December 20, 2025 • 40 mins
Jason & Mike bring on College Football Insider Pete Fiutak to discuss the crazy Alabama victory over Oklahoma, who the favorite is against Indiana and more! Jason and Mike react to the Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua boxing match!
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Greetings, Welcome inside our three, The Jason Smith Show with
my bes friend Mike Harmon. Heha one playoff game down.
It was a thriller, twists and turns. Alabama beats Oklahoma
thirty four to twenty four. They move on to the
next round of the College football Playoff. Oklahoma goes home.
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So many big shockers in this game, but we talked
about one of the big things a few minutes ago.
Sandell is the Gros Award winner best kicker in the country.
He misses a thirty six yard field goal and is
short on a fifty one yard field goal in the
last four and a half minutes, which helps Alabama clinch
the win. And we mentioned this guy a few minutes ago,
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and I said, what does Pete feutech say college kickers
chat chat Chaw. Joining us now on the hotline is
the owner, editor, proprietor of the best website for college
football on the Internet, college Footballnews dot com. All the previews,
all the picks, all the prognostications, chat chat Chaw. What's
happened at PETEFEU Tech.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I don't you know all these guys. All I kept
thinking was like, first of all, that kick, that first
kick was way close, Like, I get it, you're supposed
to hit that, but that looked awfully good for a while.
I got the right shot. And then I guess, in
the modern age, not being able to hit a fifty
one yarder. I mean, I know they're not the NFL
guys who are bombing him from seventy and stuff, but
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it's fifty one yard. You're you're you know, you're well
paid college kicker. You should be able to get it there. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I feel like, well, I think it's probably in
his head the first kick. But honestly, that first kick,
like I get that, Okay, it's not reviewable because it's
above the goalpost, but like, okay, that's kind of where
we need reviews. But I think if they called it
good nobody would have complained. They could have called that
kick either way and it would have been okay, well,
he barely got it through and it's now a one
score game. They could have gone either way on that
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and nobody would have said anything.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
They got it right, it looked like it did go
over the top. It's a weird rule, and the whole
kicking thing to begin with is kind of a bizarre,
you know, twist we've kind of accepted as the norm,
but it's kind of an unnaturally strange thing that, you know,
here's this game that comes down to the guy who
looks like he's twelve years old and you know, you know,
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kicks it and the ball goes one foot the other
way and all of a sudden everything changes. But that's
that's the game, and all right, kind of weird one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But they weren't.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Even if he nails that, they're not winning it. So
it's look, this is a strange one. Like I don't
know what where this Bama team has been, and I
don't know if it's an indictment on the coaching staff
or the talent or the team, or just that the
SEC is just kind of and this is an SEC
versus the SEC game. This Bama team over the last
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forty minutes hadn't been there for two months. I mean,
they they had no problems with the Tennessee team, but like,
they didn't play this well all year. I mean I
saw the Florida State game from the start. They had
to you know, they beat Georgia, but that they didn't
perform like this. That was just kind of okay, back
and forth, they pulled it off. But to do this,
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I mean, to totally adjust and dominate, and then for
Oklahoma to turtle like it did, I mean, it's mojo
completely up the building after three straight plays, the dropped pass,
the Sean landetta and then the pick six, I mean,
and then.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They didn't have anything else. They had no answers after that.
It was the strangest twitch of a college football game
I can remember in a long, long time.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Fantastic reference going all the way back to the eighties
with the debt, uh Pete. You also talked about it
being a foot difference, you know in that field goal.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
That's about all they averaged on the ground both teams.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, It's it's kind of odd that, okay that you know, okay,
Matier was the only one running, but like it was
so strange because you could tell that John Mattier was
finally healthy. He was flinging it, he was throwing well,
and he looked confident. He was making plays. He's a
baller's baller, he's their best runner, and he looked healthy enough.
And you know, again, I guess the part of the
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point was, all right, you're up seventeen nothing, and okay,
you're up seventeen seven and you're moving the ball. Well,
there's no way that defense, which has been dominant all year,
and with all their healthy pass rushers there, we're going
to you know, not be able to hold up. And
then again I think the pick six screwed them up.
They'd screwed it their heads. That drops past where Matier
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could have run for forty yards. But I get it,
the guy was wide open. You throw it down the field,
guy's supposed to catch its getting ni own money too.
And then the weird punt. It just seemed like, all
of a sudden, like the mojo just completely shifted and
Oklahoma was utterly incapable of getting it back. It was
it was just like they forgot how to play and
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they lost it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So pete Caylen de boor wins when it looked like
it's seventeen to nothing, he would be saying go blue
in his postgame press conference. So, uh, what is Maybe
maybe bred Venables is now available, But like, what does
Michigan do now, Because clearly it looks like, hey, Caylen
de bor is gonna wind up stay at Alabama with
a win moving on in the playoff. He's got confidence
and the nil backers, I'm sure I have confidence in him.
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What do they do now?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I never thought the Bor is going and I always
kind of thought it was an odd thought to begin
with that, Oh well, Michigan's is gonna get the Alabama coach. Like,
that's not really how this works. That's I said. I
said to the guys last week, there's no name that's
too crazy, but that one was. I I just never
saw why you would go, like, if Alabama doesn't want
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him and Michigan does, or you just think you can
get the Michigan head coach who just played his team
played in the SEC championship in the College Football playoff,
that's not how the pecking order of the world works.
But I still think they're gonna go with someone who's
relatively boring, you know, Tommy Reese or somebody that I
still kind of shocked the jet Fish wasn't more of
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a part of this. I thought he would be kind
of an instant yoink from Washington, but that didn't happen.
So it'll be an interesting call. There are lots of
you know, interesting guys out there. It's just as you know,
how creative do they want to get with this? So
at the moment, I think they're just trying to get
their stuff together and get their house in order, and
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then they'll try to figure out, oh, yeah, we should
probably hire a football coach at some point too, above
all the other problems they're having within the internal you know,
athletic department stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right now, no question about we got three games tomorrow
bete the heavyweight battle Miami and Texas, A and M
A and M three point favorites, forty eight year total,
and now all eyes on Carson Beck and what Miami
has been able to do they get in and all
the speculation and A and M on the other side,
their schedules come up quite a bit in the last
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week or two.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
So how does this play?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I still go with Miami. It's see my gut inta. I.
Then again, I thought Oklahoma would roll with these, and
I was hearing very smug for about the twenty minutes there,
so more than usual. And then yeah, I but this
one is a harder one because I don't buy the sec.
I do think Miami's better, but Miami's not great on
the road this year, however, They've got so much NFL talent,
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and it's kind of hard after you watch these just
incredibly awful bowl games so far, just horrible, just starts. O.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Pet you like the bowl game so far, you're a
big fan, I can tell.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay, last year they were great. Last year, all these
weird you know, donkey little boutique, you know, hipster underground
bowl games were actually really kind of good. This year
they're just bad. It's bad entertainment. It's bad. And then
you forget, oh yeah, the college football playoffs. This is
where you get real teams, good teams, and they're all
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trying really hard. You know, they all have their full
they opt outs happening here. These are these are the guys.
So I think this is where Miami just sort of
turns it up a few notches. And again not totally
sold to Texas A and M is all that could
remember Texas A and M they all off to Texas,
didn't play Alabama, Georgia, Old Myths or Oklahoma. I think
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they're missing someone else big too, but like they didn't
play all the good teams this year, so I'm kind
of curious to see it. But I'm not as strong
on this one as I usually am on stuff. But
I'm gonna stick with Miami call because it just seems
like the narratives like, Okay, you got in you know this,
win this all.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Right, Pete. The other games tomorrow to Lane and ole Miss. Look,
ole Miss is playing on emotion, James Madison and Oregon. Anyway,
we don't see Oregon and ole Miss moving on in
either of these games.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, there's a huge way we can see this. They
not see this happening because no one's gonna watch it.
Like literally, no one's going to see this happening. So
like like everyone's gonna watch their fantasy teams or you
know they're gonna see They're gonna sit there and watch
the Eagles Commanders and they're definitely gonna watch Packers Bears,
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and you know, maybe it's you know, if multiview works,
you can you work it out where you can get
to both games. But I don't know anyone who's gonna
willingly watch these two games. I mean, you'll tune in
just to see if it's interesting. I kind of think
I could see either way happening with the old Miss
killing it, where Ole Miss just gets way tight and
they're just like, oh, we're gonna prove everything and they
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just play bad and they start the ball over. Or
I could see him being like, oh, screw you, Lan Kiff,
and then come out and hang sixty four on the board.
So I'm going to go with the ladder a little bit.
