Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the special edition of The Stephen A. Smith Show,
Speaker 2: coming at you. I'm a man of the people, and
Speaker 2: the people usually like to communicate with me. Whether it's videos,
Speaker 2: whether it's tweets, whether it's phone calls, whatever the case
Speaker 2: may be.
Speaker 1: That's what folks like to.
Speaker 2: Do, and I aim to oblige. Over this particular situation. However,
Speaker 2: I got my nephew, my knucklehead a nephew here in
Speaker 2: studio with me, Josh we Rich this this this ignorant fool, and.
Speaker 1: He's here with me.
Speaker 2: And since he's right here in studio with me, he
Speaker 2: likes to join me wherever I'm talking to the fans
Speaker 2: because he believes that he's somebody that's more of a
Speaker 2: man of the people than I am.
Speaker 1: Is that true?
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I'm the man of the people.
Speaker 1: And how is that? And how is that you're the
Speaker 1: man of the nephew.
Speaker 2: I'm the man of the nephe Well, I don't understand
Speaker 2: what that makes that.
Speaker 1: It makes no sense.
Speaker 3: Nephewtism. It's a term that's made up, you.
Speaker 2: Know, nephewtism as opposed to nepotism. Nephewtism love that mercy.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do tweets, We're gonna do videos, We're gonna
Speaker 2: do phone calls and a whole bit. I might let
Speaker 2: him chime in on some he might get on my
Speaker 2: last damn nerves and I may not let him. We
Speaker 2: shall see. But let's go to some videos here. Let's
Speaker 2: start it off right, Let's do this.
Speaker 4: Heyda stuck Tom here. I hope you're enjoying your day
Speaker 4: so far. I'm trying to ask you a question. Do
Speaker 4: you think that with the new NBA All Star game
Speaker 4: format for this season, do you think that could actually
Speaker 4: increase viewership and maybe make the viewership increase in the
Speaker 4: second half of the season.
Speaker 2: Hell no, I don't believe that for one second, Josh.
Speaker 2: I think the new format is ridiculous. I think it's
Speaker 2: an embarrassment to the NBA players.
Speaker 1: They forced this fourteen tournament format.
Speaker 2: Three all Star teams eight players each winner of a
Speaker 2: Rising Stars Challenge team, three games total, two semis plus
Speaker 2: the finals. Each game up to forty points a one
Speaker 2: point eight million dollar prize pool. Winning team one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five thousand per player. Second place fifty thousand
Speaker 2: semifinal loses twenty five thousand. Let me tell you a
Speaker 2: couple of things, Josh, how could you have more for
Speaker 2: the winner of the nd season tournament than the winner
Speaker 2: of the All Star game?
Speaker 1: See that makes no sense.
Speaker 3: The N season tournament is a few more games.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying. The point is the winner gets
Speaker 2: this pool of money. I'm just saying that if you
Speaker 2: got All Stars descended upon an All Star weekend, you know,
Speaker 2: damn attitude. May be how somebody that wins an nd
Speaker 2: season tournament get more money than the All Stars the ego.
Speaker 3: I think it's more of a reward that you're an
Speaker 3: All Star period, So.
Speaker 1: The total they sh they shouldn't get more money.
Speaker 3: I don't think you should get extra money.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm disgusted with it because I blame the players
Speaker 2: because if you played just as hard as you play
Speaker 2: working out in the summer time, none of this would
Speaker 2: be necessary because it would be some competitiveness on a
Speaker 2: basketball court for All Star weekend, and as a result,
Speaker 2: they wouldn't have had the resort to all of this
Speaker 2: to try to elevate the level of competitiveness.
Speaker 1: That's my thought.
Speaker 3: I think that the regular season doesn't count all together,
Speaker 3: including an all Star weekend, because you know, the media
Speaker 3: emphasizes having rings and winning in the players. I think
Speaker 3: the whole thing matter. You play hard all yeah, well yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, interesting coming from you never works hard, But
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go to the next video. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the next video.
Speaker 3: Hey, what's up, Steven eight?
Speaker 1: Where do you get your strong work ethic from?
Speaker 5: That's been fascinating to watch over the years, you being
Speaker 5: number one consecutively for twelve years in counting, and just
Speaker 5: your go getter spirit and hustle mentality to wake up
Speaker 5: every single day to conquer, to stay on top, to
Speaker 5: sustain it, and to grow even bigger now as you
Speaker 5: reach bigger things which you will obviously achieve and conquered.
