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North Dakota State on top of the fcsworld. Yeah, upsetting previously unbeaten Montana State winning the FCUS Championship tonight thirty five.
Thirty two game.
They controlled early, but that had to hang on and down the stretch they come time.
I feel like North Dakota State is in this game every year. Yeah, sure, like every year, Juggernaut.
Like are they like?
I don't know that there's been a time when North Dakota or North Dakota State hasn't been in the FCS Championship game. I figured, you know, it's two different schools. One of us got that great ice rink where all the seats are leather. They had this really rich alum who like the ice rink is like leather. Okay, but I feel like the last time North Dakota or North Dakota State wasn't in the FCS champion I really.
Thought you were gonna make a smart ass line with one of your favorite impressions talking about leather or something like that.
Nah, as you say it's too low hanging fruit, too low hanging fruit. If everybody knew what we were talking about. But you're probably right.
I would think most years you and I have done the show together, We've we've talked about the title game, and one side or the other has been been these combatants today.
All let's say you trying to go through this. No, I got it right here, Okay. North Dakota State this year beat Montana State. Last year, South Dakota State beat Montana. In twenty twenty two, South Dakota State beat North Dakota State twenty twenty one, North Dakota State beat Montana State. Apparently there's three teams.
In the SI.
I was gonna say, we really don't need to expand it behind the fourteen players.
In twenty twenty, Sam Houston beat South Dakota State. In twenty nineteen, North Dakota State beat James Madison, but Madison was merciless. Twenty eighteen, North Dakota State beat Eastern Washington. Twenty seventeen, North Dakota State beat James Madison. Twenty sixteen, James Madison beat Youngstown State. So you got to go back to twenty sixteen before you find a team not in one of the Dakota's playing for the FCS championship.
So really it's like the NBA during the Cleveland Golden.
State era.
Or right now where in the AFC it's still Roethlisberger, Manning, Brady and Malmes.
Yeah.
Yeah, So North Dakota State of the Patriots, right South Dakota State is the Chiefs and Montana apparently are the Eagles.
Here you go.
It ended up being a pretty good game. It was twenty one to three at halftime. At least got a fight and had to sweat it out a little bit, makes more plays down the stretch, but thirty five thirty two your final, So we'll take it.
Hit the over, getting getting ready for the for the the championship games of the final four games on Thursday and.
Thursday and Friday. Here, yeah, let's go.
Now as today has been dominated by being black Monday. Uh. Maybe the most shocking statement of the weekend was utter a day ago, not talking about coaches now, where Tyreek Hill decided to say, hey man, the Jets broke me. I'm done After Miami loses to the Jets in a game I told you the Jets were gonna win. Tyreek Hill basically has told everyone he's had enough in Miami and he's ready to move on. Here he was following the game, talking about what's next for him in a disappointing season or another disappointing season of the Miami Dolphins.
I'm opening the.
Door, right, I'm out, bro.
You know.
So it was a great play, but you know, I at the end of the day, Bro, I gotta do what's best for my career. And you know, because I'm too much of a competitor to be you know, just.
There.
I just gotta do what's best for me and my family. Got if that's here, that's wherever the case may be. Man, I'm finn open that door for myself down as I'm opening the door right right.
I'm out, bro, I'm out, and I love the headlines today. Did Tyree Hill say he wanted out? Yeah, No, pretty easily when he said, I'm out, Bro. I love playing here, but I gotta do what's best for me and my family. No, he's done. He's done playing in Miami. He gave me a couple of philibus. But they had to bench him yesterday. Yeah, they wanted to put him back in the game in the fourth quarter. They didn't mention he benched himself, and and and suddenly he didn't want to go back in the game. They wanted to put him back in. Mike McDaniel wouldn't talk about it, saying, hey, we put all the guys that wanted to be in there.
Pretty damn it game that I'm aware of. And and just the language was of a guy just he took the higher road.
Tyreek Hill is done. He's done in Miami.
And and before we get to the future, for this, I mean it the biggest mystery in the NFL over the last year plus. I really I don't understand how things got so bad so quickly for the Miami Dolphins. If you go back to a year ago. Now, right, let's go back one year ago. Okay, Mike McDaniel was, Hey, the next great young head coach in the NFL. He was on a Kyle Shanahan type path. He's going to be Sean McVeagh type.
Peth. Look at what he's figured out with his capri.
