March 13, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon, in for Covino and Rich, react to Gardner Minshew signing a one-year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs. Why the Vikings will need a serious intervention if they sign Aaron Rodgers. And a Cooper Flagg injury update. Plus, a different angle on LeBron James injury!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, Welcome in side our two, Cavino and Rich Here
on Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon from knights
In for the guys today, big day of college basketball.
We'll have an update on Cooper Flag coming up in
about twenty minutes. Looks like it's good news for him,
but uh, I gotta tell you the Jorts update from
moments ago. Gardner Minshew, who you know at some point
(00:48):
is going to come into a playoff game and win
it for the Chiefs. He now goes to Kansas City
to back up Patrick Mahomes the Jorts Live another day.
Mike Carmen fantastic.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I don't know, he's a powerful man.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I mean, you have competition in the clubhouse now, Uh yeah,
but that's all the wives and girl friends and hangers
on looking.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And you know, you know, I'm like, I like this
because now you know that's where he's going to be
the rest of his career. Okay, I'm good. I'm not
going to get the chance to start again. I'm gonna
back up Mahome's gonna be here forever he can be.
Jim Sorgy, he's gonna be ye like he's gonna be
like thirty eight years old. Yeah, I'm great. I'm backing
up my homes and maybe one or two times over
the course of his career and the rest of his career,
(01:33):
he'll have a chance to say, hey, I came in
in the divisional playoff game for a few plays here,
and I did this kind of like Chad Henny Clinch
clinch the win over the Browns in the playoffs a
few years ago, Like like that's Gardner Minshew. Now, like, okay,
he'll be relevant because he'll be the backup in Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I kind of dig this. I do like the process.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
He's a folk hero and you take him to a
place where now it's he's essentially played in warm weather
most of his career, right a little bit in Indianapolis.
But now now we we get him in Kansas City
and and we'll get to see what the winter outfits look.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Like, well you watch out. You show up in Kansas
City with jeorts and that mustache, and all of a sudden,
Taylor Swift is gonna say, sorry, dude, he's got a
better mustache than you. He looks good in georts. And
suddenly it's gonna be the big triangle on the Kansaity Chiefs.
It's gonna be Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Jorge, now you're just trying to cause trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And she's and and and uh, she's gonna do a
new song called you Belong with Jeorts, You Belong.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
With Wow, the celebration of jeorts and a whole other
I was thinking his long flowing hair, because Travis doesn't
have long flowing hair.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He wears jorts and you're in the bleachers. Oh, I
got it's gonna be fantastic, What a great, what a
great Chris.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So, now she's reworking her music, not like she just
did with the eras to her. Now she'll re release
albums by doing parodies of them, like she's wearing her
own film, own videos.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And so yes, that's what she's got to do. Right.
You can't remake songs anymore. We've seen it. Okay, this
is Taylor's New updated. No, no, no, we know you
own the rights to all your songs. Now that's why
you did it. We get it. But now you got
to do parodies of those songs, and then it's going
to be Hey, here, I'm in chat room here on Reddit.
What's the best version of Taylor Swift's You Belong with Me?
The original version, the red version, or the Gardner Minshew
(03:27):
Georts version.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I will say that is worth another billion dollars, So
crank it up.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh the George Her twenty twenty seven. Think about that.
Oh man, just think about it. Everybody with everybody going
to the concert, of course wearing georts.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I'm like that about going and getting some George.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Now, I'll tell he, well, you know, you know you
can get them. I would go to j C. Penny.
They're a big George place, Jessy Penny, Macy's. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That in fact, that that was top of mine leads
me a little unnerved.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
If you're looking to get Joe Oh no, no, Look
I love Macy's and j C. Penny, but I just
know that they have I mean, you're looking for georts.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That's where you instead of hats as you got older,
did you just start giving people George like, that's part
of the stick from our evening show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh Smith, once upon a time giving hats
to would be love prospects.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It's just what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That was a long time ago, Mike, that was I'm
not that person anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
While like I said, you look on to George.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I change, baby, I'm not that guy anymore.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
You got a quasi Telly Savalis who loves your baby.
And while you had it so nicely done.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Uh now, hey, speaking to someone who's not that guy anymore.
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So this is your your former guy.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You like that, he was my guy, But just like
that guy, trust me, you're not that guy, just like
anybody else. If you're not on my team anymore, I
will cut baita I'll just cut bait on you so easily.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
When it went bad, you cut those guys loose.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, dude, forget about forget about Justin Fields. I'm more
stone smart than I am. Aaron Rodgers. Now with the
Jet signing him earlier to I mean, you gotta go
with your guys, man, These are my guys, and Rogers
is not my guy. We talked about Russell Wilson a
few minutes ago, and now here's Aaron Rodgers allegedly allegedly
waiting on an offer from the Steelers, or waiting on
(05:16):
his final decision whether he wants to accept the offer
the Steelers have out there. This reported by a Steelers
beat reporter last night. I maintain if he was really
offered something by the Steelers, the reason why he would
say no, it's the best team he could possibly go to.
They're built like they're a playoff team already. Why would
you say no? It's not like the Giants called and
you're like, man, I got lame duck GM, lame duck
(05:38):
head coach. I don't have any talent here. Malik Neighbors
is already unhappy. Why the hell would I want to
go here and have people just say, hey, you're not
as good as Tommy Cutlet's yeah. I think that if
that offer was out there, he would have taken it already.
But with Rogers, it's such a mystery, and the story
I can't get past the last couple of days is
the continued linking of Rogers to the Vikings, which doesn't
(06:02):
make any sense right. I mean, first of all, are
you really gonna follow Brett Farv's career path to the team.
Are you really gonna do You're really gonna go Green
Bay for a long long time, win a Super Bowl,
get unhappy at the end. The last couple of years
are really bad. You force your way out and you
get traded to the Jets. Your years with the Jets
don't go like you expect, so you find your way
(06:23):
out and then you finish with the Vikings. Like he's
really gonna do that?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I mean like he not only did he follow the teams,
he also was the petulant child that Farv was in
each of these places. Yes, I mean it's not just
all the same. No, I'm gonna go out the ripped
elbow instead he ripped up his leg.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, Farva's upset, you'd have to battle out for the
job with Aaron Rodgers, so he found his way out.
Rogers upset that Jordan Love got taken behind it like
everything is the same, so why would you do that?
But the bigger thing is this is that if the Vikings,
and there's a lot of insiders that have said, You've
seen many reports the last couple of days that Rogers
has a lot of interest in the Viking they're kind
(07:00):
of waiting for a decision by the Vikings on this,
and I'm just saying, if this happens, then the Vikings
need an intervention and every decision maker they have needs
to be taken out of decision making. Okay, because did
you really kick Sam Donald to the curb? Because you
love JJ McCarthy, right, And we know this because our
(07:23):
stuff on Sam Donald's gone viral the last couple of
days with how they just let Sam Donald walk out
of Minnesota without really getting anything for him. Oh, we
got a compensatory pick. Yes, you basically got a fourth
round pick for a guy that threw thirty five touchdowns
four thousand yards, one of the top three quarterbacks in
the NFL last year. And yeah, that sounds fair. You
could have played poker. You should have. You should have
franchised him. You should have then dealt him because you
(07:45):
know you would have been able to trade him because
the Seattle Seahawks gave him a hundred million dollars. They
traded away their quarterback and gave him a hundred million dollars.
So I think you could have gotten a first round
pick or a couple of second round picks or a
second round pick and a player, or you could have
gotten that for Sam Donald, but instead, no, no, no, no,
we love JJ McCarthy so much, we are okay with
letting Sam Darnald walk, and we're using the last two
(08:07):
playoff games as an excuse to say, yeah, ah, really
he's no good anymore. Well, wait, we didn't really protect
him all that. Well, he was kind of under siege.
You forget about the fifteen games before where he was
absolutely lights out. Now that's our excuse if they let
Sam Darnald go because they love JJ McCarthy. But still
(08:27):
they bring in Aaron Rodgers to play ahead of him,
because Rogers's not coming in to back up JJ McCarthy.
His whole thing is, look, I'll come in and mentor
young quarterback. Great, like I'll come in and do it.
I understand this is my last stop. And I know
in Rogers' mind it's yeah, I'm gonna mentor this kid,
but I'm gonna keep this job for a year or
two first, like, this is how I'm gonna do it.
He's not coming in there as a backup to JJ McCarthy.
(08:49):
If things go okay, he's not gonna be spinning the
ball in his hands with his headphones in listening to
the play calls while JJ McCarthy's running up and down
the field. He's going in there to start. If you
are the Vikings and you did this, and you did this,
everybody that's in on this decision should be absolutely taken
out of decision making. Somebody else make those decisions, because
(09:10):
you clearly don't know what you're doing. And not only that,
the people in my timeline the last couple of days
that did all the Vikings fans, you have to leave
social media. If they do that, you have no leg
to stand on. You disagree with my take on Donald
and why they couldn't get anything form on, you need
to leave social media. That those two things need to happen.
