March 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon have all the latest on Russell Wilson joining the NY Giants. Jason gives you two "maths" he doesn’t believe. And Andrew Luck should name himself Stanford Head Coach.
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only the Knicks could play the Mavericks every night, we
got guys with triple doubles setting records. What an unbelievable night.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's I mean Elvis saying why can't every day be
like Christmas? So here's Christmas Day, March twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And I'll tell you, ah, I wish, I wish every
day could be the Mavericks. And then in the background
to the singer saying, without a D, without.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
A D, I wish every day could be no defense
in that game whatsoever, No, not at all, no defense.
The Knicks shoot nearly sixty percent from the field, no
holding the Mavericks to fifty three point eight percent shoot.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know, you know what the Knicks are like. You
know the Knicks are like honestly, the Knicks are like no, no, no,
the Knicks are like when you see in the you know,
in the in the in the how do I say, what?
What's a movie? I can illustrate this with where when
they show the passage of time and and like, you know,
the main characters are dressed in in seventies garb and
it's you know, bell bottom jeans and plaid shirts, butterfly collars,
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you know, all the all the big you know, the
big stylings of the seventies, right, polyester suits and dance
shoes and everything. And then there's a time lapse and
in the eighties and they're wearing uh, you know, neon
sweatsuits as they go jogging and they have the the
you know, power ties is their way. Like he's like
you you were just this person in the seventies and
now look who you are and that you completely changed
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who you are. Like, that's the Knicks. Hey, we have
guys that make big clutch baskets and we play great
defensively and this is our ident identity. And now you
get fast forward on the button from like a year
and a half ago. Now it's oh, we just put up.
We just put five guys out there, and our guys
go on and score as many points this weekend. We
didn't play defense anymore. Yeah, there was the hallmark of
our head coach. But yeah, we're changing with the times now, man,
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from the seventies to the eighties, that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I have a two word way to get us into
that transition of adopting and adapting to styles.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Hey Barbie, oh your Knicks defense, Barbie. Okay, who are you?
Oh your Knicks offense, Barbie. Look this is Barbie. Is
is much taller and can put the ball in the hood.
Look at that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a it's
a too game with Barbie and Ken. Right here. One
is dressed like Karl Anthony Towns. One dressed like Brunson.
Oh you know that's how it goes.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Sure, And then you say, beach off.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh wait, what do you do, beach No, what do
you do, beach It's my job. Now. We have a
lot of NBA to get to, we get to Jimmy
Butler's return to Miami. But hey, all right, I want
to say this first of all. I want to say this.
First of all. I feel like the parent who needs
to start a conversation by saying, this is the last
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time this is gonna happen. Okay, this last time this
is gonna happen. This is the last year that we're
gonna talk about Russell Wilson. This is it, this is it,
And after this year, that's it. I get it. And
one more year. I understand now that he signed with
the Giants and he's likely going to be there started,
but after this year, that's it. I got no more
Russell Wilson in me. I'll suck it up for the
rest of this year, off season into next year, but
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then at this time that done done with. I'm done
with the Russell Wilson I'm done. I'd rather talk Aaron
Rodgers more than i'd rather talk Russell Wilson. I'm not
crazy about talking Aaron Rodgers either, but this is it
like again, I understand, and I'm gonna give you a
great effort this year and Russell Wilson, big big storylines
with the Giants. Oh yeah, sure, yeah, but this is
it because I'm done with Russell Wilson. After this, I've done.
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I've had it. I've had it with my I've had
it with my fill to the brim of Russell Wilson.
I'm done. I'm done after this year. I thought he
was done. I thought there's no way anybody's gonna sign him.
Who's gonna sign him? Why would the Giants sign him?
They picked third, they drafted Jamis Winston. They're probably gonna tank,
or they're gonna take a quarterback in the second round. Nope,
we're gonna take Russell Wilson. Because the Giants really, I
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forgot about their propensity the last couple of years to
not really knowing what the hell they're doing. That's my fault.
That's my fault that I forgot. Oh, this isn't my
older brother's Giant. I don't have an older brother. This
isn't my uncle's Giants where the Giants always do the
right thing family or no, no, no, they're run like an
absolute bunch of lunatics as running around making decisions and
rubber stamping stuff. So I forgot. So that's on me.
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I thought Russell Wilson was done, he was never gonna
get anywhere ever again, why would anybody sign him? Why
are you doing it? Look at the end of the
year he came off of all the giants went out
and got Jameis Winston. That the no, no, no, we're
gonna go get Jameis Winston and we're gonna still go
get Russell Wilson, which is like getting the same guy twice,
except with the one guy you get more touchdowns and
more interceptions, and the other guy you get less touchdowns
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and less interceptions. Like what like, I forgot the giants
Really they just don't know what they're doing right now,
and I you know what, I completely forgot. I forgot
about that. Why are they tanking? Are they trying to win?
Are they trying to save jobs? Is Joe Shane trying
to save his job? Is Brian Dable trying to save
his job? Yes they are, Well, we're going to go,
but this doesn't go with what we're the vision of
the organization is. Doesn't matter. This is the vision now
like that, juck, Clearly they have no They are absolutely rudderless.
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But that's on me. But again, this is the last year.
It's a last year. I want to talk. I want
to be done with Russell Wilson after this year.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Are they secretly filming another offseason hard Knocks? Because you
brought back Tommy Cutlets, right guy number one, you bring
in Jameis Winston, and now you add Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I think the best thing I've seen on it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Thus if Jason is Frostburg sent it to me and
I saw it pop up in my timeline a couple times.
Here's the picture of Danny McBride and Adam Devine from
The Righteous Gemstones. That's what the locker room's gonna sound
like when Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston get to talking.
We're gonna have ourselves some crazy ass speeches trying to
encourage us to go out there and do great things.
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But the Dabels Shane thing, we talked about it a
while ago when it was the Wilson the Rogers side
of things of all, right, are they desperate just to
put something reasonable on the field to get another chance
a stay of execution to keep their jobs while developing
a new quarterback. This again goes to the well, why
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the hell's Jameis Winston there? I mean, he's a good
copy at this point. He used to not be, but
now he's fun. He's fun Jamis Winston that we can
get behind and do some vignettes, as evidenced by his
work with the larger Fox company comes super Bowl time?
But why is he there? If three days later you
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come back and go over the top with Russell? That's
the quarterback competition you want see? Like I just watch
Russell Wilson get after it with Justin Field. See my
statement of two and a half minutes ago with the Giants?
What are they doing? What are they doing?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Why would you go I get if you passed on
on Jamis Winston and went and got Russell wilsoners he thought, Okay,
he's the guy for this year. We're gonna draft a
guy in the second round because we're not gonna get
a quarterback like That's That's what the Giants realize now,
is that they're not getting a quarterback at three. And
that's a big thing to come off of today that
not many people are talking about. They would not be
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doing this if they thought they would get either Shador
Sanders or cam Ward three. Obviously that's not happening. You're
not gonna take Jackson Dart at three because other teams
can jump up and take Jackson Dart. The Giants can't
do it three years after taking doing it with Daniel
Jones and seeing how that went. So they know they're
not getting a quarterback, so they know their next guy
is a more developmental guy a second round and I'm
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sure they'll come back early in the second round with
any one of those guys out there, right McCord and
we keep saying the same things, but that's who's gonna
be there. You know, Jackson Dart will probably get up
into the first round at some point, but guys like
Kyle McCord will be there in the second round. Quinn
viewers will be there, Jalen Milroe probably will be there.
So I'm sure they're going to do that. Or you
can even trade back into the back end of the
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first round from early in the second if you want
to get your quarterback. So I'm sure that's going to happen.
But they're not gonna go get Russell Wilson unless they know, Okay,
we're gonna be left out of that mix at three.
So now our quarterback room is gonna be Wilson and
Winston and whoever we take in the second round. So
that's a big window to tell you about what the
Giants think and what's going on up ahead of them
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with Tennessee and Cleveland. But it still comes back to
what are you doing? Jay? Jamis wins has gotta be saying, hey, hey,
what wait, well what are you talking about? I thought
I was coming into start. Hey, I'm okay with being
replaced by some dude that's coming into the league. That's
just you know, he's a rookie and he's not getting paid.
You gotta see him. I'm okay with that. I've been
around the block. But you sign it now, you're gon
go Russell Wilson. Wait what the hell? What the hell
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is going on here? Like you got with Wilson and
Tommy DeVito. I really the Giants, It's just they've gone
from a team where you look up and say, wow,
I really respect the way they do business and how
they do it, and then you get older and you realize, oh,
they're just as screwed up as anybody else. Like what
you know, it's getting older and you think, like you're
your older uncle that you idolized. Boy, he's really smart
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and he really knows what he's talking about. Boy, everything
he says is the smartest thing in the world. And
then you get older, you go, oh, he was just
full of crap. I just I just didn't realize it.
