March 18, 2022 • 34 mins
In hour two of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, the guys peel back the other end of the blockbuster trade between the Packers and Raiders which is the Aaron Rodgers side of things. Jason proclaims the Browns are a clown show after the Baker-Watson debacle. Then, the guys play a round of ‘TruTV or NotTV!’
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I don't think. I think I've lost one game today.
The only game I lost today was the five twelve
ups that I didn't have. It didn't have you, I
didn't have you know. I've lost two games today. I
didn't have New Mexico State beating Yukon and I didn't
have Iowa losing today. But everything else, everything I've I mean,
I've clinched. Everybody had Kentucky and Iowa. No Kentucky to Iowa.
Now they're both gone and now I've basically one I'm
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gonna put that TV. But listen to you. Oh it's
gonna be great, doesn't It doesn't matter. It doesn't Like
I will tell people who just watched the tournament for
the first time, I'd say, it doesn't matter what you
know and what you don't know. There are two columns.
There is a wind column and there is a lost column.
And as long as you have the right ones in
the wind column and the run not have the wrong
ones in the lost column, guess what you can do.
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Pretty But the smugness is unbecoming, well because it may
because Duke may lose, and really, I mean I may
only have to Duke could lose to nor Night in
a horrendous Then we're watching Mike Showsky cry and also
tell the Duke fans he's gonna grab the mic after
the game and go, this was awful. I can't believe
we did this. This was my would be glorious. What
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the hell is wrong with I'm just picturing Sky with
the Mike yelling everybody go back to your seat as
they're just storming the cord around him. Go back to
your seats, Go back to your seats. All of you
go back. This is me my last game. We were terrible.
I'd promise you we're gonna do better. Hey, hey, hey,
give me give me back my jacket. I'm just picturing
that whole thing happening right now. So it's gotta be tonight.
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It's gotta be tonight because t who knows, who knows?
We may not get tomorrow. We'll do it tonight. We
might not get tomorrow. Yeah, I didn't know which song
you were going. Who needs We've got tonight? Who needs to?
I mean it is your anniversary, So happy anniversary. I
mean you could say and sing that one as as
part of the the wooing on anniversary twenty seven. Congratulations
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and and yes, it has been a chaotic and tourly
to steal from Phoebe buffet of friends, first day to
the n C Double A tournament, a lot of heads
on swivels, and and certainly for us, I mean we
got a lot of friends. Look by my bracket U
c l A goes down. I don't think I'm watching
any more tournament games because that would take two of
my final fours out again, what you watch, what you think,
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blah blah blah. If it goes down in flames. We'll
just keep posting the floating dumpster fire as often as
we can. Uh Ragged first half would be the kind
way to describe it. But but yeah, it's the day
where everybody celebrates, not just because it's the n C
Double A Tournament, but they also really weren't working hard
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because well, St Patrick's Day. I had many shots from
friends of mine in in office buildings where the conference
rooms were all for, all the TVs were and monitors
were turned to n C Double A Tournament. You mean
pictures and shots And you said you've had many shots.
You mean pictures. Oh, I didn't have any, but they
were telling me of all the shots being drunk there
because like here's what's normally, you know, coffee, creamer or whatever.
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Now there's bottles of Jamison, uh and buckets of Guinness. So,
I mean, folks, we're getting after it early. Shout out
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I'll have more on the n c A tournament tonight
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as it continues to unfold for us and many u
c l A fans right now very nervous um. But
the big ticket item today Davante Adams traded from the
Packers to the Raiders. The Packers will get a first
and the second round pick, the Raiders giving up a
decent amount for a guy they had to sign to
a big contract extension, and now Davante Adams getting twenty
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eight million dollars a year for the next five years.
You know, we talked about the Atmos part of it
last hour on the show, and now we've got to
get to the Aaron Rodgers Packers part of it, because
on the surface, it doesn't make sense, right. Why would
you spend all this money to bring Aaron Rodgers back
only to trade away your next best offensive player not
named Aaron Rodgers. Why would you do that. They had
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such great chemistry. Davante Adams is great. Why it seems, oh,
it seems ridiculous, But let me just say this because honestly,
and this is where I zig. When you think I'm
gonna zag, or do I zag when you think I'm
gonna zig? Whatever you whichever way you wear, I mean,
you're just going in the direction. One dog goes this way,
the other dog goes that way, and uh, this dog
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is going, hey, what do you want from me? Uh?
I completely get why the Packers made this move. Clearly
it was coming for a while. Aaron Rodgers knew what
was coming. We got that report as well. Aaron Rodgers
has to be pissed. Now, Aaron Rodgers kind of knew
they're They're not gonna suddenly, Uh take everybody by surprise. Go, hey,
we're trading Davante Adams. Yeah, Aaron, we're gonna lie to
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you and not bring him back at it. It doesn't
make sense, right, But I honestly I get this because
what you need to do, if you're the Packers, you
take an honest look at your team. You say, right,
what what do we got? Well, we're good enough to
win this division. The NFC is not great. But clearly
offensively we don't have enough. Because I just watched our
team with home field advantage again the second year in
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a row, fail offensively when it mattered the most. Right,
you failed against the Buccaneers two years ago. You failed
miserably against the forty niners where you couldn't put any
points on the board. So you need a change because
bringing back the same offense wasn't gonna work. And now
it's unfortunate that how do you try to make this change? Well,
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the best way they could affect change was we trade
Davante Adams and we try to reload at a position
that is normally incredibly rich in the draft. And that's
what the Packers have to do. Instead of having the
one great receiver and a bunch of other guys you
don't catch the ball out of that don't catch the
ball at all. You need to spread things out a
little bit. You need more options. So the Packers, I
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mean it was it was a tough but that you
had to bite the bullet and say, you know, we
gotta do this. Here, what this will do. This gives
us a little bit more money freed up if we
want to make a move in free agency. If we
want to make a trade for a wide receiver, we can.
But what we also can do is really address the
position in the draft where there's every year now the
wide receivers coming out of of college football are terrific.
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You have to really you have to really suck as
an evaluator to miss on on early round wide receivers
in the NFL now, because there's seven or eight that
come out every year that you go, boy, these guys
are really really good guys who can get in the
first sixty four picks that you can do that they're
pretty good. You have to you have to be really
bad to miss on wide receivers, and wide receiver is
a very replaceable position in the NFL. Yes, there are
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great players, but what's gonna be better for the Packers
to try to try it out the same offense that
we know is not good enough and everybody's a year
older or hey, instead of this, we trade Adams and
then we bring in some guys that are gonna be
good some Look, you're into Aaron Rodgers now for the
next three or four years, so it's not a one
year thing and we have to rebuild or were to
or we're done this. We have to reload, or we're done.
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You have a few years now, and you think we
can hit the ground running pretty easy at wide receiver
because guys are coming out of the college football now
and catching a hundred passes right Jalen Waddles coming out
and being a star. Davante Smith is coming out and
being a star. Elijah Moore is a second round pick.
He's a great player. There's many wide receivers who come
into the league right now and are terrific right away.
So if you're the Packers and you can add three guys,
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make it one in in in free agency, whether you
think it's gonna be Odell Beckham or somebody else, you
make a trade. If you add one guy in free
agency who's good, and then you get two more in
the draft, suddenly your offense is much more dangerous because
if you're not just relying on Adams and a bunch
of guys that everybody can cover and you can shut down.
