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But 20 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: Monday Night football, we had our share of heroics. We 21 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,440 Speaker 1: talked about Caleb Williams. Last hour on the show, The 22 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: opening game of the night, the Falcons out last the Bills, 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:24,400 Speaker 1: And I gotta be honest with you if you are 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:30,960 Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Chargers, even the Steelers even loath to admitute. 25 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: Even if you're the Patriots, Hey, look you run away 26 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: and hide in the division. If you're the Steelers right now, 27 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,800 Speaker 1: if you're the Colts, you are feeling pretty good after 28 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: what you just saw on Monday Night football. Yes, the 29 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 1: Bills were missing Dalton Kincaid. Who is you know? Hey, 30 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 1: the third year tight end breakout is a thing, But 31 00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: Dawson Knox got a touchdown pass. But this Bills team 32 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 1: is flawed, and now seeing them for six games, this 33 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,640 Speaker 1: is a team that if they can front run, meaning 34 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,919 Speaker 1: if we can get out beginning of the game and 35 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: do everything we want to do, which is establish our 36 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: running game, establish that all the different receivers I can 37 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: get the football to right, whether it's Keon Coleman or 38 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: I want to get to Shakir, or it's Dalton and 39 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: KG when he's in the lineup, whatever it is, If 40 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: we can do our thing, boy, we are tough to beat. 41 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: But that doesn't always happen, and it didn't happen tonight. 42 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: And the Bills wound up getting smacked. And this is 43 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: not a Bills team that you have to worry about 44 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: stopping any one individual weapon. They're kind of like the 45 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 1: chiefs Light from the last couple of years, where yeah, 46 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: Josh Allen's terrific player and all, but there's nobody have 47 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: to worry. We have to stop Keon Coleman now to you, 48 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: as you can see the last couple of weeks, now 49 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: things are a little bit more difficult for the Bills 50 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: because teams have seen their tendencies, they've seen how to 51 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,440 Speaker 1: approach this defensively, and the Falcons have a pretty good 52 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: defense and they shut the Bills down and Josh Allen 53 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: was never able to really impart his will on the game. 54 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,239 Speaker 1: It would have been a bigger blow out if Drake 55 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 1: Lennon could have kept just one foot a little bit 56 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:15,079 Speaker 1: more in bounds in the final play in the first half. 57 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,359 Speaker 1: But this Bills team is clearly beatable. They're flawed. All 58 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: the teams in the AFC are flawed. Right, Wait, we 59 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:24,960 Speaker 1: talk about the If we do like a power rankings 60 00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 1: for the AFC, the teams are the top. But this 61 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: Bills team is flawed. And if you can. If you 62 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 1: can hit them in the mouth in the beginning of 63 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,000 Speaker 1: the game, you stop them from being who they are. 64 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: And nothing needs to be more said than this, And 65 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: this is kind of a hot take, but as good 66 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,200 Speaker 1: as Josh Allen is, he's not the most important player 67 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: on that offense. Clearly, what we have seen is James 68 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,119 Speaker 1: Cook is the most important player on that offense. When 69 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: they can get him going. He's become a top five 70 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: running back in the NFL over the course of the 71 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: last years. When they get him going, that's when the 72 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: Bills offense is unstoppable, right, because that open and they 73 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: play complimentary football. Great, but they can't just throw the 74 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: football down the field because the receivers aren't good enough. 75 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: And Josh Allen is not quite that kind of quarterback. 76 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: He's a guy that needs to be doing everything. Design 77 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 1: runs for him. But they couldn't get James Cook established 78 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: right first half, they were getting crushed. James Cook ran 79 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: for thirty yards in the first half. Okay, second half, Hey, 80 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: first drive, we're gonna do things different. James Cook had 81 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 1: thirty five yards in the second drive. Bills are in 82 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:27,839 Speaker 1: the end zone, right, But when you can establish James 83 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: Cook is the most important player in that offense when 84 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 1: they can establish him and they feed him and they 85 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 1: quote let James Cook. The Bills offense is different. But 86 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 1: the Falcons took him away in the first half. The 87 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: Bills couldn't bounce back. And I think every team in 88 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: the AFC and really contenders got to see tonight. Okay, 89 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: there's your blueprint on how to stop the Bills offense 90 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: because they put up all the points on the Ravens. Well, 91 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 1: the Ravens defense sticks, but points on the Jets. Jets 92 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: are the worst team in football. But now here you 93 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: are a team that's a defense that's pretty good, and 94 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: you saw what they were able to do. Okay, James 95 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,160 Speaker 1: Cook is the guy. And now maybe the Bills are 96 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: going to be able to try to figure things out 97 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 1: of the course the rest of the season. But clearly, 98 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 1: right now, if James Cook can do his thing, the 99 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 1: Bills win. It's not Josh Allen, it's James Cook. 100 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 3: Yeah. 101 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 4: Obviously we're on air for a chunk of it, so 102 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: we don't have the benefit of whatever the analysis is 103 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,800 Speaker 4: and breaking down play to play, and I haven't been 104 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 4: able to find anything except that his usage late in 105 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 4: the game was down only at seventeen touches average five 106 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 4: point one yards a carry, but wasn't on the field 107 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 4: and they're not using him in the passing game as 108 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 4: you would have seen in years past. So that's a 109 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 4: little bit of a curiosity, right. He had thirty two 110 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 4: catches on thirty eight targets a year ago. All Right, 111 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 4: that doesn't extrapolate, you know, break that down per game. 112 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,880 Speaker 4: That's not a ton wasn't utilized at all in that 113 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 4: capacity tonight. 