June 4, 2022 • 38 mins
Jason and Mike discuss Adam Silver's suggested intentions to lower the number of games in an NBA season. NFL Analyst Jason Cole joins the show to discuss another suit being filed against Deshaun Watson, Frank Gore's career and other NFL hot topics. Jason also believes that people are overreacting way too much at Boston's Game 1 performance.
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Bad feeling about the bad Mike. I just do, I
just do. I'm going to the game tomorrow. I'm sure
we're gonna lose like eight nothing. It's gonna be Uh. Yeah,
I just got a bad feeling. I'll just text you
all sorts of random top gun point. Oh good, Okay,
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send me all different jifs from the movie and and everything.
That's cool. Well, I mean Prostberg's got one. He can
send you every couple of minutes. He keeps sending me
the jif of Goose dying, Like he keeps sending me that.
Like why he keeps sending me that? Man, Why why
you send me when Goose and Jackson hits the canopy?
He sent it to me at least once a day
for no reason. He just sent it me. I mean,
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you gotta remember how precious life is. Yeah, and every
day you go in and you find your wins, Buddy,
you find your wins. You having a rough day, Maybe
maybe you got you ate a little bit too much
of the salty cured meat, so the gouts acting up.
Maybe maybe you just you know, woke up on the
wrong side of bed, you know, feel a little older,
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your backs a little sore. Maybe he didn't sleep very well,
You had some anxiousness, But that gift reminds you you
still had the opportunity to make the day great. Salty
cured meats like ham, you know like that? So hey,
So speaking of ham, right, we got a couple of
big NBA topics to get to here. In a second. First,
the Lakers actually introduced Darvin Ham good Man as their
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new head coach today. Uh. And Rob Polinka, in introducing him,
for you know, we knew this was happening for a
couple of days, called him no nonsense, very happy that
we're getting no nonsense Uh Ham, And I started thinking
this going no nonsense Ham. Doesn't that sound like a
product like impossible ham, Like you know, you get an
impossible burger because it's like made of plant meat and
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stuff like. Doesn't no nonsense ham sound like it's ham,
but it's not really ham. It's it's ham, but made
out of like plants or something else like that fibers
no nonsense Ham. No, it that certainly could be. I'm
surprised it doesn't exist. I mean it might. I mean
I I tried to look and let me see if
I can find impossible ham. And so I will say
that there are there are a number of those, uh
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places that you do the bulk orders. You know, if
you're filling out your holiday list, you say, at let's
just send everybody you know a smoked turkey breast or
whatever to where the smoked turkey. The way it's treated
it tastes like ham. So you know, there there's some
some bad product out there, and I don't know it's
it's don't label this turkey breast, but it comes out
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tasting like a ham. So I mean you got that
going for you. Yeah. I don't think there's any such
thing as impossible him, because everybody when when you google
impossible ham, all the things that come up are impossible
Ham and Swiss pie recipe, and you look at it
it's like, no, no, it just takes dice to ham
and it's like impossibly good, Like how do you make
this ham and Swiss pie? Uh? So everything impossible. I
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don't think there's such a thing as impossible him. I
thought there would be, but there's not. No nonsense Ham.
We could invent no nonsense Ham. I kind of like
what you're doing here. I don't know what it would be.
What doesn't matter. It doesn't mean it would we would
invent it. It It doesn't matter what invented. We make money
on it because we would just like that. The first
things that come up for pies, Yeah yeah, right now
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that's kind of interesting, right, impossible Ham, And then there's
just a bunch of pies if they hire a coach
name Strudle. That would be pretty cool. Hey, we got
hand now. But the fact that it took a week
after we knew that this was happening, right, because it
was a news dump last Friday ahead of our show,
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and then a week later. Oh, by the way, here's
the press release. Sorry, we didn't get around to this now.
I've been waiting to do this for a few days
now that it's official, But now it's here. Before we
get into Adam Silver shorting the season, can I just
give you a few of how this story would be
reported by Chris Berman? Can I just give you just
just a few of these've been merrimaing marrinating these all week? Yes,
I've been working on it for so long. All right,
(04:48):
I'll give you a few. Here we go, t J.
Today Darvin ham handed the job officially by the Lakers.
T J Okay, I like that. Ham handed is one
of my favorite phrases. So that's good, t J. The
Lakers announcing the hiring of Darvin Ham sandwiched between Game
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one and Game two of the NBA Finals not tie
shirt funnier or worse than some of the jokes you've
heard with other people. You work with probably funnier, right,
saying all right, good, there you go. I'm a little
hurt that you didn't go to the plant based gout
asked if there's a plant based ham product out there?
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Why was well, is there a plant based hand product
out there? Oh? Now you want to ask me? You
can't volunteer that you know the answer and then volunteering,
I said, I was upset that you didn't ask me. Okay,
let's let's let's rewind. Can we make it into some
sort of a game show for you? Is there such
a thing as impossible ham? No, nonsense ham. Nobody's done
that yet. No, Okay, seeing that that's that's an idea,
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Like I said, patent pending, patent pending. Well, is it
a thing that vegetarians and vegans don't dig on swine?
I wouldn't say it's that. I just think it's not
really one of those things people are thinking about getting
because it's mostly like just beef and chicken. That's like
the biggest things in fish now. But nobody's done pork yet.
You could be the first. All right, there's impossible fish. Yeah,
there's definitely really Yeah, they have like fish sticks and
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stuff like that you can get impossible for what do
they make about plant plant based? Most of them are
soy derivative, but some of them use like different type
of plant based, so they use like p or something
like that to a lot of stuff. Interesting. Okay, and
that's the rats stuff we were talking about. No, no, no,
no no, no, actually tastes good. I try to want
to taste like fish. Alright, Can I do a couple more?
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I gotta come on. I'm Jones and you feel desperate
to um t J. The Lakers feeling like kids at Christmas.
Ham accepting the head coaching job. I think of Christmas,
tasty Christmas. That's good Christmas. Ham? Okay, good t J.
Darvin Ham and excellent choice bid Lakers because you also
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got egghead in there. T J. The new Lakers head
coach was born in Michigan, not Virginia. Ham introduced today
by the team Virginia's for lovers. T J. Now that
he's the new head coach, who will Ham radio for
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roster help for the Lakers? D J? I like that one.
T J. Wait, you said a couple more. Now you
got likeft I got two more. I got two more.
I got to him out I got two more. I
got two more. T J. Will Darvin Ham hawk any
Lakers stars in a trade to make the roster better?
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T J. There's a new head coach in the West.
Ham is the Lakers choice. D J. There you go.
We got some some global soccer. Wow. That's uh. I
like that. Which one was you? Which one is your favorite?
Virginia Ham your favorite? Or no? No? No. I mean look,
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anytime you get Ham handed in and Ham hawks, right,
I mean that's because that requires a little bit of
depth of knowledge, and uh, you know I I like that. Alright, alright,
so a couple of things we learned, Uh, you can
you can make that entertaining. And there's no such thing
as impossible Him or no nonsense Ham. I like it
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called no nonsense. It is no nonsense. Ham is pretty cool. Hey,
it's no nonsense hamd it's Ham, but it's not really am.
It's no nonsense Ham. That works. I like that. I
mean that might be nicknamed that you end up giving
Darvin Ham if he goes in and dominates that locker room.
He's n no nonsense Ham, Matt. That Ham is no nonsense.
I'll tell you that, Darvin no nonsense. Ham. You know what,
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I'm gonna find him and get him to sign a
ball like that, and he's gonna look at me like
I'm nuts. I'm like, you gotta listen to the whole show.
