December 11, 2024 • 40 mins
Today on 2 Pros and a Cup of Joe, Jonas isn’t buying Nick Sirianni playing down the drama in the locker room. The confrontation between Brett Favre and Mark Gastineau doesn’t really matter. Mike McCarthy would be most surprised with an extension. The CFB Playoff format isn’t being appreciated. Plus, Burrow’s break-in and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Two pros and a cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio
Jonas Knox with you here. Coming up on this Wednesday edition,
we fly solo, but not for long. The old p
Petros Papadakis is going to join us, and he is
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Fun with it anyways. We're also going to have a
conversation or two about NFL stories. You know, one coach
out there trying to let everybody know, Hey, nothing to
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see here, not an issue, not a problem whatsoever. A
little too late for that coach. We're also going to
talk about an awkward confrontation that really doesn't matter whatsoever
in the grand scheme of things. We've got other disasters
around the NFL, most notably somebody else in Chicago who's
going to have to wear it a little bit. Apparently
one coach might be safe. One coach in the league
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that we thought might get canned at the end of
the year, he might be coming back, but he finds
himself on the wrong side of history this weekend. In
the National Football League, we've already got complaints about the
college football playoff rankings, the college football playoff format. People
are talking about changes we'll just gus. We've got another
edition of in case you missed it. We've also got
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Speaker 2 (01:13):
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Speaker 1 (01:35):
So you know, sometimes the damage has already done. You
can try and explain it away all you want. A
little too late for that. We'll get into that discussion
in the NFL coming up here in just a couple
of moments from now. Jonas knocks and yes it's just me,
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you know, the Philadelphia Eagles got this thing. They're just
not quite ever happy with being really good, which is
bizarre because you look around at other franchises in the
NFL and it's like, man, I would take your problem
any day of the week. But in Philly there seemingly
always is an issue. And so you know, something popped
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up after the game on Sunday where they struggled and
nearly lost to the Carolina Panthers. I think they were
a thirteen point favorite going into that game. Everyone just
projected it to be a complete wipeout. Some burnout who
bet three plus million dollars on Philly to win the game,
And of course that went public because everybody's got a glorify. Hey,
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I spent all this money. I bet all this money
to win a game. It's like, dude, like you got
your problems. I got mine. I'm just trying to win
fifteen dollars on a parlay to be able to pay
for my kids Christmas. But the point is it's gone.
I don't know. But the point is, you see, Philly
have this problem stir up in which AJ Brown basically
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calls out the passing game, specifically the quarterback, and we
talked about it on the show on Monday and Brady was, hey, man,
this is a problem. LaVar said, no, no, no, it's
and all of that would have been fine until Brandon
Graham went on local radio in Philly before the Monday
night football game and basically just said, yeah, they used
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to be friends. They're not friends anymore. One is trying,
but Eleven's not really trying, pointing the finger at AJ
Brown versus Jalen Hurts and and it just spun everything
into complete chaos. We talked about it on the show yesterday,
so of course, you know, he's got to do what
he's got to do. And so Nick Sirianni, the head
coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, was on WIP in Philly
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and tried to explain away the vibe there in the
locker room.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You don't get to see it on a daily basis.
And this is very similar to when people were asking
me about Jalen and I's relationship or whatever. It was like,
all I can all I can judge things on is
what I see on a daily basis. When I see
you know, Aj and Jalen communicating about the game plan,
eating lunch together every single day, praying with each other
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before the game, like and so like, there's gonna be speculation,
and I get it, you know, I get it rightfully,
so basic of what's happened the last couple of days.
But I have more information. I see them every single day.
I see what's going on in the building. I see
so much joy from this team. And there's you know,
we can say, hey, there's twenty twenty three byts, I'd
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see a lot of twenty twenty two utes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That was a small snippet of a three minute plus
answer that Nick Sirianni gave to the awkward vibe maybe
causing a problem in the locker room. And when it
takes three plus minutes to explain away, no man, listen.
It's just like there was such an easier way to
go about it and that didn't happen. The other issue is,
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it's not like the report came out from some Joe
blow beat reporter who's got a bone to pick with
Philly because they took away his press credential because he
asked one too many questions about one of the fans
punching a police horse a couple of years ago after
the Super Bowl. No, no, like this was one of
the guys in the locker room, Brandon Graham, one of
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the most respected guys in the locker room. Not a
former player, not a guy who was there years ago
and is just trying to make a couple of bucks locally. There,
like a current player, respected by everybody in the organization,
who made the comments and then he tried to backtrack
himself the next day. Sometimes you don't need to hear
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somebody explain it away when the evidence is already there.
I got news for you, ladies. If you get home
from yoga class and you feel like something's a little
amiss in the house, you don't need to hear somebody
on the street tell you something. When the dog walks
in from out back and he's got a pair of
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panties on his head, maybe that's kind of a clue. Hey,
he's in the house, he's here. There should be something
that should be discussed at some point, Dude, Brandon Graham
already told us what was going on. We can try
and explain it away all we want and have the
discussion about da though. I get a vibe that it's
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like this year, Oh you do interesting? Yeah, I get
a vibe okay the sweet Do you also get a
twenty seventeen vibe where you got some guy eating horse
crap off the ground after they won a playoff game.
You're getting that vibe too. What other vibes are we
getting there with Philadelphia vibe or not? Who cares? Brandon
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Graham already spilled the beans. Yet they don't get along.
They don't like each other. They used to be friends.
They're not friends anymore. You know, we've got to put
you know, personal stuff aside and just get back to business.
And then Siriani comes out the next day and he's like, oh,
listen up, you guys don't see what I see. I
don't need to see what you said or what you see.
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I don't need it. You could tell me whatever you
want to tell me. Brandon Graham is the guy who
let everybody know there's a problem. That's why everybody who
discussed it afterwards were dumbfounded by the comments. Wait, what
did you say? Like really like, there's been stuff that's
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come out with the Eagles in the past couple of
years that, well, listen, that's a report. Me who cares.
What do they know? Guys there, he's a player in
the locker room kind of like you know, is a
big deal in the whole scheme of things, in the
whole discussion of things. And so Sirianni wants to give
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some three minute answer, like some verbal manifesto of all listen, look,
it's not like that they're having lunch together. He went
on to talk about how they celebrate together on the sidelines.
It's like, okay, dude, all right, like, how about just hey, listen,
a couple of grown ups. We'll get through this. It's
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long season. There's frustrations at times, but you know, we'll
take care of it and any of that stuff. You know,
we'll clean up in house instead. He goes on this
multi minute conversation about their relationship with what it's like.
It's like, no, we already got the answers. All right.
The dog walked in from outback. He smelled like perfume
and had somebody else's panties on his head. I don't
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need to hear anything from the neighbor. I don't need
to hear anybody from down the street. I don't need
to hear anybody from anybody that I associate with throughout
the course of the day, I got my answer. It
was somebody from inside the house and they told me
everything I needed to know. Jonas Knox here, Fox Sports Radio,
two pros and a cup of Joe here on FSR. Now,
I was little store here. I was out to eat
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with somebody the other night and they did something very interesting.
They ordered a burger with no bun because they were
watching their carbon take, and then they got dessert. What's
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the point, you know what I mean? Like, I mean, like,
I mean, if you're just gonna go burger no bun
because you're watching your carbs, only to wash it down
with a brownie the size of somebody's head afterwards, I
just feel like, why don't you just get that? Like
what do we have in the conversation for? And I
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say all that to say this. There was this awkward
exchange that went viral because ESPN's got another documentary coming
out this weekend, the New York Sack Exchange and all that,
and Mark Gastonou was on there and he approached Brett
farv and an autograph signing back in twenty twenty three
and was upset about the fact that he thinks Brett
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Farv took a dive to give Michael Strahan the sack record,
which was Mark Gastonos back in the day. You know,
like just another one of these twenty plus year old
beefs that are popping up nowadays. Apparently that's the thing.