The Packers had to do something. It probably wasn't their
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first choice to do this, but it makes sense that, Okay,
we trade away our big player, we get a lot
of draft capital, We're gonna go after wide receivers to
make that room deeper and better, and that's how we're
going to improve. That's how we're going to get better
and make sure the offense to take the next step.
So I completely get, I understand and I support what
the Packers had to do with this trade. Again, didn't
want to do it, but they kind of had to
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when they were because he only moved so many guys
and be hamstrung so many ways, they kind of had
to do it. Well, the fun part of his if
you pull back and now it's the alright veracity of
the reports, right, that's what we need. We need to
you know, have the cage match of all of the
the insiders here, right because Rob Domowski, who's covered the
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team for years, per a sourus. Packers were willing to
pay Adams equally to what the Raiders are with the
new deal, but Adams decided he wanted to play elsewhere.
And yes, Rogers was aware of the developments in the
last several days. But I think that's an interesting piece
to it of Yeah, I've done here, right. What all
the expectation was, at least the reporting was that Aaron
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Rodgers wasn't coming back unless Adams was going to be back,
and then we had the reports of what he was offered.
We watched Christian Kirk get his contract, and then we
started hearing twenty three million. No. It seemed like they
were willing to go to the eight, but Adams still
preferring to leave. And I think there's probably about a
five percent difference between state income tax that we have
to do it between Wisconsin and Nevada, which doesn't have one,
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So you know, you get a little bit of bonus there,
and you can start making payments on that twelve million
dollar house a little bit more aggressively if you want to,
or maybe by another one. But now the question becomes
who steps up, who's still there in free agency? I'd
be making a pitch to to Jarvis Landry would be
the guy of remaining free agents after Alan Robinson UH
signs with the Rams. Perhaps a little bit under the radar,
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but Aaron Rodgers is most certainly going to get those
first round draft picks that everybody always complained about that
he didn't get right. We're most certainly going to see
at least one of those UH this year, whether it's
a lava or or whomever falls or whatever they have
to package up to go get the guy they want.
But certainly you'll see a couple of draft picks there.
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But last year Adams a hundred sixty nine targets. Targets
We talked about myopia, you know, any uh breaking down
game tob A. Look, he missed Lazard here. Lizard was
third on the team. Jason fifty five targets, so one
sixty nine, sixty five for Aaron Jones and then fifty
five for Allen Lazard. Uh, number three, so leaving a
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lot of opportunity for other players to step in. You
had a Maori Rodgers out of Clemson who didn't participate
much injuries, uh and just getting on the field. He
didn't have many targets. COVID protocols at one point as well. Uh,
mbs is a free agent possibility. I guess that that
he comes back. But it's it's gonna be interesting to
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see how they fill out that roster. And and it's
on Rogers, And I know the numbers are there to
support Hey, when Adams didn't play, Rogers put up great numbers.
It ain't about the regular season, man. It's like we
always talk about with NBA players, and we were doing
all our due diligence over the final stretch ron and
who's available, who's not seeding, who's in the play in,
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who's falling out. The NFL is the same thing. I'm
worried about the Packers getting to the playoffs. It's what
do you do once you're there? And I know it
would have been a different game if A. J. Dillon
hadn't gotten hurt. Well he did and now he comes back.
So you've got a two headed monster. But you've got
to figure out that receiving corps. So great theater to
come and not a lot of heavy names that are
out there. Both former Brown's alright one via the uh
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the Rams at this point, but Landry and and O'Dell
coming off his injury, are probably the two leaders in
the clubhouse of what's remaining. Yeah, and you just need
one of them because you're you're gonna get one or
two guys in the draft. Like I said, this is
how polished the guys come in now, right you look,
you look at just last year's first second round of
the draft. Jamar Chase came in and oh my goodness,
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he was phenomenal. Right, away. I mentioned Waddle. You know,
I I talked about even Candarius Tony when he was
healthy had a was was playing very very short thing
and Waddle a bunch of He might as well have
had Ben Roethlisberger throwing him because a bunch of five
yard pass and those guys that at least worked together before,
which is why he got picked over. Yeah, but you
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know he's still flashed in the in the tiny time
he was on the field. And you know I mentioned
Elijah Moore. I mean every year now you go draft
to draft, guys come in and they're ready to play.
So it's as good as Davantae Adams is. If you
hit it right in the draft, you kind of had,
like I said, you had to try something. Uh, it's
not that big of a gamble, you know it's not.
It's now you got you got a couple of first
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round picks, and you have early second round picks. I
mean you could draft two or three wide receivers. Aaron
Rodgers may be sitting in the actual draft room while
they draft with a list of guys going, Okay, here's
the guys I want right here. I want him, I
want him, I want him, I want Drake London. You
know this is this is what I want us to do.
I mean, but that's how you do it. And this
could wind up being a step back today and losing
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Davontae Adams for a step forward making sure that okay now,
or make the wide receiver room as good as it
could be. Yeah, I just dug the idea of a
guy was being offered the same amount of money to
stay familiarity system guy has been his quarterbacks as he'd
entered the league. All of these things. Uh, in contrast
to say, you know, the Tom Brady less money, right,
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He's only gonna make like eleven million dollars or whatever
this year, and you've got guys that come out of
retirement or say yes, I'll do anything I can to
get over there. Meanwhile, with vants, you know what, Vegas
sounds pretty good this year. Let's let's make that happen.
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we get into Baker Mayfield, that you heard the run
at right there from Sean McVeigh. You know, I am
stunned that it took Allen Robinson this long to sign
in free agency. The Rams getting him today is a
phenomenal move. He is still a terrific wide receiver. You're
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gonna say, oh, but one who was awful? Yeah, one,
he was disengaged. He wasn't happy with his role in
the offense. They also broke in a new quarterback and
couldn't do anything offensively, so it was kind of a
struggle for the Bears. I could do a deep dive
on Allen Robinson. You just you all can just go
back and listen to the podcast podcasts of stuff from
five months of how he I've had an ankle, Yeah,
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it's gotten worse, and then more and more. All the
stories came out after Naggie was well. He was vanished,
he was fanos into the ether and returned to Kansas City.
As to how bad things were, Hell, Mitchell Trobinsky today,
Now Mitch Trabinsky wants you now he's back to the
first Mitch didn't like that during the draft after valuation,
but like sit now. But even he said, what's the
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biggest thing you learned in Buffalo? Well? Communication with the
play callers about that? For uh, you know, you don't
see me swinging a bad adam saying keep him there,
but that's what I'm doing. Um, he has Allen Robinson
at this value, absolutely tremendous. Now some Mike starts singing
Colin Hay and men, it works overkill with the wide
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receiver position. Assuming Robert Woods comes back healthy. You don't
know what happens with with Odell Beckham Jr. Coming back
off his injury. Uh, when you might have some other
needs to attend to. But man, if he's gonna come
at that rate, come on in. Yeah, I mean, look,
you don't know when Odell is gonna come back to play.