I think, I actually do think Tulane's gonna hang around
for a while and then Ole Miss will finally pull
away and cover and do all that fun stuff later.
But I think I think that might be a little
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bit of a battle. I will be floored if Oregon
doesn't come out and just put it to just be
insulted by this game thing. This is a take from
all indications there. It's been quite kind of quiet that
they're still a little upset over the way they played
and got rocked in that Rose Bowl last year when
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they were the number one overall seed and you know,
the Ohio State came in and just took it to them.
That's that's an embarrassing thing. That's kind of a motivating factor.
And I don't I think they're gonna see one of
those tone setting type of things happen where it might
not just be explosive and but it'll be methodical and
I do bad balance, too sharp, too good, and James
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Madison will give it the college try for a little while.
Maybe they'll score. But if you like point totals, I
would not be stunned if Oregon just handled it all
by itself.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Forty six is the total minus twenty and a half
Oregon Duftay Moore two thirty three and a half passing yards.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Maybe they're but but I don't know if they're gonna
throw that much. If it's I think it'll be more
balanced and they're not gonna sit him too. So I'm
actually not a fan of that as much because they're
just gonna keep running in short, midrange games. And you know, look,
James Madison's got a good defense. You know, their run
defense statistically is awesome. They have guys they have. They
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kind of help Louisville in check from not doing much anything.
But this Oregon thing is just gonna be a different
animal at this point.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
All right, Pete. Lastly, we'll see Alabama again on New
Year's Day when they take on Indiana. Indiana as a
six and a half point favorite. Right now, I know
it's early. We just watched Alabama just watching play the
best forty minutes the last couple of months. Does Alabama
have a shot in this game?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Well, according to the first half of the Oklahoma versus
Indiana preview, I wrote this wrap. Yeah, I said, yeah,
of course, you know, it's at the end of the
I'm still one of those people that like, I know,
I know, you're not supposed to say this, and aha,
it's still Indiana. There's part of me it's still is
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not quite there. I mean, just it's it's a great story.
They're great cooks, but Alabama's got more talent, you know,
They've just they've got the guys. That's not the problem
with this team. It just they haven't played up to it.
Of course, Indiana is going to be great, but look
at tonight it almost seemed like once they got down
ty Simpson got good because he's like, Okay, well we're
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supposed to get boat raced again, we just did that
against Georgia, and now we're getting killed here. And then
he kind of found it a little bit. The team
sort of played up to its attitude and they're the
under They're gonna be the underdog at this They're gonna
we hear about Alabama and the Heisman winner and all that.
I'm gonna pick Indiana, but it's I'm this is not
a guarantee. I was gonna easily pick Indiana over Oklahoma.
(13:14):
I'm not so sure because that Bama team that showed
up over the second forty minutes of this game, or
the flat Foy miss of this game, it ends up
in Pasadena. Yeah, they're not gonna run it at all.
So it's kind of an easy team to defend if
you just got to get the ty Simpson. But I
wouldn't put it pass them. I'll pick Indiana right now,
but I'm not the thousand percent sold on it.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Pete, you're thinking about accidentally publishing that Oklahoma Indiana.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
We gould Actually, you know what, it'll probably get more
break through. It'll wun the sdo and to get a
lot more hits than whatever it is. I'm gonna come
up with the next hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Or so college football insider previews. Wrong game, that'll be
the headlined. Barstool will pick it up, everybody will pick
it up. It'll be awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Exactly sooner as Iman or something like that.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Right, he's on Twitter at Pete feu Tech. That is
at Pete feu Tech again college footballnews dot com. You're
one stop shopping for everything college football. All the picks,
all the previews, all the analysis you could want, all
done by the man you just heard, Pete feuw Tech. Pete,
Happy holidays, man, we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You you guys, go on see Pete.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
There goes Pete feud Tech. Well, I'll do my Oklahoma
Indiana preas.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
No, but how great was it?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
He's like, yeah, I started right. I mean it was
seventeen nothing, Alabama did nothing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I walked in, I had Ian and Brianna were in
the back, and I'm like, man, I was really hoping
for a game.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This stinks.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
They're about to get boat raced.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And then just like that, we we had all of
the chaos that we've been chronicling over these last two
hours where it's like tale of two halves, football karma,
Christmas miracle, whatever you want to call it. It was
just insane and Oklahoma in front of their hole crowd.
I mean, I loved all the crowd shots. It's like
everybody just mouths a gape, like you're looking at people
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at a horror.
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two big knockouts tonight in the world of sports. One
we'll get to in a few minutes. As Oklahoma looked
like they were throwing the first knockout punch against Alabama. However,
a bad misplay on a punt opens the door for
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the Alabama comeback. They score twenty seven unanswered and they
beat the Sooners thirty four to twenty four. They move
on New Year's Day, they'll take on Indiana Gain. We'll
have more on this coming up in a couple of minutes,
but another big knockout just for a couple minutes, just
because Mike this always I'm stunned about this every single
time that he fights.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul tonight in the sixth round. Uh.
It was a longer fight than a lot of people thought, Like,
I didn't see it. We're watching the college football game.
But you know, look, Netflix has a you know, a
big hit on their hands. Jake Paul tries to fight.
According to reports that that Jake Paul just tried to
clutch his way through, realizing realizing very early that hey,
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oh boy, this guy's a lot different than some of
the other guys. I thought, hey go, it's like an
out a second. And Anthony Joshua knocks him out in
the sixth round. He calls out Tyson Fury. Uh following
the the end of the fight, and uh, you see
Jake Paul going down to defeat. And this is how
it sounded just a few moments ago on Netflix. And
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even if he does.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That shot much, he's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Here and it almost there's left.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hey no, and he have taken.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
A little bit longer than everyone.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Expected, but a j gets a ko it round just six.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, it was just like Ali Frasier. Uh. You know
the thing, the thing that I get, Mike, and I
can't believe this is that I can't get over the
audience that is out there for Jake Paul fights. Like
I've told from the beginning, I can't believe he gets
the attention that he does. The guy's a social media influencer,
decided I could be a boxer, and then he trained
a little bit. Look, and I give him credit for
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training and staying in the ring against these guys, But
like all of us, how is there a big audience
to watch him in curiosity against boxers against fighters and
Anthony Joshua clearly the best fighter he has fought at
this point in his career. Joshua doesn't make quick work
of him, and you wonder how much maybe Anthony Joshua
could have won this fight a lot earlier. But people
are trying to get their money's worth. You put this
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on Netflix, you want a few rounds again. Part of
the reason why I look at this and I go, man,
I just can't understand the the the viewership and the
support and the interest in Jake Paul's box, and I
have absolutely zero interest in it. And I can't understand
people that go crazy over these fights. I just can't.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, we added on in the producer's studio, and I
would check in from time to time and obviously on
social media while we're watching the college football playoff game,
a little bit of NBA action, you know, he's cycling
in and checking out the reviews of it. A lot
of it was Joshua. He looks disinterested and he's just
standing around. Man, he's washed. He's terrible, you know, kind
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of like Alabama in the first half. Gosh so and
then all of a sudden it's like, all right, time
to go to work. You realize the rumored purse of
this is he's one hundred and eighty four million dollars.
I guess that's what was floating about here from The
Independent and from other publications, that that they are each
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walking away with at least eighty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I mean, I don't know. If you said to me,
I'll give you free tickets and a flight back and
forth to Miami, I'll give you spending money, and I'll
give you a hotel and you can spend the whole week,
and I would go, Yeah, do I really want to
go do that? I mean, really that's what I would like.
Do I really want to go do that? I can't
fathom the popularity that this guy has. I mean, I
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don't know if it's inflated popularity. I don't know, if
it's bots. I don't know. Maybe he did. People just
really like and there's more people that have an appetite
for this than I think. But I just have a
hard time believing that he's this popular and the audiences
for his fights are big and people still care about
him fighting going on when these are just exhibitions and
it's a and I get that it's kind of a
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it's somewhat of a social experiment where here's a guy
who's a YouTube inflow, I'm going to train myself to
be a boxer. All that does is make boxers look bad,
because if a dude can show up and just say hey,
I'm on YouTube and now I can box. It's one
thing to say, hey, I'm young and I can you know,
I'm seventeen, but I can make the cut for the
US Open in golf. Some things I get, okay a
little embarrassing, but I understand, but man to show up
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and say, yeah, I could go be a boxer and
I could do it, and I could do it somewhat successfully.
I really it just it just it passes understanding for me.