Oh boy, I didn't even get into the Darwin ones
I could have used. It was just strictly just all
hand well because you started dipping down towards Darwinism. Yeah,
and the Darwin Awards. T J. Darwin awarded the job
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as Lakers head coach. T J. D J. For Darwin,
it will be survival of the fittest in the locker room.
There you go, t J. Uh. Now, a big change
in the NBA could be coming, and Adam Silver kind
of let it slip, uh in the last few hours.
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That oh, shortening the season, Maybe take a listen. I'm
not against potentially changing the format of the season, given me,
even possibly shortening it a bit if we can demonstrate
that that's going to have it direct impact on injuries.
In other words, hey, I'm not I'm not against. I'm
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not against doing anything as long as the players want it,
because I don't want them to ever have to question me.
So anything the players want, I'm of course open to
that's kind of translating what he said, right, no, no, no,
But like what was great about it was that dramatic
pause right at the end of that little sentence, was
that he was dangerously close to saying revenue, yeah, and injury. Injuries, injuries, No,
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no, no no, I gotta I gotta sell it about injuries, injuries.
I can't talk about the bottom line right now. I
can't talk about that, you know, the recovery of that
money that we lost over the flap with China. We can't.
We can't do that what Darryl Morey did. No, we uh, injuries.
It's all about injury data, which is a fool's errand
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as we know saying hey, you know, if if we
play that many more minutes, then clearly it translates these
types of injuries. How about you train your bodies differently.
Guys are taking days off, parts of games off, as
it is, like, what are you gonna do? I'm any
more games You're gonna go no, no, no, no, You're
not shortening this because it's gonna come back to revenue.
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At some point they're gonna say, well, we did we
put all these great minds together and we ultimately decided
that we needed to make improvements in the training rooms
and then the processes to really protect our players. However,
the show goes on. We saw no substantive, substantive data
that says that we need to reduce the number of games.
I e. We lose an awful lot of money if
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we go to this process and nobody's on board for that. Well,
why I like what he's doing here is that he's
making it known that there's a problem and that potentially,
if things don't go the way that it needs to
go to fix this, we could look at shortening the season,
and then it's it would be hey, yeah, owners will
be getting less money, but guess what, players, you'll be
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getting paid less money too, because you're not getting paid
over an eighty two games season. Now it's seventy two
games or whatever it winds up being. Because something's got
to change, right, because we we don't have the possibility
of of going back and saying, all right, now, next year,
everybody's gonna play in all the games. Guys are playing
seventy seventy eight games. That's not gonna happen. Guys are
gonna continue to take games off. I mean, you look
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at the biggest star players in the league. Nobody plays
more than sixty eight games a year, right, It's very rare.
A guy like Jayson Tat will play seventy five games.
Most of the great players all play between sixty five
and sixty eight games because you're gonna get dinged up
over the course of the year end, you're gonna sit
games out for general sore nous, or because you're on
the back end of a one and one or the
front end of a back to back, whatever it is.
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So something's got to change. So that's why I like
what Adam Silver is strowing out there. They listen, just
to test balloon out here. We can't keep going like
this because we have media partners, we have to satisfy,
we have owners, we have to satisfy. The star players
are gonna play, and we're gonna we're gonna have a
great product, and we want these stars to continue to
play in the playoffs. So something's got So it's kind
of like Nick Saban where where he kind of kicked
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things going with n I l By, you know, throwing
Texas A and m and and and Dion Sanders under
the bus. Where all right, I'm bringing a much nicer way,
because you know, Adam Silver doesn't want ups at anybody
just by saying, hey, we gotta get the ball roll
on this because where we're going is not is not acceptable.
This whole thing where you guys are playing less and
less games is absolutely not acceptable because eventually it's gonna
be guys are playing forty games a year. I'll play
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every other game I'll play. Well, that doesn't matter the regulary.
Everybody makes the playoffs. We don't care if we get in.
I don't care any We'll play forty games. Uh. They
know they can't go that way. Well, And as obviously
as we've talked about a lot, you've missed stars in
most of these series. You're missing a game here and
missing a game there. You didn't have a lot of
clean All right, let's let's match up the best on
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the best in each of these rounds. So that's certainly
is part of the process, like injuries are part of
the game. So to me, it's a you're hoping to
get through, but recognizing there's a lot of wear and
tear on the body, I just I'm curious. I'd love
to be a fly on the wall, as they try
to reconcile how that works with the dollars to make
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it make sense, particularly when you're in the last couple
of weeks. You've seen rumors of them pondering, uh the
goal of tripling their broadcast partner revenue in the next
c B A right, or I should say, in the
next media round. CBA as a whole other mess that
they've got some things to work out, you know, the
All NBA team voting and all that stuff, But for
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for the next round of media buys, they're trying to
get it to go from you know, twenty four billion
dollars like seventy five. Well to do that, if you
cut a ton of games, that's gonna make it awful difficult,
no matter how many in season tournaments you want to add.
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A longtime NFL insider, he allegedly is also a writer.
He is a voter for the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
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sixty two. Just like Tom Brady, he felt the pressure
to be on this show because of his impending free agency.
J Cole, what's happening man? How are you? I am fantastic.
In fact, I'm having a much better day than Rusty Harden.
Let's just put it that way. That's tough, man, Yeah,
that's tough. Never too soon for that one. Remember it's
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it's still kind of early West Coast, so safe harbor.
But Mr Rika just want to side one a side
before we get into that. Do you know? Asked how
much Tony Buzby looks like RHN de Santas. Oh wait
a bit a wait, wait, Tony Buzzby, Ron de Santas,
Hang on a second, Tony Buzzby, let me see Tony Buzzby.
(16:13):
Let's see images. Tony Buzzby. Oh yeah, sure, yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah see it. Yeah, you know, all
us a little bit little boy, a little bit of
Peyton too, a little bit of Sean Payton like and
both and both Buzzby and DeSantis feeling quite full of
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themselves to you day. So yeah, they're doing work quite well.
They're they're doing quite well. Yes, the story that Jason
Cole referring to is we were gonna te this up here.
Earlier today, Rusty Harton, who was the attorney for to
Shaun Watson, went on radio station six ten in Houston
to talk about the latest developments on the case, and
he said that, Hey, I don't know how many of
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your male audience members are listening and uh, you know,
talk talking about this, but at the end of massages
sometimes there's happy endings and it doesn't mean that's illegal.
And when I heard that, I couldn't believe it. He
actually said that on the radio about the case. He
actually said that like how many things of dollars do
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you just hand over the plaintiffs in those case? Like, yeah,
this is the kind of stuff that ruins. And Rusty
Harden has done some pretty amazing cases, you know, he
decided Roger Clemmens, and he's done some other high profile
stuffs in his career and done pretty well, not so
much today, Like one sentence can pretty much, you know,
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undercut a whole career and he did it today. Um
And no, look, I'm not saying that Tony Buzzby is
some great litigator. I mean we're not talking about Clarence
Darrow that the second Coming, but um, yeah, I mean
he just got handed a great statement on the silver platters,
you know, by the defense. So like Deshaun Watson is
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just like, this is one of the dumbest things ever.
It's it's been handled so poorly on so many different levels,
and this is sort of the show stopper of all
those incredibly bad moves that have been done by people
around him and who are paid to essentially think for him.
