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Published Sep 7, 2024, 6:15 AM

Jason and Mike update Packers/Eagles from Brazil. Jason explains why the NFL will eventually realize the field is a big thing to get “right” in big games. How will Tom Brady’s debut go? A Week 2 preview from our most trusted College Football Insider. Saquon Barkley balling out in Brazil is all the proof you need to know that the New York Giants are tanking. Plus, our Week 1 NFL Upset Specials!!

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Tidings. Welcome inside an unbelievably glorious Friday Night, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mark Fantos live from thee Tirack dot com studios diirect dot com help me get there. An unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended installers. Tirac dot com is the way tire buying should be. Tonight's like one of those virtual reality things, Mike Carmon, where you put one of those headsets on and everywhere you look there's something big, whether it's the NFL game in Brazil or something from baseball and the big Caitlyn Clark game tonight. Looking at college football tomorrow, it's like, wherever you go, you can't miss. It's one of those.

I've had I think four different screens going on. I've done the multi ass thing that they allow you to do.

You know. One of the.

Perks of some of the new streamers, they're getting cute and creative with what they're doing, almost like you're watching, you know, a Sunday full of football. But I've got football, I've got basketball, I've got college football. It's just a century overload. The White Sox lost again, so I've got everything I need.

Hey, dude, my aunt was at the game tonight, her first ever baseball game. How about that. She's retired. She's my aunt that knows absolutely nothing about sports. Sure, Like she's the one I keep saying we should do this thing called ask Aunt Janet because she doesn't know any I know nothing about sports. But she's retired. Her and her husband, my aunt and uncle. They drive around the country and they like to travel and stuff, which is very intoxicated to do something like that. So they decided we're gonna go to a baseball game. You know, Randy wants to go to the game or go And her first baseball game was tonight and she went to see the Red Sox and the White Sox and Fenway she's sending me pictures. Are these good seats? Is this gonna be a good game? And I said, well, I'll tell you this. The Red Sox are most likely going to win. How do you know, Well, well, let me tell you about the Chicago White Sox for a second. Sure enough something She watched the lost number one hundred and ten for the White Sox tonight. I gotta say there.

Is something intriguing about the idea of once the kids are off to college, you get yourself a nice RV. Make sure you got a good satellite dish so you can connect the ComRes on the road. Why not go station to station and visit all the affiliates.

I like, I'm gonna follow the White Sox around the country, all right. Wait, wait, wait, let's think about something different than that. No, no, no, I want to fuddle the White Sox around the country.

Look, man, I'll start looking like I'm aging like a president. Wait what happened? This was spring training. He's hanging out, he's at Camelback. Whoa, he's fired up.

And then Kate one look at he's.

Still bright eyed and they asked him to throw out a first pitch. He's excited. Game one sixty two. He's beaten down. He's beaten down, and now he's wearing nothing but football gear because the Wildcats embarrass.

Are in the seats. But look obviously all eyes well when they weren't on the Mets tonight, all eyes in Brazil for the first ever NFL game. We're at halftime. Packers lead the Eagles nineteen to seventeen. Halftime show going on right now, and it's no facular. I know many people are got peak. I got a five. I know, I know. Peacock still sneaks up on people right now. How much planning today, it still sneaks up on people. It's like, okay, this like see, that's the difference between when ESPN and Direct TV decided to say, oh, hey, guess what, Yeah, you're not getting a game in twenty minutes. Yeah, sorry, the carriage dispute is done, so you're not gonna get to watch USC and LSU. Sorry, we're gonna do it right here and hold you hostage. At least you know there was leading up, you knew the game was on. Peacock, I don't have a lot of sympathy because you knew the game was on, you knew the game was, I don't care that it's Friday. Oh I worked all week. I want to come up. Yeah, everybody works all week. Everybody wants to watch the game. They've done a good enough job to let you know exactly where the game is now getting it. I understand, and I understand that now there's eleven different places you need to have, or need to own or subscribe to if you want to watch every single game this year, which is something the NFL is gonna really out the deal because they're gonna suddenly say, oh, we can't spread ourselves too thin. But tonight for this, you knew it was on Peacock, and so hopefully you're able to watch it.

Yeah, not to you know, beat beat the proverbial dead horse on the other carriage dispute. I mean, there were plenty of notices, plenty of scrawls, just not as intense as it normally is. And generally what happens, it's like a storm that's coming, like, hey, you should probably evacuate. Ah, we've been here for thirty years. None of that crab's gonna happen. And then all of a sudden, the storm's on top of you and you're suddenly in the land of Oz. I mean, craziness happens, and that's exactly what it is.

Like.

You go to read an article now and you've got in your right or left navigation, you gotta add that pops up. By the way, if you're affected by dispute, this dispute, here's the way is to communicate and contact folks and tell them how mad you are. And then you've got websites popping up saying here's here's how you get around it. Here's the other options that you have to go find some of those channels that you're now mad.

You didn't get. But for Peacock, Yeah, there was no hiding from this one. This was well publicized.

Its a rival, if nothing else, it was at the bottom of everything you watched or or read about the problems that these guys were talking about for months between the Colored Green and what they needed to do around hotels. It's been there in the background the whole time.

