1 00:00:01,080 --> 00:00:04,080 Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 2: Our three of the programs. Second half underway here Fox 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,399 Speaker 2: Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with Yours truly on Mike Carmen. 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,319 Speaker 2: Thanks for giving us a few minutes of your time 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 2: as you're out and about putting the kids to bed. 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:20,480 Speaker 2: Maybe you just you know, got them, you know, a 7 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: good night moon kind of reading, maybe a movie, TV show, 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 2: whatever it is you're settling in for your evening. Maybe 9 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 2: you're at work and trying to grind through. 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You hear them on count Down on 19 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:04,240 Speaker 2: Saturday mornings, h filling in and he'll be with me 20 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 2: on Sunday as we celebrate Easter Sunday UH with you 21 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 2: here on the network. We'll review the final four at 22 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,600 Speaker 2: that point and set you up for the national title 23 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,800 Speaker 2: game as well as a veritable pote porie of crazy stuff. 24 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: Maybe we'll have an update on that KitKat heist by man. 25 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:22,680 Speaker 2: I don't know you know about that story. 26 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,440 Speaker 1: What's a kit I have not heard the kit cat? 27 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know. 28 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:30,440 Speaker 2: There was a well twelve tons of KitKat product what 29 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,640 Speaker 2: was stolen in Europe. So what happened was a cavalcade. 30 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:38,320 Speaker 2: What are they gonna do with it? Well, I mean 31 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 2: you melt use it, heay man. There's a lot of 32 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 2: street vendors, back doorboardegas, whatever else, and you're selling Yeah, 33 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 2: I mean, there's plenty of ways to move that merch. 34 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 2: But it was pretty funny that a number of the 35 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,000 Speaker 2: chain restaurants, UH and liquor sales whatever started coming up 36 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 2: with It's like, yeah, we're really sorry to hear about 37 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: our friends over a kit Cat. By the way, a 38 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: new menu item is the you know, kit cat, Martine, 39 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,360 Speaker 2: kit Cat burger, the kit cat, the blooming kit cat 40 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 2: instead of a blooming onion. 41 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: And I was talking about this with my friend the 42 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: other day, I think we've gone too far with the 43 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: protein fat. You know, coming from someone who's like very 44 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 1: into health of fitness. These days, we don't need to 45 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: put protein in everything. I gotta be honest. 46 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:22,200 Speaker 2: I was a little little concerning the last time I 47 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 2: did a run to the place that has. 48 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:28,440 Speaker 1: The uh everything protein Today it's too much. 49 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, go far to the bulls eye, you know, trying 50 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 2: to get to the trading cards, maybe some eiconcealer and 51 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,359 Speaker 2: things like that. Hey, don't judge me, we're on camera here, Hi, 52 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 2: that you have all of those things gonna and it's protein, 53 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 2: this protein that. Here's some protein and potato chips. 54 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:46,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. 55 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 2: I want salt, I want some vinegar, and I want 56 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 2: a potato. 57 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: That's it. Protein has its place in the world, but 58 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: it's like a fat like right, like everything has to 59 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 1: protein macros. I think there's a place for it, and 60 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 1: then there's not a place for it. And I think 61 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 1: we were starting to infiltrate places where protein doesn't belong. 62 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 2: Get your protein, get your get your fiber. 63 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: And then if you need to drink soda and eat 64 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: bad things to get your protein, maybe we should talk 65 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 1: about what you're consuming well. It's less bad fact that 66 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: it doesn't have protein in it and you have to 67 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: add protein to the bad stuff. 68 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 2: Hey that that meat cola would sell like hotcakes. 69 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: I know. By the way, there's a hot I saw 70 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 1: protein soda the other day. That's where I'm like, we've 71 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:34,359 Speaker 1: we've gone too far. 72 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 2: What was the uh oh? I saw it just earlier. 73 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:43,560 Speaker 2: It was a hot dog inspired bourbon at Costco. 74 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: That's I got there with unhealthy things healthy is where 75 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you you're missing the point of eating 76 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: your protein, which is to be healthy, and now you're 77 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: putting it in unhealthy things. So people think they're being 78 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: healthy by eating something unhealthy and it's like this weird 79 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: twisted brain thing, but it's healthy. Err right. 80 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 2: It's the I did not have, you know, a trickser 81 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 2: for kids. I did not have that or my lucky charms. 82 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 2: I had a granade. Don't even get me started on 83 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 2: what they're putting in the cereal. Yeah, no, no about 84 00:04:19,520 --> 00:04:23,839 Speaker 2: conspiracy though, we're not doing that. You're not canceling me today, 85 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:28,800 Speaker 2: Jared Smith, Gay, I'm not a Wednesday as I got 86 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,720 Speaker 2: part Leprechaun in me. Don't you dare try to take 87 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:35,760 Speaker 2: that away? Going back brick the gift of gab that 88 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 2: I have. I kissed the Blarney stone. Damn it, I'll 89 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 2: do it again. Uh. 90 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 1: But we have one guy. 91 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 2: Who, well, folks talk about blarney, Uh, talk about chaos, 92 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: talk about some of what he's had to say. 93 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 3: Uh. 94 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 2: It's Aaron Rodgers, and he's in the news because rumor, conjecture, 95 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 2: speculation of hey, why not find his way to Denver 96 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 2: as bo Nick's recover from what was a very severe 97 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 2: ankle injury, again, a lot of dispute as to which 98 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: play he actually got hurt on. I think the crumpling 99 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 2: down like one of those old toys that we had 100 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 2: one of these in the studio, the old studio where 101 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:15,680 Speaker 2: it was a goat. You press that button on the 102 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,320 Speaker 2: bottom and his legs collapse. That's kind of what bo 103 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 2: Nicks looked like when he was sliding to run out 104 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 2: the clock. But we're looking at the possibility that he's 105 00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,359 Speaker 2: not ready for week one. So you've got a team 106 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 2: that's scheduled to compete in a very difficult division. Andy 107 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 2: Reid talking about, hey, don't rule Patrick Mahomes out for 108 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 2: week one and building back to there. We talked about 109 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 2: the Chargers. We'll get into the love fest of McDaniel 110 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 2: and Harbaugh and everybody there as they try to resurrect 111 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 2: and get more consistent play out of the offense. And 112 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 2: then whatever the Raiders become, they can't be as bad 113 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 2: as they were a year ago. Yeah, they can't. They're 114 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 2: the Raiders. But all of that to say for Denver, 115 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,359 Speaker 2: the expectations, the timing, with the contracts that you have 116 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,839 Speaker 2: in hand, it makes sense. Meanwhile, you've got the Rooney's 117 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,239 Speaker 2: saying no, no, no, where he's gonna tell us by the draft. 