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Um you know, I I just this, this, this whole
case has baffled me from the time that it started
to now like this should have been over a long,
long time ago, if anybody had any common sense. So
with the the NFL made their statement, you know, we
we expect resolution, et cetera. What do you think happens here?
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Are we seeing him suspended in or is it going
to drag out in till these are resolved or or
there there's more information. It's got a hard time believing
that Roger Goodell can lets this guy get on the field,
you know, unless he comes out with some explanation that
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he can buy that he can make the public buy
into the reasonable explanation saying this is a very serious
matter and it's going to be a very there there's
ad minimum, very serious suspension coming. But as of now,
we can't do anything because we are awaiting, you know,
how this plays out. Unless he can convince the public
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of that. That's a pretty hard bar to get over,
you know, especially for the NFL these days, given all
the other transgressions over the year. I mean, like, how
do you let that guy be on the field. And
the other side of it is that it costs Watson
a whole lot more money the longer this drags out,
because his contract has built so he'd only makes a
(20:01):
million dollars in his base salary this year, Right, they
don't renegotiate that next year though, right, bend over backwards
to help him for next year if they had to.
Evidently there's a lot of bending over backwards it's gone
on here. Um unfortunately, you know. Yeah, but yes they
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will probably have to rearrange the contract next year. But
how many more years are you going to push off
the money that you that you were supposed to make?
And how obvious does it become? And like like just
just it's such as it's such an incredible mess that
you know, discretion should have allowed this to be avoided.
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And look, I'm not trying to sit here and say
like he should have gotten out of this. I mean
I mean, like, how does any advisor look at him
and say, what you know, what are you doing? I mean,
when I've sent that from the game, what you know,
what are you doing involving all these people in your
lives who may not like the things that you want
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to do? Right? Like that, Just that's the first thing,
and then everything else on top of that. I think
that Roger Goodell is you know, he's backed into a
corner of this one where he can't let this guy
get on the field. So maybe he puts them on
the commissioner. I don't know if you can put him
on the commissioner's exemple list while this plays out, But
this could play out for another year, and then you're
talking about him having to miss season. And by the way,
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the Cleveland Browns, what kind of idiots are you guys
to even have said, oh, we investigated all over it,
like to have thrown that out there, which was such
an incredibly blatant light at the time and looks dumber
and dumber by the day as this thing plays out.
It looks you look worse and worse and worse, um
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for having guaranteed him this contract and having stated that, yeah,
we did our new diligence. He know he did no diligence,
and you still guarantee this guy over two hundred million dollars. No,
And that that's the thing about this, Jake Hoole, is
that this story, the more that gets that that comes
on because now we're getting more and more details of it.
We had the story yesterday that he looked to settle
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with everybody last year for like a hundred thousand dollars each.
But it was a really strict n d A. They
weren't allowed to say. So we're starting to get all
these things out there, and I look at the Browns
and I go, okay, you know, as you imagine, oh
we did, we invested, we investigated. But what what what
I put my head in my hands on is that
is that how do you not understand that this could
get worse? It's like they said, oh, he got freed up,
(22:41):
he's not going to prison right now, let's sign him
and give hi two d and fifty million dollars. Like
they didn't see, Hey, what could really still happen here?
Like they thought it was gonna go away, like eventually
was gonna settle, was gonna leave the news. Instead, this
is what's happening. How do you not see and have
have one meeting? How do you I have one meeting
with some people job it is to say, hey, hang
(23:01):
on a second and say you know this, I mean
still be really bad and still get worse for us here.
Well it's not I mean like it's not like the
Hasling family has ever been involved in you know, serious
litigation with the fel government or ething like that, right, yeah,
Like they don't have any experience on that one, do
they Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they've never talked to lawyers,
(23:25):
really high priced lawyers before. Oh oh yeah they did
that right, Um there, morons, Like there is no other
way to say it, Like this is a panic move
because you know, you overreacted to your relationship with Baker Mayfield,
thinking we're gonna get a star and everything was gonna
get taken care of and all this other stuff and
(23:46):
it was just gonna go away magically, and you'd have
to Shaun by you know, the middle part of the
year and it would just be a party. And now
like it's coming apart even more. It's just it's worse
and worse and worse, And it's worse and worse and
worse from his own people. The fact that you know,
you've had another lawsuit filed and upposedly twenty four is
(24:09):
coming or has it, I can't remember anymore. Like the
fact that you've increase the number of lawsuits. That's like
we're not even talking about the people filing the lawsuits.
We're talking about the people who are representing him are
making this worse. And that is the thing that just
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just galls me and makes me, makes me look at
the Browns and and and say you're idiots for having
gotten involved with these people who have obviously made horrendously
bad decisions at every turn. In this case, he's Jason
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at Jason Cole sixty two. Frank Gore fifteen yards short
of twenty total yards for his career, Stant aggregated to
(25:16):
some hero to others, is he a Hall of Famer?
Er gave the afternoon drive time question. Okay, um, yeah,
you a Hall of Famer? Yeah. Look, I grew up
in Los Angeles as a as a fan of the Dodgers,
right and Don Sutton three eighteen or three six games
(25:41):
whatever it was, the Don Sutton one, and nobody would
ever say that when they watched Don Sudden that he
was electric and it's like, oh, that's a Hall of
Fame player and he's amazing and oh my god, I
have to buy tickets to watch John Sutton pitch. Right,
But he took the ball every fifth day, and he
was a work course and you know, over the course
(26:02):
of twenty four seasons, he did his job an exceptionally
high level and was incredibly consistent. And that's not sexy
or you know, fun, the way we'd like to talk
about Hall of famers. But that's what Frank Gord did,
you know, And he was tough guy. I is he
(26:22):
a first ballot guy. We're gonna have a long argument
about that money. And I'm not saying that it's a
big deal to distinguish first ballot guys from others, but
you know, you generally think first ballot Hall of Famer
like they just jump off the page. Frank Gored doesn't
do that. But man, he played at a high level
for all awful long time. So yeah, I think he's
a Hall of Famer. I I reward consistency. And as
(26:45):
the old Bill parcel saying, not that I agree with
everything that Parcels said, but there's a point to this.
The greatest ability is availability. Are you there to play
and when you play at a high level, or at
least at the highest level that you possibly can consistent
faces and did that just like Don Sutton in his
twenty three years, three four wins, a hundred seventy eight
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complete games. Get off my mound. Just amazing. I'm finishing.
It's just amazing. It was amazing to watch. It really
was so so So if I can really tell me
is if you're talking about a consistency and and performance
over a long period of time, both Frank Gore and
Ryan Fitzpatrick our Hall of famers. I wish Ryan Fitzpatrick
(27:31):
is a Hall of Famer because Ryan Fitzpatrick got Ryan
Fitzpatrick has so much fun. That dude is what have
you guys ever spent any time with him? Hey? You
know what, Hey, he's a smart quarterback. You know he
went to Harvard. I don't know if you know about
or not. They don't say that on the broadcast. Here's
a great story about him. So a buddy of mine
was an agent, went to recruit him. Right, So it
(27:52):
goes to Harvard, meets with him, kids about to get drafted.
He's he's going around Hartford Square and he's got this
baggy um that he's carrying around that's filled with cigarette butts,
because if you collected like three thousand cigarette butts, you've
got a free bicycle some high end like and he's
(28:17):
so quirky that he literally literally went and got like
the seven hundred dollar bicycle. Am I really looking, dude,
you're about to be drafted. You can go buy the bike.
