September 27, 2024 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon debate if they’ve seen enough from the Cowboys tonight to make them feel like they'll be anywhere close to elite this season. We head out to Vegas and check in with our guy Todd Fuhrman. Plus, more on the A’s playing their last game ever at the Coliseum in Oakland!
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In the biggest game of the night in Major League Baseball,
the Hadres had a two nothing lead over the Dodgers
into the seventh inning, and it looked like San Diego
is just going to continue to motor on. However, the
Dodgers have exploded for five runs in the bottom of
the seventh inning. Although Freddie Freeman has just gotten injured.
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We'll have more on that coming up in a second,
but a to nothing lead for the left the field.
And I always say there's always the moments when the
players don't know if the cameras are on, when you
when you really get the great measure of what somebody
is like.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And ceed Lamb is running off the field.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Tonight and he's coming off field, doesn't have his helmet,
bare hands, because that did bare hands play into this
coming off the field, no helmet, bare hands. He's running
through the tunnel into the locker room and a kid
who is at the edge is yelling at CD Lamb
and asking him for his gloves. Now, Ceedee Lamb, I
don't think has his gloves with him because as I said, he's.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You know, he's wearing bear and you just said that
I'll cut off my hands.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So a kid is yelling for him and shouting a CD,
can I have a pair of your gloves? Ceedee Lamb stops,
sees the kid takes off his cleats. You are rooting
for the giants, sucker, No takes off his cleats, runs
over to where the kid because the kid is up
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higher than Ceede Lamb right, because he's up in the
stands a little bit higher. He takes off both of
his cleats and he runs over and he goes and
he jumps up in the air, gives the kid the
first cleat, kid grabs it, takes off, give the kid
the second cleat, but he doesn't grab it and it
drops and Ceedee Lamb catches it. He catches it the
second time because a kid can't grab it, catches it
(02:45):
a third time, and finally leaps up and the kid
is able to get the cleat. He gives his cleats
to a kid and he runs up the tunnel in
his socks. Just an incredible moment right there, like this
is you know, I keep seeing this and I go,
this is just awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Did any adult try to steal the cleats from me?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Is Zach Campbell jumped in front and tried to grab it,
and then the guy that took the ball from that
kid for Otani's no, no, you know, and no one's
watching like you can tell like there's a camera rolling
but Ceedee Lamb doesn't know if any cameras are rolling
on here, so that's not like, oh, I know the
camera's following me and I'm gonna do something good. Nobody's
else's coming off the field. That looks like he's the
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last guy off the field, to be quite honest, maybe
he was there, maybe he's coming off doing an interview
with Thursday Night Football. We don't know when exactly this happened,
but everybody else is on the field walking around as
far as media members, he's one of the last ones
on and he just comes in. There's no cameras around him.
This is probably a camera that's a good thirty feet
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away from him that just happened to be rolling.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And you see ceed Lamb and.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You see him give the cleats to the kid, and
it's just it's just such a great moment. I just
retweeted out there on Twitter at how about a fresca?
And I just love stuff like this, you know because
in a time when athletes, when sometimes things they do
so many things are calculated. Right, I'm gonna do this
great thing because I know cameras are here, I'm gonna
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get publicity for it. But it's it's it's it's moments
like this that I go, yeah, that that that's a
really cool thing, right, like like Starling Marte. Right, as
much as you know, I keep saying, just throw Starling Marte.
Uh curve, curves and sliders that go five feet outside
the strike zone. You can't lay off him right for
all that, but I love Starling Marte because what he
does is at the end of every inning, when he
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goes to warm up, he throws a ball to a
kid in the outfield. So he goes out to right field,
warms up before the inning, and always throws a ball
to a kid before the inn So that's nine times
a game that a kid will get a ball, Marty
will warm up and throw them a ball. And that's
like nobody knows that. Nobody knows that happens, right, And
there's no cameras on Starling. I only know because when
I go to Mets games, and you know, at Dodgers
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Day wherever it is, I see him and I see
him do it, and it's a really really cool thing.
Like the cameras aren't on for something like that, and
the ammer's not on for this, and Cite Lamb goes
and gives these kids his cleats, and not only that,
he could have just thrown that second clean up there
and then said, you know you couldn't grab it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Hey, I gotta go, man, somebody else will pick that
up and give it to you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But no, no, three times three times ceedee Lamb does
it and gives it to him. And he doesn't see
the kid coming in. He has no idea because he's
running by and the kid yells his name. He doesn't
know anything about this kid could be wearing a Daniel
Jones jersey for all he knows, like oh CDCD, and
he still goes back and gives him as cleats.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
By the way, a.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Fan of the game always got to be looking out
for the younger ones.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And we see this with some regularity.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
The glove, the glove thing has really become a coveted item.
The arm bands, not the wristband with plays on, and
that'd be kind of funny, but the you know, the
other wristbands and you know sometimes embrace now and again
you have the sleeves that'll get tossed up as well.
So but to give the cleats man, that's some next
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level stuff right there. Man's that's a happy souvenir for
a youngster. As Harry Carey would say, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Know, And for me, I'm like, boy, if I get
a pair of cleats, are a parachute that I really like.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Giving them up. Man, Let's say, Hey, it takes me.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I got if I got really wild, break them in,
you know, I get that off.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm good. Yeah, well yeah I got to I could
have to double.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, I got to double not them, and I got
to put the the the air fresheners in at night
and everything. Ah, it's just very difficult. No, but look
there's something we said because look a lot of players,
they all like new stuff. Uh you know, you know
we we've heard that many times from players. They want
to look good, they want to wear new things all the.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Game, the game, custom painted, custom, you know, custom made, custom, paid,
custom fitted.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Right. But still these are his cleats and you know,
you know they still had some wear in him. Whatever
it was.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And and he gave him to this kid, and that
was it was. Really he doesn't know the cameras are on,
and he does it and that's such a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Well and he was smoking on that fifty five yard
touchdown reception, so maybe he burned off the cleats.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's you know, that's never happened in NFL history. Wids.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'd like to see a wide receiver catching a ball,
running for a touchdown, and he's so fast and so
far behind.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The guy's chasing him. He lights up a.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Cinnarette and just smokes as he's You know, he would
have gotten the same fifteen yard taunting penalty that he
got anyway, So what the hell's the difference?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You want to talk about our soft call?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
My goodness, lighting up a heater on number eighty eight offense,
that's a fifteen yard penalty to be enforced on the kickoffs.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Kane Lamb was doing.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
His tribute to Len Dawson on the play. He sat
down on his helmet in the end zone and lit
a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
You just seem he's running for a touchdown and then
just like a big puff of smoke comes out of
the ear holes of.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The helvet because guy's smoking a cigarette. You can't catch me.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I'm still running, still running with a cigarette, and he's
coming out of the ears of the helvet.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So excitable. How got you all giddy? Because the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Clinched the chiefs idiot that was smoking in the locker
room back in the day, Dawson. Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
At the halftime of the Super Bowl, that famous video
of him having a heater and drinking a fresca, right, like,
that's that's that famous video of halftime a super Bowl,
the one they won, right, so that was Super Bowl too.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
So be honest, that's really why you call yourself? How
about a fresca?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I yeah, and that's why I'm
only five nine, because I smoked so much when I
was a kid.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's stunted my ground. That's what it was, was.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Me not sleeping, drinking coffee and bad.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah. I could have been six seven, six eight, Yeah,
I could have been that.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Cake, could have been a giant Joel.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
That's cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Too many cigarettes me and it's just smoking cigarettes with
each other.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
That's all cesspenous. We hadn't had his name on the
show in a while. I'm gonna pull one out for
him right now.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Does that back to a Colosseum highlight? Remember that throw
at the Colosseum? Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Could there we wait? Wait, which which throw? What are
you talking about?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Really? Look it out? You don't deserve it. Then you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Said Colosseum, and I'm thinking, yeah I remember, but yes, yes,
from from left field, from the corner.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
All the way home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
No, he wasn't gonna fire up the USC marching.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
No, I was just because you know what, you got
me because my head got ahead of my mouth. And
I'm thinking, could there be a cigarettes podcast where like
athletes just get around smoke cigarettes and talk about sports.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Dude, we should get that together. We could find that
and then they just smoke cigarettes. They can bring whatever
they need.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, they have comedians getting coffee and cars. We could
have athletes smoking cigarettes in a room.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
A lot of hiking videos. It's too much exercise. We're
not doing that.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, no, no, no, no, why would you want that's?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
How about we do one when we take people bowling.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And then every time they talk, you can't hear them
because you hear the and he may have.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Said something dinners and never call him again. That's right,
Hey mom, Good times.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
live from the tirec dot Com Studios. So yeah, look,
so for the Cowboys, they hold off the Giants and
they win twenty to fifteen, and I know that. Look,
I come down hard on the Cowboys tonight because they
just didn't look.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Good well, and they didn't cover for the seventy eight
percent of the population that be minus five and a half.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That that that is true, That is, they did not.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
They not seventy eight percent of bets.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But the Cowboys did do exactly what they needed to do.
They needed to win more than anything, right, because if
you lose tonight, the season was over, like that was it.
