The Jason Smith Show with Mike HarmonJason Smith continues his Aaron Rodgers celebration with Steve DeSaegher, in for Mike Harmon. The guys react live to the Lakers and Grizzlies going back-and-forth in the second half, as Anthony Davis has a miserable night. LeBron hits a clutch basket to send the game to overtime, and Jason explains why he is proud of the way LeBron closed regulation. Plus, Jason believes the lack of reaction to the latest news on the 49ers and Trey Lance is proof that everyone hates the Jets!
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Hello and welcome Inside hour three The Jason Smith Show is Steve disager in from Mike Harmon. Tonight show live from the Aaron Rodgers from the Tirack dot Com Studios, tyreck dot com. I'll help you get there at unmatched selection, fast, free shipping, free road hazard protection, over ten thousand recommended installers, tyrack dot com the way tire buying should be. Yes on a night, where is the the greatest professional football night that I have had since I've been here at Fox Sports Radio for the.
Last nine plus years.
No, No Frost, Harmon and ty Shirt all found a way to not come into work. Tonight My night, Steve, my night, my one night. They all find a way to not come. I believe they were all here for the Mike White night.
So maybe they thought that was the apex of your Jets fandom when you went on and on about he was gonna win the pro equivalent of the Heisman or whatever for the rest of the season after he was quarterbacking the Jets to victory singular. So, yeah, it's just coincidence they're not here.
But funny, No, it's not.
No, they're done. I'm done. They're dead to me. I'm done. I'm done with them. I'm done with all of them. Maybe the only one that has somewhat of a Pulse's ty shirt because he doesn't really know who Aaron Rodgers is.
So I understand that.
But but Harmon and Frostber come on, man, this is this is my night. I got a night not here with me.
You should just leave a note on the studio door and saying I'm not coming in this room ever again, and then they won't put two and two together. Initially that we're actually moving studios down the hall after tonight.
The Jets have closed the Fox Sports radio studios. Good Night Drive safely, there are no more stories to be told because the Jets are closing the studios.
Yes, as Steve said, a very big night.
And you know, people talk about on social media for the last couple of days, we're getting new studios down the hall, so it's not gonna check it out. But this is the studio that I first started in here at Fox Sports Radio in two thousand. It's the same it's the same tables, it's this, you know, it's it's same family of beatles in the corner.
Yeah.
Yes, up until about a year ago, it was the same computer where I would sit every night. But it's it's been I mean, this is it. I mean because I was here when it started and it was the same computer up until I I probably shouldn't have told that story, but it was true. I tell you the truth all the time. This studio, it was state of the art. Is still a great studio. But we're getting new studios and better site lines and all kinds of.
It's kind of like building a new stadium.
It sports fewer roaches.
Yeah, and we be well, okay, hopefully hopefully this used to be a Denny's.
Yeah, right in this part of the I think so maybe they were more we're sitting were in the kitchen part, so maybe they won't be visiting us quite so often when we do shows from the other part of the building down the hall.
But twenty years right when I started here, I was thirty years old, right, and I was starting out my career as a sports talk radio host, and you know, trying to figure it out in the fly, and they built these studios.
We were here, and I was here for a few years, and.
I left and came back, and still the same studio still is, and it's it's really weird, and and it's you know, I get that, hey, this is where we sit, we do the show. But it's a thing when you think about I went to work in one place on and off.
In one room year literally one room in.
The same room, and now I go to it. Now I'm gonna go to.
A different I mean, some people at school go into college and they have the same dorm room for four years. Imagine having it for twenty years. That's kind of what you're talking about.
I'm gonna have to do this sitcom the final show when they turn the lights off, right, like when like at the end of a sitcom. They used to do this, like in the in the eighties and nineties, the last episode of a TV show, and they were taping.
It for the last Tyler.
Yeah, they and they did it for threes, Company two and a couple other s where one of the characters stands in front of the room for the last time, and the last thing is they turn the lights off. The crowd goes crazy and they clap. I'm gonna have to do that tonight because this is it. This is I'm gonna have to do the twirl and I'm gonna have to wave and there'd be nobody to wave to because nobody else be here. But I'll do the wave and then shut the lights off, and that's gonna be it. No more shows out of the studio.
