Jason Smith & Mike Harmon discuss who the real biggest loser from tonight's game really was.
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Yeah.
I already seen a couple of postponements, cancelations, but postponements of NBA games both the Lakers and Clippers for tomorrow. Another a number of events around the city that have been postponed or had to be canceled because of venue availability. On again going to air quality. And as we're watching, you know, it's the old joke about the Midwest come truly to fruition. If you think you know what the weather is, wait five minutes, right, and it'll change. Same thing here with a lot of the reports in terms of containment and the resources and there's a lot of infighting going on, and we're certainly here in Los Angeles, so we're privy to the politics and politicking going on and all of it. But all of that to say, you know, it's a lot of people have been displaced, buildings lost, businesses lost, and the city as a whole and all the surrounding area trying to wrap their arms. And you've got firefighters up from Mexico. You've got i mean people just running to the rescue as best they can in support. So you know, we're watching it and keeping apprized of it all. But it's part of the part of what we're going through here in LA and weppreciate all the good thoughts, all the h the messages that we've certainly gotten on Twitter. I told you yesterday Smith family that normally doesn't come out of the woodworks unless there's money involved. You know, they're just asking if I'm okay. It's kind of weird. Yeah it is, you know, I need money or I need tickets. It was just, hey, are you guys okay? I felt pretty good?
Yeah, I know you usually uh yeah, it's it's it is weird.
It is a good thing.
You don't have family check on you, and friends you haven't talked to check in on you.
It's it's it's a really guy. I wish I didn't have to.
Yeah, I wish I didn't didn't you know, Well, if I had talking you twenty years, I'd rather not because that means something is wrong.
So I mean, I get it.
I get sometimes people fade away, you know, and or maybe you did, maybe maybe you decided, you know, there was just not the spark anymore. A couple of the folks that I did hear from, uh, and I appreciate them, both my guys that went to Notre Dame. So it was an opportunity not only to say, hey, Mike, what's going on, but also to do a little bit of peacocking ready for the National title game.
Well, Notre Dame is kind of the unofficial school of the city of Chicago.
It's what's I think? You're fine? You were a Notre Dame gear. You're fine with it.
Once upon a time when I was a kid.
Uh, only when forced too, and then you know, eventually Northwestern and well.
No, you're fine.
You're not my wife who sits here and says, I gotta watch Notre Dame and Penn State and Ohio State in the final four for the national champion, you know, being Michigan until she dies. I'm like, yeah, you know what, two of those three teams are gonna lose.
Just think about it that way. And I said, you're the same.
When when when Ohio State scored, they had the funeral turn for a touchdown at the end, and I could hear her yelling, oh, come on, I could hear it from upstairs. Well, and I just said, I said, somebody's gonna lose, either Ohio State or Notre Dame.
One of them is going to lose. And I said, just pick who you want.
I mean, I'm not saying you gotta go wear a gear, but obviously you know you're gonna be rooting for Notre Dame because you don't want Tohio no matter what, you don't want Ohio State to win, right, So okay, So so Notre Dame. If Notre Dame wins, it's okay, all right. If Notre Dame wins, it's all right because there's only two outcomes for you. So understand that you know one of these things is absolutely going to happen.
So when you.
Get behind the one you want. You'll find out if they win, things aren't so bad.
But that's just it.
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with, you figure out the the lesser of the evils, and you move all.
She's dressing like a leprechaun, jumping up. She may very well be, Hey, what are you doing here with Lee Corso?
What are you? Are you?
Dad?
What's happening? All right, I've.
Already got the Valentine's Day stuff and around as the holiday holiday holiday season came to an end. Right, you can already go buy your candy hearts and everything and boxes of Valentines from the different intellectual properties out there, uh, comic strips and superhero movies and all won't be long before you can get your uh, your Saint Patrick's Day stuff. So you know, you could probably find a leprechaun outfit if you really want to go on that route.
I was reading the whole thing about.
My heritage, and you know, whether you know, Irish people really do have bigger heads.