You're you're one in three and you can't beat the Giants,
a team that you regularly steamroll, the season would have
been over. So now now they're two and two and
things are still possible for them. Right. I'm not saying
that I'm coming from the from the aspect of I
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just don't see that this team is that great. I
don't see anything that tells me, Hey, the Cowboys are
gonna get it going.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Who's gonna run the football?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They're gonna find Deuce Vaughan finally week nine and give
him the ball and he's gonna be great now of course,
not that they're gonna find another wide receiver that's gonna
catch a ton of pass. No, what's Ceedee Lamb and
maybe Ferguson and maybe that's what they have going on.
They're limited right and defensively, who knows whether Micah Parsons,
you know, he left the game with an injury tonight.
(11:12):
You know, obviously they have ten days off in between games,
but Digs got hurt too.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
This is already a defense that.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Has not been good, that's gotten torched by a high
level quarterback in Lamar Jackson, a mid level quarterback, and
Derek Carr and a low level quarterback, and Daniel Jones
who couldn't throw deep and still through for like two
seventy seven and nearly pulled off the upset tonight. So
I just don't see for the Cowboys, where hey, the
sun is shining and we're gonna be great right now,
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the NFC East isn't as good as we thought of it. No,
the Commanders might be a little bit better, the Giants
might be a little bit worse. The Eagles are still
the Eagles. Everything is still where it is as far
as the division. But you're the Cowboys and you're saying
this is about playing one or two weeks into January,
you know, an outside of that, and I just don't
see it with this team. And I don't see how
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suddenly something happens in their formula to change things right,
because they didn't go out and get anybody.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
To make this team better.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
In the offseason, Jerry Jones decided, I'm not gonna spend right,
so it's the same team as last year. And when
the same team as last year isn't good enough. When
you're a year older, you don't suddenly just get better.
So I don't If I could see a ride to
the rescue, great, I could see that. Like for the Jets,
I could see, Hey, if Aaron Rodgers keeps getting better
and better, oh my god, they might be unbeatable. Hey
if Josh Allen really is better without Stefan Diggs and
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he can spread the ball around, guess what. The Bills
might be the best team in the conference. If the
Steelers stick with Justin Fields and don't go back to
Russell Will so they could be in the AFC Championship.
There's certain teams that have talent that I can see
the possibility of growth for. I can see them from
this point in the season to the end going all right,
this is why they got so good, this is why
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they were elite because player X or Schemex was able
to go to have a positive trajectory. I just don't
see that trajectory anywhere with the Cowboys, Like what, like
Dak is gonna be better than he was last year,
He's gonna throw the ball more. I see the Lamb's
gonna have a bigger year he did a year ago. Like,
I don't know where that growth is gonna be from
the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, I think you're looking at in the secondary. You
got Digs back, so that was the one big acquisition,
a guy coming back off injury, right, But Bland got
hurt and eventually he'll return to the secondary, so that
shores up a little bit. We'll see what the results
of the MRI on Micah Parsons are. But through the
first couple of weeks of the season he was playing,
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when he played well as a one man gang, wasn't
getting a lot of support, right, and that was called
out time and again, and even his contribution at times.
You know, we even highlighted it during the course of
the show tonight. And Andrew Thomas did a fantastic job
on him in his pass rush. At one point it
was fourteen head to head one on one matchups and
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there was only one pressure allowed. Did have a nice
stunt on him where he crippled the ball carrier five
yards behind the line of script mid Jamaine. That was
a blow up kind of play. But overall, you know
you've got that side. Okay, they'll they'll be functional and
they've got some winnable games on the schedule. When you
look at it from the what Zimmer and the defense
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are building offensively unless Dalvin Cook can suddenly turn back
time and search share highlight here that you're not getting
anything from the run game, right ric O'donald's just a guy.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Ezekiel Elliott was at his.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Peak when Jerry Jones and company found him on that
island and you know, hanging out on the beach in
Mexico a couple of years ago. Beyond that, you don't
have much and you've got two receivers that you trust.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I mean, look at Geyton. He had a couple of
big plays for them last week. The only time he
was on the field with any consequence. Today he was
committing penalties on kickoffs.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And and with a you know, pass interference that negated
what was a pretty good place. So you know, you've
got Ferguson, You've got Ceedee Lamb. You need to find
another more consistent option in the receiving game for Dak Prescott.
Like I said, I love Brandon Aubrey, and I do
a somewhat tongue in cheek, but he can't be your
best player. You can't win consistently into January just kicking
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field goals. You gotta be able to finish drives. And
that's why, as much as I love Pittsburgh, I need
to see more than Boswell, not bos Lee. Boswell by
the way, Dallas and Pittsburgh.
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Coming up next, Well, we took a look back at
Thursday Night football with the Cowboys went over the Giants.
What about the big action coming up the next couple
of days we go to Vegas and see, hmm, how
are some games gonna turn out? Big ones next Jason
and Mike Fox.
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The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
aus Right now, Mike Harmon and I watching a lot
of shirtless men doing interviews in the Dodger locker room.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I keep waiting for somebody. YEO, Hot round, Hot round,
get that camera off.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Champagne flowing. Dodgers clinch YNL West title. They're eleventh title
in the last twelve seasons. They will now turn their
attention to two things, Freddy Freeman's health and the playoffs.
As far as Freddie Freeman goes, he was seen in
a walking boot following the game tonight in the Dodger
(17:00):
locker room, turned his ankle a little bit trying to
evade a tag at first base in the seventh inning.
Uh but he will have some time most likely, uh
to heal. I got to think we've seen the last
of him in the regular season. The Dodgers now head
to Colorado with the NL West title in the shirtless
kershaw Yoh now we got we got shirtless curse Shaw
answering questions right now. Uh So again, I say, I've
(17:23):
seen a bunch of guys in no shirts answering questions.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's just like, just just like my house. This is
what people come to the door. I got I answer
the door with no shirt on. Hey, what do you want?
I'll answer questions for you. Uh So the Dodgers are
back in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, they are looking for a World Series title. What
kind of favorites are they? Are they even close to
being the favorites? Let's go to Vegas. Joining us now
in the hot line. Longtime front of the show, former
rots maker at Caesars. Check out the bet the Board podcast.
You see him on CBS as well. It is our
man in Sin City, Todd Furman, Tom, what's happening?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Bud's vote to great Lou Brown? We wear caps and
sleeves in this league, gentlemen. That's how things kind of work.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I was going to quote Lou Brown ago, nice catch, Hayse,
don't ever like to do that again.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean you may hit,
I mean, you may hit like me, but you never mind,
we'll believe it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So as we sit now, we're seeing clinching happening in
Major League Baseball going through here. If I to say
to you partlay the World Series teams for me, who
are you recommending?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
I mean, look, I mean you see the landscape of
the National League. It's hard to make a compelling case
for the Dodgers is a short shot. You wonder how
they're able to cobble together twenty seven outs on a
gaming game out basis with a staff that's really left
something to be desired. We know, from an offensive capability standpoint,
they check a lot of the boxes. But I'd be
more compelled to make a case for, you know, maybe
the Phillies or the Padres that come out of the
National League. I don't think the Brewers have enough in
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terms of their ability generate offense. And while we've seen
some of the Cinderella teams that have to continue to
be working with this playoff mentality, you know, maybe it
does create a pass to the Diamondbacks if they're able
to get in, because I do think from a pitching
staff standpoint, that group is as talented as any as
far as the American League is concerned. Look, I grew
up a Yankee fan, a roof of the Yankees, but
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I don't think that they have what it takes to
get out of the American League. Houston still has plenty
more questions that have to be answered than anybody. And
while I think people sleep on the Guardians for some
of their offensive shortcomings, Look, it's a bullpen that's more
than capable of, you know, buttoning things up in the seventh, eighth,
and ninth inning. So I'd be looking to come from
off the pace and maybe take a shot with the Guardians.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
From the bookmaker's side of things, though, the Dodgers Yankees
is best case scenario worse.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I mean yeah, I mean look from a handle standpoint.
From a TV viewership for Fox, I mean, people want
to see Dodgers Yankees, and maybe it's the one time
where you know, these two teams, while having short odds,
you know, don't look to be the perfect batch of
postseason teams capable of making a run. But honestly, you
look at the landscape all over and it wouldn't shock
if any of these teams got hot enough to go
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out there and win the World Series for the first
time in a long time. It doesn't feel like we
have a dominant side. And you know, as we know,
a playoff baseball can be more fickle than any other postseason.
All takes the team getting hot and you know, never
looking back to try and capture the ultimate goal in
the Commissioners Trophy.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All right, Tom, we saw the Cowboys beat the Giants tonight.
We look ahead and nowt of some of the action
this week and got the two Bet the Board podcast
up one college football, and obviously when everybody wants to know,
you got Alabama, you got Georgia.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's a two point spread. What do you like in
this game?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
You know, I wish I had a strong conviction from
a betting standpoint. If I was forced to bet this contest,
I would lean towards Georgia as the number trends down
closer to pick them. I know it's a Bulldogs team
that's a little bit banged up, but they've had two
weeks to kind of correct some of what went wrong
in that thirteen to twelve win at Lexington against the
Kentucky Wildcats where they close north of a three touchdown favorite.