Don't forget, game is on Peacock, Games on Peacock. So how to break things down? How to sum up the first half between the Packers and the Eagles. It's a lot like one of those NFL you get at the end of the regular season where there's just enough snow and ice on the field to make it so incredibly slippery, where the defense has trouble making tackles because offensive players catch the ball, make a juke in their gongs. Everybody slipping and sliding, and as a result, we get like twelve eighty yard plays in a game, and it's wow, look at all this, because that's what the first half was like, big play after big play because the field nobody can stand up on it. It is in terrible shape. It is slippery. There are players still slipping on every single play. Jayden Read's touchdown eighty yards, somebody slips in, falls, Sakuon Barkley's touchdown, somebody slips in, falls, No one can keep purchase. And that's kind of what we're looking at in that that's how this game is going, where if there's a big play in open space, it can go for six. And as the time goes on, you see the halftime adjustments teams are gonna have, You're gonna see more big plays, which is fun. Right. Hey, we had a game last night where boy, fantasy points, come on, come on, We're going all the fantasy points to night because we're getting extremely big plays, and you know, it's great to see because everybody loves seeing big plays. But how many times are we going to see a big game, whether it's an international game or a Super Bowl, where the field sucks and the players slip on it and keep it all the time paint?

How many times not being able to account for what it's like at a different time of year. Right, what the the climate is all about? I mean, did they bring enough cleats? I mean, what's the equipment budget to carry things over? Did they have the proper propper stuff on the sideline at halftime to make all those adjustments?

I like, how that's always the thing. Oh, we have to change our cleats if the field sucks, it doesn't matter. What doesn't matter if you're wearing like hiking boots in the snow.

That people wearing some of those too, That's right, All of a sudden, you got the giant blades underneath your feet, just like your wolverine.

That's how. That's how I'm running because and I don't know how many times we have to get through because there's the problems that are the micro problems, which are Hey, MetLife Stadium has the worst turf in the league. Everybody understands it, and it's a thing that doesn't cost a lot of money. Yet still, the NFL watches the Jets and have this really bad field that guys get hurt on. Right then you have the macro of the Super Bowl and games like this where hey, here's the spotlight and guess what. Everybody's slipping and falling. And as I say this, what happens. Jalen Hurts hits AJ Brown, which what looks like normally would be, hey, this is probably a twenty or twenty five yard play, but because the Packers defenders can't keep their balance, he's able to make a cut and nobody and the Packers can't make a sharp cut like AJ Brown can, so he takes it all the way to the house for a seventy yard touchdown, and now it's a twenty four to nineteen lead extra point pending for the Eagles. Like it's great to see all these plays and I understand, but wow, man, it's tough seeing a play go out there and someone make it catch and make one move and boom, defenders on his ass because he can't stand up, and here's a touchdown. I mean It's like one of those games, whether it's just a little bit too much ice on the field and we can't stand up and make plays. There's been plays like this the entire second half. We're not even a minute in and we're already nearly at the over, right, we're just I think we're one score over right now. Twenty four to nineteen is the score?

Yeah, it was forty nine was the over under here. It just kind of pushes it over the top. Alexander can't keep his feet, can't catch up, safety comes sliding over the top, can't break right. It's like it's like you could hear the screeching of his brakes as he tries to slow down and not let Brown run past him. And then it's a dead sprint using the official as a pretty good shield as well on his way to the end zone. But big plays all around, because it was sloppy to start and a miserable slog when it was six to nothing. You're watching the miscommunication on the offensive line, Jason. There was actually a play where there were twelve men on the field for both damn teams.

Yeah, how sloppy this was. I you know what, here's the thing if there's twelve men on the team for until both teams let the place stand and they're both running off the field.

Right. Not even one of those guys was doing anything that would be considered Hey, they're part of the play, right. It's it's like you and you call it off sides and you review it in soccer's like, yeah, technically are off sides, but they're running forty yards over there, so they don't.

Right, So but chaos here. You know, we got the landing zone.

The Packers got creative at one point and kicked it just inside the boundary of the landing zone right behind the lines of would be blockers and tacklers, so forced and necessitated a return.

So that was good.

We got to see it in action for once. Sure, I don't know, I'm trying to find some positives.

No, I know you are. I know you are because I don't know how this post game speech from Roger Goodell is gonna go. Hey, guys, look, thanks for coming. I understand it's been a tough week. Just let me talk, let me talk. I know coming to Brazil wasn't anybody's first choice. I know you guys were excited because the thought, hey, Brazil, it's fun, we can sight see do some things. It'll be like a London game. And instead it was don't leave your hotel because it's really too dangerous and we can't guarantee your safety, so stay inside and just come to play the game. Look, I get that that's a bit of a buzzkill. I get that you didn't want to bring your family. I understand this. I understand that you're not happy that many people aren't allowed to use Twitter, and because Brazil is banned Twitter, so you can't get on social media.

Walk do you communicate with their wives? I get that friends back home to communicate what they wanted.

To talk about. I get that. I know you guys love social media. Sorry, we can't do that. I'm sorry, Brazil band. Twitter. There's nothing we can do about that. Okay, but just door. But hey, you're playing a game and it's gonna be awesome. But here's the other thing. Okay, here's the other thing I want to apologize for. I know that you all risked your lives tonight for the product that is the National Football League, and I want to say thank you. I know that you guys were nervous about slipping and falling and getting hurt and potentially ruining your career. Maybe you're out for the game, maybe you're out for the season. Who knows, but you guys, really, you guys all sucked it up, and I want to say I'm proud of you. Doesn't mean you're getting any extra money, doesn't mean you get anything anything extra for playing in this game, but I just want to say thanks for doing that solid and yeah, hey, you know what, maybe maybe next time things go a little bit better. Can't guarantee it, but boy, we had good ratings and we made some money and it's really good. Again. You guys aren't gonna see any of it, but I know that this is a very tough week, and I just want to acknowledge that for you before you all get on planes and go back home. I'm getting on a plane separately from you going back home because I really have to get out of here, because boy, I really don't want to be in here any more time than we have to. So I'm gonna leave while you two got while you guys you have are the diversion, so if people think you're still around, my plane can take off. I have to have to worry about stuff and getting there and all kinds of stuff I have to go through, So you guys will be the distract everybody. Then you'll get out and go and then you'll be back in fill Elfia, Green Bay and everything is wonderful. But thanks again, see you next time down the road.