Okay, sure it's true. Okay, well, well according to the Internet, it's true.
No, there was a big study. Okay, is it true?
It's a big study in Island, we have the biggest heads. Okay, I'm been a slightly biased. I'm gonna take that as the gospel.
But I don't know that that's when you want to hang your had on. Wouldn't you be trying to disprove it. You can't hang your hat on. If your head's too big, the hat's gonna be again, it's like, but that's when you have a market opportunity to make bigger hats.
Now, we watched the end of this game, and it really came down to the final time that Texas had the football with a chance to win the game, a first and goal from the one yard line with about three and a half.
Minutes left to go. Uh they are.
Answering the Ohio State touchdown, and they drive down the field very quickly, a couple of big passes from Quinn you Rs and their face with a first and goal from the two. They get back to back pass interference penalties to make it a first in goal at the.
One and there is no.
Goal line toss play that is going to be dissected more in football history than what happened on second down and then forced the Texas Longhorns into a situation that made a FATA complete of a touchdown turn into an impossibility because they run a toss play from the one yard line and Wisner gets tackled at the eight. He loses seven yards, and now Ohio State's feeling good. It's third and goal from the eight incomplete on third down, and then viewers get sacked. He fumbles and it's picked up by Sawyer running for a touchdown on fourth down. Right. We talked last hour about how the biggest play for Ohio State, the biggest offensive play was the Scott catch that turned from third to nine, getting seven yards into a fourth and three that allowed them to convert the fourth down and Howard gets in the end zone. But this second down and goal play and the toss played a wistner. I know that we're playing Monday morning quarterback here, but I don't see anywhere where this play call makes any kind of sense.
But I mean, when we first guessed it, just but it's an hour later we bring it back, but audience always changed.
But just I know, but I mean, but just you think about the fact that, Okay, you're on the one foot line. Run the ball four times, right, run it up the run, run it up the gut four times to get in. Bring arch Manning in again. We're doing Monday morning quarterback. But there's a reason why can I give you that for a play?
The latest Pete Futech who joined us earlier. He's now encapsulated this even better in a tweet. Okay, the Seattle throw slash Malcolm Butler pick in Super Bowl thirty nine is the all time worst play call ever. Texas second and goal on the one going wide is in the top five. That's there too, all five Texas O line in our NFL starters.
I mean, this is yeah, this is Texas is full of NFL dudes, right, This offense is full of NFL dudes.
And you need a foot.
And yes, you're going against one of the top two or three defenses in all of college football and it's the best defense that's left. And they're athletic and they're fast, and you decide to say, let's play into their strengths by running a toss play to the left side. And here's all the things about this play that make you go, what the hell was this play call? From Steve Sarkisian and company. First of all, you line up with a strong side and you have three receivers, so Ohio State is able to put to get all kinds of personnel on the right side, where yeah, you're thinking about a block, You're thinking about getting the wide receivers out there, but there's no space right, there's no space because you have heavy wide receiver on the left. And Ohio State sees the play and they bring the DBS over. You're not going to be able to block everybody. You have such a short space. You can't block everybody right, So that run into the strong side and saying we're gonna get blocks from every one of our wide receivers and our offensive lineman.
You're asking for so much on that play.
And then the second part of it, which is the craziest part to me, They pitch the ball a Whisner and he catches it at the nine it's it's second and goal from the one foot line. He catches the ball at the nine yard line, that's gonna get to the end zone. Like, what the hell do you think is good? You think you're It's not like you ran a misdirection play and you decided to run it wide, where hey, we're gonna run a play. We're gonna fake the dive up the middle. We're gonna run it out while we're gonna try to catch them all trying to get to the middle. This is a play where hey, not only does Ohio State see it coming, they see it coming real easy because yours is just grabbed and the tosses right away and instantaneously, now you have Whisker with the ball and he's nine yards from the end zone and he only gets one more yard.
Caleb Downs?
