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August 5, 2026 40 mins

In Hour 2 of the show, Jonas Knox, Brady Quinn, & LaVar Arrington go over the Coaches Poll that was released recently for the preseason Top 25 in college football. Plus, the guys here from a report of Aaron Rodgers being sick during the Texans playoff game with an undisclosed illness, we have another edition of The Good The Bady & The Ugly, and more!!

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which we brought up before we went to break last Hour,
does anybody watch that still or are you planning to

(01:43):
watch it during the entire course of the show this
year with the Seattle Seahawks, anybody?

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I think that. I think the tough.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
Part for those shows now are the best pieces usually
get put out on social media, so you really never
need to watch. It's not like it's telling a story necessarily, right,
because the ending of this particular story doesn't happen till
the season actually starts, so that we're only getting training
camp and cuts aren't what they used to be. They

(02:12):
don't show cuts like they used to, so it's not
as as dramatic or it's not as good as is
what the product once was. So I just there's not
as much of a desire for me, at least to
watch that anymore. Again, you'll you see most of the
best parts on social media.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
No, I don't, I don't watch. I don't watch what's
it called again? Inside the NFL Hard Knocks? Oh yeah,
Hard Knocks. Yeah, I don't watch it. I don't watch
that one either.

Speaker 4 (02:42):
I was out when I found out that the Bears
ownership a couple of years ago told the players and
the coaches they weren't allowed to curse. They weren't allowed
to show cursing on television during the show. And I thought,
all right, so this whole thing is manuf actioned. Then,
all right, so this is just gonna be They're gonna
throw out a bunch of garbage and people are just gonna,

(03:05):
you know, be watching it for whatever they're like, there's
so many other reality shows that feel more real, like
the Quarterback Wide Receiver.

Speaker 6 (03:14):
A Second, hold on a second. Yeah, it's all manufactured.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
It's all TV.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
I mean, even to your point, the Netflix Quarterback Wide Receiver.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean, they all are.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Portrayed in a certain light, and they don't always get.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Sometimes they get the control to do it, sometimes they don't.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
But I would imagine, like in the case of both
Hard Knocks and Netflix, you don't get access unless those
guys dictate and they get to say like, yeah, you're
not gonna show me doing this, You're not gonna show
me doing that. I mean, do you feel like even
in the Netflix Quarterback series, have they ever portrayed a
quarterback in a negative way outside of outside of if

(03:54):
things haven't worked out for playing standpoint, which they can
control that to a certain degree.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
But from there, the dude from Oregon, when he just disappeared,
he disappeared all.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
He's upset. What do you what do you want to do?
You know, he's got to show uh wants to show
good leadership. I just think you were hyping it up though.
That's what I thought you were gonna.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
Watch Hard Knocks. Yeah, I haven't watched Hard Knocks in
a couple of years.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Don't you think that that word that title is a
little shouldn't they get fined for saying hard knocks because
I mean they don't.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Let nobody still different depends on what time today. There
could be two or three x's at the end.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
I mean if you switch the words around, then then
it would make more sense for Goodness to watch.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Messed up man, especially after that. You gotta be ashamed
of yourself.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
It's just uh.

Speaker 4 (04:54):
But I think the only person who gives a rip
about this is Patty because Patty is a Seahawks fan,
so he's gonna watch it. He probably watched it last night?
Is that true?

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Patty? It was last night? Right? Every Tuesday? Is that
Hard Knocks?

Speaker 7 (05:05):
It was last night, and I can confirm that I
actually did not watch it. I'm probably gonna watch it
like later today.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
I mean, my god, Patty, if you don't watch it,
you claim to be a Seahawks fan. We got problems.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Oh I've never even watched Hard Knocks. Sh mic off.

Speaker 4 (05:22):
Mouth, hold on, how did I get get fined last hour?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
And he doesn't get fined for a shush?

