December 23, 2025 • 40 mins
Mike Harmon and Jared Smith (in for Jason Smith) open the show reacting live to the Monday Night Football game between the 49ers and Colts. NFL insider Jason La Canfora joins the show to weigh in with his own thoughts and talk about the rest of what turned out to be a wild Week 16 slate of games.
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
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Jared's Weekends on Saturday's part of countdown to Kickoff. Lots
going on, who says you can't go home again? Traditions
being shut at, all of those things and so much more.
Welcome in to another week of The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen, Jared, Welcome to the chaos. I guess
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the song says it all. And Philip Rivers and Brock
Purty certainly treating us to some disaster.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
On Monday night. I'm loving it. Merry Christmas to everyone
out there. Obviously I'll be talking to you again on Saturday,
but I'm enjoying, you know, getting a chance to dive
into this, this extravaganza for the night. We're honestly blessed
because what we're watching here tonight, Mike, this is a
masterclass in quarterbacking, and it really shows me that quarterbacking,
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to me, is more mental than physical rivers can do. This,
I mean, I mean, this is this is truly remarkable
what he's done now, back to back weeks against arguably
two of the best teams in the league.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, the beauty of the San Francisco forty nine ers
is they've amassed the record they have with decidedly as
much pass rush as you and me and Ian and
Elijah and ty Shirt and Steve Disager and Brianna and
bursh in the back. If all seven of us come
flying at at people, actually that's eight of us. Eight
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is enough. That's kind of what we're getting. Because Phillip's
getting rid of the ball quickly, but he hasn't faced
a whole lot of pressure he did on the air
and throw and the one that is going to be highlighted.
It's like, if you just had a little more arm strength,
the Tyler Warren would be. I know, fantasy owners, I
have him too. We're all salty that you didn't get
that touchdown and instead that they had to settle for
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a field goal. It was good to see the fire
of Rivers because you know, he's not cursing at his guys.
He may be yelling at him, but he's not cursing
when they had to take the time out off the
false start and all of that. But fourteen of twenty one,
one seventy five and two. If you bet the over
on Rivers in his passing yards, Jared, you already cashed
before the halftime gun sounded.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
And I bet the under on his longest pass. So
that was my angle in this game, Mike was you're
just and you saw it like the few times that
he tried to go deep, like it's just it's like
a duck.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, but it's a question of what is deep, right, Yeah,
because last week he was two of eight on anything
over ten yards and it looked like a press you know,
like he was shot putting a football.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It still kind of looks like that, frankly, but intermediate stuff.
But yeah, No, the intermediate stuff, it's all about what
windows you hit. It's the deep stuff that I just
don't think he has the arm strength to push. No.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I mean, we've certainly seen success through the years, and
we can always go back in the annals of history
with Philip towards the end to where it becomes about
the cerebrum and it becomes about the ability to read
things pre snap and call out the defensive pressures and
coverages before they come. And that's what he's been able
to do thus far. I think they look terrible in
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these what are they called Indiana Knights uniforms. I think I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Watching it like it's like an XFL uniform.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I would have given him the classic traditional unis tonight,
but they probably had this plan for weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I mean, if nothing else, go out in elf suits.
I mean, you might as well just go all the
way to Luna, see if you will. But Brock Purdy
thirteen to seven. He won sixty five and three in
the first half. George Kittle had one almost a second
five for seventy eight and a touchdown. And then we
had Pinero to close out the half almost hit a
sixty four yarder goes off the crossbar. I mean, it
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just absolute chaos. The over under on this game was
forty six and a half. We had forty one at
the break.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, and really it's the Colts defense. If they lose
this game, it's not Rivers's fault, it's the Colts defense
just getting absolutely shredded.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
The Niners are doing whatever they want.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
They've got a sixty three percent success right on passing plays.
That's insane for you know, through two quarters plus and
they come out here, quick play action and another deep
shot over the middle. Perty has plenty of time to throw,
and he's got weapons for days. I'll be honest, this
is a very dangerous Niners team. I don't know what
their ceiling really is, because you're right, they haven't. You know,
they've kind of feasted on some bad teams over the
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last few weeks. But if they get the one seed
and they're very tenured, like I know they they're not
going to fold in the moment. It's all about how
healthy they are defensively, can they generate a pass rush.
But this offense right now is really starting to find
a nice dride with Purdy here in the second half
of the year.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, and even if you don't have Ricky piersal tonight,
we'll see how quickly he can get back on the field.
Juwan Jennings to this point has given them nothing except
for Cardio. So we're watching this as it unfolds born
and more and DeMarcus Robinson with the touchdown reception, and
obviously McCaffrey the walking mismatch. You get him out against linebackers,
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they don't stand a chance, and we've seen that happen
a couple of times. But to the larger point, I mean,
it's where we're at in the NFL at the end
of week sixteen, of trying to decide for what's good
what's not right from all the teams, even at the
top of the standings, there's still a lot of shrugging
and a yeah. But to pretty much everybody, the old
Bill Parcells, a lot of you are what your record says,
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seems to be tested on a weekly basis in terms
of logic and the eye test.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
I called it a greasy season today.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I do a weekly pod on Sunday nights in the
Monday mornings and I do a recap of all the games,
and I go through all the games and kind of
upgrade and downgrade and kind of give you my top
teams every week.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
And when I was going.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Through it this week, and it's like everyone is so
close together and I really can't tell who the third
or fourth best team is.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I think I know who the top two teams are.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I think LA and Seattle deserve to be number one
and two in the power ratings right now, and I
think Buffalo maybe is the best team in the AFC
in terms of power rating. I know they don't have
the best record in the AFC, but in terms of
like what the expectation is, I think they're the best
team in the AFC. But there is not a big
gap between them and everyone else in the AFC, and
same thing in the NFC. Like I think you can
put LA and Seattle in like one tier ahead, but
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I think San Francisco could challenge both of them and
your Bears. I mean, they just seem to know how
to win close games. I think it's because of their
coach and the Eagles. They're kind of a mess right now.
I don't know if I trust them in a big spot,
but they're the defending champ, so you've got.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
To give them respect. It's really a logjam. I like greasy.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I think greasy is the right word, because every week
one of these teams can come to slip through the
cracks and overachieve or underachieve, and it's like, we have
to change our whole perspective on what we're seeing.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, it's fortunate for me you ended with Philadelphia because
we start talking about greased up polls and all that stuff. Chance,
I didn't do that, but you know, you lay it
up and I had to dunk it. And for the Eagles,
what we've seen the last couple of weeks is more
of a reliance on Saquon Barkley and then all of
a sudden there was the untapped resource to close out
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the game when Barkley needed a quick blow. Oh wait,
Tank Bigsby. That's right. They traded for that guy that
we loved so much for a while in Jacksonville. So
they do have the one two punch and got the
receivers involved early. Granted it's the commanders. I celebrate the
fact that Josh Johnson got himself back up and in
front of the national audience once again. But it's for
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the Eagles there. They're just curious right again, health and
what you have coming down the stretch. Do they get
Lane Johnson back on that offensive line before it's over
or not? That will play a long way to it.
The Bears are a much bigger topic for the show
as we navigate four hours of great sports radio here
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on a Monday night with you at Swollen Dome, at
Jared Smith Betts forty nine ers back in the end
zone to your point, like a knife through hot, knife
through butter, I think is the old term. Has Brock Purty.
Thurs is fourth of the night. This time Juwan Jennings
gets into the action. There you go, Fantasy owners. You
were waiting on it, you were gripping, and you were
sending evil tweets to him and his family. Leave Malone
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to catches twenty four yards and a score. Now as
the forty nine ers complete that drive taking out the
first four minutes of this third quarter, great throw from him,
the Jennings he's had all right to pass too. And
that's where we've watched this Colts d We talk about
the missing Sauce Gardner and other elements, even with DeForest
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Buckner back man. That's just one of eleven we've watched
the Colts defense struggle down the stretch. Jonathan Taylor has
been more a bystander and then a full on participant
these last couple of weeks as well, because well, the
defense can't hold up, and now he's got to stick,
stick around and chip a little bit to give Philip
opportunity to stand tall in the pocket. Only seven carries
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twenty four yards to this point.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, I would imagine that the Niners are going to
be very soft in the rest of this game. You
might actually get some nice junk yardage from from Taylor
if Rivers does, you know, check into some light box runs.