And you know, he's having this heated conversation and awkward
conversation and confrontation with Brett Farv, and you know, afterwards,
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apparently Gastino's wife went up and tried to smooth things
over at far Farv took to social media yesterday to
try and downplay it. And I'm watching all this play
out and I'm like, all right, so his s gripe
is that Brett Farv took a dive and so he
no longer has the sack record. Doesn't TJ. Watt also
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have a say in this because he just tied the
sack record a couple of years ago. So my question is,
what's the point, Like why is the conversation even happening?
And look, it's we know the medical history of Mark Gastino,
we know Brett Farv's had some medical stuff come up,
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and you know, some other things out there about a
volleyball court, and you know, want to get into all
that because I don't want to get sued personally. I
don't know about you guys, it's not my thing. But
when TJ. Watt tied the record, you know, this fraudulent
record of Michael Strahan's that everybody talks about, doesn't that
kind of eliminate anything from the discussion at that point,
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Like don't we kind of like, don't you kind of
cancel one thing out? Like if you're going, ay, I
gotta watch what I eat here. I'd like to get
a salad, no croutons, no cheese. I'm gonna get a burger.
I don't want fries, I want no bun. And then
what I'd like to do is have you bring over
a wheelbarrow full of brownie throw it on the table,
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and that way I can feel better about things. Dear God,
it's good, I agree, Reverend, but it doesn't make much sense.
And what doesn't make much sense is the fact that
we're having an argument about a sack record that was
already tied by somebody else, not even close to the conversation.
Yet somebody wants to get upset about the fact that
it happened twenty years ago, and Brett Favre might have
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taken a dive. I just at some point you gotta
look around at the big picture and go, yeah, one
thing kind of cancels out the other and the conversation's
not really worth it. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio,
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We're gonna have some people step in to hand out
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six o'clock Pacific, a three hour extravaganza here on the
program coming up next here though, all of a sudden,
All of a sudden, somebody in the NFL is getting
a ton of love from all sorts of places. We'll
get into that discussion for you right here on FSR.
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No LeVar Arrington, no Brady Quinn, just Jonas Knox with
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All good here, We've got you covered here and we
are going to have a discussion here coming up in
we'll call it about ten minutes from now where. People
are already getting greedy. I don't know why this happens,
but people are already getting greedy when it comes to
the world of football. That'll be yours here again ten
minutes from now here on FSR. So the tables have
completely turned for the Dallas Cowboys now. I don't know
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if this is something that would have changed following the
situation that took place at the end of the Dallas
Cowboy game on Monday Night where they had that fiasco
in which they blocked a punt but it went off
a Cowboys special teamer and the next thing you know,
Cincinnati got the ball and went down and scored and
won the game. I mean, it's just you know, line
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him up, knock him down. Hey, how bad do you
want to lose here at home? Well, let's keep it close,
but let's lose in a disastrous way. You got it
coming right up, and we'll put it all on Monday
Night football for everybody to see, including your former quarterback
Troy Aikman. You know, the guy won three Super Bowls
with you. So Troy Aikman was on the fan in
Dallas and he expected when asked the question before the
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game whether or not he expected Mike McCarthy back, and
he said, yeah, I expect Mike McCarthy back to be
the head coach. And so Jerry Jones, of course, was
asked about that on his bi weekly appearance on the
fan in Dallas. You know what's great about I was
thinking of this too. It's great about Jerry Jones two
interviews a week isn't enough on local radio. He's one
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of the first people that answers questions postgame two. That
is wild, you know, I mean like it's like, look,
I get it, you want to get the messaging out there.
But christ Man, I mean, how about you know, like
one of the players or you know, all players and
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maybe a couple of coaches, or like Jerry Jones, Like
you can't even get the officials post game, Like you've
got to have some pool report to where they got
to ask a question about there's Jerry Jones, though he
comes right down. I'll give him credit winteror loss. He
is there and he is wearing it, and he's been
wearing it after home games in Dallas for the past,
you know, a few months plus going back to that
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playoff game against the Packers. But nonetheless he was their
postgame and he made his weekly appearances bi weekly appearance
rather on local radio in Dallas to talk about Troy
Aikman's assessment that he expects Mike McCarthy back and why
that would be what have you thought players?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
And now Troy last night endorsing coaches return possible return.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Not surprising at all. Mike, he wouldn't be in this job,
he not had the kind of credibility that those endorsements reflect.
Have never felt that we were backing in with Mike
McCarthy as our head coach. And so I'll tell you
right now, the fact that you are talking about Mack's
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endorsement says so much about do we want to benefit
from these last five years that Mike has had with
Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You know who's more surprised that they might be back
with the Dallas Cowboys than anybody. I swear to God
on this, I think it's Mike McCarthy. If you go
back and listen to any of Mike McCarthy's comments this season,
he's kind of just like resolute and accepting to the
fact that whatever probably won't be back. Screw it, made
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a bunch of money, won a Super Bowl. I'm good,
All good here, Hey, Mike, Jerry says you need to
work on, you know, some play design. There's some stuff
out there that could be improved. Okay, you got it all,
run it by Jerry, no problem. Hey, So Jerry was
wondering whether or not you're gonna put Trey Lanton, which,
by the way, Trey Lance apparently is not going to
get an opportunity this year, which doesn't make any sense whatsoever,
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but you know, is what it is. Hey, Mike, Jerry says,
there's a couple of packages for Trey Lance. Probably get
him in there. I'd like to see him. Okay, well,
oh he did all right. This entire year, Mike McCarthy
has smiled and been upbeat and way more positive than
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you would expect. And he's probably been upbeaaten, way more
positive than you would expect because he just realized, Eh,
you know, just I mean, I'm out. I don't know
what to tell you. It's like, I think it might
have been the Usual Suspects where there were that scene
where you know, he's talking with you who eventually was
(19:06):
Kayser SoSE spoiler aler, but he's talking with Kevin Spacey
or I think it was usual. So if it wasn't,
what does it matter. But the point is to say,
you want to know how you can spot a murderer
when you have a bunch of guys locked up at once.
The guy who sleeps the best, that's the guy who
probably did it because he realizes I'm caught. It's over whatever,
I'm going to get a good night's sleep and you know,
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the rest will sort itself out. Mike McCarthy's been sleeping
well all year long, All year long. The guy's been
sleeping well because he realizes whatever, I'm out of here,
and now all of a sudden, the speculation starts. Dak
Prescott sticks up for him, Troy Aikman sticks up for him,
Jerry Jones throughout the possibility of him being back, and
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Mike McCarthy after this last game was saying things like, Yeah,
this is maybe the most difficult non playoff loss of
my time here in Dallas. I don't know if anybody's
aware of this. There's been a bunch to choose from
this year, like he's one, Like, listen, I agree, I
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don't think you should go anywhere. But the fact that
all of a sudden, Mike McCarthy is reinvested and it
really bothers him that he lost. I think he's shocked
that there's a real chance he's gonna be back. Okay,
I thought the end was. I thought this was over
and we're just gonna have a good time and we're gonna,
you know, be in good moods and just ty way
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is what it is, you know, been a great run.
I'll go off and do what I do. Maybe I'll
go be in OC somewhere. Maybe I'll get an opportunity
as a head coach. Who knows. I mean at this
stage it might be a couple of years if I
even went back in. And now all of a sudden,
you've got Troy Aikman, You've got Dak Prescott, You've got
people coming out and say no, no, Mike McCarthy should be back,
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and you could do a hell of a lot worse.
