1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Jason Smith Show with Mike 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Harmon podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,880 Speaker 1: ten pm to two am Eastern seven to eleven pm 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:11,960 Speaker 1: Pacific on Fox Sports Radio. Find your local station for 5 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon at Foxsports Radio 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,040 Speaker 1: dot com, or stream us live every night on the 7 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app by searching FSR. 8 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside, Happy Friday, The Jason Smith Show with 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: My base Fred Mike Harmon, Hobo. Have you ever wiped 11 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:40,559 Speaker 1: with a piece of dry toilet paper and wondered? Is 12 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: this as good as it gets? It's not switched to 13 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: life changing wet extra large fleshable dude wipes because wetter 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 1: just Clean's better. Available at Amazon and at major retailers nationwide. 15 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: Dudewipes best clean pants down. Well, Yeah, no football this weekend, 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. We are leading up to the 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: aguesst NBA game of the last decade, Nicks Lakers. The 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,440 Speaker 1: Knicks win in a blowout tonight. The Lakers win in 19 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: a blowout tonight. Mike Harman, last I checked most expensive 20 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: tickets since Kobe Bryant's finale. I mean, maybe Nick Lakers 21 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: is bigger than the Super Bowl. I mean it might 22 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 1: be when it's all said and done. You never know, at. 23 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:19,680 Speaker 3: Least for a moment, in this moment in time in 24 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 3: your universe Earth, whatever number. 25 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 4: You ascribed to it. I had at the. 26 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 3: Trade deadline, where both teams are expected to do something 27 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 3: even if it's wrong. We've got that going for us, 28 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 3: and let's face it, eventually you have to move past 29 00:01:33,959 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 3: the Bill Belichick story and find something else to shout 30 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,680 Speaker 3: about and chase Windmills down. 31 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,440 Speaker 4: So here we are Nicks and Lakers. Why not? 32 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, any other writers say anything today? 33 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 3: No? 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: No writers? Okay, so they all think it's spygate and 35 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: hate the guy. Got it all right, We're good. 36 00:01:51,160 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 4: Hey. 37 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 3: Lebron was sad or not crying the other day. I 38 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 3: think on some level he watched a little interview clip 39 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,400 Speaker 3: that Matt Damon did where he was stolen praise upon 40 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 3: the Rock for the smashing Machine, and there's a there's 41 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 3: a scene in the hospital where he starts to cry 42 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 3: and he raises the hospital blanket over his eyes. That's 43 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 3: kind of what Lebron did when he was sitting there 44 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 3: waiting on you know, the tribute to finish, everybody get 45 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,360 Speaker 3: my good side. And then he's got a documentary crew 46 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:24,639 Speaker 3: following him this whole time. It's all pho gayzy, but 47 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 3: it'll give us good theater good this weekend. 48 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: This will be the last time James suits up as 49 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: a Laker to play in Madison to see what I 50 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: did there? See what I did there as a Laker 51 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: to play at MSG. Tickets were like eight hundred bucks 52 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: a piece. Now they've come down a little bit in 53 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 1: the last couple of days, but you know this is like, 54 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: this is the most expensive regular season ticket game. I 55 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: mean since Kobe's last game, right, going all the way 56 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: back to Kobe that that's the demand to see this 57 00:02:51,639 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: NBA Finals preview. 58 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:54,799 Speaker 4: You do know Austin Reeves is coming back, right. 59 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 1: Well, that's why that's why, that's why the price is 60 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: so high, because Reeves is coming in. 61 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:00,799 Speaker 3: That's why you're gonna wear an Yeah, if you want 62 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 3: to sit courtside, you're getting up into a couple of 63 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,400 Speaker 3: thousand dollars. If you just want to get in right now, 64 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,639 Speaker 3: you're under four hundred. Yeah, which is nice than going 65 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:10,920 Speaker 3: to see Harry's toe. 66 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: To Nick lose. 67 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 4: That's a good price, Hey, and. 68 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 1: You never know. Every game you see could be Karl 69 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:17,919 Speaker 1: Anthony Towns his last game as a Nick before he's 70 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,360 Speaker 1: traded for Ganness, So you never know. You never know 71 00:03:20,440 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: when that's the last one. Although if he keeps pulling 72 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: down twenty rebounds a night like he's done the last 73 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 1: few nights since the honest trade rumors came out, hey, 74 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: maybe he's gonna get to stay because I'll tell you what. 75 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:33,440 Speaker 1: The last few nights, the Knicks have won three in 76 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: a row. Karl Anthony Towns has not been the offensive 77 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: quote force, but the Knicks have been better defensively. He's 78 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,840 Speaker 1: pulling down twenty rebounds a game. The scoring load is 79 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: going more Josh hart and Unobi in support of Jalen Brunson. 80 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: Maybe the Knicks have figured something out and maybe they 81 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: have look out. 82 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 3: It always goes back to the old Arnold Schwarzenegger philosophy 83 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 3: always worked a balance in definition. In this case, work 84 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 3: to balance. You don't need to be a heavyweight in 85 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,400 Speaker 3: terms of the scoring column. Actually do something there, and 86 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:09,559 Speaker 3: then when they try to assign some sort of valuation 87 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 3: for your defensive work in the game, make sure there's 88 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:14,800 Speaker 3: a positive coefficient there. 89 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah. Positive coefficients always good. Negative coefficients not good, 90 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: not good. 91 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 4: And that's one to grow on. 92 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: So while we wait for this Titanic game that's going 93 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,279 Speaker 1: to just completely outdo the Super Bowl, because I mean, like, like, 94 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 1: why wouldn't it. You want a great and crazy basketball 95 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 1: headline that you are good that has become this big 96 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: headline Friday night and you think there's no way this 97 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:42,599 Speaker 1: can happen. Uh, just wait, just wait. Maybe you know 98 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,039 Speaker 1: the name Amari Bailey. Maybe you don't, but former UCLA 99 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: standout went to the NBA after his freshman year a 100 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: couple of years ago, was drafted in the second round 101 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: and didn't see a lot of time with the Charlotte Hornets. 