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Mike Harmon, how much money did you get amble on this game tonight?

That's it?

Okay, that's like that's like five large, Like you want to say, right, yeah, we want like that's five large.

Well, I mean look, grond Coowsky's involved. UNLV may have four or five players that they started the season with playing. Yeah, you've got the logo on the on the field for cal of well, we were kind of a pack twelve team, so it's all that kind of excitement. And look, you know me, I celebrate bowl season unlike anybody else.

Like what do you do? Well, I mean there's festivities to all of it, Like what do you do?

Like do you have stuff during the day you do do you go to like today animal or something?

Yeah, I know today I made a giant pod of chicken soup.

Do you have like your own like Hallmark movie thing where it's Bowl season? But hey, you're looking for love and you find someone who moves back to town that you either knew or dated and like, oh no.

Wait is this a movie I'm watching or that I'm trying.

No, this is your life like part of the celebrating Bowl season, like like the Hallmark movie, like the whole Chiefs thing, right, like you celebrate the La Bowl. But here you are, you know, it's it's it's the holidays. You're alone. You know, you don't have any family or they don't talk to you, and you know you're a chef and you do the show with me and you know, of course, like somebody really good looking would play me like like the rock would play me or something, and it would be you know you trying to find you know it, And all of a sudden, Hey, you know, a woman that you.

Went to college with moves back to town. You didn't get bowling for love.

Yes, exactly, except because people would think it's about bowling, but instead it's about actually college.

What if there's one scene or we go to a local bowl O rama so and here but no, no, no, but here's the thing. No, but here here, here's the catch.

Normally in the Hallmark movies, it's like you need to like you get put in charge of a fall festival.

You don't know. Oh my god, you know, no one's I've been here, no one's got someone got to ask me to do When you.

Saw how they did it the actual Chiefs movie, Yeah, yeah, no, but I'm saying you watch that something. It's something.

I haven't watched that one yet. But you told me enough for you told me enough.

About But yeah, you have like a fall festival, or you have there's something happening in the town, and you know one of you, you are, the person you're you're going to be with is a veterinarian and they move back to their practice or whatever is.

But here's the thing.

You're in LA and you know, maybe you're college Northwestern somehow is in the ball game and they ask you to plan a whole bunch of alumni stuff. But it's really not your milieu. But it's a big chance for you to do this. But you didn't know. Unbeknownst to you, this woman that you dated in college that was really smart moves to LA.

And she's the one that you have.

To work with to help put this ball on. And of course there's you know, there's fireworks in the beginning. The breakup is a big thing. Then you get together as the bowl game gets closer, and the final scene is you watching from you know, the LA Bullets sofi and they make it look like there's a lot of people.

At the game and everything, and you know, you know, you share a kiss and it's suddenly like, oh hey, now look you found you found purple love.

Uh somewhere in Los Angeles.

I think that's a subset of websites you can get to.

That's a movie, man, that's a movie right there. That works. That's a movie. Now, my general hatred of people would keep me from really.

Being It's about people falling in love. So you actually have to like at least one more person. One more person. You like one person and a dog, then you're okay, then you seem like but you gotta be you gotta like at least one other person. These Hallmark movies about getting together, it's not about hey, I'm alone for Christmas.

No.

One of the things we would have to harvest in. This is going back to the fun and exciting adventure that was COVID nineteen when we had the cardboard cutouts of people that were in the stands. So it's about harvesting those and maybe I find a connection that way.

Okay, all right, I think that's good.

Someone decides they want to be front and center, so their hubris is something that is an attractive quality.

Okay, I mean it could be, you know, but you have to like somebody.

There's got to be a dog involved, some kind of has to be. It could be a pet, It could be a ferret, it could be it could be a pigeon, it could be a It's kind of like when we leave theos at night, they're usually a little pack of coyotes. Yeah, trying to get over by the loco garbage band. Maybe usually we've had that a couple of times. Maybe that's something maybe some raccoon. No, that's a bonding thing for you and her as you bond over, like, hey, we have to get these animals away from where the players are coming out from.

Okay, yeah, and that's the whole thing, and they get rid of the coyote.

Celebrate the trash band is a little bit yeah, yeah, yeah, and there's we do that.

There's a coyote love joke in there somewhere. And then okay, it looks like you know, harmon is you know, okay coyote.

Yeah, it really took a deep dark turn right there. Not quite sure what what kind.

Of internet you're working off or what holiday holiday holiday movies. I mean, you've been watching the you know.

David Harbor and all those Lifetime movie where things get a little more dark in Lifetime than they do on Hallmark.

That's for sure, dred percent got to keep it light, way more dark.

And then you have what's that other one the one that Cameron Cameron Cameron, No, what's you that that was on Full House? Candice Cameron Burr, Candace camera. Yes, yeah, that she defected to. Oh, it's got more of the religious heritage, Heritage, movie Life, Lifelong, LifeLock.

I don't know, like LifeLock. That would be something I've fallen and I can't get. No, I don't know.

It's it's I don't know. But it's one of those things, one of those places. It's not it's like heritage, I forget. But now, hey, speaking of finding and the reason why I brought this up here, finding love, finding opportunities in all the different places you can, right. Sometimes sometimes love is there when you're least looking for it.

Right, Oh, when you're looking for love in all the wrong places.

Yeah, no, fine, girls, doesn't uh you know, I think about that scene from the beginning of of uh Love. Actually when you graduately we realized love is all around us.

He's doing the you want to see what love is, go.

To the heath through the apartment of the Heathrow departure at the airport, and then you.