Speaker 5: So that's been really fascinating to watch. But where do
Speaker 5: you get that mentality from on a daily basis?
Speaker 2: Well, I certainly don't get it from him, one of
Speaker 2: the laziest people I know. I will tell you that
Speaker 2: he will confirm this. I get it from his grandma,
Speaker 2: my mother, God rest her soul.
Speaker 1: She worked tirelessly.
Speaker 2: My mother was no joke, and she wasn't about the
Speaker 2: sizzle or the glitch. She was about getting the job done?
Speaker 2: Am I lying?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, you're just gonna say I.
Speaker 3: Got something else to say. I don't know if you
Speaker 3: got come here. I grew up on the other y'all
Speaker 3: grew up on the other side of rich. So that's
Speaker 3: where your hard working ethic comes from.
Speaker 1: I don't got it because I'm so.
Speaker 2: I grew up on the other side of rich. So
Speaker 2: grandma has nothing to do with the hard work that
Speaker 2: I perform. Yeah, she has everything to do with She
Speaker 2: has everything to do with it.
Speaker 1: You idiot.
Speaker 3: Ruggle doesn't have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: The struggle.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what I'm talking about. You were struggling. I
Speaker 3: was struggling, and I wasn't because of you. So hard work.
Speaker 3: You know, it came out a when I felt like it.
Speaker 1: Next question, Next question, Steven A.
Speaker 7: Smith, What are the Dallas Cowboys gonna do at quarterback?
Speaker 7: Because I can tell you Cooper Rush it's definitely not
Speaker 7: the answer. Curious to hear your take, and hey, is
Speaker 7: there a possibility that a max contract for Sam Darnold
Speaker 7: or maybe even a little bit of a trade to
Speaker 7: Atlanta with Kirk Cousins as possible?
Speaker 3: Curious hear what you gotta.
Speaker 2: Say, I'm really questioning your football knowledge because you just
Speaker 2: brought up Kirk Cousins, who just got benched in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: One in four of his last five games, one touchdown,
Speaker 2: nine interceptions over that spins the god awfu wing.
Speaker 1: He's getting benched for a rookie.
Speaker 2: You're talking about trading it for him, wondering about you
Speaker 2: dire Secondly, to answer your question directly, whether the Dallas
Speaker 2: cole was gonna lose lose with Dak Prescott, Dak press
Speaker 2: is not gonna go anyway.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be in the lineup. They're gonna lose.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna lose as much as they lost this year,
Speaker 2: but they ain't gonna win no damn super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I can assure you of that.
Speaker 2: So that's your dilemma right there. That's really all I
Speaker 2: have to say about it. We don't need to do
Speaker 2: we need to spend any more time on you don't
Speaker 2: need to do that. Let me get another video plase.
Speaker 8: Good morning, steven A. This is t live in your PA,
Speaker 8: born and raised in South Carolina. Quick question for you,
Speaker 8: what do you think the Jaguars should do in the
Speaker 8: draft this upcoming year?
Speaker 1: I believe it should be Travis Hunter.
Speaker 8: I don't think they should think about anybody else but
Speaker 8: the Jaguars will be the Jaguars and take somebody that
Speaker 8: don't make sense. So give me some insight as to
Speaker 8: what you think they should do and should trimp BALKI
Speaker 8: be fired, I say yes, what say you?
Speaker 2: I would tell you Travis Hunter should be the way
Speaker 2: they go to Hosman Trophy went out of Colorado two
Speaker 2: way player the brother could ball.
Speaker 1: I like that pick. I don't have any problem with that.
Speaker 2: I think you're making a wh a decision right there
Speaker 2: and making that selection.
Speaker 1: But Josh, is it just me? Or did he seem high?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: Well, if he did, he seemed high. He seemed he
Speaker 1: seemed high? Is it just me?
Speaker 3: He might have seen how he might seem? Tis Christmas?
Speaker 2: I mean you would know better than me, well would
Speaker 2: I know? I'm just asking. I'm just asking. I'm just asking.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, I mean sometimes you look high?