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I mean, assuming the number holds here and there's a
chance we could see a flip of favorites, this will
mark the first time in one hundred and thirteen games
going all the way back to two thousand and seven,
that Alabama could play a game in Tuscaloosa where they
would be listed as a home underdog. It's the longest
streak we've seen in the FBS in thirty years. I
will say the overtook a little bit of money earlier
today the forty eight and a half turned into forty
nine and a half and fifty. Kalin de Bore probably
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going to come in with an aggressive game plan, looking
at test Kirby Smart's defense that hasn't given up a
touchdown in four games. But you know, a fascinating chess match.
I found myself on the over in the SEC title
game last year. Didn't get there Kirk because Kirby was stubborn.
You have to think, if you have a quarterback that's
going to be one of the top guys off the board,
you need to trust your ability to get after the
Alabama secondary. It's a group that potentially would have given
(21:32):
up some real big plays against USF if they had
a quarterback cable of completing the deep ball.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Top twenty five matchup Louisville at Notre Dame. Seven points
the number in Louisville yet to commit a turnover, forty
six the total. Can they go and sting the Irish
at home?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
It'll be interesting to see if Louisville can put together
a more complete offensive effort than what we saw last week. Now.
I know they did cover in a thirty one to
nineteen win against Georgia Tech, but needed a defensive touchdown
and a special team score to get them across the
finish line. Struggled to really hold down that Georgia Tech
offense led by Haines King, and well, Notre Dame doesn't
scare you much with a vertical passing game by any stretch.
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What the Irish do you bring to the table is
one of the more underrated defenses in the country. Al
Golden should have a few wrinkles to try and take
away some of Bill's limited weapons. Tyler Schuck, though a
talented quarterback, I know he has been oft injured through
stop at Georgia, Georgia, Oregon, excuse me, in Texas Tech.
But at the same time he is the ultimate facilitator.
This number at seven doesn't interest me much, but I
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do think we could see defense ruling today, especially early on.
So if you can find a twenty three in the
first half, that would probably be the way I would
look to Tangle and make sure you're checking those weather forecasts.
We could see a little bit of a residual rain
from the hurricane impacting South Bend right around pickup time.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Vegas insider Todd Furman our guest to Jason smithser with
Mike Carmon live from the tyrec dot Com studios. Nowt
if you listen to Todd last week, he told you
how interested he was watch the Denver Broncos problems they
can give to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And you probably said,
wait what and look what happened this week, Todd. I
know part of your bet the Board podcast in the NFL,
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you like what the Bucks defense can do to Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Okay, so what can they do to Jalen Hurts they
couldn't do to bon Nicks.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, what I think they do to Jalen Hurts is
neutralize them offensively. Given the fact that Philadelphia will most
likely be going into this game a little bit handcuffed,
playing their second road game in as many weeks against
an NFC Syals opponent and most likely going to be
forced to do so without aj Brown dealing with that
hamstring injury and Devonte Smith, who I don't anticipate clearing
concussion protocol. And that's even before we get into the
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offensive line where the Eagles could be down late Johnson
as well. We know how different this group looked offensively
in the past, and they had Jason Kelsey and Lane
Johnson missing time that overlap. I'm not sure they have
the continuity from a veteran leadership standpoint yet. Mackai Becken
landon Dickerson banged up, and when I look at what
Tampa can do on the defensive side, you know Vitaveyas
should be out there to clog the middle. And it
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just is the kind of game where you're going to
have some weather, It could be a little bit of
a slop fest out there. It feels like the big
plays will be kept to a minimum and you will,
no doubt get a much more focused Bucks team on
the defensive side than the lethargic effort we saw last week,
which was more a byproduct of the schedule anything else,
and why it's led me to betting the Denver Broncos
plus the six and a half. Didn't think it would
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come that easy, though, at the tune of a twenty
six to.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Seven win, Todd as we sit here late on a
Thursday night, the reports on Jordan Love is that he's
quote unquote close packers with a couple of wins. With
Malik Willis, they are either three or two and a
half point favorites depending where you're shopping, based on what
I'm looking at right here after the line open at
four and a half? Does Sam Darnold continue his magic
at Green Bay?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
I mean look apparently like most players when they leave
the Jets, that when their careers really take off.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Top and he's been to like.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Four other teams. He's been to like four other teams,
as as Geno Smith as.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
A cold, it takes time to.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Go away, and Benker Mayfield never played for the Jets,
just so he never played for the Jets.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
The stench of being a yet it takes a little
while to wash off, and in the case of Sam Darnold,
he had to wash the stent should be a Carolina
panther off as well, which can be a lot for
one man to kind of overcome during a short NFL career.
But when you look at this Vikings offense, they've clearly
been the surprise and Kevin O'Connell deserves a world of
credit getting the best out of the former top draft
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pick who never lived up to his potential. But when
you have some of the weapons that they'd like to
do at their disposal, you're seeing that on full display.
Brian Flores defensively, his schemes some unique things up, really
putting opposing quarterbacks heads into a pretzel as they try
and sort out what kind of looks they're going to see.
This game is interesting because you mentioned the Jordan Love situation,
and if Jordan Love does get upgraded, I expect Green
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Bay to leak out to probably a three and a
half point favorite in the total to tick up as well.
That's where I would look to jump in on the
Vikings if I could get them plus the field goal. Oh,
I should say plus three and a half. We're better
in this spot. And maybe look to come under an
inflated total. I think the Vikings will struggle to move
the ball a little bit, as Shail Alexander against Justin
Jefferson should be a fun match up, and I don't
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expect Jordan Love to be close to one hundred percent
in this spot. So given the familiarity in the division,
it feels like underdog and under make a world of
sense if Love is back under center for the Green
Bay Packers.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is at Todd
Ferman get the links out of the Bet the Board podcast,
all his thoughts on all the other week four games
in the NFL, other big college thoughts for the weekend
coming up as well.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Todd, appreciate it, my friend. We will talk to you
next week. Have a great one.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Always a pleasure and Smith. I don't often say nice
things about the Mets, but the conundrum that Major League
Baseball has created with the doubleheader on Mondays to get
the Braves and Mats, who are going to have their
rotations thrown completely into flux if they do get in
the playoffs. One of the more head scratching moves that
the MLB couldn't come up with a contingency plan, knowing
that weather was going to impact the final two games
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of that series.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, look, if it's not interesting, if it's not the Mets, right,
nothing's easy.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's always fun, it's always interesting.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
It'll make it mean that much more when they finally
push the finish line.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Ah, thanks a bunch, buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
We'll talk to you next week. You got always to begin,
all right, There goes Todd Furman.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Hey, speaking of Vegas, how about Mike and I give you.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Our weekly parlay where we take a player we like
over under and we tell you what we think. We
talked about this guy earlier in the week, and both
you and I like him a lot. He was a
big free agent pickup. The over under for Rashawn Johnson
rushing yards this week for the Bears is twenty two
and a half. I love this over. He's winning the
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job from DeAndre Swift, who is just not good right,
and the Bears need some kind of production as they
struggle to try to figure out Caleb Williams and going forward.
And he's a guy that was drafted last year. They
thought he was gonna jump in and be even better
a year ago. He wasn't they signed Swift. He's not
the answer. Johnson's getting a bigger role. He had to
carries last week. I love over twenty two and a
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half yards of him.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
This week, I would agree with you.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I think when you've got a bad offensive line, let's
get a guy that likes to run north south as
a bow to skipping and hopping east to west, as
you've seen with DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I'm gonna take Michael Pittman.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Junior forty five and a half yards and I'm gonna
take the under.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
It's been awful thus far.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Eleven catches on twenty targets thirty one, twenty one, thirty
six yards, that's what you've got. And the scattershot Anthony
Richardson under center against the scheme of schemes the Pittsburgh defense.
No thank you. Moving on, I'd rather take a shot
that Alec Pierce finds another one from fifty yards out
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that falls into a bread basket. Either way, it's a
no fly zone for me there.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You can give me an over under of five yards
from a Colts wide receivers in this game, and I'll
take the under look.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
He throws it to Pierce, enough that one falls in.
But Miko true, at least at the five yard. Beyond that,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Of his seventy five yards passing a fifty five yard
to Alec Pierce and then everybody else is under five.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
It's a tough watch, right, Seventy five doesn't mean it
doesn't give you some fantasy numbers for the Richardson side
of things once he runs the ball and et cetera.
But well, I tell you that's sixty sixty minutes of
hell to steal from Nolan Richardson.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
At times there is our parlay.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I like the over for Shawn Johnson, Mike Scott, the
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Speaker 8 (30:19):
Dodgers had a chance to clinch tonight Hollow right.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Field Taylor calling for it.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Still yes the League West Covision tappions. That is the
call on Dodgers Radio AM five seventy in Los Angeles.
The Dodgers now four games over the Padres in the
NL West with three games left in the regular season.
They've clinched, as you mentioned, eleventh time in the last
twelve years they won the division crown before this the
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Dodgers had eleven division titles total since they went to
divisions back in the late nineteen sixties. Freddie Freeman did
limp off with an ankle injury. X rays were negative.
He's on crutches and in a walking boot. He's not
going to have to play this weekend now that they've clinched.