118 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:11,160 Speaker 2: So I think it's fun theater that we're potentially fighting 119 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 2: over a forty one year old quarterback and Joe Flacco 120 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,560 Speaker 2: saying they should have picked me. 121 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: Yeah he's entering age forty three season. He's forty two. Now, Wow, 122 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: I missed a birthday. Sorry, Yeah, you gave him a year. 123 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: And trust me, coming from a recent forty year old, 124 00:06:27,279 --> 00:06:29,960 Speaker 1: the knees don't get any lighter. It's not easy to 125 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: bounce back from these workouts. 126 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 2: What I give to rewind a decade? Yeah, don't let 127 00:06:34,360 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 2: the boy is good looks fool you. Yeah, I don't 128 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 2: where you tell me. I look much younger than my age, jerk. 129 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 1: Well, if we're to do but we're doing a radio show, 130 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: so I don't it convinced the people. It's not relevant. 131 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: There's a video. She's gonna put a video in me. 132 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,240 Speaker 1: Maybe that is true, he is. Thankfully I'm not on 133 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:55,160 Speaker 1: it tonight because I look like I'm about ten years 134 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 1: older based off of what I'm wearing right now. I've 135 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:00,799 Speaker 1: got the full hat, you know, no makeup, T shirt, 136 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:02,840 Speaker 1: all wrangle. But we don't care about that. It's all 137 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: about the words content, wordsmithing coming from a Smith. I 138 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,560 Speaker 1: mean for Aaron Rodgers last. 139 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 2: Year, Jared, I mean for all of the Hey, we 140 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 2: can get positive here, and we added up some wins. 141 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 2: The expected and yards per attempt was him and Kyle 142 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:25,280 Speaker 2: for Murray right basically, I think it was six. I 143 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 2: think it might have been under six yards per intended 144 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 2: air yard per attempt, which is just. 145 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: See he is what he is at this stage of 146 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 1: his career. Mike. I mean, I and I think, good 147 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: luck trying. It's like predicting the weather on when Aaron 148 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: Rodgers is going to figure out if he's going to 149 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: sign or not. You want to talk about spirituality and 150 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,920 Speaker 1: you know, going out in the desert and doing Ayahuascar 151 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: and figuring out what his future is like that's and listen, 152 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: I understand that part of it. But you have a 153 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: billion dollar franchise in the Steelers and another billion dollar 154 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: franchise in the Broncos. That are you know, at you know, 155 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:57,800 Speaker 1: trying to figure out if this is if this is 156 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: going to be their next starting quarterback, which is the 157 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: most important position in the sport. So I think there's 158 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:09,080 Speaker 1: a certain level of expectation that he does make a 159 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:12,320 Speaker 1: decision within the next month. But we've gone down this 160 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: road before. Like you, it's very similar to dating, And honestly, 161 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: Mike McCarty's comments the other day sounded like a lot 162 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: of my how my dates end? Like his comments the 163 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: other day were the questions on Aaron Rodgers' future. The 164 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: conversations have been very positive. We talk regularly. I'm confident 165 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's a personal decision. 166 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: Like it sounds like you're kind of going back and 167 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:36,240 Speaker 1: forth with this girl you like, but you don't know 168 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: if she likes your back, and you're trying to figure 169 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,199 Speaker 1: out what the communication style is going to be. Should 170 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: I text her every day? Is it too much? Is 171 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:44,760 Speaker 1: it not too much? Am I? Am I coming off 172 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: too needy? Am I not coming off needy enough? Like 173 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: I have no idea what the situation like the fact 174 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,839 Speaker 1: that we have gotten now And that's the part about 175 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:57,480 Speaker 1: this that I find difficult. And listen, Aaron's earned the 176 00:08:57,559 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: right to make this decision. He's a free agent, can 177 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: do whatever he wants. But if I'm an NFL franchise 178 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 1: and I'm a GM, maybe in another life I'll get 179 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 1: that opportunity. I would love to try it because it 180 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: looks a lot easier on TV than it probably is 181 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: in real life. But if I was the GM of 182 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: a team and I got past this point, it's like 183 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:19,440 Speaker 1: the the Laurian going eighty eight miles an hour and 184 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: back to the future. The draft is in three weeks. 185 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: You are trying to figure out what your needs are. 186 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: We have passed the free agency window, we have passed 187 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: the combine. We are stacking our chips for the most 188 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,720 Speaker 1: important part of the player collection process, the NFL Draft. 189 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,079 Speaker 1: And you don't know who your starting quarterback is or 190 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,439 Speaker 1: who QB one is com training camp. There's a problem. 191 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: And I'm me personally as a GM, and I know 192 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: you make exceptions for certain players, and maybe Aaron is 193 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:52,839 Speaker 1: one of those players ten years ago. I don't think 194 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,400 Speaker 1: he's one of those players today where I'm putting my 195 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: entire plans for the offseason on hold for a guy 196 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: that averaged Kyler Murray level of yards per attempt in 197 00:10:03,160 --> 00:10:06,199 Speaker 1: air yards last year. I'm just not doing it anymore. 198 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: So I think at some point one of these teams 199 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: has to move on. And then once one of the 200 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 1: teams moves on, that's when the law of supplying the 201 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 1: man kicks in, and that's when Aaron probably makes his decision. 