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Hello, Welcome inside, Happy Friday, the Jason Smith Show with my bes friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, let's go live from the ti rack dot com studios. Tirac dot com help you get there. An unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection at over ten thousand recommended installers. Tirack dot com is the way tire buying should be. Well, we're here, we made it. We are forty eight hours away from Super Bowl Licks. We have a big show tonight. We got the prop Betsley like we have our picks. We have mvy picks if you don't want to pick somebody that's not named Barkley or Mahomes. But before that, I gotta say this, Mike, because it's a Friday. It's happy. I'm happy the inner ten to eighteen year old in me is so unbelievably excited about Saint John's Yukon because, I mean game on Big Fox right now, both teams are top twenty five. I mean Saint John's was my team growing up in statn That's where Saint John's campus was, Staten Island, and I had to change when I went to Syracuse. Suddenly I was like, Okay, you're the bad guys all right now, Sorry guys, but like my whole life growing up like Saint John's, like that was the team that was our team, and here they are, and Patino has done an incredible job with them. In just one year. They've gone from hey, I don't know if Patino really, you know, still has it gets what's going on, and instead it's just watching Saint John's pull a big lead now here on Yukon a big fast break layup. They're up by six with four minutes to go in the second half. If they win this game, they'll probably wind up being a top ten team. All of a sudden, you'll be seeing and references to Walter Berry and Chris Mullen and Mark Jackson and oh my goodness, I'm so excited. I mean, the ten to eighteen year old in me is so excited at Saint John's.
I just think of old radio listening way back in the day, and it would be Farrell on the bench sholling, who the hell wants to walk Saint John's. My brothers and I. Every once in a while we'll be sitting together and one of us will just scream it as matter a Genoperland or Jesse Ventura reference. But yeah, like this is great theater, right because, like you said, with Patino, all the questions and certainly you know, the off court and whatever else, but the man can coach, and it's good to see perhaps some of those thought pieces get reminded of what his legacy and history in this game is. And let's face it, you got the greatest heel in all of sports on the other sideline, part of the sideline right now. It's not the other sideline because he's just down the road there. But the idea just being that, you know, for Hurley and his history onics that maybe maybe we get some more chaos here in the final four minutes. So yeah, great theater.
I'll tell you you want, you want a great Saint John's. You want to want. This is my this might be my favorite story about a member of my family. And I've been for years.
You're ready for this, so you're not gonna get sued stash for whatever they may have done is done.
No, no, no, not at all, not at all. So this is it's nineteen. What year was this eighty six? Eighty five? Eighty five? Right? Eighty five? Okay, yeah, eighty five, the big eighty five Georgetown Villanova year?
Right?
Where was the biggest upset in college basketball history? So it's the Big East Tournament and it's when the Big East had three teams in the final four that year. They had Villanova, Saint John's and Georgetown, right, so they were all in and uh, it's the Big East Championship and you know, the biggest tournament championship. And this is back you know eighty five. Not everybody has cable, right, I mean, so it's a big deal. Like I'm fourteen years old, I really want to see this game. And my uncle, who this is before he became a fireman, was a bartender. He's a bartending worked for the gas company. He was like, come down to the bar, but you know, come down to the bar and watch you here. And I'm like, I'm fourteen years old. He goes, come down, have Pop bring it down. My grandfather who would watch basketball with he never watched basketball. When I watched Saint John's, he watched with me, and so he'sa have Pop bring it down. I'm like, Pop, you bring me down to the bars so I can watch Saint John's and he goes, yeah, okay, we'll go. So it's one of those nights where you remember, I mean, we had nights like this in bars until like the mid two thousands, I want to say, when no one had NFL network and people still would go out to watch the big Thursday night games. So we go down to the bar and luckily my uncle, who's a bart and everybody liked him, he saved two seats for us, you know, right near the bar. The entire place is packed and there's it's standing room only, and everybody is just watching the game.