If somehow Aaron Rodgers ends up with the Vikings.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You need to go find yourself a hug.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Look, we're talking about all the differential, right, what Seattle
was willing to pay Donald versus what Gino Smith reportedly wanted,
and then you go between what Sam got and what
the franchise tag was. Right, we're talking seven eight million
dollars there about that we fight about there and for
(09:54):
a number of these squads. It is Sam really our
long term answer. I don't know how much do you
put on Kevin O'Connell to play call and adjusting. How
much do you put on the fact that they had
to trade for Cam Robinson, who was in for Darrisawle,
who was lost in the middle of the season, who's
one of the best offensive line. But we got going
(10:14):
young and still emerging. And Robinson at times played well.
At times he was a turnstile. So you have those
kind of things that you've got to decide along the
process as to what that's worth to you and the Giants,
the Steelers, etc. They may have decided that good old
Sam Donald was not worth forty million dollars bringing him
(10:36):
in off of the franchise and trade and giving up
subsequent picks. So all of that said, we get back
to where the Vikings are. They've done a good job
assembling a roster. Darrisa will be back, and now it's
the question of who's the other guy in that quarterback room,
Aaron Rodgers if you don't think McCarthy's physically going to
(10:57):
be ready, if he's willing to sign a you know,
the old team friendly deal for one last shot at Glory.
It's fun theater for us. And maybe it's another case
of ex jet now good. But they're they're in a
position now where you gotta get acting. There's only three
quarterbacks left in the marketplace now that Minshew's off the board,
(11:19):
I mean what he got.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
There's no mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
He finally ended up in San Francisco where he was
supposed to be years ago. Remember all those mock drafts
before Trey Lance, all of that stuff. So you've got
Captain Kirk sitting down in a holding pen in his
little Harry Potter cupboard under the stairs, waiting for his release,
or for somebody to get hurt, or for a team
(11:43):
to realize, oh wait, we don't have any more viable options.
So that's kind of where we sit. But yes, rogers
to the Vikings. Do I want him back in the
North with the Bears. No, not necessarily, but for the
purposes of our sports talk radio show here nights on
Fox Sports. Come on, it couldn't get any better than that.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I really sometimes I look at things and I say,
the NFL doesn't really need to be that complicated, right,
but the but the Vikings made this. I feel like
the Darnold decision to move on from him was something
that was made in like five minutes, right, Like the
two games at the end of the year were the
excuse to say, okay, so we're clear, say goodbye. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's it. We wouldn't want to mess around with this.
(12:25):
Let's just let him go, guy to let go.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I mean we talked about it, and you go back
and watch those final games. I don't know how much
adjustments and how many you can make against those fronts
that the Lions rams and you know when when teams
faced up against the Eagles, that that you could make,
you know, if we expand NFL wide. But certainly we
didn't see a lot of that, and Sam was kind
(12:51):
of left to the wolves. He didn't do himself any favors,
don't get me wrong, but he became a convenient fall
guy in all of it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, I mean, this is it? Is it deeper than Darnald? Sure,
you want to go back and look at those last
couple of games, and you see that Donald was under duress,
And yeah, you could say, well, Donald's good under duress.
Show me a quarterback that's great under duress. Some are
just a little bit better than others. Joe Cool. Yeah,
I get you know, but look, and that's the difference
a lot of times between quarterbacks. But it's like, we're
(13:20):
going to discount the last fifteen games because he was
bad in these two games. And it's it's a relief
that he was bad because we would rather have this
decision to make where it's okay for us to move on,
rather than have him play really well. We win a
playoff game, but then we go home and then we're
really stuck because Darnald played well all the way through
the season. We won a playoff game. Now what do
(13:41):
we do well, I mean, we're stuck. Now, we're absolutely stuck.
Like it's I guarantee you Vikings faith you hooked up
to a light detector in Viking's organization. They'd say, yeah,
it's a relief that Darnald was bad because it gave
us the excuse to move on.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, I also told you. I mean, it wasn't just
the two games.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
They also had a lot of tape from twenty eighteen
to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I want to show you these, but this he wasn't
even on the team. Yet it doesn't matter. He's still
made these throws, all right, He still meant still doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
He was in a Jets uniform there, It all still counts.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
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Here we go. H so big update here right now
on Cooper Flag and this has been the biggest story
of the day. We talked about it last hour here. Flag,
who was injured during the Blue Devil seventy eight to
seventy win over Georgia Tech and the ACC Tournament early today,
went up for a rebound, came down awkwardly. You know
(17:04):
what it happens. Now we've seen the same thing that
happened to Jalen Brunson about a week or so ago.
He comes down on an opposing player's outside of his ankle.
You could see the ankle turn. He goes down in
a lot of pain. He leaves the game, leaves the
floor in a wheelchair. It looks like he's going to
be okay again. Where we're waiting for absolute final confirmation,
(17:26):
But everything out of Duke so far has been good.
According to John Shire, Duke head coach, he is a
long shot for the acc Semis tomorrow after an ankle injury.
But as Shire said, listen, what are we playing him for? Right?
We got to worry about the tournament next week. And
and yeah, one hundred percent right, I don't expect to
see him again until the tournament starts. He's got a
week and that's that's good news that we're that we're
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gonna wait because there're gonna be a one seed anyway,
what does it matter? Uh, And he's got a week
to get better. And the fact that he was hopping
around on it and kind of walking on it tells
me was a little bit better, right, just because look,
we've seen this before. You look at Jalen Brunson from
last week where he went down screaming, couldn't really stand up,
stayed in the game to hit the free throws, and
(18:10):
then couldn't move and then very slowly makes his way
off the court. Flag was kind of walking around. He
seemed mad. He you know, slammed his hands down a
little bit before he limped off. And then obviously Duke said,
I'll wait a minute. What do we let him walk for?
We had to put him in a wheelchair, so they
let him go out there. So this is the right thing.
And quite honestly, I wonder if this is gonna be
(18:31):
the begin It should be the beginning of a different
way of how teams attack conference championship week. When you're
a top twenty ish team, right, because here's a team
like Duke, right, number one team in the country, and
what does this week do for you? Really? I mean potentially,
if you lose the very first game of the tournament
(18:53):
and other teams win and look great, what's gonna happen? Well,
you'll be a two seed. Is there really that much
of a difference between one and a two seed? Right,
any there's no difference between any one and two seeds
near the near the top. There's no difference between being
a two and a three, a three and a four,
four and a five Unless you believe in the the
U the karma of the five twelve games. But there's
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no real difference. So for teams that are in the
top twenty, that are comfortably in the NCAA t and
anybody in the top twenty is in periphery top twenty
five teams, potentially weird stuff could happen. You lose your
first tournament game, they're bid stealing going on. But teams
that are in the top twenty, you're in the tournament.
Why would you play any of your starters conference Championship week?
(19:37):
It it It doesn't help, It doesn't help your casse.
All you all you can do is suffer an injury
like this where suddenly your NCAA tournament hopes are thrown
in flux. Right, you don't know what's gonna happen, right, Well,
why would why would you have that? Why would you
have these guys play? And it really doesn't make sense.
I don't know why. Teams say, yeah, we have nothing
(19:57):
to really play for, so we'll play these guys three
days in row. Wait wait wait, wait, wait, we're playing thing? Yeah,
why are you doing that? Right? There's a college teams
that are this good? Right again, these are the teams
in the top twenty, the one through four, and the
one through four, one through five seeds. That you have
to treat this like it's week seventeen of the NFL
season and you've clinched a playoff berth. Maybe you play
(20:19):
your guys for a couple of minutes, but more likely
we're just gonna rest. We're just gonna rest in, you know,
because we're a top seed anyway. Yeah, are we gonna
be a little could we be a little rusty the
very beginning of our first NCAA tournament game? Yeah, But
you're not gonna lose a game because you're rusty, right,
You're not gonna lose because you haven't played in a week.
In any event, you're staying healthy. Right, that's making the
smart choice. So if you treat the games like that,
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that's sort of the way it should be done, right.
And I wonder if you're gonna see a lot more teams,
even as early as tomorrow, teams saying you know what, Yeah,
why are we going crazy playing our guys? You look
at what just happened to Cooper Flag. Why would we
risk that? It doesn't make any sense, right, Like, why
would a team like Saintan, why would Houston. Why would Auburn,
why would Florida? Why would Alabama? Why would you play
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your guys to go crazy winning these games when at
worst it's going to mean a one position slide for you.
And really, are you going to see a slide at all?
Is the committee really going to say, well, Duke loss
in the first game of the AC Tournament to Georgia Tech.