In fact, apparently he will stay back in LA and
not go on the road, and Freeman said doctors and
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trainers are optimistic he can play the next Saturday. Dodgers
won tonight seven to two over San Diego, getting five
runs in the bottom of the seventh to take the lead. Earlier,
it was the Yankees clinching the Al East, beating the
Orioles ten to one. Aaron Judge with his fifty eighth
home run. Minnesota lost at home in thirteen innings to Miami,
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eight to six, so the Twins are three games out
of the final Ale Wild Card. Seattle is eliminated. Kansas
City won with three runs stop of the ninth one,
seven to four at Washington Detroit one. It's fifth in
a row, four to three over Tampa Bay with two
runs in the bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
The Tigers host the.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
White Sox starting tomorrow night. Oakland at home beat Texas
today three to two, the a's last game in Oakland
to the NFL contest Tonight. Dallas was a twenty to
fifteen winner at the Giants Dak Prescott with two touchdown
passes in the first half, including a fifty five year
arder to Ceedee Lamb. Cowboys did have eleven penalties, and
defensive end Micah Parsons left with an ankle injury.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
X rays were negative.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Malik Neighbors in the lost twelve catches one hundred and
fifteen yards. He left late with a concussion. The Giants
went five for five on field goals but had no touchdowns.
Giants as a team on the ground twenty four carries
twenty six yards, so they've now lost seven times head
to head in a row to Dallas and thirteen of
their last fourteen matchups. Texans running back Joe Mixon misspractice
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again with an ankle injury. Eagles wide receiver aj Brown
misspractice with the bad hamstring. Lions tight end Sam Laporta
did not practice sprained ankle. In the WNBA Chicago reportedly
fired coach Teresa Weatherspoon and guard Derreck Rose retired from
the NBA. You know, guys, you've talked about WNBA tonight,
and we talked about this before. By when Caitlin Clark's on,
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they get the most viewers. Prior to this season, no
WNBA game had hit one million viewers since two eight,
Candice Parker's debut. Now, including the playoff last night, twenty
six w NBA telecast this season have top one million viewers,
with Caitlin Clark involved in twenty two of the twenty
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six Back to.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
You, that means four there she wasn't that's right, but.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Two of those were at the back end of TV
doubleheaders after a.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Clark positivity though. Yeah, I mean you kept your lead.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
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Baselss A piece of audio that there's a seventy percent
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Here it is by Mason.
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He turns, He's ready, He throws in it, swung on
and hit the third.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He was stuff up with it, Schuman.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
He turns, he throws in the as a runner, Mason
Miller slams the door on.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
The Rangers as the curtain comes.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Down on fifty seven incredible years of a baseball at
the Colisseum.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, moneyball music makes it hit a little bit different,
doesn't It makes you want to cry.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I want to cry just hearing that.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Can we get the the Little Girl's Song to play
us out to?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Oh no, but I'll call you a loser anytime you
want me to. You such your loser, Mike, You such
your loser. MI just enjoy the show.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, the demons in my head don't do that enough.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Jerk, You're such a losive. You wanted this song, I'm
giving you.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
The song sounds better when she sings it now it
just sounds hateful.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
How It ended today in Oakland for the A's their
final game before the team moves to Sacramento and maybe Vegas, you.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Know, maybe back into the possome possum Man to Oakland
Alameda County Coliseum at some point.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Make sure the coliseum still works, okay, because you may
need to move back at some point. I'm just saying
it may not work out in Vegas, so you might
want to go back.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
The biggest thing for me, though, Jason, was all the
videos that showed up online and the photo tributes to
the people that had been working there for thirty years,
or the fans that were holding up here. I was
in nineteen seventy five with my dad and I'm here
for the final game and things like that. And you're
talking hundreds of folks who now are displaced and have
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to go find new gigs, and fans that have to
decide how often they want to go to Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Look the ground screw guy who was crying doing the
field for the last time.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Shoveling dirt and water bottles for people and crying.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You know. The thing is is that it looks to
try to take such a really sad story and just
you know, just it's a lot of sadness.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Whenever you see a team.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Have to move, it always they didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
No, it didn't right, And that's the thing, Right, I've
had one of my teams move. I had the Whalers
move from Hartford to Carolina. Uh, it's this is a
little bit different. This is this is a one and
more tried and true MLB franchises that that won multiple
championships in the seventies, were the best team in baseball
in the late eighties early nineties. You had Moneyball, the movie.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
You knew it was ending.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
And watching this game today, watching the pregame, uh, and seeing.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
How the game went.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
This was about all you could expect and the best
you could expect from a situation like this. You knew
it was going to be emotional. You knew there was
going to be some bitter. You knew it was going
to be bittersweet.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You knew you.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Wanted to be fun. You wanted to just have a
day where you celebrated the team. And I saw all
of that today. I could have sit and just watch
them cut away to people in the stands wearing Raleigh
Fingers jerseys and Mark McGuire Jerseys, Ricky Henderson Jerseys, Tim
Hudson Jerseys, Barry Zito sings the Bleeping.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
An the Man. I mean, he didn't even his guitar
with him, though I know, well I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
I think he Bernie Williams now it's a jazz guitar.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
It was as good a day as you could expect,
knowing that this was the last time you were going
to see a game in Oakland, and I don't know
that it could have gone off any better. Right, the
smoke bombs in the outfield, Mark Kottse's speech at the end,
we had to keep it short because he was gonna cry.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Just the love affair with the players and the fans.
It really, it really was some kind of way.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
To end it.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
And as you know, Tony Stark said, right, part of
the journey is the end. Right, this was the end,
and you wanted it to end as well as it could.
I don't know that it's gonna end any better than
it did today with one hundred and.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Four mile an hour pitch, So you know, I wonder
if the radar guns are juiced, But either way, it's
it's all good. I mean, we just to see that
stadium full. I mean I spent many a day there
when I lived in the Bay Area. Oftentimes, you know,
you find a way to get out of the office,
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and and that was where you found a little bit
of respite, going to watch what you were covering the
rest of your your waking hours building websites and responding
to customer support requests. When I was at Yahoo and
and you get on reports, I did.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
But I got it. But I got to love those
A's teams back in the day the huts.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
We told you we're putting the covers on the reports
now right, we told you're.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Putting No, I don't do covers.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
We're doing it requires colored ink and that costs more money.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
All of high britt and black.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
All of the memo dropped off to you so you
can so you can read that.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I told you I have the memo.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
So while we say farewell to the A's, we say
hello to another vision title for the Dodgers. Right eleven
in the last twelve years. Two big takeaways from this
game tonight. The Dodgers have not one of the things.
I'll just say this, one of the things that's really
been affecting the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Who is their emotional leader? Right?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
You look at the playoffs and falling short. I don't
see the emotion from the Dodgers that you get from
other teams in the playoffs. And is that a part
of why the Dodgers go home and don't win the
World Series every year?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
They put together a team for moneyball and using analytics
and not moneyball, but using analytics, and yeah, this is
kind of the team.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
They put together. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
The last week and a half couple of weeks, they're
finding show hey, Otani is their emotional leader. He is
just a different guy on the base pass with the team,
talking to guys, the celebration, his go ahead hit in
the seventh, he's screaming as he's rounding first base. I
think the Dodgers are finding that emotional and that emotional
leader and a guy who doesn't need to do anything
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more for the team because he does everything. But now
add this for show hao time.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Now at this point, it's why not this too?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I Mean, Kershaw can't be that guy from.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Where he is right now. He's on the comeback trail
and all of that. Mookie Betts followed up, O'donnie's hit
with a little bit of that, but that's generally not
been his mo so for show. Hey, I mean he
did it on the base paths when he said, all right,
we got to generate runs somehow when guys were struggling.
Here if I'm on second, does this help? Does this help?
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So why not be the screamer while you're at it?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Two?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Because the pitchers can't because they're ru on the mountain
for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
And I'll tell you this my other takeaway real quick.
I know the Dodgers pitching is going to be just
ever every day, flying by the seat of their pantscau.
Their starting pitching is terrible, but they have locked down
the eighth and ninth innings with Blake Trot and Michael Kopek.
They are turning these games into seven inning games because
these guys are both lights out.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Look at it.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
You can't approve the starting pitching, hey, shorten the game,
and that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Your former white side ace is now closing games. Mike Harmen.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
At least he's doing some good somewhere.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
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Joys e erosion of emotion, a.
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Reversal of fortune.
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In the biggest game of the night in Major League Baseball,
the Hadres had a two nothing lead over the Dodgers
into the seventh inning, and it looked like San Diego
is just going to continue to motor on. However, the
Dodgers have exploded for five runs in the bottom of
the seventh inning. Although Freddie Freeman has just gotten injured.
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We'll have more on that coming up in a second,
but a to nothing lead for the left the field.