102 00:04:56,120 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 1: He played in ten games during his rookie year. But 103 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: he's a second round pick, so you know he's not 104 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,359 Speaker 1: a two way deal. He's going to play a little 105 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: bit with the team, a little bit in the G League. 106 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: That's how it's going to go. Now. He did spend 107 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,040 Speaker 1: two years in the G League and he was cut 108 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 1: over the summer. Okay, So why is Amari Bailey suddenly 109 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,040 Speaker 1: a name on everybody's lips Because he has hired an 110 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: agent and a lawyer to fight for wait for it, 111 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: wait for it, wait for it. NCAA eligibility with hopes 112 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: of joining a college team to play one more season. 113 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 1: That's right. He wants to go from the pros back 114 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: to college. He wants to be a real life Rodney 115 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: Dangerfield back to school. Example. Hey, I'll tell you one thing, 116 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:41,719 Speaker 1: finding it you don't know the first thing about your writing. 117 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,039 Speaker 1: He wants to go back to school to play one 118 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: more season. Now to hear Bailey talk about, he gave 119 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,400 Speaker 1: a statement to ESPN he said, look, right now, I'd 120 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: be a senior in college. I'm not trying to be 121 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: twenty seven years old playing college athletics. Not what I 122 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: want to do. Other guys want to do that, that's great, 123 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: But I think I should be able to go back 124 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 1: and hey, and I want to play one more year. 125 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 1: I want to show what I can do and go 126 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: back in the draft and get back into the NBA. 127 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: And already I have seen blanketly across the board. No way, 128 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: no way, no way, no, you go pro. You forfeit 129 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 1: your eligibility. You're not going back. No, no, no, no no. 130 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: And I just want to say this, are you sure 131 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: this isn't going to happen, because I can absolutely see 132 00:06:29,480 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: this happening. Right. We are eroding the student part of 133 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: student athlete every day, right, every day, nil transfer being 134 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: able to play immediately. The last few years has just 135 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: been this is not student athlete anymore. Right, So, if 136 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: you're eroding the student part of it, why is this 137 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: a hard line? We have shown this age we are 138 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,160 Speaker 1: in now in the world, but specifically in college athletics. 139 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: In the world, there's no rules in anything anymore. You 140 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,040 Speaker 1: don't like something, you can just decide I'm not going 141 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:00,040 Speaker 1: to abide by it and I'm gonna wait and what 142 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 1: are you gonna do to me? Right? And college sports 143 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: has been the same thing. Wait a minute, we can't 144 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: do this in college Why can't we We can change 145 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: the rules in college football and college basketball whenever we 146 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 1: want it. We don't need to subscribe to a hard line. 147 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: Why should we do that? And if you are now 148 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 1: paying players and players are getting ten to eleven million dollars, 149 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: especially in college football, to go play, what's going to 150 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: stop a judge? What's going to stop a case to say, hey, uh, 151 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: why not? Right? Because I could see a judge saying 152 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: a certain amount of pro experience isn't an advantage over 153 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: other people that are playing at that level if it's 154 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: a small amount, and as long as he's within his 155 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: normal eligibility, yes he can go back to school if 156 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: he goes pro and he plays it doesn't play a 157 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 1: certain amount of time and he wants to go back 158 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:51,600 Speaker 1: to school and he's within his freshman to senior year 159 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: of what his normal eligibility would be, Yes, you can 160 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: go back to college. Now it would open up a 161 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: whole can of stuff in college sports. But do you 162 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: really think that? Can you really think in an age 163 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,760 Speaker 1: when we again, this line is being eroded, Why is 164 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: this line suddenly we can't cross. I can easily see 165 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 1: that ruling coming out that you were then your your 166 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: regular eligibility of five years whatever you want to say, 167 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: four or five years, and you don't play a certain 168 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 1: number of games in the pros kind of like you 169 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: can keep your eligibility if you don't play a certain 170 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,520 Speaker 1: amount of games in college football. Right, you can see 171 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: you can still Hey, I want to keep my one 172 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 1: year of eligibility. I've played in four games this year. 173 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: They want to up that for next year, so hey, 174 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: you get to preserve your eligibility play in less than 175 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: four games in a year, you can red shirt and 176 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: play again. Isn't that? Isn't that? You know, something that 177 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: might be a little bit unfair, but we allow that 178 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,679 Speaker 1: to happen. I can see this happening, Mike Carmen. I 179 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: know everybody is out. No, no, no, no no, but 180 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: just look at the world we live in. I can 181 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: see him winning this, and I can see college sports 182 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: changing again after this ruling comes down. 183 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 3: Well, it's continuing in the theme. Think of the sanctity 184 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 3: the ors. 185 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,199 Speaker 4: What have you done? 186 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 3: You've eroded the sanctity of this institution, this game. 187 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,360 Speaker 4: It's gone. Okay, Tradition has. 188 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:06,160 Speaker 1: Been blown out the door. 189 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 3: It has been torn asunder and filed somewhere else. It's 190 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 3: shoveled in the backyard and covered up with a nice 191 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 3: rose bed. At this point, all the things you remember, 192 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 3: right USC Notre Dame, all these rivalry games, all of 193 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 3: these historical kickoff classics, all of that, it's gone Bowl 194 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:32,720 Speaker 3: system for basketball. We keep expanding the tournament, We keep 195 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 3: creating new and exciting ways to try to market the game, 196 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,640 Speaker 3: changing up the television partners, changing. 