Pants and big shoes, and he's figuring everything out to a tungueov Looa finally became who they thought he.
Was going to be.
Oh, his arm isn't stronger after all these years, He's just getting better and better. He's throwing for four thousand yards. No, we figured out our quarterback, boy a Chan is the next great running back in the NFL. Look how fast they are everywhere with hill and a Chan and waddle. This team is gonna run rough shot over the AFC for years like this team did. This wasn't a team that was old and like the forty nine ers, where it was hey, we're coming get together for one last run. And well, boy, the one last run was actually a year ago. No, No, this is a team that was young and up and coming, and the only thing for last year at this point was wow, you really don't want to go on the road and play. And they had to play what was the third coldest playoff game ever when they had to play in Kansas City. It wasn't even close. But that's what happens, right, what happens when you take a team from South Florida and they got to play in Kansas City in the winter. You should win more games. But it doesn't matter because yeah, they lost that game. But still the Dolphins were They were the envy of plenty of teams in the NFL. Mike McDaniel figured out a new way, a new way to get by with speed and talent and the timing, and Tua had no problem finding Tyreek Hill. And yes, Tuas had injury issues, but he's still under contract. He's still a trific quarterback. And all of a sudden, the Dolphins are at the point where Tyreek Hill wants out and they're starting over, and who knows that Mike McDaniel's future is. This is all stuff that's happened in a year, and I don't understand how I understand how a team that was that good last year, that was that dangerous and scared that many teams didn't have a big like they lost a lot of players. Yes, you had some injuries, but every team has injuries. You went from, Hey, our future is still great and even if you have a down year, well, we're gonna just bounce back at it next year. No, this is where hey, things are done in Miami. Like like at the worst, I would think, well, they're gonna come out of this season and say season didn't go our way. Tua was hurt. We got to make sure he stays healthy. We're gonna continue to move the roster around a little bit, but we still all our playmakers are young. Tyreek Hill is still the fastest player in the NFL. No, we're still great. This is just get us this year because it just happened to be a down year. But instead it's like everything is over for Miami and now Tyreek Hill wants out and all kinds of changes gonna come into Miami. And it's such a mystery because it doesn't make sense how they went from a year ago today it was wow, look how this is the next great team in the AFC and now everything at the verge of being broken up, and the biggest star player says, I've had it, man, I'm out, I'm out.
I gotta go.
I got it was fun playing here, but I gotta go. It's the biggest mystery in the NFL shows out quickly things will change.
You're looking at a team that this year they averaged twenty point three points per game because you know what on the defensive side, because people would say quickly, well, you lost these games.
You have this issue.
They were tentph in total defense at twenty one point four points a game allowed, so they overall held their own. But you look at two Atungua, Mallow plays an eleven misses parts of others. You're going down to Snoop Puntley. You're going down that rabbit hole. And even if you look at the individual numbers, guys put up numbers. John hu Smith, you move the ball pretty well between the twenties. You just didn't capitalize. He didn't finish. Echan ran well, you didn't get as much from Mostert as his tag team partner in the backfield as perhaps you'd hope. But when you look at what Chan was able to do as a runner, and receiver. He was up over seventy catches, over double digits into double digits for touchdowns as a runner and receiver over the course of the year. Hill still finished what forty yards shy of a thousand on the year, just two catches for twenty yards in that finale.
But a lot of it goes back.
And is predicated on how far is the drop off at your quarterback position. Snoop Punley may be a fantastic guy, it absolutely obliterates what you're able to do offensively, which shows the value of Tua, even if we don't love Tua. Snap for snap, still completed nearly seventy three percent of his pass attempts and is efficient with the football the offense and still has its operational efficiency there. With him out, it's sputters, And that's the biggest question for McDaniel to figure out, Like who's the guy that you come in as the trigger man to where you don't have to change everything to where it doesn't just go absolutely to hell when two was unavailable, because guess what, going forward, you're banking on him playing. It's like we did with Lebar Jackson for a couple of years. Like he's gonna play twelve or thirteen games if you get back over that. And he's done it now two years in a row, MVP season, maybe another MVP season, but you started to count on all right, we need to make sure we've buttoned up the rest of that locker room because we have to be able to play competent football when he's unavailable.
To this point, Dolphins have not.