It's it's just a whole it's a mystery for me,
this whole thing with Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, but it's the bridge sports entertainment chaos in the
social media world that we live in. Right, there's a
lot of folks that make bank on TikTok, twitch and
or whatever else that I might accidentally see a second
of and then one of my daughters will tell me, yeah,
that guy reportedly made twenty million dollars last year. You know,
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it's like, okay, it's not my cup of tea, but
you know, not everything's made for you know, a little
fifty plus year old Mikey Harmon, Right, And this is
one of them, all Right, I enjoy a good boxing bout,
and we've had plenty of that. The legends fight well
beyond their prime. And guess what they get an audience,
whether it's that they are hoping to see glimpses, Right,
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it's Tiger Woods showing up at a golf event. You're
hoping to see shades of what once was great, recognizing
that it's probably not gonna be that or your hate
watching and you want to see him get his ass kicked, which, well,
I want to see him. So he loses here clutching
and grabbing and wheezing and certainly not in the cardio
shape that you need to be. And once you get
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to the fifth or sixth round that was apparent.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, well, I mean, but like I said, I always
want I wanted to see him lose because I I
can't believe it was a story and there I want
to see the guy lose that you it's it's kind
of making a mockery of boxing. And I just wasn't
just not a fan, but I look, I respect his popularity.
I just don't get it. But see, I just don't
like to.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Me and I don't think it makes a mockery of it.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Like if if that's the case, then it's all the
people that are voting with their eyes and dollars that
are making the mockery of it, not him. Right, you
get gets himself into reasonable shape, and you have all
degrees of boxing events, right, it's like, you know, my
love of wrestling, the indie cards if you can get
one in your local town. You got people that are
busting their ass trying to break through. Boxing is the
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same way, right, It's all a matter of levels. And
he came in the side door. It's no different than
our business.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
You know, you play as at.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
A high level college, pro pro sports, you might get
a second bite, third bite of the apple. Is what
we've been talking about with the NFL draft, Not that
you didn't do the work, right, I mean it's all eventually,
you gotta do the work, but you get to you know,
pass go early on. Right, it's the NFL Draft, Like,
all right, you got that first round draft game grade,
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you're probably gonna get to a second or third bite
before you're out of the out of the game. Right,
someone's gonna think they're gonna fix you here. You got
a big audience social media, and you know they do
it the background check Veracity figure out what the percentage
of bots is, fraudulents, whatever. But if there's advertisers that's
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behind it, it's no less fraudulent than anything else.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah no, But but you hit on what what gets
me again? Why I don't understand the popularity is that
we get in sports. That's the one thing that that
that we have that I think people sometimes don't understand
is that we have the highest level of sport anywhere
in the world except for soccer, right the NFL, Major
League Baseball, the NBA, the NHL. It's the highest level
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of sport that we get. Why are minor league sports
not popular? Because, well, it's not the highest level. It's
not the star it's it's not it's not the best
football that you can see. It's not the best basketball
that you can see. It's not the best baseball you
can see. Right, So so there, stuff like spring leagues
and in football have a tough time breaking through. Minor
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league baseball is very regional to where you are. This
is boxing, and it's not nearly at the highest level.
This is just a dude, right. This is not somebody
who's turned himself into a great boxer and he's fighting
and he's gonna win the WBC title, you know, or
win the heavyweight titles. This is a lower level of
boxing that somehow people have decided yes, I want to
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see it, right, I mean I really And that's what
I scratch my head and I go, I don't get
why at a lower level of a sport with a
guy that nobody knew who he is, who's a social
media guy. In fights that I mean, you know, how
much are they holding each other up for a few rounds?
How much did Anthony Joshua hold him up for five rounds? Right? Again,
I didn't see the fight. I'm just saying, well, Anthony Joshua,
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if it was this big a deal and Jake Paul
looked a loss, probably could have ended it earlier. But
again I didn't see it, so I'm not gonna pretend
I did. But overall, I don't get the popularity is
something that when we're used to the best of the best,
that we say, yeah, I'm okay for this, which is
not nearly close to what the best is.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah, I mean to put it in perspective, right, Tyson Fury,
he's calling him out. He hasn't boxed since last December.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
So, like when we talk about names and whatever else,
I mean, think about all those the end of the
run for Floyd Mayweather, he did a lot of dancing
in the ring and didn't do a whole hell of
a lot of boxing, but he was called a brilliant tactician.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
That's is that guy. He's a brilliant tactician. Oh that
means okay, brilliant technics.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
But you put the name there and everybody said, take
my money.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Same thing here, right, you had a full arena and
they add by and if nothing else, he gave everybody
a Chappelle special and uh an opportunity to maybe get
some good jokes.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Exit out bout a Fresca, exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Rmedy. I just
don't get as popular, and I don't know what's I
know he's gonna come up next because I know people
are gonna say, oh, look at Jake Paul. He was
able to fight Anthony Joshua for so long, you know,
five rounds into the sixth round. Now let's see what
he can do against somebody. And there's gonna be another fight.
(26:58):
Like I was hoping this is gonna but it says
to me, oh no, look he's gonna fight somebody else. Now, okay, great, great,
we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
I want to see him train and go hang with
his brother in the WWE.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
He can be half the athlete his brother is, then
pretty damn good tearing team, because they're both pretty good
on the mic, whether you agree or like them at all.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
WWE is different. And if this is a whole thing
for Jake Paul to eventually go to the WWE, I
get it. Man, he'd be a great heel in the WWE.
My goodness, man, he'd go in there and he would
be insanely popular. And that I understand, because you know,
WWE is not quite the same as boxing.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
I understand that this is supposed to be an exhibit.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
This was an exhibition towel, so.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You knew we'd get to do convention.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Rock should have thrown the towel, man, Apollo would have lived.
Sorry spoiler, But like that I get. But like, if
he's doing that to get to the ww but I
can't believe the WWE hasn't called him already.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
But oh, he ain't gonna make that kind of money
in the WWE. He gonna do this until he can't walk, man,
are you kidding me? Until he can't physically stand there
and hug a guy or throw an occasional punch. If
that the reports you're true, I mean one hundred and
eighty four million dollars that's split between two guys and
whoever they you know, slap off a couple of bucks.
(28:18):
Two out of the corner. Man, Come on, Don King's
not taking all that money. No that Netflix stock man. Hey,
gotta get.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It now all you can get it, crazy man. We
got more coming up in ninety seconds. But first time
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
And someone who's been called the Ivan Drago of Fox
Sports Radio in the eighties, he couldn't pass the steroid
test either. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Jason, I will break you. I'm boxing tonight anyway. Fight
at Miami. Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the
sixth round and Unklahoma was knocked down at home. The
opener of the college football Playoff went to Alabama in
a comeback thirty four to twenty four. So Alabama, in
its college football playoff history, has a record of ten
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and five. Oklahoma is zero to five all time. It
has never won a playoff game. And the Alabama offense
had twelve drives and only twelve first downs tonight and
scored thirty four points and won the game. Bama was
down seventeen to nothing early second quarter and had no
first downs at that time. Alabama goes to the Rose
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Bowl quarterfinal against number one Indiana. The other three first
round games are on Saturday. By the way, the two
playoff games that are given to TNT for tomorrow are
two Lane at Old Miss, Mississippi beat two Lane forty
five to ten during the season, and then James Madison
at Oregon, also opposite an NFL game on Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
How excited is TNT to have those games? Team? How
excited today to have those games?
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Same as last year, they get about half the ratings
of the quote. Real first round games NFL on Fox
TV has Philadelphia at Washington and then Green Bay at Chicago. Eagles,
by the way, can clinch the division title with a
win on Saturday. No teams won the NFC East in
back to back years since Philly over twenty years ago.
Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson will remain on IR he's
(30:09):
out for the season. Rams wide out Devonte Adams is
likely out next week as well with his bad amstring.
Seattle linebacker Derek Hall was suspended one game f on
sportsmanlike conduct. He will appeal. Rams wide receiver Pukinakua fined
twenty five thousand dollars for criticizing the rest wide receiver
of the Bengals. T Higgins returned to full practice after
a concussion. Raiders quarterback Gino Smith will start Sunday after
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shoulder and back injuries. In the NBA's late game at Minnesota,
the home team in the final minute had an eight
zero run to beat Oklahoma City won twelve one oh
seven despite thirty five points from Shay Giljess Alexander. The
Thunder had a record of twenty five and two coming
in wins for Boston and Chicago. Spurs won their fifth
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in a row one twenty six ninety eight at Atlanta
and victor wmbin Yama in only twenty one minutes off
the bench had twenty six points it's twelve rebounds. Philadelphia
won at New York won sixteen one ozho seven thirty
points for Tyrese Maxi. That ends the next six game
winning streak. In college hoops number ten, BYU pulled away
to beat Abilene Christian eighty five sixty seven. Villanova in
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overtime defeated Wisconsin seventy six sixty six. In women's hoops,
number seven, Maryland over winless Central Connecticut ninety eight to thirty. Today,
the NHL had five games and the late contest with
a minute ago has Dallas up eight three at Anaheim,
Colorado was a three to two winner at home versus Winnipeg,
Florida at home won and shootout against Carolina four to three.