They're gonna say, well, they didn't play with flag, they
didn't play with all of their starters, didn't play anybody, right,
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Saint John's didn't play RJ. Lewis, didn't play Canari Richmond,
the didn't play these guys. So yeah, it's like the
game didn't happen, and so we're gonna kind of give
them a pass on that. I mean, when I don't
know why this hasn't come up until now, but I
got a feeling after the Cooper flag situation it's gonna
come up.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Well, you're going basically the abolition of all these these
tournaments for anybody in the upper quad of a conference, shure,
don't even bother. Where's your spirit of competition? Where's your
love of the television programming partners? And the billions upon
billions of dollars being bet legally and illegally across this
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land and across the globe.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Where's your love of that?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Why are you Derek Bell in operations shut down all
of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I think I think that you gotta explain about well,
and you're also quitting. That's it.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You're advocating quitting. Hey, it's not hard. You might get hurt.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Here.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You look like the state puff marshmallow man. And now
we'll roll you out on the court.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Okay, here, here's here's where where where your argument? That
doesn't hold water? So let's say you have that conversation. Right,
all the college basketball teams that are in a room,
the top twenty coaches are in a room, and ESPN
and if everybody that runs has it has the conference championship tournaments.
They come in and they're like, you play your guys.
It's under a big light. They're all sweating like they're
(22:43):
getting interrogated by Siplewitz. And and you have all the
ESPN executives going, we paid a lot of money. Conference
Championship Week is a very big deal. And you play,
and the guys starts swallowing nervously and they're just about
to say something, and all of a sudden you hear
a big bang outside, and all of a sudden, a
big Terry Cruz like gun from the Expendables knocks down
(23:04):
a wall. And here comes CBS and TBS and TNT
and True TV, and they all say, wait a minute,
we're arguing about television ratings this week and not our
week when we actually have the nca tournament. Yeah, I
think the guy, I think the whole television thing is
gonna play out.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Okay, I'll just leave it at this.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I mean, one guy is not a tournament make and
I know the power of Cooper Flag and the excitement
of him this year. I mean, like we talked about
it before, I guess he shouldn't play at all. At
this point, it's you're taking these conference championship quest and
you're making them non playoff bowl games to stay in
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college sports.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
You know, I don't bother.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Look, Look, there's still interest because the lower team. This
is really about the lower teams that are trying, right,
But I'm.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Telling you about all the teams that people you know
would actually want to watch.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Hey, I'm not saying I'm not saying they don't come
to the games.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
They can still come look just like, how are you
gonna wave his little hat?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah? Because how much did everybody watch Lakers games when
they got Luca but he wasn't playing. He would come out,
he would take some shots where that swelt looking black
Lakers pull over, so you couldn't really what kind of
shape is Luca in? Is he in good shape? Is
he not? He waves to every but now you still
send to the games and wave, then you have the game.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I think that was watching that because he wanted to
see Luca and how he moved up and down the
court side and to get himself mentally prepared for when
Luca was active on the court.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Nah, you do it that way. That's the way. That's
the way people will watch. Still, the people will watch Ray,
people will watch, they'll watch. Everybody will and it makes
it more interesting rather than just hey, here's a conference
tournament where we're just gonna get Auburn and Alabama at
the end, we're just gonna get can tell you like, Okay,
things get a little bit weirder now because the number
one team didn't play their starters. They're out, and now
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we maybe we have some more bid stealing going on.
Maybe we have some more bubble teams that win their
way to the conference championship game and win their way
in not just I think we can be okay with
the little guys for conference championship. I think that's okay.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
You know what's great about this?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
With just a couple of reactions and rewordings, we could
send this letter to Tom Thibodeau and the Knicks as
how they should run the rest of their regular season
to be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Wow, what I did there?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Whoa dude, it's it's everything is fine. After the Knicks said, hey,
we're all playing too many minutes, Michal Bridges, who was
stunk all season up until like three games ago, the
guy saying hey we're playing too a minute. Dude, we
gave up five first round picks for you and you've
been terrible. He hit the big shot last night to
beat Portland that had me cursing in the studio, when
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yelling and screaming, it's fine, it's taken care of. It's
taken care of.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now, everything's covered, the numbers taken care of.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It doesn't matter, it's taken care of. Everything is fine.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Yeah, they did not support their backers last night.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I like how Mike Breed's first question of Bridges after
the game winning shot was, hey, you played forty three
minutes night, how you feeling thought?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
And then he turned and he said, slap.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Now, speaking of the Lakers, Okay, we've gotten really good
news in the last twenty four hours that it looks
like Lebron James will be back very soon. Right, returning
to Los Angeles for treatment, and the groin injury that
scared everybody on Saturday, I got a different take on it.
This is not the worst thing in the world for
the Lakers, and it could turn out to be a positive, right,
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as long as it's not a serious injury, and it
doesn't seem to be. Nothing we've been told has been
led to that belief, and the fact that he's coming
back to LA for treatment tells me that he's absolutely fine.
In fact, not to go to conspiracy theory, but I
wonder if this injury was really a two or three
game thing. But you know, it's gonna be two weeks
for Lebron, because hey, not the worst thing in the
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world for him to have a break at this point
in the season. Right, look at where the Lakers are at,
right they're a team that's fighting for second in the
Western Conference. Now, they would have likely blitzed to it
if Lebron James is healthy and not injured. But okay,
it'll be more of a dog fight the last fourteen
or fifteen games, But for Lebron to get a break
because you're worried about the playoffs and how you're gonna
navigate all the way through the end of the season
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when you're really relying on someone who's forty years old. Yes,
Luca is twenty five, and you think, okay, that's gonna
be great, but you still need Lebron. Here's the time
for him to get a break, and it's perfect. It's
the middle to the end of March. He comes back
after a couple of weeks, and he's got twelve or
fourteen games until the end of the season, and suddenly, hey,
he's fresh, he's refreshed, and you hit the playoffs exactly
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how you should. Don't have to worry about Lebron sitting
out and only coming back the last couple of games.
Don't have to worry about Lebron and his chemistry with Luca,
because already you can see he and Luca look like
they've played together for years. I mean, it's like I
said when the trade happened, I said, this is gonna
be like when the Lakers got Paugasol. They're gonna take
off right away, And this has happened. They took off
right away. Whether JJ Reddick still hates me or not,
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they took off right away, and that's what happened. So
not the worst thing for this to happen for Lebron
Now and a couple of weeks he comes back and
everything is fine, right, This really could be a blessing
in disguise again, as long as it's not a bad injury.
And from everything we've been we've been told this is
where it's at. And the fact that he's in now, yeah,
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maybe you can come back in a game or two.
But when you look at the Lakers schedule and how
ridiculously stupid it is that they played six games in
the next eight nights. You have three sets of back
to back, which I mean, who does that? Who puts
that on the schedule At this point in the season.
At the end of March, you're gonna play three, You're
gonna play back to back, have a night off, back
to back, a night off back to back. I bet
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you I would bet all my money. I'd push all
my chips in the middle. Lebron James is coming back
a week from Saturday, when the Lakers have finished their
six games in eight night situation and they start their
regular schedule again. I would bet all my money he
is back for that game. And what's happening right now? Yes,
the groin injury is something he's sitting out with, but
why are we gonna risk it for those six games
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and eight nights again? Which is stupid? And the schedule
maker's got to look at that go what the hell
was I doing? But I guarantee you he's back on
that Saturday. He's gonna look great. It'll be like nothing
ever happened. He'll be rested, energetic, and the Lakers go,
this could be a real blessing in disguise for him
and Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
We're so close.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
We could have been promoting the old Harrison Ford vehicle
six days, seven nights, but it's eight, it's eight. I
had one for posterity, was and Haitian David Schwimmer Worth here, Yeah,
long time ago, going all the way back to nineteen
ninety eight for that one. But we look at the
schedule and you basically danced around the idea of load
management because people have done the subruder film check frame
(29:36):
by frame and wondering aloud when Lebron got hurt or
if it was just pride or his soul leaving his
body by the move that Tatum was making.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
So he got that going for.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You see what that is? That's pride messing with you, butch.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
That's it soul leaving out the back of your neck,
all those kind of things. The fact is that Lebron
also had posted to his socials about this stretch of games,
foreshadowing perhaps, hey, I get to be there and some
of it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
And also you want Luca here you go.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
You see how much I stirred the drink talk about
this guy, about how great he is as you know, gracious,
a welcoming guy he's been on the court. Maybe this
is also let's watch him battle these guys. It's kind
of like straight out of airplane, drag these guys up
and down the court.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
See that kind of like that says.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You're really good, but you don't play defense all the
time as a kid.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
See how it all ties together with defensive play while
we're at it. But you know, all these games against
top notch opponents, you got a couple against Denver, you
got Milwaukee, you got all. This a tough road during
this stretch, but yeah, having him rejuvenated down the stretch
and ready to go into the playoffs, sure it's the
silver lining or was it all calculated as as you
(30:51):
looked at the schedule and was he really waving at
us before he went? And you know, did that staged
general hospital ad of confronting Stephen A.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Smith?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
So all of that comes together in one fell swoop.
