July 8, 2022 • 34 mins
Jason and Mike react to the outrage and chaos over Baker Mayfield being traded to the Panthers, everyone in college football are trying to find their place now, and what twitter would be like back in the 80's!
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. You know this song
has pretty good cow bell in it too. I never
noticed that before. And I've heard the song outlier in
that one out hundred and hundred and fifty times. I
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know I've heard this song. I got cowbell in it
because initially you can think it could be triangle, but
it's cow bell. It could be triangle slash cow bell,
could be both depending on the live venue. Maybe they
decided to change it up a little bit. Yeah. I
could have been playing a song forty years. I mean,
you want to change it. I think that's the one thing,
you know. I was not very musically incline, but I
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could have played the triangle. I mean, you just gotta
hit the way when when the when the conductor tells
you hit the triangle with the thing. And that's it.
That's your instrument. That's not too bad, not too shabby.
I'm getting ready to uh embark on keyboard learning as
I get into my rehab from my hand here. So
look at you, Keith Emerson. You're gonna learn all those
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great songs. Well, I just figured it would be good
for figure dexterity, and eventually I'll learn a bunch of
Billy Joel and Elton John songs. We could just have
singalongs outside and see if we can gather everybody there outside.
Oh hey, wait a minute, studios. Now we won't even
need Tysher to come back with music anymore when we
when we come back from break, we could we could,
we could save all that kind of money and disperse
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it amongst everybody else, because if you could play the
music coming back, that would be fine. Is not listening,
it doesn't matter. I'm gonna learn how to play run
it up those hills? No, no, no, no no. I
mean you could probably program that back beat in right,
you know, you know, and see and here's the thing. Now,
there should be a moratorium on this song because it's
no longer the most popular song on iTunes and Spotify.
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Master of Puppets and Puppets or maybe something by Birthday Boy,
Ringo Star about that eighty two Today, eighty two for
Ringo Today Piece of Love, Peace and Love. So we
want to really you want a really good Master Puppets
story real fast, let's go to Baker Mayfield. Well you
know what I I did? Uh, I was showing because
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we're we're deep in the Elton John catalog. As I've
told you guys right tight shirt, We've we've tried to
add a bunch of your playlist, not necessarily for the show,
but just in general. And years ago there was a
tribute album that came out that had different stars doing
Elton John and Bertie Taupin songs. It was a tribute
to their um, their legacy and their lyrics. And then
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while contributing was Kate Bush with rocket Man. Yeah she's
on that album. We need we needed that, we needed,
we needed that Kate Push story. I think that Rid
said Kate Bush story. We could have blown it off
and I could have said, yeah, she's made three million
dollars off that song. I was thinking that, you know,
we could add to our repertoire of Kates and you
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wouldn't have to be running up those hills all the time.
All right, if we get that was really kind of
a gift. That was a gift for you in that story,
as if we she's just gonna keep playing running up
that else. Here's here's here's a good story. Here's a
good Master of Puppet story. Uh So I was off
last night because we had our first game less like
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this weekend to state tournaments in softball. We won last night. Awesome.
My daughter's team. They played well, very excited. So before
the game they were looking for songs to listen to
get ready. I'm like, yeah, sure, whatever you guys want.
And you know, they're all thirteen years old, twelve and thirteen,
and I'm like okay, and they're looking for songs to play,
and then they play a couple of songs that these
songs sound bad and they're all stranger things fans. So
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I got girls, trust me, play Master of Puppets, Master
of Puppets. And they're like what and coming, Oh that's
the song and I said yeah, yeah, yeah, play Master
of Puppets. Oh and so boom right away on Spotify
one of the girls plays it and all I get
is no, and that was it? Girl just said someone
through a bad at it for him. That's all I
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got was no, and then boom they were onto another
song and pretty, that's all I got. That's pretty disappointing.
That was so excited. He really extremely disappointed. Now in
your in your team. Now they're gonna play Master of Puppets.
It's been great. It's gonna be our song, and Master
of Puppets is gonna be our song. And I can
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walk around and say, just kid, we'll have him back
by ten. They're gonna go I don't know what that is, coach,
how it doesn't matter. It's I get it. And I
got like two seconds of it, and that was it,
and they moved already intimidating. If your team was taken
the field to that, that would have been great, right,
I mean, it would have been awesome. I said, you
could que it up to the guitar soul if you
want to. That would be fantastic. To your position with
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face paint like you're the Road Warriors. And yes, before
you write me, people, I know they came out to
iron Man. I was trying to bring it all together. No,
and I could just see the finger on the button Nope,
we're going on to something else. On We're moving on.
I even think they moved on to Imagine Dragons before
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they got to a song. I'm like, Oh, that's that's
you cut, Master Repuppets from Imagine Dragons. Is the nickel
Back of the twenties tens. I mean that's what you cut.
Oh my god, I said nickel Back. What am I doing?
But I mean maybe for the next game, you you
start with a little Al Stewart, little Year of the Cat,
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Time passages, time Passages. The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmen live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
and uh, look today like we've got a lot of
fun NFL stuff today, big stories out of the NBA.
Clear I can be an NBA insider because today a
story broke that we told you about like two nights ago.
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But I cannot get over today. Mike Harmon the insanity,
the absolute insanity people have had after the Baker Mayfield
trade to the Carolina Panthers. You'd have thought that Aaron
Rodgers got traded. Baker Mayfield has been traded, and I
get Baker's polarizing. So there's a lot of conversation I know,
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I guess a hot enough take. I was really open
saying to pick a fight with somebody yesterday and we
had nice, reasonable, calm discussions about a guy that was
once upon a time the number one pick and now
he's battling for a job. That's it there, it is. Hey,
we're treating this story like we just saw one of
the best quarterbacks in the NFL getting moved into shocking fashion.
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And and I saw today like ESPN and a couple
of of analysts at oh, Baker Mayfield could turn the
Panthers into a playoff team, And I'm like, you got,
I mean, I get that. We were in a spot
in the NFL calendar where Baker Mayfield and Jimmy Garoppolo
are the only loose ends, right, everything else has been
set up when the quarterback carousel went and it stopped,
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and it stopped not knowing where Baker Mayfield is going
to end up and not knowing where Jimmy Garoppolo is
going to be. So there was a lot of conversation
on it, way too much conversation, especially for Baker Mayfield.
But he's polarizing. People have opinions on him. He made
the Browns relevant for a while, people paid attention to
what the Browns were doing. So I get all of that,
but people are insane. If he was, if he was
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a guy that could get a team to the playoffs,
somebody would have traded for him before yesterday. All right,
it would have happened. Someone would have said, will swaddle
the eighteen million dollars, or hey we'll pay twelve million,
will you pay six We'll give you a fourth round pick.
If Baker Mayfield was someone to get a team to
the playoffs, somebody would have done it. The NFL told
all of us, every single team, what they think of
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Baker Mayfield. He has been available four months months and
not for a big cost. And they weren't holding out.
They had they had they they were gonna cut the guy.
They we're just gonna hold on him as long as
we can until somebody's gonna trade us for him. And finally,
the Panthers, because they're even more desperate than than the
the teams like the Jets. Yes, let's go get Baker Mayfield.
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Why because why not? Right? Just like I say with
the Lakers, Hey, the Lakers should go get Kyrie Irving?
Why not? They have nothing to lose. They're gonna stink
this year. Go get Kyrie Irving. Hey, why shouldn't the
Panthers go get Baker Mayfield? Why Sam Donald stinks? Of course,
go get Baker Mayfield. Is he gonna be better now?
