1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:24,560 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. Ever give us you're listening 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 1: to Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Tuesday. 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I mean, wow, 19 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,399 Speaker 1: Are you sure about that? Yes? Okay, it's making sure. Okay, 20 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: let's making sure because usually say, I'll be here every day, 21 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: and then the next two days you miss. Yeah, but 22 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: then I remember I got to see you something. Hey, Hey, 23 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: I'm the best part of your day. Are you kidding? 24 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: What do you want to see other people when you 25 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 1: come in here? Come on, man, I'm happy with Steve's here. 26 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: You don't want That's all my It's why it's a 27 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: no Hobo day. It's no Hobo day, No no hobo. 28 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:28,240 Speaker 1: Uh So, hey, big day in the NFL. Quarterback is 29 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 1: back and who knew we missed that show so much? 30 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: But it's not often that a big anniversary just stands 31 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,959 Speaker 1: out so much in the world of sports. But you know, look, 32 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a thing, uh that fifteen years 33 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: ago today, you know, all of us who were old enough, 34 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: we all remember where we were, We all remember what 35 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: we saw, we all remember seeing And I don't know 36 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:54,440 Speaker 1: that I feel like this is a hot take, but 37 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: I don't know that really is Steve is that I 38 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: think this is the biggest moment in basketball for the 39 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: last twenty five years. You want to go back to 40 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: two thousand, This has been the biggest moment for basketball 41 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,919 Speaker 1: the last twenty five year, which is kind of nice, 42 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,679 Speaker 1: saying in twenty twenty five, you can look back to 43 00:02:09,720 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: a nice round number of two thousand, like, hey, this 44 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 1: is the biggest story, the biggest thing the NBA has 45 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: had in the last twenty five years. And it was 46 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: summer of twenty ten. 47 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 2: Lebron James was, to say the least a known quantity 48 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 2: in high school and congratulations for the Cabs not blowing 49 00:02:25,320 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 2: it in the standings and still. 50 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: Being able to draft him. 51 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:31,000 Speaker 2: It was looking a little dicey there for a little bit, 52 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: and the question was was he going to decide to 53 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 2: stay in Ohio or decide to go elsewhere. It's kind 54 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: of like, I think it's Martin Weiss on our airwave 55 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 2: says a lot of these draft like the NBA draft recently, 56 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 2: this really could have been done in a memo. But okay, fine, 57 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 2: you're having the I mean, people hockey fans left and 58 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 2: right across the continent complained about TEA draft show this 59 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 2: year that man, this is taking a long Would you 60 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: just announced the next name? 61 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,480 Speaker 1: Ready, Lebron James. 62 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 2: In this announcement it took, as I recall, it was 63 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 2: sixty to ninety minutes, it was an hour. 64 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: It was an hour and it was. It was an 65 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: incredible day. Look, the night turned out to be not 66 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: great for Lebron James. Right, we know this, right, you 67 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: see how it is aged. You see how the decision 68 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,920 Speaker 1: is aged. And it turned out to be not great 69 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 1: for him. But it was an incredible moment for basketball 70 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: and the decision which turns fifteen today. There's been no 71 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: bigger event in the NBA the last twenty five years. 72 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: And when Jim Gray, finally, after an hour hour plus 73 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,440 Speaker 1: of sitting in front of a bunch of kids from 74 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 1: the Boys and Girls Club, finally asked the question that 75 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 1: Lebron James was going. 76 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: To answer to, the biggest play just gets hit, the 77 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 3: ball is loose and it's alive. 78 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I think. I think in the NFL 79 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: that's up there, last twenty five years, that's up there. 80 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: But in the NBA, which is basketball. Oh yeah, this 81 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: fifteen years ago tonight the answer to the question. Everybody 82 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 1: wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision? 83 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 4: And this fall, man, this is very tough, and this 84 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 4: fall I'm gonna take my town as to Sava Beach 85 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:14,160 Speaker 4: and joining Miami Heat. 86 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 1: Miami Heat, that was a conclusion. You woke up with 87 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 1: this morning. 88 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 4: That was the conclusion I woke up with this morning. 89 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: So there was after it, and you know, so no 90 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 1: one really clapped like, whoa, no going to. 91 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 2: The he get more cheers at some high school or 92 00:04:28,760 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 2: picking a college. Oh that's on a hat. 93 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: I mean, just think about it for a second, right, 94 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 1: Because I heard this was in the you know, the 95 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,280 Speaker 1: middle of my first run at ESPN, I could peel 96 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: back the curtain and tell you, I'll tell you a 97 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: great story about the decision. 98 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 2: By the way, this clip that we just played of that, 99 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 2: I honestly thought they were gonna go to the clip 100 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,679 Speaker 2: of Jim Gray so you still bite your nails. 101 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought highlight of the I thought we were 102 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: gonna get the fail Mary on Thanksgiving Day from last 103 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: year of the Jets Dolphins. But it was this, This 104 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: is champions come and go, big players, come and go. 105 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: This story this stopped time. Here's Lebron James, the best 106 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: player that we had seen, a guy we want to 107 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: fill the void for Michael Jordan, a guy who has 108 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:15,159 Speaker 1: been so incredibly polarizing his entire career. We didn't talk like, yeah, 109 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: Jordan was around before social media, but he still was 110 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: a dominant conversation piece. But sports talk radio really didn't 111 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: start blowing up until the late nineties early two thousands. 112 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 1: By this time, Michael Jordan was at the end of 113 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: his career. You had sports talk radio on the weekends 114 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: in the early nineties, it wasn't really every ESPN radio 115 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: was only on the weekends at that point, so he 116 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: really hadn't had that exploded. Jordan really got to survive 117 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: and thrive in an era in which his every move 118 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: wasn't documented. Lebron James was the first big star of 119 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: that era. And when he said I'm gonna become a 120 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 1: free agent, I'm going to decide where to go, that 121 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: was the dominant story. Every day was something new he 122 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:59,559 Speaker 1: visited with all the different teams and every day, well today, 123 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: the Knicks showing up to their presentation to Lebron James 124 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: and Donnie Nelson, I think who was who was running 125 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: the next of the time, had like you know, broken 126 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 1: his his uh uh ankle or something had to be 127 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: wheelded in a wheelchair to give the presentation to the 128 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: to Lebron and his TA wheelchair. Paul Pierce. No, no, no, no, no, no, 129 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,000 Speaker 1: no, no no no no, this was this is like he 130 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 1: had to be wheeled in and he saw teams and 131 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,839 Speaker 1: they were and every every day it was how did 132 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:27,000 Speaker 1: this meeting go? How did this presentation go? And there 133 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: were rumors that hey, he didn't really he was kind 134 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: of tuned out during the Knicks because it was the 135 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: same type of presentation that the Nets had for him, 136 00:06:34,120 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: and and everywhere he is doing his Shoudur Sanders impersonation. 