December 16, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon bring you the latest from MNF. Jason explains why it’s important to get the Chiefs now. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora drops in for all the BIG headlines from around the league. And slow your roll-on Trevor Lawrence!
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Speaker 1 (00:32):
Greet eggs, Welcome inside. Happy Monday, The Jason Smith Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon. Holidays, Holidays, holidays. Oh
here we are Monday Night football. Yes, scintillating battle, a
flugame that you are watching because it's on. Hey, Rogers
is almost perfect. Rogers is Aaron Rodgers tonight, sixteen out
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of seventeen throwing the football. The Steelers lead the Dolphins
fourteen to three midway through the third quarter. But this
was supposed to be the Jalen Warren flu game. It
was supposed to be that, and now it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He was only supposed to blow the bloody doors though.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It was supposed to be the Jalen Warren flu game,
and now this isn't. He's barely touching the football. They
did give it to him twice in the goal and
he couldn't get in. He see, I'm watching it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He didn't move forward.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Kenneth Gainwell catching every other pass and Rogers, Hey, look
at this, Look at me. It's a Dolphins defense.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We're at home.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm still good. I'm watching. This is supposed to be
the Jalen Warren flu game.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Was this one of those where you celebrate the fortitude
of the Miami run defense to stiffen up or do
you just say the hell's wrong with your offensive line
and that tight end, slash offensive lineman, slash wizard that's
supposed to clear.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Up his path? He did nothing. He whiffed.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
This is a game. Look now, this is It's tough
to break this game down because it's a game of
two teams that are just mediocre. Yet it has huge
implications on the playoffs in the AFC because you have
the Steelers trying to stay atop the division at seven
and six. Eight and six would be a huge a
huge step for them. The Dolphins trying to stay in
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the playoff race as well. While the Steelers it's gonna
come down to them winning the division or the Ravens
winning it's gonna come down to one of those things.
The Dolphins absolutely have to have this game if they're
gonna stay in at six and seven. They've been red
hot and now here they are. But they're down fourteen
to three zero offense, and this looks like the worst
offense that you've seen under Tua. Like that's when when
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when things are bad for the Dolphins and you think
of how bad the offense looks, and Tua can't really
complete a pass and they can't run the football and
the weather is too cold, like this is the game
you think of. I just hate whether you get into
the the how what the temperature is. When you're bad,
you're bad. Yeah, you might have a little bit between
the ears of boy my fingers, you're a little cold,
but you're on a football field being chased by three
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hundred pound men at a high rate of speed. I
don't think the weather's the first thing on your damn mind. Hey,
look that reception was in explicable. That was just a
terrible throw. Otherwise we saw him take a sack on
their last possessions. Like you're a left handed thrower rolling
to the left, you're outside the pocket, yet you get
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chased down for a sack, Like, what are we doing?
It was cold when they played the Jets and they
ran for two hundred and eighty yards. I mean Jets like, Oh,
Trevor Lawrence is great, dude, Jets. Come on, I actually
watched the game, unlike everybody else. Yeah, I mean they're
committed to anything. They're committing to nine touches. Come on,
all right, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
First of all, congratulation to Justin Frossburg. Fresh off his
plane trip back from Kansas City, where the Chargers ended
the chief season.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He ended Patrick Mahomes. You've been talking about it for
all these years.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You ended Mahomes, man, You ended Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
How many happy people are out there today because of the.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Chargers, because the Chargers won well for two fans one
people wanted, Yeah they're bad. There's a lot of bad here, man,
A lot of coal being handed out old Sandy Closs
because people really reveling in Mahomes injury. That's just a
whole subset. Well, that's different. This is what we'll get
to Mahomes injury in a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
This is about the game Chiefs being vanquished once and
for all.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What did I tell you that defense would get after
what I will get it done.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I will tell you about the playoff picture. That's why
I said what I said. Oh okay, well, I was
going to say, you know who's not in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Who's not in the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (04:21):
The Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The celebration, you know, the Chiefs are kind of and
here here's the deal uh is for? And Frost, Well,
you were off Friday and I very boldly said, listen,
Justin Froster's gonna have a great plane ride back from
from Kansas City. Because Patrick Mahomes has difficulty with good defenses.
The Chargers have a top five defense. It's going to
be an ugly game, just like it was when the
Chargers beat the Eagles on Monday Night. But they're coming
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out with the victory. They come away with a victory,
the Chargers and the chief season. But it is a
little bit of okay, yes, so many anti Chiefs fans
of last year is because they've been so dominant. You
look at the TV ratings of the biggest games in
the the NFL the last three years. They all have
the baseball The Chiefs are the Cowboys. Chiefs Cowboys, Chiefs
Cowboys Chiefs Cowboys so this is kind of like, hey,
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everybody hates the Yankees, love to see him get knocked out,
but oh well, we don't not going to have him
in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We want to watch him spiral yea and be vanquished
somewhere along that road.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, there's no question about it.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And now it gets into that fun part of the
year where we add extra games, right, Christmas Day, Saturday games, whatever.
A lot of these primetime games, they happen to feature
well teams with a bunch of guys that are no
longer available, including it's going to be Difficulty afore mentioned
Patrick Mahomes, it's going to be cardr minshew Mania is
going to be running wild during this holiday season.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So now, yeah, let's get into it again. Fourteen three
A in a in a very tepidly exciting Monday night
football game. These Steelers lead it.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
He's actually thrown the ball at Rogers is downfield more
than the last four or five throws.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Suddenly he's worried having an okay night. He's having okay.
I'm telling you he's playing an average team. He's having
an okay with sixteen out of seventeen. I think his
average air yard was he you know what?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It was effective?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He's sixteen out of seventeen for thirty eight yards. All right,
he's getting he's getting there, chasing real quick. Yeah, what
do you got f Rosburg?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
He was gonna say, you know who's not in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Who's that the Chiefs?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Dk metcalf is in the end zone. A touchdown from
Rogers make it twenty to three, extra point pending twenty
eight yards from Metcalf.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It looks like the Steeler is gonna walk out of
this one with a victory. Yeah, but you never know. Hey,
you know, being behind by by three touchdowns is when
TWA does his best work. But the thing about the
Chiefs is this, right now, you have a double edged
sword with with this situation with they're eliminated from the
playoffs and Patrick Mahomes torn ACL already underwent surgery, a
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surgery done like, no, he'll have it next week. We're
gonna wait till the swelling goes down. He was able
to avoid a more damage on his knee than you
normally get to see sometimes in an ACL injury. Right,
that's the best way to explain it. He was able
to avoid some of the worst. It's still a torn
acl still long rehabs on everything else. But the fact
that he was able to have surgery now didn't have
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to postpone, it didn't have to wait a couple of
weeks anything else. That's a good sign for his recovery.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I cursed audibly as it happened. I want you could
see his leg in the way it pot was like,
oh no, yeah, it was tough. It was tough because.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Whatever you think of the teams, we need stars. Yeah, no,
no stars in a league where we're at quarterback sixty.
And I want to say this, the fact that he
had surgery so fast, because now obviously this season is
cooked for the Chiefs and there's gonna be and and
you know now that what are they doing? What are
they doing? It's an off season of change. No, I'll
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tell you exactly what it's gonna be. And I'll tell
you this. Remember when when Colorado, when Dion first took over,
and you know, they owned September and they won a
bunch of games, and Dean was like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Then they lost like four in a row and his
thing was get us now, right, remember the big press commers,
get us now because after I you know, I get
my guys coming in the future. Get us now, because
you're not gonna get us in the future. It turns
(08:11):
out now you can get them whenever. Right, we get
you now, we'll get you later, We'll get you next season.
We're looking for you on our schedule. We're trying to
schedule a game with you. Yeah, we want to get
you any time, because maybe maybe you're not the coach
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Speaker 3 (08:24):
His son isn't walking back to that gar Shdi.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Walking out unless he's coming to say hi to his dad.
He's not walking back through that Travis Hunter aint walking
back through that door. But I want to say this,
Get the Chiefs now because what they're going to do
in the off season is going to be the Chiefs
back with a vengeance.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I talked about this early in the year. No one's
been a bigger Chiefs whisper this year than I've been.
I've told you a great year for Mahomes, rough year
for the Chiefs. They'll struggle to make the playoffs. Other
teams are younger, more athletic, and they're better. And you
watch this year, it was a struggle Mahomes played terrific.