Is that the replacement of this is your captain speaking after they get to their pods and first class, like, hey, there's an in flight announcement that needs to be done. I'm glad you're all back on the plane. Now it's time to get back to the States. Remember, you do get half of the money earned off of this based on the CBA, so you will be splitting it with your colleagues who well, they're all gearing up for home games or maybe short flights. Good luck to you, and thanks for putting on a hell of a show. Back to the game. Just the laughability of yesterday. I remember the point of emphasis of where you're lining up and everything. Whether the Ravens got screwed or not, you can fight that all you want. They've deemphasized holding, it seems in these first two games, because guys are getting away with absolutely mauling each other both in the defensive secondary and at the line of scrimmage, and it's just been an absolute train wreck as far as that goes. Not to mention the footing as you anticipate the hit.

So let me tell you, I mean, how do you not have the field? It's the most important thing that you can take care of that really is on you. Let's make sure the field is ready to go. Oh yeah, I talk to the guys. Guys, are all good? Field seems it looks green, you know, I see the lines are straight, everything I mean looks like a football field. I don't understand what you're talk I mean, can we really just I mean, it's not that much money at all, and on the grid scheme of things, it's about half a million dollars to get a field looking great. That's nothing for each team for the NFL to make sure, Hey, guys aren't slipping and falling and a potentially getting injured. I don't understand they had it covered. Exit out about a Fresca exit swollen down The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love the tirec dot Com Studios. Hey, don't forget right after our show is over, our podcast goes up. If you miss any of today's show. Be sure to check out the podcast search Jason Smith Mike Harmon wherever you get your podcasts, and be sure to rate and review the podcast. Again, just search Jason Smith Mike Harmon show wherever you get your podcast and you'll see today's show. Post it right after we get off the air. Thank you for your support. Mike and I love putting out this content for you that we do every single night. Well, coming up next, Yes, we'll have more on this game. Green Bay is in the red zone because you know this is how the game is gonna go, because no one can stand up. But straight ahead, we're gonna take a look in preview all the big games in college football. Tomorrow Texas and Michigan is a blowout coming. Keep it right here, that's next, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Hey, you think that quarterback's gonna throw for more than three hundred yards? How about that receiver in Miami grabbing a touchdown? Check out Draft Kings Pick six, the newest way to compete against others and play fantasy football to win cash. With DraftKings, pick a player choose if they'll have more or less of a stat like yards, touchdowns, catches and more. Get your picks right and you'll win cash. This is your call to action. Download the new Draft Kings Pick six app now use the code JSS. That's code JSS for new customers to play. It's five dollars and you get fifty bucks and pick six credits guaranteed end a month of NFL plus Premium on US. Again code JSS. The new Draft Kings Pick six app for five bucks, you get fifty dollars in Pick six credits guaranteed and a month of NFL Plus Premium on US. All for expires on September nineteenth only at Draft Kings Pick six. Code is JSS DraftKings Pick six app Code JSS JSS DraftKings Pick six. The Crown is yours.

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Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. Thanks to a slippery field, we have hit the over. Yeah, Packers Eagles game. Ten minutes to go in the third quarter, doesn't matter. I've already seen two touchdowns in the second half twenty six, twenty four Packers with the lead. Jordan Love now two touchdowns throwing the football again. Just keep running posts and crossing routes. Defenders can't stand up be an eighty yard touchdown every single play. They'll break all kinds of offensive records tonight.

I mean, unless you just let your guy break containment. Jason, that's it game. Let's fit a second. Yeah, unless it's Josh Jacobs. Unless it's Josh Jacobs, that's that who. But I thought he was gonna be the big breakout guy and he's declining it all.

No. Hey, we'll have more from this game coming up a bit again to the Long Way to Go ten and a half to go in the third quarter, twenty six to twenty four. Already Packers and the Eagles, but joining us now, I'm the hotline. Nobody better to take a look at a big weekend in college football. It is Week two. You can follow him on Twitter at Pete Feutech. He as the owner, editor, proprietor of college Footballnews dot com. You're one stop shopping for everything college football. All the previews, all the analysis, all the predictions. It's there for you at college Footballnews dot com. But before we get there, I do need to say something to get it out of the way. I believe in fantasy that Pete Feutech drafted both Mark Andrews and Josh Jacobs and started them this week. So I'm sorry about that. Pete.

Absolute opposite. I drafted Travis Kelsey and idea likely, and I shot one of them, not the right one. By the way, I do believe this. I heard somewhere. I could be really wrong about this, but I don't think this gay counts because it's on Peacock, so I think, oh, that's fun. So none of these stats, all these bets, all the veggas things. They don't actually like. It just because it's on you know, just pretend network with you know, you can't multi verse in or or like you know, watch other games are flip around channel time, so it doesn't really count. So you know, all the all the points that you're getting hit by. If you're got you know, a J. Brown are playing against these quarterbacks, you're good, You're good? All right?

Oh good, now I know, so I can go to my commission on Monday. Go no, I actually want, Pete, Hu Tech told me none of those stats count. You can just call here's the SOHO.