But now I realize it, Like, that's what I realized
about the Giants all this. Well, you know what the
Giants had going for them for a long time. They
had a quarterback. They had Eli forever, and that's and
that's what it covered. Look, quarterback covers up all your
ills and sit When did the Giants? When did their
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backsliding start? When did they get that exposed as this franchise?
When they let Eli Manning, when they decided Eli Manning
was done and it look Eli was getting near the
end and they've not been able to replace him, and
look at the mess they are in.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, but it's the same thing we talk about about
with the Steelers. It's the same thing, right, you have
many years where it covers up the ill. Hell, we'll
take the swing at Belichick while we're here, let's hit
him with an oar that we're rowing down that rowing
down this river, because once Tom Brady was gone, things
looked a little odd and out of Sort's there now
he's doing exercises on the beach. Good on him. But
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all of those franchises, which are stalwarts, old old style
of running things, stability at quarterback allowed you to take
chances elsewhere and you could miss. So long as that
guy was stable, you were still going to be a
playoff team because you had so many other organizations that
couldn't get out of their own way for years. Now,
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what is interesting is this does set up the jamis
versus Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now we're a small team.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
We're a small team, but there's potential for aggressive expansion.
And then they fight to the death of one of
them gets cut because they're not on the hook for
a lot of guaranteed money.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
How about that? And then you pair them up.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Now, for the longest time, the Giants were co favorites
to have the number one pick. Right now they are
the favorites to draft Travis Hunter.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, that's the thing that's gonna be their base. See,
this is why the Giants sometimes just fall into it, right,
because the Giants do that. Their consolation prize out of
this will be Travis Hunter at three, and he'll be
the big star that New York football needs. He'll jump
in as the biggest star in New York obviously coming
off the high four guy. No, it's gonna be but
he'll come in and now the Giants, Okay, the Giants
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will be set up for whoever comes in next year
as GM head coach quarterback. I like the Giants. They'll
be well set up for twenty twenty seven. Man, I'm
telling you. I mean you come out twenty twenty six
and say, boy, I didn't come in here and throw
them Elak neighbors and Travis Hunter. Wow, Okay, the tyrone
Tracy is a pretty good running back, and I'm feeling
pretty good. He had a pretty good defensive line. All right,
I'm feeling Giants set up for next year.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Dude, Dable and Shane. Are they able to convince Marats like, look,
we'll go around with your made me plan and bringing
in Russell Wilson and Jamis Winston. Because I can't believe
this is coming from Shane. I want to give him
the benefit of the doubt that this is not coming
from Shane and Gable, that this is coming from the
old man. On top of here's a familiar face. We
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need some stability. You got two teams who are chasing
the division happily, the Dallas Cowboys can't get out of
their own damn way. So let's go get a guy
we know who's stable, who shined.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
A little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Forget about those final five games, Forget about the fact
that Pittsburgh clearly didn't want Russell Wilson back because Arthur
Smith wins a power struggle and Dan remember they paid
eighty five million dollars to get his ass out of
the building.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
That's the guy you want.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Giants Country, let's cry.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You just got.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You just had the Jets with Baron Rodgers as the
laughing stock, and no matter how bad you were, Yeah,
you got mocked a little for Saquon.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Barkley, but you still had the Aaron rod.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Which at least kept you off the back page of
the fish Rap some of the time.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Not anymore, I mean anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I mean, I I don't know, I don't know. I mean, hey,
I'm glad because I'm glad because you know, look, my
team is a dumpster fire, and they've been a dumpster fire.
Now it's nice to see that. Hey, the Giants are
coming back to the pack a little bit here, right.
It's not like we're elevating. It's like, hey, okay, giants
coming back to the pack here a little bit. Hey
they can screw things up just as much as anybody
else can. All Right, I like that. I like that
if I feel confident in that, I really, again, I
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don't get the Giants. I really I don't get this
is this is one of those quintessential teams that doesn't
know what they want to do. Do they want to contend?
Do they want to punt on next season? And you
have an owner with one strategy and you have a
GM and head coach with another strategy, and it just
doesn't make sense. It's a this is like the Giants
are being knit together, like it's some like the some
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some big Frankenstein so together from parts of other teams.
Like we're gonna put in Russell Wilson here, but we're
gonna go draft Travis Hunter. We're gonna like I don't
know what they're trying. I don't know what they aim is.
I don't know what they're trying to do. I know
what the message they're trying to send us. It's yeah,
we're gonna try to win, but you didn't really get
great quarterbacks. Yeah, but we got okay ones. Okay, but
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you're gonna get a young one.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Okay, great, good talk, Great, I feel great. Yeah. Giants,
awesome giants.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
My favorite In the last two minutes, as you stumbled
into a great greeting card for the holidays, you're as
screwed up as ions. Merry Christmas, Love Jason.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
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So we got into the Russell Wilson signing by the
Giants a few minutes ago. Why it doesn't make any sense. Yeah,
we'll get to the other big one from today coming
up in a second. But this is you know, once
in a while there's a story that comes out that
I say, then there's no way the math works right.
There's no way that math works right. There's just no way.
You know what one has been lately, and it's been
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a big one in my house because my wife just
saw this thing on on Facebook where you know, the
reels and different things that come in and she goes,
is this right? And I said what? And she said,
you know the number of people have played Major League
Baseball since it started in the eighteen hundred. She goes,
it's like over, it's like twenty two thousand, twenty three.
I said, I said, yeah, I go, but I don't
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believe that. She goes, what do you mean. I go,
there's no way. That's right. There's just no way. There's
no way. Only twenty early twenty some odd thousand people
have played Major League baseball. She goes, why. I go,
I think about it like this, and I said, how
many people do you think make their major league debut
every year? Thirty teams in Major League Baseball. She goes,
I don't know. I said, Okay, I said, I've looked
it up. I've looked it up. About two hundred and
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fifty people make their major league debut every year. Okay,
so it's two hundred fifty people plus everybody else's played
in the game already. If you just take two hundred
and fifty people a year, right, and go back. Let's say, okay,
let's say two hundred and fifty. Just go back to
two thousand, with two hundred and fifty people making their
MLB debut this year, because that's not many, right, that's
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you know, thirty teams, two hundred and fifty people. It's
not that many. You're talking about a little less than
ten people a year, right, which happens you have injuries
and people come up, and rosters expanded all this stuff.
And I said, you go back to two thousand, right,
so you're talking about every four years, that's a thousand people.
So now you want to go back to two thousand,
you're And so just in the last twenty five years
you're talking about that's five thousand people that has made
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their debut. So one quarter of the people who have
ever played in Major League Baseball made their debut in
the last twenty five years. There's no way. The math
doesn't work. Math, the math doesn't work. And we argued
about this year, Yeah, but how many? I go, No,
I get it, but you're going back to the eighteen hundreds.
I mean, how long to get to one thousand and
then two thousand and three. I understand, but there's no
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there's no way the math work. There's no way. It's
only there have to be like like like just reams
and of papers of people that they're missing over the course,
Like there's no way. Just you know, less than twenty
five thousand people have played Major League baseball in history,
and I think.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
There's a baseball there's fewer than twenty one thousand.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, there's no way. There's there's no way.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Twenty thousand, seven ninety one, including two hundred and fifty
five debuts last.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, and you go back and it's about two hundred
and fifty couldn't.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
At one point one dollar training card made off of that?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, well you got Paul Skins. Paul Skins counts for everybody.
But you go back and you go back to even
twenty twenty, when there was no minor league season, Roger,
there were still two hundred some odd players made their
MLB debut the like, there's no way that math works.
There's just no way that math works. I'm I'm telling
you we're missing a lot. Like in Mister three thousand,
when all of a sudden, you know, Bernie Mack had
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the three thousand hits, and the guy goes back, goes, oh,
I found that you got credit for three hits twice
in a double header, and so you need those three hits.
Like that's what I feel like I could go back
and find go there's no way. Only twenty one, twenty
two thousand people have played major League Baseball. There's no
way and really no way.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Two things. One, I don't buy that number either.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I don't exactly intend to spend a lot of my
time pouring through records to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
No, I think twenty thousand guys was a strikeouts the
Mets had last time. That's how many games Jacob de
Gram has missed the last four years.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
That's what that show?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Uh so that?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
But yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
The other is Bernie mac show is the next time
I binging once I'm done with my sipple wits rewatching.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Ah very all. You're going back and watching NYPD Blue
now nice?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, yeah, you're watching the first season with that back
when uh, David Caruso was going to be a big star.
I'm only gonna do one season of NYPD Blue.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Everybody, he kiss It Death was a great movie.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
He did so many he did so many awful he
did Kissing Death, he did Jade Right, He did so
many bad movies. He was marked for. Death was better. Mike.
You know what, here's the thing. You could give me
the plots of all the different steven Sagall movies, and
unless it was under siege, I couldn't. I couldn't get
to crack your arm into a thousand pieces right now.
(20:44):
I couldn't anybody see Richie under siege. I get because
it was it was on a ship. He was a nave.