137 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: Everywhere you looked, it was where is Lebron going to go? 138 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: And it got dragged out and there was no story 139 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,160 Speaker 1: that stopped time more than this, again, biggest thing the NBA, 140 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: because we're still talking about this big situation fifteen years later. 141 00:06:53,480 --> 00:06:55,599 Speaker 1: I mean, yes, when Lebron is still playing, he's still 142 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 1: playing really well. He's still someone who was pushing the 143 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: conversation forward. He's still the guy we talk about the 144 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,160 Speaker 1: most in the NBA. There has been no bigger moment 145 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,080 Speaker 1: and fallout than what we had with the decision. Because 146 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: after Lebron made his decision, he became public enemy number one. 147 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: He left his hometown team. How do you leave? How 148 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: do you leave Cleveland to go play someplace else? Well, 149 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: because he got together with Dwayne Wade, and Chris Botch 150 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 1: the Olympics. Wouldn't it be cool if we all played together? Yeah, 151 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: where do you want to play? And Dwayne Wade said, well, 152 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 1: we got the salary cap room on my team. Okay, 153 00:07:23,520 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: we'll go to the heat. Like it was that simple, 154 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,360 Speaker 1: Like it was that the pat Riley gets all this 155 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: credit for. Hey, we but no, they walked into your officead, hey, 156 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 1: we all want to play here together. Let's make it work. Oh, 157 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 1: we'll just cut everybody, sign you three and then that's 158 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 1: what we'll have going forward. But this was, I mean, really, 159 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: there's been no bigger moment. We won't talk about Steph 160 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: and their and their championships, Lebron chased down Block, we 161 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: won't talk about the Lakers back to back championships, the 162 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:50,280 Speaker 1: back to back Lakers Celtics finals, nothing as much as 163 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: the decision, because all these other stories were big. But 164 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,720 Speaker 1: this the world ceased to exist when it was what 165 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:59,200 Speaker 1: is Lebron going to pick? Where is he going to go? 166 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, Steven A. Smith had it 167 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 1: and we didn't go with it at ESPN. Okay, now 168 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: you got to go back to the time. This is, 169 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: this is fifteen years ago. This is twenty ten, and 170 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith wasn't quite the person he the personality 171 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: he is now. You mean he was more respected here 172 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: he was Yeah, well he was still an NBA insider, 173 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:21,960 Speaker 1: but he was making he made the twist to go 174 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: to the turn to be a more personality driven at 175 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: ESPN in first take. So when he would have something, 176 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: it wasn't always oh, here's a big insider, like it 177 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: wasn't like woj Or Shams or Jay Glazer, Adam Scheft 178 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: or was Steino Stephen He's got this. And every day 179 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:40,960 Speaker 1: leading up to this, for like a week and a half, 180 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:43,559 Speaker 1: there was a different so and so is reporting Lebron's 181 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: gonna go here, right, like, hey, Lebron's gonna go to 182 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,320 Speaker 1: the Lebron's gonna go to Cleveland, Lebron's gonna go Lebron's 183 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: gonna go to Dallas, Lebron's gonna go to the Lakers. 184 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,719 Speaker 1: Lebron's gonna go to the Knicks. Like there was I 185 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: can't tell you how many different reports there were by 186 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: so many different outlets. And then like about I think 187 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: a half a day before or a day and a 188 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,120 Speaker 1: half before the special, like he had it and he 189 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: was saying he's going to the heat. He's going to 190 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: the heat. I I got this, He's going to the heat. 191 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 1: But because it was so crazy, like, we didn't report 192 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: that as ESPN. Like normally, if an insider comes out 193 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 1: and Adam Schefter says, hey, so and so is getting traded, 194 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: the report is never well, if the report is true. 195 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: When Adam Schefter is right, it's oh hey, Adam Schefter 196 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: says this is happening, this is going on. When Jay 197 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: Glazer says this goes down, it's okay, this is happening. 198 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: We treat that as it's a breaking news story. But 199 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: like he said, he kept saying, it's the heat. I 200 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:35,280 Speaker 1: got it. It's the heat. It's the heat. And I 201 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: remember coming into work every night, you know, everyone going, okay, 202 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: new stuff. Is there anything that we're reporting, And the 203 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: last couple of nights coming in, it's and I remember 204 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 1: I remember saying to my producer saying, hey, Stephen A. Smith, 205 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 1: he's pretty seems pretty certain that it's the heat, and 206 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: they said, yeah, but we're not reporting it. We're not 207 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: reporting it as fact. It's just we're just you want 208 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: to mention it when you talk about it, but we're 209 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:56,839 Speaker 1: not reporting it, So I don't know what kind of 210 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: battle there went there there went on, but he could 211 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: have had the the biggest scoop in the history of 212 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,559 Speaker 1: sports baseline. You look back and hey, schefter getting the 213 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: Andrew Luck retiring thing, Wow, what a big deal. If 214 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: he had Lebron a day and a half before the decision, 215 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: that would have been the biggest scoop ever. But it 216 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,600 Speaker 1: was just ESPN didn't go with it as an official 217 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: thing for whatever reason. I didn't ask about I just said, Okay, 218 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: we're not going, but I'm going to talk about it 219 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 1: and say Stephen A. Smith, if he goes to the heat, X, Y, 220 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:27,199 Speaker 1: and Z, and my producers and the managers all said, yeah, 221 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 1: that's fine, go with that as long as you say, 222 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: this is what Steven A. Smith says. If if and 223 00:10:31,040 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: you leave it out there now. I don't know if 224 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: part of it was they didn't want to go with 225 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,239 Speaker 1: it because here's the special that's gonna. 226 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,080 Speaker 2: Air, which they didn't own, right, Jim, we didn't want 227 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,079 Speaker 2: to work for ESPN at the time. 228 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: So I don't know if there was kind of a 229 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: decision where, hey, this is a big day for basketball, 230 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,160 Speaker 1: we're not going to report this because you know it's 231 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: a big deal and we're taking the wind out of 232 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: the sales because there's a special that's coming up. Or 233 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:56,640 Speaker 1: if it was just we don't want to say this 234 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: and get it wrong, because if we say this and 235 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,360 Speaker 1: get it wrong, then we make an enemy of making 236 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: end of his new team and it becomes a whole 237 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: big thing. 