If there were, I always look for answers, right, because it's always like, okay, sure we get all complained. I've looked for the answers with this Dolphins team, and I don't know where to fight. Previously, it'd always been you just have to commit to Tua. You have to understand the guy's good. He's not gonna be the rocket arm quarterback you think he is. No, he's not gonna be. But he's smart, he's accurate, he knows when to throw the football. You just have to commit to him, and they did. They gave him a lot of money and they said you're our guy. Okay, great. That was the biggest thing holding them back. And now still this is what they're getting and Tyreek Hill wants out and it's not a blit. It should be a blit, but it's not. It's big changes coming and now they got to move on and who knows where they're going to be next year, and none of it makes sense. Like I almost feel like there's got to be something behind the scenes that we're not being told about how the Dolphins have gone from we are now the next great team in the AFC too. Yeah, now there's big change coming and who knows what we're gonna be.
Well, I think it's curiosity, right, because go back to my dumpster fire of a team, the Bears, and the number of veterans that have gotten in front of microphones. And this goes back to the middle of the season. This goes back even before Eberflues got fired or you guys had guys piping up about discipline, lack of accountability and buttoning things down. So being asked about who their next head coach could be, like, we just need someone who's gonna come in and get rid of the nonsense. Asked specifically about Vrabel, several guys just said, yeah, half the crap we get away from with here would be gone week one and that would be it, right, complete culture shifts, as we've talked about it, I'm wondering if in Miami they didn't read their own press clippings, and maybe it got a little bit lax, a little bit loose, right, all the jokes that are made about you know, South Miami Mike and all of those things in terms of wardrobe, scruff on the face, all of those kinds of things that in terms of the devil being in the details, because it was all about operational efficiency, right, It's all about timing, it's all about making plays. But when two is not on the field, look at the drop off, go back and look at Tyreek Hill's game to game performance as to who was there and who wasn't, And the big hit plays, those big explosives that were such a big part of that offense were gone, and Wattle played hurt down the stretch.
Right.
He still appeared in fifteen games, he was not himself for several of them. The blinking red letter with the injury designation. So you didn't have your full compliment. But normally, as a super genius like McDaniel was supposed to be, you'd be able to evolve your offense and figure out where you can find a mismatch. Where you got any eight catches from John hus Smith for grinding out.
You got you got, you got a smart head coach. You have an offensive mine head coach that had a new system that was that was built on speed and execution and precision.
And how does that all gone?
How does that all go away in a year like something like it just doesn't compute, Like I see when teams erode and and and don't play well, and yes, the injuries are a thing. But instead of hey, we're gonna get this back next year, now it's over. Now it's over, and your best player wants out, whoa wait?
What?
Like?
Really?
It's that's why it's the biggest mystery in the NFL. I get every other team's ascent, I get their decline. I can break it down. I can explain it that it's a mystery. They're an enigma wrapped in a mystery, served in a riddle. Middling red zone efficiency, just go on down the line. For McDaniel, it's the you know that come to Jesus moment of what you were as sending right you were it was you and the other offensive genius was Ben Johnson. And you're keeping paths, you know, on that same path of what Detroit was doing. And now that trajectory has flown and now we're starting to look at what are the odds of the next team for Tyreek Hill. Right now it's a tie between the Chiefs and the Patriots. Uh, we'll love Laura on Tyreek Hill coming up in a bit, but straight ahead, Hey, if today is Black Monday in the NFL, it's about the coaches who were fired. Why is the biggest story about a coach who hasn't been fired? That's coming up next right here, Jason and Mike, you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.
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Yeah, that's all right. I can't say I was really surprised. Can't say I was really disappointed. I knew after I said, we talked about this. I knew after I saw it. I said, yet, it's not as great as people are saying. It's really really long. It's really really long.
It's so I mean, I didn't have an Elton John moment of celebration when Resider won his award, but when Kiaren Colkin won, I was excited. I admit to it, not having seen Showgun or The Brutalist as of yet. But Wicked getting shut out, Yeah, I was all right with it.
I started watching the movie, Aaron Rodgers got hurt, missed the whole season, came back, played this season and threw his third touchdown of the day yesterday. And I finished watching and then you heard, yeah, finally that they got to the final thing. Yeah, yes, again, not surprised, not not surprised.
I was underwhelmed.
I wanted to go back and see it again with the sing along to see how bad people would sing, you know, but I decided not to.
Just here's the thing really quick before before you get into the Mike McCarthy story, is that all of the push for Wicked and so it's gonna win this and they're both gonna get and Ariana Grande was fantastic.