Number, the total Lias Taekwon Barkley and Devonte Smith. So don't count. Don't actually count because, by the way, the exact you're not you're bearing the lead here, especially for you guys, the exact opposite think is happening about a you know, a few drivers and three woods away from me right here on in Evanston with your Northwestern wild Yeah.

I'm not living and dialing dying with every catch of that game at all.

Pete, Yeah, yeah, every catch if they're already that's well every game. You know, whoever scores first gonna win those games. But yeah, by the way, brilliant job, you have the most beautiful studying in college football, and you're playing it on Friday nights that we can actually see the lake night course, guys.

But all the pregame footage of the rolling waves was really cool.

And the tornadoes that are supposed to come in and you know, off the lake, which actually is not going to happen. But yeah, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's just lovely. But you know, but I digress. Yes, it is college football. And you know those people who actually you know, are sitting on peacock right now and not watching tennis or you know, college football, are going on on date night or something. You know, there is north Western Duke there for you.

Hey, and I'll tell you what. Let me be the first one to say, those are two smart teams. Okay, those are two smart teams. That's a smart Those are two smart teams going at it right now.

I guess you know, right, I mean, that's you know that they do that once in a while. These guys are you know, they're playing football, but they go to class too. They are what everything's all about in college football.

All right, Well, let's kick things off with a big nude kickoff tomorrow, Texas at Michigan. I tell you, Pete living in a Michigan house. I've spent the last couple of days telling my wife, I think you're gonna get boat raced on Saturday. I die. I have a bad feeling about this. I don't think you can score. I think Texas is gonna run rough shot over you. She gets mad, but then comes back in the room. So I have to pick my spots. Do you see it the same way?

Well, you can't do anything about it. It's not up to you that if you're a thing, it's not your fault. Michigan is bad at college football.

Now.

All you can do is, you know, predict, and no, I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't think Michigan wins because I just don't buy the offense. I don't buy the quarterback situation. Not like JJ McCarthy was needed all that much last year, but it doesn't. There's not a lot of confidence being inspired by that opener against Fresno State with that quarterback situation. But that defense, the defense is gonna hold. I do actually think all year long that he is going to be right right there and keep Michigan games. I still don't quite I truly believe in Texas when it happens. I know, they beat Alabama last year and all that, but then they went all Texas and gagged away in the college football playoff. But I still kind of think at the end of the day, it's still Texas. They'll blow it at some point. But this, if you can kind of look ahead, as we're you know, talking about in September sixth, if you can kind of figure out these schedules, this is kind of a college football playoff game because if you look at what each of these two have, there's at least a loss coming up for both of them, probably two. So the loser of this probably loses three games and is probably out, and the winner, you know, you can absorb the two losses and you're probably just fine. That's the kind of cushion we're going to have now. Is the kind of the way this is going to look going forward. But yeah, I think the winner of this is probably going to get be like your eighth or nineties. I don't think Texa's going to win the SEC or anything like that. So uh, but yeah, the loser of this probably out of the college football playf and you know we're starting this up right now.

Let me step away from games for a second. Just take the larger picture coming out of Week one, any of the would be powerhouses that you have true concern for or is it just hey, get ready, get right, preseason.

Kind of mode exactly. You know, if the Oregon game with the one weird one, I don't want to say we actually watched it, but the only way I can describe that is Oregon just kind of forgot the score. You know. It's like, we're Gon, We're gonna go up and down the field. We're gonna we're gonna come up with a lot of yards and got a big plays and this is a lot of fun. And oh yeah, we're supposed to like put points on the board. That's the whole point of this thing. And that'll be fine, It'll be okay. I mean, they just they have a little tippy tappy, dank dunk offense that sometimes you know, can do a lot of things and you know, just not go anywhere at the end of the day. But that that team will be okay. But look, the big thing I think that comes out of this is Notre Dame. If you look at their schedule, you know, you look across the slate. They could gack at some point looking into Louisville or Georgia Tech or something. But Florida State's looking very beatable. And that's it. You know, that's that's it. Going into the n about it.

Sure, that was very nice. They're looking they're they're looking beatable. Look at and.

Again, you know we talked about me I just talked about Michigan and Texas being kind of like a college football playoff game. Well, as it turns out, if you look at the USC schedule, USC LSU is probably one of those two because LSU schedule is not that bad. If you're if you're if you're good enough to be LSU and think that you should be playing in college football playoffs things, you should be able to still go ten and one if you're really that good. But you needed that one extra buffer because they're not Bama or Georgia this year. So uh, that was probably an elimination game and we're wait now you kind of look at USC difference that you know what, they might be able to go in there and beat Michigan. They might be able to you know, take out Wisconsin's and notre games and things like that on their schedule.

I gotta tell you the two teams that we thought we don't know which way they're gonna go. You have the contenders that we Okay, we know how good Alabama's going to be, how good Georgia's gonna be. But a couple of teams where where it would they fall into the category of, hey, if things fall right, but it also might not happen for him. I am in on USC and Miami. After Week one, USC the defense is a lot better. It looks like Moss is a really good quarterback. Miamt cam Ward is making a dazzle play every time he throws the football. Like these two teams, I'm really in on for being one of those teams that meant that that not squeaks in but could be the second team from a conference making a playoff, depending how things go.