238 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:04,719 Speaker 2: I think Chris Brusard the day of had mentioned it, 239 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 2: but you talked about what a huge deal it was here. 240 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 2: This anniversary is July the eighth. July first is when 241 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,800 Speaker 2: free agency starts. Yeah, so it's to say the least 242 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 2: had build up by the time the actual TV show 243 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 2: the Decision starts up. 244 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 1: There were teams that were saying, we have to pull 245 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: out because if he doesn't come to us, we're stuck 246 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: because other free agents were getting signed. I wish I 247 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: could go back to that. That probably two or three 248 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,439 Speaker 1: week span. We got to the end of the NBA 249 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: season and Lebron was was going to be a free 250 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:39,040 Speaker 1: agent and and was gonna be Lebron sweepstakes like that 251 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: entire run. I can't even tell you how every day 252 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: was filled with energy and confusion and excitement, and it 253 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: was I could still feel. I still remember the energy 254 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: of that story and Neil, I think back. I still 255 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,680 Speaker 1: remember the energy of big plays in the NBA finals. 256 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: I remember big, big draft picks going on in the NBA. 257 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: Maybe Cooper Flagg getting drafted will be a big deal 258 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 1: one day, but there's not been anything bigger in the 259 00:12:02,440 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: NBA the last twenty five years. And the decision and 260 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: so much that has fallen off of it and come 261 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: out of it the last few years because nobody's ever 262 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: done that again because they saw a boy Lebron really 263 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:15,199 Speaker 1: made himself put himself into a corner there with with 264 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: this whole decision thing because it didn't go over how 265 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 1: he thought it was gonna go over. So now nobody 266 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,400 Speaker 1: does something like that anymore. No one's going to try 267 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: to do it. But still the impact of that that 268 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 1: here's a here's a player who can now take all 269 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: the empowerment away from from other teams and and and 270 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: say I'm gonna grab this for myself and I'm going 271 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 1: to have a special and I'm going to say where 272 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 1: I'm going to go, and I'm going to take ownership 273 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: of my career and my brand and everything else like 274 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: this was. This was such a such a a trendsetting 275 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:50,560 Speaker 1: day in so many ways for the NBA, for NBA fans. 276 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't imagine what it would have been 277 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: like without it. I mean, really, NBA, everybody else, you 278 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: know where you are. I remember where I was when 279 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: I saw it. I remember the big intake of breath 280 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:00,599 Speaker 1: I had at my house when he's he's going to 281 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:02,719 Speaker 1: the heat, He's really going to the heat. I think 282 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,719 Speaker 1: even Jim Gray was surprised because Jim Gray said Miami heat, 283 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: like like like nobody said anything. So I wonder if 284 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: Jiff Jim Gray is thinking, Okay, nobody heard what you said. 285 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say Miami heat, Miami heat, Miami Okay. 286 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: So that's you woke up with this morning. 287 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 2: That's kind of a sixty minutes type follow up there. 288 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:21,599 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, mind me, let's playing one would be a 289 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: little more. Please play one more time. You can hear 290 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,440 Speaker 1: what I'm saying that Maybe because he said mat did 291 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,160 Speaker 1: no one here because no one was applauding, no one 292 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,400 Speaker 1: was clapping. One more time? T shirt. The answer to 293 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:33,359 Speaker 1: the question everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision. 294 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 4: In this fall? 295 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 5: Man? 296 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:38,280 Speaker 4: It's very tough and this fall, I'm gonna take my 297 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 4: town's to South Beach and joining Miami Heat. 298 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: Miami Heat that you woke up with this morning. Yeah, 299 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:49,640 Speaker 1: that was alike up this morning. Yeah, like two clocks. Yeah, hey, 300 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 1: but Miami show noise is it really is going to 301 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: be the heat, right, It's really is the heat. Okay, 302 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,080 Speaker 1: it's it's going to be the Heat. 303 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,240 Speaker 2: And by the way, part of the reason this is 304 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 2: so big in the year since is because what happened 305 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 2: with the Miami Heat. You referenced Chris Bosh he had 306 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:12,240 Speaker 2: just joined this same offseason to Dwayne Wade in Miami. 307 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: Now you had the heatles, you had the big three 308 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 2: together and yes, four years and four times winning the 309 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 2: East and Lebron two time MVP in the league. 310 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: Out of those four years. 311 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,640 Speaker 2: So it was the follow up of always winning the 312 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Miami of you know what really cemented this 313 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 2: being a big story. 314 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 1: It was big in and of itself for that summer, 315 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: but now we look back on. 316 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 2: The long two decade career of Lebron and there's proper context. 317 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. Really, I mean, tell me something that was bigger, 318 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: that had a bigger impact, that was bigger at the time. Yeah, 319 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 1: you could have the most watched Game seven of the 320 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Ever, it's not gonna be what this was 321 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: with everybody just waiting with Baita. I'm gonna watch this 322 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: show for an hour. You know, he's not going to 323 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:02,240 Speaker 1: answer the question until like at least forty five or fifty. 324 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. I'm gonna watch for it just in case. 325 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch for an hour, Gonna make sure we 326 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:06,800 Speaker 1: got it. 327 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 2: One item before we break A's All Star shortstep. Jack 328 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 2: Wilson has just been hit by a pitch on the 329 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 2: hand and left the game against the Atlanta Braves. Oh 330 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:18,240 Speaker 2: boy in the first inning. 331 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 1: Ooh boy, not good news. And the Mets have taken 332 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: the lead in extra innings at Baltimore. All right, we 333 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 1: have more on this coming up. Jason Smith Steve de 334 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:30,800 Speaker 1: Sager in for Mike Harmon, happy fifteenth anniversary to the decision. 335 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,840 Speaker 1: I guess it's apropos that on the fifteenth anniversary of 336 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: the decision, we have an NFL decision that one quarterback 337 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,160 Speaker 1: probably would have done differently if he gets his chance. 338 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: Get to that coming up next right here, Jason Smith, 339 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 1: Steve de Sager, Fox Sports Radio, be. 340 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 5: Sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show 341 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 5: with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm 342 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 5: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 343 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: Hey, what's up everybody? 