114 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 2: And when we look. 115 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 4: At the squad overall, to the point you were making 116 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 4: about the wide receivers, something we said coming into the year, 117 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 4: you don't have a number one guy that you fear. 118 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 4: He got a lot of you know, bless seeless guys 119 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 4: that make up for it. 120 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 2: But this ain't Voltron. 121 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 4: I don't get to stack those guys together along the 122 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 4: end the boundary. 123 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,119 Speaker 1: Yes, But that's the thing is that now Josh Allen 124 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,279 Speaker 1: is showing that, oh Am, I really still a quarterback 125 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 1: that makes everybody better, right, Because that's the thing about 126 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: being a great quarterback is no matter who you have, 127 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: I can make everybody better. My Holmes makes everybody better, 128 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson makes everybody better. Is Josh Allen a guy 129 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: that make because this is how they had. Okay, they 130 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: had Stefan Diggs for a long time and they kind 131 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,479 Speaker 1: of changed after that. Okay, spun Diggs is gone. Now 132 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: we draft Keon Coleman to replace him, ostensibly, but Kean 133 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: Coleman's not quite that guy. Well, okay, but we have 134 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:40,200 Speaker 1: a lot of weapons. Now they go out and get 135 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel. We have a bunch of guys like we 136 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: feel good about our depth. But is that enough? Is 137 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: Josh all enough to make them all better? And he's 138 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 1: not at this point, not with this not with this group. 139 00:06:49,960 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 1: He's not enough to make them all better. 140 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 4: Well, but that's the thing, right is plays left on 141 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,040 Speaker 4: the field and the fact that the defense is a 142 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 4: no show unit at this point. All right, Well go 143 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 4: back to that opener again. 144 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:00,720 Speaker 1: Baltimore. 145 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:04,359 Speaker 4: They played terribly and Allen was able to put on 146 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:07,200 Speaker 4: his cape and bring him back. And that's generally been 147 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 4: the formula of what they had to do. It's got 148 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 4: him an MVP a year ago, and in an AFC 149 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 4: that right now, you're trying to figure out who the 150 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 4: best squad is, I guess it would have to be Indianapolis. 151 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,360 Speaker 4: By default, if we're going to go both sides of 152 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 4: the ball and being able to have balance in your offense, 153 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 4: that they would become the number one at this point. 154 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 4: But for Buffalo, yeah, there's a lot of problems right 155 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 4: here and one side of the ball. Look, go back 156 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 4: to the first play from scrimmage, is the Falcons got 157 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 4: bailed out off of a timing issue of a guy 158 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:47,280 Speaker 4: jumping into the neutral zone. So you get the encroachment 159 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:49,720 Speaker 4: that takes away what was a great play at a 160 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 4: Bijon Robinson fumble right Instead, they get the ball back 161 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,800 Speaker 4: and immediately down the field and score a touchdown. So 162 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 4: you know, a game of inches and calls that go 163 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 4: against you, that start to stack, and then you're playing 164 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 4: from behind. And again when you've got I've got to 165 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 4: have this throw, do I have a playmaker that can 166 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 4: go get it? And the answer is right now, I 167 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:13,040 Speaker 4: don't think you do. 168 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: Now. On the flip side of this, the Falcons win, 169 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: and the Falcons for the last couple of years when 170 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: everybody's favorite team that we think can they have all 171 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: kinds of exciting weapons on the team. Boy, you really 172 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:27,240 Speaker 1: got to put it together. And the first thing I'm 173 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: gonna say, is the big message tonight should be Okay, remore, 174 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:33,160 Speaker 1: say listen, guys, let's put this together. Let's stack wins. 175 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 1: We're clearly good enough. Okay. We can't be getting shut 176 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: out by the bleeping Panthers. Man, I know the Panthers 177 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: are better than we think, and that's okay, that's a 178 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: good story. We'll get to Bryce shots right. But we 179 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: can't get O'Donnell for the world. It can't get shut 180 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 1: out thirty nothing by the Panthers and then beat the 181 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:50,360 Speaker 1: Bills twenty four to fourteen. That doesn't make any sense. 182 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: So it's a helter skelter kind of team. But this 183 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: is this is where if you're the Falcons, this is 184 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 1: where you say, okay, let's build off this. It's about time. 185 00:08:58,320 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 5: Man. 186 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,880 Speaker 1: I'm looking at my watch and doing Judge Judy jiff 187 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: Of when she does the click tic tic tic tack, like, 188 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: come on, it's time for you guys to get it 189 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: going together. I mean, I'm not gonna believe in Kyle 190 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,959 Speaker 1: Pitts anymore because Kyle pitches it's not happening. But like you, 191 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: you have the talent and it's led by the guy 192 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:15,839 Speaker 1: that we talked about him in the preseason. Who we said, Okay, 193 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: you know what, Bijon Robinson at this some point this 194 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: year is going to establish himself as the best running 195 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: back in football. Wakuon Barkley, Well, you fought with him 196 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:26,320 Speaker 1: and Gibbs. 197 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 2: It's like wrestled with. 198 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: It between him and Gibbs, and now you're seeing that clearly, 199 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: Dan campbellton, I'm still going to give the ball to 200 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: David Montgomery. Come on, man, stop giving it to David Montgomery. 