That's she was the best part of it. She was fantastic.
And I'm like, Okay, they're all both gonna win all this stuff, and I'm going, yeah, I don't know about that. I think what happened is that there's so much push for this movie, not that it needs to save cinema, but there needs to be a tent pole once a few times a year where everybody's gonna go see this movie. And there was so much hype behind it for the industry in general and for fans like, no, one's not gonna want to go see this and love it. Right, It's not one of those Oh it's a polarizing movie where it's about the bomb, like it's Oppenheimer or this or Barbie's not my thing. This is like Wicked, she got to be for everybody. And if Wicked turns out to not be good boy, that's bad news for the box office, and that's to be bad news or any movies coming out. This is supposed to be universally great, everybody loves it, and instead I'm like, yeah, it's not that great. And I think the critic and I think the Award Show last night told us, yeah, this is where this is more realistic about what we thought.
Ah.
I think there was a couple of things to it. Also, It's like, I I think I'd rather have spent my money and time going to see the theater outing once again, which is currently in Los Angeles, back on the road all of that stuff.
I think it's a better experience. Uh, I'd rather watch a Jets game.
But you also had a number of other big movies this year, right, the box office did pretty well overall. I just got tired of the consistent mark, Like, I like marketing and sales, you know, mean, we talk about sports, we talk about ticket sales, we talk about all of these different things. Right, One of the great stories of the week where you know Minnesota and the Wolfs spending two million dollars of their money to see if they couldn't get enough Viking fans, and like.
I love that stuff. How's work out for them? Mike, Yeah, I did not well.
Ones Fan Ginkle dropped the ball, Van Ginkle dropped the ball, made the right read, right play, didn't catch the ball.
He catched the ball, and he runs the other way. No, no, but at that point it's still you're.
Still in Sam Donald was under duress the touch far time he dropped back to pass, he yelled, hell, this.
Is not what the first I tell you? What though, Like, are you talking about you guys killed Tyreek Hill? Yeah, yeah, we did. Yeah.
But there was a great super cut showing all the misreads of Sam Darnold. Yes, he's under duress, but the mist reads.
What am I told you about Sam Darnald? No, no, no, you can't told you. What have I told you about it? He lost a year? That's fine, What have I told you about still fourteen and three. I told you, I told you, I told you. Doesn't mean he was.
He just kept getting hit and rushed. Oh no, he got blood and read it was I mean it was.
But if Van Ginkel catches the ball takes it the other way, we're two point conversion away from a tie.
I think that it's thirty one sixteen. I think sometimes it again. But at that point, he couldn't they get another ripper. Even they score, they still couldn't do any if they, if they wouldn't.
Have let Jarret Goff off the hook, we would have been killing Jared Golf today if they.
If if this is a game where it was back and forth and the final score was thirty three to twenty seven or forty one thirty five, I'd agree with you and say no, you're right though, But they couldn't do offensive.
They couldn't do it.
But at that point the Lions hadn't done what they ended up doing off.
But the Lions still wound up doing what they did, and the Vikings still they could be playing that that one is now and the Vikings still said we have no we we we can't do anything.
Well, if they'd actually kicked the field goal every once in a while instead of saying, Louie gotta match Dad campbell campbelling, cambelling and campbelled on the other side, O'Connell.
You heard it now elsewhere here on Black Monday the stories. Yes, we had coaches who were fired, coaches were rumored to be fired, and now we have rumors of a coach who may go to another team because his contract is coming up and he doesn't have a new deal.
Fix the glitch.
Uh, the Chicago Bears, Your Chicago Bears have called the Cowboys about talking to Mike McCarthy.
Hello, this Jerry, Hey, Jason. Doesn't count as a call if the other so it doesn't pick up. It's still a call, right.
Oh yeah still yeah, I mean it's still in your log that you made the attack. Yeah, like like I mean all the you made me, you know, maybe spam me.
Most people pick up.
When I call, yeah, Jerry Jones to see his phone and go. Could be Chicago Bears or potential spam.
I'll let this go to voicemail. Not a potential fraud call. I'll let it go to voicemail. Hello, this is Jerry. Yep.
Oh no, you mean, all you need is five thousand dollars and you got a million dollars and I'm gonna get some of that. Yeah, what do you need? I can forward the money to you. Where's the Western Union? People still use Western unions. I go there and now I'll make sure that I get the money to you.