Did I think Caleb Downs lined up actually in the Texas backfield? He was so close to that ball, and you see a couple of guys in there to make the play, and and the mismatches that they had on the blocking, this play had absolutely no chance. And and for me, I go back to you load up that side of the field and then you give the ball to you're running back at the nine yard line, you're on the one, you're on the one yard line. You need you need less than a yard. And still let's give a guy the ball the nine yard line. In what world does that turn out to be something that, Hey, this is what's gonna work. We're gonna give the guy the ball nine yards unless It's like when it's your older brother and you're playing in the backyard and he gets the ball so we can get a big running start so you can run you and your tiny friends over because you know, you guys are all in fourth grade and he's in eighth grade, and he's gonna get a big running start.
Where that's not gonna happen.
I don't see how that was a players like, yeah, let's run the toss play to the strong side where they're easy to sniff this out. And they sniff it out right away. It's toss play and everybody and the defensive backs can read it and they're all in the backfield. But at the end of the play, when he's tackled, there are five Ohio State guys who are in the who are defenders, who are in the in the play, in the in the screen that could have made the play on him. I don't get how when you need one yard we're going to start from the nine. I really just makes that makes absolutely no sense.
Old rule of thumb man, don't get cute, right, you have the horses, you have a defense that's flying around against you. You watched it the entire first half the way Ohio State dominated the line of scrimmage. How many hits they get on Quinn years before halftime. They're getting to the ball, they react well to everything to the edges. You're not getting there. And to pitch this this out as they did is unconscionable. Right, this is the guy that's supposed to be your wizard, right, Sarkisian. We were hearing last week teams might be lining him up to bring him in as interview number thirty seven in one of these places, Bears, Jets, you name it. But just the idea of stock has risen based on what they've been able to do this season. And then you go and you get cute with it, like there's just no reason. Right, it's not you brought in Manning. You've got a misdirection, Like it's just a straight out pitch to the edge, Like dude was wearing a cloak of invisibility Harry Botter style and said, dah, I'm already in your backfield, or he was John Cena and then he waved at you, no, that would get you fifteen yards. That would have gotten you back to the uh, you know, negated the loss. Uh. If he'd done the taunting move like that. But all that to say, you were at the doorstep right every opportunity, you had a couple of pass interference calls to get you those extra couple inches closer to the goal line. Run behind your hogs man you got, you got seven hundred pounds of beef right in front of you. Go and instead you get cute and then you open the door for Sawyer to come and make the play he did.
Just don't I don't get it. I don't get it.
I mean, yeah, you have NFL dudes on the offensive line up up, you know, to go four times, four times, you know, like we talked about, like bring Arch Manning in right, Hey, how about Arch for a play where he can sneak it or do something?
I don't know.
This is what he does, right, He's fast, he'll put pressure on the defense. You can't really just you can't bring everybody to the middle because you know Arch could take it out like faster than Tyreek Hill. He runs forty seven miles an hour, you know, something like that. But just the the the somewhat needed to pull the emergency brake on the Texas sideline and go wait, wait, hang on, hang on a toss play.
He's gonna catch the ball nine yards from the end zone. What are we doing. We're all gonna do that.
We're gonna get nine yards nine yards when they see the play coming and it's and and everybody's moving, and you have you have three wide receivers who have to block.
Like I don't. I don't.
You're not Don shul who always had great wide receivers who could block down field with the Dolphins in the nineties.
I don't understand that. I don't. I really don't get it.
And you know, you could say, oh, it's Monday morning, quarterback, but this is a play that that not only had no chance, but the the possibility of disaster was there. And when now it's third and goal from the from the eight, it's your advantage is gone. You've just run two plays where no game up the middle. Okay, that happens. That happens on first down. Did they get scared after first down? Well, he just ran, didn't get keep pounded. You see it in the NFL all the time. The guys get stop first down, second down, third, We're still going in on fourth out up the middle, over the tackle, over the guard is what we're gonna do and and I really and everything fell apart for Ohio for Texas from there, because then suddenly, hey, wait a minute, now the momentum has gone. Ohio State's feeling good, they're feeling confident, and a third down pass from viewers has no chance. And then fourth down, it's it's an all or nothing play. He gets sacked and stripp and Sawyer goes in for the touchdown, like, I really, I don't see that. And that's why this is gonna be like the most scrutinized you toss play from the one we've ever They'll be talking with this play in Texas forever, right, because this is because if Texas wins this game, Texas, Notre Dame.