Why do you have to do this? Attaches like, no,
I'm totally into this man, I really he he looks
at the world. I was once talking to Carson Palmer
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and he goes, look, he he goes, I love fits,
but like he doesn't have any like really superb athletic ability.
He finds a way to do this differently than any
of us. And he goes, I'm so fascinated by how
he thinks about the game and having anticipates and he goes,
he's he got. Carson Palmer said, of all the quarterbacks
(29:00):
that people watch, he's one of the guys that among
the sort of Danner quarterbacks, those guys watch the most
because they're trying to figure out how does he survive?
Like how does this? And they mean that in a
very complimentary way, like because they're like, if I had
to like find a way out of you know, it's
(29:21):
like the Great Escape. He's you know, he's constantly doing
that to survive in the NFL, and he made it
work for seventeen seasons. So like, my hat's off to him,
and I just say that he had a great, incredible
sense of humor, incredible incredible sense themselves. I mean that
that Deshaun Jackson saying still to this day, whenever I
(29:42):
see those pictures of him wearing Deshan Jackson's um, you know,
warm up warm up suit after a game with the
sunglasses and the change like that, I mean, come on,
like that is that is genius? Like it is through
true gin. Yes, he's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two,
(30:04):
That is at Jason cold sixty two, Pro Football Hall
of Fame voter, a longtime NFL inside of the Browns
are go ahead, good luck see how that goes for you.
Good luck for that one. Yeah, fun pun call. All right,
say everybody following around picking up Cigarett like he's following
(30:25):
Floddy divots around. You know, just wait, that's your ship
target two or three people that you know, we're going
through three or four packs today. You're feeling pretty good.
I'm following Floody and Cespitae and yeah, yeah he's got
He's gonna pick him up and put him in and
get a free bicycle. Hooray h Twitter and about a
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unlike the Mets, who apparently are very limited offensively when
they come to Los Angeles. No, I know, obviously you
(31:08):
don't want to talk about that. Dodgers for nothing in
the league going to the bottom of the fifth inning.
I did hear your first segment to follow up on
this as the Lakers officially hired Darvin Ham as head coach.
As the new coach would say, I think therefore, I
am so let's get let's get the current rolling as
you put it, more puns C Jason. I can continue
(31:31):
your Ham radio segment here. Very nice I don't remember
all of your one lighters amnesia and there's there is
no cure. Big deal. This coach's favorite movie Space Ham
(31:52):
or Jurassic Park, take your pick. Favorite play would be Hamlets.
He can also his own pawn shop, call it ham hocks.
I think that would work the highest official the Lakers
did their hamwork as If a player his lead to
the leagues and steals, will he be known as the Hamburglar,
(32:12):
that's my question, or perhaps a pig pucker? I haven't.
I haven't chosen, you know, the Hamburglar with the you know,
there should be a trophy each day, or at least
the costume. His favorite founding father, of course, is Alexander Hamilton's,
so there's that too. Go see the play. More likely
the Lakers will lead the league in hamstring entries, but
(32:33):
I can get that same. They're in the back up
the Hambulance. Have you do know the scores of any
games going on? Or did you just spend the last
working on his act. I'm a Laker fan, so allow
me to say I've got a bad feeling about this
right now. The clown's mouth is going on, all right,
come on, come on, that's enough. With the ham puns.
(32:55):
By the way, you mentioned the Harrison Ford line said
by Ham Solo, so they will need to get what's
up him solo? Look what you did, Smith. They're gonna
be ordering new players on Amazon, so now they're gonna
play Ham's up defense Ham to hand combat hambotextress. Lakers
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wearing uniforms that are hand me downs. Not very ambitious,
I say, Lakers, don't go bake in our hearts. That's all.
Rangers meet the Lightning three two to take it to
Holy Stevo. You got time for like three scores? Man? Yeah,
you know, Westbrook's just gonna swine about every call again,
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Dodgers lead the Mets four nothing in the sixth and
think we'll have more in this game coming up in
a few minutes. Uh, the NLCS predio looks like the
Dodgers about to take a two games and unlead. But um,
you know, we we have like eight days between Game
one and Game two of the NBA Finals and coming
(35:06):
off the last night, I feel like like the the
incorrect narrative was being pushed today for Game one, right,
because everywhere you looked and I thought I saw people
getting it wrong, Like I watched on TV today all
the different shows, everybody getting it wrong. Oh, Boston played
lights out right. Look how good the Celtics played, right,
the Celtics, that was the best game they could play.
(35:27):
As a UM, I think those are people that didn't
watch the game. Boston played a great fourth quarter. They
were not good. They were just good enough in the
first half to stay in the game. After they had
a horrible first quarter. They had a craptastic third quarter
because they always have craptastic third quarters. Um, this is
(35:49):
why Golden State is one game away from potentially being swept.
Because this is not Boston playing great. They played great
for one quarter. This is what the Warriors have done
and still sometimes do due to teams where hey, they
haven't played well, but they'll go on that four minute
running the third quarter and outscore you twenty six to four,
and suddenly, instead of being downtown, they're up by fifteen. Um,
(36:13):
this is kind of what Boston did. They played great
for one quarter. That's it all, right, Before you think
all Boston played great, Jayson Tatum did not play well,
he did not shoot well. Right, Yes, he was able
to get in the lane and driving dish and that
was great. And that's the mark of a superstar knowing
when it's not my night, I still have to get
other people involved. I'm gonna still take my shots because
it's got a turn for me, because that's what I do.
(36:33):
But I'm also gonna get people involved. But Jayson Tatum
had a bad game, Marcus Smart was on the bench
for the majority of the fourth quarter, and still this
is what happened. And Boston turned it up and was
able to do that to the to the Warriors in
one quarter. So that's all I get to. They won't
play like that, and they won't play and the Warriors
saying they won't play like that again, they'll play. No, sorry, dude,
(36:54):
the Celtics played well for one quarter and they still
won the game by twelve. How you're gonna fix that?
This is why you're looking at being swept. Yeah, I
just find it entertaining. Right, the dismissiveness on behalf of
the Warriors in their post game commentary and then the
analysis of well the Warriors will do this. These guys
can't possibly repeat these efforts Uh, As to your point,
(37:16):
Jayson Tatum most likely has a better better game than
three for seventeen. I think we can all stipulate to
that guys are still gonna be able to make their shots.
Oh and team defense, because we still have to look
inwardly at the Warriors. How are they creating shots down
the stretch? They went five minutes plus without a bucket
(37:36):
before there was finally a baseball pass and and a
layup by Clay Thompson. They went broke in there's it's broke,
it's broke, and obviously the word is broken there, but
they couldn't hit the broadside of the barn. I mentioned
it before, Draymond Green taking twelve shots for three pointers.
(37:56):
Have at it go ahead as long as it's put
back quick layups and and you know, it was a
point we've made for well since this matchup was set.
Is you know what are you getting from an officiating standpoint?
And they got to body up right. I said, you
got to weather the storm and and have a very
(38:17):
low number of falls at the guard position. Uh for
this thing to work. And what did they have? Plenty
of opportunity in the fourth quarter for those guys to
keep running out and playing tough defense because they didn't
have to worry about foul trouble. You're staring at a sweep,
Warriors staring at a sweep Twitter at, how about a fresco?
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Bad feeling about the bad Mike. I just do, I
just do. I'm going to the game tomorrow. I'm sure
we're gonna lose like eight nothing. It's gonna be Uh. Yeah,
I just got a bad feeling. I'll just text you
all sorts of random top gun point. Oh good, Okay,
(01:09):
send me all different jifs from the movie and and everything.