You get normally what tur chimes inmpathy, If you get the ems, that's that's terrific.
I'll make sure you get it there. Oh you're a prince. Oh I didn't know that. Well, I'm a king, so I kind of outrank you a little bit. But I'll still get you that money and then you give me the rest of that because you know I still.
Got to pay dec I gotta find a way to do it. Uh.
Mike McCarthy is a good head coach. He's a really good headcat. And if the Bears want him, and I don't mean they want to talk to him, but if the Bears say we want you to be our head coach, if I'm Mike McCarthy, I tell Jerry see you sorry, because all he's doing right now is waiting around to be fired.
He's waiting around. Maybe Jerry Jones brings him back for another year. Maybe he does it.
They're still deciding this is just stupid. Jerry Jones misplayed the market, didn't understand where he's at. And now there's not a lot of great head coaching candidates out. There's certainly not a lot. They're gonna come in and take that Cowboys job, right, just like no one wants to take the Jets' job as a train wreck, no one wants to go in and take that job in Dallas, and he blew it. So now if I'm McCarthy, I go, why am I hanging around here when he's just gonna be another one year deal or whatever it's gonna be, and I'm gonna get fired because suddenly Jerry Jones is not gonna commit to me and say yeah, here's another three year contract.
It's not gonna work that way. So if the.
Bears want me, I tell Jerry I'm out. Because Jerry Jones said we don't want anybody doesn't want to be here. I say, thanks Jerry, but I'm leaving because Mike McCarthy, he's a good coach. He succeeded in the Cowboys chaos that is ever present, right. Twelve wins a year first time. They haven't made the playoffs since twenty twenty. But your starting quarterback gets hurt and misses the season, that's gonna happen. Mike McCarthy's a good coach, right, It's not his fault. Dak sucked in the playoffs. It's not his fault, right, all of a sudden, he didn't go from being a great offensive mind all the playoffs got No, it's not his fault that Dak sucked in the playoffs, because everything for the Cowboys would be different if Dak Prescott just played average playoff games the last couple of years.
But he didn't. He was terrible.
And however, you want to carve out what happened to the Cowboys and say, well, Jerry for thirty years has been bad and all this. No, Dak Prescott was awful, and he cost the Cowboys the last two to three years in the playoffs. And if he didn't, things would be different because the Cowboys would have had an NFC Championship Game appearance, or maybe two NFC title game appearances. But they didn't because Dak Prescott's stunk and he and he sucked the last two years, and he suckingly needed the most. And that's not Mike McCarthy's fault. And if he's gonna sit there and and and try to sit here and bear part of that blame, sorry, I'm not doing it.
It's not my fault. He gave Dak.
Money when you didn't need to, when we saw the best of Dak Prescott. For the last eight years, you haven't even gotten an NFC championship game past passed once.
What are you gonna do here? Now? What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?
We're gonna we're gonna suddenly get there with Dak in his thirties. No, but you want to blame me, You want to not give me a contract when during all this craziness and you being the de facto GM and making all these crazy moves and signing guys to contracts that you shouldn't be signing. I'm winning twelve games a year and we're and you don't know if you want me. I am gone. I am so gone. And I say on the way out, Jerry, not my fault. Dak sucked in the playoffs. Good luck. He's your issue now. If if you want to try to go forward, good luck making it work. With somebody else.
Yeah, a couple of things too.
And it's kind of funny that dan Quinn and his no show defense of twenty three becomes, Wow, dan Quinn, look at the job he did with one Washington this year, because they know showed that playoff game as bad as Dak was, that was off. You had even run around out.
Yeah, you at Jordan Love with a perfect quarterback right, that game got him forty minutes as it did.
Now we're questioning the availability of both starting quarterbacks for that playoff matchup later this week, but we'll get to that plenty of time over the course of the week.
From McCarthy.
Yeah, I mean, he's always going to be part of that equation where we were going to give more credit to the quarterback than the coach, especially in the aftermath.
Right with what we've seen.
