1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:02,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,680 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,959 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,040 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,080 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:18,079 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side our three, The Jason Smith Show 10 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. Let's go coming up 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,760 Speaker 1: in twenty minutes. Do we have a Yannis story for you? 12 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: I would say this coming into tonight, I felt like, yeah, okay, 13 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: after what he said, after how the season's going, Yannis 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,720 Speaker 1: getting traded sometime in the next month probably not gonna 15 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: happen after what happened in the game tonight. Now, I 16 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 1: think it's it's inevitable that he's gonna get traded after 17 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,400 Speaker 1: what happened, because because there was a cross the Rubicon 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,160 Speaker 1: kind of moment in the Bucks game tonight, which we're 19 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 1: gonna bring to you, gonna hear it now, I think, okay, 20 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: this is the one thing that will cause a player 21 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: to go no. 22 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:14,240 Speaker 3: I love it here. 23 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: When to stay the rest of my career too, Yeah, 24 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 1: get me out, get me out. 25 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 3: Just the other day it was I'm an employee. 26 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know. Well, you know, Janie Is Yannis is 27 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:30,560 Speaker 1: someone who I'll say this, he needs to be a 28 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: better superstar. I'll explain why in a few days. But 29 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 1: he needs to be a better superstar when it comes 30 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: to dealing with his own career. All right, and then 31 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: I'll explain it. But I'll tell you tonight what happened. Man, 32 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 1: woo look out, look out. 33 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:45,399 Speaker 3: I love chaos in between the white lines. Let's go. 34 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: However, the biggest story of the day obviously in the 35 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: NFL Mike Tomlin out as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. 36 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 1: He has resigned as head coach of the Steelers. Keep 37 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: his rights. He's not expected to coach in twenty twenty six, 38 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 1: probably end up on TV, maybe sitting right next to 39 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: Jay Glazer. And then I'm sure he will re enter 40 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: the coaching cycle in twenty twenty seven or when he 41 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 1: sees a job he wants open up, because remember the guys, Yeah, 42 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: he's only fifty three, right, He's still got a lot 43 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: of years ahead him as a head coach, like, Hey, 44 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: if I don't see the openings I want in twenty 45 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty twenty eight is okay, right, I'll be 46 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: alright with that. So this is where we're sitting for 47 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: Mike tom We spent a lot of time tonight talking 48 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: about Tomlin and the antiquated offensive system that he runs 49 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: and why both sides it's good for both he and 50 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: the Steelers that they're moving on from each other. But 51 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: one thing that I really look back to look back 52 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 1: at his legacy of nineteen years, all winning seasons with 53 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 1: the Steelers, It's incredible to think that you can win 54 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: for nineteen years, right, to not have a season under 55 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: five hundred every year, to be in the playoffs, to 56 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: win the division, you won a super Bowl, and yeah, 57 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 1: Steelers fans a little bit different of a standard you're 58 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: used to there. Hey, we haven't won a playoff game 59 00:02:57,360 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: in ten years, but we've gone oh and six in 60 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: playoff Yeah, I. 61 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 3: Want a playoff game in ten years. 62 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: But he deserves way more credit for the era of 63 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: Steeler football that he presided over than anybody wants to 64 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: give him credit for. Because while yes, when a team 65 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 1: falls short, there's always blame to go around. There's blaming 66 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: the coaching staff, there's blaming on the players, But to 67 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: think about how he navigated winning for the most part, 68 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,600 Speaker 1: with Ben Roethlisberger as his quarterback that he did not 69 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:33,560 Speaker 1: get along well with. Right, You've heard all the stories. 70 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: You saw Roethlisberger say the other day Tomlin should take 71 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:38,160 Speaker 1: the head coaching job at Penn State. Boy, he recruit 72 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: What do you mean he'd recruited. He's been an NFL 73 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:41,920 Speaker 1: at coach for two decades. You think he's gonna be 74 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: a great recruiter. Like this is your backhanded compliment of hey, 75 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 1: Tomlin should be out right, you know what, there's a 76 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: lot of folks that are actually jumped on board that 77 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: he can't possibly coach in the NFL. He should go 78 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:55,280 Speaker 1: to college. You'd be a great recruiter, like really, like 79 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: like he like he made it, Like he made his 80 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: name coaching in college, just jumped to the NFL like 81 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: three years ago. 82 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:02,560 Speaker 3: Right, Like he can go and recruit, right, Like I 83 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,560 Speaker 3: get it. It's a different world now, ANIL world that 84 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 3: looks more like the pros or whatever else. But it's 85 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 3: still a much different game and he's not gonna stay 86 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 3: in in the Pros and try to push for another 87 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 3: Super Bowl. 88 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, so you know that, you know how 89 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: he had to deal with Le'Veon Bell who was a 90 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,800 Speaker 1: daily drama filled distraction, Antonio Brown, who was a daily 91 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,039 Speaker 1: drama filled distraction. Oh by the way, these were the 92 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: three best players that he had over the course of 93 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: most of his run, right, As talented as Le'Veon Bell was, 94 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 1: as talented as an Tonio Brown was, as talented as 95 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,479 Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger was for the most part the last few years. 96 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: Roethlisberger really lost a lot last couple of years. He 97 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: couldn't throw the ball more than five yards pass the 98 00:04:44,839 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, kind of like Aaron Rodgers now. But overall, 99 00:04:48,440 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: this is what he had to deal with and still 100 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 1: he won, right, Like I mean, Chuck Nolan Terry Bradshaw 101 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:56,240 Speaker 1: hated each other, but they won super Bowls. But that's 102 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: a bygone era. That's you're talking about the seventies and 103 00:04:58,640 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: early eighties. 