197 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 4: Up all of those things. 198 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 3: Conferences are now twenty large like it doesn't matter anymore. 199 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 3: And the student athlete thing, let me tell you, with 200 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 3: the exception of a select few schools, and then we 201 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 3: start looking at D two, D D three and the 202 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,040 Speaker 3: service academies, there's a lot of shoulder shrugging. I mean, 203 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 3: remember the cars question and answer that he had ahead 204 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 3: of the National title game. Hey, how'd you do in 205 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:06,800 Speaker 3: your classes this week? 206 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 4: Lady? 207 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 3: I've been graduating for two years. What are you doing now? Oh, 208 00:10:11,480 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 3: don't play video games? Hanging out with my girlfriend? I mean, 209 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,720 Speaker 3: it's done. And when you talk about the billions of 210 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 3: dollars that are transacted and raised by each of these institutions, 211 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 3: I'm not saying you have to like it. I'm not 212 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 3: saying that you don't stand on the mountaintop with a 213 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,880 Speaker 3: little singular tier dripping down your cheek. It happens. But 214 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 3: the reality is the door has been open. Nausey did 215 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 3: this right. While he didn't play ten games in the 216 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,800 Speaker 3: NBA like Bailey did in the twenty three to twenty 217 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 3: four season, he still had his rights owned by your 218 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,960 Speaker 3: Nicks in the process. 219 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 4: And all of this to. 220 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 3: Say that we've already eroded this, that lion has been erased. 221 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,000 Speaker 3: I mean, you keep moving the line to where you 222 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 3: can't even see it anymore, or some the derivation of 223 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 3: that from the friends line from Chandler Bing from so 224 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 3: many years ago. But yeah, it's it can fight it. 225 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,480 Speaker 3: But he's gonna go into the courts and they're gonna say, hey, 226 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 3: will he help the school make more money? Yeah, it 227 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 3: doesn't help his life. Yes, what are we fighting about? 228 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,600 Speaker 1: Justin Frossburg has big news coming in right here. This 229 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 1: is news only from Fox Sports Radio involving this story. 230 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:30,080 Speaker 1: Justin Frosburg. We've just been doing this for about five minutes. 231 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:31,680 Speaker 1: What do you have for us, man, Yeah, this just 232 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: in Carmelo Anthony back to Syracuse. All right, well we're 233 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: making the tournament, man, we are making the tournament now. 234 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:42,319 Speaker 4: Oh another piece for you. Had another guy going back 235 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:43,520 Speaker 4: to school, Lebron to duke. 236 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: Yeah, Lebron is finally after all these years. 237 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 4: Hit rewind. 238 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:55,079 Speaker 1: Oh telling you man, I'd love to see it. Oh, Man, 239 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,480 Speaker 1: Mellow going back playing with his kid back to see. 240 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:00,679 Speaker 1: Mellow's got three years he's got three years experience. Yeah, 241 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: I mean he's a little bit older. I mean, you know, 242 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: maybe that would be a little bit of a sticky wicket. 243 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:06,640 Speaker 1: But he's got three years left. Why not? Why not 244 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:08,800 Speaker 1: do it that? Let him go, Let him go. 245 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 3: Just left that, Jason, Like we talk about all of 246 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 3: these different institutions. We talked about the Pro Football Hall 247 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:18,320 Speaker 3: of Fame voting that now they're they're shuffling. They just 248 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 3: changed their by laws and processes and they'll probably do 249 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,080 Speaker 3: it again as a backlash to the one year rule 250 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,960 Speaker 3: now for coaches and what it does, uh, and the 251 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,440 Speaker 3: way these candidates were looked at right, three players, a coach, 252 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 3: and a contributor. All of these things are are subject 253 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:39,599 Speaker 3: to change. You know, whichever the way the wind blows fiercest, 254 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,920 Speaker 3: you lick your fingers sticking up and say yeah, that way, 255 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 3: and then you bounce back the other way. 256 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, I mean you think this can't happen? 257 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: Watch watch it. 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Well, when you are on the eve 314 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:48,080 Speaker 1: of the eve of the biggest NBA regular season game 315 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: in a decade, Well, when those teams are gonna tee 316 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,880 Speaker 1: it up on Sunday at MSG, well, you guys both 317 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:59,520 Speaker 1: get to be the play of the day once again, 318 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:06,880 Speaker 1: just dominating the play, dominating all. Where Where's where's the 319 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:12,280 Speaker 1: Brunson play? We got? Luca had thirty seven? Where's the 320 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: Brunson play? They won by thirty tonight? Where's Jalen Brunson? 321 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: He had twenty three? Around the Robinson squad and rattles 322 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: at home that it's eighty five sixty nine. 323 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,240 Speaker 3: So you got an accommodating frostburn tyshir, I'm giving you 324 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,239 Speaker 3: a Knicks highlight hell half frozen over. 325 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 1: TV. No, well, no, And the reason and the reason 326 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 1: I know Frostburg is doing this because we're holding out 327 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: hope because this is the look. That's why this game 328 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:44,680 Speaker 1: is so big, Right, it could be Lebron's last game 329 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,000 Speaker 1: at MSG. It's Knicks Lakers. Everything is a big deal. 330 00:16:48,600 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: And it is also the first NBC Sunday Night basketball game. Right, 331 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: It's it's back now, and I am holding out hope 332 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: that it's going to be Marv Albert announcing the beginning 333 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: of the game when you hear the dead d ed 334 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:06,640 Speaker 1: Denta and tonight the Knicks and Jalen Brunson host Lebron 335 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 1: James in his final game in MSG as a Laker 336 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,760 Speaker 1: because they're not making the finals and he'll be with 337 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: the Cavs next year. It's Lakers Nicks right now on 338 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: the NBA on NBC. 339 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 4: Like I'm really him or is it? Ai? 340 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: Marvl and Alan Iverson not part of this game. It's 341 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 1: a different Ai since I've been retired from the game. 342 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: Time out, JJ Reddick. He wants to talk it over. 343 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, AI did not have a good week. I think 344 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 3: he should have probably used a different example. 