Guess who's a touchdown favorite in this game?
Texas. Guess who if they execute their offense play as well, is gonna win the national championship.
Texas.
So this is that kind of play where, hey, we're tied at the end and potentially we're still playing and maybe we win, and instead we went home because of this play, right, This play set up the two plays after and the touchdown. But and this play call. If I'm Texas, that's the play I look back at and I go, that's the one I want back. I don't want the fumble and you weers on fourth down. I don't want to I want this playback because that play call was just abysmal, all right.
Josh Newman, University of Texas beat for Texas lone Star Live tweeting out Sarkesian notes, hey, they went to heavy package on the Jared Gibson run first and goal with the one, and he defended the second down toss play, saying, hey, if he gets a block correctly, all the way that it works.
Yeah.
So what he's saying is if the play gets in the end zone, it's successful.
Yeah.
If that guy gets his block all right, and that you could say it's like Ocean's eleven when Carl Reiner, let me get this straight. If we go pass that and pass the guy with the guns and pass the locks and pass.
Exactly, it's like you could say about anything. Well, if if that play where Aaron Rodgers through the interception, if the tackle is able to block the defensive end and DeVante Adam is able to shake free and get over the middle of the field, and Rogers throws it, and then the cornerback on the other side misses the tackle, that's a touchdown. Like I understand, Like, if all that happens, that's that's what you're saying. Basically, all of it's blocked. Of course, if offensive, if plays are executed correctly, you win. But the other side is trying to that's it, don't They don't get like the other side is just a bunch of mannekins that are saying, well, if we block it correctly, yeah, because the other side is trying to. And it's also the most athletic defense in all of college football. It's that good. They got NFL dudes there too. When it when it, when you need one yard, you should be able to get one yard on four plays up the middle somewhere that should be able to happen, and and and and that strategy and that explanation is just like what do you mean if against block correctly? Of course, But but again the other side is trying to remember that, Mike Carmen, The other side is always trying just as hard as the side tried. You sure put that out.
I'm telling like I am.
They always are.
They always are, you know, I you know, I think about it because I always think thought about that and I never really did. And when I thought about Ron Darling told a great story about how one night when he realized he needed to do something like when he was pitching and he like could hit a wall or something in his pitching, and he started to get hit a little bit and he was like, I don't understand.
You know, my.
Fastball, my curveball is this, this, this, this and this. And it was really simple because the pitching coach came out to him and said, you know, you know the other side's trying to write. You're like, you can't just throw your stuff and expect it's always going to be. You know, the other side is trying to So you gotta have something a little bit extra every time you deliver the ball, and you gotta be And that's how he said that got his mentalities. He was always a big thinker, always knew where he was throwing with his pitches, what he wanted to throw, what he wanted to throw it. But you gotta understand the other side's trying to right, like the other side's trying where this is where you go If the other side, the other side, Ohio State's trying to they believe it or not They're not gonna be okay with getting blocked. They're gonna use their NFL dudes and calep Down's gonna try to He's in the backfield before the play is even snapped.
Of course he's gonna be get to get there. Man. I'll tell you, I'll tell you.
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It's that kind of night, that kind.
Of a little bit of levity in your life. Another no how States going to the title game. People are pissed.