104 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 3: For this. 105 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,719 Speaker 1: This is modern era, modern player with facetiming from the 106 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,040 Speaker 1: locker room and live streaming, postgame press conferences and and 107 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:11,039 Speaker 1: speeches to the team that that Antonio Brown did and 108 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:13,680 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin got mad at him for UH to be 109 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: able to win when you have to balance those egos, 110 00:05:18,400 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: and every day it's something new when you're wondering what 111 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,480 Speaker 1: bombshell the Pittsburgh prost Gazette is gonna have, UH Rest 112 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 1: in Peace, Pittsburgh Post Gazette is gonna have because Roethlisberger 113 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: allegedly is told Ed Bouschett something or you know, I mean, 114 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: any how does anybody know? How does everybody know how 115 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,760 Speaker 1: our quarterback is injured? How does everybody know what our 116 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:42,080 Speaker 1: quarterback's injured? I don't understand, like the stuff that Tomlin 117 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:45,440 Speaker 1: had to deal with with the Steelers. I mean, look, 118 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 1: every coach has to deal with something, and they deal 119 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,640 Speaker 1: with players being late to meetings all the time. Now 120 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: it's a much different era in the NFL now than 121 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,159 Speaker 1: it was, and you see players are late to meetings 122 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 1: all the time. It's not a it's not a thing 123 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: where you're late to meeting I can find you. That 124 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: used to be the exception. Now it's like, yeah, hey, 125 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: we got to keep our meetings to twenty minutes because 126 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: players want to get on their phones. And it's a 127 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,640 Speaker 1: much different time now. But to go through and very 128 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: publicly every week, it felt like there was some sort 129 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 1: of battle between the four of them, and whether it 130 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: was Tomlin versus Roethlisberger or Bell or Brown. I mean, 131 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,800 Speaker 1: this is a decade plus of these guys you have 132 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: to navigate your way through, and still you're able to 133 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 1: come to work every day and enjoy it. Like that's 134 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,840 Speaker 1: a tough part for me. Man, How do you come 135 00:06:30,839 --> 00:06:33,120 Speaker 1: to work and enjoy it when you know that the 136 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,280 Speaker 1: three most talented guys on the team are guys every 137 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: day I have to stay. I have to steal myself 138 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: pun intended going in there and seeing whatever today has 139 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,880 Speaker 1: to bring us, as far as drama with my quarterback's injury, 140 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: what Le'Veon Bell wants to do or not want to do, 141 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: what Antonio Brown has said or not said, what he's 142 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,000 Speaker 1: live streamed or not live streamed, like that is I 143 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: don't think we're taking into account just the fact that 144 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: not only did Tomlin win and win like he did, 145 00:06:57,279 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: but these are guys that he won with who are 146 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,600 Speaker 1: an absolute handful that are really tough to coach. Great players, 147 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: but tough to coach. And that's the biggest challenge a 148 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: coach has, because now you'll get a guy like Aaron 149 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 1: Glenn that wants to come in and say, oh, I 150 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: know it wins in the NFL. Oh, I want to 151 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 1: change out thirty guys and bring in third. You're never 152 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: gonna win. I'm just I know. I'm waiting out Aaron 153 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: Glenn because you can't come and change an entire ross. 154 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: You have to deal with some of the guys there, 155 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 1: if they're really talented, and find a way to make 156 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: it work. It's what the best coaches do. It's what 157 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: Ben Johnson did this year. It's what Liam Cohen did 158 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: this year. It's what all the first year at coaches 159 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 1: that find themselves deep in the playoffs, what Mike Vrabel 160 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: did this year. You can't just change everybody out. Okay, well, 161 00:07:33,080 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 1: you gotta see how to find a way to make 162 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: it work. These guys might not be my favorites, but 163 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,160 Speaker 1: they're really talented and we can win football games with them. 164 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: So how do I move my philosophy around what they do? 165 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 3: Right? 166 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: Aaron Glenn doesn't want to do it. He's gonna get fired. 167 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,560 Speaker 1: He's gonna win three games again next year. But Mike 168 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: Tomlin found a way to win despite it being the 169 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: situation with them, and I don't know of another coach 170 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: that would make it even half as long without saying 171 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: I gotta go. I need a new I need a 172 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: fresh start someplace else. I need new guys to coach. 173 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: I can't come in every day and look at these 174 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: four guys and just think, what kind of drama is 175 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: today going to bring us? What do you have to 176 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: worry about the day of the game. What's going to 177 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:11,680 Speaker 1: concern me following the game with them? Like I felt 178 00:08:11,720 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: bad for Tomlin for a long time that he's he's 179 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: saddled with three of the biggest divas in the NFL. No, 180 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,440 Speaker 1: but they made a choice, right and he had to 181 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: buy in to a degree. 182 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 3: Anybody that tries to contend that, you know, Con and 183 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:27,400 Speaker 3: his predecessor, you know they weren't leaning on Tomlin in 184 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 3: terms of roster construction, particularly in the back half of 185 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,959 Speaker 3: this nineteen year run. And you're kidding yourself, right, he 186 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,959 Speaker 3: gets to pick the groceries. And it's like any job 187 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 3: anybody out there on wherever you work. I mean, you 188 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 3: look around and there's one, two, five, however many, However, 189 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 3: large organization is where you've got some superstars in terms 190 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 3: of what they can do in between your the white 191 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 3: lines of whatever your field is, accounting sales go on 192 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 3: down the line that yeah, maybe they're a pain in 193 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 3: the ass, but they get results. It's special rules for 194 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 3: special people. And Mike Tomlin, that's the one thing you 195 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 3: got to give him credit for above all, was recognizing 196 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:14,319 Speaker 3: all right, Antonio Brown, there's there's you kill him with 197 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:18,559 Speaker 3: kindness until you can't all the wide receivers Le'Veon Bell. 198 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 3: Funny how Antonio Brown and le'veop Bell ended up his jets, 199 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 3: But we'll discuss that another time. But just for the 200 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 3: idea of like for most and until there's the drop 201 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 3: off in production or you have another option on your 202 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 3: roster that allows you to say I have to make 203 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 3: this move, or you've done the calculus just saying okay, 204 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 3: this position can be downgraded to a degree because we 205 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,199 Speaker 3: can make up for it here here and here quarterback position. 