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The Angels agreed to a settlement with the family of
their late pitcher Tyler Skaggs, after thirty one days in court.
Nine Major League teams will pay a luxury tax, including
the Dodgers paying a record one hundred and sixty nine
million dollars. The Mets will be paying over ninety million dollars,
and they missed the playoffs. The tax total from the
nine teams is over four hundred million dollars. It's due
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to be paid in about a month. The Rays traded
pitcher Shane Bazz to Baltimore and traded infielder Brandon Lau
to Pittsburgh, and the Phillies traded.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
With we're floading up for the skin of the Schemes era.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
We got to get some guys here the Phillies that
would make quite a package deal. The Phillies traded reliever
Matt Strom to the Kansas City Royals back to you.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Thank you, Steve Carbon Yeah, no, I get it, yes, yes,
and I you know, and I just kept thinking today,
you know, seeing the seeing, you know, all that stuff
going on next in Major League Baseball and what's next
to cars? I'm like, what what what are the Mets
gonna do? Who's the outfield they're gonna get? Are they
gonna spend for Bellingers? Are gonna be a big trade?
And I just keep going back to thinking, you know,
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and I saw today someone wrote the Red's entire payroll
is was like one hundred and nineteen million dollars and
like like two years of Juan Soto is more than
than their entire payroll. And I'm saying to myself, how
did we get a guy? How did we just add
a guy to the team that finished third in MVP
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voting and we were worse than a year ago and
didn't even make the playoffs. Like I was, all of
a sudden, I was depressed again.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Just think of all those runs he's gonna score in
this coming year when he piles up the walks and
has and has who betting behind him?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Exactly? The off season is not over yet, Steve we
have some time to go. Just wait, do we have.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
The tape of after the Mets lost their closer? And
that's way I trust the front office. This is not done.
We're going to later that same day.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It's there's a whole Steve. There's lots of guys out there, Steve, Okay,
he's lots of guys.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
He has written ninety seven messages to John Paul Morosi
and you get this dis.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Please make sure Hey go get this guy. Hey, go
get this guy. Wait what about this guy?
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Wait a minute, wait, there's lots of guys out there
and they're all playing at Indianapolis or International League or
whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Thank you, Steve, and I say thank you and loose clothes. Uh.
Coming up next, we get back into the biggest story
of the night. Alabama beats Oklahoma and because it's a
positivity Friday and the holidays, an appreciation moment for somebody
long overdue. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio, Jason I will break You.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
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Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 1 (34:33):
I wanna get a left fielder for Chrisms. Only a
left fielder and a starting pitcher will do. We got
rid of Diaz and Pete Alonzo. I want a left fielder,
but I don't want to pay two hundred million for
Cody Bellinger. I wanta left field. Fox Sports Radio The
(34:55):
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
I didn't think you'd be crashing out tonight. The game of.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
The night goes to Alabama Oklahoma a seventeen to nothing
lead in the second quarter of this game, and Kylen
de Bor had his bags packed from Michigan possibly but
a biffed pun attempt a pick six, a tie game
at halftime, and Alabama throws the hammer down in the
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second half. Look, we talked to Pete Futack earlier this hour.
He says, this Alabama team hasn't been around for two months,
and here they are tonight, a big effort against Oklahoma
and part of a positivity Friday here. You know, we've
talked about this guy a little bit in the news,
mainly the last two weeks as well. If Alabama loses
in the playoff, Kaylen de Bor is gonna be the
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next head coach at University of Michigan. And the thing is,
if he lost tonight, you think that wasn't gonna happen.
You think that that the nil backers at Alabama wouldn't say, Hey,
this hasn't worked, let's get him out. We need somebody else.
All of a sudden, Michigan say okay, we'll take him.
But an appreciation moment for a guy that has had
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an incredibly rough time at Alabama, he goes in his
first year, doesn't go exactly how you'd expect, or on
the outside looking into the playoff this year, they kind
of squeak in. Everybody hated the beginning of the season,
loved Kaylen de boor in the middle of the season,
hated him at the end of the season, couldn't wait
to get him out. But coming through the big win
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and now not only is he not going to Michigan,
he's probably won a lot of people to his side.
And I got news for you, Alabama, Indiana is gonna
be a rock fight. Like this is not gonna be said, well, yeah,
Alabama's lost three games. Let's see what Indiana looks like
as the big overwhelming favorite after having a month with
a Heisman Trophy winner. Let's see what Indiana is made of.
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But all sorts of congratulatory and appreciation wont for Kaylin
de Boor, who's got to be feeling really good at
this point because he went from Hey, I'm in an
impossible situation to take over for Nick. Say, but now
he took the money, took the job. You can't say,
I can't say, oh, you know you like you got
dragged to it. You couldn't do it, but still, you know,
you want to be able a little bit of a
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honeymoon period, a little bit of a let's let this
guy get, get his players in and let him cook.
There was none of that. They wanted him out last
year when he couldn't beat teams that were good. They
wanted him out. Early this year he won people over
a little bit, then they wanted him out again. And
now he's there with a big playoff win over Oklahoma
and they're playing on New Year's Day, and this has
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got to be incredibly gratifying and satisfying for Kaylen de Bor.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, it's just the chaos theory of where we're at
in the college football world. Right. Everything is subject to speculation.
If you wait five minutes, there's a new story and
a new angle and twist of things, right, the Michigan
job coming open, the number of coaches that shuffled up
and dealt or realizing that suddenly there were a couple
(37:56):
of big jobs in the marketplace, that you had the
leverage to get an extra paycheck, to get an extra
couple of years, to get a giant bonus signed and
tacked on, to have some level of stability. It's just
a it's good for the coaching game in that regard, right,
when you have the Penn State and a Michigan subtenly
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become open as the season goes on, or once the
season's actually been concluded, right in this particular case, when
you look at that, but for Debor and his overall
coaching record is ridiculously good, and you're being matched and
marked to a standard that's really difficult. The fact that
Saban's on TV every week does not help matters, because
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it's constantly in your face. It's one thing if he
was out on a fishing boat just hanging out with
Jimmy Johnson at this point, yeah, But instead he's there.
He's chiming in on the playoffs, on the teams, on
the particulars, on the players, whatever else that, you know,
it just lends that extra juice to any of the
boosters that may have reason to want him out right,
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the standard has been so high. We talked about it,
and Steve gave you some of the particulars when you
talk about playoff history and what they've been able to do.
That when you get there and you can make the
argument should or shouldn't have. And after the first half,
certainly saw plenty of Notre Dames stands jumping into the mix,
all of them hitting that beep beep beep backing up motion.
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As that second half went on and you saw what
de Boor and the offense was. As soon as they
there was an opening, they jumped on it and never
looked back. You know.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
And here's the crazy part, right, this is where college
football you got to get It changes daily. If Debor
loses this game, they would have wanted him out right,
I know they, oh, hey, we like Caylen Debor. If
they lost this game to Oklahoma again second time this year,
everybody would have wanted him out. Now, let's just say
they beat Indiana, They're gonna want to give him a
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contract extension. That's the everyday craziness of college football. They
win that game, So Kaylen de Bors, our guy got
the right guy. This is fantastic like that, This is
I mean college football changes every five minutes, and it
trickles down from the top to nil to transfer to
how people feel about their coaches from game to game. Man,
I mean they would have wanted am out if they
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win one more game and it's let's get more money.
Let's let we gotta what we got to increase the
buyout for Kaylin to Bor. We can't let somebody else
come and get them. We had to increase the buyouce
and we keep this guy. One more win.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Would do that if only we get the transcripts of
all of the big boosters when they were down seventeen
to nothing.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Hey wait a minute, sent you a text a little
too early. Let's wait and see how this plays out.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
What it says, unsent.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
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Greetings, Welcome inside our three, The Jason Smith Show with
my bes friend Mike Harmon. Heha one playoff game down.
It was a thriller, twists and turns. Alabama beats Oklahoma
thirty four to twenty four. They move on to the
next round of the College football Playoff. Oklahoma goes home.
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So many big shockers in this game, but we talked
about one of the big things a few minutes ago.