202 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 1: But I don't know when that's gonna happen. Good luck 203 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 1: figuring out. 204 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,120 Speaker 2: Steelers twenty first pick in the first round, second round, 205 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,439 Speaker 2: and then twelfth in the third, and then back and 206 00:10:28,520 --> 00:10:32,360 Speaker 2: so forth. No real extra goodies up top in the 207 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,439 Speaker 2: draft to get creative. And this is not the quarterback 208 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,840 Speaker 2: draft that anybody anticipated a year ago. You know, we 209 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,240 Speaker 2: always do the hey it's gonna be next year's draft. Well, 210 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:43,120 Speaker 2: twenty twenty five was supposed to be that. And guess what. 211 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 2: All of those guys stunk and many of them got 212 00:10:46,679 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 2: deposed or have decided, Hey, I could make more money 213 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,439 Speaker 2: in college football and where I'm not going to lose 214 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 2: my job, or at least the check is still going 215 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:58,880 Speaker 2: to clear versus going into the scary world at the draft. Now, 216 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,560 Speaker 2: given the opportunity to day in college another year, I 217 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 2: don't think that many guys would look past a five 218 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 2: to seven. 219 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: Chamdlers like suit. The entire state of Mississippi's staying college. 220 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 2: Oh but that's just it. I'm gonna keep coming back. 221 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,880 Speaker 2: I'm gonna find the friendly judge. This is like going 222 00:11:13,920 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 2: to a bunch of doctor doctors. I need a second opinion. 223 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 1: Reminds me of my cousin Vinnie. It's the judge. It 224 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 1: to judge from my cousin Vinnie, is what It reminded 225 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:20,200 Speaker 1: me of. 226 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,080 Speaker 2: Two utes, get me some fresh win a couple of I. 227 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,920 Speaker 1: Want to go back to school. Well that's the other 228 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,840 Speaker 1: thing about it, Mike. Next year's draft is the draft, right, 229 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: But that's the thing, Jared, like, this was supposed to be. 230 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: This was Nusmyer, This was potentially arch manning. This was 231 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: Simpson getting his run, and then Simpson then he exactly 232 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: Simpson A uh, but he had the up and down. 233 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 1: So you're trying to decide how much was an injury 234 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,520 Speaker 1: and illness? How much was him? Where do you fall 235 00:11:50,559 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: on that? 236 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 2: You know? And and going on down the line, Uh, the 237 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 2: you mentioned chandlists. I mean just go on quarterback after 238 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 2: quarterbacks like they're gonna come out and gonna be great. 239 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,319 Speaker 2: It's like now it's I don't know, let's wait till 240 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 2: next year. It'll be great. All of these guys are 241 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 2: gonna perform really well. It's like all the NBA teams 242 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,079 Speaker 2: tanking for the draft this year. All of these fresh 243 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,400 Speaker 2: but are gonna be Day one stars, right, just like 244 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 2: Congni Bull and Cooper Flag. They're gonna take the world 245 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 2: by storm. Unless they don't. Unless you're right back at 246 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 2: the top of the lottery next year, wishing and hoping that. 247 00:12:26,080 --> 00:12:30,959 Speaker 1: That draft tanking that that just is a totally absurd 248 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: I think there's a certain level of optimism at the 249 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: quarterback position that if you get the number one pick 250 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,959 Speaker 1: and you get to choose who your you know, player 251 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 1: is like the Raiders do with Mendoza, that you at 252 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,560 Speaker 1: least get some semblance of control. But let's be honest, 253 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,360 Speaker 1: next year is the pearl. Next year is really the gem. 254 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: And that's not to say that whoever is the number 255 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 1: one pick next year is gonna turn out to be 256 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: Peyton Manning or Andrew Luck. You know, maybe that's not 257 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:58,720 Speaker 1: the best comparison because he retired early, but you get 258 00:12:58,760 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: my point, like the guy that's gonna be the lock 259 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,439 Speaker 1: number one pick, but you still get to choose. The 260 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: situation with the Broncos and the Steelers right now, they 261 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:11,520 Speaker 1: don't get to choose who their their their their quarterback 262 00:13:11,559 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 1: is in the draft. They have to sign one if 263 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:17,680 Speaker 1: they want a new one. The McCarthy reunion with Rogers 264 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:19,560 Speaker 1: is intriguing, but again, at the end of the day, 265 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: Aaron has now done this and as a Jets fan, 266 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 1: I know I've lived this and that was years ago. 267 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: There was multiple years ago, you know, pre Achilles injury 268 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,720 Speaker 1: before he really kind of took the turn down, really 269 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: took the turndown. He is putting the franchise for basically 270 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: holding them hostage. Well, but he did that going all 271 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: the way back to Green Bay while I was and 272 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,120 Speaker 1: it's like a numb off. You guys on people put 273 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: up with it when you're a star. He's not a 274 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: star anymore. He is just not like the numbers don't 275 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 1: say he's a star anymore. The numbers say he's an 276 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: average quarterback. But even and that's not to say the 277 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,599 Speaker 1: Steelers don't have an average quarterback on the roster. I 278 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: don't know if they do. Neither do the Broncos without 279 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: bon nigs. But at what point do you say we 280 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: need to move on? We like we we We've explored 281 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: this and it's time for to move on, because clearly 282 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 1: you're not ready to make a decision. 283 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, at least with the Steelers in the building, you've 284 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 2: got some level of proof of concept. Now, obviously it's 285 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,360 Speaker 2: a new head coach with Tomlin leaving, but the guys 286 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 2: that have been around can at least vouch one way 287 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,600 Speaker 2: or another for the day to day operations. 288 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: What you's worked with a party intimately right, and they know. 289 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 2: Each other, whether they loved each other at the end 290 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 2: or not. All things old or new, there is always 291 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 2: hope that you can find love again. See I'm gonna 292 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 2: go with your dating metaphor as we go love it. 293 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: I mean, they did cancel the Bachelorettes, so I mean 294 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 2: you got to find something that maybe we can do 295 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 2: it in drama. 