Or it could be a picture of you, like the cast of Seinfeld on their last episode where they're all sitting in jail. Yeah, they're getting out of jail and you're going to spanking new digs. This is gonna be sensational for all of us.
Okay, hot take.
If any of the Fox Sports radio hosts were to be put in jail, most likely to least likely go no.
Well, we're not allowed to nominate ourselves.
I think, oh no, no, no, I come on, no, no, I got a family. I'd stay out of jail, I say out jail. Tysher would be at the top by list. I think he would. You know, he might be.
I could see I could see tyshert.
What it's some vegan protest he get picked up, yeah something or you know, something where where he gives some kind of dietary advice that goes astray and they wind up finding him.
I mean something like that.
I think the that can work well any hosts, if they go off the deep end, you know, they could be pulled over by somebody who listens to the show. So there is oh, that's true, that has happened.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, and then we have the big Rob Parker drop. I ain't paying for that, So maybe Rob Parker gets got not paying.
For that, that's right, So it might just be a minor ticket and it turns into a major dust up. I could see that happening.
Actually, I ain't paying for that.
We do have an update from the former Staples Center. It's end of three quarters, Memphis Grizzlies ahead of the Lakers eighty three eighty one, Memphis trying to tie up this first round series at two games apiece. Dylan Brooks from three point range is one of six, but he has nine points. Anthony Davis has only four points for LA one of eight, shooting three blocks, three turnovers, Lakers down two and in fact, Dan Wiki, friend of the show LA Times, described the Lakers so far tonight as quote very unorganized, very bothered by officiating, very flat footed defensively.
Oh that's me every day. I'm bothered by the officiating, very flat footed.
Yeah that's me.
You get on your toes tonight. Tell you is you're about to break into song. This is like the beginning of a musical for you. Well, there's being there's gonna be animated birds tweeting in the background. This is like that kind of a night for you as a Jets fan.
Tragedy tomorrow a comedy tonight.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
The tragedy tomorrow is at some point this season has to start.
I'm snow white going through the woods and all the birds just singing around me, and the squirrels and the.
Trees and everything else later that same x.
But no, but quick on the Lakers before you get back into Aaron Rodgers, is that this is one of the This is why I picked Memphis in this series because the longer this series goes, the worse it is for the Lakers.
This is a must win game for the Lakers.
Night.
You would think, well, no, come on, no, because they need to be able to finish this series as soon as they can, because the longer it goes, the more tired the Lakers are.
And the older they're getting. I mean, Anthony Davis with the fall earlier tonight, he has a heating pad on his ripe hip here at the break between quarters.
This is where they want to go.
Win this game tonight completely mail in Game five and get you know, everybody plays like twenty minutes and they lose like you know, one, twenty to seventy four, and then they come back and win at home after they have basically two and a half days of rest. Like that's how this series has to go for the Lakers to win, because the longer it goes and the more pressure basketball they have to play not gonna go. Well, the young legs of Memphis are gonna run them through this, and that's why that's why this is the game. You look at this and say, ah, the Lake, No, this is it. They don't win this game, They're not winning the series and.
It's not two days of rest in between. It's already on Wednesday night, and of course with the time difference, it's less than twenty four hours till the next game of this series. Remember that was a talking point earlier in the first round, how the Clippers with their injuries were only getting one night off in between games the whole series, and the Lakers got two, and it really helped. That's not going to exist until the next game, which is gonna start at four thirty Pacific time, seven thirty Eastern on Wednesday.
Yeah, but i'd wait on Max.
It looks like the Lakers are gonna lose Adam silverma Hey, we got to give them more time. Yeah, that game's gonna get post but there's a leak in a ceiling somewhere, so we're gonna play. Game five is gonna be on Sunday. Wait, Sunday, that's six more days.
Yeah. Yeah, Game five is gonna be on Sunday.
They just showed the celebrities and the Laker crowd. It was not Ed Sheeran in the distance up in the but it was actually Prince Harry. We can confirmed Prince Harry at the Laker game. Oh boy, that's gonna be a not floor seats. They're a little more private upstairs.
