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Now they're banging each other Day two of Major League Baseball, As Steve Disager said, a light night, all the drama right now in the NBA where you're updated NBA MVP rankings as of this moment. Austin Reeves number one, Jalen Brunson number two, anyone who's ever played at least one minute in an NBA game in the history of the league. Bruns the number one, everybody else number two. Forty eight for the Knicks tonight, Yeah, Julius ready trying to showre Julius Randall's injury and last night Mike Armon Jalen Brunson says, we don't need your Julius Randall. I'll go for forty eight against the team we're gonna play in the first round of the playoffs. Good luck, Donovan Mitchell Nix Yo, Yeah, buddy big Friday night, Nick's front and center once again. Short Major League Baseball slide. I like how you passed by the Mets losing just that fast. It's the focus that the Knicks needed it more today. The Knicks needed it more today. Nicks needed more of your energy than Knicks needed more today. Yes, tomorrow will be the Mets. Tomorrow be the Mets and then, but today was the Knicks needed it more to Well, we're not on tomorrow, so we're we're gonna roll through it. We're gonna throll through it today too, So you get a little bit of both. So you can take the good and you take the bad but yeah, Brunson carrying this team on his back today fun right forty eight? Yeah? Look for everybody, I mean, I gotta think at this point, at least the most desperate of Knicks haters that I just don't want to give them credit. They have to come around to the fact that this is a dangerous team and they're really good. I don't know what else. No, anybody that doesn't just doesn't like the Knicks on general principle. I just don't like the fact that no, no, no, no no, because there's nothing you can tell me that says, yeah, oh yeah, we don't have to watch out for him. Watch all the big wins they've had the last weeks. They can beat the best teams in the Eastern Conference. I'm telling you it is legit. And I will say this, and I will keep saying this until they get swept in the first round of them. Let's try, and then I will not say it again, but I will say it all the time until then, watch out, watch out. Yeah, the Knicks are I mean, potentially the one night stand that you know, it's a it's a dominant, fantastic for you know, kind of equation. And then the next time you meet up, you got nothing in common. Everything's gone to hell and the and so for the series, it doesn't work right. By the third time you're watching him play, it all falls apart. Yeah, Thibodeau, you well, so, I mean enjoy the one night stand and the positivity that runs therein because on a given night they can beat anybody, and it has been fun to watch. But the we keep waiting for the other shoe to drop because it is a Tom Thibodeau leading team, and history says, well, there's gonna be guessed, like you're watching the Lakers. Hey, hey, Frostburg, what's the analysis on tonight? We're bleeping back. But Anthony Davis went down at a heap and everybody immediately started coming back, running down the court like a flamingo on one leg. But he never laughed. I don't know what he did. Was one of those Lebron James minutes, like we've talked about. Rick Ucker coined that term on the show a while back, right, really slow to get up or get the ball back in bounds or all. I tell my daughter and her soccer squad to do that all the time. It's like, hey, that ball rolled a country mile. Don't need to sprint after it. Now, how to kill the clock at your rest? How many times you watch the Lakers inbound the ball and just roll it up like to the free throw line and wait like a minute and a half before they picked up the ball every second game? Damn Rice, I mean, I just watched that they roll the ball out to the free throw line, and I'm sitting here, going eventually, now they're gonna wait, They're gonna wait. Ads getting that rest. But I have I have a great conspiracy theory take on Anthony Davis. Let's go, because look, the Knicks one tonight. It was a big game, but the Knicks one. And yeah, I get kind of bored because the Knicks win. That's kind of how they did. Nobody cares about that. Oh we're good, Yeah, it's Greig, We're good. Uh, Marquee Game of the night, because again, nobody loves team battles and drama between teams at stink that can barely get to five hundred. More than we do here and more than everybody else is all NBA fans, because all we love is this middle of the Western Conference mediocrity sells the game of the night. The Lakers lead the Timberwolves right now, ninety eight to ninety still some time left. You're still talking about a good six and a half minutes to go. If the Lakers hang on to win this game, they will be tied for seventh. If they lose this game, they will be just a half game out of eleventh. So this is kind of where, hey, we can move up, we can almost get into the when non playing rounde, or we can go all the way down. It is a big game. But yes, the scary moment earlier today and I felt like we haven't seen this in a little while, like it's been a minute since ads played great. And then he comes down wrong