345 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:39,959 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, I mean how many other a all right? 346 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: And Andre Iguidala, former NBA Finals MVP, not involved in 347 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:45,359 Speaker 1: this game. 348 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he won something time out Mike Brown. 349 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 1: He thinks he's still coaching Sacramento. I really want like come. 350 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 4: On here like that. 351 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 1: You can't give me you Marv Albert opening things up right, 352 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 1: We can't get on ball Rock and Marvel. I mean, 353 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:02,719 Speaker 1: come on, man, we gotta be able to do that. 354 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:06,320 Speaker 3: Tesh is ready for his spotlight moment. He's tuck seeded up. 355 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:12,199 Speaker 3: He'll be courtside, get ready, might show up alongside him 356 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 3: from that great sketch. 357 00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, I mean, well there, Well we just 358 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: saw the the first pictures from ted Lasso season four 359 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: just published. Yeah, just came out. Yeah, it's gonna be 360 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,840 Speaker 1: everything that we thought. He's gonna be coaching a women's team, 361 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:27,760 Speaker 1: uh in back in England, and and it's gonna be 362 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:30,560 Speaker 1: a whole new cast of characters that you know, I 363 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: feel like I would. I'm I thought, like, am I 364 00:18:32,960 --> 00:18:36,320 Speaker 1: gonna miss the guys on the team from the first run? 365 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: And I feel like I'm really not right? Like we 366 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: you know, we we're keeping Roy Kent. Look, I'll miss 367 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: Jamie Tart He's the only one that's not in it. 368 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:43,439 Speaker 3: Uh. 369 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: But you know, I think coaching a women's team, I 370 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,239 Speaker 1: think that's really cool and yeah, well, no, I think 371 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 1: Nate the Greats coming in. I think Nate the Greats back, 372 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: but it's fun paid. No, it's not Nate the Great 373 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: the you know, the bad villain that he was, you know, 374 00:18:58,440 --> 00:18:59,640 Speaker 1: but he paid no penalty. 375 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 4: It was it was a dream sequence. No, he was 376 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 4: a jerk. 377 00:19:02,440 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: He deserves more. But that's that's Ted. Ted's very forgiving. 378 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 1: He's a forgiving guy, you know. So I feel like, 379 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: oh man, look, but I'm like, oh am, I gonna 380 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,240 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna miss a lot again. I'll miss Jamie Tart, 381 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:17,720 Speaker 1: but a couple of storylines that involve the players. I'm like, yeah, 382 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,680 Speaker 1: I don't know that you can go any further with 383 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: the with the storylines that you have, but I'll really 384 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,520 Speaker 1: miss Sam because I'll really want to. I really want 385 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 1: to see a Kofu back in. Yeah, that'd be good. 386 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 4: He'll be somewhere. And I mean, who doesn't need more, 387 00:19:33,640 --> 00:19:34,680 Speaker 4: uh Hannah wanting him? 388 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: You will never ever, ever, ever play for the National Day. 389 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I got he's such a good act. I 390 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,359 Speaker 1: gotta have I gotta have more Gofu. I gotta more 391 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:50,919 Speaker 1: Super League. But to this NFL story today, and you know, 392 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:53,119 Speaker 1: we'd like to say we're ahead of the curve, all right, Jason, 393 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:55,040 Speaker 1: give give me some proof ahead of the curve. 394 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 3: Oh, we don't punt it for forty eight hours win 395 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 3: to see which the winds blown. 396 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: It's a a couple of weeks ago, we told you 397 00:20:02,119 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: that looks as things go on this NFL season, the 398 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: further the Seahawks advance, the better it is for them. 399 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 1: The worse it is for the Vikings. And you want 400 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 1: to talk about Kevin O'Connell and Quasia doo Famensa, Right, 401 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,120 Speaker 1: these are guys we talked about with every advancing week, 402 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: the better Sam Darnold plays, the worse this is for 403 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,720 Speaker 1: them because this makes them look like they are absolutely inept. 404 00:20:28,960 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: And we said two weeks ago this is fireable stuff 405 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: and someone's gonna pay for their job. Sam Darnald gets 406 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I mean, I can point to the 407 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:39,640 Speaker 1: segment that we did it on We put it out 408 00:20:39,640 --> 00:20:42,320 Speaker 1: on social media. If they get to the super Bowl, 409 00:20:42,359 --> 00:20:46,000 Speaker 1: someone's getting fired. What happened today, Quasi Adolfla Mensa got 410 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,040 Speaker 1: fired by the Vikings. They are looking for their new 411 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: general manager. Our manager, Scott Shapiro was flying to Minnesota, 412 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:53,439 Speaker 1: right now to interview for the job. I told him 413 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: I'd write him a letter of recommendation. So look, we 414 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: told you ahead of the curve, this is fireable stuff. 415 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: And I know that there's the window dressing we got 416 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: today from this story that wow, you're firing your GM, 417 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: you know, this far away from the regular season. Yeah, 418 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:09,720 Speaker 1: there's certain things that we got where maybe you know, 419 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: he rubbed some people the wrong way and and other decisions. 420 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 1: He had a spotty draft record. Yeah, all that is 421 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 1: part of it, sure, but that's all Like the side dishes. 422 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:21,840 Speaker 1: The main dish, the turkey in this Thanksgiving meal is 423 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,920 Speaker 1: they let Sam Darnold walk out the door and look 424 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:30,960 Speaker 1: at what he has done. That is unforgivable. That is unforgivable. 425 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: It's one thing if you had him and you let 426 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,960 Speaker 1: him go and he hit it big, well, we didn't 427 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: know what we had. The guy was backing up JJ 428 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,320 Speaker 1: McCarthy for here. We had no idea. Okay, that's one thing, right, 429 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 1: No one's really killing them for Daniel Jones. Hey, nobody, 430 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,679 Speaker 1: Daniel Jones was still any good, all right? Yeah, and 431 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 1: he wanted to go somewhere and start. You had JJ McCarthy, 432 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: but you It's the hardest thing to do in the 433 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 1: NFL is to get a quarterback. And you will keep 434 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 1: your job as a GM or a head coach as 435 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,119 Speaker 1: long as your quarterback is good and you and a 436 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: guy come in and through a complete and total action. 