I always I've preached this for over twenty years, and I'll still get I don't know why anybody schedules anybody good week one. I mean, the stat's incredible. I think it's like sixty one to one. The SBS teams won against the FCS teams, and they're all blows. That's why you schedule those games you can tune up. And so the thing about USC Okay, they great win the defense, they still gave up over four hundred yards and that LSU team, I think that you can kind of see if you're read between the Brian Kelly lines, that he kind of realized, like, gosh, my team just got just that they're not going to make those dumb mistakes in two weeks, in three weeks, once you get the timing down, once you get there's a lot of little false starty things and just you know, just procedural stuff that you know, a team that's had a couple of games under its boat, they don't have those moments anymore. And that really seemed like what LSU was in this. So it was great win for USC, hey, they got it done. But also at the same time, it got helps that they just so happened to get LSU at the right time. And when it comes to Miami, maybe Florida's just that bad. Miami did look good. The thing that we're gonna have to kind of wrap our heads around as well, as as I've said this tea from the start, we're killing time. I mean again, Ohio State, Georgia and everybody else. And part of this is that, yeah, okay, Clemson, you know, got housed by Georgia, but comesant did still win the a SEC Championship. There's still really good and so they can still take out Miami. And so yeah Miami again, kind of like Texas'll believe it when I see it. Keep it going. Thank Florida is just that bad. I think that defense is just that big of a mess. But until Miami can do this on a regular basis, I'm not quite there yet. But yeah, how can you not look at that game and say, yeah, that looks like a team that in the ACC should probably be somewhere in the college football playoffs.

Next Jason Smith Show with Me Mike Harmon live from the Tirack dot com Fox Sports Radio studios, on the hotline with US College Footballnews dot Com at Petefutech on Twitter. Che I got Pete Fucheck join just each and every week. Check out all his musings of the games ahead, and a big one for me. I grabbed Nebraska and I decided I was going to push them towards the playoffs. I know, a difficult end of season, but a big tilt this week against Colorado nearly a touchdown favorite against the team Sanders.

How do you not have the big new to kickoff show there? I mean, isn't that on standards? It's a different thing, right, I mean I I just I just courted that FBS versus the FCS team. One of the few teams that struggled was Colorado. They did not fix the glitch. Uh, there's still have no defensive front. They still do not have an offensive line. And at some point someone's gonna have to make a business decision on chadur Standers because he might be the number one overall pick in the draft and he is getting you know, nailed every single play. He is so tough and he is so willing to stand there and take shots, and he is just getting rocked way too much for a player of his caliber. I will be really curious, though, and imagine before I kind of like the whole Colorado thing. I think it's fun. I love this offense. I love watching Shador Sanders throw it all around. I don't think they have I'll be interested to see if Nebraska had to tomorrow and they just come out and just hang something on them. I meand' is still going to throw for over three hundred yards, but there's no running game whatsoever. And that defense. I mean, I know everyone's in love with Travis Hunter. They don't have a defense. So this is really where Nebraska really has to show up and shine.

All right, Pete, before you let you go. If you're looking at the top twenty five games, you see a big upset somewhere. Who would if I said to you, hey, don't be surprised if big time team X lost tomorrow. Who are you gonna get me?

There's not a lot of that. If you look at the schedule. It's kind of wany when you have said South Carolina Kentucky's your big afternoon game. That's bringing in Colorado Nebraska. It's all right, I'm kind of looking at Michigan State Maryland. It's not really a top twenty five ish game. I think week zero, week one games Michigan State should have put like forty on Florida Atlantic. And that again, that's why you put schedule an easy week one game, because they just kept screwing up. And that's the type of thing that maybe from week one to week two you fix that glitch and all of a sudden, Aidan Childs becomes a lot sharper and just a week it's not He's got, you know, a game under his belt. I kind of think, and I think Michigan State's going to have a little something in this from Maryland tomorrow.

He's on Twitter at Pete feutech. That is, at Pete feu Tech. Checkout college Footballnews dot com, your one stop shopping for everything college football. The previews, the analysis, the prognostications. It is all there for you college Footballnews dot Com. Pete is always buddy appreciated, my friend. Enjoy the games this weekend, and I look forward to seeing Isaiah Likely in your lineup next week.

Yeah, Travis Kelsey catch three touchdowns, That's just how it works for me.

Hey, just play two tight ends in a flex right to be in looks they're gonna run the football.

That's exactly what I'm gonna do. Actually, but yeah, see Anyboddy there goes Pete few Tech.

I had them both and I played the wrong one.

Well, I mean, look, it's not a bad strategy. I mean you go back and watch a lot of yesterday's games. Mark Andrews was double teamed straight Offen. That probably goes to Likely going forward. Doesn't it because he's got a little bit of the I don't know, maybe a little smaller and I use that very loosely version of Antonio Gates running around there with his athleticism.

Exit out, bout of Fresca, exit swollen down the Jason smithser with Mike Carmon Love from the tyrech dot Com studios. Time now to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports. As obviously all our eyes are in one place watching the jiff over and over of Mark Biento's's game winning walk off home run for the Mets. Steve di Seger has that more with what's trending.

And Atlanta did win. They're still tied for the final Ana wildcard spot. There is a second party involved in this just for the rest.

Yeah, but now guess who else is coming in? The Diamondbacks starting to come back to the pack there a little bit uh look out look.

I do like that you described it as a party, though, Steve, So let's go on a Friday night, man, it's.