201 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,360 Speaker 1: But clearly Dan Campbell's gonna do that. And we knew Barkley. Hey, 202 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: it's not going to be a year four hundred touches, man, 203 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 1: it's a thing. You don't come off of four hundred 204 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 1: touches and still stay that great running back. You need, 205 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: you need time to come back from that. But Jeon 206 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,840 Speaker 1: Robinson is showing you that he is the full package. 207 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: He never has to come off the field. They take 208 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: him off for a breather now and again, that's fine, 209 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 1: but you get in the ball, he'd be a twenty 210 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: five carry a game guy. You throw him to him 211 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: in the passing game, he does it all. Big home run, 212 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,920 Speaker 1: breakaway run, site, eighty one yard run for a touchdown, 213 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: Bjon Robinson is fulfilling that that the career path where 214 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 1: you thought when they draft him, Boy, he really should 215 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: be the best running back in football. So your early 216 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: first round pick, it should happen now. And Arthur Smith 217 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: was there, No, not gonna do it, Gonna get in 218 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: the ball a little bit, all guy are a little 219 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 1: bit gonna do it, Gonna upset all everybody that plays fantasy. 220 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: But now in turn, now in theory, it's okay, maybe 221 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,320 Speaker 1: that worked as he built up to having this kind 222 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: of of run coming right into the NFL from college. 223 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: We don't want to kill him with three hundred carries. Okay, 224 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna split time a little bit, and okay, it's 225 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: still a very effective one two rushing punch. But really 226 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:45,640 Speaker 1: it's all one now because Bijon Robinson is that good. 227 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:48,560 Speaker 1: They are. Bijon Robinson driven as good as Michael Penix, 228 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: may wind up being as good as Drake London is. 229 00:10:50,880 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: This is a guy I want him to have the 230 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,320 Speaker 1: football two times at least in every four plays they run. 231 00:10:56,480 --> 00:10:59,200 Speaker 1: He's gotta have the football. He's just that good. And 232 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,839 Speaker 1: you see now becoming the best running back in the NFL. 233 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 4: No, he's their leading receiver. You know, as you go 234 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 4: through a big effort obviously from London today and but 235 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:12,080 Speaker 4: for about a foot and a half, would have had 236 00:11:12,080 --> 00:11:15,520 Speaker 4: another touchdown going into the break, one that I thought 237 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 4: might come back to bite them in the ass as 238 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 4: the second half began. But they're able to hold the 239 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 4: the Bills off. One thing that going forward, they're gonna 240 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:27,760 Speaker 4: need more balance in the passing game. Darnell Mooney was 241 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 4: out once again, but you haven't seen anything from he. 242 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,920 Speaker 4: Ray Ray McLeod have combined for a total of thirteen catches. 243 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 4: The aforementioned Pits. It's every fifth week, every sixth week, 244 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 4: he's going to get a big, big push from him. 245 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: He's becoming that guy where where what's a good example of, 246 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: like where every four or five weeks he has a 247 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: big uh like Westbrook, a Keen or something like that. 248 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: We're like, oh, hey, oh, you know, fifteen fantasy points. 249 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:56,720 Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick him up in fantasy. And then the 250 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: next four weeks he's terrible, Yeah, and then the fifth 251 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: week he's great. Yeah. Like that, he's gonna become one 252 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: of those guys. 253 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, Pits twenty catches coming in tonight on twenty four 254 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,520 Speaker 4: targets the single olar touchdown, and that's the big question. 255 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:12,439 Speaker 4: Can they find some consistency in the receivers beyond Drake 256 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 4: London because at this point, I play a box and 257 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:19,680 Speaker 4: one in my second Marria, I'm not giving him any 258 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,520 Speaker 4: chance to make a play, and I'm gonna make you know, 259 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 4: Michael Pennicks Junior, find somebody else at this point, because 260 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:31,160 Speaker 4: you've got no consistency beyond London in the receiver or 261 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 4: it's really Bijon Robinson and London. And that's why I 262 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 4: wonder how high that ceiling is for this team on 263 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:39,400 Speaker 4: a week to week basi. If we're gonna do that 264 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 4: with Buffalo, we gotta do it. We gotta do it 265 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 4: with Atlanta as well in terms of trying to find 266 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 4: that continuity and consistency of playing winning football because you 267 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 4: don't have that tertiary playmaker that's shown up and Panix 268 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:55,000 Speaker 4: isn't a guy that's gonna do it with his legs. 269 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,719 Speaker 1: You have the Big Three, right, it's Panix, You have 270 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: Robinson in London. That's not bad, right, like the Big 271 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:06,599 Speaker 1: Three for the Bills Alan cookend I mean really, so 272 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: it's a big advance. They played Voltron man, Hey, lots 273 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: of teams will be looking for wide receivers. The deadline 274 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: bills are gonna be wonering. 275 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 2: They definitely want to them. 276 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: Speaking of London, have the Jets apologized to their nation? 277 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 1: Yet they're not coming back, They're staying in life. You 278 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:21,959 Speaker 1: apologize to England? You know the people had taught in 279 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,680 Speaker 1: them Hotspur Stadium. 280 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 4: They all should have gotten like a free hot dog 281 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 4: or I mean really on the way out of an 282 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,119 Speaker 4: extra pint of eyeballs. 283 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: That Jets Broncos game that may crush Roger Goodell's dream 284 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: of putting more games overseas. No, we don't want those. 