Speaker 6 (05:29):
Hey, Patty, go back to watching anime? All right, gladly geek?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Hell yeah, brother, good god? Damn? Oh? And didn't you
find him a couple of times on.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
The group chair baro? He said, a yo, and ain't
Oh no, he said, I ate too. He said, oh,
but I didn't see that.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I thought it was it ain't ain't the same difference.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
I jones, it was spelled ak bro.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I looked at that.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
I mean, but even more like, that's you don't understand
the bonics. He was using e bonics, and so you
were using e bonics. So that's what do you not
know what ebonics is?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
No?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I know what that is, but what do you mean, huh,
ain't is he bonics? Hey? What is he bonics? Patty?
Don't worry about it? What is it? What is it?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Patty?

Speaker 3 (06:25):
What do you mean?

Speaker 7 (06:27):
Don't worry about it? You scared of I scared nothing?
Just don't worry about you. You know you used It's
called P bonics, Patty.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, all right, man?

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I mean, isn't ao ebonics too considered? I have no idea, man, while.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Y'all get so nervous when I hit y'all with E bonics,
I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
What do you what do you mean? Everybody was like, oh, like,
like what happened?

Speaker 5 (06:55):
No, it's just Patty is saying most things on the mic.
It's kind of gets that reaction.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
No, that's fair, And yes you did get fine ten
dollars for eight and ten dollars for ao on on.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Don't use a bonic on the group chat, Judge, Judge,
did I get fined? Did I really get fined? Judge?

Speaker 8 (07:13):
You did?

Speaker 6 (07:14):
In fact?

Speaker 8 (07:16):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Right the club?

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yes, yeah, yes, A long way on the same page lately, boy,
I like this, I like this new me and saying
page whah.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Boy, boy boy, why well, you guys are going to
be on the same page with this next time tell
you that what is it? Congratulations? Notre Dame comes in
at number five, Penn State comes in at number seventeen.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Did we really what we're talking about here?

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Well respected preseason coaches poll in college filp everybody?

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, all right, it is here? All right? Now? When
does the eight people come out?

Speaker 2 (07:55):
And?

Speaker 3 (07:56):
Better yet, when does the one that actually matter come out? When?
When does that all?

Speaker 5 (08:00):
A couple interesting things to point out about this. Indiana
got fourteen first place votes, which is actually second to
Ohio State, who got thirty eight, and they are in
the number one spot and somehow they're at sixth now.
I don't know how the math maths Indiana six yes,
oh wow, the defending national champions got again the second most,

(08:24):
and by the way, by kind of a wide margin.
Like the third team in regards to first place vote
spot from the coach's pool was.

Speaker 6 (08:31):
Georgia was seven and they were ranked third.

Speaker 5 (08:35):
So I'm like, I kind of want to see the
detailed list of votes as far as points and just
how they constructed this, because it feels like it doesn't
make a ton of sense, like Notre Dame only got five,
Texts only got two, but they're both ranked ahead of
Indiana at four and five, respectively. So it's a bit
bizarre the ranking system, But I would I would say

(08:57):
this if I was saying right now, if you're a
Betty man who has a chance to win the national championship,
and I think this is at least in my mind
for the most part, has played out to some degree
over the last few years. It's the top seven teams.
You probaly all seven of those top teams, like, that's
who's gonna win a national championship.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
I would be willing to bet.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
And I just I feel like there's a disparity between
some of the haves that have not the spenders, you know,
the teams that aren't necessarily in transition. You know, you
look at every single one of those teams. There wasn't
a change a head coach. All right, there's stability there.
What about the quarterback position, Well, you could make the
same case there with the exception of two of those

(09:41):
teams that are ranked.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Six and seven. That's Indiana, Miami.