He was a cook. I'm just a lowly cook, right
and Tommy Lee Jones the bad guy, Welcome the Revolution.
Sorry spoiler alert.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Tom Jones took the paycheck.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, so there's no way I believe. Oh, I remember
the question now that the thing was, I'm right on
Facebook that the smallest And she was, what's the smallest
stadium in Major League Baseball? I go, well, it's the
trop but not this year. They're not playing there. No, no,
just what's the small I said, the trup she has?
How many people does it hold? And I said, like
between thirty five and forty thousand, not a lot. She
was because I just saw this thing here that says
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if you took every single person it's ever played Major
League Baseball in the entire time it's been going on
since the eighteen hundreds, it wouldn't fill up the smallest
stadium in in the majors. And I was like, okay, yeah,
and that's we had the whole conversation. I don't believe
the math. I don't believe the math.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Well, now you go to Steinbrenner Field where a young
plucky Mike armand once get a bunch of television remotes
in front of.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The twenty one thousand might be the overall attendance for
the Rays this year. That's Steinbrenner Field.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Is it that big? That's a park with the spring training.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Who draws more fans the A's or the Rays this year?
Who doesn't? Who? Who doesn't?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Who is more giveaways? So probably the A's right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
So that's the that's the first bit of math that
I'm sorry, I just.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I won't'tl Well, that was ours of two thousand and
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
They were closing in on twenty thousand MLB righter and
they had the big they head, they supposedly had the
twenty thirs. They supposedly look at me, they had the
twenty thousandth and now they're up around twenty one thousand.
It make doesn't make sense you've had five thousand. What
doesn't make sense players play for like a decade, No,
but you have five You have five thousand people around
at least making their debut in the last twenty five years.
That the math doesn't math. The math does not math.
(22:29):
If that's it doesn't math, I'm sorry. I mean you
haven't you have a quarter on the se Mets. Players
don't last more than a season.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No, are you, kid?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
We bring up we're holding our up under the bar,
are into the bargain up. We bring up all kinds
of guys. Every year we find out so many guys
at stink and we would just cycle right, I mean,
now we're good, but for years, Hey, we stink. Let's
just keep cycling through.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Now you have the greatest quadruple A player in baseball.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, Brett Baidy is your great Fruit League MVP. He
has an OPS to like one and a half. But
the other bit that I don't believe. The other math
I don't believe. And I know this has come out
the last couple of days. I understand it, I understand.
I don't believe it. The highest NCAA tournament ratings since
nineteen ninety three. And I'm sorry the math. There's no way,
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there's no way. This is the first round, the highest
rated of the NCAA tournament since nineteen ninety three, especially
in an era when there's so many different ways to
measure how you watch games. And I'm sorry, I'm not
gonna believe that that all of a sudden last year
when nobody watched and all that when we saw the
boy the women's tournament is outshining the men's and all,
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I mean, all of a sudden this year with the
only star being Cooper Flag, everybody is flocking back to
the TV sets for the first time since North Carolina
beat Michigan because because Chris Weber called time out. I mean, really,
that's that's really what we're saying. It's the highest rated
first round since nineteen ninety three. I get it. I
understand the stuff that's reported. I don't believe the math.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I believe that.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I think the math has changed because I think they
they're now counting the bars, restaurants, multi person viewing experiences,
the sellouts at COSM, and all of those things that
are included in the ratings were once upon a time
we knew they were existed, but they they were just
pushed off to the side, right that it was just
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the people that had the little meter readers at their houses.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So I think that's where the fuzzy math comes in.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How you know, and gas meter Okay, Yeah, I'm also
going to read the metrics of what you've been watching
on the tournament. Yeah, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Round the back is around the back of your journal.
Give us your journal. What did you watch? What does
this say scrambled channel? What were you trying to watch here?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
We appreciate your honesty, but what the hell was scrambled
that you were trying to watch?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I don't I don't buy this. The NCAA Tournament has
become and really, NCAY basketball has become a one month sport, right,
It's become a one month sport. Now, I understand that,
And then you know they they still do a great
job of owning the month. And really the month begins
with the conference tournament weeks and bubble teams trying to
get in selection Sunday, and then, hey, no, it's a
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one month sport. College basketball used to be a lot bigger.
It used to be a sport you paid more attention
to in November and December and January. There were big,
big showdowns. In January you watch number one versus Number two.
That stuff is gone, and I find it hard to
believe that suddenly, hey, everybody is watching now because there's
less mid majors in and because you know you have
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teams getting in that that are just more traditional power
five teams. I no, I don't think everybody because the
SEC put fourteen teams until the every television you are
all watching. That's no, I don't buy it. I don't
buy I mean, I don't doubt that ratings are up
because you do have you do get more people are
interested when the bigger teams are playing. And I get that.
But all of a sudden, you'res the highest rated since
(25:58):
nineteen ninety three. I mean, really, you're You're going back
thirty three years to find that now, I'm just not
gonna believe. That's two things I won't believe the maths
on twenty one thousand people in Major League Baseball, highest
ratings in so far. In the endstrum not gonna believe it.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Also, to bring in our friends over at the lot
with the Simpsons. Remember you know Homer, with all his faults,
always had one thing he can come back to.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
March on.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You have a gambling problem. According to the American Gaming Association,
Americans we're going to legally wager an estimated three point
one billion dollars on March madness. See the professionals that
make their bet after reading you know, all the metrics,
going through all the analytics, and then they may or
may not sit down to watch a minute or two
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of the game. Otherwise they're looking for what the next
angle is, or they're eating a nice juicy steak. For
everybody else that has five to ten dollars on a game,
guess what, they sit there and they live and die
for those two hours television ratings. Damn it, you killed
by parlay. That's how you get them back to theclude
(27:07):
to the screen smith, and how you get those ads
sales rising.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Now lambling.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Look if vice, if you want to tell you about
how many people who gamble are actually watching the games.
I don't watch the games, Billy, I'll save you a seat. No,
I don't watch the game.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
No, no, no, But that's what I mean, Like professionals don't.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
But the other folks that are betting five ten to
the you know masses to get to that three point
one billion.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, but damn right there good people have been doing it.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
People people do. There's no way the NCA Tournament hasn't
been the biggest event of the month in the last
forty years. I mean, it's a big but you're telling me,
but this year it's the highest this year with no
star power outside of Cooper flag and Rick Patino's white suit,
that's all you had coming home. No star power this
year is the highest again since ninety If you told me, hey,
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the highest in the last ten years. Okay, but you're
going back to the salad days of the NCA term
where buzzer beaters and everybody was calling in sick to
try to find a way to watch the games of what. Yeah,
I mean, really, doctors, I feel bad for the Doctors
Act to perform the sectomies on the first tw days
of tournament. I really I find it hard bely the
highest since nineteen ninety three, I really do. If you
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wanted to say totality that, you know, then I would
kind of get it, because you're you've added two nights
of games, right, You've added two nights of games. You
spread things out more. I mean, look the two the
second two days of the tournament. Now they've spread out
so you can watch more basketball over the course of
Saturday and Sunday. Games don't overlap nearly as much as
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they used to. They start them later, they end them later.
So yeah, in totality, because there's more minutes, because there's
more games, there's more games you're able to watch. But
the highest rated crud. No, I'm not gonna buy I'm
not gonna buy that. This suddenly captures everybody's attention unlike
anything else. Storry to tale again, maths don't met I'm
never gonna believe it.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah, I still think it comes down to the measurement tools.
And you know what, it's It's a very fortunate thing
for us that tonight we have in the at the
news desk a man who has been called no he
knows and he follows television.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Ratings for big sporting events.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Our guy Steve being here is probably the best because
not only is he a bulldog when it comes to
his research numbers and stats for days, this is right
in his wheelhouse.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, I really, I don't. I don't get it. I don't.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna believe it. No, I'm not.
I'm not. It's fuzzy math X exit out about a
Fresca exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith's Or with Mike
carmon Live from the tirec dot Com studios. He is
chomping at the bit to get in on this because
I think he has numbers that he wants to throw
by us. Now again, if the numbers support my argument,
listen to Steve. He's really smart. If they don't, they
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can just be maths. You don't believe he's got that,
and he's got what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
With the TV ratings, even the claim is just since
the current TV format was established in twenty eleven for
March Madness, you can't go back to forty years now they're.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Going back tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm looking at all the articles, it's nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Think about all the people we brought in because of
making them truly aware of true TV.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
And you're also correct on the whole out of fume,
out of home viewing thing is they started to account
for that, but not in all the major markets in
twenty twenty, and it wasn't until this past year that
all the major markets were accounted for in the Nielsen estimates. So,
for example, when Zion and Duke were getting huge ratings
and had a six million audience for their first round game, theoretically,
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that's a smaller audience than Arkansas's upset last week.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
We know that's not the case.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Because they didn't account for out of home viewing when
Zion was playing for Duke.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's the answer, Steve Desager told you an answer. I
knew he would. I knew he'd haven't. I knew. That's
why I said I knew he'd have it.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
By the way, CBS is reporting that Xavier's Athletic directory.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
GBS the reporting they've been sold. What a surprise and
unrelated story. After having the highest ratings in thirty three years,
CBS has been sold to Amazon, acquiring all the shows
on True TV. Xavier's ad flew to New Mexico today
to offer a job to Lobo's head coach, Richard Patino,
and tonight they're saying Patino has accepted. As for the
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NBA news, well.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
The Grizzlies are winning without John Moran, missing a fifth
straight game with a sore hamstring under five minutes ago.