There's really no denying San Francisco's candidacy right now. I mean,
they've got a chance to prove it the next two weeks.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They really do well, Dude, If they finished with two
wins against Chicago and Seattle, it's hard for that. It's
hard for us not to say they're the best team
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Well, and that's the beauty of it. Right as you
run through and winners of five of their last six.
You mentioned a bunch of the participants. But let's go
through it. The only loss coming to the Rams forty
two to twenty six. In that one, they win a
big battle against the Giants to start it all. Arizona Carolina,
who's been much better than anybody could have anticipated. Cleveland
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that fights at times, some near misses along the way, Tennessee,
that's playing a little better football down the stretch. But
to that point, right, you beat who's on the schedule
in front of you. End for brock Perty, it's it's
really the referendum because we we go back to when
Mac Jones was under center and people started going, well, well,
I mean I had to argue with my guy, the
(10:26):
other mister Smith, Jason Smith, I Jason, wherever you are at?
How about a fresca if you want to harass him
on vacation.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And there's no way he actually listens on vacation.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh no, well you want to see how many times
I disparage him.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So have a great have a great night, but turn
it off and do something.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Do something else. Now he's probably playing a board game
or or singing what what.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Board game would Jason be playing? Well he did that,
I mean a stratigo guy.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well you know what, he's a big crossword puzzle guy.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh okay, well that's that's he made me a question
in a corner with one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
With a timer on him.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I don't corner.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I don't know. He's h Well, he doesn't have to
deal with me for twenty hours a week for the
next two weeks, so I mean he's taken some taking
that reprieve right and maybe get some movie watching in
and no doubt eating on and snacking on a wheel
of cheese. But yes, I had plenty of folks going, well,
he's not in tonight, so make sure you call him
about the Jaguars and like he's not answering his phone.
(11:25):
If we call it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Like no Jackuars, fascinating discussion.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
There's no question about it. Part of the large Jess
Here on a Monday night Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with Me, Mike Garma, Jared Smith in Jay in
the other Smith's stead. That's going to be annoying for
the next four hours. Jason Jared, Jason, Jared. This guy.
That guy can't even do the Gruden. But yeah, Chicago
and Seattle decided steps up in class. But back to
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the original point, was you know the discussion of Mac
Jones versus Rock Party and tonight while we can again
you hang it with the great assault, the level of
competition and where you are. There's still NFL games, there's
still guys getting paid and trying to take his face off.
And he's performed admirably the last few weeks and certainly tonight,
he's doing whatever he wants. He's on the move, he's
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throwing to perfect spots, perfect windows back across the middle.
That last pass and Juwan Jennings was fantastic. So for Brock,
Purty also a chance in the national spotlight to perhaps
curtail some of the chatter of he's just a guy. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, I'll be honest, there's not much of a debate
to me on who the better quarterback is for the Niners.
And listen, I love Mac Jones. I think Shanahan loves
Mac Jones. He was gonna draft him.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I think that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
One year and I did a lot of research on well,
what like what differentiates these two guys.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
There's two things.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
One, the scramble rates significantly higher, like Brock can make
so many more plays on the move that Mac can,
and I know that doesn't happen often maybe it's only
a handful of plays per game, but when the scramble
rate goes from like one percent to I think Brocks
around five, it's five more plays per game. You know,
he's making five more splash plays out of the pocket
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where he's able to scramble on the move and do
something than Mac is every game, and that matters, and
just the overall I think accuracy and success rate. I
just think Brock is just a little bit more athletic,
a little bit more in rhythm and flow. And it
might not manifest in like the box score every week,
but I think it over time, I think it adds up.
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Brock is that listen, and no knock on Mac. He's
done an unbelievable job this year, considering the circumstances. He
hung in there, got a huge win against the Rams,
and that's one of the reason the Niners are in
this spot right now. But make no mistake, Brock is
Brocks the guy for this offense, and he's being paid
as such.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And then they have the luxury of the fact that
Mac Jones is under contract for another year.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So whether that becomes a big trade chip or like
we've watched all year long. The insurance guard against injury,
certainly for their squad as you alluded to wins earlier
in the year. But we're up to mid fifties in
terms of quarterbacks, starts starters this year right. Every week
we add another couple, and this week will probably be
no different as we go to week seventeen and some
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injury report news that will wait later on.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
But he definitely will the Chiefs guy, he's definitely.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He'll he'll definitely be in. There's no Gardner, at least
at least one more so. Yeah, it's it's just a
never ending evolving tail as old as time. We're not
gonna I don't think we're gonna hit the high that
we had two years ago, but we're gonna get damn close.
Keeping an eye on the Monday Night football game. We'll
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Speaker 5 (16:42):
Us, Thanks for having me. Happy holidays, Mary Christmas. Almost
Happy New Year. Yeah we're almost there, man, Yeah, yeah man.
Twenty twenty six. There we go a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Of chaos in your backyard over there, the Lamar Jackson
injury and then people asking John Harbob about his job again.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah, and interesting response. He didn't seem offended by the question.
He didn't by any means default too. You know, I
am the second longest tenured head coach in this league,
and you know we are regularly in the playoffs. He said.
You know, you have to always be coaching for your job,
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and if it's not here, then somewhere else, and the
future is not promised. An interesting response. This is a
disaster Receiason for the Baltimore Ravens. I mean three and
six at home against what I would consider to be
legitimate NFL quarterbacks. They're two and eight, seventeen touchdowns allowed,
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foreign interceptions, two hundred and sixty six yards per game
allowed passing in those ten games. And that's against quarterbacks
who want to play game before, current starting quarterbacks who
won a playoff game before, or who are about to
go to the playoffs for the first time. That would
be drink made from last night and Calb Williams from
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earlier this season, and even Caleb when they faced them
it was only a second I think road game with
Ben Johnson pretty early in the season. I think Kellum
would shred their ass right now. To be honest with you,
but it's a bad defense. It's been a deep you
can go back to twenty twenty one, it's all the
way back to Link Martindale. That's three defensive coordinators ago.
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They have the worst fourth quarter defensive EPA in the
NFL since twenty twenty one. Since twenty twenty two, they've
allowed forty six passing touchdowns in the fourth quarter alone.
Nobody else in the league's a lot more than thirty six.
Like it's They continue to find ways to lose games,
and it seems to be very much embedded in their
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football culture, and especially when they face real quarterbacks. They
have a hard time winning, especially this time of the year.
So we'll see if this owner really wants to make
some changes or not. He doesn't really talk to anybody anymore,
keeps a pretty low profile. I'm not sure he's going
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to fire a whole bunch of people. I think he's
more inclined to run it back for a year and
then sell the team. But we'll see.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, it's so interesting, Jason, because everyone's saying that the
window on Lamar is closed, and I don't know if
that's true or not. I think each quarterback goes through
two different windows throughout their career. It's that first initial
sprint when they're on the rookie deal, and then it's
like a second one later in their career when they
kind of figure out things a little bit and they
gain a little wisdom in the situation. I think Lamar
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maybe that first windows closed, but the second one might
be opening if they do go through some new management
and some new changes. The quote from Harbor, I didn't
hear the quote, but it kind of sounds like he's
looking for another job on his end to make sure
to protect his butt.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
It was a different sort of response than I think
a lot of people expected. And we weren't sure, like, look,
I'm not out there every damn on the radios on
my own thing, and I'm want touch as ap PEP person.
But we kind of wondered, you know, if someone going
to ask him about chop security. And it was a
very sort of measured and reasoned response. I I it
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was interesting, It was It was interesting. Look, I think
it's not unlike Tomlin, where two weeks ago, right before
they won these these couple of games, you had people
saying Tomlin might be ready for change. You know, is
Tomlin going to fight for his job? Would tom be
open to other opportunities? Harpball's taking here one year fewer
than harm than than than Promlin. I mean, it's it's
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been an attorney and you got to remember who Hartball's
mentors to, right, Andy Reid? How did stage two for
Andy Reid work out? Worked out pretty well, and Harbes
is kind of up against what Andy Reid was up against.