That's the big thing. The guy towards a c L
in the Super Bowl or if he is he h Yeah,
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you don't know, you don't know, but clearly I think
if he was healthy, Look, he was healthy, I think
he would have really liked him. He loved it here. Yeah,
so you can't, you can't. You can't go for what
even if you think you have a gentleman's agreement he
could come back here. Uh, you still don't know, and
you don't know when he's gonna be healthy. You go
out get Allen Robinson. You can say, oh, well, is
he still great? You know he was, he was had
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problems in Chicago. The one thing the Rams have shown
is that they are the home for outcasts. Hey, if
you're someone who's got issues with your team, doesn't matter.
Come out here. Everything is great. You will love life.
And they have done it with a lot of Look,
they they brought in a lot of crazy over the
past few years and it's worked out to the tune
of two Super Bowl appearances in one win. Uh. And
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so to go say, all right, Allen Robinson, Yeah, he
had some issues with his team, and now you wonder
how that's gonna be. This guy is still twenty seven
years old. He's still someone that's gonna catch a hundred passes.
I'm sure he and Cooper Cup will combine for over
two hundred catches at least this season, and the Rams
will stay at the top. They always seem to find
a way to figure it out right, whether it's draft
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picks or or salary cap wise. Oh, this is gonna
hurt them, This is gonna hurt them. They always find
a way to do it. And Allen Robinson is a
great get for them. I I understand that it got
lost a little bit under the uh, the the the
botlight of what happened today with Davante Adams. We're gonna
get to Baker Mayfield. But this was a great, great move.
The Rams just basically filled a big, big need. It's okay,
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what do we have outside of Cooper Cup. We were
sure that Wood is gonna be the guy. No, no no, no,
we went out got Allen Robinson. Now we're good. Now
we're feeling really good about what we did. The Rams
have just and say say they even gotten better because
he was because Robinson is more dynamic than Odell at
this point in his grow Outdell is one of those
guys that hey, I'm gonna catch passes over the middle
for like, you know, ten or twelve yards, but then
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I can give you five yards like that's his specialty.
But he doesn't stretch the field as much because you
watch the Rams try to get him the ball downfield
on long passes. What happened that was when the Rams
offense was awful and Stafford wind up throwing picks because
they tried to force the ball downfield to him. And
Odell's not that guy. Wouldn't fight ds. He wouldn't fight
the defender for the ball. Now, I'm not gonna try
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for it, catch it. Yeah, I will cost you on
celebrating Robinson down downfield too much, as he has a
career twelve point nine yard per catch average. Uh. He
had in seventeen he played with the Jaguar Rember you
get hurt one catch seventeen yards, okay, so the average
seventeen yards I catch that year. Uh. And then going
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back to going back to when he had his fourteen
hundred yard year with eighty catches, he did average seventeen
point five. I always love when you see what the
long was. Uh, ninety yards was his long there with
fourteen touchdowns, but still chasing that season ever since. So
reticent to call him a guy that you're working intermediate
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too long. But doesn't mean he can't do it on occasion,
but obviously a guy physicality will fight for possessions. I've
had arguments with with folks over his viability. Just remembered
at this point in his career, he's played for the
Jaguars and the Bears. And I'll leave it at that.
Twitter at a about a Fresca, Mike, it's swollen dull
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmen. Uh. Now,
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let's get back to the story. We thought was gonna
really stir the drinking. Now it's kind of during the drink.
Baker Mayfield wants a trade. Early today, reports came out
that Deshaun Watson had either crossed off the Browns off
his list or the Browns were informed that you are
no longer in the running for Deshaun Watson. Shortly after this,
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Baker Mayfield has expressed his desire for a trade. After
he said that the brown said, no, we're not going
to honor your request. What an absolute clown show. The
Browns are right, and you can get mad at Baker
Mayfield and I and I get that right, because look,
Baker Mayfield, what did I say from the beginning? This
is why as soon as the Deshaun Watson pursuit news
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got out, maybe the Browns thought we can talk to
him and might not make news. No, well, you're stupid,
because of course people are finding out once that news
got out. I told you the Baker Mayfield era in
Cleveland was over because he's not someone that understands the
business of the NFL, and he's gonna be hot headed,
and he's gonna say things, and he's gonna say I
can't go back there anymore. And he was. And right
away when they said we're gonna pursue to show on Watson,
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he put out his quote goodbye letter to the city
of Cleveland and the fans and everything they were they
went through. Now they're not getting to Shawn Watson. Okay, hey, Baker,
you're our guy. No, now I want a trade. And
the Browns have tried to go and and and men
fences with him, and Baker Mayfield has said no. They
wanted to have people travel to go to me him
at home and say listen, we still want you to
be our guy. We told you in the off season
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if we could go get Rogers or Wilson or Watson,
we were gonna do it. And now Baker Mayfield still
doesn't like that, all right, So this is Baker. Look,
Baker Mayfield is his own worst enemy. We've talked about this. Look,
we're ahead of the curve here on Fox Sports rating.
We told you this. He's always his own worst enemy.
He's not mature, he's a hothead. He doesn't understand the
business of the NFL. He never has. He came in
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with all this swagger and really the swagger gott misidentified
as immaturity, right, couldn't get over the pursuit of Deshaun Watson. Dude,
you gotta be mentally tougher than that. Man. Deshaun Watson
is really talented and we could talk about everything else
that goes along with it, but this is the top
five quarterback in the NFL, and oh, I can't get
over that. So, uh, you gotta find a way, man,
to to understand that the NFL is a business and
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to be able to make sure that you can rise
above that. It's it gets hard. Sometimes you can't just
go out and do commercials and throw touchdowns. There's there's
much more that goes to it. And Baker Mayfield never
got that. But for the brown side of it, Mike.
I'm telling you this is why they're a clown show,
because they know who they have. I know, I knew
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the guy they had, and I knew as soon as
they said we're going after DeShawn Watson, this is gonna
be the end of Baker Mayfield because when they don't
get DeShawn Watson, and clearly Deshaun Watson didn't want to
go to the Browns, now they have to make up.
And I knew that Baker Mayfield is gonna be the
person who says, no, now, I'm not gonna let you
make up with me. And now you are in a
world of ridiculousness because now you have a quarterback that's asked,
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that said goodbye to fans, that has asked for a trade,
and now you say you won't trade him. Now you
are you are in such a mess and the clown show,
and it's your fault because you knew the guy you had, right.
This is not a guy you had for a couple
of months. Boy, we didn't think he'd get this bad.
You've known who he was for four years, four years.
You know who he was. You've known you've known this guy,
and you've known he's been immature, and it's why you
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want out right the Chris Mortenson report yesterday, the Browns
want more of an adult at quarterback. You knew who
you had, so you knew if you struck out with
DeShawn Watson, this was going to be the result. And
before you can say, well, maybe this is what the
Browns wanted. If the Browns wanted to cut Baker Mayfield
or trade him, they could have done at any point
they did. They didn't need to do this to say, oh,
now we want This is not a Russell Wilson Aaron
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Rodgers scenario where neither side wants to be the bad guy. Now,
this is Hey, if we got rid of Baker Mayfield,
the fans to say, yes, we've had enough of Baker
Mayfield bringing somebody else. Give us Jimmy Garoppolo, give us us.
They could have traded him, done anything had they wanted to.
At any point they could have moved on. But now
they got to repair this, and it's their fault because
they didn't realize and understand the player they had and
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how he was going to react. And that's just that's
just stupid because they should have because I saw this
coming a mile away. Everybody saw this coming a mile away.
And now the Browns are trying to do damage control.