296 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:37,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, But you know what, the other thing that's interesting 297 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: about this, you had Kyler and Tua. Now I know 298 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,040 Speaker 1: that they both got released off their big contracts, but 299 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: those guys signed one year veteran minimum deals right away. 300 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,240 Speaker 1: No that you know, they found within the week of 301 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 1: free agency, within the first day or two they were signed. Like, 302 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: why is Aaron and at this point, why is Aaron 303 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: different from those guys? That's the part about this that 304 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: and and that's not to say he doesn't have the 305 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: right to make his mind up when he wants to. 306 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: It's totally fair. But if you're a GM of the 307 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:08,440 Speaker 1: other team. To go back to my original point, if 308 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: I was ever a GM one day and I went 309 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 1: into a meeting with Aaron Rodgers and I said, hey, listen, 310 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: this is our timeline. We want to get a guy 311 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 1: signed within the first week or two a free agency 312 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: so we can figure out where we are salary cap wise, 313 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 1: and what else we have to do with the drop 314 00:15:18,520 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah. And then Aaron says, I'm 315 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: not ready to make a decision. Okay, We're going to 316 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: move on to the next guy because he's not the 317 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,600 Speaker 1: MVP anymore. You're not someone who commands that kind of 318 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: gravitas in the market. 319 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, we leave no pop culture reference. On turn we 320 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 2: go back to the classic of Oceans eleven, go back 321 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,240 Speaker 2: to Chicago bar that I used to frequent when I'd 322 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:41,880 Speaker 2: go home, which has now been closed, which hurts my soul. 323 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,480 Speaker 2: But that's where George Clooney plops the plane ticket down 324 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 2: on the counter for Matt Damon and says, you're in 325 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 2: and you're out right now. Yes, we can't wait anymore. 326 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 2: We got to figure this out. Denver is interesting, but 327 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 2: you've had a full off season of knowing and whether 328 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,240 Speaker 2: Sean Payton and Nick's nessly love each other was in 329 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 2: question for a while, but proof of concept that it 330 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:09,760 Speaker 2: did work overall before the broken ankle to end things. 331 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: As we continue, more from the National Football League rolling up, 332 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:17,760 Speaker 2: and now we're talking officials and they're saying, think of 333 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 2: the children. Think of the children, in this case the 334 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:23,480 Speaker 2: NFL players. He's Jared Smith and for Jason I'm Mike Carmon, 335 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,720 Speaker 2: and we continue here on Fox. 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Jared Smith in for Jason tonight. 377 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 2: As we're watching the final throws of a big sporting 378 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:57,920 Speaker 2: night baseball all through the afternoon, you and I watching 379 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 2: some games kind of through the linkup of text messaging. 380 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 2: Did you see that play boy, that guy, how does 381 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,280 Speaker 2: he take that pitch? 382 00:19:06,480 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: All of that? 383 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: Now we're watching the San Antonio Spurs drumming the Warriors. 384 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 2: Not really the story, although Steph Curry's gonna give us 385 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: an appearance evidently on Easter weekend He's gonna rise up. Sorry, 386 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,240 Speaker 2: the joke wrote itself five point forty remaining here Victor 387 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:23,639 Speaker 2: wembin Yama putting on a show. Do you think he 388 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 2: does an I'm the MVP speech or wears a T 389 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: shirt to that effect in the post game, Jared, I. 390 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,440 Speaker 1: Think I'm over the lobbying of like the player's lobbying 391 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,280 Speaker 1: for the awards. I think it's obvious that they want 392 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 1: to they want to win, but they have no say 393 00:19:39,359 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: in what actually happens. They're just talking directly to the 394 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 1: people who are voting, which is ironic in its own sense. 395 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,280 Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's either that or you go high 396 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,520 Speaker 2: school when you hand out cookies with your face on him. 397 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I would honestly be I think that 398 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: would actually probably sway the media more. I mean, they're 399 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:56,480 Speaker 1: usually a pretty hungry bunch. 400 00:19:56,359 --> 00:19:59,480 Speaker 2: Right Frenchman. Here's here's some wine from a vineyard that I. 401 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 5: Oh all that. 402 00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: I mean, you give the media free wine, free booze, right, 403 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: What was here saying? If it's free, it's for me. 404 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: That was what I would say when I was covering 405 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,239 Speaker 1: sports back in the day, and I remember going to 406 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,760 Speaker 1: I remember the first time I covered I think it 407 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,879 Speaker 1: was the nets at Barclay Center when I was starting 408 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,080 Speaker 1: working in local news in New York, and they just 409 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: had this incredible buffet for the media before the game, 410 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:22,359 Speaker 1: and I was like, Wow, this is the big time, right. 411 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 2: I just remember going to a number of games with 412 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:27,719 Speaker 2: the media credential before we got into this time slot. 413 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 2: So other than taking a day off to go do that, 414 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,560 Speaker 2: and then obviously the Dodgers, it's tough because there's a 415 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 2: billion people that want access, especially when it's a giveaway day. 416 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:41,480 Speaker 2: I was just just always saddened at the free food 417 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 2: because it was just such a level of gluttony. It's like, 418 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 2: are your places you're working for not paying you enough 419 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 2: to eat? 420 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: Yes? Well, the big thing too, it was almost on 421 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 1: election night, and that's the other thing people will go 422 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:55,600 Speaker 1: crazy for. Yeah, the old rule. 423 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 2: Look at my house, I had for a while the 424 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:02,480 Speaker 2: markings of a you know, on pork chop night because 425 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 2: there was that extra one. Well it went to the quick. 426 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,280 Speaker 2: But you know, one of the things my dad has 427 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 2: always a big piece of chicken. Never be a shamed 428 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 2: piece of chicken, That's right. So you certainly have that 429 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 2: the NFL one of the things that's still swirling as 430 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 2: the meetings go on. Or a couple of weeks from 431 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 2: the draft, Mendoza had his pro day and and we 432 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 2: did everything we could to highlight all of those videos. 