Sandell is the Gros Award winner best kicker in the country.
He misses a thirty six yard field goal and is
short on a fifty one yard field goal in the
last four and a half minutes, which helps Alabama clinch
the win. And we mentioned this guy a few minutes ago,
(01:12):
and I said, what does Pete feutech say college kickers
chat chat Chaw. Joining us now on the hotline is
the owner, editor, proprietor of the best website for college
football on the Internet, college Footballnews dot com. All the previews,
all the picks, all the prognostications, chat chat Chaw. What's
happened at PETEFEU Tech.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I don't you know all these guys. All I kept
thinking was like, first of all, that kick, that first
kick was way close, Like, I get it, you're supposed
to hit that, but that looked awfully good for a while.
I got the right shot. And then I guess, in
the modern age, not being able to hit a fifty
one yarder. I mean, I know they're not the NFL
guys who are bombing him from seventy and stuff, but
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it's fifty one yard. You're you're you know, you're well
paid college kicker. You should be able to get it there. Right.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I feel like, well, I think it's probably in
his head the first kick. But honestly, that first kick,
like I get that, Okay, it's not reviewable because it's
above the goalpost, but like, okay, that's kind of where
we need reviews. But I think if they called it
good nobody would have complained. They could have called that
kick either way and it would have been okay, well,
he barely got it through and it's now a one
score game. They could have gone either way on that
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and nobody would have said anything.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
They got it right, it looked like it did go
over the top. It's a weird rule, and the whole
kicking thing to begin with is kind of a bizarre,
you know, twist we've kind of accepted as the norm,
but it's kind of an unnaturally strange thing that, you know,
here's this game that comes down to the guy who
looks like he's twelve years old and you know, you know,
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kicks it and the ball goes one foot the other
way and all of a sudden everything changes. But that's
that's the game, and all right, kind of weird one.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
But they weren't.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Even if he nails that, they're not winning it. So
it's look, this is a strange one. Like I don't
know what where this Bama team has been, and I
don't know if it's an indictment on the coaching staff
or the talent or the team, or just that the
SEC is just kind of and this is an SEC
versus the SEC game. This Bama team over the last
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forty minutes hadn't been there for two months. I mean,
they they had no problems with the Tennessee team, but like,
they didn't play this well all year. I mean I
saw the Florida State game from the start. They had
to you know, they beat Georgia, but that they didn't
perform like this. That was just kind of okay, back
and forth, they pulled it off. But to do this,
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I mean, to totally adjust and dominate, and then for
Oklahoma to turtle like it did, I mean, it's mojo
completely up the building after three straight plays, the dropped pass,
the Sean landetta and then the pick six, I mean,
and then.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That was it.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They didn't have anything else. They had no answers after that.
It was the strangest twitch of a college football game
I can remember in a long, long time.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Fantastic reference going all the way back to the eighties
with the debt, uh Pete. You also talked about it
being a foot difference, you know in that field goal.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
That's about all they averaged on the ground both teams.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, It's it's kind of odd that, okay that you know, okay,
Matier was the only one running, but like it was
so strange because you could tell that John Mattier was
finally healthy. He was flinging it, he was throwing well,
and he looked confident. He was making plays. He's a
baller's baller, he's their best runner, and he looked healthy enough.
And you know, again, I guess the part of the
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point was, all right, you're up seventeen nothing, and okay,
you're up seventeen seven and you're moving the ball. Well,
there's no way that defense, which has been dominant all year,
and with all their healthy pass rushers there, we're going
to you know, not be able to hold up. And
then again I think the pick six screwed them up.
They'd screwed it their heads. That drops past where Matier
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could have run for forty yards. But I get it,
the guy was wide open. You throw it down the field,
guy's supposed to catch its getting ni own money too.
And then the weird punt. It just seemed like, all
of a sudden, like the mojo just completely shifted and
Oklahoma was utterly incapable of getting it back. It was
it was just like they forgot how to play and
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they lost it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So pete Caylen de boor wins when it looked like
it's seventeen to nothing, he would be saying go blue
in his postgame press conference. So, uh, what is Maybe
maybe bred Venables is now available, But like, what does
Michigan do now, Because clearly it looks like, hey, Caylen
de bor is gonna wind up stay at Alabama with
a win moving on in the playoff. He's got confidence
and the nil backers, I'm sure I have confidence in him.
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What do they do now?
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I never thought the Bor is going and I always
kind of thought it was an odd thought to begin
with that, Oh well, Michigan's is gonna get the Alabama coach. Like,
that's not really how this works. That's I said. I
said to the guys last week, there's no name that's
too crazy, but that one was. I I just never
saw why you would go, like, if Alabama doesn't want
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him and Michigan does, or you just think you can
get the Michigan head coach who just played his team
played in the SEC championship in the College Football playoff,
that's not how the pecking order of the world works.
But I still think they're gonna go with someone who's
relatively boring, you know, Tommy Reese or somebody that I
still kind of shocked the jet Fish wasn't more of
(06:23):
a part of this. I thought he would be kind
of an instant yoink from Washington, but that didn't happen.
So it'll be an interesting call. There are lots of
you know, interesting guys out there. It's just as you know,
how creative do they want to get with this? So
at the moment, I think they're just trying to get
their stuff together and get their house in order, and
(06:45):
then they'll try to figure out, oh, yeah, we should
probably hire a football coach at some point too, above
all the other problems they're having within the internal you know,
athletic department stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Right now, no question about we got three games tomorrow
bete the heavyweight battle Miami and Texas, A and M
A and M three point favorites, forty eight year total,
and now all eyes on Carson Beck and what Miami
has been able to do they get in and all
the speculation and A and M on the other side,
their schedules come up quite a bit in the last
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week or two.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
So how does this play?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I still go with Miami. It's see my gut inta. I.
Then again, I thought Oklahoma would roll with these, and
I was hearing very smug for about the twenty minutes there,
so more than usual. And then yeah, I but this
one is a harder one because I don't buy the sec.
I do think Miami's better, but Miami's not great on
the road this year, however, They've got so much NFL talent,
(07:43):
and it's kind of hard after you watch these just
incredibly awful bowl games so far, just horrible, just starts. O.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Pet you like the bowl game so far, you're a
big fan, I can tell.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay, last year they were great. Last year, all these
weird you know, donkey little boutique, you know, hipster underground
bowl games were actually really kind of good. This year
they're just bad. It's bad entertainment. It's bad. And then
you forget, oh yeah, the college football playoffs. This is
where you get real teams, good teams, and they're all
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trying really hard. You know, they all have their full
they opt outs happening here. These are these are the guys.
So I think this is where Miami just sort of
turns it up a few notches. And again not totally
sold to Texas A and M is all that could
remember Texas A and M they all off to Texas,
didn't play Alabama, Georgia, Old Myths or Oklahoma. I think
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they're missing someone else big too, but like they didn't
play all the good teams this year, so I'm kind
of curious to see it. But I'm not as strong
on this one as I usually am on stuff. But
I'm gonna stick with Miami call because it just seems
like the narratives like, Okay, you got in you know this,
win this all.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Right, Pete. The other games tomorrow to Lane and ole Miss. Look,
ole Miss is playing on emotion, James Madison and Oregon. Anyway,
we don't see Oregon and ole Miss moving on in
either of these games.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Yeah, there's a huge way we can see this. They
not see this happening because no one's gonna watch it.
Like literally, no one's going to see this happening. So
like like everyone's gonna watch their fantasy teams or you
know they're gonna see They're gonna sit there and watch
the Eagles Commanders and they're definitely gonna watch Packers Bears,
(09:35):
and you know, maybe it's you know, if multiview works,
you can you work it out where you can get
to both games. But I don't know anyone who's gonna
willingly watch these two games. I mean, you'll tune in
just to see if it's interesting. I kind of think
I could see either way happening with the old Miss
killing it, where Ole Miss just gets way tight and
they're just like, oh, we're gonna prove everything and they
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just play bad and they start the ball over. Or
I could see him being like, oh, screw you, Lan Kiff,
and then come out and hang sixty four on the board.
So I'm going to go with the ladder a little bit.
I think, I actually do think Tulane's gonna hang around
for a while and then Ole Miss will finally pull
away and cover and do all that fun stuff later.
But I think I think that might be a little
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bit of a battle. I will be floored if Oregon
doesn't come out and just put it to just be
insulted by this game thing. This is a take from
all indications there. It's been quite kind of quiet that
they're still a little upset over the way they played
and got rocked in that Rose Bowl last year when
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they were the number one overall seed and you know,
the Ohio State came in and just took it to them.
