April 19, 2022 • 35 mins
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady has made some interesting comments about his career…again. Despite the Golden State Warriors winning again versus the Denver Nuggets, Steve Kerr has a bit of a personnel problem but it’s a good thing! We know the USFL is new-ish, even a little bit weird, but should a player get cut over requesting pizza instead of chicken salad? All this and much more on The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. I hate that song. Hello,
and welcome inside our four of The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Harmon. Uh, we're gonna have
more on the big win by the Golden State Warriors
coming up in a few minutes, including we can help
solve the big problem that Steve Kerr is now gonna
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be faced with. Oh what do I Guitar? Corton Pool
is so good? It STIs Gurry is so good. Oh
what do I do? What do I do? Um? But
Tom Brady is just in the open, and wouldn't you
know it, we have a Tom Brady's story. About an
hour or so ago. Brady, you did an interview with
ESPN was asked about his return to the field a
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month after he retired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Did
you see they avoided the sale of that football? Yeah?
What a clown show. Oh, come on, it wasn't the
last ball. I don't want to pay for it. The
last ball until he throws another one in September. And
if you bought it thinking that was to be all
to end all, you're a dope and you deserve to
lose your half a million dollars? Wow? Why are you
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so mad? Who hurt you? What did you didn't? I'm
gonna say what com I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say
what you say to me? It isn't your money? What
do you care? You? What? What? What do you get?
The guy thought he was buying Tom Brady's last touchdown ball.
It turned out not to be the ball, so it's
not worth finer in eighteen thousand dollars. I'm playing until
he gets on a field. No, he's getting on a field.
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He's playing again. He said he's playing. So what he's
not going to retire again? I don't think. Who knows.
Maybe suffers a knee injury, gets rolled on by one
of his kids, You don't know. On second thought, I
really would like to play for only Bruce arians So
I'm going to retire Now that he's been kicked upstairs,
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I could say, is the guy the guy bought it
knowing that Brady just threw for over five thousand yards
with over forty touchdowns. Yeah, there was no chance in
hell he was gonna play again. You deserve what you get. Wow,
look at you cut off check, if guts bat check,
if you spent that kind of money, I would feel
bad for you. Would say, no, I bought it was
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my decision. My kids can't go to college now, but
that's okay. It was my decision to puy. Hey. Hey,
if he was buying a football for five thousand dollars
and whether he could afford to pay for his kids
college was in balance, that's a whole other problem that
he's got. Well, I'm just saying, I'm just I'm just
trying to throw out there what it could be, because
you're just blankly want to say no, you you're a stiff.
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You shouldn't deserve that. You just have to pay double.
Keep that face because it's a common thing in the
marketplace these days. Right, you get excited saying training cards
get released and people go, oh, I want to have that,
and they buy it, and then they realized, wow, that's
not as rare as I thought. And then they don't.
They try to cancel the purchase, saying, well, it's not
what I thought it was. Like what because you thought
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it was like one of like ten being made when
all of a sudden they were showing up with truck
fulls at local retailers. No, you're a dope. Cough up
a book. Wow, wow, Wow, this is why we've had
a great night. Now, suddenly you're really upset about no positivity.
I don't know that anybody that gets that upset about memorabilia,
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but you do. You have this memorabilia gene, and suddenly
your face gets all scrunched up and you're you're like
anger and inside out. You get so mad about memorabilia things. Well,
I mean, I celebrate the collected works of Louis Black
and his screening, there's no question. But speaking of Brady,
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he talked to ESPN tonight about why he decided to
come back to the NFL, Tell me, if you believe
a single word of anything I'm about to say. Quote,
I knew my body physically could still do what it
could do, and obviously I have a love for the game.
I think I'll always have a love for the game.
I do think physically I'll be able to do it.
I just felt like there was still a place for
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me on the field. So hold that for a second.
Tom Brady says, physically, I knew I could be able
to do it. Let's let me tell you what Tom
Brady did this season. He threw for forty three touchdowns
and fifty yards and finished second in NFL m v
P voting. I think I can still do it. This
is not him coming off the year he through for
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touchdowns and it's uh, you know, I think I can
do it. The guy almost won the m v P again.
I think I can still do it. Of course he can.
Of course he can. Quote at the end of the day,
I just love the competition on the field, and last
year was a very bitter ending to a season. We've
got to make a lot of correction to try to
improve and put ourselves in a better position to succeed
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moving forward. Yeah, you know, Tom Brady had some kind
of plan that didn't come to fruition. The retirement so
we can either get away from Tampa to the Dolphins
or someplace else. Didn't happen, either the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
played it better than he did, or whatever he wanted
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to do, he knew he couldn't pull off. So I'll
come back and play now, whether whether it was, I
want to get away from Tampa. So I'm gonna retire,
and I'm gonna find a way for Tampa to to
put me on the retired list or make sure that
I that I can go to another destination. That didn't
work and I came back, or my whole plan was
to retire, get to Miami, which has been reported a
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few times, you know, become the owner there eventually, and
play for Sean Payton. All that didn't happen. I still
want to play, So now I'll come out of retirement
and play for Tampa Bay. All right. There's nothing altruistic
about Oh I still have a love for the game.
It was forty days. If you didn't know how you felt,
you don't retire. Then you wait, you wait, you wait,
and you make your decision. When the team needs to know.
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This is before they go into free agency, before they
get into that. That's when you tell them you don't
retire unless you know you're doing it. So I don't
know anybody that actually believes this. I don't know anybody
that believes Tom Brady retired and they just suddenly had
a change of thought. No, there's some kind of drama.
And it's still stunning that the Dolphins story that's been
reported doesn't get more attention. I don't know why it does.
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I don't know why this is not a front and
center topic that every day Brady trying to get to
the Dolphins isn't reported on, whether it is supported or debunked.
I don't get it. This is Brady potentially getting out
of Tampa back to Miami where he could torment Belichick
and Sean Payton. No, by the way, finding a way
out of New Orleans and to Miami to coach Tom Brady,
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and this story just kind of dies. How does that happen?
I don't understand. It makes a lot of going on
if that's the case. Remember, we did have that report
long ago of Steven Ross potentially having spoken with Brady, right,
and that was all right? Was he talking about just
going to play and and this is where you get
some of the next level stuff related to ownership and
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playing in the well, the coup more or less and
then Sean Payton's name gets added in there, uh hanging
out when he's not hanging out with Jay Glazer and
Jay Glazer making fun of him as an unemployed former coach,
which is kind of funny. But you know, then buddies
just doing their thing. But the Brad that Brady story
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to me is intriguing, and I think you need to
super sleupe that a little bit more. Maybe you need
to go hang out in Tampa a while. I'd go
do that and hang out with my folks, I guess.
I mean winter is not there anymore. No, but you know, hey,
uh you can still go find some other uh snow
birds and whatever hanging out that you can interview about
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the the years there. But I'm curious about that. But
as for the forty days, yeah, congratulations, folks decided to
jump on board all the lent and jokes like we
did those forever ago. You know, really, you know, folks
are so slow on the uptake. Just follow at swollen,
follow it. How about a frascia. You've got all the
material you need and then just give proper credit when
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you then use it for your shows or other social
media engagements. So you have that going for you to, um,
I'm about buying any of it? Right? Body felt good?