285 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: If it's gonna be Jets Broncos, you keep it, man, 286 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: because they're also trying to sell the hell out of 287 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: the Broncos. They gave you thirteen points. I'd rather watch 288 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: free plays of Wrexham than have this. I'm not happening, man. 289 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: Don't want those teams exit out bout of Fresca exit 290 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 1: swallowing down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend 291 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon got more NFL on the way. We watched 292 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: the guy become a star tonight in the late Monday 293 00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:59,720 Speaker 1: night football game. But straight ahead two big things to 294 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 1: break down from the night of the Baseball playoffs, including 295 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: the biggest play of Dodgers Brewers. Wasn't the play you 296 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,600 Speaker 1: thought it was? It's next right here, Jason and Mike 297 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. 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The hosts are 306 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 3: two absolute morons who have the dumbest takes on sports imaginable. 307 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 3: Don't listen to the show so it can get camps. 308 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: What the hell are you doing in our studio? 309 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:50,160 Speaker 2: Get him, Paulie, Ignore that fool. 310 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,160 Speaker 1: Listen to The Paula and Tony Fusco. 311 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 4: Show on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. 312 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 2: He's still moving. 313 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with Mo my 314 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 1: best friend Mike Harmon. Yeah and uh two big things 315 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: from Game one of the NLCS Tonight, biggest play of 316 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,320 Speaker 1: the game. Oh that taskar Hernandez not knowing the rule. 317 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:14,600 Speaker 1: I don't think he knew the rule. It's gonna have 318 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: a big deal. R uh no, no, No. Biggest play 319 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: of the game comes to us from the ninth inning 320 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: of the Dodgers two to one victory over the Brewers. 321 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: First of all, I I didn't have Rokie Sasaki getting 322 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: pulled for Blake Trinon on my bingo card. But here 323 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 1: we are. 324 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 4: Hey, the playoffs make strange bedfelos, starters become closers, starters, 325 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 4: cats and dogs. 326 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 1: Living together messsteria. Uh. And I want to say this 327 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: right because I talk about Dave Roberts in his bullpen 328 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: management all the time. The Dodgers had exactly what they 329 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 1: wanted tonight. Blake Snell to Roki Sasaki. That's it, right. 330 00:15:56,320 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: We'll get to Blake Snell in a few minutes, because 331 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,840 Speaker 1: wow do we have to talk about him. Blake Snell 332 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: Toroki Sasaki. That's it right, that's you want the only 333 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: ones you can trust, right, Rookie Sasaki, That's it. And 334 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: this is only he's only pitched five or six times 335 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 1: he came back from injury, but budding trust like a 336 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: new relationship. His arm is live, he's throwing one hundred. Yes, 337 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: he's closing out games. He's your closer. But he comes 338 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 1: in tonight and he has trouble throwing strikes. And you 339 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: can see when Roberts took him out of the game, 340 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: the look on his face was just he was in shock, 341 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,920 Speaker 1: like like when you're told you're coming out of the game, 342 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: is like you see in a TV show when someone 343 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:32,800 Speaker 1: says you're fired, I'm fired? Like what like you could 344 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: tell like, am I really processing I'm getting taken out 345 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 1: of the game, Like not that he was upset about it, 346 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,320 Speaker 1: but he's like, I don't know what just happened to me. 347 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: He couldn't throw strikes. 348 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 4: Well, he's talked about it, you know, for as long 349 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 4: as we've been on air, Right, there's guys that go through, 350 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 4: say for baseball minor leagues, you're straight into the majors 351 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 4: and you make that jump and you don't have that hiccup. 352 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 4: We've talked about it for football, right, one of the 353 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,480 Speaker 4: guys go back to Kyler Murray. For years everything came easy. Eisman, 354 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 4: first round draft pick for the a's first overall pick 355 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 4: with the Cardinals. And then all of a sudden, that 356 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,439 Speaker 4: learning curve. It's like, wait, there's something extra I have 357 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 4: to do, So you do that for Sasaki, I've been great. 358 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 4: This transition to the bullpen is gone swimmingly. Yeah, And 359 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 4: he got the first out of the inning, no question. 360 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 4: And then he walks Collins, which is always difficult. And 361 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,520 Speaker 4: then Bowers hits a double, so you have runners at 362 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,240 Speaker 4: second and third. Then he gets try to hit a 363 00:17:29,280 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 4: sacrifice fly, so now you got two outs. The tying 364 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:34,840 Speaker 4: run is at third, but you have two outs, and 365 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 4: then you walk Christian Yelich. And I give Dave Roberts 366 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 4: credit because going to get him at that point was 367 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 4: the right move. Now we can argue Blake trynon which 368 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,960 Speaker 4: we will, but don't you pitch his ten strikes that 369 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 4: going to get him at that point you could tell 370 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 4: he was not accurate. It was not his night, so 371 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 4: we had to go get him. I completely get it. 372 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,200 Speaker 4: But then Blake Trinon comes in and then we get 373 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,400 Speaker 4: to the most important play of the night. Trying did 374 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 4: not have a good out, Okay, right right away, Blake 375 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 4: trying to right he was he was the beneficiary of 376 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 4: bad decision making, and he got and he got lucky. 377 00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 4: So trying and comes in runners at first and third, right, 378 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,639 Speaker 4: tying run at third, winning run at first. Yell it 379 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 4: steal second off of him. Okay, So now you have 380 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 4: runners at second and third, and now the winning run 381 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 4: is at second. 