on his ankle or his knee, and we think, oh my god, he's done. And he goes in the locker room and he comes back out and he's ready to go. Then he you know, then he puts up thirty five and seventeen like that used to be the whole thing for a d but we haven't seen that from Anthony Davis lately. But he goes down tonight in a heap. It doesn't look good. I mean, he is the king of injuries that don't look good. That he seems to be okay like he is he is. He's the Lebron James of injuries that don't look good that turn out to be okay. And he comes back tonight, he doesn't miss any any game time, and he's having a huge game for the Lakers right now. A D stat line is twenty four and twelve in thirty minutes. He's not out of eighteen from the floor, game high with points for the Lakers as they try to hold onto this eight in the final seven minutes. And there and there is my hot take on a D and the Lakers. Do you think for a second, right, let's let's just go let's just go back a little bit, right, what do we tell you how the team Let's go back in time till a couple of weeks, you know, and we talked about how like the Lakers and Lebron James are done with each other and now they're just figuring out the end game. How does this end for Lebron and the Lakers because they both have gotten what they're going to get out of both of them. Right, Lebron can't stay healthy. They know they're not going to win a championship. The Lakers want to move on. Lebron knows my future is not going to be here, And every game that went on, Austin Reeves gets more attention, the backcourt of Reeves and Russell playing really well, Lebron, And then what did we get. I'm not close to coming back. I'm not close to coming back, and Lakers fans went, huh, okay, that's fine. We have a much better record without you than we do with you. We're playing better without you, Lebron. And then suddenly it was, oh, now, wait a minute, wait a minute. I didn't know that was gonna be the reaction. So I went to see the Lebron James of feet and now, look, I can come back tomorrow. Wait, wait, wasn't it just a day ago? It was I don't know when I'm coming back, and I maybe back for the last week of the sea Suddenly, now you're okay to come back a day later because it didn't land well? Where where your reaction to being injured? And you see the writing on the all a bit of a shocker that the Lakers were hoping he comes back for the final week of the season, And a day and a half later, he was back in the lineup. He went from out too doubtful to playing. Look at him. He's off the bench. Now he's back in the starting lineup. Just to coincidence, you think that here's a D in a game in which he gets banged up and on a bad ankle, and he's out at the perimeter guarding threes and he's playing just like a D of old. This is a D's message to the Lakers saying, hey, you know what, after this season, I got it, I got it. I'm not buying anything with Lebron and a D or great nagat along. Well, you know, guys can get along well on the surface, and underneath it's this guy's got to go. This is gonna be my team. I understand what it means finally, because we've seen Anthony Davis thrive without Lebron James, and we watched Lebron who at this point, I don't even know how much he was injured, how injured was He's were, Oh, I'm working so hard to come back, but I can't come back. But now I'm back. Wait, wait, now, right back. I don't understand. And here's a D who again has thrived without Lebron in a game in which Hey, here's an ankle injury. You need to go to the locker room. You do it. No, I'm staying in and I'm being Anthony Davis, and I'm gonna lead the team in points and I'm going for twenty four and thirteen Right now, it's a ten point lead with six minutes left to go, and I'm showing you that, Yeah, this guy can't stay on the court, and who knows when he's healthy coming back. But I will stay on the court. I'll stay on the court and keep playing. You can't tell me this is not a message that Anthony Davis is trying to send to the Lakers, to the front office, to everybody, saying, yeah, I'm hurt, I'm on the court and I'm playing it through it because I want to win and I want to make sure we get into the playoffs, we do more and all the damage that we can this season. There you go, there's my hot take on it. Yeah. I think for part of it, it's also to try to squash the narratives around him. You know, sending a message is one thing, and certainly playing through whatever pain in that ankle and will obviously watch it right because we'll have the postgame analysis and then we'll see how he responds. Right, because their next game is either I think it's Sunday, right, so we'll keep an eye on how that develops. But certainly fighting to stay on the court, trying to kill off the narratives that he's soft. Great because he's been beaten around so often. He wants everybody to do a search and replace on their word docs and put Lebron James name in there, go after him, tell tell everybody about how he doesn't rally and well, that he's soft and like like Alex said, after he got his record, he quit all of those things that you know, he's sensitive to what's going on as in what's in the media, and