Right.
It's a really tight game, and this is super This is Pearl Washington at Sarah, and this is Walter Berry and Chris Mallin and Saint John's and I remember Ron Rowan of Saint John's hits a shot to give them the one point lead with like ten seconds left in the game, right, and so all of a sudden, it's a mad dash down court and Pearl Washington like triples by like three guys, just spinning, um going, oh my god, cause he was like men against boys in college. Man, Pearl Washington was unreal. He just goes by three guys. He goes into the lane and goes up and Walter Berry just swats him. With like one second left, the ball bounces and bounces up in the air. The clock hits zero. Everybody starts screaming. Everybody's clapping and high fiving. And my grandfather next to me, he stands up and he's clapping as hard as anybody. I'm like, ah, this is really cool, right everybody. The people are high fiving. People where my Saint John's sweatshirt, my Saint John's ad. We're all high five and you know, it starts to you know, dull down a little bit with everybody clapping. My grandfather turns me and goes, who won?
Ah, well.
That was that.
You get caught up in the excitement. Everybody's fired up, so sure, yeah, you get into it, but think about that. That just an old old way of doing things right. My uncle used to take us to the VFW hall that he belonged to. Same idea, right, It's it's just a bar. It's not like you could even make the argument that it was a quasi restaurant. Like they had some bags of chips and they had a couple of pinball machines. So people always gave us dimes to keep us occupied while they played cards, whatever other gambling was on, and of course watching whatever games. I'm like, he can't do that in twenty twenty five, they would throw you out immediately and they'd shut these places down. But I think those are some of the best times ever, Like you're just watching you know, these cutthroat card games and arguments and getting to hang with adults in this in this kind of space. So for you to have that moment and those kind of things always the best. But to punctuate it with, hey, I'm excited, I don't know why it's really about it, because I mean, it just sums everything up. I mean, he wasn't, you know, terribly inebriated. Was he was just.
No, no, no, he just he just I don't know that he could like at that point, my grandfather's probably in his early seventies.
I don't care.
Why what I mean maybe because it was a you know, it's a real tough play when when you're thinking about what TV was like in the eighties, it's not like what we see now.
And you also don't have a big big picture either.
No, no, I mean in nineteen eighty it was one step away from you know, drawing stick figures and then like making it look fast.
I mean there's no lower third, right, no score bug. Every once in a while you flashed it. And if it's loud in a bar and maybe they're playing music off a jukebox, you're not hearing the announcers tell you the score. No.
And but the one thing I would say is that, well, don't you uh you think everybody's in here rooting for Syracuse? Like why do you think you think he was just clapping because the game is over? Hey, that was a great that was a great game. Game is a ladies a gentleman? The band you got? You gotta think that Saint John's won, don't you. I mean, it's not something I mean, it's crazy, but come on, Pop, you gotta you gotta get that, don't you but no, apparently it didn't. But hey, that's one thing is that, like you know, everybody in the family, you know that he raised, he kind of raised me is his as his sixth kid, and like everybody kind of brought a new sport to him. Like he you know, he was a big baseball fan his whole life, and then all my uncles really got into football when they were younger. His kids, he got into football there and and and you know, he started watching basketball with me when I got into college basketball. And he would never watch.
The Knicks with me.
He's like, the Knicks is sad? Why am I watching them? But he would watch Saint John's with me when they were on all the time. So and now he would sit and do that with me. And I always always thought that was a really cool thing, like even though he didn't know as much about it, he would just sit with me and watch the games, you know, And I thought that was pretty cool. But I mean, who won it was? If it was adult meat, I would have said, it's tied, and it's going to double secret over and they're gonna put both guys at the in the middle, and Vince Vaughan is gonna grab the ball and throw it at Ben Stiller, like I would have made up something incredibly crazy. We got mad at me, but you know, I was four teears. I was like Bop Saint John's one, Pop Bop brother this back where they were the Red Men Pop the Red Men, One Red Men, one Bop Bop Pop Sat John's one. But I just think back.