437 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:03,959 Speaker 1: Right because McCarthy got hurt. Sam Darnald comes in and 438 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 1: has a Pro Bowl seat. And I don't mean I 439 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: don't mean Shador Sanders, Joe Flacco, pro Bowl season. I 440 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 1: mean a Pro Bowl season, thirty five touchdowns, four thousand yards. 441 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,520 Speaker 1: But they said, no, no, no, the last two games 442 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: weren't great, and we really really want to go to 443 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy. So we're gonna kick Sam Darnald out. We're 444 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: not gonna even try to franchise him. We're not gonna 445 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: make JJ McCarthy try to beat him out, even though 446 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:27,879 Speaker 1: there was talking the offseason. We'll try to bring in 447 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. That could be a bit of a segue 448 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,680 Speaker 1: to JJ McCarthy. What the hell are you doing? Man? 449 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: This is like NFL malpractice the Vikings had, Like again, 450 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:40,280 Speaker 1: this is where everybody should be fired because you had 451 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:43,160 Speaker 1: a guy that was that good. You saw the evidence. 452 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,040 Speaker 1: This is not something where I need to look back 453 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: and say, well, an NFL guy with all the years 454 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:49,840 Speaker 1: experience is gonna see something in a quarterback that I 455 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 1: didn't know everybody got to see. Boy, Sam Donald came 456 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 1: in and made it work. Man. You went to fourteen 457 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,120 Speaker 1: and three with the Vikings. Yeah, the last two games 458 00:22:57,119 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: weren't great, but guess what. Only one team ends the 459 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 1: season really happy they win the Super Bowl. You had 460 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: the guy, You had the guy, and you said, no, 461 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: we want an unproven rookie so badly that this is 462 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,439 Speaker 1: what we're going to do. And immediately felt like they 463 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: wound up saying we don't want to do this because 464 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna slow play bringing JJ McCarthy along. Maybe we 465 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 1: signed Aaron Rodgers. And now the end of this season 466 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: where he couldn't stay healthy and couldn't play well, what 467 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 1: did the Vikings say, We're gonna bring in some competition 468 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 1: for him. Like, I mean, this is where you say, Okay, 469 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,199 Speaker 1: I gotta fire everybody involved in this, because there's no 470 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 1: other team in the history of the NFL that had 471 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: this kind of year out of a quarterback who was 472 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,320 Speaker 1: twenty seven years old and said yeah, we're moving on. 473 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: And I'm not saying you had to give Sam Donald 474 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: a ton of money and say, well we got a signe, 475 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: but franchise him for a year, keep him around for 476 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: a year. If your plan was to make JJ McCarthy 477 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,119 Speaker 1: kind of earn it or keep Sam Donald around. But 478 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 1: you had you had faith in a guy that you 479 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: didn't see anything from that was overdrafted. And now look 480 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 1: where you are now. You may not have any quarterback. 481 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 1: So that's why two weeks Goes said, if Sam Donald 482 00:23:59,320 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: keeps doing this, this just makes things look even worse 483 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: with every passing day. And now today, hey, their GM 484 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 1: pays for it with his job. We told you this 485 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: two weeks ago, because that is absolutely fireable throughout the NFL. 486 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,200 Speaker 1: This has never been done before. 487 00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 3: You go through the process and rewind the last couple 488 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 3: of years in draft choices and decide how good those 489 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 3: picks were in the moment, right, because hindsight always twenty 490 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 3: twenty most teams struggle in terms of the viability of 491 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 3: a lot of their draft choices. So you got that 492 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,760 Speaker 3: that's fine, But on that roster you had three quarterbacks 493 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 3: because you also had good old Daniel Jones who was 494 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,520 Speaker 3: hanging around there and if nothing else, he should have 495 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 3: been brought back to fight McCarthy for the spot, because 496 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,280 Speaker 3: it would have been a much more amenable fifteen million 497 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,639 Speaker 3: dollar hit as opposed to needing to franchise Old Sam, 498 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 3: which would have cost you forty Either way dollar cost averaging, 499 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 3: you still are pretty good in terms of what you're 500 00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 3: paying at the quarterback position. But for Kevin O'Connell and 501 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 3: for that squad, we watched the dallions and the rumors 502 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,640 Speaker 3: about Aaron Rodgers, which still just some of those were 503 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,359 Speaker 3: in that room most likely and now confirmed to be 504 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:17,680 Speaker 3: truly the coach weren't quite convinced that McCarthy was a 505 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 3: gonna be ready or p was gonna be that guy, 506 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:23,920 Speaker 3: even if he was right. So now you've got yourself 507 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:27,439 Speaker 3: in this situation. And we've seen Rogers name floating again 508 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 3: before the McCarthy hire in Pittsburgh to where that seems 509 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,160 Speaker 3: like a foregone conclusion. But until and they're bringing back 510 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:40,159 Speaker 3: other pieces of that old Green Bay squad, right line 511 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 3: coaches and whatever, to try to get it all together 512 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,239 Speaker 3: to set it up for Aaron Rodgers' return. But in 513 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 3: Minnesota you had a guy who went by the formulas. 514 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,119 Speaker 4: Went by the math. 515 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 3: He was just there at the Senior Bowl representing the 516 00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 3: Minnesota Vikings. So that's the timing. It all gets kind 517 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 3: of funny. But as soon as you see Sam Darnold 518 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:09,440 Speaker 3: start doing interviews as the Super Bowl representative from the NFC, 519 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 3: it's gonna sting Ziggy Wilf a little bit more. Yeah, right, 520 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,640 Speaker 3: that reality sets in a little bit more, especially as 521 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 3: a I'm sure he went in and said, all right, 522 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,240 Speaker 3: what's our ceiling here? And how happy you are the 523 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,120 Speaker 3: ancillary parts, because that's the other part of this equation, right, 524 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 3: is that we saw justin Jefferson and he played pretty 525 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,120 Speaker 3: good soldier over the course of the year. He telling 526 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 3: me he was happy with how he was utilized in 527 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 3: that system. He caught eighteen passes this year, seemed about right. 