Uh So it was always well Aaron Rodgers pulling his ass out of the fire, and that world that super Bowl win is so long in the rearview mirror. I get that night, certainly trumpet that all along super Bowl winning coach, but the what have you done for me lately? Well, you got twelve wins three years in a row. This isn't a week we eaked into the playoffs, or or we needed a bunch of help and we gave. We needed one of those great graphics that actually had to be put on two slides because so many things needed to happen. No, they played good football, winning football time and again. So yeah, you absolutely kicked the tires on him. What does he want to do? What does he know? How was he fix Caleb Williams in terms of how long he holds the football? The offensive line clearly needs to be worked. Ryan Pole's former offensive lineman who fired a guy midstream that he signed for a three year, thirty million dollar deal, should not be in charge of picking the groceries at that particular position. But that's me editorializing to a different level. For McCarthy, Yeah, if Jerry Jones hasn't decided on you now, even with all the glowing things, he talked for what almost an hour answering any question, and never even McCarthy question, was talking about how great he was, Like, So, how come this isn't signed? How come this isn't a done deal? How come this wasn't two months ago? You didn't end the speculation? Is there something in for tax purposes. You need his contract to expire.
Does anybody want to ask me about land Man, because like I could be in the oscars next year.
Anybody that's about that? Anybody? Anybody? No?
No, we want all right, because I'll bring in the Billy Bob guy to be the head coach.
You think or not? I saw him coach really good. He does have experience.
Almost beat Dallas Carter back with the Permian Panthers back in Oh wait, he mean he wasn't a real head coach, but that saw the movie look looked like he was a Oh he played a guy who was the head coach. Well, he still cuts a pretty good figure on the side. I'm gonna hire the guy.
So maybe you hire somebody and then Billy Bob Thornton's the guy on the sideline.
No, he's he's a guy in land Man. He's a guy on the sideline.
He's making the final call like like my, my, I'm gonna actually put an imprint a uh a chip micro chip in his ear where he can hear me at all times to keep him if I'm munching on popcorn, he's got to hear that.
Eight.
Billy Bob, why don't you run that play that won you that game in the semifinals that wants you run that, Okay, very good, give the ball to give the ball of billings Lee and uh, let let's let him get up front a little bit and then uh you want to get Komer in there and give it to him.
So uh, you know, kinda do those things.
You know what, the Billy Bob's a triple threat because you also have the box Masters, so he can you know, do fundraisers where he is the act and the entertainment.
Well, I'm going I'm eventually gonna be an egot guy because I'll get an Emmy for the for the land Man, I'll get a Grammy because I'm gonna do.
Christmas songs next year.
Would it be cool if he really showed up in you know, The Wicked part two and he was the real wizard and gold Bloom was just a decoy this whole time, Alphaba.
I'm not gonna pay you a lot of money. I'm gonna string this all the way till the end, and then I'm gonna pay you, all right, So just so just so you know, I'm gonna say things about it.
But in dangle dangle, like you're gonna be in charge.
Yeah, and then I'm gonna pay you, and then I'll pay g Linda or sorry, go Linda. I'll pay both of you, but just it's gonna take a while, and Steven will draw up the contracts and go, you Bach, you're not getting paid and uh you, Uh Fierro, you look like you're forty. You're supposed to be a guy in the movie who was like in his twenties, but you're like forty.
Yeah, the guy dancing I meant he needed some eyework. Can't help me. I'm short the defense for I do that.
I can't, can't do it.
He was dancing through life though, And uh, Nasa, you're gonna be my GM. I like the way. I like the way you think. But again, can't bring the guy with you. Has got to be You're not gonna pay both of you. Not gonna pay two people for one job.
Not gonna do it. What's trending in the wide.
From a guy who tried out for Fierro his senior year of college, but he was beat out by Bob Buker. Wow, it's Steve de Seger with what's trending?
I showed up in old Green, and they said, by the way, if it turned out that Jerry Jones actually was the Wizard of Oz, then I really would pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. By the way, the folks from Wicked were on stage. They actually did win an award at the Golden They went night. There's a new category that.
Made up award the box office, and Diesel came out There's Achievement won the Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence award.
So they beat out Gladiator, to Deadpool, Beetlejuice, etcetera.
Dude, Okay, if you beat out Gladiator two for something, can you really say it's was nominated.
On the first winner of that category last year was Barbie beating out Oppenheimer and others.
How could that be? You know who wins coming in?
How can you say that it's a degree an award because it's a TV show.
Hey, we gotta get Hey, how many upwards a Wicked win? None?
We gotta give them something. We get something, I give them that give them that crazy ass award?
All right? Good?
