July 25, 2025 • 39 mins
To wrap up the last hour of Football Friday, Jonas Knox drives solo and discusses the Jets and Cowboys falling into their normal dysfunctional offseason patterns, Baker Mayfield’s shot at the Cleveland Browns + a special edition of Brie’s leftovers!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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(00:36):
and he has got some stuff to tend two and
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until the end of this hour to conclude this Friday
finale here on FSR. And I was thinking about this
because we were talking about the Jets already going into
the season compromised. Justin Fields has got a dislocated toe.
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He suffered it to training camp and we had a big,
long discussion about you know, toes weird feet. So on
and so forth. But when it comes to weird organizations,
the Jets are the team that just take the cake.
So you got the Jets, who the last time they
thought they had a solution at quarterback, they got four
plays into the season, Aaron Rodgers is running out of
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the tunnel and being introduced with an American flag on
nine to eleven. It was perfect, and then four plays in, oh,
it's over, and it was. It was never the same
since like it was over. Like for all intents and purposes,
the Aaron Rodgers experiment died four plays into the season.
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Nobody's fault, just bad luck, terrible situation. And now Rogers
is in Pittsburgh. The rest of the season was a mess.
Last year was filled with drama and dysfunction, and now
they decide we're gonna go with the guy that didn't
want to stay in Pittsburgh. We're gonna go with Justin Field.
And one practice in during team drills, dislocates his toe
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and you could say, well, it's not a big deal,
it's not you know, what are we talking about here.
He's going to be ready to go for Week one, sure,
but he's a mobile quarterback at the very least not great,
just not a great start, especially for a guy who
just got there and is expected to get his opportunity,
get his moment and take over for a team who
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needs some solutions to quarterbacks. So he got that, it's like,
all right, well, typical Jets, and then you got the Cowboys. Well,
how is it typical Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know. Stop me if you heard this before.
One of their own who's ready to get paid and
should have been paid a while ago, is still waiting
to get paid. And people at training camp in Knoxnard,
as some people refer to it, are asking questions to
guys that aren't the player, looking for the contract, trying
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to figure out what's going on here, and everybody's all
of a sudden looking around, going god. This feels familiar.
Case in point. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott when asked about
Michael Parsons in his contract.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I mean, it's an every year conversation, whether it's myself,
Zach Martin, Ceede Lamb, now Michael Parsons. It's part of
it in a sense now as it's something that I
wish that any of us are going through. Absolutely not.
But I think Mike's doing a hell of a job
with it being here. He's a great teammate. I don't
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know if there's a correct way to handle it. To
be honest with you, I will say that I think
he deserves to get paid. Think he should get paid.
And ultimately, if going off of the history of what
I've seen, he will get paid, hopefully it's sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All right, So let's go ahead, just so we're keeping
score here, all right, So let's go ahead. We're gonna
We got the Jets, who already have a little bit
of an issue when it comes to the quarterback, right,
So he got that. And then you get the Cowboys
who have got a star player who's looking for a
contract and for some weird reason still hasn't gotten his contract,
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and everybody's being asked about it so much so that
Dak Prescott's like, yeah, par for the course. Yeah, I
mean this is just like it is every off season. Yep.
Like if it sounded like he was a little bit
kind of annoyed and tired of it, it's because he
probably is. So Literally, we're not even at the first game,
not the first regular season game, not the first preseason game.
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We're not even at the Hall of Fame game, and
you've got the typical starts to the season for the
Jets and the Cowboys. You know what's great about having
a buddy who's an alcoholic. Anytime you want to get
a drink, that guy's there. Hey, Lee, we're not naming names,
(04:55):
but yeah, anytime you want to go get a drink,
that guy's there. Just got dumped. God, I want to
go get a drink. Yeah, but it's a Tuesday and
it's three thirty in the afternoon. I know what, I'll
call him, right, got a random day off on a
Thursday and you're bored. I kind of feel like a mimosa. Ah,
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I'm gonna call him. That's the beautiful part about having
a buddy who's an alcoholic. We could sit in judgment
and we can sit here and say, well, you know
it's not right. He should go get help, and we
could sit there and do it, or we could find
the perk in the whole thing. At least you know
what you can depend on. At least you know if
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all else fails, I got that I can rely on. Oh,
that's kind of like the start to the year for
the Jets and the Cowboys. Because we've been hearing all
this stuff throughout the off season, all of it. I
mean you with the Jets, we've been hearing. Listen, Aaron
Glenn's there like it's a new era. You've got a
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new front office. Now we don't need Joe Douglas, even
though you just gave big contracts to guys that Joe
Douglas drafted, so apparently he did a pretty good job.
But now we don't need him. But we've got our
quarterback and we are fired up for the future, brand
new Jets, and it's like kind of feel like getting
a drink. I don't worry the Jets will figure out
a way to cause a problem or have a problem
(06:27):
going into the season. Oh sweet, all right, here we
are at happy hour and it's a Jets sitting right
next to us. Woody Johnson's there. You get his kids
playing Madden, judging player rankings, going through the scouting Department's awesome,
Jets are there. Your typical Jets can always depend on him.
Then you look over for the cowboys, like, man, I
really feel like getting a drink. I feel like having
another cocktail. God, but nobody else wants to do. Oh look,
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it's the Dallas Cowboys again, and all this conversation through
the off season about Hey, the Mike McCarthy negotiations, which,
by the way, nobody talks about that anymore. The Cowboys
wanted to bring Mike McCarthy back. They would have liked
to have had Mike McCarthy come back and be the
head coach, except what did they do with Mike McCarthy. Oh,
(07:11):
I know. They waited too long, and by the time
they got to negotiating, Mike McCarthy was like, man, f this, Like,
I'll just take the year off. I'll go watch film
at a barn somewhere like I did before, and I'll try
and get a job next cycle, Like I don't want
to deal with this crap. Brian Schottenheimer was hired as
the head coach, even he didn't think he was going
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to be hired as the head coach. He said it
this week. I had no idea I was going to
be the head coach. I thought it was going to
be clearing out my law. I had no clue. He
didn't think he was going to be the head coach,
and here he is. And then you've got another guy
on their team who's looking to get paid and still
no deal done. And in fact, all we've heard about
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it is Jerry Jones speak at training camp and tell
you all the reasons why he doesn't like handing out
com I won't make some gloryho that too, And by
the way, who doesn't settle down just a little bit.
But like all of this is happening, and it happens
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every year every time, no matter what storyline or bogus
garbage bs you're fed throughout the entire offseason. All we're
told is now it's different. This time around. Now, this
time around is different. That's like, man, I got to
really use a jet story like, oh, don't do don't worry.
They're ready to have a drink. Don't worry. Listen, guy's
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toe just fell off his foot. But of course they
figured it out, like Justin Field's toe looks like a
hot dog. Some kid coughed up choking, like, but don't
worry about it. Hey, nothing to see here. He'll be
ready to go week one. Okay, sure heard that before.
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What are the Cowboys? Well, I got this guy who
needs to get paid. Nah, you don't say, yeah, is
he paid it? Nope? Everybody else is he's due he deserves.
It should be easy, not no issue whatsoever. And it's like,
now we're gonna wait around, and then the owner's gonna
come out and tell you all the reasons why it
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can't happen. I don't like doing this. He could get hurt.
He got hurt this year, he got that. Well, if
you talk to his agent, I don't even know whose
agent is b And then Dak Prescott's sitting there going, yeah, man,
I look, it's every year. This is what it is. Eventually,
I think the deal's gonna get done. But we had
it with Zach Martin myself CD like it's every single year.