That's that's an embarrassing thing. That's kind of a motivating factor.
And I don't I think they're gonna see one of
those tone setting type of things happen where it might
not just be explosive and but it'll be methodical and
I do bad balance, too sharp, too good, and James
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Madison will give it the college try for a little while.
Maybe they'll score. But if you like point totals, I
would not be stunned if Oregon just handled it all
by itself.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Forty six is the total minus twenty and a half
Oregon Duftay Moore two thirty three and a half passing yards.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Maybe they're but but I don't know if they're gonna
throw that much. If it's I think it'll be more
balanced and they're not gonna sit him too. So I'm
actually not a fan of that as much because they're
just gonna keep running in short, midrange games. And you know, look,
James Madison's got a good defense. You know, their run
defense statistically is awesome. They have guys they have. They
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kind of help Louisville in check from not doing much anything.
But this Oregon thing is just gonna be a different
animal at this point.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
All right, Pete. Lastly, we'll see Alabama again on New
Year's Day when they take on Indiana. Indiana as a
six and a half point favorite. Right now, I know
it's early. We just watched Alabama just watching play the
best forty minutes the last couple of months. Does Alabama
have a shot in this game?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Well, according to the first half of the Oklahoma versus
Indiana preview, I wrote this wrap. Yeah, I said, yeah,
of course, you know, it's at the end of the
I'm still one of those people that like, I know,
I know, you're not supposed to say this, and aha,
it's still Indiana. There's part of me it's still is
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not quite there. I mean, just it's it's a great story.
They're great cooks, but Alabama's got more talent, you know,
They've just they've got the guys. That's not the problem
with this team. It just they haven't played up to it.
Of course, Indiana is going to be great, but look
at tonight it almost seemed like once they got down
ty Simpson got good because he's like, Okay, well we're
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supposed to get boat raced again, we just did that
against Georgia, and now we're getting killed here. And then
he kind of found it a little bit. The team
sort of played up to its attitude and they're the
under They're gonna be the underdog at this They're gonna
we hear about Alabama and the Heisman winner and all that.
I'm gonna pick Indiana, but it's I'm this is not
a guarantee. I was gonna easily pick Indiana over Oklahoma.
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I'm not so sure because that Bama team that showed
up over the second forty minutes of this game, or
the flat Foy miss of this game, it ends up
in Pasadena. Yeah, they're not gonna run it at all.
So it's kind of an easy team to defend if
you just got to get the ty Simpson. But I
wouldn't put it pass them. I'll pick Indiana right now,
but I'm not the thousand percent sold on it.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Pete, you're thinking about accidentally publishing that Oklahoma Indiana.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
We gould Actually, you know what, it'll probably get more
break through. It'll wun the sdo and to get a
lot more hits than whatever it is. I'm gonna come
up with the next hour and a half.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Or so college football insider previews. Wrong game, that'll be
the headlined. Barstool will pick it up, everybody will pick
it up. It'll be awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Exactly sooner as Iman or something like that.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Right, he's on Twitter at Pete feu Tech. That is
at Pete feu Tech again college footballnews dot com. You're
one stop shopping for everything college football. All the picks,
all the previews, all the analysis you could want, all
done by the man you just heard, Pete feuw Tech. Pete,
Happy holidays, man, we'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You you guys, go on see Pete.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
There goes Pete feud Tech. Well, I'll do my Oklahoma
Indiana preas.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
No, but how great was it?
Speaker 5 (14:31):
He's like, yeah, I started right. I mean it was
seventeen nothing, Alabama did nothing.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
I walked in, I had Ian and Brianna were in
the back, and I'm like, man, I was really hoping
for a game.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
This stinks.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
They're about to get boat raced.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
And then just like that, we we had all of
the chaos that we've been chronicling over these last two
hours where it's like tale of two halves, football karma,
Christmas miracle, whatever you want to call it. It was
just insane and Oklahoma in front of their hole crowd.
I mean, I loved all the crowd shots. It's like
everybody just mouths a gape, like you're looking at people
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at a horror.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
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Smith Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios.
Coming up next, We'll have more on this game, but
we have not one, but two knockouts to tell you about.
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two big knockouts tonight in the world of sports. One
we'll get to in a few minutes. As Oklahoma looked
like they were throwing the first knockout punch against Alabama. However,
a bad misplay on a punt opens the door for
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the Alabama comeback. They score twenty seven unanswered and they
beat the Sooners thirty four to twenty four. They move
on New Year's Day, they'll take on Indiana Gain. We'll
have more on this coming up in a couple of minutes,
but another big knockout just for a couple minutes, just
because Mike this always I'm stunned about this every single
time that he fights.
Speaker 6 (17:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul tonight in the sixth round. Uh.
It was a longer fight than a lot of people thought, Like,
I didn't see it. We're watching the college football game.
But you know, look, Netflix has a you know, a
big hit on their hands. Jake Paul tries to fight.
According to reports that that Jake Paul just tried to
clutch his way through, realizing realizing very early that hey,
(17:36):
oh boy, this guy's a lot different than some of
the other guys. I thought, hey go, it's like an
out a second. And Anthony Joshua knocks him out in
the sixth round. He calls out Tyson Fury. Uh following
the the end of the fight, and uh, you see
Jake Paul going down to defeat. And this is how
it sounded just a few moments ago on Netflix. And
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even if he does.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That shot much, he's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Here and it almost there's left.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hey no, and he have taken.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
A little bit longer than everyone.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Expected, but a j gets a ko it round just six.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Yes, it was just like Ali Frasier. Uh. You know
the thing, the thing that I get, Mike, and I
can't believe this is that I can't get over the
audience that is out there for Jake Paul fights. Like
I've told from the beginning, I can't believe he gets
the attention that he does. The guy's a social media influencer,
decided I could be a boxer, and then he trained
a little bit. Look, and I give him credit for
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training and staying in the ring against these guys, But
like all of us, how is there a big audience
to watch him in curiosity against boxers against fighters and
Anthony Joshua clearly the best fighter he has fought at
this point in his career. Joshua doesn't make quick work
of him, and you wonder how much maybe Anthony Joshua
could have won this fight a lot earlier. But people
are trying to get their money's worth. You put this
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on Netflix, you want a few rounds again. Part of
the reason why I look at this and I go, man,
I just can't understand the the the viewership and the
support and the interest in Jake Paul's box, and I
have absolutely zero interest in it. And I can't understand
people that go crazy over these fights. I just can't.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, we added on in the producer's studio, and I
would check in from time to time and obviously on
social media while we're watching the college football playoff game,
a little bit of NBA action, you know, he's cycling
in and checking out the reviews of it. A lot
of it was Joshua. He looks disinterested and he's just
standing around. Man, he's washed. He's terrible, you know, kind
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of like Alabama in the first half. Gosh so and
then all of a sudden it's like, all right, time
to go to work. You realize the rumored purse of
this is he's one hundred and eighty four million dollars.
I guess that's what was floating about here from The
Independent and from other publications, that that they are each
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walking away with at least eighty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I mean, I don't know. If you said to me,
I'll give you free tickets and a flight back and
forth to Miami, I'll give you spending money, and I'll
give you a hotel and you can spend the whole week,
and I would go, Yeah, do I really want to
go do that? I mean, really that's what I would like.
Do I really want to go do that? I can't
fathom the popularity that this guy has. I mean, I
(20:34):
don't know if it's inflated popularity. I don't know, if
it's bots. I don't know. Maybe he did. People just
really like and there's more people that have an appetite
for this than I think. But I just have a
hard time believing that he's this popular and the audiences
for his fights are big and people still care about
him fighting going on when these are just exhibitions and
it's a and I get that it's kind of a
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it's somewhat of a social experiment where here's a guy
who's a YouTube inflow, I'm going to train myself to
be a boxer. All that does is make boxers look bad,
because if a dude can show up and just say hey,
I'm on YouTube and now I can box. It's one
thing to say, hey, I'm young and I can you know,
I'm seventeen, but I can make the cut for the
US Open in golf. Some things I get, okay a
little embarrassing, but I understand, but man to show up
(21:17):
and say, yeah, I could go be a boxer and
I could do it, and I could do it somewhat successfully.
I really it just it just it passes understanding for me.