This and more as the world turns. See I got
more of our daytime viewing in exit.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
How about a Fresca exit swollen dome? Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon in for Cafino and Rich Today time now to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Man has been called the lebron James of Fox Sports Radio.
He also has gotten into many confrontations with Steven A.
Smith on a court.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
It is how did you how did you know I'm
actually not You're you didn't make that up? Not on
a court, but actually here in this hallway.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Wait, really that's happened?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
A true story.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
So this is back when he was here, and it
was one of these things where I had a game
that I had to work the previous night, and I
had to be in here at like five o'clock or
six o'clock in the morning. So I tumbled out of bed.
I looked like a complete slob, which I guess is
my default countenance. I come in here, hair messed up,
completely disheveled. I walked through the door are and I
(32:01):
swear on my life, I run into both dressed in beautiful,
elegant suits, Stephen A. Smith and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
I'm not making this up here at Fox and Jesse
Jackson was super cool and Stephen Smith, Stephen A. Smith
just glared at me, seeing how disheveled I look, and
(32:23):
he said, story.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
You look awful, terrible, the worst in the world. I
can't get over have.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
The audacity, the perspicacity to dress like that. He didn't
say it, but that is clearly what his eyes had
to say.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
It would have been It wouldn't have been the it
wouldn't have been the the yelling Stephen A. Smith. It
would it would have been the low case when when
they throw a topic to him, and he starts with
that is disgusting. It is cool, It is awful, it
is appalling, it is abominable. This is frightful and ghastly
and horrid and horrendous, shameful and shocking. It is terrifying
and scandalous. And then he gets into his point like
(32:58):
that that's what he would have said to you instead
of the yelling going, I can't believe you would show
up for this show.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Whearing that Islo was like the statement he made about
Lebron in fatherhood, trying to a bow down to the
Democratic Party and Lebron SIKA fans when he approached me
as a father.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Yeah, it's almost like when you're disciplined by a parent.
It's really bad when they lower their voice. Well, yelling
is one thing, but when they lower their voice it's another.
We just got some breaking NBA and he's coming down
just this second. ESPN reporting San Antonio's de Aaron Fox
going to undergo season ending surgery on Tuesday for tendonut
(33:38):
damage in his left pinky finger. Best Selling author and
sports commentator John Feinstein passed away at the age of
sixty nine. He was perhaps best known for his incredible
nineteen eighty six book, A Season on the Brink of
behind the scenes account of Indiana head coach Bobby Knight,
considered one of the best non fiction sports books of
all time. If the NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs are
(34:00):
free agent quarterback Gardner Minshew to a one year deal.
In college basketball, duke star Cooper Flag today in the
ACC Tournament quarter final victory over Georgia Tech left the
contest with a spring left ankle. Duke head coach John
Shier said after the game that X rays were negative
and that it would be a long shot for Flag
(34:20):
to play in the semi finals tomorrow. Now, guys, here's
the piece resistants. I've got some more fresh college basketball news.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
And this is literally out of this world.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
The social media website x formerly Twitter, is launching a
March Madness Bracket challenge. The grand prize for a perfect
bracket is a trip to Mars on a Space X
starship vehicle. I'm not making this up. If you enter
(34:54):
and get a perfect bracket, you will win a trip
to Mars.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Don't like, don't no, Rico, get your ass to Mars.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
By the way in the bad timing department, exactly, One
week ago, an unmanned SpaceX Starship test flight exploded over
Texas just minutes after lifting off. So yeah, that's that's
bad timing. I think that's somewhere in the fine print
of this March Madness bracket challenge back to.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I would be. I would be like in uh in
Curb Your Enthusiasm, the whole thing with Richard Lewis and
and Larry David, who goes, well, you're not in the
you're in the will. I don't want to be in
the will. You've won the trip to Mars, but I
don't want to go to Mars. But you won the trip. Yeah,
but I don't want to go. Yeah, but you've won. Yeah,
I got that, but I don't want to go. I
don't want to go on that trip. I'm not I'm
not going.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I won.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I don't want to go. Thanks Ilo, Oh my goodness,
that story. Uh. Jason Smith Mike Harmon in for the
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for life out here. Well, coming up next, how about
we do this. Day three of NFL Free Agency is
slowly wrapping up what teams absolutely aced the last few days.
There are three big ones. We'll tell you who they
(36:26):
are next. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, that's our show
at night. We're in for the guys today and for
Cavino and Rich And we're getting close to the end
of day three of NFL Free Agency. A lot of
depth signings coming in. You're seeing some teams still make
some moves. We talked about George headed to Kansas City. Yeah,
(37:00):
so first three days we're still waiting for some big
vets to sign. I was waiting on Aaron Rodgers, waiting
on Russell Wilson, waiting on guys like Keenan Allen. Right,
so we're still waiting on that. But so far through
the first three days, all right, there's three teams that
I love what they've done more than anybody else. Because
free agency has kind of gotten to a different place
(37:21):
where it's not really about, hey, let's go out and
spend every single dime we have and overpay on guys,
but it's let's make sure we are attacking our needs.
And look, we talked about this before it became a
popular thing to say when the Bears made their first
move to go out and get an offensive lineman. They've
remade their offensive line. They've signed three interior lineman starters,
(37:44):
two who are Pro Bowlers and all Pro type players.
I'm telling you, watch the Caleb Williams breakout. They I
know that's good. By Fine the buddy, I feel great
about you. I feel great about Caleb Williams. He's gonna
break out this year because they have everything else. They
got the weapons on offense, the defense is good enough.
His faltering at the end of last year was because
he was under complete and total duress and you have
(38:06):
to let the game slow down for him. Now he'll
be able to get outside and make plays with his
legs because that's what he does. He throws on the
run better than anybody in the last few years in
the NFL coming into the league, telling you that the
Bears did a phenomenal job just by solidifying those three positions.
So we love what they did.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
The most create timing opportunities.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Ben Johnson's going to have to rework and rewire his
brain this offseason. No, you're not always needing to do
the let's spin around and run back seventeen yards like
he did on the old video game and then you
would launch a rocket downfield.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
That's not how it works. He also needs to get pet.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Works that way. For Russell Wilson, that's exactly what that's
his whole career.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Is that well, and that's why he doesn't have a
job right now. He had a good run.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Okay, fair enough, I guess gotta call it what it is,
which is why if he and Arthur Smith could get along,
he should just go back to Pittsburgh. But to that
point with Caleb also just he's got to learn that,
you know, interceptions are part of the game. Because his
stats looked fantastic from this past year, and then you
go back and watch rewatch the game it's like, wow,
a lot of little dump offs, a lot of like
(39:11):
not a lot of shots downfield. So hopefully, speaking as
the guy with literally wearing a Bears hat, that that's
what Ben Johnson's able to do. First time he calls
a pass play by an offensive lineman, I am storming
the castle.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Now, two other teams the last couple of days that
have done the best, and they're both in the same division.
The Broncos have really ace the first three days, right,
Greenlaw Hufanga Evan Ingram last night is a huge deal.
They finally I mean, you've watched Sean Payton looking for
someone to play the joker tight end position since he
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came to Denver. Thought Greg Daltwich was going to be
that guy, but he couldn't stay on the field. Evan
Ingram is thirty years old. He's still got probably at
least two or three really good years left. These are
three huge moves. But that tight end move I love
so much because that's been the missing part of his offense. Right,
he needs so much, we need this. He talks about
the joker position all the time. He needs that, and
(40:10):
he gets an incredible tight end and it was Evan
Ingram who visited the Broncos and the Chargers both who
could have used him, but it doesn't matter. Chargers they're
the other team. I love what they did the most
because the guys they brought in, Naji Harris. They need
someone that can be dependable running back. He's not flashy,
but he's healthy. He'll average about four yards of carry.
He's good in the red zone. They brought back Mike Williams,
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Dante Jackson's a really good signing from the Steelers. The
Chargers have brought in guys that fit with the culture.
But more importantly, you brought in two big weapons because
the offense needs to be a little bit better, a
little bit more out there choice wise than it was
last year. And they've done that. Man, Broncos and Chargers love.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
It all right.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
I'm gonna give you Washington the trade with the Planet, Houston,
whatever they're doing, bringing in Tunsil, bringing in Deebo Samuel,
a lot of depth there. And then I go back
to the Minnesota Vikings. Really love what they've done. I
just have the Riddler running around because I don't know
who the hell the quarterback is right offensive and defensive line,
bringing those guys from the Colts and you've got a
(41:10):
bunch of players. You bring back Aaron Jones on a
two year deal. Oh that's great. Who's the signal caller?
Speaker 3 (41:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hello, Welcome in side our two, Cavino and Rich Here
on Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith, Mike Harmon from knights
In for the guys today, big day of college basketball.