A Friday night party and the Diamondbacks are getting shut out eight nothing at Houston in the bottom of the eighth jord On Alvarez a couple of home runs. That Mets win was their eighth in a row. Phillies won their sixth straight Yankees and Orioles each on the O's or a half game up on the Yanks for first in the AL East. You were talking college football. It is halftime on FS one. Northwestern playing in its temporary stadium. They're using the next couple of years. Ten to seven, Northwestern over Duke at the break. BYU has just won at SMU eighteen fifteen. And Indiana won its home game seventy seven to three against Western Illinois. Hoosier's offense over seven hundred yards. Next weekend Indiana at UCLA Saturday on Fox TV, Number three, Texas at number ten Rank Michigan noon Eastern time, Saturday night on FS one, number nineteen, Kansas at Illinois. Now to the NFL game in Brazil. About seven minutes to go in the third quarter, and it's the Green Bay Packers in the lead over the Eagles, twenty six, twenty four guys. After the Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts had two early turnovers, we had eight consecutive drives with points going back and forth, and yes, some slipping on the field to Jordan Love with two touchdown passes for green Bay. In fact, for the Packers, Jayden Reid with a thirty three yard touchdown run and a seventy yard touchdown catch. On the Eagles side, Sakuon Barkley with a touchdown run and a touchdown catch. Aj Brown of Philly four receptions, one hundred eight yards and a td green Bay in the lead twenty six twenty four. The Packers were stopped on a two point try in the first half. Josh Jacobs was stopped on that carry and for the night. In addition, he has eight carries ten yards rushing, but the Packers do have a slight lead mid third quarter.

Another seventy two carries and he'll be at one hundred one hundred yards n seventy two carries away.

Not terribly confident about that tonight. Actually, Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson, that's like the White Sox. Another seventy five games played and they might get to a five hundred mark. Steelers quarterback Russell Wilson is questionable for Sunday with calf tightness. He was limited in practicing today. Bengals wide receiver t Higgins is doubtful with a hamstring injury. Bengals wide receiver Jamar Chase says he's a game time decision Sunday. He wants a new contract. The Dolphins gave defensive back Jalen Ramsey a three year extension worth about seventy two million dollars. They've started a fifth set at the US Open and the men's semis between two Americans. It's Taylor Fritz against Francis Tiafo the winner.

Taylor Swift is in the US Open.

Wait for Fritz against Francis Tiaffo the winner against number one Yadig Center in Sunday's final. And among the four WNBA games tonight, Minnesota did win at Indiana ninety nine eighty eight Caitlin Clark and the loss twenty five points, eight rebounds, eight assists and seven turnovers.

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Hello, Welcome in Side hour two The Jason Smith Show with my bis friend Mike Harmon eyeh live for the Tirack dot Com Studios Tirac dot Com, I hope you get there at unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection at over ten thousand recommended in stallers. Tyrack dot com is the way tire buying should be. Early in the fourth quarter, it's the Eagles who now have the lead over the Packers thirty one to twenty six. Saquon Barkley, now having a huge night, just ripped off a thirty four yard run. He's got ninety four yards receiving to go along with twenty three ninety three yards rushing to go along with twenty three yards receiving three touchdowns on the night, and the Eagles are in the red zone right now looking for more. This could get away from the Packers pretty fast because down five another touchdown, it doesn't seem like either defense can really stop the the other. But boy, I'll tell you a missed field goal a few moments ago by Braydon Arvison from forty three yards could have cut this to a two point lead kept it close. It was a huge miss for the Packers, and the best thing I can say, Mike is, at least for Green Bay, it's somebody new missing big kicks, So it's not the it's not Andrews Carlson again, who missed forty seven kicks last year. At least if somebody new missing it. It's like I feel like with the Mets bullpen, Hey, when the Mets bullpen blows a bunch of games, I'm like, let's just trade the bullpen sight unseen for another team's bullpen, because I don't care if the other team's bullpen is terrible. At least it's new guys blowing games, and I don't have to see the same guys. I guess what you can say at least is a new guy not making kicks. So it's not boy, we're still holding on to the old guy who couldn't make any kicks.

Psychologically that helps you get through that. Packer fans right now are just wondering why their defense. Not only are there large gaping holes in the secondary something they're used to, they're getting absolutely run over downfield. I mean, you're just watching Barkley, you bully people. And I just sent you a tweet that just went out from Micah Parsons, which is just absolutely fabulous when it comes down to evaluating this game. Quote, the Giants should be under investigation. So here's a guy that's not looking forward to seeing this offensive line at sa Kwan Barkley sing In Division for another couple of games as we get ready for the rest of this campaign. But big plays all around and the receivers starting to get a little bit of a flow. Jalen Hurts after rough start, has for the most part played fairly clean football, although he just got away with what might have been a ninety yard touchdown return up the sideline, but for a matter of inches.

So yeah, just chaos suing.

But the Packers missing that field goal and a big opportunity doesn't matter, though betters are already paid they got the over.