The Philly can't really win the big one, you know,
when it all tears down, when you're when you're playing
for your season, right right, Big Red lost five straight
championship games. Nobody talks about that anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's a long time ago. Yeah, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
But I just wonder if hard Ball. I just wonder
if he's kind of like you know what. People have
been staying around in the stands to boom me after games,
and you know, they think they could do better than me.
Maybe they should find out. It could be an interesting
couple of weeks around here. They've got another Lamar Jackson contract.
They've got to get done. The roster that everybody kept
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telling me was the best in the NFL is a joke.
The offensive line sucks, The defensive line sucks. They have
a whole bunch of corners that they can't. You know
that they accumulate, well, they can't. They love drafting corners
in safety and they love signing them. Go watch any
of them make plays on the ball. None of them
are balls skills, none of them. None of them. They
don't underst up. If you fill it right in their
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gut enough times don't catch one eventually, but they do
not make plays on the ball in flight. So if
you're not gonna have any task questions and all the
dbs you collect don't actually kick the ball off, might be.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
In trouble chaos, and sus I would have been standing
in the stands with my quickly put together poster board
that says twelve to fifty three on it, Derrick Henry
running downhill and then doesn't see the ball. But let's
stay into Yeah, it's kind of crazy, let's stay in
division though. Let's go to Pittsburgh. DK Metcalf looks like
he's gonna lose like forty million dollars guaranteed money by
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getting himself suspended for a couple of games altercation with
a fan. But Pittsburgh goes and wins their third in
a row. Tomlin walking off the field like he's a
WWE manager, like by Hayward and Aaron Rodgers. So what's
the yeah? Is this another? Are we still on the
one in Donne or are we seeing anything signs of life?
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As the Steelers are finishing things.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I think it's going to end up being a one
and done. I it's a long off season. It's a
long season. This guy's got so many different, you know,
pursuits and loves the sound of his own voice. And
I don't also like the way he wants to run
his offseasons. I don't know how many teams, right last year,
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there were not many who were willing to put everything
on hold forever, right to just like to just let
this happen, like to just come back on on his
terms when he wants it. I don't know, man, even
for the Steelers to do that again, they've got to
find a like this is late Staves Roethlisberger all over again, Like, hey,
they got to find like somebody who's going to be
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there for more than year to year. But it looks,
you know, who knows if Tomlin does think the grass
might be green or somewhere else. Even if they go
on us run it, it certainly seems like it's going
to end up in at least one home playoff game.
Things could still come to a head there as well,
And once he got one year left on the deals,
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it could be interesting.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Man, Jason, you've been doing this a while. Is this
the strangest NFL season you've ex experience in in your
career in quite some time.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I mean, I use the word greasy to describe it,
because it just seems like these teams you just don't know,
they slip through your fingers every week and anyone really
can win. Like I'm having trouble narrowing my Super Bowl
contender list to fewer than five or six teams, and
at this stage of the year usually it's like a
core five at least, there's there's ten or fifteen teams
maybe that still of a chance ten at least, And how.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Many of them are really you know, in your in
your normal year, would you be looking at of a
team that you you'd think could have beat Deep right
or or Lamar at his peak or Burrow at his peak.
Now you're not going to have to go through that
goment in the AFC. It's going to be different, you know,
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I don't you know. We live in such a what
have you done for me lately? Society? It's like there's
part of me that when you start thinking about this stuff,
I feel like you lose historical try to touch it
does feel different than me.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
It feels it feels more wide, It feels like what
Caroline is doing and what Jacksonville's doing, and like, I
don't know that that happens every year, does it? I
don't think that happens every year. Like there's three legitimately
decent teams in the AFC South, Like I don't, you know,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I don't recall that. As for New England to have
sprinted before they ran, like you'd have told me New
England makes the playoffs this year even with you know,
and look the schedule. We knew coming in you might
be conducive, and they were, you know, summer preseason, they're
like if you went week to week on the money line,
they were gonna be you could tell Willing it was
gonna be favorite in a lot of these games. And
we don't even know how good they are. So I
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would have believed you that Vrabel could turn him around.
I wouldn't have believed that they're you know, they're probably
gonna put Buffalo to bed and win the division. So
it does feel like a lot like what's happened in
the NFC Central. That's kind of that's kind of crazy
the way Green Bay has lost some of these games,
Like you know, even La like I think I'll it's
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the best team in the week. But point la, every
game they lost, you think of five things they did
because that actually to blow it, you know, like special teams,
a turnovers. So it feels more wide open to me
than other years. Half it does.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
The fall guy, the special teams coordinator, fell on the
sort of damacles the other day, so or I dropped
on him, I should say, all right, I near this
if we didn't do the quick look at Monday night football,
Philip Rivers hit is over for his passing yards in
the first half. He's moved the ball up and down
the field, and we've got fifty four points here late
in the third quarter. I mean, this is this is
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it for me? A guy that comes off the street
and five years high school coach and now he's yelling
at his linemen and slamming the ball off a false start.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
It's nuts. He obviously can't really go and look late
stage in his career. I mean, part of the reason
he started coaching and not playing was he could not
always had that weird javelin release to begin with. Right,
They couldn't push the ball downfield anymore, and that's that's
been in issue when he's tried to throw it, you know,
thirty five, forty five. I don't know if he's flirting
(27:10):
really with fifty, but I guess fifty yards downfield that's
not really there. But he's right, he's he's he's managed
the game, he's made plays, he hits guys and stride
him in the ball treatement. Accuracy is ridiculously good for
guy that's old, who's been out of it that long
and he has to step in like in October or something.
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He's took right in the middle of you know, the
playoff case, playing teams in Seattle and San Francisco that
have everything on the line, that are fighting for a
one seed. So I'm I'm super I'm super impressed. But yeah,
it comes with some limitations, and they really, I think,
needed to get volume in the run game here to
keep this thing as close as possible as long as possible,
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and the defense has had no answers and Purty's not
getting touched and so we'll see how much they still
lean into Taylor here down stretch.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But good all, Philip Rivers party looks fantastic, I'll be honest,
And that's the next part of this conversation. Jation is
the Niners have kind of been sleeping under the radar
all year because of the injuries.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
They've had a relatively easy schedule.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But when push comes to shove, I think the ceiling
for this offense maybe is as high as the ceiling
for the Rams offense perhaps. And the defense, though, is
where I struggle. Are we sleeping on and I know
we'll get two games over the next two weeks Chicago
and Seattle, we're sleeping on. San Francisco is actually the
best team in the NFC.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I can't get there because they're not running the ball
like they're custom to running it. I don't think they're
certainly not running as well as the Rams can run it.
They they have no pass for us to speak of.
And I just don't think he can win in January
that way. I mean, it's really tough, and they finally
got a sack tonight, But like, they don't pick the
ball off. That's kind of like the Raiders. They don't
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pick the ball off, and they don't have anybody who
gets home on their owner even when they scheme enough.
We're all stimulated, pressures and prestat nonsense. It's the pressure
rates pathetic, the sack rates pathetic, and I just don't
think that's gonna fly in the postseason, especially if they
don't win the division and they're a wild card and
everything's on the road. I don't, I don't buy them.
(29:15):
I'd probably buy them more if they were in the
AFC honestly than the NFC. Like, I don't know, I don't.
I don't think they have close enough even in this
water downfield to a Super Bowl calenber defense. But maybe
they're starting to peak.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
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Speaker 5 (29:53):
Thank you, guys. I always appreciate you having me on
a happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Blast Man, appreciate it. Thank you a lot of thanks.
Coming out of Baltimore. We've got a barn burner here.