But it's cool that we have those moments and everybody that's got him, I mean, share them. We love reading the evangelization of it all at Swollen Dome at how about a fresc at Fox Sports Radio, building community, continuing to grow and impress the pollsters. That's what we're all about. But it's the idea of those seminal moments. If you remember, like those early sports foundational things. Right for me, I really jacked up my leg playing football one year, so I probably sat on the couch with my dad and my uncle and my brothers more watching football that year. And ever that was the year the ahead of the Super Bowl for the Bears all those many many years ago, the loss of the forty nine ers, but like it was a magical run. So like although those moments that you had because everybody had to stop down because I couldn't walk that checked up my knees so bad. Yeah, so I was like, all right, what are you doing on Sunday? I don't know. He's sitting over in that corner again. So but like the same thing, like with your you know, your family, you know, you think of those things and it's like, yeah, those are those are seminal moments. Either that or chasing people around a parking lot at Kamisky Park because they were trying to wash your windows and you didn't want them to. But that's a whole other part of the family history we don't need to get into here.
You know, it's funny because I was thinking about my grandfather Latte because look, one of the big stories that we're getting ready to see on Sunday is probably probably the big precursor the Super Bowl is Hubie Brown is going to broadcast his final NBA game. Hubie Brown, who has been the soundtrack to Our Lives Yeah for ESPN other entities, at ninety one years old, is going to broadcast his final game. And it's been an unbelievable ride for him. He took some time off this year. He had a couple of deaths and his immediate family, and I think he's just kind of done doing it. But being ninety he look he was up till last a couple of years. He's doing games, and he's and he sounds sharp, and look he keeps going out there. And at ninety one, being able to do this and being able to retire now say hey, I'm going to do one more game and I'm going to retire. I mean eighteen NBA Finals. Uh. He's been able to broadcast over the course of his thirty five years on national TV and radio. I mean, this is a life that I aspire to to kind of to kind of have as I get older. Now, I mean it's I still a few you know, knock Wood a few years away from that. But to be ninety one and to be still be that with it, to have the freedom to not feel limited, you know, whether I want to work and call a bleep in NBA game or or I want to just you know, enjoy life and hang out and go to trivia on Wednesday nights or whatever I want to do. Like that's winning, Like you know, you know, I've obviously, you know, everybody has different lives and there's ups and downs. You have highlights. You have tragedies, you know, But for Hube Brown at ninety one to be still doing this game and he's gonna sound like boy, he's he could continue to do this for a long time. Like, I think that's winning. And I think that that's the that's the golden years, the post retirement years that I think is is is what you can hopefully aspire to to have something like that. Like really, you know, you want your health, you want your mental acuity, you want all of these, but basically you want the freedom to not feel limited to still live your life. And I think you know that that's Hugbe Brown winning in such a huge way.
Well, that's you. You have a choice, right, It's not your being forced out because you know on air mistakes or gaps or you can't travel or any of those things. That it's it's a choice to say, you know what I've done my my years, it's been a rough go the you know, like you said, with with family stuff the last few months and and and trying to do that that you you still have the ability to make a choice. I mean we all should should aspire to those things, right. I've got a couple of friends who've who've hit retirement maybe a little earlier, and they're having their regrets already gone. Boy, I was still having fun, but the math worked out, so I said, I'm done. Yeah, and it's like, well, I don't want it to become come down to an equation. I you know, I'm and hopefully you know, still some years left where folks are are still moderately entertained by what you and I do here. If you decide you hate me, then somebody decides they still like the sound of my voice. All of those things to say that, you know, you want to have some say in the matter and still have your your physical and mental about you. But for Huge Brown, I mean, god, what's it's gonna be weird to turn on a game and here's someone else with Mike Breen and not you know have have that back and forth and have Hubee Brown as part. And we've done this a lot, like you know, the last decade or so. I mean, how many guys get to really go out when they want to? Yeah, I mean at ninety.