And Mike McCarthy's your head coach. A hell of a
lot worse. Yeah, he got fired in Green Bay. Everybody
gets it. And if I'm not mistaken, and people listening
state wide and Wisconsin. First of all, the fact that
I remember this is pathetic. I think it was after
a game they lost at home to Josh Rosen and
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the Cardinals, and it was a really down year, and
that's when they moved on from him, and then he
sat out a year and then he got his opportunity
to be in Dallas and all that. And I think
Mike McCarthy going into this season when his contract wasn't
renewed and it was approve it year I think he
looked at it and said, all right, prove it year.
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I don't have anything on the back end of this deal.
It's all about the quote unquote all in from Jerry Jones.
Even though the roster's worse, we did nothing to improve
it and I lost my quarterback. All of a sudden,
they start floating out the fact like no, no, he could
be back, and now it bothers him as much as
any other loss outside of a playoff game. What happened
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on Monday night. What happened on Monday night has no
impact on anything. Neither one of those teams is going
to the playoffs. Dallas willn't go to the playoffs. We
can talk about, hey what if they go on to run.
They weren't. It's not happening like mathematically alive. Listen, I
don't know who's putting the stats together, who's putting the
numbers together. I can go through and find you teams
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that are quote unquote mathematically alive that aren't try the Bears.
The Bears have been eliminated from the playoffs since July.
All right, they're not mathematically alive or anything got Bears.
So I think when you hear this stuff pop up.
I think Mike McCarthy's will get around going wait me,
I'm gonna be back, And then the conversation becomes if
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you're looking around at potential candidates, and we'll get into
the Belichick stuff later on, and maybe he goes to
you know, to Chapel Hill, who the hell knows. But
if we're looking around at other candidates, you got to
be asking yourself. If Ben Johnson doesn't want to be
a part of it, and you can't find anybody that
wants to work with an owner who medal and has
interviews postgame and two a week on local radio, maybe
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the best move is to go with the guy who's
won a bunch of games there and when Dak Prescott's healthy,
they're always in contention. Jonas Knox he or Fox Sports
Radio two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Here on FSR,
you won't talking about greed. We're not even there yet,
Like we're not even at the point that we can
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really take in and embrace what college football has presented us.
And yet here we are already talking about what's happening next. Like,
I get you want to plan towards the future. I
totally understand that, but at some point or another, don't
you have to actually enjoy what's going on? Like, don't
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you have to enjoy it? Like like accept what's happening.
Jeff Schwartz, Fox Sports radio hosts good dude. He always
shares a video every Christmas morning where his wife, before
noon Eastern, I think it is, is already dragging the
Christmas tree outside to get rid of it. Like we're
(24:09):
not even at cocktail hour, and that Christmas tree man
up and vanished like a fart in the wind, gone,
like no time to enjoy it during the actual holiday. No, no, no,
it's out of there now. If you ask my wife,
she could keep Christmas decorations up all year. She loves it,
can't get enough. The tewod December twenty sixth starts, every
(24:31):
single decoration outside is out because I'm responsible for that,
and I cannot have that. It looks lazy. It's like
the guy who's got his decorations up in March. It's like,
you're gonna take those down? No, No, I just I
like what it does to the house. No, your lazy
ass just doesn't want to get him down. But then
there's the other flip side, of that to where people
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can't even just enjoy the moment before all of a
sudden they start thinking ahead and what's next and what's
and they're already doing that in college football. It's already happened.
So apparently Rich Clark, who is the College Football Playoff
executive director, he was talking, he was talking with Sports
(25:15):
Business Journal, and he confirmed that there will be discussions
about adding more teams to the college football Playoff beginning
in twenty twenty six. And he said, a fourteen team
field is already in consideration, right, what about the twelve
team field that's coming up in a couple of weeks.
What about that one? Like we can't just enjoy that,
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you know, never seen it before, Like we've never seen
this before. We've never seen home playoff games. We've never
seen a playoff format like this at any point in
college football. And yet there's already discussions about let's add
more teams. Look, if you want to tweak the current system,
and we threw out some ideas on how you tweak
the current system, reseeding, who gets an odd buy, et cetera,
(26:01):
et cetera. Totally get it. Nick Saban said it after
the twelve team playoff was announced. When they had the
selection show, Nick Saban said it, Look, I think we're
gonna learn a lot from this, and you're gonna see
some adjustments made. But now all of a sudden, we're
talking about now we got to add fourteen teams, and
then we got to add sixteen teams, and then we're
gonna and at what point can you not just sit
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there and enjoy what the hell we got? I was
saying it over the weekend. We are so conditioned to
bitch and moan about the college football playoffs and the
selections and the bcs and everything that comes along with it,
that we can't even just accept the fact that, no,
this is awesome. Like, I'm gonna reserve the right to
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not bitch. That's my approach when it comes to the
college football playoff. I'm not gonna complain about it. You
want to talk about receding, Look, there's other sports leagues
that don't receed, and it doesn't make any sense to me.
The bracket is the bracket. This is who's playing who.
But that doesn't make any sense. You should be rewarded
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or punished at every single stage of the playoff, despite
what the result is if you're a six seed just
because the bracket says you're going to be playing the
four seed, that shouldn't be the case. You play the
highest seed available, and there's some places where that doesn't happen.
And so that's why you're seeing teams like Penn State
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celebrate the fact that they got the draw they got.
That's why you're seeing Texas look around and go all right,
we'll take that cool. And then you're seeing Oregon and
other schools we'll get at it going, man, we got
completely screwed, or the best team in college football, were undefeated,
we beat everybody, won our conference championship, and that's the
draw we get. So if we want to talk about tweaks,
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if you want to talk about adjustments making changes to it,
I totally get it. But the fact that we're already
talking fourteen team playoff, like we're already having the well,
that's going to happen twenty twenty six. Uh, that's good, okay,
And then what's gonna happen when we get to fourteen teams?
Then we're gonna already be talking sixteen teams. Dude, We've
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never seen this before. It's the first time we've ever
gotten this, It's never happened. How about we just all
do something that feels like pretty normal to me and
just enjoy what's on the plate. Why don't we enjoy
that worry about it later. I get it. You don't
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want the dishes piling up in the sink, totally understand.
Are you gonna stop mid appetizer and get up and
go clean it all and say no? No, now, we
get no. Just enjoy what the hell we got. This
is going to be unlike anything we've seen before. And
if you are a fan, I got news for you.
If you are a fan for fan bases getting depressed
(28:51):
at home games when their team loses, and that's a uh,
that's a guilty pleasure for me personally, just because I've
been at places where the home team is starting to
fall apart and that place turns into a morgue. Go
to Wrigley Field in a playoff game when everything's on
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the line and the Cubs are down by two runs
going into the seventh, Oh, it is glorious. You see
people writing out their own toe tags in their seats.
It is fine. What do you think it's going to
be like if one of these teams hosting a home
playoff game loses in the first round. What do you
(29:35):
think it's going to be like for Ryan Day and
Columbus or James Franklin in State College. I got news
for you. I'm not gonna feel bad about it. I
want to live in that world. I would rather live
in that world than live in a world where we
already have to have a discussion about how many more
teams we can add to a playoff, because you know
(29:55):
what's going to happen. People aren't gonna be happy about that.
One ecs left and they're like, all right, we're gonna
vote on this. We're gonna have a college football playoff.
You would think. Sweet. So we get to cut to
the chase and get right to the final four. So
you mean we get to get to the four best teams? Yeah,
who's not on board for that? Almost immediately everyone started
(30:16):
complaining about it. This is my nightmare, almost immediately. So
now we expand this thing, we get to twelve teams again,
have the discussions about the reseting and everything else that
comes along with it. Like we get to all that,
and now we're already talking fourteen and then the sixteen
it's like, dude, let's just enjoy it. Do you know
(30:39):
how much is gonna be on our plate with this?