Now he is out, they were down to their third
and fourth string offensive tackles yesterday. They had guys playing
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that beginning of the season. I don't think even not
a glimmer in the eye of Andy Reid, They're gonna
have to play some games. So but you know what's
gonna happen in the offseason because they know Mahomes looks
like the fact he has a surgery now avoided a
lot of damage. This means he should be able to
be back to the beginning of next year. You're talking
about twelve months recovery. Mahomes should be back. And I
guarantee you you are going to see big changes. And
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the Chiefs are gonna attack the offseason like Jim Harbaugh
attacks every day with a zeal unknown to mankind. They're
gonna fortify the offensive line again like they did four
years ago when they were coming off the Super Bowl
the loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Goes, hey, we
gotta go out and get some guys out and got
Joe Tune, he got a couple of other players. They
know we need big change and it's gonna be offensive line. Obviously,
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it's gonna be a number one running back, it's gonna
be another number one wide receiver, or at least a
one a wide receiver. It's gonna be a big stud
tight end because they know they need to make sure
that for the last half of Patrick Mahomes's prime, they
are in the best position possible and they can't go
with get by guys anymore. Look, Travis kelce is done.
How many times? Not not Sunday obviously, but how many
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times did you have to see the headline this year
of boy, that Kelsey drop in the second half killed them,
or the Kelsey drop that turned into a karmed interception
really killed the Chiefs. Like three games they've lost because
Travis Kelcey has dropped big passes. He's done. As much
as he might want to come back and not want
it to end this way, you don't always get to
pick your ending. And if you're the Chiefs, you need
another tight end because obviously Mahomes is using tight ends
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in his for the last few years. Not gonna suddenly
not throw to the tight end anymore, but he's gonna
play a little bit differently. He's gonna have more weapons
at his disposal, and it's gonna be more of the
old Mahomes where instead of running to lead the to
lead the team in rushing, he's gonna keep plays alive
and he's gonna be able to use his big arm
to get the ball downfield. Two guys that can make plays.
They know we can't just get buy anymore with Hey,
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we're Mahomes driven, and we can put a bunch of
bunch of wide receivers out there that are Jags and
make it work. It's gonna be an off season of
We're coming for you, Breese Hall. We're coming from the
one a wide receiver to pair with Rushi Rice. We're
coming for a big time tight end. Maybe we're gonna
we'll do some kind of we'll make some kind of
move for a team that wants to get out from
a from it, maybe like a TJ. Hockinson type player
(11:15):
where hey, someone's making too much money will make a
deal for a player like that. You are going to
see big, bold moves by the Chiefs this offseason. So
they're gonna enter twenty twenty six saying yeah, you like
this last year when you hated us, Now now watch
out because Mahomes has two great wide receivers and a
great tight end, a great running back. Look out. They
are going to absolutely come back next season with a vengeance.
(11:36):
Like I said, get them now. Unlike Dion, We're get
Colorado now. Do you get no? Get the Chiefs now,
because next season is gonna be a different story.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, the fun secondary storylines that have gone through all this,
Kyle Pitt's name comes up right the hero of Week fifteen,
going back to Thursday Night with his three touchdowns. He's
a free agent at the end of the year, so
potentially there's one domino to fall, but the other, you know,
Mahomes getting her when he did. The timeline is early
similar to when Brady had his injury and we watched
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the Matt Castle and that that team rise up as
they did they missed the playoffs, but then you reset
and go that way towards the second iteration of the
the Brady run of dominance. But what they need to
look at is you've got what eleven guys that are
scheduled to make at least eleven million dollars on this
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team next year, including Mahomes who counts for seventy eight
million against the cap, and Chris and Chris Jones, who
was a shell of himself oftentimes. Remember going all the
way back to early in the season, what he was
getting into it with teammates, over missed assignments and giving
up his run lane. Remember the game against the Chargers
early in the year, right, the game ceiling run that
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Herbert had was because Jones took an inside path, And
I don't know that those guys ever got along thereafter,
Like there always seemed to be a bit of a riff.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But he's on the.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Books for forty four million dollars next year, so you're
gonna have to do what they call fuzzy math and
a reallocation. I think in some of this as well,
because in terms of available cap space, and obviously there's
a lot to change and you can slough off some
money and rework some deals, but front offices has a
bunch of work to do as well. But this will
be the first time they'll actually draft in the upper
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half for a while.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah. Look, it'll be big. It'll be big changes. It'll
be absolutely big changes, and they're gonna have to do them.
But it's gonna be a different team. NeXT's not gonna
be a We're gonna get the band back together. No,
it's gonna be different guys, different, big playmakers, different, It's
be different everywhere.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Why can't they be like your team and just start
firing people? Hey, Matt Naggy beat it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, there's only so many losses we can have where
we could just fire a guy because it was his fault.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
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get the chiefs now, wait do you see it when
it's much different to you? Next year? Hey, justin give
(14:10):
me favorite you check check standings right now? Can you
tell me are the chiefs and the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
No they are not.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
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Speaker 5 (15:47):
I'm going better than a Dolphins, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Who this This looks like one of those Dolphins games
for the last couple of years where it's like, yeah,
end of the year and two is not great and
they just wind up mailing it into cold weather game
like this is every game of the Dolphins down the
stretch the last two years.
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So we'll let it go.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't want to put it out there. Don't want to,
you know, don't want to ruin the carmb out there.
Uh So today, obviously the big story we've had Patrick
Mahomes's torn acl already having surgery. You know, the next
day he's had it. We talked about this a few
minutes ago. Big changes coming for the Chiefs neck this
coming off season, weapons, offensive line. You on board with
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the big changes for them.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, I mean, and I wonder if Big Red becomes
one of them really well, yeah, I mean, this is
not your average pair. This is a guy who you
know has at this stage of his life, at this
stage of his career, given some of his health issues
in the past, he's you know, he's somebody who's it's
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always some degree of conversation between him and his family
and doctors about you know, what makes sense. And I
don't know, guys, I just have a gut feeling that
this could be an opportunity for him to pull back,
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for him to stay in the organization in some capacity,
for him to give ste Spagnolo, who certainly deserved the
second chance as a head coach, or Dave Tobe, who
absolutely deserved the first chance. And it's kind of staggering
that he never got an opportunity. But then again, these
are bobo NFL billionaire owners making them higher, so they
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rarely get it right. And I mean they're not a
couple of players away, They're not an office in a way.
You've got a situation with Mahomes where he's probably not
going to be right again until twenty twenty seven. I
don't know. I just every year there's a surprise right
in the coaching ranks. Somebody gets fired who we didn't
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see coming. Somebody retires who we didn't see coming. Teams
make a trade or pro or consider a coaching trade.
I mean even last year you could say, well, there
wasn't one except Bill Belichick wanted to Chapel Hill. I'm
going to say that qualifies. So I'm just you know,
it wouldn't shock me if sometime between now and let's
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face it, this is the first time in forever that
he's not coaching games in late December that matter, and
he knows you won't be coaching in January, that he
doesn't reach out to Clark Hurnt or whatever, and they don't.
There aren't there aren't some discussions. I just wonder if
this is the football God's telling him, you know now
as the time you've endored tragedy. And I don't throw
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that word around lately, tragedy in his family. He sacrificed
a lot for this game. If you were to tell
Andy Reid right now and go back and rewind to
him walking out of you know, the the whatever it
was called at the time, I guess it was still
thelink walking out of Philadelphia, walking out of that stadium,
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clearing his office out at the team facility, and you're
gonna say, hey, coach, just letting you know. You're gonna
end up in Kansas City, and no one's gonna talk
about he can't win the championship game anymore. They're going
to talk about all he did is bing Lombardi trophies,
you know, And you're gonna draft this kid, and you're
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going to have a Tom Brady esque arc for six
years with him or whatever. Seven years with him. I mean,
he would have signed up for all that. He wouldn't
have believed you, And now that's happened. And I don't know, man,
I just feels like a big circle closing to me.
Could just be caught up in the moment, could just
be pontificating, And that's really all I'm doing here. But
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this is it for Kelsey. This is it for a while,
Like Mahomes is not going to do Mahomes again until again.
I'm telling you twenty twenty seven at the earliest. They
need a new offensive line. They didn't need a new
defensive line. The division doesn't suck anymore, Like I mean,
they might have I mean, they were the third best
team in that division, and that's despite the Chargers not
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having either their tackles for most of the year. I
don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
How the plus side, you've always got the Raiders seventy
five yards of offense, all right, but that's enough about them.
The other side of the injury coin, we've got the
Micah Parsons injury.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Christian Watson avoids a big damage, might be available as
early as Saturday, but from Micah Parsons the loss man,
how how huge is this to their playoff? Pitcher still
slight favorites against the Bears this week.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Oh, I mean, look in the moment, it was everything.