Grab his character from heritage can be married much or layer of the whiteworm, either one, and uh, you know, he does the whole thing about it. And the funny thing is when we went to London, this year, like we actually I wanted to go buy the Arrivals gated hethrow because we love her.

Actually, so we walked by there.

Uh think about this for this moment because the report today like we spent a lot of time on this last night that Kirk Cousin's hitting the bench from Michael Penick Junior right, And according to reports, Michael Pennix Junior was at a Costco enjoying a hot dog when he got the news that he was going to be the new starting quarterback of the foul Well.

Remember he doesn't have a three hundred million dollar deal.

Yet, no, I mean, and so look, frugality and being smart with your rookie deal and I'll tell you this and getting into the food court is a good move.

The way inflation has hit us the last few years.

You were a complaining last night you bought me a chicken thigh and it was three ninety nine. I'm like, yes, it is a lot of money for a chicken thig from Opoileo Loko.

I wasn't really complaining, it was just kind of I hadn't bought the chicken, like we hadn't gone there.

I love the chicken jar.

Well, I do, but I make I make a lot of chicken dishes. And having just bought that killed you to say three ninety nine one chicken thigh for me. Well, because I literally just bought a giant pack of chicken breass from the local market for eleven dollars and that was probably what seven or eight sizeable chicken breas versus that mini thigh that you got that cost me a third of it. No, hey, you know it's just fine. You enjoyed the hell out of it, So that's all that mattered.

The chicken. You were positive and you got good value out of that. So I can't compare.

And I got to say, in the era that we have right now of inflation, the one place where prices have stayed the same is the Costco food courture So you want to go and save money and everything else. Man, He's gonna remember forever when I found out I was a starting quarterback in the NFL, I was having a hot dog at Costcos. You know how many hot dogs at Costcos I've enjoyed, not had a moment like that, Like that's his.

Hallmark movie moment of his career. I'll always remember this hot dog. I will always remember this well when they came the starting quarterback of the Atlanta Falcons.

I was having this hot.

Dog because the hot dogs are pretty good. I wish they would put cheese. You can get cheese on them. But yeah, you get the hot dog, you can get onions mustard. Yeah, I am there, and and look, I go to cocktail all the time, and I always get like, I'll either get a hot dog.

I'll get a hot dog and a piece of pizza.

I mean it's something to go there and say, yeah, I'm gonna have a you know, my wife and I will go say, Oka, I'm gonna have two slices of pizza, a hot dog, a salad, and two drinks. Now that'll be eight dollars and eighty three cents. Yep, there you go, right, frozen moa drink.

Oh yeah, it's fantastic. The chicken bake. But being the chicken bake is good too.

Because that whether you're gonna get that or the double chunk chocolate ship cookie.

Oh no, I always did see it. All of a sudden, you're in the rizzler land.

It's always pizza and and the or and a hot dog or the chicken bake.

Because a chicken bake is huge.

Now the full pizza is about a good value as you're gonna find. Yeah, like to ten dollars.

But here's here's Mike. I can't eat it right now, but it's a good Michael.

Penis Union who is still oh by the way, you know, thinking about saving money. It's not like the guy's making no money. You know, rookie contract number eight over and all your other deals that you've been able to do, but all having a hot dog when you find out this is what day? What day did your life change? I was at Costco having a hot dog, and I knew my life would never be the same.

Now.

It's funny because it coincided with a release today of a pretty UH high end UH training card product that that people wait on every year. And I watched a guy from our local shop. I want to see what it is? Uh, you know what what kind of the the frequency and the odds are and the first box dude open four packs in boom Panix autograph number forty nine.

Wow, it's almost like it was predestined. Nice, I dig that. I dig that.

Yeah, and now you have now then now the Costco. Now he's at Costco having a hot dog guys.

Yeah, yep, I have to do it with them.

Now, how long before they do the hot the piece of hot dog insert though into the card?

Mike, Oh, that'd be really good.

I've been waiting for the I mean there was a Joey Chestnut card a couple of years ago, but they did not do any game.

Used close because, let's face it, they were gonna be you. Not though. This is this is part of the this is part of one of the buns.

Oh, you can't tell the NFL story, or at least the Falcon story without this.

No, it's true. I mean it's a great end of scenes in the story.

I mean it is holiday junior card.

What if it was made out of a hot dog? Oh, then you could eat it if you wanted to.

Oh, that would be fantastic edible Michael Pennix Junior hot dogs.

So is it in like carbonite like it's Han Solo? Not that way it you know, it doesn't start to rot.

I don't want the.

Picture, No, I mean depending on the hot dog. I mean maybe it doesn't.

Penni just has his hands up like he's Han Solo in the carbonite or just take him on the ground from the National title game against Michigan.

You know either one.

I saw someone that did that with I mean going back to the Han Solo thing with cheese and you can buy it's easy to carve and cheese, though, I think anybody can do that. Man, you gotta make it with a three D printer and he's got like as a trading card and cheese stays forever.

That's that's overrated. That's like an easy way. That's like an easy way to make a skull. The something a hot dog where you got to get all meat to make it into a hot dog and then you gotta make.

Something else, either meat or meat like product.

Yeah, exact. Well, I'm I'm gonna go get put it through the extruder. You don't know what it is. I'm through the what extruder? What's an extruder?

Is that something real? Yeah, it's a extruder alert, extruder alert, it's an extruder. I don't think that's I think sometimes you make up words, I really do. I think sometimes you make up words that you think are words and they're not. They really aren't. Got a low blood sugar, right, But extrusion literally it's putting it through the process.

What's extrusion?