Salty about the loss? Yeah, you would have been salty
the entire time. So it's the all right, did I
make a promise to the family that I do give
it the old college try? Because that's the part that
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really wasn't addressed there, right in terms of the family,
uh togetherness, bonding, they're getting older, all of those you
expect those lines to show up with a guy playing
uh a little bit of a sad violin behind them,
and then the question of whether they all decided, Yeah,
we go back to our own schedules, and I'm gonna
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go back to football. I've had enough. It's done. Uh.
Whatever what happened, there's gonna be books on it eventually. Maybe.
The other story we got today is the next iteration
of the match, which is good right. I mean that's
good for business too, because you get a bunch of
the quarterbacks in and and he went at it with
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Josh Allen on Twitter. Here's the artist rendering and me
watching Josh Allen's approach. After laying up on a par four,
Alan responded with the laughing crying emoji, saying, at least
he didn't put me in Brady brand apparel, and Brady
responded with a an official running in a soccer match
to to fire up a red card. That was pretty good.
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That was good comedy. Guess who was not getting the
TV twelve stuff that he was gonna bring to the
gulf of it and give me everybody here, I got
some time. Now you don't get any Now you're gonna
be like that, you don't getting me in my Brady
TB twelve stuff. Now, probably we're gonna get a lot
of free These Mahomes and uh and Rogers are are
the foursome. So hopefully we get some really good banter
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back and forth about retirements and uh leaving teams and
whatever else and what Patrick Mahomes and his wife did
at Coachella. I mean, all of those things come to
come together, no question about it. But yeah, you're you're Brady.
You see you always been, uh, your antent has been
up for Brady, and now it really is for this.
You really want Florio and ben Voland's stories to be true? Well, yeah,
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it's and again I don't know Mark doesn't It doesn't
really mean a whole lot. But because you know what,
I don't have one. And I'm real, I'm a real boy.
I'm up pin Occhio over here? Are you really or
or you know? People? I mean, I guess you should
tell people, Ty Shirt? Can you hop on here? Can
you tell everybody how you have computer generated Mike Harmon
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for the last eight years? Yeah, he's never been real
the whole show. I mean, you designed a great Mike Harmon.
Let you know, you gave him a background. He's got
to come from a school. Let's give him a school
where he's smart, but they're not really good at athletics.
So we came up with Northwestern. Let's give him a color. Yeah,
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have him have something real quirky about himself. The jaunty
hats that this has been a pretty good artist rendering
of using your three D printer of my harmon. I
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actually I'm very proud to know that I could have
created an artificial intelligence that's ever expanding and growing its
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my best work, Oh show it's It's great. Even even
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The effort is not in what you see, it's the
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now just hangs out for fun. Look and notice how
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He'll type in Harmon's response, and then they don't talk
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Where it doesn't look like we're gonna get to be
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A race is a runner from first base, two outs,
top of the ninth thinning, Dodgers lead the Brave seven four.
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be sweating Jansen in the ninth thinning in Dodger Stadium,
one more time. I was tramised. Drama. I know, I know, buddy,
I know, I got no drama. I got a home
run from Bellinger. Yeah no, you did. It's true for
four couple r b I we we did get a
stolen base. So you can go get your hot dog
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a mp IF. It's exciting, man, it's you're so jacked
up about dude, I'm telling you, man, Morgan Spurlock type
documentary where I go all season and eat hot dogs
every time that and see how I feel after like that?
You know, I am I good? I could do this
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for a while, am I not? You know it's like
eight McDonald's for a whole month, right I I do
a MPM hot dogs for a whole year. That's pretty good.
Would you realize this? As of this moment, the Dodgers
have the most stolen bases in Major League Baseball, and
the Red Sox and Braves both tide have zero. Interesting, Well,
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they do have trade Turner for a whole year now,
so there is They've got three so far. Yeah, but
they had a couple of you know the other day
from from the aforementioned Bellinger they only had sixty five
last year. We could get maybe a hundred hot dogs
all year. Oh my god, get you glucky for everyone.
That's so exciting, man, Ibe, that's really exciting. Uh twitter
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we get to the Golden State Warrior, You've got to
spend a couple of minutes on this story because this
is just you think it's true and you realize, Okay,
maybe it isn't, and you otto maybe it's true. No,
this is a true story, but there are extenuating circumstances,
(17:17):
Like like I thought, there wasn't a story came out.
So maybe you saw with the USFL coming back this
weekend the big push, uh for the behind the scenes
where a player got cut over pizza and a chicken sandwich.
Wait a minute, what are you talking? Chicken salad? Chicken
chicken salad? Sorry, chicken salad. We're trying to make chicken
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salad out of this pizza. Uh. Dave On Smith got
cut by the Pittsburgh Wahlers of the USFL. Why because
during a team meal he talked about how he didn't
like chicken salad and wanted pizza instead. Like wait, what
he got cut because he wanted a slice of pizza
when they wanted to give him chicken a salad. Yes,
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and no, here's the audio from today where you're here.
Like I said, it's it's this big video that was
put together for the USFL, where Kirby Wilson, head coach
of the USFL team in Pittsburgh, is talking about why
Dave and Smith has cut because he wanted pizza over
chicken salad for a team meal Line addresses that any
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disrespect of football are members staff, us L, hotel, et
cetera will not be tolerated. And as it brought to catching,
that hasn't heard with you. So unfortunately, unfortunately here, Yeah,
unfortunately the cost of doing business. I'm had to let
you go. Okay, anything I did anything or said anything disprestful,
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I can tell you what happened exactly. It's not important, right,
it's not important. I don't know, it's already happened, right,
it's already happen. I didn't say anything disrespectful. He said,
is that gonna be a problem? I said yes. I
walked away. I mean, I didn't think that was aspresful
me saying yes, I don't eat chickens out. And I
was like, another option walked down with pizza and I
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was like, can I get the pizza? He said no.
I was like, he said, it's not gonna be a problem.
I said, yes, it's all I said I would say nothing.
There's all I said. I promise you can little describle
on my dad's lea. I promise you to say nothing.
Disrestrict says yes, I appreciate you sharing that him what
the matters? It's done. So he gets cut because during
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a that meeting where they were eating, he wanted I
didn't want to eat chicken salad. He wanted pizza. When
someone came with a pizza, they said he couldn't have it.
The coach that is that going to be a problem.
The guy says, yeah, I don't want to eat chicken salad.
All right, Now, there's no When this happened, I do
all right, there's no way. This is why the guys
getting cut, right, there's no way here. Guy says, hey,
can I get a select the pizza? No, you're cut.
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Not even in the worst of situations. I knew there's
gotta be something else going on with this, and then toda.
We get the answer, at least from the From the
maler's point perspective, is that he violated three rules team
rules in a twenty four hour span, and this was
just the cherry on top of the Sunday and obviously
does this make for good copy and fun. Hey you're
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getting cut because of the pizza. Yeah, it's fun. Was
this probably the last straw in in a in a
series of events that made him go, you know what,
we can't just bring that. This guy just can't be
here anymore because of all of this. So this is
what we got later when this story gets out and
Pittsburgh realizes, oh wait a minute, we're going through a
lot of bad publicity here. So let's let's get out
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there that this guy was someone who wasn't following team
rules for a while. Now. Uh, davy On Smith said
he never did anything disrespectful, didn't know he violated team rules.