It took the air right out of the balloon. It
shifted that game. I like them coming in. I thought
they could be a super Bowl team coming in. But
then you get that shout of adrenaline and you make
that trade right before the season starts, and the defense
isn't just really good like it was last year. It
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was menacing, it was intimidating. It had a different element
then last year, when they were still a top five
team in yards allowed for play. You had this sense of,
you know, for voting that there's imminent doom in a
close and laked situation that this one cat's going to
take the game over and that's not there now. And
Halfway's a great coordinator and he'll scheme it up and
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they'll go more zone and they'll they'll they'll make some adjustments.
But I do wonder if there's a hangover effect from that,
and this could be the Bears catching them at the
right time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
When it comes to quarterbacks and expecting what we've got
to see Sunday, we didn't expect to see Sunday. What's
your take on what you saw from Philip Rivers?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Come on, I mean, I'm glad he survived. I'm glad
all of acls are intact. It's impressive in some respects,
but it's also a bit of an indictment. You know,
otherwise that they that that's where the calls ended up.
(22:27):
You know that you didn't have somebody on your practice
squad or somebody sign off somebody else's practice squad, Like really,
I mean, it feels a little bit like a publicity stunt.
But then again, the team played so well, uh and
played so well, primarily defensively, and Sam Darnold, who does
have that choke team. I don't know what was going
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on with him for a lot of that game. And
this is a big play offense that all of a
sudden didn't have a whole lot of big plays in it,
and they're kicking field goals left and right. But I
would try to get Richardson back out there. I mean,
that would be my priority as an organization, even it's
just for a game or two, even if it's just
to help boost his trade and potential or whatever. I
(23:13):
don't really I don't really understand honestly that Philip Rivers
is the best quarterback option for them on the entire planning.
But I guess he was, and.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I guess he is, at least for one moment. We
always should hope to have one person who believes in
us that way, Jason, how about the belief that Joe
Burrow he gets out there Wednesday, he has all this
stuff and speculation swirls. He didn't look like he wanted
to play football in his shoutout loss to the to
the Ravens on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That was his soulless, vacant, vapid, insipid, disinterested as I've
ever seen him. It was below below grade. It was shameful.
And you know, he can act like whatever that it
maybe wasn't that, or he can the comments he made
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and then to come out there and look like you
wanted nothing to do with that football game, that football field,
those football fans. He's never going to play his whole
career there. He never was going to play his whole
career there. And there's plenty people in the league that
think he's got plenty of buyers remorse about re upping
(24:25):
with him, And if that's not the case, he's got
a funny way of showing it. And I just he's
a pretty calculated guy, and he had two months during
this recovery to think about a lot of things, and
for this to turn as quickly as it did telt
me that he doesn't think that the people who run
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that organization are ever going to win as much as
he wants to win. And he's a smart guy. He
understands the CBA, he understands the salary cap, and he
understands depth charts and talent, and that team is nowhere
near competing. And he the way he threw balls away,
the way he opted to not to run out of bounds,
(25:11):
the refusal to push the ball downfield. It almost looked
like in subordination, man, And it's staggering because that's a
stone cold assassin. But things are way off there and
there's gonna be another weird offseason in Cincinnati. But then again,
that's far for the course.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So what why do you think the whole Zach Taylor
Prescott today saying Joe Burrow is gonna play the rest
of the season. Is this Joe Burrow wanting to play
the rest of the season or just a Bengal saying, hey, Blank,
you are making you play the rest of the season.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I mean, I think it's more just that everybody who
knows anything about football and what any part of that
film is like, so what's up there? Like what's going on?
But he's the same guy who came out of league
go and said I get paid a ton of money
to play football and that's what I want to do,
and then three days later said I'm not really having
(26:02):
fun here anymore and I'm really frustrated, and man, I'm
just super angsty and paudy and ooh, life's tough, and
drop the whole bunch of sort of you know, non
sequiturs that could be taking a whole bunch of different ways,
and then didn't clear that up at all, like played
like he wanted anything other than to be there, and
(26:22):
then comes out after the game and it's like, yeah,
there's really nothing to see here, Like everything's fine. I
like Zach, you know whatever, Like I don't know, man,
he will not be a Bengal for life, I'll tell
you that much. And I don't think he'll be a Bengal.
Like he'll probably be a Bengal next year, but I
don't think he'll be a Bengal for the totality of
that extension.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Finally, operations shut down one that does go through Jayden
Daniels after another reoccurrence of the injury. This doesn't play
this week, and they finally make that announcement.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Well yeah, I mean that's just a common sense, obvious
thing to do. And at this point, again, that's an
organization that misread their talent level, that believed their own
press clippings and went out and had a pretty nonchalant
collect all the old guys off season. And they've paid
the price for it. But they need draft picks. They
need high draft picks that I don't see a whole
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lot of blue chip down there, and especially don't see
a whole lot of young blue chip talent there except
for the quarterbacks. So yeah, it makes all the sense
in the world for them to be picking as high
as possible and to make that quarterback as healthy as
possible for the offseason.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You can followhim on Twitter at Jason lock and four.
That is at Jason lock and for Odyssey one oh
five seven the fan in Baltimore, Washington Post. Jay is
always buddy, appreciate it, man, We'll talk to you next week.
I have a great one.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Always my pleasure gunmen. Thank you, Jays.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Wow, this could be it for Andy Reid. The one
thing is that you know, Jason talked about, hey, maybe
the Chiefs aren't good till twenty twenty seven. I mean
the fact that Mahomes had his surgery. Now he's not
gonna take any He's everything he can to be back
for next year. They're not gonna take a year to say, ah.
I don't know now Andy Reid leaving. I could see that,
(28:05):
but I don't believe we're gonna see the Chiefs say yeah,
maybe twenty twenty six is a punt.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Year.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I don't think that's gonna happen. Yeah, it would be interesting,
just again with the that you have to retool that
roster in addition to him coming back from the injury
that I don't think they'll be good again until twenty
I agree with that part of it, But does that
mean Andy Reid doesn't stick around for a year. I
think I'd start being on air shaming him like I
did Sean McVeigh when he was thinking about going to
(28:33):
television and then he ended up back in the coaching box.
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of sports from someone who's been called the Aaron Rodgers
of Fox Sports Radio. All his updates from tonight have
almost it has been perfect. It's Steve de Segrich.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Aaron Rodgers is twenty two of twenty six through the
air at Pittsburgh Tonight two hundred and nineteen yards passing
two scores. Steelers are leading twenty eight to three over
the Miami Dolphins with twelve minutes to go. Dolphins were
up three nothing late first half, and the Steelers have
scored touchdowns on four consecutive drives. For those of us
who've seen this offense throughout the year, touchdowns on four
(29:25):
consecutive drives is news. My goodness, Pittsburgh about to go
to eight and six. And by the way, this will
be twenty three straight wins at home on Monday Night
football for the franchise dating back to nineteen ninety one.
The Jets fired defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes, who was in
his first year there. The team is allowing twenty eight points.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
He was also in his last year there, Steve, Just
so you know, it is officially his last year there.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
The Jets still have no interceptions, by the way, this season,
for those keeping score at home. The Colts will start
Philip Rivers at quarterback again next Monday Night against the
forty nine Ers. Washington shutdown quarterback Jaden Daniels for the
rest of the season. He aggravated his dislocated left elbow
a week ago, so Marco Mariota will start. Still, the
Bengals are due to keep starting quarterback Joe Burrow even
(30:12):
though they've been eliminated. Packers defensive end Micah Parsons has
a torn ACL. The MRI confirmed that today he's led
the NFL in quarterback pressures this season. Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Mahomes had surgery tonight on his torn ACL. Kansas City
QB Gardner Minshew is expected to start the Chief's final
three games. The team was eliminated from playoff consideration yesterday.
(30:34):
Denver play safety Brandon Jones on ir with a pectoral injury.
Texans defensive tackle Mario Edwards is out for the season
with a torn pectoral. Bill's kicker Matt Prater is out
this week with a quad injury. Florida Gators quarterback DJ
Lagway will enter the transfer portal next month, and reportedly
Nebraska QB Dylan Reyola will also Former South Carolina quarterback
(30:56):
Steve Tannehill died at the age of fifty two, no
cause of death provided, and former cal and Raiders coach
Mike White died at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
He also coached.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Illinois in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Tonight Detroit advanced to twenty one and five this year
with a win at Boston one twelve, one oh five.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. Are any of those teams
playing for the E Cup Championship tomorrow night?