Late third quarter, an injury in someone needing to stretch
on the sidelines. Here with all the details and the
big night across the sporting universe, the legend himself. Sorry, guys,
Steve Desager, what's going on, Steve? Good evening to you.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
It's a Niners lead in this high scoring Monday Night
game at Indy thirty four to twenty, which just over
a minute to go in the third quarter. This was
the highest scoring first half in a Monday Night game
since twenty eighteen, the High Scoring Classic when the Chiefs
played at the Rams. But in this one, the forty
nine Ers scored a touchdown on each of their first
three drives. For the first time this season. There has
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been scoring combined on almost every drive tonight, although the
Niners at the end of the first half attempted a
sixty four yard field goal from Eddie Pinero and missed
it as it hit the crossbar, his first miss of
the season. He had been twenty six for twenty six,
and that ended the forty nine Ers franchise record of
thirteen straight games without a field goal missed. Right now,
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late third, it's a two touchdown lead. Is brock Purty
has thrown for four touchdowns twenty of twenty six two
hundred and forty eight yards. One of those tds to
George Kittle, who with an ankle injury, is limping a
bit on the sidelines. He does have seven receptions one
hundred and fifteen yards and a score four different receivers
for those four touchdowns. One of those Christian McCaffrey. On
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the ground, McCaffrey fifteen carries eighty five yards. Meanwhile, Philip
rivers two hundred yards, passing most of that in the
first half, two touchdowns, both to Alec Pearce Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
What's with the running game?
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Last month with the Colts, Taylor fourteen carries just thirty
nine yards. They've just ended the third quarter. Niners, who've
won four in a row, lead thirty four to twenty
at Indianapolis. The Colts have lost five of six, and
a Colts lost tonight would clinch playoff spots in the
AFC for Buffalo, for Jacksonville and for the Chargers. Chargers
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linebacker Denzel Perriman was suspended two games after another helmet
to helmet hit. He will appeal. The NFL suspended Steelers
wide receiver dk metcalf for the final two games of
the season. He will appeal after a confrontation with a
fan yesterday. The Steelers will clinch the AFC North title
if they win one of their final two games, or
if the Ravens lose Saturday night against the Packers. Seahawks
(32:19):
linebacker Derek Hall lost his appeal of a one game suspension.
The Kansas City Chiefs will have a new stadium in
twenty thirty one in Kansas, the other side of the border.
It'll be less than twenty five miles west of their
current stadium, Arrowhead, and the new place will have a roof.
Quarterback Gardner Minshew injured for the Chiefs yesterday. The knee
injury is not a torn acl but he was placed
(32:41):
on IR. Kansas City signed quarterback Shane Bouchell. The Bills
expect quarterback Josh Allen to play Sunday despite a foot injury.
Ravens QB Lamar Jackson is called day to day with
a severely bruised back.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
He was hurt last night.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Notre Dame will play against BYU for the next two
years instead of playing USC. Wins for New Orleans and
Boston and for Cleveland, which beat Charlotte one thirty nine
to one thirty two. Donovan Mitchell with thirty points in
progress at Denver Nuggets ninety four to seventy one over
Utah late in the third. Among the NHL games, Tampa
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Bay and Philadelphia already with wins. College basketball was on
FS one tonight in Saint Louis twentieth rank to Illinois
rit Missouri ninety one to forty eight. Arizona is still
ranking one number one, and Michigan is a close second.
In the APO pol Duke Felt to number six. The
Mets traded Jeff McNeil in cash to the A's and
the Mets signed reliever Luke Weaver.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
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all night. Steve Disaga, we got Ian Roddy and Alex
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We appreciate you being with us. We talked next about
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that DK Metcalf situation. I found it curious that the
decision came so quickly because you got a lot of
would be journalists that you probably need to talk to
Jared Smith and for Jason on Mike, we'll do that
next here on Fox.
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football game as we roll forward. The forty nine ers
continue to do whatever they want offensively here Jared, it's
(35:30):
been a masterclass for Shanahan and company as we roll in,
but certainly the Colts not going down without a fight.
It's a thirty four to twenty seven game, early fourth quarter,
so we keep our eye on that and see what
kind of pinball numbers we can get when it's all
said and done. Philip up to two thirty five and two.
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Jonathan Taylor, It's like we set his name three times
and he appeared like in a horror movie. Sixteen Carr.
He's now forty six yards and a score to go
with his three catches for thirty three yards. Conversely, on
the other side of the corner, should say we have
brock perty in his two sixty five and four and
Christian McCaffrey. He's up over one hundred total yards on
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the night with a touchdown, four catches, seventeen yards and
a score ninety on the ground in his sixteen carries.
So a barn Burner late here will keep an eye
on that as it rolls into the fourth quarter. But
we got a quick notice from the NFL that they've
suspended DK Metcalf two games to the end of the
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regular season for the altercation with a fan who claims
he was only yelling out Metcalf's government name, his birth
certificate name. Well, but that's the thing, and that's where
we get to it. Whereas from Metcalf, suree was yelling
a lot of other stuff. He's had a history in Seattle,
(36:51):
and this is a known entity and agitator like my
guy Fickers, you know, used to read from a book
behind and the benches at NBA games, yelling at players
and all of those kind of things. Some immortal antagonizers
antagonists in our professional sports history. But this is where
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it's the NFL makes the two game suspension. I got
to imagine you can find a bunch of the season
ticket holders from that section and either get a refuted
story one way or the other, or corroboration, whichever your look,
whichever sides on the defensive here in terms of how
this played out, because you can't tell me that as
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soon as Metcalf took one step towards that sideline, another
one hundred cell phones didn't go up to capture the
rest of it.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
And that's the problem. I say this all the time.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
If there were cell phones in the internet back in
nineteen eighty six, the Mets don't win the World Series,
it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
We'll get you taking one of the few moments of
joy of a young They don't make Jason Smith's.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I'm sorry, Jason, But if you're listening, if that season
was played in twenty fifteen, which is when the fortunately
I was at I was actually I covered that World
Series for local cable news in New York when they
lost to the Royals. But if that series was played
in twenty fifteen, that none of those guys make it
through the year.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
They're all suspended for similar stuff like this. Listen, I
can't condone what DK did. It was awful, stupid. You
should I don't care what the fan is saying.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
You can't react, however, just because these guys buy tickets
or you know, I'm sure women I would imagine. I
don't think you've ever seen a woman harass a guy
like that on a playing So I actually no, I
take that back. I think it happened to Lebron once.
But if you buy a ticket, that doesn't mean you
can say whatever you want with these people. Yeah, you
need to have some human decorum. And there's no way
That's all he said was was his government name. There's
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no I don't buy that for a minute.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Guys names Ryan Kennedy don't do it to give him
any publicity positively, but we give to the specificity of it.
These allegations are completely false. Said from the law head
Murphy Law Firm that that he he hired in all
of this. Uh, he's experienced harassment, threats and messages advocating
(39:09):
violence since the reports began circulating on social media that
he used a racial slur towards Metcalf uh and went
after Metcalf's mom. So a larger discussion. Right, when we
talk about the NBA, we've seen plenty of players down
towards the Bowl just point and security goes and removes
a guy.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Details happen Lebron once, right then that was a woman.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Yeah, well yeah, but that's not the only incident. We've
seen Westwood do it. We've seen Durant, like we've seen
a number of your top players just point it's and
it's done. Uh, that's where Metcalf, you know, he's gotta
gotta use.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
A commerce had prevail.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
And again, you know there's folks that go to the well,
you know, you can say you the guy said something derogatory.