So this is a big he said. He said, with
the Pittsburgh Mawlers and davy On Smith running back out
of Michigan. Um, I get that you don't want chicken salad.
You'd rather have pizza. I'd rather have pizza. Chicken salads
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kind of tough. It's it's not really filling if you
get bad chicken salad. Bad chicken salad, it doesn't really
play in your system very well. Yeah, way ahead of
a game, man, Yeah, I would always rather have but
pizza loads you down. It's too many carbs. I get,
it's ay and yang. It's very difficult. I mean, I
wouldn't want to get cut for wanting uh pizza over
chicken salad. But you know, I guess I can see.
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I can see where he's upset and not wanting the
chicken salt in that situation. I was never made aware
that I violated any team rules, let alone three in
a twenty four hour span. I never disrespected anyone. Is
gonna be a problem for turning and saying yes and
walking away problem not even chicken salad. Someone someone might
take that as disrespect. They're just trying to do their job.
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This was deady on Smith on Twitter. Uh. And he's
been going back and forth with folks all day. Um
and you know, people for the Tampa Bay Vipers we
played for previously, vouching for him, but just saying, hey,
if you you want to, if I send in screenshots
from our exact conversation, who's the one lion he's calling out,
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you know, Kirby and and everybody else. I mean, there
there's lots of lots of stuff going out of here, man.
The only the only thing missing isn't being involving Jeff Fisher.
I mean, that's really what I'm like. That would have
been interesting to see how he would have handled this. Obviously,
you're you're curious to see if the team releases any
more information on the other infractions that allegedly occurred. We
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talked about it a little bit, Bucky Brooks and I
yesterday on a Fox Sports Sunday show as it was
just starting to develop. We had no details other than
he got cut and this is the base and Bucky
just goes, Yeah, there's gonna be a bunch of stuff
that's gotta be this. This ain't gonna be the one
off unless unless they just decided, you know, they like
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somebody else. And and look, he's been a pretty good
player right through all his his efforts in the league
since coming out of Michigan, like through the different iterations
of secondary football leagues. But obviously there there's some other
stuff behind the ZNE we're not privy to at this moment,
and I'm sure over the next twenty four hours on
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his social media uh sites, he'll be happy to tell
us all about it. If he asked for pizza, you
cut him, well, I don't know, you cut him. If
he asked for that pizza all right, especially if it
has pineapple on it, because we can't have a guy
that's eating pineapple on his pizza. Now, we're gonna sue you.
We're actually gonna cut you. We're gonna sue you if
you want pineapple on it. Uh. The Jason Smiths with
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Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. So
while that drama is finishing, Uh, maybe we're finishing with
the drama in the Western Conference NBA Playoffs. I know
it's been three days. I know this. I'm ready for
the Warriors and the Sons in the Western Conference Finals.
I'm sure that's where we're headed. The Warriors thump the
Nuggets tonight by twenty. Nicola Yokich has a big night,
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but he gets thrown out after getting a second technical,
and the Warriors look like, at least in this round,
they can do no wrong. And Steve Kerr has a
big dilemma on his hands, his hands up in there.
What do I do? Jordan Pool is great. Steph Curry
said he would come off the bench for now because
he's just coming back from injury and that helps us
so much. But what do I do? Clay wants to start,
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and Steph wants to start, and Jordan Pool needs to start.
Oh what do I do well? Outside of the obvious, Hey,
you can start all three of them if you really
want to. Um, this is pretty easy. It's a pretty
easy dilemma. Look, Jordan Pool is fantastic, right, Jordan Pool
tyres Maxie as good as they've played during the regular season.
They are on star turns now in the playoffs, and
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and and and both of them are gonna be phenomenal players.
And Maxie playing as well as he is the first
two games, doesn't matter that James Harden sucks. Uh, Philadelphia
has not missed him at all. But Pool ascending in
his third year, He's becoming. He's an all Star caliber player.
The guy's gotta play. He's young. I get that you
want to be beholden to Steph and Clay, but Steph's
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thirty four plays thirty two, and Clay's a guy that
scores twenty a game. That's what he does. It's all
he does. He shoots. So if you really can't start
all three and I understand end what Steve Kerr wants
to do, because it's about making sure he can have
the death lineup out there when he wants to, and
go small ball when he wants to, which he did
a couple of times tonight. And you watch Golden State
just run away from Denver. I get it. The guy
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who's got to come off the bench, then, is Clay
all Right, It's it's easy. Jordan Pool needs to start.
Steph Curry is still Steph Curry. He's still a better
player than Clay Thompson. Clay Thompson at this point talks
a really good game, and he talks about himself, and
he still talks on himself like he's a big time
superstar and really he's a shooter, and he scores twenty
a game. There's lots of guys in league scored twenty
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points a game. So if you're talking about the one
guy that needs to come off the bench, it's got
to be Clay Thompson. And in fact, the guy who
you know came back and started because he would have
chafed at that prospect of coming off the bench coming
back in the middle of this season, right because you know,
talking as much I should have been on the seventy
five anniversary team, having Clay Thompson come off the bench
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wasn't gonna work. He wasn't gonna go for it. So
Steve Kerr had to put him in the starting lineup
and and move Jordan Pool to the bench where you
can make that decision and say, look, Clay has done
a lot, Jordan, you're great. It's a breakthrough year. Clay
has got to start. I understand, coach, this is what
you do. But now Jordan pools like, hey, I'm proven,
I'm a better player. I got a play now. So
luckily Steph Curry is a superstar that he is, and
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he can say, hey, you know what, I see what's
going on here. I'll come off the bench. It's my decision.
They the Warriors went out of their way to say
this is Steph Curry's decision to come off the bench
because he hasn't played a lot of minutes because he's
coming off of injury. But if you're really looking for
what's best for the team, yeah, it's Pool and Curry,
and it's Clay coming off the bench. Clay would be
great against the second unit. He would he you know,
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he'd get to just shoot and shoot and shoot, and
he can still keep him in the game. When you
want the death lineup out there. But if you're solving
this problem, you can't start all three. Clay's the guy
that's got to come off the bench. Sorry, but Clay
clearly the third best player in that trio. And if
someone's gotta sit, it's gotta be Clay Thompson. Yeah, I
just don't think it's It's a hard conversation, right, it's right. Now,
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you've got a young player who's found his space. Enjoy
wordon Pool. And when you're looking at players coming back
off the injuries that they've sustained, and with Clay and
it's multiple years and he's had some monster games down
the stretch, right. He hit a couple of big shots
in this game as the Warriors pulled away from the Nuggets. Uh,
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and it was no longer I mean it was a
no contest. Was one of those throw the damn towel
kind of moments after a couple of those shots. But
it's the better for the entirety of the squad. If
if Pool were to start to struggle. It ain't happened
in this round, but say it does next round, then yeah,
flip that back over. Clay gets back in, you ease
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in and then pool comes in against second units. Uh,
and you still have a guy that can score. But
for now, as Clay Thompson's getting getting the minutes right
and as Steph is getting his minutes right, you look
at how effective he was off the bench today. That yeah,
eventually that Steph comes back in and Clay goes to
the bench, it doesn't seem that hard. And as a
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veteran player who's stock is you know he's done everything
he needs to in the game, right. The respect is there,
the knowledge is of who he is. If he suddenly
wanted to pull the disrespect card, if that becomes a motivator,
then great. For Steve Kerr, the should be about a
five minute conversation right well, monitor if Jordan's has issues
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and George's gonna look, I'm not having any issues, Okay,
then this is what we're doing the rest of this year.