And now the only guy they have a quarterback is
the guy that doesn't want to be there. Good luck. Yeah,
I I go back to the Uh. It's starting to
look a little like the Carson Wentz thing. Now I'm
at the I don't want you. I didn't want Carson
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Wentz in India, Indian now over to to Washington. He's
not the guy that's getting you over Baker Mayfield. As
soon as he put that letter out, we talked about
it and he empathized with the situation. Don't hit send,
don't hit send. That's the deal with it. Behind the scenes,
fight through the emotions. Uh, laying it out and hard
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on the sleeve. You know, there's there's leverage, there's negotiation,
and there's a realization of who you are. You gotta
look in the mirror, right and you're a competitor. And
I get it. And we've talked about it for a
while a right. He he was the walk on Heisman
guy then first pick. So yeah, you feel like you've
gotten there, Well, yeah, you haven't finished the job yet.
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And what that means is looking around on the quarterback room,
and I'm talking the collective quarterback room, recognizing who the
A list guys are in in the joint and if
they're gonna look at Deshaun Watson and kick the can,
you have to recognize all things being equal, i e.
There are no legal issues that are gonna preclude Deshaun
Watson from playing football. Deshaun Watson is a better player
(25:21):
than Yard. Doesn't mean you don't still work to It
doesn't mean that you're not gonna be salty and sad
about it, but it means you gotta go back to work.
And if you know that, let the chips fall where
they may. As it were, by putting that noe doubt,
he showed showed your ass again, for lack of a
better phraseology. Josina Anderson reporting earlier today that the Seahawks
(25:41):
discussing maybe whether Baker Mayfield is a fit for them.
Obviously Cleveland will be in the market and we gotta
figure out right if it is legitimately Atlanta and New Orleans, Well,
that means Matt Ryan's gotta end up somewhere. So going
to throw balls too in Joku and Amari Cooper with
that backfield and an offensive line could be worse fits there.
(26:02):
But for for Baker Seattle, I thought Indianapolis seemed like
a you know, one to one kind of fit in
terms of personnel. But again, is he a guy that
I'm reaching for at this point. No, But the fact
that he took the flamethrower out like he was at
the end of Once upon a Time in Hollywood. Bad
job by him, because now you know you're in no
(26:23):
man land, and Cleveland's lost some leverage in the process,
so it's gonna make it that much harder to get
to your end game. Twitter at how about a fresca
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(26:44):
that this is gonna be the outcome if you don't
get a quarterback. Really well, Andrew Barry and company, they
blew it right. I mean, you were not given the
way the things had been reported, and every move of
Deshaun Watson. Hell, it might have might as well have
been the Norad tracker that we have for Santa Claus
on Christmas Eve in terms of what the hell he's doing, right,
(27:07):
I mean, because we've always joked about it. All right,
they're tracking this coach. Look, he's just landed this private Blaine.
Who's he going to meet? What's the recruit? What's the guy?
You want some free agency? There's Rex Ryan outside of
guy's house like he's in say anything, with a boom
box over his head. I mean, all of those things.
And in this case, for Deshaun Watson, we knew every move,
like you said, we knew who he wanted to meet,
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and when he didn't write, when he said now I
want no part of Seattle, Okay, we knew that immediately. Okay,
cross them off? All right? Who are the suitors left?
And even today, all right, and still a couple more days,
he's not quite yet ready yet to make a decision.
So the Ryan deferment of his roster bonus continues, and
(27:49):
all these other permutations. But for Baker Mayfield, you didn't
have to You didn't have to push anything, right, I mean,
if the if you were still gonna be the guy
and you had a number of players at the end
of last week, I gotta say he's the guy. I
don't know if they thought he was leaving they decided
to speak up. I'd better say something because he could
be gone. I'll say something. That's my quarterback. I mean,
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we got no tiery t o kind of things going
on his way out the door. I'll say it. That
was my quarterback. That that that little at the Baker,
That that that little at the Mayfield Baker Mayfield pay
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you're poking around and seeing that, Oh, there's a couple
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watch it all the rest of the year. We play
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Mike Harmon, Steve just saying, Alex Tischer, are you guys ready?
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Let's go alright? First one, it is Spam. It a
cooking competition show where one chef cooks a meat based
meal with less ingredients at their disposal, while the other
has a full kitchen but substitute spam for the meat.
Judges decide which dish wins. Spam it No, no, no, okay,
(30:21):
damn it, spam it. I love you, Okay, Jason, you're
trying really hard to make this a show? Is it
true TV? Only in Hawaii? They do specially specialty programming
there special affiliate in Hawaii. Are they big on spam
and HAWAITI? Yeah? Huge, It's an island canned food. Good
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one there, I would say no. It is not a show.
A cooking competition show where one chef cooks a meat
based meal with less ingredients at their disposal, while the
other has a full kitchen but substitute spam for the meat.
Judges decide which dish wins. This is not true TV,
(31:04):
but it would be a good one. That's a good one.
I like that. Yeah, you lost me at meat. Sweet
dreams are made Probably not sweet dreams are made of cheese.
Singer now restaurant tour Anie Lennox judges a London cooking
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main ingredient in all of the dishes. That's almost your
fever dream last of cheese. The answer is no. That
name is so good, Sweet Jason. I'm gonna say no,
(31:48):
but you should send this idea to them. That is good. Well,
I would have to split this with our former co
worker Tom Looney, who gave me this one for tonight.
Used this tonight. Yes, it sounds like party goes. I
love true TV. Let me know when you're playing it
so I can listen. Yes, Sweet Dreams are made of cheese. Okay,
not a true TV show. Uh. Dead Jail or rock
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and Roll. Dead Jail or rock and Roll contestants are
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kind of like the Amazing Race to find the person
they're assigned to and meet the person is either dead,
in jail or on the music scene. Sometimes the meeting
is in a prison, sometimes it's on stage, and sometimes
it's in front of a gravestone. Dead Jail or rock
(32:36):
and roll. But yeah, I mean this is like remote
control or is he dead or Canadian? Can you only
be Canadian? Or dead? That was? That was that was
the whole thing the show. Oh that's not good. Yeah,
uh yeah, it's a show you like. Oh you like
it right, It's a great show. If only it was
(32:58):
a show show and Mike Harmon, I thought you would
get this because that's the title of a song by
hair metal favorite Michael Monroe, Dead Jail or Rock and Roll.
I thought you would get that one. That's that's even
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I think you were right. Yeah, you another no, but
it's great. Yeah to look up who this woman is. Yeah,
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I don't think. I think I've lost one game today.
The only game I lost today was the five twelve
ups that I didn't have. It didn't have you, I
didn't have you know. I've lost two games today. I
didn't have New Mexico State beating Yukon and I didn't
have Iowa losing today. But everything else, everything I've I mean,
I've clinched. Everybody had Kentucky and Iowa. No Kentucky to Iowa.
Now they're both gone and now I've basically one I'm
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gonna put that TV. But listen to you. Oh it's
gonna be great, doesn't It doesn't matter. It doesn't Like
I will tell people who just watched the tournament for
the first time, I'd say, it doesn't matter what you
know and what you don't know. There are two columns.
There is a wind column and there is a lost column.
And as long as you have the right ones in
the wind column and the run not have the wrong
ones in the lost column, guess what you can do.