That's cool. Well, I mean Prostberg's got one. He can
send you every couple of minutes. He keeps sending me
the jif of Goose dying, Like he keeps sending me that.
Like why he keeps sending me that? Man, Why why
you send me when Goose and Jackson hits the canopy?
He sent it to me at least once a day
for no reason. He just sent it me. I mean,
(01:30):
you gotta remember how precious life is. Yeah, and every
day you go in and you find your wins, Buddy,
you find your wins. You having a rough day, Maybe
maybe you got you ate a little bit too much
of the salty cured meat, so the gouts acting up.
Maybe maybe you just you know, woke up on the
wrong side of bed, you know, feel a little older,
(01:52):
your backs a little sore. Maybe he didn't sleep very well,
You had some anxiousness, But that gift reminds you you
still had the opportunity to make the day great. Salty
cured meats like ham, you know like that? So hey,
So speaking of ham, right, we got a couple of
big NBA topics to get to here. In a second. First,
the Lakers actually introduced Darvin Ham good Man as their
(02:16):
new head coach today. Uh. And Rob Polinka, in introducing him,
for you know, we knew this was happening for a
couple of days, called him no nonsense, very happy that
we're getting no nonsense Uh Ham, And I started thinking
this going no nonsense Ham. Doesn't that sound like a
product like impossible ham, Like you know, you get an
impossible burger because it's like made of plant meat and
(02:37):
stuff like. Doesn't no nonsense ham sound like it's ham,
but it's not really ham. It's it's ham, but made
out of like plants or something else like that fibers
no nonsense Ham. No, it that certainly could be. I'm
surprised it doesn't exist. I mean it might. I mean
I I tried to look and let me see if
I can find impossible ham. And so I will say
that there are there are a number of those, uh
(03:00):
places that you do the bulk orders. You know, if
you're filling out your holiday list, you say, at let's
just send everybody you know a smoked turkey breast or
whatever to where the smoked turkey. The way it's treated
it tastes like ham. So you know, there there's some
some bad product out there, and I don't know it's
it's don't label this turkey breast, but it comes out
(03:22):
tasting like a ham. So I mean you got that
going for you. Yeah. I don't think there's any such
thing as impossible him, because everybody when when you google
impossible ham, all the things that come up are impossible
Ham and Swiss pie recipe, and you look at it
it's like, no, no, it just takes dice to ham
and it's like impossibly good, Like how do you make
this ham and Swiss pie? Uh? So everything impossible. I
(03:43):
don't think there's such a thing as impossible him. I
thought there would be, but there's not. No nonsense Ham.
We could invent no nonsense Ham. I kind of like
what you're doing here. I don't know what it would be.
What doesn't matter. It doesn't mean it would we would
invent it. It It doesn't matter what invented. We make money
on it because we would just like that. The first
things that come up for pies, Yeah yeah, right now
(04:06):
that's kind of interesting, right, impossible Ham, And then there's
just a bunch of pies if they hire a coach
name Strudle. That would be pretty cool. Hey, we got
hand now. But the fact that it took a week
after we knew that this was happening, right, because it
was a news dump last Friday ahead of our show,
(04:26):
and then a week later. Oh, by the way, here's
the press release. Sorry, we didn't get around to this now.
I've been waiting to do this for a few days
now that it's official, But now it's here. Before we
get into Adam Silver shorting the season, can I just
give you a few of how this story would be
reported by Chris Berman? Can I just give you just
just a few of these've been merrimaing marrinating these all week? Yes,
I've been working on it for so long. All right,
(04:48):
I'll give you a few. Here we go, t J.
Today Darvin ham handed the job officially by the Lakers.
T J Okay, I like that. Ham handed is one
of my favorite phrases. So that's good, t J. The
Lakers announcing the hiring of Darvin Ham sandwiched between Game
(05:11):
one and Game two of the NBA Finals not tie
shirt funnier or worse than some of the jokes you've
heard with other people. You work with probably funnier, right,
saying all right, good, there you go. I'm a little
hurt that you didn't go to the plant based gout
asked if there's a plant based ham product out there?
(05:31):
Why was well, is there a plant based hand product
out there? Oh? Now you want to ask me? You
can't volunteer that you know the answer and then volunteering,
I said, I was upset that you didn't ask me. Okay,
let's let's let's rewind. Can we make it into some
sort of a game show for you? Is there such
a thing as impossible ham? No, nonsense ham. Nobody's done
that yet. No, Okay, seeing that that's that's an idea,
(05:52):
Like I said, patent pending, patent pending. Well, is it
a thing that vegetarians and vegans don't dig on swine?
I wouldn't say it's that. I just think it's not
really one of those things people are thinking about getting
because it's mostly like just beef and chicken. That's like
the biggest things in fish now. But nobody's done pork yet.
You could be the first. All right, there's impossible fish. Yeah,
there's definitely really Yeah, they have like fish sticks and
(06:14):
stuff like that you can get impossible for what do
they make about plant plant based? Most of them are
soy derivative, but some of them use like different type
of plant based, so they use like p or something
like that to a lot of stuff. Interesting. Okay, and
that's the rats stuff we were talking about. No, no, no,
no no, no, actually tastes good. I try to want
to taste like fish. Alright, Can I do a couple more?
(06:36):
I gotta come on. I'm Jones and you feel desperate
to um t J. The Lakers feeling like kids at Christmas.
Ham accepting the head coaching job. I think of Christmas,
tasty Christmas. That's good Christmas. Ham? Okay, good t J.
Darvin Ham and excellent choice bid Lakers because you also
(07:02):
got egghead in there. T J. The new Lakers head
coach was born in Michigan, not Virginia. Ham introduced today
by the team Virginia's for lovers. T J. Now that
he's the new head coach, who will Ham radio for
(07:23):
roster help for the Lakers? D J? I like that one.
T J. Wait, you said a couple more. Now you
got likeft I got two more. I got two more.
I got to him out I got two more. I
got two more. T J. Will Darvin Ham hawk any
Lakers stars in a trade to make the roster better?
(07:49):
T J. There's a new head coach in the West.
Ham is the Lakers choice. D J. There you go.
We got some some global soccer. Wow. That's uh. I
like that. Which one was you? Which one is your favorite?
Virginia Ham your favorite? Or no? No? No. I mean look,
(08:09):
anytime you get Ham handed in and Ham hawks, right,
I mean that's because that requires a little bit of
depth of knowledge, and uh, you know I I like that. Alright, alright,
so a couple of things we learned, Uh, you can
you can make that entertaining. And there's no such thing
as impossible Him or no nonsense Ham. I like it
(08:31):
called no nonsense. It is no nonsense. Ham is pretty cool. Hey,
it's no nonsense hamd it's Ham, but it's not really am.
It's no nonsense Ham. That works. I like that. I
mean that might be nicknamed that you end up giving
Darvin Ham if he goes in and dominates that locker room.
He's n no nonsense Ham, Matt. That Ham is no nonsense.
I'll tell you that, Darvin no nonsense. Ham. You know what,
(08:51):
I'm gonna find him and get him to sign a
ball like that, and he's gonna look at me like
I'm nuts. I'm like, you gotta listen to the whole show.
Oh boy, I didn't even get into the Darwin ones
I could have used. It was just strictly just all
hand well because you started dipping down towards Darwinism. Yeah,
and the Darwin Awards. T J. Darwin awarded the job
(09:14):
as Lakers head coach. T J. D J. For Darwin,
it will be survival of the fittest in the locker room.