206 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,760 Speaker 3: You could argue that's kind of what they did, and 207 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 3: then did the last throws of a guy's run give 208 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:57,720 Speaker 3: another an olive branch out there to justin fields. We 209 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 3: can get that going now to a point. Because you 210 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 3: wanted Russell Wilson to be your guy, right and once 211 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 3: Russ was there, and you realize, all right, that didn't work. 212 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 3: You ran it out. Kenny Pickett was your starter and 213 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:12,320 Speaker 3: leading quarterback for a couple of years in the post 214 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 3: Roethlisberger era. Yeah, just now you're gonna sing the Dean 215 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 3: Martin version of that one. But but all of that say, 216 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 3: you have these specials. Go back to Jimmy Johnson all 217 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 3: those years ago talking about guys falling asleep and meetings, Troy, 218 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,199 Speaker 3: what did you miss? Let me catch you up versus 219 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 3: get get out, save the here and for Tomlin, he 220 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 3: was a master of that. And also it helped you 221 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 3: where you're winning. So, like we talked about the organized 222 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 3: chaos in Philadelphia, so long as you're winning and consistently 223 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 3: putting forward a plus five hundred product, the boom ber 224 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 3: drolling going to be so loud. Right, the Ed Bouchette 225 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 3: columns became I'm not saying the guy's career became a joke, 226 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:00,760 Speaker 3: but anything coming out, it's like End's telling you he's 227 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:03,960 Speaker 3: heard again, Okay, right, I mean, in the wake of 228 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 3: everything that was going on in Jacksonville, I mean, how's 229 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:09,679 Speaker 3: that you know we talk about, you know, things getting 230 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:15,000 Speaker 3: leaked and reporters and messages and missives and whatever. But 231 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,679 Speaker 3: for Mike Tomlin, I have a nineteen year run. Man, 232 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 3: it's just an amazing way to manage people. And I 233 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,720 Speaker 3: think that's one thing that can't be understated. 234 00:11:24,760 --> 00:11:26,840 Speaker 1: I'd read his book and well, and you know what 235 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: else he's thinking right now, here's Mike tom I thinking, Man, 236 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 1: if the Pittsburgh Post Gazette went away when I started, 237 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,640 Speaker 1: maybe I would have stayed there and I would have 238 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:36,040 Speaker 1: won more. 239 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:38,560 Speaker 3: It would have been easier, right I look at that, 240 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 3: Maybe I wouldn't have to worry about leaks all the 241 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,719 Speaker 3: time and people getting stories because the Pittsburgh Post Gazette 242 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,960 Speaker 3: is going away, like it's not becoming another This isn't 243 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 3: such an underrated story last week. 244 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. Like I don't know that there 245 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: were more stories that were broken by a local newspaper 246 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: for an NFL team than what the Pittsburgh Post Gazette 247 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,319 Speaker 1: broke in the Tomlin error with the Steelers with with 248 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and Brown at you whoever else was talking to them. 249 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: I mean, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is going away, like 250 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:09,200 Speaker 1: it's not even gonna be just an online version like 251 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: they are ceasing publication the Pittsburgh Post. 252 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 3: Cause at is it two months? I think? 253 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:20,199 Speaker 1: Or three months? They are ceasing publication? How much Tomlin's going? Man, 254 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:22,760 Speaker 1: if we didn't have a newspaper here when I started, 255 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: I could have won three Super Bowls. 256 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:26,400 Speaker 3: Man, it would have been great. Or I wouldn't had 257 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,320 Speaker 3: to just chug Maylock's after every game because I'm just 258 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 3: feeling I need something. Wouldn't have a candy dish worth 259 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 3: worth a thumbs in my office going on, I need 260 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 3: another one, Need another one, Eat another one, eat another one. 261 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had that if there was no Pittsburgh 262 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:39,880 Speaker 1: Post because that man. Want to go back in time 263 00:12:39,920 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: and make that happen back in two thousand and six, 264 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: May third the file edition and we'll cease operations. I mean, 265 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,319 Speaker 1: is there another Pittsburgh newspaper? I don't think there is. Right, 266 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:55,760 Speaker 1: this is a famous this is a famous paper. This 267 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: is this is not just hey some paper that says 268 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:00,360 Speaker 1: it's not like oh USA Today is not printing anymore. 269 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: Oh okay, Well I've been around since nineteen eighty five. 270 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,200 Speaker 3: What you had a Tribune review? Like what? 271 00:13:04,280 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: I think the Pittsburghost because it's been around sin it's like, 272 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: what's seventeen sixty something like that. 273 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 3: The only paper you need. 274 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 4: In Pittsburgh, Yeah is Primani Brothers menu. Oh wow, that 275 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:14,880 Speaker 4: is true. That's the only paper you have. 276 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,320 Speaker 3: Those people do sandwich hats. Yeah, like the cheese grater 277 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:20,720 Speaker 3: hat that was stand on steroids. How do you have 278 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 3: the neck muscles? Ay? To do that, you need the 279 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 3: Sean Penn neck muscle. You can't just put that hat 280 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 3: on a cigarette. 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It was 321 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:34,200 Speaker 1: in the off season Jannie instructed his agent to hey 322 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:38,160 Speaker 1: look into according to reports, allegedly allegedly to look into 323 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: a trade. Allegedly were some discussions with the Knicks. Nothing 324 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: came to fruition. Okay, we'll table it over the summer. 325 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:53,520 Speaker 1: More talk hey. Beginning of the season not great again. 326 00:15:53,640 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: Sources with the reports that Jannie has instructed his agent 327 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,240 Speaker 1: talk to the Bucks about if the Bucks is still 328 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: the best fit for him. Is it still or is 329 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: it better for him to go someplace else? Is this 330 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: good for the company company? It's a jump to conclusions, Matt, 331 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,120 Speaker 1: you jump on the map. So okay, now we get 332 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: into the early parts of December. The Milwaukee Bucks are terrible. 333 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: But Yannis says this past weekend, I want to stay 334 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: a Buck. I'm here, I don't want to get traded. 335 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,640 Speaker 1: I am going to be a Milwaukee Buck. I love 336 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: it here. Okay, So Yana is saying that either because 337 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 1: he found out, dude, no, one's giving us what we 338 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: want for you in a trade, or because he decided 339 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: I want to stay. Jannis has decided that's it. He's 340 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: not gonna get traded. So four days ago, five days ago, 341 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: I thought, you know, okay, well that's out. Now Jannis 342 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:48,760 Speaker 1: isn't going anywhere, and he's gonna wind up staying in Milwaukee, 343 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: and they're gonna try to make it run in the 344 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: Eastern Conference, which is not great. However, after what happened 345 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: tonight near the end of Minnesota's blowout win over the 346 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: Buck Bucks one nine, one oh six, one play happened, 347 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,960 Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure now it's just a matter of 348 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: time before Yannis gets traded. Here's the play by play 349 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:13,840 Speaker 1: from tonight. This is again, this is late. The Bucks 350 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:17,000 Speaker 1: are getting blown out, Yannis is still playing hard. The 351 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: crowd is booing the Bucks because they're getting killed again. 