You put it through the process of say like you, I don't think extrusion is a word either. Say you want to make a sausage of the extrusion process. If he is pushing whatever the meat sausage through and through into the encasement.

Do you want to build a sausage? You might missus Harmon at Christmas.

He sits around, all the kids around, and he would volunteer at his kids' school and did, all right, kids, what are we gonna do? We're gonna Construders are used to produce long, continuous products such as.

Tubing, tired threads, and wire covering.

Okay, trost cinnamon men, No, no, are we gonna color candy canes?

Now, let me try to make our own sauce. Going to show you how the sausage is made.

Kids, and when you get older, literally stand you want to see this, mister Harmon, What do you do I'm picturing. I'm picturing uh Joan Cusack from.

School of Rock. Uh, mister sneeb Lee.

If I could just have a minute of your time, mister Harmon, we don't want to be showing the kids making sausage when it's raw, because they could eat it and get sick.

That's not something we do here at the school.

It's a bad choice by them. But sometimes you gotta know the risks, and the only way to really get you prepared for life is to put you in those situations.

Early exit out bout a fresca exit. Swollen Dome.

The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen Live from the tirerack dot Com studios, un talking people about extruders.

Come on, I did you did.

And you tried to way they didn't exist. No, I'm saying i'd say it. I still don't know if they whoa what are you saying?

What are you saying?

Man?

What are you trying to say? Your age old debate of Santa trying to say? Here, I'm just saying, it's a debate Santa Claus. If I if I if I went to give me, give me a country you've never been to, Roby. If I went tonight Roby and said, hey, do you know who Mike Harmon is, they would say no, I don't know. Sorry, swollen Dome yet, No.

I don't know.

They would have no idea, but I would say you know Santa Claus. Is I know Santa Claus. Santa Claus is real. They would know Santa Claus wouldn't know you. You could be a figment of you, could be a figment of my imagination. In the last ten plus years has just been me that I concocted you out of thin air, and this is.

Some might argue that to be the case.

Mike Harmon, he doesn't exist, man, I don't know what you're talking about.

Wait, that's a movie. He's never been seen movie. That's a movie.

Is there a Harmon exit out about a Fresca exit swollen dome?

So?

Yes, A long way to go with you know.

Congratulations to Michael Pennix Junior for celebrating a cost Lets go with a hot dog.

We got someone else to get some Costco hot Let's Costco hot dog coming up next.

You thought this year was going to be the last we saw of one polarizing NFL quarterback. After the news today, get ready for his return. That's next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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So a really interesting day when it comes to the future for everybody's favorite polarizing quarterback, Aaron Rodgers.

Uh.

Many stories about Aaron Rodgers today, Let's see take your pick. You had the back and forth the the war with ESPN's Ryan Clark that he is in back about about things, and then you had a a trifecta of stories which involve him coming back to play next year. He said that he's willing to take a pay cut to return to the Jets next year. It's much like the pay cut I took for this year. Okay, pay cut to return to the Jets. He is willing to mentor another quarterback, knowing that his time is at an I'm willing.

To do that.

Also said he could take some time after the season is over.

To yeah, to take all he needs. He needs a lot of that to to decide. You know how much he wants to come back, right he wants to come back now he's looking my plan is to do this, but I mean unless the Jets release me right away. His plan is that, So those your big stories today. He will take a pay cut to come back with the Jets. Just think about that. I will take a pay cut. How desperate are you to stay in the NFL when you're willing to take a pay cut to stay with the Jets? Okay, not like I'll take a pay cut to stay with the Cowboys or a forty nine Ers or the Steeler. I'll take a pay cut to stay with the Jets. Normally it's you had to pay me.

Like twice what anybody else has to pay all that stuff.

I will, I will.

I will take a pay cut to stay with the Jets. Like how insane is that? But but it makes sense though, right, because the power of New York, New Jersey and keeping your brand alive as an active player, just do the do the It's fuzzy math, but you can do it pretty easily of getting yourself to where the value of still being an active NFL quarterback is greater than him than not. It makes sense in the fact that what I told you a few weeks ago was for Aaron Rodgers. Next year it's the Jets or nothing. That's it. It's the Jets or he's done. Well, you realize that's it. I mean, the tea leaves right because you start putting other teams in focus and in perspective. Whatever comes out of the draft. You get two or three guys in the first round, because let's face it, as much as we want to say it's just Sanders and Ward, someone else will get drafted, if not more than one other quarterback at the back end of the first round. We watch it every year. Guys that have second or third round grades get elevated because of the position scarcity and fear of missing out. So fine, Sam Darnold, whatever happens, whether he stays in Minnesota or moves on a couple of other quarterbacks who are not world beaters but might have life somewhere else. Add the Kirk Cousins part of things, and whether folks say, well, just by virtue of the fact that he's four years younger, we take a shot at him where we only have to pay part of the salary, And yeah, it all makes sense.

There aren't many.

Chairs that are still done and still in operation.

When the music stops.

Now he knows it's the Jets or nothing, because of what how this season has gone right and it's been it's been more of a just a negative connotation for Aaron Rodgers than it's been horrendous play top to bottom, because quite honestly, you look at Aaron Rodgers, you look at the last few weeks, there's not been a lot of quarterbacks who have played better. If I said to you the last seven weeks for Aaron Rodgers, I said touchdowns interceptions? How many would you tell me last seven games? How many touchdowns? How many the games? Touchdowns interception? I would say probably what thirteen to two, thirteen to three?

You looked? You know, I didn't you looked legitimate? What No, you looked lem No, look look you chanded. You cheated?