Speaker 7 (31:17):
No, they're not, Steve, it's the E Cup. Is this
some sort of video game Cup's taking place?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Oh? No?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
So I could do like a sign on ade like
an E Cup, Like you do your finger with an
e EC for E Cup Cup E Cup.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
You're just really trying hard for that to catch hag.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Tomorrow's gonna be Jalen Brunson's first championship with the Knicks. Okay,
just understand that.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
First and last, as we go back to the Jets
story doesn't matter. Las Vegas will be hosting the NBA
Cup Final on Tuesday, Detroit and Toronto, with road wins
tonight and Dallas is leading eighty three seventy seven and
the third at Utah twenty eight points for Cooper Flag
NHL victories for Anaheim and Florida. The Braves re signed
shortstop Huss Soong Kim to a one year deal. The
(31:59):
Phillies signed right Adolas Garcia X of the Rangers to
a one year contract pending a physical, and the Twins
agreed to a deal with first baseman Josh Bail Back.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
To you, thank you, Steve O. Darren Waller is in
the end zone for a touchdown and look just for
a second, he took the heel peek. Darren Waller going
up in double coverage and just being the biggest guy
on the field, goes between two dbs and pulls down
a touchdown. So the Dolphins getting some cosmetic points here.
(32:29):
It's twenty eight to nine extra point pending, still a
lot of time to go, still not have to go
on the fourth quarter. Looks like they're going for two
of more on this game coming up next, as well
as a quarterback who had the game of his life Sunday.
I'll tell you why you gotta slow your role on
him in a big way next. Jason and Mike Fox
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are in the fourth quarter, a twenty eight to nine
lead for the Steelers. They have the Football Dolphins touchdown
Darren Waller. They do not get the two point conversion,
so the Steelers have a chance to take some time
(34:13):
off the clock here and walk away with the victory.
On Monday night, they had.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
A long handoff also known as a quick swing pass
to your guy Jalen Warren. Another one point six points
for you. But they're a big guy in the Flu night,
the flu game for Warren as the Steelers tried to
salt this one away. We've watched Aaron Rodgers over the
course of the night, a lot of short things that
people would be to take the pejorative dink and dunk.
(34:40):
It's been winning football, yeah right, if you can scheme
it up. And I've been long a critic of the
shortcomings of Arthur Smith. Tonight he and Rodgers perfect game plan.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Can we find a way to be just a little
bit better than average? Yes, I can do that for you,
all right? That that should be enough against this Miami
Dolphins team.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
But in the twenty twenty five NFL season, and can't
you say that for the most part, that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Where we're playing. That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look the Dolphins.
The Dolphins did win a game in forty ish degree
whether a couple of weeks ago, but it was the Jets.
So temper expectations because you see what happens tonight when
they're playing a team that's just a little bit better
they're getting boat raced. And that's why I want to
tell you, Oh, Trevor Lawrence is great. This is the
best version of himself he's ever been. Trevor law Hang
(35:26):
on one second. Trevor Lawrence has played pretty well. I will
say that he has played pretty well. But from someone
who actually watched the game yesterday and didn't you didn't
just look and say, wow, six touchdowns. It was the Jets.
The Jets. I'm telling you, man again, with eight minutes
to go in the first quarter, another week where the
Jets game is over right, I mean, but Aaron Glenn's
got it all fixed. He's gonna keep firing guys like
(35:48):
Steve Wilkes because Aaron Glenn's got it. The Jets are quitting.
They're not prepared. The Jets run. The Jets were so
unprepared for this game. This is where I go. You know,
you're the head coaches said here, tell me about create
a culture and X, Y and Z and how you're building.
I don't know what the hell the Jets are building.
They have nothing. The Jets next season are gonna go
win with no optimism. Right now, if you said, hey,
(36:10):
what are you gonna go into next year. Say we're
building off this for next year. There's not one thing
you are building on that's every season. Your offense is terrible, right,
maybe your offensive line is a little bit okay, and
you get Garrett Wilson back, but that's not you can't
build on that. This cat, Brady Cook, he had a
couple of years are you are absolutely terrible. And I'll
tell you this that when Trevor Lawrence scampered in for
(36:32):
his first touchdown run right, it's a big third and
fifteen play. The Jets had all his receivers covered and ah,
Trevor Lawrence runs at fifty one. Watch the replay of
that play. The Jets had five guys standing in the
middle of the field. Standing in middlefield at the goal line, okay,
twenty yards away from where Trevor Lawrence was. You had
five defenders just dead. But I guess we're here. I
(36:53):
guess you know. We're hanging out. We're having conversations like
I look at that, I go, how the hell do
you have so many players around on one player at
the goal line and he just scampers. He's you shouldn't
be running fifteen yards for a touchdown on a play
where everybody is covered. You can't throw the football right
you want to. You have some kind of play where
it's a fake or it's a it's a draw and
(37:15):
and it's a design play. Great, but you shouldn't be
scrambling that way for a touchdown. It was easy for
Trevor Lawrence yesterday. It was easy. It was the Jets,
and the Jets fired their defensive coordator who's been absolutely terrible,
Steve Wilks. You know why, he's one year everywhere, one year,
not even one year here with the Jets. He was awful.
The Jets defense is terrible again. The last couple of
weeks has been bad. They've lit up points all year long.
(37:37):
Whether they had Quinn Williams and Sauce Gardner, don't have
these guys. You can't measure your success in a game
against the Jets. You just can't. You can't give me
a better team again. I talked about the Dolphins, Hey,
cold weather game they run for two to eighty against
the Jets. Yeah, it was the Jets tonight. It looks
like they looks like they've quit and they can't even
They're not even gonna break double digits against the Steelers. Right. Again,
(37:58):
you can't measure how good you are in one game
against the Jets and say always back. Let Trevor Lawrence
do with the rest of the season. The Jaguars are
having a good season right top of the AFC South.
They figured out a way around him for the first
half of the year. We're running the football well and
playing good defense. Right, they figured out a way around
Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, he's had a couple of good games.
This was the Jets. You cannot measure success in one
(38:21):
game against the Jets. It's like me measuring success like, Hey,
I can beat my dog in a video game. I
just won that game of Madden against my dog. Didn't
even press the button at all, just sat there and
slept the whole time, and I won thirty one to nothing.
I mean, you can't do that. You equated these Jets
to your dog. Which one.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Oh, Benny's got more game.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yes, Benny's been around a minute. He's pretty crafty that
he's been eyeballing you.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
He's got more game. Bareley likes to sleep a little
bit more so. Yeah. But when we look at the
totality of it, for Trevor Lawrence, this year has been
uneven to your point, running the football well, dual headed
monster Travis et massive game yesterday.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
It was his first three hundred yard game of the year,
just so you know at three thirty. But I think
the big thing is fantasy playoff wise, and just the
fact that that game kept coming back up on the
red zone channel. It was in your face a bunch.
And what you can do is say, over the last
four weeks, hey, he's got twelve touchdowns now against three interceptions,
(39:25):
plus the rushing efforts whatever. So those are stats that
you can you can mythologize, right that is that a
word I'm looking for here?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yeah, now it is now I just might have. But
you create a myth of hey, he's rolling. Well, their
schedule has been soft, but you can only beat who's
on it. And they've been putting up points, what is it,
twenty five or more in seven straight games. So you
go back and they got absolutely drummed by the Seahawks
and the Rams. They were shut down. They scored fewer
(39:56):
than ten points in both of those games. So when
you have that decided step up and class not quite there,
but in the AFC right now, you got a lot
of middling teams go take advantage of what's on the schedule.
In this case, it was a dead from the neck
of Jets squad and you had the next fall guy.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Look it's it's Lawrence is playing better. Is a little
bit better, don't get me wrong, but he's still a
league average quarterback. Look at the guys who had big
games against the Jets. Everybody does everybody. But that's just it.