352 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:23,480 Speaker 1: They're seventeen and twenty three, they're in the bottom of 353 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference. The crowd is booing, and Yannis decides 354 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 1: to take things into his own hands. 355 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 3: In tough to to kid. 356 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:49,560 Speaker 5: Yana swissual discreas with this team. 357 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: Bucks TV on the call, Yana is showing his displeasure. 358 00:17:56,480 --> 00:17:59,040 Speaker 1: As you heard in the play by play, he gets 359 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 1: a hoop and the and he sits up and he 360 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 1: puts his thumbs down, and you could hear him yell boo. 361 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:08,000 Speaker 1: You play that back again, you're after the whistle. You 362 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,639 Speaker 1: can hear Janni's yelling boo. You could see it. He's 363 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:11,600 Speaker 1: got his thumbs down. 364 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:11,920 Speaker 3: That's it. 365 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: Play one more time, Mary, right here, right, you heard 366 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:22,600 Speaker 1: the right there. He booed his own fans, who he 367 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:27,479 Speaker 1: was sick of for booing him. Yeah, Yannis is getting traded. 368 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: In fact, just like last night when when I put 369 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: out it went viral last night, the tweet I put 370 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:33,720 Speaker 1: out about Aaron Rodgers when I said, this is the 371 00:18:33,760 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: moment Aaron Rodgers will have decided to retire. And it's 372 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: his face mask all askew on the stripsack fumble, like 373 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,200 Speaker 1: the moment of Yan Yannis just sitting there and I 374 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:43,679 Speaker 1: just put it on Twitter. And how about a Fresco 375 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: Yan is sitting there with his thumbs down, yelling boo 376 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: at the crowd. That's the moment where Yannis decided, you 377 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,480 Speaker 1: know what, it's not working. I want out because you 378 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: don't turn on the fans like this and this doesn't 379 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,720 Speaker 1: unless it's you're close to saying I can't do it 380 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:02,600 Speaker 1: here anymore. Jannis loves the fan base, loves being there. 381 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,320 Speaker 1: They won a title there, everything you know about his 382 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 1: career since since getting there. But things have become really 383 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: difficult and now they're not good, and now the fans 384 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: are booing and Yannis loses it. 385 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:16,879 Speaker 3: He boos his own fans. Anybody who boos his own fans? 386 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: Yeah? 387 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 3: How close is it til he actually gets traded? Not 388 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 3: very far. Now, the Bucks gotta ramp things up. You 389 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 3: have a month, you got a little over month to 390 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 3: figure things. 391 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: Out, so you have some time. But now I wouldn't 392 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 1: be surprised if you had an accelerated timeline for Yanna's trade. Again, 393 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: this is such a big deal because this doesn't have 394 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 1: You don't boo your own fans unless you have crossed 395 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: the rubicon. 396 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 3: And that's it. Nah. 397 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: Now maybe he'll apologize. I'm sorry, it's this emotion's got 398 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: away from me. But it's hard to come back from 399 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 1: this when fans are sick of this era. You know 400 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:50,920 Speaker 1: that you're not getting better, you know, you know that 401 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: you're not going to be a title contender anytime. 402 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:53,360 Speaker 3: Soon. 403 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: You tried to move the team around you, maneuver it 404 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: around you, where Chris Middleton is our too. No, now 405 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 1: we're moving away from that. We're bringing in other guys 406 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:03,680 Speaker 1: that didn't work. Damian Lillard didn't work. 407 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 3: He knows it. But I still want to figure out 408 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,159 Speaker 3: a way to stay and make it work. Not after this. 409 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 1: This is where Yannis is gone, and he's gonna have 410 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,440 Speaker 1: to be the bad guy because this is how you 411 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 1: get trade. This is why I said a few minutes ago, 412 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: Giannis is kind of a bad superstar in that he 413 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,439 Speaker 1: doesn't know how to act. He's worried too much about 414 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: what his actions, what he says, how it's going to 415 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: be received in that Oh, all the talk about Janis 416 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,239 Speaker 1: wanting out, it's my agent, and I can dust it off, 417 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: and I can blow it off if I want to, 418 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: and I can say I want to stay, making my 419 00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: agent look bad, making my representation look bad, but oh, 420 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: I want to be looking as a good guy. If 421 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,119 Speaker 1: you you have to use the power that you have 422 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: as a superstar, if you want change, and if you 423 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:47,760 Speaker 1: want out, you gotta say so. So he's been a 424 00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: bad superstar when it comes to does he want to stay, 425 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 1: does he want out? Is he gonna be a buck? 426 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: Is he not gonna be a buck? You got to 427 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: come out and you gotta. 428 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:56,119 Speaker 3: Say it now. 429 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:58,160 Speaker 1: Basically you just said it when you're brewing your own fans. 430 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: But now I'm not gonna be surprise the next twenty 431 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:03,720 Speaker 1: four hours you hear he and he's got to say 432 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: it because this is how this is how stars wind 433 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: up getting what they want. Yeah, it's time for me 434 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: to go. It's time for me to go out. I 435 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 1: want to win more championships. It's time for me to go. 436 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: It's time for me to get trades. 437 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:15,679 Speaker 3: It's funny. It goes all the way back to I mean, 438 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 3: the most egregious example of it was the decision. Uh 439 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 3: not the decision and that TV show itself, folks have 440 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,280 Speaker 3: dissected that every way till Tuesday, but the the idea 441 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 3: thereafter of we didn't realize that people would hate us 442 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,680 Speaker 3: so much. Duyane Wade Lebron kind of crying about that. 443 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 3: It's like, what did you think was gonna happen? Yeah, 444 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:43,200 Speaker 3: he s that's the way it goes. Empire. Man's alright, 445 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:43,640 Speaker 3: it's hard. 446 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:45,840 Speaker 1: You don't put your arms around the Yankees you don't 447 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:47,240 Speaker 1: put you you know, you don't put your arms around 448 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: an empire. 