382 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: Okay. He walks Wilson Contreras, which I don't think was 383 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 1: a bad decision because Contreras was right on him two 384 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:31,200 Speaker 1: fast balls. He fouled right back a couple of times 385 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 1: with two strikes. Try to get him to chase out 386 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 1: of the strike zone. Contraras was not doing it. Contreras 387 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:38,080 Speaker 1: was on him this at bat, So I get throwing 388 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: outside the strike zone trying to him to chase. Not 389 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:41,920 Speaker 1: the worst thing in the world to put him on base, 390 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: because I could just tell watching this at bat Contreras 391 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: is on him. So not the worst thing in the world. 392 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: So now Bryce Terrain comes up and on a one 393 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:57,640 Speaker 1: to one count trying to throws a cutter that Terrang 394 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: has to leap out of the way from ball two. 395 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:07,160 Speaker 1: Whoa Bryce Terrang. You gotta stay in there and get 396 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: hit by that pitch. I'm sorry, but you do I 397 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: know that your general strategy is I'm not getting in 398 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: the way when when a pitch is coming at me, 399 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: I gotta get out of the way. But dude, bases 400 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,760 Speaker 1: are loaded. This is game one of the NLCS. You 401 00:19:23,840 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: turn your body, you get hit, you go down to 402 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 1: first base and tie the game. And I was stunned 403 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: to see him do that. And I know every Milwaukee 404 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: fan singing the sand I'm throw the sand and the 405 00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,479 Speaker 1: duck are going, Dude, you gotta get hit by that. 406 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:37,920 Speaker 1: You gotta get hit by that. I'm sorry, but you do. 407 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: And look, it's something that when you're little. You look 408 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,960 Speaker 1: at a lesson that I taught girls when I was 409 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,440 Speaker 1: coaching them, and you know, youth wise, I'm like, hey, 410 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: when we're playing a regular game, stay up there, get 411 00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: out of the way. You get up there and hit. 412 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,399 Speaker 1: But if we're playing a tournament game, we're in the 413 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,440 Speaker 1: state tournament, we're doing something. You turn when that pitch 414 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: comes in because it's most important that you get on 415 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,120 Speaker 1: first base. I know that it's a thing, and I'm 416 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:02,560 Speaker 1: not saying you get hit in the head, but you 417 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,760 Speaker 1: see that pitch coming at you, you don't leap out 418 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,680 Speaker 1: of the way, but you turn because you have to move. Yeah, 419 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: even a major league baseball you gotta look like you're 420 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,879 Speaker 1: getting out of the way of the pitch. The umpire 421 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,439 Speaker 1: is gonna say you didn't try to to get out 422 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,359 Speaker 1: of the way. You're not getting first base. You have 423 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: to just turn your body and just and kind of 424 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: halfway do it because you gotta get down to first base. 425 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 2: Which that's the decision. 426 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,439 Speaker 1: You get hit on the leg, and it's not like 427 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 1: it was coming at at your head and you had 428 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: to he was coming at your leg. Dude, you gotta 429 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: get hit by that. You gotta get hit by you 430 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: gotta get down to first base. And right after that, 431 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 1: that's let trying it off the hook and then trying 432 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: to throws a pitch that's three feet out of the 433 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,880 Speaker 1: strike zone and for some reason, and maybe it looked 434 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: like it was a little backspin on it, like it's 435 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: one of those one of those breaking pitches that a 436 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 1: pitcher throws. It gets the action on it that I 437 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: don't expect, and Terrange swings and it is three feet 438 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,440 Speaker 1: outside of home plate's three feet high, and he swings 439 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: and he strikes out, and the Dodgers win, and Blake 440 00:20:58,359 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: trying is the hero. But Blake trying was the beneficiary 441 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: of some bad decision making by the Brewers, specifically Bryce Terran, 442 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 1: who had to make you gotta get hit and then wow, 443 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: I don't know that pitch. I don't know where he 444 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: was mentally at that point, but I don't know how 445 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:12,800 Speaker 1: you swing at that pitch. Yeah, I mean on the 446 00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:16,639 Speaker 1: second strike in that at bat was a bit high, 447 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: I thought, and a bit out of the zone. It 448 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 1: was a little high. 449 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 4: That was a little hot shit of where where it 450 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Speaker 4: came across the plate, But certainly it looked like it 451 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,040 Speaker 4: came in high. So perhaps to his thinking, all right, 452 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 4: well I got a little higher zone. Now this one 453 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,800 Speaker 4: was up in his eyes. Yeah, this one is when 454 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:34,440 Speaker 4: as a baseball player, you know. But again, hey, Blake 455 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,520 Speaker 4: trying and got the got that high strike call like 456 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 4: he did, like Blake trying to like whatever deal with 457 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,680 Speaker 4: the devil he made tonight to Devil's coming back for him. Man, 458 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 4: next game, Devil's coming for you. 459 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 2: We'll see. But for tonight, for tonight he's living. 460 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:47,720 Speaker 5: Right. 461 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 4: If he went down to the crossroads, he got it. 462 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 4: But you know, eventually the devil comes for his into 463 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 4: exact dispayment. A little earlier, than you anticipate now that 464 00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:00,119 Speaker 4: for that at bet, he's also thinking I could I 465 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,439 Speaker 4: could be the hero. Right, so you've got that. You know, 466 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 4: the ball looks like a beach ball or whatever that 467 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 4: trying is thrown up there. You know his reputation for 468 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 4: the last couple well virtually all season five to four 469 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 4: e er and that he's gonna give you a pitch 470 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,400 Speaker 4: to hit. In this case, you chased and you saved him. 471 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, this was and this was Dave Roberts making the 472 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: right decision to go to the bullpen, but he got 473 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: bailed at. He brought in, He brought in the wrong 474 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:28,919 Speaker 1: guy because it wasn't a great night for trying. And right, 475 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: you had a walk and it should have