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And it just goes to show you that even though
you can sit there in judgment, and even though you
can sit there and criticize and talk about, oh my gosh,
this is just wretched, how could you be like that,
the Jets and the Cowboys are like that buddy of
your whose who's an alcoholic, can only depend on him
every single offseason every time you want to go have
(10:03):
a cocktail. Don't worry. They're the ones that are going
to pick up that phone or that text and they'll
beat you to the bar. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio.
It is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
on FSR. You can listen to this show as always
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next here though, on this Football Friday, we are going
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to tell you about somebody in the NFL who is
standing back and admiring the chaos, standing back and admiring
the fact that they aren't a part of the problem
any longer. We'll get into that for you right here
on FSR.
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(12:08):
But I like how Loraina stereotypes me. Do you play
Ramstein for anybody else?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Absolutely not just for you? And this is as gothic
of a Ramstein song as it gets. I think it's
the only one I have. They did an entire album
with an orchestra that's like, I think it was a
San Francisco orchestra. They recorded an entire album called mut
which means mother mother right, which means mutu in German.
(12:38):
So yeah, as a vampire, can you speak multiple languages? No?
But you know what I did. My buddy's grandma was
from Germany, like, spoke very little English and was German,
and I brought over he had a party in high school,
and I brought over the Ramstein album and I had
her read it to me. So I learned all the
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like I can count ten because of her. Oh that's
so cool. It was awesome. You know, some some stories
off the art, some of our conversations. But yeah, so
good to hear rams sign here on a football Friday
that would not be played, by the way, for anybody
else except for me on the show. Y, So I
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do want to get into this story involving a player
in the NFL. That's like, listen, man, like, hey, stand
back and admire the chaos. I do want to get
into that. But I thought this was a fascinating sign
of the times in the world of football as well too,
which I don't know if anybody has caught a glimpse
of this. Memphis and UTSA college football, and you're thinking
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to yourself, like, come on, man, we were talking about
big ten media days. We get the sec like nobody cares.
Oh no, no, no, this is this is a wonderful tale
of the sign of the times in the world of football.
So Tigers Sports Report report last week the multiple sources
alleged that former Memphis safety Taj Rael leaked playbook info
(14:08):
to UTSA before they played on November second, Right, Since then,
Tiger Sports Report obtained an alleged DM between Reel and
UTSA quarterback Owen McCown where basically he's telling the guy, hey, listen,
here's their defenses, here's their scheme. This guy's got a
(14:29):
hamstring injury. This is where and they're showing them converse
back and forth, and you're thinking to yourself, all right,
so what's gonna happen here, Well, he was already dismissed
from the team at that point. You've got members of
the Memphis football team who were saying, yeah, they knew
all our checks, they knew everything at the line of scrimmage.
(14:50):
It was really strange. And then you come to find out, well,
you had a former player on Memphis give utsa give
their quarterback in oh about what they were running, and
you've got the screenshot of it via DM. Between those two, Now,
maybe this is AI generated. Okay, maybe AI is out
(15:12):
there spinning yarns. Brady and I had a debate off
air about the difference between Groc and Gemini. Those sound like,
you know, two American gladiator characters. I have no idea,
but you've got Grock And maybe this is all AI generated,
or maybe this guy is just a rat And the
problem is he's still playing. He's at Purdue now. And
(15:37):
it begs the question, well, how do you handle the
whole situation If you're Baryotam at Perdue and you find
out this guy at a previous stop gave away info
because he was disgruntled about being dismissed from the team
to a team that that team was played, feels like
kind of a problem. That feels like a bad look.
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It was only Memphis' second loss of the season. They
lost twice last year. This was one of them, and
it might have been because one of their teammates was
giving away information to the opponent. So if I'm a team,
I'd be pissed. I'm looking around, going dude, we only
lost twice last year. We could have gotten a better bulget,
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like who knows what could have happened, and instead we
find out one of our guys after he was dismissed,
gave away all the info. And then you look on
the other side. Dude, if you're the quarterback from UTSA,
if your own McCown, I mean you had that information, like,
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you took that information. Did you use the information? I mean,
maybe it's not as egregious, but all of this comes
out and it just goes to show you when you
wanted to get in bed with gambling sites and everything
else that came along with it, this was the wrong
air to do it. Again, I'm not against any of that.
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I think it's great for sports. I think it's great
for everybody involved. I've admitted this on the air. Before
first email account I ever had in my life, the
only reason I set it up was to set up
a gambling account. Swear to God, full disclosure. They needed
you needed an email address. I didn't have one, so
I literally set up an email account just to have
a gambling account.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So well you have a gambling yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And I'm not good at it, but I also know that,
hey man, there's some pitfalls that come along with this,
Like there's some stuff that come along with this, and
in this day and age, when you come to find
out that, hey, by the way, a guy was leaking
info on that game, a game that Memphis should have won.
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They were like a seven seven and a half eight
point favorite going into that game. They should have won
that game. UTSA wasn't very good last year. I think
they won four games last year something like that, but
this was one of them all of a sudden. If
you're if you're some guy who's gambling on Memphis and
UTIBE and you come to find out you got burned
on that because one guy was giving away info to another.
(18:05):
You're looking around going what the f And there's nothing
you can really do about it. It's like betting on
the Kentucky Derby and you find out when a Bob
Baffort's horse is pissed hot and he blames it on
a meet and hey, that's some you know, trainer urinated on. Like, dude,
you come to find out well, what do I do
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with my bet?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If you already cash, you already cash. You can't do
anything about it. But the problem is now you start
to question, all right, what else is going on? Like
the Terry Rogier stuff in the NBA. That is a
wild story that you had people coming out saying, oh,
ESPN report, I'll listen, don't worry about it. Terry Rogier
has been investigated whether or not he was involved in
(18:49):
a gambling scandal. Don't worry about it, hey, listen, nothing
to see here. He's been clear of the investigation. And
then Chris Haynes reported, like a week or two ago, no,
actually not not really, no, no, no, they're still looking
into it. Some guy was betting on a Charlotte New
Orleans game that Rogier was in, and he hammered a
(19:11):
bunch of under bets for like thirteen thousand dollars and
Rosier played like five minutes or something like that and
exited the game. And then they started looking into it,
going well, at LEAs seems a little bit suspect white
all that activity. It was flagged by multiple sports books.
Why all that happened? And then you come to find out, oh,
he knew he wasn't participating any longer, didn't play the
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rest of the season, was traded in the offseason of Miami.
I don't know. It seems a little fishy to me
because the guy was betting unders, and that's where you
can manipulate this. So now, because you've got the gamblers involved.
And by the way, as somebody who has spent enough
time around gamblers and has been spent enough time around
people that ran sports books or ran their own betting services,
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I can tell you they're already a parent group to
begin with. They already if you want to know, like
all the conspiracy theorists are, I would venture to guess
a majority of conspiracy theorists probably gamble a little bit too,
because you got that paranoia going. If you're one of
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these gambling people and you are a paranoid, sob because
that's just who you are, which is why you roll
the dice literally with your life savings. If you see
a story like this where a former teammate gives away
information and literally screenshots defensive plays and sends it over
to the quarterback of the opposing team before a game,
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a game that they should be favored in, quarterbacks. A
seven to eight point underdog going into that game, lit
Memphis on fire and they won the game. Outright, You
need to tell me it wasn't because he knew some
of the signals. When you got players on Memphis go man,
they knew all their checks. How they know that, Well,
we're here because he actually said a picture of the
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plays over to the quarterback. Like this is just one
of those things that is going to continue to pop up.