That's it. I mean, there's no other debates. I I
don't I don't understand why this becomes an issue to
even have have the larger conversation. For Steve Kerr of
the push it down the road, It's like, we're playing
really well right now. Period end. He's making it. He's
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he's just making it harder than it is, is what
he's doing. It's it's really he's making it way harder
than Okay, Um, here's sort of what needs to happen. Uh,
Clay has got to come off the bench. Okay, but oh,
it's so hard because you know, and I get that, Hey,
we've won championships together and and they've been meant so
much and taking them out of the game is very
difficult for me. But you're the coach man. That's what
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you sign up for. You sign up for stuff like this.
Sometimes certain conversations are difficult. This has to be a conversation.
I know that Clay Thompson is gonna chase at it,
but this is what's best for the team. And if
he doesn't like it at the end of the season,
you move on, right, because then you're just gonna give
Jordan Pool more minutes. Right, that's more minutes for him,
that's less that's more money that you can bring somebody
else younger in. Uh. Because you know clearly there will
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be a market for Clay Thompson. I'm sure the Lakers
would take him if he wanted to offer him in
a trade. Uh, you can get out from under some money,
so you can take care of that pretty easily in
the off season. But I feel like the pressure Clay
Thompson has put on the organization for how he feels
his standard. His standard is. You can see one guy
who didn't want to come off the bench and one
guy who said, I'll come off the bench, right. You know,
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for all the flak I give Steph Curry for being
able to do that. That's a pretty good veteran leader
thing to do. Man. This is why people want to
play with him. This is why everybody, uh that becomes
a star in the NBA. Maybe I'll go to Golden State.
That's why Kevin Durant wanted to go there because meanwhile,
while it's Steph Curry's town, he will still make room
for you to be a superstar. That's the kind of
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star he is. That's the kind of star that everybody
wishes they had. Now. As far as his play on
the court and when it comes down to the end
of games and stuff, can't get his own shot, that's
a different conversation. But you had to do it. But
everything else, everything, I gotta I gotta make sure people
know it's actually me and not a pod person. You
just went commit ists against Maximus Aurelius and then you
(30:31):
stabbed him in the side as he went before he
even got into the end of the arena. Man, it says,
I just had to say, I had to make sure
people understood it was me. But but from the other
perspective of of playing with a guy and assimilating other
stars and fitting in, he's perfect. He's a perfect superstar
and that's where everybody likes playing with him. Be sure
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the Sun's Western Conference finals, because you know clearly that's
where we're at, the East can still play for a while.
We don't know who the best team is yet, you
guys can keep playing. We're ready in the Western Conference.
Did we get any good Mike malone er or Vitriol
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asking why Yokich only has fifty one point shots to
two games and he's also minus forty five. Uh No,
so far we've been okay. There's been no near fights
uh in the locker room, you know, because we had
Will Butler get into it with DeMarcus Cousins. Uh, Wilbarton
get into with DeMarcus Cousins. So I think everything is
(32:23):
kind of calm in the Denver locker room right. Well, no,
Jamal Murray just posted five minutes ago. Oh boy, am
I coming? Is he coming back? Is y'all? Don't think
I want to be out there? Huh? We hey, we
may get him out there. We talked about that earlier
in the show. I told you what a big deal
it was. He's not playing now maybe we got him.
Maybe maybe we by talking about him on the show,
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are gonna get him out there in the playoffs. And
we're affecting the NBA playoffs. There you go, what you
call work? Who think about that for a second. But
speaking of getting guys out there, it's time to make
F them picks offers for a new round of wide
receivers in the NFL, all thanks to Christian Kirk because
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his four years, seventy two million dollar deal made all
the really good receivers in the NFL say hey, I'm
worth twenty million dollars a year. Adam Schefter reporting earlier
today that Deebo, Samuel A. J. Brown, and Terry McLaurin
of the Commanders are now all going to sit out
offseason activities as they want new deals. And A. J.
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Brown is the guy you call right now to make
an F them Picks offer four because he is mad.
He's mad like Don Rickles and that commercial when the
glad bag rips open and all the trash falls out.
Don Rickles is mad. He came into the show because
that commercial has got to be at least fifteen years old.
(33:49):
But if Pierce has been on for so long, alright,
don al right, I haven't seen it, not too long ago.
I think some kind of version of it. But a J.
Brown is mad because he has scrubbed all reference to
the Titans from his social media page. And as you know,
when a player does this, it means he's really, really,
really mad at his team and he wants out. So
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a J. Brown is the guy. Make the F Then
picks offer at Joe Douglas whatever GM needs a wide
receiver and you have the money to pay, call and
make that offer because he's mad. If you can't get
a J. Brown, you call for Deebo, Samuel Terry McLaurin
is good. Maybe you want to make a screw them
picks offer, not quite an F Then picks offer because
that's mclauren is not quite as good as the other two.
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But right now, this is how you do it. I
don't know why teams don't do this more, Mike, when
you see this and you need a guy, you have
to pounce, pounce and go get a player because A J.
Brown is eminently available. If you called the Titans right now,
especially as close we're getting into the draft. It doesn't
need to be some kind of crazy Russell Wilson offer
or crazy Davante Adams offer, But you make an f
(34:54):
M Picks offer. Give the Titans a couple You can
have a j Brown curiosity. Right. Obviously they added Robert Woods.
You have Austin Hooper um a couple of other young
wide receivers trying to make their their mark. Solid team, right,
should be battling the Colts, and then we'll see what
happens with the rest of the division after the Jaguars
(35:14):
spent all their money, see what they do at number one.
But yeah, Brown would be the guy, especially he's now
posting on social media. You call Washington, anybody in their
football operations would love to just talk football potential trades
players right now, as long as you're not asking me
about what's happening above with the owners or anybody else.
Hell yeah, I'll listen to any any offers. You what
(35:37):
you want to talk about the third string tackle. Let's
go football offers only. Yes, yes, okay, but wait nah,
I'm not gonna do it. Ben's next Fox
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. I hate that song. Hello,
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coming up in a few minutes, including we can help
solve the big problem that Steve Kerr is now gonna
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be faced with. Oh what do I Guitar? Corton Pool
is so good? It STIs Gurry is so good. Oh
what do I do? What do I do? Um? But
Tom Brady is just in the open, and wouldn't you
know it, we have a Tom Brady's story. About an
hour or so ago. Brady, you did an interview with
ESPN was asked about his return to the field a
(01:08):
month after he retired from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Did
you see they avoided the sale of that football? Yeah?
What a clown show. Oh, come on, it wasn't the
last ball. I don't want to pay for it. The
last ball until he throws another one in September. And
if you bought it thinking that was to be all
to end all, you're a dope and you deserve to
lose your half a million dollars? Wow? Why are you
(01:30):
so mad? Who hurt you? What did you didn't? I'm
gonna say what com I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say
what you say to me? It isn't your money? What
do you care? You? What? What? What do you get?
The guy thought he was buying Tom Brady's last touchdown ball.
It turned out not to be the ball, so it's
not worth finer in eighteen thousand dollars. I'm playing until
he gets on a field. No, he's getting on a field.
