Aaron Torres and Jason Martin Talk Team USA's Narrow Escape, NFL/CFB Storylines & More!

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are going to get into a busy, a weirdly busy Saturday.
As the SEGRE just told you. The team USA Men's
team almost lost. The Team USA Women's team did lose,
but Jaymore and I were both out last week. I
was with family in a way, but but Jamart, there's
some things that I know you kind of just want

(01:00):
to get off your chest.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Off the top.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
I've worked with you now for I think we're going
on our fourth fall. I feel like I've gotten to
know you. I consider you a friend. I just want
to give you a moment to kind of, maybe in
your own words, kind of explain to the audience why
you were out last week.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
Well, I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Brother.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Yeah, I wasn't supposed to be out last week two
weeks ago when we did the show off the top
like always, j Ascal was doing and I said, man,
you know, the week has kind of had its way
with me. And usually I wouldn't say that usually, but
it really had. And the reason why is because early well,
I guess you would say the Saturday prior my dad

(01:41):
had he had had a couple of days where his
stomach just wasn't feeling right, and eventually he usually doesn't
do this, but something got into his head, in his
heart and told him, you need to go to the
hospital and get this checked out. So he went and
got it checked out, and they found he had a
condition and that to be permanently cured of it, he

(02:01):
needed to have surgery. And this is a pretty rare condition.
I think at zero point six percent of the population
would ever deal with this, but it can be pretty serious,
especially at his age is seventy eight. So he went
in and he had the surgery and it was, you know,
pretty dangerous considering his age and relative health and things
like that, but he came out of it great, and

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you know, we were pretty celebratory and that whole week. Yeah,
he had a little bit of discomfort, but when I
talked to him, things are really positive. And the day
of our show that Saturday, earlier in the day, I
had picked him up from the hospital and taken him
the one mile or so to the rehabilitation center where
he was going to be for about ten to fourteen
days to build up his strength. Helped him get into

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the room, you know. I got his stuff and sat
it down, and I noticed they were asking him about
a billion questions and I felt like I was kind
of in the way at that point, so I said,
all right, Dad, love you, hope, I hope everything goes well.
I'll be in touch and let me know if you
need something. And he thanked me for everything I had done,
and that was it, and I thought, okay, all right,

(03:07):
we're good to go. So when I came back and
I did this show two saturdays ago, Yeah, the week
had been rough. There have been some other things happened,
and my mom's not in great health either. Had to
have a pretty difficult conversation with her about that during
the course of the week. So it was a week
and then Sunday morning, I woke up after doing the show,
but again I was in a pretty celebratory mood. And
then Sunday morning, I wake up and they've called and

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they said, hey, you know, he was a little bit
nauseated last night. We weren't sure. We didn't think it
looked quite right, so we sent him back over the
hospital just to get it checked out. As the day progressed,
he ended up having another surgery similar to the first,
and he was going to be put in ICU, and
then he was going to be sent back to the
rehabilitation center. And then I kept getting calls, and the

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calls got worse, and they got worse, and they got worse,
and by Monday afternoon, his brain and kidneys had shut down.
His blood pressure had plummeted, his oxygen had plummeted. They
couldn't keep it up. He was on one hundred percent
life support, and about four or five pm on Monday
on that Monday, they said, hey, if you want to

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see him, now's the time. So I kind of knew
at that point what that meant, and so I had
to break that in person to my mom because I
had walked out of her room in the assistant living facilities.
She was in and taken that call and came back
in and she said, have we lost him? And I
said no, but I'm afraid we're close, and she broke
And I wasn't sure I was going to see him

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because ID driven him to the rehab facility and that Saturday,
you know, he was sitting next to me in the
passenger seat and we were just having a regular conversation
like like always. We were talking about Mom because that's
always his first care and you know, I did go
and see him and he was already you know, he
didn't really look like himself. He had all the machines
and everything keeping him alive. I was able to pray

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saw him twenty seven over him and I told him,
I said, you know, I touched him and he was cold.
He wasn't he wasn't gone, but he was cold. And
I just said, hey, it's okay to go. Lord's calling
you home, brother, I'll see you soon. Didn't say goodbye,
just said i'll see you soon. I thought I was
gonna have to make a tough decision for him based
on his wishes. But about ninety minutes after I left,

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they called me and said his heart had stopped, and
so my dad passed away that Monday night, and you know,
since then, it's just kind of been a whirlwind. Not
to be labor it, but just to say this, just
about every Saturday night we've done this show. Not to
mention the years and years I did either morning radio
or evening radio in Nashville, the time I worked for

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Klay Travis, all of everything I've done in my career.
Not only his dad supported it, but he's listened. He always,
you know, they you couldn't always get a good signal
for us where he lived at one point, but he
always listened to our show on Saturday nights via the app,
and sometimes he could send a message about something you
said or something I said and his opinion on that.
A few times when we went into touchy territory, he said,

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watch yourself, like, be careful how you say this. Like
he was always a father until the very end. But
the love of sports that he had is why I'm here.
It's why I do this. The love of Jesus is
why i'm now, you know, in seminary, looking to be
a pastor myself, because he raised me to love the Lord,
and he took me to sporting events, and he was

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just a wonderful man and one of our biggest fans
and just somebody. It was just it kind of came
as a shock when you celebrate at first surgery not
knowing the second one's coming, and then the second one
does a man. I just it was crazy. But he
passed away at seventy eight, and we had the funeral
on Wednesday, and I've been out of the state for

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a large part of this week, so just a wild time.
The one last thing I'll say is my older daughter
is three, Ivy Beth. My new one is will turn
four months tomorrow. I'm so grateful that God gave him
time to be with both of them, especially the older one,
just because they became really really close in the last

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six months, and just something that gave him something on
the It's just it's amazing that he was able to
see his two granddaughters, because it's his earlier granddaughter from
my half brother was killed in a car accident. I
think she was about twenty years old at the time,
so there have been a grieving process for many years
for that. So I'm grateful that he had the time,

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and I'm just grateful that I had a father that
I can say almost nothing negative about it all. I
don't have any story where it's you know, something I
had to overcome, and I know a lot of people do,
and I know a lot of people have lost wonderful
fathers too. Just to add mine to the list. He
was my best man in my wedding for a reason.
He's he's he is anything good that is in me.

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I learned from him through the way he lived his life,
and the Holy Spirit used him to guide me along
the pathway. So I love him and I look forward
to seeing him again, and I appreciate you give me
a couple.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Of minutes, absolutely, And I know just from talking to
you one, I know how.

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Much that he meant in your life, and I know
you know.

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To put it on what we do here every Saturday
that I don't know if he was a big fan
of what we did, but I know he was one
of our both of our biggest supporters. So I wanted
to give you a minute to just you know, honor him,
and of course, you know, you know, have a moment
to share with the audience. Tell you what Jason will
come back a lot to get into Team USA. Women

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So the Olympics just a few weeks away, Team USA
men's basketball holds on by the skin of their teeth
against the South Sudan. Will discuss that momentarily, but jaymart,
we gotta get into what happened in Phoenix this evening.
So the TEAMUS, so basically, the way they did it

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is this is that the WNBA All Star Weekend, it's
their midway point, and they decided to have a group
of WNBA All Stars play against Team USA, the team
that will represent US at the US Olympics. Here or
at the US Olympics. At the Olympics in just a
few weeks. All sounds great on paper. All we're gonna

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get Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, first time they've ever
been teammates. Well, you know what, id Mike Tyson say.
Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Team WNBA beats Team USA.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
One seventeen to one oh nine.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Arique A goon Bala with a w NBA All Star
record thirty four points, Angel Reese with a double double,
Caitlyn Clark one assist off an All Star Game record.
And I'll tell you what, Jason, those whispers about who
should and should not have been on.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
The Olympic team. I get the sets.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
They probably aren't quieting up tonight after what we saw
in Phoenix, j Mark.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
No, I would say not. Caitlin didn't shoot the ball well,
but you mentioned tennissists, so she found a way to
contribute in another way. And she has certainly been passing
pretty effectively the last week or so. Still got the
turnover issue, but she's and she's trying to make every
play under the sun. But she didn't hit a three.
She went full Bronnie James went over James.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
I know she was not Brownie Ja.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
She was.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'll say this, I actually was watching quite a bit
of this first half she really actually kind of controlled
the pace of the game. And then second half she
gets her her tenth or her tenth assist, which puts
her one off the record. Cheryl Miller brings her to
the bench and listen, I'm not starting a conspiracy theory here,
because there's enough negativity in the world. I think what
happened was that I don't want to trip over this

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girl's name. Arique umb um a goomba, a goomba walle,
a goombawle. I apologize, Arikee a goombawalle. She just started
cooking and so so. But now Caitlin Clark was playing
really well well to your point, she wasn't shooting well,
but she was really controlling Temple early a goomba walle
later in the game really sort of took over. But uh,

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but yeah, I didn't mean to cut you off. But
but this was not Bronnie James.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
I could promise you no, yeah, no, I was just
talking about for seven from three. But I mean, yeah,
it's certainly not going to quiet anybody down. As a
matter of fact, it's like, oh, yeah, you're gonna leave
them off the team. I mean, would we be more
interested in watching women play if Caitlyn Clark and Angel
Reeves run the Olympic team. I think the answers absolutely.
I mean that was the reason there was a there
was an argument to begin with. Did we think that

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Caitlyn Clark at that point in time was one of
the twelve best w NBA players in the world. No,
not necessarily, But when's the last time they lost a game?
I mean this, I mean we're gonna talk about the
men here in a minute, but when it comes to
the women, I feel like, even if you find a
way to get around the roster, it's not the end
of the world. But I also just don't know, like,

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what's what's the what's the overall talent discrepancy between the
twelve best and these girls some of these girls, some
of these young ladies that are just breaking through. And
it's such a weird sport in that the rookies are
the biggest stars and that's just not a thing that
you generally see. It doesn't mean that you don't know

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who they are, and you're not paying close attention. But
I don't think Caleb Williams is walking in to be
a bigger star than Patrick Mahomes. You know, we still
were going to know who Patrick Mahomes is more than
we are Caleb Williams. But it's kind of the opposite
in the WNBA. And again, this whole thing for them
should be about marketing and advertising and trying to take
advantage of this lightning moment that they have with a

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couple of players. And I do say a couple because
Angel Reies just continues to conduct herself in such a
way on the floor, especially where she can't be denied
in terms of what she is doing. She is maximizing
what she can do, especially on the glass, and what
she can do on the defensive end. So I just
look at all of it and just say, yeah, this

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is not the result that you would have wanted. Although
again I think that those that want to find something
to criticize are just going to say, well, look at
what Kaitlyn Clark did. She was two for nine to
zero for seven, So that doesn't make your case all
that strong. But I agree with you. I certainly think
that the voices are going to be louder or not saw.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well, and I think the issue becomes, you know, exactly
what you just said was that the argument was, well,
this is based on merit, because you said, you know,
what is the gap between the first twelve and say,
hypothetically the next twelve. And it's like, well, that's fine,
but when you make a big stink about well, you know,
I mean, we would have loved to take Caitlin. We

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would have loved to take this girl, you know, a goomba.
Walle is the second leading scorer. I know she's kind
of a high volume shooter, so maybe she's not the
perfect fit. But this was the argument, and I think, listen,
I don't know what the all the Big Show is
going to talk about come Monday, but I think this
is going to be a topic because you made a
big stink about this being about merit, about being about

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the twelve best players, the most deserving players. And if
you watch that game, there was one team that looked
more talented than the other one. And listen, I was
telling the guys VJ and Martin when we're kind of
switching up here, Listen, I am obviously a huge Diana
Tarazi fan because of her time at mi alma Mater Yukon,

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leading U kind of three national championships. But she's forty
two years old, you know, didn't play a ton. But
you just look at some of these girls off the bench.
And by the way, to be clear, I'm not claiming
that I am the foremost expert on all things women's basketball,
but if you watch the game, it was so clear
that there was no gap, in large part because of
some of the players that were on that team USA

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or a team WNBA team. And I guess that's where
I'm getting tripped up.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Jason.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Is you told us it was about taking it based
on merit, it was taking about the twelve players based
on merit. Well, if it was really about taking the
twelve best players, I don't think you did based on
what we saw in Phoenix on Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
Yeah. Look, I don't know the All Star scenario and
kind of the weirdness of it. I don't know if
there's anything to that, but this is the only metric
that you can look at where you have all this
stuff head to head and you can try to parse
anything from it. I think it's gonna look. I think
they're gonna be fine. Either way, generally, I still think
it was a missed opportunity and the fact that you

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create new questions and problems is exactly the opposite of
what you would have wanted.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Well, yeah, and that that's where I think the issue
comes in is is I get that it was a
showcase for the younger players, but you're supposed to win
this game. And I do think what was interesting was
they were talking about this during the game, is that
this isn't like the men's team that has you know,
that has five six exhibition games to ramp up for

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the Olympics, like Team USA. This is one. They have
one other exhibition then it's go time in Paris. So
it'll be interesting. But if you watch that game, man,
I'll tell you Team USA listen, they're probably.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
They're gonna win the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
But I don't think that it's going to quiet the
conversation about did they take the best team? And again,
if the argument is that we were taking players based
on it's hard to argue that they took the twelve
best players really quickly Jmart. Prior to the game last night,
we did have the skills competition at the at the

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All Star Game and All Star weekend, and I bring
it up because there's an interesting thing that kind of
kind of popped up, which is that Caitlin Clark actually
opted out of the WNBA All Star Game. She's in
the w of the three point competition. I apologize. When
asked about it on Friday, she said, quote, I think

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just rest. I've been playing basketball for a year straight.
It's not an easy thing to just show up and
to just shoot off a rack. It's not something I've
ever done before. It's not something I've had a lot
of time to practice. I've been focusing on helping my
team win games. Let me ask you a question, because
we just talked about the Olympics. There were a lot
of people, including you right now, me right now, and
a lot of people in the media that went too

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bad for her and said, hey, it's good for the
growth of women's bassketball if you put Caitlin Clark on
that Olympic team. So I bring it up because I
don't want to speak for you, but if if we're
gonna sit here and defend her and say put her
on the Olympic team because it's good for the growth
of the sport, I kind of got to criticize her

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because I think she missed a golden opportunity to help
her sport at the skills competition on Friday night. I
know she's tired. I know she's played NonStop. I know
she went straight from the IOWA season to the WNBA season.
I'm not saying she's not tired, but she isn't on
the Olympic team. She does have a month off while
Brianna Stewart and Asia Wilson and Diana Tarazi go to Paris.