Look at all those Oscar ceremonies on TV where people can plain after it. You know, I haven't seen any of these things. It's that kind of thing. Okay, let's just create a category box office.
How about that. Okay, we got.
The people we liked watching on screen for the last few years.
Yes, give them award.
Jeff, because we paid for tickets.
You got me into the theater. Here's your award.
As the LJ leto line was, sometimes you've seen a movie, and he said, somebody got to give these people an award. In the NBA's late game, we've got Sacramento late in overtime, losing at home. It's Miami won twelve one to eleven over the Kings, who are at the line with one second to go down one. Sacramento with a twenty four to seven run to end regulation and send it to the OT. The Kings are playing without star d Aaron Fox out again with a bruised leg free throw good, one second to go, tie, game time out. Sacramento trying to win its fifth straight. Dallas lost its fifth straight, lost at Memphis one nineteen one oh four, and Kyrie Irving could miss one to two weeks with a bad back. Luka Donsich already out about a month. Minnesota beat the Clippers eight one oh six, Minnesota trailed by nineteen in the second quarter. Kawhi Leonard of the Clips made his season debut last Saturday after the knee injury. Was three of eleven shooting tonight eight points. Anthony Edwards thirty seven points in the win Chicago. That is correct, Well, no, those were other OHKA other Bowl games that you're thinking of. Chicago was down nineteen as well early third tonight and beat San Antonio one fourteen, won ten. Zach Lavine thirty five points. Orlando won at New York one oh three ninety four. Carl Anthony town So the Knicks was out with knee tendonitis. Phoenix ended a four game losing streak, winning at Philadelphia one O nine to ninety nine. Devin Booker of the Sons three of sixteen shooting from the floor, but did have ten assists. In college basketball's late game, Ohio State on FS one won it in two overtimes at Minnesota eighty nine eighty eight. The buck Guys got two free throws to tie it late in the first overtime when Minnesota fouled, not realizing the score.
In the NHL overtime, Ryan Day.
Just escapes finds a way to escape Montreal over Cooper in overtime five to four, and they have just ended the late game Devil's win three to two.
At Seattle, the Jacksonville Jaguars fired head coach Doug Peterson after three seasons there, Bengals fired defensive coordinator lou Anarumo after six years there. The Colts fired defensive coordinator Gus Bradley after three years, and Seattle fired offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb after one season. He had been at the University of Washington nearby the previous two seasons. Well, they're finishing up the game at Sacramento and they're going to a second overtime Miami against the Kings tied at one twelve.
Back to you, thank you, Steve O.
Did you see Kobe White post your eye wem beal final minute of the game?
Yes? Was that? Yeah?
Hey, you got that right? You can send me that picture that I'm would have put that in between by screensaver.
The Doors did not lead until the final minutes of the game.
Look at that when Minyama missed the thirty eight foot three point shots.
Which made one of those long runs in the last week. You could just reach over and drop it through that from thirty five out Sure, thank you, Steve Oick.
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It's not Cleveland. Now they're stuck with him. Remember he had a setback. The answer is next Jason and Mike Fox.
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon, Live Fromthtirack dot com Studios. Congratulations Trevor Lawrence and his wife, welcome to their first kid. Today, let's go. He needs to be on a different team, just like that, Just like.
You just expanded his team and now you want to kick him off. You had your chance, Smithew, what do you mean to have my Joey? How that blow? What are you talking about? Jet show?
Well, yeah, Frank Gore, Yeah, I still see Frank getting that first down, falling over.
Rushing yards. Ye, when you play for seventy four years, you're gonna set the record. And he's a guy that it happens, nobody remembers.
But today part of Black Monday, Black Monday, the Jaguars fired Doug Peterson, and it makes all the sense in the world for the Jaguars to trade Trevor Lawrence and for him to try to reboot his career someplace else.
It's been four years.
And Lawrence has been a league average quarterback who is tremendously overpaid, and the Jaguars it's just not working. You're hiring a new head coach. You brought in Doug Peterson to bring Trevor Lawrence along. It hasn't worked. Yeah, guys like Gino Smith, Sam Darnold, Oh, it takes a little bit longer, but they get it.
Yeah.