And was it the roster as constructed or is Wilk's
that bad? It's it's everything. It's the Jets. That's all
you have to say is Jets and Jets. So I
(40:36):
have says, oh yeah, Jets, right right, I got it,
I got it. That's it, I got it.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Just that that's your that's gonna be the way. Is
that what you're right on?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Cards Jets? Coming up next, the quarterback story. I was
happy to be sort of wrong on this weekend Fox
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Greet eggs, Welcome inside. Happy Monday, The Jason Smith Show
with my bass friend Mike Harmon. Holidays, Holidays, holidays. Oh
here we are Monday Night football. Yes, scintillating battle, a
flugame that you are watching because it's on. Hey, Rogers
is almost perfect. Rogers is Aaron Rodgers tonight, sixteen out
(00:56):
of seventeen throwing the football. The Steelers lead the Dolphins
fourteen to three midway through the third quarter. But this
was supposed to be the Jalen Warren flu game. It
was supposed to be that, and now it's not.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
He was only supposed to blow the bloody doors though.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
It was supposed to be the Jalen Warren flu game,
and now this isn't. He's barely touching the football. They
did give it to him twice in the goal and
he couldn't get in. He see, I'm watching it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
He didn't move forward.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Kenneth Gainwell catching every other pass and Rogers, Hey, look
at this, Look at me. It's a Dolphins defense.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We're at home.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
I'm still good. I'm watching. This is supposed to be
the Jalen Warren flu game.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Was this one of those where you celebrate the fortitude
of the Miami run defense to stiffen up or do
you just say the hell's wrong with your offensive line
and that tight end, slash offensive lineman, slash wizard that's
supposed to clear.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Up his path? He did nothing. He whiffed.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
This is a game. Look now, this is It's tough
to break this game down because it's a game of
two teams that are just mediocre. Yet it has huge
implications on the playoffs in the AFC because you have
the Steelers trying to stay atop the division at seven
and six. Eight and six would be a huge a
huge step for them. The Dolphins trying to stay in
(02:10):
the playoff race as well. While the Steelers it's gonna
come down to them winning the division or the Ravens
winning it's gonna come down to one of those things.
The Dolphins absolutely have to have this game if they're
gonna stay in at six and seven. They've been red
hot and now here they are. But they're down fourteen
to three zero offense, and this looks like the worst
offense that you've seen under Tua. Like that's when when
(02:30):
when things are bad for the Dolphins and you think
of how bad the offense looks, and Tua can't really
complete a pass and they can't run the football and
the weather is too cold, like this is the game
you think of. I just hate whether you get into
the the how what the temperature is. When you're bad,
you're bad. Yeah, you might have a little bit between
the ears of boy my fingers, you're a little cold,
but you're on a football field being chased by three
(02:52):
hundred pound men at a high rate of speed. I
don't think the weather's the first thing on your damn mind. Hey,
look that reception was in explicable. That was just a
terrible throw. Otherwise we saw him take a sack on
their last possessions. Like you're a left handed thrower rolling
to the left, you're outside the pocket, yet you get
(03:12):
chased down for a sack, Like, what are we doing?
It was cold when they played the Jets and they
ran for two hundred and eighty yards. I mean Jets like, Oh,
Trevor Lawrence is great, dude, Jets. Come on, I actually
watched the game, unlike everybody else. Yeah, I mean they're
committed to anything. They're committing to nine touches. Come on,
all right, what do you got?
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:32):
First of all, congratulation to Justin Frossburg. Fresh off his
plane trip back from Kansas City, where the Chargers ended
the chief season.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He ended Patrick Mahomes. You've been talking about it for
all these years.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
You ended Mahomes, man, You ended Mahomes.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
How many happy people are out there today because of the.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Chargers, because the Chargers won well for two fans one
people wanted, Yeah they're bad. There's a lot of bad here, man,
A lot of coal being handed out old Sandy Closs
because people really reveling in Mahomes injury. That's just a
whole subset. Well, that's different. This is what we'll get
to Mahomes injury in a minute.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
This is about the game Chiefs being vanquished once and
for all.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
What did I tell you that defense would get after
what I will get it done.
Speaker 6 (04:14):
I will tell you about the playoff picture. That's why
I said what I said. Oh okay, well, I was
going to say, you know who's not in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Who's not in the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (04:21):
The Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
The celebration, you know, the Chiefs are kind of and
here here's the deal uh is for? And Frost, Well,
you were off Friday and I very boldly said, listen,
Justin Froster's gonna have a great plane ride back from
from Kansas City. Because Patrick Mahomes has difficulty with good defenses.
The Chargers have a top five defense. It's going to
be an ugly game, just like it was when the
Chargers beat the Eagles on Monday Night. But they're coming
(04:45):
out with the victory. They come away with a victory,
the Chargers and the chief season. But it is a
little bit of okay, yes, so many anti Chiefs fans
of last year is because they've been so dominant. You
look at the TV ratings of the biggest games in
the the NFL the last three years. They all have
the baseball The Chiefs are the Cowboys. Chiefs Cowboys, Chiefs
Cowboys Chiefs Cowboys so this is kind of like, hey,
(05:07):
everybody hates the Yankees, love to see him get knocked out,
but oh well, we don't not going to have him
in the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
We want to watch him spiral yea and be vanquished
somewhere along that road.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, there's no question about it.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And now it gets into that fun part of the
year where we add extra games, right, Christmas Day, Saturday games, whatever.
A lot of these primetime games, they happen to feature
well teams with a bunch of guys that are no
longer available, including it's going to be Difficulty afore mentioned
Patrick Mahomes, it's going to be cardr minshew Mania is
going to be running wild during this holiday season.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
So now, yeah, let's get into it again. Fourteen three
A in a in a very tepidly exciting Monday night
football game. These Steelers lead it.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
He's actually thrown the ball at Rogers is downfield more
than the last four or five throws.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Suddenly he's worried having an okay night. He's having okay.
I'm telling you he's playing an average team. He's having
an okay with sixteen out of seventeen. I think his
average air yard was he you know what?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
It was effective?
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He's sixteen out of seventeen for thirty eight yards. All right,
he's getting he's getting there, chasing real quick. Yeah, what
do you got f Rosburg?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
He was gonna say, you know who's not in the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Who's that the Chiefs?
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Dk metcalf is in the end zone. A touchdown from
Rogers make it twenty to three, extra point pending twenty
eight yards from Metcalf.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
It looks like the Steeler is gonna walk out of
this one with a victory. Yeah, but you never know. Hey,
you know, being behind by by three touchdowns is when
TWA does his best work. But the thing about the
Chiefs is this, right now, you have a double edged
sword with with this situation with they're eliminated from the
playoffs and Patrick Mahomes torn ACL already underwent surgery, a
(06:54):
surgery done like, no, he'll have it next week. We're
gonna wait till the swelling goes down. He was able
to avoid a more damage on his knee than you
normally get to see sometimes in an ACL injury. Right,
that's the best way to explain it. He was able
to avoid some of the worst. It's still a torn
acl still long rehabs on everything else. But the fact
that he was able to have surgery now didn't have
(07:15):
to postpone, it didn't have to wait a couple of
weeks anything else. That's a good sign for his recovery.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
I cursed audibly as it happened. I want you could
see his leg in the way it pot was like,
oh no, yeah, it was tough. It was tough because.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Whatever you think of the teams, we need stars. Yeah, no,
no stars in a league where we're at quarterback sixty.
And I want to say this, the fact that he
had surgery so fast, because now obviously this season is
cooked for the Chiefs and there's gonna be and and
you know now that what are they doing? What are
they doing? It's an off season of change. No, I'll
(07:51):
tell you exactly what it's gonna be. And I'll tell
you this. Remember when when Colorado, when Dion first took over,
and you know, they owned September and they won a
bunch of games, and Dean was like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Then they lost like four in a row and his
thing was get us now, right, remember the big press commers,
get us now because after I you know, I get
my guys coming in the future. Get us now, because
you're not gonna get us in the future. It turns
(08:11):
out now you can get them whenever. Right, we get
you now, we'll get you later, We'll get you next season.
We're looking for you on our schedule. We're trying to
schedule a game with you. Yeah, we want to get
you any time, because maybe maybe you're not the coach
ot He was good SoundBite.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
His son isn't walking back to that gar Shdi.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Walking out unless he's coming to say hi to his dad.
He's not walking back through that Travis Hunter aint walking
back through that door. But I want to say this,
Get the Chiefs now because what they're going to do
in the off season is going to be the Chiefs
back with a vengeance.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I talked about this early in the year. No one's
been a bigger Chiefs whisper this year than I've been.
I've told you a great year for Mahomes, rough year
for the Chiefs. They'll struggle to make the playoffs. Other
teams are younger, more athletic, and they're better. And you
watch this year, it was a struggle Mahomes played terrific.