Speaker 6: Me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes sometimes while you always got the hat and
Speaker 2: shades on covering your eyes.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You're talking about looking cool, but you're really trying to
Speaker 2: hide your eyes.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, why is that?
Speaker 3: I mean, since you acting like you know you don't
Speaker 3: want them hiding from since you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know snuopid. I'm just I'm.
Speaker 3: Speculating, speculate, this is a test.
Speaker 2: Don't speculating ever, Right, those cardiads, those cardiacs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you rich.
Speaker 2: Your tweets and phone calls up next We'll get to
Speaker 2: the tweets first and then your phone calls more.
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Speaker 2: Here with my knucklehead and nephew Josh. Just sit there,
Speaker 2: don't say anything. I'll handle the tweets to myself because
Speaker 2: we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Get to the callers afterwards.
Speaker 2: You don't need to speak on the tweets, right, Just
Speaker 2: be quiet with the glasses that you stole from me,
Speaker 2: all right?
Speaker 1: And that hat? What the hell does that hat say? Anyway?
Speaker 2: You can't do epic shit with basic people. Who made
Speaker 2: that hat for you? I know it wasn't you, but
Speaker 2: I got you know I got merch. Let's get to
Speaker 2: the tweets, please, showman tweets at NBA World twenty four, Right, Steven,
Speaker 2: are you're playing prime Lebron one on one? You start
Speaker 2: off with a ninety nine to league first of.
Speaker 1: One hundred wins? Do you want to lose? I win?
Speaker 1: He got excuse me.
Speaker 2: Whether it's fifty shots by two points, or is one
Speaker 2: hundred shots by one point, or is thirty three to
Speaker 2: thirty five shots by three points?
Speaker 1: I win. All I gotta make is one shot.
Speaker 5: One.
Speaker 1: I'm winning. I'm winning. Yes, Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith would beat Lebron James to a game of one
Speaker 2: hundred if he spotted me ninety nine. Now, if he
Speaker 2: spotted me ninety, I'd lose. If he spotted me eighty,
Speaker 2: I'd lose. If he spotted me seventy or anything less.
Speaker 1: I'd lose. But one basket.
Speaker 2: I gotta make one basket and he has to make
Speaker 2: forty to fifty.
Speaker 1: I'm winning that matchup one shot. I'm beating Lebron. What
Speaker 1: is it loses? Bull? Huh?
Speaker 3: Is it loss?
Speaker 4: Bull?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: No, I'm thinking no, no, no, I'm saying if he scores
Speaker 2: and he keeps the ball. No, no, no, he beat me,
Speaker 2: but because I couldn't stop him at all. But what
Speaker 2: I'm saying chances to get exactly, I'm the forty chances
Speaker 2: to get a basket, Me getting forty chances to get
Speaker 2: the basket. I'm winning, meaning he scores, I get the
Speaker 2: ball back. I'm winning that game. All I need is
Speaker 2: one basket. He got forty. I'm winning that game. I'm
Speaker 2: winning that game.
Speaker 3: Lebron is six eight and.
Speaker 1: I don't give it that. No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Maybe I get a shot on Jordan too, a shot
Speaker 2: on Jordan, just one, just one, one.
Speaker 1: Out of forty.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's all I'm trying to say, one out of forty.
Speaker 2: Could I make one out of forty shots?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: I can today Now, I don't give it.
Speaker 1: Damn when it is, I don't give it. Damn was
Speaker 1: in a wheelchair.
Speaker 2: I'm making one of forty shots, Lebron, Lebron got yes.
Speaker 2: Next tweet, what's up at reformed gambler rites or that
Speaker 2: gambler that that AE is a three instead.
Speaker 1: Says Stephen A.
Speaker 2: My homeboy got fired from his fry cook job for
Speaker 2: doing this to the letters. Now he wants me to
Speaker 2: put in a good word for him at my job,
Speaker 2: but I'm afraid he might be up to no good
Speaker 2: again and get me and him both fired. Help a brother.
Speaker 2: Hell no, your recommendations are everything. Somebody gonna sit up there.
Speaker 2: You get him a job, and they gonna step their
Speaker 2: foot and stomp on letters, and he got him fired,
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna help him get another job. Did
Speaker 2: he think about you when he was stomping on the
Speaker 2: letters the first time? Hell no, leave his ass out
Speaker 2: of there. Let him find his own way. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: gotta be tough love. It's got to be tough love.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Remember I've knocked his knucklehead upside the head a few
Speaker 2: times because that's how he can be. Next tweet, Show
Speaker 2: me what you got at Ben's two four three eight rights.