There you go, t J. Uh. Now, a big change
in the NBA could be coming, and Adam Silver kind
of let it slip, uh in the last few hours.
(09:35):
That oh, shortening the season, Maybe take a listen. I'm
not against potentially changing the format of the season, given me,
even possibly shortening it a bit if we can demonstrate
that that's going to have it direct impact on injuries.
In other words, hey, I'm not I'm not against. I'm
(09:57):
not against doing anything as long as the players want it,
because I don't want them to ever have to question me.
So anything the players want, I'm of course open to
that's kind of translating what he said, right, no, no, no,
But like what was great about it was that dramatic
pause right at the end of that little sentence, was
that he was dangerously close to saying revenue, yeah, and injury. Injuries, injuries, No,
(10:23):
no, no no, I gotta I gotta sell it about injuries, injuries.
I can't talk about the bottom line right now. I
can't talk about that, you know, the recovery of that
money that we lost over the flap with China. We can't.
We can't do that what Darryl Morey did. No, we uh, injuries.
It's all about injury data, which is a fool's errand
(10:44):
as we know saying hey, you know, if if we
play that many more minutes, then clearly it translates these
types of injuries. How about you train your bodies differently.
Guys are taking days off, parts of games off, as
it is, like, what are you gonna do? I'm any
more games You're gonna go no, no, no, no, You're
not shortening this because it's gonna come back to revenue.
(11:05):
At some point they're gonna say, well, we did we
put all these great minds together and we ultimately decided
that we needed to make improvements in the training rooms
and then the processes to really protect our players. However,
the show goes on. We saw no substantive, substantive data
that says that we need to reduce the number of games.
I e. We lose an awful lot of money if
(11:28):
we go to this process and nobody's on board for that. Well,
why I like what he's doing here is that he's
making it known that there's a problem and that potentially,
if things don't go the way that it needs to
go to fix this, we could look at shortening the season,
and then it's it would be hey, yeah, owners will
be getting less money, but guess what, players, you'll be
(11:48):
getting paid less money too, because you're not getting paid
over an eighty two games season. Now it's seventy two
games or whatever it winds up being. Because something's got
to change, right, because we we don't have the possibility
of of going back and saying, all right, now, next year,
everybody's gonna play in all the games. Guys are playing
seventy seventy eight games. That's not gonna happen. Guys are
gonna continue to take games off. I mean, you look
(12:09):
at the biggest star players in the league. Nobody plays
more than sixty eight games a year, right, It's very rare.
A guy like Jayson Tat will play seventy five games.
Most of the great players all play between sixty five
and sixty eight games because you're gonna get dinged up
over the course of the year end, you're gonna sit
games out for general sore nous, or because you're on
the back end of a one and one or the
front end of a back to back, whatever it is.
(12:31):
So something's got to change. So that's why I like
what Adam Silver is strowing out there. They listen, just
to test balloon out here. We can't keep going like
this because we have media partners, we have to satisfy,
we have owners, we have to satisfy. The star players
are gonna play, and we're gonna we're gonna have a
great product, and we want these stars to continue to
play in the playoffs. So something's got So it's kind
of like Nick Saban where where he kind of kicked
(12:51):
things going with n I l By, you know, throwing
Texas A and m and and and Dion Sanders under
the bus. Where all right, I'm bringing a much nicer way,
because you know, Adam Silver doesn't want ups at anybody
just by saying, hey, we gotta get the ball roll
on this because where we're going is not is not acceptable.
This whole thing where you guys are playing less and
less games is absolutely not acceptable because eventually it's gonna
be guys are playing forty games a year. I'll play
(13:13):
every other game I'll play. Well, that doesn't matter the regulary.
Everybody makes the playoffs. We don't care if we get in.
I don't care any We'll play forty games. Uh. They
know they can't go that way. Well, And as obviously
as we've talked about a lot, you've missed stars in
most of these series. You're missing a game here and
missing a game there. You didn't have a lot of
clean All right, let's let's match up the best on
(13:33):
the best in each of these rounds. So that's certainly
is part of the process, like injuries are part of
the game. So to me, it's a you're hoping to
get through, but recognizing there's a lot of wear and
tear on the body, I just I'm curious. I'd love
to be a fly on the wall, as they try
to reconcile how that works with the dollars to make
(13:55):
it make sense, particularly when you're in the last couple
of weeks. You've seen rumors of them pondering, uh the
goal of tripling their broadcast partner revenue in the next
c B A right, or I should say, in the
next media round. CBA as a whole other mess that
they've got some things to work out, you know, the
All NBA team voting and all that stuff, But for
(14:19):
for the next round of media buys, they're trying to
get it to go from you know, twenty four billion
dollars like seventy five. Well to do that, if you
cut a ton of games, that's gonna make it awful difficult,
no matter how many in season tournaments you want to add.
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A longtime NFL insider, he allegedly is also a writer.
He is a voter for the Pro Football Hall of Fame,
and you can find him on Twitter at Jason Coles
(15:28):
sixty two. Just like Tom Brady, he felt the pressure
to be on this show because of his impending free agency.
J Cole, what's happening man? How are you? I am fantastic.
In fact, I'm having a much better day than Rusty Harden.
Let's just put it that way. That's tough, man, Yeah,
that's tough. Never too soon for that one. Remember it's
(15:53):
it's still kind of early West Coast, so safe harbor.
But Mr Rika just want to side one a side
before we get into that. Do you know? Asked how
much Tony Buzby looks like RHN de Santas. Oh wait
a bit a wait, wait, Tony Buzzby, Ron de Santas,
Hang on a second, Tony Buzzby, let me see Tony Buzzby.
(16:13):
Let's see images. Tony Buzzby. Oh yeah, sure, yeah, yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, yeah see it. Yeah, you know, all
us a little bit little boy, a little bit of
Peyton too, a little bit of Sean Payton like and
both and both Buzzby and DeSantis feeling quite full of
(16:35):
themselves to you day. So yeah, they're doing work quite well.
They're they're doing quite well. Yes, the story that Jason
Cole referring to is we were gonna te this up here.
Earlier today, Rusty Harton, who was the attorney for to
Shaun Watson, went on radio station six ten in Houston
to talk about the latest developments on the case, and
he said that, Hey, I don't know how many of
(16:57):
your male audience members are listening and uh, you know,
talk talking about this, but at the end of massages
sometimes there's happy endings and it doesn't mean that's illegal.
And when I heard that, I couldn't believe it. He
actually said that on the radio about the case. He
actually said that like how many things of dollars do
(17:22):
you just hand over the plaintiffs in those case? Like, yeah,
this is the kind of stuff that ruins. And Rusty
Harden has done some pretty amazing cases, you know, he
decided Roger Clemmens, and he's done some other high profile
stuffs in his career and done pretty well, not so
much today, Like one sentence can pretty much, you know,
(17:45):
undercut a whole career and he did it today. Um
And no, look, I'm not saying that Tony Buzzby is
some great litigator. I mean we're not talking about Clarence
Darrow that the second Coming, but um, yeah, I mean
he just got handed a great statement on the silver platters,
you know, by the defense. So like Deshaun Watson is
(18:10):
just like, this is one of the dumbest things ever.
It's it's been handled so poorly on so many different levels,
and this is sort of the show stopper of all
those incredibly bad moves that have been done by people
around him and who are paid to essentially think for him.