There's gonna be a big headline tomorrow about how somehow there was a discrepancy and their their seats in whatever suite they're in should have gone to King Charles, but instead because of the coronation list and who was who is attending and now this is not gonna be on Netflix and it's it's.
Gonna be a whole big thing. That'd be a whole big thing.
Has the coronation happened yet?
Uh no.
But it's but being invites like it's like a high school but it's like being Yeah, it's a very long list.
Who's invited to me? And I don't know.
I think Prince Harry and Meghan Markle either are or they're not invited.
I don't know where it's at right.
Now you've narrowed it down they either are or they are not invited.
Because those headlines just go past me so much because it's every single day and I'm like, Okay.
Are they It's kind of like the Aaron Rodgers story. I'm just done with it.
I Mean, I know nobody likes them, but are they to the point where they're not invited, like you know, like like the family.
Would be big, that would be enorbous. You're right, yeah, but that's family. It's for kran out loud. There's not going to be a bigger moment than the rest of his life.
No, this is going to be it. This is it now.
Uh So we have that going on. And yes, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are at the game. The Lakers are down to but very you know in.
The fourth all the Hollywood stars go to these games, so of course Meghan Markle is there.
Yes, yeah, you are you are right, you are right about that.
Yes.
Uh so, Lakers now take the lead.
Austin Reeves with a threes therapi a point with about eleven thirty to go.
That's Austin Reeves who has four fouls. Keep in mind, Austin, Oh my god, Angela Russell has four fouls.
How close is Austin Reeves to getting tremendously overpaid?
How close?
Ye say, he's so close to the next Devin George.
He's so go, Devin George. He's so close to getting overpaid. Now, a couple of quick angles off of the Aaron Rodgers to the jet situations, Aaron Rodgers now a jet. In case you didn't know what happened earlier today, I was having lunch at Urban Plates and my phone went ballistic, and I was so excited because I knew that's how I was gonna go. My friends are gonna text me that was That's what I know. That's Pam would tell me all the time. My wife would say, is it gonna happen today? Is it not?
Go?
No, it's gonna be all it's gonna be. While shees, well, how are you gonna know? And I said, I'm gonna know my phone starts exploding. Either I'm gonna be why it's gonna happen during the show, uh, and I'll know then, or if I'm either at the computer prepping and doing something, but more than likely it's gonna come during the day, or when I wake up and I'm gonna turn my phone on and either I'm gonna get all the buzzes from the text, or it's gonna happen all at once. That's what happened today, all at once. Waiting for my lunch at Urban Plates. I'll always remember I had the chicken tender sandwich. They forgot to put cheese on it, which made me really set, but it was still pretty tasty.
Really upset, really.
Yeah, because I like cheese, man, you know, I say, do I go you no, I'll pay for cheese. Like whenever they tell me it's it's it's it's a seventy five cents, I said, yeah, it's fine, it's seventy five cents, and that's well spent because.
I love cheese.
In fact, put two pieces on, I'll pay a dollar fifty Gunicker Homer Simpson or something.
Oh, because she felt bad because they didn't put the cheese. I did you order with cheese?
And she goes, oh my god, I forgot And I said, we have been together since nineteen ninety five together. How do you not know because we didn't get married until.
We well we're saying you should know me.
Oh yeah, yeah, because we met. We didn't get med.
We got married like thirteen years after we started dating, because we just never got around to it. Like we knew right away that this was it, like when we first started dating. Okay, this is it, We're gonna be together. I said, we've been together since nineteen ninety five. What have I ever had a sandwich or that didn't have cheese on it.
Choose.
I know, I know, I know, I know, a little upset. But then the text started coming.
In and Rogers.
If if the Aaron Rodgers trade had fallen through, your phone would have made the same noise. So you didn't know automatically right that, oh, this is the trade is through. It's a great day. You had to check the message. No.
I think the way the way the news would have come out, it wouldn't quite have been that. It wouldn't quite have been that because it would have been all Rogers trade is off. Does that mean it's gonna happen? Does it not?
Eh?