Speaker 5 (09:44):
But Ohio State, Oregon, Georgia, Texas, Notre Dame. They all
have starting quarterbacks who are coming back after starting last
year and proving out to be pretty damn good. And
in the case of Indiana and Miami, they have guys
who've got starting quarterback experience. Josh Hoover from TCU to
Indiana's played a lot of football. Darian Mensa from Duke
to Miami a lot of football who was at Tallane

(10:04):
before that starting. The difference is they're just changing with
the program. But there are some commonalities amongst the teams
that I think we all feel good about going into
the season, and they're all teams with quarterbacks and guys
who have had a lot of experience you could even
extrap away and keep going out, like Texas and m
Marcel Reed Oklahoma. John Mattier at number ten is old

(10:25):
Miss Trinidad, Shobleiss, like all those teams have quarterbacks who
have prior starting experience, and we look at them and
then we feel like they're a safe bet to be
one of the top teams in the country.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
And you wouldn't be wrong.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
I mean, when you talk to these coaches and these teams,
when you go to different media days, they all talk
about it. I don't care if you're a defensive minded
head coach offensive minded. They're like we feel like we
got a guy and that's what probably has been the
missing link for some of these programs. And that's where
I'm curious to see Penn State LeVar who's ranked seventeenth
in this pool. I really think people are underestimating.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
What they're gonna do this year.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
I think there'll be a team that's gonna win ten games,
and they've got a lot of guys coming in from
Iowa State who can immediately bring that foundation and culture
to Penn State and make them competitive.

Speaker 6 (11:12):
Right away, especially with Roco back to quarterback.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah. I like Rocco. He can play, He's proven he
can play.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
And I like the guys that they brought in from
from Iowa State and a couple other places. Brought in
the defensive end from Colorado. I liked them being ranked seventeenth.
I like them being at that place. They got a
favorable schedule that that plays in their their favor. And
you know, when I look at I get an opportunity

(11:41):
to get an inside, you know, deal on it, not
only as a former player that's very involved with the program.
I mean I talked to coach Campbell, you know, quite
a bit, but I get it from the player perspective too,
because because my son is on the team, so just
hearing the way the energy shift has taken place. Again,

(12:03):
sometimes you don't really know what type of relationship you're
in until you get out of it. And I think
that what tell me about it and what you reference
you get it off your chest. Okay, I could dig it.
But these guys seem to be The guys that stayed
seemed to be rejuvenated, seemed to be excited and pumped

(12:28):
up about everything. The guys who came in seemed to
be excited because of the opportunity to play at what
they would say is in a bigger school, a bigger
a bigger opportunity. It just seems like a group that
is very excited about what the opportunities are. And it

(12:48):
just didn't really feel so much like that last season.
It really didn't. It almost had like the feeling of
just a whole lot of different pieces going in different directions,
and it was a matter of who was influential in
those directions, whether it was a coach, whether it was
a teammate. It just wasn't cohesive. It just seems like

(13:11):
the conversations, the energy, the leadership, it just seems very
very cohesive. And I'll say this, Mitt Campbell has done
the one thing that I felt like, you know, Bill
O'Brien failed at doing, James Franklin failed at doing, which

(13:31):
was which I don't understand it at all. But Mitt
Campbell has gone out of his way to welcome back
the Letterman and the All Americans and the players who
came before. You know, the guys are there now, and
it's been a great response. They've been very responsive. I mean,

(13:52):
I hadn't seen Carrie Collins in Forever, hadn't seen Cayle
Brady in Forever. To see Cayle Brady and Keijohanna Carter
and Jared Vicious and all those guys on campus at
the same time walking through the facilities and stuff like that,
you can tell there's a different feeling, a different energy

(14:13):
that's in the air, and it's including the tradition like
it was a hard time. So I don't I don't
fault Franklin for trying to kind of put the drama
in the back, in the rear view so that you
can kind of build for the future. It almost was
a coping mechanism for him to be able to pull
the program forward. So I don't I don't have any

(14:36):
you know, harsh Ill Will feeling sources. In fact, he
was my guy. But it does feel different. It does
have a feeling of family, more family oriented, more open,
and guys feel more comfortable and confident coming back. And
I think that that's going to pay play a major
part and why this team is able to kind of

(14:58):
progress and be back moving forward.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
That's kind of an odd thing, though, that he would
not welcome the idea of some of the legends being
brought back or at least make that a focal point.
Like the fact that Matt Campbell did that one little
thing and it's changed the vibe. It's kind of odd
that Franklin would have it.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
It's a tad bit more complex because of the whole way,
you know, things happened with Joe and so it was
kind of like there was there was some complexities there,
and I think that, you know, coach Franklin was trying
to win, not not trying to play the political game
that everybody was trying to turn it into. So I

(15:36):
don't want to get too deep off into that. I mean,
I'm glad that they're ranked pretty high, and and and yes,
people are are very excited about Matt Campbell and him
being the head coach moving forward.