344 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 6: It's me three time pro bowler LeVar Arrington and I 345 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,120 Speaker 6: couldn't be more excited to announce a podcast called. 346 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: Up on Game? 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The 357 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,280 Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show is Steve de Seger and from Mike Harmon. 358 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: Be sure to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel. 359 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: Just search Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a 360 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: whole bunch of video highlights from our shows. Be sure 361 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,440 Speaker 1: to subscribe so you never miss our very best Fox 362 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: Sports Radio videos on YouTube. So here we are, fifteenth 363 00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 1: anniversary of the decision, and uh, I guess it's just 364 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 1: the Steve did this be the one year anniversary of 365 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 1: the Kirk Cousins decision. One year of the decision, he'd 366 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:18,280 Speaker 1: probably do over. 367 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,879 Speaker 2: I think there was a if there wasn't even a 368 00:17:20,920 --> 00:17:22,520 Speaker 2: six minute show for good sixty. 369 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,840 Speaker 1: Uh So Quarterback is back the Netflix show. And I'll 370 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:31,920 Speaker 1: be quite honest with you, I didn't know how much 371 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 1: I missed this show until all of a sudden, bang 372 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:37,399 Speaker 1: bang bang we got we got a host of stories 373 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: coming off this today with the first episodes and the 374 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:43,280 Speaker 1: and the the teasers being released. Uh stuff with Kirk Cousins. 375 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: We'll get to the Joe Burrow crazy story coming up 376 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:48,359 Speaker 1: in a few minutes. But you realize it. We're so 377 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 1: thirsty for NFL right now, Like this is okay, it's 378 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: we're just pass the fourth of July. Everybody had their vacations. 379 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,240 Speaker 1: I'm there, I'm yeah. The bad news is all We're 380 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:02,400 Speaker 1: gonna get it on his preseason. I need I need 381 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: at least the teams to be on the field together. 382 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:06,680 Speaker 1: We're all like dying for it now and all of 383 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: a sudden, here comes quarterback, and we're like, oh, what 384 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 1: an unbud. Look, the the month of July on the 385 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:17,239 Speaker 1: schedule is crying for incredible NFL content, right because we've 386 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: had enough of the off season. We had free agency, 387 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,280 Speaker 1: into the draft, then into mini camps and then okay, 388 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 1: and now it's okay. Now it's away for a month. 389 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 1: I need I need something like it's it's it's the 390 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: arit it's the Gobi Desert of NFL programming. All of 391 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 1: a sudden, here comes quarterback to save us all. It's 392 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 1: like walking out walk finding an oasis, just jumping out 393 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,080 Speaker 1: in the rain, like like Tim Robbinson shawshing when he 394 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,200 Speaker 1: gets out for a sorry spoiler, when when he crawls 395 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: out through all the worst muck and filth you could 396 00:18:48,840 --> 00:18:51,360 Speaker 1: ever want to imagine, and the rain is just down. 397 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,680 Speaker 2: And impression by the way he pulls the shirt off, 398 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 2: it was a pretty good one. 399 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: And he pulls his shirt off and the rain is 400 00:18:57,359 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: he's he's he's seeing the outside as a free man 401 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: for the first time. That's NFL fans, right, now, go 402 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:05,440 Speaker 1: give us something and we get quarterback. 403 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:10,080 Speaker 2: Now, not all of us subscribe to what gave us Quarterback, 404 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,960 Speaker 2: or today or last year for that matter. So I 405 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 2: have yet to and may never see an episode of Quarterback. 406 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:20,119 Speaker 2: But the way you're framing it is the timing of 407 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 2: the release, not necessarily that it's better than any of 408 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 2: the HBO stuff that we've gotten over the years, because 409 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,760 Speaker 2: they have in season HBO stuff, you know, with divisions. 410 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: So you're missing on Kirk Cousins, media star, you're missing 411 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:35,720 Speaker 1: Kirk And you didn't know Kirk Cousins, who has a 412 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,720 Speaker 1: has a room under the stairs like hand like that, 413 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: and he and he you know, he shops at Target 414 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,119 Speaker 1: and and Coohle's and and and you know, Patagonia and 415 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,120 Speaker 1: all these This is who Kirk Cousins is. He's down 416 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,040 Speaker 1: home guy. He is it. Yes, And so now that 417 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:53,280 Speaker 1: the new season is going to be chronicling Kirk Cousins 418 00:19:53,359 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: and and a couple of other quote including Joe Burrow, 419 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:57,560 Speaker 1: but Cousins, who was such a big story in the 420 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,399 Speaker 1: first Quarterback because we got the story of of what 421 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,399 Speaker 1: he was like and how different he was and and 422 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,280 Speaker 1: and look, Kirk Cousins kind of cut through the clutter 423 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: of oh, this is not how you expect a quarterback 424 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,879 Speaker 1: to act right, you get you get the Mahomes. Okay, Mahomes, 425 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: that's great. You understand. Mahomes is the big superstars dealing 426 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,880 Speaker 1: with things. Here's Marcus Mariota, who is trying to stay 427 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in the NFL, and it's about a journey. 428 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 1: It's kind of like a mini Hard Knocks. And here's 429 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,239 Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. Yeah, he's been good for a while, he's 430 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,360 Speaker 1: got got paid a lot of money. Why is Kirk 431 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:27,440 Speaker 1: Cousins so interesting? Oh? I get it, I get it. 432 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,119 Speaker 1: Kirk Kirk Cousins is the guys. It seems like a 433 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 1: real regular, albeit eccentric, a little you know, kind of 434 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 1: weird dude, but kind of a little bit more down 435 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:39,240 Speaker 1: to earth than you'd expect. 436 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 4: This. 437 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: I mean, this is Kirk Cousins weird. He's he's like, 438 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: you know it, Kirk Cousins is kind of like the 439 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 1: friend you have that. Yeah, he's a good dude. He 440 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,399 Speaker 1: says a couple of things once in a while, but 441 00:20:50,680 --> 00:20:52,480 Speaker 1: it's a good dude. Like that's kind of how you feel. 442 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 2: Even the head lies today of what he said in 443 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 2: the episode, I don't find terribly controversial. 444 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:01,119 Speaker 1: Well here's well, this is the one year anniversary of 445 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 1: the decision. So now Kirk Cousins, who was still a 446 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:07,320 Speaker 1: member of the EU, well, I'm gonna get to everything 447 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: is gonna be the decision. Everything coming up. We got 448 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 1: Joe Burrow's decision with the batmobile. We got all these 449 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 1: things happen, the decision to walk Alonzo. 