But why not? Because you know he might be. But
the impact of Baker Mayfield, you'd have thought this trade
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was something that was seismic, And maybe because we spent
so much time on it. When it actually happened, everybody
went overboard. But I'm sitting here going what people think
about me? People have lost their minds. They lost their
mind He's gonna be a playoff quarterback, He's gonna restart
his career. All of this Baker Mayfield. I'm going, Um,
and my did I come from another Earth like Earth
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seven fifty five or Earth eight seven where Baker Mayfield
was really, really good and the trade was controversial because
I'm on Earth six sixteen where Baker Mayfield was a
number one overall pick and didn't see the end of
his contract with the Browns that got traded before the
end of it. And he's someone who could wind up
being a backup and never start again. But but people,
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they've gone crazy they've gone Baker may feel crazy, my Carmen, Oh,
I appreciate that you got a little tribute to Hank
Aaron in there with number seven fifty five. Now that well,
I mean, it's one of the numbers that we still
cherish and hold dear UH in our sports encyclopedic knowledge
that we have right baseball home runs totals for the
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legends used to be a monstrous thing off the back
of the baseball cards. But you know, with Baker Mayfield,
I think there's a couple of things that play Number one.
As you said, there's not a lot of stories. It's
where the the final pieces of the quarterback puzzle, before injuries,
before training camps, before craziness happens, and maybe UH necessitates
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another move, right, It's it's Baker and Jimmy Garoppolo and
the rest of the world. And I think for some
of the planning of shows, certainly not the calm, rational
approach we take UH to dissecting our hot take nonsense
here on Fox Sports Radio, you and I or Dan
Buyer in with me last night it was a how
far are you willing to go? With Baker Mayfield is
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either worst quarterback in the world, or can you see
uh the team making a run? Because are you willing
to stand by that? Because you're gonna get some derision.
I could hear the meetings. I could hear the producers
in my ear saying those very very things UH as
opposed to. He's gotta go fight for a job. Maybe
he wins it, maybe he doesn't. Maybe Sam Donald's the starter,
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he stinks, and Baker eventually gets a shot, and then
you're praying that everything else falls in line. I heard
a little bit of you with Rodney Pete on our
local affiliate earlier, as was waiting in line and in
and out to get myself a hamburger from my my
daughter and the neighbors or whatever, and a lot of
the ifs about how you get to October and major
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League Baseball. That's what it would take for Carolina. If
you want to do the algorithm, there's about nine ifs.
So figure out what the coefficient is and ahead of
that variable and then email me back. Christian McCaffrey seventeen
games offensive line, just drafting that left tackle. He's not
multiplying into five guys. People, That line still sucks. Okay,
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you've got t J. Moore, Marshall, maybe an up and
comer and so on. We could talk about personnel and
wish and hope that's gonna work. But it's also Baker. Right.
People want to just miss last season and say, but
he was hurt, but he played, but he played. Why
aren't we trying to give him a pass when we
don't give anybody else passes. It's like, you know what
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they didn't perform, Like, well, you know he was hurt, Well,
that doesn't matter. He played. So with Baker it's the
same thing. Don't try what you know suddenly erase that
he he played. He played terribly, to the point where
you and I debated for weeks and argued for weeks,
stood outside with sandwich boards saying, case Keenum should be
your starter. He has to be at least as good
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as what Baker Mayfield was putting up. And that doesn't
mean you can't find a little lightning in the bottle again,
you know from a couple of years ago. Oh wait, no,
the roster is not as good as Cleveland was. But
the one thing that may come into play here if
you want to add you know something that could be
a positive and all of the you know, if statements
is once upon a time, this guy was a walk on.
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Once upon a time, he had to transfer and all
of that, it was all proven. Well that's where he's
at now. He's got to prove it that there's value. Right,
everybody was wondering about Seattle. Seattle, Uh didn't, I don't.
I don't think Pete Carroll wanted a guy that he
had to come in and really, you know, coach him
up and try to deal with what you had with
Russell Wilson. He wanted guys that are gonna come in
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and work his system and move forward, and they didn't
want to pay any bit of the dollars that were
associated with this. There's gonna be a brand new, from scratch,
backup deal. So that goes to the wayside, and all
these other teams that either try to address something in
the draft or still going out there with guys that
are suspect or help maybe even from their backup perspective, decided,
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you know what, it's it's not worth the potential headache
I'm bringing it. Does this sound familiar? It really resonates
with a lot of the NBA conversations we've been having
over these last several weeks, Jason, same same endgame with
all right, do you want to disrupt stuff, give away
the farm and potentially torpedo your chances with Carolina, Matt
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Rules trying to buy more time, and they evidently decided
to turn the the sand in in the hourglass over
one more time to extend his his his stay and
give him a shot to uh of this reclamation project.
You talk about desperation. Whoa, that's a stinky cologne? And
Carolina who be sure to catch live editions of The
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Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific. Let it wash over you enjoy the
genius of Kirk Hammett Jason. Don't worry, we'll have them
back by eight. Oh my god. You know that's the
one thing with Master of Puppets and Stranger Things is
that when they you, they just I won't say, well,
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I know spoiler, but they use the song and I'm
sitting there going boy for me, I I really just
had a call back to old school and and I'm
saying to myself, you kind of borrowed the song. You
could have taken Dio's Last in Line or something. But
you know, I read, stop obsessing. Nobody knows last in line.
Sure they do. They did not have a dio fan
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on set like the Kate Bush person to force that through.
Oh that's true. Yeah, they did not have that. No
they didn't. I'm not. I'm not saying they didn't, you know,
celebrate the catalog of of Ronnie James Diope. Perhaps when
it was all said and done, you know you we're
gonna print some albums. We're trying to get some downloads.
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Where are we making more sales? Uh? But I'm like,
it's it's old school, um, and now you're And they
said it was the only song they wanted to use,
Like that was the like I said, we're gonna use
Master Repuppets and we're calling Metallica and they're gonna use it.
And I'm like, oh okay. All I could think of
was the van scene from Old School. No, I get that,
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But you're also of a certain age. A lot of
the kids watching Stranger Things have no knowledge of of
said scene. Is well, I mean soon enough, and then
I mean they at least know. I have to know
the personage of Blue before they get too old. I
mean that try body to try. But obviously. You know.
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The thing about it is Metallica is also pushing an
app where you can learn how to play their songs
from them, So it all kind of spirals together. Jason
of how to how to get into your pocket and
turn you over like you're going to a theme park.
What else you got left in there? I swear it's
just gum Nope, earmupsu. The Jason Smith Show with my
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best friend Mike Carmen, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh.
You know it's funny, you say, just really quick before
you get into college football. Is is what different movies
mean to different people. And you know that got me
thinking today about, you know, the passing of James Kahn,
one of the great actors of the past. You know,
fifty seventy years his career, he had so many big
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roles and no matter what generation you are, he had
a role that was unique to you, Like for you know,
for my dad. I mean he's sunny. I mean he's sunny.
You know that that's what he is. I mean he's
sunny for other people too, because Godfather. But when it
came out, you know, James Khn was sunny for me
and you He was like Jonathan e you know in
Rollerball or Misery, you know when when when he played
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Paul Sheldon. And for our daughters he's Walter Hobbs. I mean,
and for me he's Walter Hobbs because I've seen Elf enough.