And I always say there's always the moments when the
players don't know if the cameras are on, when you
when you really get the great measure of what somebody
is like.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And ceed Lamb is running off the field.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Tonight and he's coming off field, doesn't have his helmet,
bare hands, because that did bare hands play into this
coming off the field, no helmet, bare hands. He's running
through the tunnel into the locker room and a kid
who is at the edge is yelling at CD Lamb
and asking him for his gloves. Now, Ceedee Lamb, I
don't think has his gloves with him because as I said, he's.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
You know, he's wearing bear and you just said that
I'll cut off my hands.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
So a kid is yelling for him and shouting a CD,
can I have a pair of your gloves? Ceedee Lamb stops,
sees the kid takes off his cleats. You are rooting
for the giants, sucker, No takes off his cleats, runs
over to where the kid because the kid is up
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higher than Ceede Lamb right, because he's up in the
stands a little bit higher. He takes off both of
his cleats and he runs over and he goes and
he jumps up in the air, gives the kid the
first cleat, kid grabs it, takes off, give the kid
the second cleat, but he doesn't grab it and it
drops and Ceedee Lamb catches it. He catches it the
second time because a kid can't grab it, catches it
(02:45):
a third time, and finally leaps up and the kid
is able to get the cleat. He gives his cleats
to a kid and he runs up the tunnel in
his socks. Just an incredible moment right there, like this
is you know, I keep seeing this and I go,
this is just awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Did any adult try to steal the cleats from me?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Is Zach Campbell jumped in front and tried to grab it,
and then the guy that took the ball from that
kid for Otani's no, no, you know, and no one's
watching like you can tell like there's a camera rolling
but Ceedee Lamb doesn't know if any cameras are rolling
on here, so that's not like, oh, I know the
camera's following me and I'm gonna do something good. Nobody's
else's coming off the field. That looks like he's the
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last guy off the field, to be quite honest, maybe
he was there, maybe he's coming off doing an interview
with Thursday Night Football. We don't know when exactly this happened,
but everybody else is on the field walking around as
far as media members, he's one of the last ones
on and he just comes in. There's no cameras around him.
This is probably a camera that's a good thirty feet
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away from him that just happened to be rolling.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And you see ceed Lamb and.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
You see him give the cleats to the kid, and
it's just it's just such a great moment. I just
retweeted out there on Twitter at how about a fresca?
And I just love stuff like this, you know because
in a time when athletes, when sometimes things they do
so many things are calculated. Right, I'm gonna do this
great thing because I know cameras are here, I'm gonna
(04:10):
get publicity for it. But it's it's it's it's moments
like this that I go, yeah, that that that's a
really cool thing, right, like like Starling Marte. Right, as
much as you know, I keep saying, just throw Starling Marte.
Uh curve, curves and sliders that go five feet outside
the strike zone. You can't lay off him right for
all that, but I love Starling Marte because what he
does is at the end of every inning, when he
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goes to warm up, he throws a ball to a
kid in the outfield. So he goes out to right field,
warms up before the inning, and always throws a ball
to a kid before the inn So that's nine times
a game that a kid will get a ball, Marty
will warm up and throw them a ball. And that's
like nobody knows that. Nobody knows that happens, right, And
there's no cameras on Starling. I only know because when
I go to Mets games, and you know, at Dodgers
(04:53):
Day wherever it is, I see him and I see
him do it, and it's a really really cool thing.
Like the cameras aren't on for something like that, and
the ammer's not on for this, and Cite Lamb goes
and gives these kids his cleats, and not only that,
he could have just thrown that second clean up there
and then said, you know you couldn't grab it.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Hey, I gotta go, man, somebody else will pick that
up and give it to you.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But no, no, three times three times ceedee Lamb does
it and gives it to him. And he doesn't see
the kid coming in. He has no idea because he's
running by and the kid yells his name. He doesn't
know anything about this kid could be wearing a Daniel
Jones jersey for all he knows, like oh CDCD, and
he still goes back and gives him as cleats.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
By the way, a.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Fan of the game always got to be looking out
for the younger ones.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
And we see this with some regularity.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
The glove, the glove thing has really become a coveted item.
The arm bands, not the wristband with plays on, and
that'd be kind of funny, but the you know, the
other wristbands and you know sometimes embrace now and again
you have the sleeves that'll get tossed up as well.
So but to give the cleats man, that's some next
(05:51):
level stuff right there. Man's that's a happy souvenir for
a youngster. As Harry Carey would say, yeah, you.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Know, And for me, I'm like, boy, if I get
a pair of cleats, are a parachute that I really like.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Giving them up. Man, Let's say, Hey, it takes me.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I got if I got really wild, break them in,
you know, I get that off.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I'm good. Yeah, well yeah I got to I could
have to double.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Yeah, I got to double not them, and I got
to put the the the air fresheners in at night
and everything. Ah, it's just very difficult. No, but look
there's something we said because look a lot of players,
they all like new stuff. Uh you know, you know
we we've heard that many times from players. They want
to look good, they want to wear new things all the.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Game, the game, custom painted, custom, you know, custom made, custom, paid,
custom fitted.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Right. But still these are his cleats and you know,
you know they still had some wear in him. Whatever
it was.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And and he gave him to this kid, and that
was it was. Really he doesn't know the cameras are on,
and he does it and that's such a cool thing.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Well and he was smoking on that fifty five yard
touchdown reception, so maybe he burned off the cleats.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
It's you know, that's never happened in NFL history. Wids.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I'd like to see a wide receiver catching a ball,
running for a touchdown, and he's so fast and so
far behind.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
The guy's chasing him. He lights up a.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Cinnarette and just smokes as he's You know, he would
have gotten the same fifteen yard taunting penalty that he
got anyway, So what the hell's the difference?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
You want to talk about our soft call?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
My goodness, lighting up a heater on number eighty eight offense,
that's a fifteen yard penalty to be enforced on the kickoffs.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Kane Lamb was doing.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
His tribute to Len Dawson on the play. He sat
down on his helmet in the end zone and lit
a cigarette.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
You just seem he's running for a touchdown and then
just like a big puff of smoke comes out of
the ear holes of.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
The helvet because guy's smoking a cigarette. You can't catch me.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I'm still running, still running with a cigarette, and he's
coming out of the ears of the helvet.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
So excitable. How got you all giddy? Because the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
Clinched the chiefs idiot that was smoking in the locker
room back in the day, Dawson. Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
At the halftime of the Super Bowl, that famous video
of him having a heater and drinking a fresca, right, like,
that's that's that famous video of halftime a super Bowl,
the one they won, right, so that was Super Bowl too.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
So be honest, that's really why you call yourself? How
about a fresca?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because I yeah, and that's why I'm
only five nine, because I smoked so much when I
was a kid.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
It's stunted my ground. That's what it was, was.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Me not sleeping, drinking coffee and bad.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah. I could have been six seven, six eight, Yeah,
I could have been that.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
Cake, could have been a giant Joel.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
That's cigarettes.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Too many cigarettes me and it's just smoking cigarettes with
each other.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
That's all cesspenous. We hadn't had his name on the
show in a while. I'm gonna pull one out for
him right now.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Does that back to a Colosseum highlight? Remember that throw
at the Colosseum? Oh yeah, yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Could there we wait? Wait, which which throw? What are
you talking about?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Really? Look it out? You don't deserve it. Then you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Said Colosseum, and I'm thinking, yeah I remember, but yes, yes,
from from left field, from the corner.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
All the way home. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
No, he wasn't gonna fire up the USC marching.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
No, I was just because you know what, you got
me because my head got ahead of my mouth. And
I'm thinking, could there be a cigarettes podcast where like
athletes just get around smoke cigarettes and talk about sports.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Dude, we should get that together. We could find that
and then they just smoke cigarettes. They can bring whatever
they need.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, they have comedians getting coffee and cars. We could
have athletes smoking cigarettes in a room.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
A lot of hiking videos. It's too much exercise. We're
not doing that.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, no, no, no, no, why would you want that's?
Speaker 4 (09:35):
How about we do one when we take people bowling.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
And then every time they talk, you can't hear them
because you hear the and he may have.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
Said something dinners and never call him again. That's right,
Hey mom, Good times.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Exit out about a Fresco exit Swollen Dome.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,
live from the tirec dot Com Studios. So yeah, look,
so for the Cowboys, they hold off the Giants and
they win twenty to fifteen, and I know that. Look,
I come down hard on the Cowboys tonight because they
just didn't look.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Good well, and they didn't cover for the seventy eight
percent of the population that be minus five and a half.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
That that that is true, That is, they did not.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
They not seventy eight percent of bets.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
But the Cowboys did do exactly what they needed to do.
They needed to win more than anything, right, because if
you lose tonight, the season was over, like that was it.
You're you're one in three and you can't beat the Giants,
a team that you regularly steamroll, the season would have
been over. So now now they're two and two and
things are still possible for them. Right. I'm not saying
that I'm coming from the from the aspect of I
(10:44):
just don't see that this team is that great. I
don't see anything that tells me, Hey, the Cowboys are
gonna get it going.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Who's gonna run the football?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
They're gonna find Deuce Vaughan finally week nine and give
him the ball and he's gonna be great now of course,
not that they're gonna find another wide receiver that's gonna
catch a ton of pass. No, what's Ceedee Lamb and
maybe Ferguson and maybe that's what they have going on.
They're limited right and defensively, who knows whether Micah Parsons,
you know, he left the game with an injury tonight.