(18:33):
Um you know, I I just this, this, this whole
case has baffled me from the time that it started
to now like this should have been over a long,
long time ago, if anybody had any common sense. So
with the the NFL made their statement, you know, we
we expect resolution, et cetera. What do you think happens here?
(18:55):
Are we seeing him suspended in or is it going
to drag out in till these are resolved or or
there there's more information. It's got a hard time believing
that Roger Goodell can lets this guy get on the field,
you know, unless he comes out with some explanation that
(19:16):
he can buy that he can make the public buy
into the reasonable explanation saying this is a very serious
matter and it's going to be a very there there's
ad minimum, very serious suspension coming. But as of now,
we can't do anything because we are awaiting, you know,
how this plays out. Unless he can convince the public
(19:39):
of that. That's a pretty hard bar to get over,
you know, especially for the NFL these days, given all
the other transgressions over the year. I mean, like, how
do you let that guy be on the field. And
the other side of it is that it costs Watson
a whole lot more money the longer this drags out,
because his contract has built so he'd only makes a
(20:01):
million dollars in his base salary this year, Right, they
don't renegotiate that next year though, right, bend over backwards
to help him for next year if they had to.
Evidently there's a lot of bending over backwards it's gone
on here. Um unfortunately, you know. Yeah, but yes they
(20:26):
will probably have to rearrange the contract next year. But
how many more years are you going to push off
the money that you that you were supposed to make?
And how obvious does it become? And like like just
just it's such as it's such an incredible mess that
you know, discretion should have allowed this to be avoided.
(20:46):
And look, I'm not trying to sit here and say
like he should have gotten out of this. I mean
I mean, like, how does any advisor look at him
and say, what you know, what are you doing? I mean,
when I've sent that from the game, what you know,
what are you doing involving all these people in your
lives who may not like the things that you want
(21:10):
to do? Right? Like that, Just that's the first thing,
and then everything else on top of that. I think
that Roger Goodell is you know, he's backed into a
corner of this one where he can't let this guy
get on the field. So maybe he puts them on
the commissioner. I don't know if you can put him
on the commissioner's exemple list while this plays out, But
this could play out for another year, and then you're
talking about him having to miss season. And by the way,
(21:34):
the Cleveland Browns, what kind of idiots are you guys
to even have said, oh, we investigated all over it,
like to have thrown that out there, which was such
an incredibly blatant light at the time and looks dumber
and dumber by the day as this thing plays out.
It looks you look worse and worse and worse, um
(21:56):
for having guaranteed him this contract and having stated that, yeah,
we did our new diligence. He know he did no diligence,
and you still guarantee this guy over two hundred million dollars. No,
And that that's the thing about this, Jake Hoole, is
that this story, the more that gets that that comes
on because now we're getting more and more details of it.
We had the story yesterday that he looked to settle
(22:18):
with everybody last year for like a hundred thousand dollars each.
But it was a really strict n d A. They
weren't allowed to say. So we're starting to get all
these things out there, and I look at the Browns
and I go, okay, you know, as you imagine, oh
we did, we invested, we investigated. But what what what
I put my head in my hands on is that
is that how do you not understand that this could
get worse? It's like they said, oh, he got freed up,
(22:41):
he's not going to prison right now, let's sign him
and give hi two d and fifty million dollars. Like
they didn't see, Hey, what could really still happen here?
Like they thought it was gonna go away, like eventually
was gonna settle, was gonna leave the news. Instead, this
is what's happening. How do you not see and have
have one meeting? How do you I have one meeting
with some people job it is to say, hey, hang
(23:01):
on a second and say you know this, I mean
still be really bad and still get worse for us here.
Well it's not I mean like it's not like the
Hasling family has ever been involved in you know, serious
litigation with the fel government or ething like that, right, yeah,
Like they don't have any experience on that one, do
they Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, they've never talked to lawyers,
(23:25):
really high priced lawyers before. Oh oh yeah they did
that right, Um there, morons, Like there is no other
way to say it, Like this is a panic move
because you know, you overreacted to your relationship with Baker Mayfield,
thinking we're gonna get a star and everything was gonna
get taken care of and all this other stuff and
(23:46):
it was just gonna go away magically, and you'd have
to Shaun by you know, the middle part of the
year and it would just be a party. And now
like it's coming apart even more. It's just it's worse
and worse and worse, And it's worse and worse and
worse from his own people. The fact that you know,
you've had another lawsuit filed and upposedly twenty four is
(24:09):
coming or has it, I can't remember anymore. Like the
fact that you've increase the number of lawsuits. That's like
we're not even talking about the people filing the lawsuits.
We're talking about the people who are representing him are
making this worse. And that is the thing that just
(24:30):
just galls me and makes me, makes me look at
the Browns and and and say you're idiots for having
gotten involved with these people who have obviously made horrendously
bad decisions at every turn. In this case, he's Jason
Cole with us here the Jason Spit Show with Mike
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(24:53):
of Fame. He's got seven books out, including l Way
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at Jason Cole sixty two. Frank Gore fifteen yards short
of twenty total yards for his career, Stant aggregated to
(25:16):
some hero to others, is he a Hall of Famer?
Er gave the afternoon drive time question. Okay, um, yeah,
you a Hall of Famer? Yeah. Look, I grew up
in Los Angeles as a as a fan of the Dodgers,
right and Don Sutton three eighteen or three six games
(25:41):
whatever it was, the Don Sutton one, and nobody would
ever say that when they watched Don Sudden that he
was electric and it's like, oh, that's a Hall of
Fame player and he's amazing and oh my god, I
have to buy tickets to watch John Sutton pitch. Right,
But he took the ball every fifth day, and he
was a work course and you know, over the course
(26:02):
of twenty four seasons, he did his job an exceptionally
high level and was incredibly consistent. And that's not sexy
or you know, fun, the way we'd like to talk
about Hall of famers. But that's what Frank Gord did,
you know, And he was tough guy. I is he
(26:22):
a first ballot guy. We're gonna have a long argument
about that money. And I'm not saying that it's a
big deal to distinguish first ballot guys from others, but
you know, you generally think first ballot Hall of Famer
like they just jump off the page. Frank Gored doesn't
do that. But man, he played at a high level
for all awful long time. So yeah, I think he's
a Hall of Famer. I I reward consistency. And as
(26:45):
the old Bill parcel saying, not that I agree with
everything that Parcels said, but there's a point to this.
The greatest ability is availability. Are you there to play
and when you play at a high level, or at
least at the highest level that you possibly can consistent
faces and did that just like Don Sutton in his
twenty three years, three four wins, a hundred seventy eight
(27:07):
complete games. Get off my mound. Just amazing. I'm finishing.
It's just amazing. It was amazing to watch. It really
was so so So if I can really tell me
is if you're talking about a consistency and and performance
over a long period of time, both Frank Gore and
Ryan Fitzpatrick our Hall of famers. I wish Ryan Fitzpatrick
(27:31):
is a Hall of Famer because Ryan Fitzpatrick got Ryan
Fitzpatrick has so much fun. That dude is what have
you guys ever spent any time with him? Hey? You
know what, Hey, he's a smart quarterback. You know he
went to Harvard. I don't know if you know about
or not. They don't say that on the broadcast. Here's
a great story about him. So a buddy of mine
was an agent, went to recruit him. Right, So it
(27:52):
goes to Harvard, meets with him, kids about to get drafted.