Yeah, but look, but look what because because this is a thing. This goes back to what we talked about a couple of weeks ago with the Giants. Everything makes sense if you understand the Giants are tanking for next year. Everything makes sense. Everything they've done, the lack of players they brought in in the offseason, letting Saquon Barkley go, coming back to Daniel Jones for one more year, everything makes sense. Right now. You could sit here and say, well, why wouldn't Okay, why wouldn't you try, Why wouldn't you just you know, try to do something if you could. Well, here's the thing. If you're bad after this year, Joe Shane is not getting another shot at it, and neither is Brian Dable. Like, you're gonna have a new GM and a new head coach, and guess what, the new GM and the new head coach are gonna want their own quarterback in right, that's why they didn't go up. They love JJ McCarthy, but for some reason, Wait a minute, they didn't move up to get JJ McCarthy like he was he was the guy. He was linked to the Giants as soon as Michigan won the national championship. He was linked to them. Wait a minute, but they didn't go get a quarterback. No, it doesn't make it. We know Daniel Jones stinks they didn't go out and get anybody because they know this is a year where we're just gonna go out there, we're gonna play and maybe it's Shador Sanders, maybe it's Carson Beck, maybe it's somebody else, but we're gonna get our quarterback next year because it's gonna be a new head coach and a new GM and a new regime, and they're gonna pick their own guys, which is what you want, right You don't want to say, Okay, well we drafted JJ McCarthy and we don't know how he's gonna be. And now there's a new coach coming in that maybe runs a system that is not gonna take advantage what JJ McCarthy does. Everything makes sense once you understand, Hey, the Giants are tanking. Did they really want to keep Saquon Barkley? They really want to get? You saw how bad and hard knocks in the off season that the ownership we really want to get and they still let him go. And they still let him go. So you all the talk to oh, we really want to get that was just for show. Understand the Giants are tanking and that's why they let him go. Now I'm I on one on Saquon Barkley is reborn. No, it's game one. He's it's it's a new team. He wants to come out big. I get it. Let you know, for Saquon Barkley being the real thing, this is where you got to get to the middle of season and see where he's at, if he's still playing, if he's still this effective. But for right now, this part of the season, he's playing great. And for the Giants, yeah, Barkley has played well for him, he's been their big weapon, went healthy off and on for the past five years. But when you understand that they're tanking, letting Saquon Barkley go makes sense. Everything they've done makes sense. It's all about this year is gonna be whatever it's gonna be. And if we're somehow good, great, right, If we're somehow good, and Daniel Jones is great again and he's like he was two years ago, and we find a way into the playoffs, and Brian Dable is back to being the coach he was when he surprised everybody in the NFL. Awesome. We don't need to start over again, all right. We feel like we're back. So the Giants are playing with house money right now. If we're great, we're gonna keep it going, and if not, we're gonna blow it up. And that's why they did their own version of being all in this year. Let the Jerry John, Hey, we're all in on this year. What does that mean? We're not gonna do anything and if we're good, great, and if not, we're blowing it up. So we're not gonna go get a quarterback. We're not gonna keep Saquon bar We're not gonna do any of these things. We're just gonna have what we have and go from there.

Now, what you're selling me, if I'm going to just summarize it, is that they were all just really good actors on Hard Knocks and eron television, layers of an eeron television.

See.

I chalked it up to bad actors as an inept at their jobs. But the way you describe it is like they were Shakespearean master thespians between Shane wearing it from his kid.

Hey, can we do that again? All right?

Tell me how dumb I am? Which quarterback that should be draft? That's kind of what you just said there. And Saquon, Oh please, Saquon don't leave either way. Yeah, it all plays out that if the numbers are to be believed and what we think is going to be like out Like, I don't know how good or bad Daniel Jones is. He wasn't great the first couple of games last year, but then he got hurt. To hear the offseason talk was like he went through a full seventeen game slate and was just awful from pillar to post, which a true because that means you all slipt walk through the Tommy Devido era, which I know you didn't because you couldn't wait to tell me how great he was at every turn and tell me his life story and all this stuff. What the restaurant when his agent got screwy and whatever else, I mean all of those things. So yeah, they're interesting and Barkley, look, there's a lot of talent on this Philadelphia squad, and it's almost as if I cursed them, because as soon as I said it hurts, it's played more efficiently. He throws an interception in the end zone. Now part of it looked like aj Brown lost his footing go figure once again in the end zone as he went to set up and.

Come back for the ball.

But either way, it goes down as an interception and you move on. But you know, when we're talking about the Division and the Cowboys and Parsons chiming in, however sloppy this game may be, I don't think this Division is a race at all, which is why you can make the case for the Commanders to suddenly be an upstart squad because I think those other two teams are gonna be mediocre at best, so they can they can fight and slap fight over mediocrity, and eventually you will apologize to Saquon Barkley.

Not why well he's been off and on the last few I don't need to apologize to anybody. I need to apologize to him. He's been off and on. He's been when he's been healthy. He was good at Toms Show, and he's not been healthy at other times. He hasn't been dominant. He's been a decent two pretty good running back for the last fight. But you know how many guys are all like that. There's lots of guys like There's a lot of guys like that.

By the way, I just want to throw this out all the fantasy football players out there, and I know you number the millions in our audience across this globe.

Are you in the situation where you're starting Barkley in one league and playing him in another?

Let me know at Swollen Dome at Holbodafresca at Fox Sports Radio.

So again, look, if you understand that the Giants are tanking, it makes sense letting Saquon Barkley go. I'll hit up my Parsons kind of explain what that's all about to him now, speak of speaking of the pain too. What Mike Harmon was trying to explain a couple minutes ago was there was a big turnover in the end zone when it looked like the Eagles were going in for a score that could have put them up by as many as thirteen depending on what they decided to do if we're going for two points. Instead, it turned into an interception and the Packers take over again. Slippery field. We've talked about it, We'll talk more about it, and the Packers are now driving it down the field. Down thirty one to twenty six, ten minutes to go in the fourth court. I feel like the clock isn't really ticking. They are in the red zone and could potentially go up over the Eagles now again, still a lot of time left, but boy, that turnover. The Eagle sideline just looks morose right now because they looked like they could have been going in for the kill shot and instead aj Brown slips, the ball is picked off, and now it's the Packers who have a chance to go up in this game again. Thirty one to twenty six. They're inside the twenty yard line just on ten minutes left to.

Go in this one, another big play for Jane Reid. He's up to one hundred and five yards on the night after another big completion. Vic Fangio's defense has been suspected at best.

As long as he's not allowed to call timeouts, Vic Fangiel will be fine. I mean, I know, I know, you know what, Vic vanjail. As long as you're not allowed call tie bount since five.