I don't know that I would have gotten the same thing. But Aaron Rodgers traded. Yes, boom boom boom, boom boom. Suddenly that's I knew. I knew it was good news. I knew it was good news. And you know, and my friends, I know they're not going to see You're gonna go, ah, you jerk, you suck. Look at your team, they sucked. So you can't get a trade for Aaron Rodgers.
The Green Bay I assume perspective is eh, now there has been Packers. Superstar goes to the Jets because you know Brett Farr of that kind of thing late in his career. There was a great you know, Mili, we're twelve years away from Jordan Love being our quarterback as well. Don't forget about that. Yeah, standing by, and this was Milwaukee's basketball team playing tonight in the store. Worry about the Bucks loss. Jimmy Butler scored fifty six. In case you did in here, Ap had a great item at the end of it that said, with Aaron Rodgers getting traded to the Jets earlier in the day, this was the first time for the Bucks that they've played without Rogers or far Of as their first dring QB in two six hundred and eleven basketball games. Someone actually did the math on that. That's how long it's been where that area has just had one of those two. It's a little like what Steelers head coaches. It's a single digits you can count on one hand.
Yeah, but you know, but think about that for a second, about how fortunate you are. And maybe this has make you think that the Packers are due for a letdown. Since nineteen ninety four, the Packers have had a great quarterback. Think about that. That is for the back half of the nineties, the entire aughts, the team's first couple of years of the twenties. You have had a great quarterback play since nineteen ninety four, all right, that you're talking about nearly a thirty year run of great quarterback play because you had Brett Farv and you got it right with Aaron Rodgers, and you got a Super Bowl with Farv, and you got a Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers. And times are really really good, right because when you know you'd be kind of greedy to say I got three four super No, you got one with far If you got one with Rogers, you got incredible amount of relevancy. You're in the playoffs basically every single year. If you're proud to wear your gear, think about that kind of run and think about what happens if that run ends and suddenly Jordan Love is not any good. And how difficult it is to get a quarterback to be great because you were talking about living up to two of the all time greats. When you're talking about what went on the field, they have had a quarterback, a great quarterback for almost thirty years, and now it's up in the air because you drafted Aaron Rodgers was okay, well, Rogers might be real. Hey he had a big pedigree even though he fell through the first round. But now it's really are you really sold on Jordan Love? You really think Jordan Love can be that guy? Good luck? Good luck? For thirty years you got a great quarterback play good luck.
By the way, not that far before far Don Mkowski was not exactly chopped Liver, the.
Magic Man, Don mccowski. There you go, the magic Man, mister comeback, Don mccowski. Before that it was Lynn Dickey. Yeah for about a decade. Yeah, before that, and before that it was Bart Starr, you know.
But then, you know, don't forget all the backup greatness of Doug Peterson.
Yeah, I mean you had you had some lean years. I mean, there were some lean years in there, but basically every year since nineteen ninety four, you've had a great.
Quarter Scott Tolzin from Wisconsin.
Scott tolls All, very nice, very nice. Uh, Craignall, you had Creignall backing up starting a couple of games.
Brett Hudley from U Oh.
Remember Brett Hunley was supposed to be great.
He was the Jordan Love of his day.
Oh, it's like they got Brett Hudley again.
Congratulations Green Bay.
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Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is Steve Desager in for Mike Harmon tonight. And before you get back into the Big night in the NBA and Aaron Rodgers beat a jet something to just tell you about really thrilling moment from the Angels in the A's and I say, wait, what are you talking about? No, No, seriously, really thrilling moment. Angels as trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me, trust me. In typical Angels fashion. They had taken a lead in this game, a big time with a five run sixth inning when the A's were up big.
They're up seven to two, but.
They kind of gave the lead away and in the ninth inning, the A's wound up with the bases loaded one out, they tied the game at eight apiece, and Taylor Ward of the Angels just saved a game winning home run. He runs a long way and picked the ball out or big or or what could have been a huge game game, basically game clinching right would have threw on home at the top of the ninth inning, pulls the homer back just over the stands. So now the Angels coming to bat in the bottom ninth inning with a chance to win, when that pretty much was it pretty nice play right there.
Look at the A's and the Angels giving us some drama.