But it's like you think about three generations of people.
That is a yes that you know here, here's what
you know, James Cohan is for me to be able
to have that kind of career and that kind of
life that is a Hollywood career, my friend. Yeah, I
mean so many different ways to to go down that
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IMDb list. I mean, I I'm a guilty pleasure. Whenever
there's a marathon of Las Vegas, I watch it right
Josty Big ed DeLine running security with the background that
you don't know everything except he was with the company.
At some point, Sylvester Stallone shows up UH and does
a job with him. You got Josh Dummel, who who
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listens to the show. Sometimes you see him at the
UH going into the yoga joint over here. I mean,
that was a great show you I mean for me
in Chicago was Brian's song. I mean he was Brian Piccolo,
Billy d Williams and you know, pulled back the curtain.
I mean that is a made for TV movie and
seventy one and in Chicago was always the the filler
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on a on a Saturday night when there was an
award show and it kind of timed out weird. I
must have seen Brian song fifty times as a kid,
like it was on all the time before Don Kersher's
rock concert, you know. But then but then watching you know,
the career and you mentioned all those the voice over work,
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and and go on
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and on. I mean just prolific, expansive career and from
all reports huge, you know, hugely a nice guy. And
he was in the fans of the game insert set
as a fan of the Dallas Cowboys. Oh look at
you trading cards. If there's a fan card insert, I
know to come to you. You're gonna know that. Well,
I happened to have a base. I don't have the
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signature version right with the sticker autograph, but um, you
know he's a guy that's uh meant a lot, you know,
to a to a lot of folks. So everybody going
and find they're great quotes and and doing a little more.
Walter Hobbs, No, I think Miles Finch, Miles Finch, Miles Finch,
Miles Finch, Miles Finch, I think we should take a
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thirty thousan dollar bath. No, of course not. Uh So
rest in peace, James con two. Uh. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh.
You know, I always say this, if you don't like
college football, wait five minutes. Everything is going to change.
Now that we're still dealing with the after effects and
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what's going on of USC and U s A leaving
for the Big Ten, this is gonna be the move
that reshapes college football into something completely different. And the
shock waves of this are still being felt to the
point today that the a c C in the PAC twelve,
in an event of you know, safe, their conferences want
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to enter into some kind of media agreement where there
would be a a network that would televise games where
the a c C would play against the PAC twelve.
Likely in the beginning of seasons you would get syracusein
Oregon State or UM the Miami against Washington State, and
they want to try to figure out their place at
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the table and That's what everybody's trying to do right
now is figure out their place at the table. Which
is good because I can tell you exactly how college
football is going to end up. You ready, here's where
with everything going on usc U, so I did they
they were the big dominoes that are going to cause
the death of the Pack twelve. Here's how college football
is gonna end As we see these seats changing the
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Big Ten, they'll get Notre Dame as well, they'll get
a couple more teams, they'll get to the Big twenty,
and they'll rebrand as the Big twenty. Right, they're gonna
find they're gonna have fifteen or sixteen school soon, and
then they're gonna say, okay, how do we want to
finish this? How do you want to complete this? And
they'll take a look and they'll they'll finish their conference
and they'll be the Big twenty. And that's how they'll
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rebrand and they'll be one of the two big conferences
in college football. The SEC will be the other because
the SEC eventually is going to get Miami, Florida State
and Clemson and the a c C is going to disappear.
All right, That that's what's going to happen to the the end,
the SEC and the Big Ten will be above everybody
else to the point where they will have their own playoff.
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And that's gonna be college football. College football is going
to be the SEC and the Big Ten. They'll have
their own playoff. And then the other schools that are
left over, the Syracuses, the Pittsburgh's, the Merrily Well in
the Big Ten, but the Syracuse of the Pittsburgh's the
Oregon States, and they will have a couple of conferences
themselves that will be partitioned out by geography. You'll get
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one half of the United States will be in some
kind of conference. The the western half of the United
States there will be another conference, and they will play
their own playoff, and it will be another it will
be one tier lower of college football. So those schools
will actually have a chance to play their own playoffs.
Because the Big Ten and the SEC are gonna do
their thing. They're gonna make all kinds of money. That's
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gonna be the a list of college football, and they're
gonna have their own thing. And then we're gonna get
the next level of all the mid major schools or
the smaller schools and the Power five conferences that are
gonna have their own new conferences and they will play
their own playoffs, have their own regular season, which, honestly,
I'm okay about it because you know, look at Syracuse.
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What am I hoping for? I hope we go to
a bowl game? We go we go to one every
like eight years. Right, It's okay. Maybe now if we
don't have to worry about playing all those great teams
every year, Hey, we can have our own success because
we're a mid tier football program. Everybody got to understand
where they are in college football in the pecking order.
I'm a top program, I'm not a top program, and
this is how we go forward, and that's where college
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football is going to go. So you're gonna see that
kind of a delineation of talent level and playoffs within
the next three or four years. Everybody's trying to scramble
right now in the A c C and the packed
over trying to let's let's let's get together, let's figure
out a way. The Big twelve is gonna try to
find a way. Now they're all going to realize that
we didn't just need to rebrand these other schools that
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haven't been invited to the SEC or the Big Ten,
and we have to start our own thing. That's the
future of college football. That's what USC and U c
l A has borne out. That's eventually going to be
the future of the of the sport. And this is
I mean, in the next two or three years, this
will be the future of the sport. Oh no, it's
gonna keep changing rapidly. I mean, one thing to to
add is a caveat, and you know it could affect
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my squad, So I'm very protective and salty about it.
But the Big Ten doesn't necessarily have to keep all
the teams that were Dude, Gill kick your ass out
in a second, are you kidding? But but that's but
that's the real right Because you mentioned Maryland, I mean,
I look, I would try to hold up the fact
that there's actually been a level of success and particularly
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from the football team, going back to Gary Barnett showing
up as opposed to Illinois, UH and Indiana May they
had Antoine Randall l there for a minute, and so
you know, if you want to you want to play
that get Maryland since they showed up, you want to
play that game. Those three teams are definitely underneath Northwestern
in that regard. But you know, you have the Chicago
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market baby brand themselves, the Chicago's Big ten team. But
choosing between them and say a ever woeful Illinois squad,
my guess is given size scope, that Urbana would get
the call. But the point I'm trying to make is
that in that evaluation process there's also other decisions that
can be made. Northwestern has eight thousand undergrad students, right then,
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it's not a big school obviously, as its blueprint. You're
bringing in USC and U c l A. So you
can argue from the academic standpoint you're taking taking up
some of that clout that Northwestern has always garnered as
the you know, the institution in that regard. But just
the and I said the and I probably Ohio State
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money now because I ascribed to that term to somebody else.