Another crazy train night here with us on Fox Sports Radio. So we'll get back into Ohio State's win over Texas coming up in a few minutes, because you know, the biggest loser tonight really was in Texas. Much like last night it was like, oh, it was the biggest loser Penn State. None of the biggest loser was Brian Kelly. Uh, the biggest The biggest loser tonight is the biggest loser again today it's not Texas. It's something else entirely. We'll get into that coming up in a few minutes. But we are now on the cusp of the first big law on great weekend of NFL playoffs. We have two games on Saturday, we have three on Sunday, we have five on Monday night, eleven on Tuesday. It is a great, great week coming up, and two games tomorrow.
And before we get into the the the.
Chargers and the Texans, I just want to tell you that, you know, we both picked this game last night, the Ravens over the Steelers. And look, the Steelers offense is just on vapors now. It is it's no good, it's limited, and they're clearly this is not the team that Mike Tomlin thought he was gonna have.
He thought he was.
Gonna have some kind of sledgehammer offense with Russell Wilson at the helm, and he was gonna make all the veteran plays and all the pictures that are taken after the game you see on the inn, it's gonna be Tollin with his arm on Russell Wilson's shoulder as they confer in the third quarter of a win. That's not happening. Russell Wilson has washed. He had a good first few games out of the gate when they got into the end zone, a little bit more than with justin Fields. But now they've they've they've collapsed at the end of the year, and now they're gonna face a team that's gonna boat race them, and they're gonna watch Lamar Jackson do whatever he wants to do because he is on that Michael Jordan with the iPad, I took that personally sort of sort of push for this playoff.
Right and.
Understand this, Mike Tomlin potentially is coaching for his job tomorrow because if Pittsburgh loses, and they they could lose bad and the offense looks bad, there's gonna be a change and Mike Tomlin's either gonna get let go or he's gonna get traded because there's not a lot of great coaches and Tomlin's still a great coach. But hey, there is something to be said for your message is growing stale, the team is not getting better, where we're kind of spinning our wheels. And a team like the Steelers, yeah, they judge success differently than everybody else, right for you and me, the Bears and the Jets, I'd love to be a team that was playoff Cali every year.
The year maybe we could make it and we lose in the first round, I don't care. I'd have a fun seventeen weeks. Man.
Until that's been the case for a decade plus and you're not getting over I got to wonder in Pittsburgh to a degree. You know that whole thing is jumped the shark. That's great. We're competitive in December, we play in January.
When are we winning?
Yeah, there's many teams that would love that, But Steelers are different, right, they hold things to a different standard. And Art Rooney kind of sounded the alarm a little bit after last season saying, hey, we got to see something a little bit more this year. Yes, they did give tom On the contract extension, but Tomlin went all in on, don't Russell Wilson's our guy. Russell Wilson justin fields, but Russell's our guy, trust me.
And he was thumping his chest when Russell Wilson.
Comes in and they're winning games, and hey, I told you we could win every week sixteen to ten. Look how great we are. Yeah, it's not happening anymore. He went all in on his guys and and find again, find someone who loves you as much as Mike Tomlin loves Russell Wilson. But this game goes bad and Wilson is bad, and you have to watch Lamar Jackson have an amazing game. The Steelers are gonna say, you know what, it's just time for a change. It's it's not anything, it's just this strategy, this philosophy is no longer working. And honestly, Mike Tomlin, the NFL has kind of passed him by, right. I mean, his way still works, but it's not nineteen eighty five where you don't win with clutch quarterback play, running the football every sing, you know, two out of every three plays, and just playing great defense.
If it was the eighties, you'd be great, man.
Mike tom will have like four Super Bowl rings and every magazine cover would be him holding up the four with the ring on every finger. But it's not that way, and you can see that when you're limited, you're only going so far. You don't squeeze out a super Bowl, right, you don't squeeze out what?
No, you don't.
You win when you are more dynamic offensively than everybody else. This is the way the NFL works now. Even the Chiefs, who we're winning a different way when they need to be, they can be dynamic.
Right.