Speaker 2: If you had any other job, what would it be?
Speaker 2: Well me personally, man, I mean it'd be one or
Speaker 2: two things. I'd be a criminal lawyer, all right, Or
Speaker 2: I'd be a president of basketball operations criminal lawyer.
Speaker 3: Would you be defending criminals or locking them up?
Speaker 1: Either? Or I'm gonna be great.
Speaker 2: You put me in fronature of jurors, and my job
Speaker 2: is to convince them to see my way. If I'm
Speaker 2: a prosecutor, they as going to jail, and if I'm
Speaker 2: a defense attorney, I'm gonna get them off. I prosecutor
Speaker 2: would be easier for me, though I'll admit that it
Speaker 2: would be far easier for me to prosecute.
Speaker 1: That's what I think. What are you trying to say?
Speaker 3: And I don't know prosecutors and people on that side.
Speaker 1: If I was prosecuting somebody, how good would I be?
Speaker 3: You tell the truth, it depends on how gilty they are.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna break no, I'll make him look guilty,
Speaker 2: make them look guilty. That ain't even something to be
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I wouldn't be proud of it. But
Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the principle of me being a
Speaker 2: good Prosecutor's all I'm trying to say. I'm saying that
Speaker 2: i'd be one of the best. I'd beat Johnny Cockran.
Speaker 2: You're not inj trial he.
Speaker 3: Beating Lebron James. Johnny Cochran and this is the gold
Speaker 3: and everything.
Speaker 2: Listen, if I were a lawyer, I'm not a lawyer,
Speaker 2: but if I were a lawyer, I'm telling you I
Speaker 2: would have beat Johnny Cochran with the evidence that OJ
Speaker 2: had against him. I would beat Lebron James. If you're
Speaker 2: telling me all I need is one shot and he
Speaker 2: has to take fifty in order to beat me, I would,
Speaker 2: and I get the ball back.
Speaker 1: I would make one shot, one, just one.
Speaker 3: I think Lebron is so motivated by you and all
Speaker 3: your members that he definitely make an example. Sure that, right, Bron.
Speaker 2: He probably hurt me, That's what he probably do. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't make it to the in this. I don't say
Speaker 2: the players are soft. I say the game is softer
Speaker 2: because of how it's called. I'm not trying to imply
Speaker 2: that the players are soft and man Child's I'm saying
Speaker 2: that the way the game is called, I mean, you
Speaker 2: could get called for foul for passing gas. It's ridiculous,
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. The game has been called tighter,
Speaker 2: and that's the problem. Last tweet right here, let me
Speaker 2: see here, all right, I got to read this. Man,
Speaker 2: what is this.
Speaker 9: At?
Speaker 1: Cody Spunker? Right? What's your opinion on Live Morgan? What
Speaker 1: about her?
Speaker 2: I mean she I you know, I mean, I mean
Speaker 2: I can't tell from that particular photo she's.
Speaker 1: You know, she looks like a qute. You know she
Speaker 1: I ain't we agree on. I don't know what I know.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of picture is that? You
Speaker 2: know what kind of picture is that? As far as
Speaker 2: i'n concerned. I mean, show me the one of the
Speaker 2: only fans girl that got four point seven millions for
Speaker 2: from a dude without giving up anything. Show that picture
Speaker 2: before your show Live Morgan. None of that picture of
Speaker 2: a little Morgan. I don't see anything you're showing me anything.
Speaker 2: She's a cutie, Okay, that's just me.
Speaker 3: He's wearing a belt.
Speaker 1: She's wearing a belt. Really, that's supposed to move a man?
Speaker 3: I guess is that what we was supposed to say?
Speaker 1: I guess. I guess. Never mind, Now, I ain't gonna
Speaker 1: go the fish. If there was a better pitch, they
Speaker 1: would have had it.
Speaker 2: We'll get to your calls up next. You can hit
Speaker 2: me up at triple eight s A S fifty three
Speaker 2: zero three. That's eighty eight seven two seven five three
Speaker 2: zero three your phone calls. To close out the special
Speaker 2: edition of Stephen A. The Voice of the People with
Speaker 2: his peeps and his knucklehead a nephew in a minute.