(11:12):
You know, obviously they have ten days off in between games,
but Digs got hurt too.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
This is already a defense that.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Has not been good, that's gotten torched by a high
level quarterback in Lamar Jackson, a mid level quarterback, and
Derek Carr and a low level quarterback, and Daniel Jones
who couldn't throw deep and still through for like two
seventy seven and nearly pulled off the upset tonight. So
I just don't see for the Cowboys, where hey, the
sun is shining and we're gonna be great right now,
(11:40):
the NFC East isn't as good as we thought of it. No,
the Commanders might be a little bit better, the Giants
might be a little bit worse. The Eagles are still
the Eagles. Everything is still where it is as far
as the division. But you're the Cowboys and you're saying
this is about playing one or two weeks into January,
you know, an outside of that, and I just don't
see it with this team. And I don't see how
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suddenly something happens in their formula to change things right,
because they didn't go out and get anybody.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
To make this team better.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
In the offseason, Jerry Jones decided, I'm not gonna spend right,
so it's the same team as last year. And when
the same team as last year isn't good enough. When
you're a year older, you don't suddenly just get better.
So I don't If I could see a ride to
the rescue, great, I could see that. Like for the Jets,
I could see, Hey, if Aaron Rodgers keeps getting better
and better, oh my god, they might be unbeatable. Hey
if Josh Allen really is better without Stefan Diggs and
(12:31):
he can spread the ball around, guess what. The Bills
might be the best team in the conference. If the
Steelers stick with Justin Fields and don't go back to
Russell Will so they could be in the AFC Championship.
There's certain teams that have talent that I can see
the possibility of growth for. I can see them from
this point in the season to the end going all right,
this is why they got so good, this is why
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they were elite because player X or Schemex was able
to go to have a positive trajectory. I just don't
see that trajectory anywhere with the Cowboys, Like what, like
Dak is gonna be better than he was last year,
He's gonna throw the ball more. I see the Lamb's
gonna have a bigger year he did a year ago. Like,
I don't know where that growth is gonna be from
the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
Yeah, I think you're looking at in the secondary. You
got Digs back, so that was the one big acquisition,
a guy coming back off injury, right, But Bland got
hurt and eventually he'll return to the secondary, so that
shores up a little bit. We'll see what the results
of the MRI on Micah Parsons are. But through the
first couple of weeks of the season he was playing,
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when he played well as a one man gang, wasn't
getting a lot of support, right, and that was called
out time and again, and even his contribution at times.
You know, we even highlighted it during the course of
the show tonight. And Andrew Thomas did a fantastic job
on him in his pass rush. At one point it
was fourteen head to head one on one matchups and
(13:51):
there was only one pressure allowed. Did have a nice
stunt on him where he crippled the ball carrier five
yards behind the line of script mid Jamaine. That was
a blow up kind of play. But overall, you know
you've got that side. Okay, they'll they'll be functional and
they've got some winnable games on the schedule. When you
look at it from the what Zimmer and the defense
(14:12):
are building offensively unless Dalvin Cook can suddenly turn back
time and search share highlight here that you're not getting
anything from the run game, right ric O'donald's just a guy.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Ezekiel Elliott was at his.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Peak when Jerry Jones and company found him on that
island and you know, hanging out on the beach in
Mexico a couple of years ago. Beyond that, you don't
have much and you've got two receivers that you trust.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I mean, look at Geyton. He had a couple of
big plays for them last week. The only time he
was on the field with any consequence. Today he was
committing penalties on kickoffs.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
And and with a you know, pass interference that negated
what was a pretty good place. So you know, you've
got Ferguson, You've got Ceedee Lamb. You need to find
another more consistent option in the receiving game for Dak Prescott.
Like I said, I love Brandon Aubrey, and I do
a somewhat tongue in cheek, but he can't be your
best player. You can't win consistently into January just kicking
(15:12):
field goals. You gotta be able to finish drives. And
that's why, as much as I love Pittsburgh, I need
to see more than Boswell, not bos Lee. Boswell by
the way, Dallas and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
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Speaker 1 (15:57):
Coming up next, Well, we took a look back at
Thursday Night football with the Cowboys went over the Giants.
What about the big action coming up the next couple
of days we go to Vegas and see, hmm, how
are some games gonna turn out? Big ones next Jason
and Mike Fox.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike Harmon
aus Right now, Mike Harmon and I watching a lot
of shirtless men doing interviews in the Dodger locker room.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I keep waiting for somebody. YEO, Hot round, Hot round,
get that camera off.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Champagne flowing. Dodgers clinch YNL West title. They're eleventh title
in the last twelve seasons. They will now turn their
attention to two things, Freddy Freeman's health and the playoffs.
As far as Freddie Freeman goes, he was seen in
a walking boot following the game tonight in the Dodger
(17:00):
locker room, turned his ankle a little bit trying to
evade a tag at first base in the seventh inning.
Uh but he will have some time most likely, uh
to heal. I got to think we've seen the last
of him in the regular season. The Dodgers now head
to Colorado with the NL West title in the shirtless
kershaw Yoh now we got we got shirtless curse Shaw
answering questions right now. Uh So again, I say, I've
(17:23):
seen a bunch of guys in no shirts answering questions.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's just like, just just like my house. This is
what people come to the door. I got I answer
the door with no shirt on. Hey, what do you want?
I'll answer questions for you. Uh So the Dodgers are
back in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah, they are looking for a World Series title. What
kind of favorites are they? Are they even close to
being the favorites? Let's go to Vegas. Joining us now
in the hot line. Longtime front of the show, former
rots maker at Caesars. Check out the bet the Board podcast.
You see him on CBS as well. It is our
man in Sin City, Todd Furman, Tom, what's happening?
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Bud's vote to great Lou Brown? We wear caps and
sleeves in this league, gentlemen. That's how things kind of work.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
I was going to quote Lou Brown ago, nice catch, Hayse,
don't ever like to do that again.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean you may hit,
I mean, you may hit like me, but you never mind,
we'll believe it.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
All right.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
So as we sit now, we're seeing clinching happening in
Major League Baseball going through here. If I to say
to you partlay the World Series teams for me, who
are you recommending?
Speaker 7 (18:30):
I mean, look, I mean you see the landscape of
the National League. It's hard to make a compelling case
for the Dodgers is a short shot. You wonder how
they're able to cobble together twenty seven outs on a
gaming game out basis with a staff that's really left
something to be desired. We know, from an offensive capability standpoint,
they check a lot of the boxes. But I'd be
more compelled to make a case for, you know, maybe
the Phillies or the Padres that come out of the
National League. I don't think the Brewers have enough in
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terms of their ability generate offense. And while we've seen
some of the Cinderella teams that have to continue to
be working with this playoff mentality, you know, maybe it
does create a pass to the Diamondbacks if they're able
to get in, because I do think from a pitching
staff standpoint, that group is as talented as any as
far as the American League is concerned. Look, I grew
up a Yankee fan, a roof of the Yankees, but
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I don't think that they have what it takes to
get out of the American League. Houston still has plenty
more questions that have to be answered than anybody. And
while I think people sleep on the Guardians for some
of their offensive shortcomings, Look, it's a bullpen that's more
than capable of, you know, buttoning things up in the seventh, eighth,
and ninth inning. So I'd be looking to come from
off the pace and maybe take a shot with the Guardians.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
From the bookmaker's side of things, though, the Dodgers Yankees
is best case scenario worse.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
I mean yeah, I mean look from a handle standpoint.
From a TV viewership for Fox, I mean, people want
to see Dodgers Yankees, and maybe it's the one time
where you know, these two teams, while having short odds,
you know, don't look to be the perfect batch of
postseason teams capable of making a run. But honestly, you
look at the landscape all over and it wouldn't shock
if any of these teams got hot enough to go
(19:58):
out there and win the World Series for the first
time in a long time. It doesn't feel like we
have a dominant side. And you know, as we know,
a playoff baseball can be more fickle than any other postseason.
All takes the team getting hot and you know, never
looking back to try and capture the ultimate goal in
the Commissioners Trophy.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All right, Tom, we saw the Cowboys beat the Giants tonight.
We look ahead and nowt of some of the action
this week and got the two Bet the Board podcast
up one college football, and obviously when everybody wants to know,
you got Alabama, you got Georgia.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
It's a two point spread. What do you like in
this game?
Speaker 7 (20:28):
You know, I wish I had a strong conviction from
a betting standpoint. If I was forced to bet this contest,
I would lean towards Georgia as the number trends down
closer to pick them. I know it's a Bulldogs team
that's a little bit banged up, but they've had two
weeks to kind of correct some of what went wrong
in that thirteen to twelve win at Lexington against the
Kentucky Wildcats where they close north of a three touchdown favorite.
(20:49):
I mean, assuming the number holds here and there's a
chance we could see a flip of favorites, this will
mark the first time in one hundred and thirteen games
going all the way back to two thousand and seven,
that Alabama could play a game in Tuscaloosa where they
would be listed as a home underdog. It's the longest
streak we've seen in the FBS in thirty years. I
will say the overtook a little bit of money earlier
today the forty eight and a half turned into forty
nine and a half and fifty. Kalin de Bore probably
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going to come in with an aggressive game plan, looking
at test Kirby Smart's defense that hasn't given up a
touchdown in four games. But you know, a fascinating chess match.