If one of these home teams loses in the first round,
do you know what a disaster that's gonna be, especially
when those kids and that fan base has been on
the liver lube since six in the morning, tailgating, getting
ready for that game, only to see their team defecate
(31:01):
down their leg in the biggest spot and the biggest
home game they've ever had before. Do you know how
awesome that's gonna be to be on the outside to
watch that chaos. So if everybody wants to sit here
and they want to already look ahead to how many
more teams we should add to make it fair and
let's get to six, that's fine. You go have that
discussion all you want. In present time, I'm gonna enjoy
(31:23):
the holiday. It's a twelve team playoff with storylines attached
to it, and it's way better than what we had before.
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Sometimes you can't get to everything in the world of
sports or entertainment. Good thing, the guys are here to
bring you in Chase, you missed it.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
For that, we turn it over to our executive producer,
Lee Lap.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Jonas Knox, Jonas and Casey
missed this. Good morning, bar Good to hear from you, guys.
In case, guys, in case you missed this during Monday
night football between the Bengals and Cowboys in Hey, Brady.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Casey missed this during.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
That Monday night clash between the Bengals and Cowboys. Apparently,
it's been reported that there was a burglary in Joe
Burrow's house in Ohio.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
But then the details get a little more interesting.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
The person who called in this burglary that was happening
during the game was none other than a Miss Diane,
who's the mother of Olivia Ponton. Olivia Ponton is an
SI swimsuit model. Apparently, she had rolled up to the
house in the middle of the Monday night football game.
That window into the bedroom of the abode had been shattered,
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so she had called her mother, who then called dispatch,
saying her daughter was wondering if she should be going
into hiding or run away. She later this being Olivia
later called again and said, someone has broken into my house.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
It's like it's like completely messed up.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So what's the problem is she's there at the house
and she called in to report that there's, you know,
potentially a break in. I mean it seems, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Well, like many eligible bachelor's in the NFL, especially quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
People like to wonder who they might be dating.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
And of course, Joe Burrow is famous for having a
long term girlfriend, also by.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
The name of Olivia, that he has been seeing since
his college years.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So Joe Burrow's got a girlfriend. Yet. A swimsuit model
called in the burglary from Joe Burrow's house.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Documents say she is employed by mister Burrow.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Aw well, I mean, look, you know, if you're looking
for a housekeeper, you just go to Craigslist and you
type in uh rocket ship as one of the criteria
to be uh be accepted for the job or SI
swimsuit model. Yeah and that and uh and apparently she
(35:20):
fit the bill. So makes all the sense in the world. Man,
That is just that's awful timing. You know that's one
of those like what do you do? Yeah, how do
you exp By the way, if you're Joe Burrow, how
do you explain that away to uh, to your better half,
(35:41):
like like like how you get out of that one?
Same name? What's she doing there? Honey?
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Smells kind of fishy to me?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, well, what's she doing there? Honey? I don't know?
Got lost? Like okay, like I got I'm not, by
the way, I'm not recommending this. I want to be
clear on this. This is not I'm only laughing because
how the absurdity of it. But I knew a guy
(36:11):
who tried to explain to the neighbor that he wasn't
out drinking the night before, yet parked his car on
the neighbor's lawn when he drove back home. It's dark street, no,
let's yeah, And was trying to explain that away, and
(36:33):
the guy's like, hey, man, like, your car's parked on
my lawn. Oh mistake. I was just really tired. Yeah,
he blew over the mailbox to you know, It's just like,
how do you explain that away in the moment. So
if you're Joe Burrow, you know you don't have to
worry about the playoffs, but you do have to worry
(36:54):
about cleaning up that mess at some point or another.
So if anybody in Cincinnati's got the update on that,
we are, you know, we'll look forward to maybe Andy
Ferman will be on the horn trying to make a
couple of calls there. You know, we can get that
squared away.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
What else we got, Lee Jonas a little controversy and
Happy Valley. As you know, tickets for college football playoff
games are controlled by the College Football Playoffs, but there
are an allotment of tickets that are set aside for
the student body. Say and you get a discount, say
for Penn State SMU game. Here, Penn State students would
be able to get tickets for twenty eight dollars opposed
(37:28):
to the minimum one hundred dollars. Well, the school spokesperson
said that all students who requested tickets by Friday, November
twenty ninth, the deadline, received those tickets and no student
requests were turned away prior to the deadline. Well the
student body has responded saying that there was a lottery
and that many students have in fact not been given
the tickets despite requesting those before.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
The deadline, so they tried to take the tickets and
make a few more bocks on them. Sound sickly, Yeah,
why don't you just up the price on booze in
the stadium? Lee, We were at that stadium. We walked
around there, like, did you have a chance to get
a cocktail while we were in the stadium or were
we doing that on the outside.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
We did most of it on the outside. It did
not check the pricing inside.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, there's no there's no real need at that point
the way we were going, yeah, to stop buy anywhere
in the stadium. Yeah, we had.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
We had a good little thing going on the outside.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Have another I did.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I mean it's listened. It's a hot ticket you go
to like Notre Dame, Indiana, that one's going for in
some places. I think seven hundred and thirty plus dollars,
I think is the cheapest ticket that I saw sm
U Penn State. I mean you can get in there
for eighty eight bucks from what I'm seeing here, and
then Clemson, Texas buck eighty two and then over two
hundred dollars in Columbus to go to Tennessee, Ohio State.
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So look, you can get in there. You just got
to pay a little bit more and you got to
you know, and if you want to save a few bucks, lee,
I mean, this is where you step in and give
people advice on how they can save money when they
go to a game. What would you recommend for any
of these students or we're now gonna have to pay
full price to try and get a ticket to get
into the game.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Well, if you got a back pocket, you know what
that's good for is a plastic flask and uh, you
got two of them, so why not bring to yeah,
and then just get yourself a free refill large soda
and of whatever mixture you like to make, and you're
good to go.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And now do you think that do you think a
plastic flask in the back pocket is a good approach
or would you go sock instead to try and make
it a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
It depends your retire You know a lot of these
kids these days like the skinny jeans, So if that
were the case, I don't know that would.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Also if it's it's gonna be cold weather out there,
so you're gonna be layered up, so probably gives you
an opportunity to be able to sneak a little bit
more into the stadium if need be.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I got you know, my big
jackets always have the sea the seam zipper that you
could just kind of open up and throw right in there. Yeah,
it's good for you know, newspaper if you gotta insulate,
throw a bunch of newspapers and flasks.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I got one of
those two. That's what I do when I'm taking my
kid for a walk.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
What else we got, Lee, Well, you were talking about decorations.
You know why people might leave them up.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
I just put my decorations up last night, so I
have two full weeks of decorations. I don't think that's
enough time, so I'll take it all the way through movie.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Why didn't you just do them two weeks earlier? You
get a full month?
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Well, you talk about laziness.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'd gotten the decorations and they'd been sitting around for
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
So it is kind of a kind of a bummer
the fact that we had so little time between Thanksgiving
and Christmas, Like, we had less than a month, so
you don't really get to enjoy them at all. But
I don't care. Man, like December twenty sixth, those bad
boys are coming down. Wife will get pissed, son will
be bummed out, and I'll be like, you know what,
buckle up, kid. Gonna be a long run before Easter
(40:43):
gets here, all right, So you better shape up or
ship out if you don't like it.
Two pros and a cup of Joe. Fox Sports Radio
Jonas Knox with you here. Coming up on this Wednesday edition,
we fly solo, but not for long. The old p
Petros Papadakis is going to join us, and he is
not in a great mood to start things off. Well.