One, yes, not at sixty or seventy or seventy five. At ninety one, he's getting to go out and say, hey, I'm gonna I got one more game. It's Philadelphia Milwaukee. I mean hopefully Joelleenbid will play in Hube Brown's last game. Uh you know, I mean that's I mean, that's I mean that that's that's that's going out. That's going out like in an unbelievably unbelievable way where I really it's amazing. I mean you think about I think about, you know, Marv Levy coaching as long as he did and how long he coached, and and this is just to be able to do something like this this long and still be this good at it, I don't I don't know the I think if you ask for anything more, you're being greedy. Like think about think.
About one of the mantras of the show, right, the old the old joke, I don't feel so old so long as Rogers, Brady Lebron all these guys are are on the field. And that extends into the coaches and the broadcasters that you and I have been listening to uh forever. You know, the guys that pass away, I mean, you know part party you goes with them, you know, Harry Carey and in Chicago for me with and Uker and Vin Scully and these guys that are part of the soundtrack of what we do. Why you and I get emotional as we do with musicians that we're big fans of and all of you out there, it's that same resonance that it's it's just an amazing you know, part of the background of what you're doing and what you get to experience. And for him to be able to tap and man at ninety one, you know, it's one of those guys. All right, I feel a little older today.
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean.
It's like just one of those there's another one of our guys are tiring, which is why Pete Carroll coming back. Why did we celebrated the hell out of that? Yeah, Pete, you get back on that side. Pete Carroll's almost twenty years younger than you.
Be proud.
Let me think about that.
Yes, we talk about boy Pete Carroll, can he do what he's gonna be seventy four, We talk about his energy, everything else going on.
He's almost twenty years but proud, but not to take it down the obvious highway. But look at all the people we hire back into Congress and to the Presidential Oval Office. Man, it's like we do that all the time and nobody bats an eye yet. A guy that wants to coach when he's got a staff of administrators and folks that can pretty much do ninety five percent of his job. Right Paterno in his final years at Penn State, or Bobby Bowden and guys like that, it's like they still were the figurehead. They still you know, the bucks stop with them. But are you telling me they were still working any of anywhere close.
To those hours. Hell no, we didn't care.
It's like, good for them. They're institutions. Same thing here, Huge Brown. He'll be missed and can't wait to watch that telecast. I can't wait to see some of the footage that they dredge up. Man, it's a long run and chance that you can have fun with.
They'll have him coach. When he coached, we coached all kinds of highlights. Exit out about a Fresca exit, swalling down the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon What a phenomenal weeknd, Huge Brown, Super Bowl Sunday, getting that final game. Travis Matthew was apparel designed for confidence and comfort, no matter where the Day takes you from performance driven styles to everyday essentials for men and women. Travis Matthews got you covered. Visit travismathew dot com and receive twenty percent off your first order when you sign up for email. That's Travismathew dot com. Twenty percent off your first order when you sign up for email. So we'll have more updates. Saint John's up maybe fifty five seconds away from beating Yukon, but coming up next, Yes, it is Super Bowl weekend. How about a hot take and an MVP pick? Yeah, let's go Wait wait, wait, they did that yesterday. What do you mean the MVP? I mean the Super Bowl MV Oh bones to pick with that whole MVP comm No, not not that fixed one where Yeah, Lamar Jackson's good enough to win all probably not enough to win an MVP. No, no, super Bowl MVP. We got that coming up next right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio. Now, look, I'm not a weather man, but I'll give you my forecast. Snow and ice are Cumming's going to make driving a challenge. Thankfully, the experts are tirec no a thing or two about conquering winters. Worst rain, sleet, slush, whatever winter means to you. Ti Iraq has tires that'll elevate traction and break in, keep you safe, all season tires, all weather tires, and if you live where it snows a lot, dedicated winter tires. Go to tirec dot com. They're easy to use, shopping tools will guide you to a personalized recommendation. They'll show you the right tires for how, what and where you drive. Choose from the full line of Continental tires. Their ship fast and free and backed by two years of free road hazard protection. Go to ti iraq dot com slash sports to see their Continental test results and special offers. Tire Iraq has thousands of recommended installers and offers a convenience of mobile tire installation, great tires, great deals, great people. What more could you ask for? That's tiraq dot com, slash sports, ti iraq dot com, which is the way tire buying should be.