Speaker 1: Welling back to Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith's show before we get on out of here, this
Speaker 2: special edition.
Speaker 1: Of the Steven A.
Speaker 2: Smiths Shaw where it's me with the peeps talking to
Speaker 2: the people's via videos, via tweets.
Speaker 1: It's now going to be your phone calls.
Speaker 2: I got some calls on the line, and obviously I
Speaker 2: got my little nephew sitting next to me, so it's
Speaker 2: possible you might hear from him as well. I'll see
Speaker 2: if I'll allow it or not. It depends on how
Speaker 2: ridiculous he sounds. But we're gonna get to some of
Speaker 2: the phone calls before we get on out of here. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's go to Michael in Virginia, your Live with Stephen
Speaker 2: Ay and his nephew.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Michael? How are you good?
Speaker 6: Sir?
Speaker 1: How are you talk to me? Talk to us?
Speaker 6: All right? So you're in you're a coach of a
Speaker 6: three to three league. Who are you taking with your
Speaker 6: big three against Prime Lebron, James, Tequille O'Neill and Steph Curry.
Speaker 2: Lebron, Steph and Shaq those are your three and I
Speaker 2: gotta come up with a three to go against them.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, Okay, I'm gonna tell you Kevin Durant. Okay,
Speaker 2: I want to tell you Kevin Durant. Michael Jordan, Okay,
Speaker 2: Michael Jordan first, always Kevin Durant, my producer, almost just
Speaker 2: got his ass fired. He got in my ear and
Speaker 2: talked to me about Hakim like I don't know. I'm
Speaker 2: just trying to decide between Queen and and Wilt and
Speaker 2: all this stuff. He really really thinks, Shut the hell up, don't.
Speaker 2: I want to hear another damn word from you?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Haquem the dream of Loajuan between him and Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Hmm,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say Hakeem because Hakeem has a psychological effect
Speaker 2: on Shaq as the one guy shack idolized as a
Speaker 2: big man, gonna.
Speaker 1: Be my throat.
Speaker 6: Who's gonna dark Curry?
Speaker 1: Well, the combination of Jordan and kd.
Speaker 6: They can't handle him.
Speaker 2: Well, listen, kd uh steph. Curry is gonna move it
Speaker 2: out the up. But when you put a taller guy
Speaker 2: on him, certainly nobody else height to guard him.
Speaker 3: I pretty much had the same team. I would swap
Speaker 3: Kyrie with Michael Jordan because he's more skilled. I need,
Speaker 3: Like you heard, me, I need talent first. He's a
Speaker 3: better matchup for Steph. Kyrie Jordan ain't never see that
Speaker 3: type of talent. You're gonna be disappointed. Oh that's your team,
Speaker 3: So you would say.
Speaker 2: So what you're saying to me is that, thank you
Speaker 2: for the call, Michael, I appreciate it. You're telling me,
Speaker 2: Josh that you would swap out Michael Jordans for Kyrie Irvan.
Speaker 3: I would keep Kevin Durant, get a center for Shock,
Speaker 3: but jahe and Kyrie Irving to be my one and
Speaker 3: match up with stuff. He shoots better than Jordan, better handle,
Speaker 3: and he finishes with both hands better too. He's not
Speaker 3: a dunker, but Kyrie is more skilled. Three on three.
Speaker 3: We're not talking about championship ten on ten. Three on three,
Speaker 3: Kyrie Irving, I'm taking them over. Jordan can't go.
Speaker 2: You can't go left Mitchell in Minnesota. You're a lot
Speaker 2: of Steven go ahead match.
Speaker 10: Thank So, I've got to fix for the n Season
Speaker 10: Tournament with the NBA that just ended. I liked the product.
Speaker 10: I don't assume many complaints about it. I think the
Speaker 10: two primary issues facing the n Season Tournament are one
Speaker 10: the rest that you forego or lose by being good
Speaker 10: in the tournament.
Speaker 3: I e.