And the A's took the well, I can't say took the lead, tied the game eight to eight in the ninth on a basis loaded walk. I'd mentioned earlier in the show that here in this Oakland team at four and eighteen, they had five home runs in the first three innings against the Angel Jose Suarez, who had an ERA of nine coming in that was the Halo starter. And still by the end of the six the A's were not winning. They've just had a horrendous season, tons of blowouts, but just tons of l's in general.
Ah, I tell you, I appre well, well, they'll they'll, they'll sell ringcode at the deadline. Billy Bean will keep the money. And you know, as long as they got to stop paying for soda in the machine, I think they'll be okay.
Yeah, a little reference to movies there.
Meanwhile, Grizzlies in the Lakers in.
Brad Pitt played Billy Bean in the movies. For those who haven't seen it, Moneyball, thank you?
Oh good.
There's no graphics on radio, so we had to.
What is he talking about? Everybody knows? Everybody knows.
Memphis Grizzlies lead ninety seven ninety three at the Lakers four and a half minutes to go.
In a performance that defies explanation of this game. Grizzlies leading the Lakers ninety seven to ninety right. John Morant not having a great game, but still has sixteen points. Desmond Bain's having a big night. He's got thirty for the Lakers. Lebron's got sixteen and fifteen rebounds. Okay, Austin Reeves has nineteen. Anthony Davis in thirty two minutes has six points. He is two out of ten from the floor. A d six points for the Lakers in the first thirty two minutes and four turnamenters. It's I mean, this is of all the performances, not I go this really in a must win game here, Ad is giving you the He's given you a six six point seven rebound game. That the game the Lakers absolutely have to have. This is stunning. Did not see this coming from Anthony.
And I'm guessing Laker fans don't think why must win? What are you talking? They don't have home court in this, they're not the two seeds in the West, ladies and gentlemen. Memphis is and in a couple well, as mentioned earlier, less than forty eight hours, this is going to continue on the road. If the Lakers don't win this and fall behind three games to two, I'm not saying the series is over, but you're not in the driver's seat at this point. It's only a two games to one lead, and you're not home next game.
The longer a series goes for an older team, the worse it is. And it's gonna be really different.
It's only the.
First round, and they have their sights set longer down the road than this.
I know that.
That's why. That's why it's hard to pick. Hey, here's some young teams and here's some older teams. Not on an older team, Like, how long is kd you gonna play? How long is he gonna stay healthy?
Right?
How long is Chris Paul going to play until he's ineffective. That's how it goes when you have older players who you're.
Relying on it. Yeah, you can't. You can't get through the NBA playoffs like that. You can't.
It's a it's an absolute marathon. You earn an NBA title more than any other sport. You can't just get hot.
And win hockey. Is you know hockey playoffs are pretty difficult.
Yeah.
Well but here's the thing though, if you have a hot goalie, yeah, in hockey, it doesn't matter like you, it doesn't matter like the NBA, there's no getting by. You can't just have one player get hot.
You can't.
No, you need If you're an upset team, hey that was a great seven game series. Guess what you got to do it three more times against teams that are all better than you. I mean you really, it's it's a grind, and and the older teams, it's just it's very difficult. So they run out of gas at the end because then you start playing every other night and there's no two more games off and two more nights off, and it becomes that's happened to Chris Paul A couple of years ago. Sons would have probably won the title, but when he was playing great basketball, because he didn't play a lot of basketball. But then when he got to the point you got to the finals, and it was he's got to play every other night. Guess what Chris Paul wasn't wasn't nearly effective as he was. That's how it's gonna go for some of these older players, which is why a team like the Lakers, this is a must win game. You gotta have this one. If you go to two, that's it. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, you gotta win two out of three when you got to you know, bust your bust your butt to win two out of three, where the Lakers would hopefully, Hey, put everything on the line, win this game. You'll take the next game off, lose by thirty, and then come back home and try to win game six.
Kind of how it works.