I found myself on the over in the SEC title
game last year. Didn't get there Kirk because Kirby was stubborn.
You have to think, if you have a quarterback that's
going to be one of the top guys off the board,
you need to trust your ability to get after the
Alabama secondary. It's a group that potentially would have given
(21:32):
up some real big plays against USF if they had
a quarterback cable of completing the deep ball.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Top twenty five matchup Louisville at Notre Dame. Seven points
the number in Louisville yet to commit a turnover, forty
six the total. Can they go and sting the Irish
at home?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
It'll be interesting to see if Louisville can put together
a more complete offensive effort than what we saw last week. Now.
I know they did cover in a thirty one to
nineteen win against Georgia Tech, but needed a defensive touchdown
and a special team score to get them across the
finish line. Struggled to really hold down that Georgia Tech
offense led by Haines King, and well, Notre Dame doesn't
scare you much with a vertical passing game by any stretch.
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What the Irish do you bring to the table is
one of the more underrated defenses in the country. Al
Golden should have a few wrinkles to try and take
away some of Bill's limited weapons. Tyler Schuck, though a
talented quarterback, I know he has been oft injured through
stop at Georgia, Georgia, Oregon, excuse me, in Texas Tech.
But at the same time he is the ultimate facilitator.
This number at seven doesn't interest me much, but I
(22:29):
do think we could see defense ruling today, especially early on.
So if you can find a twenty three in the
first half, that would probably be the way I would
look to Tangle and make sure you're checking those weather forecasts.
We could see a little bit of a residual rain
from the hurricane impacting South Bend right around pickup time.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Vegas insider Todd Furman our guest to Jason smithser with
Mike Carmon live from the tyrec dot Com studios. Nowt
if you listen to Todd last week, he told you
how interested he was watch the Denver Broncos problems they
can give to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And you probably said,
wait what and look what happened this week, Todd. I
know part of your bet the Board podcast in the NFL,
(23:07):
you like what the Bucks defense can do to Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Okay, so what can they do to Jalen Hurts they
couldn't do to bon Nicks.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Well, what I think they do to Jalen Hurts is
neutralize them offensively. Given the fact that Philadelphia will most
likely be going into this game a little bit handcuffed,
playing their second road game in as many weeks against
an NFC Syals opponent and most likely going to be
forced to do so without aj Brown dealing with that
hamstring injury and Devonte Smith, who I don't anticipate clearing
concussion protocol. And that's even before we get into the
(23:35):
offensive line where the Eagles could be down late Johnson
as well. We know how different this group looked offensively
in the past, and they had Jason Kelsey and Lane
Johnson missing time that overlap. I'm not sure they have
the continuity from a veteran leadership standpoint yet. Mackai Becken
landon Dickerson banged up, and when I look at what
Tampa can do on the defensive side, you know Vitaveyas
should be out there to clog the middle. And it
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just is the kind of game where you're going to
have some weather, It could be a little bit of
a slop fest out there. It feels like the big
plays will be kept to a minimum and you will,
no doubt get a much more focused Bucks team on
the defensive side than the lethargic effort we saw last week,
which was more a byproduct of the schedule anything else,
and why it's led me to betting the Denver Broncos
plus the six and a half. Didn't think it would
(24:19):
come that easy, though, at the tune of a twenty
six to.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Seven win, Todd as we sit here late on a
Thursday night, the reports on Jordan Love is that he's
quote unquote close packers with a couple of wins. With
Malik Willis, they are either three or two and a
half point favorites depending where you're shopping, based on what
I'm looking at right here after the line open at
four and a half? Does Sam Darnold continue his magic
at Green Bay?
Speaker 7 (24:41):
I mean look apparently like most players when they leave
the Jets, that when their careers really take off.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Top and he's been to like.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Four other teams. He's been to like four other teams,
as as Geno Smith as.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
A cold, it takes time to.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Go away, and Benker Mayfield never played for the Jets,
just so he never played for the Jets.
Speaker 7 (24:58):
The stench of being a yet it takes a little
while to wash off, and in the case of Sam Darnold,
he had to wash the stent should be a Carolina
panther off as well, which can be a lot for
one man to kind of overcome during a short NFL career.
But when you look at this Vikings offense, they've clearly
been the surprise and Kevin O'Connell deserves a world of
credit getting the best out of the former top draft
(25:19):
pick who never lived up to his potential. But when
you have some of the weapons that they'd like to
do at their disposal, you're seeing that on full display.
Brian Flores defensively, his schemes some unique things up, really
putting opposing quarterbacks heads into a pretzel as they try
and sort out what kind of looks they're going to see.
This game is interesting because you mentioned the Jordan Love situation,
and if Jordan Love does get upgraded, I expect Green
(25:40):
Bay to leak out to probably a three and a
half point favorite in the total to tick up as well.
That's where I would look to jump in on the
Vikings if I could get them plus the field goal. Oh,
I should say plus three and a half. We're better
in this spot. And maybe look to come under an
inflated total. I think the Vikings will struggle to move
the ball a little bit, as Shail Alexander against Justin
Jefferson should be a fun match up, and I don't
(26:00):
expect Jordan Love to be close to one hundred percent
in this spot. So given the familiarity in the division,
it feels like underdog and under make a world of
sense if Love is back under center for the Green
Bay Packers.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, that is at Todd
Ferman get the links out of the Bet the Board podcast,
all his thoughts on all the other week four games
in the NFL, other big college thoughts for the weekend
coming up as well.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Todd, appreciate it, my friend. We will talk to you
next week. Have a great one.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Always a pleasure and Smith. I don't often say nice
things about the Mets, but the conundrum that Major League
Baseball has created with the doubleheader on Mondays to get
the Braves and Mats, who are going to have their
rotations thrown completely into flux if they do get in
the playoffs. One of the more head scratching moves that
the MLB couldn't come up with a contingency plan, knowing
that weather was going to impact the final two games
(26:49):
of that series.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Well, look, if it's not interesting, if it's not the Mets, right,
nothing's easy.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
It's always fun, it's always interesting.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
It'll make it mean that much more when they finally
push the finish line.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
Ah, thanks a bunch, buddy.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
We'll talk to you next week. You got always to begin,
all right, There goes Todd Furman.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Hey, speaking of Vegas, how about Mike and I give you.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Our weekly parlay where we take a player we like
over under and we tell you what we think. We
talked about this guy earlier in the week, and both
you and I like him a lot. He was a
big free agent pickup. The over under for Rashawn Johnson
rushing yards this week for the Bears is twenty two
and a half. I love this over. He's winning the
(27:31):
job from DeAndre Swift, who is just not good right,
and the Bears need some kind of production as they
struggle to try to figure out Caleb Williams and going forward.
And he's a guy that was drafted last year. They
thought he was gonna jump in and be even better
a year ago. He wasn't they signed Swift. He's not
the answer. Johnson's getting a bigger role. He had to
carries last week. I love over twenty two and a
(27:53):
half yards of him.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
This week, I would agree with you.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
I think when you've got a bad offensive line, let's
get a guy that likes to run north south as
a bow to skipping and hopping east to west, as
you've seen with DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
I'm gonna take Michael Pittman.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
Junior forty five and a half yards and I'm gonna
take the under.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
It's been awful thus far.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
Eleven catches on twenty targets thirty one, twenty one, thirty
six yards, that's what you've got. And the scattershot Anthony
Richardson under center against the scheme of schemes the Pittsburgh defense.
No thank you. Moving on, I'd rather take a shot
that Alec Pierce finds another one from fifty yards out
(28:32):
that falls into a bread basket. Either way, it's a
no fly zone for me there.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Dude.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
You can give me an over under of five yards
from a Colts wide receivers in this game, and I'll
take the under look.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
He throws it to Pierce, enough that one falls in.
But Miko true, at least at the five yard. Beyond that,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Of his seventy five yards passing a fifty five yard
to Alec Pierce and then everybody else is under five.
Speaker 5 (28:57):
It's a tough watch, right, Seventy five doesn't mean it
doesn't give you some fantasy numbers for the Richardson side
of things once he runs the ball and et cetera.
But well, I tell you that's sixty sixty minutes of
hell to steal from Nolan Richardson.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
At times there is our parlay.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I like the over for Shawn Johnson, Mike Scott, the
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Speaker 1 (30:13):
Time how to find out what's trending in the wide
world of sports. Special delivery Steve Desager has the latest
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Speaker 8 (30:19):
Dodgers had a chance to clinch tonight Hollow right.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Field Taylor calling for it.
Speaker 8 (30:24):
Still yes the League West Covision tappions. That is the
call on Dodgers Radio AM five seventy in Los Angeles.
The Dodgers now four games over the Padres in the
NL West with three games left in the regular season.
They've clinched, as you mentioned, eleventh time in the last
twelve years they won the division crown before this the
(30:45):
Dodgers had eleven division titles total since they went to
divisions back in the late nineteen sixties. Freddie Freeman did
limp off with an ankle injury. X rays were negative.
He's on crutches and in a walking boot. He's not
going to have to play this weekend now that they've clinched.