And if we've got screen shots and evidence and everything's
being recorded, now probably the wrong era for them to
just welcome in the gambling community because now you've got receipts,
you've got literal receipts of some salacious stuff, scandalous stuff
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going on. And so when people are wondering, why would
they even open the door to this, well, A, it's
the revenue involved, it's the money that brings in. And yeah,
these are rare circumstances. Most people aren't scumbags, most people
aren't rats. They're not going to dime out their teammates
and give out all their information to an opponent a
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couple of days before the game, even if they're their
ex teammates. But like when you see stuff like this
pop up all of a sudden, everybody takes a step
back and goes, hold on a second, what do we
really got going on here? What is actually happening here?
So we will wait to see how this story transpires.
But that is the uh, the latest on the gambling
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paranoia in the world of sports. That You've got evidence,
according to Tiger Sports report showing that a Memphis player
gave away the playbook and information to a quarterback for
utsa days before their matchup, a game that Memphis was
favored to win and ended up losing only their second
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loss of the season. I mean, look, people are still
gonna gamble. I was just in Vegas, Like, if you've
got to scratch the itch, you gotta scratch the itch Vegas.
It's like you oddballs who have to get your last
bit of slot machines in at the airport in Vegas.
Like you haven't had enough. You haven't had enough. You
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got cigarette smoke pouring out of your out of your body.
Your socks smell like boot oz because the sweat is
running down you to try in detox and you're sitting
there waiting for your plane. You're banged up, you're hungover,
you're dehydrated. You go to use the restroom, it looks
(23:15):
like cake frosting because you haven't had any water in
two days. And you're sitting there playing wild buffaloes five
dollars a spin before you get on your flight. So
don't worry. Even when these scandals come up, those people
are still gonna bet on sports, even knowing all that,
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because they got to scratch the edge, all right, Jonas
Knox here, two pros and a cup of Joe on
Fox Sports Radio. So somebody is admiring a little bit
of chaos in the world of football, and they should.
And that's somebody is Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield, coming off
his best season as a pro, the franchise quarterback that
(23:57):
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers needed following the return hirement of
Tom Brady. He's uh looking over across the league at
his ex the Cleveland Browns, who have four hundred and
fourteen quarterbacks on their roster currently all competing for a job,
even two from the same draft class, because why not?
And Baker Mayfield was on the New Heights podcast with
(24:18):
the Kelsey Brothers and was asked about the quarterback situation
in Cleveland. How can we fix the quarterback situation in Cleveland?
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Baker?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
The jersey is now a list of twenty five people?
Is it a curse?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Why can we not get this right? We draft you
the best quarterback at college history overall? What's happening?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I pleaded the fifth, but I don't know when I
was healthy. Yeah, I was starting to get it's pretty
damn good there. That's why. There you go, not my
problem anymore. That's right, it's not his problem anymore. And
all it does is go to illustrate what a disaster
the Browns are, What a mess, because all that was
was them judging Baker Mayfield off an injury riddled season.
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That's all that was. That's all that was. We're not
talking about chronic injuries. We're not talking about something that
was going to derail his career. No, no, no, no, they
looked at it. There was a little bit of a
back and forth. Maybe he didn't get along with Kevin
Stefanski from time to time. And then the story got
leaked that they were interested in Deshaun Watson. Story gets leaked,
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Baker Mayfield gets wind of it and says I'm out
of here. I gotta go somewhere else. Goes to Carolina
pit stop with the Rams, ends up in Tampa Bay
and has played the best football of his career and
they love him there. And he's looking over at Cleveland going,
hey man, not my problem. That's your problem, Like, not
my problem. And you just hear all of those people
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that talked about all of the Oh boy, the Browns. Boy,
they made a mistake taking Baker Mayfield, and they made
a mistake doing it. And then you look at it
and you go, what do you mean, It's not like
they learned from the mistake. Ask yourself this question. Whoether
than Baker Mayfield has taken the Browns to the playoffs
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in recent years? Joe Flacco. So what did the Browns
do when Joe Flacco took him to the playoffs? Let
him walk, let him go somewhere else. I mean they
brought him back now, but they let him walk and
go somewhere else. Why would you do that? Like Baker
Mayfield took you to the playoffs, why would you let
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him leave what we wanted? Deshaun Watson, how's that gone?
Guy's got more lawsuits and touchdowns?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Why?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Like Why would they Why would you do that? They
didn't even learn from that. They're lucky. Joe Flacco was like, yeah,
I guess I'll come back. Why not? I want Comeback
Player of the Year. I did it the same year
when a guy almost died on the field and should
have won it, but no he didn't. You know, Tomar
Hamlin Toamar Hamlin had that in the bag you talk about,
you know how many people lost their ass betting on
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Deamar Hamlin to win Comeback Player of the Year because
the guy almost died on Monday Night football And Joe
Flacco came in and said, oh, I'll take that ticket,
thank you, thank you. We're good here. And the Browns
are like, dah, listen, we don't need him. Come on,
come on, we don't need him. We'll figure this whole
thing out. Okay, So even in the immediate past or future,
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the Browns haven't learned, haven't figured this out. And then
you just see the plan in place and you go, okay,
so you're gonna you bring Joe Flacco back, and then
you also bring Kenny Pickett in and it's like, well,
you're gonna see what you got with those two. And
then you you take a quarterback and the third round
in Dylan Gabriel. But then you come back and you
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take Shador in the same draft, and it's like, Deshaun
Watson's still there, but he's like mentoring guys because he's
like so. And then you hear from Brown's reporters that
they're like, well, yeah, but this is just gonna be
a throwaway season anyways, because they acquired all those extra
picks for that Travis Hunter trade on Draft night and
don't worry about it because they're gonna go ahead and
get back on the draft and take a quarterback next year.
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Oh all right, because every plan they've had has worked
so well thus far. But okay, that it makes sense,
thatf it makes sense. None of it makes any sense.
That it's like, how many more examples do you need
of Hey, it's maybe not the player, it's them, Like
(28:34):
maybe it is just them. Got I mean, she seems great.
Why she's still single? I don't know what happened with
that relationship. I don't know. Then you come to find out, well,
you know, there was some stuff behind the scenes in
every single one, and there's been stuff behind the scenes
with the Browns in every single quarterback relationship. They've had everyone.
(28:58):
They can't figure it out, and you thought finally they
went off speed when everybody thought it was gonna be
Josh Allen in twenty eighteen, like Josh Allen was the
betting favorite. All they're gonna take Josh Allen. They need
a big arm and in a cold climate, they're gonna
take Josh Allen. And they go off speed and take
Baker Mayfield. And he goes, all right, well, it's interesting,
(29:20):
it's bold. We'll see how it works out. He gets there.
He finally wins them a game. They're opening up bud
Light Fridges on Thursday Night Football to commemorate their first
win in like thirty eight years. He gets them to
the playoffs, played well, and they decide, after one injury
riddled season, now we're gonna go ahead and move on. Okay,
(29:43):
And what's the plan. We'll bring in to Shaun Watson. Okay.
And if that doesn't work out, what's the plan. Well,
we'll bring in Joe Flacco. Okay, And then what's the plan. Well,
we'll let him walk. We'll go back to Deshaun. Dude.
Go through the list of quarterback relationships that have gone sideways,
and there's one common denominator. It's the damn Cleveland Browns.