it's not me. I'm here to try to win. And we talk all of the time about how much money, time effort guys put in to get their bodies right. Lebron was going on social media spending a lot of time. In addition to telling you I ain't paying for that, he also said on Twitter he also said that you know he was working around the clock and all of these training things to get back on the court and tatah there he was to check in against the bulls and the big powder clap and everything. So the pageantry and the pomp and circumstance still there, but Anthony Davis really trying to change up a world. I think, you know, because we love to use and get the images of great movies in h He's t two. I mean, he's Robert Patrick Man. So like he gets a bullet through the eye and you know, the metal kind of gets twisted and whatever. But give it thirty seconds, he'll be just fine and it'll be chasing your ass again. That's kind of what eight he's trying to get himself into right now. I mean, look, it's it's it's been a bit of how I don't want to say this. I don't want to say a watershed year for a d but because it's not been one hundred percent, it's not been all the time sure, but certainly this year Anthony Davis hit that showed that I can hit that next level of dominance that you see guys like Yokich have, right like Yokich being unit and joelmb night in and night out, being able to dominate, fill up the stat line across the board and be the one guy every single night that doesn't have a bad night and a d is still trying to find that consistency. But we've seen it way more this season than we have the last couple of years. And it's no coincidence that it's when Lebron is out or when he needs to step up and he needs to send a message he's finally saying, Okay, I get it, now, I get it. I was sharing the spotlight. Now this is my team. Now, this is going to be my team. And not that he was waiting to get hurt to do it, but it was, hey, he gets hurt. We've seen him come off the board, come off the floor, come back and up. No, no, I'm good. That's a huge message. And if you're the Lakers, you're looking at Ad going wow, and then you look at Lebron going, dude, I don't even know how hurt you were. I really don't, because I don't know how you go from he may not come back at all to a day and a half later year in the lineup. I mean, really that that's such a I mean, nobody really talked about that. It happened over the weekend, but that was such a big deal, you know, especially after we talked about how look, Lebron's done winning, right, Does he want to be part of a team that doesn't make the playoffs? What did I tell you last year? Down the stretch he was gonna miss a bunch of games because he's not gonna have it on his resume that Lebron couldn't even lead the Lakers to the playoffs. And what happened. He missed tons of games down the stretch and he was hurt, and by the time he came back it was too late. Right, book, what's going on this year? Lebron suddenly is really hurt down the stretch and it doesn't know, it's unsure if the Lakers can make it into the playoffs. He doesn't want that on his resume. And suddenly when the reaction to it is a little bit, well, we don't care, we don't need you something. Now he's back in the lineup for the stretch run that comes through. Come on, man, I mean really, I mean, for a guy that has been calculated his entire career, I can see through this whole thing with Lebron, and it's taken a d to step up with this injury tonight. That's gonna make people realize, Oh, I see one guy coming out laying and not having to make sure. We know, Oh, I wasn't going to be able to play at all. But then I went to this crazy miracle doctor uh you know that that Jim Carrey went to in the Andy Kaffin movie. Oh, look at this. Now, suddenly I have all this medicine that I'm taking. That is that it's it's it's the fang of cobras, and it's all stuff that tishert probably takes. You know, think he's gonna live to a one hundred years older, but it's really crippling his veins. Right now, I'm taking all of this. We gotta call doctor rat Ornberger and find out about this, and I'm taking all this stuff now. Suddenly, Oh now I'm back and I can play. Look at the superhuman effort I had to go through just to come back and play. He has calculated and he's been trying this the last two years. At the end of the year, he doesn't want the no playoffs on his resume. Last year was all, man, we need lebron This year, now the reaction was different, So it's oh, so now I gotta come back. I mean, I see through everything I see through all seeing it as well. I'd see everything like Carmen. First off, it's newly installed WWE Hall of Famer Andy Kaufman. Oh sorry, yeah, you're right. You're getting a duck tonight as part of the proceedings here in Los Angeles. But for Lebron James, look, it was fine when you want to do the goat back and forth and take your shots at some of the posts and whatever else. But as soon as you start showing that, well, you don't move the needle from a playing perspective. Yeah, that's where he activates the second mode in this process. Because we did. We talked about it a bunch you and I on this program. For anybody new to