Grizzlies lead at Utah ninety to seventy six. Looks like
the Jazz record will fall to sixteen and fifty seven.
Miami held Jimmy Butler to eleven points. Is that Heat
beat the Warriors one twelve eighty six. Steph Curry with
the pelvic contusion was still out. Houston was up twenty
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to start the fourth quarter and held on to beat
Atlanta one twenty one, one fourteen, Detroit and Orlando with victories.
And then there's the New York Knicks, who, let's just say,
had a little bit of offense in this game tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
All we do is get triple double Steve. That's all
we do. Josh Hart. It was his thirty ninth triple
double of the year.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
In fact, this was the first time in NBA history
that all in the same game, same team in regulation
had two players with a triple double and another score
at least thirty five points. Thirty five for o gananobi
triple double for Josh Hart, hang the banner Steve triple
double for Karl Anthony Towns. Yeah, it's kind of like
that Taylor Swift sellout thing. Jason Tatum and the Celtics
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doubtful for Wednesday after last night's sprained ankleed Nikola Jokich
of Denver with a bad ankle, doubtful for Wednesday, could
miss a sixth straight game. Damian Lillard of Milwaukee out
in definitely with a blood clot in his calf. Jannis
Antennacumbo questionable against Denver with a sprain foot. The New
York Giants are giving quarterback Russell Wilson a one year deal.
The Patriots are signing wide receiver Stefan Diggs. Stanford fired
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football coach Troy Taylor after constant behavior problems toward coworkers.
Multiple employees had filed complaints. The change was made by
Stanford's new general manager, Andrew Luck. Back to you, Captain
Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Dear mother, I need to make a big change. We
have not been attacking the front the way we should
have in the last couple of fortnights.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
After that pregnant pause, I thought the big change was
I'm shaving.
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saw this story today and this is one I think
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we can again. We can all get behind right, we
can all get behind this. Andrew Luck newly minted general
manager CEO of Stanford Football, where he was a star
before going to the NFL and starring before retiring early
fired head coach Troy Taylor earlier today. Now, Taylor had
(34:41):
some difficulty behavioral difficulties, also didn't win a lot of
games the last two years. So Andrew Luck fires Troy
Taylor and and and in my best captain Andrew Luck
before in the background because here, look, here's the thing
is that I feel like, you know, hey, de Dere's
(35:03):
Dere's captain, luck Mother. Things are not going well from
the front. I do not know how much more stamina
and togetherness we have here before people fall apart. We've
lost a lot in the last two years. Continue to
lose Andrew Luck name yourself. Stanford head coach who says no.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Oh, let's go, says.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Right now, right, it's great to have him back in
as a GM right, getting back and being part of
his alma mater. I don't see how anybody could have
foreseen today. Hey, it's transfer portal. Let's complain about all
of that on the basketball side. Oh, by the way, Millhouse, you're.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Out, name it, you stay, But the rest of you,
I mean, really, I mean I get that. Look. Does
he have experience? No? Is he Was he a great
college quarterback? Yeah? Was he a great NFL quarterback? Yeah?
Do you need to have experience to be the head
coach which to a team?
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Not really. I think we've seen that, we've seen.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Especially if the type of head coach that he needs
to be, he would be a jolt of energy to
the program. They would approve him right away. Look, the
prodigal son comes back, not to you, and he could
be the GM and head coach. Right, do both jobs, right,
GMed coach what I do the Bill Belichick of of
Stanford football, because you don't need to come in and say, Okay,
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I've made my bones doing X, Y and Z. First,
I was a defensive back coach here for a couple
of years, and then it was a defensive line coach,
and it was a defensive coordinator, and then it was
defensive line slash assistant head coach. And now I get
a big jo. You don't need to do that. Now.
This is an era of college football where it's about
mastering the nil, mastering the portal, and getting talent. You
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hire the guys, hire the guys with great offensive and
defensive acumen. Suddenly Stanford be a sought after position. You
people would want to go there to be Andrew lux
Oc and DC becaues, Hey I go there and do well.
Guess what, Hey, I'll I'll get a gig someplace. I'll
get a gig someplace and be a head coach. It
would be a destination. And Andrew Luck, who is a
smart guy, would just have to be able to know
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this is the kind of head coach I need to
be right. You look at and I keep going back
to it because it was a different thing. Is look
at Fran Brown at Syracuse. Gouy's a defensive backs coach.
He was a number one recruiter in the country the
last two to two years. So what did Syracuse say, Hey,
this is the nil era, transfer portallera, come here and coach.
What did he do? He flipped people from Alabama and
Georgia and Texas A and M and Kyle McCord from
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Ohio State and Syracuse goes ten and three, win a
bowl game. We're in the top twenty for the first
time in like twenty years. All of a sudden, frame,
get me the next Fran Brown. That's who everybody is
looking for. Now. Did Fran Brown come in with some
kind of crazy offensive system? No, some kind of great
defensive system. Is he a great game day head coach?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I know there's some things he could have done better,
but it doesn't matter because he came in and he
loaded up the team, and the coaches coach and the
players play. And that's a new era. Head coach now
for the NI and transfer portal era, it's about getting
the talent in here and trusting your coaches to do well.
And Andrew Luck would be that guy. Come in. Yes,
I'm not gonna step on your toes, your system. I'm
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a big picture guy. I'm gonna get the players in.
I'm gonna tell you what I see because clearly I
have a football acumen that might be just as good,
if not a little bit greater than yours. But still,
this is my job as a head coach, and you
know where I'm coming in. He's gonna have that cache.
I really I'll be the I'll name myself after it
out sat Andrew Luck move to name himself. He's got
to get somebody to nominate him. But I would call
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somebody who says, hey, dude, leak it that I should
be the next head coach at Stanford. Andrew Luck being
the next head coach at Stanford should absolutely happy. It
should happen tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Well, you're trying to inject life into a program of
twenty eighteen. Ain't rolling through that door again. Before things
went south on David Shaw his final couple of years,
you have the COVID period and now you have a
three to nine introduction to the ACC. You're looking to
create a spark create a new identity. So take Andrew Luck.
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I like him as GM if nothing else, you got
a young guy with a he's got some ideas right,
knows how to play this game and has been around
it recently enough, I know it's been a couple of
years now since that surprise retirement in the middle of
that preseason game, but still around and young enough to
where he's got a lot of contacts that are either
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still in the league or just getting out. So building
a staff that can relate to current players is going
to be as easy for him as it can be
for anybody else. And I think you're kind of going
from a carte blanche proch You know, you and I
have talked.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
About it a lot.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You know, as this era developed, how it made no
sense that Syracuse and Stanford and Northwestern and some of
these schools didn't activate their immensely robust and successful alumni
basis to start creating a first mover advantage in the
NIL world. Well, guess what, as you noted there with
(40:00):
fran Brown, who, by the way, the thing he wants
to do with Dion Sanders is just absolutely brilliant in
terms of the spring game thing that they can get
it approved.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
But all of that, and what did I tell you
last week? This is going to be a topic that
takes off, and what's the story today? Oklahoma Oklahoma State. Hey,
let's play. Let's play a spring game against each other? Right,
this is this story.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
This is just going to take off if you're able
to get that and pull this off and get the
NCAA on board. Now we're talking about maybe narrowing the
gap even further on some of these first mover advantage
you didn't have from the nil and create some buzz
around your your programs and rise back up because Stanford,
once upon a time was a powerhouse for Shaw and
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Harball before.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Him exit out about a Fresco exit Swollen Dome The
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the very least, we'd get the return of Captain Andrew
Luck damn right, I mean we get that. That would
which everybody wins. Hey, speaking of everybody winning, how about
some huge bold predictions for the base ball season. That's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox, And I mean
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only the Knicks could play the Mavericks every night, we
got guys with triple doubles setting records. What an unbelievable night.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
It's I mean Elvis saying why can't every day be
like Christmas? So here's Christmas Day, March twenty fifth.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
And I'll tell you, ah, I wish, I wish every
day could be the Mavericks. And then in the background
to the singer saying, without a D, without.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
A D, I wish every day could be no defense
in that game whatsoever, No, not at all, no defense.
The Knicks shoot nearly sixty percent from the field, no
holding the Mavericks to fifty three point eight percent shoot.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
You know, you know what the Knicks are like. You
know the Knicks are like honestly, the Knicks are like no, no, no,
the Knicks are like when you see in the you know,
in the in the in the how do I say, what?