Speaker 10: Advancing to the finals. And secondarily, I think it's that
Speaker 10: it doesn't count for stats wins or losses. And my
Speaker 10: proposed solution to those two problems is that you cancel
Speaker 10: the games later in the season against the opponents you
Speaker 10: faced in the semi final or the final of the
Speaker 10: N Season Tournament. So in this case, the Bucks game
Speaker 10: in February against the Hawks get canceled, and the Bucks
Speaker 10: game against the Oklahoma City Thunder in March gets canceled.
Speaker 10: So then you know, eliminate the issue of the games
Speaker 10: not counting for winsed losses because you apply it to
Speaker 10: the regular season and you give the team rest later
Speaker 10: in the season that they lost by being good at
Speaker 10: the N Season Tournament.
Speaker 2: I just don't think there's a nobody was looking for
Speaker 2: a solution to the N Season Tournament.
Speaker 1: Everybody into a solution for the season.
Speaker 2: And I think that when you talk about giving cats
Speaker 2: rest or what have you, I mean it's not a
Speaker 2: matter of rest as to why you know they they
Speaker 2: they're not putting forth a full throttled effort.
Speaker 1: They give effort when they're on the court. It's what
Speaker 1: they do when they're off the court.
Speaker 2: The more time they have off the court and away
Speaker 2: from the court, the more undisciplined they appear to be,
Speaker 2: which means the more lack of days ago thet come
Speaker 2: across when they're finally obligated to get on a basketball court.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if I agree with that, Mitchell.
Speaker 2: I appreciate the call. I'm not gonna waste more time
Speaker 2: on that. Let's go to Maddox in Illinois, your live
Speaker 2: of steven A. What's up, Maddox? How are you hey?
Speaker 9: Stephen A A huge fan by the way, nephew.
Speaker 1: I'm here with my nephew. Say hello to Joshua.
Speaker 10: Hey, Joshua, how are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm good?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, okay.
Speaker 6: As you can play college basketball today, which team would
Speaker 6: you play.
Speaker 1: For and why today?
Speaker 2: If I could play college basketball, I would say to you,
Speaker 2: I've always been a duke North Carolina. I love the rivalry.
Speaker 2: I think it's the best rivalry in college basketball. But
Speaker 2: if I was a college basketball team to day, in
Speaker 2: terms of strictly their coaching and their style of play,
Speaker 2: it would be Kansas with Bill self. They always have athletes,
Speaker 2: They're always getting up and down the court, they're looking
Speaker 2: to make things happen. That would be my style of play.
Speaker 3: What about you, Josh, I'm going to rugs because I
Speaker 3: don't like the basketball. I want to be the best
Speaker 3: player and I'm going to be a ball hog. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna be star And that said I was going to go.
Speaker 3: Winning is not important, nonymore. It's about getting your stats
Speaker 3: to people that prospect like me.
Speaker 2: I swear to God, I should throw you off this
Speaker 2: damn show right now. I really can't believe you said
Speaker 2: something shit like that. Marcus in New York City. You're
Speaker 2: live with Steven Andy.
Speaker 1: Go ahead?
Speaker 10: How are you?
Speaker 1: Step? Go ahead?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just have a question for you, brother. I
Speaker 9: wanted to know if you because I know I heard
Speaker 9: your what's it called? Your podcast this week about Josh
Speaker 9: Allen and Lamar Jackson. I just wanted to know, who
Speaker 9: do you think is really going to come out on
Speaker 9: top of this year, not in general, like as the
Speaker 9: dominant one to really like lead their team to the victory,
Speaker 9: because you know, Lamar states fall short.
Speaker 2: I think I think whoever wins the super Bowl first,
Speaker 2: if you're talking about their careers, if you're talking about
Speaker 2: this season, I'm shocked at how great Buffalo has looked.
Speaker 1: It's a toss up between them and Baltimore.
Speaker 2: I don't trust Baltimore's defense, and I think in the
Speaker 2: case of Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson, he's looked better
Speaker 2: in the postseason than Lamar Jackson has looked in the postseason.
Speaker 2: So I got to look at it from that standpoint.
Speaker 2: I know my man Cam Newton was talking about throw
Speaker 2: some respect on Lamar Jackson's name, but I am throwing respect.
Speaker 2: He's a two time league MVP. There's nine people that
Speaker 2: have preceded him in doing winning in such honors, and
Speaker 2: all of them have won Super Bowl Championships.
Speaker 1: But Lamar Jackson, So.