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Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. You can get me
on X by the way at the Jonas Knox if
you want to send over more of the Chuck E
Cheese storylines, if you want to send those over, because
I didn't get enough of those all day yesterday because
I worked there. God forbid a guy work there. By
the way, I worked at TGI Friday's. You got any
TGI Friday stories you want to send over to wait,
so I'm not the only one who sent you the
(30:24):
story I told our boss, Scott Shapiro, our Lord and Savior.
I've never been texted and tweeted more about anything in
my entire life than some guy getting arrested in a
Chuck E Cheese costumes, because I'm the only one that
ever worked at Chuck E Cheese and was the rat
for Christ's sake. But coming up next here, we are
(30:45):
going to close up shop here on this Football Friday
with lead to lapse. Not here because he's probably bellied
up at a bar himself, but we are going to
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we're calling it breeze leftovers right here on FSR, or to.
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Speaker 4 (32:13):
These might smell a little funk, sounds incredible, but they're
still good. Time to find out what's left. It's Lee's
left overs.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
No, it ain't. It's Breeze leftovers this time?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Bre what do we got here on this football Friday?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Hey Jonna, so where were you yesterday afternoon? Around like
eleven am Pacific time?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'm probably getting yelled at at home. Why why do
you ask? Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Okay, So, apparently a Chuck E Cheese employee was arrested
in costume for credit card fraud.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You know, the biggest mistake I've ever made in my
career was cracking a mic and telling people I was
the rabbit Chuck E Cheese and this guy got popped
for credit card fraud.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Credit card fraud. Alicia Hill said police were called to
the parking lot of Chuck E Cheese after a caller
reported a stolen credit card. The victim had one hundred
dollars of fraudulent charges from places that she does not
go to. Okay, so she doesn't apparently go to what
a Burger? She doesn't go to like a smoke shop
all these other things that she has no issue, Like,
(33:19):
she never steps foot at all.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So because she's vegan, she can judge some guy for
one to smoke weed and have a cheeseburger. I mean,
she lives in Florida.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
How vegan do we think she is?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh? Fair? Right, So they've pinned this guy at Chuck
E Cheese and he was working, and they literally he was.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
He's forty one years old working at CHUCKI see, I
think you had a good story. You were in high.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
School, all right. So I was telling I was telling
breathe this. The only reason I worked at Chuck E
Cheese is because they paid more at the time than
anywhere else. And look, I didn't come from money, so
I needed to pay for stuff my senior year, like yearbook,
your cap and gown like all that stuff. So I
needed to get a job. And so Chuck E Cheese
(34:02):
had just opened up in Thousand Oaks, where I'm from,
and they were hiring and they were paying like whatever
minimum wage was, they were paying like fifty cents more
an hour. And so me and a couple of buddies
that I went to school, like, hey man, they're hiring.
Why not. So we get there and you literally have auditions.
They make you get up there if you pass everything
(34:23):
or your your application and all that, and they go,
all right, so dance for us, and you've got to
like dance in front of this green screen or whatever.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, what what was your song?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Even I don't even remember, No, I don't even know.
It wasn't I wish. So we get up there, we
do the dance, you get hired on site. You're all
part of the team. We just wanted to see if
you'd go through with this, like ah ha, you know,
like nice hazing, all right, this place sucks whatever. Like,
So we get there, we get our and then after
a couple of weeks, you know, they're looking for people
periodically throughout the day, depending on the shift to work
(34:55):
as Chucky. And so I said, I mean, I'll do
it whatever, I don't care, you're just in cost. And
they liked my performance, and I just could not rid
myself with the job. And I became the dedicated Chucky
for like three months, and it was you know, they
got a lot of it was me trying to make
my buddy who worked there because he worked in the
(35:17):
game department, and so when he knew I was gonna
be dancing, I would do stuff to make him laugh
because it would play on the green screens throughout the
entire restaurant and then they eventually caught onto it or
like you need to tone it down and all that.
But yeah, I got in un data yesterday with tweets,
text messages, all of that because some guy stole credit
(35:37):
cards bought what a burger? And by the way, if
you steal a credit card, aren't you gonna do something
other than buy weed? Thanks and a cheeseburger? What a
horrible criminal, dude, Go get a car. Seriously, you have
the opportunity. You're gonna get arrested no matter what. You
went and bought weed and a burger. Like, how much
(35:58):
does Chuck E Cheese pay? Now that guy's got to
steal credit cards for a double cheeseburger and some green wolf.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Like, I don't know, I'm not comfortable with a forty
two year old inside of the rat costume. I was
gonna say, what kind of decisions do we really think
this guy is making if he's forty one in a
Chuck E Cheese?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I no offense, Like, I'm not trying to be mean,
like you know, look, people work hard there and they
go through a lot. I'll say this, we can sit
in judgment of the people that work at Chuck E Cheese.
All we want, I know somebody who's been on both
ends of it, somebody who worked there, and somebody who's
been there. The parents that take their kids to Chuck
E Cheese, that is a you deal with them. We
(36:40):
have them all day time, during the course of their days.
That's all it is. It's why they serve beer, it's
why they serve wine. And they don't even serve just
your typical standard, run of the mill beer. They're serving
double IPA's, they've got they've got wine, they've upgraded. Oh yeah, yeah,
I haven't been there. Go to Chucky.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, they've got IPA's and they serve it's in those
plastic cups. Not like your little twelve ounce plastic cups.
We're talking like twenty ounce plastic cups. They like, they
know exactly what they're doing, and the parents just don't
want to deal with it. So they let the guy
at forty two buying weed and burgers with a stolen
credit card get assaulted by kids. I think this guy
should be exonerated on all charges. I think that lady
(37:21):
should have to give him her credit card for an
unlimited spending spree at whatever burger joint and pot shop
he wants to go through the entire weekend, and he
should be promoted to manager at Chuck E.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Chears.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
She was charged with three felonies, theft of credit card,
criminal use of personal identification information, and fraudulent use of
a credit card over two times within a year span.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
He served his time. Do you see he was dressed
in he served his time. It's miserable. That's a miserable costume.
It smells all what else we got?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Breathe Well, I was just we talked about Hull Cogan
a little bit earlier, and so my dad turned sixty
earlier this week. I was actually in Vegas this weekend too,
seeing him, and so I got him a cameo, like
a Brett Hart cameo, like to say like happy birthdays.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I did, so I was just Bret Brett Hart charge
on cameo. Can I guess? You can guess two bucks
less Brett Heart. You can get Brett Hart Happy Birthday
for less than two hundred bucks just a little bit less,
just a little bit less fifty bucks, No, a little
bit more, seventy five? No, sorry, what is it?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
It was like one sixty?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Sweet.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
So if you had to rank, like your favorite wrestlers,
because you're the creator of pro wrestler porn star, like,
who's your like? To your top three? Really quick?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Oh, ravishing Rick Rude number one. I loved ravishing Rick Rude.
I liked all the bad guys. Hogan was up there
back in the day. But I would say ravishing Rick Rude,
psycho Sid How people don't remember this psycho? Yeah? Yeah,
he actually he just passed away not long ago. I
would say, those and who got who would be my third? No,
(39:02):
greatest wrestler of all time, but not not my favorite?
I would say, God, who would be my third? If
I had to go to third, Roddy Piper's up there,
Cane's up there, Jake the Snake Roberts is up there,
macho man. But rest in peace, hul Cogan. What a
run he had
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so we will be taking you all the way up
until the end of this hour to conclude this Friday
finale here on FSR. And I was thinking about this
because we were talking about the Jets already going into
the season compromised. Justin Fields has got a dislocated toe.
(00:59):
He suffered it to training camp and we had a big,
long discussion about you know, toes weird feet. So on
and so forth. But when it comes to weird organizations,
the Jets are the team that just take the cake.