Three pointer D'Angelo Russell the Memphis League ninety seven ninety six, which just over four minutes to go and a time out. You mentioned older players. I think Joel Embiid in number wouldn't qualify that in mileage, he certainly will. Philadelphia was originally scheduled to play tonight, but the Sixers swept the Nets on Saturday. So they've got roughly a week off for a guy who was injured left and right. Remember that one game he went down on this fall he got pushed in the back there, he stepped in, stepped wrong and turned the ankle. They all in one game. He's got a lot of time off. That's the kind of time off. The Lakers apparently won't have this entire postseason.
So a lot more on the NBA coming up throughout the that I me this, Hey, this is a really big game here. We'll continue to follow throughout the end. But don't forget. Don't miss Draft Night live on Fox Sports Radio this Thursday night, eight pm Eastern throughout the first round of the Draft. That's Insider Jay Glazer, Former Cardinals GM, Steve Kim, College Football Hall of Famer LeVar Arrington, and Big Noon Kickoffs Rob Stone. They'll have pick by pick predictions and reactions to every first round pick. That's Thursday at eight pm Eastern, throughout the first round of the Draft, live on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio at Fox Sports Radios. Draft coverage presented by Chalk Choq, the reigning champion and Natural Men's Health Level Up Your Strength energy and focus at chalk dot com, that choq dot com use the code draft for thirty five percent off any subscription for life. That choq dot com chalk dot com code is Draft. Now you heard me say a little while ago, Steve I talked about how the general reaction that I've seen to Aaron Rodgers getting acquired by the Jets. I've seen it getting just panned by a lot of people, a lot of media people, social media, everywhere on TV. And I've told you there's a bias that exists that whatever it is, fans, pundits, personalities just don't like the Jets. Right, There's certain teams you just don't like and you're never going to give them any credit because you don't think they can do anything right. They're always going to do it wrong. They're embarrassing well, and I just don't like them.
They have been embarrassing and they have done a lot of things.
We won the Super Bowl a couple of years ago.
We won Who is the quarterback for that game, Yeah, Ken O'Brien, and we won.
It was I must have missed that.
But the Jets are one of those teams. The Jets, the Lions, the Raiders, other teams in Major League Baseball, they can't do the right thing that that you always make fun of. It's it happens that way. There are teams where you just don't want to give them. The Knicks are a team. Nobody wants to give the Knicks credit. Why they just don't like them because Knicks fans are loud, The Knicks is an organization, are loud. They're kind of arrogant even when they're losing, and the Jets are loud. And there's a a lot of people in the media that are from New York and like the team.
So there's an inherent bias.
It's just teams that people don't like, right, I just don't like the Jets. Well, I just don't like them on general principle. And I've seen that in coverage today. I see I've seen people though, I don't like this trade and don't like this trade. The Jets gave up too muchy. I don't know what they're doing in Aaron Rodgers. Things like, come on, man, they didn't make a trade for Carson Wentz, right, they got Aaron Rodgers. Okay, you're talking about a Hall of Fame quarterback, MVP two of the last three years. Kind of a down year last year, but even with a down year last year, that would have been enough to get the Jets the super Bowl with the horrendous quarterback play they got. So they had to get a quarterback, and they got the best guy that was out there. This offseason doesn't matter what they're paying not paying, and the Packers are paying most of it. That's the one reason why the Packers got the draft capital they did is because they're gonna pay the dead cap money of Aaron Rodgers.
But I've told you how the.
Bias existed that certain team, how people feel about certain teams. Right shortly after the trade today, Zach Wilson started trending and what a does that of a pick? Zach Wilson is And I agree, right, Zack Wilson, disaster of a draft pick. Right, they picked number two. It's not like they reached for him. You know, he was someone who, by all accounts, was the guy you would go get at number two. Right, you weren't getting Trevor Lawrence because Frank Gore decided I want my legacy to be I make sure the Jets can't get Trevor Bleep and Lawrence so by winning a game. But you know Zack Wilson was the guy at number two, so you draft Zach Wilson. He stinks, he can't move the team down the field, He doesn't know what he sees, he didn't take responsibility for his actions. Just he's been a bust of a draft pick and just getting absolutely lit up for that. All the Jets can't get it right? Can't quarterbacks?
Is right?