Did you get thirteen out of the thirteen out of the top? How did you get that?

You cheated? You cheated? You looked, I'd say, I would say thirteen, and I would say this thirteen to for the week.

You know, I would have done it for fantasy purposes for the the I Wantcher Flex podcast last week when we were talking about the last four to five, Yeah, you're like when you know Dan Patrick used to do this on on ESPN when he was on when you know, researchers would would would give him numbers when he would be reading the score of a game, and he would always say something to make it see and make it seem like it's something he knew off the top of his head. And it was really funny. We had it, We had we had an inside thing about it, he would say. And I believe this was the first time that uh, that Matt Williams at three home runs in a game since September of ninety five, ninety four, right like ninety four. But like legitimately, you know, we might have done something along that line for the podcast. You knew, but literally you saw it was my lock screen on my already. It doesn't matter how your screen is black. Now it's full on black because I haven't touched thirteen and one for Rocket, so he has had but I know he doesn't turn the ball over, so it was going to be a low number.

I was going three or fewer.

He is touchdowns a little better, and that was just complete guesswork.

He is. He has been pretty good. He hasn't been great.

He has been about what I hoped he would be at the start of the season, but instead this is what we're getting now because look, he's gonna end the season with about twenty seven or twenty eight touchdowns, ten interceptions, And I would if you told me that last year, Hey, Roger, do twenty seven and ten next year, I would.

Say, we're going fourteen and foot winning the AFC East.

But it's a great winning jump off point and connection back to my team, since it's all about you know, you and I, this partnership and the fun and exciting world that is Caleb Williams and all the hate watching. It's the same thing. You can look at the numbers, but then you go back into the reality of it and how good it's been or uneven it's been. Right post all the Caleb Williams stuff about lack of interceptions, all that doesn't mean he's necessarily made the right decision and done the right right play to push things forward. Same thing with Aaron Rodgers. And you've got no run game right now in New York. Like that's the hard part, right is like his are in a vacuum, but you pull it back out, defense still shoddy, and your run game you pointed it out yesterday. He've led your team in Russia gain week fifteen. You're not winning yet.

People very frequently if he's your leading rusher.

People are so negative about Aaron Rodgers right now. It's there. They're not being realistic. Oh, Aaron Rodgers hasn't done now the last few weeks, and maybe, like we said with Kirk Cousins, who still maybe has not gotten healthy from the injury last year, devastating injury when he's forty. It took Aaron Rodgers the better part of half because I told you, look, Rogers's gonna be good. There's no doubt in my mind he's gonna wint it. But it's gotta be now. It can't be week eleven, and that's what it was week eleven weeks. But it's also good versus MVP, like anybody that was expected to be back up here. But if he's because of the bravado and all the hoopla around him, kid, if you would just take, okay, your performance from these last seven games and just extrapolated out overseason, yeah, I would take twenty six and two. And I mean he's in the top ten. I believe he's right outside the top ten for total yards thrown. Like the last seven weeks has not been an Aaron Rodgers thing. It's been defense falling at the end of games. But he's getting all the.

Blame because he has not lifted the Jets like he was supposed to. But bottom line, you have a team that's gonna be starting over, or not really starting over, but reloading on the fly. They're gonna get a GM that it's the only GM job he's ever gonna get right. That the Jets are not going to get anybody to come in right. You have a head coach who's gonna be it's the only job this person's gonna get right. All the other jobs I'd rather have anything else, but boy, the Jets are my only chance.

It's one of thirty two.

Especially when you saw that story today circulating that Woody Johnson listens to his kid about you know, his.

College age kid, Brick Johnson. Oh, my sweet Brick, My sweet brick. What should we do at quarterback?

My sweet brick? What should we do?

Do we play Jordan Travis when he's out the Oh, my sweet Brick, Oh Brick, I mean everybody knows the dumpster fire. The Jets are now, So Woody Johnson, who's he gonna get. He's gonna get a last chance Hotel GM, a last chance hotel head coach. And what are they gonna say? Hey, where before we figure out what are our quarterback.

Is gonna be?

Yes, let's bring Rogers back next year because the last few weeks have been okay. He looks like he's rediscovered that that bit of a relationship with Davante Adams. On the field, Garrett Wilson is fantastic. We have some nice pieces. They figured out the offensive line again. I told you I had no doubt the Jets were going to start play. They just had to do it earlier, and it didn't get to be until week ten, week eleven, which then it was too late.

So he's gonna come back next year. You think he's not.

I mean, look how desperate he is because he's talking about I would take a pay cut to stay with the Jets. I'd mention a quarterback to stay with the Jets. He wants to stay. He's saying, I want to stay. I'll do whatever you need so I could have one more goal around in the NFL, and I know it's with the Jets or nobody, so let's do it.

I just I watch what happened with Kirk Cousins last night and saw him lose his job and wonder if anybody's gonna trade for him what he put kind of a future he has.

I want to let you know I am here. I can't lose this position. I will lose it in a year if I'm too old. I can't plan. I'm ready to retire, but I don't want to. I know that the best chance of me being a quarterback is staying the place I'm a quarterback at right now. And I don't think it's any coincidence after what happened with Kirk Cousins last night, how fast it was. Now you're done, and here comes Michael Pennix that Aaron Rodgers say, listen, I understand you're going to bring in a new quarterback.