So you got the Jets, who the last time they
thought they had a solution at quarterback, they got four
plays into the season, Aaron Rodgers is running out of
(01:22):
the tunnel and being introduced with an American flag on
nine to eleven. It was perfect, and then four plays in, oh,
it's over, and it was. It was never the same
since like it was over. Like for all intents and purposes,
the Aaron Rodgers experiment died four plays into the season.
(01:43):
Nobody's fault, just bad luck, terrible situation. And now Rogers
is in Pittsburgh. The rest of the season was a mess.
Last year was filled with drama and dysfunction, and now
they decide we're gonna go with the guy that didn't
want to stay in Pittsburgh. We're gonna go with Justin Field.
And one practice in during team drills, dislocates his toe
(02:05):
and you could say, well, it's not a big deal,
it's not you know, what are we talking about here.
He's going to be ready to go for Week one, sure,
but he's a mobile quarterback at the very least not great,
just not a great start, especially for a guy who
just got there and is expected to get his opportunity,
get his moment and take over for a team who
(02:26):
needs some solutions to quarterbacks. So he got that, it's like,
all right, well, typical Jets, and then you got the Cowboys. Well,
how is it typical Cowboys?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
I don't know. Stop me if you heard this before.
One of their own who's ready to get paid and
should have been paid a while ago, is still waiting
to get paid. And people at training camp in Knoxnard,
as some people refer to it, are asking questions to
guys that aren't the player, looking for the contract, trying
(03:00):
to figure out what's going on here, and everybody's all
of a sudden looking around, going god. This feels familiar.
Case in point. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott when asked about
Michael Parsons in his contract.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I mean, it's an every year conversation, whether it's myself,
Zach Martin, Ceede Lamb, now Michael Parsons. It's part of
it in a sense now as it's something that I
wish that any of us are going through. Absolutely not.
But I think Mike's doing a hell of a job
with it being here. He's a great teammate. I don't
(03:34):
know if there's a correct way to handle it. To
be honest with you, I will say that I think
he deserves to get paid. Think he should get paid.
And ultimately, if going off of the history of what
I've seen, he will get paid, hopefully it's sooner than later.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All right, So let's go ahead, just so we're keeping
score here, all right, So let's go ahead. We're gonna
We got the Jets, who already have a little bit
of an issue when it comes to the quarterback, right,
So he got that. And then you get the Cowboys
who have got a star player who's looking for a
contract and for some weird reason still hasn't gotten his contract,
(04:11):
and everybody's being asked about it so much so that
Dak Prescott's like, yeah, par for the course. Yeah, I
mean this is just like it is every off season. Yep.
Like if it sounded like he was a little bit
kind of annoyed and tired of it, it's because he
probably is. So Literally, we're not even at the first game,
not the first regular season game, not the first preseason game.
(04:33):
We're not even at the Hall of Fame game, and
you've got the typical starts to the season for the
Jets and the Cowboys. You know what's great about having
a buddy who's an alcoholic. Anytime you want to get
a drink, that guy's there. Hey, Lee, we're not naming names,
(04:55):
but yeah, anytime you want to go get a drink,
that guy's there. Just got dumped. God, I want to
go get a drink. Yeah, but it's a Tuesday and
it's three thirty in the afternoon. I know what, I'll
call him, right, got a random day off on a
Thursday and you're bored. I kind of feel like a mimosa. Ah,
(05:21):
I'm gonna call him. That's the beautiful part about having
a buddy who's an alcoholic. We could sit in judgment
and we can sit here and say, well, you know
it's not right. He should go get help, and we
could sit there and do it, or we could find
the perk in the whole thing. At least you know
what you can depend on. At least you know if
(05:44):
all else fails, I got that I can rely on. Oh,
that's kind of like the start to the year for
the Jets and the Cowboys. Because we've been hearing all
this stuff throughout the off season, all of it. I
mean you with the Jets, we've been hearing. Listen, Aaron
Glenn's there like it's a new era. You've got a
(06:06):
new front office. Now we don't need Joe Douglas, even
though you just gave big contracts to guys that Joe
Douglas drafted, so apparently he did a pretty good job.
But now we don't need him. But we've got our
quarterback and we are fired up for the future, brand
new Jets, and it's like kind of feel like getting
a drink. I don't worry the Jets will figure out
a way to cause a problem or have a problem
(06:27):
going into the season. Oh sweet, all right, here we
are at happy hour and it's a Jets sitting right
next to us. Woody Johnson's there. You get his kids
playing Madden, judging player rankings, going through the scouting Department's awesome,
Jets are there. Your typical Jets can always depend on him.
Then you look over for the cowboys, like, man, I
really feel like getting a drink. I feel like having
another cocktail. God, but nobody else wants to do. Oh look,
(06:49):
it's the Dallas Cowboys again, and all this conversation through
the off season about Hey, the Mike McCarthy negotiations, which,
by the way, nobody talks about that anymore. The Cowboys
wanted to bring Mike McCarthy back. They would have liked
to have had Mike McCarthy come back and be the
head coach, except what did they do with Mike McCarthy. Oh,
(07:11):
I know. They waited too long, and by the time
they got to negotiating, Mike McCarthy was like, man, f this, Like,
I'll just take the year off. I'll go watch film
at a barn somewhere like I did before, and I'll try
and get a job next cycle, Like I don't want
to deal with this crap. Brian Schottenheimer was hired as
the head coach, even he didn't think he was going
(07:31):
to be hired as the head coach. He said it
this week. I had no idea I was going to
be the head coach. I thought it was going to
be clearing out my law. I had no clue. He
didn't think he was going to be the head coach,
and here he is. And then you've got another guy
on their team who's looking to get paid and still
no deal done. And in fact, all we've heard about
(07:52):
it is Jerry Jones speak at training camp and tell
you all the reasons why he doesn't like handing out
com I won't make some gloryho that too, And by
the way, who doesn't settle down just a little bit.
But like all of this is happening, and it happens
(08:13):
every year every time, no matter what storyline or bogus
garbage bs you're fed throughout the entire offseason. All we're
told is now it's different. This time around. Now, this
time around is different. That's like, man, I got to
really use a jet story like, oh, don't do don't worry.
They're ready to have a drink. Don't worry. Listen, guy's
(08:35):
toe just fell off his foot. But of course they
figured it out, like Justin Field's toe looks like a
hot dog. Some kid coughed up choking, like, but don't
worry about it. Hey, nothing to see here. He'll be
ready to go week one. Okay, sure heard that before.
(08:57):
What are the Cowboys? Well, I got this guy who
needs to get paid. Nah, you don't say, yeah, is
he paid it? Nope? Everybody else is he's due he deserves.
It should be easy, not no issue whatsoever. And it's like,
now we're gonna wait around, and then the owner's gonna
come out and tell you all the reasons why it
(09:18):
can't happen. I don't like doing this. He could get hurt.
He got hurt this year, he got that. Well, if
you talk to his agent, I don't even know whose
agent is b And then Dak Prescott's sitting there going, yeah, man,
I look, it's every year. This is what it is. Eventually,
I think the deal's gonna get done. But we had
it with Zach Martin myself CD like it's every single year.
(09:42):
And it just goes to show you that even though
you can sit there in judgment, and even though you
can sit there and criticize and talk about, oh my gosh,
this is just wretched, how could you be like that,
the Jets and the Cowboys are like that buddy of
your whose who's an alcoholic, can only depend on him
every single offseason every time you want to go have
(10:03):
a cocktail. Don't worry. They're the ones that are going
to pick up that phone or that text and they'll
beat you to the bar. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio.