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I mean, you have a.
Lot of big teams having big seasons. But look, yeah, hey, yeah Ducas suppot when you get Cooper Flag. Yeah, John Shire is doing a nice job. But you have great player, Like you have some great teams there that are playing great basketball. But all of a sudden, here's your outlier and here's Saint John's. That Rick Patino basically had a takeover from nothing. And it was a year ago he was ripping his team saying we don't have good players and all this stuff, and now here they are one of the best defensive teams in the country. Saint John's is to rific and here they are now they're gonna be in the top ten this week. They've won four in a row. Now, I think Rick Patino might be your college basketball Coach of the Year.
I kind of dig the cut of your jib here, and yeah, it goes back to expectations. I don't know, kind of like that conversation we were having yesterday about MVPs. Yeah, right, but it plays it well. The other is because I threw this up on Twitter at swollen home, folks, feel free to respond. You can't do and hate me. Ford Smith is So we have an AP Offensive Player of the Year, but we give the MVP and to a quarterback every year. Explain that one to me, Batman. Yeah, but in the interim, it's the same thing, right, It's expectations and what do you do and how are you able to build a squad. It's why Kevin O'Connell one Coach of the Year over Dan Campbell yesterday, and why you had so many votes for Sean Payton for what Denver was able to do and et cetera. But for Rick Patino, I mean, he's been read how many times? How many times? Was it? This guy's done? He can't Oh yeah, he's going out to past year.
Was his last job. I'm not leaving except to go coach Saint John's.
Yeah, that'll do. Okay, Right, this is the last time you're gonna see me. I'll be back behind a television desk or whatever it was. Yeah, and now here here you have a massive win. Part of super Bowl week. It's a Friday night. Uh so, I mean fortunately part of the Fox world, but you know, buried a little bit, you know, one of those uh after hours. But that's how you'll start your college basketball Saturday tomorrow. It's like, hey, something you might have missed last night Beatino. So yeah, he'll he'll garner all the headlines and all the love.
Uh The Jason smithsho with Mike Carbon live from the tirec dot Com studios. All right now the super Bowl licks and and a couple of before we give you, before we give you our MVP selections not named Mahomes or Barkley. This week has been I think you probably this narrative going through. We spend a lot of time on look, on television, on the radio, you watch your shows, go through everything all week, and there hasn't been as much super Bowl talk as other years. Right, Sometimes the super Bowl dominates the two weeks between games. Other times is like this week, well, I mean, yes, when Luka Doncic gets traded for Anthony Davis, that's going to take a lot of the oxygen out. But the whole thing about this week is like, Wow, super Bowl isn't not as much talk about? That's irrelevant. Right to talk about the super Bowl well, makes no difference. Yes, I'm sure the NFL would like it to be more of a front burner conversation. I get it. But here's the thing. Some years, the super Bowl gives you that conversation, and there's two weeks worth of all kinds of hype and interesting stories and one hundred and ten million people watch the super Bowl. Then other years are like this where there's not a lot of talk going up. The storylines are kind of what we've seen already. Look that Chi's have been there now plenty of times. We know them. The Eagles now have been there a few times, we know them. So the week and a half leading up to the super Bowl is not great. And one hundred and ten million people watch the super Bowl like it's it's no bearing Sunday on how many people are gonna watch. Everybody's gonna watch this. We're gonna get the same great numbers because it's the evil Empire. Like the Chiefs are a big deal. People have gone from boy, I love watching Mahomes and the Chiefs. There's so much fun. Man, I really want them to win. And now it's I really want Mahomes the Chiefs to get killed. I hate the rest are on their side. I hate all of this. I want the Eagles to win. I'm wearing Saguon Barkley throw back Kelly Green Eagles jerseys every party I go to, like, the people are gonna watch. It's like the Yankees in the World Series, the Cowboys in the Playoffs, in the Super Bowl. Yeah, this is what it is. They're the new evil Empire. Everybody's good. The world hates Kansas City, the world hates the Chiefs. So now we're gonna tune in to watch it, and the average fan is gonna be rooting for the Eagles, wanting the Chiefs to lose. But doesn't matter, big hype. One hundred and ten mi people will watch, not a lot of hype. One hundred and ten million people are gonna watch.