But just the idea of the dominoes falling. You know,
you could have the big plays, the grand plays. Maybe
you have a couple of teams that decide independence is
where they end up because they don't fit any of
these other narratives. And look, the n C double A
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is swirling in the background. As are they a necessary
evil anymore. That's the other part of it. You may
have a privatization that occurs with this saying to hell
with it, will take some of the basic tenants that
we had agreed to all these years, and now we
form a new a new union, a new nation. As
it worked conceived, the liberty dedicated to the proposition that
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the n C Double A didn't know what the hell
they were doing. You know, neither did Larry Scott or
the of course not the pact. I mean, because they
have to. You have to add that, you know, dude,
you and I could have run the Pack twelve better
than it's been running. What we did for nine years
on on radio homle of times, you guys, and then
under cover of night. Nobody knows this is happening. The
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hell's the clown cars running this thing. We need a
new TV A data I mean, I don't know, you know,
let's wait on the new TV contract until after USC
and U C l A leave. Then then we really
got them. They wouldn't expect us to want to renegotiate
after that. No, but it's the old rule of just
because my contract expires at the end of the year,
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doesn't mean we have to wait till the end of
the year to say something about because you know what,
bad things can happen. Yeah, dude, you're getting booted out
of the Big ten. Man. Northwestern is gonna have no place,
no place, all right. I was using them as an
example because they're gonna you're now you're yeah that when
you said big twenty, it made my heart hurt a
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little bit. I'm telling you, man, the Big twenty is coming,
Big twenty is coming, Big twenty, But you won't be
a part of it because you're gonna be gone. You
know you're gonna be Remember, they're gonna be in a
conference with you. Yeah, exactly, is heracus Northwestern Suddenly, Wow,
look at this? What what? What is this? Is this lacrosse? Now?
This is this is a college football be national championship. Uh,
it's gonna be like remember that seat in Braveheart when
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the long shanks the English king and his son was
really disappointing him, and his son's friend is saying, we
need to do this, we need to do this, We
need to make sure that that William Wallace, you understand
we need to do We need to go out, we
need to show force or who we are, and the
guy says yes. He puts his arms around him and
walks where he says yes, and the guy's talking, and
he walks him all the way to the window and
pushes him out and he falls the though, that's what
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it's gonna be, like the Northwestern. I think he enjoyed
that a little too much. But yeah, that's what it's
gonna be Northwestern. Yes, yes, yeah. Academic, yes, let's let's
controct academics. That's what we need to do. We gotta
get people back to that because people are so much
about n i L. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and they're
pushed north the Western. Right, that's what's gonna happen. No,
But like some of the arguments that have spun off
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this are just laughable. Right, people may get a big deal,
well they say that, you know, with the move to
the big ten n I L. Money will be bigger.
No kidding, their audience is bigger. It's an offshoot of
the reason they're moving, you dopes. It's not some big
thought piece. It's obvious. Oh my goodness, it's really embarrassing
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one of the top three heavy metal songs of all
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time right here, we'll decide. Just starts out like this crazy.
It's a song from the sixties. What is happening? This
is this is deal? I don't understand, this isn't where's
the fast stuff? I understand? I really the right album
was gonna start singing, did I Did I get the
right album? Wait? Where'd the song go? Now? Okay, I
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got the right song, right album? I got it all?
How much would this if? Rocked and Stranger things? The
Last in Line, The Battle of Good but the Druller
as much as you need the guitarists they played, they
played master repuppets, They just played the whole fan But yeah,
but the guitar riff off the jump is what grabs you.
Fox Sports Radio that he started with their Yeah, I
(29:59):
know god kick around Shay No, no, no, you would
have to You would have to start with a home duh.
You would have to start with that, and then you
get into with a guitar. You couldn't do the beginning.
You couldn't do that. You have to get on. This
might be my karaoke song in Chicago this weekend. Oh
lasting line? Really? Oh dude, when you do it, here's
what you do? You do it and you tag Vivian
Campbell on it on Twitter, and I bet you he
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retweets you and follows you. You know what, I've found
out that some really big heavy hitters actually follow me
on Twitter. This week really really kind of an interesting time.
I don't have a massive amount of followers. They never
gave me that pesky blue check mark. But I'm being watched.
You don't need that, You're fine, you know, I don't
care about those things. So but okay, so we're a
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little far back in the eighties. But think about how
that song would have rocked. That would have been perfect
for stranger things anyway. So tonight is the NHL draft, right,
just I was just thinking about this because I you know,
I logged on tonight get ready for the show, and
I see two big names trending. I see I Kserman
and Joe Sakic. Right, these are two of the best
hockey players of all time their hey days where the
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nineteen nineties the Red Wings in the Avalanche had so
many great battles. Has a thirty for thirty on this
and you know, living it so close as I did,
because you know, my wife's entire family or Red Wings fans,
and that's the second team I pulled for in the
NHL outside of Carolina. And it got me thinking, you know,
seeing this going, boy, it feels like it's the nineties.
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I would like to see someone do some kind of
algorithm and and have some kind of Twitter, like a
nineties Twitter, so we could see because you know, nineties
nostalgia is huge right now, right eight that seventies sports
account we could do in nineties one you and I
I mean just think right because eighties because eighties was
always the popular for the longest time. Eighties nostalgia was great.
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Now nineties nostalgia is really enjoying a big renaissance. So
I just wonder, like, what would what would Twitter look
like if it was around in the nineties, Like would
Ken Griffey Jr. Trend every night? Or would he not
trend at all? Because it's baseball, it's Ken griff He
plays in Seattle. Like with Frank Thomas trend at all,
people would really mad that he wore his hat backwards.
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I can say that, Like with with Dennis Rodman trend
every day? Oh yeah, Like would he trend every single day?
He was trending this past week when you had Tyreek
Hill saying, Hey, my relationship with two is gonna be
like Garment Electra and Dennis Rodman, Like you know how
that ended right after nine days. I I don't know,
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like would would Aikman and Emmett and Michael Irvin. Would
they trend all the time? I think about that Cowboys team? Yeah,
I mean, would would they be this big boys being
watched all the time? Oh? Man, I mean I really wonder.
I would love to see someone do that and go, hey,
here's what nineties Twitter would look like. And you could
log on and see it and and and take it
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from you know, like night, here's the you know. And
like I said, you'd have to use an algorithm because
you can't just say, well, here's a Twitter would look
like right after we're Super Bowl, where EMT Smith would
be trending and Jim Kelly would be trending. Just throw
out a bunch of nineties references. But I mean we
could start We're backwards the release of the Thong song.
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Think about how huge that would have been. What year
was Two Live Crew? Oh? To Live Crew? Oh they
were early nineties. Yeah, they were early nineties Two Crews
in the early nineties. I mean, think of those videos
all over the place. They flamed out fast, It's fine,
but we would have gotten great content on social media
to those songs. Guns and Roses would have kept trending
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going when is the new album coming? When is the
new album coming all sorts of people, from content from
concerts going to midnight, when's he coming out? Cobain would
trend all the time Vetter, sound Garden, all the all
the uh I mean the wigs over to a whole
other level, all the all the grunge would trend. That
would be. But I really what sports like, like what
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athletes would would really break through? Like like would we
like Mike Piazza and Tony Gwynn would they? Would they?
Would they break through? Would they? Would Steve Young be
someone who tried Jerry Rice? Would he trend all the
time on? You know who would have trend it a lot?
Jerry stand you know what he would have had a
minute or two. Stan Humphries and Tony Martin would have
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fantasy minutes or two. Yes they would, Yes, Marrion butts,
but natron means business. Yeah oh yeah yeah. But I
don't want to. No, I wonder why no one's done
that yet, a nineties algorithm, just to see to see
what the nineties would look like. You want to write algorithms,
forget it, let's just do it. No, I can't write
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an algorithm. I want someone else to do. But I
had the idea Yeah, let's do the idea. Forget forget
about writing all the script. Yeah yeah, that's all I want. Hey,
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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. You know this song
has pretty good cow bell in it too. I never
noticed that before. And I've heard the song outlier in
that one out hundred and hundred and fifty times. I
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know I've heard this song. I got cowbell in it
because initially you can think it could be triangle, but
it's cow bell. It could be triangle slash cow bell,
could be both depending on the live venue. Maybe they
decided to change it up a little bit. Yeah. I
could have been playing a song forty years. I mean,
you want to change it. I think that's the one thing,
you know. I was not very musically incline, but I
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could have played the triangle. I mean, you just gotta
hit the way when when the when the conductor tells
you hit the triangle with the thing. And that's it.