It is Two Pros and a Cup of Joe here
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next here though, on this Football Friday, we are going
(10:25):
to tell you about somebody in the NFL who is
standing back and admiring the chaos, standing back and admiring
the fact that they aren't a part of the problem
any longer. We'll get into that for you right here
on FSR.
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(12:08):
But I like how Loraina stereotypes me. Do you play
Ramstein for anybody else?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Absolutely not just for you? And this is as gothic
of a Ramstein song as it gets. I think it's
the only one I have. They did an entire album
with an orchestra that's like, I think it was a
San Francisco orchestra. They recorded an entire album called mut
which means mother mother right, which means mutu in German.
(12:38):
So yeah, as a vampire, can you speak multiple languages? No?
But you know what I did. My buddy's grandma was
from Germany, like, spoke very little English and was German,
and I brought over he had a party in high school,
and I brought over the Ramstein album and I had
her read it to me. So I learned all the
(12:59):
like I can count ten because of her. Oh that's
so cool. It was awesome. You know, some some stories
off the art, some of our conversations. But yeah, so
good to hear rams sign here on a football Friday
that would not be played, by the way, for anybody
else except for me on the show. Y, So I
(13:19):
do want to get into this story involving a player
in the NFL. That's like, listen, man, like, hey, stand
back and admire the chaos. I do want to get
into that. But I thought this was a fascinating sign
of the times in the world of football as well too,
which I don't know if anybody has caught a glimpse
of this. Memphis and UTSA college football, and you're thinking
(13:43):
to yourself, like, come on, man, we were talking about
big ten media days. We get the sec like nobody cares.
Oh no, no, no, this is this is a wonderful tale
of the sign of the times in the world of football.
So Tigers Sports Report report last week the multiple sources
alleged that former Memphis safety Taj Rael leaked playbook info
(14:08):
to UTSA before they played on November second, Right, Since then,
Tiger Sports Report obtained an alleged DM between Reel and
UTSA quarterback Owen McCown where basically he's telling the guy, hey, listen,
here's their defenses, here's their scheme. This guy's got a
(14:29):
hamstring injury. This is where and they're showing them converse
back and forth, and you're thinking to yourself, all right,
so what's gonna happen here, Well, he was already dismissed
from the team at that point. You've got members of
the Memphis football team who were saying, yeah, they knew
all our checks, they knew everything at the line of scrimmage.
(14:50):
It was really strange. And then you come to find out, well,
you had a former player on Memphis give utsa give
their quarterback in oh about what they were running, and
you've got the screenshot of it via DM. Between those two, Now,
maybe this is AI generated. Okay, maybe AI is out
(15:12):
there spinning yarns. Brady and I had a debate off
air about the difference between Groc and Gemini. Those sound like,
you know, two American gladiator characters. I have no idea,
but you've got Grock And maybe this is all AI generated,
or maybe this guy is just a rat And the
problem is he's still playing. He's at Purdue now. And
(15:37):
it begs the question, well, how do you handle the
whole situation If you're Baryotam at Perdue and you find
out this guy at a previous stop gave away info
because he was disgruntled about being dismissed from the team
to a team that that team was played, feels like
kind of a problem. That feels like a bad look.
(15:57):
It was only Memphis' second loss of the season. They
lost twice last year. This was one of them, and
it might have been because one of their teammates was
giving away information to the opponent. So if I'm a team,
I'd be pissed. I'm looking around, going dude, we only
lost twice last year. We could have gotten a better bulget,
(16:18):
like who knows what could have happened, and instead we
find out one of our guys after he was dismissed,
gave away all the info. And then you look on
the other side. Dude, if you're the quarterback from UTSA,
if your own McCown, I mean you had that information, like,
(16:40):
you took that information. Did you use the information? I mean,
maybe it's not as egregious, but all of this comes
out and it just goes to show you when you
wanted to get in bed with gambling sites and everything
else that came along with it, this was the wrong
air to do it. Again, I'm not against any of that.
(17:00):
I think it's great for sports. I think it's great
for everybody involved. I've admitted this on the air. Before
first email account I ever had in my life, the
only reason I set it up was to set up
a gambling account. Swear to God, full disclosure. They needed
you needed an email address. I didn't have one, so
I literally set up an email account just to have
a gambling account.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
So well you have a gambling yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
And I'm not good at it, but I also know that,
hey man, there's some pitfalls that come along with this,
Like there's some stuff that come along with this, and
in this day and age, when you come to find
out that, hey, by the way, a guy was leaking
info on that game, a game that Memphis should have won.
(17:44):
They were like a seven seven and a half eight
point favorite going into that game. They should have won
that game. UTSA wasn't very good last year. I think
they won four games last year something like that, but
this was one of them all of a sudden. If
you're if you're some guy who's gambling on Memphis and
UTIBE and you come to find out you got burned
on that because one guy was giving away info to another.
(18:05):
You're looking around going what the f And there's nothing
you can really do about it. It's like betting on
the Kentucky Derby and you find out when a Bob
Baffort's horse is pissed hot and he blames it on
a meet and hey, that's some you know, trainer urinated on. Like, dude,
you come to find out well, what do I do
(18:26):
with my bet?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
If you already cash, you already cash. You can't do
anything about it. But the problem is now you start
to question, all right, what else is going on? Like
the Terry Rogier stuff in the NBA. That is a
wild story that you had people coming out saying, oh,
ESPN report, I'll listen, don't worry about it. Terry Rogier
has been investigated whether or not he was involved in
(18:49):
a gambling scandal. Don't worry about it, hey, listen, nothing
to see here. He's been clear of the investigation. And
then Chris Haynes reported, like a week or two ago, no,
actually not not really, no, no, no, they're still looking
into it. Some guy was betting on a Charlotte New
Orleans game that Rogier was in, and he hammered a
(19:11):
bunch of under bets for like thirteen thousand dollars and
Rosier played like five minutes or something like that and
exited the game. And then they started looking into it,
going well, at LEAs seems a little bit suspect white
all that activity. It was flagged by multiple sports books.
Why all that happened? And then you come to find out, oh,
he knew he wasn't participating any longer, didn't play the
(19:33):
rest of the season, was traded in the offseason of Miami.
I don't know. It seems a little fishy to me
because the guy was betting unders, and that's where you
can manipulate this. So now, because you've got the gamblers involved.
And by the way, as somebody who has spent enough
time around gamblers and has been spent enough time around
people that ran sports books or ran their own betting services,
(19:57):
I can tell you they're already a parent group to
begin with. They already if you want to know, like
all the conspiracy theorists are, I would venture to guess
a majority of conspiracy theorists probably gamble a little bit too,
because you got that paranoia going. If you're one of
(20:17):
these gambling people and you are a paranoid, sob because
that's just who you are, which is why you roll
the dice literally with your life savings. If you see
a story like this where a former teammate gives away
information and literally screenshots defensive plays and sends it over
to the quarterback of the opposing team before a game,
(20:40):
a game that they should be favored in, quarterbacks. A
seven to eight point underdog going into that game, lit
Memphis on fire and they won the game. Outright, You
need to tell me it wasn't because he knew some
of the signals. When you got players on Memphis go man,
they knew all their checks. How they know that, Well,
we're here because he actually said a picture of the
(21:01):
plays over to the quarterback. Like this is just one
of those things that is going to continue to pop up.