Now he is out, they were down to their third
and fourth string offensive tackles yesterday. They had guys playing
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that beginning of the season. I don't think even not
a glimmer in the eye of Andy Reid, They're gonna
have to play some games. So but you know what's
gonna happen in the offseason because they know Mahomes looks
like the fact he has a surgery now avoided a
lot of damage. This means he should be able to
be back to the beginning of next year. You're talking
about twelve months recovery. Mahomes should be back. And I
guarantee you you are going to see big changes. And
(09:27):
the Chiefs are gonna attack the offseason like Jim Harbaugh
attacks every day with a zeal unknown to mankind. They're
gonna fortify the offensive line again like they did four
years ago when they were coming off the Super Bowl
the loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Goes, hey, we
gotta go out and get some guys out and got
Joe Tune, he got a couple of other players. They
know we need big change and it's gonna be offensive line. Obviously,
(09:49):
it's gonna be a number one running back, it's gonna
be another number one wide receiver, or at least a
one a wide receiver. It's gonna be a big stud
tight end because they know they need to make sure
that for the last half of Patrick Mahomes's prime, they
are in the best position possible and they can't go
with get by guys anymore. Look, Travis kelce is done.
How many times? Not not Sunday obviously, but how many
(10:10):
times did you have to see the headline this year
of boy, that Kelsey drop in the second half killed them,
or the Kelsey drop that turned into a karmed interception
really killed the Chiefs. Like three games they've lost because
Travis Kelcey has dropped big passes. He's done. As much
as he might want to come back and not want
it to end this way, you don't always get to
pick your ending. And if you're the Chiefs, you need
another tight end because obviously Mahomes is using tight ends
(10:32):
in his for the last few years. Not gonna suddenly
not throw to the tight end anymore, but he's gonna
play a little bit differently. He's gonna have more weapons
at his disposal, and it's gonna be more of the
old Mahomes where instead of running to lead the to
lead the team in rushing, he's gonna keep plays alive
and he's gonna be able to use his big arm
to get the ball downfield. Two guys that can make plays.
They know we can't just get buy anymore with Hey,
(10:54):
we're Mahomes driven, and we can put a bunch of
bunch of wide receivers out there that are Jags and
make it work. It's gonna be an off season of
We're coming for you, Breese Hall. We're coming from the
one a wide receiver to pair with Rushi Rice. We're
coming for a big time tight end. Maybe we're gonna
we'll do some kind of we'll make some kind of
move for a team that wants to get out from
a from it, maybe like a TJ. Hockinson type player
(11:15):
where hey, someone's making too much money will make a
deal for a player like that. You are going to
see big, bold moves by the Chiefs this offseason. So
they're gonna enter twenty twenty six saying yeah, you like
this last year when you hated us, Now now watch
out because Mahomes has two great wide receivers and a
great tight end, a great running back. Look out. They
are going to absolutely come back next season with a vengeance.
(11:36):
Like I said, get them now. Unlike Dion, We're get
Colorado now. Do you get no? Get the Chiefs now,
because next season is gonna be a different story.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Yeah, the fun secondary storylines that have gone through all this,
Kyle Pitt's name comes up right the hero of Week fifteen,
going back to Thursday Night with his three touchdowns. He's
a free agent at the end of the year, so
potentially there's one domino to fall, but the other, you know,
Mahomes getting her when he did. The timeline is early
similar to when Brady had his injury and we watched
(12:06):
the Matt Castle and that that team rise up as
they did they missed the playoffs, but then you reset
and go that way towards the second iteration of the
the Brady run of dominance. But what they need to
look at is you've got what eleven guys that are
scheduled to make at least eleven million dollars on this
(12:27):
team next year, including Mahomes who counts for seventy eight
million against the cap, and Chris and Chris Jones, who
was a shell of himself oftentimes. Remember going all the
way back to early in the season, what he was
getting into it with teammates, over missed assignments and giving
up his run lane. Remember the game against the Chargers
early in the year, right, the game ceiling run that
(12:48):
Herbert had was because Jones took an inside path, And
I don't know that those guys ever got along thereafter,
Like there always seemed to be a bit of a riff.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
But he's on the.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Books for forty four million dollars next year, so you're
gonna have to do what they call fuzzy math and
a reallocation. I think in some of this as well,
because in terms of available cap space, and obviously there's
a lot to change and you can slough off some
money and rework some deals, but front offices has a
bunch of work to do as well. But this will
be the first time they'll actually draft in the upper
(13:18):
half for a while.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
Yeah. Look, it'll be big. It'll be big changes. It'll
be absolutely big changes, and they're gonna have to do them.
But it's gonna be a different team. NeXT's not gonna
be a We're gonna get the band back together. No,
it's gonna be different guys, different, big playmakers, different, It's
be different everywhere.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Why can't they be like your team and just start
firing people? Hey, Matt Naggy beat it.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, there's only so many losses we can have where
we could just fire a guy because it was his fault.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
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Who's the next the quality control guy? I mean, come on.
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get the chiefs now, wait do you see it when
it's much different to you? Next year? Hey, justin give
(14:10):
me favorite you check check standings right now? Can you
tell me are the chiefs and the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:16):
No they are not.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Okay, very good, I got that right there. Exit. How
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going to the fourth quarter up twenty one to three
over the Miami Dolphins. Plenty of NFL drama to get
to in the next few minutes, So nobody better to
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Speaker 5 (15:47):
I'm going better than a Dolphins, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Who this This looks like one of those Dolphins games
for the last couple of years where it's like, yeah,
end of the year and two is not great and
they just wind up mailing it into cold weather game
like this is every game of the Dolphins down the
stretch the last two years.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
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Speaker 1 (16:20):
Okay, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
So we'll let it go.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Don't want to put it out there. Don't want to,
you know, don't want to ruin the carmb out there.
Uh So today, obviously the big story we've had Patrick
Mahomes's torn acl already having surgery. You know, the next
day he's had it. We talked about this a few
minutes ago. Big changes coming for the Chiefs neck this
coming off season, weapons, offensive line. You on board with
(16:42):
the big changes for them.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Yeah, I mean, and I wonder if Big Red becomes
one of them really well, yeah, I mean, this is
not your average pair. This is a guy who you
know has at this stage of his life, at this
stage of his career, given some of his health issues
in the past, he's you know, he's somebody who's it's
(17:06):
always some degree of conversation between him and his family
and doctors about you know, what makes sense. And I
don't know, guys, I just have a gut feeling that
this could be an opportunity for him to pull back,
(17:29):
for him to stay in the organization in some capacity,
for him to give ste Spagnolo, who certainly deserved the
second chance as a head coach, or Dave Tobe, who
absolutely deserved the first chance. And it's kind of staggering
that he never got an opportunity. But then again, these
are bobo NFL billionaire owners making them higher, so they
(17:52):
rarely get it right. And I mean they're not a
couple of players away, They're not an office in a way.
You've got a situation with Mahomes where he's probably not
going to be right again until twenty twenty seven. I
don't know. I just every year there's a surprise right
in the coaching ranks. Somebody gets fired who we didn't
(18:16):
see coming. Somebody retires who we didn't see coming. Teams
make a trade or pro or consider a coaching trade.
I mean even last year you could say, well, there
wasn't one except Bill Belichick wanted to Chapel Hill. I'm
going to say that qualifies. So I'm just you know,
it wouldn't shock me if sometime between now and let's
(18:38):
face it, this is the first time in forever that
he's not coaching games in late December that matter, and
he knows you won't be coaching in January, that he
doesn't reach out to Clark Hurnt or whatever, and they don't.
There aren't there aren't some discussions. I just wonder if
this is the football God's telling him, you know now
as the time you've endored tragedy. And I don't throw
(19:02):
that word around lately, tragedy in his family. He sacrificed
a lot for this game. If you were to tell
Andy Reid right now and go back and rewind to
him walking out of you know, the the whatever it
was called at the time, I guess it was still
thelink walking out of Philadelphia, walking out of that stadium,
(19:24):
clearing his office out at the team facility, and you're
gonna say, hey, coach, just letting you know. You're gonna
end up in Kansas City, and no one's gonna talk
about he can't win the championship game anymore. They're going
to talk about all he did is bing Lombardi trophies,
you know, And you're gonna draft this kid, and you're
(19:44):
going to have a Tom Brady esque arc for six
years with him or whatever. Seven years with him. I mean,
he would have signed up for all that. He wouldn't
have believed you, And now that's happened. And I don't know, man,
I just feels like a big circle closing to me.
Could just be caught up in the moment, could just
be pontificating, And that's really all I'm doing here. But
(20:08):
this is it for Kelsey. This is it for a while,
Like Mahomes is not going to do Mahomes again until again.
I'm telling you twenty twenty seven at the earliest. They
need a new offensive line. They didn't need a new
defensive line. The division doesn't suck anymore, Like I mean,
they might have I mean, they were the third best
team in that division, and that's despite the Chargers not
(20:29):
having either their tackles for most of the year. I
don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
How the plus side, you've always got the Raiders seventy
five yards of offense, all right, but that's enough about them.