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And I think if we're gonna, if we're gonna, you know,
criticize everybody else when they miss an opportunity to use
her to grow the game, I think she should be
under a little bit of fire right now for choosing
to skip out on the three point competition. I think
it would have brought a lot of exposure to last
night's events.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Oh, I agree one hundred percent, and I think that's fair.
I think that I think your point is exactly the
right one, which is, if we're going to critique the
league for blowing it here and there, then we also
have to find that for Caitlin when she does something
that just seems antithetical to the growth of the game.
It's kind of like, if we're gonna sit here and

(20:15):
blame Lebron James for never doing a dunk contest, and
we better do that for Kaitlin Clark in the three
point shootout, like Steph Curry did it, Klay Thompson did it,
Damian Lewd's done it. Like all these great three point
shooters have gone out there and they've done the three
point shootout. Now it's Kaitlin Clark going to do it
within her career. Yes, but this is a rookie year
where she's as hot as she'll ever be, coming off

(20:35):
of everything that happened at Iowa and just being in
the news as often as she's been as a rookie
this year in the WNBA, And again there is a
responsibility that comes with that. The league is going to
feature her because they're not going to have a choice
because that's a lot of what people want to see.
But if she actually, you know, embraces that on her side,

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then she can help the league that is helping her
at the same time. So I think it is absolutely
fair to criticize her in this case and just saying yeah,
I think that was one you should you should have
rethought like it's not the end of the world and
she'll have an opportunity. I'm sure to do it in
the future, but this it would have made a lot
of us pay attention where there was no reason to

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without a Reddit.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
I agree All Star Weekends, I guess officially over the
team USA Women's team loses to Team WNBA. Caitlyn Clark
among many players for THEWNBA All Star team who played
very well. Tell you what, Jason will come back when
we do. We got to talk about the team USA
men's team holds on by the skin of their teeth

(21:47):
against the South Sudan. We'll discuss that next. Cause for
concern for the men's team. Before we get to that, though,
let's toss it over the news desk to Seger what
is trending.

Speaker 8 (21:56):
Hello, gentlemen, And also Caitlyn Clark said, I need a break.
I need to take some time to myself to enjoy
what I want to do. At times it can be
tough in the position I'm in, but I think it's
going to be healthiest for myself.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
I looked at it up.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
We all understand burnout. You're playing in the game. You
couldn't have waited twenty four hours. You're getting the break.
I don't know. I just oh, no.

Speaker 8 (22:16):
I was referencing the fact that you're talking about this
WNBA team beat the US Olympic team. I think it's
better for her belief that she's not on the Olympic
team this summer playing a year straight. I did look
it up. By the way, I know women's basketball got
into the Summer Olympics nineteen seventy six, back when Ann
Myers and the rest were playing. Ann Myers was assistant

(22:37):
coaching with Cheryl Miller UCLA and USC on the bench
winning tonight. And of course the US didn't participate when
they boycotted the Soviet Union games in nineteen eighty. So
if you go women's basketball back to the nineteen eighty
four Olympics in LA, the win loss record for the
US women in Olympic play is sixty nine and one

(22:58):
since nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Yeah, aren't they like seventy four to one in their
last like eight years something something crazy like that.

Speaker 3 (23:04):
I know it's well. They did lose to.

Speaker 8 (23:06):
The WNBA All Stars three years ago in the tune
up game before going to Tokyo and the game MVP
was Arika a Gunbowalle. So just for the record, I don't.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Remember leading the show with that one. I could be mistaken.
Don't think we led with the WNB All Star Game.

Speaker 8 (23:20):
By the way, their one loss in Olympic play since
nineteen seventy six was they lost to the Soviet Unions
right about the time of the breakup of the Soviet
Union in the early nineties. At the Barcelona Games. They
lost in a semi final, so that would have been
right before Lisa Leslie was joining the team and winning
four straight gold medals. US women's team for twenty twenty four.

(23:41):
Tonight and Phoenix lost its sendoff game against a team
of WNBA stars, and yes, the game MVP was a
Goonbowale who scored thirty four points, all in the second
half from three point range. She was eight of thirteen
for Team USA. Brianna Stewart thirty one points. Final score
was one seventeen to one nine. The US women have

(24:02):
an exhibition on FS one Tuesday against Germany. The WNBA
is off now for about a month. NBA News Tonight
ESPN says Evan Mobley at the Cavs gets a contract
a five year max rookie extension worth at least two
hundred twenty four million dollars. US men's basketball was nearly
upset by South Sudan today, but a late layoup by

(24:24):
Lebron James got him the victory, one to one to
one hundred. James scored twenty five points. The US had
trailed by sixteen late in the first half. American Billy
Horschell leads the Open Championship by one stroke in Scotland
at Royal Troon lots of rain there today, there is
a six way tie for second place, including Xander Schaffley
and Justin Rose. Scottie Scheffler is only two shots back.

(24:47):
Shane Lowry was leading, but shot a third round seventy
seven and fell to ninth place, three shots behind. Justin
Thomas is four back. As for the NFL News, s
linebacker Shaq Barrett has retired after nine season. He was
cut by Tampa Bay This offseason, the Saints signed wide
receiver Rashid Shaheed to a one year extension. In Major
League Baseball, We've got one late game. It's going to

(25:09):
the top of the seventh inning and at Seattle the
Mariners are leading Houston two to one. The Mariners, after
losing last night at home to Houston, are tied with
the Astros for first in the AL West. Fact Seattle's
lost four games in a row. Atlanta split a doubleheader
against Saint Louis. The Dodgers won a thriller in eleven
innings on Fox TV, seven to six over Boston. Will

(25:31):
Smith the game winning single. Milwaukee in twelve innings won
at Minnesota eight to four. Baltimore with another victory eight
to four at Texas. The Orioles are first in the
AL East, two games over the Yankees. Now as New
York lost at home today nine to one to Tampa
Bay Randy a Rose Arena of the Rays four hits,
including a couple of homers. Detroit won its fourth game

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in a row seven to three at Toronto, and Pittsburgh
won at six straight game four to one over Philadelphia.
O'Neil cruwe Who's with a home run and three RBIs
and a reminder into the Baseball Hall of Fame. On Sunday,
Adrian Beltra, Todd Helton, Joe Mauer, and manager Jim Leland
back to you.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Thank you very much, Steve Disager. This is Fox Sports Radio.
Fox Sports Saturday Era towards Jason Martin broadcasting live from
the tyreck dot Com studios. We just talked about the
US women's team losing to a group of WNBA all stars.
The US men's team, how about this, jmart almost lost
to According to an article I read today, the newest

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country in the world, South Sudan recently gained its independence
from Sudan. They this is the first year they've ever
qualified for the Olympics. Now, I will say, you know,
they've got some guys with Sudanese heritage that play in
the NBA.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
Including JT.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Thor, who, by the way, hit the go ahead three
with under ten seconds to go. Lebron James does have
a bucket as in the final seconds. US does beat
South Sudan, as De Seger just told you, by one point.
But we're talking about a South Sudanese team who again

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they're best players, carlak Jones who is playing overseas, Weddy
and Gabriel, JT. Thor by the way, Kaman Malawak who's
gonna be a freshman at Duke next year. So we're
not talking about a who's who of international superstars. But
US survives. But they've been kind of hot and cold
in this tune up run. Are yet at all concerned

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about the Team USA Men's team.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
I don't know. I mean, they won and this was
a tune up, and I don't know if they were
up for it, and I just don't know. Can they
get beat?

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (27:47):
I think they can. I shuddered to try and go
too far and say it was some kind of effort thing,
or they couldn't get themselves up for this because they
didn't expect to challenge and they are a team that
is good enough that they can turn on the after
burners late and still get back in and win. Like, Look,
the Celtics just won the NBA Championship, but there were

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a lot of games where they could have lost, but
they just had an extra gear, made a couple of
plays late in the game and won. Maybe this Team
EOSA team is similar to that. They have so much
talent that it can be a little lethargic at times.
I don't know that I'm concerned about it. If they
were to get beat, I'm not gonna call it the
biggest shock in the world, if that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Yeah, it was interesting because I saw some of the
if South Sudan had won, it would have been one
of the biggest upsets in sports history. I don't know
that I could take it that far enough. They have
four or five guys that at least have had a
cup of coffee with the NBA. But it is interesting.
You know, you can't overanalyze all of it. But at
the same time, I will say it does feel like

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Steve Kerr, and some of it's not totally his fault.
Kevin Durant just came back from injury last game. He
was not playing. You have Kawhi for about a week
of training camp and then he leaves, and then you
have Derek White.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
But it's kind of a ramp up period.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
But it does feel like Steve Kerr hasn't totally figured
out how to kind of best mobilize everybody. It's been interesting.
I noticed this the first game and it's been a
little bit of a conversation since.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Is that one.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
You know, I don't want to put it on any
one player because he actually played pretty well today, But
it does feel like, for whatever reason, Anthony Davis is
just better built for international basketball than joelmb Joel Mbi.
It has been getting starts, but it was actually Anthony
Davis who played more on Saturday twenty twenty one minutes.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Excuse me, fifteen points, eleven rebounds.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
It's just interesting, though, and this is what happens when
you get a group of guys that haven't played together.
We know this is a US Olympic basketball story as
old as time, but it just feels like there's kind
of this weird dichotomy where Lebron and Steph are the leaders.
But but you know, honestly, Steph's been okay, but except
for that one game a few days ago, he hasn't

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been great. Anthony Edwards and Jason Tatum have probably been better.
So you have kind of the young verses old. You
have Joel Embiid starting but Anthony Davis coming off the bench.
But Anthony Davis been playing better. I don't know if
it's just an ego juggling thing or what, but I
you know, and this isn't like a.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Steve Carr's failing America like this.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I'm not like, I'm not going hard in the paint
on Steve Carr, but it just doesn't feel like he's
totally figured out what he has on that roster, how
to totally use it.

Speaker 4 (30:30):
Yeah, I mean, he does have some disparate pieces, but
the easy thing to do is look at it and be, well,
you know, Jayon Brown should be on this team. Remember
the whole controversy of bringing Derek White on and Jalen
Brown might be the best Celtic, but he's the one
that's not on the team. And what does that say. Well,
I will say this, They're gonna have to play defense
in this thing. I do think Jaylen Brown is an

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outstanding player, but Derek White does give them that defense
like that is one of the things that he does.
He's kind of a nasty player, so some even call
him a dirty player in the NBA because the way
he approaches the defensive side of the ball. So they
are going to need some nastiness like that, the way
the rules are, the way it's officiated, and just the
physicality that is there. But there are you know, sometimes

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you put a collection of superstars together and they don't
necessarily mesh well, and that's why you get these tune
ups so that they can kind of learn each other. Plus,
let's not forget Kevin Durant's not playing. Kawhi already had
to drop out, and so it hasn't been exactly what
you would expect. I'm not like, you know, I don't
think we're a code red territory or anything like that.
I do look at it and say, you know, this

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one could be a bit of a challenge. You also
have a team that's made up of largely older guys,
Like yeah, there are some young dudes, but not a lot.
Most of them have a lot of NBA miles, They've
dealt with a lot of injuries. They many of them
already have rings. So you have to wonder, you know,
how important is a gold medal compared to some of
these things, and how much of their body's been beaten up,

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and how much time do they need. So there's a
lot of factors I think they could go into this.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, it's just been weird. There really hasn't been a
ton of consistency. Like I said, Anthony Edwards was the
leading scorer coming into today. He has just eleven, which
is fifth on the team. And Anthony Davis probably has
been the best big uh and it has been interesting
to watch him. Mean, I was even filling in for
I want to say, Doug Gottlie maybe earlier this week,

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and we had Rick Buker on and we talked about
you know, if you watch the games, you can kind
of tell, like Jason Tatum Anthony Edwards have a little
bit more oof to him at this point in their
careers than Lebron and Steph do. But I'll tell you what,
Lebron at the moment that they needed him does get
the bucket.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Team USA holds on.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
To win by one point one oh one one hundred,
but it is worth noting and playing the South Sudan
in the Olympics. Playing South Sudan today, but they will
also face them in the Olympics when they get to
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Speaker 3 (32:58):
When we come back.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
It was a monumental week, a week where something happened
that we've been waiting for for a decade and jmart
has first hand knowledge.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Of what you need to know about this huge event
that's next.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Fox Sports Trader, you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 3 (33:20):
Welcome back, everybody.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Fox Sports Radio Air Tords Jason Martin broadcasting live from
the Tirech dot Com studios. By the way, per our
boardop Mary Mack parents from the South Sudan. So South
Sudan became a country in two thouy eleven and took
Team USA men's basketball right down to the wire. They
will be competing in their first ever Olympics in Paris

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in just a few weeks. Well, it's happened. The moment,
speaking of America, the moment America has been waiting for.
It took ten long years earlier this week though, EA
Sports eleven years whatever, EAH decade plus.