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Pretty But the smugness is unbecoming, well because it may
because Duke may lose, and really, I mean I may
only have to Duke could lose to nor Night in
a horrendous Then we're watching Mike Showsky cry and also
tell the Duke fans he's gonna grab the mic after
the game and go, this was awful. I can't believe
we did this. This was my would be glorious. What
(01:55):
the hell is wrong with I'm just picturing Sky with
the Mike yelling everybody go back to your seat as
they're just storming the cord around him. Go back to
your seats, Go back to your seats. All of you
go back. This is me my last game. We were terrible.
I'd promise you we're gonna do better. Hey, hey, hey,
give me give me back my jacket. I'm just picturing
that whole thing happening right now. So it's gotta be tonight.
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It's gotta be tonight because t who knows, who knows?
We may not get tomorrow. We'll do it tonight. We
might not get tomorrow. Yeah, I didn't know which song
you were going. Who needs We've got tonight? Who needs to?
I mean it is your anniversary, So happy anniversary. I
mean you could say and sing that one as as
part of the the wooing on anniversary twenty seven. Congratulations
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and and yes, it has been a chaotic and tourly
to steal from Phoebe buffet of friends, first day to
the n C Double A tournament, a lot of heads
on swivels, and and certainly for us, I mean we
got a lot of friends. Look by my bracket U
c l A goes down. I don't think I'm watching
any more tournament games because that would take two of
my final fours out again, what you watch, what you think,
(03:03):
blah blah blah. If it goes down in flames. We'll
just keep posting the floating dumpster fire as often as
we can. Uh Ragged first half would be the kind
way to describe it. But but yeah, it's the day
where everybody celebrates, not just because it's the n C
Double A Tournament, but they also really weren't working hard
(03:24):
because well, St Patrick's Day. I had many shots from
friends of mine in in office buildings where the conference
rooms were all for, all the TVs were and monitors
were turned to n C Double A Tournament. You mean
pictures and shots And you said you've had many shots.
You mean pictures. Oh, I didn't have any, but they
were telling me of all the shots being drunk there
because like here's what's normally, you know, coffee, creamer or whatever.
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Now there's bottles of Jamison, uh and buckets of Guinness. So,
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I'll have more on the n c A tournament tonight
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as it continues to unfold for us and many u
c l A fans right now very nervous um. But
the big ticket item today Davante Adams traded from the
Packers to the Raiders. The Packers will get a first
and the second round pick, the Raiders giving up a
decent amount for a guy they had to sign to
a big contract extension, and now Davante Adams getting twenty
(04:49):
eight million dollars a year for the next five years.
You know, we talked about the Atmos part of it
last hour on the show, and now we've got to
get to the Aaron Rodgers Packers part of it, because
on the surface, it doesn't make sense, right. Why would
you spend all this money to bring Aaron Rodgers back
only to trade away your next best offensive player not
named Aaron Rodgers. Why would you do that. They had
(05:10):
such great chemistry. Davante Adams is great. Why it seems, oh,
it seems ridiculous, But let me just say this because honestly,
and this is where I zig. When you think I'm
gonna zag, or do I zag when you think I'm
gonna zig? Whatever you whichever way you wear, I mean,
you're just going in the direction. One dog goes this way,
the other dog goes that way, and uh, this dog
(05:30):
is going, hey, what do you want from me? Uh?
I completely get why the Packers made this move. Clearly
it was coming for a while. Aaron Rodgers knew what
was coming. We got that report as well. Aaron Rodgers
has to be pissed. Now, Aaron Rodgers kind of knew
they're They're not gonna suddenly, Uh take everybody by surprise. Go, hey,
we're trading Davante Adams. Yeah, Aaron, we're gonna lie to
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you and not bring him back at it. It doesn't
make sense, right, But I honestly I get this because
what you need to do, if you're the Packers, you
take an honest look at your team. You say, right,
what what do we got? Well, we're good enough to
win this division. The NFC is not great. But clearly
offensively we don't have enough. Because I just watched our
team with home field advantage again the second year in
(06:14):
a row, fail offensively when it mattered the most. Right,
you failed against the Buccaneers two years ago. You failed
miserably against the forty niners where you couldn't put any
points on the board. So you need a change because
bringing back the same offense wasn't gonna work. And now
it's unfortunate that how do you try to make this change? Well,
(06:34):
the best way they could affect change was we trade
Davante Adams and we try to reload at a position
that is normally incredibly rich in the draft. And that's
what the Packers have to do. Instead of having the
one great receiver and a bunch of other guys you
don't catch the ball out of that don't catch the
ball at all. You need to spread things out a
little bit. You need more options. So the Packers, I
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mean it was it was a tough but that you
had to bite the bullet and say, you know, we
gotta do this. Here, what this will do. This gives
us a little bit more money freed up if we
want to make a move in free agency. If we
want to make a trade for a wide receiver, we can.
But what we also can do is really address the
position in the draft where there's every year now the
wide receivers coming out of of college football are terrific.
(07:17):
You have to really you have to really suck as
an evaluator to miss on on early round wide receivers
in the NFL now, because there's seven or eight that
come out every year that you go, boy, these guys
are really really good guys who can get in the
first sixty four picks that you can do that they're
pretty good. You have to you have to be really
bad to miss on wide receivers, and wide receiver is
a very replaceable position in the NFL. Yes, there are
(07:40):
great players, but what's gonna be better for the Packers
to try to try it out the same offense that
we know is not good enough and everybody's a year
older or hey, instead of this, we trade Adams and
then we bring in some guys that are gonna be
good some Look, you're into Aaron Rodgers now for the
next three or four years, so it's not a one
year thing and we have to rebuild or were to
or we're done this. We have to reload, or we're done.
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You have a few years now, and you think we
can hit the ground running pretty easy at wide receiver
because guys are coming out of the college football now
and catching a hundred passes right Jalen Waddles coming out
and being a star. Davante Smith is coming out and
being a star. Elijah Moore is a second round pick.
He's a great player. There's many wide receivers who come
into the league right now and are terrific right away.
So if you're the Packers and you can add three guys,
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make it one in in in free agency, whether you
think it's gonna be Odell Beckham or somebody else, you
make a trade. If you add one guy in free
agency who's good, and then you get two more in
the draft, suddenly your offense is much more dangerous because
if you're not just relying on Adams and a bunch
of guys that everybody can cover and you can shut down.
The Packers had to do something. It probably wasn't their
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first choice to do this, but it makes sense that, Okay,
we trade away our big player, we get a lot
of draft capital, We're gonna go after wide receivers to
make that room deeper and better, and that's how we're
going to improve. That's how we're going to get better
and make sure the offense to take the next step.
So I completely get, I understand and I support what
the Packers had to do with this trade. Again, didn't
want to do it, but they kind of had to
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when they were because he only moved so many guys
and be hamstrung so many ways, they kind of had
to do it. Well, the fun part of his if
you pull back and now it's the alright veracity of
the reports, right, that's what we need. We need to
you know, have the cage match of all of the
the insiders here, right because Rob Domowski, who's covered the
(09:28):
team for years, per a sourus. Packers were willing to
pay Adams equally to what the Raiders are with the
new deal, but Adams decided he wanted to play elsewhere.