Yes, see another part of yesterday's game that started to get some run.

Hey, looks Magnola call time out. They realized he's not a head coach. Right, But how about we take a look at the games on Sunday. I can't believe how many upset specials I have four week one in the NFL, two and zero in college football last week. Excited about that little nervous I have. I'm nervous that I have a lot of upset specials to pick. Yeah, why not? Right? So I'll kick things off and I'll tell you I'll go with one of the big ones on Sunday. We talked about it a few minutes ago. Tom Brady's gonna call it the Cowboys and the Browns. For some reason, the Cowboys are getting three and it's it just seems weird that these are the Browns who have a really bad situation a quarterback because Deshaun Watson is terrible.

Wow, and he's also dealing with the family thing he had, Yeah, the loss in the families right and and and he was hurt.

Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot you don't know about the Browns and where they're gonna be, like coming into the Skinwalk. The Browns are a talented roster and they have a really good team. But still here's the Cowboys coming in. They're all pissed off. The one thing I can say is Jerry Jones is everybody mad, and get everybody mad. Nobody's getting paid only CD lambage, but still people are mad they didn't go in and get players in the offseason. The Cowboys early on is kind of it's kind of where they need to be. They need to be pissed off and sharp, and we're gonna see them out of the gate. They're gonna win this game. I'll take the three points. I won't need them, but I'll still take him because you know they're offered to me. But yeah, number one upset special. Give me the Cowboys getting three against the Browns.

Total sitting at forty eight. In this one, two of my favorite quarterbacks to watch square off in Buffalo. Now I have the Buffalo Bills racing all the way to New Orleans when it's all said and done. But they're gonna struggle in this one. They're gonna eke out a win. But give me Arizona and the upstart Cardinals with Kyler Murray and the speed that they've added at wide receiver, the power that is Connor, and of course the video game tendencies as a runner for Kyler Murray. Uh to get us within the six and a half.

Oh yeah, I love the but I always love what I can say. I don't need the points, but I understand. I understand you need the points, buddy, I don't you always need the points. I understand the points. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Look, I suppose you could probably go to the sports book and just say I don't but that's where you just say, I'll take them on the money line.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. I don't need the points, so you want the money line? Yeah, but it sounds better if I sound I don't need the points, but I kind of really do want the points. You understand what I'm trying to do here, sir?

What you want a powerful discussion? If I just say I don't need good points, sir, why don't you just come back and tell me what you want to bet. Okay, you're betting a team. You're telling me what the points. Just come back when you're ready. All right, I don't care what you want to do. The other game, I'll give you for now. They're getting four on the road, I get it. But give me the Rams over the Lions in the Big Stafford Golf Bowl. The Rams defense is going to surprise you. They're going to surprise a lot of people. Look, there might pick for the Super Bowl this year. I know that it seems like a big turnover for the Rams defensively. But there's nobody I trust more in the NFL than Sean McVay.

Every move he's ever made has worked. There's not one time I can go boy, Sean McVay completely screwed the Rams by that No doesn't matter, So I have complete confidence he has fixed the wobbliness of the defense and coming in. I know how big they are offensively, how many points they're gonna put on the board. You have a little bit of an injury issue with Jamir Gibbs, the Lions coming off the NFC title game last year. Now they're part of the hunted. I don't this means suddenly the lines are gonna lay an egg. But I see a big fireworks night and I will take the Rams thirty eight to thirty five in this big night for Stafford, big night for both offenses. When it comes down to it, the Rams defense holds just enough. They get a big turnover or two here, and you start thinking, Okay, maybe this is gonna be it for the Rams. I'll take the Rams. I'm not gonna need the points, but again, I'll take the four.

Points fifty one the total, the post, Aaron doneal Era and a little bit of a banged up secondary.

That's my only concern for you, my brother.

But Miami Jacksonville, one of the other games that we're expecting a ton of points. Forty nine and a half is the total. Almost eighty percent of the money is on the over on this one. But my other AFC title contender coming out of this game, the Jacksonville Jaguars getting three and a half on the road taking down to a tonguea Bai Loa and company.

Bang Bang, let's go. Wow, you're gonna go get book it. Even though we interviewed Raheem Moster and he told us how big Mike McDaniel's feed are, You're still gonna bet again? Wow Wow, Raheem most It's never gonna talk to you again.

Man, No he will, because I still have great hopes for them for the season. But no, not in this one. Not in the opener. The Jaguars plus three and a half.

So we have more upset specials coming away again. I got five big upset specials. I like five five count I got five. We'll get to them more coming up later on this hour, but straight ahead we'll have more on the Packers and the Eagles. Plus why I'm even more worried about the Ravens than I was a night ago. Why is this? I'll tell you why. That's next right here, Jason and Mike Fox. Hey, quick reminder, you put it off long enough time to replace your tires. Tire Rack has tires that'll elevate your drive. You want touring tires for commuter comfort, performance tires for sporty handling all terrain tires were on and off road adventure. Then go to Tirac dot com to get started. You're not sure where to begin, use the Tire Decision Guide to get a per slazed tire recommendation. They'll show you the right tires for how, what and where you drive. Choose from the full line of Bridgestone tires. They're ship fast and free to recommend that installing near you, or choose the convenience of mobile tire installation. They'll bring your new tires to your homer office and install them on site. It doesn't get much easier than that. Go to tiract dot com slash sports to see their Bridgestone test results, tire ratings and consumer reviews, and be sure to check out all the current special offers. Looking for great tires on a great deal, What more could you ask for? It's Tirac dot com, slash Sports, Tirac dot com, which is the way tire buying should be

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