And then just think about this, about what the coverage of Trey Lance has been the last few days. And the forty nine ers, who everybody loves the forty nine ers. The forty nine ers do everything right. They're a big heritage organization, but they biffed it with Trey Lance. Trey Lance is someone who they've tried to make the quarterback now for three bleeping years, and guess what, He's still not going to be the quarterback because Brock Purdy is their guy and John Lynch even said, if we had to line up tomorrow, Brock Purdy is our guy. And now what they're taking trade calls on Trey Lance and what is the reaction to that? Has a reaction to that been? Boy, the Niners don't know what they're doing. Look at Trey Lance can be trailed. Look at the Niners. They're stupid. I can't believe they traded up to get Trey Lance. Right, they gave up stuff to get to Trey Lance. John Lynch did. But no does he get criticized. No, of course not, because the Niners are the Niners, and they're such a great team, and Montana and Rice they've always done the right thing, And oh what a shame if Trey Lance can't be the quarterback. Trey Lance is every bit of a bust. You did everything you could to get the guy, and he couldn't beat out Jimmy Garoppolo, and then he got hurt, and then Jimmy Garoppolo got hurt again, and then Brock Purdy shows up, a guy who is mister irrelevant, who was the last pick of the draft, who is now the forty nine ers quarterback going forward. That's pretty embarrassing. And this should have been the same thing of oh, look, boy, what the Niners. They don't know what they're doing. They couldn't pick a quarterback. How much better would they be if they could have had that pick? There was an impact guy, but there's none of that it's the reaction for the forty nine ers, that's, oh boy, what a shame. Trey Lance hopefully gets a chance, And for the kid, of course, I hope he gets a chance. I don't want anybody to not have a career because of their health or situation. I want him to go. But so far the guy couldn't stand in the field and he couldn't win the job. So how suddenly is that just a shame? But ah, Zach Wilson just thinks it's because of the perception of the organization that one organization does things right and if it doesn't work out, oh, it's just a shame. Whereas the other team it's, oh, of course doesn't work out right because they're the Jets. Believe me, I spent a lot of time looking at this Stevo.
Well, there is a legitimate reason, a long, long resume for each team. Why you'd say, wow, this usually works when the Niners do, Oh, this usually doesn't work, win the Jets. Now, every case should be taken on its own merit, And I think the Lance example is a good one. You bring up, but you understand that things get smoo doubt there's a benefit of the doubt when you've won as much, including recently as the Niners have. They're not the Jets.
No they're not. They're not.
But it's still this isn't This is not one of those Oh hey, there's other extenuating circumstances. This was we made a draft pick and boy it didn't work out. But the real but the reaction is this draft pick. There was a reason why, and it's something that uh oh we it's just a shame. Whereas for the other way around, it's all, yeah, of course it was going to be this way because they don't know what they're doing. I mean, I mean, that's that's the way it is, and it's it's not it's not fair.
Well, and yet you've you you create your own resume. So now the Jets have a chance to, with their performance, turn things around and turn some heads. It's gonna take that they this is ingrained decades of bad that's been going on with this order.
I don't know.
Man, The Jets could win the Super Bowl and and the reaction would be, oh, this doesn't count, Like when the Lakers won the title in twenty twenty.
It doesn't count. No, it can't count.
If if Joe Burrow had won a Super Bowl that would have counted an NFL fans minds, and you know what the reputation was for the Bengals for decades.
Yeah, and well deserve.
No, Yeah, but steem it's but people, Okay, people actually like Joe Burrow. People like Joe Burrow. Nobody likes Zach Williams, nobody likes the Jets. Every liked j won a championship around town like Joe Burrow.
No, they would still find a way.
They would say it really doesn't count for some reason, like the Lakers Bubble title doesn't count.
Why they want No, it doesn't count, doesn't doesn't rest.
They found a way, whether whether it's by by legitimacy or not, to find a way to make the Lakers championship with a D and Lebron not count. They'll find a way to make the Jets Super Bowl not count. It was a down year, or Mahomes wasn't as good, or Josh changing of the guard as something, they will find a way to diminish what the Jets are doing.
Well after this, I hope they don't play the victim and just play the game on the field.