That's your instrument. That's not too bad, not too shabby.
I'm getting ready to uh embark on keyboard learning as
I get into my rehab from my hand here. So
look at you, Keith Emerson. You're gonna learn all those
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great songs. Well, I just figured it would be good
for figure dexterity, and eventually I'll learn a bunch of
Billy Joel and Elton John songs. We could just have
singalongs outside and see if we can gather everybody there outside.
Oh hey, wait a minute, studios. Now we won't even
need Tysher to come back with music anymore when we
when we come back from break, we could we could,
we could save all that kind of money and disperse
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it amongst everybody else, because if you could play the
music coming back, that would be fine. Is not listening,
it doesn't matter. I'm gonna learn how to play run
it up those hills? No, no, no, no no. I
mean you could probably program that back beat in right,
you know, you know, and see and here's the thing. Now,
there should be a moratorium on this song because it's
no longer the most popular song on iTunes and Spotify.
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Master of Puppets and Puppets or maybe something by Birthday Boy,
Ringo Star about that eighty two Today, eighty two for
Ringo Today Piece of Love, Peace and Love. So we
want to really you want a really good Master Puppets
story real fast, let's go to Baker Mayfield. Well you
know what I I did? Uh, I was showing because
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we're we're deep in the Elton John catalog. As I've
told you guys right tight shirt, We've we've tried to
add a bunch of your playlist, not necessarily for the show,
but just in general. And years ago there was a
tribute album that came out that had different stars doing
Elton John and Bertie Taupin songs. It was a tribute
to their um, their legacy and their lyrics. And then
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while contributing was Kate Bush with rocket Man. Yeah she's
on that album. We need we needed that, we needed,
we needed that Kate Push story. I think that Rid
said Kate Bush story. We could have blown it off
and I could have said, yeah, she's made three million
dollars off that song. I was thinking that, you know,
we could add to our repertoire of Kates and you
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wouldn't have to be running up those hills all the time.
All right, if we get that was really kind of
a gift. That was a gift for you in that story,
as if we she's just gonna keep playing running up
that else. Here's here's here's a good story. Here's a
good Master of Puppet story. Uh So I was off
last night because we had our first game less like
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this weekend to state tournaments in softball. We won last night. Awesome.
My daughter's team. They played well, very excited. So before
the game they were looking for songs to listen to
get ready. I'm like, yeah, sure, whatever you guys want.
And you know, they're all thirteen years old, twelve and thirteen,
and I'm like okay, and they're looking for songs to play,
and then they play a couple of songs that these
songs sound bad and they're all stranger things fans. So
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I got girls, trust me, play Master of Puppets, Master
of Puppets. And they're like what and coming, Oh that's
the song and I said yeah, yeah, yeah, play Master
of Puppets. Oh and so boom right away on Spotify
one of the girls plays it and all I get
is no, and that was it? Girl just said someone
through a bad at it for him. That's all I
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got was no, and then boom they were onto another
song and pretty, that's all I got. That's pretty disappointing.
That was so excited. He really extremely disappointed. Now in
your in your team. Now they're gonna play Master of Puppets.
It's been great. It's gonna be our song, and Master
of Puppets is gonna be our song. And I can
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walk around and say, just kid, we'll have him back
by ten. They're gonna go I don't know what that is, coach,
how it doesn't matter. It's I get it. And I
got like two seconds of it, and that was it,
and they moved already intimidating. If your team was taken
the field to that, that would have been great, right,
I mean, it would have been awesome. I said, you
could que it up to the guitar soul if you
want to. That would be fantastic. To your position with
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face paint like you're the Road Warriors. And yes, before
you write me, people, I know they came out to
iron Man. I was trying to bring it all together. No,
and I could just see the finger on the button Nope,
we're going on to something else. On We're moving on.
I even think they moved on to Imagine Dragons before
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they got to a song. I'm like, Oh, that's that's
you cut, Master Repuppets from Imagine Dragons. Is the nickel
Back of the twenties tens. I mean that's what you cut.
Oh my god, I said nickel Back. What am I doing?
But I mean maybe for the next game, you you
start with a little Al Stewart, little Year of the Cat,
(05:43):
Time passages, time Passages. The Jason Smith Show with my
best friend Mike Carmen live from the Fox Sports Radio studios,
and uh, look today like we've got a lot of
fun NFL stuff today, big stories out of the NBA.
Clear I can be an NBA insider because today a
story broke that we told you about like two nights ago.
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But I cannot get over today. Mike Harmon the insanity,
the absolute insanity people have had after the Baker Mayfield
trade to the Carolina Panthers. You'd have thought that Aaron
Rodgers got traded. Baker Mayfield has been traded, and I
get Baker's polarizing. So there's a lot of conversation I know,
(06:26):
I guess a hot enough take. I was really open
saying to pick a fight with somebody yesterday and we
had nice, reasonable, calm discussions about a guy that was
once upon a time the number one pick and now
he's battling for a job. That's it there, it is. Hey,
we're treating this story like we just saw one of
the best quarterbacks in the NFL getting moved into shocking fashion.
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And and I saw today like ESPN and a couple
of of analysts at oh, Baker Mayfield could turn the
Panthers into a playoff team, And I'm like, you got,
I mean, I get that. We were in a spot
in the NFL calendar where Baker Mayfield and Jimmy Garoppolo
are the only loose ends, right, everything else has been
set up when the quarterback carousel went and it stopped,
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and it stopped not knowing where Baker Mayfield is going
to end up and not knowing where Jimmy Garoppolo is
going to be. So there was a lot of conversation
on it, way too much conversation, especially for Baker Mayfield.
But he's polarizing. People have opinions on him. He made
the Browns relevant for a while, people paid attention to
what the Browns were doing. So I get all of that,
but people are insane. If he was, if he was
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a guy that could get a team to the playoffs,
somebody would have traded for him before yesterday. All right,
it would have happened. Someone would have said, will swaddle
the eighteen million dollars, or hey we'll pay twelve million,
will you pay six We'll give you a fourth round pick.
If Baker Mayfield was someone to get a team to
the playoffs, somebody would have done it. The NFL told
all of us, every single team, what they think of
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Baker Mayfield. He has been available four months months and
not for a big cost. And they weren't holding out.
They had they had they they were gonna cut the guy.
They we're just gonna hold on him as long as
we can until somebody's gonna trade us for him. And finally,
the Panthers, because they're even more desperate than than the
the teams like the Jets. Yes, let's go get Baker Mayfield.
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Why because why not? Right? Just like I say with
the Lakers, Hey, the Lakers should go get Kyrie Irving?
Why not? They have nothing to lose. They're gonna stink
this year. Go get Kyrie Irving. Hey, why shouldn't the
Panthers go get Baker Mayfield? Why Sam Donald stinks? Of course,
go get Baker Mayfield. Is he gonna be better now?