We'll have an update on Cooper Flag coming up in
about twenty minutes. Looks like it's good news for him,
but uh, I gotta tell you the Jorts update from
moments ago. Gardner Minshew, who you know at some point
(00:48):
is going to come into a playoff game and win
it for the Chiefs. He now goes to Kansas City
to back up Patrick Mahomes the Jorts Live another day.
Mike Carmen fantastic.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
I don't know, he's a powerful man.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I mean, you have competition in the clubhouse now, Uh yeah,
but that's all the wives and girl friends and hangers
on looking.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
And you know, you know, I'm like, I like this
because now you know that's where he's going to be
the rest of his career. Okay, I'm good. I'm not
going to get the chance to start again. I'm gonna
back up Mahome's gonna be here forever he can be.
Jim Sorgy, he's gonna be ye like he's gonna be
like thirty eight years old. Yeah, I'm great. I'm backing
up my homes and maybe one or two times over
the course of his career and the rest of his career,
(01:33):
he'll have a chance to say, hey, I came in
in the divisional playoff game for a few plays here,
and I did this kind of like Chad Henny Clinch
clinch the win over the Browns in the playoffs a
few years ago, Like like that's Gardner Minshew. Now, like, okay,
he'll be relevant because he'll be the backup in Kansas City.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
I kind of dig this. I do like the process.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
He's a folk hero and you take him to a
place where now it's he's essentially played in warm weather
most of his career, right a little bit in Indianapolis.
But now now we we get him in Kansas City
and and we'll get to see what the winter outfits look.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Like, well you watch out. You show up in Kansas
City with jeorts and that mustache, and all of a sudden,
Taylor Swift is gonna say, sorry, dude, he's got a
better mustache than you. He looks good in georts. And
suddenly it's gonna be the big triangle on the Kansaity Chiefs.
It's gonna be Oh.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Jorge, now you're just trying to cause trouble.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
And she's and and and uh, she's gonna do a
new song called you Belong with Jeorts, You Belong.
Speaker 5 (02:33):
With Wow, the celebration of jeorts and a whole other
I was thinking his long flowing hair, because Travis doesn't
have long flowing hair.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He wears jorts and you're in the bleachers. Oh, I
got it's gonna be fantastic, What a great, what a
great Chris.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
So, now she's reworking her music, not like she just
did with the eras to her. Now she'll re release
albums by doing parodies of them, like she's wearing her
own film, own videos.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And so yes, that's what she's got to do. Right.
You can't remake songs anymore. We've seen it. Okay, this
is Taylor's New updated. No, no, no, we know you
own the rights to all your songs. Now that's why
you did it. We get it. But now you got
to do parodies of those songs, and then it's going
to be Hey, here, I'm in chat room here on Reddit.
What's the best version of Taylor Swift's You Belong with Me?
The original version, the red version, or the Gardner Minshew
(03:27):
Georts version.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I will say that is worth another billion dollars, So
crank it up.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh the George Her twenty twenty seven. Think about that.
Oh man, just think about it. Everybody with everybody going
to the concert, of course wearing georts.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I'm like that about going and getting some George.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Now, I'll tell he, well, you know, you know you
can get them. I would go to j C. Penny.
They're a big George place, Jessy Penny, Macy's. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
That in fact, that that was top of mine leads
me a little unnerved.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
If you're looking to get Joe Oh no, no, Look
I love Macy's and j C. Penny, but I just
know that they have I mean, you're looking for georts.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
That's where you instead of hats as you got older,
did you just start giving people George like, that's part
of the stick from our evening show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Uh Smith, once upon a time giving hats
to would be love prospects.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
It's just what it is.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
That was a long time ago, Mike, that was I'm
not that person anymore.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
While like I said, you look on to George.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I change, baby, I'm not that guy anymore.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
You got a quasi Telly Savalis who loves your baby.
And while you had it so nicely done.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Uh now, hey, speaking to someone who's not that guy anymore.
Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So this is your your former guy.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
You like that, he was my guy, But just like
that guy, trust me, you're not that guy, just like
anybody else. If you're not on my team anymore, I
will cut baita I'll just cut bait on you so easily.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
When it went bad, you cut those guys loose.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, dude, forget about forget about Justin Fields. I'm more
stone smart than I am. Aaron Rodgers. Now with the
Jet signing him earlier to I mean, you gotta go
with your guys, man, These are my guys, and Rogers
is not my guy. We talked about Russell Wilson a
few minutes ago, and now here's Aaron Rodgers allegedly allegedly
waiting on an offer from the Steelers, or waiting on
(05:16):
his final decision whether he wants to accept the offer
the Steelers have out there. This reported by a Steelers
beat reporter last night. I maintain if he was really
offered something by the Steelers, the reason why he would
say no, it's the best team he could possibly go to.
They're built like they're a playoff team already. Why would
you say no? It's not like the Giants called and
you're like, man, I got lame duck GM, lame duck
(05:38):
head coach. I don't have any talent here. Malik Neighbors
is already unhappy. Why the hell would I want to
go here and have people just say, hey, you're not
as good as Tommy Cutlet's yeah. I think that if
that offer was out there, he would have taken it already.
But with Rogers, it's such a mystery, and the story
I can't get past the last couple of days is
the continued linking of Rogers to the Vikings, which doesn't
(06:02):
make any sense right. I mean, first of all, are
you really gonna follow Brett Farv's career path to the team.
Are you really gonna do You're really gonna go Green
Bay for a long long time, win a Super Bowl,
get unhappy at the end. The last couple of years
are really bad. You force your way out and you
get traded to the Jets. Your years with the Jets
don't go like you expect, so you find your way
(06:23):
out and then you finish with the Vikings. Like he's
really gonna do that?
Speaker 5 (06:25):
I mean like he not only did he follow the teams,
he also was the petulant child that Farv was in
each of these places. Yes, I mean it's not just
all the same. No, I'm gonna go out the ripped
elbow instead he ripped up his leg.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, Farva's upset, you'd have to battle out for the
job with Aaron Rodgers, so he found his way out.
Rogers upset that Jordan Love got taken behind it like
everything is the same, so why would you do that?
But the bigger thing is this is that if the Vikings,
and there's a lot of insiders that have said, You've
seen many reports the last couple of days that Rogers
has a lot of interest in the Viking they're kind
(07:00):
of waiting for a decision by the Vikings on this,
and I'm just saying, if this happens, then the Vikings
need an intervention and every decision maker they have needs
to be taken out of decision making. Okay, because did
you really kick Sam Donald to the curb? Because you
love JJ McCarthy, right, And we know this because our
(07:23):
stuff on Sam Donald's gone viral the last couple of
days with how they just let Sam Donald walk out
of Minnesota without really getting anything for him. Oh, we
got a compensatory pick. Yes, you basically got a fourth
round pick for a guy that threw thirty five touchdowns
four thousand yards, one of the top three quarterbacks in
the NFL last year. And yeah, that sounds fair. You
could have played poker. You should have. You should have
franchised him. You should have then dealt him because you
(07:45):
know you would have been able to trade him because
the Seattle Seahawks gave him a hundred million dollars. They
traded away their quarterback and gave him a hundred million dollars.
So I think you could have gotten a first round
pick or a couple of second round picks or a
second round pick and a player, or you could have
gotten that for Sam Donald, but instead, no, no, no, no,
we love JJ McCarthy so much, we are okay with
letting Sam Darnald walk, and we're using the last two
(08:07):
playoff games as an excuse to say, yeah, ah, really
he's no good anymore. Well, wait, we didn't really protect
him all that. Well, he was kind of under siege.
You forget about the fifteen games before where he was
absolutely lights out. Now that's our excuse if they let
Sam Darnald go because they love JJ McCarthy. But still
(08:27):
they bring in Aaron Rodgers to play ahead of him,
because Rogers's not coming in to back up JJ McCarthy.
His whole thing is, look, I'll come in and mentor
young quarterback. Great, like I'll come in and do it.
I understand this is my last stop. And I know
in Rogers' mind it's yeah, I'm gonna mentor this kid,
but I'm gonna keep this job for a year or
two first, like, this is how I'm gonna do it.
He's not coming in there as a backup to JJ McCarthy.
(08:49):
If things go okay, he's not gonna be spinning the
ball in his hands with his headphones in listening to
the play calls while JJ McCarthy's running up and down
the field. He's going in there to start. If you
are the Vikings and you did this, and you did this,
everybody that's in on this decision should be absolutely taken
out of decision making. Somebody else make those decisions, because
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you clearly don't know what you're doing. And not only that,
the people in my timeline the last couple of days
that did all the Vikings fans, you have to leave
social media. If they do that, you have no leg
to stand on. You disagree with my take on Donald
and why they couldn't get anything form on, you need
to leave social media. That those two things need to happen.