433 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,879 Speaker 2: I was waiting for him to be throwing with like 434 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:36,960 Speaker 2: a superimposed Superman cape on at one point, just to 435 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 2: really make that point, going back to the Henry Cavill 436 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,919 Speaker 2: reference earlier, because you know, we we leave and we 437 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,640 Speaker 2: have to close all of those loops, and really, when 438 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 2: you do that, it really looks like a giant hug. 439 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 2: That's what you're trying to do. Or you're forming a 440 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 2: basket for your your toddler as they're trying to throw 441 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,120 Speaker 2: it up. Whatever works for you. But we're talking about 442 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 2: the NFL referees and the replacement referee possibility, and the 443 00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:09,520 Speaker 2: NFLPA played the kid card. Now George Carlon famously in 444 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 2: his stand up they tell me the kids are the future. 445 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:16,200 Speaker 2: Think of the children. Everybody wants to tell me about 446 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 2: how this is gonna affect the children, you know what? 447 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,240 Speaker 2: Blank the children. In this case, the NFLPA is speaking 448 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,439 Speaker 2: for the players, going, well, you know what, if you 449 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 2: have replaced some referees, you know what, safety, you're putting 450 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,719 Speaker 2: our safety at risk. And that's always that's like the 451 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 2: four letter word in all of these arguments for everything. 452 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 2: On an eighteenth game, safety, you're gonna get half of 453 00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:45,199 Speaker 2: the gate. Can we just get that extra day off instead? 454 00:22:46,040 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 2: Can you rewind one of these preseason games? Can we 455 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 2: you know, change some rulings about something else? Fairly inocuous, 456 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,400 Speaker 2: but I love that now it's you know, and it's 457 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,240 Speaker 2: gonna be on the officials for like that's still adjudicated 458 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,720 Speaker 2: through the league office. The guy's on the field. That 459 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 2: ain't changing anything. If someone gets clubbed upside the head 460 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 2: Deacon Jones head slap style or doctor d David Schultz 461 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 2: taking it to ABC News correspondent for twenty twenty, John 462 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:20,680 Speaker 2: Stoscil's head, you think gets fake, they're gonna get flagged 463 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,760 Speaker 2: for it, or if they don't, there's gonna be a 464 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 2: giant pink envelope saying make your check payable to this 465 00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,600 Speaker 2: right that gets that doesn't get adjudicated except for a 466 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 2: fifteen yard penalty, which generally I think we can all 467 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 2: agree they usually throw too many of those, and if 468 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 2: it is an egregious act of violence, they err on 469 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 2: the side of caution. In twenty twenty six, as opposed 470 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 2: to the football that I grew up watching and the 471 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 2: DVDs that every once in a while you buy all 472 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:51,920 Speaker 2: of them if they find you find them at a 473 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 2: yard sale because they don't show those hits anymore. You know, 474 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,600 Speaker 2: back when you know the football was well, a little 475 00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,159 Speaker 2: less polished would be the kind way to say it. 476 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:07,400 Speaker 2: But the nfl PA trying to go to this route 477 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 2: like this is not This is not gonna have a 478 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 2: whole lot of juice, at least from where I sit. 479 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, it does seem like this is gonna be the 480 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,520 Speaker 1: hot button topic. Like I think this is way more newsworthy, 481 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: way more talking pointable than the Jalen Hurts stuff, you know, 482 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: some of the stuff that we're getting from the whispers 483 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:30,359 Speaker 1: and the rumblings of these you know, owners and coaches meetings. 484 00:24:30,359 --> 00:24:33,720 Speaker 1: I think this referee labor fight is really it should 485 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 1: be front and center. I don't know how it's gonna 486 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,880 Speaker 1: turn out. I hope it's positive. I do believe if 487 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,800 Speaker 1: you ask me what my opinion is on it, I 488 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: do believe that if we do get replacement refs like 489 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: we did in twenty twelve, there's obviously a lot of 490 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,240 Speaker 1: car tissue there, but I do think the league is 491 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:57,000 Speaker 1: more prepared for it this time around. Right, we have 492 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 1: more oversight with the commands centerant and how things are adjudicated. Obviously, 493 00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,879 Speaker 1: that doesn't help the day to day the play to 494 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,159 Speaker 1: play officiating and you know, what's a whole what's a 495 00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: pass interference? And those things are probably going to be 496 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 1: more frustrating, But I think a lot of the bigger 497 00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: picture stuff, for example, the fail Mary would never happen today. 498 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:18,080 Speaker 1: It would have not happened. They would have went to 499 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:20,360 Speaker 1: the eye and the sky, and they're gonna fix those 500 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:24,880 Speaker 1: types of things. So I think in hopefully this gets 501 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: resolved before May thirty first, which seems to be the 502 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:31,240 Speaker 1: drop dead date. If not, I hope that the league 503 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,760 Speaker 1: is more prepared for what could be a referee lockout 504 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. 505 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, when we look at it, JC Tretder and his statement, 506 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 2: they manage the game in real time and force the 507 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 2: rules stop situations from escalating. Then that's just picking a 508 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 2: guy off the street who refereed, you know, a flag 509 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 2: football game of a bunch of seven year olds, or 510 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,159 Speaker 2: refereed a soccer game and say, hey, you want in. 511 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:58,440 Speaker 2: Doesn't mean you can't put your application in, but i'd 512 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,560 Speaker 2: hope the vetting process is a little bit better. I 513 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 2: mean just going up the chain. And this is where 514 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 2: referees have to decide if this is their one chance 515 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 2: to break through to the show and what does it 516 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:13,640 Speaker 2: do for their long term job prospects Once the regular 517 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 2: officials notice I didn't say full time, the regular officials 518 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 2: come back to work right, all of the different things 519 00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,959 Speaker 2: they're fighting for on the other side. But for the PA, 520 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 2: like you can always amend rules on the fly as 521 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 2: the NFL, right, the eye in the sky has more responsibility. 