449 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 3: You don't put your arms around the memory either. I 450 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:56,200 Speaker 3: was leading you to that it was right there. But 451 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:59,440 Speaker 3: for for Giannis, uh, you just at the point where 452 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 3: he's always want to be the good guy and everything, 453 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 3: as you say, through the agent plausible deniability, Did he 454 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,119 Speaker 3: really ask for this? Well, allegedly his agent is. And 455 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 3: it's all the reports and anonymous reports, and you decide 456 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 3: what's real what's imagined. I love that fire. Doc is 457 00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 3: also trending alongside this right now, as doc rivers is there. 458 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 3: Eric neim or name from The Athletic asked Giannis about 459 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:32,359 Speaker 3: the exchange. His response about getting booed never never been 460 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,040 Speaker 3: a part of that, have I I don't think so 461 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 3: something new for me? It doesn't change, It's the same thing. 462 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 3: Doesn't matter. I thrive through adversity. I choose not to run. 463 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 3: I thrive through adversity. I thrive when people don't believe 464 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 3: in me. Doesn't matter if I'm on the road, if 465 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,239 Speaker 3: I'm at home, if I'm at my family dinner, if 466 00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 3: I'm in the practice facility with my teammates, it really 467 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 3: doesn't matter. So yeah, I've never been part of something 468 00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 3: like that before, so it is something new for me. 469 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 3: I like it though, love it. 470 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 1: Last two guys I remember booing the fans Hobby bai 471 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: As with the Mets. They didn't bring him back, Julius 472 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:10,280 Speaker 1: Randall with the with the Knicks, they traded him away, 473 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: right like when when? 474 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:11,920 Speaker 3: When? 475 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:12,680 Speaker 2: This is? 476 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 1: This is a really big moment. This is I'm showing 477 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: my frustration. The fans have had it, He's had it. 478 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,879 Speaker 1: It's like the the relationship conversation that you know you 479 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:24,840 Speaker 1: have to have but neither of you wants to have it. 480 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: And then something happens to accelerate it, like there's a 481 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 1: big there's an accelerant that comes in. It's okay, well 482 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: now we're gonna talk about this now. Now I hate 483 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: you and I hate you and boo and you want 484 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:34,199 Speaker 1: to boo me. 485 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,080 Speaker 3: And I'll boo you. Like this is embarrassing. This, I mean, 486 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 3: I went the man. 487 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,400 Speaker 1: I see you see guys doing this, but you never 488 00:23:42,480 --> 00:23:45,680 Speaker 1: see like as frustrated as Lebron James might be with 489 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 1: the Lakers, Like is he ever gonna boo the fans? 490 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 3: No, it's not gonna. Lucas never gonna boo the fans. 491 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: No, and you're gone, and you and you and you 492 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:58,200 Speaker 1: and you're out and you get rid of these five guys, 493 00:23:58,320 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: and now I got a new patch to wear to 494 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: show I got guys ejected. 495 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 3: Uh, the superstars, No, I'm not. I can't do this right. 496 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 1: Some players get frustrated because of their status because they're 497 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: not a star, because they they're not making the money 498 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: they want, they're not getting the minutes they want. Yeah, 499 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,600 Speaker 1: I get when stuff like that happens. Johannis is a 500 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 1: superstar the highest proportion of the of the NBA. And 501 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: when when when he you know he's done, when this 502 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,920 Speaker 1: is where he is at and both sides are done, 503 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,240 Speaker 1: the bucks are done sucking. I mean, you gotta understand 504 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,119 Speaker 1: the fear Milwaukee. Come on, I mean, I know you 505 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:33,959 Speaker 1: have Giannis, but you won one title. That's more than 506 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:36,720 Speaker 1: then then you're probably we're gonna get over a fifty 507 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,400 Speaker 1: year span even with Giannis, right, So just understand you're 508 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: lucky you got that one title. 509 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 3: You got it. 510 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 1: It's awesome, but you're not gonna suddenly be this great 511 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 1: team that somebody is a small market team that can 512 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: do and you win year after year after year, after year. 513 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: Uh so you know that that's a whole I understand 514 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: that part of it, but I get the frustration for 515 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: everybody where they should be better and they're not. And 516 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:59,600 Speaker 1: and this is where everything came to a head tonight 517 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,080 Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of this game. I mean, we'll 518 00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,080 Speaker 1: look back at this moment and say, that's where, y'all, 519 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: when the minute Giannis is sitting on the floor and 520 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 1: he's got his thumbs down, We're gonna say that's the 521 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: moment where Yan has decided I have to get out. 522 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,280 Speaker 3: I have to get out this number one. I really 523 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 3: hope there's a tops now card for that tomorrow of 524 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 3: him booing the fans and going full combatis and second 525 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 3: to all of this, we need to remember in the 526 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 3: we age ourselves right, we do this a lot, and 527 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,440 Speaker 3: it's like, wow, you know, feeling a little creaky and 528 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,240 Speaker 3: you feel those days y'all this has been in the 529 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:33,000 Speaker 3: league thirteen years. Yeah, it's been right. So you're you're 530 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:35,359 Speaker 3: at the you're beyond the half life of it all. 531 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:40,920 Speaker 3: And now it's also time to Perhaps this affords Milwaukee 532 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,479 Speaker 3: the opportunity to just say, you know what, we can 533 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 3: move into the future, get into the future, whether it's 534 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 3: a bunch of draft picks and a couple of expiring 535 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:52,359 Speaker 3: contracts and you do a full bottom out and reset 536 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 3: and wishing to hope that you can sell the greater 537 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 3: city of Milwaukee. Maybe some help from Alice Cooper in 538 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 3: that four you as well, that you can get into 539 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 3: that next phase of free agency and redraft and you know, 540 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 3: the redraft and reload whatever. But for Yiannis, you're in 541 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 3: those final throws. And as much as we love the 542 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:16,760 Speaker 3: romanticism of a guy starting and finishing his career in 543 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 3: the one spot, perhaps this is, you know, the heart 544 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 3: that allows you that door of your beloved superstar uh 545 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:28,320 Speaker 3: to get out out of your relationship in this way. 546 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,600 Speaker 3: The other is for Yiannis. I mean some of it is, 547 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 3: you know, he's salty, and I think the fans have 548 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,359 Speaker 3: to understand that too. He's also saddled with a bad 549 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 3: roster and. 550 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:39,880 Speaker 1: Doc oh yeah look it's not going Yeah, well he's 551 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,440 Speaker 1: been saddled with Doc rivers for a while. 