Speaker 4 (34:03):
It matters, does it? I think ZO was it extra
year we had to wait?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Fair enough?

Speaker 2 (34:09):
EA Sports College Football twenty five not only hit shelves,
but hit mailboxes, hit drop offs, whatever, now be fully transparent.
I have not played the game. I don't plan on
playing the game, not because I don't want to, not
because I'm not a gamer, but because I know that

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I'll get so hooked that it will probably put my
marriage in jeopardy. So I'm staying away. I'm quitting Cold
Turkey before I even have to quit. But j mart
for people like myself who want to play the game
but either have it yet or can't. What have you
learned so far about this newest version of EA Sports
College Football?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Just that it's it's just fun. Like it's not perfect
by any means, but it's fun. Like I cranked it up,
actually paid you know, six bucks second extra for an
EA play subscription for a month so I could get
early access, even though I had the game pre ordered
for the Friday, and I was able to play it
before I felt like I needed, you know, everything had happened.

(35:11):
So I played it before I left the state to
attend and kind of help organize my dad's funeral. And
so I played one game and my album Monitor Western Kentucky,
and I won forty two to six. But more than anything,
I just had fun, and it reminded me again of
what those games can be. Madden has been kind of

(35:33):
a dumpster fire for a while now. EA has been
sort of the villain of gaming for a long time,
at least one of them, and a lot of it
is due to monetization and the way that they try to,
you know, use micro transactions and create addictive tendencies, not
the kind that you would be sucked into, but like real,
straight up basically gambling tendencies. But this game is made

(35:57):
by a different crew, and again it's been eleven years,
and this is when you just couldn't screw up. You
had to find a way to do something and make
this work. There are gonna be some holes in it.
There's some gameplay things that probably need to be actually
definitely need to be tweaked. There's a glitch here and
there and stuff like that. Haven't gotten deep into the
dynasty mode. I'll probably have more to say in a
week or two, but like it just the most fun,

(36:20):
maybe the most fun that I've ever had. There have
been a couple of times in my life we're gaming.
Really I had a friend group that was really big
into it. Well. I had a couple of roommates when
I was living in South Carolina, and we played online
Dynasty together or offline Dynasties together, and we got together
and we would sit down and when it was time
to recruit after the year, we would sit down that

(36:40):
night and do it together. We couldn't play games without
someone being in the room because there were cheating accusations
that were having things like this, Like it was serious,
it was fun. There were sanctions if you got doing
something you shouldn't have been doing, all sorts of things,
and it was just it was cool and it is
now too it's exactly the same feeling, and I actually

(37:00):
purchased a dad station. Basically that's what it's called, which
is it's called a PlayStation portal. It allows you to
basically stream on a kind of a handheld device, but
it's a pretty big screen anywhere you know that's on
your Wi Fi or strong enough WiFi. It could attach
it to your own PS five. So basically it just
it's like a cloud and it brings it to you.

(37:22):
So I'm able to play it. Even though my daughter
controls the TV most of the time. At age three,
I just don't get that much time, so I'm able
to play it in bed here and there and stuff
like that. Now I've been pretty busy this week, so
i haven't had that much time. But it was worth
the weight eleven years. I saw Chris Fanini the athletics
say it was worth the weight. I agree, it really was.

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It does seem to be a love letter to college
football as much so as the first edition in eleven years,
and a new crew of people that are only going
to learn from this can be now. I fear what
it'll be in three or four years when the tentacles
are fully in and then it becomes monetized STUF to
fall apart. But the good news is this one's good,
and so this is one I can keep and I

(38:04):
don't even have to worry necessarily about getting it in
the future. Yeah, you probably shouldn't get it based on
you're telling me you have an addictive tendency just the
dynasty and being able to simulate where you don't even
play the games, but you could just simulate your dynasty
and make all the decisions. Yeah, that's where you can
get lost in it.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
That's what I know a lot of people that don't
even play the actual games. They just recruit and.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
Kind of build the program and all that.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
So what are the biggest differences between this and some
of the last one From the last one.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
Well, I mean it's been eleven years, so I mean,
obviously there's a giant graph go up, upgrade, and now
you have multiple commentary teams where you've got you know,
Jesse Palmer and David Pollock and then you get Herbstreet
and Fowler for only the biggest games and things like that.
But you have a lot of the pregame stuff, all
the stadiums being rendered. I mean Western Kentucky we had

(38:53):
the full on deal with the skyline exactly as it
should have been. It looked like it was on campus
the way that it should have. They just have a
lot of They've put a lot of time into the
bells and whistles. Again, it's not perfect, but it is.
It's much better than any EA football game has been
in seven or eight years. I mean, by maybe even

(39:14):
longer than that. It's it's definitely one that people that
were like skeptical that they get this right. I think
they got this right, and I'm super excited about that.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Fantastic well EA Sports is out. Yeah, I don't know
what else to say. I mean, the one thing that
was cool I was talking to a buddy. I guess
you can kind of recreate conferences and all that he
was playing, and I put out a screenshot of a
text message exchange that we had where he's like, oh, yeah,
I'm playing with such and such school and he's like, yeah,

(39:47):
I put him back in the Pac twelve where they belong,
and I was like, yeah, that's how it should be.
So it seems like there's a lot of cool features
in that game.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
H Yeah, I definitely agree with that. I mean, consider
that if you don't like where college football is headed,
then you can fix it, so at least in your
own world, you can make it better. I don't know
that we have a problem with where college football is
headed in some ways, and then in other ways we might.
I know we're gonna be getting into that in the
next hour.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Oh we're gonna be getting into it plenty, because in
just a few minutes Chris Plank will join us to
talk SEC media Days. We also have to talk a
little NFL ESPN. They did their survey of gms and coaches.
Who are the top ten quarterbacks? Who got left out?
And frankly, who the heck was misranked? We'll discuss all

(40:34):
that next Era Tours Jason Martin. We are on until
two a m. Eastern Time, and there is so much
more to get into. This is Fox Sports Arenio.

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Speaker 3 (40:48):
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minutes from now.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
Our buddy Chris Plank.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
You can hear him on Sunday nights eleven pm Eastern
this time slot on Sundays along with Arnie Spanier. He
will join us as SEC Media Days. Just wrap Jason,
Oklahoma's now in the SEC. I know we gotta get
to some NFL, but football is a coming, my man.
Football is definitely coming.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Oh yeah, thankfully, Like I mean, we are. You know,
this summer has given us some interesting topics and some
things that have come along that maybe we're not used
to having. And of course we've lost things too, like
the hot dog eating content because the lack of Joey Chestnut,
even though that became a story in itself and maybe
gave us the same degree of content that it would

(41:56):
have if Joey Chestnut had competed and dominated like we
all know. But look, man, if you've listened to this
show or listening to the two of us through the years,
you know football is where the bread is buttered in
this time slot. So bring it on, baby.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Bring it on.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
SEC Media Days to me is the unofficial start of
college football.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
Chris Plank will join us in just a few minutes.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
He was in Dallas all week covering his Oklahoma Sooners
and the other now fifteen teams in the SEC.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
That said, Jason, let's go to the NFL.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Obviously, training camps are opening, and you know, this is
kind of that time of the summer.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
We get all the anonymous GM.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Surveys, all of this, all of that, and earlier this
week we did get the twenty twenty four ESPN quarterback rankings,
and this is obviously via ESPN all their insiders survey
league executives, coaches and scouts to rank the top ten players.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
They actually did it for each position.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
But you know, if you want to break down their
list of guards and outside linebackers, you know, maybe we
do that in our free time. But we'll focus on
the quarterbacks today. And I'm curious for your perspective on
the list that they came up with. Again, this is
an anonymous survey of scouts, front office people, et cetera.
As far as who is the best quarterbacks in the NFL.

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Number one probably not a surprise, Patrick Mahomes number two.
Maybe it is Joe Burrow number three, Josh Allen, number four,
Lamar Jackson number five, Matthew Stafford number six, Justin Herbert
number seven, c J. Stroud number eight, Aaron Rodgers number nine,
Jared Goff number ten, Dak Prescott. Those just missing the
list Brock Perdy, Jordan Love, Jalen Hurts to a tongue

(43:43):
of Iola, Kirk Cousins and Trevor Lawrence Jason. When I
tell you that list, When I give you that list,
what is the first thing that stands out about ESPN's
quarterback rankings?

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Hmmm, I think, I mean, I think the first two
are fine. I think the I mean the first like
I was just kind of looking through it. I'm like,
I can understand why you would go in certain directions.
Maybe the first one that stands out to me maybe
around six, Justin Herbert being six. Then you get Stroud, Rogers,

(44:13):
GoF Prescott obviously, Dak. We can have that discussion. Aaron
Rodgers at his age, coming off the injury, He's still
the eighth best quarterback in the league. I'm not positive
about that, but I'm still like, I feel like, for
Justin Herbert, this gotta be a proven year. And also
because Stafford's won a championship and the Rams had a

(44:33):
pretty good year and they're gonna have another good year.
I think he's accomplished more than Josh Allen and Lamar
Jackson both and still playing pretty solid football. But it's
beneath both of those guys. So it's not really it's
what are you basing this on? Are you basing this
on what's been accomplished or just pure talent, Because in
terms of pure talent at this stage, at his age,

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I could see why you would go with Allen and
Jackson there, But at the same time, I could also
see a couple of guys having a problem with where
they are. And I still see CJ. Stroud and say
Sky's the limit. He'll be in the top four next year.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
I know you love CJ. Stroud. Let's get to a
few things.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
First of all, you said you know, no problem with
the top two. I would generally agree, But I think
this goes back to last time we did a show together.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Two weeks ago.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
We did do a segment on if you're starting a franchise,
who do you take behind Patrick Mahomes? Because it doesn't
feel like there's an obvious number two. So I just
bring it up because it does kind of speak to me.
Maybe it's because Mahomes has won at such a high level,
but it's just like got Lee, Like you get past
number one, you could kind of punch holes in everybody's arguments.

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From Joe Burrow obviously, two of his four seasons have
ended in injury and even in the offseason. Kind of
had his problem a few years ago. Josh Allen obviously
really no real marquee wins on his resume. Lamar Jackson
two MVPs but come up short in the playoffs. I
think that's what kind of stands out to be. First,

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let me let me make this argument. I do think
Lamar Jackson is a little bit low and I get
the argument of you know, never been to Super Bowl
all that, but one, he has won two MVPs in
two years in this league. He has been deemed the
best player in the league. I go back to what

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I've said all along about that AFC Championship game last season.
I don't blame him so much as Todd Munkin, who
for some reason just completely abandoned the run. And what's
crazy about that AFC Championship game, they were still very
much in the game, basically all game long, despite everything
that happened. Fumble on the goal line, bad play calling, whatever.

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So I don't think because he hasn't been able to
get past Mahomes, we should punish him since really no
one outside of Joe Burrow has been able to get
past Mahomes. So I will say I love watching Josh
Allen play, I really do. But it's the same thing
with Josh Allen that it is with the Bills, and
maybe they're synonymous. I feel like they both the team

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and the individual, get way too much credit for not
enough production in the games that matter on the field.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Am I crazy saying that, Jace, No, And I think you're.