What's a movie? I can illustrate this with where when
they show the passage of time and and like, you know,
the main characters are dressed in in seventies garb and
it's you know, bell bottom jeans and plaid shirts, butterfly collars,
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you know, all the all the big you know, the
big stylings of the seventies, right, polyester suits and dance
shoes and everything. And then there's a time lapse and
in the eighties and they're wearing uh, you know, neon
sweatsuits as they go jogging and they have the the
you know, power ties is their way. Like he's like
you you were just this person in the seventies and
now look who you are and that you completely changed
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who you are. Like, that's the Knicks. Hey, we have
guys that make big clutch baskets and we play great
defensively and this is our ident identity. And now you
get fast forward on the button from like a year
and a half ago. Now it's oh, we just put up.
We just put five guys out there, and our guys
go on and score as many points this weekend. We
didn't play defense anymore. Yeah, there was the hallmark of
our head coach. But yeah, we're changing with the times now, man,
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from the seventies to the eighties, that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
I have a two word way to get us into
that transition of adopting and adapting to styles.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Hey Barbie, oh your Knicks defense, Barbie. Okay, who are you?
Oh your Knicks offense, Barbie. Look this is Barbie. Is
is much taller and can put the ball in the hood.
Look at that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a it's
a too game with Barbie and Ken. Right here. One
is dressed like Karl Anthony Towns. One dressed like Brunson.
Oh you know that's how it goes.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Sure, And then you say, beach off.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Oh wait, what do you do, beach No, what do
you do, beach It's my job. Now. We have a
lot of NBA to get to, we get to Jimmy
Butler's return to Miami. But hey, all right, I want
to say this first of all. I want to say this.
First of all. I feel like the parent who needs
to start a conversation by saying, this is the last
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time this is gonna happen. Okay, this last time this
is gonna happen. This is the last year that we're
gonna talk about Russell Wilson. This is it, this is it,
And after this year, that's it. I get it. And
one more year. I understand now that he signed with
the Giants and he's likely going to be there started,
but after this year, that's it. I got no more
Russell Wilson in me. I'll suck it up for the
rest of this year, off season into next year, but
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then at this time that done done with. I'm done
with the Russell Wilson I'm done. I'd rather talk Aaron
Rodgers more than i'd rather talk Russell Wilson. I'm not
crazy about talking Aaron Rodgers either, but this is it
like again, I understand, and I'm gonna give you a
great effort this year and Russell Wilson, big big storylines
with the Giants. Oh yeah, sure, yeah, but this is
it because I'm done with Russell Wilson. After this, I've done.
(04:11):
I've had it. I've had it with my I've had
it with my fill to the brim of Russell Wilson.
I'm done. I'm done after this year. I thought he
was done. I thought there's no way anybody's gonna sign him.
Who's gonna sign him? Why would the Giants sign him?
They picked third, they drafted Jamis Winston. They're probably gonna tank,
or they're gonna take a quarterback in the second round. Nope,
we're gonna take Russell Wilson. Because the Giants really, I
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forgot about their propensity the last couple of years to
not really knowing what the hell they're doing. That's my fault.
That's my fault that I forgot. Oh, this isn't my
older brother's Giant. I don't have an older brother. This
isn't my uncle's Giants where the Giants always do the
right thing family or no, no, no, they're run like an
absolute bunch of lunatics as running around making decisions and
rubber stamping stuff. So I forgot. So that's on me.
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I thought Russell Wilson was done, he was never gonna
get anywhere ever again, why would anybody sign him? Why
are you doing it? Look at the end of the
year he came off of all the giants went out
and got Jameis Winston. That the no, no, no, we're
gonna go get Jameis Winston and we're gonna still go
get Russell Wilson, which is like getting the same guy twice,
except with the one guy you get more touchdowns and
more interceptions, and the other guy you get less touchdowns
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and less interceptions. Like what like, I forgot the giants
Really they just don't know what they're doing right now,
and I you know what, I completely forgot. I forgot
about that. Why are they tanking? Are they trying to win?
Are they trying to save jobs? Is Joe Shane trying
to save his job? Is Brian Dable trying to save
his job? Yes they are, Well, we're going to go,
but this doesn't go with what we're the vision of
the organization is. Doesn't matter. This is the vision now
like that, juck, Clearly they have no They are absolutely rudderless.
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But that's on me. But again, this is the last year.
It's a last year. I want to talk. I want
to be done with Russell Wilson after this year.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Are they secretly filming another offseason hard Knocks? Because you
brought back Tommy Cutlets, right guy number one, you bring
in Jameis Winston, and now you add Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I think the best thing I've seen on it.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Thus if Jason is Frostburg sent it to me and
I saw it pop up in my timeline a couple times.
Here's the picture of Danny McBride and Adam Devine from
The Righteous Gemstones. That's what the locker room's gonna sound
like when Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston get to talking.
We're gonna have ourselves some crazy ass speeches trying to
encourage us to go out there and do great things.
(06:20):
But the Dabels Shane thing, we talked about it a
while ago when it was the Wilson the Rogers side
of things of all, right, are they desperate just to
put something reasonable on the field to get another chance
a stay of execution to keep their jobs while developing
a new quarterback. This again goes to the well, why
(06:42):
the hell's Jameis Winston there? I mean, he's a good
copy at this point. He used to not be, but
now he's fun. He's fun Jamis Winston that we can
get behind and do some vignettes, as evidenced by his
work with the larger Fox company comes super Bowl time?
But why is he there? If three days later you
(07:02):
come back and go over the top with Russell? That's
the quarterback competition you want see? Like I just watch
Russell Wilson get after it with Justin Field. See my
statement of two and a half minutes ago with the Giants?
What are they doing? What are they doing?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Why would you go I get if you passed on
on Jamis Winston and went and got Russell wilsoners he thought, Okay,
he's the guy for this year. We're gonna draft a
guy in the second round because we're not gonna get
a quarterback like That's That's what the Giants realize now,
is that they're not getting a quarterback at three. And
that's a big thing to come off of today that
not many people are talking about. They would not be
(07:36):
doing this if they thought they would get either Shador
Sanders or cam Ward three. Obviously that's not happening. You're
not gonna take Jackson Dart at three because other teams
can jump up and take Jackson Dart. The Giants can't
do it three years after taking doing it with Daniel
Jones and seeing how that went. So they know they're
not getting a quarterback, so they know their next guy
is a more developmental guy a second round and I'm
(07:56):
sure they'll come back early in the second round with
any one of those guys out there, right McCord and
we keep saying the same things, but that's who's gonna
be there. You know, Jackson Dart will probably get up
into the first round at some point, but guys like
Kyle McCord will be there in the second round. Quinn
viewers will be there, Jalen Milroe probably will be there.
So I'm sure they're going to do that. Or you
can even trade back into the back end of the
(08:18):
first round from early in the second if you want
to get your quarterback. So I'm sure that's going to happen.
But they're not gonna go get Russell Wilson unless they know, Okay,
we're gonna be left out of that mix at three.
So now our quarterback room is gonna be Wilson and
Winston and whoever we take in the second round. So
that's a big window to tell you about what the
Giants think and what's going on up ahead of them
(08:40):
with Tennessee and Cleveland. But it still comes back to
what are you doing? Jay? Jamis wins has gotta be saying, hey, hey,
what wait, well what are you talking about? I thought
I was coming into start. Hey, I'm okay with being
replaced by some dude that's coming into the league. That's
just you know, he's a rookie and he's not getting paid.
You gotta see him. I'm okay with that. I've been
around the block. But you sign it now, you're gon
go Russell Wilson. Wait what the hell? What the hell
(09:02):
is going on here? Like you got with Wilson and
Tommy DeVito. I really the Giants, It's just they've gone
from a team where you look up and say, wow,
I really respect the way they do business and how
they do it, and then you get older and you realize, oh,
they're just as screwed up as anybody else. Like what
you know, it's getting older and you think, like you're
your older uncle that you idolized. Boy, he's really smart
(09:23):
and he really knows what he's talking about. Boy, everything
he says is the smartest thing in the world. And
then you get older, you go, oh, he was just
full of crap. I just I just didn't realize it.
But now I realize it, Like, that's what I realized
about the Giants all this. Well, you know what the
Giants had going for them for a long time. They
had a quarterback. They had Eli forever, and that's and
that's what it covered. Look, quarterback covers up all your
ills and sit When did the Giants? When did their
(09:46):
backsliding start? When did they get that exposed as this franchise?