(01:52):
He's playing again. He said he's playing. So what he's
not going to retire again? I don't think. Who knows.
Maybe suffers a knee injury, gets rolled on by one
of his kids, You don't know. On second thought, I
really would like to play for only Bruce arians So
I'm going to retire Now that he's been kicked upstairs,
(02:14):
I could say, is the guy the guy bought it
knowing that Brady just threw for over five thousand yards
with over forty touchdowns. Yeah, there was no chance in
hell he was gonna play again. You deserve what you get. Wow,
look at you cut off check, if guts bat check,
if you spent that kind of money, I would feel
bad for you. Would say, no, I bought it was
(02:35):
my decision. My kids can't go to college now, but
that's okay. It was my decision to puy. Hey. Hey,
if he was buying a football for five thousand dollars
and whether he could afford to pay for his kids
college was in balance, that's a whole other problem that
he's got. Well, I'm just saying, I'm just I'm just
trying to throw out there what it could be, because
you're just blankly want to say no, you you're a stiff.
(02:57):
You shouldn't deserve that. You just have to pay double.
Keep that face because it's a common thing in the
marketplace these days. Right, you get excited saying training cards
get released and people go, oh, I want to have that,
and they buy it, and then they realized, wow, that's
not as rare as I thought. And then they don't.
They try to cancel the purchase, saying, well, it's not
what I thought it was. Like what because you thought
(03:19):
it was like one of like ten being made when
all of a sudden they were showing up with truck
fulls at local retailers. No, you're a dope. Cough up
a book. Wow, wow, Wow, this is why we've had
a great night. Now, suddenly you're really upset about no positivity.
I don't know that anybody that gets that upset about memorabilia,
(03:40):
but you do. You have this memorabilia gene, and suddenly
your face gets all scrunched up and you're you're like
anger and inside out. You get so mad about memorabilia things. Well,
I mean, I celebrate the collected works of Louis Black
and his screening, there's no question. But speaking of Brady,
(04:02):
he talked to ESPN tonight about why he decided to
come back to the NFL, Tell me, if you believe
a single word of anything I'm about to say. Quote,
I knew my body physically could still do what it
could do, and obviously I have a love for the game.
I think I'll always have a love for the game.
I do think physically I'll be able to do it.
I just felt like there was still a place for
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me on the field. So hold that for a second.
Tom Brady says, physically, I knew I could be able
to do it. Let's let me tell you what Tom
Brady did this season. He threw for forty three touchdowns
and fifty yards and finished second in NFL m v
P voting. I think I can still do it. This
is not him coming off the year he through for
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touchdowns and it's uh, you know, I think I can
do it. The guy almost won the m v P again.
I think I can still do it. Of course he can.
Of course he can. Quote at the end of the day,
I just love the competition on the field, and last
year was a very bitter ending to a season. We've
got to make a lot of correction to try to
improve and put ourselves in a better position to succeed
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moving forward. Yeah, you know, Tom Brady had some kind
of plan that didn't come to fruition. The retirement so
we can either get away from Tampa to the Dolphins
or someplace else. Didn't happen, either the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
played it better than he did, or whatever he wanted
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to do, he knew he couldn't pull off. So I'll
come back and play now, whether whether it was, I
want to get away from Tampa. So I'm gonna retire,
and I'm gonna find a way for Tampa to to
put me on the retired list or make sure that
I that I can go to another destination. That didn't
work and I came back, or my whole plan was
to retire, get to Miami, which has been reported a
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few times, you know, become the owner there eventually, and
play for Sean Payton. All that didn't happen. I still
want to play, So now I'll come out of retirement
and play for Tampa Bay. All right. There's nothing altruistic
about Oh I still have a love for the game.
It was forty days. If you didn't know how you felt,
you don't retire. Then you wait, you wait, you wait,
and you make your decision. When the team needs to know.
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This is before they go into free agency, before they
get into that. That's when you tell them you don't
retire unless you know you're doing it. So I don't
know anybody that actually believes this. I don't know anybody
that believes Tom Brady retired and they just suddenly had
a change of thought. No, there's some kind of drama.
And it's still stunning that the Dolphins story that's been
reported doesn't get more attention. I don't know why it does.
(06:33):
I don't know why this is not a front and
center topic that every day Brady trying to get to
the Dolphins isn't reported on, whether it is supported or debunked.
I don't get it. This is Brady potentially getting out
of Tampa back to Miami where he could torment Belichick
and Sean Payton. No, by the way, finding a way
out of New Orleans and to Miami to coach Tom Brady,
(06:54):
and this story just kind of dies. How does that happen?
I don't understand. It makes a lot of going on
if that's the case. Remember, we did have that report
long ago of Steven Ross potentially having spoken with Brady, right,
and that was all right? Was he talking about just
going to play and and this is where you get
some of the next level stuff related to ownership and
(07:19):
playing in the well, the coup more or less and
then Sean Payton's name gets added in there, uh hanging
out when he's not hanging out with Jay Glazer and
Jay Glazer making fun of him as an unemployed former coach,
which is kind of funny. But you know, then buddies
just doing their thing. But the Brad that Brady story
(07:40):
to me is intriguing, and I think you need to
super sleupe that a little bit more. Maybe you need
to go hang out in Tampa a while. I'd go
do that and hang out with my folks, I guess.
I mean winter is not there anymore. No, but you know, hey,
uh you can still go find some other uh snow
birds and whatever hanging out that you can interview about
(08:03):
the the years there. But I'm curious about that. But
as for the forty days, yeah, congratulations, folks decided to
jump on board all the lent and jokes like we
did those forever ago. You know, really, you know, folks
are so slow on the uptake. Just follow at swollen,
follow it. How about a frascia. You've got all the
material you need and then just give proper credit when
(08:24):
you then use it for your shows or other social
media engagements. So you have that going for you to, um,
I'm about buying any of it? Right? Body felt good?
Salty about the loss? Yeah, you would have been salty
the entire time. So it's the all right, did I
make a promise to the family that I do give
it the old college try? Because that's the part that
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really wasn't addressed there, right in terms of the family,
uh togetherness, bonding, they're getting older, all of those you
expect those lines to show up with a guy playing
uh a little bit of a sad violin behind them,
and then the question of whether they all decided, Yeah,
we go back to our own schedules, and I'm gonna
(09:05):
go back to football. I've had enough. It's done. Uh.
Whatever what happened, there's gonna be books on it eventually. Maybe.
The other story we got today is the next iteration
of the match, which is good right. I mean that's
good for business too, because you get a bunch of
the quarterbacks in and and he went at it with
(09:25):
Josh Allen on Twitter. Here's the artist rendering and me
watching Josh Allen's approach. After laying up on a par four,
Alan responded with the laughing crying emoji, saying, at least
he didn't put me in Brady brand apparel, and Brady
responded with a an official running in a soccer match
to to fire up a red card. That was pretty good.
(09:47):
That was good comedy. Guess who was not getting the
TV twelve stuff that he was gonna bring to the
gulf of it and give me everybody here, I got
some time. Now you don't get any Now you're gonna
be like that, you don't getting me in my Brady
TB twelve stuff. Now, probably we're gonna get a lot
of free These Mahomes and uh and Rogers are are
the foursome. So hopefully we get some really good banter
(10:07):
back and forth about retirements and uh leaving teams and
whatever else and what Patrick Mahomes and his wife did
at Coachella. I mean, all of those things come to
come together, no question about it. But yeah, you're you're Brady.