Speaker 4 (47:17):
Right by the way. I do think that Lamar Jackson
deserves to be higher. It's just kind of hard because
you know what Josh Allen has looked like, what he's
been capable of and all this, but what he's done
in the postseason. I think that winning two MVPs should
put you above Josh Allen at this stage. If Allan
had played in the Super Bowl, we might have a
different discussion. That's why Joe Burrow can be number two

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and you're okay with it. But even if Lamar was too,
I don't think you could really greatly argue with that.
At this point, I'm gonna mention one other thing here.
I think you could take a couple of names off
this list, sure, and put Jalen Hurts on it.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
I think there's a few.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
I mean, I think there's a few others too, but
Hurts is the first one. I'm just like, do I
really think if you gave me one of the two
and said go win a game, that I wouldn't take
Jalen Hurts over Dak. I mean, this is a guy
that played in the Super Bowl and out played Patrick
Mahomes just a year ago. Like they had a step

(48:17):
back and he didn't play as well. But they also
lost their offensive coordinator, which I told you was going
to be a problem for them, and they so they
did take a step back. But Jalen Hurts has basically
spent his entire career proving people wrong. And I look
at that guy and his leadership qualities and how much
it seems like everybody likes playing around him and all this,

(48:37):
and it's just nothing against Dak. But what exactly has
Dak done?

Speaker 2 (48:41):
So let's go to Dak for a second, because to me,
I just I don't really understand his I'll just be honest,
I just don't really understand his inclusion on the list.
Let me just give you names, and I want you
to tell me who you would take, Dak or the
person so obviously Jalen Hurts, you would take Jalen Hurts.
I think that kind of goes without saying Rock Party.

(49:03):
Let me ask you straight up, Rock Purty or Dak Prescott,
because I take I'll just say this, you could think
about it. I would take Rock Party. I know they
both have have had in their careers elite talent around them.
But at the same time, Rock Party has been pretty
good in these big games. Dak largely hasn't been. And

(49:25):
I just think, like you know, you could criticize, criticize, criticize,
but kind of similar story. Both surrounded by a lot
of talent, and Party's been able to win more games
that matter than Dak has.

Speaker 4 (49:37):
Yeah, I mean I think that's right. I mean he's
had I mean, they both had a good bit of
talent around him. I do think that having Kyle Shanahan
and some of those things, it's a nice safety blanket
to have a lot of what they have had in
San Francisco. I mean in terms of pure talent, you
want Dak Prescott. Yeah, in terms of clutch in moments
where it really matters, or somebody that you trust in

(49:59):
big situations. Perty I think has succeeded more than Dak,
But I think that one's pretty close. I still think.
I think that Dak sometimes takes an unfair rap and
I think a lot of that is because he plays
in Dallas.

Speaker 2 (50:13):
What about Dak or Jordan Love based off of I
know it's a small sample size, but Jordan Love did
look pretty dark good towards the end of last year,
and I know we don't want to be I know
we don't want to base this list off of one game,
but they did play head to head of the playoffs
last year, and we didn't know how that goes.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
You're right. He also had a bad interception at the
end of that game, which is something Dak has done
at times where he's tried to make something happen in
a playoff games. It's very early. I think Jordan Love's
stealing is higher. So I'll take Jordan.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Love, all right. Let me ask you this.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Maybe this is controversial because I know that he is
coming off a very disappointed season where he did regress.
Are you taking Dak over to Like, if you're starting
a team today, are you taking Dak or Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
I'm probably taking Trevor Lawrence. I know he wasn't good
last year.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
I don't know about that. I'm still that one. I
don't have an answer to that. I'm gonna leave that
incomplete on the sheet.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Well incomplete. The point I'm trying to make, I guess
is that I don't know.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
I just I don't buying Dak, and I just I
find him weirdly high on I don't really frankly understand
why he is on this list at all.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
Stafford.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
I will say this Stafford's an interesting one because it
feels high. Stafford, by the way, at number five, behind
only Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson. Stafford
feels high. But I don't really know who. Like, Like,
if you just said Torres, is Matt Stafford a top
five quarterback in the NFL? I don't think I would

(51:55):
say yes off the top of my head. But I
don't know who you can put ahead of him. Justin
Herbert obviously has zero postseason success.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
CJ.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
Stroud.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
I know the talent's there, But I mean, you know,
I don't want to say this as a negative, but
you know they were a botched fourth down play against Indianapolis.
He doesn't even make the playoffs last year, and again
still doesn't take away from what he did as a
rookie and how good he was, but whatever, And so
I don't know, it's just Stafford's just an interesting one.

(52:24):
Is he kind of doesn't fit into kind of a
clean box of one of these younger guys on the rise.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
But he does have that Super Bowl, he does have
a playoff appearance last year. He obviously has a very
good team this year in Los Angeles. I just find
him interesting because I don't think he fits in a
comfortable box. I wouldn't have him in my head as
a top five quarterback, but I don't know who you
could put ahead of him.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
I think it's just again, he's got like top five
all Tom marm talent in terms of the way he
throws the ball and when things are right with the Rams,
he had another good year last year and you know
they got that was a team that kind of most
people slept on and they showed up. And now they've
added another weapon or two. If he comes back and
does that again, I could still see him being there

(53:07):
because the Rams are going to be formidable in the
NFC as a whole, like they're gonna be They're gonna
be a problem for a lot of teams this year.
But you're right, he doesn't neatly fit in any of
these boxes. Like he definitely isn't a young guy. He's
not like completely out the pasture either. But you look

(53:27):
at the guys beneath him on this list, guys like
Herbert Stroud might even throw Deck in that list, or sorry,
Jared Goff in that list. He's a little older, but
not quite and you could you could make arguments for
all of them potentially above Stafford. I think Stafford's just
more accomplished than everybody outside Aaron Rodgers that's beneath him,
and I think that might be why you put him there.

(53:48):
He's won a super Bowl, He's led a team to
a Super Bowl on a clutch drive with Cooper cup
who still plays there. And then you've got justin Herbert
who's disappointed in the playoffs. C J. Stroud who's just
going into his second year, Goff, who you know he
had played in the Super Bowl. Didn't go very well
for him there because of the Patriots defense, but the
Lions are pretty much loaded, so I think sometimes he

(54:09):
gets a demerit because of that, even though he doesn't
deserve it. So I think that's really what it is.
It's like, who are you putting above him based on
both accomplishment and maybe lack thereof for some of these
other guys.

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Coming up, we switch gears to the college game. Chris
Plank was at SEC Media Days all week long. He
will join us next and there is a lot to
get This is Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back everybody, Fox

(55:04):
Sports Radio Air Torris Jason Martin broadcasting live from the
tyreck dot Com studios. We're going to talk college football momentarily.
Before we do that, let's toss it over the news
desk to Sega.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
What is trending well?

Speaker 8 (55:17):
Major League Baseball schedule for a Saturday night just about done.
The Houston Astros are one out away from being alone
in first in the Als. They're winning at Seattle again.
It's four to two Houston with two outs in the
bottom of the ninth. For the Mariners, this would be
their fifth straight loss. This would put them a game
behind the Stros. Colorado beat San Francisco for to three,

(55:38):
the loss to Logan Web. Atlanta split a doubleheader hosting
Saint Louis. They'd had a rain out last night. We're
able to get two games in today despite the forecast
not being great. Atlanta took the opener in ten innings,
three to two, as Eddie Rizzario, batting one eighty two,
hit the tying two run over in the seventh. Ozzy
Albi's the game winning sacfly. In the nightcap, Saint Louis

(55:59):
was a winner nine to five, although the Braves Marcelo
Zuna hit two solo homers. He has twenty eight home
run seventy nine RBIs Arizona was a three to nothing
winner at the Cubs. The lost to Kyle Hendricks who's
two to eight, but he did lower his ERA to
six point six ' nine with his five innings of work.
He allowed two homers and the Cubs got shut out

(56:20):
at Wrigley. That was one of the games on Fox TV.
Much of the country saw the game a thriller at
Dodger Stadium, where La with a couple of comebacks, kept
the game going and eventually an eleven innings beat Boston
seven to six. Will Smith the game winning single. Milwaukee
in twelve innings won at Minnesota eight to four. Those
two teams were each off last night. Baltimore won again

(56:42):
eight four at Texas, winning pitcher Grayson Rodriguez twelve and four.
The Orioles so the first place team in the Al East,
two games over the Yankees. Yankees lost at home today
nine one to Tampa Bay. Detroit won its fourth game
in a row. Pittsburgh won at sixth straight into the
Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Adrian Beltray, Todd Helton,
Joe Mauer, and manager Jim Leland. Linebacker Shaq Barrett retired

(57:06):
from the NFL after nine seasons American Billy Horschall leads
the Open Championship by one stroke in Scotland. Very rainy
there today at Royal Troon, due to be better weather tomorrow.
There's a six way tie for second place at this major,
including Xander Schaffley of the US. Shane Lowry was the
leader to start today, but he shot a third round

(57:26):
seventy seven, falling to ninth place, three shots behind. Phil
Mickelson is tied for fifty first with Jordan Speith at
others six over par. Brooks Koepka shot seventy eight today.
He's eight over. Ricky Fowler, who barely made the cut,
is nine over. Part Bryson de Shambo missed the cut yesterday.
He was nine over through two yarns and Rory McElroy
missed the cut at eleven over. Tiger Woods missed the

(57:49):
cut at fourteen over par. The WNBA is off for
about a month. After tonight's All Star Game, the Stars
beat the US Olympic Women's team seventeen to one oh
nine game MVP Eureka Gunbawale thirty four points all in
the second half. The NBA item tonight. The Cavs have
given Evan Mobley, a five year Max rookie extension, and

(58:11):
more on this one in the next half hour. But
US men's basketball was almost upset by South Sudan today
in London an exhibition. A late layup by Lebron James
beat the opponent one oh one to one hundred. James
had twenty five points in this game. Programming note, Monday
afternoon on Fox TV, it'll be the US men against Germany,

(58:32):
last of the Olympic tune ups, and then on Tuesday,
the US women have an exhibition on FS one against Germany.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
Back to you, thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Steve the Saga Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday into
Sunday air tours Day smrtin broadcasting live from the tire
rack dot Com studios, joining us now. You can hear
him every Sunday evening eleven pm Eastern time, eight Pacific.

(59:00):
Also the Oklahoma Sideline Reporter in football, the voice of
the four time defending champion Oklahoma softball team, and he
just spent a week rubbing elbows at SEC media days.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Chris Blake, what's up, man, How you doing? What's up? Guys?
Thanks for having me on man, Hope, It's been a
fun show. So far.

Speaker 9 (59:21):
Yeah, fun week, different week, unique week, but let's be honest,
a boring week and not really much that we learned
about anybody in this past week.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
It was.

Speaker 9 (59:30):
It was such a boring week that nobody noticed until
four days that happened an old fine bomb and Lane
Kitten had a dust up. So that was the That
was the fun of of of SEC media days of
Mississippi State guy talk trash. Let's see, we had Harold
Perkins say he didn't know who Danny Stutsman was, and
that was it.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
That was the excitement. Everybody was on their best behavior. Unfortunately,
Kirby Smart also finding players. Let's not forget that, hey
allegedly allegedly he Yeah, no, helda hold on Kirby finding
the collective is fining.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
I know he danced around that one really well. Yeah,
I'm sure he has nothing to do with it, and
he probably just got the memo this week.

Speaker 3 (01:00:09):
Hey real quick.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Let let's start with your Oklahoma sooners. Not from the
micro view of the season, but the three of us
have been asking, well the two of us, Jason and
I have been asking you about the transition, the move
to the SEC for three off seasons now dating back
to this event three years ago, we're here and in

(01:00:30):
your community, Like, one, how much excitement is there at Oklahoma?
But two was how much fun was it just for
you to be there this week knowing that three years like, yeah,
maybe nothing too exciting happened, but at the same time,
three years of talk is here and you, my friend,
are gonna you know again, You'll be going to LSU

(01:00:50):
and you'll be going here and you'll be going there,
and it is here for Texas and Oklahoma.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Yeah, it was pretty exciting on that front.

Speaker 9 (01:00:56):
You know, it's media days for the those that aren't
necessarily overly familiar, nor should you be, but they're usually
an opportunity where you have a handful of radio stations
that do their shows live, podcasts, dreams, whatever, and then
they'll have all the writers and the beat writers and
the coaches will do their press conference, and then they'll

(01:01:17):
do another press conference, and there's like eight different rooms
for Fox and ESPN to do their thing and XIMS.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
It's really cool.

Speaker 9 (01:01:25):
I don't think I've ever been part of an event
and that's just a media day that had close to
fifty radio stations there that were doing live shows.

Speaker 3 (01:01:32):
It was it was incredible. Man, they say it means more.

Speaker 9 (01:01:38):
It's another level of excitement and in the Oklahoma community, obviously.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
It's been three years in the waiting, was supposed to
be four.

Speaker 9 (01:01:45):
This wasn't supposed to be officially OU in Texas and
the SEC until twenty five. But you know, you work
with whatever the calendar gives you, and it might be
a year sooner for OU football and might be a
little bit of had a schedule for them, but I
think they're pretty excited about it. The preseason media poll
had them eighth. I kind of thought that's where they

(01:02:07):
would be. Nobody respects the big twelve an SEC country,
and that's fine. But I'll tell you what, it's gonna
be fun. It's a whole new world, and it's a
whole new set of opponents, road venues, traditions. It was
It was a it wasn't necessarily an eye opener. It
was a it was a verification of what you're stepping
into and just the passion and energy that surrounds it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
Which guy do you think has more on his shoulders
entering the fall, Stee Sarkisian or Kailin de boor.