been a 476 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 1: hit by pitch and it could have been another walk. 477 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: But you survived, You escaped, You escaped, and it looks 478 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: like the decision was great. But clearly going to get 479 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: Sosaki was great. But boy trying, I was like, oh 480 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: my good, how many times has he not shown that 481 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: he can do it? But I get that Dave Roberts 482 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: is gonna say, hey, it was great and trying it 483 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,959 Speaker 1: has been great. I believe in my guys. Okay, that's awesome, 484 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 1: but you know it wasn't great. You know, it was 485 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,919 Speaker 1: rocky as hell for him, and you probably should have 486 00:22:52,920 --> 00:22:55,360 Speaker 1: had the game tied. But but you got bailed out 487 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,880 Speaker 1: by bad decision making and potentially a good fortunate call 488 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 1: at home plate by the pirate, like you got bailed out, man. 489 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:06,400 Speaker 4: Big talk about business decisions all the time. Certainly it's 490 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 4: the running knock on guys in the second area as 491 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 4: to whether they want to tackle a running back who's 492 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,480 Speaker 4: got a full head of steam or a tight end 493 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 4: who's broken into the second level. I don't know, you 494 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 4: do the thing where all right, I try to hit 495 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,840 Speaker 4: him kind of, but I'm certainly not taking him on 496 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 4: full I mean, I know, I watch it with my 497 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 4: daughter's soccer game. She's she's a stout thing and stands in. 498 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 4: But we'll also launch for on free kicks and you'll 499 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 4: go back and you'll watch it. Yeah, that girl decided 500 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,000 Speaker 4: to make a business decision because she should have blocked that. Yeah, 501 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:41,359 Speaker 4: and here was something for try. I mean, he's wearing 502 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,800 Speaker 4: it across Milwaukee tonight. We've certainly gotten some feedback from 503 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 4: our listeners in the area saying, you know, he's a 504 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:52,120 Speaker 4: guy that you got to stand in. It's the it's 505 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 4: the NLCS. So this is the Dodger squad that comes 506 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,639 Speaker 4: in with some of their best struggling at the plate. 507 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 4: Man it's ironic, greg or coincidental or whatever term you 508 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 4: want to use. Freeman hits the home run as a 509 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 4: later double later the big double playball came off the 510 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 4: bat of Muncie, who struggled last time out. Again, Philly's 511 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 4: throwing out a lot of left handers and still waiting 512 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 4: for show. Heo, Toni, he's a bat to wake up. 513 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 4: In all of this, you hold the Dodgers, the Mighty Dodgers, 514 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 4: to two runs and you're down one nothing. 515 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,920 Speaker 1: Now the flip side of it is Blake Snell. All right, now, 516 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: this is this is really something because when Blake Snell 517 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:37,480 Speaker 1: had the game where he told Dave Roberts go back 518 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: to the dugout, I'm not coming out of the game, right, 519 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: what do we say that night? Blake Snell is your 520 00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 1: game one starter for every series possible for the Dodgers. 521 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: It's not just about the talent. It's not just look, 522 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: Yamamoto's been really good, right, and you want Otani to pitch, 523 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:55,840 Speaker 1: but sometimes you have to understand this guy's got that 524 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,600 Speaker 1: extra gear and this is the guy you want to 525 00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,800 Speaker 1: ride with in the nl LCS, in the NLDS, when 526 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,520 Speaker 1: you play in the World Series. He's the guy. And 527 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,800 Speaker 1: you see now in the playoffs six inning outing, seven 528 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 1: inning outing, eight inning outing tonight, eight innings, one hundred 529 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:16,480 Speaker 1: and three pitches, double digit strikeouts, one hit, and he 530 00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 1: picked the guy off after he gave up a hit 531 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: first time a hitter is a pitcher has faced that 532 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,800 Speaker 1: few batters through the first eight innings of a playoff 533 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: game since Don Larson's perfect game in nineteen fifty six. Okay, 534 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: that's how dominant Blake Snell was and how dominant he 535 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: has been. And he's you know, another thing is that 536 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: we've talked about this is that he's sort of becoming 537 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 1: the next Madison Bumgardner. In an era in which we 538 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: don't really have playoff starters and studs. You can say, well, 539 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,879 Speaker 1: give him the ball game one, we're gonna win. Like 540 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 1: Bumgarner was that guy right for most of the teams 541 00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,640 Speaker 1: with the with the San Francisco Giants, Now we had 542 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: really good years as a starting pitcher, but he was 543 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: never like a Jacob de Gram or someone that hey 544 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,679 Speaker 1: is gonna go. You know, twenty and three he was 545 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 1: really really good, but he always had that next gear 546 00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:12,240 Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and you saw a World Series every 547 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:15,359 Speaker 1: other year punctuated by his seven inning outing and relief 548 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:17,040 Speaker 1: in Game seven when you had just pitched the day 549 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: before or two days before that against the Royals. Like 550 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: this is who Blake Snell is. He's the next Madison 551 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:29,600 Speaker 1: bumguarter because he is that dominant playoff pitcher and the Dodgers, 552 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 1: I mean riding behind him tonight eight innings, like I 553 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:35,080 Speaker 1: was going one hundred and three pitches. I'd send him 554 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,480 Speaker 1: out there for the ninth. But you have Sasaki, So 555 00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,840 Speaker 1: I get that right. It's if you didn't have Sasaki, 556 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,720 Speaker 1: or you had it was the rest of the bullpen 557 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 1: was terrible. I would say, okay, let's break, Blake. How 558 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: do you feel, man? Do you have one more inning 559 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,440 Speaker 1: in you? Can you go one more? But Sasaki he's 560 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: been great. That's fine. I don't mind the still because 561 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: the complete game being such a rarity. Oh yeah, yeah yeah, 562 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 1: but I but I get the whole. Hey, we have 563 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,960 Speaker 1: our lights out reliever ready to go, and he's been great, 564 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: so I understand that would have been the first complete 565 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 1: game for a picture for the Dodgers this year. Yeah, yeah, 566 00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,719 Speaker 1: I mean, but hey, you know, Dave loves the bullpen. 