Fun with it anyways. We're also going to have a
conversation or two about NFL stories. You know, one coach
out there trying to let everybody know, Hey, nothing to
(00:21):
see here, not an issue, not a problem whatsoever. A
little too late for that coach. We're also going to
talk about an awkward confrontation that really doesn't matter whatsoever
in the grand scheme of things. We've got other disasters
around the NFL, most notably somebody else in Chicago who's
going to have to wear it a little bit. Apparently
one coach might be safe. One coach in the league
(00:44):
that we thought might get canned at the end of
the year, he might be coming back, but he finds
himself on the wrong side of history this weekend. In
the National Football League, we've already got complaints about the
college football playoff rankings, the college football playoff format. People
are talking about changes we'll just gus. We've got another
edition of in case you missed it. We've also got
our MIDWEK Awards, and we close up shop with Lee's leftovers.
(01:05):
It's all yours coming up next here, two pros and
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So you know, sometimes the damage has already done. You
can try and explain it away all you want. A
little too late for that. We'll get into that discussion
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you know, the Philadelphia Eagles got this thing. They're just
not quite ever happy with being really good, which is
bizarre because you look around at other franchises in the
NFL and it's like, man, I would take your problem
any day of the week. But in Philly there seemingly
always is an issue. And so you know, something popped
(02:45):
up after the game on Sunday where they struggled and
nearly lost to the Carolina Panthers. I think they were
a thirteen point favorite going into that game. Everyone just
projected it to be a complete wipeout. Some burnout who
bet three plus million dollars on Philly to win the game,
And of course that went public because everybody's got a glorify. Hey,
(03:08):
I spent all this money. I bet all this money
to win a game. It's like, dude, like you got
your problems. I got mine. I'm just trying to win
fifteen dollars on a parlay to be able to pay
for my kids Christmas. But the point is it's gone.
I don't know. But the point is, you see, Philly
have this problem stir up in which AJ Brown basically
(03:31):
calls out the passing game, specifically the quarterback, and we
talked about it on the show on Monday and Brady was, hey, man,
this is a problem. LaVar said, no, no, no, it's
and all of that would have been fine until Brandon
Graham went on local radio in Philly before the Monday
night football game and basically just said, yeah, they used
(03:52):
to be friends. They're not friends anymore. One is trying,
but Eleven's not really trying, pointing the finger at AJ
Brown versus Jalen Hurts and and it just spun everything
into complete chaos. We talked about it on the show yesterday,
so of course, you know, he's got to do what
he's got to do. And so Nick Sirianni, the head
coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, was on WIP in Philly
(04:18):
and tried to explain away the vibe there in the
locker room.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
You don't get to see it on a daily basis.
And this is very similar to when people were asking
me about Jalen and I's relationship or whatever. It was like,
all I can all I can judge things on is
what I see on a daily basis. When I see
you know, Aj and Jalen communicating about the game plan,
eating lunch together every single day, praying with each other
(04:45):
before the game, like and so like, there's gonna be speculation,
and I get it, you know, I get it rightfully,
so basic of what's happened the last couple of days.
But I have more information. I see them every single day.
I see what's going on in the building. I see
so much joy from this team. And there's you know,
we can say, hey, there's twenty twenty three byts, I'd
(05:06):
see a lot of twenty twenty two utes.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That was a small snippet of a three minute plus
answer that Nick Sirianni gave to the awkward vibe maybe
causing a problem in the locker room. And when it
takes three plus minutes to explain away, no man, listen.
It's just like there was such an easier way to
go about it and that didn't happen. The other issue is,
(05:32):
it's not like the report came out from some Joe
blow beat reporter who's got a bone to pick with
Philly because they took away his press credential because he
asked one too many questions about one of the fans
punching a police horse a couple of years ago after
the Super Bowl. No, no, like this was one of
the guys in the locker room, Brandon Graham, one of
(05:54):
the most respected guys in the locker room. Not a
former player, not a guy who was there years ago
and is just trying to make a couple of bucks locally. There,
like a current player, respected by everybody in the organization,
who made the comments and then he tried to backtrack
himself the next day. Sometimes you don't need to hear
(06:16):
somebody explain it away when the evidence is already there.
I got news for you, ladies. If you get home
from yoga class and you feel like something's a little
amiss in the house, you don't need to hear somebody
on the street tell you something. When the dog walks
in from out back and he's got a pair of
(06:37):
panties on his head, maybe that's kind of a clue. Hey,
he's in the house, he's here. There should be something
that should be discussed at some point, Dude, Brandon Graham
already told us what was going on. We can try
and explain it away all we want and have the
discussion about da though. I get a vibe that it's
(06:58):
like this year, Oh you do interesting? Yeah, I get
a vibe okay the sweet Do you also get a
twenty seventeen vibe where you got some guy eating horse
crap off the ground after they won a playoff game.
You're getting that vibe too. What other vibes are we
getting there with Philadelphia vibe or not? Who cares? Brandon
(07:23):
Graham already spilled the beans. Yet they don't get along.
They don't like each other. They used to be friends.
They're not friends anymore. You know, we've got to put
you know, personal stuff aside and just get back to business.
And then Siriani comes out the next day and he's like, oh,
listen up, you guys don't see what I see. I
don't need to see what you said or what you see.
(07:44):
I don't need it. You could tell me whatever you
want to tell me. Brandon Graham is the guy who
let everybody know there's a problem. That's why everybody who
discussed it afterwards were dumbfounded by the comments. Wait, what
did you say? Like really like, there's been stuff that's
(08:07):
come out with the Eagles in the past couple of
years that, well, listen, that's a report. Me who cares.
What do they know? Guys there, he's a player in
the locker room kind of like you know, is a
big deal in the whole scheme of things, in the
whole discussion of things. And so Sirianni wants to give
(08:30):
some three minute answer, like some verbal manifesto of all listen, look,
it's not like that they're having lunch together. He went
on to talk about how they celebrate together on the sidelines.
It's like, okay, dude, all right, like, how about just hey, listen,
a couple of grown ups. We'll get through this. It's
(08:50):
long season. There's frustrations at times, but you know, we'll
take care of it and any of that stuff. You know,
we'll clean up in house instead. He goes on this
multi minute conversation about their relationship with what it's like.
It's like, no, we already got the answers. All right.
The dog walked in from outback. He smelled like perfume
and had somebody else's panties on his head. I don't
(09:14):
need to hear anything from the neighbor. I don't need
to hear anybody from down the street. I don't need
to hear anybody from anybody that I associate with throughout
the course of the day, I got my answer. It
was somebody from inside the house and they told me
everything I needed to know. Jonas Knox here, Fox Sports Radio,
two pros and a cup of Joe here on FSR. Now,
I was little store here. I was out to eat
(09:38):
with somebody the other night and they did something very interesting.
They ordered a burger with no bun because they were
watching their carbon take, and then they got dessert. What's
(09:59):
the point, you know what I mean? Like, I mean, like,
I mean, if you're just gonna go burger no bun
because you're watching your carbs, only to wash it down
with a brownie the size of somebody's head afterwards, I
just feel like, why don't you just get that? Like
what do we have in the conversation for? And I
(10:20):
say all that to say this. There was this awkward
exchange that went viral because ESPN's got another documentary coming
out this weekend, the New York Sack Exchange and all that,
and Mark Gastonou was on there and he approached Brett
farv and an autograph signing back in twenty twenty three
and was upset about the fact that he thinks Brett
(10:41):
Farv took a dive to give Michael Strahan the sack record,
which was Mark Gastonos back in the day. You know,
like just another one of these twenty plus year old
beefs that are popping up nowadays. Apparently that's the thing.
And you know, he's having this heated conversation and awkward
conversation and confrontation with Brett Farv, and you know, afterwards,
(11:02):
apparently Gastino's wife went up and tried to smooth things
over at far Farv took to social media yesterday to
try and downplay it. And I'm watching all this play
out and I'm like, all right, so his s gripe
is that Brett Farv took a dive and so he
no longer has the sack record. Doesn't TJ. Watt also
(11:26):
have a say in this because he just tied the
sack record a couple of years ago. So my question is,
what's the point, Like why is the conversation even happening?