When they let Eli Manning, when they decided Eli Manning
was done and it look Eli was getting near the
end and they've not been able to replace him, and
look at the mess they are in.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, but it's the same thing we talk about about
with the Steelers. It's the same thing, right, you have
many years where it covers up the ill. Hell, we'll
take the swing at Belichick while we're here, let's hit
him with an oar that we're rowing down that rowing
down this river, because once Tom Brady was gone, things
looked a little odd and out of Sort's there now
he's doing exercises on the beach. Good on him. But
(10:21):
all of those franchises, which are stalwarts, old old style
of running things, stability at quarterback allowed you to take
chances elsewhere and you could miss. So long as that
guy was stable, you were still going to be a
playoff team because you had so many other organizations that
couldn't get out of their own way for years. Now,
(10:42):
what is interesting is this does set up the jamis
versus Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Now we're a small team.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
We're a small team, but there's potential for aggressive expansion.
And then they fight to the death of one of
them gets cut because they're not on the hook for
a lot of guaranteed money.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
How about that? And then you pair them up.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Now, for the longest time, the Giants were co favorites
to have the number one pick. Right now they are
the favorites to draft Travis Hunter.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Well, that's the thing that's gonna be their base. See,
this is why the Giants sometimes just fall into it, right,
because the Giants do that. Their consolation prize out of
this will be Travis Hunter at three, and he'll be
the big star that New York football needs. He'll jump
in as the biggest star in New York obviously coming
off the high four guy. No, it's gonna be but
he'll come in and now the Giants, Okay, the Giants
(11:32):
will be set up for whoever comes in next year
as GM head coach quarterback. I like the Giants. They'll
be well set up for twenty twenty seven. Man, I'm
telling you. I mean you come out twenty twenty six
and say, boy, I didn't come in here and throw
them Elak neighbors and Travis Hunter. Wow, Okay, the tyrone
Tracy is a pretty good running back, and I'm feeling
pretty good. He had a pretty good defensive line. All right,
I'm feeling Giants set up for next year.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Dude, Dable and Shane. Are they able to convince Marats like, look,
we'll go around with your made me plan and bringing
in Russell Wilson and Jamis Winston. Because I can't believe
this is coming from Shane. I want to give him
the benefit of the doubt that this is not coming
from Shane and Gable, that this is coming from the
old man. On top of here's a familiar face. We
(12:16):
need some stability. You got two teams who are chasing
the division happily, the Dallas Cowboys can't get out of
their own damn way. So let's go get a guy
we know who's stable, who shined.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
A little bit.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Forget about those final five games, Forget about the fact
that Pittsburgh clearly didn't want Russell Wilson back because Arthur
Smith wins a power struggle and Dan remember they paid
eighty five million dollars to get his ass out of
the building.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
That's the guy you want.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Giants Country, let's cry.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
You just got.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
You just had the Jets with Baron Rodgers as the
laughing stock, and no matter how bad you were, Yeah,
you got mocked a little for Saquon.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
Barkley, but you still had the Aaron rod.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Which at least kept you off the back page of
the fish Rap some of the time.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Not anymore, I mean anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
I mean, I I don't know, I don't know. I mean, hey,
I'm glad because I'm glad because you know, look, my
team is a dumpster fire, and they've been a dumpster fire.
Now it's nice to see that. Hey, the Giants are
coming back to the pack a little bit here, right.
It's not like we're elevating. It's like, hey, okay, giants
coming back to the pack here a little bit. Hey
they can screw things up just as much as anybody
else can. All Right, I like that. I like that
if I feel confident in that, I really, again, I
(13:28):
don't get the Giants. I really I don't get this
is this is one of those quintessential teams that doesn't
know what they want to do. Do they want to contend?
Do they want to punt on next season? And you
have an owner with one strategy and you have a
GM and head coach with another strategy, and it just
doesn't make sense. It's a this is like the Giants
are being knit together, like it's some like the some
(13:49):
some big Frankenstein so together from parts of other teams.
Like we're gonna put in Russell Wilson here, but we're
gonna go draft Travis Hunter. We're gonna like I don't
know what they're trying. I don't know what they aim is.
I don't know what they're trying to do. I know
what the message they're trying to send us. It's yeah,
we're gonna try to win, but you didn't really get
great quarterbacks. Yeah, but we got okay ones. Okay, but
(14:09):
you're gonna get a young one.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Okay, great, good talk, Great, I feel great. Yeah. Giants,
awesome giants.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
My favorite In the last two minutes, as you stumbled
into a great greeting card for the holidays, you're as
screwed up as ions. Merry Christmas, Love Jason.
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So we got into the Russell Wilson signing by the
Giants a few minutes ago. Why it doesn't make any sense. Yeah,
we'll get to the other big one from today coming
up in a second. But this is you know, once
in a while there's a story that comes out that
I say, then there's no way the math works right.
There's no way that math works right. There's just no way.
You know what one has been lately, and it's been
(16:47):
a big one in my house because my wife just
saw this thing on on Facebook where you know, the
reels and different things that come in and she goes,
is this right? And I said what? And she said,
you know the number of people have played Major League
Baseball since it started in the eighteen hundred. She goes,
it's like over, it's like twenty two thousand, twenty three.
I said, I said, yeah, I go, but I don't
(17:08):
believe that. She goes, what do you mean. I go,
there's no way. That's right. There's just no way. There's
no way. Only twenty early twenty some odd thousand people
have played Major League baseball. She goes, why. I go,
I think about it like this, and I said, how
many people do you think make their major league debut
every year? Thirty teams in Major League Baseball. She goes,
I don't know. I said, Okay, I said, I've looked
it up. I've looked it up. About two hundred and
(17:28):
fifty people make their major league debut every year. Okay,
so it's two hundred fifty people plus everybody else's played
in the game already. If you just take two hundred
and fifty people a year, right, and go back. Let's say, okay,
let's say two hundred and fifty. Just go back to
two thousand, with two hundred and fifty people making their
MLB debut this year, because that's not many, right, that's
(17:49):
you know, thirty teams, two hundred and fifty people. It's
not that many. You're talking about a little less than
ten people a year, right, which happens you have injuries
and people come up, and rosters expanded all this stuff.
And I said, you go back to two thousand, right,
so you're talking about every four years, that's a thousand people.
So now you want to go back to two thousand,
you're And so just in the last twenty five years
you're talking about that's five thousand people that has made
(18:11):
their debut. So one quarter of the people who have
ever played in Major League Baseball made their debut in
the last twenty five years. There's no way. The math
doesn't work. Math, the math doesn't work. And we argued
about this year, Yeah, but how many? I go, No,
I get it, but you're going back to the eighteen hundreds.
I mean, how long to get to one thousand and
then two thousand and three. I understand, but there's no
(18:32):
there's no way the math work. There's no way. It's
only there have to be like like like just reams
and of papers of people that they're missing over the course,
Like there's no way. Just you know, less than twenty
five thousand people have played Major League baseball in history,
and I think.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
There's a baseball there's fewer than twenty one thousand.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yeah, there's no way. There's there's no way.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Twenty thousand, seven ninety one, including two hundred and fifty
five debuts last.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, and you go back and it's about two hundred
and fifty couldn't.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
At one point one dollar training card made off of that?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Yeah, well you got Paul Skins. Paul Skins counts for everybody.
But you go back and you go back to even
twenty twenty, when there was no minor league season, Roger,
there were still two hundred some odd players made their
MLB debut the like, there's no way that math works.
There's just no way that math works. I'm I'm telling
you we're missing a lot. Like in Mister three thousand,
when all of a sudden, you know, Bernie Mack had
(19:27):
the three thousand hits, and the guy goes back, goes, oh,
I found that you got credit for three hits twice
in a double header, and so you need those three hits.
Like that's what I feel like I could go back
and find go there's no way. Only twenty one, twenty
two thousand people have played major League Baseball. There's no
way and really no way.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Two things. One, I don't buy that number either.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I don't exactly intend to spend a lot of my
time pouring through records to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
No, I think twenty thousand guys was a strikeouts the
Mets had last time. That's how many games Jacob de
Gram has missed the last four years.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
That's what that show?
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Uh so that?
Speaker 4 (20:01):
But yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
The other is Bernie mac show is the next time
I binging once I'm done with my sipple wits rewatching.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Ah very all. You're going back and watching NYPD Blue
now nice?
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Yeah, yeah, you're watching the first season with that back
when uh, David Caruso was going to be a big star.
I'm only gonna do one season of NYPD Blue.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Everybody, he kiss It Death was a great movie.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
He did so many he did so many awful he
did Kissing Death, he did Jade Right, He did so
many bad movies. He was marked for. Death was better. Mike.
You know what, here's the thing. You could give me
the plots of all the different steven Sagall movies, and
unless it was under siege, I couldn't. I couldn't get
to crack your arm into a thousand pieces right now.
(20:44):
I couldn't anybody see Richie under siege. I get because
it was it was on a ship. He was a nave.
He was a cook. I'm just a lowly cook, right
and Tommy Lee Jones the bad guy, Welcome the Revolution.
Sorry spoiler alert.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Tom Jones took the paycheck.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yeah, so there's no way I believe. Oh, I remember
the question now that the thing was, I'm right on
Facebook that the smallest And she was, what's the smallest
stadium in Major League Baseball? I go, well, it's the
trop but not this year. They're not playing there. No, no,
just what's the small I said, the trup she has?