The fourth quarter is them. They moved the wall up and down the field. Mahomes is heating up now a bit. Look at the reason why the Lions are the overwhelming favorite in the NFC. But it it doesn't mean that Mike Tomlin's a bad coach. It just means that, hey, we've been spinning our wheels now for a long time. It's not good enough to just get into the playoffs and then maybe we have a game and we go home. So we need something. Tomlin needs this win tomorrow. He needs to play great. He needs the Steelers to play really, really good. Because if this goes south, and it goes south badly, Yeah, I guess what You're gonna see teams saying, hey, the second round pick for Mike Tomlin, second and third round pick. Second round pick this year, third round pick next year, and the Steelers are gonna say, Okay, we're gonna go get somebody else.
And suddenly the Steelers' job is open. It's whoa, whoa, whoa.
Every single coach in the world is gonna line up for this job. The Steelers change coaches every twenty five years. You want to talk about security, There's been three coaches since nineteen sixty nine, since I've been alone. If the Steelers have had three head coaches, I'm gonna go there and be there for the rest of my life. Suddenly Ben Johnson says, no, that's where I'm going. Mike Rabel says, no, that's where I'm going. Jim Harbo says, I'm leaving the Chargers. I'm going at Pittsburgh. I mean, you are seeing everybody, all the best candidates will say, whoa, whoa whoa Steelers is open.
That's the job I want.
Certain teams will have that, and that's what the Steelers will have coming in next year because it will just be time to move on because of tom Mike Tomlin philosophy. Okay, we've seen it for a long time now. He's been here since two thousand and seven, and the last few years it's just not the same. And he went all in on Russell Wilson, and Wilson's not the answer. Can we trust that he knows for the next quarterback? They could have gone out and got Kirk Cousins this year anybody else. No, No, we're gonna We're gonna go with a couple of guys, where the other team said, no, we're we're happy to see them go away.
Right.
The Broncos said, we're gonna let run. We're gonna eat eighty million dollars in draft picks, and we're letting Russell Wilson go. The Bear said, we're letting Justin Fields go despite the fact he runs for one thousand yards a year. We are letting these guys go. And this is who we're happy saying, this is what we can go, this is what I can win with. When you go to the wall and it doesn't work out, you're gonna pay with your job. And if it goes bad tomorrow for Pittsburgh. That's gonna happen in my time.
Oh but that's been one of the main questions in the background of all of this, because remember Toma did get chesty. This is why I get paid the big bucks and all that when he had a couple of good runs with Arthur Smith and Russell Wilson earlier in the year. But also Omar Kahn the front office. How much say in that process did he have veto power and whatever else? Curious dynamic in that organization. But all of that to say, I mean, this is a game that has probably more weight to it than any other game in the NFL because think about it. At Baltimore loses as a double digit favorite. Now you can get into that game for under a hundred bucks. That's how often they play this game. Even the people of Baltimore are like, ad, I don't want to go see that again. So if you're out in that area, you can go see a game pretty cheap. But all that's sake because if it goes badly for Baltimore, think about everything that comes back on Lamar Jackson again, right, all of the stuff that gets pushed away with another great regular season talking about all pro votes, MVP conversations, whatever else. You know, that side of it is really interesting for Pittsburgh. It's really still just for me trying to figure out in that room of Rooney's and whoever else is there in those discussions at the long kingsman like table to have that discussion who's Sir Galahad and whatever else, that they would suddenly go away, even with what Rooney had to say after last year, that suddenly, after all these years, it would be like, Nope, we really do need to make a change now. Perhaps they'd pick up the bat phone and if the Bears or someone else had some giant trade offer that they'd be intrigued. But it's always the what are you gonna go get in the marketplace that's better than Tomlin? Even if it's diminished some there ain't many, right, no, no, And that's the the hard part, the sticky, wicked as it were for the Steelers, because you're looking around going, hey, look at these clown shows with all these guys they're interviewing. Wait, if we get rid of Tomlin, we gotta go interview one of these clowns.
Hey, you clown, you gotta come on in because see if you can make a bicycle, can make a bicycle.
I gret you're a coach.
Let's say in the job description head clown.
Oh no, no, I'm not a cloud. I'm the head cloud. Okay, you treat me with respect. You put some respect on that name. I'm the head clown.