552 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 3: But I mean, look, that's how you can fix the 553 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 3: glitch pretty fast and play kate people at least for 554 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 3: a little while. 555 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,320 Speaker 1: I like how the big jift it went around last 556 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 1: night after the game was you know, here's here's peanut butter, 557 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: Here's a Jiff peanut butter, here's a here's Mike top 558 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 1: picture of Mike Tomlin in the playoffs, and it's Doc 559 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 1: Rivers prompose over Mike Tomlin's body. 560 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:06,840 Speaker 3: That was that was cruelty right there. There's no question 561 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,960 Speaker 3: about it. Ah, that was great. 562 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: But I mean it's for Yannis to be there this 563 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: long is great and you've seen the best of Giannis. 564 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,359 Speaker 1: This is not a Lucas situation where you're trading a 565 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 1: superstar who's twenty five, twenty six years old. This is 566 00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:24,320 Speaker 1: where you've seen the best of him. You know that 567 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: he's gonna have trouble being you know, with this style 568 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 1: of play and his size, he's gonna have a trouble 569 00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: staying healthy the rest of his career. And if he 570 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: wants out, Okay, you got lucky, you had thirteen years. 571 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: You want a championship. I get that it's very difficult 572 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 1: and you're reliant on the lottery to get that number 573 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: one pick. But if he wants out, you're finding a way. 574 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: It's not working. There's nothing else, But if you want 575 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: this trade, he's gotta say it right, Teams aren't gonna 576 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:52,280 Speaker 1: trade a star unless they get that ultimatum. 577 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 4: Right. 578 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 3: We've seen it. 579 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: We've seen guys want to intimate about a trade or 580 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: I hate we're looking into a trade, and teams are 581 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: gonna say, yeah, not trading our star. But when when 582 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: that guarantee goes out or that message goes out where 583 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,919 Speaker 1: a star says I want out, guess what, it's only 584 00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:09,160 Speaker 1: a matter of time until that happens. Now, it's gonna 585 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 1: be working overtime now for Milwaukee to make this trade 586 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: happen in the next in the next, you know, four 587 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: weeks or so, but it can happen. 588 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 3: And I don't know that. I don't know there's anything 589 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 3: that's gonna stop that right now. 590 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:21,200 Speaker 4: Yeah. 591 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 3: Just also remember he was the fifteenth pick in that 592 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 3: twenty thirteen draft, So you already you got over, Yeah, right, 593 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:30,760 Speaker 3: you got over. I mean guys drafted ahead of him, 594 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 3: Anthony Bennett, Victor Oladipo, Nice Career Otto Porter, Junior, Cody Zeller, 595 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 3: Alex Lynn Nerlin's, Noel, Ben Macklamore, KCP, Trey Burke, CJ McCollum, 596 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 3: Michael Carter, Williams, Steven Adams, Kelly alynnok and Schabbaz Mohammad. 597 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,719 Speaker 1: Yeah, you got lucky. You're you're lucky there now, Now, 598 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,200 Speaker 1: Frostburg's got a message. You have a message for for 599 00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 1: Giannis rossbergers to night's loss. 600 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 3: Okay, you do okay, God, what do you got for me? 601 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 4: To be honest, I just want to tell you congratulations 602 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 4: on your success, young man. You hold your head up 603 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,160 Speaker 4: all right. You did a great job out there today. 604 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 4: You just hold your head up. 605 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,440 Speaker 3: Okay, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. 606 00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:17,960 Speaker 3: Would you like to add an addenda to that justin Lakers? 607 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 3: Thank you? Oh that was That's great. 608 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 1: Frostbur time out to find out what's trending in the 609 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:29,560 Speaker 1: wide world of sports. But guy has been called the 610 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: Liam Cohen of Fox Sports Radio. Once in a while, 611 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: we have to tell him the great job he's done, 612 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: even if he hasn't done a great job. It's Steve Disager. 613 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,720 Speaker 5: And this is where I say, Dovo, you know, our 614 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 5: beloved producer could have just said Milwaukee, because I think 615 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,440 Speaker 5: that's the name of the county that there is. Milwaukee, 616 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 5: by the way, before we continue talking about that town. 617 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: Actually it's pronounced Meliwalkee, which is Algonquin for the good lamd. 618 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:01,200 Speaker 3: I was not aware of that. Wait for us, We'll 619 00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 3: get to the NBA. 620 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,600 Speaker 5: At a moment in college hoops, Kansas was at home 621 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 5: against number two Iowa State. 622 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 3: Undefeated no more at absolute domination, eighty four to sixty 623 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 3: three Kansas. 624 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 5: Kansas wins at home against an Iowa State team that 625 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 5: was sixteen and oh coming in largest win by a 626 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,040 Speaker 5: Division one club against an opponent that was sixteen and 627 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:30,240 Speaker 5: oh or better coming in since nineteen seventy two. There 628 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,080 Speaker 5: is college hoops on FS one. Right now, about six 629 00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,280 Speaker 5: minutes to go, USC is pulling away against Maryland, which 630 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 5: is winless in the Big ten, seventy three to sixty two. 631 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,120 Speaker 5: Two late games in the NBA and LA Lakers were 632 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:42,640 Speaker 5: up thirty. 633 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 3: It's now. 634 00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 5: Lakers won sixteen to ninety seven over Atlanta under eight 635 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 5: minutes to go. Laker's still shooting fifty seven percent from 636 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,360 Speaker 5: the floor. Lukadancic twenty seven points. He had been questionable 637 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,000 Speaker 5: for the game at Golden State Warriors sixty nine to 638 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 5: fifty over Portland. Early in the third STEPH Curry won 639 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,719 Speaker 5: of seve been shooting and the Warriors are up by 640 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 5: about twenty and have been for a while Oklahoma City. 641 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 3: This game just tipped off ten minutes ago. Steve, thank 642 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 3: you NBC. 643 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 5: I did read, by the way, that one of the 644 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 5: network hockey games actually outdrew one of the NBC NBA. 645 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 3: Games last week about a million and a half viewers. 646 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 3: That most wow. That's wow. 647 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,640 Speaker 5: We're just getting started with NBC basketball coverage. 