How many people does it hold? And I said, like
between thirty five and forty thousand, not a lot. She
was because I just saw this thing here that says
(21:15):
if you took every single person it's ever played Major
League Baseball in the entire time it's been going on
since the eighteen hundreds, it wouldn't fill up the smallest
stadium in in the majors. And I was like, okay, yeah,
and that's we had the whole conversation. I don't believe
the math. I don't believe the math.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Well, now you go to Steinbrenner Field where a young
plucky Mike armand once get a bunch of television remotes
in front of.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
The twenty one thousand might be the overall attendance for
the Rays this year. That's Steinbrenner Field.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Is it that big? That's a park with the spring training.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Who draws more fans the A's or the Rays this year?
Who doesn't? Who? Who doesn't?
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Who is more giveaways? So probably the A's right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
So that's the that's the first bit of math that
I'm sorry, I just.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I won't'tl Well, that was ours of two thousand and
twenty one.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
They were closing in on twenty thousand MLB righter and
they had the big they head, they supposedly had the
twenty thirs. They supposedly look at me, they had the
twenty thousandth and now they're up around twenty one thousand.
It make doesn't make sense you've had five thousand. What
doesn't make sense players play for like a decade, No,
but you have five You have five thousand people around
at least making their debut in the last twenty five years.
That the math doesn't math. The math does not math.
(22:29):
If that's it doesn't math, I'm sorry. I mean you
haven't you have a quarter on the se Mets. Players
don't last more than a season.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No, are you, kid?
Speaker 1 (22:38):
We bring up we're holding our up under the bar,
are into the bargain up. We bring up all kinds
of guys. Every year we find out so many guys
at stink and we would just cycle right, I mean,
now we're good, but for years, Hey, we stink. Let's
just keep cycling through.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
Now you have the greatest quadruple A player in baseball.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, Brett Baidy is your great Fruit League MVP. He
has an OPS to like one and a half. But
the other bit that I don't believe. The other math
I don't believe. And I know this has come out
the last couple of days. I understand it, I understand.
I don't believe it. The highest NCAA tournament ratings since
nineteen ninety three. And I'm sorry the math. There's no way,
(23:19):
there's no way. This is the first round, the highest
rated of the NCAA tournament since nineteen ninety three, especially
in an era when there's so many different ways to
measure how you watch games. And I'm sorry, I'm not
gonna believe that that all of a sudden last year
when nobody watched and all that when we saw the
boy the women's tournament is outshining the men's and all,
(23:41):
I mean, all of a sudden this year with the
only star being Cooper Flag, everybody is flocking back to
the TV sets for the first time since North Carolina
beat Michigan because because Chris Weber called time out. I mean, really,
that's that's really what we're saying. It's the highest rated
first round since nineteen ninety three. I get it. I
understand the stuff that's reported. I don't believe the math.
Speaker 4 (24:02):
I believe that.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I think the math has changed because I think they
they're now counting the bars, restaurants, multi person viewing experiences,
the sellouts at COSM, and all of those things that
are included in the ratings were once upon a time
we knew they were existed, but they they were just
pushed off to the side, right that it was just
(24:25):
the people that had the little meter readers at their houses.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
So I think that's where the fuzzy math comes in.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
How you know, and gas meter Okay, Yeah, I'm also
going to read the metrics of what you've been watching
on the tournament. Yeah, you go ahead.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Round the back is around the back of your journal.
Give us your journal. What did you watch? What does
this say scrambled channel? What were you trying to watch here?
Speaker 4 (24:46):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
We appreciate your honesty, but what the hell was scrambled
that you were trying to watch?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
I don't I don't buy this. The NCAA Tournament has
become and really, NCAY basketball has become a one month sport, right,
It's become a one month sport. Now, I understand that,
And then you know they they still do a great
job of owning the month. And really the month begins
with the conference tournament weeks and bubble teams trying to
get in selection Sunday, and then, hey, no, it's a
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one month sport. College basketball used to be a lot bigger.
It used to be a sport you paid more attention
to in November and December and January. There were big,
big showdowns. In January you watch number one versus Number two.
That stuff is gone, and I find it hard to
believe that suddenly, hey, everybody is watching now because there's
less mid majors in and because you know you have
(25:36):
teams getting in that that are just more traditional power
five teams. I no, I don't think everybody because the
SEC put fourteen teams until the every television you are
all watching. That's no, I don't buy it. I don't
buy I mean, I don't doubt that ratings are up
because you do have you do get more people are
interested when the bigger teams are playing. And I get that.
But all of a sudden, you'res the highest rated since
(25:58):
nineteen ninety three. I mean, really, you're You're going back
thirty three years to find that now, I'm just not
gonna believe. That's two things I won't believe the maths
on twenty one thousand people in Major League Baseball, highest
ratings in so far. In the endstrum not gonna believe it.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Now.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Also, to bring in our friends over at the lot
with the Simpsons. Remember you know Homer, with all his faults,
always had one thing he can come back to.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
March on.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
You have a gambling problem. According to the American Gaming Association,
Americans we're going to legally wager an estimated three point
one billion dollars on March madness. See the professionals that
make their bet after reading you know, all the metrics,
going through all the analytics, and then they may or
may not sit down to watch a minute or two
(26:46):
of the game. Otherwise they're looking for what the next
angle is, or they're eating a nice juicy steak. For
everybody else that has five to ten dollars on a game,
guess what, they sit there and they live and die
for those two hours television ratings. Damn it, you killed
by parlay. That's how you get them back to theclude
(27:07):
to the screen smith, and how you get those ads
sales rising.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Now lambling.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Look if vice, if you want to tell you about
how many people who gamble are actually watching the games.
I don't watch the games, Billy, I'll save you a seat. No,
I don't watch the game.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
No, no, no, But that's what I mean, Like professionals don't.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
But the other folks that are betting five ten to
the you know masses to get to that three point
one billion.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yeah, but damn right there good people have been doing it.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
People people do. There's no way the NCA Tournament hasn't
been the biggest event of the month in the last
forty years. I mean, it's a big but you're telling me,
but this year it's the highest this year with no
star power outside of Cooper flag and Rick Patino's white suit,
that's all you had coming home. No star power this
year is the highest again since ninety If you told me, hey,
(27:54):
the highest in the last ten years. Okay, but you're
going back to the salad days of the NCA term
where buzzer beaters and everybody was calling in sick to
try to find a way to watch the games of what. Yeah,
I mean, really, doctors, I feel bad for the Doctors
Act to perform the sectomies on the first tw days
of tournament. I really I find it hard bely the
highest since nineteen ninety three, I really do. If you
(28:14):
wanted to say totality that, you know, then I would
kind of get it, because you're you've added two nights
of games, right, You've added two nights of games. You
spread things out more. I mean, look the two the
second two days of the tournament. Now they've spread out
so you can watch more basketball over the course of
Saturday and Sunday. Games don't overlap nearly as much as
(28:35):
they used to. They start them later, they end them later.
So yeah, in totality, because there's more minutes, because there's
more games, there's more games you're able to watch. But
the highest rated crud. No, I'm not gonna buy I'm
not gonna buy that. This suddenly captures everybody's attention unlike
anything else. Storry to tale again, maths don't met I'm
never gonna believe it.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Yeah, I still think it comes down to the measurement tools.
And you know what, it's It's a very fortunate thing
for us that tonight we have in the at the
news desk a man who has been called no he
knows and he follows television.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Ratings for big sporting events.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
Our guy Steve being here is probably the best because
not only is he a bulldog when it comes to
his research numbers and stats for days, this is right
in his wheelhouse.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
No, I really, I don't. I don't get it. I don't.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna believe it. No, I'm not.
I'm not. It's fuzzy math X exit out about a
Fresca exit swollen dome. The Jason Smith's Or with Mike
carmon Live from the tirec dot Com studios. He is
chomping at the bit to get in on this because
I think he has numbers that he wants to throw
by us. Now again, if the numbers support my argument,
listen to Steve. He's really smart. If they don't, they
(29:42):
can just be maths. You don't believe he's got that,
and he's got what's trending right now in the wide
world of sports.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
With the TV ratings, even the claim is just since
the current TV format was established in twenty eleven for
March Madness, you can't go back to forty years now they're.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Going back tonight.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I'm looking at all the articles, it's nineteen ninety.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Think about all the people we brought in because of
making them truly aware of true TV.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
And you're also correct on the whole out of fume,
out of home viewing thing is they started to account
for that, but not in all the major markets in
twenty twenty, and it wasn't until this past year that
all the major markets were accounted for in the Nielsen estimates. So,
for example, when Zion and Duke were getting huge ratings
and had a six million audience for their first round game, theoretically,
(30:31):
that's a smaller audience than Arkansas's upset last week.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
We know that's not the case.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Because they didn't account for out of home viewing when
Zion was playing for Duke.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's the answer, Steve Desager told you an answer. I
knew he would. I knew he'd haven't. I knew. That's
why I said I knew he'd have it.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
By the way, CBS is reporting that Xavier's Athletic directory.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
GBS the reporting they've been sold. What a surprise and
unrelated story. After having the highest ratings in thirty three years,
CBS has been sold to Amazon, acquiring all the shows
on True TV. Xavier's ad flew to New Mexico today
to offer a job to Lobo's head coach, Richard Patino,
and tonight they're saying Patino has accepted. As for the
(31:19):
NBA news, well.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
The Grizzlies are winning without John Moran, missing a fifth
straight game with a sore hamstring under five minutes ago.