It's like yeah, and I'm sure plenty of other guys
have as well. And if this guy is a constant
agitating as as Metcalf and the story alleges, then that's
a whole other issue in terms of what he's got
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to work with NFL security and facility for security going
forward with mister Kennedy and any of the people that
might be accompanying him to games. But you know, to
take that in your own hands, it may cost him
and they're saying that it could activate a forty to
fifty million dollar loss based on his contract. Wow, based
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on a two game suspension. Now it might get reduced
to a game, But in the end, you put yourself
in a very precarious situation.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
You know what I've learned over the years, it's just
people who think they can get under your skin. If
you react, you're playing right into their hands. And this
guy knew he can get under DK skin and.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Then he doubles down, no question about it. USC Notre
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Welcome in to another week of The Jason Smith Show
with Mike Carmen, Jared, Welcome to the chaos. I guess
(01:08):
the song says it all. And Philip Rivers and Brock
Purty certainly treating us to some disaster.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
On Monday night. I'm loving it. Merry Christmas to everyone
out there. Obviously I'll be talking to you again on Saturday,
but I'm enjoying, you know, getting a chance to dive
into this, this extravaganza for the night. We're honestly blessed
because what we're watching here tonight, Mike, this is a
masterclass in quarterbacking, and it really shows me that quarterbacking,
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to me, is more mental than physical rivers can do. This,
I mean, I mean, this is this is truly remarkable
what he's done now, back to back weeks against arguably
two of the best teams in the league.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, the beauty of the San Francisco forty nine ers
is they've amassed the record they have with decidedly as
much pass rush as you and me and Ian and
Elijah and ty Shirt and Steve Disager and Brianna and
bursh in the back. If all seven of us come
flying at at people, actually that's eight of us. Eight
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is enough. That's kind of what we're getting. Because Phillip's
getting rid of the ball quickly, but he hasn't faced
a whole lot of pressure he did on the air
and throw and the one that is going to be highlighted.
It's like, if you just had a little more arm strength,
the Tyler Warren would be. I know, fantasy owners, I
have him too. We're all salty that you didn't get
that touchdown and instead that they had to settle for
(02:24):
a field goal. It was good to see the fire
of Rivers because you know, he's not cursing at his guys.
He may be yelling at him, but he's not cursing
when they had to take the time out off the
false start and all of that. But fourteen of twenty one,
one seventy five and two. If you bet the over
on Rivers in his passing yards, Jared, you already cashed
before the halftime gun sounded.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
And I bet the under on his longest pass. So
that was my angle in this game, Mike was you're
just and you saw it like the few times that
he tried to go deep, like it's just it's like
a duck.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Well, but it's a question of what is deep, right, Yeah,
because last week he was two of eight on anything
over ten yards and it looked like a press you know,
like he was shot putting a football.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It still kind of looks like that, frankly, but intermediate stuff.
But yeah, No, the intermediate stuff, it's all about what
windows you hit. It's the deep stuff that I just
don't think he has the arm strength to push. No.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I mean, we've certainly seen success through the years, and
we can always go back in the annals of history
with Philip towards the end to where it becomes about
the cerebrum and it becomes about the ability to read
things pre snap and call out the defensive pressures and
coverages before they come. And that's what he's been able
to do thus far. I think they look terrible in
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these what are they called Indiana Knights uniforms. I think I'm.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Watching it like it's like an XFL uniform.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I would have given him the classic traditional unis tonight,
but they probably had this plan for weeks.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I mean, if nothing else, go out in elf suits.
I mean, you might as well just go all the
way to Luna, see if you will. But Brock Purdy
thirteen to seven. He won sixty five and three in
the first half. George Kittle had one almost a second
five for seventy eight and a touchdown. And then we
had Pinero to close out the half almost hit a
sixty four yarder goes off the crossbar. I mean, it
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just absolute chaos. The over under on this game was
forty six and a half. We had forty one at
the break.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, and really it's the Colts defense. If they lose
this game, it's not Rivers's fault, it's the Colts defense
just getting absolutely shredded.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
The Niners are doing whatever they want.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
They've got a sixty three percent success right on passing plays.
That's insane for you know, through two quarters plus and
they come out here, quick play action and another deep
shot over the middle. Perty has plenty of time to throw,
and he's got weapons for days. I'll be honest, this
is a very dangerous Niners team. I don't know what
their ceiling really is, because you're right, they haven't. You know,
they've kind of feasted on some bad teams over the
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last few weeks. But if they get the one seed
and they're very tenured, like I know they they're not
going to fold in the moment. It's all about how
healthy they are defensively, can they generate a pass rush.
But this offense right now is really starting to find
a nice dride with Purdy here in the second half
of the year.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, and even if you don't have Ricky piersal tonight,
we'll see how quickly he can get back on the field.
Juwan Jennings to this point has given them nothing except
for Cardio. So we're watching this as it unfolds born
and more and DeMarcus Robinson with the touchdown reception, and
obviously McCaffrey the walking mismatch. You get him out against linebackers,
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they don't stand a chance, and we've seen that happen
a couple of times. But to the larger point, I mean,
it's where we're at in the NFL at the end
of week sixteen, of trying to decide for what's good
what's not right from all the teams, even at the
top of the standings, there's still a lot of shrugging
and a yeah. But to pretty much everybody, the old
Bill Parcells, a lot of you are what your record says,
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seems to be tested on a weekly basis in terms
of logic and the eye test.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
I called it a greasy season today.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I do a weekly pod on Sunday nights in the
Monday mornings and I do a recap of all the games,
and I go through all the games and kind of
upgrade and downgrade and kind of give you my top
teams every week.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
And when I was going.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Through it this week, and it's like everyone is so
close together and I really can't tell who the third
or fourth best team is.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
I think I know who the top two teams are.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I think LA and Seattle deserve to be number one
and two in the power ratings right now, and I
think Buffalo maybe is the best team in the AFC
in terms of power rating. I know they don't have
the best record in the AFC, but in terms of
like what the expectation is, I think they're the best
team in the AFC. But there is not a big
gap between them and everyone else in the AFC, and
same thing in the NFC. Like I think you can
put LA and Seattle in like one tier ahead, but
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I think San Francisco could challenge both of them and
your Bears. I mean, they just seem to know how
to win close games. I think it's because of their
coach and the Eagles. They're kind of a mess right now.
I don't know if I trust them in a big spot,
but they're the defending champ, so you've got.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
To give them respect. It's really a logjam. I like greasy.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
I think greasy is the right word, because every week
one of these teams can come to slip through the
cracks and overachieve or underachieve, and it's like, we have
to change our whole perspective on what we're seeing.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Well, it's fortunate for me you ended with Philadelphia because
we start talking about greased up polls and all that stuff. Chance,
I didn't do that, but you know, you lay it
up and I had to dunk it. And for the Eagles,
what we've seen the last couple of weeks is more
of a reliance on Saquon Barkley and then all of
a sudden there was the untapped resource to close out
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the game when Barkley needed a quick blow. Oh wait,
Tank Bigsby. That's right. They traded for that guy that
we loved so much for a while in Jacksonville. So
they do have the one two punch and got the
receivers involved early. Granted it's the commanders. I celebrate the
fact that Josh Johnson got himself back up and in
front of the national audience once again. But it's for
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the Eagles there. They're just curious right again, health and
what you have coming down the stretch. Do they get
Lane Johnson back on that offensive line before it's over
or not? That will play a long way to it.
The Bears are a much bigger topic for the show
as we navigate four hours of great sports radio here
(08:10):
on a Monday night with you at Swollen Dome, at
Jared Smith Betts forty nine ers back in the end
zone to your point, like a knife through hot, knife
through butter, I think is the old term. Has Brock Purty.
Thurs is fourth of the night. This time Juwan Jennings
gets into the action. There you go, Fantasy owners. You
were waiting on it, you were gripping, and you were
sending evil tweets to him and his family. Leave Malone
(08:33):
to catches twenty four yards and a score. Now as
the forty nine ers complete that drive taking out the
first four minutes of this third quarter, great throw from him,
the Jennings he's had all right to pass too. And
that's where we've watched this Colts d We talk about
the missing Sauce Gardner and other elements, even with DeForest
(08:54):
Buckner back man. That's just one of eleven we've watched
the Colts defense struggle down the stretch. Jonathan Taylor has
been more a bystander and then a full on participant
these last couple of weeks as well, because well, the
defense can't hold up, and now he's got to stick,
stick around and chip a little bit to give Philip
opportunity to stand tall in the pocket. Only seven carries
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twenty four yards to this point.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, I would imagine that the Niners are going to
be very soft in the rest of this game. You
might actually get some nice junk yardage from from Taylor
if Rivers does, you know, check into some light box runs.