522 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 2: And if the owners are deciding that that's better for 523 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,679 Speaker 2: their final pocketbook, guess what, We're convening a special meeting 524 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,360 Speaker 2: on Zoom like we did in twenty twenty to decide 525 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:49,680 Speaker 2: on scheduling and all sorts of other things. So same 526 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,840 Speaker 2: thing here. If they see that there's a problem in 527 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,399 Speaker 2: certain aspects of the game, and I'll equate it to 528 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 2: Major League Baseball real quick, Jared. I mean, we've got 529 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 2: m buyers that have been doing forever. You change the 530 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 2: rules a little bit, you had the abs and guys 531 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,400 Speaker 2: that have been there forever. And I hate to keep 532 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,760 Speaker 2: going back to the well, but our guy Buckner has 533 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,200 Speaker 2: been with the league for a very long time, right, 534 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:17,600 Speaker 2: and now he's become the face of the challenges of ABS, 535 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 2: which means all the other all the other umpires, and 536 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,399 Speaker 2: this is an unintended consequence and a positive one for 537 00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 2: everybody else. The microscope's not on them. Like today, Buckner 538 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 2: was behind the plate. He took a fastball, eyesight or 539 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 2: just missed it, crossed up whatever, took one to the 540 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,119 Speaker 2: to the grill, and had to leave the game. I 541 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,920 Speaker 2: hope he's okay. I hope of speedy recovery, but we 542 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:44,800 Speaker 2: were worried about what was going to be the final 543 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 2: tally for him behind the plate today and every other 544 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 2: umpire gets to live in relative anonymity. Wegman, yesterday he 545 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 2: screwed one up. We'll get to that in a bit, 546 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 2: or Wegner, I should say, But you just go through 547 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,920 Speaker 2: the Wegman' is a grocery store chain in the Northeast. 548 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 2: For those who uh guy. 549 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 1: When I was I love Wegman. 550 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,880 Speaker 2: It would used to be a battle by my next 551 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 2: door neighbors when I lived in upstate New York because 552 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 2: the the mom, the grandma, she preferred one of the 553 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 2: grocery store chains, whereas the dad grandpa uh preferred the other. 554 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,240 Speaker 2: And you could literally hear them fighting about it. It was 555 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 2: pretty funny. Oh we get that here their thing there 556 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,439 Speaker 2: is better. I'm like, wow, this if this is all 557 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,320 Speaker 2: you're arguing about, this is great. I hope it's not 558 00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 2: a microcosmos. But either way, and the kids used to 559 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,960 Speaker 2: think it was funny, Like the grandkids would come and say, ah, 560 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 2: they're talking and Grandpa wanted to go to this sweet 561 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,800 Speaker 2: people recipes. 562 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 1: But just the. 563 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 2: Idea of you know, when we go into what major 564 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:48,719 Speaker 2: League Baseball did, these are all experienced folks that have 565 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,280 Speaker 2: a nuance and guess what. It's exposing what had been 566 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 2: long termed and long gest stating inequities of how things 567 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,640 Speaker 2: are developed. Right, just like in baseball, someone might have 568 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,840 Speaker 2: a hot or a low strike zone might give you 569 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 2: a little bit of the black on the outer plate, 570 00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 2: either side or both plus an inch or three. Go 571 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,240 Speaker 2: back to Greg Maddox. Why was he so successful because 572 00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 2: he consistently hit a spot. Which if he's consistently hitting 573 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,360 Speaker 2: a spot, he got that strike call all the time. Right. 574 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 2: If Tony Gwynn didn't swing at a pitch, he got 575 00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 2: it called. The ball could have been bell high, straight 576 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,280 Speaker 2: over the center of the plate. If he didn't swing, 577 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,680 Speaker 2: the umpire just assumed it was a bad pitch. Now 578 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 2: we're in a different age, right, we get the electronic box. Likewise, 579 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 2: with football, everything is watched for the integrity of the game, 580 00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 2: because that's the other part of it, that's the the 581 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 2: unspoken thing out there, the specter of legalized gambling and 582 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 2: the billions of dollars that get funneled back and forth. 583 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,320 Speaker 2: Like if we want to do that, don't try to 584 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,000 Speaker 2: sell me on safety. You want to go back and 585 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 2: talk about, Hey, there's a lot riding on this and 586 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 2: I'm not just talking about trips to Los angele Jus 587 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 2: for a Super Bowl week of parties. You want to 588 00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 2: get me on that. It's a better argument. 589 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's no spec there anymore. Like it's here 590 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: to stay guys and I know people. Some people like it, 591 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: some people don't. Coming from someone who is working in 592 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 1: the space and who straddles the line between media and 593 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 1: gambling on a daily basis, I can tell you that 594 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: the money is so substantial it is not going anywhere. 595 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:28,880 Speaker 1: So how do we change as a sports culture to 596 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 1: adjust for this new guard rail? The new guardrails that 597 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,960 Speaker 1: we have, what we have to be considerably more precise 598 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: with our officiating. It has not been precise. And a 599 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,400 Speaker 1: lot of people will argue that the human element is 600 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: part of the game and that's what makes sports so great, 601 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: and I understand that element, but we can't leave room 602 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: for interpretation anymore. And I'm not saying that gambling hasn't 603 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,320 Speaker 1: been around for hundreds of years, and the Black Sox 604 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: scandal in nineteen nineteen and all these other gambling scandals. 605 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 1: Go watch the movie Goodfellas. They were talking about the 606 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 1: Boston College point saving point shaving scandal. Then these things 607 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 1: have been existing for years. But now we have social media, 608 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,160 Speaker 1: and now we have all of these different avenues to 609 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: disseminate information at a very brief and brisk pace. And 610 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: we also have micro betting, live betting. We had Emmanuel 611 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: class A get dinged for Luis Ortiz, these guys getting 612 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: thing for the pitches that they were throwing, the first 613 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: pitch of a specific at bat stop throw yeah, And 614 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 1: so like we are in a different level of it now, 615 00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: whereas before it was throwing the World Series, which is insane. 616 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: That would never happen today. That would never happen today. 617 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: Now we are much more nuanced with the level of 618 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: gambling scandals that we have, So that means we have 619 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,240 Speaker 1: to be more nuanced with how we officiate and interpret 620 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:50,120 Speaker 1: the rules. We have to change. I know people hate change, 621 00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,120 Speaker 1: but that's just what we have to do as a society. 