And look, it's we know the medical history of Mark Gastino,
we know Brett Farv's had some medical stuff come up,
(11:48):
and you know, some other things out there about a
volleyball court, and you know, want to get into all
that because I don't want to get sued personally. I
don't know about you guys, it's not my thing. But
when TJ. Watt tied the record, you know, this fraudulent
record of Michael Strahan's that everybody talks about, doesn't that
kind of eliminate anything from the discussion at that point,
(12:10):
Like don't we kind of like, don't you kind of
cancel one thing out? Like if you're going, ay, I
gotta watch what I eat here. I'd like to get
a salad, no croutons, no cheese. I'm gonna get a burger.
I don't want fries, I want no bun. And then
what I'd like to do is have you bring over
a wheelbarrow full of brownie throw it on the table,
(12:32):
and that way I can feel better about things. Dear God,
it's good, I agree, Reverend, but it doesn't make much sense.
And what doesn't make much sense is the fact that
we're having an argument about a sack record that was
already tied by somebody else, not even close to the conversation.
Yet somebody wants to get upset about the fact that
it happened twenty years ago, and Brett Favre might have
(12:55):
taken a dive. I just at some point you gotta
look around at the big picture and go, yeah, one
thing kind of cancels out the other and the conversation's
not really worth it. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio,
two pros and a cup of Joe here on FSR.
By the way, you can get me on X at
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have the usuals here. The old p Petris Papadegas is
(13:17):
gonna stop by in our three of the program. We're
also gonna have another edition of in case you missed it.
We've got our midweek awards we're gonna hand out. There's
gonna be a special twist with the guys not here.
We're gonna have some people step in to hand out
some awards as well too, and we'll close up shop
with Lee's leftovers. It's all yours here as we take
you again all the way up until nine am Eastern times,
(13:37):
six o'clock Pacific, a three hour extravaganza here on the
program coming up next here though, all of a sudden,
All of a sudden, somebody in the NFL is getting
a ton of love from all sorts of places. We'll
get into that discussion for you right here on FSR.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
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But none they are listen, they've got the day off.
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All good here, We've got you covered here and we
are going to have a discussion here coming up in
we'll call it about ten minutes from now where. People
are already getting greedy. I don't know why this happens,
but people are already getting greedy when it comes to
the world of football. That'll be yours here again ten
minutes from now here on FSR. So the tables have
completely turned for the Dallas Cowboys now. I don't know
(14:53):
if this is something that would have changed following the
situation that took place at the end of the Dallas
Cowboy game on Monday Night where they had that fiasco
in which they blocked a punt but it went off
a Cowboys special teamer and the next thing you know,
Cincinnati got the ball and went down and scored and
won the game. I mean, it's just you know, line
(15:15):
him up, knock him down. Hey, how bad do you
want to lose here at home? Well, let's keep it close,
but let's lose in a disastrous way. You got it
coming right up, and we'll put it all on Monday
Night football for everybody to see, including your former quarterback
Troy Aikman. You know, the guy won three Super Bowls
with you. So Troy Aikman was on the fan in
Dallas and he expected when asked the question before the
(15:37):
game whether or not he expected Mike McCarthy back, and
he said, yeah, I expect Mike McCarthy back to be
the head coach. And so Jerry Jones, of course, was
asked about that on his bi weekly appearance on the
fan in Dallas. You know what's great about I was
thinking of this too. It's great about Jerry Jones two
interviews a week isn't enough on local radio. He's one
(15:59):
of the first people that answers questions postgame two. That
is wild, you know, I mean like it's like, look,
I get it, you want to get the messaging out there.
But christ Man, I mean, how about you know, like
one of the players or you know, all players and
(16:21):
maybe a couple of coaches, or like Jerry Jones, Like
you can't even get the officials post game, Like you've
got to have some pool report to where they got
to ask a question about there's Jerry Jones, though he
comes right down. I'll give him credit winteror loss. He
is there and he is wearing it, and he's been
wearing it after home games in Dallas for the past,
you know, a few months plus going back to that
(16:44):
playoff game against the Packers. But nonetheless he was their
postgame and he made his weekly appearances bi weekly appearance
rather on local radio in Dallas to talk about Troy
Aikman's assessment that he expects Mike McCarthy back and why
that would be what have you thought players?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
And now Troy last night endorsing coaches return possible return.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Not surprising at all. Mike, he wouldn't be in this job,
he not had the kind of credibility that those endorsements reflect.
Have never felt that we were backing in with Mike
McCarthy as our head coach. And so I'll tell you
right now, the fact that you are talking about Mack's
(17:30):
endorsement says so much about do we want to benefit
from these last five years that Mike has had with
Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
You know who's more surprised that they might be back
with the Dallas Cowboys than anybody. I swear to God
on this, I think it's Mike McCarthy. If you go
back and listen to any of Mike McCarthy's comments this season,
he's kind of just like resolute and accepting to the
fact that whatever probably won't be back. Screw it, made
(18:02):
a bunch of money, won a Super Bowl. I'm good,
All good here, Hey, Mike, Jerry says you need to
work on, you know, some play design. There's some stuff
out there that could be improved. Okay, you got it all,
run it by Jerry, no problem. Hey, So Jerry was
wondering whether or not you're gonna put Trey Lanton, which,
by the way, Trey Lance apparently is not going to
get an opportunity this year, which doesn't make any sense whatsoever,
(18:25):
but you know, is what it is. Hey, Mike, Jerry says,
there's a couple of packages for Trey Lance. Probably get
him in there. I'd like to see him. Okay, well,
oh he did all right. This entire year, Mike McCarthy
has smiled and been upbeat and way more positive than
(18:46):
you would expect. And he's probably been upbeaaten, way more
positive than you would expect because he just realized, Eh,
you know, just I mean, I'm out. I don't know
what to tell you. It's like, I think it might
have been the Usual Suspects where there were that scene
where you know, he's talking with you who eventually was
(19:06):
Kayser SoSE spoiler aler, but he's talking with Kevin Spacey
or I think it was usual. So if it wasn't,
what does it matter. But the point is to say,
you want to know how you can spot a murderer
when you have a bunch of guys locked up at once.
The guy who sleeps the best, that's the guy who
probably did it because he realizes I'm caught. It's over whatever,
I'm going to get a good night's sleep and you know,
(19:28):
the rest will sort itself out. Mike McCarthy's been sleeping
well all year long, All year long. The guy's been
sleeping well because he realizes whatever, I'm out of here,
and now all of a sudden, the speculation starts. Dak
Prescott sticks up for him, Troy Aikman sticks up for him,
Jerry Jones throughout the possibility of him being back, and
(19:48):
Mike McCarthy after this last game was saying things like, Yeah,
this is maybe the most difficult non playoff loss of
my time here in Dallas. I don't know if anybody's
aware of this. There's been a bunch to choose from
this year, like he's one, Like, listen, I agree, I
(20:09):
don't think you should go anywhere. But the fact that
all of a sudden, Mike McCarthy is reinvested and it
really bothers him that he lost. I think he's shocked
that there's a real chance he's gonna be back. Okay,
I thought the end was. I thought this was over
and we're just gonna have a good time and we're gonna,
you know, be in good moods and just ty way
(20:31):
is what it is, you know, been a great run.
I'll go off and do what I do. Maybe I'll
go be in OC somewhere. Maybe I'll get an opportunity
as a head coach. Who knows. I mean at this
stage it might be a couple of years if I
even went back in. And now all of a sudden,
you've got Troy Aikman, You've got Dak Prescott, You've got
people coming out and say no, no, Mike McCarthy should be back,
(20:52):
and you could do a hell of a lot worse.