There's really no denying San Francisco's candidacy right now. I mean,
they've got a chance to prove it the next two weeks.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Mike.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They really do well, Dude, If they finished with two
wins against Chicago and Seattle, it's hard for that. It's
hard for us not to say they're the best team
in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Well, and that's the beauty of it. Right as you
run through and winners of five of their last six.
You mentioned a bunch of the participants. But let's go
through it. The only loss coming to the Rams forty
two to twenty six. In that one, they win a
big battle against the Giants to start it all. Arizona Carolina,
who's been much better than anybody could have anticipated. Cleveland
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that fights at times, some near misses along the way, Tennessee,
that's playing a little better football down the stretch. But
to that point, right, you beat who's on the schedule
in front of you. End for brock Perty, it's it's
really the referendum because we we go back to when
Mac Jones was under center and people started going, well, well,
I mean I had to argue with my guy, the
(10:26):
other mister Smith, Jason Smith, I Jason, wherever you are at?
How about a fresca if you want to harass him
on vacation.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
And there's no way he actually listens on vacation.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Oh no, well you want to see how many times
I disparage him.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
So have a great have a great night, but turn
it off and do something.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Do something else. Now he's probably playing a board game
or or singing what what.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Board game would Jason be playing? Well he did that,
I mean a stratigo guy.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well you know what, he's a big crossword puzzle guy.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Oh okay, well that's that's he made me a question
in a corner with one.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
With a timer on him.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
I don't corner.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I don't know. He's h Well, he doesn't have to
deal with me for twenty hours a week for the
next two weeks, so I mean he's taken some taking
that reprieve right and maybe get some movie watching in
and no doubt eating on and snacking on a wheel
of cheese. But yes, I had plenty of folks going, well,
he's not in tonight, so make sure you call him
about the Jaguars and like he's not answering his phone.
(11:25):
If we call it.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Like no Jackuars, fascinating discussion.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
There's no question about it. Part of the large Jess
Here on a Monday night Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with Me, Mike Garma, Jared Smith in Jay in
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That guy can't even do the Gruden. But yeah, Chicago
and Seattle decided steps up in class. But back to
(11:54):
the original point, was you know the discussion of Mac
Jones versus Rock Party and tonight while we can again
you hang it with the great assault, the level of
competition and where you are. There's still NFL games, there's
still guys getting paid and trying to take his face off.
And he's performed admirably the last few weeks and certainly tonight,
he's doing whatever he wants. He's on the move, he's
(12:17):
throwing to perfect spots, perfect windows back across the middle.
That last pass and Juwan Jennings was fantastic. So for Brock,
Purty also a chance in the national spotlight to perhaps
curtail some of the chatter of he's just a guy. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
No, I'll be honest, there's not much of a debate
to me on who the better quarterback is for the Niners.
And listen, I love Mac Jones. I think Shanahan loves
Mac Jones. He was gonna draft him.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I think that.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
One year and I did a lot of research on well,
what like what differentiates these two guys.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
There's two things.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
One, the scramble rates significantly higher, like Brock can make
so many more plays on the move that Mac can,
and I know that doesn't happen often maybe it's only
a handful of plays per game, but when the scramble
rate goes from like one percent to I think Brocks
around five, it's five more plays per game. You know,
he's making five more splash plays out of the pocket
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where he's able to scramble on the move and do
something than Mac is every game, and that matters, and
just the overall I think accuracy and success rate. I
just think Brock is just a little bit more athletic,
a little bit more in rhythm and flow. And it
might not manifest in like the box score every week,
but I think it over time, I think it adds up.
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Brock is that listen, and no knock on Mac. He's
done an unbelievable job this year, considering the circumstances. He
hung in there, got a huge win against the Rams,
and that's one of the reason the Niners are in
this spot right now. But make no mistake, Brock is
Brocks the guy for this offense, and he's being paid
as such.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And then they have the luxury of the fact that
Mac Jones is under contract for another year.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
So whether that becomes a big trade chip or like
we've watched all year long. The insurance guard against injury,
certainly for their squad as you alluded to wins earlier
in the year. But we're up to mid fifties in
terms of quarterbacks, starts starters this year right. Every week
we add another couple, and this week will probably be
no different as we go to week seventeen and some
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injury report news that will wait later on.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
But he definitely will the Chiefs guy, he's definitely.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
He'll he'll definitely be in. There's no Gardner, at least
at least one more so. Yeah, it's it's just a
never ending evolving tail as old as time. We're not
gonna I don't think we're gonna hit the high that
we had two years ago, but we're gonna get damn close.
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Merry Christmas, my friend, thanks for joining.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Us, Thanks for having me. Happy holidays, Mary Christmas. Almost
Happy New Year. Yeah we're almost there, man, Yeah, yeah man.
Twenty twenty six. There we go a lot.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Of chaos in your backyard over there, the Lamar Jackson
injury and then people asking John Harbob about his job again.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Yeah, and interesting response. He didn't seem offended by the question.
He didn't by any means default too. You know, I
am the second longest tenured head coach in this league,
and you know we are regularly in the playoffs. He said.
You know, you have to always be coaching for your job,
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and if it's not here, then somewhere else, and the
future is not promised. An interesting response. This is a
disaster Receiason for the Baltimore Ravens. I mean three and
six at home against what I would consider to be
legitimate NFL quarterbacks. They're two and eight, seventeen touchdowns allowed,
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foreign interceptions, two hundred and sixty six yards per game
allowed passing in those ten games. And that's against quarterbacks
who want to play game before, current starting quarterbacks who
won a playoff game before, or who are about to
go to the playoffs for the first time. That would
be drink made from last night and Calb Williams from
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earlier this season, and even Caleb when they faced them
it was only a second I think road game with
Ben Johnson pretty early in the season. I think Kellum
would shred their ass right now. To be honest with you,
but it's a bad defense. It's been a deep you
can go back to twenty twenty one, it's all the
way back to Link Martindale. That's three defensive coordinators ago.
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They have the worst fourth quarter defensive EPA in the
NFL since twenty twenty one. Since twenty twenty two, they've
allowed forty six passing touchdowns in the fourth quarter alone.
Nobody else in the league's a lot more than thirty six.
Like it's They continue to find ways to lose games,
and it seems to be very much embedded in their
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football culture, and especially when they face real quarterbacks. They
have a hard time winning, especially this time of the year.
So we'll see if this owner really wants to make
some changes or not. He doesn't really talk to anybody anymore,
keeps a pretty low profile. I'm not sure he's going
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to fire a whole bunch of people. I think he's
more inclined to run it back for a year and
then sell the team. But we'll see.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Yeah, it's so interesting, Jason, because everyone's saying that the
window on Lamar is closed, and I don't know if
that's true or not. I think each quarterback goes through
two different windows throughout their career. It's that first initial
sprint when they're on the rookie deal, and then it's
like a second one later in their career when they
kind of figure out things a little bit and they
gain a little wisdom in the situation. I think Lamar
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maybe that first windows closed, but the second one might
be opening if they do go through some new management
and some new changes. The quote from Harbor, I didn't
hear the quote, but it kind of sounds like he's
looking for another job on his end to make sure
to protect his butt.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
It was a different sort of response than I think
a lot of people expected. And we weren't sure, like, look,
I'm not out there every damn on the radios on
my own thing, and I'm want touch as ap PEP person.
But we kind of wondered, you know, if someone going
to ask him about chop security. And it was a
very sort of measured and reasoned response. I I it
(20:20):
was interesting, It was It was interesting. Look, I think
it's not unlike Tomlin, where two weeks ago, right before
they won these these couple of games, you had people
saying Tomlin might be ready for change. You know, is
Tomlin going to fight for his job? Would tom be
open to other opportunities? Harpball's taking here one year fewer
than harm than than than Promlin. I mean, it's it's
(20:42):
been an attorney and you got to remember who Hartball's
mentors to, right, Andy Reid? How did stage two for
Andy Reid work out? Worked out pretty well, and Harbes
is kind of up against what Andy Reid was up against.