Speaker 4 (15:46):
It's they were ranked second in the preseason eight peopole
last year. If you would have if we would have
had that conversation, and I would have said, hey, by
about what mid October James Franklin, James Franklin's going to
be fired, nobody would have thought no. Like just and
you go back to the ape pole from last year,
Texas was one, Penn State was too, Clemson was four,

(16:08):
like nowhere close to and based on everything we say,
Kid Klubnik was considered a Heisman Trophy one of the
Heisman Trophy favorites. It just that's why I always take
these preseason polls with a grain of salt to where
I just don't know what you really get from them.
But Brady did offer something up. But I would like

(16:30):
to give him the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Here.

Speaker 4 (16:33):
You said, if you had to right now, you could
probably what guess if you had to pick five teams.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
One of those five would win the.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
Next seven play the top seven teams.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
All right, So I'm going to teach you a little trick.
To teach you this is what I do when it comes
to horse racing, all right, some people just wait for
the horse to be covered with a sheet afterwards, and
then you know they're looking for that.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Not me. I would never be that person, but some
people do.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
And then when it comes to roulette, some people like
to play a color a number. Here's how you do it.
You play a bunch of numbers on the inside, and
you take a profit if you win.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
On roulette.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
And with horse racing, I don't just pick a winner.
I'll pick three or four and hope that one of
those long shots win and I make a little bit
of money there. So what would be the seven teams
if you are looking at college football right now to
win a national title? That would be the most likely
in your mind, Brady, if you had to pick right now, Well.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
Like I've said now multiple times, the top seven.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
In this coach's poll, if we parlayed those, those would
be the most likely.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Okay, shot wins wins.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yes the board, O man, all right, let's go back
over this again.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
So one of the reasons why every single one of
those teams are looked at all right, why they're the
top seven ranked, and six of the seven which got
first place, it was because they all have turning head coaches.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
They're not programs that had to make a transition.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
They're old. Miss for example, would be one of those.

Speaker 5 (18:05):
Even though Pete Golding was their DC and they elevated
him and he coached a little bit last postseason, still
a new head coach, we still don't really know what
we're getting in him. For example, Lane Kiffin at thirteen
coming into LSU talented roster, but they have a quarterback
who's got some experience. So anytime there's not consistency, there's
not already a foundation there, it makes a little harder

(18:27):
to be able to overcome that. And then again, the
other piece of this is quarterbacks who've got prior starting experience.
Julians Santa Ohio State, Dante More ad Oregon, Hunter Stockton
at Georgia, Gunter Stockton at George excuse me, arch Manning
at Texas CJ Card Notre Dame. Hoover's got prior experience,
but he did transfer and mensa prior experience, but to transfer.

(18:48):
Those seven teams are by far and away the most
highly touted based on their blue chip ratio, have stability
with the head coach who's now been there as well,
and then when you look at the quarterback position, in
five of the seven cases, guys who started there have
been there. In two of those other cases, the guys
who've played a lot of football but are transferring in.

(19:08):
But we've seen that, you know, work with Indiana for example,
with Fernanda Mendoza. So again, those seven, to me, there's
a big separation with really the rest of college football.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
That's way too many teams for me to make money
on this, because if I'm putting money on all these teams,
if Ohio State or Notre Dame or even Texas hit,
I'm not making much of a profit. Especially if Ohio
State or Notre Dame hit. If I'm going one hundred
bucks on each, you know I'm gonna end up losing
money on all this. Like I need, I need at
least one long shot to make this worth my while.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
What is why can't you tell us the number why?