And Mike McCarthy's your head coach. A hell of a
lot worse. Yeah, he got fired in Green Bay. Everybody
gets it. And if I'm not mistaken, and people listening
state wide and Wisconsin. First of all, the fact that
I remember this is pathetic. I think it was after
a game they lost at home to Josh Rosen and
(21:14):
the Cardinals, and it was a really down year, and
that's when they moved on from him, and then he
sat out a year and then he got his opportunity
to be in Dallas and all that. And I think
Mike McCarthy going into this season when his contract wasn't
renewed and it was approve it year I think he
looked at it and said, all right, prove it year.
(21:35):
I don't have anything on the back end of this deal.
It's all about the quote unquote all in from Jerry Jones.
Even though the roster's worse, we did nothing to improve
it and I lost my quarterback. All of a sudden,
they start floating out the fact like no, no, he could
be back, and now it bothers him as much as
any other loss outside of a playoff game. What happened
(21:57):
on Monday night. What happened on Monday night has no
impact on anything. Neither one of those teams is going
to the playoffs. Dallas willn't go to the playoffs. We
can talk about, hey what if they go on to run.
They weren't. It's not happening like mathematically alive. Listen, I
don't know who's putting the stats together, who's putting the
numbers together. I can go through and find you teams
(22:19):
that are quote unquote mathematically alive that aren't try the Bears.
The Bears have been eliminated from the playoffs since July.
All right, they're not mathematically alive or anything got Bears.
So I think when you hear this stuff pop up.
I think Mike McCarthy's will get around going wait me,
I'm gonna be back, And then the conversation becomes if
(22:41):
you're looking around at potential candidates, and we'll get into
the Belichick stuff later on, and maybe he goes to
you know, to Chapel Hill, who the hell knows. But
if we're looking around at other candidates, you got to
be asking yourself. If Ben Johnson doesn't want to be
a part of it, and you can't find anybody that
wants to work with an owner who medal and has
interviews postgame and two a week on local radio, maybe
(23:04):
the best move is to go with the guy who's
won a bunch of games there and when Dak Prescott's healthy,
they're always in contention. Jonas Knox he or Fox Sports
Radio two Pros and a Cup of Joe. Here on FSR,
you won't talking about greed. We're not even there yet,
Like we're not even at the point that we can
(23:25):
really take in and embrace what college football has presented us.
And yet here we are already talking about what's happening next. Like,
I get you want to plan towards the future. I
totally understand that, but at some point or another, don't
you have to actually enjoy what's going on? Like, don't
(23:46):
you have to enjoy it? Like like accept what's happening.
Jeff Schwartz, Fox Sports radio hosts good dude. He always
shares a video every Christmas morning where his wife, before
noon Eastern, I think it is, is already dragging the
Christmas tree outside to get rid of it. Like we're
(24:09):
not even at cocktail hour, and that Christmas tree man
up and vanished like a fart in the wind, gone,
like no time to enjoy it during the actual holiday. No, no, no,
it's out of there now. If you ask my wife,
she could keep Christmas decorations up all year. She loves it,
can't get enough. The tewod December twenty sixth starts, every
(24:31):
single decoration outside is out because I'm responsible for that,
and I cannot have that. It looks lazy. It's like
the guy who's got his decorations up in March. It's like,
you're gonna take those down? No, No, I just I
like what it does to the house. No, your lazy
ass just doesn't want to get him down. But then
there's the other flip side, of that to where people
(24:53):
can't even just enjoy the moment before all of a
sudden they start thinking ahead and what's next and what's
and they're already doing that in college football. It's already happened.
So apparently Rich Clark, who is the College Football Playoff
executive director, he was talking, he was talking with Sports
(25:15):
Business Journal, and he confirmed that there will be discussions
about adding more teams to the college football Playoff beginning
in twenty twenty six. And he said, a fourteen team
field is already in consideration, right, what about the twelve
team field that's coming up in a couple of weeks.
What about that one? Like we can't just enjoy that,
(25:36):
you know, never seen it before, Like we've never seen
this before. We've never seen home playoff games. We've never
seen a playoff format like this at any point in
college football. And yet there's already discussions about let's add
more teams. Look, if you want to tweak the current system,
and we threw out some ideas on how you tweak
the current system, reseeding, who gets an odd buy, et cetera,
(26:01):
et cetera. Totally get it. Nick Saban said it after
the twelve team playoff was announced. When they had the
selection show, Nick Saban said it, Look, I think we're
gonna learn a lot from this, and you're gonna see
some adjustments made. But now all of a sudden, we're
talking about now we got to add fourteen teams, and
then we got to add sixteen teams, and then we're
gonna and at what point can you not just sit
(26:24):
there and enjoy what the hell we got? I was
saying it over the weekend. We are so conditioned to
bitch and moan about the college football playoffs and the
selections and the bcs and everything that comes along with it,
that we can't even just accept the fact that, no,
this is awesome. Like, I'm gonna reserve the right to
(26:44):
not bitch. That's my approach when it comes to the
college football playoff. I'm not gonna complain about it. You
want to talk about receding, Look, there's other sports leagues
that don't receed, and it doesn't make any sense to me.
The bracket is the bracket. This is who's playing who.
But that doesn't make any sense. You should be rewarded
(27:05):
or punished at every single stage of the playoff, despite
what the result is if you're a six seed just
because the bracket says you're going to be playing the
four seed, that shouldn't be the case. You play the
highest seed available, and there's some places where that doesn't happen.
And so that's why you're seeing teams like Penn State
(27:27):
celebrate the fact that they got the draw they got.
That's why you're seeing Texas look around and go all right,
we'll take that cool. And then you're seeing Oregon and
other schools we'll get at it going, man, we got
completely screwed, or the best team in college football, were undefeated,
we beat everybody, won our conference championship, and that's the
draw we get. So if we want to talk about tweaks,
(27:49):
if you want to talk about adjustments making changes to it,
I totally get it. But the fact that we're already
talking fourteen team playoff, like we're already having the well,
that's going to happen twenty twenty six. Uh, that's good, okay,
And then what's gonna happen when we get to fourteen teams?
Then we're gonna already be talking sixteen teams. Dude, We've
(28:09):
never seen this before. It's the first time we've ever
gotten this, It's never happened. How about we just all
do something that feels like pretty normal to me and
just enjoy what's on the plate. Why don't we enjoy
that worry about it later. I get it. You don't
(28:29):
want the dishes piling up in the sink, totally understand.
Are you gonna stop mid appetizer and get up and
go clean it all and say no? No, now, we
get no. Just enjoy what the hell we got. This
is going to be unlike anything we've seen before. And
if you are a fan, I got news for you.
If you are a fan for fan bases getting depressed
(28:51):
at home games when their team loses, and that's a uh,
that's a guilty pleasure for me personally, just because I've
been at places where the home team is starting to
fall apart and that place turns into a morgue. Go
to Wrigley Field in a playoff game when everything's on
(29:12):
the line and the Cubs are down by two runs
going into the seventh, Oh, it is glorious. You see
people writing out their own toe tags in their seats.
It is fine. What do you think it's going to
be like if one of these teams hosting a home
playoff game loses in the first round. What do you
(29:35):
think it's going to be like for Ryan Day and
Columbus or James Franklin in State College. I got news
for you. I'm not gonna feel bad about it. I
want to live in that world. I would rather live
in that world than live in a world where we
already have to have a discussion about how many more
teams we can add to a playoff, because you know
(29:55):
what's going to happen. People aren't gonna be happy about that.
One ecs left and they're like, all right, we're gonna
vote on this. We're gonna have a college football playoff.
You would think. Sweet. So we get to cut to
the chase and get right to the final four. So
you mean we get to get to the four best teams? Yeah,
who's not on board for that? Almost immediately everyone started
(30:16):
complaining about it. This is my nightmare, almost immediately. So
now we expand this thing, we get to twelve teams again,
have the discussions about the reseting and everything else that
comes along with it. Like we get to all that,
and now we're already talking fourteen and then the sixteen
it's like, dude, let's just enjoy it. Do you know
(30:39):
how much is gonna be on our plate with this?