And yes, Rogers was aware of the developments in the
last several days. But I think that's an interesting piece
to it of Yeah, I've done here, right. What all
the expectation was, at least the reporting was that Aaron
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Rodgers wasn't coming back unless Adams was going to be back,
and then we had the reports of what he was offered.
We watched Christian Kirk get his contract, and then we
started hearing twenty three million. No. It seemed like they
were willing to go to the eight, but Adams still
preferring to leave. And I think there's probably about a
five percent difference between state income tax that we have
to do it between Wisconsin and Nevada, which doesn't have one,
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So you know, you get a little bit of bonus there,
and you can start making payments on that twelve million
dollar house a little bit more aggressively if you want to,
or maybe by another one. But now the question becomes
who steps up, who's still there in free agency? I'd
be making a pitch to to Jarvis Landry would be
the guy of remaining free agents after Alan Robinson UH
signs with the Rams. Perhaps a little bit under the radar,
(10:34):
but Aaron Rodgers is most certainly going to get those
first round draft picks that everybody always complained about that
he didn't get right. We're most certainly going to see
at least one of those UH this year, whether it's
a lava or or whomever falls or whatever they have
to package up to go get the guy they want.
But certainly you'll see a couple of draft picks there.
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But last year Adams a hundred sixty nine targets. Targets
We talked about myopia, you know, any uh breaking down
game tob A. Look, he missed Lazard here. Lizard was
third on the team. Jason fifty five targets, so one
sixty nine, sixty five for Aaron Jones and then fifty
five for Allen Lazard. Uh, number three, so leaving a
(11:16):
lot of opportunity for other players to step in. You
had a Maori Rodgers out of Clemson who didn't participate
much injuries, uh and just getting on the field. He
didn't have many targets. COVID protocols at one point as well. Uh,
mbs is a free agent possibility. I guess that that
he comes back. But it's it's gonna be interesting to
(11:38):
see how they fill out that roster. And and it's
on Rogers, And I know the numbers are there to
support Hey, when Adams didn't play, Rogers put up great numbers.
It ain't about the regular season, man. It's like we
always talk about with NBA players, and we were doing
all our due diligence over the final stretch ron and
who's available, who's not seeding, who's in the play in,
(12:00):
who's falling out. The NFL is the same thing. I'm
worried about the Packers getting to the playoffs. It's what
do you do once you're there? And I know it
would have been a different game if A. J. Dillon
hadn't gotten hurt. Well he did and now he comes back.
So you've got a two headed monster. But you've got
to figure out that receiving corps. So great theater to
come and not a lot of heavy names that are
out there. Both former Brown's alright one via the uh
(12:24):
the Rams at this point, but Landry and and O'Dell
coming off his injury, are probably the two leaders in
the clubhouse of what's remaining. Yeah, and you just need
one of them because you're you're gonna get one or
two guys in the draft. Like I said, this is
how polished the guys come in now, right you look,
you look at just last year's first second round of
the draft. Jamar Chase came in and oh my goodness,
(12:45):
he was phenomenal. Right, away. I mentioned Waddle. You know,
I I talked about even Candarius Tony when he was
healthy had a was was playing very very short thing
and Waddle a bunch of He might as well have
had Ben Roethlisberger throwing him because a bunch of five
yard pass and those guys that at least worked together before,
which is why he got picked over. Yeah, but you
(13:07):
know he's still flashed in the in the tiny time
he was on the field. And you know I mentioned
Elijah Moore. I mean every year now you go draft
to draft, guys come in and they're ready to play.
So it's as good as Davantae Adams is. If you
hit it right in the draft, you kind of had,
like I said, you had to try something. Uh, it's
not that big of a gamble, you know it's not.
It's now you got you got a couple of first
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round picks, and you have early second round picks. I
mean you could draft two or three wide receivers. Aaron
Rodgers may be sitting in the actual draft room while
they draft with a list of guys going, Okay, here's
the guys I want right here. I want him, I
want him, I want him, I want Drake London. You
know this is this is what I want us to do.
I mean, but that's how you do it. And this
could wind up being a step back today and losing
(13:51):
Davontae Adams for a step forward making sure that okay now,
or make the wide receiver room as good as it
could be. Yeah, I just dug the idea of a
guy was being offered the same amount of money to
stay familiarity system guy has been his quarterbacks as he'd
entered the league. All of these things. Uh, in contrast
to say, you know, the Tom Brady less money, right,
(14:13):
He's only gonna make like eleven million dollars or whatever
this year, and you've got guys that come out of
retirement or say yes, I'll do anything I can to
get over there. Meanwhile, with vants, you know what, Vegas
sounds pretty good this year. Let's let's make that happen.
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we get into Baker Mayfield, that you heard the run
at right there from Sean McVeigh. You know, I am
stunned that it took Allen Robinson this long to sign
in free agency. The Rams getting him today is a
phenomenal move. He is still a terrific wide receiver. You're
(15:18):
gonna say, oh, but one who was awful? Yeah, one,
he was disengaged. He wasn't happy with his role in
the offense. They also broke in a new quarterback and
couldn't do anything offensively, so it was kind of a
struggle for the Bears. I could do a deep dive
on Allen Robinson. You just you all can just go
back and listen to the podcast podcasts of stuff from
five months of how he I've had an ankle, Yeah,
(15:41):
it's gotten worse, and then more and more. All the
stories came out after Naggie was well. He was vanished,
he was fanos into the ether and returned to Kansas City.
As to how bad things were, Hell, Mitchell Trobinsky today,
Now Mitch Trabinsky wants you now he's back to the
first Mitch didn't like that during the draft after valuation,
but like sit now. But even he said, what's the
(16:04):
biggest thing you learned in Buffalo? Well? Communication with the
play callers about that? For uh, you know, you don't
see me swinging a bad adam saying keep him there,
but that's what I'm doing. Um, he has Allen Robinson
at this value, absolutely tremendous. Now some Mike starts singing
Colin Hay and men, it works overkill with the wide
(16:25):
receiver position. Assuming Robert Woods comes back healthy. You don't
know what happens with with Odell Beckham Jr. Coming back
off his injury. Uh, when you might have some other
needs to attend to. But man, if he's gonna come
at that rate, come on in. Yeah, I mean, look,
you don't know when Odell is gonna come back to play.
That's the big thing. The guy towards a c L
in the Super Bowl or if he is he h Yeah,
(16:46):
you don't know, you don't know, but clearly I think
if he was healthy, Look, he was healthy, I think
he would have really liked him. He loved it here. Yeah,
so you can't, you can't. You can't go for what
even if you think you have a gentleman's agreement he
could come back here. Uh, you still don't know, and
you don't know when he's gonna be healthy. You go
out get Allen Robinson. You can say, oh, well, is
he still great? You know he was, he was had
(17:07):
problems in Chicago. The one thing the Rams have shown
is that they are the home for outcasts. Hey, if
you're someone who's got issues with your team, doesn't matter.
Come out here. Everything is great. You will love life.
And they have done it with a lot of Look,
they they brought in a lot of crazy over the
past few years and it's worked out to the tune
of two Super Bowl appearances in one win. Uh. And
(17:27):
so to go say, all right, Allen Robinson, Yeah, he
had some issues with his team, and now you wonder
how that's gonna be. This guy is still twenty seven
years old. He's still someone that's gonna catch a hundred passes.