Speaker 2: You got to be able to get that done. And
Speaker 2: Josh Allen is an absolute stud. Josh, I give you
Speaker 2: an opportunity to answer this question.
Speaker 1: Do you even know the answer.
Speaker 3: To this question? I do know the answer to this question.
Speaker 3: I would actually go with Lamar because of what you
Speaker 3: just said. We didn't expect the Bills to do much,
Speaker 3: and I think that's what's going to drag into the playoff.
Speaker 3: They'll show their true cloths when the games matter.
Speaker 2: All right, Last call, Joe in New York City, you
Speaker 2: live or Steven.
Speaker 10: They would tell, Hey, Steven, I'm just calling to ask
Speaker 10: what you think about the Jets situation, and if you
Speaker 10: think Aaron Rodgers should come back next year.
Speaker 2: I think it's in atrocity. I think it's been very,
Speaker 2: very bad. I think that Aaron Rodgers should do everything
Speaker 2: he can to avoid going out like this. He's looked
Speaker 2: bad for the most part this year, even though he's
Speaker 2: in route to throw foth for four thousand yards. The
Speaker 2: reality is is that he has now he's been a
Speaker 2: shell of himself. He hasn't been great, despite having Breese Hall,
Speaker 2: despite having Garrett Wilson, despite acquiring Davonte Adams, despite that
Speaker 2: defense supposedly being elite, and then we learned that it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Because they fired their head coach.
Speaker 2: They elevated their defensive coordinated into interim head coach status.
Speaker 2: It compromised their defensively and as a result, they haven't
Speaker 2: looked as good. In the end, I think when you
Speaker 2: have this kind of a year, when you had the
Speaker 2: illustrious career Aaron Rodgers has had, you don't want to
Speaker 2: go out like this. You don't want this to be
Speaker 2: the indelible mark you leave as a swan song to
Speaker 2: your career, so he has to come back. That's how
Speaker 2: I feel about the New York Jets.
Speaker 3: What do you say, Well, I had I had texted
Speaker 3: my uncle two years ago during the Aaron Rodgers game
Speaker 3: and told him Aaron Rodgers about to fall of a cliff.
Speaker 3: No Max, tell him and stuff. But that's what I said.
Speaker 3: Then he went on first take the next morning and
Speaker 3: called me an idiot and said he felt like slapped
Speaker 3: me upside my head. Now we hit, but.
Speaker 1: You actually get you actually got me on it. Tell
Speaker 1: me when I'm right, you actually got me.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean a dead clock is right twice a day.
Speaker 2: I mean it's a rare moment. But I give that
Speaker 2: to you. But at the time that you said that
Speaker 2: to me, Aaron Rodgers didn't have it down.
Speaker 1: He had an MVP caliber.
Speaker 2: Year, but you said that he was going full of
Speaker 2: You were a bit premature with it. But obviously he
Speaker 2: comes to the New York Jets this year and we
Speaker 2: see what happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all had him. You know, everybody had the Jets
Speaker 3: doing something like they're gonna be just like science. Here
Speaker 3: we are.
Speaker 2: So you're feeling good about your TV care and time
Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Right, that's what I'm saying. I got the future on addictions.
Speaker 1: So you want to show ye the show? What would
Speaker 1: you do with the show? Like you really not like me.
Speaker 1: I'm educated, your ass ain't.
Speaker 3: I just gotta be right. That's what they care about.
Speaker 3: I don't care about.
Speaker 1: Educated, but they're usually not right.
Speaker 3: What I just say about Ian Rogers. So he's as
Speaker 3: done as they come, exactly.
Speaker 2: You've been there for two hours and this first thing
Speaker 2: you said, right all day? You give me anything for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I did with your hoodie.
Speaker 4: Book.
Speaker 2: I'm I mean, I know it's after Christmas, but you
Speaker 2: didn't give me anything. You gave me some cheap hoodie.
Speaker 3: That hoodie is not cheap. The message is expensive.
Speaker 1: The messages be rich.
Speaker 3: We Smith's that's signed our contract. Twenty twenty five is
Speaker 3: our year.
Speaker 2: I told him I ain't signing nothing until I disown you.
Speaker 2: That's it for this edition to the stephen A. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: Hope y'all enjoyed it. I'll holler at you in the
Speaker 1: new year. Peace of love, everybody,