You see you always been, uh, your antent has been
up for Brady, and now it really is for this.
You really want Florio and ben Voland's stories to be true? Well, yeah,
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I mean, look with these are blue check marks and
it's and again I don't know Mark doesn't It doesn't
really mean a whole lot. But because you know what,
I don't have one. And I'm real, I'm a real boy.
I'm up pin Occhio over here? Are you really or
or you know? People? I mean, I guess you should
tell people, Ty Shirt? Can you hop on here? Can
you tell everybody how you have computer generated Mike Harmon
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for the last eight years? Yeah, he's never been real
the whole show. I mean, you designed a great Mike Harmon.
Let you know, you gave him a background. He's got
to come from a school. Let's give him a school
where he's smart, but they're not really good at athletics.
So we came up with Northwestern. Let's give him a color. Yeah,
well nowhere. Actually, we we win things. We win a
lot of things. We just we just haven't won like
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in a couple of years. Uh. And you know you
you gave him a favorite color of being purple. Let's
have him have something real quirky about himself. The jaunty
hats that this has been a pretty good artist rendering
of using your three D printer of my harmon. I
kind of I kind of like, well, thank you. I
actually I'm very proud to know that I could have
created an artificial intelligence that's ever expanding and growing its
own mind on air and hot takes. So this is
(11:34):
my best work, Oh show it's It's great. Even even
even when Harmon sends me texts that I know are
computer really fit, They're terrific. I didn't know you went
to that kind of likes to thank you. Oh it's great.
The effort is not in what you see, it's the
story behind. And that's why he's here as the technical
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producer every day because he just just enjoys. It made
all his money in the Big Back and AI and
now just hangs out for fun. Look and notice how
Harmon and Tie Shirt don't talk over one another because
Ty Shirt will talk and then he will like to type.
He'll type in Harmon's response, and then they don't talk
over one another because when he's talking, Harmon is not there.
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But then when he doesn't talk, then he types out
in Harmon speaks. It's like the episode of Law and
Order I watched last week where Ned Batty was you know,
his faculties were failing him. Uh So his assistant would
type all his answers in for him on how he
should move on different things and let me give you
the biggest thing of this, right, because now if you
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listen to she, I'm gonna blow your mind. Right, what
do we always do is what do we I can't
believe I'm doing this, but the secrets out is what
do we always say about Ti Shirt? He knows nothing
about sports? Right? And he plays up that he knows nothing,
but clearly Harmon or at least you know, I do
Harmon and quotes the computer generated Harmon knows a ton
about sports. And this is all Ti Shirt typing these answers,
and so ty Shirt really knows a lot. But he
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plays that he doesn't know anything, because that would be
that's a that's two different persons in the yang, and
that's why it works. All his sports knowledge is through
his computer generated friend. And and then he pretends to
not know things when you say things like, oh, Gronkowski
is the tight end for Tampa Bay, all of these
things tight shirts. He's a genius man types of genius. Jason,
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the greatest trick I've ever played was that I don't exist. Yeah,
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is mine and one is the person that I'm pretending
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I'm Mike Harmon. Do you think I'm stupid? I'm not
gonna fall for that. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,
oh boy, oh boy? Who all right? I gotta breathe
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Where it doesn't look like we're gonna get to be
sweating Jansen tonight. Craig Kimball just gets a double play.
A race is a runner from first base, two outs,
top of the ninth thinning, Dodgers lead the Brave seven four.
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We will have to wait one more day to potentially
be sweating Jansen in the ninth thinning in Dodger Stadium,
one more time. I was tramised. Drama. I know, I know, buddy,
I know, I got no drama. I got a home
run from Bellinger. Yeah no, you did. It's true for
four couple r b I we we did get a
stolen base. So you can go get your hot dog
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every time that and see how I feel after like that?
You know, I am I good? I could do this
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for a while, am I not? You know it's like
eight McDonald's for a whole month, right I I do
a MPM hot dogs for a whole year. That's pretty good.
Would you realize this? As of this moment, the Dodgers
have the most stolen bases in Major League Baseball, and
the Red Sox and Braves both tide have zero. Interesting, Well,
(16:34):
they do have trade Turner for a whole year now,
so there is They've got three so far. Yeah, but
they had a couple of you know the other day
from from the aforementioned Bellinger they only had sixty five
last year. We could get maybe a hundred hot dogs
all year. Oh my god, get you glucky for everyone.
That's so exciting, man, Ibe, that's really exciting. Uh twitter
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Jason Smith Show with ma Best friend Mike Harmon. Before
we get to the Golden State Warrior, You've got to
spend a couple of minutes on this story because this
is just you think it's true and you realize, Okay,
maybe it isn't, and you otto maybe it's true. No,
this is a true story, but there are extenuating circumstances,
(17:17):
Like like I thought, there wasn't a story came out.
So maybe you saw with the USFL coming back this
weekend the big push, uh for the behind the scenes
where a player got cut over pizza and a chicken sandwich.
Wait a minute, what are you talking? Chicken salad? Chicken
chicken salad? Sorry, chicken salad. We're trying to make chicken
(17:37):
salad out of this pizza. Uh. Dave On Smith got
cut by the Pittsburgh Wahlers of the USFL. Why because
during a team meal he talked about how he didn't
like chicken salad and wanted pizza instead. Like wait, what
he got cut because he wanted a slice of pizza
when they wanted to give him chicken a salad. Yes,
(17:58):
and no, here's the audio from today where you're here.
Like I said, it's it's this big video that was
put together for the USFL, where Kirby Wilson, head coach
of the USFL team in Pittsburgh, is talking about why
Dave and Smith has cut because he wanted pizza over
chicken salad for a team meal Line addresses that any
(18:20):
disrespect of football are members staff, us L, hotel, et
cetera will not be tolerated. And as it brought to catching,
that hasn't heard with you. So unfortunately, unfortunately here, Yeah,
unfortunately the cost of doing business. I'm had to let
you go. Okay, anything I did anything or said anything disprestful,
(18:43):
I can tell you what happened exactly. It's not important, right,
it's not important. I don't know, it's already happened, right,
it's already happen. I didn't say anything disrespectful. He said,
is that gonna be a problem? I said yes. I
walked away. I mean, I didn't think that was aspresful
me saying yes, I don't eat chickens out. And I
was like, another option walked down with pizza and I
(19:03):
was like, can I get the pizza? He said no.
I was like, he said, it's not gonna be a problem.
I said, yes, it's all I said I would say nothing.
There's all I said. I promise you can little describle
on my dad's lea. I promise you to say nothing.
Disrestrict says yes, I appreciate you sharing that him what
the matters? It's done. So he gets cut because during
(19:27):
a that meeting where they were eating, he wanted I
didn't want to eat chicken salad. He wanted pizza. When
someone came with a pizza, they said he couldn't have it.
The coach that is that going to be a problem.
The guy says, yeah, I don't want to eat chicken salad.
All right, Now, there's no When this happened, I do
all right, there's no way. This is why the guys
getting cut, right, there's no way here. Guy says, hey,
can I get a select the pizza? No, you're cut.
(19:48):
Not even in the worst of situations. I knew there's
gotta be something else going on with this, and then toda.