567 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,040 Speaker 1: He's not gonna let that happen. Not funny, aren't you. 568 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:12,200 Speaker 1: But but I mean, that's how good Blake Snell has been. 569 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: He is. He is that good. He is that kind 570 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,760 Speaker 1: of playoff mentality. He's got a bit of the Bumgardner 571 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: mentality in him. Uh, you know, without yelling people and 572 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 1: you hit a home run, go around the bases, don't 573 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: look at me. But he's got that fight. He's got 574 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 1: that he's got that extra intangible about him that other 575 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,160 Speaker 1: pitchers don't have. And when he's on the bump, now 576 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: the other team is like, okay, let's just try to 577 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,000 Speaker 1: get him out of the game. Like there's strategy against 578 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:38,399 Speaker 1: pictures that we think this guy's really good. Here's how 579 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 1: we have to approach the at bats, and then there's 580 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,959 Speaker 1: pictures where it's there's a very few where it's okay, 581 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 1: just try to foul off as many, make him throw 582 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:46,840 Speaker 1: as many pitch you want. We got to ge him 583 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: out of the game, right we can. We don't want 584 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,399 Speaker 1: Blake Snell on the seventh eighth inning to still be 585 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:52,919 Speaker 1: in the game, Like, that's the only strategy you have 586 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: right now against him is make him throw as many 587 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: pitches as possible, and still teams aren't able to do that. 588 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 1: He's still gets out of these innings. Right, we only 589 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,080 Speaker 1: allow one base runner. You're not a lot, you know, 590 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 1: a lot of throwing a lot of pitches. That's the 591 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: only strategy you have against him. That's how good he is. 592 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:07,520 Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing with the. 593 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 4: Brewers, and the point that was being made coming into 594 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 4: the series is that they're gnats, right, they don't go away. 595 00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:16,480 Speaker 2: They're on the base paths, they're active on the base path. 596 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 4: Get them on, get them over, get them in agitators 597 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,440 Speaker 4: that can potentially lead to big, big innings. They only 598 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,040 Speaker 4: had two guys hit more than twenty home runs this year. 599 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,720 Speaker 4: You had Yelich finished with twenty nine, and you had 600 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 4: Churio had twenty one, terrag At eighteen and go on 601 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:36,920 Speaker 4: down the line. So it's not the usual three outcome 602 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 4: team that you will face. So yeah, you start getting frustrated. 603 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 4: And this where terrang not leaning into it on a 604 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,840 Speaker 4: night where you guys didn't have it at all, becomes 605 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,040 Speaker 4: that much more magnified because you had the chance to 606 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 4: steal this game even though you generated nothing through eight. 607 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,240 Speaker 1: And think about where that would have been. He gets hit. 608 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 1: So now Trinon comes in, walks, a guy hits a guy, 609 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,400 Speaker 1: bass is low noted. What do you do? 610 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:01,920 Speaker 2: Do you stick with? 611 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: Do you go to whatever? You probably go to house right, 612 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,320 Speaker 1: and you probably go to VESI you don't bring him 613 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: in to face a left handed but but what do 614 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,080 Speaker 1: you right now? I mean, I don't know if you 615 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: get out of that inning at that point, that's the thing, 616 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: right you might have been able to steal the game 617 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 1: right there. I mean that was such a huge play. 618 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,959 Speaker 1: I mean, look, Blake Snell has been so good, Like 619 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: this is where the Dodgers win tomorrow. They're sweeping the series, right, 620 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: Like it's it's all come down to Freddie Perolta is 621 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,280 Speaker 1: their best picture. So it's it's it's a it's a 622 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,200 Speaker 1: big shot for them. But like tonight was such a 623 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: gut punch. After Hey, we're not gonna beat Blake Snell. 624 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,920 Speaker 1: We got him in the ninth inning, we don't get there. 625 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: How do we come back tomorrow and do it? 626 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:36,040 Speaker 2: Right? 627 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,360 Speaker 1: I already think it's going to be a sweep in 628 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: the American League, right, Americers are going to find their 629 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: way all the way to the World Series. But like now, 630 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: suddenly you've put it on this because you missed that 631 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: one chance in the ninth inning. Sometimes you only get 632 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,000 Speaker 1: that one little chance. Sometimes only a thermal exhaust port, 633 00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: Mike Carmen, that's like three meters wide. You got to 634 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: hit it, or the death Star's blowing up that planet. 635 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: I mean, you got to get that one chance. You 636 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: got to be able to get out. Darth Vader's taking over. Yeah, 637 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,240 Speaker 1: what happens, Ty, You got to find out what's trending 638 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports. But guy has been 639 00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:06,360 Speaker 1: called the Darth Vader of Fox Sports Radio because they're 640 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,160 Speaker 1: about the same height. 641 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:08,480 Speaker 2: It's Steve Desager. 642 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,000 Speaker 5: I also walk in every room with this daunting music 643 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 5: behind me. It just appears and breathing heavy. I notice 644 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,920 Speaker 5: you breathe heavy a lot too. You mentioned Roki Sasaki. 