Speaker 9 (01:02:41):
Probably sark just because they're supposed to be good. Now
they're not supposed to be Texas is back, right, They're
supposed to be well, Texas is here, and so for
years and years and years, that's kind of been the push.
Add to it, I think Texas has I don't saying
easy schedule. They got a big show down with Georgia

(01:03:03):
and obviously the yearly battled Oklahoma and you have Texas
a and into that mix. We'll see what they'll be
in year one. I don't know how good they'll be
in year one, but it's a long way to say. Yeah,
there's gonna be a lot on Kaylen to Boor, but
I've been really impressed, Jason with what Kaylen a board did. Listen,
the dude is not necessarily mister electric up to to
day as right, He's he's he's got a little saving

(01:03:24):
in him on that front, but he has really opened
up that program. He talks to media members, he hasn't
shut it down. He's more open with fans. Kaylen de
Bor has done one of those things that hasn't been
done in Alabama in quite a while, and he's kind
of opened up the show a little bit. Sart's gotta
win right. I mean this is now all right. You
went to the fourteen playoff. That's now the expectation year

(01:03:47):
and in year out, so you can't afford to backslide.
And let's face it, I don't know, they're really good.
I mean Texas is really good. They got to go
to Michigan. It's a different Michigan team. We mentioned Georgia
and Oklahoma on their schedule, and I don't know why
people are just looking past it. Jason, you know this,
they lost a lot. Quinn Ewers came back, but they
lost their three best receivers, including their tight endit Davian Sanders.

(01:04:11):
They lost their three best defensive players, and it's almost
as if we've just kind.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Of swept that aside.

Speaker 9 (01:04:17):
So I feel like there's always gonna be a lot
on both, but just now that you feel like they're
supposed to have arrived, I feel like it's a lot
to be good right away.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
And oh, by the way, they were.

Speaker 9 (01:04:29):
Picked to finish second and then dust playing the SEC
championship game in the preseason poll, So to me, that
puts a lot on Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:36):
The other thing with Texas too, I mean they to
their credit. Listen, you know, you win games how you can,
but three point overtime win against Kansas State three point
overtime or not overtime regulation went over a bad TCU
team last year. It's not like they blew everybody out
of the water in the Big Twelve in that final season,
and of course it's easy to forget sure they lost
to the Sooners as well. Really quickly, bigger picture, you know,

(01:04:58):
I don't know how many calls you or whatever on
your show down there in Oklahoma, but just bigger picture,
do you think the casual or average college football fan
really has a full concept of how different this sport
is gonna be this year? Because you know, it sounds crazy,
but you know, a Texas and Oklahoma and Ole Miss whoever,

(01:05:22):
you could go nine and three and still get into
this playoff. And yeah, it's just I don't fully think
that most fans fully understand how different this thing is
gonna be. How you're gonna everyone's gonna overreact after losses,
but it's just gonna be so different this year with
this twelve team playoff.

Speaker 9 (01:05:40):
Yeah, and I don't know if anyone really has I
don't even know if we're prepared for how different it's
gonna feel when you talk about like an Oregon Ohio
State game and instead of a wildly exciting non conference game,
you're like, oh, that's a conference game. Right when Oklahoma
plays Alabama later this season, oh, it's a conference games.

(01:06:00):
So I think there is a lot of new that
maybe we're not really prepared for now. I mean, I
agree with you. I think I think that some of
the favorite fights we're gonna have is are are are
we just saying the top four seeds are gonna be
the four conference champions?

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
I mean, is that it?

Speaker 9 (01:06:16):
Or is there going to be a debate about whether
or not someone else belongs in that top four? And
then if it's just going to be the four conference champs,
which I believe it is, then that battle between eight
and nine is gonna be huge because if you're the
eighth seed, you get a home playoff game. If you're
nine through twelve, you're going on the road. And then, oh,
by the way, what's going to differentiate getting in at

(01:06:37):
eleven and twelve and being left out at thirteen and fourteen?
You could have, you know, a three loss SEC team
that is in over a one loss Big twelve or
AC seed team and everyone's gonna lose their mind, but
that's just going to be the way that it's viewed now.
So Yeah, I think it's a great point. Aaron and
I've talked about it a lot. I don't really know

(01:06:58):
if we're truly ready. Well, we're for it, but I
don't know if we truly understand just how wildly different
this is going to be in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (01:07:06):
It's all new.

Speaker 4 (01:07:08):
Bobby Patrino at Arkansas, Sam Pittman just say he said
this at Media Days, Chris, he said, I just want
to win. How did that work for Jimbo Fisher.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Like, I'm not not suggesting that Bobby Petrino doesn't understand offense,
far be it from me to say that, But is
this the move if you want to win? I know
you're bringing them back to Arkansas, but there's a lot
of controversy there, but more than anything in recent years,
I don't think that that's necessarily translated to wins.

Speaker 9 (01:07:35):
Yeah, Bobby Patrino seems to be living a lot on
what he did in Arkansas Round one, and then even
prior to that, his offensive, his offensive coordinator stops.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
It's just it's wild to me that you know, he
got fired at Louisville.

Speaker 9 (01:07:50):
I mean, he won at Louisville, took go at Atlanta,
and then the Hogs had one of the most embarrassing
firings you could possibly have in Arkansas, and then when
he went back to Louvillie he got fired again. He
just it didn't work. It worked at Missouri State, right,
but it didn't work at Texas A and M. Now,

(01:08:11):
I'm sure there are some Aggie fans that would push
back and say the injuries kind of Wegman getting hurt
last year early in the season really hurt in Texas
A and M. But it was it was wild Jason
because I think Sam Pittman, I don't know if he's
on the hottest seat, but it's definitely up there, right,
And he was a guy you couldn't help but root

(01:08:32):
for it. You know, he's an ole offensive line coach.
He you know, talks about after win he wants to
go have a cold beer. But it's just you don't
know if that's the right move. Is he a good
offensive line coach? Absolutely? Did he have a good run,
you bet, But they just let kJ Jefferson get away
and go to UCF and let Gus Maleson have him,

(01:08:52):
which is almost unfair, I think. And then you go
when you turn back to a guy whose exit was
as disgraceful as anyone. So to me, it's the ultimate
hail Mary that I don't even think has a chance
to work. But he exuded confidence. They had three players
they sent there, including the transferred quarterback in from Boise State.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
That surprised me. They said all the right things, but
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:09:16):
I don't know if that's the move I'm making, Jason,
if my job's on the line is to go get
Bobby Patrino.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
By the way, I was in Arkansas the night that
he was introduced. I called into your radio show that week, Plank.
But I was at Arkansas Duke when they announced Bobby Patrino,
and that fan base loves Bobby Patrino more than Sam Pittman.
That's the other thing, is like true, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:09:38):
You might be bringing in your own replacement.

Speaker 3 (01:09:39):
That's how I'd saying you start one in three.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
I think the way the schedule breaks like two and
three is very much in play, like we could be
seeing interim head coach Bobby Patrino. Last one for me
playing we just mentioned fourteen twelve team college football playoff.
You're gonna be able to get in potentially as a
nine to three team. Is there a team in the SEC,
as you said, Georgia picked first, Texas second, Alabama third.

(01:10:03):
Is there a team that's either off the radar or
right on the cuss that you expect to be better
than everybody else?

Speaker 9 (01:10:09):
Well, I mean, obviously, my natural instincts would tell me Oklahoma,
but I'll go ahead and I'll say that for my
local show.

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
How's that?

Speaker 9 (01:10:17):
But I think Oklahoma's going to be a lot better
than people are giving them credit for. And I think
the other team, I mean, Jason, you're near and dear
to it, but I think Tennessee might be a little
bit better than people are giving them credit for. And
now were were they like six or seventh in the
preseason poll, but they've got the five story Nico, IAmA,
yayava am I close.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
I just call them Nico.

Speaker 9 (01:10:38):
And I think that's a wild game to open SEC
play for Oklahoma Tennessee. And I think both of those
teams are gonna have good seasons. But you know, they Tennessee,
they they're kind of calling it somewhat of a rebuilding year,
and I think Oklahoma is that same category. But I
think Tennessee can be better than people are giving them
credit for. I'm not real big on LSU, and I

(01:11:00):
saw how high they were, I would probably have had
Tennessee a little bit higher. But everyone seems to be
high on LSU and Missouri. I'm Missouri has maybe the
best receiver in the country and Luther Burden, and I
like their quarterback a lot. But I'm telling you what
I think. I think Tennessee's got a chance to be really,
really good this year. And you're right, it might be
one of those seasons where they go into their final

(01:11:21):
week and they're eight and three or maybe like nine
to two, and they win a game and they're in
the playoffs, and you'll look at like, well, that's you know,
a nine and three season, or even to a certain
extent of tenant two isn't necessarily elite, but it's enough
to give you a shot. And I just I really
like what Josh Hipel has done. That's the maybe some

(01:11:43):
sooner Homerism coming out, but he's brought Joey Hosley in,
who's become an absolute rock star as an offensive coordinator.
So I think I think Tennessee's got a chance to
be a lot better than some are trying to give
them credit for.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Right now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
The year they were supposed to have last year might
end up being the year they're gonna have this year.

Speaker 4 (01:11:58):
Yeah, I mean they dealt with injuries last year and all.
So I mean, I think you realized how valuable Hendon
Hooker was.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
Yeah, Joe Milton, we thought he was supposed to be right.
They could throw the ball far though, see another highlight of.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
That he can definitely he could definitely throw the ball
far now accurate and at times he looked pretty accurate.
But yeah, I think their their success and or failure
Plank is going to come down to what Nico can
do and if he lives up to look even Saban
said some really nice stuff about him this week and
about his ability, So I think I think that's probably
going to have to tell the story there. It's gonna

(01:12:29):
be fun either way. I mean, the SEC is going
to be absolutely insane this year. LSU. They burned me
last year, Plank, I had him in the four, I
had them in the College Football Playoff and they burned me.
So they will not be getting my vote again this year.

Speaker 9 (01:12:44):
Well, and the crazy thing about LSU is I thought
last year was going to be the year. I'm with you,
and their defense just wasn't it. And what was interesting
is having known a couple of people that were around
that staff, coached on that staff, they'd always kind of
pointed to that year being the year where they felt

(01:13:06):
like they could make gigantic leaps defensively. So for me,
I'm like, well, if that was the year where you
were supposed to be better and that happened, you know,
I don't know what to expect now whenever you're trying
to take Carold Perkins and move him back inside at linebacker,
where I don't think he's as good as he is
as an edge rusher. You brought into a new defensive coordinator,

(01:13:27):
you know, nuss Meyer. You've got a guy that's been
there already for three years, which is unique, right to
have a guy three years at.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
A school and not transfer when he didn't get a
chance to start. So I'm with you. I'm not real
big on LSU this year.

Speaker 9 (01:13:40):
I just I know that's gonna come back and bite
me whenever we go down there, whenever Oklahoma goes down
there Thanksgiving. He's got to play a night game probably,
and they're like nine and one at that point. But
I just I'm not as big on them as I
am Tennessee. I really really like the makeup of the
Balls this year, really like the makeup with the Sooners,
and you know, it's kind of it hurts say a
little bit, boys, but I like to make up of

(01:14:02):
Texas too. I just talked about how they gave up
lost a lot, I should say, in the in the
NFL Draft, which hadn't necessarily been the case for them
the last ten to fifteen years. But they've recruited well,
and I think those young guys coming in are gonna
make him very good.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
He is Chris Plank.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
He can hear him every Sunday night at eleven pm
Eastern Time, be breaking down more college football Tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Unfortunately, it's gonna be all Arizona Wildcats. Yeah, I'll get it.

Speaker 9 (01:14:26):
I'm glad you guys had me on because every college
football conversation goes back to something about Arizona.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
So thank you for letting me actually talk about the
full gamut tonight. We appreciate you. Plak.

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
Make sure to follow him on Twitter. At Plank Show,
and again you'll hear him eleven pm Eastern on Sunday
with Arnie Spanier. Thank you, Chris Plank. Will do it again,
Simon Man, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
See it. That was Chris Plank, best in the business.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
He was at SEC Media Days this week delivering the
heat on all things college football. We'll come back, speaking
of delivering the heat to Seger with his extended twelve
forty five Eastern update.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
That's next. Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio, Eric Tors Jason Martin
broadcasting live from the tyreck dot Com studios. As we
do every week around this time, let's toss it over
the news desk to Saga with an extended update to Saga.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
The floor is yours.