The other side of the injury coin, we've got the
Micah Parsons injury.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
Christian Watson avoids a big damage, might be available as
early as Saturday, but from Micah Parsons the loss man,
how how huge is this to their playoff? Pitcher still
slight favorites against the Bears this week.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Oh, I mean, look in the moment, it was everything.
It took the air right out of the balloon. It
shifted that game. I like them coming in. I thought
they could be a super Bowl team coming in. But
then you get that shout of adrenaline and you make
that trade right before the season starts, and the defense
isn't just really good like it was last year. It
(21:21):
was menacing, it was intimidating. It had a different element
then last year, when they were still a top five
team in yards allowed for play. You had this sense of,
you know, for voting that there's imminent doom in a
close and laked situation that this one cat's going to
take the game over and that's not there now. And
Halfway's a great coordinator and he'll scheme it up and
(21:42):
they'll go more zone and they'll they'll they'll make some adjustments.
But I do wonder if there's a hangover effect from that,
and this could be the Bears catching them at the
right time.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
When it comes to quarterbacks and expecting what we've got
to see Sunday, we didn't expect to see Sunday. What's
your take on what you saw from Philip Rivers?
Speaker 5 (22:06):
Come on, I mean, I'm glad he survived. I'm glad
all of acls are intact. It's impressive in some respects,
but it's also a bit of an indictment. You know,
otherwise that they that that's where the calls ended up.
(22:27):
You know that you didn't have somebody on your practice
squad or somebody sign off somebody else's practice squad, Like really,
I mean, it feels a little bit like a publicity stunt.
But then again, the team played so well, uh and
played so well, primarily defensively, and Sam Darnold, who does
have that choke team. I don't know what was going
(22:49):
on with him for a lot of that game. And
this is a big play offense that all of a
sudden didn't have a whole lot of big plays in it,
and they're kicking field goals left and right. But I
would try to get Richardson back out there. I mean,
that would be my priority as an organization, even it's
just for a game or two, even if it's just
to help boost his trade and potential or whatever. I
(23:13):
don't really I don't really understand honestly that Philip Rivers
is the best quarterback option for them on the entire planning.
But I guess he was, and.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I guess he is, at least for one moment. We
always should hope to have one person who believes in
us that way, Jason, how about the belief that Joe
Burrow he gets out there Wednesday, he has all this
stuff and speculation swirls. He didn't look like he wanted
to play football in his shoutout loss to the to
the Ravens on Sunday.
Speaker 5 (23:42):
That was his soulless, vacant, vapid, insipid, disinterested as I've
ever seen him. It was below below grade. It was shameful.
And you know, he can act like whatever that it
maybe wasn't that, or he can the comments he made
(24:04):
and then to come out there and look like you
wanted nothing to do with that football game, that football field,
those football fans. He's never going to play his whole
career there. He never was going to play his whole
career there. And there's plenty people in the league that
think he's got plenty of buyers remorse about re upping
(24:25):
with him, And if that's not the case, he's got
a funny way of showing it. And I just he's
a pretty calculated guy, and he had two months during
this recovery to think about a lot of things, and
for this to turn as quickly as it did telt
me that he doesn't think that the people who run
(24:48):
that organization are ever going to win as much as
he wants to win. And he's a smart guy. He
understands the CBA, he understands the salary cap, and he
understands depth charts and talent, and that team is nowhere
near competing. And he the way he threw balls away,
the way he opted to not to run out of bounds,
(25:11):
the refusal to push the ball downfield. It almost looked
like in subordination, man, And it's staggering because that's a
stone cold assassin. But things are way off there and
there's gonna be another weird offseason in Cincinnati. But then again,
that's far for the course.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
So what why do you think the whole Zach Taylor
Prescott today saying Joe Burrow is gonna play the rest
of the season. Is this Joe Burrow wanting to play
the rest of the season or just a Bengal saying, hey, Blank,
you are making you play the rest of the season.
Speaker 8 (25:41):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I mean, I think it's more just that everybody who
knows anything about football and what any part of that
film is like, so what's up there? Like what's going on?
But he's the same guy who came out of league
go and said I get paid a ton of money
to play football and that's what I want to do,
and then three days later said I'm not really having
(26:02):
fun here anymore and I'm really frustrated, and man, I'm
just super angsty and paudy and ooh, life's tough, and
drop the whole bunch of sort of you know, non
sequiturs that could be taking a whole bunch of different ways,
and then didn't clear that up at all, like played
like he wanted anything other than to be there, and
(26:22):
then comes out after the game and it's like, yeah,
there's really nothing to see here, Like everything's fine. I
like Zach, you know whatever, Like I don't know, man,
he will not be a Bengal for life, I'll tell
you that much. And I don't think he'll be a Bengal.
Like he'll probably be a Bengal next year, but I
don't think he'll be a Bengal for the totality of
that extension.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Finally, operations shut down one that does go through Jayden
Daniels after another reoccurrence of the injury. This doesn't play
this week, and they finally make that announcement.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Well yeah, I mean that's just a common sense, obvious
thing to do. And at this point, again, that's an
organization that misread their talent level, that believed their own
press clippings and went out and had a pretty nonchalant
collect all the old guys off season. And they've paid
the price for it. But they need draft picks. They
need high draft picks that I don't see a whole
(27:16):
lot of blue chip down there, and especially don't see
a whole lot of young blue chip talent there except
for the quarterbacks. So yeah, it makes all the sense
in the world for them to be picking as high
as possible and to make that quarterback as healthy as
possible for the offseason.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You can followhim on Twitter at Jason lock and four.
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always buddy, appreciate it, man, We'll talk to you next week.
I have a great one.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Always my pleasure gunmen. Thank you, Jays.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Wow, this could be it for Andy Reid. The one
thing is that you know, Jason talked about, hey, maybe
the Chiefs aren't good till twenty twenty seven. I mean
the fact that Mahomes had his surgery. Now he's not
gonna take any He's everything he can to be back
for next year. They're not gonna take a year to say, ah.
I don't know now Andy Reid leaving. I could see that,
(28:05):
but I don't believe we're gonna see the Chiefs say yeah,
maybe twenty twenty six is a punt.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
Year.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I don't think that's gonna happen. Yeah, it would be interesting,
just again with the that you have to retool that
roster in addition to him coming back from the injury
that I don't think they'll be good again until twenty
I agree with that part of it, But does that
mean Andy Reid doesn't stick around for a year. I
think I'd start being on air shaming him like I
did Sean McVeigh when he was thinking about going to
(28:33):
television and then he ended up back in the coaching box.
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almost it has been perfect. It's Steve de Segrich.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
Aaron Rodgers is twenty two of twenty six through the
air at Pittsburgh Tonight two hundred and nineteen yards passing
two scores. Steelers are leading twenty eight to three over
the Miami Dolphins with twelve minutes to go. Dolphins were
up three nothing late first half, and the Steelers have
scored touchdowns on four consecutive drives. For those of us
who've seen this offense throughout the year, touchdowns on four
(29:25):
consecutive drives is news. My goodness, Pittsburgh about to go
to eight and six. And by the way, this will
be twenty three straight wins at home on Monday Night
football for the franchise dating back to nineteen ninety one.
The Jets fired defensive coordinator Steve Wilkes, who was in
his first year there. The team is allowing twenty eight points.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
He was also in his last year there, Steve, Just
so you know, it is officially his last year there.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
The Jets still have no interceptions, by the way, this season,
for those keeping score at home. The Colts will start
Philip Rivers at quarterback again next Monday Night against the
forty nine Ers. Washington shutdown quarterback Jaden Daniels for the
rest of the season. He aggravated his dislocated left elbow
a week ago, so Marco Mariota will start. Still, the
Bengals are due to keep starting quarterback Joe Burrow even
(30:12):
though they've been eliminated. Packers defensive end Micah Parsons has
a torn ACL. The MRI confirmed that today he's led
the NFL in quarterback pressures this season. Chiefs quarterback Patrick
Mahomes had surgery tonight on his torn ACL. Kansas City
QB Gardner Minshew is expected to start the Chief's final
three games. The team was eliminated from playoff consideration yesterday.
(30:34):
Denver play safety Brandon Jones on ir with a pectoral injury.
Texans defensive tackle Mario Edwards is out for the season
with a torn pectoral. Bill's kicker Matt Prater is out
this week with a quad injury. Florida Gators quarterback DJ
Lagway will enter the transfer portal next month, and reportedly
Nebraska QB Dylan Reyola will also Former South Carolina quarterback
(30:56):
Steve Tannehill died at the age of fifty two, no
cause of death provided, and former cal and Raiders coach
Mike White died at the age of eighty nine.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
He also coached.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Illinois in the NBA.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Tonight Detroit advanced to twenty one and five this year
with a win at Boston one twelve, one oh five.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, but it doesn't matter. Are any of those teams
playing for the E Cup Championship tomorrow night?