528 00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:37,080 Speaker 1: I think John Metchi caught more passes with the Jets 529 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 1: than he caught with the Vikings this year. But you know, 530 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,119 Speaker 1: the thing is is that there are some mistakes that 531 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: happen and teams get over them, but there are some 532 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:54,159 Speaker 1: mistakes that just get worse and worse as time goes on, 533 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,000 Speaker 1: where you know what, we can't let this mistake go 534 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: without there being some sort of responsible or culpability for it, right, 535 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: like if you want to go back to to Sean, 536 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 1: when you go back to the ACFC Championship game, in 537 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:09,800 Speaker 1: Sean Payton's mistake of not taking the points in the 538 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,280 Speaker 1: second quarter on the field goal, you could tell as 539 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,159 Speaker 1: the game went on that mistake was just going to 540 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: get bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, to the 541 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,160 Speaker 1: point where he had to address it and it's something 542 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 1: that's going to haunt him for the rest of his career. 543 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,520 Speaker 1: An offensive coordinator gets fired, he had to talk about 544 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,719 Speaker 1: bo Nix's unhealthy ankle, which was not the right conversation 545 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: that now bo Nix is mad about. And look at 546 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:35,640 Speaker 1: what's happened to the Broncos. They're an absolute mess. They 547 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 1: are a New York Jets Cleveland Brown's tire fire of 548 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: a mess, all stemming from that mistake. Because some mistakes 549 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,440 Speaker 1: just get so big, so big, you can't just say, well, 550 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,600 Speaker 1: it happened and we're moving on. This is we need 551 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 1: some sort of responsibility taken and something has to have 552 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:53,639 Speaker 1: an action has to happen so we can move on 553 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: from this. And that's what this was. Because if Darnold 554 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: went out in the first round of the playoffs, I 555 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: think maybe adolfa Mensa keeps his up because okay, well yeah, 556 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: look what he did. Well they went out in the 557 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 1: first round and well that's what happened to us last year. 558 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:08,560 Speaker 1: So okay, Donald's good. But all right, this has nothing 559 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: to do with the vikings and all about what happened 560 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 1: and with Donald and the Super Bowl. Man he is 561 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: costing people jobs. Now jobs are at stake, Mike Carmon 562 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:17,359 Speaker 1: because of Sam Darley. 563 00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:20,240 Speaker 3: Well, but you talk about windows and whether you believe 564 00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 3: in the finality of things, you look around that division. 565 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 3: Life is going to be hard. And you had someone 566 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:29,280 Speaker 3: in the room and whether you love Sam or not, 567 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 3: and you just read cold hard statistics, you know, it's 568 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:35,760 Speaker 3: easy to dismiss the year Sam Donald had to a 569 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,760 Speaker 3: degree you actually had to watch some football. I know, 570 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:43,600 Speaker 3: tough concept for a lot, but the idea that you 571 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,280 Speaker 3: now are in an NFC North Packers aren't going anywhere, 572 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 3: Bears are now just getting run up this year. Obviously, 573 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 3: a lot of walls went their way, a lot of 574 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,040 Speaker 3: forced turnovers in close range, still gave up twenty six 575 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 3: points per game, miraculous comebacks, So you're expecting a little 576 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,960 Speaker 3: bit of a regression there. But they might be better overall, 577 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,760 Speaker 3: but you don't know. And then Detroit they took a 578 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 3: step back. Are they done? No, They're not done. It's 579 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:14,120 Speaker 3: still a roster that's ready to at least give you 580 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 3: a hell the two times a year you got a plan. 581 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 3: So if you're Minnesota, you're looking at another year of 582 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 3: Addison and Hockinson and Jefferson. Jefferson after week five, is 583 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 3: he just gonna walk off the field like he's DJ Moore? 584 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,000 Speaker 3: I mean, there's opportunities and there's craziness that can happen here. 585 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling down the Jason 586 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: Smith Show with my best friend my conference understand Sam 587 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: Darnold getting people five. This is the most egregious epic 588 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: fail in the NFL in years because it was just 589 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: so obvious. Even the most average NFL fan would say, Yeah, 590 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: you don't make this move. No no, no, no, no, 591 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 1: We're gonna do the opposite. We're gonna get rid of 592 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:53,960 Speaker 1: that guy because you know, quarterback is too important to 593 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: get a guy that's really good. Time now to find 594 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,920 Speaker 1: out what's trending in the wide world of sports. Someone 595 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: who's been called the Sam d Arnold of Fox Sports Radio. 596 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to the Super Bowl. He's day He's glad 597 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,160 Speaker 1: he doesn't have to talk about the Jets anymore. It's 598 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: deep Di Sega. 599 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,479 Speaker 6: Yeah, I've been seeing ghosts. We do have a final 600 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 6: in college hoops. Number three Michigan on Fox TV is 601 00:30:14,760 --> 00:30:18,080 Speaker 6: just one at seventh thrand Michigan State eighty three seventy 602 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 6: one for the Spartans. Jeremy Fears did have thirty one 603 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,520 Speaker 6: points in defeat. Number twenty one. Saint Louis won again 604 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 6: at home against Dayton one oh two to seventy one. 605 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 4: And we have four late games. 606 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 6: In the NBA. Mid third quarter at Phoenix Suns now 607 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,880 Speaker 6: up seventy seven sixty over Cleveland. Denver has Nicola jokicch 608 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 6: back twenty points in nineteen minutes on the court. The 609 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 6: Nuggets lead in the third against the Clippers seventy eight 610 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 6: seventy two. Jokich, who returned this evening had missed a 611 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 6: month with a knee entry halftime. The Brooklyn Nets, who've 612 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 6: lost seven in a row, are leading fifty four to 613 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 6: fifty two at Utah. The late game has Detroit a 614 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 6: head mid first quarter at Golden State twenty nine to 615 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,480 Speaker 6: twenty two. By the way, Sat Spurs at Hornet's game 616 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,720 Speaker 6: was moved up to a noon Eastern start due to 617 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,880 Speaker 6: bad weather. Charlotte's won five straight the next one there 618 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 6: fifth in a row tonight blitzing Portland one twenty seven 619 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,360 Speaker 6: to ninety seven, Boston all over Sacramento one twelve ninety three. 