But why not? Because you know he might be. But
the impact of Baker Mayfield, you'd have thought this trade
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was something that was seismic, And maybe because we spent
so much time on it. When it actually happened, everybody
went overboard. But I'm sitting here going what people think
about me? People have lost their minds. They lost their
mind He's gonna be a playoff quarterback, He's gonna restart
his career. All of this Baker Mayfield. I'm going, Um,
and my did I come from another Earth like Earth
(09:02):
seven fifty five or Earth eight seven where Baker Mayfield
was really, really good and the trade was controversial because
I'm on Earth six sixteen where Baker Mayfield was a
number one overall pick and didn't see the end of
his contract with the Browns that got traded before the
end of it. And he's someone who could wind up
being a backup and never start again. But but people,
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they've gone crazy they've gone Baker may feel crazy, my Carmen, Oh,
I appreciate that you got a little tribute to Hank
Aaron in there with number seven fifty five. Now that well,
I mean, it's one of the numbers that we still
cherish and hold dear UH in our sports encyclopedic knowledge
that we have right baseball home runs totals for the
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legends used to be a monstrous thing off the back
of the baseball cards. But you know, with Baker Mayfield,
I think there's a couple of things that play Number one.
As you said, there's not a lot of stories. It's
where the the final pieces of the quarterback puzzle, before injuries,
before training camps, before craziness happens, and maybe UH necessitates
(10:05):
another move, right, It's it's Baker and Jimmy Garoppolo and
the rest of the world. And I think for some
of the planning of shows, certainly not the calm, rational
approach we take UH to dissecting our hot take nonsense
here on Fox Sports Radio, you and I or Dan
Buyer in with me last night it was a how
far are you willing to go? With Baker Mayfield is
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either worst quarterback in the world, or can you see
uh the team making a run? Because are you willing
to stand by that? Because you're gonna get some derision.
I could hear the meetings. I could hear the producers
in my ear saying those very very things UH as
opposed to. He's gotta go fight for a job. Maybe
he wins it, maybe he doesn't. Maybe Sam Donald's the starter,
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he stinks, and Baker eventually gets a shot, and then
you're praying that everything else falls in line. I heard
a little bit of you with Rodney Pete on our
local affiliate earlier, as was waiting in line and in
and out to get myself a hamburger from my my
daughter and the neighbors or whatever, and a lot of
the ifs about how you get to October and major
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League Baseball. That's what it would take for Carolina. If
you want to do the algorithm, there's about nine ifs.
So figure out what the coefficient is and ahead of
that variable and then email me back. Christian McCaffrey seventeen
games offensive line, just drafting that left tackle. He's not
multiplying into five guys. People, That line still sucks. Okay,
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you've got t J. Moore, Marshall, maybe an up and
comer and so on. We could talk about personnel and
wish and hope that's gonna work. But it's also Baker. Right.
People want to just miss last season and say, but
he was hurt, but he played, but he played. Why
aren't we trying to give him a pass when we
don't give anybody else passes. It's like, you know what
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they didn't perform, Like, well, you know he was hurt, Well,
that doesn't matter. He played. So with Baker it's the
same thing. Don't try what you know suddenly erase that
he he played. He played terribly, to the point where
you and I debated for weeks and argued for weeks,
stood outside with sandwich boards saying, case Keenum should be
your starter. He has to be at least as good
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as what Baker Mayfield was putting up. And that doesn't
mean you can't find a little lightning in the bottle again,
you know from a couple of years ago. Oh wait, no,
the roster is not as good as Cleveland was. But
the one thing that may come into play here if
you want to add you know something that could be
a positive and all of the you know, if statements
is once upon a time, this guy was a walk on.
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Once upon a time, he had to transfer and all
of that, it was all proven. Well that's where he's
at now. He's got to prove it that there's value. Right,
everybody was wondering about Seattle. Seattle, Uh didn't, I don't.
I don't think Pete Carroll wanted a guy that he
had to come in and really, you know, coach him
up and try to deal with what you had with
Russell Wilson. He wanted guys that are gonna come in
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and work his system and move forward, and they didn't
want to pay any bit of the dollars that were
associated with this. There's gonna be a brand new, from scratch,
backup deal. So that goes to the wayside, and all
these other teams that either try to address something in
the draft or still going out there with guys that
are suspect or help maybe even from their backup perspective, decided,
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you know what, it's it's not worth the potential headache
I'm bringing it. Does this sound familiar? It really resonates
with a lot of the NBA conversations we've been having
over these last several weeks, Jason, same same endgame with
all right, do you want to disrupt stuff, give away
the farm and potentially torpedo your chances with Carolina, Matt
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Rules trying to buy more time, and they evidently decided
to turn the the sand in in the hourglass over
one more time to extend his his his stay and
give him a shot to uh of this reclamation project.
You talk about desperation. Whoa, that's a stinky cologne? And
Carolina who be sure to catch live editions of The
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Jason Smith Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern,
seven pm Pacific. Let it wash over you enjoy the
genius of Kirk Hammett Jason. Don't worry, we'll have them
back by eight. Oh my god. You know that's the
one thing with Master of Puppets and Stranger Things is
that when they you, they just I won't say, well,
(14:23):
I know spoiler, but they use the song and I'm
sitting there going boy for me, I I really just
had a call back to old school and and I'm
saying to myself, you kind of borrowed the song. You
could have taken Dio's Last in Line or something. But
you know, I read, stop obsessing. Nobody knows last in line.
Sure they do. They did not have a dio fan
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on set like the Kate Bush person to force that through.
Oh that's true. Yeah, they did not have that. No
they didn't. I'm not. I'm not saying they didn't, you know,
celebrate the catalog of of Ronnie James Diope. Perhaps when
it was all said and done, you know you we're
gonna print some albums. We're trying to get some downloads.
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Where are we making more sales? Uh? But I'm like,
it's it's old school, um, and now you're And they
said it was the only song they wanted to use,
Like that was the like I said, we're gonna use
Master Repuppets and we're calling Metallica and they're gonna use it.
And I'm like, oh okay. All I could think of
was the van scene from Old School. No, I get that,
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But you're also of a certain age. A lot of
the kids watching Stranger Things have no knowledge of of
said scene. Is well, I mean soon enough, and then
I mean they at least know. I have to know
the personage of Blue before they get too old. I
mean that try body to try. But obviously. You know.
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The thing about it is Metallica is also pushing an
app where you can learn how to play their songs
from them, So it all kind of spirals together. Jason
of how to how to get into your pocket and
turn you over like you're going to a theme park.
What else you got left in there? I swear it's
just gum Nope, earmupsu. The Jason Smith Show with my
(16:14):
best friend Mike Carmen, Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh.
You know it's funny, you say, just really quick before
you get into college football. Is is what different movies
mean to different people. And you know that got me
thinking today about, you know, the passing of James Kahn,
one of the great actors of the past. You know,
fifty seventy years his career, he had so many big
(16:39):
roles and no matter what generation you are, he had
a role that was unique to you, Like for you know,
for my dad. I mean he's sunny. I mean he's sunny.
You know that that's what he is. I mean he's
sunny for other people too, because Godfather. But when it
came out, you know, James Khn was sunny for me
and you He was like Jonathan e you know in
Rollerball or Misery, you know when when when he played
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Paul Sheldon. And for our daughters he's Walter Hobbs. I mean,
and for me he's Walter Hobbs because I've seen Elf enough.
But it's like you think about three generations of people.