450 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 2: If you boy, we're gonna get that some September game 451 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,119 Speaker 2: and you're gonna have an anniversary for. 452 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: The Everything is a decision, the decision. So Cousins, who 453 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,919 Speaker 1: is still backup quarterback with the Atlanta Falcons, the Falcons 454 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: have said, hey, we're gonna keep him rather than trade him. 455 00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: He's valuable to us as a backup. Clearly nobody will 456 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: trade for Cousins with the contract that he has because 457 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:36,400 Speaker 1: last year in the offseason, the Falcons gave him four years, 458 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty million dollars only to see him 459 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 1: watch them draft Michael Pennix Junior in the top ten 460 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: and then midway part of the season. Later part of 461 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: the season, Cousins is not playing well. He's dinged up 462 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:50,679 Speaker 1: a little bit. He loses his job to Michael Pennick, 463 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: and we do relate that by the way he didn't 464 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,840 Speaker 1: play well because of the shoulder he's not, so they 465 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 1: went and he lost his job. Now Michael Pennick Junior 466 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: is the president and the future, and Kirk Cousin is 467 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: a thirty plus million dollar a year backup. It is 468 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 1: not at all how he thought it was going to go, 469 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:08,919 Speaker 1: not at all how the Falcons thought it was going 470 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 1: to go. But we'll have the good Falcons in the 471 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 1: second So here's Cousins. And this is the first big 472 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: thing coming off of the second season of quarterback is 473 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: that he says he felt the Falcons weren't really truthful 474 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: with me when they told me what their off season 475 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 1: plans were at quarterback. 476 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting us to take a quarterback and was 477 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:33,760 Speaker 3: so high and at the time it felt like I 478 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 3: had been a little bit misled or certainly if I 479 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 3: had the information around freegency, it certainly would have affected 480 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 3: my decision. I had no reason to leave Minnesota with 481 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,280 Speaker 3: how much we loved it there if both teams are 482 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,280 Speaker 3: going to be drafting a quarterback high. But I've also 483 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 3: learned in twelve years in this league that if you're 484 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:52,960 Speaker 3: not entitled anything, it's all about being able to earn 485 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 3: your spot and fo yourself sarre. 486 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: He was saying he was misled by the Falcons who said, yeah, 487 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:00,959 Speaker 1: we're going to take a quarterback. But here they are. 488 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 1: Michael Pennick Junior is there. They take him in the 489 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: top ten. Now this is where Isaac when you think 490 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 1: I'm gonna zach? He felt misled. He felt misled, well, 491 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: and who knows what they told him. They may said, yeah, 492 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:12,320 Speaker 1: we're gonna take a quarterback, but don't worry about it. 493 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,119 Speaker 1: You're we just gave you four years, one hundred and 494 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: sixty million dollars, right, they gave more money this offseason. 495 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,199 Speaker 1: He's still on the team. What are you worrying about? Man, 496 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:20,800 Speaker 1: what are you really worried about? What do you think 497 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,720 Speaker 1: you're gonna do? Draft a guy in the top ten 498 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 1: because he's event go on, We're not gonna do oh wait, 499 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 1: except they absolutely did that. Yes, what would have been 500 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 1: a better thing, right, This would have been a better 501 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: thing and a more apropos thing for the kirk Cousins 502 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: to say, hey, how'd you feel about about Falcons? 503 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 5: Do it? 504 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,200 Speaker 1: Instead of saying, well, I felt misled by the Falcons 505 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,200 Speaker 1: a little bit. I would have said I didn't think 506 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: the Falcons would be that stupid, but here they are, 507 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:48,440 Speaker 1: because honestly, who gives a who gives a quarterback four 508 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: years and one hundred and sixty million dollars in the 509 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 1: off season and then drafts a quarterback in the top ten? 510 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 5: Who does that? 511 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: I'll tell you who does that? Nobody? No teams do that, 512 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: no one. It was stupid at the time, it's stupid now. 513 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:05,560 Speaker 1: It was stupid a month after, it was stupid four 514 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,159 Speaker 1: months after, and it's just gonna be more stupid as 515 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: time goes on. Either Kirk Cousins is your guy and 516 00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: you went out to get him. Hey, four years, one 517 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,639 Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million, this is our guy. Man, this 518 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 1: isna Oh but wait, but a quarterback's available, maybe we 519 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: should take him. This is like strategies that I see 520 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,560 Speaker 1: teams using fantasy drafts and it screws up their team. Well, 521 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,320 Speaker 1: I already have my homes. But oh, man, I'm telling you, 522 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,040 Speaker 1: what do I do? Another quarterback is right here? Like 523 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 1: I do, I go on, I take Jalen Hurts. He's available. 524 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,679 Speaker 1: I need another quarterback through the day. If I pass here, 525 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: I'll take Jalen Hurts. Why not, I'll take y'all like, 526 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,680 Speaker 1: these are decisions that are made in the heat of 527 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: the moment in fantasy drafts. This is a decision. This 528 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: is a franchise altering decision. Now, I like either decision. 529 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,880 Speaker 1: I like either one. I keep saying decision and decision. 530 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: I like going after Kirk Cousins. Just because Cousins got 531 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,720 Speaker 1: hurt didn't work out, didn't mean it was a bad 532 00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,159 Speaker 1: call at the time, right, And it's not a no, 533 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:01,400 Speaker 1: it's not He's not gonna be the quarterback unless something 534 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 1: happens to Michael PENNOCKX and it's the NFL. I also 535 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 1: like going in and taking Michael Pennix in the top ten. 536 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,320 Speaker 1: I like, hey, Pennix has shown he could be special. 537 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 1: I wasn't the biggest Penix fan coming out of school, 538 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna say that, Hey, I didn't think 539 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:15,120 Speaker 1: he could be a really good quarterback. 540 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,280 Speaker 2: So okay, he proved healthy. He's more mature than some 541 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,840 Speaker 2: guy's coming out. Nobody not giving him a ten year contract. 542 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:25,560 Speaker 1: Nobody does both of those things. Nobody, no team, not 543 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,119 Speaker 1: even the Jets, do something like that. We thought the 544 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,199 Speaker 1: Jets are gonna take shador Set. I said, oh my good, 545 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 1: they're gonna give Justin Fields his two year, forty million dollars, 546 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: We're still gonna draft a cooin. It's gonna happen. No, no, 547 00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,359 Speaker 1: why why do we draft a quarterback? We like Justin Fields. 548 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,000 Speaker 1: He's our guy. He's come in and he's shown leadership 549 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,480 Speaker 1: taking over. The Jets believe in him and at least intangibly, 550 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: that's working other teams the same way. No, we got 551 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: our guy. We're not gonna go crazy to go draft 552 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: Shador Sanders or some other quarterback or you know, we 553 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: couldn't get Cam Word. Okay, that's fine. We're not gonna 554 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 1: go crazy doing it. But the Falcons decided they would 555 00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 1: do that. That's just stupid. It's just stupid. And before 556 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,560 Speaker 1: you send it by saying people defend it by saying, yeah, 557 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:04,399 Speaker 1: but no, you have a backup quote doesn't matter. You 558 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: know you're you have Michael Pennix Junior is on a 559 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 1: rookie deal. Yeah, just think about how great it would 560 00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: be if you have your quarterback on a rookie deal 561 00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 1: and you have that extra one hundred and twenty million 562 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: dollars that you could spend on other players to be better. 