it, that's been a big talking point here the last couple of weeks about the way the ball moves. Davis when he's available and able to dominate, has done so. Austin Reeves has become a one hundred million dollars player in this new NBA, and you watch guys play a complete game right Defensively, They've been fantastic almost every night they've been out since the All Star break and have been making this surge. Now, the schedules to their advantage, but you know what you play, who's on it, and I can't take that away from him. In this limited span, they've been fantastic, and all of a sudden, it's like, hey, I want to watch this without Lebron. That was our talking point, right I said, and you said it. We've been pushing that and people are all like, you hate Lebron. I'm like, no, I like watching good basketball. Well you also hate Lebron. Well, I mean that's an allegation. I don't know if there's any proof of truth to any of that. Well, hatred such a strong word. And in that time we've just been talking about this, AD's put up eight more points. He's now at thirty two and fifteen in the Lakers have a fourteen point lead over the Tea Wolves with just over four minutes left to go on one leg. See through it all with a D and Lebron. See Lebron trying to be the master manipulator. And I don't want people to say this and look at this about me. Trust me, just see all the way through it. I'm telling you. Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. The Lakers now tied for seventh after beating the Timberwolves earlier tonight. And now that ay, all right, we've had the big marquee games in the NBA complete come to an end. Look, Jalen Brunson's everybody's MVP. He had seventy eight points. That already had forty eight points night as a Knicks beat Cleveland, And now everybody's attention can turn to the biggest star on a court right now, Caitlin Clark IOWA leads South Carolina fifty one forty nine with three minutes to go in the third quarter, the best player in the game, leading the undefeated South Carolina Gamecox now by four fifty three to forty nine. And so far for Clark, she's having a huge night tonight. Maybe she doesn't get to fifty or sixty, but she has twenty three right now with Iowa the four point lead coming to the end. I mean, this is this is a game that should be in the final right like this should be talking about someone who who has taken over the news cycle over the past couple of weeks. The big forty point triple double that she had. What she's been doing for women's sports the last couple of weeks has been amazing. And here you are the best player in the in the game, trying to ruin an undefeated season for the best team in the game with a big rock star coach and Don Staley. I feel weird this is the final four. You know, it's like, oh, this should be the championship game, but okay, that's what we have right now. But Caitlin Clark now twenty five and seven assists, making a three point lead for IOWA again late in the third quarter. Well, one of the things that's been great watching her play and watching the women's game get the attention to did right that that game last week had more viewers than any NBA regular season game this year. I made their last win, which is just incredible, right, the numbers that she put up, as you talked about, but huge in the community. Doing all sorts of great things got her star. If you read any of the biographies, they didn't have girls teams where she was growing up, so she played on the boys team. They tried to ban her because she was too good. So it was all that guy, weren't champions led by led by Caitlyn over there, It's like damn you, damn you. And they tried to get her ousted too bad. Uh, And now here she is dominating on this stage, does all the visits to the to the big hospital that we always do the wave too during football games, all of those great things, and just a fantastic run that Iowa's had here earlier tonight. Uh, you had the Kim Malki looking like she stole wardrobe from Charlotte Flair. So they're ready and awaiting the winner. I mean that that flared out. Oh yeah, yeah, I can't wait to see what she's got from the National Championship on Monday night. She's gonna she's gonna walk in like Macho Man used to walk in with the big robes and the and the gleaming diamonds, and they'll play pomp and circums. Dun dun, dun, dun dun. I mean you want to talk about it ext and WrestleMania weekend, Are you kidding me? Coming out? He was always my favorite entrance because like it's pumping circumstance. They play the congratulations. Yeah, but every kid, now for what thirty five years, there's at least one jackass that's coming up the aisle, influenced by mom, dad, and aunt and uncle, at grandpa, an older brother, someone in their life who celebrated the macho man and introduced it. And you know that that gown starts to flare out a little bit, especially in places where they let you decorate him. Then it's the next level macho man stuff going on. Come on now, congratulations to Jason Smith, our valedictorian. He's got a couple of words for us. Madison Square Garden. Yeah, oh, I didn't go to any classes my senior year. Yeah, I just hung out in the gym and in the