And if we've got screen shots and evidence and everything's
being recorded, now probably the wrong era for them to
just welcome in the gambling community because now you've got receipts,
you've got literal receipts of some salacious stuff, scandalous stuff
(21:24):
going on. And so when people are wondering, why would
they even open the door to this, well, A, it's
the revenue involved, it's the money that brings in. And yeah,
these are rare circumstances. Most people aren't scumbags, most people
aren't rats. They're not going to dime out their teammates
and give out all their information to an opponent a
(21:45):
couple of days before the game, even if they're their
ex teammates. But like when you see stuff like this
pop up all of a sudden, everybody takes a step
back and goes, hold on a second, what do we
really got going on here? What is actually happening here?
So we will wait to see how this story transpires.
But that is the uh, the latest on the gambling
(22:08):
paranoia in the world of sports. That You've got evidence,
according to Tiger Sports report showing that a Memphis player
gave away the playbook and information to a quarterback for
utsa days before their matchup, a game that Memphis was
favored to win and ended up losing only their second
(22:32):
loss of the season. I mean, look, people are still
gonna gamble. I was just in Vegas, Like, if you've
got to scratch the itch, you gotta scratch the itch Vegas.
It's like you oddballs who have to get your last
bit of slot machines in at the airport in Vegas.
Like you haven't had enough. You haven't had enough. You
(22:52):
got cigarette smoke pouring out of your out of your body.
Your socks smell like boot oz because the sweat is
running down you to try in detox and you're sitting
there waiting for your plane. You're banged up, you're hungover,
you're dehydrated. You go to use the restroom, it looks
(23:15):
like cake frosting because you haven't had any water in
two days. And you're sitting there playing wild buffaloes five
dollars a spin before you get on your flight. So
don't worry. Even when these scandals come up, those people
are still gonna bet on sports, even knowing all that,
(23:35):
because they got to scratch the edge, all right, Jonas
Knox here, two pros and a cup of Joe on
Fox Sports Radio. So somebody is admiring a little bit
of chaos in the world of football, and they should.
And that's somebody is Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield, coming off
his best season as a pro, the franchise quarterback that
(23:57):
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers needed following the return hirement of
Tom Brady. He's uh looking over across the league at
his ex the Cleveland Browns, who have four hundred and
fourteen quarterbacks on their roster currently all competing for a job,
even two from the same draft class, because why not?
And Baker Mayfield was on the New Heights podcast with
(24:18):
the Kelsey Brothers and was asked about the quarterback situation
in Cleveland. How can we fix the quarterback situation in Cleveland?
What is going on?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Baker?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
The jersey is now a list of twenty five people?
Is it a curse?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Why can we not get this right? We draft you
the best quarterback at college history overall? What's happening?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Listen?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I pleaded the fifth, but I don't know when I
was healthy. Yeah, I was starting to get it's pretty
damn good there. That's why. There you go, not my
problem anymore. That's right, it's not his problem anymore. And
all it does is go to illustrate what a disaster
the Browns are, What a mess, because all that was
was them judging Baker Mayfield off an injury riddled season.
(25:02):
That's all that was. That's all that was. We're not
talking about chronic injuries. We're not talking about something that
was going to derail his career. No, no, no, no, they
looked at it. There was a little bit of a
back and forth. Maybe he didn't get along with Kevin
Stefanski from time to time. And then the story got
leaked that they were interested in Deshaun Watson. Story gets leaked,
(25:25):
Baker Mayfield gets wind of it and says I'm out
of here. I gotta go somewhere else. Goes to Carolina
pit stop with the Rams, ends up in Tampa Bay
and has played the best football of his career and
they love him there. And he's looking over at Cleveland going,
hey man, not my problem. That's your problem, Like, not
my problem. And you just hear all of those people
(25:49):
that talked about all of the Oh boy, the Browns. Boy,
they made a mistake taking Baker Mayfield, and they made
a mistake doing it. And then you look at it
and you go, what do you mean, It's not like
they learned from the mistake. Ask yourself this question. Whoether
than Baker Mayfield has taken the Browns to the playoffs
(26:10):
in recent years? Joe Flacco. So what did the Browns
do when Joe Flacco took him to the playoffs? Let
him walk, let him go somewhere else. I mean they
brought him back now, but they let him walk and
go somewhere else. Why would you do that? Like Baker
Mayfield took you to the playoffs, why would you let
(26:31):
him leave what we wanted? Deshaun Watson, how's that gone?
Guy's got more lawsuits and touchdowns?
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Why?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Like Why would they Why would you do that? They
didn't even learn from that. They're lucky. Joe Flacco was like, yeah,
I guess I'll come back. Why not? I want Comeback
Player of the Year. I did it the same year
when a guy almost died on the field and should
have won it, but no he didn't. You know, Tomar
Hamlin Toamar Hamlin had that in the bag you talk about,
you know how many people lost their ass betting on
(27:02):
Deamar Hamlin to win Comeback Player of the Year because
the guy almost died on Monday Night football And Joe
Flacco came in and said, oh, I'll take that ticket,
thank you, thank you. We're good here. And the Browns
are like, dah, listen, we don't need him. Come on,
come on, we don't need him. We'll figure this whole
thing out. Okay, So even in the immediate past or future,
(27:27):
the Browns haven't learned, haven't figured this out. And then
you just see the plan in place and you go, okay,
so you're gonna you bring Joe Flacco back, and then
you also bring Kenny Pickett in and it's like, well,
you're gonna see what you got with those two. And
then you you take a quarterback and the third round
in Dylan Gabriel. But then you come back and you
(27:48):
take Shador in the same draft, and it's like, Deshaun
Watson's still there, but he's like mentoring guys because he's
like so. And then you hear from Brown's reporters that
they're like, well, yeah, but this is just gonna be
a throwaway season anyways, because they acquired all those extra
picks for that Travis Hunter trade on Draft night and
don't worry about it because they're gonna go ahead and
get back on the draft and take a quarterback next year.
(28:10):
Oh all right, because every plan they've had has worked
so well thus far. But okay, that it makes sense,
thatf it makes sense. None of it makes any sense.
That it's like, how many more examples do you need
of Hey, it's maybe not the player, it's them, Like
(28:34):
maybe it is just them. Got I mean, she seems great.
Why she's still single? I don't know what happened with
that relationship. I don't know. Then you come to find out, well,
you know, there was some stuff behind the scenes in
every single one, and there's been stuff behind the scenes
with the Browns in every single quarterback relationship. They've had everyone.
(28:58):
They can't figure it out, and you thought finally they
went off speed when everybody thought it was gonna be
Josh Allen in twenty eighteen, like Josh Allen was the
betting favorite. All they're gonna take Josh Allen. They need
a big arm and in a cold climate, they're gonna
take Josh Allen. And they go off speed and take
Baker Mayfield. And he goes, all right, well, it's interesting,
(29:20):
it's bold. We'll see how it works out. He gets there.
He finally wins them a game. They're opening up bud
Light Fridges on Thursday Night Football to commemorate their first
win in like thirty eight years. He gets them to
the playoffs, played well, and they decide, after one injury
riddled season, now we're gonna go ahead and move on. Okay,
(29:43):
And what's the plan. We'll bring in to Shaun Watson. Okay.
And if that doesn't work out, what's the plan. Well,
we'll bring in Joe Flacco. Okay, And then what's the plan. Well,
we'll let him walk. We'll go back to Deshaun. Dude.
Go through the list of quarterback relationships that have gone sideways,
and there's one common denominator. It's the damn Cleveland Browns.