563 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,200 Speaker 1: Think about that thirty million dollars that would go on 564 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,240 Speaker 1: to Kirk Cousins this year, or the money you paid 565 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 1: him that could go to other big players that could 566 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,600 Speaker 1: go to bring bring something else in that you need 567 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,760 Speaker 1: offensively or defensively. Think about how that would work. Like 568 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: this made absolutely no sense at the time, and it 569 00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,679 Speaker 1: makes no sense a year later, and the Falcons are 570 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: absolutely stuck. I really this was a decision. I mean, 571 00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:41,680 Speaker 1: look and the Falcons again, decision, decision, decision, Like the 572 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: Falcons decision, Kirk Cousins would do that decision again. The 573 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,880 Speaker 1: Falcons should say, yeah, we would do that decision over 574 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,400 Speaker 1: again one hundred times out of one hundred. Right, either 575 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 1: you're going to get a quarterback in the draft or 576 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,640 Speaker 1: you're going for Kirkcott. Nobody does both. And you see 577 00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: how they're stuck right now. Because Cousins isn't going to 578 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 1: take less money. He's not gonna say, hey, I'm going 579 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,600 Speaker 1: to take les cash and you're gonnay. He's gonna make 580 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: them cut him, pay him all the money that he's doing, 581 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:07,159 Speaker 1: and then he'll go sign someplace else. He has been 582 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,200 Speaker 1: a businessman from the beginning, right he he wanted a 583 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 1: big offer from the Jets the first time he was 584 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,399 Speaker 1: a free agent because he wanted the Vikings to match it. 585 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: Vikings match it gave him all the all the money guaranteed, 586 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,520 Speaker 1: and that changed things for quarterbacks forever. Guys are getting 587 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: fully guaranteed contracts. Now. He has been a great businessman. 588 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,080 Speaker 1: Don't let the Target gear fool you. You know, he's 589 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:28,920 Speaker 1: the guy that will show up in in you know, 590 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,320 Speaker 1: Target or Champion Target Gear or Levi's or Lee or 591 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: Wrangler or whatever else some of the other styles they 592 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 1: have there. The good Fellow gear they have it at 593 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,479 Speaker 1: Target now. Oh good Fellow is a big thing. It's 594 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,760 Speaker 1: like a Polo knockoff, Ralph Lrond knockoff. Like don't he 595 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: will make sure that you are paying him every single 596 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,680 Speaker 1: dime he deserves. The fact. It was stupid then, it's 597 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:55,240 Speaker 1: stupid now. And now they're stuck, and they stuck as 598 00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 1: a good word for it. 599 00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:58,440 Speaker 2: They kind of had to pick up that ten million 600 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,600 Speaker 2: dollar bonus in the spring when new NFL league year started. 601 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,160 Speaker 2: We've got training camp starting in a few weeks. We've 602 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 2: got two quarterbacks going, but one is a declared starter, 603 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,680 Speaker 2: and it's not the guy you're paying the most. They're 604 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,760 Speaker 2: on the hook for so much salary well over twenty 605 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 2: five million dollars this year. That it's kind of like 606 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: what we talked about on last night show, How in 607 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 2: the world is Lebron James ever going to be traded? 608 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,400 Speaker 1: Because he just opted in for a set. 609 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,840 Speaker 2: Amount that's more than double the twenty five million by 610 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 2: the way, So who's going to pick up a large 611 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 2: portion of what the Falcons owe this year to Kirk 612 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:35,959 Speaker 2: Cousins to make a trade possible. So it's looking more 613 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 2: and more like he stays as the backup. You let 614 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 2: an NFL season play out, and what do you know, 615 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 2: Quarterbacks get hurt, even good ones, even rookies, even top 616 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 2: ten selections. Kirk Cousins may be playing half the season 617 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 2: this year for all we know. They're in a corner 618 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 2: of their own doing. But it's not a bad thing 619 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:01,200 Speaker 2: now that you've done that to keep him. I don't 620 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 2: I get that they're trying to, you know, paint a 621 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 2: rosy picture on this. Okay, well, maybe he plays. 622 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 1: You know, if Penix gets hurt, it's like, yeah, no, 623 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: you know, there's a reason why you're not paying your 624 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 1: backup quarterback thirty million dollars a year. Nobody does Again, 625 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: the Jets don't. The Raiders don't even do that. The Raiders. 626 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,560 Speaker 1: The Raiders don't even do that. And they had a 627 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,280 Speaker 1: guy they could have won a game last year. All 628 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: the quarterback had to do was take the snap from 629 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: center and they would have beat the Chiefs. But instead 630 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 1: of hit him in the helmet and he fumbled. Right, 631 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: the Raiders didn't. Even the Lions at their worst before 632 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:35,160 Speaker 1: Jared Golf wouldn't do something like this. But the Falcons, 633 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: I really it was this. This was getting Michael Pennix 634 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,080 Speaker 1: Junior is awesome. Right if he turns it, and it 635 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he turns out to be to be 636 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,280 Speaker 1: bad or not. Right, the signing of Kirk Cousins at 637 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,240 Speaker 1: the time, whether he's good or bad. Yeah, anybody would 638 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 1: have done it. Drafting Michael Pennix at the time, Yeah, 639 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,680 Speaker 1: anybody would have done it. Nobody would have done both. Nobody, 640 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,280 Speaker 1: No one, absolutely no one, not even if the Mets 641 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: played football, and before Steve Cohen bought the team, would 642 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: the Mets do that. No, not even close. Speaking of Mets, 643 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,680 Speaker 1: not even the A's. They don't even have a home. 644 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: They wouldn't do something like that. 645 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 2: They're just the A's not the Sacramento as No, not 646 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 2: the West Sacramento as you mentioned the Mets. 647 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of the Mets, you have some news about 648 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: the Mets Orioles game tonight. We shall lead with the Mets. 649 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,239 Speaker 2: Game at Baltimore tonight because there was about a one 650 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 2: hour raind lay at the start. Eventually, in ten the 651 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 2: Mets beat the O's seven to six. Now the closer, 652 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:34,280 Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz, pitched a scoreless ninth inning and then got 653 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 2: credit for the victory as Juan Soto had to go 654 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 2: ahead single in the tenth. The Mets hit two two 655 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 2: run homers in the eighth to come from six to 656 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 2: two down to a six to six tie. Francisco lindor 657 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,080 Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo with the two long balls, and they were 658 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,640 Speaker 2: long each over four hundred feet. Mets win seven to 659 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 2: six at Baltimore. Believe it or not, they're playing baseball 660 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,239 Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. There was an even longer raindo lay 661 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 2: at the start there. And right now, bottom of the 662 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,560 Speaker 2: second inning, we're past nine thirty in Missouri. Cardinals scoreless 663 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,280 Speaker 2: with the Nationals end of two. Now they're in a 664 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 2: rain delay. In Chicago, White Sox may be facing defeat again. 