I get it. I will mentor I will I will start, I will do all this you need. I'll take a pay cut all of these things. Likely the quarterback you're bringing in is going to be somebody that's not someone to come in to start right away. They're only a couple of quarterbacks in the first round, and they're going to go in the first couple of picks. The Jets aren't picking that ey, They're gonna pick probably around seventh or right. So the guy they have is either Jordan Travis from Florida State if he's healthy, someone they take in the second round. It'll be a developmental guy. So he is doing all. He's gonna play next year. He will be starting for.

The Jets week one next season. Write it down, it's happening. Get it down and write it good. You're channeling full Dusty Roads.

Get it down, write it down.

It's good talking about hard times New York Jets dream Aaron Rodgers. No, legitimately, we watched in the last few weeks and it's not him. It's look is he the guy that he was? No, but you weren't anticipating that. This is the speech today goes in in line with the Cousins news, but also the idea that he's now getting back to being Aaron Rodgers, right, the fight with Ryan Ryan Clark, let's go, let's bring up stuff about vaccines again and whatever else. So he needs to temper that, so he goes back to his I'm the King of New York. Remember when he was doing all the tour and he was on broad wearing everything else look at me. So part of that is all right. You may hate me over here, but I am what I am. But as a player, I recognize what didn't happen for me back in the day, right the farm to him and what he didn't do for Jordan love, at least outwardly in terms of mentorship. Here's how you win some points to whatever the new coach is, whatever the new GM is going forward, recognizing that that relationship needs to change, and you need to look a little cuddlier, a little softer as you're you're going ahead because you can still play quite obviously, right the numbers bear it out. And look what he's more confident now fired your guy defense disappeared. It kind of happened in Chicago, to figure.

Everything disappeared in Chicago. It was like eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Where hey, where the where's that racket books going?

Where's this room going? Everything is disappearing?

Everything justird, but but just the same idea of all right, the side of the that was supposed to be, you know, Ronco ready set it, forget it, just go on. Because you had Sala and it was playing well, they fell apart whatever happened there, because.

They didn't lose, they didn't lose a bunch of guys for.

Injury, they just stopped playing well. On the offensive side. I think there's still work to be done on that offensive line. You still need another wide receiver, but you at least still have some of the component parts. And so that's the intriguing part moving forward. Also in a division that is one team, and hey, go and get it right, Go be the second place team and go find a wild card because the Dolphins, do you have any confidence that they know what they're doing?

No?

And the Patriots there's still so much infighting.

You got a quarterback, I think Drake may is that guy, but beyond that, you have a bunch.

Of off your head.

Coach was supposed to go differently, but that's the point is he may not make it. So right now it's the Bills and go chase them down and chase down a wild card spot. What better way to do that? Aaron Rodgers on connuity on that side, he'll him darting nice sandbox, realizing that he's got to in all of those different ways. It works because where else is he going to go as a quarterback. Everybody else that's a dumpster fire is going to go. Either has their guy and just need to cultivate it Williams and whatever, or they need to go find someone Shador Sanders, cam Ward or what's behind door number.

Three exit out bout a Fresco exit Swelling Dome. Trust me write it down. Aaron Rodgers week one, starting for the Jets next season. We're not done with him yet. We're not done with him yet. Good time that to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. Of someone who took Aaron Rodgers in the first round of her fantasy draft this year, it's Monty Blagos.

I mean I may as well have because I thought the Jets were going to win the division. Wow, I thought the Jets were going to the Super Bowl. He was even earlier than that, though. I really thought they were going to win the division.

Like I, Oh, very disappointing season for even non Jets fans, not just you, Jason.

They're luckily I thy cousin's drapped him, right. I'm just saying luckily I did not draft him.

We do have a college football game going on, the LA Bowl between number twenty four UNLV and KEL. The Rebels are up fourteen to thirteen with less than one minute to go in the game.

But they're full of tricks in this game.

Guys Miikey Matthews pack to receive the punt, Marshall Nichols standing with his toes on the twenty five.

They fake it. They throwing and completely at the forty yard line. That's Cam Oliver midfield at.

The forty on the far sideline of the thirty to the twenty and.

He is propped out headside the ten tr ration.

From the Rebels in the ball game, and that was matt Never from lear field.

It was such a good fake punt for the Rebels.

Again, they're up fourteen thirteen less than one minute to go in the first half.

Other college football.

Juicies, did you d game bet that game that a team would pull off a fake punt?

Did you engage?

I wish I would have, because that's really random that you threw that. Highlighted it. It just was so good.

It was just I've never I've never seen such a good, big punt executed like that.

No, I was too into it. I was.

I wish I wish Washington State transfer quarterback John Mattier has committed to Oklahoma, he announced on social media today. In college hoops, Yukon has now won five in a row. They topped Xavier ninety four, eighty nine, and ot Number twenty one Memphis survived against Virginia sixty four to sixty two. Right now, Number six Alabama has taken the lead from North Dakota. Seventy eight seventy two is a score less than five minutes to go in the game. Number nine Marquette has taken the lead from Butler. Sixty to fifty two is a score eight minutes to go, and you can catch all the action on FS one with four minutes left. Number thirteen Gonzaga has extended their lead over Nichols. Eighty eight sixty six is the score, and then halfway through the second half, it's number twenty four Michigan beating number fourteen Oklahoma sixty one to fifty five. Lastly, here in the NFL, Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert was removed from the injury report. He is going to play tomorrow night against the Broncos. But La has rolled out Tighten will Disley because of a shoulder injury and Denver has rolled out running back Jillian McLaughlin because of a quad injury.

All right, back to you, guys, Moncy.

What about Fox Sports Radio producer Justin Frossburg? Is he is he in line to produce the broadcast tomorrow night? Yes, he's looking so I want to make sure, yes, he's in Does he is questionable? But leaning towards yes?