pool. Oh yeah that I would leave campus and go to Subway to have lunch every day. Yeah, that's macho man. That's not that's a great macho Are you kidding? That's a great macho man impression. You're crazy, Frostburg. That was a punch drunk macho man. Zella Allen freaked out now speaking of at TJ, speaking of Savage. One of the big plays from this game early in the first half, because this is part of Caitlyn Clark's game, Like you see kateln carpet go. Oh, she's a stone cold killer, right, like she's Kobe, Like she does stuff. It's like, wow, she is a killer. There was a possession in the first half where of the game tonight, South Carolina has the ball and they're setting up their offense and their freshman point guard Raven Johnson has the ball, and she's got the ball outside like maybe two feet beyond the three point line, and it's Caitlyn Clark's job to get out there and defend. And she sees her and knows she's never gonna shoot or they'll give her the shot show. She waves off guarding her like she's got the ball all bye. There's nobody within fifteen feet of her anywhere, and Caitlyn Clark takes a couple of steps like she's gonna guard her, and she just dismisses her with a wave of the hand and says, you're not gonna shoot. I'm staying here. And then of course she doesn't shoot. She waves that she passed into somebody who comes out for the ball. That's like the biggest look you do on the play on the playground, It's like, yeah, dude, you could take it. I'll give it to you, and then of course you had to take the shot, right because anybody's saying i'll give it to you had to take it. She doesn't take the shot, she passes off. But seeing that, i'd be that that is, you know, that is some kind of move, just like, yeah, yeah, you're not gonna take the shot. I'm leaving you. But that's just it. Though. She embraces the hype and the hatred and all of it that flows together. Because when you're that good, right Reggie Jackson, as he taught us all those years ago, fans don't boom noboddies. So she's getting all all worked in. At one point, she hit her six three point shot in the game, and she did the John Cena you can't see me running down the court. John Cena picked up on it on Twitter and tagged on and he's part of the Big WrestleMania card this weekend. The other one was they had an inbounds play and defender was starting to body up a little bit. What was John at her? She looked at her and said, just shut up. You're down fifteen. That's great, look at the scoreball. Embrace your villainy man. That's the one thing with all of these athletes that we've talked about going all the way back to Lebron's James decision, right as the age of social media really came into effects, like if you're gonna do something, you've got people around you, you should think of it, think about it again again before you hit send. Right. Otherwise, if you don't want the smoke, you don't want the reaction, don't hit send. You tell them Herm Edwards, don't hit send. So again, we'll have more on this game coming up again. Finalment of the third quarter. It is a two point game Iowa and South Carolina. Meanwhile, tomorrow with the Final four, and and it's it's a it's a week where it's been a weird week for the Final four. Certainly the beginning of the Major League Baseball season and the drama with the quarterbacks were still waiting for Aaron Rodgers and Lamar Jackson. And no, it's not been the heritage teams that are in the Final four this year. We have four teams that are just crazy that nobody really picked. As we get closer, and we saw Jim Larenego, the head coach at University of Miami, as he gets set for the Final four tomorrow. Very excited to be back. Remember he's first in the final four seventeen years ago when he took George Mason, the very first real Cinderella of the New Millennium to get to the final four. They beat Yukon to get there, and he was so happy, so excited. Hey, why don't we expand the tournament? Let ninety six in and you know, look, we talked about this going into last weekend. The big effect of this tournament. This tournament is going to have such a huge impact on the future of college basketball. I can't even tell you because the blue bloods don't stick around like they used to in year's pass right, the talent is spread out. You have one and Dunn's, you can succeed more. You have smaller schools that stayed together, or or mid major schools with with veteran leadership. It's just never coming back to Hey, eventually, you know, this is just a crazy year. But next year we're gonna have Kentucky and Duke in Kansas and North Carolina. Yeah we might. And it's not like they're gonna they're gonna fall off the face of the earth. But the days of writing Duke into the Elite eight in Final four are over. They're over, the same thing for Kansas and North It's too difficult. Everything is spread out now. Anyone can win the tournament. This is the way college basketball has evolved over the past few years. So if you're at a time now where yeah, anyone can win, and you look at here's Florida Atlantic, for instance, who came in fifth in their conference the regular season, it's hey, anybody can win. Is it really fair that we don't let