It's it's just a whole it's a mystery for me,
this whole thing with Jake Paul.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, but it's the bridge sports entertainment chaos in the
social media world that we live in. Right, there's a
lot of folks that make bank on TikTok, twitch and
or whatever else that I might accidentally see a second
of and then one of my daughters will tell me, yeah,
that guy reportedly made twenty million dollars last year. You know,
(21:49):
it's like, okay, it's not my cup of tea, but
you know, not everything's made for you know, a little
fifty plus year old Mikey Harmon, Right, And this is
one of them, all Right, I enjoy a good boxing bout,
and we've had plenty of that. The legends fight well
beyond their prime. And guess what they get an audience,
whether it's that they are hoping to see glimpses, Right,
(22:11):
it's Tiger Woods showing up at a golf event. You're
hoping to see shades of what once was great, recognizing
that it's probably not gonna be that or your hate
watching and you want to see him get his ass kicked, which, well,
I want to see him. So he loses here clutching
and grabbing and wheezing and certainly not in the cardio
shape that you need to be. And once you get
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to the fifth or sixth round that was apparent.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, well, I mean, but like I said, I always
want I wanted to see him lose because I I
can't believe it was a story and there I want
to see the guy lose that you it's it's kind
of making a mockery of boxing. And I just wasn't
just not a fan, but I look, I respect his popularity.
I just don't get it. But see, I just don't
like to.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Me and I don't think it makes a mockery of it.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Like if if that's the case, then it's all the
people that are voting with their eyes and dollars that
are making the mockery of it, not him. Right, you
get gets himself into reasonable shape, and you have all
degrees of boxing events, right, it's like, you know, my
love of wrestling, the indie cards if you can get
one in your local town. You got people that are
busting their ass trying to break through. Boxing is the
(23:18):
same way, right, It's all a matter of levels. And
he came in the side door. It's no different than
our business.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Right.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
You know, you play as at.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
A high level college, pro pro sports, you might get
a second bite, third bite of the apple. Is what
we've been talking about with the NFL draft, Not that
you didn't do the work, right, I mean it's all eventually,
you gotta do the work, but you get to you know,
pass go early on. Right, it's the NFL Draft, Like,
all right, you got that first round draft game grade,
(23:47):
you're probably gonna get to a second or third bite
before you're out of the out of the game. Right,
someone's gonna think they're gonna fix you here. You got
a big audience social media, and you know they do
it the background check Veracity figure out what the percentage
of bots is, fraudulents, whatever. But if there's advertisers that's
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behind it, it's no less fraudulent than anything else.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah no, But but you hit on what what gets
me again? Why I don't understand the popularity is that
we get in sports. That's the one thing that that
that we have that I think people sometimes don't understand
is that we have the highest level of sport anywhere
in the world except for soccer, right the NFL, Major
League Baseball, the NBA, the NHL. It's the highest level
(24:35):
of sport that we get. Why are minor league sports
not popular? Because, well, it's not the highest level. It's
not the star it's it's not it's not the best
football that you can see. It's not the best basketball
that you can see. It's not the best baseball you
can see. Right, So so there, stuff like spring leagues
and in football have a tough time breaking through. Minor
(24:56):
league baseball is very regional to where you are. This
is boxing, and it's not nearly at the highest level.
This is just a dude, right. This is not somebody
who's turned himself into a great boxer and he's fighting
and he's gonna win the WBC title, you know, or
win the heavyweight titles. This is a lower level of
boxing that somehow people have decided yes, I want to
(25:17):
see it, right, I mean I really And that's what
I scratch my head and I go, I don't get
why at a lower level of a sport with a
guy that nobody knew who he is, who's a social
media guy. In fights that I mean, you know, how
much are they holding each other up for a few rounds?
How much did Anthony Joshua hold him up for five rounds? Right? Again,
I didn't see the fight. I'm just saying, well, Anthony Joshua,
(25:38):
if it was this big a deal and Jake Paul
looked a loss, probably could have ended it earlier. But
again I didn't see it, so I'm not gonna pretend
I did. But overall, I don't get the popularity is
something that when we're used to the best of the best,
that we say, yeah, I'm okay for this, which is
not nearly close to what the best is.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Yeah, I mean to put it in perspective, right, Tyson Fury,
he's calling him out. He hasn't boxed since last December.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
So, like when we talk about names and whatever else,
I mean, think about all those the end of the
run for Floyd Mayweather, he did a lot of dancing
in the ring and didn't do a whole hell of
a lot of boxing, but he was called a brilliant tactician.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
That's is that guy. He's a brilliant tactician. Oh that
means okay, brilliant technics.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
But you put the name there and everybody said, take
my money.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
Same thing here, right, you had a full arena and
they add by and if nothing else, he gave everybody
a Chappelle special and uh an opportunity to maybe get
some good jokes.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Exit out bout a Fresca, exit swollen down the Jason
Smith Show with my best friend Mike Rmedy. I just
don't get as popular, and I don't know what's I
know he's gonna come up next because I know people
are gonna say, oh, look at Jake Paul. He was
able to fight Anthony Joshua for so long, you know,
five rounds into the sixth round. Now let's see what
he can do against somebody. And there's gonna be another fight.
(26:58):
Like I was hoping this is gonna but it says
to me, oh no, look he's gonna fight somebody else. Now, okay, great, great,
we're gonna.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
I want to see him train and go hang with
his brother in the WWE.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
He can be half the athlete his brother is, then
pretty damn good tearing team, because they're both pretty good
on the mic, whether you agree or like them at all.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
WWE is different. And if this is a whole thing
for Jake Paul to eventually go to the WWE, I
get it. Man, he'd be a great heel in the WWE.
My goodness, man, he'd go in there and he would
be insanely popular. And that I understand, because you know,
WWE is not quite the same as boxing.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
I understand that this is supposed to be an exhibit.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
This was an exhibition towel, so.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
You knew we'd get to do convention.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Rock should have thrown the towel, man, Apollo would have lived.
Sorry spoiler, But like that I get. But like, if
he's doing that to get to the ww but I
can't believe the WWE hasn't called him already.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
But oh, he ain't gonna make that kind of money
in the WWE. He gonna do this until he can't walk, man,
are you kidding me? Until he can't physically stand there
and hug a guy or throw an occasional punch. If
that the reports you're true, I mean one hundred and
eighty four million dollars that's split between two guys and
whoever they you know, slap off a couple of bucks.
(28:18):
Two out of the corner. Man, Come on, Don King's
not taking all that money. No that Netflix stock man. Hey,
gotta get.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
It now all you can get it, crazy man. We
got more coming up in ninety seconds. But first time
to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
And someone who's been called the Ivan Drago of Fox
Sports Radio in the eighties, he couldn't pass the steroid
test either. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
Jason, I will break you. I'm boxing tonight anyway. Fight
at Miami. Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the
sixth round and Unklahoma was knocked down at home. The
opener of the college football Playoff went to Alabama in
a comeback thirty four to twenty four. So Alabama, in
its college football playoff history, has a record of ten
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and five. Oklahoma is zero to five all time. It
has never won a playoff game. And the Alabama offense
had twelve drives and only twelve first downs tonight and
scored thirty four points and won the game. Bama was
down seventeen to nothing early second quarter and had no
first downs at that time. Alabama goes to the Rose
(29:23):
Bowl quarterfinal against number one Indiana. The other three first
round games are on Saturday. By the way, the two
playoff games that are given to TNT for tomorrow are
two Lane at Old Miss, Mississippi beat two Lane forty
five to ten during the season, and then James Madison
at Oregon, also opposite an NFL game on Fox TV.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
How excited is TNT to have those games? Team? How
excited today to have those games?
Speaker 7 (29:48):
Same as last year, they get about half the ratings
of the quote. Real first round games NFL on Fox
TV has Philadelphia at Washington and then Green Bay at Chicago. Eagles,
by the way, can clinch the division title with a
win on Saturday. No teams won the NFC East in
back to back years since Philly over twenty years ago.
Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson will remain on IR he's
(30:09):
out for the season. Rams wide out Devonte Adams is
likely out next week as well with his bad amstring.
Seattle linebacker Derek Hall was suspended one game f on
sportsmanlike conduct. He will appeal. Rams wide receiver Pukinakua fined
twenty five thousand dollars for criticizing the rest wide receiver
of the Bengals. T Higgins returned to full practice after
a concussion. Raiders quarterback Gino Smith will start Sunday after
(30:32):
shoulder and back injuries. In the NBA's late game at Minnesota,
the home team in the final minute had an eight
zero run to beat Oklahoma City won twelve one oh
seven despite thirty five points from Shay Giljess Alexander. The
Thunder had a record of twenty five and two coming
in wins for Boston and Chicago. Spurs won their fifth
(30:52):
in a row one twenty six ninety eight at Atlanta
and victor wmbin Yama in only twenty one minutes off
the bench had twenty six points it's twelve rebounds. Philadelphia
won at New York won sixteen one ozho seven thirty
points for Tyrese Maxi. That ends the next six game
winning streak. In college hoops number ten, BYU pulled away
to beat Abilene Christian eighty five sixty seven. Villanova in
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overtime defeated Wisconsin seventy six sixty six. In women's hoops,
number seven, Maryland over winless Central Connecticut ninety eight to thirty. Today,
the NHL had five games and the late contest with
a minute ago has Dallas up eight three at Anaheim,
Colorado was a three to two winner at home versus Winnipeg,
Florida at home won and shootout against Carolina four to three.