Wow?

Justin Frosburg is questionable? Questionable days spinoffs.

Thanks a bunch YEP Jason Smith Mike Harmon live from the tire Act dot Com studios. We got more NFL on the way, but coming up next, how about a big NBA Bowl prediction after what the commissioner said earlier today?

If you like three pointers? Wait, we hear this. That's next Jason and Mike Fox.

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Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon. A lot of the tire Rack dot Com studios. Want more NFL on the way coming up in a few minutes. Also going to give you a big pick for tomorrow night, Thursday Night Football a huge Titan matchup between the Broncos and the Chargers.

But can we do a.

Remote We have the technology and stuff.

I just kind of show up. I think we do well.

Just we'll just show up with the frostburg is producing the game like he does.

We'll just show up and sit next to him. We'll do the show. Nice. There we go.

Hey, can you tell the play by play guys to be quiet so we can talk?

Great? Thanks, you're being a little too loud. All right, thank you. I appreciate that. I have some.

Stats that want to give them fly ball caught. Uh, you want a big, bold prediction, and you could see this coming.

We always like big Bowl predictions on the show.

Look, the Celtics are on pace to shatter the number of three pointers taken by a team in an NBA season.

We saw it opening night. They were gonna do this well. And we saw that Drek last night.

It was three point three point barrage and like, at some point you recognize you're not due. None of your guys are shooting. Well, it's a different arena, it's a different environment.

It's not working.

But the way the three pointer has evolved in the NBA the last few years Look, everybody makes them now, everybody takes them, like starting centers take threes. Karl Anthony Towns has more big threes at the end final two minutes of games, and he has buckets inside right. Lopez hitting threes last night, like everybody takes them. And it's not a great it's not a great percentage of success. And the game has kind of hit a bit of a skid with all these threes. We still love the three, but the romanticism of it, and and and and seeing the big numbers on the board. Yeah, there's a lot of miss and it doesn't make the game as great as it could be. Adam Silver said today, Yes, they're monitoring three point shooting. They're worried about the.

Style and the style of play that goes on now because of the three point shot. He doesn't say stuff like this unless there's a change coming. And there's not a lot you can do except what I'm sure he.

Is going to do.

And I will tell you this within the next year, however long it takes him to get this okade, they will move the three point line back at least a foot, maybe two feet. Now you can't do anything on the sides of the court.

Well maybe maybe, but maybe you've got to make the court bigger. We're going to make the court bigger. No, you can't really do it.

Players need to be able to run and be able to cut and make moves. So it's not going to be on the side.

Well, but that's but that's the question though, right Obviously the dollars and cents because we always talk about it from a financial situation where now you have to change out a row of the court side seats, but you're talking about that would get people pissed off. Yeah, but that's a lot to say. Okay, instead of ninety four feet, Hey, we're going to add a few feet. But this would be great though, going you know, side to side, because now we can open it up like it's Olympic hockey where skaters room.

Up and back.

Now, look, there is something yet the play. It is a small enough court where the players have gotten bigger and faster, or it is more difficult to have a great flow to a game.

I'm with you on that, but there's only so much you can do that.

That's a big Hey, we have to we have to break glass in case emergency here I was.

Trying buddy, I was trying. I was radical change. The NBA wants to make play better. They want to make the flow of play better. They want to make drives to the basket. The Michael Jordan drives to the basket happen more when you're in an era now of it's either a dunk or three, and we've seen that now for a while. To make the three pointers still special, still part of the game, but make it a little bit harder and to open up the offensive floor a little bit. If you moved it back, not on the sides, but basically from the from the the end of the wing to the center court. If you go back from twenty three to nine to twenty five or even twenty six, that's what's going to happen. They're gonna make it a little more difficult to hit a three, So not everybody is shooting threes. Still, your best three point shooters will shoot threes. The guys that will take them and make them stuff is still gonna shoot from there. Obviously Dame Lillard will shoot from there. But they're gonna make it more difficult because they have to find some way to open up play, and that's the best way to do it.

And they can say we're gonna do it. This year is just a test. We're gonna move it back to twenty five feet. Maybe next year twenty six, but they'll move it back at least a foot plus. But two feet is really what it's gonna because now suddenly, all right, you're defending. Teams have to defend a little bit more, which means they're a little bit more room, open room open passing lanes, and you'll see a little bit different, better, more high octane, successful offensive possessions, which is what people tune in to see.

More cutting and more opportunity will see, and that will change the definition of what constitutes a bad miss range jumper.

Yeah, he's just inside.

Well, hell, he used to hit that as a three pointer. Low that psychologically it's killed him. You know Snapper last year that was a three.

Ah not this year. Oh you're getting his Steve Snapper Jones.

Yeah yeah, yeah, well be ANBC, come on Snapper Jones.

Uh.

But trust me, that's gonna happen. They will, they will, They will move the three point line back within the next.

Year or two. You're gonna get it.

Well, and we want to go even more radical. How about we add the second basket over the top and it's rocking, Jock.

That's not that you can't do it all once. Let's do so.

First this twenty six, twenty seven feet. But now if you want to go for the high arc and now it's a five pointer.

Where's bang, You're just gonna be able to raise the basket in between possessions.

We're down six, all right, raised up to twenty eight feet.

All right, Grange coach for the final three minutes, are armed with a joy stick.

Let's go exit out Valafresca exit swollen Dome. Coming up next, Mike and I got a big story out of the NFL. Keep it a here, Fox.