If somehow Aaron Rodgers ends up with the Vikings.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
You need to go find yourself a hug.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Look, we're talking about all the differential, right, what Seattle
was willing to pay Donald versus what Gino Smith reportedly wanted,
and then you go between what Sam got and what
the franchise tag was. Right, we're talking seven eight million
dollars there about that we fight about there and for
(09:54):
a number of these squads. It is Sam really our
long term answer. I don't know how much do you
put on Kevin O'Connell to play call and adjusting. How
much do you put on the fact that they had
to trade for Cam Robinson, who was in for Darrisawle,
who was lost in the middle of the season, who's
one of the best offensive line. But we got going
(10:14):
young and still emerging. And Robinson at times played well.
At times he was a turnstile. So you have those
kind of things that you've got to decide along the
process as to what that's worth to you and the Giants,
the Steelers, etc. They may have decided that good old
Sam Donald was not worth forty million dollars bringing him
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in off of the franchise and trade and giving up
subsequent picks. So all of that said, we get back
to where the Vikings are. They've done a good job
assembling a roster. Darrisa will be back, and now it's
the question of who's the other guy in that quarterback room,
Aaron Rodgers if you don't think McCarthy's physically going to
(10:57):
be ready, if he's willing to sign a you know,
the old team friendly deal for one last shot at Glory.
It's fun theater for us. And maybe it's another case
of ex jet now good. But they're they're in a
position now where you gotta get acting. There's only three
quarterbacks left in the marketplace now that Minshew's off the board,
(11:19):
I mean what he got.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
There's no mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
He finally ended up in San Francisco where he was
supposed to be years ago. Remember all those mock drafts
before Trey Lance, all of that stuff. So you've got
Captain Kirk sitting down in a holding pen in his
little Harry Potter cupboard under the stairs, waiting for his release,
or for somebody to get hurt, or for a team
(11:43):
to realize, oh wait, we don't have any more viable options.
So that's kind of where we sit. But yes, rogers
to the Vikings. Do I want him back in the
North with the Bears. No, not necessarily, but for the
purposes of our sports talk radio show here nights on
Fox Sports. Come on, it couldn't get any better than that.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
There he is.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I really sometimes I look at things and I say,
the NFL doesn't really need to be that complicated, right,
but the but the Vikings made this. I feel like
the Darnold decision to move on from him was something
that was made in like five minutes, right, Like the
two games at the end of the year were the
excuse to say, okay, so we're clear, say goodbye. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's it. We wouldn't want to mess around with this.
(12:25):
Let's just let him go, guy to let go.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
I mean we talked about it, and you go back
and watch those final games. I don't know how much
adjustments and how many you can make against those fronts
that the Lions rams and you know when when teams
faced up against the Eagles, that that you could make,
you know, if we expand NFL wide. But certainly we
didn't see a lot of that, and Sam was kind
(12:51):
of left to the wolves. He didn't do himself any favors,
don't get me wrong, but he became a convenient fall
guy in all of it.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yeah, I mean, this is it? Is it deeper than Darnald? Sure,
you want to go back and look at those last
couple of games, and you see that Donald was under duress,
And yeah, you could say, well, Donald's good under duress.
Show me a quarterback that's great under duress. Some are
just a little bit better than others. Joe Cool. Yeah,
I get you know, but look, and that's the difference
a lot of times between quarterbacks. But it's like, we're
(13:20):
going to discount the last fifteen games because he was
bad in these two games. And it's it's a relief
that he was bad because we would rather have this
decision to make where it's okay for us to move on,
rather than have him play really well. We win a
playoff game, but then we go home and then we're
really stuck because Darnald played well all the way through
the season. We won a playoff game. Now what do
(13:41):
we do well, I mean, we're stuck. Now, we're absolutely stuck.
Like it's I guarantee you Vikings faith you hooked up
to a light detector in Viking's organization. They'd say, yeah,
it's a relief that Darnald was bad because it gave
us the excuse to move on.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Well, I also told you. I mean, it wasn't just
the two games.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
They also had a lot of tape from twenty eighteen
to twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I want to show you these, but this he wasn't
even on the team. Yet it doesn't matter. He's still
made these throws, all right, He still meant still doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
He was in a Jets uniform there, It all still counts.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
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Speaker 3 (16:43):
Here we go. H so big update here right now
on Cooper Flag and this has been the biggest story
of the day. We talked about it last hour here. Flag,
who was injured during the Blue Devil seventy eight to
seventy win over Georgia Tech and the ACC Tournament early today,
went up for a rebound, came down awkwardly. You know
(17:04):
what it happens. Now we've seen the same thing that
happened to Jalen Brunson about a week or so ago.
He comes down on an opposing player's outside of his ankle.
You could see the ankle turn. He goes down in
a lot of pain. He leaves the game, leaves the
floor in a wheelchair. It looks like he's going to
be okay again. Where we're waiting for absolute final confirmation,
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But everything out of Duke so far has been good.
According to John Shire, Duke head coach, he is a
long shot for the acc Semis tomorrow after an ankle injury.
But as Shire said, listen, what are we playing him for? Right?
We got to worry about the tournament next week. And
and yeah, one hundred percent right, I don't expect to
see him again until the tournament starts. He's got a
week and that's that's good news that we're that we're
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gonna wait because there're gonna be a one seed anyway,
what does it matter? Uh, And he's got a week
to get better. And the fact that he was hopping
around on it and kind of walking on it tells
me was a little bit better, right, just because look,
we've seen this before. You look at Jalen Brunson from
last week where he went down screaming, couldn't really stand up,
stayed in the game to hit the free throws, and
(18:10):
then couldn't move and then very slowly makes his way
off the court. Flag was kind of walking around. He
seemed mad. He you know, slammed his hands down a
little bit before he limped off. And then obviously Duke said,
I'll wait a minute. What do we let him walk for?
We had to put him in a wheelchair, so they
let him go out there. So this is the right thing.
And quite honestly, I wonder if this is gonna be
(18:31):
the begin It should be the beginning of a different
way of how teams attack conference championship week. When you're
a top twenty ish team, right, because here's a team
like Duke, right, number one team in the country, and
what does this week do for you? Really? I mean potentially,
if you lose the very first game of the tournament
(18:53):
and other teams win and look great, what's gonna happen? Well,
you'll be a two seed. Is there really that much
of a difference between one and a two seed? Right,
any there's no difference between any one and two seeds
near the near the top. There's no difference between being
a two and a three, a three and a four,
four and a five Unless you believe in the the
U the karma of the five twelve games. But there's
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no real difference. So for teams that are in the
top twenty, that are comfortably in the NCAA t and
anybody in the top twenty is in periphery top twenty
five teams, potentially weird stuff could happen. You lose your
first tournament game, they're bid stealing going on. But teams
that are in the top twenty, you're in the tournament.
Why would you play any of your starters conference Championship week?
(19:37):
It it It doesn't help, It doesn't help your casse.
All you all you can do is suffer an injury
like this where suddenly your NCAA tournament hopes are thrown
in flux. Right, you don't know what's gonna happen, right, Well,
why would why would you have that? Why would you
have these guys play? And it really doesn't make sense.
I don't know why. Teams say, yeah, we have nothing
(19:57):
to really play for, so we'll play these guys three
days in row. Wait wait wait, wait, wait, we're playing thing? Yeah,
why are you doing that? Right? There's a college teams
that are this good? Right again, these are the teams
in the top twenty, the one through four, and the
one through four, one through five seeds. That you have
to treat this like it's week seventeen of the NFL
season and you've clinched a playoff berth. Maybe you play
(20:19):
your guys for a couple of minutes, but more likely
we're just gonna rest. We're just gonna rest in, you know,
because we're a top seed anyway. Yeah, are we gonna
be a little could we be a little rusty the
very beginning of our first NCAA tournament game? Yeah, But
you're not gonna lose a game because you're rusty, right,
You're not gonna lose because you haven't played in a week.
In any event, you're staying healthy. Right, that's making the
smart choice. So if you treat the games like that,
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that's sort of the way it should be done, right.
And I wonder if you're gonna see a lot more teams,
even as early as tomorrow, teams saying you know what, Yeah,
why are we going crazy playing our guys? You look
at what just happened to Cooper Flag. Why would we
risk that? It doesn't make any sense, right, Like, why
would a team like Saintan, why would Houston. Why would Auburn,
why would Florida? Why would Alabama? Why would you play
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your guys to go crazy winning these games when at
worst it's going to mean a one position slide for you.
And really, are you going to see a slide at all?
Is the committee really going to say, well, Duke loss
in the first game of the AC Tournament to Georgia Tech.
They're gonna say, well, they didn't play with flag, they
didn't play with all of their starters, didn't play anybody, right,
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Saint John's didn't play RJ. Lewis, didn't play Canari Richmond,
the didn't play these guys. So yeah, it's like the
game didn't happen, and so we're gonna kind of give
them a pass on that. I mean, when I don't
know why this hasn't come up until now, but I
got a feeling after the Cooper flag situation it's gonna
come up.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Well, you're going basically the abolition of all these these
tournaments for anybody in the upper quad of a conference, shure,
don't even bother. Where's your spirit of competition? Where's your
love of the television programming partners? And the billions upon
billions of dollars being bet legally and illegally across this
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land and across the globe.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Where's your love of that?