Speaker 8 (01:15:19):
As you were talking college football, We've got some NFL
notes to pass along before we get to the team
USA's info. But this from the Dodgers after their great
comeback win on Fox tonight at eleven inning victory against
Boston seven to six. The announcement that Wednesday, back from
the bad back, all Star pitcher Tyler Glasnow will start
against the Giants and Clayton Kershaw of LA on Thursday

(01:15:41):
afternoon we'll start against San Francisco coming back from the
shoulder surgery. Chiefs and Ravens veterans each reported to camp today.
Packers vets report on Sunday. Most NFL veterans report on Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
Already.

Speaker 8 (01:15:56):
The Texans reported this past week. Bears vets reported to
training yesterday. It's Bears versus Texans in the Hall of
Fame exhibition August first. Every other NFL team starts the
preseason schedule at least a week later. There were a
couple notes today, and by the way, the only unsigned
players apparently from this year's draft class are Vikings linebacker
Dallas Turner and Bengals offensive Tackleamarius Mims, so those are

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taken care of largely. The Saints signed wide receiver Rashid
Shaheed to a one year extension. He was the league's
All Pro punt returner last season, and linebacker Shaq Barrett
retired from the NFL today after nine seasons. He was
cut by Tampa Bay this offseason. A loss for the
US Women's Olympic basketball team tonight, and nearly a loss,

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it would have been a mammoth upset for the US men.
First off, the ladies and the sendoff game in Phoenix
lost to a team of WNBA Stars one seventeen to
one oh nine, despite thirty one points from Team USA's
Brianna Stewart and Asia Wilson had twenty two points. But
three years ago, in the sendoff game to the Tokyo Games,
it was similar situation. The US women lost the game.

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MVP was Erika Gunbowale, not on the US squad. Same
thing happened tonight. Infect tonight, she had thirty four points
all in the second half. From three point range, she
was eight of thirteen. She also finished with six assists
and no turnovers. And how did the rookies do in
the win? Angel reached twelve points eleven rebounds. Caitlin Clark

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from three point range was zero for seven, but she
had ten assists and is very much looking forward to
the time off. She even tweeted that tonight after the game.
The WNBA is off for about a month now. FS
one will have the next and last US Women's exhibition
Tuesday on FS one against Germany. The US men on
Monday afternoon will be playing Germany on Fox TV, the

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last of their tune up games. Today, they won by
a point on Fox The US men having their first
of the two exhibitions they'll have in London. Now the
American men are four and oh in these exhibitions, all
without Kevin Durant so far.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
He did finally.

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
Practice with Team USA yesterday. He'd been out for about
two weeks with a strain CAF. The Americans Olympic tournament
itself starts a week from Sunday, already against Serbia, who
they won in an beat in an exhibition this past week.
The US men, though, were facing South Sudan today and
the Americans were favored by over forty points, and they'll

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be playing South Sudan again in the Olympics. They're in
their group July thirty. First, the US trailed in the
final seconds, but Lebron James with a late layup, helped
him win the game one oh one to one hundred.
Lebron twenty five points in twenty three minutes on the court.
He had seven assists four turnovers. The Americans were down
sixteen late in the first half. In fact, trailed by

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fifteen points for most of the second quarter. From three
point range, staph and company started one of thirteen. Turnovers
had been a problem for the US in these exhibitions.
As you might guess, they don't play together as a group,
unlike a lot of the other countries. The US had
nine turnovers just the first half today. But off the bench,
Anthony Davis was good again fifteen points, eleven rebounds. The

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starting center Joel Embiid fourteen points in eighteen minutes, five
of six from the floor. He had not had good
games up to this. Anthony Edwards from three point range
today was one for seven eleven points. And you mentioned
Derek White was added to this team for Kawhi Leonard.
Five assists and eleven minutes off the bench for White.
The US led eight nothing after the first two and

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a half minutes. They probably thought this is a blowout.
In fact, they probably thought when it was about fifteen
to fifteen first quarter, Oh, that's cute. The new country,
the team that's finally making the Olympics for the first time.
You know they're gonna be able to tell their grandchildren
that they were ahead in a game. No, they were great,
they were through three quarters. Legitimately, no fluke could to

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win this game. They were the better team. In fact,
the first half South suit and shot about sixty percent
from the floor. Late first half, the score was fifty
eight to forty two, and finally the US tied it
up late third quarter. The Americans led with about a
minute and a half to go in the game ninety
nine to ninety two, but then South Sudan went on
an eight zero run to take the lead with twenty

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seconds left. That Lebron driving lay up. The game winner
came with eight seconds to go and after a timeout,
South Sudan missed three shots at the end against the
defense of Anthony Davis and Anthony Edwards.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
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of good stuff for you tonight, and of course he
will be recapping a busy day in sports. I believe
he'll be talking a little college football, just like we
did with our buddy Brad Powers. Mark Medina will join
us Bernie Fratto in just a few minutes. One quick

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tag from the college football segment. Jason tweeted in he said,
my biggest problem with the new playoff format college football
playoff format is that Notre Dame can never be a
top four seed. Could this push them to a conference Jason,
I think this has been a little bit misreported or
maybe misunderstood by the national dialogue and discourse. So Jason's right. So,

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the way that the new playoff is gonna work, at
least for right now, is the top four conference champions
automatically get first round by so twelve team playoff four
teams get buys. First round is on true home home venues.
And so everybody keeps saying that Notre Dame is at
this major disadvantage, but remember they don't have a conference

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championship game, and so yes, it would really stink if
you go undefeated and you have to play on that
opening weekend. But one, you're gonna get a buye, and
then two, I think the opposite is true as well.
Is you know, you could be nine and three going
into that last weekend. You could be sitting at home
watching carnage all around you, a fringe team in the

(01:22:38):
Big twelve or the Big ten or whoever sec acc
losing in their conference championship game. So I think it
can work both ways. Listen, I don't think any of
us know what the future of college sports looks like.
It's changing by the minute, it's changing by the day.
My guess is at some point in our lifetimes, Notre
Dame is in a conference. I don't know that this

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playoff format is the reason that that.

Speaker 4 (01:23:02):
Will change them. Yeah, I don't either. I think when
you originally hear well, they can't ever be this, they're
gonna have a tougher road, Yeah, but they still control
a lot and I think that actually they hold the
leverage in a lot of respects. So I don't think
that it's gonna necessarily push them in that direction because
of what else they can accomplish along the way. We're

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just gonna have to see I think how it shakes
out to really determine this, but I generally my first
reaction when I saw it before kind of reading more
into it, I did kind of think, oh boy, well,
now they've got to join one. But the more I
read into it, the more I thought about it, the
less that seemed.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Likely, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
And I think to your point is that this is
all gonna be so new for all of us that
I don't think there's any way to really judge really
anything at this point, you know. I mean, it's like
it's just it's gonna be so interesting all season long.
Like you know, when we have that Week one show,
like perfect example, Texas A and m Notre Dame, Like

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if Notre Dame loses that game, like I think the
inclination is gonna be or it could be anybody, right,
it could be you know, whoever.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
The inclination's gonna be. What does it mean for their season?

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
You know, Texas and Michigan playing Week two and even
a year ago, a loss in that game really kind
of puts either of those teams back against the wall
for the rest of the season. It's just not gonna
be that way. So again, a new world of college
football coming. We cannot wait. Five Saturdays from today is
week zero. Six saturdays from today is that first marquee

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Saturday of college football.

Speaker 3 (01:24:38):
Texas A and M Notre Dame, Clemson, Georgia, Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
And Florida among the big games on that Saturday. Jason,
really quick, let's get into the news of the day.
I think probably the biggest story in my opinion, and
maybe I'm over selling it, but Saturday night in Phoenix,
WNBA All Star Game. Okay, So why is that magnificant
for people who are driving around don't know the story.

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It is because this year, as part of the WNBA
All Star Game, the Team USA, team that will represent
US in the Olympics, the one that Caitlin Clark was
snubbed from, played a group of team of WNBA All Stars.
So this isn't the traditional All Star model East versus
West or everybody from the WNBA. It was Team USA

(01:25:24):
versus Team WNBA. And why we're talking about it is
because Team WNBA, with a bunch of girls that were
told they weren't good enough to represent the United States,
they win one seventeen to one oh nine. The story
of the night. As de Seger just told you, Arique
a Goombala was was the star thirty four points, an
All Star Game record. Caitlin Clark struggled shooting the ball

(01:25:47):
but finishes with ten assists. Angel Reese with a double
double in just twenty two minutes of play. And I'll
tell you, Jason, you know, I watched this game, and
I don't know if this is going to be a
discourse come Monday. I think it probably will be because
it's a little bit of a slower time. But we
were told that some people were left off the team

(01:26:09):
because they simply weren't good enough. It certainly looked like
there were three, four five players on that team WNBA
group that was snubbed that looked good enough to play
for Team USA.

Speaker 4 (01:26:21):
Yeah, I think that's true if you I mean, certainly
you can try to parse through and find reasons to
discredit or whatever. By the way, for the Caitlin Clark haters,
she's the one that gets the Sports Center interview, Unlike
you know, her teammate had thirty four points, she had four,
But she's the one that's there that's just the way. Look,

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that's just the way it's going to go. It's gonna
continue to be that way. She did have tennis ciss
of course, like you mentioned. But yeah, I just think
there's discourse if you want it to be there. I
don't know that it's like that obvious because of one
game and one performance, but I do you know, we
know how our colleague react and where they want to

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pull things from. So it's definitely gonna be there. And
certainly if you were looking for a reason, then you've
got it here with the WNBA squad, the All Star
team beating Team USA. I don't know what it is
because it's such a weird kind of environment and all this,
but and you watched a lot of it. It was competitive.

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It was definitely something where it looked like both teams
were interested in winning it. It didn't seem like the
NBA All Star Game, for example, which is almost unwatchable
earlier this year. Very obviously, both these two teams, you know,
both these two groups of young ladies wanted to win.

Speaker 2 (01:27:37):
It was zero doubt they wanted to win. I would
take it a step further. I mean, you said it
was close, you said it was competitive. The team WNBA
was up by as much as twenty points in the
second half, and it was just, you know, it was
a little bit jarring. And so, you know, I think,
first of all, it speaks to maybe the depth of

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Team USA. But I'm just curious what the reaction is
on Monday, because it's hard for me when you're looking
at at at Team USA. You know, of the one
hundred and nine points that they had, uh, basically half
of them came from Breonna Stewart in Asia Wilson, I
just find it hard to believe that a girl who
had tennissists. By the way, Caitlyn Clark, you know, she

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played twenty six minutes, second most on the team, but
as much as as as both teams were trying to win,
she really kind of didn't play a lot in the
second half. Got her tenth assist or got her ninth assist,
excuse me, basically right out of the first right out
of halftime, and then actually did not play a ton
in the second half. And I don't know if they

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were trying to get some other girls reps. I think
part of it was that they that that during in
the third quarter, uh, you know, a Goombala got really
really really hot, and maybe they didn't want to mess
with the roster in the lineup, but Caaten Clark didn't
even play very much, And I just think it's it's
interesting because I think she easily could have broken the

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All Star Game assist record. It is eleven, held by
Sue Bert. She had ten and really didn't play a
ton in the second half. We'll be curious to see
how that holds up really quickly, Jason. The men's USA
basketball team, Team USA the men's team. They do hold
on to beat the South Sudan. South Sudan. Fun fact,

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the youngest country in the world, was formed in two
thousand and eleven. They have qualified for their first Olympics.
But as you mentioned, as the SEGA mentioned last hour,
this was not a feel good let's take pictures and
have a good time.

Speaker 3 (01:29:40):
They came to win this game. The team does feature a.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Couple guys that have at least had a couple of
coffee in the NBA, winning and Gabriel JT Thor, But
it took a Lebron James layup essentially at the buzzer
to seal a one oh one, one hundred victory.

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
JT.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
Thor previously of the Charlotte Hornets hit a three with
about five seconds to go to give the South Sudan
a lead.

Speaker 3 (01:30:05):
Are you'd all worried about this team USA Team?

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
Jason as Disager said, they open with Serbia here next
week and then, oh, by the way, we'll have to
play South Sudan in group play.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
I mean, if they don't win the gold I'd still
be surprised, but I'm not going to be shocked. It's
just I do think the rest of the world's gotten better.
But more than anything, it's just these NBA players that
have just come off a long season. A lot of
them are a good many of them playing extra games.
Of course in the postseason. They're an older group as well,
so you just have and you have a bunch of
disparate pieces that are just kind of coming together. It's

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why luckily there are tune ups so they can kind
of get a little bit more familiar with what they're doing.
But you know, essentially it's an all star team. These
aren't guys that are gelled together the same way a
lot of the other countries are, where they're a lot
more used to playing with one another as opposed to
always facing up against one another, so it might take

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a little bit of time. I'm not worried. They still
won the game, and I still think if they put
their if they put the final gear on against anybody,
they're gonna beat them, even if they're trailing at times
during the thing. I just don't know it's going to
be this dominant deal. I think that's what this show
is more than anything is it might be a bit
of a struggle and they might have to actually find

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that extra gear. But at the same time, I mean
they again, they still won the game. Lebron hit the
layup at the end, he had a solid night and
they still won. So I mean, I don't know how
upset you can be other than they were a forty
point favorite and they won a game by one point
and nearly lost because there was a couple of opportunities
on the last last possession for South Sudan and they

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just came up empty.