665 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,400 Speaker 2: Blue Jays lead six to one over the White Sox. 666 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 2: Rain delay in the top of the seventh. Minnesota was 667 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 2: a winner over the Cubs eight to one. Milwaukee beat 668 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 2: the Dodgers three to one. The Dodgers have lost five 669 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 2: in a row, and the winning pitcher for the Brewers, 670 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:28,200 Speaker 2: Jacob Missarowski, allowed a lead off homer to Shoheo Tani 671 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 2: and then struck out twelve in his six innings. Kansas 672 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,480 Speaker 2: City handed Pittsburgh a fifth straight loss, four to three. 673 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,560 Speaker 2: The Yankees got an Aaron Judge homer, his thirty fourth, 674 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 2: and a ten to three win over Seattle gen Carlos 675 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 2: Stanton with a three run shot. Cal Raley of the 676 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,640 Speaker 2: MS did hit his thirty sixth home run. Detroit won 677 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 2: its fifth straight game, four to two over Tampa Bay. 678 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,720 Speaker 2: Boston won its fifth straight game, ten two against Colorado. 679 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 2: The Rockies record is twenty one and seventy one. I 680 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:57,640 Speaker 2: would say the All Star Break can't get here soon enough, 681 00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 2: but they still have to play months of games after 682 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 2: the All Star Break. They have twenty one wins and 683 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 2: the All Star Break comes up. 684 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 1: After this weekend. Fifty games under five hundred. 685 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 2: Goodness, not fifteen before the break fifty Miami a twelve 686 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,520 Speaker 2: to two winner at Cincinnati Boy. The Marlins are getting 687 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,720 Speaker 2: closer to the five hundred mark now as we approached 688 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,480 Speaker 2: the break. Anthony Davis of the Mavericks reportedly at eye 689 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,480 Speaker 2: surgery this offseason for a detached retina, but he's due 690 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 2: to be healthy for training camp in September. Two WNBA 691 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:32,040 Speaker 2: games tonight, Washington beat Chicago eighty one seventy nine, although 692 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 2: Angel Rees had twenty two points fifteen rebounds, and it 693 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:39,000 Speaker 2: was New York at home beating Las Vegas eighty seven 694 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:43,120 Speaker 2: to seventy eight. Sabrina Yinescu with twenty eight points. By 695 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 2: the way, she was one of the early selections for 696 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,880 Speaker 2: the All Star Game, which is coming up in Indianapolis 697 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:53,120 Speaker 2: July nineteenth. The team captains Nafisa Collier and Caitlin Clark 698 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 2: had the draft of their rosters tonight. One of those 699 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 2: selected was Asia Wilson to Caitlin Clark's squad along with 700 00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 2: you and Ask You, But Wilson, in her game for 701 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 2: Vegas tonight, left in the first half with a wrist 702 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:06,680 Speaker 2: injury after a fall. 703 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 1: Didn't Caitlyn Clark draft Angel Rees first overall? Didn't that happen. 704 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,600 Speaker 1: I thought I saw that somewhere, not in our dream 705 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,480 Speaker 1: first pick. Hey, come on, did not happen. In fact, 706 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: she was taken very late in the draft. 707 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 2: Angel Reese a reserve taken by Team Nafisa Collier, I 708 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 2: did notice they switched to coaches. So Collie, your Minnesota 709 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,600 Speaker 2: is going to get the Minnesota coach and we did have. 710 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,240 Speaker 2: By the way, Caitlin Clark news today that she is 711 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,200 Speaker 2: returning to the court tomorrow. She's missed five straight games 712 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 2: with a groin injury, and number one Arena Sablenka won 713 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 2: her Wimbledon quarter final in three sets. 714 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: Back to You, Maga, Steve O. The Jason Smith Show 715 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: is Steve de Saga and from Mike Harmon coming up next. Yes, 716 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: Kirk Cousin is not the only big quarterback making news 717 00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,680 Speaker 1: with Quarterback release on Netflix. Way do we tell you 718 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:56,480 Speaker 1: what Joe Burrow had to say about the Batmobile? My 719 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,440 Speaker 1: best advice I can give to the ultra rich. Coming 720 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:04,320 Speaker 1: up next Fox Sports Radio. Don't avoid taxes, Well, pay 721 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,440 Speaker 1: your taxes. Pay your tax yeah, yea, so said, don't 722 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:11,040 Speaker 1: avoid Yeah, don't avoid paying your taxes. Yeah yes. Wesley 723 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 1: Snipes will be on my podcast. We'll talk about that. 724 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,080 Speaker 1: Yeah maybe mc hammerson. 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And one of 733 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,080 Speaker 1: the newest features in the app, you can select Fox 734 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:41,640 Speaker 1: Sports Radio is one of your presets, just like the 735 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: presets on a radio dial. So be sure to preset 736 00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,600 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app. It'll always pop 737 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:51,799 Speaker 1: up at the top of your screen. So here we are. 738 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:56,200 Speaker 1: Quarterback is back on Netflix. NFL news is coming in. 739 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,640 Speaker 1: We just broke down the Kirk Cousins decision decisions a 740 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: big decisions. But now Joe Burrow also gave us a 741 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,400 Speaker 1: big story Tay with his decision. See Steve, everything's going 742 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,760 Speaker 1: to be a decision today? Is it really? Everything's a decision? 743 00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 1: Should it be? You made a decision to come into 744 00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,879 Speaker 1: work today, didn't you? I think we all did yeah, 745 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: and now you're thinking about doing that over again, just 746 00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: like Kirk Cousins, just like Lebron James. Now we know 747 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 1: that Joe Burrow, who is a part of the subject 748 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: of this version of Quarterback which is airing on Netflix, 749 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,560 Speaker 1: he was going to buy the Batmobile a few months ago. Now, 750 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:31,400 Speaker 1: you know, one of the few Batmobiles that were on 751 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,799 Speaker 1: sale like for you know that was well publicized. Yeah, 752 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,360 Speaker 1: there was like I think there was like five or 753 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,680 Speaker 1: seven of them, and they were like three million dollars each, 754 00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:39,239 Speaker 1: and he was going to buy it. Remember that there 755 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:41,279 Speaker 1: was video of him a practice telling his front hey 756 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: you Hear'm gonna buy the Batmobile and buy the battle 757 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,680 Speaker 1: to buy the Battlebile. Now he says on on Quarterback 758 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,320 Speaker 1: that he decided against it after the big break in 759 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,920 Speaker 1: that happened at his home a few months ago. Uh 760 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,239 Speaker 1: he was not home. Yeah, and he wasn't home and 761 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,799 Speaker 1: there was a break in, and he you know, now 762 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:03,720 Speaker 1: he thinking, Okay, maybe I'm not gonna buy that because 763 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,320 Speaker 1: maybe I have the Batmobile and and someone tries to 764 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 1: come in and steal it. They put on a they 765 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: put on a cape, and then you get in and 766 00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:10,319 Speaker 1: try to steal a battle. 767 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:15,239 Speaker 2: Actually, this crime is something that you really need to 768 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 2: put the spotlight up in the air for and get 769 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 2: sure Man on. 770 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,080 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, get Batman. Why but Batman can't get here? 771 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: Why because the batmobile was stolen. He got He's gonna 772 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 1: get in an uber and Batman will be here really 773 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,400 Speaker 1: really soon. I mean it was members of a large 774 00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,200 Speaker 1: criminal network. It wasn't just your neighborhood guys breaking in. 775 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:37,640 Speaker 1: It was a whole operation that investigated. I mean they 776 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: in a in a bad way. I want to say this. 777 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,279 Speaker 2: Put the time in with the famous athletes, Burrow being 778 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 2: one of them, knowing he was going to be gone 779 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:47,640 Speaker 2: that day, et cetera. 