I'm sure he and Cooper Cup will combine for over
two hundred catches at least this season, and the Rams
will stay at the top. They always seem to find
a way to figure it out right, whether it's draft
(17:48):
picks or or salary cap wise. Oh, this is gonna
hurt them, This is gonna hurt them. They always find
a way to do it. And Allen Robinson is a
great get for them. I I understand that it got
lost a little bit under the uh, the the the
botlight of what happened today with Davante Adams. We're gonna
get to Baker Mayfield. But this was a great, great move.
The Rams just basically filled a big, big need. It's okay,
(18:11):
what do we have outside of Cooper Cup. We were
sure that Wood is gonna be the guy. No, no no, no,
we went out got Allen Robinson. Now we're good. Now
we're feeling really good about what we did. The Rams
have just and say say they even gotten better because
he was because Robinson is more dynamic than Odell at
this point in his grow Outdell is one of those
guys that hey, I'm gonna catch passes over the middle
for like, you know, ten or twelve yards, but then
(18:31):
I can give you five yards like that's his specialty.
But he doesn't stretch the field as much because you
watch the Rams try to get him the ball downfield
on long passes. What happened that was when the Rams
offense was awful and Stafford wind up throwing picks because
they tried to force the ball downfield to him. And
Odell's not that guy. Wouldn't fight ds. He wouldn't fight
the defender for the ball. Now, I'm not gonna try
(18:54):
for it, catch it. Yeah, I will cost you on
celebrating Robinson down downfield too much, as he has a
career twelve point nine yard per catch average. Uh. He
had in seventeen he played with the Jaguar Rember you
get hurt one catch seventeen yards, okay, so the average
seventeen yards I catch that year. Uh. And then going
(19:15):
back to going back to when he had his fourteen
hundred yard year with eighty catches, he did average seventeen
point five. I always love when you see what the
long was. Uh, ninety yards was his long there with
fourteen touchdowns, but still chasing that season ever since. So
reticent to call him a guy that you're working intermediate
(19:36):
too long. But doesn't mean he can't do it on occasion,
but obviously a guy physicality will fight for possessions. I've
had arguments with with folks over his viability. Just remembered
at this point in his career, he's played for the
Jaguars and the Bears. And I'll leave it at that.
Twitter at a about a Fresca, Mike, it's swollen dull
the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmen. Uh. Now,
(19:58):
let's get back to the story. We thought was gonna
really stir the drinking. Now it's kind of during the drink.
Baker Mayfield wants a trade. Early today, reports came out
that Deshaun Watson had either crossed off the Browns off
his list or the Browns were informed that you are
no longer in the running for Deshaun Watson. Shortly after this,
(20:18):
Baker Mayfield has expressed his desire for a trade. After
he said that the brown said, no, we're not going
to honor your request. What an absolute clown show. The
Browns are right, and you can get mad at Baker
Mayfield and I and I get that right, because look,
Baker Mayfield, what did I say from the beginning? This
is why as soon as the Deshaun Watson pursuit news
(20:39):
got out, maybe the Browns thought we can talk to
him and might not make news. No, well, you're stupid,
because of course people are finding out once that news
got out. I told you the Baker Mayfield era in
Cleveland was over because he's not someone that understands the
business of the NFL, and he's gonna be hot headed,
and he's gonna say things, and he's gonna say I
can't go back there anymore. And he was. And right
away when they said we're gonna pursue to show on Watson,
(21:00):
he put out his quote goodbye letter to the city
of Cleveland and the fans and everything they were they
went through. Now they're not getting to Shawn Watson. Okay, hey, Baker,
you're our guy. No, now I want a trade. And
the Browns have tried to go and and and men
fences with him, and Baker Mayfield has said no. They
wanted to have people travel to go to me him
at home and say listen, we still want you to
be our guy. We told you in the off season
(21:22):
if we could go get Rogers or Wilson or Watson,
we were gonna do it. And now Baker Mayfield still
doesn't like that, all right, So this is Baker. Look,
Baker Mayfield is his own worst enemy. We've talked about this. Look,
we're ahead of the curve here on Fox Sports rating.
We told you this. He's always his own worst enemy.
He's not mature, he's a hothead. He doesn't understand the
business of the NFL. He never has. He came in
(21:42):
with all this swagger and really the swagger gott misidentified
as immaturity, right, couldn't get over the pursuit of Deshaun Watson. Dude,
you gotta be mentally tougher than that. Man. Deshaun Watson
is really talented and we could talk about everything else
that goes along with it, but this is the top
five quarterback in the NFL, and oh, I can't get
over that. So, uh, you gotta find a way, man,
to to understand that the NFL is a business and
(22:05):
to be able to make sure that you can rise
above that. It's it gets hard. Sometimes you can't just
go out and do commercials and throw touchdowns. There's there's
much more that goes to it. And Baker Mayfield never
got that. But for the brown side of it, Mike.
I'm telling you this is why they're a clown show,
because they know who they have. I know, I knew
(22:26):
the guy they had, and I knew as soon as
they said we're going after DeShawn Watson, this is gonna
be the end of Baker Mayfield because when they don't
get DeShawn Watson, and clearly Deshaun Watson didn't want to
go to the Browns, now they have to make up.
And I knew that Baker Mayfield is gonna be the
person who says, no, now, I'm not gonna let you
make up with me. And now you are in a
world of ridiculousness because now you have a quarterback that's asked,
(22:48):
that said goodbye to fans, that has asked for a trade,
and now you say you won't trade him. Now you
are you are in such a mess and the clown show,
and it's your fault because you knew the guy you had, right.
This is not a guy you had for a couple
of months. Boy, we didn't think he'd get this bad.
You've known who he was for four years, four years.
You know who he was. You've known you've known this guy,
and you've known he's been immature, and it's why you
(23:09):
want out right the Chris Mortenson report yesterday, the Browns
want more of an adult at quarterback. You knew who
you had, so you knew if you struck out with
DeShawn Watson, this was going to be the result. And
before you can say, well, maybe this is what the
Browns wanted. If the Browns wanted to cut Baker Mayfield
or trade him, they could have done at any point
they did. They didn't need to do this to say, oh,
now we want This is not a Russell Wilson Aaron
(23:32):
Rodgers scenario where neither side wants to be the bad guy. Now,
this is Hey, if we got rid of Baker Mayfield,
the fans to say, yes, we've had enough of Baker
Mayfield bringing somebody else. Give us Jimmy Garoppolo, give us us.
They could have traded him, done anything had they wanted to.
At any point they could have moved on. But now
they got to repair this, and it's their fault because
they didn't realize and understand the player they had and
(23:53):
how he was going to react. And that's just that's
just stupid because they should have because I saw this
coming a mile away. Everybody saw this coming a mile away.
And now the Browns are trying to do damage control.
And now the only guy they have a quarterback is
the guy that doesn't want to be there. Good luck. Yeah,
I I go back to the Uh. It's starting to
look a little like the Carson Wentz thing. Now I'm
at the I don't want you. I didn't want Carson
(24:15):
Wentz in India, Indian now over to to Washington. He's
not the guy that's getting you over Baker Mayfield. As
soon as he put that letter out, we talked about
it and he empathized with the situation. Don't hit send,
don't hit send. That's the deal with it. Behind the scenes,
fight through the emotions. Uh, laying it out and hard
(24:37):
on the sleeve. You know, there's there's leverage, there's negotiation,
and there's a realization of who you are. You gotta
look in the mirror, right and you're a competitor. And
I get it. And we've talked about it for a
while a right. He he was the walk on Heisman
guy then first pick. So yeah, you feel like you've
gotten there, Well, yeah, you haven't finished the job yet.