Speaker 5 (01:31:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
This was their fourth exhibition, first one against Canada. They
were largely in control. The Australia game got close, they
went by six, and then they took care of Serbia
just the other day. That was an interesting game because
it was basically like tied middle of the second quarter,
and then they just ran away with it. I don't
know if on Saturday against the South Sudan they thought
they could do the same.

Speaker 4 (01:32:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:32:04):
The only reason I'm a little bit more concerned than you, Jason,
is because this is a single elimination tournament and it
doesn't like it doesn't it doesn't feel like, you know,
they're not trying or they're you know, I don't get
the sense that it's one of two things, like that
they're not jelling.

Speaker 3 (01:32:22):
Well, I take that back.

Speaker 2 (01:32:24):
I don't get the sense that like, oh, they're taking
the opponents lightly. I just think that that Steve Kerr
is still trying to figure out this roster again. Kevin
Durant just returned to practice. We obviously had the situation
with Kawhi leaving, Derek White coming in. Derek White was
actually playing a lot down the stretch today and I'm
not totally sure why you're on Saturday against South Sudan.

(01:32:45):
So that to me is more interesting than anything else.
They have one more tune up before they start group
play in the Olympics on July twenty eighth, which is
a week from Monday. So the bottom line or from
Sunday excuse me. So the bottom line is is that
they do have to get things figured out, and they
do have to get things figured out in a hurry

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of business. But of their four exhibition wins, two of
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A couple NFL topics. I want to get to jmart
First of all, I have a question for you as
it pertains to Brandon Ayuk San Francisco forty nine ers

(01:34:35):
wide receiver demanded a trade, blah blah blah blah blah,
wants a new deal. I want to ask you a
question because I find the coverage of this very interesting.
Of the Brandon Ayuk situation. Do you think Brandon Ayuk
truly believes that he is either a going to get

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traded or be going to get a new contract, Like,
do you believe like he believes that all of this
public uproar will end in one of the two in
the very near future.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
Yes, yeah, I mean where you're waiting for me to answer,
which I think he probably will get a new I
think he'll get a new co act. I don't think
they want to move him. I just think they don't
have They're not in any hurry to do business with them.
Neither one of the teams is in a spot where
they're going to lose anything right now. Really good piece

(01:35:33):
in the athletic a couple of weeks ago kind of
breaking all this down from just a nuts and bolt's perspective,
and it just looks like it needs to get done
at some point. But I don't think the forty nine
ers feel any obligation to handle it right this second.
It might not end up paying off for Brandon Eyu,
but I don't think they want to move him. And
I mean I saw the well. I wonder if Joey

(01:35:54):
Bosa could intrigue them. I don't know why he's hurt
all the time. I understand how good he can be,
but I don't know that that should be part of
any kind of a move. I know I Yuka is
incredibly valuable to him, but they have a lot of
weapons on that team, and as good a receiver as
he is, his role in the pecking order there might
be different than it's gonna be somewhere else. So maybe

(01:36:16):
he ends up going somewhere. But I don't think that
he holds the cards in this situation. So I just
tend to think they work it out, they will give
him a new deal. He's not gonna end up making
the most of all these receivers, but he's probably gonna be.
He's gonna be doing pretty well for himself. That's just
my expectation.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
Yeah, I just find the coverage interesting and maybe and
I think we talked about this a few weeks ago,
like maybe it's because we want to talk football, but
there really hasn't been that much to discuss. I find
the coverage interesting for two reasons. One because I think
that we are preconditioned, largely because of the NBA, that

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when a player demands a trade, they get it. I mean,
you can name any player in the NBA, Kawhi Leonard
from the Spurs, Anthony Davis from the Pelicans, Kevin Durant
pick your time, James Aren't and pick your time.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
So there's that.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
And I I think Brandon Ayuk like I think that
he just assumes that he's either gonna get traded or
more realistically, he's going to get a new contract. And
I just don't understand why either is going to happen again.
I know we're preconditioned in the NBA to assume that
guys get traded, but you look at it from the
forty nine ers perspective. First of all, he's making fourteen

(01:37:35):
million dollars this year. I mean, it's not like it's
chump change, right, And I understand the circumstances and conditions,
but he's a younger guy. He is on a rookie contract,
and like, not only has he not played out his
contract yet, they can still obviously use the franchise tag

(01:37:56):
on him. So I don't understand why there's any urgency
at all. And it's not like he's banked one hundred
million dollars where he can just sit out and not
show up, and so maybe it does get done. I
know Deebo Samuel did this a few years ago, and like,
if you look at the history of the forty nine ers,
they take care of their guys, you know, Nick Bosa, whatever,

(01:38:17):
on and on. But I just find it interesting because
I don't really understand why everyone just assumes that, like
a new contract is imminent just because or a trade
for that matter, just because he's asking for it. Because
he could say he's gonna do this. He can't sit out.
I mean, how much money has he made over the
course of his career. So I just find the coverage
of it very interesting because I think, again, I think

(01:38:41):
both athletes, but then I also think media members just
kind of default to, well, if a guy demands a trade,
he's gonna get it.

Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
I don't necessarily know that I agree with it.

Speaker 4 (01:38:49):
Yeah, and I do. Yeah, I think that's right. I
don't think that it should be quite as much of
a given as it is, because I'm not sure Brandon
I yuk hits the same way as a lot of
other names that have mandated trades. Like you, if you
want to make a stink loud enough, you can try
to call their bluff.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
And in this.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
Scenario, if you're the forty nine ers, you're probably just like,
all right, I mean, you continue to do what you've
got to do. I understand you're trying to create leverage
on your side, but it's kind of non existent leverage.
It's not going to force us to the table any faster.
We're only going to do this if it starts to
hurt us, and right now it's not really hurting them,
and it's not really hurting Brandon Ayuk either, and I

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think maybe fortunately for him, since some of these other
bigger name guys have already gotten their money than Ayuk's
names a little bit louder if we're still talking about
a lot of this, and of course there's still out
there to be paid. You've got Jamar Chay Easton, You've
got Ceedee Lamb, just as a couple of examples. And
I think Ayyuk, you know, wants to be in that mix.
I don't know that he should be, but at least

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not in San Francisco. I don't think he should be,
but maybe there are some teams that would value him
that way. I think that for him it's a bit
of a gamble, but I don't think he's gonna end
like Melvin Gordon or anything like that. But I also
don't think he would be willing to go home to
try and get more money because I just don't think.
I think if brass Tax comes to it, he's probably

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the one that loses that game of chicken first between
him and the franchise.

Speaker 2 (01:40:20):
Well, and that's what I think, because I mean, listen,
first of all, Deebo already got paid. McCaffrey already got paid.
We know how important McCaffrey is to that team in
the offense that they run. And then you got you
got the older guys, the bosas the Trent Williams is
the guys that got paid. By the way, I'm looking
it up right now, in his four years in the league,
Auk has never made more than three point nine million

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dollars two point two two point eight, so that is
what five there in his first two years three point four,
that's eight point four. So he's made about twelve million
dollars in his career before taxes. We know, and I'm
not trying to be you know, tax guy on sports
talk radio, but we know California two axes are crazy

(01:41:01):
Bay Area living expenses or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
My guess is, he just doesn't have that much money
in the bank.

Speaker 2 (01:41:06):
And so again I don't mean to keep the laboring
the point, but I just find it interesting because I
don't really understand why. I mean, I guess in theory,
I understand why the forty nine ers want him on
the field, but it's like, Okay, you can throw a fit,
throw a fit, throw a fit, but it's like they
don't have to trade you. You don't really have like
the leverage to hold out, you know, unless you just

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don't want to get paid, you want to get fined,
you want to whatever. Just find the whole thing very interesting,
curious to see what happens. I know he's obviously got
ties to Jade and Daniels. They played together at Arizona State.
So yeah, I don't know when you think he's playing
week one, you think he's on the field, or.

Speaker 3 (01:41:47):
You think you think he gets resolved before then this
is what forty nine ers.

Speaker 4 (01:41:51):
Sometimes I think it will. I'd be surprised if he's
not out there week one. I think there'll be some
kind of a meat in the middle moment where he'll
it's something. I mean they could I think they could,
you know, tag him or force him a play under
this and then tag him next year, like said, let's
get backfire on him. But I kind of think cooler
has prevailed and they find something that's sort of workable

(01:42:13):
for both sides.

Speaker 2 (01:42:14):
This is Fox Sports Radio air tors Jason Martin, broadcasting
live from the tyreck dot Com studios. Do want to
hit on one more NFL topic, We'll do that next.
Before we do, let's toss it over the news desk
the SEGA what is trening Hello?

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
Once again?

Speaker 8 (01:42:28):
The two NFL items today, by the way, Linebacker Shaquille
Barrett retired from the league after nine seasons, and the
Saints signed wide receiver Rashid Shaheed to a one year extension.
American Billy Horschell leads the Open Championship by one stroke
in Scotland. There's a six way tie for second place,
including Xander Shoffley. US women's hoops has an exhibition Tuesday

(01:42:49):
on FS one against Germany, their last tune up before
the Olympics in France. Tonight, the sendoff game was in
Phoenix and the US women were beaten by a team
of WNBA Stars one set, nineteen to one oh nine.
Arika Gunbawalle the game MVP. She scored thirty four points
all in the second half. Team USA was led by

(01:43:09):
the thirty one points of Brianna Stewart. The NBA Summer
League still going on in Vegas. It goes till Monday.
For the Sacramento Kings today, senator Drew Timmy from Gonzaga
in sixteen minutes had fourteen points seven rebounds. Sacramento defeated
Phoenix eighty seven to seventy seven. Evan Mobley of the
Cabs agreed to a five year max rookie extension worth

(01:43:31):
at least two hundred and twenty four million dollars. US
men's basketball beat South Sudan one oh one to one
hundred on a late layup by Lebron James, who scored
twenty five points, Anthony Davis fifteen points eleven rebounds off
the bench. The Americans trailed by sixteen late in the
first half of this one, and from three point range
started one four to thirteen. There was an ESPN stat

(01:43:53):
that in the last five years Team USA the men
have lost to seven different countries, including a loss to
Nigeria in a pre Olympic exhibition three years ago nearly
a huge upset. Today, Americans win by one. Monday afternoon
on Fox TV, it'll be the US against Germany, the
last of the tune up games. There could be a
lot of sports in daytime TV the next few weeks

(01:44:13):
as the Olympics get going with the time difference. If
you're watching NBC in that primetime, that's all gonna be
tap stuff. It's all going on during the day. Nobody's
playing live at three am in Paris.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Just so it can be on NBC.

Speaker 8 (01:44:26):
Summer Olympics opening ceremony is Friday in Paris. Some events
begin on Wednesday, including soccer and rugby. The opener for
US women's soccer is Thursday against Zambia. As for Major
League Baseball, today, Yankees lost at home nine to one
to Tampa Bay. The Rays Randy A. Rose Arena had
four hits, including two homers, and he was batting two
oh three. The lost in Nestra Cortez, now four to

(01:44:47):
nine this year. Gencarlos Stanton of the Yanks, with his
strain hamstring, could return in about a week. He's missed
a month. Detroit won its fourth straight game. In fact,
the Tigers have won six of seven. After a victory
at Toronto seven to three, Blue Jay shorts up Bo
Baschett will miss multiple weeks with his strained CAF. He's
only batting two twenty three this year. Oakland beat the
Angels again, eight to two. The Angels gave pitcher Johnny

(01:45:09):
Cuato a reported minor league contract. The Mets were one
nothing winners at Miami on a fourth inning fielder's choice
save to Edwin Diaz Pittsburgh won at six game in
a row, beat Philadelphia again four to one. O'Neil Cruz
a homer and three RBIs. The Phils offense went four
for thirty tonight, including Bryce Harper's late homer. Philadelphia did
activate catcher J. T rail Muto. He had a single

(01:45:31):
and a walk. Finally back from the knee surgery. Washington
with one run in the seventh and one in the eighth,
edge Cincinnati five to four. Baltimore now two games over
the Yankees and the AL standings. The O's one at
Texas eight to four. Winning pitcher Grayson Rodriguez now twelve
and four after his six innings of work. The lost
to Max Schurzer of the Rangers. He lasted two innings,

(01:45:51):
gave up the first four runs. San Diego was a
seven nothing winner at Cleveland, as the Guardians went one
for twenty seven at the plate. Dyl and Sees the
winning pitcher ten strikeouts he in seven innings. Kansas City
six to one over the White Sox, who have lost
six in a row. Bobby witt Junior three hits. He's
betting three thirty two for the Royals. The win to

(01:46:11):
Brady Singers seven scoreless innings seven strikeouts. The Chicago White
Sox record is now twenty seven and seventy three. Milwaukee
won in twelve innings at Minnesota, eight to four. The
Twins play shortstop Carlos Correa on the injured list with
a bad foot. Arizona three to nothing winner at the Cubs.
The Dodgers won a thriller on Fox TV, an eleven