That's me.
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Pittsburgh needs a big.
Effort right now. A guy who is always giving a big effort. It's specially delivery, Steve to say, or he's got what's trending in the wide world of sports.
Well, we did have a semi final in the college football Playoff tonight. After all Ohio State wins it, they'll meet Notre Dame in the National Championship Game Monday in the twentieth in Atlanta. The last time before this season that we had two straight years of the College Football Final with no SEC team in either one. You'd have to go back twenty years USC Texas Classic and the year before was USC Oklahoma in the National Championship Game. In fact, the last time we had two quote Northern schools winning back to back national titles was Nebraska in the mid nineties. Well Tonight's game went to Ohio State in Arlington, beating Texas twenty eight to fourteen. Trevion Henderson a seventy five yard td just before halftime, quin Shawn Judkins two TV runs and the Buckeyes with about two minutes left got a touchdown on an eighty three yard fumble return. Texas on fourth down conversions one for three. Georgia transfer quarterback Carson Beck committed to Miami. Former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney has passed away at the age of eighty four. Two NFL playoff games tomorrow starts with the Chargers at Texans. Chargers franchise has one playoff win since twenty thirteen. Next season, the Chargers will be hosting the Texans during the year. By the way, the NFL announced the Cleveland Browns are one of the teams they are going to play in London next season, along with Jacksonville again Overseas and the Jets. Brown's quarterback Deshaun Watson ruptured his achilles again and had another surgery. Yesterday. We had news from the Packers and the Eagles, who will face each other on Fox TV Sunday at four thirty Eastern. Packers quarterback Jordan Love is off the injury report. Eagles QB Jalen Hurts clear concussion protocol to the NBA Clippers and Lakers home games on Saturday night have been postponed due to the LA fires. New Orleans suspended Zion Williamsons for tonight's win at Philadelphia. He was late to the team flight, among other problems like being late to practices. C J McCollum thirty eight points in a one twenty three, one fifteen decision for the Pelicans. A win at Philadelphia. New Orleans was seven and thirty one. Coming in Milwaukee got a win, a close one at Orlando one oh nine, one oh six Giannis ANTENACUNMPO forty one points. Paulo Benco did return have thirty four points for the Magic. He had missed most of the season with an oblique injury. Indiana over Golden State one O eight ninety six for Golden State. Buddy healed six of nineteen shooting for his seventeen points. Steph Curry was out this evening due to knee injury management. Oklahoma City wins easily. At New York won twenty six one oh one the Thunder thirty one and six. Shay Gilgis Alexander scored thirty nine points in twenty nine minutes. He was fifteen of twenty one from the floor, the knicks from three point range four of thirty two. Sacramento won.
A game was.
Canceled in the fourth quarter when the floor got too wet. Steve, you get you keep leaving that part out of it.
Actually, because they blew bulbs in the scoreboard. The game is canceled by the short quarter. Sacramento one at Boston Chicago over Washington. Denver took the late game against Brooklyn College Hoops. Maryland sent UCLA to a third straight loss.
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
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Coming up next. Yeah, who was the biggest loser tonight?
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Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon live from the Tirack dot Com studios. So, who is the biggest loser following Ohio State's win over Texas tonight?
Is it Texas? No, it's not Texas. Is the Steve Sarkezan, No it's not. Sorry, is it Mac Brown? No, it's not.
Is it any coach that is tangentle related to Texas?
Kind of like Brian Kelly last night with Note Today.
No, it's not.
The biggest loser, and it's erroneous. But the biggest loser is the SEC, right, because what are you seeing all over the place now? Oh, second year in a row. SEC team's not gonna win the national championship. They're no longer their pre eminent conference. The Big ten is so much better. Yeah, two years in a row, we're not gonna have an SEC team win the national title and suddenly the SEC is done. Let me just take you back to two thousand and nine, let's say, or two thousand and seven, or actually two thousand and six, where the SEC run of dominance has come and the national champion two thousand and six SEC, SEC, SEC, SEC, SEC SEC SEC. I'm in twenty thirteen. Now Florida State wins, Ohio State wins SEC, ACC, SEC, ACC SEC, SEC, SEC SEC.