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Speaking of someone who is here to talk all the latest news in the NFL. He is a long time NFL insider. He's with the thirty third team. He is helping the Jets pick their new GM and head coach yay Is. He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. It is the aforementioned very good radio guest. Jason Call. What's happening, Bud.

I'm a great rady or death, either one. I'm fantastic.

All right, Well that's I'm feeling pretty good.

You would.

I'm feeling pretty.

Good about It's a holiday holiday, holiday season, and you're feeling good.

Happy holiday, Happy holidays, boys. I am happy for you that the jeff are finally winning some battle with Aaron Rodgers against Ryan Clark. Look, I'm a I'm really I'm not sure what what's worse like this, Aaron Rodgers taking a fight with Ryan Clark or Michael Jordan punching Steve Kirk like which which which one is? Is a more fair fight?

Well, I don't know.

I'm not for punching, so I would say the I would say the fight that's going on now between Rogers.

And Ryan Clark, the verbal jousting that they're having. Yeah, yeah, it is quite the snooze. I have to say what Bryan Clark Ran Clark trying fifty different ways to like to prove to everybody, Well I'm really not taking a fight, but I'm taking a fight here Ryan Ryan.

Yeah, but that's the second best story that came out today. We're chopping it up a little bit earlier. Is Brick really running the show? The seventeen year old God, oh my goodness is what?

I don't know what are you talking about.

There's reports out there that Woody Johnson listens so much and makes decisions because of what he sees on social media, and he listens to his kid who's in college right now, whose name is Brick Brick.

Johnson, and not one today.

Oh you missed that one. Okay, all right, that's fine. If you want to go past it, that's absolutely fine. No, he's going to go do the deep dive research on this to find out if it's true, so then he can start texting you and mocking you.

We're going from listening to my boss, Mike Tanner and Bob in the thirty third team. She's listening to Brick as he as value as he does a deep dive research into how to run a football team through social media.

Hey, listen, I've seen Tannabell make highers.

That's a lateral move if I ever saw one.

God, I can't see anything work. I'm almost speechless on this one. But he would signed social media to decide who the Jets next head coach would be.

Oh, Ryan would win. If you did social media, Rex, Ryan would win. He would be the next Jets.

Dah, he would be. And actually that's not a bad that's not a bad choice because he's probably the best coach that that.

So that end. You know, another thing.

We're kind of chatting up a little bit here. Jake, who's winning the Mike Rabel sweepstakes.

That's that's really interesting because he's gonna I would think I would think it's gonna be Jacksonville because they have a quarterback that he probably thinks is good.

He's not though. But he's not that he's just a guy.

He's really not.

He's just a guy. He's just a guy.

He's a little bit better than just a guy because he does have physical skill right like he does he can fire the ball. I just I always go back to there's a missing ingredient in Trevor Lawrence. And I don't think it's He's not a bad guy. He's not a lazy guy. I just don't think he has like the mania that you need like Drew Brees or Peyton Manning or Tom Brady. All those guys have a level of maniacal behavior that makes them remember everything that happens and what's going to happen. I think he's one of those guys who's like, yeah, I'm just kinda kind of going out here and wing it to see how it goes.

That's how I went to college. It was awesome all how.

I went through college too. So I highly appreciate the method. The results are generally not good, which is why we're here.

And you did that at Stanford. I mean I did it at Syracuse, where hey, that's expected. You did it at Stanford, man, it's like higher education.

Sorry, trust me, trust me how you know, like you talked about coasting. Yeah, I was like, I got in cool. What else do I have to do? Well? Yeah, go ahead.

I busted my ass in Northwestern. I'm still here with you. So there, Yeah we all found our level.

Yes now I yeah, see, I think that Rabel has to do serious. Look, is he gonna get the team that has the number one overall pick? And does he believe that either cam Ward or should Door Sanders is going to be the guy? Or do you believe in Trevor Lawrence? You know, it's this is a this isn't really kind of a complex equation, like and do you and you waited out and waited out to see who's got the number one pick? Or is there some hiring that before that? India? I mean, I I think they won't do the hiring until after the season. But the other side is are you going to work if the Raiders get the number one pick? Are you really gonna work for Mark Davis? Now you got Brady there, and so Brady's a great buffer, but still Mark Davis making the final decisions and I mean he's not. So what do you do?

Jason Callard gas the Jason's Miser with Mike Carbon live from the Tire rec dot Com studios.

All Right, speaking of speaking of what you can do here, speaking of what you can do, I think my favorite NFL story of the day was that Michael Pennix Junior found out he was a new starting quarterback of the Falcons having a hot dog at Costco.

Costco hot dogs are really good.

They aren't they, I mean, And the best part is the price has remained the same even through all this inflation.

The prices remaining, say a.

Dollar ninety nine, you get a soda and a hot dog, Like that's a that's a bargain.

He's already showing good decision making, Jacob.

That strong decision making. I mean, it really is, like I mean, because think about this, he's he's he's saving money, you know, to be shopping boat. He's both shopping at Costco and he's getting the hot dog. Right. So this is a guy who's forward thinking and you want you want that when you when you're thinking a very quarterback. So I like the fact that it's at Costco getting mock dog. I appreciate the pizza not so good, really not you know, it's cheap, but it's not it's not very good. I got said that.

You got you got chicken bake, hot dog there at the top. The next level, you want to go pizza and then you can.

Go kick a ba. Is a chicken bake actually that good?

Yeah? Yeah, it's a good. Yeah, it's very tasty.

And it's big too, like like you can have like half of it and then bring it home and have the other half of The one you get at the food court is much larger than the one you'd buy in the front.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you got to make sure you got one fresh.