Speaker 4 (19:45):
Ohio States is six to one? So here's that works.
Ohio States is six to one. Notre Dame's a plus
six point fifty. I'm doing seven teams, so I need
somebody that's got greater than seven to one odds to
win in order for me to make some sort of
a profit on this. If I'm betting seven teams to
win the whole thing, I just need one of those
to hit. If Ohio State or Notre Dame hits, I'm

(20:07):
gonna lose money because they're less than seven to one odds.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
So why don't you bet against one of oh seven
teams to not.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
You actually would take the.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Opposite of eye.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
I'm not listening. I don't like to fade things. I'm
not a negative person. If you guys want to swim
in that side of the pool, that's fine, and I
like to be positive here college football.

Speaker 5 (20:25):
And the other thing is you just wouldn't parlay them.
You would just make each individual bets.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. I'm not parlaying anything each
You can't parlay in one national champion like what you're
hoping for two national che odds up.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
Yeah, you can probably find that a calshier poly market.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
You probably can't.

Speaker 4 (20:41):
And anybody that's doing that should reevaluate things because they're
they're stealing money.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Five.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Did you see there was a congressional member who bet
on his presence? Oh yeah, yeah, you see that. I
believe he bet and he won like fourteen thousand dollars.
He got fined and had to give it all back
because it was like, all right, this is getting out
of hand.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Now, yeah, I think it's And by the way, I
did want to correct myself yesterday, I think I said
Ted Cruz was the politician who loved college football. Was
Marco Rubio who said that if his ultimate goal would
be to sit and watch because I think his son
is a red red shirt player on the red shirt
running back for Florida. If I'm not mistaken, I think

(21:27):
I think that's what I saw. So listen, it's right
around the corner and we'll get to see how it
all plays out. By the way, should be pointed out,
Hawaii did receive a vote in the Coaches Bowl.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
No, they did.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Yes, they did a vote for what want to be
in the poll, so they got their twenty se vote
to be in the.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Top twenty vote.

Speaker 5 (21:45):
Well, I think they're about one hundred and fifty two
behind Louisville, who is the next.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Biggest vote getter in Florida and won forty seven.

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Hey, look there, you know that whole group is all
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It's a Wednesday tradition. We are going to have our
midweek Awards, the good, the bad, and the ugly. That'll
be yours right here on FSR. You know, we talked

(23:34):
yesterday about Aaron Rodgers lighting up ESPN, Anthony Fauci.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
On the ESPN.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
Yeah, and just really really went to work on the
entire network, their coverage of the Fauci stuff, their coverage
of the Racini stuff.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Like just he went all in.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
And then I don't know if this was coincidence or not,
but Mike Silver of The Athletic reported that Rogers was
apparently so sick before the playoff game last year against
the Texans that he was sent home from the team hotel,
vomiting fever, so on and so forth, to which Mike

(24:15):
Florio and some others pointed out, well, he wasn't listed
anywhere on an injury list, and so if they didn't
disclose that, could the Steelers be getting in trouble for this?
And Arthur Smith was asked about it. It was the offensive
coordinator last year for the Steelers, and he's somebody who
had when he was coach of the Falcons was actually

(24:36):
punished because he didn't disclose that Bejon Robinson was sick
before a game. And I don't know where this ends up,
but it just seems a little ironic that Aaron Rodgers'
health before a playoff game becomes a topic of conversation
the day after he questioned health protocols that were put

(24:59):
in in place by the league years.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Ago during COVID.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
So I don't know if this is a little bit
of retribution or if the Steelers are gonna get punished
for this. The NFL does not have a comment on it.
When they were reached for comment on the fact that
his ailment or illness wasn't disclosed, Rogers swears that he
was perfectly fine before kickoff, But apparently this could lead
to some conversations about maybe the Steelers getting in trouble.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
Getting in trouble in terms of what. I Wow, you
gots like clear that up for me, because doesn't this
turn into a he say, she say type of situation
If if I were if I were under the weather
and I went home from the hotel, that's not that's
not something that I mean they made the trainers may