Yeah. In the end, I mean, look what are normally the storylines that start rumbling through the two weeks of Super ahead of the Super Bowl, usually not very good ones. Right, Some of them are about coaching hires. That's fine. We had a couple of trade demands. We had Kelly Stafford's unhinged. Whatever the hell that was good for us. Nice little victory there. Hey McVeigh, hey less, need let me show you we could go and beady. All right, challenge accepted, So we'll watch for that. But normally we get this guy got arrested. This is a problem. Here's the other things. Yeah, we got a little bit of the the tired legacy Brady Mahomes thing, because Brady's calling the game and we can do that basically the next iteration of Jordan Lebron right that everybody just loves to the low hanging fruit to jump on. And then you move on to the end of visual players. Jalen Hurts right, his second Super Bowl respect Nick Sirianni winning in spite of himself is kind of like the subtitle if he were to put out a memoir. Right now, I somehow win. By Nick Sirianni, You've got a great roster. We talk about the offensive line, the obligatory. Jason Kelcey fun all of that to say, yeah, you can have a little bit of a fun with it. The matchup itself is really interesting from an x's and o's, But how much can you break that down over two weeks? You're just not so you're trying to find something else. Travis Kelcey and Patrick Mahomes having to address the fact that the President's coming. We talked about that briefly, which is really a hot button topic at the high school because Maddy brought that up again to me today that people are still yapping about that. But all of that to say, it's everybody's still gonna watch. I mean, I wish they wouldn't keep releasing all the commercials ahead of SOY, but uh so they've kind of spoiled all those for me, Jason, so I'd taken away some of my entertainment. But you know, we we got that and we'll see what happens for the halftime show. How many guest stars can we get? Yeah, I will the lights stay on? Yeah that prop bet hey.
Speaking of prop bets, we got Todd Furman coming up in about forty five minutes to break down all the great prop bets for the super Bowl. But speaking of prop bets, okay, because with all the talk this week and and and the overwhelming favorites to an MVP of the Super Bowl, Patrick Mahomes for the Chiefs obviously, and Saquon Barkley for the Eagles.
Yeah, it's three guys, right, and Hurts It Hurts there too, Well, Hurts is only three and a half to one, and then it everybody else.
Yeah, everybody else is a long shot. So obviously one of these guys is likely going to win the Super Bowl MVP. But if you want to, if you want a long shot, you want somebody else that you think, Hey, who could who's a long shot. If I'm in a pool or whatever I'm doing to win super Bowl MVP, I'll give you somebody a plus five thousand or better that I would say. If it's somebody else, this is the guy I like to win super Bowl MVP.
Okay, Yeah, let's go.
I will go. He is plus ten thousand to win super Bowl MVP. But I can see it happening for Dallas Goddard.
Oh look at you.
