went in to Kansas
City and ended their season. We'll get win an end
Aaron Rodgers' career. Okay, check, Nobody is scared of playing
the Steelers.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Now we're talking about hurting Aaron Rodgers. Nobody doing no.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Well, he's gonna retire after this year, that's what they
in his career on the field, he's not going to play.
Speaker 3 (37:02):
I don't know if Philip Rivers plays another couple of weeks.
Aaron Rodgers is suddenly gonna feel reinvigorated.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Rogers takes five years off and comes back.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
When he's also looking at things going, well, we're eight
and six.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Still waiting for your apology to Philip Rivers. We'll get
I had my accurate Philip Rivers apology. We'll get into
it again next hour. No accurate time.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Steelers are still like right in the meaty part of
the curve in terms of points per game twenty four.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Per accurate like a Jets quarterback. Oh no, no more accurate
than that, Like Jets aren't accurate at all.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
No, that's not good for anybody to But well, your
guy had a couple of big throws. I know his
family got excited, so that was good. But for Aaron
Rodgers in this offense, it's dink and dunk. It's scheme
and a lot of yak. So for Arthur Smith today,
they took advantage of what the Dolphins gave them, a
lot of four five yard passes and sprints to daylight.
(37:58):
Can that happen over the course of an AFC playoff
against this particular grid. I think there's opportunities, right, Do
I think they go on a run?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (38:07):
I think it's the usual. Hey, they make the playoffs.
It was nice to be your hang a banner for
an appearance. Uh, they're not making a run.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
No, this is gonna be the quintessential Mike Tomlin. One
playoff game and they're done. That's gonna be my That's
what It's gonna be. One playoff game and they're done
because the look and maybe not right because it comes
down to that final week in a healthy Lamar Jackson, who.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
That's gonna be a different story. How's he getting helped out?
But I mean it was playing football. He's not getting
any hell out here in a couple of ways.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Look to look like he looked a little bit better
yesterday than he than he did the previous I know,
I'm saying it looked a little bit better and in
three looks better.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Sitting at my three.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Weeks he did look good on your couch in your
shorts and your in your long sleeve shot. You said,
But like but look, maybe they get in. But if
they do get in, like like, that's it, man. I mean,
this is gonna be yet another Hey, one playoff game
we lose, and it's what do we do for next year?
And the Steelers we're afraid to blow it up because
we're still a good playoff team, but do we want
(39:07):
to make big move? And it's what the Steelers have
been stuck in for the better part of a decade plus. Now, Hey,
we're good enough to get in the playoffs under Mike Tomlin,
but we're not good enough to make a big run.
And we're kind of.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Stuck in that.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
We don't want to blow it up because we're already
pretty good. We want to don't want to risk going
fully backward. So you're stuck in this continuing cycle that
goes from yeah, every year we wind up winning nine
or ten games, we play one playoff game, we lose,
and we go home. We're not nearly as good as anybody.
And that's what's gonna happen again this year.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Final three games at Detroit, at Cleveland, and Baltimore. And
I don't hear everybody getting chesty about Shaduur this week, so.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
We put them. That's kind of be seated a little bit.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that kind of kind of took a
hit this weekend. But but all all said, you know,
for the Steelers as an organization, they want to be relevant,
playing relevant football in December. That's been the mantra since
Ben Roethlisberger. It's been a cavalcade of stars coming through
(40:13):
at the quarterback back positions. Once upon a time, stars
with a capital s and then guys, maybe in a
diminished form as we've seen the last couple times out,
but you're just good enough to keep grinding away and
until philosophically they change things up and say we have
to bottom out right and absolutely strip it down to
(40:33):
the studs and move forward. This is all you're gonna get.
You're gonna outperform what your evaluation of your roster is,
because they are again right. You look at the roster
at eight, eight and six right now, it's like I
wouldn't have expected them there at this point except that
it's tomblin. But that's not quantifiable exit out about a
Fresco exit swollen dome. So yet another year of boy
(40:56):
the steal it. Yeah, tell it Gooes because they're just okay.
Speaker 1 (40:59):
Come up next to tail of two quarterbacks, one who
may be playing his last season for his team. That's
next Fox
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