That is a yes that you know here, here's what
you know, James Cohan is for me to be able
to have that kind of career and that kind of
life that is a Hollywood career, my friend. Yeah, I
mean so many different ways to to go down that
(17:23):
IMDb list. I mean, I I'm a guilty pleasure. Whenever
there's a marathon of Las Vegas, I watch it right
Josty Big ed DeLine running security with the background that
you don't know everything except he was with the company.
At some point, Sylvester Stallone shows up UH and does
a job with him. You got Josh Dummel, who who
(17:45):
listens to the show. Sometimes you see him at the
UH going into the yoga joint over here. I mean,
that was a great show you I mean for me
in Chicago was Brian's song. I mean he was Brian Piccolo,
Billy d Williams and you know, pulled back the curtain.
I mean that is a made for TV movie and
seventy one and in Chicago was always the the filler
(18:06):
on a on a Saturday night when there was an
award show and it kind of timed out weird. I
must have seen Brian song fifty times as a kid,
like it was on all the time before Don Kersher's
rock concert, you know. But then but then watching you know,
the career and you mentioned all those the voice over work,
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and and go on
(18:27):
and on. I mean just prolific, expansive career and from
all reports huge, you know, hugely a nice guy. And
he was in the fans of the game insert set
as a fan of the Dallas Cowboys. Oh look at
you trading cards. If there's a fan card insert, I
know to come to you. You're gonna know that. Well,
I happened to have a base. I don't have the
(18:49):
signature version right with the sticker autograph, but um, you
know he's a guy that's uh meant a lot, you know,
to a to a lot of folks. So everybody going
and find they're great quotes and and doing a little more.
Walter Hobbs, No, I think Miles Finch, Miles Finch, Miles Finch,
Miles Finch, Miles Finch, I think we should take a
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thirty thousan dollar bath. No, of course not. Uh So
rest in peace, James con two. Uh. The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Carmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Uh.
You know, I always say this, if you don't like
college football, wait five minutes. Everything is going to change.
Now that we're still dealing with the after effects and
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what's going on of USC and U s A leaving
for the Big Ten, this is gonna be the move
that reshapes college football into something completely different. And the
shock waves of this are still being felt to the
point today that the a c C in the PAC twelve,
in an event of you know, safe, their conferences want
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to enter into some kind of media agreement where there
would be a a network that would televise games where
the a c C would play against the PAC twelve.
Likely in the beginning of seasons you would get syracusein
Oregon State or UM the Miami against Washington State, and
they want to try to figure out their place at
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the table and That's what everybody's trying to do right
now is figure out their place at the table. Which
is good because I can tell you exactly how college
football is going to end up. You ready, here's where
with everything going on usc U, so I did they
they were the big dominoes that are going to cause
the death of the Pack twelve. Here's how college football
is gonna end As we see these seats changing the
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Big Ten, they'll get Notre Dame as well, they'll get
a couple more teams, they'll get to the Big twenty,
and they'll rebrand as the Big twenty. Right, they're gonna
find they're gonna have fifteen or sixteen school soon, and
then they're gonna say, okay, how do we want to
finish this? How do you want to complete this? And
they'll take a look and they'll they'll finish their conference
and they'll be the Big twenty. And that's how they'll
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rebrand and they'll be one of the two big conferences
in college football. The SEC will be the other because
the SEC eventually is going to get Miami, Florida State
and Clemson and the a c C is going to disappear.
All right, That that's what's going to happen to the the end,
the SEC and the Big Ten will be above everybody
else to the point where they will have their own playoff.
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And that's gonna be college football. College football is going
to be the SEC and the Big Ten. They'll have
their own playoff. And then the other schools that are
left over, the Syracuses, the Pittsburgh's, the Merrily Well in
the Big Ten, but the Syracuse of the Pittsburgh's the
Oregon States, and they will have a couple of conferences
themselves that will be partitioned out by geography. You'll get
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one half of the United States will be in some
kind of conference. The the western half of the United
States there will be another conference, and they will play
their own playoff, and it will be another it will
be one tier lower of college football. So those schools
will actually have a chance to play their own playoffs.
Because the Big Ten and the SEC are gonna do
their thing. They're gonna make all kinds of money. That's
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gonna be the a list of college football, and they're
gonna have their own thing. And then we're gonna get
the next level of all the mid major schools or
the smaller schools and the Power five conferences that are
gonna have their own new conferences and they will play
their own playoffs, have their own regular season, which, honestly,
I'm okay about it because you know, look at Syracuse.
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What am I hoping for? I hope we go to
a bowl game? We go we go to one every
like eight years. Right, It's okay. Maybe now if we
don't have to worry about playing all those great teams
every year, Hey, we can have our own success because
we're a mid tier football program. Everybody got to understand
where they are in college football in the pecking order.
I'm a top program, I'm not a top program, and
this is how we go forward, and that's where college
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football is going to go. So you're gonna see that
kind of a delineation of talent level and playoffs within
the next three or four years. Everybody's trying to scramble
right now in the A c C and the packed
over trying to let's let's let's get together, let's figure
out a way. The Big twelve is gonna try to
find a way. Now they're all going to realize that
we didn't just need to rebrand these other schools that
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haven't been invited to the SEC or the Big Ten,
and we have to start our own thing. That's the
future of college football. That's what USC and U c
l A has borne out. That's eventually going to be
the future of the of the sport. And this is
I mean, in the next two or three years, this
will be the future of the sport. Oh no, it's
gonna keep changing rapidly. I mean, one thing to to
add is a caveat, and you know it could affect
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my squad, So I'm very protective and salty about it.
But the Big Ten doesn't necessarily have to keep all
the teams that were Dude, Gill kick your ass out
in a second, are you kidding? But but that's but
that's the real right Because you mentioned Maryland, I mean,
I look, I would try to hold up the fact
that there's actually been a level of success and particularly
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from the football team, going back to Gary Barnett showing
up as opposed to Illinois, UH and Indiana May they
had Antoine Randall l there for a minute, and so
you know, if you want to you want to play
that get Maryland since they showed up, you want to
play that game. Those three teams are definitely underneath Northwestern
in that regard. But you know, you have the Chicago
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market baby brand themselves, the Chicago's Big ten team. But
choosing between them and say a ever woeful Illinois squad,
my guess is given size scope, that Urbana would get
the call. But the point I'm trying to make is
that in that evaluation process there's also other decisions that
can be made. Northwestern has eight thousand undergrad students, right then,
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it's not a big school obviously, as its blueprint. You're
bringing in USC and U c l A. So you
can argue from the academic standpoint you're taking taking up
some of that clout that Northwestern has always garnered as
the you know, the institution in that regard. But just
the and I said the and I probably Ohio State
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money now because I ascribed to that term to somebody else.