Now follow me on this because I'm gonna hit you with a big with a big number and you're gonna go, oh, wait a minute, I can see Philadelphia being forced to pivot to like a mid range passing game. Look, the Chief defense is terrific. They don't give up big plays. That's the one thing. The Chief defense doesn't give up big plays. So I can see Saquon Barkley having a one hundred and ten yard day. Maybe not one hundred and thirty hundred and fifty, but one of those twenty five carry one hundred and ten yard days where it's a little bit more. It's tough for sledding. So if that's the case, Philadelphia is gonna have to pivot. And are they gonna be able to throw the ball deep and make big plays with Brown and Smith? Probably not. But Goddard's a big target, right, He's a guy if they have to pivot, He's someone that's gonna get a lot of attention and a lot of attention from Jalen Hurts. So, okay, Jason, what but why so special? Why is Dallas Goddard so special? I could say the same thing for Travis Kelcey. Ask me answer me this. Mike Carmon, who was the worst team in the NFL covering the tight end this year, Jets what stopped. It's not the Jets, they're always they can never cover the tight end. But the worst team. I can't believe the side swiped on that. The Kansas City Chiefs have allowed the most yards and the second most receptions to tight ends this season. This is throughout the entire year where their defense has been really good, won a lot of games. They've allowed one hundred and six receptions and nearly twelve hundred yards receiving. Again, they allowed the most yards and the second most receptions to tight ends. And they're right up there for touchdowns as well, six or eight touchdowns. Yeah, so could Alas Goddard suddenly have one of those ten catches one hundred yards and a touchdown, one hundred ten yards and a touchdown type game, and you know, the Eagles win it twenty four, twenty one, and suddenly he's the MVP because we could give it to Barkley. You know, he ran for round and ten yards, but I mean Goddard caught ten passes, he had a touchdown, he had two touchdowns. Yeah, maybe Goddard's the MVP. Hurts doesn't have the numbers to back it. Up, So if you're looking for a long shot, he's plus ten thousand. But just think about think about what I told you about the Chiefs not being able to cover the tight end and got it to your MVP.
See, I'm gonna get cute with it looking at it from the defensive standpoint that maybe there's been enough noise for both defenses that they get some consideration, right that big stop, that big play down the end. So I'm gonna give you one from each team, so I don't tip my hand to the overall pick. I mean, because you got to build up to something in this life. Jalen Carter a lot made about while the Bear's passing on him, for one, but also know what he has meant to this defense. How destructive he is. You know the next great big name. He is also plus ten thousand, so one hundred to one. For those keeping score at home, Goddard, I've actually found even bigger odds for you at one twenty to one. So I'm gonna let you go and you can tick that down. So if it comes through, you look like even that much more of a genius. And if you bet it, yeah, you're even that much further ahead on the other side, Chris Jones is sixty five to one. But the guy that I've highlighted a bunch is George carloftis getting free, getting after it, creating a bit of a path of destruction for Jalen Hurts. So trying to find the defensive sides because when we look at the offenses, look, you know all the usual suspects. Kelsey's fourteen to one. You've got the Eagles wide receiver Goddard, one of our favorites, longtime fantasy and the hero and a guy it just means so much to their squad. But going from the defensive side that maybe Spagnolo, maybe Vic Fangio, they've got something that they can dial up and we can find a big upset here.
Jason, you love picking the defense. You go all the way back to Richard Dent and Superdo twenty. That's why you love looking for the defense. He's gonna get three sacks and be the defensive MVP, like every year. You love picking the defensive guys.
Well, I mean, look, I get massive odds and it means that the the it's given us a tremendous script. Right, So either a defense is dominated from pillar to post or it becomes the signature play of that Super Bowl to get to the get down at endpoint, there are.
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Two things coming off of this one. This sounds like a guy knowing I'm not going to be the number one pick, but also because he's going to the Giants, right. We told you this a week and a half ago when when Shador Sanders was in Dallas and he was interviewed on the sideline of the game. Didn't play in the East West Shrine game, but said, I'll be exciting to be here in a few months playing against the Cowboys, Giants, NFC East rivals. He's met with all the teams. He's going to be a giant, right, It's going to happen, and it's gonna be a giant because they're going to need to take him because he's gonna bring them an identity in boy Shador Sanders. How much fun has he been in college football? Now he's gonna be in the NFL. He's gonna be ten times more fun than he was in college football. He's gonna be amazing.