If one of these home teams loses in the first round,
do you know what a disaster that's gonna be, especially
when those kids and that fan base has been on
the liver lube since six in the morning, tailgating, getting
ready for that game, only to see their team defecate
(31:01):
down their leg in the biggest spot and the biggest
home game they've ever had before. Do you know how
awesome that's gonna be to be on the outside to
watch that chaos. So if everybody wants to sit here
and they want to already look ahead to how many
more teams we should add to make it fair and
let's get to six, that's fine. You go have that
discussion all you want. In present time, I'm gonna enjoy
(31:23):
the holiday. It's a twelve team playoff with storylines attached
to it, and it's way better than what we had before.
Jonas Knox here, Fox Sports Radio, two Pros and a
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(31:47):
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Sometimes you can't get to everything in the world of
sports or entertainment. Good thing, the guys are here to
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Speaker 1 (32:59):
For that, we turn it over to our executive producer,
Lee Lap.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Jonas Knox, Jonas and Casey
missed this. Good morning, bar Good to hear from you, guys.
In case, guys, in case you missed this during Monday
night football between the Bengals and Cowboys in Hey, Brady.
Speaker 6 (33:28):
Casey missed this during.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
That Monday night clash between the Bengals and Cowboys. Apparently,
it's been reported that there was a burglary in Joe
Burrow's house in Ohio.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
But then the details get a little more interesting.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
The person who called in this burglary that was happening
during the game was none other than a Miss Diane,
who's the mother of Olivia Ponton. Olivia Ponton is an
SI swimsuit model. Apparently, she had rolled up to the
house in the middle of the Monday night football game.
That window into the bedroom of the abode had been shattered,
(34:06):
so she had called her mother, who then called dispatch,
saying her daughter was wondering if she should be going
into hiding or run away. She later this being Olivia
later called again and said, someone has broken into my house.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
It's like it's like completely messed up.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So what's the problem is she's there at the house
and she called in to report that there's, you know,
potentially a break in. I mean it seems, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Well, like many eligible bachelor's in the NFL, especially quarterbacks.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
People like to wonder who they might be dating.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
And of course, Joe Burrow is famous for having a
long term girlfriend, also by.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
The name of Olivia, that he has been seeing since
his college years.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So Joe Burrow's got a girlfriend. Yet. A swimsuit model
called in the burglary from Joe Burrow's house.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Documents say she is employed by mister Burrow.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Aw well, I mean, look, you know, if you're looking
for a housekeeper, you just go to Craigslist and you
type in uh rocket ship as one of the criteria
to be uh be accepted for the job or SI
swimsuit model. Yeah and that and uh and apparently she
(35:20):
fit the bill. So makes all the sense in the world. Man,
That is just that's awful timing. You know that's one
of those like what do you do? Yeah, how do
you exp By the way, if you're Joe Burrow, how
do you explain that away to uh, to your better half,
(35:41):
like like like how you get out of that one?
Same name? What's she doing there? Honey?
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Smells kind of fishy to me?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Yeah, well, what's she doing there? Honey? I don't know?
Got lost? Like okay, like I got I'm not, by
the way, I'm not recommending this. I want to be
clear on this. This is not I'm only laughing because
how the absurdity of it. But I knew a guy
(36:11):
who tried to explain to the neighbor that he wasn't
out drinking the night before, yet parked his car on
the neighbor's lawn when he drove back home. It's dark street, no,
let's yeah, And was trying to explain that away, and
(36:33):
the guy's like, hey, man, like, your car's parked on
my lawn. Oh mistake. I was just really tired. Yeah,
he blew over the mailbox to you know, It's just like,
how do you explain that away in the moment. So
if you're Joe Burrow, you know you don't have to
worry about the playoffs, but you do have to worry
(36:54):
about cleaning up that mess at some point or another.
So if anybody in Cincinnati's got the update on that,
we are, you know, we'll look forward to maybe Andy
Ferman will be on the horn trying to make a
couple of calls there. You know, we can get that
squared away.
Speaker 4 (37:06):
What else we got, Lee Jonas a little controversy and
Happy Valley. As you know, tickets for college football playoff
games are controlled by the College Football Playoffs, but there
are an allotment of tickets that are set aside for
the student body. Say and you get a discount, say
for Penn State SMU game. Here, Penn State students would
be able to get tickets for twenty eight dollars opposed
(37:28):
to the minimum one hundred dollars. Well, the school spokesperson
said that all students who requested tickets by Friday, November
twenty ninth, the deadline, received those tickets and no student
requests were turned away prior to the deadline. Well the
student body has responded saying that there was a lottery
and that many students have in fact not been given
the tickets despite requesting those before.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
The deadline, so they tried to take the tickets and
make a few more bocks on them. Sound sickly, Yeah,
why don't you just up the price on booze in
the stadium? Lee, We were at that stadium. We walked
around there, like, did you have a chance to get
a cocktail while we were in the stadium or were
we doing that on the outside.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
We did most of it on the outside. It did
not check the pricing inside.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Yeah, there's no there's no real need at that point
the way we were going, yeah, to stop buy anywhere
in the stadium. Yeah, we had.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
We had a good little thing going on the outside.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Have another I did.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
Well.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I mean it's listened. It's a hot ticket you go
to like Notre Dame, Indiana, that one's going for in
some places. I think seven hundred and thirty plus dollars,
I think is the cheapest ticket that I saw sm
U Penn State. I mean you can get in there
for eighty eight bucks from what I'm seeing here, and
then Clemson, Texas buck eighty two and then over two
hundred dollars in Columbus to go to Tennessee, Ohio State.
(38:46):
So look, you can get in there. You just got
to pay a little bit more and you got to
you know, and if you want to save a few bucks, lee,
I mean, this is where you step in and give
people advice on how they can save money when they
go to a game. What would you recommend for any
of these students or we're now gonna have to pay
full price to try and get a ticket to get
into the game.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Well, if you got a back pocket, you know what
that's good for is a plastic flask and uh, you
got two of them, so why not bring to yeah,
and then just get yourself a free refill large soda
and of whatever mixture you like to make, and you're
good to go.
Speaker 1 (39:19):
And now do you think that do you think a
plastic flask in the back pocket is a good approach
or would you go sock instead to try and make
it a little bit more.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
It depends your retire You know a lot of these
kids these days like the skinny jeans, So if that
were the case, I don't know that would.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Also if it's it's gonna be cold weather out there,
so you're gonna be layered up, so probably gives you
an opportunity to be able to sneak a little bit
more into the stadium if need be.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I got you know, my big
jackets always have the sea the seam zipper that you
could just kind of open up and throw right in there. Yeah,
it's good for you know, newspaper if you gotta insulate,
throw a bunch of newspapers and flasks.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I got one of
those two. That's what I do when I'm taking my
kid for a walk.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
What else we got, Lee, Well, you were talking about decorations.
You know why people might leave them up.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
I just put my decorations up last night, so I
have two full weeks of decorations. I don't think that's
enough time, so I'll take it all the way through movie.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Why didn't you just do them two weeks earlier? You
get a full month?
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Well, you talk about laziness.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I'd gotten the decorations and they'd been sitting around for
two weeks.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
So it is kind of a kind of a bummer
the fact that we had so little time between Thanksgiving
and Christmas, Like, we had less than a month, so
you don't really get to enjoy them at all. But
I don't care. Man, like December twenty sixth, those bad
boys are coming down. Wife will get pissed, son will
be bummed out, and I'll be like, you know what,
buckle up, kid. Gonna be a long run before Easter
(40:43):
gets here, all right, So you better shape up or
ship out if you don't like it.
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