Grizzlies lead at Utah ninety to seventy six. Looks like
the Jazz record will fall to sixteen and fifty seven.
Miami held Jimmy Butler to eleven points. Is that Heat
beat the Warriors one twelve eighty six. Steph Curry with
the pelvic contusion was still out. Houston was up twenty
(31:42):
to start the fourth quarter and held on to beat
Atlanta one twenty one, one fourteen, Detroit and Orlando with victories.
And then there's the New York Knicks, who, let's just say,
had a little bit of offense in this game tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
All we do is get triple double Steve. That's all
we do. Josh Hart. It was his thirty ninth triple
double of the year.
Speaker 5 (32:02):
In fact, this was the first time in NBA history
that all in the same game, same team in regulation
had two players with a triple double and another score
at least thirty five points. Thirty five for o gananobi
triple double for Josh Hart, hang the banner Steve triple
double for Karl Anthony Towns. Yeah, it's kind of like
that Taylor Swift sellout thing. Jason Tatum and the Celtics
(32:28):
doubtful for Wednesday after last night's sprained ankleed Nikola Jokich
of Denver with a bad ankle, doubtful for Wednesday, could
miss a sixth straight game. Damian Lillard of Milwaukee out
in definitely with a blood clot in his calf. Jannis
Antennacumbo questionable against Denver with a sprain foot. The New
York Giants are giving quarterback Russell Wilson a one year deal.
The Patriots are signing wide receiver Stefan Diggs. Stanford fired
(32:51):
football coach Troy Taylor after constant behavior problems toward coworkers.
Multiple employees had filed complaints. The change was made by
Stanford's new general manager, Andrew Luck. Back to you, Captain
Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1 (33:04):
Dear mother, I need to make a big change. We
have not been attacking the front the way we should
have in the last couple of fortnights.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
After that pregnant pause, I thought the big change was
I'm shaving.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
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behind one hundred percent What is it that's next Jason
(33:43):
and Mike Fox. Is it the Jets sucking? Well, that's
common knowledge. This is something different.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
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Speaker 1 (33:58):
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best Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. So maybe you
saw this story today and this is one I think
(34:19):
we can again. We can all get behind right, we
can all get behind this. Andrew Luck newly minted general
manager CEO of Stanford Football, where he was a star
before going to the NFL and starring before retiring early
fired head coach Troy Taylor earlier today. Now, Taylor had
(34:41):
some difficulty behavioral difficulties, also didn't win a lot of
games the last two years. So Andrew Luck fires Troy
Taylor and and and in my best captain Andrew Luck
before in the background because here, look, here's the thing
is that I feel like, you know, hey, de Dere's
(35:03):
Dere's captain, luck Mother. Things are not going well from
the front. I do not know how much more stamina
and togetherness we have here before people fall apart. We've
lost a lot in the last two years. Continue to
lose Andrew Luck name yourself. Stanford head coach who says no.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Oh, let's go, says.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Right now, right, it's great to have him back in
as a GM right, getting back and being part of
his alma mater. I don't see how anybody could have
foreseen today. Hey, it's transfer portal. Let's complain about all
of that on the basketball side. Oh, by the way, Millhouse, you're.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Out, name it, you stay, But the rest of you,
I mean, really, I mean I get that. Look. Does
he have experience? No? Is he Was he a great
college quarterback? Yeah? Was he a great NFL quarterback? Yeah?
Do you need to have experience to be the head
coach which to a team?
Speaker 4 (36:01):
Not really. I think we've seen that, we've seen.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Especially if the type of head coach that he needs
to be, he would be a jolt of energy to
the program. They would approve him right away. Look, the
prodigal son comes back, not to you, and he could
be the GM and head coach. Right, do both jobs, right,
GMed coach what I do the Bill Belichick of of
Stanford football, because you don't need to come in and say, Okay,
(36:25):
I've made my bones doing X, Y and Z. First,
I was a defensive back coach here for a couple
of years, and then it was a defensive line coach,
and it was a defensive coordinator, and then it was
defensive line slash assistant head coach. And now I get
a big jo. You don't need to do that. Now.
This is an era of college football where it's about
mastering the nil, mastering the portal, and getting talent. You
(36:47):
hire the guys, hire the guys with great offensive and
defensive acumen. Suddenly Stanford be a sought after position. You
people would want to go there to be Andrew lux
Oc and DC becaues, Hey I go there and do well.
Guess what, Hey, I'll I'll get a gig someplace. I'll
get a gig someplace and be a head coach. It
would be a destination. And Andrew Luck, who is a
smart guy, would just have to be able to know
(37:09):
this is the kind of head coach I need to
be right. You look at and I keep going back
to it because it was a different thing. Is look
at Fran Brown at Syracuse. Gouy's a defensive backs coach.
He was a number one recruiter in the country the
last two to two years. So what did Syracuse say, Hey,
this is the nil era, transfer portallera, come here and coach.
What did he do? He flipped people from Alabama and
Georgia and Texas A and M and Kyle McCord from
(37:32):
Ohio State and Syracuse goes ten and three, win a
bowl game. We're in the top twenty for the first
time in like twenty years. All of a sudden, frame,
get me the next Fran Brown. That's who everybody is
looking for. Now. Did Fran Brown come in with some
kind of crazy offensive system? No, some kind of great
defensive system. Is he a great game day head coach?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (37:49):
I know there's some things he could have done better,
but it doesn't matter because he came in and he
loaded up the team, and the coaches coach and the
players play. And that's a new era. Head coach now
for the NI and transfer portal era, it's about getting
the talent in here and trusting your coaches to do well.
And Andrew Luck would be that guy. Come in. Yes,
I'm not gonna step on your toes, your system. I'm
(38:10):
a big picture guy. I'm gonna get the players in.
I'm gonna tell you what I see because clearly I
have a football acumen that might be just as good,
if not a little bit greater than yours. But still,
this is my job as a head coach, and you
know where I'm coming in. He's gonna have that cache.
I really I'll be the I'll name myself after it
out sat Andrew Luck move to name himself. He's got
to get somebody to nominate him. But I would call
(38:31):
somebody who says, hey, dude, leak it that I should
be the next head coach at Stanford. Andrew Luck being
the next head coach at Stanford should absolutely happy. It
should happen tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Well, you're trying to inject life into a program of
twenty eighteen. Ain't rolling through that door again. Before things
went south on David Shaw his final couple of years,
you have the COVID period and now you have a
three to nine introduction to the ACC. You're looking to
create a spark create a new identity. So take Andrew Luck.
(39:00):
I like him as GM if nothing else, you got
a young guy with a he's got some ideas right,
knows how to play this game and has been around
it recently enough, I know it's been a couple of
years now since that surprise retirement in the middle of
that preseason game, but still around and young enough to
where he's got a lot of contacts that are either
(39:20):
still in the league or just getting out. So building
a staff that can relate to current players is going
to be as easy for him as it can be
for anybody else. And I think you're kind of going
from a carte blanche proch You know, you and I
have talked.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
About it a lot.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
You know, as this era developed, how it made no
sense that Syracuse and Stanford and Northwestern and some of
these schools didn't activate their immensely robust and successful alumni
basis to start creating a first mover advantage in the
NIL world. Well, guess what, as you noted there with
(40:00):
fran Brown, who, by the way, the thing he wants
to do with Dion Sanders is just absolutely brilliant in
terms of the spring game thing that they can get
it approved.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
But all of that, and what did I tell you
last week? This is going to be a topic that
takes off, and what's the story today? Oklahoma Oklahoma State. Hey,
let's play. Let's play a spring game against each other? Right,
this is this story.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
This is just going to take off if you're able
to get that and pull this off and get the
NCAA on board. Now we're talking about maybe narrowing the
gap even further on some of these first mover advantage
you didn't have from the nil and create some buzz
around your your programs and rise back up because Stanford,
once upon a time was a powerhouse for Shaw and
(40:42):
Harball before.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
Him exit out about a Fresco exit Swollen Dome The
Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carbon. At
the very least, we'd get the return of Captain Andrew
Luck damn right, I mean we get that. That would
which everybody wins. Hey, speaking of everybody winning, how about
some huge bold predictions for the base ball season. That's
next right here, Jason and Mike Fox, And I mean
(41:04):
bold
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