But I still want him as a member of the Titans.
Yeah. Yeah, But here's the thing.
I mean, as much as I love the big armed Will Levis and all but.
Teams are teams are gonna get they They know that the Giants are his preferred destination. Right, he said this, I don't mind not going number one, gonna be here playing for Dallas. You know, team Shador has let it be known. The Giants are his preferred destination. Where else do you want to go a team that is one of the biggest heritage teams in the in the history of the NFL, number one market in the country. He wants to go to New York, and the other teams will get scared off of him because if this is his preferred destination, you know that. Look, chadur and Dion Sanders are very brash. They want him to go to a spot that's great for him. They don't want him to go to a spot that's not good for him. They haven't said anything, but teams are gonna go if we take the Titans, and the Browns are gonna go if we take Shador. Do we have to worry about a phone call right after the draft going he's not coming there and trade traded to the Giants or trade he's not. He's not coming here. He's not however long you want, doesn't matter. He's not gonna come there, like we saw Eli Manning do it to find his way to New York. Look, every generation something like this happens. Right, it's about twenty years since that happened. The Titans and the Browns will be scared off. The Titans will wind up taking Travis Hunter because of course that's who you take at number one. The Browns need a quarterback and they'll get cam Ward. That's an easy pick for them, and the Giants sitting at three are gonna go. Okay, Chador Sanders like, that's how the draft is going to go. The only way is it. Maybe I could see the Titans trading out, but I don't think anybody's gonna trade a huge ransom to go up to one for Travis Hunter. They'll be like, no, no, We're kind of good where we're at right now. So I think at the end of the day, it's gonna go Hunter cam Ward, and Shador Sanders has let it be known he wants to be a Giant. He'll be going to the Giants at number three.
Say you love him there and and then look in the end. I've been impressed with everything and every clip I've watched this guy, not not on the field, but the way he interacts with folks and during Super Bowl week making his rounds. I know Dion was was all over the place today, But for Shador Sanders and the number of people with the hyperbole, they didn't quite go the Hey, they changed he changed my life, like they did with Sean McDonough and those guys back with Tim Tebow all those years ago. But you know, just everybody coming away just talking about the way he treated everybody and and and greeted all of the background h players, right, people helping to get broadcasts up and going around New Orleans. So kind of cool in that regard. Yeah, I mean, the Titans have said they don't want to pass on a generational guys, So you have to try to determine what that means if they've identified that that that and you know how much I love the term generational, But is that abdual Carter? Is that somebody else that they've identified as an offensive lineman or another edge guy or or whatever. Uh? And then Cleveland's always a wild card. I mean, but.
These are picks that get you fired. Like if you take Travis Hunter, if you take Travis Hunter number one and he doesn't turn out to be a great player, what are you gonna do? Well, he was the guy to take right Heisman Trophy with a two way player. How are you not gonna take him?
Well? I drafted him and I told him to use it. The best way possible, and he and he and he obviously chose Fraw.
Why is he only being played on special teams? Why is it, Come on, you're gonna play on offense or he's only on special teams. Uh, those are decisions where no, no, we're going off the board for the day. That gets you fired if it doesn't, if it doesn't pan out. So that's why the in the end, it's gonna go the The right and the safe picks are Hunter cam Ward to Door Sanders. That's how it goes. Let's go boom, can't exit? How about a fresca exit? Swollen down The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the tire Rack dot Com Studios. We got more NFL Big Power Hour coming up. Next, we will tell you our favorite prop bets end give you our official picks for who was walking away with the Lombardi Trophy in Super Bowl lickx Fox