622 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: If you want to stay in the past, well you're 623 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 1: gonna stay there. But we are changing as a sports society. 624 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: That that is why if we do and I actually 625 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,200 Speaker 1: think this might sound crazy, This might be the craziest 626 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,720 Speaker 1: take I have in this entire show, which is saying something. 627 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: But let's go worst case scenario and the refs lockout 628 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: and we go to replacement refs in the NFL in 629 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,479 Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Well, let's just say we're in that 630 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: alternate dimension where that that is reality, and the NFL 631 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: then imposes some emergency law rule that says every call, 632 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 1: every scenario is reviewed by the command center in New York. 633 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 1: I don't think that's the worst outcome for the NFL. Now, 634 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,200 Speaker 1: I would like to have the referees actually on the 635 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,480 Speaker 1: field so we don't have to have every call reviewed 636 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:43,920 Speaker 1: and we can get it right on the field the 637 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,560 Speaker 1: first time. But I don't think it's the worst endgame. 638 00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: If we get to a point that the NFL is 639 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 1: very concerned about whatever they're concerned about with these replacement refs, 640 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,400 Speaker 1: and we get to a point where every single thing 641 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: is looked at by the NFL Command Center, we don't 642 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: need to have this long review process. They've got some 643 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,200 Speaker 1: guy in the ear of the head official who could 644 00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:05,680 Speaker 1: just call down and say this is what we saw, 645 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 1: we're changing it, and we get some kind of correct 646 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: eye in the sky that gets these calls accurate. I don't, honestly, Mike, 647 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: I don't think that's the worst outcome for the league 648 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,440 Speaker 1: in the long run. If that's where we. 649 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,040 Speaker 2: Go, someone can go sue for the czar of the telestrator, 650 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 2: because I bet you Mike Frittello never trademarked it, just 651 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,120 Speaker 2: like Caleb Williams is going after Iceman, and you're all 652 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,080 Speaker 2: about change. Going from betting the biceps. Let's go over 653 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,240 Speaker 2: to Manti Milanios at the news desk. Change it up. 654 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 2: She's got an updown on everything true across this vast 655 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,920 Speaker 2: sporting landscape, still smarting from a Dodger's loss. 656 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,120 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I guess we'll start with the Dodgers loss. 657 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:45,800 Speaker 6: Yeah they did. 658 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,240 Speaker 5: They got defeated by the Guardians at Unique Low Field 659 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 5: at Dodger Stadium. 660 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:53,360 Speaker 6: Change four to one was the final score. 661 00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,200 Speaker 5: Pitcher Gavin Williams through seven scoreless innings and struck out 662 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,600 Speaker 5: ten will Jo Siramidez had a two run shot in 663 00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,680 Speaker 5: the win. Jonathan India hit a grand Slam and the 664 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,760 Speaker 5: Twins tried to make a comeback, but the Royals held 665 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:09,799 Speaker 5: on and beat Minnesota thirteen to nine. Padres outscored the 666 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 5: Giants seven to one to avoid the three games sweep, 667 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,239 Speaker 5: and the Yankees defeated. 668 00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,839 Speaker 6: The Mariners in Seattle five to three. 669 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 5: Cam Schlittler pitched another six and two thirds shutout and 670 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 5: means thank you, while Paul Goldschmid hit a three run 671 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,320 Speaker 5: shot in at the win. The NBA has officially wrapped 672 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 5: up and Victor winn Banyama another show four wemb forty 673 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,360 Speaker 5: one points eighteen rebounds, and the Spurs defeated the Warriors 674 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,640 Speaker 5: win twenty seven to one thirteen. But the Warriors are 675 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,480 Speaker 5: hoping to have Steph Curry back this weekend against the 676 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,800 Speaker 5: Houston Rockets. He has missed the last twenty five games 677 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,439 Speaker 5: with a knee injury. Jamal Murray had thirty seven points 678 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,200 Speaker 5: as a Nuggets beat the Jazz one thirty to one seventeen. 679 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 5: The Celtics scored fifty three points in the first quarter, 680 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 5: the most out of any quarter since nineteen seventy for Boston. 681 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:56,120 Speaker 5: They outscored the Heat in Miami won forty seven to 682 00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:59,240 Speaker 5: one twenty nine. Jalen Brown forty three points, while Jason 683 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,200 Speaker 5: Tatum had a true double twenty five points, eighteen rebounds 684 00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 5: and eleven assists. The seventy six Ers crushed the Wizards 685 00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,440 Speaker 5: one fifty three to one thirty one, and the Kings 686 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 5: defeated the Raptors one twenty three to one fifteen. 687 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,120 Speaker 6: So Philadelphia has moved out of the playing tournament. 688 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:14,800 Speaker 5: Right now, they're in the sixth seed in the Eastern 689 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 5: Conference and in the NFL RAMS Wide receiver Pukanakua is 690 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,800 Speaker 5: currently at a rehab treatment center in Malibu. 691 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,760 Speaker 6: The California Post has the story. 692 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,920 Speaker 5: Apparently he entered rehab prior to the recent allegations that 693 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:27,879 Speaker 5: he'd bid a woman on New Year's Eve. 694 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,359 Speaker 6: In the NHL, that has wrapped up as well. 695 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,120 Speaker 5: The Sharks took down the Ducks four to three, Kings 696 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,319 Speaker 5: over the Blues in overtime two to one, and the 697 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:37,800 Speaker 5: Canucks outscored the Avalanche eight to six. 698 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 2: Back to you, guys, appreciate your Manti Mantsy belangios. Where 699 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 2: you find her in the Twitter verse. Check out everything 700 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 2: she's got popping there, videos and links to all her 701 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 2: work here at Fox Sports Radio and some of the 702 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 2: chaos outside. All of that comes together for you there. 703 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,839 Speaker 2: Jared Smith in for Jason Smith on Mike Carmon. As 704 00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,319 Speaker 2: with the iHeartRadio app stream us wherever you happen to be, 705 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,080 Speaker 2: catch us all our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty 706 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,839 Speaker 2: four seven. It's a new and improved iHeartRadio app search 707 00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the app stream is live all 708 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:08,839 Speaker 2: day every day. Send it to friends and family and 709 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,719 Speaker 2: have them send it on as we complete global domination. 