620 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 6: The final Kings have lost eight straight. New Orleans sent 621 00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:20,480 Speaker 6: Memphis to a fifth straight loss one fourteen one to 622 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:23,800 Speaker 6: oh six victories for Orlando and the Lakers. In fact, 623 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 6: Luka Dons, which had a triple double in the first 624 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,600 Speaker 6: half at Washington. He finished with thirty seven points, eleven rebounds, 625 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 6: thirteen assists just one NHL game tonight, Columbus early third 626 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 6: period leads at Chicago three to two. The Vikings fired 627 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 6: general manager Quasiadolfo Menza after four years. Minnesota will search 628 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,960 Speaker 6: for a new GM after the draft. The Packers gave 629 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 6: multi year extensions too general manager Brian Gudokunst, director of 630 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 6: football Operations russ ball, and officially to head coach Matt Lafleur. 631 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 6: The Steelers new defensive coordinator is Patrick Graham from the Raiders. 632 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 6: He worked for Mike McCarthy at Green Bay in twenty eighteen, 633 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 6: the Ravens hired Declan Doyle as offensive coordinator. He was 634 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,000 Speaker 6: with the Bears this past season. He was a Sean 635 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 6: Payton assistant before that, and Buffalo's new offensive coordinator is 636 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,600 Speaker 6: Pete Carmichael, a Sean Payton assistant at Denver and New Orleans. 637 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 6: The A's gave shortstop Jacob Wilson a seven year extension 638 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:24,520 Speaker 6: were seventy million dollars. Former Stanford baseball coach Mark Marquis 639 00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 6: has passed away at the age of seventy eight. Justin 640 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:30,840 Speaker 6: Rose leads by four strokes in San Diego. Brooks Keepka 641 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 6: barely made the cut. The Australian Open women's final is 642 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,360 Speaker 6: very late tonight our time. In the men's Semis, number 643 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,480 Speaker 6: one Carlos Alcarez won in five sets in about five 644 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 6: and a half hours. Novak Djokovic advanced. Lindsay Vaughn injured 645 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,120 Speaker 6: her knee in a crash in her final downhill race 646 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,280 Speaker 6: before the Olympics. After the crash, the race was canceled. Today, 647 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,640 Speaker 6: she says her Olympic dream is not yet over. NASCAR's 648 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,920 Speaker 6: Clash is Sunday night on Fox TV. It'll be about 649 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,280 Speaker 6: twenty five degrees in North Carolina on Sunday after Saturday snowstorm. 650 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 2: There. 651 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 6: In fact, Saturday's events have already been postponed back to you. 652 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,200 Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. 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Coming up next, something happened today, 658 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 1: big news that now I kind of love the Pro Bowl. 659 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,000 Speaker 1: Trust me, it's amazing news and it's coming up next 660 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 1: right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. 661 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 662 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 663 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:43,360 Speaker 2: pm Pacific. 664 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best 665 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,080 Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Your selfish bastard, you mis sending you 666 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:51,440 Speaker 1: today's show. 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Well, today, there was a big story that 674 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:19,000 Speaker 1: happened revolving around the Pro Bowl, And now I kind 675 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,400 Speaker 1: of love the Pro Bowl because the Pro Bowl today 676 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,520 Speaker 1: said this is what we are. Love us for what 677 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:28,399 Speaker 1: we are. Now Joe Flacco is going to the Pro 678 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:33,320 Speaker 1: Bowl for the first time in his eighteen year NFL career, 679 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: which should ask answer the question, is Joe Flacco elite? Okay, 680 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:42,400 Speaker 1: his first Pro Bowl appearance is this year fifteen touchdowns, 681 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 1: ten picks, quarterback rating of seventy nine, which is about 682 00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:50,279 Speaker 1: twenty points below average. Split the season with Cleveland and Cincinnati. 683 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,200 Speaker 1: He had a big four game stretch with the Bengals 684 00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,279 Speaker 1: in the middle of the season when they tried to 685 00:34:56,320 --> 00:35:00,239 Speaker 1: save their year by obtaining him while Joe Burrow got healthy. 686 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 1: He had eleven touchdowns and two picks. It was, you know, 687 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,000 Speaker 1: four great games in a row. They only won one, 688 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: they lost to the Jets, and then you know, he 689 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: played a little bit after that, a couple of ok 690 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,439 Speaker 1: weeks and then sat the rest of the way. When 691 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:18,160 Speaker 1: Joe Burrow returned. But this is now Joe Flacco going 692 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl a few days after Shador Sanders 693 00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,640 Speaker 1: was named to the Pro Bowl Games. And this should 694 00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,680 Speaker 1: tell you that it's time to embrace the Pro Bowl 695 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,000 Speaker 1: for what it is and not what it used to be. Right, 696 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: because how many times did you get this week? Shaduor 697 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,320 Speaker 1: Sanders is a prome. I'm not gonna watch two people 698 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: don't watch anyway, man, What are you talking about? 699 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:39,919 Speaker 4: What he had to watch? 700 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,720 Speaker 3: What six to eight million people's are been consistently watching. 701 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,319 Speaker 4: You're probably on the other side of that one. 702 00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: There's not even a game anymore, right, it's just the games. 703 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 1: It's like going to a carnival and watching these NFL players, 704 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: you know, try to win Teddy Bears. Right, it's a 705 00:35:55,600 --> 00:36:00,640 Speaker 1: But the Pro Bowl has become the Oscars of thel 706 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:05,360 Speaker 1: where we reward people for their careers and popularity, because 707 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,759 Speaker 1: that's what the Oscars is. It's not about who had 708 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,839 Speaker 1: this best perform When can we reward you for your 709 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,319 Speaker 1: career and your popularity? Which you're gonna see when boy, 710 00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:17,279 Speaker 1: is Leo gonna win Best Actor? Again? Is Michael B. 711 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,680 Speaker 1: Jordan gonna win? Because clearly, he's made a lot of money. 712 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: He's incredibly popular. He was terrific in Sinners, Right, Is 713 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:25,480 Speaker 1: Timothy Shallomey gonna win? Because it feels like his popularity 714 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,359 Speaker 1: and what he says is through the roof. But that's 715 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 1: what the Oscars is and that's what the Pro Bowl is, 716 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: and they're embracing it. Yeah, you could have found a 717 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:35,759 Speaker 1: way to get to get two out of the Pro 718 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:37,719 Speaker 1: Bowl because two have probably had the best year out 719 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,839 Speaker 1: of a lot of guys that didn't wind up getting there. 