648 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 3: I'll just leave it at that. 649 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,280 Speaker 5: Oklahoma City's record thirty four and seven. They had been 650 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,880 Speaker 5: oh and three against the Spurs this year, but beat 651 00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,600 Speaker 5: San Antonio de nay one nineteen ninety eights, Minnesota, and Houston, 652 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 5: with wins Miami and Denver as well. And yeah, that 653 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 5: Minnesota win was at Milwaukee one thirty nine to one 654 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,680 Speaker 5: oh six. This Minnesota shot sixty percent from the floor. 655 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 5: The Mavericks Anthony Davis will be reevaluated in six weeks 656 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 5: after his second opinion surgery is not required on his 657 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 5: left hand. In an NHL late game, Duck's at home 658 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 5: now leading to nothing over Dallas with about two minutes 659 00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:58,080 Speaker 5: left earlier, Tampa Bay, when it's eleventh game in a row, 660 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,160 Speaker 5: a shootout win at Pittsburgh two to one, Boston three 661 00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:04,400 Speaker 5: nothing over Detroit Saint Louis three nothing over Carolina and 662 00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 5: Washington and overtime beat Montreal three to two. The Diamondbacks 663 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,520 Speaker 5: acquired third baseman Nolan Aeronado and cash from Saint Louis. 664 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:15,200 Speaker 5: Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin stepped down after nineteen seasons. 665 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:19,080 Speaker 5: The Eagles removed Kevin Petula as offensive coordinator. The Chargers 666 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,480 Speaker 5: fired Oh see Greg Roman. 667 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 3: Back to you, Thank you, Steve O. We are not 668 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 3: worthy after that update. 669 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: I'll tell you I think, although I got I guess 670 00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,520 Speaker 1: say when he's doing the Milwauk, I just kept thinking 671 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: of Brooklyn nine to nine, when when Boyle keeps saying 672 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: his son's name and everybody else has a correct he 673 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 1: keeps correcting them. 674 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 3: It's Nicolage, Nicolage, Nicolage, Nicolage, Nicolage. 675 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,680 Speaker 1: It's like this running bit throughout the entire show. Nicola, Hey, 676 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: how's nicolage Nicolage? 677 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 3: Right? No, it's what I said, Nicolas Nicolage. 678 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: Coming up next, we get back into the Mike Tomlin 679 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,120 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers divorce. Who won the breakup? There is already 680 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:00,160 Speaker 1: a clear winner. It's next right here, Jason Mike Fox 681 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: Sports Radio. 682 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,000 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 683 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 684 00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 2: pm Pacific. 685 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 3: This is Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Right, this is ELP. 686 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 3: This the fanfare for the common man. Yeah, I have buddy. 687 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 3: This was if I remember this right. This was the Islanders' 688 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 3: intro when they won. 689 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: Four after they won four Stanley Cups in row in 690 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: the eighties, Like they would play this song and see 691 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: the four cups rotating around and see the Blackhawks. 692 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:40,760 Speaker 3: Too cold, steel Ice, Tenanna, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. 693 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: If you're the Bucks, you could trade Giannis and get 694 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,520 Speaker 1: Emerson Lake and Palmer back, all right, three for one 695 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:48,520 Speaker 1: three four one three four one. 696 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:49,520 Speaker 3: Who's gonna fight it? 697 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 5: So? 698 00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,760 Speaker 1: The biggest story of the day in the NFL, Mike 699 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:59,400 Speaker 1: Tomlin out as Steelers head coach. He resigns after nineteen years. 700 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,200 Speaker 1: Likely will not coach in twenty twenty six, Probably get 701 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: a job somewhere in twenty twenty seven. He'll be on 702 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: the Sean Payton train of I'll sit out. The Steelers 703 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,880 Speaker 1: still own his rights because he resigned. There will be 704 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,080 Speaker 1: some sort of trade. He will pick his destination in 705 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: a year. Right, it's probably we're gonna get from Mike Tomlin. 706 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 1: Now there's already a winner in the Mike Tomlin Steelers' divorce. 707 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:24,880 Speaker 3: Even though this is a. 708 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:30,920 Speaker 1: Coaching move that sort of needed to happen, it's a 709 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: breakup that, Hey, we've been together a long time, but 710 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,560 Speaker 1: I don't see there being a future. There's things I 711 00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:40,640 Speaker 1: want to do in my life, There's things you want 712 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 1: to do in your life, and I don't know that 713 00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:46,279 Speaker 1: our career goals meet anymore. Hey, we were a great 714 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: team for a long time, but I think we've outgrown 715 00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:50,560 Speaker 1: each other. We both want to do other things. And 716 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,360 Speaker 1: it's one of those conversations where, hey, it was a 717 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 1: good breakup. 718 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 3: You know. 719 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: It wasn't like we had screaming at each other. It 720 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,680 Speaker 1: was a really good break We all understood we needed 721 00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,799 Speaker 1: to move on, right, That's what it is. It's kind 722 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,960 Speaker 1: of like the the Brody and Marina backer in conversation 723 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:04,960 Speaker 1: in the first season of Homeland when they realize they 724 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,160 Speaker 1: have to get divorced, and it was, hey, listen. 725 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're are we breaking out? Yes, we're moving on. Okay, 726 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,400 Speaker 3: what a great conversation that was. I've never had one 727 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 3: of those in real life, but I've seen it on TV. 728 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 3: See I was thinking, now is more like the end 729 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:21,480 Speaker 3: of the Three Brothers, Tail and deathly Hallows and I 730 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 3: and Death friends. Hey, you want to be friends with death. 731 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,719 Speaker 3: You don't want death on your bad side forever. But 732 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 3: eventually I'm done with this. Here's the cloak. I'm out. Hey, man, 733 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 3: you're you're friends with death? Right? 734 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 5: Well? 735 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk, we text. Hey, could you tell them 736 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,120 Speaker 1: to lay off me for a while. Oh, we don't 737 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,200 Speaker 1: have that kind of relationship, man, I I can't. 738 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 3: All I can say is that when death comes from me, 739 00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:49,719 Speaker 3: I hope that death looks like Aubrey Plaza in the 740 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 3: Agatha Harkness. Okay, the Marvel Cinematic universe. That's very specific. 741 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,000 Speaker 3: That is very When I was little, I thought, I thought, okay, 742 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 3: it's weird you say that. When I was little, I 743 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 3: thought God looked like the jolly green Giant. 744 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,800 Speaker 1: Believe, like when I was like five, when because we 745 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,160 Speaker 1: did a thing in school like, what do you think 746 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,480 Speaker 1: God looks like? And I said the jolly green Giant, 747 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,960 Speaker 1: I said, that's my teacher made sure to tell my 748 00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,279 Speaker 1: mom madly, Hey, you know, just so you know your 749 00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:18,719 Speaker 1: son thinks God looks like the jolly Green Giants. 