The Philly can't really win the big one, you know,
when it all tears down, when you're when you're playing
for your season, right right, Big Red lost five straight
championship games. Nobody talks about that anymore.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's a long time ago. Yeah, absolutely, you know.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
But I just wonder if hard Ball. I just wonder
if he's kind of like you know what. People have
been staying around in the stands to boom me after games,
and you know, they think they could do better than me.
Maybe they should find out. It could be an interesting
couple of weeks around here. They've got another Lamar Jackson contract.
They've got to get done. The roster that everybody kept
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telling me was the best in the NFL is a joke.
The offensive line sucks, The defensive line sucks. They have
a whole bunch of corners that they can't. You know
that they accumulate, well, they can't. They love drafting corners
in safety and they love signing them. Go watch any
of them make plays on the ball. None of them
are balls skills, none of them. None of them. They
don't underst up. If you fill it right in their
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gut enough times don't catch one eventually, but they do
not make plays on the ball in flight. So if
you're not gonna have any task questions and all the
dbs you collect don't actually kick the ball off, might be.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
In trouble chaos, and sus I would have been standing
in the stands with my quickly put together poster board
that says twelve to fifty three on it, Derrick Henry
running downhill and then doesn't see the ball. But let's
stay into Yeah, it's kind of crazy, let's stay in
division though. Let's go to Pittsburgh. DK Metcalf looks like
he's gonna lose like forty million dollars guaranteed money by
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getting himself suspended for a couple of games altercation with
a fan. But Pittsburgh goes and wins their third in
a row. Tomlin walking off the field like he's a
WWE manager, like by Hayward and Aaron Rodgers. So what's
the yeah? Is this another? Are we still on the
one in Donne or are we seeing anything signs of life?
(22:45):
As the Steelers are finishing things.
Speaker 5 (22:48):
I think it's going to end up being a one
and done. I it's a long off season. It's a
long season. This guy's got so many different, you know,
pursuits and loves the sound of his own voice. And
I don't also like the way he wants to run
his offseasons. I don't know how many teams, right last year,
(23:08):
there were not many who were willing to put everything
on hold forever, right to just like to just let
this happen, like to just come back on on his
terms when he wants it. I don't know, man, even
for the Steelers to do that again, they've got to
find a like this is late Staves Roethlisberger all over again, Like, hey,
they got to find like somebody who's going to be
(23:31):
there for more than year to year. But it looks,
you know, who knows if Tomlin does think the grass
might be green or somewhere else. Even if they go
on us run it, it certainly seems like it's going
to end up in at least one home playoff game.
Things could still come to a head there as well,
And once he got one year left on the deals,
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it could be interesting.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Man, Jason, you've been doing this a while. Is this
the strangest NFL season you've ex experience in in your
career in quite some time.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I mean, I use the word greasy to describe it,
because it just seems like these teams you just don't know,
they slip through your fingers every week and anyone really
can win. Like I'm having trouble narrowing my Super Bowl
contender list to fewer than five or six teams, and
at this stage of the year usually it's like a
core five at least, there's there's ten or fifteen teams
maybe that still of a chance ten at least, And how.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
Many of them are really you know, in your in
your normal year, would you be looking at of a
team that you you'd think could have beat Deep right
or or Lamar at his peak or Burrow at his peak.
Now you're not going to have to go through that
goment in the AFC. It's going to be different, you know,
(24:45):
I don't you know. We live in such a what
have you done for me lately? Society? It's like there's
part of me that when you start thinking about this stuff,
I feel like you lose historical try to touch it
does feel different than me.
Speaker 8 (24:57):
It feels it feels more wide, It feels like what
Caroline is doing and what Jacksonville's doing, and like, I
don't know that that happens every year, does it? I
don't think that happens every year. Like there's three legitimately
decent teams in the AFC South, Like I don't, you know,
I don't.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
I don't recall that. As for New England to have
sprinted before they ran, like you'd have told me New
England makes the playoffs this year even with you know,
and look the schedule. We knew coming in you might
be conducive, and they were, you know, summer preseason, they're
like if you went week to week on the money line,
they were gonna be you could tell Willing it was
gonna be favorite in a lot of these games. And
we don't even know how good they are. So I
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would have believed you that Vrabel could turn him around.
I wouldn't have believed that they're you know, they're probably
gonna put Buffalo to bed and win the division. So
it does feel like a lot like what's happened in
the NFC Central. That's kind of that's kind of crazy
the way Green Bay has lost some of these games,
Like you know, even La like I think I'll it's
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the best team in the week. But point la, every
game they lost, you think of five things they did
because that actually to blow it, you know, like special teams,
a turnovers. So it feels more wide open to me
than other years. Half it does.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
The fall guy, the special teams coordinator, fell on the
sort of damacles the other day, so or I dropped
on him, I should say, all right, I near this
if we didn't do the quick look at Monday night football,
Philip Rivers hit is over for his passing yards in
the first half. He's moved the ball up and down
the field, and we've got fifty four points here late
in the third quarter. I mean, this is this is
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it for me? A guy that comes off the street
and five years high school coach and now he's yelling
at his linemen and slamming the ball off a false start.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
It's nuts. He obviously can't really go and look late
stage in his career. I mean, part of the reason
he started coaching and not playing was he could not
always had that weird javelin release to begin with. Right,
They couldn't push the ball downfield anymore, and that's that's
been in issue when he's tried to throw it, you know,
thirty five, forty five. I don't know if he's flirting
(27:10):
really with fifty, but I guess fifty yards downfield that's
not really there. But he's right, he's he's he's managed
the game, he's made plays, he hits guys and stride
him in the ball treatement. Accuracy is ridiculously good for
guy that's old, who's been out of it that long
and he has to step in like in October or something.
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He's took right in the middle of you know, the
playoff case, playing teams in Seattle and San Francisco that
have everything on the line, that are fighting for a
one seed. So I'm I'm super I'm super impressed. But yeah,
it comes with some limitations, and they really, I think,
needed to get volume in the run game here to
keep this thing as close as possible as long as possible,
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and the defense has had no answers and Purty's not
getting touched and so we'll see how much they still
lean into Taylor here down stretch.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But good all, Philip Rivers party looks fantastic, I'll be honest,
And that's the next part of this conversation. Jation is
the Niners have kind of been sleeping under the radar
all year because of the injuries.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
They've had a relatively easy schedule.
Speaker 4 (28:13):
But when push comes to shove, I think the ceiling
for this offense maybe is as high as the ceiling
for the Rams offense perhaps. And the defense, though, is
where I struggle. Are we sleeping on and I know
we'll get two games over the next two weeks Chicago
and Seattle, we're sleeping on. San Francisco is actually the
best team in the NFC.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I can't get there because they're not running the ball
like they're custom to running it. I don't think they're
certainly not running as well as the Rams can run it.
They they have no pass for us to speak of.
And I just don't think he can win in January
that way. I mean, it's really tough, and they finally
got a sack tonight, But like, they don't pick the
ball off. That's kind of like the Raiders. They don't
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pick the ball off, and they don't have anybody who
gets home on their owner even when they scheme enough.
We're all stimulated, pressures and prestat nonsense. It's the pressure
rates pathetic, the sack rates pathetic, and I just don't
think that's gonna fly in the postseason, especially if they
don't win the division and they're a wild card and
everything's on the road. I don't, I don't buy them.
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I'd probably buy them more if they were in the
AFC honestly than the NFC. Like, I don't know, I don't.
I don't think they have close enough even in this
water downfield to a Super Bowl calenber defense. But maybe
they're starting to peak.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
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new year gets started and we look at the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Thank you, guys. I always appreciate you having me on
a happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (29:56):
Blast Man, appreciate it. Thank you a lot of thanks.
Coming out of Baltimore. We've got a barn burner here.
Late third quarter, an injury in someone needing to stretch
on the sidelines. Here with all the details and the
big night across the sporting universe, the legend himself. Sorry, guys,
Steve Desager, what's going on, Steve? Good evening to you.