We get the answer, at least from the From the
maler's point perspective, is that he violated three rules team
rules in a twenty four hour span, and this was
just the cherry on top of the Sunday and obviously
does this make for good copy and fun. Hey you're
(20:08):
getting cut because of the pizza. Yeah, it's fun. Was
this probably the last straw in in a in a
series of events that made him go, you know what,
we can't just bring that. This guy just can't be
here anymore because of all of this. So this is
what we got later when this story gets out and
Pittsburgh realizes, oh wait a minute, we're going through a
lot of bad publicity here. So let's let's get out
(20:29):
there that this guy was someone who wasn't following team
rules for a while. Now. Uh, davy On Smith said
he never did anything disrespectful, didn't know he violated team rules.
So this is a big he said. He said, with
the Pittsburgh Mawlers and davy On Smith running back out
of Michigan. Um, I get that you don't want chicken salad.
You'd rather have pizza. I'd rather have pizza. Chicken salads
(20:51):
kind of tough. It's it's not really filling if you
get bad chicken salad. Bad chicken salad, it doesn't really
play in your system very well. Yeah, way ahead of
a game, man, Yeah, I would always rather have but
pizza loads you down. It's too many carbs. I get,
it's ay and yang. It's very difficult. I mean, I
wouldn't want to get cut for wanting uh pizza over
chicken salad. But you know, I guess I can see.
(21:14):
I can see where he's upset and not wanting the
chicken salt in that situation. I was never made aware
that I violated any team rules, let alone three in
a twenty four hour span. I never disrespected anyone. Is
gonna be a problem for turning and saying yes and
walking away problem not even chicken salad. Someone someone might
take that as disrespect. They're just trying to do their job.
(21:37):
This was deady on Smith on Twitter. Uh. And he's
been going back and forth with folks all day. Um
and you know, people for the Tampa Bay Vipers we
played for previously, vouching for him, but just saying, hey,
if you you want to, if I send in screenshots
from our exact conversation, who's the one lion he's calling out,
(21:59):
you know, Kirby and and everybody else. I mean, there
there's lots of lots of stuff going out of here, man.
The only the only thing missing isn't being involving Jeff Fisher.
I mean, that's really what I'm like. That would have
been interesting to see how he would have handled this. Obviously,
you're you're curious to see if the team releases any
more information on the other infractions that allegedly occurred. We
(22:22):
talked about it a little bit, Bucky Brooks and I
yesterday on a Fox Sports Sunday show as it was
just starting to develop. We had no details other than
he got cut and this is the base and Bucky
just goes, Yeah, there's gonna be a bunch of stuff
that's gotta be this. This ain't gonna be the one
off unless unless they just decided, you know, they like
(22:45):
somebody else. And and look, he's been a pretty good
player right through all his his efforts in the league
since coming out of Michigan, like through the different iterations
of secondary football leagues. But obviously there there's some other
stuff behind the ZNE we're not privy to at this moment,
and I'm sure over the next twenty four hours on
(23:05):
his social media uh sites, he'll be happy to tell
us all about it. If he asked for pizza, you
cut him, well, I don't know, you cut him. If
he asked for that pizza all right, especially if it
has pineapple on it, because we can't have a guy
that's eating pineapple on his pizza. Now, we're gonna sue you.
We're actually gonna cut you. We're gonna sue you if
you want pineapple on it. Uh. The Jason Smiths with
(23:28):
Mike Carmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. So
while that drama is finishing, Uh, maybe we're finishing with
the drama in the Western Conference NBA Playoffs. I know
it's been three days. I know this. I'm ready for
the Warriors and the Sons in the Western Conference Finals.
I'm sure that's where we're headed. The Warriors thump the
Nuggets tonight by twenty. Nicola Yokich has a big night,
(23:49):
but he gets thrown out after getting a second technical,
and the Warriors look like, at least in this round,
they can do no wrong. And Steve Kerr has a
big dilemma on his hands, his hands up in there.
What do I do? Jordan Pool is great. Steph Curry
said he would come off the bench for now because
he's just coming back from injury and that helps us
so much. But what do I do? Clay wants to start,
(24:11):
and Steph wants to start, and Jordan Pool needs to start.
Oh what do I do well? Outside of the obvious, Hey,
you can start all three of them if you really
want to. Um, this is pretty easy. It's a pretty
easy dilemma. Look, Jordan Pool is fantastic, right, Jordan Pool
tyres Maxie as good as they've played during the regular season.
They are on star turns now in the playoffs, and
(24:31):
and and and both of them are gonna be phenomenal players.
And Maxie playing as well as he is the first
two games, doesn't matter that James Harden sucks. Uh, Philadelphia
has not missed him at all. But Pool ascending in
his third year, He's becoming. He's an all Star caliber player.
The guy's gotta play. He's young. I get that you
want to be beholden to Steph and Clay, but Steph's
(24:52):
thirty four plays thirty two, and Clay's a guy that
scores twenty a game. That's what he does. It's all
he does. He shoots. So if you really can't start
all three and I understand end what Steve Kerr wants
to do, because it's about making sure he can have
the death lineup out there when he wants to, and
go small ball when he wants to, which he did
a couple of times tonight. And you watch Golden State
just run away from Denver. I get it. The guy
(25:12):
who's got to come off the bench, then, is Clay
all Right, It's it's easy. Jordan Pool needs to start.
Steph Curry is still Steph Curry. He's still a better
player than Clay Thompson. Clay Thompson at this point talks
a really good game, and he talks about himself, and
he still talks on himself like he's a big time
superstar and really he's a shooter, and he scores twenty
a game. There's lots of guys in league scored twenty
(25:33):
points a game. So if you're talking about the one
guy that needs to come off the bench, it's got
to be Clay Thompson. And in fact, the guy who
you know came back and started because he would have
chafed at that prospect of coming off the bench coming
back in the middle of this season, right because you know,
talking as much I should have been on the seventy
five anniversary team, having Clay Thompson come off the bench
(25:55):
wasn't gonna work. He wasn't gonna go for it. So
Steve Kerr had to put him in the starting lineup
and and move Jordan Pool to the bench where you
can make that decision and say, look, Clay has done
a lot, Jordan, you're great. It's a breakthrough year. Clay
has got to start. I understand, coach, this is what
you do. But now Jordan pools like, hey, I'm proven,
I'm a better player. I got a play now. So
luckily Steph Curry is a superstar that he is, and
(26:15):
he can say, hey, you know what, I see what's
going on here. I'll come off the bench. It's my decision.