750 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,920 Speaker 3: Well it's you the the meaning of life. Green Giant 751 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 3: comes for you, and you shut up, you Americans. All 752 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,360 Speaker 3: you do is talk talk talk. But there's already a 753 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,240 Speaker 3: winner in this breakup. And the winner is the Steelers. 754 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: Because we talked about this last night, right like we 755 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: I thought the way this season was gonna go in 756 00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,439 Speaker 1: the off season, I said, Tomlin and Steels are gonna 757 00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 1: sit down. The Steelers are gonna say listen, want to 758 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,719 Speaker 1: go forward with you. We know you're a great coach, 759 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,400 Speaker 1: but you need to embrace a modern era of football. 760 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,759 Speaker 1: You need to embrace that we need a quarterback that 761 00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,600 Speaker 1: can make plays, not a get by guy, which is 762 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,080 Speaker 1: what you've tried to do for the better part of 763 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: the last six years, right the end of Roethlisberger into 764 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,319 Speaker 1: post Roethlisberger to where we are now. You can't win 765 00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,680 Speaker 1: that way. We have won a playoff game in ten years. 766 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: We won playoff games and we had Roethlisberger and Bell 767 00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 1: and Antonio Brown were able to do all these things, 768 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 1: and Roethlisberger would have three hundred and fifty yard passing games. 769 00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: We can't run football like it's nineteen eighty seven. And 770 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: I love nineteen eighty seven. 771 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,600 Speaker 3: Man, I loved it. I'd like eighty seven was great. 772 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:22,400 Speaker 1: Eric, Yes, the Mets were coming off the World Series. 773 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,640 Speaker 1: It was I love nineteen eighty seven. 774 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,120 Speaker 3: It was great Straw and Good and were beginning a 775 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 3: monster run. 776 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,080 Speaker 1: Appetite for destruction had just come out, like a eighty 777 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:33,160 Speaker 1: seven was awesome. 778 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,359 Speaker 3: Mitchell was a rookie. Yes, city four years old today. 779 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,719 Speaker 1: By the way, Happy birthday, Kevin Mitchell. H But this 780 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:41,840 Speaker 1: is how Mike Tomman wants to run the team. He 781 00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 1: can't win that way, and yet he's been allowed to 782 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,759 Speaker 1: run it this way because of his success. For a while, 783 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's not gonna win. Pittsburgh has a different level of 784 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: what's acceptable than most teams in the NFL do. The 785 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,200 Speaker 1: level of acceptance in Pittsburgh as we win games, go 786 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,400 Speaker 1: to the playoffs, win playoff games, and go to Super Bowls. 787 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:01,000 Speaker 1: Not we win nine or ten games weekend. Maybe we're 788 00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:04,359 Speaker 1: the conference, the division champion, maybe we're a wild card. 789 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,399 Speaker 1: We play one game and we lose, right, I would 790 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,600 Speaker 1: love that. But Pittsburgh and the Steelers are different. Now 791 00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 1: they know whoever they hire, they're gonna bring in someone 792 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 1: with a much more modern approach to offense. That's gonna 793 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,359 Speaker 1: go get a quarterback that's a franchise quarterback. Again, that's 794 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,320 Speaker 1: going to amplify the weapons on offense because the weapons 795 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,480 Speaker 1: are not great. They have a couple of get by 796 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:25,719 Speaker 1: guys at running back. Yet Kenneth Gainwell is a nice 797 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:29,360 Speaker 1: third down back, but Jalen Warren has not been successful 798 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,840 Speaker 1: as the lead back. Dk Metcalf is not the dominant 799 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,320 Speaker 1: wide receiver that he was with Seattle. Seattle wouldn't have 800 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,440 Speaker 1: traded him if that was the case. Friar Muth is 801 00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:39,799 Speaker 1: not jumped in and made that big jump at tight end. 802 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,800 Speaker 1: They are just a get by offense that doesn't scare 803 00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,319 Speaker 1: anybody in the playoffs. So now there's a clear winner 804 00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,640 Speaker 1: because whoever Pittsburgh hires is going to be some with 805 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,640 Speaker 1: a more forward, modern view of offensive football. And that's 806 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,080 Speaker 1: what we talked about this with Tomlin. Forever the game 807 00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:56,480 Speaker 1: is passed them by offensively. Now they're gonna get a 808 00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:57,759 Speaker 1: guy that gets you to twenty twenty six. 809 00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 3: Yeah you got it. As a coach, certainly, they always 810 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:04,719 Speaker 3: say the message gets old and whatever. It's like, well, yeah, 811 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 3: he's there a long time. The players cycle out, so 812 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,759 Speaker 3: that doesn't really hold for me. Friarmouth the latest in 813 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,600 Speaker 3: a long laundry list of guys leaving after wild Card 814 00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,520 Speaker 3: weekend to say I did like my role, so we'll 815 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,279 Speaker 3: see what happens there. But certainly from an offensive perspective, 816 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 3: you know, you play and you're winning consistently, you never 817 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,719 Speaker 3: bottom out, so you're not getting that top draft pick, 818 00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,759 Speaker 3: and you're putting bandages on because you know you paid 819 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,720 Speaker 3: a lot of money for the defense, and the defense 820 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,399 Speaker 3: showed up in big spots and even in the game 821 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 3: against Houston for most of the game, they kept you 822 00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,960 Speaker 3: in it. They gave you every chance for Aaron Rodgers 823 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 3: in that offense to come through and do something to 824 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,440 Speaker 3: no avail and you go home early. Great, another playoff appearance. 825 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,160 Speaker 3: But you're talking fifteen years. We were doing this with 826 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:54,000 Speaker 3: Harball a week ago. You're talking fifteen years since you 827 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,439 Speaker 3: won that Super Bowl. That's a lot of ass time 828 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,919 Speaker 3: midnight and that stability to wor you're consistently winning nine, 829 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:04,759 Speaker 3: ten eleven games. That's great and most fan bases would 830 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,000 Speaker 3: kill for that. But at some point you look at 831 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,359 Speaker 3: each other and say this, it's been a good run. 832 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:12,520 Speaker 3: And but but the hard part for the new guy 833 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,919 Speaker 3: is you and you and inherited team. That's pretty good. 834 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, not great, yeah, but not one that you're starting 835 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: the studs starting over. You are you are XU accelerating 836 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,839 Speaker 1: it with a move at quarterback, probably at running back, 837 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,800 Speaker 1: probably a receiver, a tight end. You're accelerating a quarterback. 838 00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,400 Speaker 1: There's your billion dollar question, you know, Hey, trade up 839 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: with the Jets for Dante Moore? Hey exit about a 840 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,520 Speaker 1: Fresca exit swollen dome coming up next. We got big 841 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,960 Speaker 1: stuff out of the NBA, including Jannis talking about booing 842 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,280 Speaker 1: his own fans tonight. 843 00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's getting traded. That's next. Fo