as many teams as we can in? Why not go to ninety six teams and we let everybody. We have to figure out a way to make the regular season worth something when you're letting in ninety six teams. But still this this whole sixty eight teams, it's not gonna happen anymore because the Heritage Power five Teams conference are gonna say, hey, we play a better schedule dual than they do, and I get that you're letting them in the tournament. When you're letting them all in at our expense, that's not right because we play a better season schedule than teams like Florida Atlantic do, And I can't argue with that. But at the same time, you got teams like Floor Atlantic going, hey, there are two other teams in our conference couldn't get to the final four. I mean, they were just as good as us, better than us during the regular season. So there's going to be no way out except for to expand the tournament. And I'm sure it's gonna jump to ninety six teams sometime in the next three or four years. You're gonna see that. Okay, we have the first four, now that's great. Ody want to go to seventy two. No, it's going to be a big jump to ninety six teams. Say, okay, we can let more power fives in, we can let more mid majors in, and we can have more chaos. We can have four nights the opening week of sixteen games, which will be outstanding. We can start Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, sixteen games each day, more TV revenue, more everything. That's the big legacy of this NCAA Tournament's going to be a ninety six team tournament, and it's come in the next couple of years. You know what I mean. I love when ever a week and start talking about expansion, rapid expanse right, the NFL story of hey, there may be a division in Europe coming down the line, and it's something that's been bandied about and whispered about all these years that maybe because of these international games you can expand to Jacksonville Jaguars always advancing, and people wring their hands and say that's not pure. It's like it's a business. It grows where it can grow. It grows like our business. Right we're on the radio, We're on four hundred plus affiliates nationwide. But there's podcasts, there's social media accounts, there's Twitter where you get engaged with folks there and get softy and our guys at Seattle mad at you, all of those kind of things. Me over at Swollen Dome, ig TikTok whatever else we got popping whatever the new era brings. You expand your audio business, video business. It's the personality side of things continues to grow. Likewise, the NFL, the NC DOUAA, everybody wants to grow their and then if that means more seats at the table, especially when trying to decide between one of twenty five similar schools is a mess, then why why not invite everybody? You know? The extra round of play, or just expanded exposure to different cities. You get to see some of the stars that you only read about or watch on clips or highlights, or if you're tuning into regular season games, maybe you get a little bit of a glimpse of who these heavyweights are. But I mean, what's interesting is you got Conference USA right, they're trying to go for the hat trick right now, North Texas UAB right. North Texas wins the n I. Charlotte won the CBI, so I mean they could do the hat trick here if if FAU can find their way through. They're called the beach Boys by the way, because they were well, they thought they were soft because they were smaller. But the expansion helped me Randa explain why that's not the case. But the expansion does lend us more of these stories and you see the competitiveness and in one and done scenario which has always been the hallmark and the calling card for the NCAA tournament, and particularly now when more of the dare I use the tournament dinosaurs are there. Doesn't mean the programs go away, but the people who've been synonymous with college buckets are retiring, getting fired being asked nicely to walk away. Maybe their key cards don't work at their Syracuse office anymore. Whatever the case may be, You've got Izzo and a couple of guys. Otherwise it's a Laranaga obviously is still around, but not to the same level of celebration right as some of these other coaches. But as more of those guys dip and are out of the game, then you have more conversation because you don't have the people in the room. I'm standing for the guys that have been their friends for forty years Syracuse still not getting in. Well, you know what, do you still have to have at least a five hundred records? They can expand it to a thousand because remember when they were trying to buy their way in from Mike Davis's kids so we could break the scoring record and it was only twenty seven thousand, five hundred. They couldn't come up with twenty seven five with the hell, how much are they gonna pay Mellow's kid? Twitter and out about a fresca Mike had swallowed them. Get ready next couple of years. Ninety six teams book it it's happening. Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harman weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven pm Pacific, Joining us now on the online for all the latest news and the National Football League. He has a Pro Football Hall of Very Good voter on out Kick, Long Time NFL Inside. A friend of the show, Jason Cole Jacole, what's happening, man, I want my original drop backs? That's right, we need all of that there right, alright, got like ten guys from my fancy baseball league that we're drafting tonight. They're listening in and that's like tripled your audience, don't it? Oh? Hey are they are? They are? They also all going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next year? Are you voting all of them? So? So like all the mess players from this year's team, that's team money could buy. Yeah, sure, sure they're doing there? Doesn't all right, doesn't doesn't. Anthony Richardson, you lost, you lost to the Marlins today? Yeah, okay, we lost a game today. It's okay, Yeah it happens. Yeah, it's all right. That season is going to go even we're thereon Rogers, Stop, man, you know what you really think about Aaron Rodgers we're going to the super Bowl. When you're right there with it, you know, it's not stop trying to or super Bowl or cave. That's what we're doing. If they don't make a super Bowl, they're going to the Dark Place or whatever they call that. Right, if the entire the entire downbe in southern Oregon meditating in the dark if they don't make the super Bowl, that's and Woody Johnson will be there with this propeller hat. If the Jets, okay, probably right, If the Jets were Super Bowl, you need to go on a darkness retreat, that's the deal. If the Jets win, you need Are you paying for the dark How much does the darkness retreat cost? It wasn't that bad. It was a brand and that was going to Guatemala, So we have to pay a little bit more. I haven't looked into the Oregon Place. You haven't work at the Oregon Cave thing. Okay, So there's a they do Guatemala darkness Retreat. Yeah, that's right. Harmon's Harmon's founded on the Internet. And he won't let it go. It's it's crazy. He just won't let it go. He just keeps talking about this. Well, I talked about it in weeks. You bring to offer him as a team retreat this fall once Aaron Rodgers doesn't come back. Jaron Rodgers. Actually, you know what they're gonna do. This is what Aaron's gonna do. He's going to do a darkness retreat. You know how like quarterbacks sometimes invite their you know, receivers, tight ends and wide receivers for a little bit of practice season. He's going to use to practice in the darkness retreat in Oregon. He'll be throwing fastest to them in the dark to see if he can dark football. One. Hey, that helps us win the super Bowl? Straight out of Charlie Finlay. That's that's what it'll be. Ow I just got hit Stop how I just got it? Stop? Ara Wilson comes out with like a detached rhetman is out for like five years or so. That's all yeah, chis, Hey, hey, what what is this going to happen? What is this deal going to get done? I got to think of the next few years, right, You get like the deadline is the draft because the Packers are gonna want to use the picks. That's what it is. And there's no practice going on, right now. So if there's no practice, there's no reason to do this. So there's basically two deadlines. You have the deadline of the draft where the Packers would want to want the picks. That's the that's the most obvious one. And the second one is when the Jets start the off season program because they need him at that point in time now, getting him out of a darkness, retreat to go to Jersey, which is sort of like another darkness, retreating a different way. Okay, um is you know that will be? That will be tough. Aaron Rodgers on the East coast, living on the East Coast is fascinating to me, It really is. Wait wait, wait you really don't you Jersey Shore or Jersey Boys. Hey, Frankie Valley everybody, Uh, you don't think he's He's still gonna live in in Wisconsin. He's just gonna fly in and fly home after every practice. It'll fly in for practice, fly home at night, fly back the next day. That's all what's gonna work. He's got a Friday flight into Oshkosh after every game. That's good. That that that'll work. Yeah, that's that. That will build camaraderie like no team you've ever seen before, sort of like the mets um stop one and one. Would you stop with that one? Anthony Richardson, Yes, impressive. You guys want to talk about him? Listen. No, here's the thing. Is that because we talked about this last night. Is that seeing at see knowing how the NFL works and knowing how teams think, and knowing that Tepper one is that when they see a good looking man in shorts, automatically he becomes a top three pick. Is that we can we can forget about what we saw on tape. We look at Bryce Young. He's four feet tall, he weighs seventy five pounds. We can't draft the guy. Richardson's gonna go number one overall. At the end of the day, the Panthers are gonna say his potential everything else. We're in love with the guy. If we're not sure about Bryce Young, we kind of like CJ. Stroud, We want to make a splash. It's gonna be Anthony Richardson number one. Well, there are some justifications for doing that. And this is real, This is real. I'm turning out to be sarcastic. Yeah, good luck, ye Now, Anthony Richardson in a lot of ways tests out Like I