(25:48):
document it, but don't I don't see that being a
real situation where it's like, let's make sure we put
this in the records and this is fouled away and
stuff like that, they're just going to send you on.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
That was my first thought, that it's it's not like
he has a pulled hamstring and nobody needn't tell.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
And let's be clear here, if you're not feeling well
and you're throwing up and you're sick, they don't want
you to go home. They they want to treat you.
So he wouldn't have been going home for for throwing
up and and not feeling well to be able to
what did he play? He played in that game, right,
so he played sick. I don't I think that this

(26:25):
is to me, it's kind of a non story because
that the framing of it doesn't doesn't make sense. If
he's sick and he's not feeling well the night before
a game, then you're most likely seeing the team.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Doctor who's in the hotel.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
You're probably getting an IVY to make sure that you're
you're hydrated, and if they need to put you on
the go to drug that they use back then for
being sick not feeling well as AZ pack, they'll start
you on his E packs.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Where you how you're getting in trouble.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
When you guys were playing, was every injury and ailment
detailed on the injury report before you played, every single one?

Speaker 3 (27:10):
No?

Speaker 1 (27:11):
No.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
But also there's reasons why players wouldn't be willing to
share with the team either. I mean, some of it's contractual.
Some of it you know, you just don't want them
to know you're dealing with something. That's the toughest part
for the player side of things, because anything you say
and do can be used against you in a court
of law or can be used against you in a

(27:32):
contract negotiation. So that's the tough part about sharing stuff
with the team sometimes. Now a sickness is a little
bit different, but you know, when we're talking about other
sorts of injuries or ailments like those are things that
you you know would rather not tell I mean, look
at Baker Mayfield. Look the situation that he's in, yeah,
you know, playing through stuff, and how that's worked out

(27:53):
for him now in Cleveland and Tampa to completely separate organizations.
Yet he's struggling to get the credit with the equity
for what he's trying to do for his team and
for his teammates. And the problem is after the fact,
most teams are like, yeah, he didn't play well, So
no one really cares.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
In regards to the NFL side of all of this.
I mean, there's a lot.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Of stuff that goes on that probably would impact the
game just as much. You know, where that's personal stuff
between you know, players and their girls.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Or wives spout whatever.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
I mean, there's stuff that goes on with coaches outside
of it that probably never gets brought to light. So
it's hard to report on everything that plays a factor
into the games and how these guys perform or how
coaches are able to call a game or manage a game.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
But that's humanity, that's the reality of it.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
In this case, I do think if you sent the
guy home should have popped up on the injury report.
And you know, obviously there's probably some people who got
wind of it and were able to make some money
off at betting wise. But I think that's the risk
of betting, is that you're playing against people who probably
have a greater network thing you, that know what's going
on better than you in regards to player's health and

(29:04):
status where they're at.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
So if you're willing to risk it, so be it.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
But you know, again, you're going up against people who
have a lot more information and insider information than you do.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
I mean, this is a difficult topic for me to discuss.
And Brady was talking to me about this earlier and
just saying, this is going to be hard for you
to discuss because you never call him sick. And I
was like, that's a great point. So I don't even
know what this world's like, Like, I'm not even familiar.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
That'll be ten dollars.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Ten dollars for what that's a fact, aggressive Bro's ten dollars.

Speaker 6 (29:37):
I wonder if you're gonna call him sick next week?

Speaker 3 (29:39):
I don't Yeah, are you? I don't know? Next week? Yeah,
let's let's do a little four shadow not how Aaron
Rodgers sick? Are you going to be?

Speaker 4 (29:54):
I plead the fifth? Yeah, perfect time. Before like that,
I plead the Yeah, did we want.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
To touch on uh Fauci's attorney firing back at Aaron Rodgers,
you say should stick to football, football the old classic.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Yeah, that's so funny.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Some people use you don't play football as as a
reason to go at boddie. But people that don't play it,
that that aren't into it, sure will tell you to
stick to just play your sport, won't they.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
I'm a little disappointed in you.