(24:58):
And what that means is looking around on the quarterback room,
and I'm talking the collective quarterback room, recognizing who the
A list guys are in in the joint and if
they're gonna look at Deshaun Watson and kick the can,
you have to recognize all things being equal, i e.
There are no legal issues that are gonna preclude Deshaun
Watson from playing football. Deshaun Watson is a better player
(25:21):
than Yard. Doesn't mean you don't still work to It
doesn't mean that you're not gonna be salty and sad
about it, but it means you gotta go back to work.
And if you know that, let the chips fall where
they may. As it were, by putting that noe doubt,
he showed showed your ass again, for lack of a
better phraseology. Josina Anderson reporting earlier today that the Seahawks
(25:41):
discussing maybe whether Baker Mayfield is a fit for them.
Obviously Cleveland will be in the market and we gotta
figure out right if it is legitimately Atlanta and New Orleans, Well,
that means Matt Ryan's gotta end up somewhere. So going
to throw balls too in Joku and Amari Cooper with
that backfield and an offensive line could be worse fits there.
(26:02):
But for for Baker Seattle, I thought Indianapolis seemed like
a you know, one to one kind of fit in
terms of personnel. But again, is he a guy that
I'm reaching for at this point. No, But the fact
that he took the flamethrower out like he was at
the end of Once upon a Time in Hollywood. Bad
job by him, because now you know you're in no
(26:23):
man land, and Cleveland's lost some leverage in the process,
so it's gonna make it that much harder to get
to your end game. Twitter at how about a fresca
Mike gets swollen done the Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Harmon It Really this is all on
the Browns. Good luck Now you want you wonder why
you can't really achieve because you don't you don't realize
(26:44):
that this is gonna be the outcome if you don't
get a quarterback. Really well, Andrew Barry and company, they
blew it right. I mean, you were not given the
way the things had been reported, and every move of
Deshaun Watson. Hell, it might have might as well have
been the Norad tracker that we have for Santa Claus
on Christmas Eve in terms of what the hell he's doing, right,
(27:07):
I mean, because we've always joked about it. All right,
they're tracking this coach. Look, he's just landed this private Blaine.
Who's he going to meet? What's the recruit? What's the guy?
You want some free agency? There's Rex Ryan outside of
guy's house like he's in say anything, with a boom
box over his head. I mean, all of those things.
And in this case, for Deshaun Watson, we knew every move,
like you said, we knew who he wanted to meet,
(27:28):
and when he didn't write, when he said now I
want no part of Seattle, Okay, we knew that immediately. Okay,
cross them off? All right? Who are the suitors left?
And even today, all right, and still a couple more days,
he's not quite yet ready yet to make a decision.
So the Ryan deferment of his roster bonus continues, and
(27:49):
all these other permutations. But for Baker Mayfield, you didn't
have to You didn't have to push anything, right, I mean,
if the if you were still gonna be the guy
and you had a number of players at the end
of last week, I gotta say he's the guy. I
don't know if they thought he was leaving they decided
to speak up. I'd better say something because he could
be gone. I'll say something. That's my quarterback. I mean,
(28:10):
we got no tiery t o kind of things going
on his way out the door. I'll say it. That
was my quarterback. That that that little at the Baker,
That that that little at the Mayfield Baker Mayfield pay
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out this game a five point deficit to Akron, maybe
you're poking around and seeing that, Oh, there's a couple
of games on True TV. What is True TV? Hey,
that's why we play the best game of March or
any other month called True TV or Not TV to
(29:39):
get you familiar eyes with True TV, which has a
lot of college basketball games a station you probably don't
watch it all the rest of the year. We play
a True TV or not game. I give you a
show and you tell me if it's on True TV
or if it's made up entirely by me playing tonight myself.
Mike Harmon, Steve just saying, Alex Tischer, are you guys ready?
(29:59):
Let's go alright? First one, it is Spam. It a
cooking competition show where one chef cooks a meat based
meal with less ingredients at their disposal, while the other
has a full kitchen but substitute spam for the meat.
Judges decide which dish wins. Spam it No, no, no, okay,
(30:21):
damn it, spam it. I love you, Okay, Jason, you're
trying really hard to make this a show? Is it
true TV? Only in Hawaii? They do specially specialty programming
there special affiliate in Hawaii. Are they big on spam
and HAWAITI? Yeah? Huge, It's an island canned food. Good
(30:43):
one there, I would say no. It is not a show.
A cooking competition show where one chef cooks a meat
based meal with less ingredients at their disposal, while the
other has a full kitchen but substitute spam for the meat.
Judges decide which dish wins. This is not true TV,
(31:04):
but it would be a good one. That's a good one.
I like that. Yeah, you lost me at meat. Sweet
dreams are made Probably not sweet dreams are made of cheese.
Singer now restaurant tour Anie Lennox judges a London cooking
competition where the main ingredient in all the dishes our cheese.
(31:24):
Sweet Dreams are made of cheese. Singer and now restaurateur
Anie Lennox Judge is a London cooking competition where the
main ingredient in all of the dishes. That's almost your
fever dream last of cheese. The answer is no. That
name is so good, Sweet Jason. I'm gonna say no,
(31:48):
but you should send this idea to them. That is good. Well,
I would have to split this with our former co
worker Tom Looney, who gave me this one for tonight.
Used this tonight. Yes, it sounds like party goes. I
love true TV. Let me know when you're playing it
so I can listen. Yes, Sweet Dreams are made of cheese. Okay,
not a true TV show. Uh. Dead Jail or rock
(32:12):
and Roll. Dead Jail or rock and Roll contestants are
given assignments without the use of phones or devices, so
kind of like the Amazing Race to find the person
they're assigned to and meet the person is either dead,
in jail or on the music scene. Sometimes the meeting
is in a prison, sometimes it's on stage, and sometimes
it's in front of a gravestone. Dead Jail or rock
(32:36):
and roll. But yeah, I mean this is like remote
control or is he dead or Canadian? Can you only
be Canadian? Or dead? That was? That was that was
the whole thing the show. Oh that's not good. Yeah,
uh yeah, it's a show you like. Oh you like
it right, It's a great show. If only it was
(32:58):
a show show and Mike Harmon, I thought you would
get this because that's the title of a song by
hair metal favorite Michael Monroe, Dead Jail or Rock and Roll.
I thought you would get that one. That's that's even
better now I will go download it and added to
my Apple playlist. Okay uh. Joeett millionaire, Joett millionaire, Tennessee
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(33:47):
no parts of her experiences are off limits. Jason, if
you're making all of these up, you are in the
wrong career path. I'll say that, Hey, he's done. Okay,
I think you were right. Yeah, you another no, but
it's great. Yeah to look up who this woman is. Yeah,
I'm saying no too. But partman is Google like Joette
(34:08):
man Cullen. Does anyone comes Joette Man Killer man Cullen,
Joett Man keeping with the show? Yeah, well I'm a
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Joette man Cullen when I made it up, because that
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(34:30):
who was Joseph must Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Right.
Then there's Edward Cullen, the vampire from Twilight, but no
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