780 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,839 Speaker 1: This is screaming Batman get involved. See and I'm thinking 781 00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:54,400 Speaker 1: of Batman getting in a way moo to try to 782 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,040 Speaker 1: try to get someplace as a batmobile was stolen. He 783 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:59,400 Speaker 1: gets in a weymo into the driverless cars. I'll make 784 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,839 Speaker 1: a make a life tier. Mega left here, Mega left here. 785 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:03,400 Speaker 1: There's no one in the car. There's no one in 786 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,839 Speaker 1: the car like man. Maybe the batmobile was the first 787 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:07,879 Speaker 1: way moo because it could drive without a drive. 788 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:12,160 Speaker 2: You were kind of doing the Christian Bale automated voice yes, 789 00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:14,479 Speaker 2: maybe the way more voice should be Christian Bale. 790 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:16,920 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Commissioner Gordon. No one's going to know it's me, 791 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,880 Speaker 1: Bruce Wayne if I talk like this, But if I 792 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:20,840 Speaker 1: do my normal voice, people will know it's a Batman. 793 00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,320 Speaker 2: So it's like when Superman puts on glasses his question, 794 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,520 Speaker 2: we won't recognize him at all. 795 00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: I don't know that guy, isn't all. I couldn't tell 796 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 1: you pirate Steve. Yeah, you know Steve on our team. 797 00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:32,560 Speaker 1: Dress is like a pirate. 798 00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:33,200 Speaker 5: No, no, you talk. 799 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:38,120 Speaker 1: So he had a second decision to not buy the Batmobile. 800 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: Part of what he says everybody knows where I live now, 801 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: and he still lives in that house or he still 802 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 1: owns that house. Other things to deal without that point 803 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:48,360 Speaker 1: is maybe getting back, maybe to get to the Batmobile 804 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,359 Speaker 1: needs to be lower my list of priorities. But after 805 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 1: the break in right now, because of course, I have 806 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: advice for the ultra rich, right for you know, look, 807 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: when Joe Burrow signed a three hundred million dollar contract extension, 808 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,960 Speaker 1: like all they get a paper and pencil. When you 809 00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:06,160 Speaker 1: see stories like this, I say, okay, if I was 810 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,400 Speaker 1: really rich, right this and this is just me. But 811 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,640 Speaker 1: I think My advice is pretty sound. Right, you don't 812 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 1: want to obviously, you want to avoid stuff like this happening. 813 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 1: You know you're not going to be home all the time, 814 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: and you know that people are going to know where 815 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:18,600 Speaker 1: you live. They're going to see you coming out to 816 00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 1: your car. Hey, dude, that's Joe burrow Man. Joe burrow 817 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,239 Speaker 1: is next door to People are going to know where 818 00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: you live. If I was really ultra rich, right and 819 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,759 Speaker 1: I needed a play, like where was I going to 820 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,320 Speaker 1: live in Cincinnati for the season, I would go wherever 821 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,880 Speaker 1: I was. If I was ultra rich in an athlete, 822 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:36,040 Speaker 1: I would buy a place. I'd buy a great place 823 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 1: in the biggest, most guarded gated community I could, right, 824 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 1: because at least in the gated community, things are a 825 00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,440 Speaker 1: little bit harder. It's a little bit harder to have 826 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,439 Speaker 1: someone people break in, take your stuff and leave because 827 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,760 Speaker 1: hence gated community like Calabasas near where the Rams practice. 828 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: I would one try to because it's okay, right, you 829 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,520 Speaker 1: can still live in a great, great house. Right, It's 830 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,719 Speaker 1: just in a gated community, and lots of stars live 831 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:00,920 Speaker 1: in gated communities. But I would absolutely do I'm not 832 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: gonna live on my own somewhere out far. Hey, I'm here. 833 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:06,680 Speaker 1: My closest neighbor's a mile and a half away. That 834 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: that's that's not a great decision because people are gonna know, 835 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,400 Speaker 1: they're gonna know where you live. The second thing is 836 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,960 Speaker 1: when I'm out of town, if I have if I 837 00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:16,960 Speaker 1: have a three hundred million dollar contract, I'm pretty sure 838 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,239 Speaker 1: I could hire an assistant or someone to come and 839 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:22,080 Speaker 1: stay at the house. And hey, I'm out of town 840 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,040 Speaker 1: for these four days or five days, stay at the house. 841 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: I'll pay. Just all you can do is stay at 842 00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:28,279 Speaker 1: the house. Nothing you need to do? And what about 843 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,600 Speaker 1: the game from the house? 844 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:29,839 Speaker 5: Yeah? 845 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 1: Watching it? Here's you anything else you need? Hey, yeah, 846 00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,920 Speaker 1: maybe there's certain things you need to do. Hey, can 847 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,600 Speaker 1: you you know my dog is here? Whatever the plants, Yeah, 848 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,439 Speaker 1: make sure you water the plants. The boy that scene 849 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:43,000 Speaker 1: from the bear about the plant wading, so i'll spoiler 850 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: alert reference No, no, no, it's just the beginning of 851 00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: one of the episodes. 852 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 2: Uh. 853 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,319 Speaker 1: Those two things gated community and anytime I was out 854 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:53,960 Speaker 1: of town, I have the money to spend to give 855 00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,239 Speaker 1: somebody three hundred dollars a day to just live at 856 00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:59,239 Speaker 1: the house, right, don't leave. Hey, go out and do 857 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,640 Speaker 1: your thing. Just don't leave for the entire day, of 858 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: the entire night, go to the movies, go to dinner, 859 00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: but sleep, sleep there overnight, stay there, just so people 860 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,360 Speaker 1: know that there are people there, and I'll pay you 861 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:09,920 Speaker 1: to go do that. 862 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,239 Speaker 2: It's just like all athletes now have the money to 863 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,840 Speaker 2: get somebody else to drive them home. It should seem 864 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 2: like they should know that before the evening starts. It 865 00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:23,680 Speaker 2: seems like what you were talking about, an athlete should 866 00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,360 Speaker 2: know that before the season starts. 867 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,400 Speaker 1: It's a little astounding that it's not followed up on 868 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:32,000 Speaker 1: quite as figuous. And then you can own the batmobile, 869 00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,840 Speaker 1: and then you can have the batmobile, can be in 870 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,200 Speaker 1: your run, you can have that person drive it around 871 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:37,879 Speaker 1: a drive it to the store. But just make sure 872 00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,040 Speaker 1: you know nobody's steal. Okay, Greg, I got I got, 873 00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,120 Speaker 1: I got the batmobile. I'm all good. The two biggest 874 00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,839 Speaker 1: pieces of advice gated community, someone's staying at the house, 875 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:51,440 Speaker 1: two biggest deterrence you can have to Batman, I'm disappointed. 876 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,000 Speaker 1: I thought I would hear that much earlier as we 877 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:55,719 Speaker 1: were talking about the battle. It was a decision. It 878 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,479 Speaker 1: was a decision to not have that. Hey, a huge 879 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,279 Speaker 1: story out of the NBA is next Fox