mean, he's he's a unicorn at quarterback, Like you just don't find the human beings who can do stuff like this, but they're so little known because again, he threw three hundred ninety three passes in college. And trust me, like he went to the same high school that my kids went to, so I know how bad his high school football program was, right, Like, it was dreadfully bad and he would missed half of his senior year there, so he learned very little. Even though they played spread offense, he learned very little about playing quarterback there. But he's a sharp kid, he's dedicated to his craft. There are a lot of pluses for him on that side. Very mature kid in a lot of ways. So there's hope on that side. But there's nothing you can do to replace not having made a lot of throws at college. And I looked this up. There's there's in all the quarterbacks drafted since nineteen ninety in the first round, which is I don't know, hundred something quarterbacks drafted in the first round since nineteen ninety, he has the second fewest pass attempts of any of those guys, and the only guy with fewer pass attempts than him is Trey Lance. So in terms of just experience seeing plays, like seeing the defense, what it does, how they rolled coverages, how they rotate coverages, what kind of blitz as they showed to you. You know, all these different things that you just have to experience, and nothing, nothing teaches you anything better than actually experiencing it. He's at the very low end of the spectrum. And most quarterbacks who win Super Bowls, core drafted in the first round, go have it over a thousand pass attempts in their college career, like Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Patrick Mahomes. Now Brady is an exception. He had like six hundred pass attempts in his last two years. But he did play four years at Michigan, right, and he was around at practice, and you know it's not game experience, but even six hundred is fifty percent more than what Anthony Richardson has. So I was talking to one of his advisers today and you know, he just admitted, Look, I think there's a lot of pluses to him, but the one factor that we can't answer is game experience. You know, just having been out there it's like, you know, taking it at bats in baseball. You know, nothing replaces seeing, you know, seeing different kinds of pitches and what happens, you know, and nothing replaces seeing different kind of coverages. So Anthony Richardson is one of the greatest question marks in the history of the NFL draft. And so when you say he could go number one, you're absolutely right. As painful as that is for me to admit that you might be right about something, the first time in ten years that I'm willing to say you might be right, because he is such a phenomenal specimen as an athlete and such a good kid, right and and well meaning and and pretty sharp, you know in terms of you know both of both, you know, just street smarts, you know, common sense, but also was pretty good on the board with a lot of teams at the combine. Um. So his knowledge of football is more extensive than you would think for a guy who hasn't played that much. But there's still you haven't thrown that many passes in college and guys like this in this realm, I'm Trey Lance. I think Mark Sanchez was in the five hundreds, so you know what that experience is like. As a Jets fan. Um, if I need to remind you, I mean, you know, the best look he ever had was running up the rear side of one of his offensive linemens. Hey, hey, you're talking about a guy that for for like the first fifteen years of Tom Brady's care Mark Sanchez had more road playoff wins than he did. Okay, wow, that counts for a lot again, Mary, Mark Sanchez was so responsible for all of that. He one, you give me butt fumble, I give you two thousand and ten playoffs. I'm going to give interception interception thrown to a defensive lineman. There were a few of us. There were there were a few of us. Lies, damn lies and statistics, Jacole, you know that through an interception to a defensive lineman who was rushing the pastor everybody. Everybody can throw a bad pass. Now, this was not a guy dropping into coverage in a zone blitz Jets. Yo. Okay, he just he threw it and the defensive lineman snagged it and said, look at this gift I have from heaven. And then it was the spectacular nature of fat guy running with a football like that's just you know, there's nothing there's nothing that matches that. Yeah, now that was against the Lions. Actually that was against the Lions. When he did that, threw an interception against the Lions to a defensive linemen. How does that that defines your career? Doesn't it even more than the butt fumble? No, I don't know about that to a defensive but I know in terms of fame or whatever notoriety, the butt fumble is there. But right behind is this note through an interception to a line of defensive lineness. You can follow on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That's at Jason Coles. I'm gonna go bid code sengo right now. Nicely to check out a lot of words in on that. You guys all suck, all of you, Jay Coole. Good luck with your fantasy baseball draft. My friend later by