But what's the thing both of them in Any quarterback that makes it after a long time has to change locations. Sometimes you need a fresh start. And that's all the difference in the world. And Trevor Lawrence isn't going to be a big, superstar quarterback in Jacksonville, and the Jaguars paid him because they were afraid of what the optic would look like if we didn't pay Trevor Lawrence. Again, He's a league average quarterback. He's not terrible, he's not awful, He's not you know, just say, oh, we give all this money to Zach Wilson. But he's a league average quarterback. And after this amount of time, it's time.
To start over.
You brought in wide receivers for him, he brought in tight ends. He's had great weapons. He was hurt this year. But you can't afford to say we're gonna try to keep it going. Start over, especially because you have an off season in which the crop of rookie quarterbacks is not great and the crop of free agent quarterbacks is not great. Suddenly Trevor Lawrence available on a trade. There's a lot of teams are gonna say, well, twenty five years old, yes, we can fix them. We'll go back to the draft grade we had on him. He can unlearn his bad habits, he can get that fresh start. We've seen it work. Guys just have to be with the right head coach, the right system. We know Trevor Lawrence has the talent. Yes, we will trade for Trevor Lawrence. Now he's doing a lot of money, which means You're probably not gonna get a lot of draft picks for him, unless you figure out a way to split the money and you get draft picks. It's however the deal winds up being done, but the Jaguars will get out from under that money that they're overpaying Trevor Lawrence, start over at quarterback, be able to feel the better team and move forward, and a new team can say, hey, we feel really good starting over with Trevor Lawrence at twenty five, and we know what he's getting paid for the next few years, we're all set. We don't have to worry about paying them. We have to worry about where the market's gonna go and can we afford him. Do we have to know you know what he's gonna get paid. It's part of what you have. The salary cap is going up. But for the Jaguars, it's time for them to move on and for Lawrence, he should go someplace else to see if he can really be that great next level quarterback that we thought he was gonna o.
Zim an apology.
But we go down through the process for Trevor Lawrence and they've tried to make some moves. Obviously, you had Christian Kirk get injured, Travis Etn's not worked out the same way you would hope, but you found a little bit of a gem in bigs B Brian Thomas Junior comes in and he's a big deal. It would be a lot easier to say, hey, if you got rid of the GM as well.
And I get it.
You know, you and I talking about this, the number of starters on the team, but they really guys that elevate you because you had an opportunity here because Houston was not good in that division for a very long stretch of the season. Yet they walked and clinched that division pretty easily because everybody else was just such a dumpster fire along the way. So Peterson is out, Balky will continue to hold hold the bag here. Yeah, it's the curiosity of in the market where you don't have a huge rookie class that anybody trusts. Even the top guys cam Warden Shador Sanders both depending on which anonymous source you talked to, may not have day one grades on him.
Doesn't mean they're not gonna go one two.
But it's still that maybe, and you're always gonna hurt a guy when we do the idiotic every year generational guy. And that was Trevor Lawrence's well, because we heard about him he was a fresh year. We always hurt that tag guy. Yeah, we do it at least once every other year, if not every season. Like that guy's a generational talent. Get it to Caleb Williams. Is he a generational talent? It's got that could be pretty good. Still a lot to learn, uh, and a lot to undo in an organization. All that said, Trevor Lawrence, yeah, greener past years, you don't have a great free agent class. Right, it's led by three guys at the back end of their thirties or into their forties.
Look, and Zach Wilson, it's he's not leading anything. He just it's just say he's in the guy who's also on the list.
But in Jackson, you probably saw enough from Mac Jones that you just say, can we sign you to a friendly deal and be done with it? And and and bring in and bring in your quarterback room, make your quarterback room better, right, and say, okay, so now we're gonna we're still gonna draft a young quarterback, but it's going to be more of a developed developmental thing. And Mac Jones, because look, you're still got the same type of I told you you're the same type production from Mac Jones you're gonna get from Trevor Lawrence. Okay, and Thomas is something special. I'd like to see Trevor play a full season. But that's the thing now, is you have an injury history back to back years. Do you trust that you're getting a full run out of him? Much like the conversation we've been having with TOAs, sometimes a fresh start is what you bet. You can't continue to say, oh, we're gonna reboot and make.
It work here. No, you just Ryan.
Jack bringing Rex Ryan to coach the Jaguars. I wasn't saying that exit Rescae, exit swelling dumb. The Jason Smith Show with the Mike Carmen LIFTHTIREC dot Com Studios coming up next, Trevor Lawrence shouldn't be the only quarterback dealt this offseason.
Who is it that's next? Fox