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The Angels agreed to a settlement with the family of
their late pitcher Tyler Skaggs, after thirty one days in court.
Nine Major League teams will pay a luxury tax, including
the Dodgers paying a record one hundred and sixty nine
million dollars. The Mets will be paying over ninety million dollars,
and they missed the playoffs. The tax total from the
nine teams is over four hundred million dollars. It's due
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to be paid in about a month. The Rays traded
pitcher Shane Bazz to Baltimore and traded infielder Brandon Lau
to Pittsburgh, and the Phillies traded.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
With we're floading up for the skin of the Schemes era.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
We got to get some guys here the Phillies that
would make quite a package deal. The Phillies traded reliever
Matt Strom to the Kansas City Royals back to you.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Thank you, Steve Carbon Yeah, no, I get it, yes, yes,
and I you know, and I just kept thinking today,
you know, seeing the seeing, you know, all that stuff
going on next in Major League Baseball and what's next
to cars? I'm like, what what what are the Mets
gonna do? Who's the outfield they're gonna get? Are they
gonna spend for Bellingers? Are gonna be a big trade?
And I just keep going back to thinking, you know,
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and I saw today someone wrote the Red's entire payroll
is was like one hundred and nineteen million dollars and
like like two years of Juan Soto is more than
than their entire payroll. And I'm saying to myself, how
did we get a guy? How did we just add
a guy to the team that finished third in MVP
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voting and we were worse than a year ago and
didn't even make the playoffs. Like I was, all of
a sudden, I was depressed again.
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Just think of all those runs he's gonna score in
this coming year when he piles up the walks and
has and has who betting behind him?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Exactly? The off season is not over yet, Steve we
have some time to go. Just wait, do we have.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
The tape of after the Mets lost their closer? And
that's way I trust the front office. This is not done.
We're going to later that same day.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It's there's a whole Steve. There's lots of guys out there, Steve, Okay,
he's lots of guys.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
He has written ninety seven messages to John Paul Morosi
and you get this dis.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Please make sure Hey go get this guy. Hey, go
get this guy. Wait what about this guy?
Speaker 7 (33:49):
Wait a minute, wait, there's lots of guys out there
and they're all playing at Indianapolis or International League or
whatever that is.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Thank you, Steve, and I say thank you and loose clothes. Uh.
Coming up next, we get back into the biggest story
of the night. Alabama beats Oklahoma and because it's a
positivity Friday and the holidays, an appreciation moment for somebody
long overdue. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox
Sports Radio, Jason I will break You.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
I wanna get a left fielder for Chrisms. Only a
left fielder and a starting pitcher will do. We got
rid of Diaz and Pete Alonzo. I want a left fielder,
but I don't want to pay two hundred million for
Cody Bellinger. I wanta left field. Fox Sports Radio The
(34:55):
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Speaker 5 (34:58):
I didn't think you'd be crashing out tonight. The game of.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
The night goes to Alabama Oklahoma a seventeen to nothing
lead in the second quarter of this game, and Kylen
de Bor had his bags packed from Michigan possibly but
a biffed pun attempt a pick six, a tie game
at halftime, and Alabama throws the hammer down in the
(35:25):
second half. Look, we talked to Pete Futack earlier this hour.
He says, this Alabama team hasn't been around for two months,
and here they are tonight, a big effort against Oklahoma
and part of a positivity Friday here. You know, we've
talked about this guy a little bit in the news,
mainly the last two weeks as well. If Alabama loses
in the playoff, Kaylen de Bor is gonna be the
(35:46):
next head coach at University of Michigan. And the thing is,
if he lost tonight, you think that wasn't gonna happen.
You think that that the nil backers at Alabama wouldn't say, Hey,
this hasn't worked, let's get him out. We need somebody else.
All of a sudden, Michigan say okay, we'll take him.
But an appreciation moment for a guy that has had
(36:06):
an incredibly rough time at Alabama, he goes in his
first year, doesn't go exactly how you'd expect, or on
the outside looking into the playoff this year, they kind
of squeak in. Everybody hated the beginning of the season,
loved Kaylen de boor in the middle of the season,
hated him at the end of the season, couldn't wait
to get him out. But coming through the big win
(36:27):
and now not only is he not going to Michigan,
he's probably won a lot of people to his side.
And I got news for you, Alabama, Indiana is gonna
be a rock fight. Like this is not gonna be said, well, yeah,
Alabama's lost three games. Let's see what Indiana looks like
as the big overwhelming favorite after having a month with
a Heisman Trophy winner. Let's see what Indiana is made of.
(36:51):
But all sorts of congratulatory and appreciation wont for Kaylin
de Boor, who's got to be feeling really good at
this point because he went from Hey, I'm in an
impossible situation to take over for Nick. Say, but now
he took the money, took the job. You can't say,
I can't say, oh, you know you like you got
dragged to it. You couldn't do it, but still, you know,
you want to be able a little bit of a
(37:11):
honeymoon period, a little bit of a let's let this
guy get, get his players in and let him cook.
There was none of that. They wanted him out last
year when he couldn't beat teams that were good. They
wanted him out. Early this year he won people over
a little bit, then they wanted him out again. And
now he's there with a big playoff win over Oklahoma
and they're playing on New Year's Day, and this has
(37:32):
got to be incredibly gratifying and satisfying for Kaylen de Bor.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, it's just the chaos theory of where we're at
in the college football world. Right. Everything is subject to speculation.
If you wait five minutes, there's a new story and
a new angle and twist of things, right, the Michigan
job coming open, the number of coaches that shuffled up
and dealt or realizing that suddenly there were a couple
(37:56):
of big jobs in the marketplace, that you had the
leverage to get an extra paycheck, to get an extra
couple of years, to get a giant bonus signed and
tacked on, to have some level of stability. It's just
a it's good for the coaching game in that regard, right,
when you have the Penn State and a Michigan subtenly
(38:18):
become open as the season goes on, or once the
season's actually been concluded, right in this particular case, when
you look at that, but for Debor and his overall
coaching record is ridiculously good, and you're being matched and
marked to a standard that's really difficult. The fact that
Saban's on TV every week does not help matters, because
(38:39):
it's constantly in your face. It's one thing if he
was out on a fishing boat just hanging out with
Jimmy Johnson at this point, yeah, But instead he's there.
He's chiming in on the playoffs, on the teams, on
the particulars, on the players, whatever else that, you know,
it just lends that extra juice to any of the
boosters that may have reason to want him out right,
(39:02):
the standard has been so high. We talked about it,
and Steve gave you some of the particulars when you
talk about playoff history and what they've been able to do.
That when you get there and you can make the
argument should or shouldn't have. And after the first half,
certainly saw plenty of Notre Dames stands jumping into the mix,
all of them hitting that beep beep beep backing up motion.
(39:27):
As that second half went on and you saw what
de Boor and the offense was. As soon as they
there was an opening, they jumped on it and never
looked back. You know.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
And here's the crazy part, right, this is where college
football you got to get It changes daily. If Debor
loses this game, they would have wanted him out right,
I know they, oh, hey, we like Caylen Debor. If
they lost this game to Oklahoma again second time this year,
everybody would have wanted him out. Now, let's just say
they beat Indiana, They're gonna want to give him a
(39:58):
contract extension. That's the everyday craziness of college football. They
win that game, So Kaylen de Bors, our guy got
the right guy. This is fantastic like that, This is
I mean college football changes every five minutes, and it
trickles down from the top to nil to transfer to
how people feel about their coaches from game to game. Man,
I mean they would have wanted am out if they
(40:19):
win one more game and it's let's get more money.
Let's let we gotta what we got to increase the
buyout for Kaylin to Bor. We can't let somebody else
come and get them. We had to increase the buyouce
and we keep this guy. One more win.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Would do that if only we get the transcripts of
all of the big boosters when they were down seventeen
to nothing.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Hey wait a minute, sent you a text a little
too early. Let's wait and see how this plays out.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
What it says, unsent.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
We have more on this game, plus we pick all
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