He's he's going around Hartford Square and he's got this
baggy um that he's carrying around that's filled with cigarette butts,
because if you collected like three thousand cigarette butts, you've
got a free bicycle some high end like and he's
(28:17):
so quirky that he literally literally went and got like
the seven hundred dollar bicycle. Am I really looking, dude,
you're about to be drafted. You can go buy the bike.
Why do you have to do this? Attaches like, no,
I'm totally into this man, I really he he looks
at the world. I was once talking to Carson Palmer
(28:37):
and he goes, look, he he goes, I love fits,
but like he doesn't have any like really superb athletic ability.
He finds a way to do this differently than any
of us. And he goes, I'm so fascinated by how
he thinks about the game and having anticipates and he goes,
he's he got. Carson Palmer said, of all the quarterbacks
(29:00):
that people watch, he's one of the guys that among
the sort of Danner quarterbacks, those guys watch the most
because they're trying to figure out how does he survive?
Like how does this? And they mean that in a
very complimentary way, like because they're like, if I had
to like find a way out of you know, it's
(29:21):
like the Great Escape. He's you know, he's constantly doing
that to survive in the NFL, and he made it
work for seventeen seasons. So like, my hat's off to him,
and I just say that he had a great, incredible
sense of humor, incredible incredible sense themselves. I mean that
that Deshaun Jackson saying still to this day, whenever I
(29:42):
see those pictures of him wearing Deshan Jackson's um, you know,
warm up warm up suit after a game with the
sunglasses and the change like that, I mean, come on,
like that is that is genius? Like it is through
true gin. Yes, he's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two,
(30:04):
That is at Jason cold sixty two, Pro Football Hall
of Fame voter, a longtime NFL inside of the Browns
are go ahead, good luck see how that goes for you.
Good luck for that one. Yeah, fun pun call. All right,
say everybody following around picking up Cigarett like he's following
(30:25):
Floddy divots around. You know, just wait, that's your ship
target two or three people that you know, we're going
through three or four packs today. You're feeling pretty good.
I'm following Floody and Cespitae and yeah, yeah he's got
He's gonna pick him up and put him in and
get a free bicycle. Hooray h Twitter and about a
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they come to Los Angeles. No, I know, obviously you
(31:08):
don't want to talk about that. Dodgers for nothing in
the league going to the bottom of the fifth inning.
I did hear your first segment to follow up on
this as the Lakers officially hired Darvin Ham as head coach.
As the new coach would say, I think therefore, I
am so let's get let's get the current rolling as
you put it, more puns C Jason. I can continue
(31:31):
your Ham radio segment here. Very nice I don't remember
all of your one lighters amnesia and there's there is
no cure. Big deal. This coach's favorite movie Space Ham
(31:52):
or Jurassic Park, take your pick. Favorite play would be Hamlets.
He can also his own pawn shop, call it ham hocks.
I think that would work the highest official the Lakers
did their hamwork as If a player his lead to
the leagues and steals, will he be known as the Hamburglar,
(32:12):
that's my question, or perhaps a pig pucker? I haven't.
I haven't chosen, you know, the Hamburglar with the you know,
there should be a trophy each day, or at least
the costume. His favorite founding father, of course, is Alexander Hamilton's,
so there's that too. Go see the play. More likely
the Lakers will lead the league in hamstring entries, but
(32:33):
I can get that same. They're in the back up
the Hambulance. Have you do know the scores of any
games going on? Or did you just spend the last
working on his act. I'm a Laker fan, so allow
me to say I've got a bad feeling about this
right now. The clown's mouth is going on, all right,
come on, come on, that's enough. With the ham puns.
(32:55):
By the way, you mentioned the Harrison Ford line said
by Ham Solo, so they will need to get what's
up him solo? Look what you did, Smith. They're gonna
be ordering new players on Amazon, so now they're gonna
play Ham's up defense Ham to hand combat hambotextress. Lakers
(33:16):
wearing uniforms that are hand me downs. Not very ambitious,
I say, Lakers, don't go bake in our hearts. That's all.
Rangers meet the Lightning three two to take it to
Holy Stevo. You got time for like three scores? Man? Yeah,
you know, Westbrook's just gonna swine about every call again,
(33:36):
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Dodgers lead the Mets four nothing in the sixth and
think we'll have more in this game coming up in
a few minutes. Uh, the NLCS predio looks like the
Dodgers about to take a two games and unlead. But um,
you know, we we have like eight days between Game
one and Game two of the NBA Finals and coming
(35:06):
off the last night, I feel like like the the
incorrect narrative was being pushed today for Game one, right,
because everywhere you looked and I thought I saw people
getting it wrong, Like I watched on TV today all
the different shows, everybody getting it wrong. Oh, Boston played
lights out right. Look how good the Celtics played, right,
the Celtics, that was the best game they could play.
(35:27):
As a UM, I think those are people that didn't
watch the game. Boston played a great fourth quarter. They
were not good. They were just good enough in the
first half to stay in the game. After they had
a horrible first quarter. They had a craptastic third quarter
because they always have craptastic third quarters. Um, this is
(35:49):
why Golden State is one game away from potentially being swept.
Because this is not Boston playing great. They played great
for one quarter. This is what the Warriors have done
and still sometimes do due to teams where hey, they
haven't played well, but they'll go on that four minute
running the third quarter and outscore you twenty six to four,
and suddenly, instead of being downtown, they're up by fifteen. Um,
(36:13):
this is kind of what Boston did. They played great
for one quarter. That's it all, right, Before you think
all Boston played great, Jayson Tatum did not play well,
he did not shoot well. Right, Yes, he was able
to get in the lane and driving dish and that
was great. And that's the mark of a superstar knowing
when it's not my night, I still have to get
other people involved. I'm gonna still take my shots because
it's got a turn for me, because that's what I do.
(36:33):
But I'm also gonna get people involved. But Jayson Tatum
had a bad game, Marcus Smart was on the bench
for the majority of the fourth quarter, and still this
is what happened. And Boston turned it up and was
able to do that to the to the Warriors in
one quarter. So that's all I get to. They won't
play like that, and they won't play and the Warriors
saying they won't play like that again, they'll play. No, sorry, dude,
(36:54):
the Celtics played well for one quarter and they still
won the game by twelve. How you're gonna fix that?
This is why you're looking at being swept. Yeah, I
just find it entertaining. Right, the dismissiveness on behalf of
the Warriors in their post game commentary and then the
analysis of well the Warriors will do this. These guys
can't possibly repeat these efforts Uh, As to your point,
(37:16):
Jayson Tatum most likely has a better better game than
three for seventeen. I think we can all stipulate to
that guys are still gonna be able to make their shots.
Oh and team defense, because we still have to look
inwardly at the Warriors. How are they creating shots down
the stretch? They went five minutes plus without a bucket
(37:36):
before there was finally a baseball pass and and a
layup by Clay Thompson. They went broke in there's it's broke,
it's broke, and obviously the word is broken there, but
they couldn't hit the broadside of the barn. I mentioned
it before, Draymond Green taking twelve shots for three pointers.
(37:56):
Have at it go ahead as long as it's put
back quick layups and and you know, it was a
point we've made for well since this matchup was set.
Is you know what are you getting from an officiating standpoint?
And they got to body up right. I said, you
got to weather the storm and and have a very
(38:17):
low number of falls at the guard position. Uh for
this thing to work. And what did they have? Plenty
of opportunity in the fourth quarter for those guys to
keep running out and playing tough defense because they didn't
have to worry about foul trouble. You're staring at a sweep,
Warriors staring at a sweep Twitter at, how about a fresco?
(38:38):
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