But just the idea of the dominoes falling. You know,
you could have the big plays, the grand plays. Maybe
you have a couple of teams that decide independence is
where they end up because they don't fit any of
these other narratives. And look, the n C double A
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is swirling in the background. As are they a necessary
evil anymore. That's the other part of it. You may
have a privatization that occurs with this saying to hell
with it, will take some of the basic tenants that
we had agreed to all these years, and now we
form a new a new union, a new nation. As
it worked conceived, the liberty dedicated to the proposition that
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the n C Double A didn't know what the hell
they were doing. You know, neither did Larry Scott or
the of course not the pact. I mean, because they
have to. You have to add that, you know, dude,
you and I could have run the Pack twelve better
than it's been running. What we did for nine years
on on radio homle of times, you guys, and then
under cover of night. Nobody knows this is happening. The
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hell's the clown cars running this thing. We need a
new TV A data I mean, I don't know, you know,
let's wait on the new TV contract until after USC
and U C l A leave. Then then we really
got them. They wouldn't expect us to want to renegotiate
after that. No, but it's the old rule of just
because my contract expires at the end of the year,
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doesn't mean we have to wait till the end of
the year to say something about because you know what,
bad things can happen. Yeah, dude, you're getting booted out
of the Big ten. Man. Northwestern is gonna have no place,
no place, all right. I was using them as an
example because they're gonna you're now you're yeah that when
you said big twenty, it made my heart hurt a
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little bit. I'm telling you, man, the Big twenty is coming,
Big twenty is coming, Big twenty, But you won't be
a part of it because you're gonna be gone. You
know you're gonna be Remember, they're gonna be in a
conference with you. Yeah, exactly, is heracus Northwestern Suddenly, Wow,
look at this? What what? What is this? Is this lacrosse? Now?
This is this is a college football be national championship. Uh,
it's gonna be like remember that seat in Braveheart when
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the long shanks the English king and his son was
really disappointing him, and his son's friend is saying, we
need to do this, we need to do this, We
need to make sure that that William Wallace, you understand
we need to do We need to go out, we
need to show force or who we are, and the
guy says yes. He puts his arms around him and
walks where he says yes, and the guy's talking, and
he walks him all the way to the window and
pushes him out and he falls the though, that's what
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it's gonna be, like the Northwestern. I think he enjoyed
that a little too much. But yeah, that's what it's
gonna be Northwestern. Yes, yes, yeah. Academic, yes, let's let's
controct academics. That's what we need to do. We gotta
get people back to that because people are so much
about n i L. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and they're
pushed north the Western. Right, that's what's gonna happen. No,
But like some of the arguments that have spun off
(27:50):
this are just laughable. Right, people may get a big deal,
well they say that, you know, with the move to
the big ten n I L. Money will be bigger.
No kidding, their audience is bigger. It's an offshoot of
the reason they're moving, you dopes. It's not some big
thought piece. It's obvious. Oh my goodness, it's really embarrassing
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one of the top three heavy metal songs of all
(29:14):
time right here, we'll decide. Just starts out like this crazy.
It's a song from the sixties. What is happening? This
is this is deal? I don't understand, this isn't where's
the fast stuff? I understand? I really the right album
was gonna start singing, did I Did I get the
right album? Wait? Where'd the song go? Now? Okay, I
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got the right song, right album? I got it all?
How much would this if? Rocked and Stranger things? The
Last in Line, The Battle of Good but the Druller
as much as you need the guitarists they played, they
played master repuppets, They just played the whole fan But yeah,
but the guitar riff off the jump is what grabs you.
Fox Sports Radio that he started with their Yeah, I
(29:59):
know god kick around Shay No, no, no, you would
have to You would have to start with a home duh.
You would have to start with that, and then you
get into with a guitar. You couldn't do the beginning.
You couldn't do that. You have to get on. This
might be my karaoke song in Chicago this weekend. Oh
lasting line? Really? Oh dude, when you do it, here's
what you do? You do it and you tag Vivian
Campbell on it on Twitter, and I bet you he
(30:21):
retweets you and follows you. You know what, I've found
out that some really big heavy hitters actually follow me
on Twitter. This week really really kind of an interesting time.
I don't have a massive amount of followers. They never
gave me that pesky blue check mark. But I'm being watched.
You don't need that, You're fine, you know, I don't
care about those things. So but okay, so we're a
(30:44):
little far back in the eighties. But think about how
that song would have rocked. That would have been perfect
for stranger things anyway. So tonight is the NHL draft, right,
just I was just thinking about this because I you know,
I logged on tonight get ready for the show, and
I see two big names trending. I see I Kserman
and Joe Sakic. Right, these are two of the best
hockey players of all time their hey days where the
(31:05):
nineteen nineties the Red Wings in the Avalanche had so
many great battles. Has a thirty for thirty on this
and you know, living it so close as I did,
because you know, my wife's entire family or Red Wings fans,
and that's the second team I pulled for in the
NHL outside of Carolina. And it got me thinking, you know,
seeing this going, boy, it feels like it's the nineties.
(31:26):
I would like to see someone do some kind of
algorithm and and have some kind of Twitter, like a
nineties Twitter, so we could see because you know, nineties
nostalgia is huge right now, right eight that seventies sports
account we could do in nineties one you and I
I mean just think right because eighties because eighties was
always the popular for the longest time. Eighties nostalgia was great.
(31:49):
Now nineties nostalgia is really enjoying a big renaissance. So
I just wonder, like, what would what would Twitter look
like if it was around in the nineties, Like would
Ken Griffey Jr. Trend every night? Or would he not
trend at all? Because it's baseball, it's Ken griff He
plays in Seattle. Like with Frank Thomas trend at all,
people would really mad that he wore his hat backwards.
(32:10):
I can say that, Like with with Dennis Rodman trend
every day? Oh yeah, Like would he trend every single day?
He was trending this past week when you had Tyreek
Hill saying, Hey, my relationship with two is gonna be
like Garment Electra and Dennis Rodman, Like you know how
that ended right after nine days. I I don't know,
(32:31):
like would would Aikman and Emmett and Michael Irvin. Would
they trend all the time? I think about that Cowboys team? Yeah,
I mean, would would they be this big boys being
watched all the time? Oh? Man, I mean I really wonder.
I would love to see someone do that and go, hey,
here's what nineties Twitter would look like. And you could
log on and see it and and and take it
(32:52):
from you know, like night, here's the you know. And
like I said, you'd have to use an algorithm because
you can't just say, well, here's a Twitter would look
like right after we're Super Bowl, where EMT Smith would
be trending and Jim Kelly would be trending. Just throw
out a bunch of nineties references. But I mean we
could start We're backwards the release of the Thong song.
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Think about how huge that would have been. What year
was Two Live Crew? Oh? To Live Crew? Oh they
were early nineties. Yeah, they were early nineties Two Crews
in the early nineties. I mean, think of those videos
all over the place. They flamed out fast, It's fine,
but we would have gotten great content on social media
to those songs. Guns and Roses would have kept trending
(33:35):
going when is the new album coming? When is the
new album coming all sorts of people, from content from
concerts going to midnight, when's he coming out? Cobain would
trend all the time Vetter, sound Garden, all the all
the uh I mean the wigs over to a whole
other level, all the all the grunge would trend. That
would be. But I really what sports like, like what
(33:58):
athletes would would really break through? Like like would we
like Mike Piazza and Tony Gwynn would they? Would they?
Would they break through? Would they? Would Steve Young be
someone who tried Jerry Rice? Would he trend all the
time on? You know who would have trend it a lot?
Jerry stand you know what he would have had a
minute or two. Stan Humphries and Tony Martin would have
(34:20):
fantasy minutes or two. Yes they would, Yes, Marrion butts,
but natron means business. Yeah oh yeah yeah. But I
don't want to. No, I wonder why no one's done
that yet, a nineties algorithm, just to see to see
what the nineties would look like. You want to write algorithms,
forget it, let's just do it. No, I can't write
(34:41):
an algorithm. I want someone else to do. But I
had the idea Yeah, let's do the idea. Forget forget
about writing all the script. Yeah yeah, that's all I want. Hey,
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