In fact, apparently he will stay back in LA and
not go on the road, and Freeman said doctors and
(31:06):
trainers are optimistic he can play the next Saturday. Dodgers
won tonight seven to two over San Diego, getting five
runs in the bottom of the seventh to take the lead. Earlier,
it was the Yankees clinching the Al East, beating the
Orioles ten to one. Aaron Judge with his fifty eighth
home run. Minnesota lost at home in thirteen innings to Miami,
(31:27):
eight to six, so the Twins are three games out
of the final Ale Wild Card. Seattle is eliminated. Kansas
City won with three runs stop of the ninth one,
seven to four at Washington Detroit one. It's fifth in
a row, four to three over Tampa Bay with two
runs in the bottom of the eighth.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
The Tigers host the.
Speaker 8 (31:44):
White Sox starting tomorrow night. Oakland at home beat Texas
today three to two, the a's last game in Oakland
to the NFL contest Tonight. Dallas was a twenty to
fifteen winner at the Giants Dak Prescott with two touchdown
passes in the first half, including a fifty five year
arder to Ceedee Lamb. Cowboys did have eleven penalties, and
defensive end Micah Parsons left with an ankle injury.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
X rays were negative.
Speaker 8 (32:07):
Malik Neighbors in the lost twelve catches one hundred and
fifteen yards. He left late with a concussion. The Giants
went five for five on field goals but had no touchdowns.
Giants as a team on the ground twenty four carries
twenty six yards, so they've now lost seven times head
to head in a row to Dallas and thirteen of
their last fourteen matchups. Texans running back Joe Mixon misspractice
(32:30):
again with an ankle injury. Eagles wide receiver aj Brown
misspractice with the bad hamstring. Lions tight end Sam Laporta
did not practice sprained ankle. In the WNBA Chicago reportedly
fired coach Teresa Weatherspoon and guard Derreck Rose retired from
the NBA. You know, guys, you've talked about WNBA tonight,
and we talked about this before. By when Caitlin Clark's on,
(32:52):
they get the most viewers. Prior to this season, no
WNBA game had hit one million viewers since two eight,
Candice Parker's debut. Now, including the playoff last night, twenty
six w NBA telecast this season have top one million viewers,
with Caitlin Clark involved in twenty two of the twenty
(33:14):
six Back to.
Speaker 4 (33:15):
You, that means four there she wasn't that's right, but.
Speaker 8 (33:19):
Two of those were at the back end of TV
doubleheaders after a.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Clark positivity though. Yeah, I mean you kept your lead.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon Live from the
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Speaker 3 (33:43):
League Baseball really nervous.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Baselss A piece of audio that there's a seventy percent
chance you're gonna cry.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
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Speaker 1 (33:52):
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Speaker 4 (34:17):
Here it is by Mason.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
He turns, He's ready, He throws in it, swung on
and hit the third.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
He was stuff up with it, Schuman.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
He turns, he throws in the as a runner, Mason
Miller slams the door on.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
The Rangers as the curtain comes.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
Down on fifty seven incredible years of a baseball at
the Colisseum.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, moneyball music makes it hit a little bit different,
doesn't It makes you want to cry.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I want to cry just hearing that.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
Can we get the the Little Girl's Song to play
us out to?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Oh no, but I'll call you a loser anytime you
want me to. You such your loser, Mike, You such
your loser. MI just enjoy the show.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Yeah, the demons in my head don't do that enough.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
Jerk, You're such a losive. You wanted this song, I'm
giving you.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
The song sounds better when she sings it now it
just sounds hateful.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
How It ended today in Oakland for the A's their
final game before the team moves to Sacramento and maybe Vegas, you.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
Know, maybe back into the possome possum Man to Oakland
Alameda County Coliseum at some point.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Make sure the coliseum still works, okay, because you may
need to move back at some point. I'm just saying
it may not work out in Vegas, so you might
want to go back.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
The biggest thing for me, though, Jason, was all the
videos that showed up online and the photo tributes to
the people that had been working there for thirty years,
or the fans that were holding up here. I was
in nineteen seventy five with my dad and I'm here
for the final game and things like that. And you're
talking hundreds of folks who now are displaced and have
(35:58):
to go find new gigs, and fans that have to
decide how often they want to go to Sacramento.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Look the ground screw guy who was crying doing the
field for the last time.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Shoveling dirt and water bottles for people and crying.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
You know. The thing is is that it looks to
try to take such a really sad story and just
you know, just it's a lot of sadness.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Whenever you see a team.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Have to move, it always they didn't have to.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
No, it didn't right, And that's the thing, Right, I've
had one of my teams move. I had the Whalers
move from Hartford to Carolina. Uh, it's this is a
little bit different. This is this is a one and
more tried and true MLB franchises that that won multiple
championships in the seventies, were the best team in baseball
in the late eighties early nineties. You had Moneyball, the movie.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
You knew it was ending.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
And watching this game today, watching the pregame, uh, and seeing.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
How the game went.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
This was about all you could expect and the best
you could expect from a situation like this. You knew
it was going to be emotional. You knew there was
going to be some bitter. You knew it was going
to be bittersweet.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
You knew you.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Wanted to be fun. You wanted to just have a
day where you celebrated the team. And I saw all
of that today. I could have sit and just watch
them cut away to people in the stands wearing Raleigh
Fingers jerseys and Mark McGuire Jerseys, Ricky Henderson Jerseys, Tim
Hudson Jerseys, Barry Zito sings the Bleeping.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
An the Man. I mean, he didn't even his guitar
with him, though I know, well I don't. I don't.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
I think he Bernie Williams now it's a jazz guitar.
Speaker 3 (37:30):
It was.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
It was as good a day as you could expect,
knowing that this was the last time you were going
to see a game in Oakland, and I don't know
that it could have gone off any better. Right, the
smoke bombs in the outfield, Mark Kottse's speech at the end,
we had to keep it short because he was gonna cry.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Just the love affair with the players and the fans.
It really, it really was some kind of way.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
To end it.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
And as you know, Tony Stark said, right, part of
the journey is the end. Right, this was the end,
and you wanted it to end as well as it could.
I don't know that it's gonna end any better than
it did today with one hundred and.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Four mile an hour pitch, So you know, I wonder
if the radar guns are juiced, But either way, it's
it's all good. I mean, we just to see that
stadium full. I mean I spent many a day there
when I lived in the Bay Area. Oftentimes, you know,
you find a way to get out of the office,
(38:21):
and and that was where you found a little bit
of respite, going to watch what you were covering the
rest of your your waking hours building websites and responding
to customer support requests. When I was at Yahoo and
and you get on reports, I did.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
But I got it. But I got to love those
A's teams back in the day the huts.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
We told you we're putting the covers on the reports
now right, we told you're.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Putting No, I don't do covers.
Speaker 5 (38:45):
We're doing it requires colored ink and that costs more money.
Speaker 4 (38:48):
All of high britt and black.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
All of the memo dropped off to you so you
can so you can read that.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
I told you I have the memo.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
So while we say farewell to the A's, we say
hello to another vision title for the Dodgers. Right eleven
in the last twelve years. Two big takeaways from this
game tonight. The Dodgers have not one of the things.
I'll just say this, one of the things that's really
been affecting the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Who is their emotional leader? Right?
Speaker 1 (39:15):
You look at the playoffs and falling short. I don't
see the emotion from the Dodgers that you get from
other teams in the playoffs. And is that a part
of why the Dodgers go home and don't win the
World Series every year?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:26):
They put together a team for moneyball and using analytics
and not moneyball, but using analytics, and yeah, this is
kind of the team.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
They put together. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
The last week and a half couple of weeks, they're
finding show hey, Otani is their emotional leader. He is
just a different guy on the base pass with the team,
talking to guys, the celebration, his go ahead hit in
the seventh, he's screaming as he's rounding first base. I
think the Dodgers are finding that emotional and that emotional
leader and a guy who doesn't need to do anything
(39:57):
more for the team because he does everything. But now
add this for show hao time.
Speaker 4 (40:01):
Now at this point, it's why not this too?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Right?
Speaker 4 (40:04):
I Mean, Kershaw can't be that guy from.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Where he is right now. He's on the comeback trail
and all of that. Mookie Betts followed up, O'donnie's hit
with a little bit of that, but that's generally not
been his mo so for show. Hey, I mean he
did it on the base paths when he said, all right,
we got to generate runs somehow when guys were struggling.
Here if I'm on second, does this help? Does this help?
(40:27):
So why not be the screamer while you're at it?
Speaker 4 (40:30):
Two?
Speaker 5 (40:30):
Because the pitchers can't because they're ru on the mountain
for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
And I'll tell you this my other takeaway real quick.
I know the Dodgers pitching is going to be just
ever every day, flying by the seat of their pantscau.
Their starting pitching is terrible, but they have locked down
the eighth and ninth innings with Blake Trot and Michael Kopek.
They are turning these games into seven inning games because
these guys are both lights out.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Look at it.
Speaker 1 (40:54):
You can't approve the starting pitching, hey, shorten the game,
and that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Your former white side ace is now closing games. Mike Harmen.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
At least he's doing some good somewhere.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
From Mike im Jason coming up next to my buddy
Ben mallor this is
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