645 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 5: Of course, last week at Dodger Stadium, it was a 646 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:23,880 Speaker 5: first in postseason history. A guy who tosses a perfect 647 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 5: eighth inning and a perfect ninth and a perfect tenth 648 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:29,640 Speaker 5: in a series clinching victory. They bring him into Game 649 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 5: one of the NL Championship Series at top seeded Milwaukee, 650 00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 5: and he gives up a run protecting a two to 651 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,640 Speaker 5: one lead. They bring in Blake Trin and he got 652 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:42,800 Speaker 5: the save a strikeout with bases loaded to end the game. Yes, 653 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,080 Speaker 5: Blake Snell was phenomenal. One hit aloud in eight innings, 654 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 5: ten strikeouts, no walks, and in fact, the folks Is 655 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 5: statsing point out that since ERA became official in each 656 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,760 Speaker 5: league over one hundred years ago, Blake Snell is unique 657 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,040 Speaker 5: a pitcher to in a span of six starts playoffs 658 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 5: are not his last six starts to go at least 659 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,720 Speaker 5: five and oh eer under one at least fifty strikeouts 660 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 5: in the six starts, and allow fifteen hits or fewer. 661 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 5: Nobody'd ever done that until the last six starts Blake 662 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 5: Snell has had in this past month. Freddie Freeman a 663 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 5: solo homer top of the sixth, in the top of 664 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:24,360 Speaker 5: the night, Mookie Bets at bases loaded walk, and then 665 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 5: the crazy double play top of the fourth when the 666 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,120 Speaker 5: Dodgers had bases loaded one out hit into the DP 667 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,400 Speaker 5: on a hit to the center field wall that was 668 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 5: nearly a Grand Slam game two is Tuesday night at Milwaukee. 669 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 5: LA would host games three, four, and five. The Brewers 670 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 5: are seeded number one overall because they won ninety seven 671 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,600 Speaker 5: games this year that included going six to oho against 672 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,400 Speaker 5: LA in July. The Brewers and Seattle have never won 673 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 5: a World Series title. Seattle is halfway to getting to 674 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,200 Speaker 5: a World Series. They won it number one seed Toronto 675 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 5: again ten to three, taking it two games to none 676 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,000 Speaker 5: lead in the ALCS Julio Rodriguez three run homer in 677 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,560 Speaker 5: the top of the first. Toronto tied at three to 678 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,000 Speaker 5: three in the second, Jorge Polanco a three run homer 679 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 5: in the fifth. Josh Naylor, who's from Canada, hit a 680 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 5: two run homer in the seventh. Toronto had been ten 681 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 5: and two at home over the past month. Until this series. 682 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,400 Speaker 5: Padres manager Mike Schultz retired. Sandy Alomar Senior passed away 683 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 5: at the age of eighty one. Two Monday night football games, 684 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,960 Speaker 5: Atlanta beat Buffalo twenty four to fourteen. Falcons had the 685 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,200 Speaker 5: halftime lead of twenty one seven b Jon Robinson on 686 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,200 Speaker 5: only nineteen carries at one hundred and seventy yards rushing, 687 00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,360 Speaker 5: including at eighty one yard TD. He also had six 688 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 5: receptions for sixty eight yards. Drake London was targeted sixteen times. 689 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,320 Speaker 5: In Atlanta, he had ten catches one hundred and fifty 690 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:44,520 Speaker 5: eight yards in a score. The Falcons were without wide 691 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,240 Speaker 5: receiver Darnell Moody due to a hamstring injury. Bills were 692 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,480 Speaker 5: without tight end Dolankincaid out with an oblique injury. Dawson 693 00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 5: Knox tight end did have an early TD. Chicago won 694 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,520 Speaker 5: in the rain at Washington on a field goal final 695 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 5: play twenty five twenty four Jake Moody four or five 696 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 5: on field goal. The Bears regular kicker Cairo Santos was 697 00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 5: out with a thigh injury. Washington with three turnovers, and 698 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 5: it missed a feld goal late first half, a fifty 699 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 5: yarder that hit the upright and key. Late in the game, 700 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 5: about three minutes left, Washington fumbled a handoff DeAndre Swift. 701 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 5: On fourteen carries one hundred eight yards rushing for the Bears, 702 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:22,080 Speaker 5: plus a fifty five yard TD reception Jade and Daniel's 703 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,200 Speaker 5: three touchdowns, but a couple of turnovers, the Titans fired 704 00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 5: coach Brian Callahan. Tennessee is one and five Colts backup 705 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 5: quarterback Anthony Richardson was placed on IR after a pregame 706 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 5: injury yesterday. Dallas says wide receiver CD Lamb has a 707 00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,160 Speaker 5: chance to return this weekend after the bad ankle. Tampa 708 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 5: Bay wide out and Mecca Abuka will have an MRI 709 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 5: Tuesday on his bad hamstring and Rams wide receiver Pukinakua, 710 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 5: with a sprained ankle, will likely miss some time. And 711 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 5: congratulations to the nation of Cape Verd. You know the 712 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 5: US is co hosting the World Cup next summer. Cape 713 00:33:55,400 --> 00:34:00,000 Speaker 5: Verd has qualified, believe it or not, out of African qualified. 714 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,680 Speaker 5: With an expanded World Cup, there are nine automatic spots 715 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 5: from that continent. So Cabo Verde, if you prefer, is 716 00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:10,719 Speaker 5: coming to North America next summer in the World Cup 717 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,160 Speaker 5: for the first time ever. The place is described as 718 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:17,719 Speaker 5: an archipelago of volcanic islands off the western coast of Africa, 719 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 5: population about a half million, now the smallest country ever 720 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 5: to qualify for a World Cup. 721 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:26,320 Speaker 1: Thank to you. I thought I thought that was I 722 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:27,879 Speaker 1: thought that was the name of the That was where 723 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:30,719 Speaker 1: Kim Wexler worked in better call Saltis. She's working on 724 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:34,799 Speaker 1: the Omesa Verde. That's what here's a question. 725 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,720 Speaker 2: Well, they advanced farther than the US. 726 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,720 Speaker 1: That's up for debate currently. Thank you, Steve, Jason Smith, 727 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,640 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming 728 00:34:45,719 --> 00:34:48,640 Speaker 1: up next Monday Night football saw the birth of a 729 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,640 Speaker 1: new star quarterback. 730 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:51,759 Speaker 2: Who is it? 731 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: We'll tell you next Fox. 732 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,400 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 733 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays. It's at ten pm Eastern, 734 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:02,440 Speaker 2: seven pm Pacific.