720 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: But what's a better win for the Pro Bowl? You 721 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,120 Speaker 1: get Shador Sanders, who is there, is gonna cut through, 722 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 1: is gonna make headlines over the next few days. When 723 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 1: Chador said, we got a big story on Shador Sanders 724 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: coming up in about fifteen minutes. And here's Joe Flacco. Hey, 725 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,840 Speaker 1: Joe Flacco gets to go to the Pro Bowl for 726 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: the first time in his eighteen year career. It's the 727 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,279 Speaker 1: first nomination, acting nomination or so and so after a 728 00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,799 Speaker 1: thirty five year career. I love that they're embracing it. 729 00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,319 Speaker 1: I don't know what people want sometimes with the Pro Bowl, 730 00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,080 Speaker 1: like they can't and don't take it seriously anymore. This 731 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 1: is now an event where we try to get headlines 732 00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,120 Speaker 1: surrounding it, kind of like what the NBA All Star 733 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: Game does. So yeah, I get why Chador is there. 734 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,520 Speaker 1: I get why Joe Flacco is there. This is not 735 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,799 Speaker 1: we're putting the best players out there anymore. This is 736 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,800 Speaker 1: we want to entertain over a week and a half 737 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: span where the game doesn't matter anymore. So I get 738 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 1: what the Pro Bowl's doing. I love their doing this, 739 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 1: and if they do more stuff like this, guess what, 740 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: maybe we'll get more headlines and more stuff out of 741 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,280 Speaker 1: the problem. I'm waiting for Shador Sanders to say something 742 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 1: over the course of the next three four days like that, 743 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 1: that's what the Pro Bowl has become, and I'm here 744 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 1: for it. 745 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:50,040 Speaker 3: I think we long ago jumped the shark to where 746 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,439 Speaker 3: it was a full football game, right. It played out 747 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 3: like a lot of NBA games, And that's been the 748 00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 3: running joke for a lot of years, like, hey, you know, 749 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,320 Speaker 3: text me when there's six minutes left in the fourth 750 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,799 Speaker 3: and if that's exciting, maybe I'm in. Then text me 751 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,920 Speaker 3: again when there's four minutes left in the fourth, and 752 00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,719 Speaker 3: then and so on and so on with the Pro Bowl. 753 00:38:11,719 --> 00:38:14,400 Speaker 3: I mean it was a nice vacation. All the stars 754 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,080 Speaker 3: at least showed up. Whether they just did a nice 755 00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:19,759 Speaker 3: interview on the side, and you had shots of them 756 00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:24,399 Speaker 3: while doing shots while hanging out together during the practice week, yeah, 757 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 3: you got some of that. But where we're at at 758 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,239 Speaker 3: this point, it's always been a popularity contest, so that's 759 00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:33,000 Speaker 3: no different. Now it's just a matter of, Hey, which 760 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:35,239 Speaker 3: guy is gonna be willing to play and do we 761 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,879 Speaker 3: want to release? How many of these guys actually say no? 762 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,560 Speaker 3: Because the fact that we got to Sanders and Flacco, 763 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:45,160 Speaker 3: other than the Atlanta Falcons fans really should feel the 764 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,799 Speaker 3: good about the man they got, and Kevin Stefanski he 765 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:51,200 Speaker 3: is their man that he got two Pro. 766 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:52,080 Speaker 4: Bowlers into the game. 767 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,640 Speaker 3: It is just that there's several others that clearly said no. 768 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,759 Speaker 4: That man not been shamed or highlighted. 769 00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:07,000 Speaker 3: Specifically is no, they asked that guy and he told 770 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,399 Speaker 3: him to beat it. Nope, we went straight down here 771 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,680 Speaker 3: and look. I argued with Shudor the other day that 772 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:13,920 Speaker 3: Flacco should have gotten it ahead of him. So it's 773 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:17,600 Speaker 3: only right that they get to relive their training camp 774 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 3: moments in early season. 775 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:20,879 Speaker 4: Uh. Fun and excitement, but. 776 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: Just think about that. What you think about that for 777 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 1: a second. If I had said before the season, hey, 778 00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:25,920 Speaker 1: guess what, my carmon, guess what? 779 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 2: Why? 780 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: That's what the Browns not only have won, but two 781 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,920 Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are gonna make the Pro Bowl on their 782 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:36,320 Speaker 1: roster right now? Like, what could I have won? What 783 00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:39,040 Speaker 1: could I have won from Vegas on that? Like, like, 784 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,279 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know what I mean, whatever the 785 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,360 Speaker 1: national deficit is, I think I could have won that 786 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:43,959 Speaker 1: amount of money. 787 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,320 Speaker 3: Well, he also probably would have been cashing a ticket 788 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 3: on Stefanski being the uh the ending is third Coach 789 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 3: of the Year award. Yeah, instead, Oh here we are 790 00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,920 Speaker 3: so hopefully they can they can knock down the little 791 00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 3: clowns on each level or or blow up the balloon, 792 00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:05,800 Speaker 3: you know, shooting from the hose faster than somebody else. 793 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:09,600 Speaker 3: Either way, You've long either been in or out on 794 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,799 Speaker 3: the Pro Bowl and the Pro Bowl games, and that 795 00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:15,840 Speaker 3: goes back to when it you know, this time it counts. 796 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,120 Speaker 1: Man, I'm just thinking what I could have bet I 797 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,680 Speaker 1: I really, I mean, I don't know, I don't know 798 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,360 Speaker 1: what that'd have been, Like Todd Furman or insider in 799 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,319 Speaker 1: Vegas who joins us, you know, every week on the show, 800 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 1: would it say Smith, I'll give you whatever rodd you 801 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,239 Speaker 1: wanted on that whatever rodd you wanted, I would have 802 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 1: given you whatever wrong. 803 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:32,359 Speaker 4: That's probably true. 804 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 1: Face coming up next. You want a big, bold NFL 805 00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:41,560 Speaker 1: prediction on this Friday, ten days before the super Bowl, 806 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,040 Speaker 1: we got one for you. That's next. Jason to Mike Fox.