Yeah oh no, the food court, Yeah, you got to go food court. I mean, you don't want you want the hot food. You want you don't want to take the frozen stuff back and go home. You want right there. You want to get it while you're in line, because then you've got to go to your car and you got to unpack everything individually, and you've got to fit it all into the trunk of the car so that it it's right, especially when you have you know, like I have it. You know, I have a coop, so you know, yeah, I don't have a lot of room here, so I got to like fit everything just right, So it served a little bit of a you know, playing Tetris. Yeah, so I got to have the hot dog before I play Tetris. But I've never had the chicken bake, so I got to try that someday if that's really good. The pizza I've had me and man, I haven't had the cookie, you know, you know, is the cookie any good?

Cookies? Not bad? I mean I've had better. I mean, I just not bad to The frozen coffee is pretty good too.

I have to. I was down at Los Angeles last weekend. Guys, thanks for stopping by, thanks saying I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know you better. But I was busy. It was working, you know, I had. I had two really busy days doing research.

Me and talking Jeff Fisher, me and Mike Tan and bound. We're interviewing people for the Jets.

Yeah, yeah, so I was. I was meeting with Fisher out at tap High School. So that's what Yeah, because that's where you went.

Jets and go seven and ten. That'll be great, be seven and ten.

Yeah, that's an improvement over what you got now. So anyways, Yeah, so I stopped at Gelson's and got a chocolate chip cookie, quality chocolate chocolate chip cookie. Gilson's I gotta said that.

You don't get breakdown like this from a Pro Football Hall of Fame voter like Jason.

Just as it was a nice combination of the brown sugar. It was really, really, really done that I.

Guess you know, all right. So from from Michael Pennick Jr.

Eating the hot dog at Costco to Michael Pennock Junior actually on the field and playing, I felt like this was a movie. You had no choice. If you were the Falcons, you had to do it. And this is gonna this is going to bring life to the team. They're a game behind, they'll win the tiebreaker, Like you had no choice but to do it at this point.

Well, if you're going to have any hope of actually winning a game, I mean, you know, God blessed, you know, Kirk Cousins. But man, that that that arm is better than the deaths. So I mean, like, what do you what do you do with that? I mean, he just can't throw right now, and I don't know if he can ever be fixed. I hope he can. I hope he gets again his legs back a little bit because he can't grow right now. I mean, it's just there's no way around this. So Pennix is the only answer, especially again if you you have to be able to attack the field and they can't attack the field right now. It's that I just it makes me think of Damon here. Damon Newer is a great guy, right and it was a really fine backup quarterback for I don't know, eighteen years NFL. But when he had to start for a long periods of time, and this happens with a lot of you know, lesser armed quarterbacks, you just see the defense shrink and play smaller, smaller and smaller areas, right like to just play this really tight umbrella coverage. And that's what's happening the Cousins, right Like, there's no room for him to throw. And Pennis, I mean the one thing about pas he can win. I mean, like he can really really throw. You know, I like the movie. It's the move they had to make. It's basically the same thing that you know, the Steelers move was a little bit different because you knew justin fields had certain limitations and you had to eventually get to a real quarterback. And Russell Wilson's close to that, But it's the same idea. If you're going to have any hope of doing any damage in the postseason and trying to make something out of the season, you got to go to a guy and actually functionally play the position. All right.

Lastly, tomorrow a de facto playoff game. We've got Chargers hosting the Broncos Flex Thursday night. Can Jim Harbaugh's offense rise up enough to win this one?

Well? Can the defense like show up too? And it didn't exactly show up? I hate it.

I was just looking at that one as an outlier. But yeah, yeah, I mean I kind of do.

I mean that, you know, when when when Baker gets hot and Evans gets hot, sometimes they just get our role sort of the way the games they had against Philly earlier this season, you know, even as limited as they are as they are, But man, I like Carbaugh and what overall. I like where the direction of both these teams, and I like where the AFC West is going, and that there's actually going to be a battle in the next three four years. The chief will probably still winning because they do have the homes, but at least I think it's going to be kind of a fair fight with some interesting game with the Raiders, of course, just mopping up last place year after year like Eternity. But I kind of like the Charges a little bit more. They're a little bit more consistent than what I see out of the Broncos. At the same time, the Broncos, when they can keep teams under control and keep them from getting wild, they've tended to be more competitive. So this game can stay in the low twenties, maybe into the high high teams twenties have a pretty good shot.

He's on Twitter at Jason Cole sixty two. That is at Jason Cole sixty two.

Yeah, oh my sweet brick, Oh my sweet brick.

You're gonna go what's that character from The The Avenger Groot?

No, yeah, yes, sim work, I am Groot.

That's how it works with the Jets. That's the only thing. That's how the coaches speak. Oh okay, great, we'll do that. That's gonna keep it simple. He's gonna go look up that story right now. I gotta find that story, Jacob Jason's perfect harmony story.

I know, right. How about Home off.

The Putty Johnson listening to his kid, Hey dad, here's the thing, all right, DeVante Adams stinks.

He stinks. Oh and now he's good. Never mind, never mind, Everything is okay, it's fine, it's fine.

You got, you're in a salad dad. He's terrible. You got you're in a Joe Douglas dad. He thinks.

People on social media say the same thing. Do you fire him, dad, or I'm not your son?

Okay, okay, okay, oh yeah, we had a good run. Call him up. Hey, Joe Douglas. Sorry, my son says, you have to go.

My son's on social media says, look at what people are saying about the Jets.

That would be so on brand for the Jets.

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