(30:03):
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. You can get me
on X by the way at the Jonas Knox if
you want to send over more of the Chuck E
Cheese storylines, if you want to send those over, because
I didn't get enough of those all day yesterday because
I worked there. God forbid a guy work there. By
the way, I worked at TGI Friday's. You got any
TGI Friday stories you want to send over to wait,
so I'm not the only one who sent you the
(30:24):
story I told our boss, Scott Shapiro, our Lord and Savior.
I've never been texted and tweeted more about anything in
my entire life than some guy getting arrested in a
Chuck E Cheese costumes, because I'm the only one that
ever worked at Chuck E Cheese and was the rat
for Christ's sake. But coming up next here, we are
(30:45):
going to close up shop here on this Football Friday
with lead to lapse. Not here because he's probably bellied
up at a bar himself, but we are going to
close up shop with another edition of Lee's Leftovers, except
we're calling it breeze leftovers right here on FSR, or to.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
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Speaker 4 (32:13):
These might smell a little funk, sounds incredible, but they're
still good. Time to find out what's left. It's Lee's
left overs.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
No, it ain't. It's Breeze leftovers this time?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
All right?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Bre what do we got here on this football Friday?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Hey Jonna, so where were you yesterday afternoon? Around like
eleven am Pacific time?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
I'm probably getting yelled at at home. Why why do
you ask? Oh?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Okay, So, apparently a Chuck E Cheese employee was arrested
in costume for credit card fraud.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You know, the biggest mistake I've ever made in my
career was cracking a mic and telling people I was
the rabbit Chuck E Cheese and this guy got popped
for credit card fraud.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Credit card fraud. Alicia Hill said police were called to
the parking lot of Chuck E Cheese after a caller
reported a stolen credit card. The victim had one hundred
dollars of fraudulent charges from places that she does not
go to. Okay, so she doesn't apparently go to what
a Burger? She doesn't go to like a smoke shop
all these other things that she has no issue, Like,
(33:19):
she never steps foot at all.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
So because she's vegan, she can judge some guy for
one to smoke weed and have a cheeseburger. I mean,
she lives in Florida.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
How vegan do we think she is?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Oh? Fair? Right, So they've pinned this guy at Chuck
E Cheese and he was working, and they literally he was.
Speaker 3 (33:36):
He's forty one years old working at CHUCKI see, I
think you had a good story. You were in high.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
School, all right. So I was telling I was telling
breathe this. The only reason I worked at Chuck E
Cheese is because they paid more at the time than
anywhere else. And look, I didn't come from money, so
I needed to pay for stuff my senior year, like yearbook,
your cap and gown like all that stuff. So I
needed to get a job. And so Chuck E Cheese
(34:02):
had just opened up in Thousand Oaks, where I'm from,
and they were hiring and they were paying like whatever
minimum wage was, they were paying like fifty cents more
an hour. And so me and a couple of buddies
that I went to school, like, hey man, they're hiring.
Why not. So we get there and you literally have auditions.
They make you get up there if you pass everything
(34:23):
or your your application and all that, and they go,
all right, so dance for us, and you've got to
like dance in front of this green screen or whatever.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Yeah, what what was your song?
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Even I don't even remember, No, I don't even know.
It wasn't I wish. So we get up there, we
do the dance, you get hired on site. You're all
part of the team. We just wanted to see if
you'd go through with this, like ah ha, you know,
like nice hazing, all right, this place sucks whatever. Like,
So we get there, we get our and then after
a couple of weeks, you know, they're looking for people
periodically throughout the day, depending on the shift to work
(34:55):
as Chucky. And so I said, I mean, I'll do
it whatever, I don't care, you're just in cost. And
they liked my performance, and I just could not rid
myself with the job. And I became the dedicated Chucky
for like three months, and it was you know, they
got a lot of it was me trying to make
my buddy who worked there because he worked in the
(35:17):
game department, and so when he knew I was gonna
be dancing, I would do stuff to make him laugh
because it would play on the green screens throughout the
entire restaurant and then they eventually caught onto it or
like you need to tone it down and all that.
But yeah, I got in un data yesterday with tweets,
text messages, all of that because some guy stole credit
(35:37):
cards bought what a burger? And by the way, if
you steal a credit card, aren't you gonna do something
other than buy weed? Thanks and a cheeseburger? What a
horrible criminal, dude, Go get a car. Seriously, you have
the opportunity. You're gonna get arrested no matter what. You
went and bought weed and a burger. Like, how much
(35:58):
does Chuck E Cheese pay? Now that guy's got to
steal credit cards for a double cheeseburger and some green wolf.
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Like, I don't know, I'm not comfortable with a forty
two year old inside of the rat costume. I was
gonna say, what kind of decisions do we really think
this guy is making if he's forty one in a
Chuck E Cheese?
Speaker 1 (36:19):
I no offense, Like, I'm not trying to be mean,
like you know, look, people work hard there and they
go through a lot. I'll say this, we can sit
in judgment of the people that work at Chuck E Cheese.
All we want, I know somebody who's been on both
ends of it, somebody who worked there, and somebody who's
been there. The parents that take their kids to Chuck
E Cheese, that is a you deal with them. We
(36:40):
have them all day time, during the course of their days.
That's all it is. It's why they serve beer, it's
why they serve wine. And they don't even serve just
your typical standard, run of the mill beer. They're serving
double IPA's, they've got they've got wine, they've upgraded. Oh yeah, yeah,
I haven't been there. Go to Chucky.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Yeah, they've got IPA's and they serve it's in those
plastic cups. Not like your little twelve ounce plastic cups.
We're talking like twenty ounce plastic cups. They like, they
know exactly what they're doing, and the parents just don't
want to deal with it. So they let the guy
at forty two buying weed and burgers with a stolen
credit card get assaulted by kids. I think this guy
should be exonerated on all charges. I think that lady
(37:21):
should have to give him her credit card for an
unlimited spending spree at whatever burger joint and pot shop
he wants to go through the entire weekend, and he
should be promoted to manager at Chuck E.
Speaker 5 (37:33):
Chears.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
She was charged with three felonies, theft of credit card,
criminal use of personal identification information, and fraudulent use of
a credit card over two times within a year span.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
He served his time. Do you see he was dressed
in he served his time. It's miserable. That's a miserable costume.
It smells all what else we got?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Breathe Well, I was just we talked about Hull Cogan
a little bit earlier, and so my dad turned sixty
earlier this week. I was actually in Vegas this weekend too,
seeing him, and so I got him a cameo, like
a Brett Hart cameo, like to say like happy birthdays.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
I did, so I was just Bret Brett Hart charge
on cameo. Can I guess? You can guess two bucks
less Brett Heart. You can get Brett Hart Happy Birthday
for less than two hundred bucks just a little bit less,
just a little bit less fifty bucks, No, a little
bit more, seventy five? No, sorry, what is it?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
It was like one sixty?
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Sweet.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
So if you had to rank, like your favorite wrestlers,
because you're the creator of pro wrestler porn star, like,
who's your like? To your top three? Really quick?
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Oh, ravishing Rick Rude number one. I loved ravishing Rick Rude.
I liked all the bad guys. Hogan was up there
back in the day. But I would say ravishing Rick Rude,
psycho Sid How people don't remember this psycho? Yeah? Yeah,
he actually he just passed away not long ago. I
would say, those and who got who would be my third? No,
(39:02):
greatest wrestler of all time, but not not my favorite?
I would say, God, who would be my third? If
I had to go to third, Roddy Piper's up there,
Cane's up there, Jake the Snake Roberts is up there,
macho man. But rest in peace, hul Cogan. What a
run he had
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