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Why are you Derek Bell in operations shut down all
of a sudden.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
I think I think that you gotta explain about well,
and you're also quitting. That's it.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
You're advocating quitting. Hey, it's not hard. You might get hurt.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Here.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You look like the state puff marshmallow man. And now
we'll roll you out on the court.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Okay, here, here's here's where where where your argument? That
doesn't hold water? So let's say you have that conversation. Right,
all the college basketball teams that are in a room,
the top twenty coaches are in a room, and ESPN
and if everybody that runs has it has the conference championship tournaments.
They come in and they're like, you play your guys.
It's under a big light. They're all sweating like they're
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getting interrogated by Siplewitz. And and you have all the
ESPN executives going, we paid a lot of money. Conference
Championship Week is a very big deal. And you play,
and the guys starts swallowing nervously and they're just about
to say something, and all of a sudden you hear
a big bang outside, and all of a sudden, a
big Terry Cruz like gun from the Expendables knocks down
(23:04):
a wall. And here comes CBS and TBS and TNT
and True TV, and they all say, wait a minute,
we're arguing about television ratings this week and not our
week when we actually have the nca tournament. Yeah, I
think the guy, I think the whole television thing is
gonna play out.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Okay, I'll just leave it at this.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I mean, one guy is not a tournament make and
I know the power of Cooper Flag and the excitement
of him this year. I mean, like we talked about
it before, I guess he shouldn't play at all. At
this point, it's you're taking these conference championship quest and
you're making them non playoff bowl games to stay in
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college sports.
Speaker 4 (23:44):
You know, I don't bother.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Look, Look, there's still interest because the lower team. This
is really about the lower teams that are trying, right,
But I'm.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Telling you about all the teams that people you know
would actually want to watch.
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Hey, I'm not saying I'm not saying they don't come
to the games.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
They can still come look just like, how are you
gonna wave his little hat?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yeah? Because how much did everybody watch Lakers games when
they got Luca but he wasn't playing. He would come out,
he would take some shots where that swelt looking black
Lakers pull over, so you couldn't really what kind of
shape is Luca in? Is he in good shape? Is
he not? He waves to every but now you still
send to the games and wave, then you have the game.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I think that was watching that because he wanted to
see Luca and how he moved up and down the
court side and to get himself mentally prepared for when
Luca was active on the court.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Nah, you do it that way. That's the way. That's
the way people will watch. Still, the people will watch Ray,
people will watch, they'll watch. Everybody will and it makes
it more interesting rather than just hey, here's a conference
tournament where we're just gonna get Auburn and Alabama at
the end, we're just gonna get can tell you like, Okay,
things get a little bit weirder now because the number
one team didn't play their starters. They're out, and now
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we maybe we have some more bid stealing going on.
Maybe we have some more bubble teams that win their
way to the conference championship game and win their way
in not just I think we can be okay with
the little guys for conference championship. I think that's okay.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
You know what's great about this?
Speaker 5 (25:05):
With just a couple of reactions and rewordings, we could
send this letter to Tom Thibodeau and the Knicks as
how they should run the rest of their regular season
to be ready for the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Wow, what I did there?
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Whoa dude, it's it's everything is fine. After the Knicks said, hey,
we're all playing too many minutes, Michal Bridges, who was
stunk all season up until like three games ago, the
guy saying hey we're playing too a minute. Dude, we
gave up five first round picks for you and you've
been terrible. He hit the big shot last night to
beat Portland that had me cursing in the studio, when
(25:39):
yelling and screaming, it's fine, it's taken care of. It's
taken care of.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Now, everything's covered, the numbers taken care of.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
It doesn't matter, it's taken care of. Everything is fine.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Yeah, they did not support their backers last night.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
I like how Mike Breed's first question of Bridges after
the game winning shot was, hey, you played forty three
minutes night, how you feeling thought?
Speaker 4 (26:00):
And then he turned and he said, slap.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Now, speaking of the Lakers, Okay, we've gotten really good
news in the last twenty four hours that it looks
like Lebron James will be back very soon. Right, returning
to Los Angeles for treatment, and the groin injury that
scared everybody on Saturday, I got a different take on it.
This is not the worst thing in the world for
the Lakers, and it could turn out to be a positive, right,
(26:24):
as long as it's not a serious injury, and it
doesn't seem to be. Nothing we've been told has been
led to that belief, and the fact that he's coming
back to LA for treatment tells me that he's absolutely fine.
In fact, not to go to conspiracy theory, but I
wonder if this injury was really a two or three
game thing. But you know, it's gonna be two weeks
for Lebron, because hey, not the worst thing in the
(26:47):
world for him to have a break at this point
in the season. Right, look at where the Lakers are at,
right they're a team that's fighting for second in the
Western Conference. Now, they would have likely blitzed to it
if Lebron James is healthy and not injured. But okay,
it'll be more of a dog fight the last fourteen
or fifteen games, But for Lebron to get a break
because you're worried about the playoffs and how you're gonna
navigate all the way through the end of the season
(27:09):
when you're really relying on someone who's forty years old. Yes,
Luca is twenty five, and you think, okay, that's gonna
be great, but you still need Lebron. Here's the time
for him to get a break, and it's perfect. It's
the middle to the end of March. He comes back
after a couple of weeks, and he's got twelve or
fourteen games until the end of the season, and suddenly, hey,
he's fresh, he's refreshed, and you hit the playoffs exactly
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how you should. Don't have to worry about Lebron sitting
out and only coming back the last couple of games.
Don't have to worry about Lebron and his chemistry with Luca,
because already you can see he and Luca look like
they've played together for years. I mean, it's like I
said when the trade happened, I said, this is gonna
be like when the Lakers got Paugasol. They're gonna take
off right away, And this has happened. They took off
right away. Whether JJ Reddick still hates me or not,
(27:53):
they took off right away, and that's what happened. So
not the worst thing for this to happen for Lebron
Now and a couple of weeks he comes back and
everything is fine, right, This really could be a blessing
in disguise again, as long as it's not a bad injury.
And from everything we've been we've been told this is
where it's at. And the fact that he's in now, yeah,
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maybe you can come back in a game or two.
But when you look at the Lakers schedule and how
ridiculously stupid it is that they played six games in
the next eight nights. You have three sets of back
to back, which I mean, who does that? Who puts
that on the schedule At this point in the season.
At the end of March, you're gonna play three, You're
gonna play back to back, have a night off, back
to back, a night off back to back. I bet
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you I would bet all my money. I'd push all
my chips in the middle. Lebron James is coming back
a week from Saturday, when the Lakers have finished their
six games in eight night situation and they start their
regular schedule again. I would bet all my money he
is back for that game. And what's happening right now? Yes,
the groin injury is something he's sitting out with, but
why are we gonna risk it for those six games
(28:56):
and eight nights again? Which is stupid? And the schedule
maker's got to look at that go what the hell
was I doing? But I guarantee you he's back on
that Saturday. He's gonna look great. It'll be like nothing
ever happened. He'll be rested, energetic, and the Lakers go,
this could be a real blessing in disguise for him
and Los Angeles.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
We're so close.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
We could have been promoting the old Harrison Ford vehicle
six days, seven nights, but it's eight, it's eight. I
had one for posterity, was and Haitian David Schwimmer Worth here, Yeah,
long time ago, going all the way back to nineteen
ninety eight for that one. But we look at the
schedule and you basically danced around the idea of load
management because people have done the subruder film check frame
(29:36):
by frame and wondering aloud when Lebron got hurt or
if it was just pride or his soul leaving his
body by the move that Tatum was making.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
So he got that going for.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
You see what that is? That's pride messing with you, butch.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
That's it soul leaving out the back of your neck,
all those kind of things. The fact is that Lebron
also had posted to his socials about this stretch of games,
foreshadowing perhaps, hey, I get to be there and some
of it.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
And also you want Luca here you go.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
You see how much I stirred the drink talk about
this guy, about how great he is as you know, gracious,
a welcoming guy he's been on the court. Maybe this
is also let's watch him battle these guys. It's kind
of like straight out of airplane, drag these guys up
and down the court.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
See that kind of like that says.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
You're really good, but you don't play defense all the
time as a kid.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
See how it all ties together with defensive play while
we're at it. But you know, all these games against
top notch opponents, you got a couple against Denver, you
got Milwaukee, you got all. This a tough road during
this stretch, but yeah, having him rejuvenated down the stretch
and ready to go into the playoffs, sure it's the
silver lining or was it all calculated as as you
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looked at the schedule and was he really waving at
us before he went? And you know, did that staged
general hospital ad of confronting Stephen A.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Smith?
Speaker 5 (31:02):
So all of that comes together in one fell swoop.