Speaker 4 (30:27):
I'll be like, you guys have only I actually I
don't think you've ever ever done it?

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Would you please drop? But you didn't play the game
on me one time?

Speaker 5 (30:36):
Can we just say this though about Fauci's attorney, does
anyone expect anything else?

Speaker 6 (30:40):
Like he's paid to defend the guy, Like, of.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Course he's going to say whatever he needs to say
to take pressure off of fallacy and put it on
him or defend him. It's like the fact that I
saw that as a headline, like, yeah, what do you
expect him to say?

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Oh you know what we uh yeah, well you know
we're going to have anything to say on this. That's
a that's a great point.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
Hey, you you stick to playing football, sir, you're just like,
you know what you're you're you're you're just a football player. Hey,
look man, it's uh is that offensive?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
By the way, are we supposed to be offended when
somebody does that?

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Trump being a football player? It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Hey, hey buddy, Hey buddy, just stick to being a lawyer.
Don't don't comment on about football players being just just
stick to being a lawyer.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
Pal not allowed to have an opinion about other stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
I mean, so clearly you're allowed to judge what I
do for a living because you're a lawyer. You think
you're better than me because you studied law. Huh, let's
let's talk about this. Well, he is better at the
legal ease of thing, so it's hey, then that'd be

(32:05):
better at whooping his ass.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
I mean, which one has worked? I don't know that true?
I know, I know you don't. He might did, He
might know. He might be Joonah Hill, Jonah Hill said it.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
Try him, you know, go out there and try to whoop.

Speaker 5 (32:23):
His ass if you get a chance, because he apparently
has a BJJ master.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Here's the one thing I would say to Jonah Hill.
If you guys he's been he's been training for a while, and.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Because I think him and Mark Zuckerberg.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Like it's here's one thing that I would say to
Jonah Hill, like no one Brazilian jiu jitsu is awesome.
It doesn't mean that you get down on the ground, bro.
I mean, it doesn't mean that you're tough if you
got it. If you get some road rage and a
guy walks out with a tire iron and puts it
on the bridge of your nose like like a dars choke,
is not going to help you in that sense.

Speaker 5 (33:01):
Even if you meet someone who's got fists like dumb trucks, you.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Better be able to get that out of the ground.
Otherwise he's gonna knock your ass out. I don't just because.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
You say you train in a discipline doesn't mean that
you can whoop somebody's ass. Let's be clear, there's a
lot of people that could train to play football. You
put them on football field, they gonna get there.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Talking to Paul, he's talking to you. I'm just saying,
let's just call it what it is. It's so fun.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
It's so fun when people act like like you're not
gonna sit there and tell me just because you train
in something that that qualifies you to talk trash like
you're gonna be able to whoop somebody's tail.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
It doesn't work that way.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
I do think I kind of get what Jake Paul's doing.
So he kind of blew through all the MMA fighters
in a boxing match, and so he he can fight that. Yeah,
and so then he fighting that he draw Joshua, he
get his face, and then now I think he's like,
all right, well, what else can I do if I
can set up these fights? And he's trying to work

(34:10):
an NFL player into a boxing match. He's I think
that's his next move, and he's trying to set this
up because he's like, man, I already ran through all
the MMA guys. Boxing didn't go well, So let me
just try and find an NFL player that'll take me
up on the offer. If I challenge them in their sport,
maybe they'll challenge me in mind. And and maybe that's
where this goes, because I can't I can't honestly believe

(34:35):
that he actually thinks that he could go out there
and score a touchdown on a football field.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
I can't. I don't know how that's he's a competitor,
and I respect that he is a competitor. I think
he's awesome.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I also respect having a dope ass pickup truck. Du
You know what, if you want one that's built to
get the job done without means, that's a Nissan Frontier.
It's built for the work week and ready to load
up the tail on the weekends. That's the twenty twenty
six Nissan Frontier. I'm just gonna say that. That's a
great point.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
Man.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
Hey, you're welcome.