They the Warriors went out of their way to say
this is Steph Curry's decision to come off the bench
because he hasn't played a lot of minutes because he's
coming off of injury. But if you're really looking for
what's best for the team, yeah, it's Pool and Curry,
and it's Clay coming off the bench. Clay would be
great against the second unit. He would he you know,
(26:35):
he'd get to just shoot and shoot and shoot, and
he can still keep him in the game. When you
want the death lineup out there. But if you're solving
this problem, you can't start all three. Clay's the guy
that's got to come off the bench. Sorry, but Clay
clearly the third best player in that trio. And if
someone's gotta sit, it's gotta be Clay Thompson. Yeah, I
just don't think it's It's a hard conversation, right, it's right. Now,
(26:56):
you've got a young player who's found his space. Enjoy
wordon Pool. And when you're looking at players coming back
off the injuries that they've sustained, and with Clay and
it's multiple years and he's had some monster games down
the stretch, right. He hit a couple of big shots
in this game as the Warriors pulled away from the Nuggets. Uh,
(27:16):
and it was no longer I mean it was a
no contest. Was one of those throw the damn towel
kind of moments after a couple of those shots. But
it's the better for the entirety of the squad. If
if Pool were to start to struggle. It ain't happened
in this round, but say it does next round, then yeah,
flip that back over. Clay gets back in, you ease
(27:38):
in and then pool comes in against second units. Uh,
and you still have a guy that can score. But
for now, as Clay Thompson's getting getting the minutes right
and as Steph is getting his minutes right, you look
at how effective he was off the bench today. That yeah,
eventually that Steph comes back in and Clay goes to
the bench, it doesn't seem that hard. And as a
(28:00):
veteran player who's stock is you know he's done everything
he needs to in the game, right. The respect is there,
the knowledge is of who he is. If he suddenly
wanted to pull the disrespect card, if that becomes a motivator,
then great. For Steve Kerr, the should be about a
five minute conversation right well, monitor if Jordan's has issues
(28:22):
and George's gonna look, I'm not having any issues, Okay,
then this is what we're doing the rest of this year.
That's it. I mean, there's no other debates. I I
don't I don't understand why this becomes an issue to
even have have the larger conversation. For Steve Kerr of
the push it down the road, It's like, we're playing
really well right now. Period end. He's making it. He's
(28:42):
he's just making it harder than it is, is what
he's doing. It's it's really he's making it way harder
than Okay, Um, here's sort of what needs to happen. Uh,
Clay has got to come off the bench. Okay, but oh,
it's so hard because you know, and I get that, Hey,
we've won championships together and and they've been meant so
much and taking them out of the game is very
difficult for me. But you're the coach man. That's what
(29:04):
you sign up for. You sign up for stuff like this.
Sometimes certain conversations are difficult. This has to be a conversation.
I know that Clay Thompson is gonna chase at it,
but this is what's best for the team. And if
he doesn't like it at the end of the season,
you move on, right, because then you're just gonna give
Jordan Pool more minutes. Right, that's more minutes for him,
that's less that's more money that you can bring somebody
else younger in. Uh. Because you know clearly there will
(29:25):
be a market for Clay Thompson. I'm sure the Lakers
would take him if he wanted to offer him in
a trade. Uh, you can get out from under some money,
so you can take care of that pretty easily in
the off season. But I feel like the pressure Clay
Thompson has put on the organization for how he feels
his standard. His standard is. You can see one guy
who didn't want to come off the bench and one
guy who said, I'll come off the bench, right. You know,
(29:46):
for all the flak I give Steph Curry for being
able to do that. That's a pretty good veteran leader
thing to do. Man. This is why people want to
play with him. This is why everybody, uh that becomes
a star in the NBA. Maybe I'll go to Golden State.
That's why Kevin Durant wanted to go there because meanwhile,
while it's Steph Curry's town, he will still make room
for you to be a superstar. That's the kind of
(30:07):
star he is. That's the kind of star that everybody
wishes they had. Now. As far as his play on
the court and when it comes down to the end
of games and stuff, can't get his own shot, that's
a different conversation. But you had to do it. But
everything else, everything, I gotta I gotta make sure people
know it's actually me and not a pod person. You
just went commit ists against Maximus Aurelius and then you
(30:31):
stabbed him in the side as he went before he
even got into the end of the arena. Man, it says,
I just had to say, I had to make sure
people understood it was me. But but from the other
perspective of of playing with a guy and assimilating other
stars and fitting in, he's perfect. He's a perfect superstar
and that's where everybody likes playing with him. Be sure
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whatever tequila. So while we're waiting for the Warriors and
the Sun's Western Conference finals, because you know clearly that's
where we're at, the East can still play for a while.
We don't know who the best team is yet, you
guys can keep playing. We're ready in the Western Conference.
Did we get any good Mike malone er or Vitriol
(32:01):
asking why Yokich only has fifty one point shots to
two games and he's also minus forty five. Uh No,
so far we've been okay. There's been no near fights
uh in the locker room, you know, because we had
Will Butler get into it with DeMarcus Cousins. Uh, Wilbarton
get into with DeMarcus Cousins. So I think everything is
(32:23):
kind of calm in the Denver locker room right. Well, no,
Jamal Murray just posted five minutes ago. Oh boy, am
I coming? Is he coming back? Is y'all? Don't think
I want to be out there? Huh? We hey, we
may get him out there. We talked about that earlier
in the show. I told you what a big deal
it was. He's not playing now maybe we got him.
Maybe maybe we by talking about him on the show,
(32:46):
are gonna get him out there in the playoffs. And
we're affecting the NBA playoffs. There you go, what you
call work? Who think about that for a second. But
speaking of getting guys out there, it's time to make
F them picks offers for a new round of wide
receivers in the NFL, all thanks to Christian Kirk because
(33:08):
his four years, seventy two million dollar deal made all
the really good receivers in the NFL say hey, I'm
worth twenty million dollars a year. Adam Schefter reporting earlier
today that Deebo, Samuel A. J. Brown, and Terry McLaurin
of the Commanders are now all going to sit out
offseason activities as they want new deals. And A. J.
(33:29):
Brown is the guy you call right now to make
an F them Picks offer four because he is mad.
He's mad like Don Rickles and that commercial when the
glad bag rips open and all the trash falls out.
Don Rickles is mad. He came into the show because
that commercial has got to be at least fifteen years old.
(33:49):
But if Pierce has been on for so long, alright,
don al right, I haven't seen it, not too long ago.
I think some kind of version of it. But a J.
Brown is mad because he has scrubbed all reference to
the Titans from his social media page. And as you know,
when a player does this, it means he's really, really,
really mad at his team and he wants out. So
(34:11):
a J. Brown is the guy. Make the F Then
picks offer at Joe Douglas whatever GM needs a wide
receiver and you have the money to pay, call and
make that offer because he's mad. If you can't get
a J. Brown, you call for Deebo, Samuel Terry McLaurin
is good. Maybe you want to make a screw them
picks offer, not quite an F Then picks offer because
that's mclauren is not quite as good as the other two.
(34:33):
But right now, this is how you do it. I
don't know why teams don't do this more, Mike, when
you see this and you need a guy, you have
to pounce, pounce and go get a player because A J.
Brown is eminently available. If you called the Titans right now,
especially as close we're getting into the draft. It doesn't
need to be some kind of crazy Russell Wilson offer
or crazy Davante Adams offer, But you make an f
(34:54):
M Picks offer. Give the Titans a couple You can
have a j Brown curiosity. Right. Obviously they added Robert Woods.
You have Austin Hooper um a couple of other young
wide receivers trying to make their their mark. Solid team, right,
should be battling the Colts, and then we'll see what
happens with the rest of the division after the Jaguars
(35:14):
spent all their money, see what they do at number one.
But yeah, Brown would be the guy, especially he's now
posting on social media. You call Washington, anybody in their
football operations would love to just talk football potential trades
players right now, as long as you're not asking me
about what's happening above with the owners or anybody else.
Hell yeah, I'll listen to any any offers. You what
(35:37):
you want to talk about the third string tackle. Let's
go football offers only. Yes, yes, okay, but wait nah,
I'm not gonna do it. Ben's next Fox
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