Speaker 9 (30:16):
It's a Niners lead in this high scoring Monday Night
game at Indy thirty four to twenty, which just over
a minute to go in the third quarter. This was
the highest scoring first half in a Monday Night game
since twenty eighteen, the High Scoring Classic when the Chiefs
played at the Rams. But in this one, the forty
nine Ers scored a touchdown on each of their first
three drives. For the first time this season. There has
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been scoring combined on almost every drive tonight, although the
Niners at the end of the first half attempted a
sixty four yard field goal from Eddie Pinero and missed
it as it hit the crossbar, his first miss of
the season. He had been twenty six for twenty six,
and that ended the forty nine Ers franchise record of
thirteen straight games without a field goal missed. Right now,
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late third, it's a two touchdown lead. Is brock Purty
has thrown for four touchdowns twenty of twenty six two
hundred and forty eight yards. One of those tds to
George Kittle, who with an ankle injury, is limping a
bit on the sidelines. He does have seven receptions one
hundred and fifteen yards and a score four different receivers
for those four touchdowns. One of those Christian McCaffrey. On
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the ground, McCaffrey fifteen carries eighty five yards. Meanwhile, Philip
rivers two hundred yards, passing most of that in the
first half, two touchdowns, both to Alec Pearce Jonathan Taylor.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
What's with the running game?
Speaker 9 (31:36):
Last month with the Colts, Taylor fourteen carries just thirty
nine yards. They've just ended the third quarter. Niners, who've
won four in a row, lead thirty four to twenty
at Indianapolis. The Colts have lost five of six, and
a Colts lost tonight would clinch playoff spots in the
AFC for Buffalo, for Jacksonville and for the Chargers. Chargers
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linebacker Denzel Perriman was suspended two games after another helmet
to helmet hit. He will appeal. The NFL suspended Steelers
wide receiver dk metcalf for the final two games of
the season. He will appeal after a confrontation with a
fan yesterday. The Steelers will clinch the AFC North title
if they win one of their final two games, or
if the Ravens lose Saturday night against the Packers. Seahawks
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linebacker Derek Hall lost his appeal of a one game suspension.
The Kansas City Chiefs will have a new stadium in
twenty thirty one in Kansas, the other side of the border.
It'll be less than twenty five miles west of their
current stadium, Arrowhead, and the new place will have a roof.
Quarterback Gardner Minshew injured for the Chiefs yesterday. The knee
injury is not a torn acl but he was placed
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on IR. Kansas City signed quarterback Shane Bouchell. The Bills
expect quarterback Josh Allen to play Sunday despite a foot injury.
Ravens QB Lamar Jackson is called day to day with
a severely bruised back.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
He was hurt last night.
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Notre Dame will play against BYU for the next two
years instead of playing USC. Wins for New Orleans and
Boston and for Cleveland, which beat Charlotte one thirty nine
to one thirty two. Donovan Mitchell with thirty points in
progress at Denver Nuggets ninety four to seventy one over
Utah late in the third. Among the NHL games, Tampa
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Bay and Philadelphia already with wins. College basketball was on
FS one tonight in Saint Louis twentieth rank to Illinois
rit Missouri ninety one to forty eight. Arizona is still
ranking one number one, and Michigan is a close second.
In the APO pol Duke Felt to number six. The
Mets traded Jeff McNeil in cash to the A's and
the Mets signed reliever Luke Weaver.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
Back to you, Thanks so much, Steve. Steve's with us
all night. Steve Disaga, we got Ian Roddy and Alex
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football game as we roll forward. The forty nine ers
continue to do whatever they want offensively here Jared, it's
(35:30):
been a masterclass for Shanahan and company as we roll in,
but certainly the Colts not going down without a fight.
It's a thirty four to twenty seven game, early fourth quarter,
so we keep our eye on that and see what
kind of pinball numbers we can get when it's all
said and done. Philip up to two thirty five and two.
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Jonathan Taylor, It's like we set his name three times
and he appeared like in a horror movie. Sixteen Carr.
He's now forty six yards and a score to go
with his three catches for thirty three yards. Conversely, on
the other side of the corner, should say we have
brock perty in his two sixty five and four and
Christian McCaffrey. He's up over one hundred total yards on
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the night with a touchdown, four catches, seventeen yards and
a score ninety on the ground in his sixteen carries.
So a barn Burner late here will keep an eye
on that as it rolls into the fourth quarter. But
we got a quick notice from the NFL that they've
suspended DK Metcalf two games to the end of the
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regular season for the altercation with a fan who claims
he was only yelling out Metcalf's government name, his birth
certificate name. Well, but that's the thing, and that's where
we get to it. Whereas from Metcalf, suree was yelling
a lot of other stuff. He's had a history in Seattle,
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and this is a known entity and agitator like my
guy Fickers, you know, used to read from a book
behind and the benches at NBA games, yelling at players
and all of those kind of things. Some immortal antagonizers
antagonists in our professional sports history. But this is where
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it's the NFL makes the two game suspension. I got
to imagine you can find a bunch of the season
ticket holders from that section and either get a refuted
story one way or the other, or corroboration, whichever your look,
whichever sides on the defensive here in terms of how
this played out, because you can't tell me that as
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soon as Metcalf took one step towards that sideline, another
one hundred cell phones didn't go up to capture the
rest of it.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
And that's the problem. I say this all the time.
Speaker 4 (37:46):
If there were cell phones in the internet back in
nineteen eighty six, the Mets don't win the World Series,
it just doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
We'll get you taking one of the few moments of
joy of a young They don't make Jason Smith's.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
I'm sorry, Jason, But if you're listening, if that season
was played in twenty fifteen, which is when the fortunately
I was at I was actually I covered that World
Series for local cable news in New York when they
lost to the Royals. But if that series was played
in twenty fifteen, that none of those guys make it
through the year.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
They're all suspended for similar stuff like this. Listen, I
can't condone what DK did. It was awful, stupid. You
should I don't care what the fan is saying.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
You can't react, however, just because these guys buy tickets
or you know, I'm sure women I would imagine. I
don't think you've ever seen a woman harass a guy
like that on a playing So I actually no, I
take that back. I think it happened to Lebron once.
But if you buy a ticket, that doesn't mean you
can say whatever you want with these people. Yeah, you
need to have some human decorum. And there's no way
That's all he said was was his government name. There's
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no I don't buy that for a minute.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
Guys names Ryan Kennedy don't do it to give him
any publicity positively, but we give to the specificity of it.
These allegations are completely false. Said from the law head
Murphy Law Firm that that he he hired in all
of this. Uh, he's experienced harassment, threats and messages advocating
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violence since the reports began circulating on social media that
he used a racial slur towards Metcalf uh and went
after Metcalf's mom. So a larger discussion. Right, when we
talk about the NBA, we've seen plenty of players down
towards the Bowl just point and security goes and removes
a guy.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Details happen Lebron once, right then that was a woman.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Yeah, well yeah, but that's not the only incident. We've
seen Westwood do it. We've seen Durant, like we've seen
a number of your top players just point it's and
it's done. Uh, that's where Metcalf, you know, he's gotta
gotta use.
Speaker 6 (39:44):
A commerce had prevail.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
And again, you know there's folks that go to the well,
you know, you can say you the guy said something derogatory.
It's like yeah, and I'm sure plenty of other guys
have as well. And if this guy is a constant
agitating as as Metcalf and the story alleges, then that's
a whole other issue in terms of what he's got
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to work with NFL security and facility for security going
forward with mister Kennedy and any of the people that
might be accompanying him to games. But you know, to
take that in your own hands, it may cost him
and they're saying that it could activate a forty to
fifty million dollar loss based on his contract. Wow, based
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on a two game suspension. Now it might get reduced
to a game, But in the end, you put yourself
in a very precarious situation.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
You know what I've learned over the years, it's just
people who think they can get under your skin. If
you react, you're playing right into their hands. And this
guy knew he can get under DK skin and.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Then he doubles down, no question about it. USC Notre
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