(01:46:32):
inning comeback win over Boston seven to six. The final
Will Smith the game winning single, and the Dodgers say
pitcher Tyler Glasnow returns from the back injury Wednesday against
the Giants, and veteran pitcher Clayton Kersha will pitch Thursday
afternoon against San Francisco, finally back from the shoulder surgery.
Atlanta split a doubleheader with Saint Louis, Colorado edge San

(01:46:52):
Francisco for to three. The late game went to Houston
four two. At Seattle, the Mariners have lost five in
a row. They're now a game behind first place HU
Houston in the Al West. Saved to Josh Hater, the
Mariners offense went three for twenty nine and into the
Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday will be Adrian Beltrey
who had over three thousand career hits. He got ninety
five percent of the vote for the Hall. Todd Helton

(01:47:13):
of the Rockies is getting in eighty percent of the vote.
Career batting average three sixteen. Joe Mauer of the Twins
will be into the Hall officially tomorrow. He got seventy
six percent of the vote, so just barely in career
batting average three. ZHO six manager Jim Leland gets into
the Hall of Fame tomorrow. Over fifty Hall of famers
expected to attend this year's festivities, they say, including eighty

(01:47:35):
eight year old Sandy Kofax, who was in the Hall
of Fame class of nineteen seventy two.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
Back to you, thank you very much, Steve Saga, Fox
Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday Sunday, depending on where you are,
air towards Jason Martin broadcasting live from the tyreck dot
Com studios. So there's a narrative floating around Jason that
I just fundamentally disagree with. And I've heard quite a

(01:48:00):
few people make this argument here over the last couple
of weeks, but it popped up on the thirty third
Team's Twitter feed on Wednesday of this week. The thirty
third Team is former you know kind of coaches, players,
et cetera. You know that have all kind of come
under one umbrella run by Mike Tannebaum, run by Mike Tannabaum. Correct,

(01:48:22):
So it kind of the conversation kind of stemmed from
the you know, Caleb Williams finally signing his rookie deal.
By the way, of course, because it's Caleb and really
it's the adults around him, there was plenty of controversy.
You know, there was talk of him wanting for you know,
the option to franchise tag be removed from the contract.
There's all sorts of quirks that they were trying to

(01:48:45):
get involved that that didn't end up happening. But thirty
third Team's Twitter account put out a question after he
signed his contract said, has a rookie quarterback ever walked
into a better situation than Caleb Williams, And the referenced
all the guys that are on that offense, DeAndre Swift,
DJ Moore, wide receiver, Keenan Allen. Obviously they drafted Romadnze.

(01:49:08):
I think this is an absolutely absurd.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
Take, Jason.

Speaker 2 (01:49:11):
First of all, it's not even the best situation of
quarterbacks in this class, Like, I get that he's not started,
but Michael Pennix, the talent around if Kirk Cousins, god
forbid isn't ready to go, the talent around Michael Pennox
is better than the talent around Kayleb Williams.

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
That's one. But two, I just don't I don't let
me put it this away. I'll toss it over to you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
Do you believe that Kayleb Williams is walking into the
best situation in the history of rookie quarterbacks? Because I
think it's an easy talking point. That is absolute nonsense.

Speaker 4 (01:49:42):
Yeah, it's an easy talking point. And it's weird because
I read something like the headline a few weeks ago,
it might have been a month ago, is like, do
the Bears already have a top five offense entering the preseason?
And I thought, this is not April first, So what
are we talking about here? Like, I understand DJ Moore
is a really good player, and they've had some you know,

(01:50:05):
they've done pretty well, but I don't know exactly what
the purpose of this is, Like why is this even
a narrative? Because you're now setting Caleb Williams up to
not be able to, you know, succeed to the degree
that you want him to, and you've created this story
now where he should be able to and the Bears

(01:50:28):
historically that has not been the case for them. They're
still in a scenario where you're not really sure about
their head coach. There's still some holes there. There's gonna
take some time. And he's a rookie. I certainly don't
think that he just walked into an A plus situation.
That's why they had the opportunity. Well, you know, they
were able to go win last year because they already
had the one. They weren't the worst team in the league.

(01:50:51):
So that's the one thing you can look at and say,
all right, here's a number one overall pick that went
to a team that was nowhere close to the worst
team in the league because they possessed the first pick
of the Carolina Panthers, who were by far the worst
team in the league. So from that metric, that is
kind of a rarity that you get that. But do
I think he's walking into the best situation a rookie
quarter But no, I think that's a bit of a stretch.

(01:51:13):
I think that's only so you can only evaluate that
after you watch them actually play something. I don't think
you can do that on paper.

Speaker 2 (01:51:20):
Yeah, and I just look at it from this perspective,
is Matt Eberflus is on the hot seat right yeah,
and like, listen, I get listen. I'm not gonna sit
here and say that after the way things finished, he
should have been fired last year. I don't know that
I believe that, But defensive head coach walking in on
the hot seat, and like, if this goes sideways, even

(01:51:41):
if it's not Caleb's fault, all of a sudden, you're
looking at a second head coach, a second you know,
offensive system, a second offensive coordinator a season from now
and now, by the way, by the way, it's worth
noting because of stuff like this, I think there's kind
of a lot of pressure on Matt Eberflus. I don't
know if it's playoffs or bust, but I think there's

(01:52:03):
a scenario where you go seven to ten, you're a
little bit improved, but you don't make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
I think you're probably out.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
And so even if at that point you go with
the offensive head coach, if you go whatever, but I
just think to like, even I was seeing this the
other day, Like even somebody like Kyler Murray when he
came into the league, can't say that the talent around
him was better, but it was a first year head coach,
offensive head coach who was specifically drafted to get the

(01:52:32):
most out of Kyler Murray.

Speaker 3 (01:52:33):
And it's like, would you rather have that situation?

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
I know Cliff Kingsbury didn't work out, he's not a
good head coach, okay, but would you rather have that
situation or a hot seed head coach, a defensive head
coach and if you'll and if you don't win enough
probably make the playoffs, you're looking at a second head
coach in your second season, second new second offensive coordinator.
I think that, to me is the biggest problem is

(01:52:56):
that Eberflus might not be around for very long and
then you just kind of get into that cycle of
being a young guy with multiple coaches.

Speaker 4 (01:53:03):
Jes yeah, I mean I think that. Look, that's to me,
if you don't have a coach, or if you're not
sure you have a coach, you're not sure about everything
that's happening on the sidelines on that staff, that's a
big thing to overcome. I don't care how talented you
are entering the league. I mean, you can talk about
Trevor Lawrence and what he waltzed into in Jacksonville. He
got urban Meyer that didn't exactly work out all that

(01:53:25):
well for him, and it definitely set him back. I'm
not sure he's ever going to get back to what
he could have been, maybe if he had had the
right mentor on the sidelines, the right coaching staff for
him that first year instead of the circus that he did.
But you know, I don't know that it all comes
down to that, but I definitely think that that should
be a knock. That should be something taking big time

(01:53:46):
into consideration that Matt Eberflus was a guy who we
weren't sure was still going to have this job a
year ago. This time they did overperform. One of the
reasons why is because they didn't have to tank to
get the one pick. Like I mentioned, you know, they
they've made a good move. I mean, they got DJ Morten,
he can play, and they got a little bit out
of justin fields and they were able to kind of

(01:54:08):
maximize that. And then at the trade deadline, right before
the trade deadline, you know, they were able to acquire
a couple of nice pieces that came in that wanted
to prove something, and we're able to sort of fill
them out a little. So, I mean, I think there's
I think there's some there's a reason for optimism, but
I think we need to slow it down just a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
I agree. Do you think it's playoff? You know, I'll
tell you what.

Speaker 2 (01:54:29):
Let's come back, We'll wrap the show, talk a little
bit more about this preview the week ahead. Aeron Torris,
Jason Martin. This is Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back, everybody,
Fox Sports Radio. Aeron Toris, Jason Martin, broadcasting live from
the diirec dot Com studios. We are on air for
another eleven minutes. Then Bernie Fraddo of The Bernie Frado

(01:54:49):
Show follows us at the top of the hour. Jason,
real quick, you know, want to kind of just put
a bow on the show. But before we do, we're
just talking. Kaylee Williams. The thirty third Team was the latest.
They're not the only ones that they put out a
tweet basically asking has any rookie quarterback been in a

(01:55:09):
better situation than Caleb Williams. You and I both think
I just think it's flat out Ludacris, I think you
feel the same.

Speaker 3 (01:55:16):
What do you think are like?

Speaker 1 (01:55:18):
Do you think like?

Speaker 3 (01:55:20):
Because I see a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
Of people saying they can make the playoffs, and I
absolutely think they can. I don't know that they will
because that division is all of a sudden really tough,
with the Packers emerging and of course the Detroit Lions
have officially arrived. I don't think it's like playoffs or
disappointment in year one for Caleb Williams with the Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:55:43):
That would you say the same?

Speaker 4 (01:55:48):
Yeah, I think so. I don't think that. I think
that's fair. It's I think you got to measure expectations.
You got to get somebody a chance, you gotta get
somebody time.

Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
All right, Well that's that real quick. Let's start to
look ahead to this week. First of all, team USA
men's team does play one more exhibition prior to to
the to the Paris Game, starting, by the way, the
Olympic opening ceremonies next Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:56:16):
Yeah, so coming up, fat.

Speaker 4 (01:56:18):
Are you are you?

Speaker 3 (01:56:19):
Are you an Olympic guy?

Speaker 4 (01:56:20):
Jmart I'm not not anymore. It doesn't mean I won't
watch any of it, and we'll get into it as
it goes. Along, But like I think, maybe when I
was a kid, I remember eighty four LA, even though
I was only six at the time, but I remember,
you know, Mary lou Retten and some of the stuff
that was happening there, and I remember Dan and Dave

(01:56:40):
and that craziness. And of course as you've gotten older,
there have been an athlete here and there. But just
in terms of the games being this thing that I
could not wait for, it's definitely changed there. It's just
it just doesn't have the same meaning as it once did,
maybe just because we're so inundated with sports at all times.
Now because we can get it everywhere, the no event

(01:57:04):
feels quite as huge and enormous and can't miss even
the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (01:57:09):
Yeah, it is crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:10):
I mean, like you just think about the stuff that
I mean, even this time of year, it's supposed to
be the slow time you have. I mean not only
obviously Major League Baseball, but you have Summer League is
now kind of a thing, at least for this year.
Excuse me, WNBA is a thing. It doesn't really feel
like we've had that like big drop off of sports.

(01:57:30):
And I'll be curious how they cover the Olympics too.
I think I read somewhere, and I hope it's not
true that basically NBC is kind of conceded like, hey,
you know, because of the world we live in, there's
no reason to kind of postpone the big events until nighttime.
So basically I think they're pretty much showing everything live

(01:57:53):
and then like, you know, the the nighttime. You know,
that primetime window is kind of more of a recap
of the day. I still hope they find a way
to get those big events in the late time time frames.
I still do enjoy watching the Olympics and watching or
watching the swimming and watching the sprints and stuff like that,
and I obviously think Team USA, especially the men's basketball,

(01:58:14):
will be very intriguing. Don't know exactly again, what the
what the plans are the other thing too, j Mart,
I really hope they don't slam all the good stuff
on Peacock, like you know, it's it's you know, I know,
we're moving to this streaming world. But I hope those
those Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday primetime slots are still kind of
the best that they have as far as whatever that

(01:58:37):
main event is of that day.

Speaker 4 (01:58:38):
So yeah, that's right. I definitely agree with that. I
don't know that you're gonna get that, but yeah, again,
streaming is streaming is starting to you know, eat itself alive.
Everything going up, and then cable was trying to take it.
I got something from my cable provider today that's taking
three streaming services and offering me the ad version of
all three of them for a lowe. That sounds like Cable.

(01:59:02):
It sounds like I'm getting a lot of things at
one price. No, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
So that is the week ahead, by the way, that
team USA basketball team will take the court. By the way,
speaking of the Bears, of course, not this coming Thursday,
but the following one, Thursday, August August first, is that
next that's not next Thursday is the Hall of Fame
game Houston versus Chicago. So a lot going on world

(01:59:28):
of sports. As you said, Jason, it really doesn't feel
like we've had much of a break. I don't know
if it's because Bronni became a thing at Summer League
or because Kate ln Clark has been a thing, but
but it's been a busy summer in sports and it's
not slowing down. Training camps are starting up. SEC Media Days,
was this week as well, tell you what we got
to get out of here. Do want to thank the

(01:59:49):
crew Mary on the boards. We obviously have Ian producing
the saga on updates for Jason Martin. I'm Aaron Torrez.
By the way, big thanks to Chris Plank for joining us.
If you missed any of that, Chris Plank came on.
We talked a lot of sec media days at college football.
As I just said a minute ago, football is here

(02:00:10):
and we are ramping up. We got to get out
of here. Bernie Fratto of the Bernie Fratto Show is
following us. He's got a jam pack show for you.
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