Speaker 4 (35:07):
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Speaker 3 (35:51):
That's uh well played though.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
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There are some good things that happen, and there's some bad,
and then there's some downright ugly things. It's time for good,
bad and ugly all.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
Right, Sheriff SWEEKA who's got what duty this week? Well,
I'll tell you what, Sheriff.

Speaker 7 (36:44):
The good of the week happens to be the good
old Constable Quinn. Go for a shoot from the here, brother, I.

Speaker 5 (36:52):
Got a couple of quick ones, and then I've got
a store that really I'm just I'm.

Speaker 6 (36:56):
Excited about Curris Coburn.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Good for the week, got some technical issues on Monday,
was able to figure it out. Long week of travel
the week prior has helped me out with all that,
so Kiris he's part of the good this week leads
with four second half goals to beat Liverpool at Soldier
Field for their last exhibition during the US trip. That
was pretty awesome to witness. But what takes the cake

(37:20):
is this story out of Wales. A man arrested after
dressing up as the Grim Reaper, yeah a costume on
a hospital roof staring at patients. He was arrested for
nuisance behavior, but he was wearing a Grim Reaper outfit
and flowed a long knife. They just kept staring down

(37:45):
patient until it was brought to the attention of the
medical staff, where four police cars showed up, fire service
for service vehicles were called and they eventually.

Speaker 4 (37:55):
Managed to get him down on a second a comedic standpoint.
That is brilliant, That is really well played.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
It's good to see that there's still humor in this world.
So that is this happened a little bit ago. There
was an update though, as obviously the legal system takes
its course. So this is uh yeah, this, This is
my good for the week.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
That is that is outstanding. That's not illegal, right it
is it is in Wales for nuisance behavior.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Yeah, the knife might have been a problem, or whatever
he's holding might have been an issue, but that's right.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Even if it was a fake knife, you could still
get in trouble for it, like you can't. You can't
brandish like fake weapons, even like a fake firearm or
something that.

Speaker 4 (38:43):
Yeah, yeah, sure, what else we got?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Oh well, i'll tell you what.

Speaker 7 (38:49):
The bad of the week happens to be good, Old
Deputy Knox go for it.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
From the ape draw Cowboy.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Listen to Bad for the Week. We kind of alluded
to this earlier. And it's not even just the WNBA stuff.
It's just everything is so divisive now to where Aaron
Rodgers says what he says and then all of a
sudden becomes politicized. Sophie Cunningham says what she says, and
all of a sudden, you got the other side that

(39:17):
wants to chime in, and everybody takes offense to it.
And if there's got to be you know, people got
to be reprimanded. And this is dangerous. How about this.
You got a thought. I got a thought. That's cool,
we agree to disagree and you just move on. It's
it's found its way into the world of sports way
too often. I'm tired of it. And the only thing

(39:38):
that's going to solve this issue is football being back.
That's it sanctioned violence every single week, and that's going
to get to the problem solving portion of this whole equation.

Speaker 8 (39:49):
Ah.

Speaker 7 (39:49):
And finally we have the ugly sheriff sticks draw airboy.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
I mean, it's pretty obvious. Is Aaron Rodgers and what
he had to say. He got ugly all over ESPN's
rses And that's my Ugly for the week. I mean,
there's there's no real there's nothing really profound about it.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
He won. He won Ugliest for the Week with with
the way he rolled.

Speaker 4 (40:13):
Hey, how can Patty goes full country western with us?

Speaker 3 (40:16):
But with you? He doesn't? What do you mean you mean?
I did?

Speaker 4 (40:19):
He did go country if you, if you play it,
play it back then? His his cowboys sounded.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
Different with you that did that?

Speaker 1 (40:26):
Well, maybe it was just a different type of cowboy,
you know, that's all he knows.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
He knows cowboy
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