710 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,560 Speaker 2: No doubt they were listening to us on Artemis two 711 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,000 Speaker 2: a little bit earlier today as well. Yeah, also selling 712 00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:21,600 Speaker 2: to the moon exactly select. Fox Sports Radio is one 713 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,879 Speaker 2: of your presets on the iHeart app. It'll always pop 714 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,240 Speaker 2: up at the top of your screen. Coming up next 715 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 2: a lesson in getting ahead of the news cycle and 716 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,640 Speaker 2: preserving your payday. We'll tell you how next here on 717 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:36,720 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. 718 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,080 Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 719 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,480 Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio 720 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 3: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to 721 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 3: listen live. 722 00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,840 Speaker 2: Welcome back at Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with 723 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:55,880 Speaker 2: b Byke Carmon Jared Smith in for Jason. One of 724 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 2: the news stories in Monte Milano's update that resonates throughout 725 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,960 Speaker 2: the football world because well, wondering what's going along and 726 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,480 Speaker 2: what's the next step for Puka Nakua. We get the 727 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 2: release today that he has checked himself in to a 728 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:19,400 Speaker 2: rehabilitation facility, and that happened and preceded the latest in 729 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 2: terms of any epithet and commentary inflammatory against Jewish people 730 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 2: again allegations multiple times now in that regard. But then 731 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,560 Speaker 2: you have this odd end of year biting incident. Here's 732 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,799 Speaker 2: the picture of the teeth marks and everything that goes 733 00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,759 Speaker 2: around preemptive strike. Right, good pr one, Hey, you got 734 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 2: to get help, get ahead, get ahead of the news cycle. 735 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 2: He's already in rehab and working, and he wants to 736 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,880 Speaker 2: be the highest paid receiver in the National Football League 737 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,400 Speaker 2: and assuage LA and he fears that he will not 738 00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:04,240 Speaker 2: be event leble for McVeigh and for the Rams. McVeigh 739 00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 2: saying all of the things, Trusting the young man, knowing 740 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,360 Speaker 2: the young man, all of that. But the news today 741 00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:13,600 Speaker 2: jared that he checked into the rehab facility. Look self 742 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 2: preservation for multiple levels. One, maybe you legitimately realized you're 743 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,960 Speaker 2: going down a bad path. Maybe you need to rethink 744 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,720 Speaker 2: a lot of what you've been doing, saying etc. Doesn't 745 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:28,279 Speaker 2: mean you can't be a mid twenties kid, late twenties kid, 746 00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 2: go and have your fun. But when you start getting 747 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,359 Speaker 2: attached to things like he was, suddenly you're looking at 748 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:40,320 Speaker 2: potentially torpedoing not only your reputation but also your spot 749 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,520 Speaker 2: in one of the best teams in the NFL and 750 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,560 Speaker 2: the opportunity to be that guy with the biggest payday 751 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:49,440 Speaker 2: in the game. So seeing this statement come out today, 752 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,040 Speaker 2: there's a lot that goes behind it. 753 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,719 Speaker 1: That we get to the point of physical harm on 754 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,400 Speaker 1: other people. You know. The anti semitis some stuff. I 755 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,040 Speaker 1: don't want to get into that too much. It's kind 756 00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 1: of conjecture, you know. I think he made a couple 757 00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,279 Speaker 1: of bad media decisions on some podcasts that he went 758 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,400 Speaker 1: on and I'm not gonna put that in the and 759 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,759 Speaker 1: that feels like a misdemeanor. Frankly, this is this is 760 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,680 Speaker 1: a little bit more serious when you're biting people and 761 00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: you're you know, and again it is allegations, but we 762 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,120 Speaker 1: do have we do have some pretty I looked at 763 00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,320 Speaker 1: the pictures. The bite marks are pretty are pretty substantial, 764 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:25,880 Speaker 1: and you have a way to confirm whether or not 765 00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,160 Speaker 1: they're his. And the fact that he did check into 766 00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,960 Speaker 1: rehab kind of tells me that he's probably, you know, 767 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,759 Speaker 1: made some made some tough decisions over the last couple 768 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,239 Speaker 1: of weeks. I really hope that, I really hope he 769 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:40,319 Speaker 1: gets the help that he needs, uh, because he is, 770 00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:42,320 Speaker 1: at his peak, one of the best receivers in the NFL. 771 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,239 Speaker 1: I did a film study on him earlier this year, 772 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:48,000 Speaker 1: and he's a remarkable talent. And I hope that he 773 00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,480 Speaker 1: continues to improve not only on the field, but also 774 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,880 Speaker 1: off the field, because I think we all make mistakes. 775 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,640 Speaker 1: I mean, he's I don't know how well the twenty 776 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: four to twenty five somewhere in that range. But he 777 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,239 Speaker 1: has a lot of learning to do his as a 778 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 1: human being, obviously, and hopefully he grows from this, and 779 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: I think I think he will based off his decisions. 780 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,600 Speaker 2: Now, I got to get past the knucklehead phase. And yeah, 781 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,919 Speaker 2: you're right, I mean a lot of it is he said. 782 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 2: She said, even with the the bite marks, I mean, 783 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,080 Speaker 2: it still becomes a all right, what's the full story? 784 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:22,720 Speaker 2: And and going through the step by step, minute by minute. 785 00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,160 Speaker 2: We don't have that. It becomes the all right, how 786 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 2: you know, burden of proof and everything else. Well, there's 787 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,799 Speaker 2: the bite mark. It's pretty much the hey, go get 788 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,359 Speaker 2: the the dental uh you know, match to it, as 789 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 2: we've seen in every television and movie police identification process. 790 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:45,120 Speaker 2: But for Poka Nakua, after JSN signed his deal, it 791 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,400 Speaker 2: became the all right, how much more can the Rams 792 00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:54,560 Speaker 2: take or any other NFL team with these stories swirling 793 00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,320 Speaker 2: in the background, And certainly this is the first step 794 00:40:57,520 --> 00:41:01,359 Speaker 2: towards the rehabilitation of that image and his place in 795 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 2: the NFL. He's Jared Smith in for Jason Smith on 796 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,000 Speaker 2: Mike Harmon here at Fox Sports Radio. As we continue, 797 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:09,600 Speaker 2: we've got to go back to the other side of 798 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:14,080 Speaker 2: the bracket. Yeah, how's your bracket doing. NCAA tournament Michigan 799 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,480 Speaker 2: and Arizona. We'll break it all down next here on 800 00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:17,439 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.