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Oh my goodness, Defibrillators for everybody, Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show. Steve de Sager in from Mike Harmon. Memphis and the Lakers are in overtime, tied at one oh four, But the story about how we got there is always better than the score itself. So we told you how the Grizzlies went down the floor after Ruy Hatchamora got blocked John Morant with a behind the back pass to Desmond Bane for a lay in with six and a half seconds left to go to give the Grizzlies the lead.
And that block was by Jaron Jackson, the league's defensive player of the year.
I mean I was, I mean it was.
It looked like locked a dunk basically, yeah, I'm like, ruy, Oh my goodness, he made it look easy. Jaron Jackson and the Lakers get the ball back and they inbound the ball to Lebron, and I'm saying to myself, he's gonna do what he's done his entire bleeping career. He's gonna hold the ball, hold the ball, hold the ball, and take a heroic three with no time left. That's either gonna win the game or the Lakers are gonna lose. But mainly it ends with a loss because for some reason, that's what Lebron has liked to do his whole career. Was when I have this body in, this talent to get to the hoop anytime I want to, I'm gonna hold up for the three. And every team that he's ever played against it more than happy with that. Oh you want to take a fit. Lebron will give you that three. We'll give you that. I want to hold the ball and wait and watch the clock tick down and go down the three.
We'll give you that, Lebron.
And instead I feel like a proud parent because for the longest time, I said, why doesn't Lebron do this every time?
Why did he do? What does he do?
Lebron blows by the defense high off the glass for a game tying layup with eight.
Tenths of a second left, four one four.
So now the game's tied at one oh four, and Lebron, like I said, I'm proud parent for Lebron. My goodness, Lebron, my god, he actually took the ball to the wreck. What a great play by Lebron. So the Grizzlies have one last chance with eight tens of a second left, and somehow John Morant breaks free just inside the three point line. Now he's got to get it and shoot pretty fast because there's only eight tenths of a second on the clock. Anthony Davis, making up for what is an absolutely horrendous night, flies out from under the basket and blocks Jahn Morant easily like he had to gra like this wasn't John Morant grabbed well, he had to kind of catch it in one motion go up. So John Moran was putting the ball up basically from even with his chest and ad blocks it and the ball bounces right to Lebron, who turns and shoots it from his own three point line. Now, clearly the clock had struck zero. He struck zero the ball's hands, but Lebron turns, chucks it and swishes it, and what can you imagine if that's how they win? But clearly Lebron had the ball. There's no controversy at all though the clock was at zero. It was just one of those oh my god type moments for Lebron to be able to make that shot from just inside if he had another half second. I mean, you're talking about the play that would define Lebron's career, was making of all the things he has done, is blocking the finals against the cabalt and I'll forget it. This would have been the play. But I tell you him going to the rack for that hoop. I tell you, Steve, this is high off the glass too. You didn't know if it was hit the bounce, no, and it hit the rim a couple of times, right well, you know the left side of the rim, rights of the rim, up in the air and through. I mean, this is where it's great to see him do it. But I just keep going back going. Man, imagine he had done that his whole career. What the clock was winding down and not settling for those jumpers because it looks pretty and I can go back down the floor with my hand in the air going.
I made it. We just won the game. Just think about that.
For lat Bit, It's been one of the great things about his game actually, is the power he has when he drives. I'm surprised he doesn't do it all the time because it's a mismatch. To start the overtime, after back to back turnovers, Lakers got an Anthony Davis layup and later a Lebron James layup for a four point lead. It is now Lakers by three, about two minutes left in the OT.
An amazing game right now going on. This series is making Kings, Kings and Warriors look like globetrotters in the generals. Okay, not quite that. I mean this, I mean as great as the Kings Warriors has been. This game tonight has been full so much drama because yesterday was basically, hey, Steph, call time out when he wasn't supposed to. Oh boy, I thought that didn't work out well. This game has been twisting turns in Jahn Morant some unbelievable athletic plays, and that behind the back pass to Bain for the go ahead layup fast pray wo boy, I'll I feel like if he jumped from the free throw line, he could actually jump and land on top of the rim. I think he's good enough to do.
With the sorehead.
He has played forty two minutes in this game Desmond Bane forty five minutes in counting Baine with thirty six points.
So keep it right here.
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