Speaker 7 (31:17):
No, they're not, Steve, it's the E Cup. Is this
some sort of video game Cup's taking place?
Speaker 5 (31:22):
Oh? No?
Speaker 1 (31:23):
So I could do like a sign on ade like
an E Cup, Like you do your finger with an
e EC for E Cup Cup E Cup.
Speaker 7 (31:29):
You're just really trying hard for that to catch hag.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Tomorrow's gonna be Jalen Brunson's first championship with the Knicks. Okay,
just understand that.
Speaker 7 (31:37):
First and last, as we go back to the Jets
story doesn't matter. Las Vegas will be hosting the NBA
Cup Final on Tuesday, Detroit and Toronto, with road wins
tonight and Dallas is leading eighty three seventy seven and
the third at Utah twenty eight points for Cooper Flag
NHL victories for Anaheim and Florida. The Braves re signed
shortstop Huss Soong Kim to a one year deal. The
(31:59):
Phillies signed right Adolas Garcia X of the Rangers to
a one year contract pending a physical, and the Twins
agreed to a deal with first baseman Josh Bail Back.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
To you, thank you, Steve O. Darren Waller is in
the end zone for a touchdown and look just for
a second, he took the heel peek. Darren Waller going
up in double coverage and just being the biggest guy
on the field, goes between two dbs and pulls down
a touchdown. So the Dolphins getting some cosmetic points here.
(32:29):
It's twenty eight to nine extra point pending, still a
lot of time to go, still not have to go
on the fourth quarter. Looks like they're going for two
of more on this game coming up next, as well
as a quarterback who had the game of his life Sunday.
I'll tell you why you gotta slow your role on
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are in the fourth quarter, a twenty eight to nine
lead for the Steelers. They have the Football Dolphins touchdown
Darren Waller. They do not get the two point conversion,
so the Steelers have a chance to take some time
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off the clock here and walk away with the victory.
On Monday night, they had.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
A long handoff also known as a quick swing pass
to your guy Jalen Warren. Another one point six points
for you. But they're a big guy in the Flu night,
the flu game for Warren as the Steelers tried to
salt this one away. We've watched Aaron Rodgers over the
course of the night, a lot of short things that
people would be to take the pejorative dink and dunk.
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It's been winning football, yeah right, if you can scheme
it up. And I've been long a critic of the
shortcomings of Arthur Smith. Tonight he and Rodgers perfect game plan.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Can we find a way to be just a little
bit better than average? Yes, I can do that for you,
all right? That that should be enough against this Miami
Dolphins team.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
But in the twenty twenty five NFL season, and can't
you say that for the most part, that's kind of.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Where we're playing. That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Look the Dolphins.
The Dolphins did win a game in forty ish degree
whether a couple of weeks ago, but it was the Jets.
So temper expectations because you see what happens tonight when
they're playing a team that's just a little bit better
they're getting boat raced. And that's why I want to
tell you, Oh, Trevor Lawrence is great. This is the
best version of himself he's ever been. Trevor law Hang
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on one second. Trevor Lawrence has played pretty well. I will
say that he has played pretty well. But from someone
who actually watched the game yesterday and didn't you didn't
just look and say, wow, six touchdowns. It was the Jets.
The Jets. I'm telling you, man again, with eight minutes
to go in the first quarter, another week where the
Jets game is over right, I mean, but Aaron Glenn's
got it all fixed. He's gonna keep firing guys like
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Steve Wilkes because Aaron Glenn's got it. The Jets are quitting.
They're not prepared. The Jets run. The Jets were so
unprepared for this game. This is where I go. You know,
you're the head coaches said here, tell me about create
a culture and X, Y and Z and how you're building.
I don't know what the hell the Jets are building.
They have nothing. The Jets next season are gonna go
win with no optimism. Right now, if you said, hey,
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what are you gonna go into next year. Say we're
building off this for next year. There's not one thing
you are building on that's every season. Your offense is terrible, right,
maybe your offensive line is a little bit okay, and
you get Garrett Wilson back, but that's not you can't
build on that. This cat, Brady Cook, he had a
couple of years are you are absolutely terrible. And I'll
tell you this that when Trevor Lawrence scampered in for
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his first touchdown run right, it's a big third and
fifteen play. The Jets had all his receivers covered and ah,
Trevor Lawrence runs at fifty one. Watch the replay of
that play. The Jets had five guys standing in the
middle of the field. Standing in middlefield at the goal line, okay,
twenty yards away from where Trevor Lawrence was. You had
five defenders just dead. But I guess we're here. I
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guess you know. We're hanging out. We're having conversations like
I look at that, I go, how the hell do
you have so many players around on one player at
the goal line and he just scampers. He's you shouldn't
be running fifteen yards for a touchdown on a play
where everybody is covered. You can't throw the football right
you want to. You have some kind of play where
it's a fake or it's a it's a draw and
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and it's a design play. Great, but you shouldn't be
scrambling that way for a touchdown. It was easy for
Trevor Lawrence yesterday. It was easy. It was the Jets,
and the Jets fired their defensive coordator who's been absolutely terrible,
Steve Wilks. You know why, he's one year everywhere, one year,
not even one year here with the Jets. He was awful.
The Jets defense is terrible again. The last couple of
weeks has been bad. They've lit up points all year long.
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Whether they had Quinn Williams and Sauce Gardner, don't have
these guys. You can't measure your success in a game
against the Jets. You just can't. You can't give me
a better team again. I talked about the Dolphins, Hey,
cold weather game they run for two to eighty against
the Jets. Yeah, it was the Jets tonight. It looks
like they looks like they've quit and they can't even
They're not even gonna break double digits against the Steelers. Right. Again,
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you can't measure how good you are in one game
against the Jets and say always back. Let Trevor Lawrence
do with the rest of the season. The Jaguars are
having a good season right top of the AFC South.
They figured out a way around him for the first
half of the year. We're running the football well and
playing good defense. Right, they figured out a way around
Trevor Lawrence. Yeah, he's had a couple of good games.
This was the Jets. You cannot measure success in one
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game against the Jets. It's like me measuring success like, Hey,
I can beat my dog in a video game. I
just won that game of Madden against my dog. Didn't
even press the button at all, just sat there and
slept the whole time, and I won thirty one to nothing.
I mean, you can't do that. You equated these Jets
to your dog. Which one.
Speaker 6 (38:40):
Oh, Benny's got more game.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yes, Benny's been around a minute. He's pretty crafty that
he's been eyeballing you.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
For a while.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
He's got more game. Bareley likes to sleep a little
bit more so. Yeah. But when we look at the
totality of it, for Trevor Lawrence, this year has been
uneven to your point, running the football well, dual headed
monster Travis et massive game yesterday.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
It was his first three hundred yard game of the year,
just so you know at three thirty. But I think
the big thing is fantasy playoff wise, and just the
fact that that game kept coming back up on the
red zone channel. It was in your face a bunch.
And what you can do is say, over the last
four weeks, hey, he's got twelve touchdowns now against three interceptions,
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plus the rushing efforts whatever. So those are stats that
you can you can mythologize, right that is that a
word I'm looking for here?
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Right?
Speaker 4 (39:34):
Yeah, now it is now I just might have. But
you create a myth of hey, he's rolling. Well, their
schedule has been soft, but you can only beat who's
on it. And they've been putting up points, what is it,
twenty five or more in seven straight games. So you
go back and they got absolutely drummed by the Seahawks
and the Rams. They were shut down. They scored fewer
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than ten points in both of those games. So when
you have that decided step up and class not quite there,
but in the AFC right now, you got a lot
of middling teams go take advantage of what's on the schedule.
In this case, it was a dead from the neck
of Jets squad and you had the next fall guy.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Look it's it's Lawrence is playing better. Is a little
bit better, don't get me wrong, but he's still a
league average quarterback. Look at the guys who had big
games against the Jets. Everybody does everybody. But that's just it.
And was it the roster as constructed or is Wilk's
that bad? It's it's everything. It's the Jets. That's all
you have to say is Jets and Jets. So I
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have says, oh yeah, Jets, right right, I got it,
I got it. That's it, I got it.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Just that that's your that's gonna be the way. Is
that what you're right on?
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Cards Jets? Coming up next, the quarterback story. I was
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