Last year Big Ten with Michigan.
How many times did I say an SEC was a national title in the last near twenty years? Every other more than three out of every four years, an SEC team is winning the national championship?
Has the Big Ten gotten real? Yes? Is the bit? Yes, but this whole SEC.
Just stop with that, man, You sound stupid, because the SEC is exactly the same as it's been for the last twenty years. You had a mini LSU dynasty, you had a mini Georgia dynasty winning back to back.
In twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two.
Right, and you had mainly Alabama winning every three years. The only difference in the SEC from what it is now to what it was a few years ago is that Alabama is not the same. And it really shows you how much Alabama dominated college football that when Alabama is not winning title, all the SEC stikes nas seas the one two out of the last three national three out of the last four were in the last five national championships. But suddenly two years and an SEC team, oh, by the way, goes out tonight.
In the in the in the final four game and.
Sudden the SEC's bet. Just stop, just stop with that. The SEC is every bit as good as it was. You still have different teams that are achieving, that have different levels of a bit of a dynasty. You had SEC teams ranked in the top in the playoff this year. But Alabama is not Alabama. And that's a difference, right, it's a difference. But it's one school that is not winning every single year suddenly, because Alabama is not winning every year. Now they've won a title in five years.
Oh, they're done. The SEC is done. That's just stupid, all right.
It's Alabama is not who was, but everybody else is really good and they still find a way to win national championships. They still find a way to get to the final four championship of college football.
The SEC is just fine.
Just stop in my tribute to one of the great cinematic experiences people had this year.
Not me. I thought it was mid.
Ding Dong Way, which is dead bing bang. It was a new day yesterday, but it's an old day now. We've got a changing landscape. Does it mean they're dead, No, but they're certainly not the jugger not they have been put back into the pack.
I mean, I know kirkurb Street and everybody else said.
Hey, if winning didn't matter, Alabama might have been in here, and maybe they would have gone on a tremendous run and showed you whose boss. Oh, problem is they didn't get into the tournament. Problem is they were left home, just like the rest of the SEC teams who fell off one by one. And with the transfer portal being what it is, we're gonna watch the Bowl things even out like they didn't once upon a time.
Talent's getting spread out.
Hell, we're talking about guys from Syracuse at the back end of the first and second round. It's a new world order, Jason Smith. It's a new world order. You don't get to rule like you did once upon a time.
And which is dead. Look, and it doesn't mean that Alabama is not. It doesn't mean Alabama is dead not coming back.
It's just okay the last couple of years.
Look, and he made it to the semi final last year they lost in the rose Wall on the final play of the game. I don't know, but clearly no look at loss. Yeah, but they had the bad loss this year to Michigan and Jalen Milrose headed to the NFL and they haven't won a title in five years, which shows you the level of excellence that Alabama is at. Where they go a year with out of title, everybody gets kind of antsy, Hey, what's going on?
Man?
What are we doing here?
But that's the level. That's how much they won at That tilted the favor into the SEC that you know, it became, well, all these really good teams and oh Alabama, every other team is still the same. I mean not that all the teams are always content, but every year either LSU or Georgia or Auburn, what.
The right really good? Right?
Because we've seen LSU win a couple of national titles. So Georgia just went back to back titles. The SEC is fine, man, It's like, you know, oh, they haven't won the title in two years. Let's say they're dead now.
No, Well, it's a new world of college football and the show is tonight, So they're dead. It's now ruled by the Big ten and young whipper snappers.
Hi. James Franklin, like Marcus Freeman.
James Franklin is ruling. He is ruling third. He's ruling that exit about a Fresca exit swollen dome.
Jason Smith, Mike.
Harmon Coming up next, more in the big Ohio State win, and we remember a college football legend.
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