This and more as the world turns. See I got
more of our daytime viewing in exit.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
How about a Fresca exit swollen dome? Jason Smith, Mike
Harmon in for Cafino and Rich Today time now to
find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Man has been called the lebron James of Fox Sports Radio.
He also has gotten into many confrontations with Steven A.
Smith on a court.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
It is how did you how did you know I'm
actually not You're you didn't make that up? Not on
a court, but actually here in this hallway.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Wait, really that's happened?
Speaker 4 (31:35):
A true story.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
So this is back when he was here, and it
was one of these things where I had a game
that I had to work the previous night, and I
had to be in here at like five o'clock or
six o'clock in the morning. So I tumbled out of bed.
I looked like a complete slob, which I guess is
my default countenance. I come in here, hair messed up,
completely disheveled. I walked through the door are and I
(32:01):
swear on my life, I run into both dressed in beautiful,
elegant suits, Stephen A. Smith and the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
I'm not making this up here at Fox and Jesse
Jackson was super cool and Stephen Smith, Stephen A. Smith
just glared at me, seeing how disheveled I look, and
(32:23):
he said, story.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
You look awful, terrible, the worst in the world. I
can't get over have.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
The audacity, the perspicacity to dress like that. He didn't
say it, but that is clearly what his eyes had
to say.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
It would have been It wouldn't have been the it
wouldn't have been the the yelling Stephen A. Smith. It
would it would have been the low case when when
they throw a topic to him, and he starts with
that is disgusting. It is cool, It is awful, it
is appalling, it is abominable. This is frightful and ghastly
and horrid and horrendous, shameful and shocking. It is terrifying
and scandalous. And then he gets into his point like
(32:58):
that that's what he would have said to you instead
of the yelling going, I can't believe you would show
up for this show.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Whearing that Islo was like the statement he made about
Lebron in fatherhood, trying to a bow down to the
Democratic Party and Lebron SIKA fans when he approached me
as a father.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Yeah, it's almost like when you're disciplined by a parent.
It's really bad when they lower their voice. Well, yelling
is one thing, but when they lower their voice it's another.
We just got some breaking NBA and he's coming down
just this second. ESPN reporting San Antonio's de Aaron Fox
going to undergo season ending surgery on Tuesday for tendonut
(33:38):
damage in his left pinky finger. Best Selling author and
sports commentator John Feinstein passed away at the age of
sixty nine. He was perhaps best known for his incredible
nineteen eighty six book, A Season on the Brink of
behind the scenes account of Indiana head coach Bobby Knight,
considered one of the best non fiction sports books of
all time. If the NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs are
(34:00):
free agent quarterback Gardner Minshew to a one year deal.
In college basketball, duke star Cooper Flag today in the
ACC Tournament quarter final victory over Georgia Tech left the
contest with a spring left ankle. Duke head coach John
Shier said after the game that X rays were negative
and that it would be a long shot for Flag
(34:20):
to play in the semi finals tomorrow. Now, guys, here's
the piece resistants. I've got some more fresh college basketball news.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
And this is literally out of this world.
Speaker 6 (34:32):
The social media website x formerly Twitter, is launching a
March Madness Bracket challenge. The grand prize for a perfect
bracket is a trip to Mars on a Space X
starship vehicle. I'm not making this up. If you enter
(34:54):
and get a perfect bracket, you will win a trip
to Mars.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Don't like, don't no, Rico, get your ass to Mars.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
By the way in the bad timing department, exactly, One
week ago, an unmanned SpaceX Starship test flight exploded over
Texas just minutes after lifting off. So yeah, that's that's
bad timing. I think that's somewhere in the fine print
of this March Madness bracket challenge back to.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
I would be. I would be like in uh in
Curb Your Enthusiasm, the whole thing with Richard Lewis and
and Larry David, who goes, well, you're not in the
you're in the will. I don't want to be in
the will. You've won the trip to Mars, but I
don't want to go to Mars. But you won the trip. Yeah,
but I don't want to go. Yeah, but you've won. Yeah,
I got that, but I don't want to go. I
don't want to go on that trip. I'm not I'm
not going.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I won.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I don't want to go. Thanks Ilo, Oh my goodness,
that story. Uh. Jason Smith Mike Harmon in for the
guys today. Speaking of basketball, like hoops, Tractor Supply knows
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(36:05):
Bracket Challenge. Gonna win a twenty five hundred dollars gift
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for life out here. Well, coming up next, how about
we do this. Day three of NFL Free Agency is
slowly wrapping up what teams absolutely aced the last few days.
There are three big ones. We'll tell you who they
(36:26):
are next. Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (36:29):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific, Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:40):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon, that's our show
at night. We're in for the guys today and for
Cavino and Rich And we're getting close to the end
of day three of NFL Free Agency. A lot of
depth signings coming in. You're seeing some teams still make
some moves. We talked about George headed to Kansas City. Yeah,
(37:00):
so first three days we're still waiting for some big
vets to sign. I was waiting on Aaron Rodgers, waiting
on Russell Wilson, waiting on guys like Keenan Allen. Right,
so we're still waiting on that. But so far through
the first three days, all right, there's three teams that
I love what they've done more than anybody else. Because
free agency has kind of gotten to a different place
(37:21):
where it's not really about, hey, let's go out and
spend every single dime we have and overpay on guys,
but it's let's make sure we are attacking our needs.
And look, we talked about this before it became a
popular thing to say when the Bears made their first
move to go out and get an offensive lineman. They've
remade their offensive line. They've signed three interior lineman starters,
(37:44):
two who are Pro Bowlers and all Pro type players.
I'm telling you, watch the Caleb Williams breakout. They I
know that's good. By Fine the buddy, I feel great
about you. I feel great about Caleb Williams. He's gonna
break out this year because they have everything else. They
got the weapons on offense, the defense is good enough.
His faltering at the end of last year was because
he was under complete and total duress and you have
(38:06):
to let the game slow down for him. Now he'll
be able to get outside and make plays with his
legs because that's what he does. He throws on the
run better than anybody in the last few years in
the NFL coming into the league, telling you that the
Bears did a phenomenal job just by solidifying those three positions.
So we love what they did.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
The most create timing opportunities.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Ben Johnson's going to have to rework and rewire his
brain this offseason. No, you're not always needing to do
the let's spin around and run back seventeen yards like
he did on the old video game and then you
would launch a rocket downfield.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
That's not how it works. He also needs to get pet.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Works that way. For Russell Wilson, that's exactly what that's
his whole career.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Is that well, and that's why he doesn't have a
job right now. He had a good run.
Speaker 5 (38:50):
Okay, fair enough, I guess gotta call it what it is,
which is why if he and Arthur Smith could get along,
he should just go back to Pittsburgh. But to that
point with Caleb also just he's got to learn that,
you know, interceptions are part of the game. Because his
stats looked fantastic from this past year, and then you
go back and watch rewatch the game it's like, wow,
a lot of little dump offs, a lot of like
(39:11):
not a lot of shots downfield. So hopefully, speaking as
the guy with literally wearing a Bears hat, that that's
what Ben Johnson's able to do. First time he calls
a pass play by an offensive lineman, I am storming
the castle.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Now, two other teams the last couple of days that
have done the best, and they're both in the same division.
The Broncos have really ace the first three days, right,
Greenlaw Hufanga Evan Ingram last night is a huge deal.
They finally I mean, you've watched Sean Payton looking for
someone to play the joker tight end position since he
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came to Denver. Thought Greg Daltwich was going to be
that guy, but he couldn't stay on the field. Evan
Ingram is thirty years old. He's still got probably at
least two or three really good years left. These are
three huge moves. But that tight end move I love
so much because that's been the missing part of his offense. Right,
he needs so much, we need this. He talks about
the joker position all the time. He needs that, and
(40:10):
he gets an incredible tight end and it was Evan
Ingram who visited the Broncos and the Chargers both who
could have used him, but it doesn't matter. Chargers they're
the other team. I love what they did the most
because the guys they brought in, Naji Harris. They need
someone that can be dependable running back. He's not flashy,
but he's healthy. He'll average about four yards of carry.
He's good in the red zone. They brought back Mike Williams,
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Dante Jackson's a really good signing from the Steelers. The
Chargers have brought in guys that fit with the culture.
But more importantly, you brought in two big weapons because
the offense needs to be a little bit better, a
little bit more out there choice wise than it was
last year. And they've done that. Man, Broncos and Chargers love.
Speaker 4 (40:48):
It all right.
Speaker 5 (40:49):
I'm gonna give you Washington the trade with the Planet, Houston,
whatever they're doing, bringing in Tunsil, bringing in Deebo Samuel,
a lot of depth there. And then I go back
to the Minnesota Vikings. Really love what they've done. I
just have the Riddler running around because I don't know
who the hell the quarterback is right offensive and defensive line,
bringing those guys from the Colts and you've got a
(41:10):
bunch of players. You bring back Aaron Jones on a
two year deal. Oh that's great. Who's the signal caller?
Speaker 3 (41:17):
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